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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MILITARY DRAFT Matches Found: 11 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BY THE LITTLE BIG-HORN, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down to their death in the valley of silence Last Line: The eight nameless horsemen who never shall die. Subject(s): Courage; Heroism; Honor; Little Bighorn, Battle Of; Loyalty; Military Service, Compulsory; Monuments; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service DRAFT AGE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You probably thought you were going to go through life Subject(s): Military Service, Compulsory; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: BOMBER IN LONDON, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On land and sea I strove with anxious care Last Line: To escape conscription. It was in the air! Subject(s): Military Service, Compulsory; World War I; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service; First World War ODE ON THE DEATH OF HAIG'S HORSE: 7, by DOUGLAS GARMAN Poem Text First Line: An army's voice! We have an army yet Last Line: Our loyal passion for our tasteless kings. Subject(s): Haig, Douglas. 1st Earl Haig (1861-1928); Military Service, Compulsory; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service RECRUITING DRIVE, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the willow the willow Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles Subject(s): Military Service, Compulsory; Social Protest; War; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service SONG FOR THE NINETEENTH, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The morning sky is hung with mist Last Line: Why say 'twas in your nineteenth year. Subject(s): Military Service, Compulsory; Youth; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service THE CONSCRIPT, by MAURICE BARING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It were disloyalty you say to change Subject(s): Military Service, Compulsory; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service THE LAST RALLY, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the midnight, in the rain Last Line: And another laughs with flashing eyes, sitting bolt upright. Subject(s): Military Service, Compulsory; World War I; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service; First World War THE PASSING OF THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by VILDA SAUVAGE OWENS Poem Text First Line: They are bearing him home through the old virginia valley Last Line: Offer a prayer—a tear! Subject(s): Heroism; Honor; Military Service, Compulsory; Military Service, Voluntary; Unknown Soldier; War; Heroes; Heroines; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service THE WAR AT HOME, by WILLARD WATTLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God of our fathers, with bowed heads we come Last Line: Which makes humanity the nations' nation. Subject(s): Humanity; Military Service, Compulsory; Prayer; Veterans Day; War; War - Home Front; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service WAR DISPLAY, by EDMUND VANCE COOKE Poem Text First Line: This is the song of the thousand who are multipled by twelve Last Line: For oh, we are proud that we flaunt this flesh in the markets of dismal death! Subject(s): Death; Military Service, Compulsory; Military Service, Voluntary; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; Youth; Dead, The; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service |
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