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Subject: MILITARY SERVICE, VOLUNTARY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AIR: 'CAPTAIN JINKS', by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm captain hans of the submarines
Last Line: I'm in the german navy!
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Military Service, Voluntary; Sailing & Sailors; Submarines; Seamen; Sails; Submarine Warfare; U-boats


BIGLOW PAPERS: LETTER ... TO JOSEPH T. BUCKINGHAM, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mister eddyter, our hosea wuz down
Last Line: Ef there's thousands o' my mind
Subject(s): Military Service, Voluntary; Slavery; Soldiers; U.s. - Mexican War (1846-1848)


BRITISH VOLUNTEERS, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At the call of the bugle, and the roll of the drum
Last Line: True hearts and true rifles she trusts not in vain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): England; Military Service, Voluntary; Patriotism; Soldiers; English


DIXIE, by ALBERT PIKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Southrons, hear your country call you!
Last Line: And conquer peace for dixie!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Military Service, Voluntary; Patriotism; United States - History; Confederacy


OUR COUNTRY'S CALL, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lay down the axe; fling by the spade
Last Line: And glorious must their triumph be.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Military Service, Voluntary; Patriotism; United States - History


PALMYRA: OCTOBER 18, 1862, by CAROLINE COLLINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Missouri: dark wind in the trees
Last Line: Renegade, unrepentant, unforgiving
Subject(s): American Civil War; Capital Punishment; Crime And Criminals; Fights; Military Service, Voluntary; Soldiers; U.s. - History; Violence


SPECIMEN DAYS: PATENT-OFFICE HOSPITAL, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: February 23. - I must not let the great hospital at the patent-office pass
Last Line: From there, and it is now vacant again
Subject(s): Amputees; Hospitals; Medicine; Military Service, Voluntary; Nurses; War Injuries


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 PIED PIPER, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The huge pied piper, in a giant dance
Last Line: And the millions perished in a jigging rigadoon.
Subject(s): Death; Military; Military Service, Voluntary; Patriotism; Pipers; Soldiers; War; Dead, The


THE VOLUNTEER, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He leapt to arms unbidden
Last Line: This was the man we knew.
Subject(s): Military Service, Voluntary


TO THE TENTH LEGION, NEW YORK STATE VOLUNTEERS, 1862, by RUTH NATALIE CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Marching along!-marching to the war
Last Line: "for god and their country, they were marching along."
Subject(s): American Civil War; Marching & Marches; Military Service, Voluntary; New York City - 19th Century; Patriotism; United States - History


VOLUNTEER BOYS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hence with the lover who sighs o'er his wine
Last Line: But health and success to the volunteer %boys
Subject(s): American Revolution; Courage; Military Service, Voluntary; Soldiers


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