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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHAINE OF PEARLE: THE FIRST PEARLE. RELIGION, by DIANA PRIMROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The goodliest pearl in fair eliza's chain
Last Line: And against england never could prevaile.
Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Nations; Pearls; Popes; Religion; Papacy; Theology


A CRY FOR ZION, by LOUIS SMIRNOW    Poem Text                    
First Line: Behold, as I sit here, alone and forlorn
Last Line: "here on earth, o return me, return my beth-el!"
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Nations; Pain; Zionism; Judaism; Suffering; Misery


A DEAD YEAR, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I took a year out of my life and story
Last Line: "and so dost thou."
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Hearts; Life; Nations; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The


A MOTHER'S SONG, by LELIA S. MARSTALLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: My son, your country is calling
Last Line: And I am one of the mothers. . . .
Subject(s): Mothers; Nations; War


A SONG OF ITALY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon a windy night of stars that fell
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Freedom; Italy; Love; Nations; Dead, The; Liberty; Italians


A WORD FOR THE COUNTRY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Men, born of the land that for ages
Last Line: God save the commonweal!
Subject(s): England; Nations; Sailing & Sailors; Soldiers; English


A WORD FOR THE NATION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A word across the water
Last Line: Kings, princes, and slaves.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Nations; Sea; Ocean


ABOUT THE SLAVS, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A rubber kitten, meooow
Last Line: At full speed: boom, boom
Subject(s): History; Nations


AD ASTRA: 177, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Arise, o lord! And let not man prevail
Last Line: Ere they presume upon thy truth again!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Nations; Prayer


AD ASTRA: 94, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Even as in later times imperial rome
Last Line: As to forget her great augustan line.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Nations; Rome, Italy


AFTER THE CENTENNIAL (A HOPE), by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Before our eyes a pageant rolled
Last Line: Can hold the runners lest they fall!
Subject(s): Hope; Nations; Soul; Summer; United States - Centennial Celebrations; Optimism


AGES CHANGE, AND THEY IMPOSE THEIR RULES, by WILLIAM EMPSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: We must endure, and stand between two fools
Subject(s): Superpowers (nations)


ALSACE-LORRAINE, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sister hours in circles linked
Last Line: Have sight of haven and the crowded quays.
Subject(s): France; Nations


AMERICA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the need that bows us thus
Last Line: America! America!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Nations; Patriotism; United States; America


ANSWER WORLD!, by ANGELA MORGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, I believe in armies
Last Line: "here am I! Here am I!"
Subject(s): Army - United States; Injustice; Justice; Nations; Problems; Social Protest; War


AT A UNITED NATIONS COCKTAIL PARTY, by BRUCE WRIGHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: In hand-crafted and tailored suits
Last Line: That it and the first are both absurd?
Subject(s): African Americans; United Nations


AT A UNITED NATIONS RECEPTION, by BRUCE WRIGHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: In too severly tailored suits
Last Line: That it and the first are both absurd?
Subject(s): African Americans; United Nations


BEETHOVEN IN CENTRAL PARK, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The thousand-windowed towers were all alight
Last Line: With his own grief, and his own majesty.
Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Central Park, New York City; Composers; Dreams; Grief; Music & Musicians; Nations; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness


BEYOND WARS; FOR THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS, by DAVID MORTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Then will a quiet gather around the door
Last Line: And a man ploughs, a woman sews and sings.
Subject(s): League Of Nations


BRAVE AND STARTLING TRUTH, by MAYA ANGELOU    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We, unaccustomed to courage
Subject(s): United Nations


CALISTO, OR THE CHASTE NYMPH: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As jupiter I made my court in vain
Last Line: To bind your friends and to disarm your foes.
Variant Title(s): Spilogue Intended To Have Been Spoken By Lady Wentworth
Subject(s): Beauty; Crowne, John (1640-1703); Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Nations; Nymphs


CANADIAN BORN, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We first saw light in canada the land beloved of god
Last Line: That they were born in canada beneath the british flag.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Canada; Nations; Pride; Canadians; Self-esteem; Self-respect


CANTO 25; THE WAR CLOUD, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Five happy years have told their flight
Last Line: And all the coming storm await.
Subject(s): Heroism; Nations; Native Americans; Prophecy & Prophets; War; Heroes; Heroines; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


CARMEN SECULARE, FOR THE YEAR MDCC, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy elder look, great janus, cast
Last Line: With everlasting beams of friendly light.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Goddesses & Gods; Heroism; Mythology; Nations; Peace; War; Heroes; Heroines


CARTER GLASS OF VIRGINIA, by JOHN FRANCIS STEELE    Poem Text                    
First Line: There stands a man who looks out from the stars
Last Line: There stands a man!
Subject(s): Nations; Stars; War


CASEAR BORGIA, SON OF POPE ALEXANDER THE SIXTH: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The unhappy man, who once has trail'd a pen
Last Line: The pope says grace, but 'tis the devil gives thanks.
Subject(s): Death; Nations; Poetry & Poets; Theater & Theaters; War; Dead, The; Stage Life


CITIES: 5. MOSCOW, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: High cheek-boned and bloody
Last Line: Of the very christ she curses.
Subject(s): Hate; Hunger; Moscow; Nations


CONSOLING THOUGHTS, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We sleep as brutus slept of yore
Last Line: Is not a den of murderers roman.
Subject(s): Nations; Pride; Sleep; Thought; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Thinking


DECATUR'S TOAST, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up rose, triumphant, from his seat
Last Line: "our country! -- right or wrong!"
Subject(s): Decatur, Stephen (1779-1820); Heroism; Nations; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Toasts; Heroes; Heroines


DEVOURER OF NATIONS, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Strength shall be thrust to the eater
Last Line: That grey, round rat!
Subject(s): Nations


DIRE: 1. A DEAD KING, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Go down to hell. This end is good to see
Last Line: Here is no room for thee; go down to hell.'
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Hell; Nations; Dead, The


DIRE: 10. A COUNSEL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O strong republic of the nobler years
Subject(s): Napoleon Iii (1808-1873); Nations; Time


DIRE: 11. THE MODERATES, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She stood before her traitors bound and bare
Last Line: February, 1870.
Subject(s): Betrayal; Death; Nations; Dead, The


DIRE: 12. INTERCESSION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O death, a little more, and then the worm
Last Line: Paris, september, 1869.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Nations; Soul; Dead, The; Nightmares


DIRE: 13. THE SAVIOR OF SOCIETY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O son of man, but of what man who knows?
Last Line: December, 1869.
Subject(s): Crucifixion; Death; Jesus Christ; Nations; Salvation; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The


DIRE: 14. MENTANA: SECOND ANNIVERSARY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By the dead body of hope, the spotless lamb
Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Hope; Nations; Dead, The; Optimism


DIRE: 15. MENTANA: THIRD ANNIVERSARY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Such prayers last year were put up for thy sake
Last Line: Satiate the immitigable hours in hell?
Subject(s): Death; Hope; Nations; Prayer; Dead, The; Optimism


DIRE: 16. THE DESCENT INTO HELL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O night and death, to whom we grudged him then
Last Line: That we have lived to say, the dog is dead.
Subject(s): Death; Hell; Jesus Christ; Nations; Dead, The


DIRE: 17. APOLOGIA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If wrath embitter the sweet mouth of song
Last Line: The exuberant light and burning bloom of love.
Subject(s): Fear; Nations


DIRE: 2. A YEAR AFTER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If blood throbs yet in this that was thy face
Last Line: Thy mouth to a snake's whose slime outlives the sting,
Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Nations; Cadavers; Dead, The


DIRE: 3. PETER'S PENCE FROM PERUGIA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Iscariot, thou grey-grown beast of blood
Last Line: With dusty shame, when thou art damned and dead.
Subject(s): Death; Fear; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Nations; Dead, The


DIRE: 4. PAPAL ALLOCUTION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What hast thou done? Hark, till thine ears wax hot
Last Line: Barks for his advent in the clefts of hell.
Subject(s): Hell; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Nations; Sin


DIRE: 5. THE BURDEN OF AUSTRIA. 1866, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O daughter of pride, wasted with misery
Last Line: Is it not thou that now art but a name?
Subject(s): Austria; Nations; Shame


DIRE: 6. LOCUSTA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come close and see her and hearken. This is she
Last Line: Praying. There are who say she is bride of christ.
Subject(s): Cups; Hell; Jesus Christ; Nations; Nero, Roman Emperor (37-68 A.d.)


DIRE: 7. CELENO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The blind king hides his weeping eyeless head
Last Line: That triple-headed hound of hell their god.
Subject(s): Blindness; Courts & Courtiers; Grief; Hell; Nations; Visually Handicapped; Sorrow; Sadness


DIRE: 8. A CHOICE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Faith is the spirit that makes man's body and blood
Last Line: Kill the beast faith that lives on its own dung.
Subject(s): Brutus (marcus Junius Brutus); Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Faith; Nations; Belief; Creed


DIRE: 9. THE AUGURS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lay the corpse out on the altar; bid the elect
Last Line: They carve the corpse -- a beast without a heart.
Subject(s): Corpses; Leprosy; Nations; Rome, Italy; Cadavers; Lepers


DOMESDAY BOOK: THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why don't they come to me to find the cause
Last Line: She talks with susan hamilton like this:
Subject(s): Death; Letters; Nations; War; Dead, The


DOMESDAY BOOK: WILL PAGET ON DEMOS AND HOGOS, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To coroner merival, greetings, but a voice
Last Line: To entertain his jury, in these words:
Subject(s): Life; Nations; Religion; Soul; Theology


DOUBLE DUTCH, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dutch on both sides of his family tree-now I can
Last Line: I'm dutch.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Identity; Nations; Netherlands; Holland; Dutch People


ELEONORA; A PANEGYRICAL POEM, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As when some great and gracious monarch dies
Last Line: For thou shalt make it live, because it sings of thee.
Subject(s): Death; Life; Nations; Soul; Dead, The


ENSIGN WORTH BAGLEY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas not in the way he'd hoped for
Last Line: She mourns his loss with tears.
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Nations; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


EUROPA: 3. THE EUROPEAN UNION, by WILLIAM LOGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: All england knows the penalty of peace
Last Line: They tear the sutures from the lying maps
Subject(s): Europe; Nations


FALLEN, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My country! By our fathers reared
Last Line: Retrace the path that ends in shame!
Subject(s): Heroism; Nations; Past; Tyranny & Tyrants; Heroes; Heroines


FARTHER VIEW, by FLORA SHUFELT RIVOLA    Poem Text                    
First Line: The united states of the world-our goal!
Last Line: Good-will-land lies, I know
Subject(s): Nations; Pacifism; Peace; United States; Peace Movements; America


FOLLIES OF THE DAY, A SATIRE, SELECTION, by F. O. SAYLES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Whoe'er surveys the conduct of mankind
Last Line: Let satire paint them for the public scorn.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Mankind; Nations; Truth; U.s. - History; Human Race


FOR ANA, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ana grows. %squirrels cavort
Last Line: A spike for mountain climbing and a sled have hearts. %a kiss, %dummy
Subject(s): Europe; Nations


FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1718, by NICHOLAS ROWE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh touch the string, celestial muse, and say
Last Line: And britain's festival be thine.
Subject(s): Birthdays; Europe; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Great Britain - Relations With France; Triplets; United Nations


FRANCE, by PERCY MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Half artist and half anchorite
Last Line: Jeanne d'arc!
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): France; Identity; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Nations; War


GIVE HIM HIS DUE, by LEVI BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These sentimental lines we write
Last Line: To swell the shout of victory.
Subject(s): Blacks; Nations; Reconstruction (1865-1876)


HE WATCHETH OVER ISRAEL, by SOLOMON L. LONG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Though our harps hang on the willows
Last Line: And he slumbers not, nor sleeps.
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Nations; Zionism; Judaism


HOISTING THE FLAG, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We hoisted the beautiful, beautiful flag
Last Line: With its silken folds unfurled!
Subject(s): Flags; Nations


HOMECOMING, by ALES DEBELJAK    Poem Source                    
First Line: A crust of thin ice cracks, and signposts change. Summer snow
Last Line: As a celtic vase drowns in the murmuring water that might fill the dry well
Subject(s): Change; Despair; Nations; Nature; Yugoslavia


HONOR OF THE JEWS, by WILLIAM HODSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thrice happy nation! Favorite of heaven!
Last Line: The gentile world jehovah's awful name.
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Nations; Judaism


IL Y A CNET ANS, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That march of the funereal past behold
Last Line: And one without a shell, decisive odds.
Subject(s): History; Napoleonic Wars; Nations; Historians


IMPERIALISM, by BERTRAND SHADWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: If you see an island shore which has not been grabb'd before
Last Line: Crime is christian when it's clearly understood.
Subject(s): Brotherhood; Crime & Criminals; Imperialism; Nations; Property; Possessions


IRELAND, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fire in her ashes ireland feels
Last Line: When solid with high heart stand these.
Subject(s): Ireland; Nations; Irish


IRISH, by EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON O'BRIEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My father and mother were irish
Last Line: For it is irish, too.
Subject(s): Ireland; Nations; Patriotism; Irish


ISRAEL, by IDA GOLDSMITH MORRIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: She stands among the nations of the earth
Last Line: He guards thee still, who spoke from sinai's mount!
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Nations; Judaism


JERUSALEM, by JOHN KEBBLE HERVEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The ancient of cities!-the lady of nations!
Last Line: And the streams flowing backward to zion again!
Subject(s): Jerusalem; Jews; Nations; Zionism; Judaism


JERUSALEM, by P. C. L.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Jerusalem! Jerus'lem! Thy glories have fled
Last Line: In the faith of his word, and the might of his arm.
Subject(s): Faith; Jerusalem; Jews; Nations; Praise; War; Zionism; Belief; Creed; Judaism


JULY FOURTH; 1867, by LEVI BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Awake, anew, columbia's anthems!
Last Line: Let distant ages swell the strain.
Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Freedom; Nations; Independence Day; Liberty


JUST DROPPED IN, by WILLIAM ROSSA COLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: He did not come to woo u nu
Last Line: Which he certainly knew you knew, u nu
Subject(s): United Nations


LARABELLE: CANTO SECOND, by LEVI BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A smiling peace, revolving years had told
Last Line: Is our young hero -- worthy johny green.
Subject(s): Death; Nations; Peace; War; Dead, The


LARABELLE; CANTO FOURTH, by LEVI BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The search without success, tho' wide and far
Last Line: Of johny green and worthy larabelle.
Subject(s): Graves; Love; Nations; Tombs; Tombstones


LEAGUE OF NATIONS; THE PRESIDENT RETURNS TO AMERICA, by NANCY BYRD TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Back to our shores he comes from the sad strand
Last Line: A watch-fire on the topmost hill of time.
Subject(s): League Of Nations; Nations; Presidents, United States; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


LITANY OF NATIONS, by WILLIAM GRIFFITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Aeons of old were wandering down the seas
Last Line: What have we squandered?
Subject(s): Ambition; Europe; God; History; Nations; Prophecy & Prophets; War; Historians


LITOST, by DEBORAH O'HARRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The woman has no eyebrows
Last Line: Of a lost nation, keening of an ageless orphan
Subject(s): Czechoslovakia; Eyes; Injustice; Nations


LITTLE POEMS ABOUT LOVE, by STUART MERRILL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Seven times the four seasons had passed over the woods and the
Last Line: Word suffices for my stammering folly, a word you know well, o beloved!
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Kisses; Love; Nations; Past


LOUD SHOUT THE FLAMING TONGUES OF WAR, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Loud shout the flaming tongues of war
Last Line: Shall we unite in servitude.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Ireland; Nations; Patriotism; War; Irish


LOVELY ALBERT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The turkish war both near and far
Last Line: The army and the navy
Subject(s): Freedom;nations;war; Liberty


LURID LIVES: A CHICAGO RED (IN A GRAIN ELEVATOR), by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've got the sack, have I, and I can go?
Last Line: So bloated with the fat of food and fortune!
Subject(s): Communism; Money; Nations


MATER TRIUMPHALIS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mother of man's time-travelling generations
Last Line: Yes, though thou slay us, arise and let us die
Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Death; Nations; Women


MAXIMA CARTA (INSCRIBED TO PRESIDENT WILSON), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail, newest charter of the hopes of man!
Last Line: When all the world gives bond to break the unhallowed sword?
Subject(s): League Of Nations; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


MCFEETERS' FOURTH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was needless to say 'twas a glorious day
Last Line: Of this most patriotic republic on earth?
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Freedom; Nations; Patriotism; Independence Day; Liberty


MENTANA: FIRST ANNIVERSARY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the time when the stars are grey
Last Line: "give all men heart to be free."
Subject(s): Italy; Nations; Night; Stars; Italians; Bedtime


MORTON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The warm pulse of the nation has grown chill
Last Line: Its echoes will remain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Freedom; Morton, Oliver Hazard Perry (1823-1877); Nations; Peace; War; Liberty


MY COUNTRY, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: My country is the world--the whole round world
Last Line: The world—my country.
Subject(s): Earth; Nations; World


NECESSARY AND IMPOSSIBLE, by HENRI COLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is a nation born in the quiet part of the mind
Last Line: Pushing out of their element into mine
Subject(s): Nations


NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 6. A CANADIAN VOICE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God, god, how well they meant
Last Line: Give them, o god, not heroes' hearts, but brains!
Subject(s): Freedom; God; Mythology - Classical; Nations; Sea; Liberty; Ocean


ODE ON PROCLAMATION OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With songs and crying and sound of acclamations
Last Line: The cry thou gavest at heart was only of delight.
Subject(s): France; Hope; Lament; Light; Nations; War; Optimism


OFF THE WALDHEIM, by EDWARD DORN            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The papal audience is about as low as it gets
Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts; United Nations; Arab-israeli Conflict


OFF THE WALDHEIM, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The papal audience is about as low as it gets
Last Line: Was cozying up to the palestinians at the u.N
Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts; United Nations


ON MY OWN MINIATURE PICTURE, TAKEN AT TWO YEARS OF AGE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And I was once like this! That glowing cheek
Last Line: Spirit of spenser! Was the wanderer wrong?
Subject(s): Life Change Events; Maturity; Nations; Portraits; Self; Youth


ON PROPOSED PRESENTATION OF GUNS TO KING OF SARDINIA, ITALIAN LIBERTY, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No gold - no jewels bright
Last Line: Be god to aid thee nigh!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): England; Europe; Freedom; Italy; Nations; English; Liberty; Italians


ON SYRIAN HILLS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is said the bedouins cry, on the syrian hills, a clear
Last Line: And the ages they hear him yet, and his voice do the nations know.
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Nations; Peace; War


ON THE DANGER OF WAR, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Avert, high wisdom, never vainly wooed
Last Line: To drums whose loudness is their emptiness.
Subject(s): Nations; Social Protest; War


ON TO THE PROMISED LAND, by ISRAEL GOLDBERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: A dawning sun breaks through the sable cloud!
Last Line: Of freedom for the never-conquered jew!
Alternate Author Name(s): Learsi, Rufus
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Nations; Patriotism; Zionism; Judaism


OUR NATIVE LAND, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The halo round the seraph's head
Last Line: With sides of snow, and throat of fires!
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Earth; Home; Memory; Nations; Travel; World; Journeys; Trips


PAX BRITANNICA, by ALFRED AUSTIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behind her rolling ramparts england lay
Last Line: Watchful she leaned.
Subject(s): Calm; Great Britain - Relations With France; Nations; Peace; Retirement; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility


PEACE GUARANTEED, by MARY J. ARMSTRONG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, nations, battle - scarred
Last Line: God's word does guarantee.
Subject(s): Nations; Peace


PEOPLE OF AMERICA, by DOROTHY QUICK    Poem Text                    
First Line: This age is epochal
Last Line: Half of your seeds.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mayer, John Adams, Mrs.
Subject(s): Future; Hands; Nations; Seeds; United States; America


POEM: 11, by LAURENCE MINOT    Poem Text                    
First Line: War pis winter oway wele wald I wene
Last Line: þat he may at his ending -- haue heuin till his mede.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Life; Nations; War


POLAND, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spirit of freedom, shadow of the god
Last Line: Fling wide the portal to the peerless queen!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin)
Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Nations; Poland; Soldiers; Dead, The; Liberty


POLAND, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Speak not thus in tones of gladness
Last Line: God of right, the right defend!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Europe; Nations; Patriotism; Poland


POLAND, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Words cannot come, tears will not flow
Last Line: That conquers only to devour.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Europe; Nations; Patriotism; Poland


PRINCIP, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Look at him there, a lad of nineteen years
Last Line: Princip, with nineteen years, can you not tell?
Subject(s): Assassination; Fate; Guns; Nations; World War I; Destiny; First World War


PSALM: 2, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why do the gentils tumults make
Last Line: That do on him their trust repose.
Subject(s): Fear; Gentility; God; Nations; Religion; Theology


PUISSANCE OF THE JEW, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: For, if we be not of the lost ten tribes
Last Line: With dawning greatness of the jewish name!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Jerusalem; Jews; Nations; Wealth; Judaism; Riches; Fortunes


REPUBLIC AND MOTHERLAND, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up the vast harbor with the morning sun
Last Line: Thy mayflower crossed the sea.
Subject(s): Dreams; Explorers; Nations; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Nightmares; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Ocean


ROBBED (LEAGUE OF NATIONS REPUDIATED BY U.S. SENATE), by ETHELEAN TYSON GAW    Poem Text                    
First Line: I rode at dawn a chevalier of god
Last Line: But—so much cannon fodder left to rot.
Subject(s): League Of Nations; United States - Congress - Senate; War


SELASSIE AT GENEVA, by MARCUS B. CHRISTIAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They could have stayed the iron hand of might
Last Line: Blow, bugles! Armageddon has begun!
Subject(s): Haile Selassie. Emperor (1892-1975); League Of Nations


SONG OF THE FEDERATION, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As the nations sat together, grimly waiting
Last Line: Kneel thee down, new-made sister -- let us pray!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Nations; Roads; Singing & Singers; War; Paths; Trails


STRANGER, STRANGER, by JORGE MATEUS DE LIMA    Poem Source                    
First Line: And when the assyrians stopped waging war against the
Last Line: Continues to bury the dead on this wayward planet
Subject(s): Death; Humanity; United Nations; War


SUCCESS, by MAY EMMA GOLDWORTH KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I drink the foaming chalice
Last Line: Who lived and died for men.
Subject(s): Brotherhood; Memory; Nations; Success


THANKSGIVING, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thanksgiving day is set apart
Last Line: "praise father, son, and holy ghost!"
Subject(s): Family Life; Holidays; Nations; Praise; Prayer; Thanksgiving; Turkey; Relatives


THE BAR, by LEVI BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When bards the lybian desert sing
Last Line: And final judgment close the scene.
Subject(s): Life; Nations; Truth


THE BOOK LINE; RIVINGTON STREET BRANCH, NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, ye that despair of the land
Last Line: Yet shall rear to the skies!
Subject(s): Future; Legends; Librarians & Libraries; Nations; New York City; Library; Librarians; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE BUBBLE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out springs the bubble, dazzling bright
Last Line: The bubble bursts, -- and this is life!
Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Graves; Life; Nations; Childhood; Tombs; Tombstones


THE CANON OF AUGHRIM, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You ask me of english honour, whether your nation is just!
Last Line: Ridge and furrow of grass, the graves of our women and men.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Great Britain - Politics & Government; Justice; Law & Lawyers; Nations; War; Attorneys


THE CEDARS OF LEBANON, by HENRY THOMAS SCHNITTKIND    Poem Text                    
First Line: But the waves of the fury of nations
Last Line: To bring them home.
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, Henry+(2)
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Nations; Zionism; Judaism


THE COMMON LOT, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Call it not vain, this life
Last Line: Strength to prevail!
Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Nations; Night; Peace; Bedtime


THE CRISIS, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spirit of russia, now has come
Last Line: Say to thy land, let there be light.
Subject(s): History; Nations; Russian Revolution; Historians


THE DEATH OF ANTONINUS PIUS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the marble gates of ostia
Last Line: And thine aequanimitas!
Subject(s): Death; Life; Nations; Rome, Italy; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean


THE DEATH OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN, by NEAL" "NEFF [PSEUD.]    Poem Text                    
First Line: Of him who stood foremost in this mighty age
Last Line: "that the soil be not curs'd by the blood of the slave, / now the land of the free and the home of t
Alternate Author Name(s): "neff, Neal;
Subject(s): "american Civil War;assassination;lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865);nations;presidents, United States;u.s. - History;


THE DESIRE OF NATIONS, by EDWIN MARKHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Earth will go back to her lost youth
Last Line: More than the light of law that rose on rome.
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Nations; Peace


THE DUKE OF GUISE: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our play's a parallel; the holy league
Last Line: Pull down the master, and set up the man.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Nations; Plays & Playwrights ; Politics & Government; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; English; Dramatists


THE FAMILY OF NATIONS, by WILLARD WATTLES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With that pathetic impudence of youth
Last Line: Forgets the boy and finds himself a man!
Subject(s): League Of Nations


THE FINAL WAR, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, east and west shall know not rest and the seas
Last Line: Then over the world shall be unfurled the one white flag of peace.
Subject(s): Blood; Nations; Patriotism; Peace; War


THE FLAG OF PEACE, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Men long have fought for their flying flags
Last Line: The rainbow flag of peace!
Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Nations; Peace; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; World


THE HALT BEFORE ROME, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it so, that the sword is broken
Last Line: Proclaiming republican rome.
Subject(s): Freedom; Nations; Rome, Italy; War; Liberty


THE HARP OF ZION, by JAMES WILLIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The harp of zion sleepeth
Last Line: The wanderer to restore!
Subject(s): Galilee, Palestine; Jews; Nations; Zionism; Judaism


THE INTERNATIONALIST, by LOUIS GINSBERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Though rains of jeering pelt with hissing sneers
Last Line: The rising temple in the heart of man!
Subject(s): Brotherhood; Cooperation; Government; Nations


THE INTERNATIONALISTS, by PHILIP M. HARDING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Freed from tradition's bloody racks
Last Line: Worth one split-second of their lives!
Subject(s): Cooperation; Nations; Soldiers; War


THE JOURNEY, by GRACE FALLOW NORTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I went upon a journey
Last Line: All my journey sung!
Subject(s): Death; Nations; Soldiers; Women; World War I; Dead, The; First World War


THE KINGS PROPHECY, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What stoick could his steely brest containe
Last Line: Sawe too fewe dayes, to see too many yeares.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Hope; Nations; Prophecy & Prophets; Treason & Traitors; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Optimism


THE LAST PARADE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With never a sound of trumpet
Last Line: Moved off from their last parade.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Nations; Parades


THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS, by MARY SIEGRIST    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lo, joseph dreams his dream again
Last Line: A cain without a country, a judas at the board!
Subject(s): League Of Nations


THE LITANY OF NATIONS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If with voice of words or prayers thy sons
Last Line: O mother, hear us,
Subject(s): Europe; God; Nations; Praise


THE MASSACRE OF PERUGIA; FRAGMENT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A trumpet pealed thro' france. Then italy
Last Line: Perugia on her fort-crowned hill
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Nations; Sea; War; Ocean


THE MIDGET DANCE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I scan the storied pages
Last Line: Finds life . . . A midget dance!
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Life; Love; Nations; War; Youth


THE NATIONS, by THOMAS HEYWOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The spaniard loves his ancient slop
Last Line: On which he dare not venture.
Subject(s): Nations


THE PITEOUS BATTLE OF MONT-L'HERY, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: After many a round-about they encountered man to man
Last Line: Beads beguiled he blessed the holy name, most happy and most mild.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; Nations; War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


THE POET'S SPIRIT, by JOSEPH FITZPATRICK    Poem Text                    
First Line: No dirge or solemn bell
Last Line: Jehovah's living fire.
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Nations; Poetry & Poets; Zionism; Judaism


THE PRINCE IS DEAD, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A room in the palace is shut. The king
Last Line: The prince is dead.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Nations; Tears; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The


THE PROMISED LAND, by JESSIE E. SAMPTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O little land of lapping seas
Last Line: Sound peace upon his hill.
Subject(s): God; Jews; Nations; Peace; Zionism; Judaism


THE REED, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As when the poet, muttering low
Last Line: "come,"" said she, ""sing thy reed-song through the world."
Subject(s): Civilization; Criticism & Critics; Justice; Music & Musicians; Nations; Poetry & Poets; United States; America


THE RETURN, by R. E. I.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wide open, ye doors, and raise up high, o gate
Last Line: Rejoicing as bridegroom that greeteth his bride.
Subject(s): Flags; Israel; Jews; Nations; Zionism; Judaism


THE RULER OF THE NATIONS, by JOHN KEBLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lord hath set me o'er the kings of earth
Last Line: "and it is so; my words are sacraments divine."
Subject(s): Jews; Nations; Judaism


THE SILENT VICTORS; MAY 30, 1878, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Deep, tender, firm and true, the nation's heart
Last Line: Let every sorrow rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Nations; Patriotism; Peace


THE SONG OF 1876, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Waken, voice of the land's devotion!
Last Line: As pure as of old for a thousand years!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Freedom; Honor; Nations; Singing & Singers; Liberty


THE SONG OF NATIONS, by CATHERINE WILEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wherever nations come together
Last Line: Nations rise as one in glory.
Subject(s): Nations


THE SYMBOL OF MADNESS, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We'll now begin to sing the song
Last Line: "above the reach of vulgarity."
Subject(s): Grief; Insanity; Nations; Nature; Sorrow; Sadness; Madness; Mental Illness


THE TROPHY GUNS, by LEVI BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the fourth of july, a. D. 1874, an impromptu
Last Line: "banner."
Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Guns; Nations; Independence Day


THE TWO SPIRITS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night, when weary silence fell on all
Last Line: The starry crown the glorious present wore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Death; Life; Nations; Past; Dead, The


THE ULTIMATE NATION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once babylon, by beauty tenanted
Last Line: She makes his ways her ways eternally?
Subject(s): Babylon; Death; Fate; God; Nations; Rome, Italy; Sin; Dead, The; Destiny


THE UNION, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You that have gathered together the sons of all races
Last Line: One singing star of the world.
Subject(s): Dreams; Flags; Freedom; Mankind; Nations; Tears; Nightmares; Liberty; Human Race


THE UNION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Three in one, but one in three
Last Line: The royal commonweal!
Subject(s): God; Ireland; Nations; Sea; Irish; Ocean


THE WAILING PLACE IN JERUSALEM, by LOUIS FEDERLEICHT    Poem Text                    
First Line: With heads bowed down, they stand with streaming / eyes
Last Line: Or carmel's vines look on the midland seas.
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Nations; Zionism; Judaism


THE WATCHER AT THE GATE, by SAMUEL HAWKINS MARSHALL BYERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hark - from yonder east there come
Last Line: Love alone can save the world.
Subject(s): Love; Nations; Salvation; Social Protest; War


THE WIND AND THE WHIRLWIND, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have a thing to say. But how to say it?
Last Line: I had a thing to say. And it is said.
Subject(s): Egypt; Freedom; Nations; Patriotism; Peace; Politics & Government; War; Liberty


THE WORLD IS ONE; DEDICATED TO WOODROW WILSON, by HINTON WHITE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The world is one; we cannot live apart
Last Line: The travail and the triumph of the years.
Subject(s): League Of Nations; Religion; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924); Theology


TO DORA DORIAN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Child of two strong nations, heir
Last Line: Child.
Subject(s): Children; Nations; Roundels; Childhood


TO FRANCE, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, still I dream of thee, my france
Last Line: With his, whose loving arms enfold the skies!
Subject(s): France; Nations


TO IGNACE PADEREWSKI, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not yours? The softly spoken word
Last Line: The country of the heart?
Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A.
Subject(s): Language; Nations; Poland; Words; Vocabulary


TO MARY STUART, QUEEN OF FRANCE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: England and scotland and the land of france
Last Line: And then be queen six months of the french land.
Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Nations; Mary Stuart


TO MR HARLEY, WOUNDED BY GUISCARD, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: In one great now, superior to an age
Last Line: Enough to thee of grief, and fame is given.
Subject(s): Death; England; Fame; Grief; Nations; Dead, The; English; Reputation; Sorrow; Sadness


TO MR IOSUAH SYLUESTER, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dare confesse; of muses, more then nine
Last Line: One bartas speaks in tongues, in nations, twayn.
Subject(s): Confessions; Freedom; Muses; Nations; Singing & Singers; Liberty; Songs


TO THE EXCELLENT MRS. ANNE OWEN, by KATHERINE PHILIPS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are complete, and fate hath now
Last Line: Be kept with us perpetuall holy day!
Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda
Subject(s): Fate; Graves; Nations; Owen, Anne (lewis) (1633-1692); Destiny; Tombs; Tombstones


TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR EDWARD HYDE, EARL OF CLARENDON, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While flattering crowds officiously appear
Last Line: Because the centre of it is above.
Subject(s): Holidays; Hyde, Edward. 1st Earl Of Clarendon; Nations; Nature; New Year; Politics & Government; War


TO THE METROPOLIS OF GREAT BRITAIN, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As perhaps I am the first who ever presented a work of this nature to the
Last Line: Men, so is by none more passionately desired than by %the greatest of your admirers, %and most humbl
Subject(s): Cities; Great Britain; Nations; Praise; War


TO THEE, MY COUNTRY, by LOUISE BURTON LAIDLAW    Poem Text                    
First Line: America, unbend that troubled brow!
Last Line: Shall false and foolish fears hold thee in thrall?
Alternate Author Name(s): Backus, L., Mrs.
Subject(s): League Of Nations; Nations; Peace; United States; War; America


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 1, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Freedom at last!
Last Line: Written—and of this book.
Subject(s): Democracy; Expressionism - Poets; Freedom; Life; Nations; Politics & Government; Self-consciousness; Liberty


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. YORK MINISTER, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Solid and ghostly in the pale winter morning
Last Line: To sit and sing—for pure joy simply to sit and sing!
Subject(s): Christianity; Churches; Democracy; God; Humanity; Nations; Cathedrals


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE WORD DEMOCRACY, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Underneath all now comes this word, turning
Last Line: Himself over the earth and launch forth to sail through heaven.
Subject(s): Democracy; Nations; Politics & Government


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. A MIGHTIER THAN MAMMON, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At last, after centuries, when the tension and strain
Last Line: And they achieved a real distinction, and the finest kind of aristocracy.
Subject(s): Humanity; Modern Life; Nations; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. INDIA, THE WISDOM-LAND, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here also in india - wonderful, hidden - over thousands of miles
Last Line: The precious semen of democracy.
Subject(s): Himalayas (mountains); India; Jungles; Nations; Nature


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE ONE FOUNDATION, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Only that people can thrive that loves its land
Last Line: Suspended.
Subject(s): Nations; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes


TRIBE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A tribe, an insufficient velvet, borders
Last Line: The water is a guillotine. I am the food of great masses
Subject(s): Boundaries; Cities; Nations


VISION OF COLUMBUS, SELS., by JOEL BARLOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In youthful minds to wake the ardent flame
Last Line: Repay thy labours and remove thy pain
Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Life Change Events; Nations; Peace


WAR AND HELL, by ERNEST HOWARD CROSBY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The old, old dream of empire - the dream of alexander and caesar ...
Last Line: Away with your brutal disorder, and clear the field for the tournament of man.
Subject(s): Brotherhood; Hell; Nations; Peace; War


WAR NOTES: 1. 'EXTRAS', by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The crocuses in the square
Last Line: With heaven's own patience are calm and sweet.
Subject(s): Faces; May (month); Nations; Sea; War; Ocean


WHAT TITLE?, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What title best befits the man
Last Line: The highest, noblest name -- the man.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Americans; Leadership; Life; Nations; Patriotism


WHAT WE WANT, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All hail the dawn of a new day breaking
Last Line: We want just dividing of labour and gold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Equality; Labor & Laborers; Nations; Work; Workers


WHITE FEATHER, by PHILIP M. HARDING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Strike on, great nations, wage new armaments
Last Line: To watch your bodies rotting clean again.
Subject(s): Evil; Nations; Social Protest; War


WILLIAM MCKINLEY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He said: it is god's way
Last Line: To glory here -- and there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Death; God; Mckinley, William (1843-1901); Nations; Patriotism; Soldiers; Dead, The


WORKERS' OFFSPRING, by VINCENT FERRINI    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out of iron earth our tenement lives
Last Line: In false nation, born unalive.
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Nations; Soul; Work; Workers


WORLD PEACE HYMN, by BENJAMIN D. DAVIES    Poem Text                    
First Line: On earth peace and goodwill toward men, the
Last Line: Singing melodies of peace.
Subject(s): Earth; Peace; United Nations; World


ZION, by LOUIS FEDERLEICHT    Poem Text                    
First Line: On lovely dwellings fall the fervid rays
Last Line: All over olivet the morning breaks.
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Nations; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Zionism; Judaism


ZIONISM, by HERBERT N. CARSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The story that herzl told was true
Last Line: For the dream of the strong comes true.
Subject(s): Flags; Israel; Jews; Nations; Zionism; Judaism