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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: NATIONS Matches Found: 190 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 worldmy 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: Butso 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: Writtenand 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 singfor 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 |
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