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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PEACE Matches Found: 1190 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "EVACUATION OF NEW YORK BY THE BRITISH, 1783", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: They come!-they come!-the heroes come Last Line: "and bless, oh! Bless america!" Subject(s): American Revolution;freedom;new York City - Revolutionary Period;peace;victory; Liberty ....THE KINGDOM OF THE AIR, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whose peacock cry bereaves those myrtle groves? Last Line: Or make a lash close over its long stare. Subject(s): Love; Peace; Silence; War 105 MM MORTARS RAIN DOWN ON US, by REYNA HERNANDEZ Poem Source Subject(s): Peace 1914 AND AFTER, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Would you end war? Last Line: So surely will your selfishness bring war. Subject(s): Peace; War A CHRISTMAS CAROL, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon that now is shining Last Line: Of glory and of peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Peace; Singing & Singers; Stars; Nativity, The A CUP OF WATER, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you awoke in the night and asked for water Last Line: A cup of water,and sleep came down on the sight. Subject(s): Death; Peace; Rest; Dead, The A DREAM OF PEACE, by LILY PEARL CHAMBERLIN Poem Text First Line: I dreamed that peace had come, - that nevermore Last Line: The age of peace on earth, good will to men. Subject(s): Dreams; Peace; World War I; Nightmares; First World War A LASTING PEACE?, by LELA BOULDIN SHEWMAKE Poem Text First Line: Your hands that threw the torch in flanders field Last Line: That we may pray: they have not died in vain. Subject(s): Peace A MESSAGE OF PEACE, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was once a pirate, greedy and bold Last Line: A pious example of christian peace! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Christianity; Hypocrisy; Pacifism; Peace; Social Protest; War; Peace Movements A MOTHER BEFORE A SOLDIER'S MONUMENT, by WINNIE LYNCH ROCKETT Poem Text First Line: Was it for this I braved a pathless dark Last Line: I paid for laurel wreath and marble shaft. Variant Title(s): A Mother Before A Military Monument Subject(s): Mothers; Peace; Soldiers; War A NEW EARTH, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God grant us wisdom in these coming days Last Line: With hearts courageous we may fairer build this last. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Variant Title(s): For A New World Subject(s): Patriotism; Peace; Religion; Theology A PLEA FOR PEACE, by WALTIE NORRIS-OWEN Poem Text First Line: Thou, god of war, strip off your armor. When Last Line: Of peace, repent; remove earth's mourning veil! Subject(s): Peace; Sonnet (as Literary Form) A PRAYER FOR PEACE, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Father in heaven! Humbly before thee Last Line: To his beloved he giveth sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): Prayer; Peace A PRAYER FOR THE KING'S REIGN, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O god, the ruler over earth and sea Last Line: In this beginning reign may be fulfilled. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Coronations; George Vi, King Of England (1894-1952); Great Britain - Rulers; Peace; Prayer A PRAYER USED BY FRANCIS I WHEN HE WAS AT WAR WITH CHARLES V, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Almighty lord of hosts, by whose commands Last Line: Triumphant hymns to thee, th' eternal king. Subject(s): Peace; Prayer; Victory; War A QUERY, by GEORGE WESLEY DENNIS Poem Text First Line: Does stygic darkness reign wherein you dwell? Last Line: More blind are they who will not use their eyes? Subject(s): Blindness; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Life; Peace; Soul; Visually Handicapped A QUIET WINTER MORNING, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here peace and quiet reign in undisturbed dominion Last Line: And gentle winds of spring and summer. Subject(s): Grief; Peace; Winter; Sorrow; Sadness A SECOND REVIEW OF THE GRAND ARMY [MAY 24, 1865], by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read last night of the grand review Last Line: Awakened me from my slumber. Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; Peace; Soldiers; United States - History; Declaration Day A SONG OF CALDEY (TO THE PRIOR AND BENEDICTINE BRETHREN ON THE ISLAND), by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The red roofs of caldey are gleaming in the sun Last Line: That the glory of the land they love shall never pass away. Subject(s): Caldey Island, Wales; Peace; Tides; Travel; Wales; Journeys; Trips; Welshmen; Welshwomen A SONG OF HOME-COMING, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark and cold on the far battle-field Last Line: O let the laurel grow there! Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Battleships; Homecoming; Memory; Mourning; Peace; Soldiers; War; War Injuries; Bereavement A SUMMER'S EVENING, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet yearnings unexpressed Last Line: And peace divine the dewy landscape steeps! Subject(s): Love; Peace; Silence; Summer A VICTORY DANCE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cymbals crash Last Line: Of the victory ball. Subject(s): Peace A VOICE FROM FLANDERS FIELDS, by ELLA COLTER JOHNSTON Poem Text First Line: We did not hate. We did not want to kill Last Line: But will men never find peace save by dying? Subject(s): Peace; Soldiers; War A WINTER TWILIGHT, by ARLO BATES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pale beryl sky, with clouds Last Line: Of day's keen pain away. Subject(s): Peace; Night; Bedtime A WISH, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: May it be mine, ye gods, to tread Last Line: To slumber undisturbed of dreams. Subject(s): Dreams; Nature; Peace; Wishes; Nightmares ABRAHAM LINCOLN WALKS AT MIDNIGHT, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is portentous, and a thing of state Last Line: That he may sleep upon his hill again? Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Injustice; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Patriotism; Peace; Presidents, United States; Social Protest; World War I - United States ACCEPTATION, by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We do accept thee, heavenly peace! Last Line: And leave to god and heaven the rest. Subject(s): American Civil War; Peace; U.s. - History ACCORDING TO THE MIGHTY WORKING, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When moiling seems at cease Last Line: Outside perception's range. Subject(s): Peace ACT OF FAITH, by JANINA FERNANDEZ Poem Source First Line: The cold, elastic, decaying planet Subject(s): Peace AD ASTRA: 119, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Yet those broad acres that our fathers loved Last Line: Still breathing of a feudal peace profound, Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Peace AD ASTRA: 161, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: An old man's judgment in the hour of death Last Line: And happy peace, the olive branch of heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Peace; Dead, The; Paradise AD ASTRA: 176, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Gather the nations in one fold again Last Line: Merged in thine ocean of eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Peace AD ASTRA: 30, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: No more,-yet have we not divine amends? Last Line: Peace after tempest, after turmoil ease. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Peace AD ASTRA: 31, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: And man-to what achievements doth he move? Last Line: Before the smile of universal peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Peace; Dead, The AD ASTRA: 55, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Come to me, o my soul's diviner soul! Last Line: A shrine of peace, close chancell'd from all pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Love; Peace AD ASTRA: 57, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: How long, dear heart, how long must we repine? Last Line: The impassion'd peace that only lovers know? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Peace AD ASTRA: 9, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: That answering smile that seems to set at rest Last Line: When the unruly winds are hush'd in sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Caregivers; Peace AD PATRIAM, SELS., by WILLIAM DUDLEY FOULKE Poem Source First Line: Land of my heart %what future is before thee? Subject(s): Peace ADVENT, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Once to this troubled world Last Line: To weary eyes. Subject(s): Babies; Christmas; Hope; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Peace; Worship; Infants; Nativity, The; Optimism AFTER ALL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought your search was over. So I thought Last Line: "and sigh indeed for home in banishment."" --" Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): A Discovery Subject(s): Seeking; Home; Peace; Heaven AFTER ELECTION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day's sharp strife is ended now Last Line: The weary heart of freedom rest! Subject(s): Elections; Freedom; Peace; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Liberty AFTER MANY YEARS, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After many years and long Last Line: Hand in hand forever on the path of peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Old Age; Peace AFTER THE GREAT WIND, by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let us not further trespass down this lane Last Line: And over us the constellations wane. Subject(s): Calm; Peace; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility AFTER THE STORM, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The duel of the warring clouds Last Line: The smile of god shall glow. Subject(s): God; Peace; Storms AFTER THE WAR, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the war - I hear men ask - what then? Last Line: Whose meaning is beyond the reach of time. Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War AGAINST DEATH I FIGHT, by MARGARITA AZURDIA Poem Source Subject(s): Peace AGAINST UNWORTHY PRAISE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O heart, be at peace, because Last Line: Half lion, half child, is at peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Defamation; Peace ALL DAY I'VE TOILED, BUT NOT WITH PAIN, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Peace ALWAYS BEYOND, by ROSARIO MURILLO Poem Source First Line: Beneath this rain that doesn't bear your name Subject(s): Peace AMERICA, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A hundred tsars shall rot to bone Last Line: And, fruitful, you shall feed them all. Subject(s): Peace; United States; America AMERICA TRIUMPHANT, by ELVIRA BUSH SMITH Poem Text First Line: America, thou peerless one Last Line: Bring forth a happier time! Subject(s): Patriotism; Peace; United States; America AMERICA'S PEACE CRY, by HEPHZIBAH ELIZABETH SPENCER KENDRICK Poem Text First Line: O lord god of hosts, give ear to our prayer Last Line: To the glorious dawn, of the world's peace day! Subject(s): Peace; Prayer AMONG LODGEPOLE PINES, BETWEEN DOWNPOURS, by MARJORIE POWER Poem Source First Line: A tiny life slips into hiding Last Line: A tiny life slips into hiding Subject(s): Peace AN ADIRONDACK WINTER SONG, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Within our adirondack home Last Line: With light the soul doth know. Subject(s): Peace; Seasons; Snow; Weather; Winter AN AFTERTHOUGHT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh lost garden paradise Last Line: And the blessed door made fast. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Death; Heaven; Love; Peace; Dead, The; Paradise AN EPISTLE FROM A HALF-PAY OFFICER .. TO FRIEND IN LONDON, by RICHARDSON PACK Poem Text First Line: Curse on the star, dear harry, that betrayed Last Line: O cursed effects of honourable peace! Subject(s): Peace AN EVENING REVERIE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since climbed the trembling light of dawn far up the / eastern stairs Last Line: "nor, for my little thought of thee, take thou thy thoughts away!" Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ; Peace; Prayer AN OLD BATTLE-FIELD, by FRANK LEBBY STANTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The softest whisperings of the scented south Last Line: Dream of the battle and an unmarked grave! Subject(s): American Civil War; Peace; United States - History AND I DREAMED I WAS A TREE, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs. Subject(s): Peace AND THEN, by BESSY REYNA Poem Source First Line: Now I could do battle Subject(s): Peace ANGEL OF PEACE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "angel of peace, thou hast wandered too long!" Last Line: "angels of bethlehem, echo the strain!" Subject(s): Altars;angels;peace;prayer ANGUISH, by SARA MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: Footsteps in the street Subject(s): Peace ANO DE LA PAZ, by WILLIAM ARCHILA Poem Source First Line: Past the smell of fried beans Last Line: I will show you the way %through my republic Subject(s): Peace APOCALYPSE, by VIRGINIA GRUTTER Poem Source First Line: I looked in every corner and all I saw was beauty destroyed Subject(s): Peace APPENDIX TO 'LAZARUS': 8, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy letter was a flash of lightning Last Line: This fearful tragedy's conclusion. Subject(s): Fear; Letters; Pain; Peace; Tragedy; Suffering; Misery APPROXIMATE WEIGHT OF FIRE IN THE SMOKY MOUNTAINS, by DAWN KARIMA PETTIGREW Poem Source First Line: Manna redpaint measuring Last Line: Is like that %only quiet Subject(s): Peace; Religion APRIL IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ver purpureum horace loved Last Line: Up here at jim mcnally's. Subject(s): Cattle; Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Peace; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers ARCADIA: PEACE, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair rocks, goodly rivers, sweet woods, when shall I see peace? Last Line: Devils? If in hell such devils do abide, to the hells I do go. Go. Variant Title(s): Echo Subject(s): Peace ARCHITECTS OF DREAM, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Source First Line: We cannot rest, whose hearts are like the breakers Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Holidays; Peace; Veterans Day ARMED PEACE; JANUARY, 1899, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hopes of humanity fly, the doubts and the terrors remain Last Line: Craves the flesh of the peoples for bread, and the blood of their slaughter for wine. Subject(s): Peace; War ARMISTICE DAY, by EDMUND VANCE COOKE Poem Text First Line: Armistice day! When a new sun rose Last Line: And the wars are endedfor those who died! Subject(s): Death; Peace; Soldiers; Veterans Day; War; Dead, The ARMISTICE DAY, by HELEN HUTCHCRAFT Poem Text First Line: I can hear a sound Last Line: As the drums go by. Subject(s): Holidays; Parades; Peace; Veterans Day ARMY HYMN, by FREDERIC DENISON Poem Text First Line: O thou enthroned above the skies Last Line: And spread abroad thy grace. Subject(s): American Civil War; Peace; United States - History ARRIVAL, by ERIC WALTER Poem Source First Line: A man comes to the canyons with a handful of poems to Last Line: Lure of the moon. A journey without machines Subject(s): Peace ARS POETICA, by MIRNA MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: I want blue to color all my years Subject(s): Peace AS AN ANIMAL COMES TO KNOW, I LOVE, by MORAVIA OCHOA Poem Source First Line: Here I said your letter and your person Subject(s): Peace ASCENSION, by LUIS DE LEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O shepherd, dost thou leave Last Line: How poor and blind are we who here remain Alternate Author Name(s): Fray Luis Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Peace AT GIBRALTAR, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: England, I stand on thy imperial ground Last Line: Peace to the world, from ports without a gun! Subject(s): Gibraltar; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Peace; British Empire; England - Empire AT PEACE, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, footsteps sounding in the night Last Line: I am at peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Peace; Rest AT THE KITCHEN TABLE, by GLENDA STEWART LANGLEY Poem Source First Line: Your face serious and sensible Last Line: Slipping into gold-tinged apricot Subject(s): Peace AT THE KITCHEN WINDOW, by MARJORIE POWER Poem Source First Line: Chilly in the house at breakfast. Headlines call Last Line: Wish to see me. One brother calls, one remains dust Subject(s): Peace AT THE PEACE TABLE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who shall sit at the table, then, when the terms Last Line: You must please not only the living here, but must satisfy your dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War AT THE RESTAURANT, by MAYRA JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: I watched the color drain from your face Subject(s): Peace AT THE RIO TAMARINDO, by MAYRA JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: I am watching him young and naked Subject(s): Peace AT THE VILLA OF THE EMPEROR FREDERICK III AT SAN REMO, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: San remo's palms in beauty stand / beside the storied sea Last Line: The long waves ebb and flow. Subject(s): Death; Germany; Love; Peace; Dead, The; Germans AT TWILIGHT, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: On roads of gathering dusk Last Line: And thy peace. Subject(s): Night; Peace; Rest; Bedtime ATOLL, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woes of men beyond my ken Last Line: The plenitude of peace Subject(s): Peace; Quiet Life AUTUMN, by FRIEDRICH ADOLF AXEL DETLEV VON LILIENCRON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A flock of crows high from the northland flies Last Line: While the old man unto our lady prays. Alternate Author Name(s): Liliencron, Detlev Von Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Peace; Dead, The BANK IT, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: I'm happiest when I'm Last Line: Bank it for %a down day Subject(s): Happiness; Peace BAR SONNET, by J. D. SMITH Poem Source First Line: The motherfucker thinks that he's big shit Last Line: By now I've had my fill. I'll let it go Subject(s): Peace BEAK OF THE DOVE, by JUAN GONZALO ROSE Poem Source First Line: In the next century Last Line: Left upon the tables Subject(s): Birds; Doves; Peace BECAUSE WE NAME, by MARYHELEN SNYDER Poem Source First Line: Because you named me and called me by my name Last Line: Language over love whereby the wild are tamed Subject(s): Peace BECAUSE WE WANT TO CREATE, by MIRNA MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: Because we want to create a time that is ours Subject(s): Peace BEFORE RUNNING AWAY, by ANAIMA CAFE Poem Source Subject(s): Peace BEGINNING OF COUNTERSIGNS, by CARMEN NARANJO Poem Source First Line: Without symbol Subject(s): Peace BEHOLD MY HANDS, by LULA G. WINSTON Poem Text Last Line: We'll feel thy wounds and know the touch divine. Subject(s): Healing; Peace; Sickness; Cures; Illness BELOVED WIFE, by ANA ILCE Poem Source First Line: A wife loved her husband Subject(s): Peace BENEVOLENCE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, heavenly gift! Within the human breast Last Line: But peace, a lasting peace, throughout the world shall reign. Subject(s): Peace BEST WEAPON, by DIANA AVILA Poem Source Subject(s): Peace BEYOND THE CANNON THUNDER, by ADA M. FITTS Poem Text First Line: Down through a world befogged with selfish cravings Last Line: The star of peace for all the world to share! Subject(s): Peace BEYOND THE WALLS OF PEACE, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you should meet with one who strays Last Line: The walls of peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Peace BIG DIPPER, by RICHARD LEVINE Poem Source First Line: There is a story I will tell you Last Line: See, the milky way of kindness is pouring through it! Subject(s): Peace BIRD'S SONG, by EVA MARGARITA ORTIZ PLATERO Poem Source First Line: Heard in the tangle Subject(s): Peace BIRDS ON DISCOVERY ISLAND, by MARJORIE POWER Poem Source First Line: Observe the scarlet ibis Last Line: Observe the scarlet ibis Subject(s): Peace BIRTH OF A CROCODILE, by DIANA AVILA Poem Source First Line: How to make this poem that I can Subject(s): Peace BIRTHDAY PRESENT, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: Will you surprise mw or will you Last Line: At peace, lifted and carried, being himself %the gift Subject(s): Peace BLATHERSKITE, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A burden rests upon the mind Last Line: May write himself a blatherskite. Subject(s): Muses; Peace BLESSED THE WORD, by DELIA QUINONEZ Poem Source Subject(s): Peace BLISS, by EMMA STRAUB Poem Source First Line: These shit-covered lakes, empty driving ranges Last Line: Strike me down now if this isn't perfectly lovely Subject(s): High School Students; Nature; Peace; September; Teenagers BLOOD OF A POET, by D. A. FEINFELD Poem Source First Line: So that was your secret Last Line: But now show me your poems Subject(s): Peace BLOOD OF OTHERS, by GIACONDA BELLI Poem Source First Line: I'm reading the poems of the dead Subject(s): Peace BOUILLABAISSE, by MARGARET RANDALL Poem Source First Line: You may use roughy or filet of sole Last Line: Or garnish with lively conversation %unrehearsed Subject(s): Peace BOWLING GREEN, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pleasant breadth of open space Last Line: The city's heart is bowling green. Subject(s): Bowling Green, New York City; Cities; New York City - Colonial Period; Peace; Urban Life BREAD, by JOHN FRANCIS GILGUN Poem Source First Line: Poets, here is my advice for you Last Line: A green fern against a blue sky %an open window Subject(s): Peace BREAKING COVER, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I grew up in the church. I learned Last Line: Like a coffin bearng a flag Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Peace Movements BREATH ON THE OAT, by JOSEPH RUSSELL TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: Free are the muses, and where freedom is Last Line: Uncaptured and unflying, the wings of song. Subject(s): Peace; Spanish-american War (1898) BREST LEFT BEHIND, by JOHN CHIPMAN FARRAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun strikes gold the dirty street Last Line: "I don't see very many tears,"" he says." Subject(s): Holidays; Homecoming; Peace; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War BROTHERHOOD, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There shall rise from this noise of strife Subject(s): Brotherhood; Peace BUGLE SONG OF PEACE; A PROPHECY FOR MEMORIAL DAY, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: Blow, bugle, blow! Last Line: The day has dawned at last. Subject(s): Bugles; Holidays; Memorial Day; Peace; Veterans Day; War; Declaration Day BUILD ME A HOUSE, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source Subject(s): Peace BUILDERS OF CITIES, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We builders of cities and civilizations walled away from the sea and the sod Subject(s): Peace BURNING, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My friend from bethlehem shops at a jewish deli in jerusalem Last Line: She will not be able to eat it Subject(s): Peace BUT SINCE MY STRUGGLE, by ANA MARIA RODAS Poem Source Subject(s): Peace BY SIPS, by MARIANA YONUSG Poem Source First Line: I wanted to talk foolishness to you, about flowers Subject(s): Peace CALL TO ARMS, by HELENE GALLAGHER MULLINS Poem Source First Line: Shoulder your guns and march away Subject(s): Peace CAMELLIA, by HENRIQUETA LISBOA Poem Source First Line: Come to see the camellia Last Line: That closes upon itself-perfect Subject(s): Angels; Death; Friendship; Hearts; Heaven; Peace CANTABRIA, by ANTONIO MANUEL MARIA DE TRUEBA Y LA QUINTANA Poem Source First Line: Ancient groves from hardy days Last Line: Twixt higuer and finisterre Subject(s): Peace CANVASES AT AN EXHIBITION OF GEORG BASELITZ, by ARGENTINA DALEY Poem Source First Line: The eagle is bleeding Subject(s): Peace CAR LE VICE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Car le vice, rengeant ma native noblesse Last Line: His onlookers. In order to soar in peace, il terribile Subject(s): Peace 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 CARNAGE: 1. DOUBT, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So thin, so frail the opalescent ice Last Line: Is hell so near to every human heart? Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Doubt; Peace; Sacrifices; Survival; World War I; Skepticism; First World War CARNAGE: 2. THE GREAT NEGATION, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When that great-minded man, sir edward grey Last Line: He might have saved the world, and he would not. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Grey, Sir Edward (1862-1935); Peace; World War I; Grey Of Fallodon, Viscount; Grey, 3d Baronet; First World War CAROL, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On vague hills the prophet bird Last Line: Peace over our voices break Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Peace; Silence CAROL FROM FLANDERS, by FREDERICK NIVEN Poem Source First Line: In flanders on the christmas morn Subject(s): Peace CARRY ON!, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: They have not fought in vain, our dead Last Line: May pledge to all her sacred fires. Subject(s): Peace; Progress; World War I; First World War CARRYING THE SUN, by PAUL BUFIS Poem Source First Line: Just when the smoking morning Last Line: Above his head Subject(s): Peace CENTENNIAL HYMN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our fathers' god! From out whose hand Last Line: Let the new cycle shame the old! Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Patriotism; Peace; United States - Centennial Celebrations; Independence Day CHAGALL AFTER BREAKFAST, by MARJORIE POWER Poem Source First Line: He makes red, yellow, blue, somehow more primary Last Line: And works. He has all the time in the world Subject(s): Peace CHAIR: A LETTER TO MY BROTHER'S KILLER, by RICHARD LEHNERT Poem Source First Line: Because I cannot write to him Last Line: My brother, clear as glass Subject(s): Peace CHAMBER MUSIC: 34, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep now, o sleep now Last Line: O you unquiet heart! Subject(s): Sleep; Winter; Kisses; Love; Peace CHANT AGAINST HAVING TO GO TO THE PLANTATION, by MARIA PEREZ TZU Poem Source First Line: Listen to me, kajval Subject(s): Peace; Plantation Life CHOREOGRAPHY, by MIA GALLEGOS Poem Source First Line: Oh well Subject(s): Peace CHRISTMAS DAY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all dear days is christmas day Last Line: In all the winds that blow. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Children; Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Peace; Childhood; Nativity, The CITIES: 6. TOKIO, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mad dogs of war Last Line: To beg from door to door. Subject(s): Buddhism; Honor; Peace; Tokyo; War; Buddha; Buddhists CLAY; FOR MARY AND DOOLEY LAWRENCE, by JOHN FRANCIS GILGUN Poem Source First Line: Whereas it is the color of the early morning ground fog Last Line: It didn't need the sermon Subject(s): Peace CLEAN HANDS, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Make this thing plain to us, o lord Last Line: Make this thing plain! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Holidays; Peace; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War CLEARING, by MORGAN FARLEY Poem Source First Line: I am clearing a space Last Line: But the next breath, and the next Subject(s): Peace CLIMBING SLEEPING BEAUTY, by JUDITH MCDANIEL Poem Source First Line: Today is its own festival of light Last Line: No death pure resurrection %a festival of light Subject(s): Peace; Social Protest CLOCK WAS CLANGING ONE, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And to die was best Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Death; Pain; Peace COCONUT VENDOR, by DAISY ZAMORA Poem Source First Line: From the row of acacias beside the pavement Last Line: From the other side, they shall not pass Subject(s): Peace COME, PEACE, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: If in your hour of clapping bells Last Line: Be other than dread annunciation? Subject(s): Death; Peace; Dead, The COMFORT OF TIME ZONES, by PATTI TANA Poem Source First Line: Just as I get into bed at midnight Last Line: Knowing you're safe in tomorrow Subject(s): Peace COMMEMORATION ODE READ AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weak-winged is song Last Line: But ask whatever else, and we will dare! Variant Title(s): Ode Recited At The Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865 Subject(s): American Civil War; Courage; Harvard University; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Peace; Presidents, United States; United States - History; Valor; Bravery COMMON WOMAN'S PRAYER, by TINA JENS Poem Source First Line: God grant me the peace to accept the things I cannot change Last Line: To smile and shake my head, then quietly move on Subject(s): Peace COMMUNITY, by THOMAS FITZSIMMONS Poem Source First Line: In bali %sitting on the veranda Last Line: There is very little %for us to do Subject(s): Peace COMRADE, by WALDINA MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I say Subject(s): Peace COMRADE, REMEMBER, by RAYMOND JOSEPH KRESENSKY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Comrade, within your tent of clay Subject(s): Peace CONFESSION, by FRANCIS SALTUS SALTUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love came to earth with faith and trust Last Line: "and god serenely answered -- ""it is mine." Subject(s): Death; Earth; Faith; Love; Peace; Dead, The; World; Belief; Creed CONFESSIONS OF A YELLSTER: CHACUN A SON GOUT, by FRANK GELETT BURGESS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was boisterous and turbulent as a youth, a loud mouthed, impossible Last Line: And when I go to sleep, my dreams are full of peace Alternate Author Name(s): Burgess, Gelett Subject(s): Churches; Confessions; Peace; Secrets CONFLICT AND PEACE, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strife for a quarter-century, / with nor sword-thrust, nor battle-cry Last Line: Bestowed by god. Subject(s): Peace CONQUERORS, by CARL JOHN BOSTELMANN Poem Text First Line: With caesar dead now, and augustus dust Last Line: And life is theirs who love and keep their peace. Subject(s): Peace; Roman Empire; Terror; War CONSIDERATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE CONTOURS OF LIFE AND T, by KAYCE VERDE Poem Source First Line: Is it in the holy contours of life Last Line: To the outcome of this poem Subject(s): Peace CONTENTMENT, by WILLA CALVERT SMITH Poem Text First Line: Not in some distant part Last Line: Or peace may reign. Subject(s): Contentment; Peace COORDINATES, by SARA MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: I have just Subject(s): Peace CORN ISLAND VACATION, by JUNE BEER Poem Source First Line: Wen ah had seven years Subject(s): Peace COTTON, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That day when they spanned the cable from america to Subject(s): Atlantic Cable; Cotton; Peace COVENANT, by SEYMOUR MAYNE Poem Source First Line: The rainbow we were supposed Last Line: With the green tow of return Subject(s): Peace CRESOPHONTES: PRAYER TO PEACE, by EURIPIDES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Peace, deep and rich Last Line: And bitter strife whose pleasure is the sharp sword Subject(s): Peace CRY OF THE DEAD, by LOUIS GINSBERG Poem Source First Line: Silence the hateful mortar's lying mutter Subject(s): Peace CRY OF THE PEOPLE, by JOHN GNEISENAU NEIHARDT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tremble before your chattels Last Line: And the scabbard is thrown away! Subject(s): Freedom; Peace; Liberty DANDELION GREENS, by JANE FLANDERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You must come back, as your grandmother did Last Line: The saw-toothed blades, the lavish, common flowers Subject(s): Peace DANGEROUS MEMORY, by JUDITH MCDANIEL Poem Source First Line: My body knew the sound of a gun Last Line: To dream as if we could imagine a joyful tomorrow Subject(s): Peace; Social Protest DANGERS OF WINTER, by GIACONDA BELLI Poem Source First Line: This winter is robbing us of all we were Subject(s): Peace DARK MATTER, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Someone you love has just turned a Last Line: How will you miss us %before we are gone? Subject(s): Death; Peace DAUGHTER AT THIRTEEN, by GERALDINE CONNOLLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In capitals scrawled across her notebook Last Line: We draw back, let it continue Subject(s): Peace DAVID AND BATHSHUA: A LULLABY, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Darkness steals o'er hill and valley Last Line: For silence broods upon a world at rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Flowers; Peace; Rest; Silence; Spring DAY AND NIGHT, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twilight is falling on lake and on land Last Line: One added night, . . . To so many their last! Subject(s): Evening; Life; Peace; Silence; Sunset; Twilight DAY BEFORE THEY BOMBED NAGASAKI, by REBECCA BAGGETT Poem Source First Line: We sit at the kitchen table Last Line: Nagasaki and the light to come Subject(s): Peace DAY DREAMS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gazing through her chamber window Last Line: While I wondered what she meant. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Reflection' Subject(s): Longing; Love; Peace; Soul DAY OF THE DEAD, by JOSE ASUNCION SILVA Poem Source First Line: The light is dim, the day opaque. The drizzle falls and Last Line: The mournful bells that speak to the living of the dead! Subject(s): Death; Grief; Heaven; Melancholy; Peace DE RERUM NATURA: BOOK 3, SELECTION, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No single thing abides; but all things flow Last Line: How beautiful thy feet are on the hills! Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius Subject(s): Death; Peace; Dead, The DEAD GUERRILLERO EXPLAINS, by YOLANDA BLANCO Poem Source First Line: We have so little time on earth Subject(s): Peace DEAD REBEL, by ENRIQUE GONZALEZ MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: Below the earth he rests in peace,' they say Last Line: Ah, no! It is not true. He does not rest! Subject(s): Death; Graves; Peace DEAD WILL GIGGLE, by MARY MCGINNIS Poem Source First Line: No cure for my depression Last Line: I will go out onto the porch and start listening for the dead Subject(s): Peace DEATH - ETERNITY'S REALM, by LOUISE L. PANNULLO Poem Text First Line: Peacefully yonder a million souls did sleep Last Line: "do I exempt from my fieldwhere eternity I do sow." Subject(s): Death; Graves; Peace; Rest; Skulls; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones DEBACLE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The trees in trouble because of autumn Last Line: And suffer unheeding, only forbidden to expire. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Variant Title(s): Reality Of Peace, 1916 Subject(s): Peace DEDICATION, by EBBY MALMGREN Poem Source First Line: Bless this house Last Line: Halves completing a whole Subject(s): Peace DEEP IN THE QUIET WOOD, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are you bowed down in heart? Last Line: And holy harmonies. Subject(s): Death; Peace; Silence; Dead, The DEMENTIA, by ALBA BARRIOS Poem Source First Line: The peacefulness of geneseo Subject(s): Peace DERRYRIBEEN, WESTPORT, JUNE 16TH 1975, by MACDARA WOODS Poem Source First Line: I pray you peace, you household gods Last Line: This evening, quiet as sleeping trees, %household gods; I pray you peace Subject(s): Peace DESAPARECIDO, by ANA DEL CARMEN DE VASQUEZ Poem Source First Line: What are you made of - tell me - I can't Subject(s): Peace DESCENT OF THE SPIRIT, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not till from fretful clamor rude we cease Last Line: Forevermore. Subject(s): Holy Ghost; Peace; Spiritual Life; Holy Spirit DIFFERENT TIME, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: In what way do the cows Last Line: Over the strong warm backs %of cattle? Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Peace DIM FACE OF BEAUTY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dim face of beauty haunting all the world Last Line: To a little sand. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Men; Peace; Stars; Nightmares DIRGES, by LUZ MENDEZ DE LA VEGA Poem Source First Line: Cold grey seed Subject(s): Peace DISARMAMENT, by CAROLYN WELLS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Quoth cupid, no more capers! Last Line: "some people will have peace!" Subject(s): Disarmament; Peace DISARMAMENT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Put up the sword!' the voice of christ once more Last Line: "and peace unweaponed conquers every wrong!" Subject(s): Courage; Disarmament; Peace; Valor; Bravery DOCUMENTAL, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let's you and I be a camera Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs. Subject(s): Peace DREAM OF PEACE, by LILA B. CARHART Poem Text First Line: Why has the shame of bloody battles stood? Last Line: The wars that human hearts abhor and fear? Subject(s): Peace DREAMS WITHIN DREAMS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have gone out and seen the lands of faery Last Line: And beauty and peace and sorrow are dreams within dreams. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Fairies; Grief; Peace; Secrets; Wisdom; Nightmares; Elves; Sorrow; Sadness DRIVING HOME THE COWS, by KATE PUTNAM OSGOOD Poem Text First Line: Out of the clover and blue-eyed grass Last Line: Together they followed the cattle home. Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; Peace; United States - History; Declaration Day DUALITY; FROM ME SPRING GOOD AND EVIL, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Who gave thee such a ruby flaming heart Last Line: O'erthrown but in the unconflicting spheres. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Character; Evil; Good; Human Abnormalities; Pain; Peace; Deformities; Suffering; Misery EARTH RECOVERED, by VIDALUZ MENESES Poem Source First Line: This is the earth recovered Subject(s): Peace EASTER, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was there not one, when in the upper room Last Line: Even as around them fell the greeting, 'peace'? Subject(s): Catholics - United States; Easter; Holidays; Peace; Religion; The Resurrection; Theology ECSTASY, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For years it was in sex and I thought Last Line: Of the most shining and singular sensual gratification. Subject(s): Pain; Peace; Pleasure; Sex; Suffering; Misery EGG, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inside me is the peace of an egg Last Line: So peaceful too under snow Subject(s): Eggs; Peace; Self; Clemency EL SALVADOR, by DIANA AVILA Poem Source First Line: I could turn this pain Subject(s): Peace ELEGY FOR MARS, by CARL JOHN BOSTELMANN Poem Source First Line: Upon our highest hill, within a clod Subject(s): Mars (god); Peace ELEGY FOR YOUR ABSENCE, by EUGENIO FLORIT Poem Source First Line: In that moment you sailed for all of death Last Line: And you shall discover your nest in a tree of stars Subject(s): Absence; Death; Peace ELEGY OF THE HEROIC BLOOD, by CLEMENTINA SUAREZ Poem Source First Line: Consider: the sleeplessness Subject(s): Peace EMBRACING THE ORDINARY, by RENEE GREGORIO Poem Source First Line: I must learn to make things familiar Last Line: Take the light in. Drink the water Subject(s): Peace EMPERORS AND KINGS, HOW OFT HAVE TEMPLES RUNG, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Than ever forced unpitied hearts to bleed Subject(s): Vanity; Peace; Courts & Couriers ENGLAND'S HONOUR (CONTINUED). DISHONOURABLE PEACE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our own and europe's safety met in one Last Line: Roll up the web, that will not fetch a price. Subject(s): Peace ENQUIRY AFTER PEACE; A FRAGMENT, by ANNE FINCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peace! Where art thou to be found? Last Line: Th'o'erflowing of unbounded wit. & c. Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of Subject(s): Peace EPIGRAM ON THE CHINESE TREATY, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our wars are ended - foreign battles cease Last Line: "still ""mistress of herself though china fall!" Subject(s): China; Great Britain - Foreign Relations; Peace EPIGRAM: 9, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of carthage he, that worthy warrior Last Line: At monzon thus I restless rest in spain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 81 Subject(s): Carthage; Pain; Peace; Spain; War; Suffering; Misery EPILOGUE; IL BOSCO SACRO, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, the sweet silence Last Line: O bird, thy song! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Peace; Rome, Italy; Silence EPITAPH: 14, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My wandering feet Last Line: Of every quest. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Peace; Rest EPOCHS, by JUAN GELMAN Poem Source First Line: We must have nurtured multitudes to be left so alone Last Line: I hate your great cadaver lumumba pray for us Subject(s): Peace ESPARSA, by RODRIGO COTA DE MAGUAQUE Poem Source First Line: Clouded vision, light obscure Last Line: Decked with glory for its cost Subject(s): Love; Peace ETHELINE, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The heart that once was rich with light Last Line: To find on earth again. Subject(s): Peace EVASION, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were discussing siva Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs. Subject(s): Peace EVE, ON A MORNING, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eve, on a morning, paused before the / gate Last Line: "and adam plans to break new ground to-day." Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Peace; Relationships; Solitude; Loneliness EVEN MORE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Because jim hurtigan loves peace Last Line: She loves peace even more. Subject(s): Peace EVENING AT SEA, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: A perfect night!-a night of calm at sea Last Line: Their linkéd hearts confess her gracious power. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Peace; Silence EVENING CHANT, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strew before our lady's picture Last Line: We will trust and rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Mary And Martha (bible); Peace; Portraits; Roses; Women In The Bible EVENING ON THE DESERT, by MARGUERITE WARREN WATSON Poem Text First Line: The day has slipped away and evening comes Last Line: A haunting peace comes to command my soul. Subject(s): Peace EVENING ON THE LAKE, by KATHARINE P. WHITESIDE Poem Text First Line: In the depths of the sky is the blue of night Last Line: On the peaceful water's breast. Subject(s): Peace; Rest EVERY STUMP IS SACRED, by GARY LAWLESS Poem Source Last Line: The body of moss Subject(s): Peace EVERYTHING IS NOTHING MORE THAN ONE, by ANA MARIA RODAS Poem Source Subject(s): Peace EVOCATION OF CARMEN MIRANDA, by LUZ MENDEZ DE LA VEGA Poem Source First Line: Crowned by the aggressive Subject(s): Miranda, Carmen (1915-1955); Peace EXALTATION, by JEAN WHITE Poem Text First Line: For ho! I have come to you, god of the woods Last Line: Which I lose when I am among men. Subject(s): Calm; Peace; Silence; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility EXCALIBUR, by LAWRENCE SCHIMEL Poem Source First Line: He ordered a shirley temple at Last Line: His plate and said, I only want the fighting to stop Subject(s): Peace EXPLOSION, by CONSUELO TOMAS Poem Source First Line: Don't get discouraged Subject(s): Peace EXTENTE CORDIALE, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now side by side curvet and prance Last Line: Now side by side! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): England; France; Peace; English FAMINE RELIEF, by MARILYN KRYSL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Explain, please, this wonder, this Subject(s): Famine; Peace FAMINE RELIEF, by MARILYN KRYSL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Explain, please, this wonder, this Last Line: Shrill around emptiness, %and devouring, devouring Subject(s): Famine; Peace FAREWELL TO THE OLD YEAR, 1863, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, old year 'the bourne' is near Last Line: To give new year good morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Civil War; Grief; Holidays; New Year; Peace; Time; United States; War; Sorrow; Sadness; America FAREWELL TO THE PILGRIMS, by THEODORE M. BAKKE Poem Text First Line: Blue is the sea below you Last Line: Winged with prayer. Goodbye! Subject(s): Peace; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims 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 FEEDING FIVE THOUSAND, by NANCY PETERS HASTINGS Poem Source First Line: A woman saw me moving toward the lake Last Line: You are its thirst Subject(s): Peace FEELING MY WAY THROUGH THE DARK, by CHRISTINE E. HEMP Poem Source First Line: Last night I woke to a nest of stars Last Line: Is throbbing so relentlessly I cannot feel my heart Subject(s): Peace FENCING THE SKY, by THOMAS FITZSIMMONS Poem Source First Line: Boxed as symbol the rose the flame Last Line: The sky takes us back Subject(s): Peace FIELD WITH SOLDIERS, by CAROL FROME Poem Source First Line: November: where we live Last Line: For each continuing seed Subject(s): Peace FINDING PEACE, by MENGMENG HUANG Poem Source First Line: Here in the creeping california cold Last Line: Linked precariously by a mingling of blue %and pink fingers Subject(s): Peace FINDING THE RIGHT WORDS, by STELLA REED Poem Source First Line: I once saw flocks of snow geese Last Line: The ringing of light on water Subject(s): Peace FIRE COALS OF A VIOLET TWILIGHT, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The dead water doesn't move Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Death; Peace FIRST LIGHT ON CHACRA MESA, by IMOGENE BOLLS Poem Source First Line: Just when you think the sun Last Line: Is forgiven by morning Subject(s): Peace FIRST NEWS FROM VILLAFRANCA, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peace, peace, peace, do you say? Last Line: And god's face -- waiting, after all! Subject(s): Italy - Revolutions; Peace FIRST SNOW OF NOVEMBER, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: The clarity %makes me feel peaceful Last Line: That I will no longer have to curse, %each year %the impetuous coming %of the first snow %of novembe Subject(s): Love; Peace; Winter FIVE STILLS, by ELISABETH RYNELL Poem Source First Line: Our first night together Last Line: We uttered together, almost frightened by our gravity Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Peace; Silence; Togetherness FLAG SPEAKS, by EMILY GREENE BALCH Poem Source First Line: Brave men have followed Subject(s): Peace FLAME OF ONE THING, by ANN NEWELL Poem Source First Line: Last night you built a fire in rock Last Line: Opening to the fire of forgiveness Subject(s): Peace FLIES, by RICHARD LEHNERT Poem Source First Line: Every time the screen door opens Last Line: Life that can't hurt back Subject(s): Peace FOR A PROSTITUTE, by MIRNA MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: You are across the street Subject(s): Peace FOR A SEDUCTOR, by JANINA FERNANDEZ Poem Source First Line: Butterflies are free Subject(s): Peace FOR EARCHES, by JIM SAGEL Poem Source First Line: The problem is, our ears are assaulted by so much noise Last Line: Singing in the inner ear of your heart Subject(s): Peace FOR MY MOTHER, by PHILIP SCHULTZ Poem Source First Line: The hand of peace you sent from israel Last Line: This, my hand of peace, this wound which does not heal Subject(s): Mothers; Peace FOR NEW YEAR'S DAY 1698, by NAHUM TATE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Music now thy charms display Last Line: Happy, happy, past expressing. Subject(s): Great Britain - Wars With France; Heroism; Holidays; New Year; Peace; Soldiers; War; Heroes; Heroines FOR NEW YEAR'S DAY 1703, by NAHUM TATE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark, how the muses call aloud Last Line: England's protecting george, and guardian of the main. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Great Britain - Wars With France; Happiness; Holidays; New Year; Peace; Queen Anne's Lace; Joy; Delight FOR THE CHILDREN, by GARY SYNDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rising hills, the slopes Subject(s): Buddhism; Future; Peace; Buddha; Buddhists FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1721, by LAWRENCE EUSDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When the great julius on britannia's strand Last Line: Hush'd was the world when the messiah came. Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Europe; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Odes (as Poetic Form); Olympus (mountain), Greece; Peace; Roman Empire; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens FOR THE NEW AGE, by RICHARD WARNER BORST Poem Source First Line: The sound of anthems rarer grows and faint Subject(s): Peace FOR THE NEW YEAR 1731, by COLLEY CIBBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the ever-circling sun Last Line: Hail, etc. Subject(s): Caroline Of Brunswick, Queen Of England; Courts & Courtiers; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Great Britain - Rulers; Happiness; Holidays; Marriage; New Year; Peace; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FOR THE YOUTH OF THE FUTURE, by MIRNA MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: Young women and men of the future Subject(s): Peace FOR TONY, by DIANA SOLIS Poem Source First Line: Where do you come from Last Line: While I bury you %with my hands Subject(s): Memory; Peace FORMS IN THE WATER, by CLEMENTINA SUAREZ Poem Source First Line: If I could only remember Subject(s): Peace FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: A BEAUTIFUL NIGHT, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How lovely is the heaven of this night Last Line: For sleep is fair and warm. Subject(s): Night; Peace; Bedtime FREDERIC DAVID MOCATTA, by JAMES MEW Poem Text First Line: Of what avail in low estate to weep Last Line: And wake! With god's own likeness, satisfied! Subject(s): Death; Jews; Peace; Writing & Writers; Dead, The; Judaism FRIDAY NIGHT, by ISIDORE G. ASCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The majesty of sunset in the west Last Line: And over all god's blessings everywhere! Subject(s): Jews; Peace; Prayer; Sabbath; Judaism; Sunday FRIENDS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our friends in the courts of peace we keep Last Line: Through death is ours forever. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Life; Love; Peace; Dead, The FROG AT MIDNIGHT, by PAUL WILLIS Poem Source First Line: Next to piano Last Line: My family, sleeping Subject(s): Peace FROM A FULL HEART, by ALAN ALEXANDER MILNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In days of peace my fellow-men Last Line: Say, starting on saturday week. Alternate Author Name(s): Milne, A. A. Subject(s): Hearts; Peace; War FROM ANOTHER PART OF THE FIELD, by CAROL MOLDAW Poem Source First Line: Wind crinkles up the water Last Line: I don't name-it's gone Subject(s): Peace FROM BIG MOUNTAIN, by JUDITH MCDANIEL Poem Source First Line: If you believed the land is holy Last Line: How much time is left to answer? Subject(s): Peace; Social Protest FROM THE INSIDE OUT, by CHRISTINE E. HEMP Poem Source First Line: You scratch a match to light the stove Last Line: Together from the inside out Subject(s): Peace GALLEYS OF SPAIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ye galleys of our land %arrest your oars again Last Line: Sp let my lover rest %who drags your heavy chain Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Peace; Rest; Spain GAMES THAT KEEP THEM QUIET, by MARGARET RANDALL Poem Source First Line: Shhh. They are playing the games Last Line: In this history book of burning flesh. Our own Subject(s): Peace GARDEN OF THE NATIONS, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we that are the bitten flower and fruit Last Line: Or by approved short sight, more numerous weeds, %and weevils be the next inheritance! Subject(s): Peace GIFT, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: Life, are you keeping something in reserve? Last Line: Evening falls...Hurry to bring your gift? Subject(s): Lament; Love - Loss Of; Peace; Prayer GIRASOL, by ESTHER MARIA OSSES Poem Source First Line: Sobre la costa abre la tarde Subject(s): Peace GIVE ME LIBERTY, by JUDITH MCDANIEL Poem Source First Line: It's liberty weekend Last Line: Will dwell in the shadow %of hell's kitchen tonight Subject(s): Peace; Social Protest GIVE THE HAGUE A CHANDE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rome was not fashioned in a day Last Line: So give the hague a chance. Subject(s): Hague, Netherlands; Peace GLADSTONE, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: For peace, and all that follows in her path Last Line: Britannia's wisest, best, and bravest son. Subject(s): Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898); Peace; War GOAT SESTINA, by SIV CEDERING Poem Source First Line: The sleep of reason breeds monsters Last Line: The book of history lies open to a page of monsters Subject(s): Peace GOD PRAYS, by ANGELA MORGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I tossed and could not sleep Last Line: I know at last 'tis god who prays. Subject(s): Peace; Religion; Theology GODDESS OF LIGHT, by SATRA. ANNA NAOMI Poem Text First Line: Once again, o goddess of light! Last Line: Turn to you from everlasting night. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Peace GOLD STARS LOOKING ON THE FAR FRENCH CROSSES, by HELEN GRAY CONE Poem Source Alternate Author Name(s): Green, Coroebus Subject(s): Peace GOOD ADVICE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cease thy blushes and thy sorrow Last Line: And on earth to peace attain. Subject(s): Advice; Grief; Marriage; Peace; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GOOD NEWS, by TERTIUS VAN DYKE Poem Source First Line: Let me be done for good and all with news Subject(s): Peace GOTTERDAMMERUNG, by ERNEST HARTSOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A god is dying, o bewildered ones Last Line: Where peace, the phoenix, lifts his golden wings! Subject(s): Peace; War GRANTED, by JUDYTH HILL Poem Source First Line: Grant me the ability to be alone Last Line: Scatter me west that I may set in your heart and rest there Subject(s): Peace GRATITUDE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is on the mountain crest Last Line: Thank god, another night! Subject(s): Gratitude; Nature; Peace; Robins GREATEST OF THESE, by WALTER RAUSCHENBUSCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If I create wealth beyond the dream of past ages and increase Variant Title(s): A Paraphrase Of I Corinthian Subject(s): Peace GREEN APPLES, by THOMAS FITZSIMMONS Poem Source First Line: In august we carried the old horsehair mattress Last Line: Saying, this is the moment %here now Subject(s): Peace GREEN CHILD AND THE WHITE MOSQUITO NETTING, by CRISTIAN SANTOS DE PRASLIN Poem Source First Line: After the rains began Subject(s): Peace GRENADE, by MARINELLA CORRIOLS MOLINA Poem Source Subject(s): Peace GUATEMALA, YOUR BLOOD, by ALENKA BERMUDEZ Poem Source First Line: Where is the word that will fill in for hunger Subject(s): Peace GUNS OF PEACE; SONNET, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ghosts of dead soldiers in the battle slain Last Line: "and make all wars to cease throughout the world." Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Peace HAIL, LIFE THAT NEVER DIEST, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): God; Peace HALLOWEEN CHARM, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fern seed, hemp seed, water of the well Last Line: Take my secret thought to him and call him home again! Subject(s): Halloween; Life; New York City - Dutch Period; Peace HAND AND MOUTH, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: The mouths of men Last Line: A flower which opens up and %closes again Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Peace HARMONY, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Sleeping yellow gilds the surfaces. I, demented by Last Line: Rocked by winds in the humble hollow of my hands Subject(s): Peace HARMONY, by ELLEN W. CUNNINGHAM Poem Text First Line: A deep voice weeps within me Last Line: Along life's many piers. Subject(s): Love; Peace HATE, by HALA JEAN HAMMOND Poem Text First Line: Peace - will you buy it with blood and tears? Last Line: Black hatred. Subject(s): Death; Hate; Peace; War; Dead, The HE SHALL SPEAK PEACE, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: Hatred and greed and pride shall die Last Line: Birds of the trenches sing, as of old for he shall speak peace. Subject(s): Peace HEART KNOWS HIS NAME, by LUZ MARINA ACOSTA Poem Source First Line: They were saying to me yesterday: 'luz marina Subject(s): Peace HEAVENLY HOME, by LUIS DE LEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Region of light eterne Last Line: Nor wander far from thee as one forlorn Alternate Author Name(s): Fray Luis Subject(s): Heaven; Mourning; Peace; Soul HELPFUL VOCABULARY, by JUDITH MCDANIEL Poem Source First Line: Where's the toilet? Last Line: I have a north american stomach %with permission %siento Subject(s): Peace; Social Protest HERE, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here a snail on a wet leaf shivers and dreams of spring Last Line: Here one is clear pine. Subject(s): Peace HERMIT SUMMER, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The roofless summer nights are peaceful Last Line: You think of rocks in the sun. Of warm wind Subject(s): Hermits; Peace HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW, by WALTER PARKE Poem Text First Line: He stood on his head by the wild seashore Last Line: Turned somersaults home to tea. Subject(s): Mothers-in-law; Peace; Ships & Shipping HOLDING TOGETHER, by BARBARA MCCAULEY Poem Source First Line: The I ching says the correct place of the woman Last Line: Steamy in the crisp winter air Subject(s): Peace HOME FROM HIROSHIMA, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: By decree %of the president of the united states Last Line: The wild west wreck the world Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Hiroshima, Japan; Peace; Vengeance HOME IN THE HILLS, by ALTHEA V. DIEHL Poem Text First Line: Home in the hills, - back where my heart is Last Line: I'd like a heart you reared and loved come out to welcome me. Subject(s): Hearts; Home; Mountains; Peace; Hills; Downs (great Britain) HOMELAND, by VIRGINIA GRUTTER Poem Source First Line: Where there is a school for my children Subject(s): Peace HOMUS DILENTANTUS, by CONSUELO TOMAS Poem Source First Line: A species Subject(s): Peace HOST, by JOHN DUFFRESNE Poem Source First Line: My father's body is the narrow grave Last Line: Pressed to the sternum of the world Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Peace; Rest; Silence HOUR GLASS, by RICHARD LEVINE Poem Source First Line: This morning I watched a father draw his son Last Line: We are drawn on by faith in our stories and their endings Subject(s): Peace HOURGLASS, by ANA ILCE Poem Source First Line: To measure time is the task Subject(s): Peace HOW MANY NIGHTS, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: From a branch nothing cried from ever in my life Subject(s): Peace; Nature HOW PEACE CAME, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the still hours toward midnight wore Last Line: And heaven was moved, and came to me. Subject(s): Peace HOW SHALL WE HONOR THEM?, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Peace HOW WILL IT SEEM?, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How will it seem when peace comes back once more Last Line: For those who told this sad, glad world goodbye. Subject(s): Peace; War HUNGER HAPPENS TO OCCUR, by ANA ISTARU Poem Source First Line: Hunger %its persistent alchemy Subject(s): Peace HUSHED ARE THE BUGLES THAT CALLED TO THE STRIFE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: God shall defend thee till states are no more Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Peace HYMN FOR THE HEALING OF STRIFE, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heroes of hampden's race, and ye Last Line: And bind the bonds of brotherhood! Subject(s): Africa; Fights; Freedom; Peace; Liberty HYMN FOR THE PACT OF PEACE, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lift up your heads, ye peoples Subject(s): Peace HYMN OF HATE, by JOSEPH DANA MILLER Poem Source First Line: And this I hate - not men, for flag, for race Subject(s): Holidays; Peace; Veterans Day HYMN OF PEACE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Angel of peace, thou hast wandered too long! Last Line: Angels of bethlehem, echo the strain! Subject(s): Peace HYMN OF THE WEST, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou, whose glorious orbs on high Last Line: Land of the new and lordlier race! Subject(s): Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904); Patriotism; Peace; St. Louis, Missouri HYMN OF UNITY, by KALONYMOS BEN KALONYMOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who shall narrate thy wonders wrought of old? Last Line: Who shall narrate? Subject(s): Angels; Jews; Peace; Togetherness; Judaism HYMNS FOR CHILDREN: 5, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our lord became a servant Last Line: His 'peace be unto you.' Subject(s): Harvest; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Labor & Laborers; Love; Peace; Work; Workers I ADORE YOU, by ANA MARIA RODAS Poem Source Subject(s): Peace I AM LIKE THE ELDERS OF THEBES, by VIRGINIA GRUTTER Poem Source First Line: I am like Subject(s): Peace I AM NOT AFRAID TO DIE, by JULIA ESQUIVEL Poem Source Subject(s): Peace I AM WOMAN MY WOMAN, by LOXA JIMENEZ LOPEZ Poem Source Subject(s): Peace I CAME, DOCTOR, BECAUSE MY HEAD HURTS, by ANA MARIA RODAS Poem Source Subject(s): Peace I CHING, by JUDITH MCDANIEL Poem Source First Line: Clouds move %on the silent %river mirror Last Line: The inevitable %downward pull Subject(s): Peace; Social Protest I COULD REMAIN SILENT, by DIANA AVILA Poem Source Subject(s): Peace I DON'T KNOW WHAT MAKES YOU YOU, by MIRNA MARTINEZ Poem Source Subject(s): Peace I FEEL UNCLEAN, by MARGARITA AZURDIA Poem Source Subject(s): Peace I GIVE YOU BACK, by JOY HARJO Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I release you, my beautiful and terrible Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Loss; Minorities - United States; Peace; United States - Race Relations I GIVE YOU BACK, by JOY HARJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I release you, my beautiful and terrible Last Line: I am alive and you are so afraid of dying Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Loss; Minorities - United States; Peace; U.s. - Race Relations I HAVE BROKEN WITH SUBSTANTIVES, by MARGARITA CARRERA Poem Source Subject(s): Peace I KNOW, by ANA MARIA RODAS Poem Source Subject(s): Peace I LOVE MY COUNTRY, IS THIS A CRIME, by MARTIVON GALINDO Poem Source First Line: What is one's country? Where does it begin or end Subject(s): Peace I NEED TO ARM THE SKY WITH MY SONGS, by ROSARIO MURILLO Poem Source Subject(s): Peace I ONLY WANT TO TELL YOU, by DAISY ZAMORA Poem Source First Line: There are felines and beautiful words Subject(s): Peace I PICTURE SADNESS SLEEPING, by MARINELLA CORRIOLS MOLINA Poem Source Subject(s): Peace I READ YOUR LETTERS, by VIDALUZ MENESES Poem Source First Line: I read your letter during oficialia Subject(s): Peace I SAID THAT THERE ARE LANDSCAPES, by ANAIMA CAFE Poem Source Subject(s): Peace I TELL YOU THIS STORY BECAUSE IT SEEMS LIKE, by LUZ MARINA ACOSTA Poem Source First Line: And firuliche came to granada Subject(s): Peace I THAT AM WOMAN, by ANA ILCE Poem Source First Line: I that am woman so tender Subject(s): Peace I WANT TO FIND DESPERATELY I LOOK, by BERTALICIA PERALTA Poem Source First Line: Desperately I want to find look for Subject(s): Peace I WAS ALONE TALKING, by DIANA AVILA Poem Source First Line: I was alone talking out my loneliness thinking I'm Subject(s): Peace I WILL REST MY HEAD ON THE MOSS, by GARY LAWLESS Poem Source Last Line: Where we are at peace, at rest Subject(s): Peace I WRITE TO YOU NOW THINKING THAT, by VIDALUZ MENESES Poem Source Subject(s): Peace I-BRASIL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's sorrow on the wind, my grief, theres' sorrow on the wind Last Line: Far away, far away. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Grief; Old Age; Peace; Singing & Singers; Wind; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness ICE-CROWNED, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Glancing in armor of crystal Last Line: Into what peace are ye borne! Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Memory; Peace; Sorrow; Sadness IF, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: If all the hells of every war-maimed soldier Last Line: That moment would bring peace ... Age-long ...World-wide. Subject(s): Peace; Soldiers; War IF BLUE DOESN'T EXIST, by DELIA QUINONEZ Poem Source Subject(s): Peace IF ONLY SOMEDAY, by MIRNA MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: If only someday I could Subject(s): Peace IF WAR SHOULD COME, by BENJAMIN FRANCIS MUSSER Poem Source First Line: Bar me in jail, where I can sing Subject(s): Peace ILOPANGO, by JUDITH MCDANIEL Poem Source First Line: Still %the stories Last Line: But this much love %I can barely imagine Subject(s): Peace; Social Protest IMMENSE RIVER, by MARGARITA CARRERA Poem Source Subject(s): Peace IN A CERTAIN PLACE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I found love in a certain place Last Line: Oh should I know him then? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Love; Peace; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness IN A DROP OF WATER, by CARMEN NARANJO Poem Source Subject(s): Peace IN A FOREST, A MAN CRUSHES ..., SELS., by JACINTA ESCUDOS Poem Source First Line: She loves him she loves him Subject(s): Peace IN AN UPPER ROOM, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within an upper chamber Last Line: Abides the lord we love. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Love; Peace; Prayer IN CANADA, by ETHEL NICHOLSON Poem Text First Line: You are dead Last Line: And you are dead. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Peace; World War I - Canada; Dead, The; Paradise IN GOD'S ACRE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Marmoreal hands across unbreathing breasts Last Line: Of souls who rest on the almighty arm! Subject(s): God; Peace; Sleep; Soul; Tears IN MEMORIAM, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her gentle spirit passed with peace Last Line: The anguish of the poor. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Death; Memory; Peace; Wilson, Ellen Louise Axson (d. 1914); Dead, The IN NICARAGUA, by JUDITH MCDANIEL Poem Source First Line: I thought all of the children Last Line: If you only expect to live thirty years Subject(s): Peace; Social Protest IN SALUTATION TO THE ETERNAL PEACE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men say the world is full of fear and hate Last Line: O intimate essence of eternity! Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Peace; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life IN SILENCE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She sees our faces bright and gay Last Line: "the virtue that hath made thee whole." Subject(s): Peace; Silence; Sin; Smiles; Soul IN THE EYE OF A HURRICANE, by GIACONDA BELLI Poem Source First Line: I'm in the center of a hurricane Subject(s): Peace IN THE HEART WHERE ALL PATHS CROSS, by GARY LAWLESS Poem Source First Line: In the heart where Last Line: All paths cross Subject(s): Peace IN THE LAND WHERE WE WERE DREAMING, by DANIEL BEDINGER LUCAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair were our visions! Oh, they were as grand Last Line: In the land where we were dreaming. Subject(s): American Civil War; Peace; United States - History IN THE SHADOWS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the shadows filled the room with peace Last Line: Missed some beloved face. Subject(s): Faces; Hearts; Peace; Shadows IN THE WAITING ROOM, by SUSANN MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: The man and his body wait together Last Line: He can hear a train pulling in Subject(s): Peace IN THOSE DAYS, by ANAIMA CAFE Poem Source Subject(s): Peace IN TRINITY CHURCHYARD AT SUNSET, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: How still they sleep within the city moil Last Line: Have known so long god's gift of peace, most blest! Subject(s): Death; Peace; Trinity Churchyard (new York); Dead, The INDIANA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our land - our home! The common Last Line: "the land elysian, marveling ""this is ours!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Freedom; Indiana; Peace; Liberty INDULGENCE, by LEOPOLDO LUGONES Poem Source First Line: The afternoon, with light strokes Last Line: Rain in silence toward its death Subject(s): Death; Peace INEVITABLY, by ANAIMA CAFE Poem Source Subject(s): Peace INNOCENCE (2), by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the old stone bridge he met a van Last Line: That blew away so peacefully? Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Peace; Youth; Childhood INSCRIPTION, FR. THE SINLESS CHILD, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet eva! Shall I send thee forth Last Line: To love, and peace, and youth. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth Subject(s): Children; Love; Peace; Youth; Childhood INSUFFICIENT HOMELAND, by DIANA AVILA Poem Source First Line: Water from you Subject(s): Peace INVOCATION OF PEACE; AFTER THE GAELIC, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep peace I breathe into you Last Line: Peace! Peace! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Christianity; Irish Language; Peace; Prayer; Gaelic ISLAND, by CARMEN MATUTE Poem Source First Line: Nothing before Subject(s): Peace ISSUE IS LOVE, by MARGARITA AZURDIA Poem Source Subject(s): Peace IT IS CERTAIN THAT WE ARE CONSTRUCTING A WORLD, by ROSARIO MURILLO Poem Source First Line: Who will give me permission right now Subject(s): Peace IT IS VERY EASY NOT TO SEE, by CARMEN NARANJO Poem Source First Line: It is very easy not to see: a rose hides the compost rot Subject(s): Peace IT MIGHT BE LONLIER, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To perish — of delight — Subject(s): Solitude; Peace; Fate IT TOOK ME A LONG TIME TO LEARN WHAT THE HOMELAND IS, by CLEMENTINA SUAREZ Poem Source First Line: Do we look at ourselves in the features of the homeland Subject(s): Peace IT WAS THE LAST OF THE PARADES, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Another war? No thanks Subject(s): Peace IT WILL BE LIGHT THIS EVENING, by ANNA ELISABETH MATHIEU DE NOAILLES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: It will be light this evening, the days grow long Last Line: We shall not have our spirit of this night. Alternate Author Name(s): Brancovan, Princess Subject(s): Evening; Peace; Sunset; Twilight IT WILL TAKE ME AWHILE, by DIANA AVILA Poem Source Subject(s): Peace JANE DOE, by MIRNA MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: She was called jane doe Subject(s): Peace JANUARY IN THE TREMEZZINA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day by day / as if in may Last Line: In a sweet retreat on the larian lake? Subject(s): Alps; January; Lakes; Mountains; Peace; Pools; Ponds; Hills; Downs (great Britain) JAZZ ASINTAXICO, by MERCEDES DURAND Poem Source First Line: La naranja se vista de gusano amarillo Subject(s): Peace JERUSALEM (1), by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm not interested in / who suffered the most Last Line: It's late but everything comes next. Subject(s): Healing; Israel; Jerusalem; Palestine; Peace; Cures JERUSALEM; THE EMANATION OF THE GIANT ALBION, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a void, outside of existence, which if entered into Last Line: And I heard their emanations they are named jerusalem Subject(s): Bible; England; Mythology; Peace; War JERUSALEM; THE EMANATION OF THE GIANT ALBION: CHAPTER 1, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a void, outside of existence, which if entered into Last Line: Jesus. Subject(s): Bible; England; Mythology; Peace; War; English JERUSALEM; THE EMANATION OF THE GIANT ALBION: CHAPTER 2, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every ornament of perfection, and every labour of love Last Line: Is an arrow from the almighties bow! Subject(s): Bible; England; Mythology; Peace; War; English JERUSALEM; THE EMANATION OF THE GIANT ALBION: CHAPTER 3, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But los, who is the vehicular form of strong urthona Last Line: In englands green & pleasant bowers. Subject(s): Bible; England; Mythology; Peace; War; English JERUSALEM; THE EMANATION OF THE GIANT ALBION: CHAPTER 4, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spectres of albions twelve sons revolve mightily Last Line: And I heard the name of their emanations they are named jerusalem Subject(s): Bible; England; Mythology; Peace; War; English JIMENA, by MICHELE NAJLIS Poem Source First Line: Bird woman Subject(s): Peace JOHN OF TOURS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: John of tours is back with peace Last Line: "aye, and still you have room to spare, / for you must shut the baby there" Subject(s): Death;graves;love - Marital;peace; "dead, The;tombs;tombstones;wedded Love;marriage - Love; JULY 19, A FREE COUNTRY, by GIACONDA BELLI Poem Source First Line: It's strange to feel this sun again Subject(s): Peace JUSTICE, by MARGARET WEAVER Poem Source First Line: Going home down the mountain, the lucky one Last Line: Finding how there hearts could change Subject(s): Peace JUSTIFICATION, by CONSUELO TOMAS Poem Source First Line: They lie who say that solitude is a cure Subject(s): Peace KANSAS FLINT HILLS, by IMOGENE BOLLS Poem Source First Line: Christmas has come and gone Last Line: Heart knocking on the great blue dome Subject(s): Peace KING IS COLD, by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rake the embers, blow the coals Last Line: The kind is cold Subject(s): Death; Graves; Peace KISS OF PEACE, by DOROTHY MCLAUGHLIN Poem Source First Line: The kiss of peace - Last Line: Each other must bear Subject(s): Peace KISS THE EYES OF PEACE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Kiss the eyes of peace, may it stream down Last Line: All. Too many blessings break a man apart Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Peace KNIGHT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rides in black steel the knight away Last Line: Then I ast last may stretch and sing %and play Subject(s): Death; Grail; Knights And Knighthood; Peace LA DAME REVOLUTION, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Red was the might that sired thee Last Line: Waits man, the undefiled. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Hope; Love; Peace; Optimism LA ESPERANZA, by JUDITH MCDANIEL Poem Source First Line: My children %he gold me and I could see Last Line: My children are the decoration of my home Subject(s): Peace; Social Protest LA FETE DES MORTS, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peace to the dead; though the skies are chill Last Line: But pardon the dreamers in the dust! Subject(s): Death; Peace; Dead, The LA PARCELA, by JUNE BEER Poem Source First Line: Mango, manzanerosa, marano Subject(s): Peace LA PAZ, by DEBORA ELIZABET RAMOS Poem Source First Line: Paloma sin alas Subject(s): Peace LAKE AND MAPLE, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I want to give myself Subject(s): Peace LAKE AND MAPLE, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want to give myself Last Line: Then give me the song Subject(s): Peace LAKE LOUISE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think that when the master jeweler Last Line: As if a finger on their lips were laid! Subject(s): Lakes; Peace; Seashore; Silence; Pools; Ponds; Beach; Coast; Shore LAMENT, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We who are left, how shall we look again Last Line: Nor feel the heart-break in the heart of things? Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War LAMENTS IN SPACE, by CLEMENTINA SUAREZ Poem Source First Line: Outside the wind roars. Your head in my lap Subject(s): Peace LAND WHERE HATE SHOULD DIE, by DENIS ALOYSIUS MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: This is the land where hate should die Subject(s): Peace 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 LAST FRONTIER, by HANS J. STAHLSCHMIDT Poem Source First Line: The last frontier is togetherness Last Line: The last frontier is togetherness Subject(s): Peace LAST NIGHT, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Was it last summer, just last year Last Line: And the new year, love, the new year! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Homecoming; Memory; Past; Peace; Time; War LAST VOYAGE, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: So ran my dream Last Line: The city of my hope and dream ... Subject(s): Calm; Peace; Sleep; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility LEAVING HOME, by JUDITH MCDANIEL Poem Source First Line: I drove back up the road to home Last Line: We can find the center of that ancient silent grove %or push open the door to a sacred place Subject(s): Peace; Social Protest LET US HAVE PEACE, by NANCY BYRD TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The earth is weary of our foolish wars Last Line: Let us have peace! Subject(s): Peace; Religion; Theology LET'S PLAY, by LEONOR GARNIER Poem Source First Line: Let's play that we're at peace Subject(s): Peace LETTER TO THE FRONT: 5, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Much later, I lie in a white seaport night Subject(s): Dreams; Peace; Nightmares LEVEL EYE, by LUCILE ADLER Poem Source First Line: When I say willows are dying Last Line: To all that mattered %around the glittering table in the dark? Subject(s): Peace LIFE AND DEATH, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We come into the noisy world Last Line: The distant purposes of god. Subject(s): Death; God; Life; Love; Peace; Dead, The LIFE HIDDEN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Roses and lilies grow above the place Last Line: Her spirit is at peace where angels kneel. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Peace LIFE REMOVED, by LUIS DE LEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How tranquil is the life %of him who, shunning the vain world's uproar Last Line: To the soft, tuneful sound %of zither touched by fingers' s kill profound Alternate Author Name(s): Fray Luis Subject(s): Calm; Life; Peace; Rest LIKE A LIVE RIVER, by CLEMENTINA SUAREZ Poem Source First Line: It has to be said Subject(s): Peace LIKE A TREE, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: I saw a sturdy tree, wind crucified Last Line: He stood quite like the scarred and noble tree! Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Peace; Presidents, United States; Silence; War LIKE STARS BUT MOVING, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: Out for an evening run last week Last Line: To find out what they cost Subject(s): Death; Memory; Peace LILIES I, by AMY LYNN SIPPLE Poem Source First Line: Labored breaths Last Line: He swore the lilies gave him breath Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Peace; Rest LILIES II, by AMY LYNN SIPPLE Poem Source First Line: The lark rang %its spectacular overture Last Line: In his cherry rocker Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Lilies; Peace LIMPIDITY, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: Do not stir up thy life's well, slumbering there! Last Line: Give us the flower, and leave the slime afar! Subject(s): Flowers; Peace; Sleep LINES COMPOSED AT THE REQUEST OF A DEAR FRIEND SUFFERING FROM GRIEF, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O earth! Abode of grief and sin Last Line: The grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; Depression, Mental; Friendship; Graves; Grief; Peace; Dead, The; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness LINES FOR AN ALBUM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would not trace the hackneyed phrase Last Line: My spirit hand has written there. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Peace; Prayer; Writing & Writers LINES FOR PEACE, by THOMAS CASEY Poem Text First Line: Eureka, and the world will keep its course Last Line: And evergreen unveil its golden gorse. Subject(s): Peace LINES FOR THE HOUR, by HAMILTON FISH ARMSTRONG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If what we fought for seems not worth the fighting Last Line: Knowing the slow mutations of the soul. Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War LITTLE CHARLIE HADES, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little charlie hades has gone Last Line: For their little infant son. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Peace LITTLE KINGDOM, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And be peaceful minded %in time of peace Subject(s): Peace LOCARNO, by EARL BOWMAN MARLATT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The half-gods go; the centaurs, too Subject(s): Locarno Pact (1925); Peace LONELINESS, by DEBORA ELIZABET RAMOS Poem Source First Line: When night falls Subject(s): Peace LONG DISTANCE CALL, by MARYHELEN SNYDER Poem Source First Line: Be in love. Be ready, for such calls as yours Last Line: Ears straight up, listening Subject(s): Peace LONG LOOKED FOR, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the eye hardly sees Last Line: And even I forget. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Love; Peace; Sleep LONGING, by MANUEL GUTIERREZ NAJERA Poem Source First Line: See'st thou the ivy, how it clings and catches Last Line: Shelter themselves within the downy nest Subject(s): Longing; Love; Peace LONGING, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: Up the street a solitary man is taking apart a machine Last Line: Of someone singing to themselves, cleaning a house Subject(s): Peace LONGING, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: At last the sunset and the quietness Last Line: And then, together, home. Subject(s): Dreams; Longing; Love; Peace; Tears; Nightmares LOUISA; A TALE, by JANE BOWDLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O lend your wings, ye fav'ring gales Last Line: "or time, or death, destroy." Subject(s): Love; Peace; Story-telling; Tragedy LOVE, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, what is love?- a hope, a dream? Last Line: The restful ecstasy of god! Subject(s): God; Hearts; Love; Peace LULLABYE, by DENNIS SALEH Poem Source First Line: Here is the bed, be like it Last Line: Everything is night Subject(s): Peace LUTHER BENSON; AFTER READING HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor victim of that vulture curse Last Line: And praise to him who gave release. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Galilee, Palestine; Peace; Sea; Self-criticism; Youth; Ocean MACHPELAH, by D. A. FEINFELD Poem Source First Line: Heat of the sun of hebron Last Line: To call by separate names Subject(s): Peace MAKE WAY!, by FLORENCE CROCKER COMFORT Poem Source First Line: The crashing sky has swept old paths aside Subject(s): Holidays; Peace; Veterans Day MAKING CANNON IN BETHLEHEM, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was long ago in bethlehem town Last Line: The great word is love, the right plan is peace! Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Bethlehem, Palestine; Jesus Christ; Peace; Social Protest; Violence; War; Weapons; Ammunition MAKING IT SAFE FOR CHARLES, by JUDITH MCDANIEL Poem Source First Line: He stands on the picnic table across the fence Last Line: Can we make a safe place for charles? Subject(s): Peace; Social Protest MAKING PEACE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A voice from the dark called out, Subject(s): Peace; Poetry & Poets MAMA BAGS HER CLOTHES, by REYNA HERNANDEZ Poem Source Subject(s): Peace MAN WHO BEATS A WOMAN, by ANA ISTARU Poem Source First Line: A man takes a woman Subject(s): Peace MAN WHO IS KIND TO INSECTS, by BRIAN DALDORPH Poem Source First Line: Let's be clear from the start, he doesn't like them Last Line: He wants to be in their good books Subject(s): Peace MANZANO SUNFLOWERS, by DALE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: You missed indian market Last Line: As for me %I have sunflowers Subject(s): Peace MARY SMART, by MARK JARMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my mistakes flash back and half blind me Last Line: Less like a ghost, she said, than a figure of speech Subject(s): Death; Memory; Old Age; Peace MASQUE OF ALFRED: SONG. TO PEACE, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O peace! The fairest child of heaven Last Line: Return, with ease and pleasure in thy train. Subject(s): Peace MASSAGE, by TARA BRAY Poem Source First Line: A baby squirrel dragged in by the cat Last Line: Listening patiently for any small stirring Subject(s): Peace; Squirrels MATER DOLOROSA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She, brooding ever, dwells amidst the hills Last Line: Peace hath she not and therefore cannot give. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Pain; Peace; Silence; Tears; Suffering; Misery MEDITATION ON EXTINCTION, by CONSUELO TOMAS Poem Source First Line: Prostitute moon Subject(s): Peace MEETING MY ASHTRAY FULL OF SILENT, DEAD BUTTS, by JACINTA ESCUDOS Poem Source First Line: Not even in the bottom of your shoe Subject(s): Peace MEETING THE DEAD, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If we've loved them, it's what we want, and sometimes Last Line: The orderly gardens and homes of the living Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Peace; Dead, The; Relatives MEETING THE DEAD, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If we've loved them, it's what we want, and sometimes Last Line: On suburb streets, I was quietly passing %the orderly gardens and homes of the living Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Peace MEMOIR OF A QUEEN, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her name, before she was a queen, boots not Last Line: Whose reign was greater or more blest than hers. Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Memory; Peace; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens MEMORIAL DAY, by WILLIAM E. BROOKS Poem Text First Line: I heard a cry in the night from a far-flung host Last Line: In the name of our dead will we hear? Will we grant them sleep? Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Peace; Veterans Day; Declaration Day MENOPAUSE, by YOLANDA BLANCO Poem Source First Line: There will be no moon eclipse Subject(s): Peace MERGER, by JUDY CHICAGO Poem Source First Line: And then all that has divided us will merge Last Line: And then everywhere will be called eden once again Subject(s): Peace METAMORPHOSIS, by ESTHER MARIA OSSES Poem Source First Line: There was a worm more caterpillar Subject(s): Peace METERS, by YOLANDA BLANCO Poem Source First Line: From the history of the victorious Subject(s): Peace METROS, by YOLANDA BLANCO Poem Source First Line: De la historia de los vencedores Subject(s): Peace MICHAEL ROBARTES BIDS HIS BELOVED BE AT PEACE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the shadowy horses, their long manes a-shake Last Line: And hiding their tossing manes and their tumultuous feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): He Bids His Beloved Be At Peace Subject(s): Horses; Peace; Rest MIDSUMMER, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wide still valley, placid and deep Last Line: A glamour of beauty too perfect to cease. Subject(s): Peace; Summer; Sun MINE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's mine-no, it's mine Last Line: What happens if you kiss, just then? Subject(s): Peace MIRAGE, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it a will o'-the-wisp, or is dawn breaking Last Line: O lord, how long -- how long . . . . . . . . Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Mirages; Peace MO BRON! (A SONG ON THE WIND), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O come across the grey wild seas Last Line: To-day and to-morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Birds; Hearts; Pain; Peace; Sea; Singing & Singers; Swans; Suffering; Misery; Ocean MONSIEUR LE BRUN, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Monsieur le brun (who must not be confused / with the great painter) jointly Last Line: "so put a glass of water to my lips!" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Art & Artists; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Peace; Sin MOON, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Your sweet face hangs bruised in the night sky Last Line: The smoldering light of stars Subject(s): Death; Moon; Night; Peace; Rest MOON AND APPLE, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: When the apple tree blooms Last Line: Pale and with luminous %ocean leaves Subject(s): Ghosts; Peace; Supernatural MOON-DREAMS, by ALICE HARRIET WARE Poem Text First Line: Beneath my body as I lie Last Line: Empty and trivial as its own small shell! Subject(s): Peace; Rest MORE THAN PEACE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: More than peace %or joy Last Line: Go back to my %forests Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Peace; Rest 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 MOTLEY: PEACE, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night is o'er england, and the winds are still Last Line: These bright dews once were mixed with bloody sweat. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War MUNITION-MAKER, by LAURA SIMMONS Poem Source First Line: And in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torment' Subject(s): Peace MURMURS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why wilt thou make bright music Last Line: That bids the world rejoice. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Earth; Peace; Religion; Wind; World; Theology MUSIC, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peace to the tenants of the tomb Last Line: As brightly as its morn and noon. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Friendship; Life; Music & Musicians; Peace MY ACRES, by AMELIA M. CRECELIUS Poem Text First Line: Tranquil and quiet Last Line: And stills heart's pain. Subject(s): Home; Peace MY CANDLE, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My candle burns ate both ends Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Candles; Sleep; Peace MY COMMANDANTE FEDERICO, by BERNARDINA GUEVARA CORVERA Poem Source First Line: At dawn it was raining Subject(s): Peace MY COUNTRY, by EVA MARGARITA ORTIZ PLATERO Poem Source First Line: My country is a Subject(s): Peace MY FRIENDS, THE LOUD ONES OF THE STREET, by ROSARIO MURILLO Poem Source First Line: I have new, impossible-to-put-off friends Last Line: Training at daybreak Subject(s): Peace MY HANDS, by CARMEN MATUTE Poem Source First Line: Not floral buttons Subject(s): Peace MY HOUR, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Day after day behold me plying Last Line: With tender thoughts of praise and peace. Subject(s): Paris, France; Peace MY LAI: 28TH ANNIVERSARY, by RICHARD LEHNERT Poem Source First Line: His chopper got there toward the end, the pilot's saying Last Line: Whistling through the hole in its throat Subject(s): Peace MY LIFE THE RIVER, by EMILY ALICE LEVINE Poem Source First Line: My life the river called the blue river Last Line: I'm not sure it ever ends Subject(s): Peace MY MASTER AND I, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "says the master to me, is it true? I am told" Last Line: I can promise you we shall not get first in a rage Subject(s): England;peace;poverty; English MY MOTHER UNDER THE BODHI TREE, by LINDA GOODMAN ROBINER Poem Source First Line: All these years, I've been accusing Last Line: Her breath, she knows how to be Subject(s): Peace MY SHOES PRAY OPENLY, by SEYMOUR MAYNE Poem Source Last Line: From wrath and destruction Subject(s): Peace MY THREE GUESTS: PEACE, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A gentle calm had brooded through the day Last Line: From grief and sorrow brought me sweet release. Subject(s): Night; Peace; Bedtime NAOMI WATCHES AS RUTH SLEEPS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She clings to me Last Line: I can grieve in peace. Subject(s): African Americans; Naomi (bible); Peace; Women In The Bible; Negroes; American Blacks NATURE, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The paradise of man has varied in its claims Last Line: Still lingers far beyond the shadows of the grave. Subject(s): Grief; Heaven; Nature; Peace; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise NET, by LUZ MENDEZ DE LA VEGA Poem Source First Line: Silhouetted Subject(s): Peace NETTLES, by LUCILE ADLER Poem Source First Line: Here in the bare field you own Last Line: Never say never to love Subject(s): Peace NEW LOVE: A PRESCIENCE, by CHRISTINE E. HEMP Poem Source First Line: It will not resemble a caraway seed Last Line: It will be able to scale walls Subject(s): Peace NEW LOYALTY, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: Let us no more be true to boasted race and clan Subject(s): Peace NEW YEAR'S EVE, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love thee, thou calm and beautiful night Last Line: "new things are ever the best!" Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Peace NEWARK: 1866, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The dying roar of artillery Last Line: O city of two hundred years! Subject(s): History; New Jersey; Peace; War; Historians NEWS OF THE WORLD: 2, by GEORGE BARKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the first year of the last disgrace Last Line: To the sunrise axe of the day. Subject(s): Peace NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOURS, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My wife and I live, comme il faut Last Line: Their neighbours' faults and failings. Subject(s): London; Marriage; Neighbors; Peace; Weddings; Husbands; Wives NIGHT, by CARLYLE FERREN MACINTYRE Poem Text First Line: The ever-busy weaver clouds are carding Last Line: Wash clean the earth from stain. Alternate Author Name(s): Macintyre, C. F. Subject(s): Angels; Death; Peace; Rest; Dead, The NIGHT, by ADA JORDAN PRAY Poem Text First Line: Night has dropped her rosy curtain Last Line: With peace our hearts to fill. Subject(s): Nature; Night; Peace; Sleep; Bedtime NIGHT MOOD, by DOROTHY WHITEHEAD HOUGH Poem Text First Line: I arose and went out into the night Last Line: To my soul. Subject(s): Peace; Serenity NIGHT POEMS: 2, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again in a still peace, in clear Last Line: Endured by all, breathed by how few! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Peace; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The NIGHT SKY, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: When something taps your window Last Line: To a shining that sings Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Peace NIGHT SOWERS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, these are they that toil by night Last Line: The dews of peace perennial! Subject(s): Death; Night; Peace; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Bedtime NINTH CIRCLE, by MARGARITA CARRERA Poem Source First Line: Now another hand is your hand Subject(s): Peace NO ARMISTICE IN LOVE'S WAR, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY Poem Source First Line: What are poets? Are they only drums commanding? Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph Subject(s): Peace NO QUIET', by ELINOR LENNEN Poem Source First Line: At last, 'all quiet on the western front' Subject(s): Peace NONSYNTACTICAL JAZZ, by MERCEDES DURAND Poem Source First Line: The orange wears a yellow worm Subject(s): Peace NORTH AND SOUTH, by JUDITH MCDANIEL Poem Source First Line: Tonight I sit on a porch watching the northern lights Last Line: Leaving the bud space to grow Subject(s): Peace; Social Protest NOSTALGIA, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All through their lives men build or dream them homes Last Line: Deeming it, more than mortal homes are, blest. Subject(s): Desire; Heaven; Home; Nostalgia; Peace; Paradise NOT AS THE WORLD GIVETH', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is peace at the heart of the storm Last Line: And not the peace of the world Subject(s): Peace NOT ON THE BATTLE-FIELD, by JOHN PIERPONT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O no, no - let me lie Last Line: By labors, cares, and counsels for their good. Subject(s): Peace NOT TO DESTROY BUT TO FULFILL', by MOLLY WHITFORD ANDERSON HALEY Poem Source First Line: While the proud garment of our common days Subject(s): Peace; Troy NOTHING PROFOUND, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If you need a reason to care Last Line: Perfection of a ripe pear Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Peace NOTHING SO WISE, by MICHAEL BORICH Poem Source First Line: The arc of an egg Last Line: The rim of love toward which we lean Subject(s): Peace NOVEMBER 11TH, by FRANK E. CAMPBELL Poem Text First Line: This day three years ago Last Line: "this great ""unknown"" acclaim ..." Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Peace; Soldiers; Unknown Soldier; Veterans Day; War; Dead, The NOVEMBER NIGHT, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winds in the night pass fitfully, destroying Last Line: Down through the darkness over the fallen leaves. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Night; Peace; Bedtime NOW THAT YOU ARE HERE, by DIANA AVILA Poem Source Subject(s): Peace NOW'S THE TIME, by REYNA HERNANDEZ Poem Source Subject(s): Peace O DOUBTING ONE, by MAY MCKEE Poem Text First Line: Grant me but these Last Line: Untainted by a smug hypocrisy. Subject(s): Peace O ISRAEL, by ROBERT LOVEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O israel, thy glory gleamed Last Line: O israel, sweet israel. Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Peace; Judaism OASIS, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Glint of the sun thrown back from the gray Last Line: That cool oasis where riotings cease. Subject(s): Peace; Sleep ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here recline you, gentle maid Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Peace; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE 13. ON THE CHARMS OF PEACE, by BACCHYLIDES Poem Text First Line: To mortal men peace giveth these good things Last Line: And hymns in praise of boys like flames to heaven are flung. Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Variant Title(s): Peace On Earth Subject(s): Peace ODE TO PEACE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Oh! Breathe upon this hapless world Last Line: "which erring made mankind rise, / to deeds of sin, to blood and wars" Subject(s): Peace;war Of 1812 ODE TO PEACE, by JAMES BEATTIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peace, heaven-descended maid! Whose powerful voice Last Line: Slow wing'd her way sublime, and mingled with the morn. Subject(s): Peace ODE TO PEACE, by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou, who bad'st thy turtles bear Last Line: With him for ever wed! Subject(s): Peace ODE TO PEACE, by WILLIAM TENNANT Poem Text First Line: Daughter of god! That sit'st on high Last Line: Wave love and harmony! Subject(s): Peace ODE TO PEACE, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two dwellings, peace, are thine Last Line: On the deep bosom of the eternal will. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Peace; War ODE TO THE LATEST PRIMROSE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Last things are ever sad Last Line: New vital show! Subject(s): Death; Peace; Sun; Dead, The ODE TO TRANQUILLITY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tranquillity! Thou better name Last Line: Too foolish for a tear, too wicked for a smile! Subject(s): Peace ODE WRITTEN IN [THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR] 1746, by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sleep the brave, who sink to rest Last Line: To dwell a weeping hermit there! Variant Title(s): The Sleep Of The Brave;how Sleep The Brave Subject(s): England; Freedom; Heroism; Holidays; Memorial Day; Peace; Soldiers; English; Liberty; Heroes; Heroines; Declaration Day ODES IV, 15. TO AUGUSTUS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I wanted to celebrate Last Line: And the progeny of venus, the bounteous Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Augustus. Roman Emperor; 63 B.c.-12 A.d.; Peace ODORS, by JACINTA ESCUDOS Poem Source First Line: I come with body odors not my own Subject(s): Peace OLD WOMAN SPEAKS, by MARIAN OLSON Poem Source First Line: Listen old man of my wound Last Line: The war is over, old man Subject(s): Peace OLNEY HYMNS: 5. JEHOBAH-SHALOM, THE LORD SENT PEACE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, whose blood so freely stream'd Last Line: Nor rob me of the lord my peace. Subject(s): Peace ON HEARING PEACE HAS BEEN DECLARED, by ARGENTINA DALEY Poem Source First Line: The war is over. A survivor Subject(s): Peace ON READING THE WAR DIARY OF A DEFUNCT AMBASSADOR, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So that's your diary - that's your private mind Last Line: That once kept europe safe for perpetuity. Subject(s): Diaries; Diplomacy And Diplomats; Freedom; Peace; Veterans Day; Liberty 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 TALK OF PEACE AT THIS TIME, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: France. France, I know not what is in my heart Last Line: Is made secure for us and hell is thwarted. Subject(s): France; Peace; World War I; First World War ON THE BATTLEFIELD OF YOUR BODY, by BESSY REYNA Poem Source First Line: The last time we used Subject(s): Peace ON THE CONCLUSION OF PEACE BETWEEN RUSSIA AND JAPAN, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lyre, - 'tis written, - in ages long ago Last Line: So be she born again! Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Peace; Sino-japanese War (1894-95) ON THE FIRST FULL MOON, by JUDITH MCDANIEL Poem Source Last Line: It is enough %tell her it is enough Subject(s): Peace; Social Protest ON THE NEW YEAR, by JANE BOWDLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis past: - another year for ever gone Last Line: And lead my soul to peaceto blissto thee! Subject(s): Greetings; Happiness; Holidays; New Year; Peace; Joy; Delight ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE EQUATOR, by LINDA CASEBEER Poem Source First Line: In iquitos, I watch the world dissolve Last Line: But the ah, of high water, low water, high Subject(s): Peace ON THE PEACE; MAY, 1856, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come in, wild hopes! That towards the dawning east Last Line: Awaiting fiercer strife and nobler meed. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Crimean War (1853-1856); Peace ON THE PLANE, by CAROLYN DILLE Poem Source First Line: That baby, crying one row back Last Line: Like a liquid-throated lizard Subject(s): Peace ON THE RELATIVE NATURE OF DISTANCE, by TIM MYERS Poem Source First Line: What I can't understand is Last Line: Grazing the iron trailer hitch Subject(s): Peace ON THE WESTERN FRONT, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I found a dreadful acre of the dead Last Line: If you fail now, we shall not see or hear. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Peace; Silence; War; Dead, The; World ONE THOUSAND NIGHTS AND DAYS, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: Like a king on a primitive island Last Line: Kept from it by a shameful curtain Subject(s): Birds; Death; Islands; Peace; Rest; Soldiers OPEN HOUSE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I work as hard as I can Last Line: Your move. Subject(s): Peace OPENING DAY, by DAVID MCKAIN Poem Source First Line: Gusts of wind cruise like fish Last Line: Else gets up, the seagulls yammering upriver. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; History; Pacifism; Social Protest; Nuclear Freeze; Historians; Peace Movements ORANGES IN A BLUE BOWL, by MARGARET WEAVER Poem Source First Line: Van gogh might have painted the bowl Last Line: The joy of the painter Subject(s): Peace OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE, by MICHELE SPRING-MOORE Poem Source First Line: I arrived at seneca the summer after hundreds protested Last Line: Of our way, she meant let's find a better way Subject(s): Peace OTHER SIDE OF THE WINDOW, by WILLIAM J. HIGGINSON Poem Source First Line: The other side of the window a scrub jay Last Line: Stone on stone, three times, and then away? Subject(s): Peace OUR BROTHER'S KEEPER, by W. H. ANDERSON Poem Text First Line: The patient world through all its cycled years Last Line: Shall head the vanguard of the hosts of peace! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Peace; War OUR FALLEN HEROES, by GEORGE BANCROFT GRIFFITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The angel of the nation's peace Last Line: O memory of heroic souls! Subject(s): Peace OUR FLAG IN THE DESERT, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: A piastre, o night! For a crust of mirth Last Line: The oasis of peace will rise there in the sands. Subject(s): Flags; Peace OVER ALL THE LANDS, by ANNA LOUISE STRONG Poem Source First Line: Over the prairies and over the mountains Alternate Author Name(s): Anise Subject(s): Peace OVER COARSE STONE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SQUARE, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: In all the air in shadow only water sounds Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Death; Peace OVERLOOKED, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, with her tender balm, her touch so kind Last Line: But thou, and sleep, and peace, come not to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Peace; Sleep; Solitude; Loneliness PAEAN ON PEACE, by BACCHYLIDES Poem Text First Line: Great goddess peace does wealth on us bestow Last Line: And lovers spend in serenades the night. Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Peace PAIN, by ENRIQUE GONZALEZ MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: Its gaze filled my abyss, its gaze melted Last Line: Blue the mountain and the wind at rest Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Peace PARADOX, by BENJAMIN FRANCIS MUSSER Poem Text First Line: We are a regiment, whose martial cry Last Line: Your own slain march at our side. Subject(s): Contrariness; Military; Pacifism; Peace; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; Peace Movements PASTORAL CHARMS, by PEDRO VENEGAS DE SAAVEDRA Poem Source First Line: How happy he, his idle thoughts unreined Last Line: Man lives and dies, without a fear or hate Subject(s): Fields; Heaven; Peace PASTORAL SONG, by JOSEPH STANSBURY Poem Source First Line: When war with his bellowing sound Last Line: With pleasures as simple and pure Subject(s): American Revolution; Peace 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, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There is the peace that comes after sorrow Last Line: "tis not the peace that over eden brooded, / but that which triumphed in gethsemane" Subject(s): Consolation;peace PEACE, by BACCHYLIDES Poem Text First Line: Peace upon earth Last Line: And the amorous hymn like fire in the air breaks forth in praise. Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Peace PEACE, by BHARTRIHARI Poem Text First Line: Courage, my son! Now to the silent wood Last Line: Nor echo through our peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Bhartrhari Subject(s): Courage; Peace; Valor; Bravery PEACE, by ARMENA BOWMAN Poem Text First Line: No sound - but the rush of dark waters Last Line: Eternal symbol of an invisible god. Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Peace; Roses PEACE, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The red rose flush fades slowly in the west Last Line: Or shall we sleep, to see and know no more? Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Peace PEACE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O land, of every land the best Last Line: They gained a better peace than ours. Subject(s): American Civil War; Peace; United States - History PEACE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I many times thought peace had come Last Line: Before the harbor lie. Variant Title(s): Poem: 739 Subject(s): Hallucinations & Illusions; Longing; Peace PEACE, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Peace in our time, o lord Last Line: Of all men everywhere! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Peace; Prayer; Religion; Theology PEACE, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When will you ever, peace, wild wooddove, shy wings shut Last Line: He comes to brood and sit. Subject(s): Peace; Religion; Theology PEACE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peace belongs with the birds Last Line: Their wings widespread Subject(s): Birds; Peace PEACE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peace belongs with the birds Last Line: Utter no protest, %their wings widespread Subject(s): Birds; Peace PEACE, by SAMUEL ELLSWORTH KISER Poem Text First Line: Let the reign of hate cease Last Line: Be unclouded and long! Subject(s): Angels; Peace PEACE, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The calm outgoing of a long, rich day Last Line: To what undreamed-of fields and lofty skies! Subject(s): Peace PEACE, by AGNES LEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly bells and flags! Last Line: Beauty has died for her. Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs. Variant Title(s): November 11, 1918 Subject(s): Peace PEACE, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O brother, lift a cry, a long world cry Last Line: To end it in the sacred name of man! Subject(s): Peace; Social Protest; War PEACE, by STUART MERRILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Trembling of purple banners in the fight Last Line: Sound, like young heart-beats, all the bells of life. Subject(s): Peace PEACE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is this peace / that statesmen sign? Last Line: For being man. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Peace PEACE, by ANN LAVOIE MORROW Poem Source First Line: And here was peace, in purple hill Subject(s): Peace PEACE, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No more to watch by night's eternal shore Last Line: A cause on earth for which we might have died. Subject(s): Peace PEACE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me the pulse of the tide again Last Line: And a broken soul to save. Subject(s): Eyes; Hearts; Love; Peace; Singing & Singers; Soul PEACE, by FLORENCE TUCKER OSMUN Poem Text First Line: Good phoebus, speed thy chariot wheels Last Line: And war shall be an unknown thing. Subject(s): Peace PEACE, by DEBORA ELIZABET RAMOS Poem Source First Line: Wingless dove Subject(s): Peace PEACE, by ADA ROE Poem Text First Line: When father time with tender hand Last Line: From all the world apart. Subject(s): Peace; Stars PEACE, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the dreamy mountains brood Last Line: Silent to the passing sky. Subject(s): Peace PEACE, by R. G. RUSTE Poem Text First Line: How will it be when peace shall come Last Line: On the blissful day when the boys come home. Subject(s): Peace; Reunions; Soldiers; War PEACE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not with the high-voiced fife Last Line: Shall come the perfect peace! Subject(s): Patriotism; Peace PEACE, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis not in seeking Last Line: Lo! Peace is here. Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): Peace; Transcendentalism PEACE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Peace! Is it the dull Last Line: "in thine own place, thy soul shall find its peace." Subject(s): Death; Grief; Peace; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness PEACE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though all the joys of life be done Last Line: Oh, they walk there, see they walk there! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): God; Happiness; Love; Peace; Joy; Delight PEACE, by AAGOT UELAND Poem Text First Line: My cottonwoods silver leaves whispering against the light blue sky Last Line: Clouds in the west, peace -- god's peace. Subject(s): Peace; Religion; Theology PEACE, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With eager heart and will on fire Last Line: And in that moment peace was won. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Peace; Religion; Theology PEACE, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My soul, there is a country Last Line: Thy god, thy life, thy cure. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Variant Title(s): Sweet Peace Subject(s): Death; Faith; Heaven; Jesus Christ; Peace; Soul; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Paradise PEACE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The willows glimmer in the sun Last Line: The unimagined peace of heaven! Subject(s): Peace PEACE, by ADELINE DUTTON (TRAIN) WHITNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Daybreak upon the hills! Last Line: On the right hand and left! Subject(s): American Civil War; Peace; U.s. - History PEACE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I grant you: peace is desirable. War being, in a figure Last Line: Subsidized -- it also has its courage. Subject(s): Peace PEACE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Thou gentle dove! Wing'd envoy to mankind Last Line: And bring the leaf the tender olive yields! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Peace; Dead, The; Paradise PEACE, by ANN YEARSLEY Poem Text First Line: What howlings wake me! - my fair olives die! Last Line: "all that is worthy man, is found with me and love." Alternate Author Name(s): Cromartie, Ann Subject(s): Peace; War PEACE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, that time could touch a form Last Line: Came when time had touched her form. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Peace PEACE (1), by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is this the peace of god, this strange sweet calm Last Line: And feel that thou art near, and know that I am blest. Subject(s): Faith; Peace; Worship; Belief; Creed PEACE (1), by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I rest me deep within the wood Last Line: Forgetting, andforgot! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Peace PEACE (2), by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A shout of gladness is heard afar Last Line: In the glorious reign of the prince of peace. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Graves; Peace; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones PEACE (2), by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peace on a thousand hills and dales Last Line: In brotherhood forever. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Peace PEACE (NOVEMBER 11, 1918), by GRETCHEN OSGOOD WARREN Poem Text First Line: Peace, battle-worn and starved, and gaunt and pale Last Line: Yea, peace, while worlds endure, will sing their requiem. Subject(s): Holidays; Peace; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War PEACE ALL SEASONS, EACH NIGHT, by PATTIANN ROGERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The husk-thin skull of a hummingbird Last Line: And rolled all night in the bed %of your tongue Subject(s): Hummingbirds; Night; Peace PEACE AND GOODWILL, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: On christmas day I sit and think Last Line: And give his sister joy this day. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Christmas; Peace; Nativity, The PEACE AND JOY, by GEOFFREY ANKETELL STUDDERT-KENNEDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peace does not mean the end of all our striving Last Line: Strength'ning their arms to warfare glad and grim. Alternate Author Name(s): Willie, Woodbine Subject(s): Peace PEACE AND REST, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Under this tree, where light and shade Last Line: And the sun's at the end of his gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Peace PEACE AND WAR, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sleek sea, gorged and sated, basking lies Last Line: Swear an eternity of halcyon sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Peace; War PEACE AT NOON, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here there is peace, cool peace Last Line: Save this soft healing pause of thought. Subject(s): Peace PEACE BE STILL', by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes the saviour sleeps, and it is dark Last Line: "the wild waves still remember: ""peace! Be still." Subject(s): God; Peace PEACE BE THINE, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When sorrow moves with silent tread Last Line: And whisper kindly, 'peace be thine!' Subject(s): Peace PEACE BUILDS STRONG BODIES 12 WAYS, by JUDYTH HILL Poem Source First Line: When I heard america had declared war Last Line: It's aerobic %just do it Subject(s): Peace PEACE DRESSES IN BLUE, by PHYLLIS HOTCH Poem Source Last Line: To kiss dawn's throat and bosom Subject(s): Peace PEACE FOR AWHILE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of coming to grips with what we wish to do %and the failure to do it Subject(s): Peace 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 PEACE HYMN FOR THE AMERICAN REPUBLICS, by OLIVER HUCKEL Poem Source First Line: Lands of freedom and of glory Subject(s): Peace PEACE IN A PALACE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were weeping in the night,' said the emperor Last Line: "the little eyeless faces of the drowned." Subject(s): Faces; Kisses; Life; Peace; Tears PEACE IN THE WELSH HILLS, by VERNON WATKINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Calm is the landscape when the storm has passed Last Line: That such a peace surrounds me, while the city %for which all along has never yet been built Subject(s): Peace; Wales PEACE IN THE WORLD, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God send us wit to banish far Last Line: And feel the wafting of her wings. Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Peace; Religion; Theology PEACE IN THE WORLD, by EMMANUEL LATOUCHE Poem Source First Line: Why two countries make wars? Last Line: We need you now, now .... %god, we need your peace now Subject(s): Peace PEACE IS A FICTION OF OUR FAITH, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That never did alight Variant Title(s): Poem: 912; Poem: 97 Subject(s): Peace PEACE MUST COME AS A TROUBADOUR, by MARIE DRENNAN Poem Text First Line: They have pictured peace at the wheel and loom Last Line: For a cause that wings to the very skies. Subject(s): Peace PEACE NOT PERMANENT, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great cities seldome rest; if there be none Last Line: T'invade from far: they'l finde worse foes at home. Subject(s): Cities; Peace; Urban Life PEACE OF MIND, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the pool were still Last Line: Bottomless well. Subject(s): Peace; Soul; Stars PEACE OF WILD THINGS, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When despair for the world grows in me Last Line: I rest in the grace of the world, and am free Subject(s): Animals; Anxiety; Despair; Nature; Peace; Wilderness PEACE ON EARTH, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peace on our earth! Men reconciled Last Line: "where, grave thy victory?" Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Peace PEACE ON EARTH, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shepherds went their hasty way Last Line: Peace, peace on earth! The prince of peace is born.' Variant Title(s): A Christmas Carol;the Shepherds Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Carols; Peace; Nativity, The PEACE ON EARTH, by ROBERT FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The men of the earth said: 'we must war' Last Line: "the saviour of men, he answered, ""why?" Variant Title(s): Why Subject(s): Peace; Religion; Theology PEACE ON EARTH, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What means this glory round our feet Last Line: "to-day the prince of peace is born!" Variant Title(s): A Christmas Carol For The Sunday-school Children Of Church Of The Disciples Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Peace PEACE ON EARTH', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bethlehem hills that solemn night Last Line: Broadening out from sun to sun Subject(s): Peace PEACE ON THE TREATY IN SOUTH AFRICA IN 1902, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peace: - as a dawn that flares Last Line: Let these, that speak not, be the loudest heard! Subject(s): Boer War; Peace; South African War PEACE PICTURES, by ELIZABETH I. BARNES Poem Text First Line: In a dear old - fashioned parlor Last Line: Then -- how beautiful is peace. Subject(s): Peace PEACE PROSPECT, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: Too many people scribbling on each other's tongues Last Line: Bright animals waiting %for the right genetic moment Subject(s): Pacifism; Peace; Social Protest PEACE QUATRAIN, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN Poem Text First Line: All peace-pact parchments of the world Last Line: The hearts of humankind. Subject(s): Humanity; Peace PEACE QUATRAIN, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: The flaunted cloak of glamor hides bare bones Last Line: A demon-worship is the cult of mars. Subject(s): Peace PEACE SHALL LIVE, by MAX EHRMANN Poem Text First Line: The guns are still, the dead sleep on Last Line: "your answer, ""peace shall live!" Subject(s): Military; Peace; War PEACE TO THE PEOPLE OF THIS EARTH, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: God remembers all the travelers Last Line: I see hell where my angel used to stand Subject(s): God; Peace PEACE WROUGHT BY PAIN, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over that pallid face were wrought Last Line: The gold it wins, is gold from heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Pain; Peace; Suffering; Misery PEACE, 1918, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why, lady, do your kettles glow so bright? Last Line: Or christ come gently knocking at the door. Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Peace PEACE, PEACE, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peace, peace, broken heart, peace! Last Line: A dead thing beneath a dead sky. Subject(s): God; Grief; Love; Peace; Sorrow; Sadness PEACE-AND HONOR, by HERMAN CHARLES MERIVALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hushed are the sounds of party-strife Last Line: Not one's nor other'sengland's own. Subject(s): Honor; Jews; Peace; Judaism PEACE-YEARNING, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O let thy wounds bleed on, and let Last Line: Our loving mothers never bore us. Subject(s): Graves; Grief; Peace; Tears; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness PEACE: 1919, by MARY CRAIG SINCLAIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The jonquils bloom again upon the hill Last Line: And tears are gathering to drown the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Sinclair, Upton, Mrs. Subject(s): Peace; Soldiers; War; World War I; First World War PEACEABLE FRUIT, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What shall thine afterward be, o lord Last Line: Ripening fast for me! Subject(s): Peace PEACEABLE KINGDOM, by ELISAVIETTA RITCHIE Poem Source First Line: Will there come a time when tigers and lions Last Line: Awakes, inspects his claws, his teeth Subject(s): Peace PEACEFUL DEATH, by MAUREEN TOLMAN FLANNERY Poem Source First Line: As leave takings go Last Line: How peacefully she passed Subject(s): Peace PENANG, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I want to go back to singapore Last Line: I want to go back to penang! I want to go back! Subject(s): Grief; Life; Peace; Singapore; Sorrow; Sadness PERFECT PEACE; IN ILLNESS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a river glorious Last Line: Perfect peace and rest. Subject(s): Peace PETAL CHILD, by JOYCE CAROL THOMAS Poem Source First Line: Laughing winds went sweeping by and found the first bud Last Line: Wish your bloom a peaceful stay -- and color for your petaled eyes Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Peace PHILIP AND MILDRED, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lingering fade the rays of daylight, and the listening air is chilly Last Line: For on earth so much is needed, but in heaven love is all! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Love; Peace; Nightmares PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR, by RICHARD LEHNERT Poem Source First Line: Not the photos of battlefields Last Line: To account for him in white and black and gray Subject(s): Peace PICKING LETTUCE FOR MAGDALENA, by DINA FRIEDMAN Poem Source First Line: I want to tell you %the brown earth crumbles Last Line: The sticky blood of your loved ones Subject(s): Peace PILLAR WORK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Among the flowers, the lily blooms supreme Last Line: Fell on their hearts, and heavenly release. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Dreams; Flowers; Hearts; Peace; Dead, The; Nightmares PIONEERS! O PIONEERS!, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Come my tan-faced children Last Line: Pioneers! O pioneers! Subject(s): Patriotism; Peace; Pioneers; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States PLANKED WHITEFISH, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over an order of planked whitefish at a downtown club Last Line: "war is the game of a lot of god-damned fools." Subject(s): Pacifism; World War I; Peace Movements; First World War POEM 1, by BERTALICIA PERALTA Poem Source First Line: We take the word and with her kindle the night Subject(s): Peace POEM 2, by BERTALICIA PERALTA Poem Source First Line: Violence is in a poor neighborhood in a child Subject(s): Peace POEM 3, by BERTALICIA PERALTA Poem Source First Line: Beating my brother a hard rain of sticks Subject(s): Peace POEM 4, by BERTALICIA PERALTA Poem Source First Line: There where you offered shelter in a nest of pure love is the country Subject(s): Peace POEM FOR ACTIVIST INSOMNIACS, by REBECCA BAGGETT Poem Source First Line: When I can't sleep, I imagine Last Line: Dappling the old men's skins %with scarlet hands Subject(s): Peace POEM: 10, by JACINTA ESCUDOS Poem Source First Line: I hear your voice through the walls Subject(s): Peace POEM: 22, by JACINTA ESCUDOS Poem Source First Line: Never has your absence been so inexplicable Subject(s): Peace POEMS FOR DREAMS AND UNDERWATER PORTALS, by RAY A. YOUNG BEAR Poem Source First Line: Behind selene and javier buffalo husband Last Line: Two more for assurance %in a non-human domain Subject(s): Dreams; Peace POEMS FOR THESE DAYS OF BLOOD, by MARGARITA CARRERA Poem Source First Line: There it is Subject(s): Peace POETS' PRAYER FOR PEACE, by KATHY O'FALLON Poem Source First Line: Let the sun rise unobstructed Last Line: Let the blossom, %let the seed Subject(s): Peace POLITICAL PROLOGUE: TO 'THE UNHAPPY FAVORITE,' BY JOHN BANKS, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first the ark was landed on the shore Last Line: Still to havesuch a king, and this king long. Variant Title(s): Prologue And Epilogue To The Unhappy Favorite: Prologue Spoken To The Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); England; Mankind; Peace; English; Human Race POND STREET, by ELIZABETH HAYNES SANDS Poem Text First Line: The trees are high over pond street Last Line: A leisurely minute ... Subject(s): Peace; Travel; Journeys; Trips POOLS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: When jose daniel %says water Last Line: The perfect sound %of the sea Subject(s): Peace; Seashore; Water; Waves PORCH OF TEETH, by SANDOR WEORES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The place you entered is called Last Line: Are you at peace?' Subject(s): Happiness; Mouths; Peace; Smiles; Teeth POSSIBLE RESULTS OF FRIENDS' MISSION TO ST. PETERSBURG (1), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever be the meaning of that creed Last Line: By the son's act, the father's late remorse? Subject(s): Alexander Ii, Czar Of Russia (1818-1881); Friends, Religious Society Of; Peace; Quakers POSSIBLE RESULTS OF FRIENDS' MISSION TO ST. PETERSBURG (2), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Prove his own love of peace and sanction theirs Last Line: Day after day, the balance of his soul. Subject(s): Alexander Ii, Czar Of Russia (1818-1881); Friends, Religious Society Of; Peace; Quakers POSSIBLITY OF DREAMS, by GIACONDA BELLI Poem Source First Line: My daughters remained silent Subject(s): Peace PRAELUDIUM, by CATHERINE THORNE Poem Text First Line: This is not peace Last Line: This is praeludium. Subject(s): Peace; Waiting PRAIRIE PICTURES, by T. W. STILLWELL Poem Text First Line: I cannot sing of mountain peaks capped by eternal snow Last Line: Before the sable angel rings the curtain of the day. Subject(s): Farm Life; Peace; Pictures; Agriculture; Farmers PRAY FOR PEACE, by ELLEN BASS Poem Source First Line: Pray to whomever you kneel down to Last Line: Your prayer through the streets Subject(s): Peace; Prayer; War PRAY FOR PEACE, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: Pray for peace, Last Line: Wave a last goodbye. Subject(s): Peace; Prayer PRAYER, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I do not pray for peace Last Line: Let me die fighting, lord! Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): God; Peace; Prayer; War PRAYER FOR A SON DISAPPEARED, by MARIA PEREZ TZU Poem Source First Line: Look, totik Subject(s): Peace PRAYER FOR A WORLD IN ARMS, by JOHN HAYNES HOLMES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O god of field and city Subject(s): Peace PRAYER FOR LAUGHTER, by MADELINE SLADE Poem Text First Line: Dear lord, to preserve my sanity Last Line: Should be the means of releasing me! Subject(s): Peace PRAYER FOR PEACE, by OLYETTE ELLIS Poem Source First Line: O, god of mercy, hold we pray, %the red-mouthed dogs of war at bay Last Line: Let thy blest message, once again %be 'peace on earth, good will to men.' Subject(s): Peace PRAYER FOR PEACE, by WILLIAM SAMUEL JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: Now these were visions in the night of war Last Line: "thy will be done!"" . . . There is no peace!" Subject(s): Peace; Prayer PRAYER FOR PEACE, by MABEL POSEGATE Poem Text First Line: Grant us surcease, we pray, from cosmic strife Last Line: God, give our younger sons no battle-cry! Subject(s): Peace; Prayer PRAYER FOR SWIFT RIVERS, by MAGGIE MCKIRGAN Poem Source First Line: Lord please don't lead me beside still waters Last Line: Soothes me %brings me peace Subject(s): Peace PRAYER FOR THE NEW YEAR, by ALLEN WEBSTER JOSLIN Poem Text First Line: As before thee, god Last Line: When I wake to face anew the day. Subject(s): God; Holidays; New Year; Peace; Prayer PRAYER IN MY BOOT, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For the wind no one expected Subject(s): Peace PRAYER IN MY BOOT, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For the wind no one expected Last Line: Turning over in its sleep Subject(s): Peace PREPARE, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O human hearts Last Line: But from yourselves! Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Holidays; Peace; Veterans Day; War PREVENTION OF WAR, by NICOLA WALDRON Poem Source First Line: A yearling walked into my garden Last Line: The scent of possession %well, I thought. Well Subject(s): Peace PRICE OF PEACE, by HOMER C. HOUSE Poem Source First Line: Give up your mob-engendered thrills Subject(s): Peace PROLOGUE TO A THEATRICAL ENTERTAINMENT IN PHILADELPHIA, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wars, cruel wars, and hostile britain's rage Last Line: While discord, sinking, veils her ghastly %head Subject(s): American Revolution - French Involvement; Independence; Peace PROMISE OF PEACE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The heads of strong old age are beautiful Last Line: How shall the dead taste the deep treasure they have? Subject(s): Peace PROMISE OF PEACE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The heads of strong old age are beautiful Last Line: Thinking through that's entire and sweet in the grave %how shall the dead taste the deep treasure th Subject(s): Peace PROPHECY, by FRANCIS ALEXANDER DEWSON Poem Text First Line: There is coming, my friend, as surely as water drops Last Line: So will they change the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Dewson, F. A. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Change; Future; God; Love; Peace; War PROPHECY FOR A LONG NIGHT, by JULIETA DOBLES Poem Source First Line: There'll be a night for all Subject(s): Peace PROPOSITION, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Begin with this Last Line: Of flowers. Am I dreaming? Subject(s): Flowers; Peace PSALM 5, by ERNESTO CARDENAL Poem Source First Line: Give ear to my words, o lord Last Line: As with armor-plated tanks Subject(s): Central America; Peace; Political Campaigns; Social Protest; War PSALM: 4, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou witness of my truth sincere Last Line: From dangers all securely keep. Subject(s): God; Hearts; Hope; Peace; Religion; Soul; Truth; Optimism; Theology PUFFBALL OFFERING, by ELISAVIETTA RITCHIE Poem Source First Line: I found the grass Last Line: A brief feast of peace, a perching on earth %a swift huddle Subject(s): Peace QUERY, by JUDITH MCDANIEL Poem Source First Line: Did you see %god today Last Line: On the sand %by a wind-blown weed Subject(s): Peace; Social Protest QUIET OF THE MIND, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A giant, puffed, and creamy cloud Last Line: People, people, people. Subject(s): Peace; Silence READING CORTAZAR, by JANINA FERNANDEZ Poem Source First Line: At first we tried to ignore Subject(s): Peace REARMAMENT, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These grand and fatal movements toward death: the grandeur of the mass Last Line: Dream-led masses down the dark mountain Subject(s): Beauty; Pacifism; Peace Movements REASONABLE SILENCE, by MARGO TAMEZ Poem Source First Line: Never briefly or suddenly do we know Last Line: Of an elder laborer grateful for rest Subject(s): Peace; Silence RECIPE FOR PEACE, by DARLENE NELSON Poem Text First Line: Seems strange to say love rules the world Last Line: And you in turn loved me. Subject(s): Peace RECOVERY, by EMILIE ROSE MACAULAY Poem Text First Line: When this so bitter tide Last Line: We shall cry and laugh, as sailors and children do. Alternate Author Name(s): Macaulay, Rose Subject(s): Navy - United States; Peace; War; American Navy RECRUIT, by JULIETA DOBLES Poem Source First Line: We need one's labor everyday Subject(s): Peace RELATIVITY, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: As you sleep, the moon Last Line: Neither your slow breaths %nor its own Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Peace REMEDIES, by VIRGINIA GRUTTER Poem Source First Line: So you don't get cut Subject(s): Peace REMEMBERING GULLEN: AFFIRMATIONS TO EXPLAIN THE DEATH, by MARIANA YONUSG Poem Source First Line: This child died of dehydration Subject(s): Death - Children; Peace RENUNCIATION, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loose hands and part: I am not she you sought Last Line: While peace is yours my true heart cannot break! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Peace REPOSE, by IONE MORRISON RIDER Poem Text First Line: I had forgot there was so much of peace Last Line: Wearing a jeweled hour as a crown. Subject(s): Peace REST, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Made for thyself, o god Last Line: And know god's rest. Subject(s): God; Peace REST, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The peace of a wandering sky Last Line: Cease to beat in my breast. Subject(s): Peace REST 8.6.8.8.6., by JAMES KATES Poem Source First Line: O lord of forest, lake and field Last Line: And keep us safe tonight Subject(s): Peace REST AND BE THANKFUL!' AT THE HEAD OF GLENCROE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Doubling and doubling with laborious walk Last Line: Win rest, and ease, and peace, with bliss that angels share Subject(s): Rest; Peace RESTING IN PEACE, by KENNETH GEORGE POBO Poem Source First Line: When my love and I Last Line: As we wind around %each other Subject(s): Peace RESTORATION, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Source First Line: They look upon us through the mystic door Subject(s): Peace RETIREMENT: AN ODE, by JAMES BEATTIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When in the crimson cloud of even Last Line: "and all the past is vain." Subject(s): Retirement; Death; Peace; Dead, The RETREAT, by YORK SAMPSON Poem Text First Line: Go into the silence, sons Last Line: Bang crass and bid you wake. Subject(s): Peace; Rest; Silence RETRIBUTION, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We shape our deeds and then are shapen by them Last Line: And rend us in our graves. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Graves; Hearts; Peace; Tombs; Tombstones RETROSPECT OF SONG, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've sung of spring, her buds and flowers Last Line: Of civil war! O lord, how long? Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Peace; Scotland; Social Protest; War REVEILLE, by EDEN PHILLPOTTS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ended the watches of the night; oh, hear the bugles blow Last Line: And their bugles blow reveillé at the golden gates of morn. Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War REVELATION, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: September-and an afternoon Last Line: And the heavens, a jubilant chorus, are flushed with the fires of song! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Calm; Peace; Silence; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility REVOLUTIONARY: TONIGHT, by ANA MARIA RODAS Poem Source Subject(s): Peace RINGING OUT, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jubilate! Peace has conquered! Last Line: Glory to the lord of hosts! Subject(s): Blood; Peace; War RIVER'S PEACE, by MARGARET ASH Poem Text First Line: I have loved many people with devotion Last Line: Like rivulets that have found river's peace. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Peace; Rivers ROCKETS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For those who'll take my place Last Line: I rose up and walked within range %of the guns and the rockets Subject(s): Peace ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 11. LOST WISHES, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Similar in disposition Last Line: That my inmost heart has enter'd. Subject(s): Hope; Life; Peace; Wishes; Optimism SABBATH, by ALTER ABELSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sabbath is here, and the heavens are beaming Last Line: Then sing like an angel at the gateway of heaven! Subject(s): Jews; Peace; Sabbath; Judaism; Sunday SABBATH HYMN, by AARON COHEN Poem Text First Line: Descend, descend, o sabbath princess Last Line: And sabbath peace for evermore. Subject(s): Heaven; Jews; Peace; Sabbath; Paradise; Judaism; Sunday SACRED EPIGRAM: MAY PEACE I GIVE UNTO YOU, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wars call: arms, o comrades, let us make ready our arms Last Line: He gave peace: but he gave peace that was his Subject(s): Peace SAD MOTHER, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: Sleep, oh, sleep, my love, my king Last Line: In thee sleeps my heart, my dear! Subject(s): Love; Peace SADIST CHILD, by SEYMOUR GORDDEN LINK Poem Source First Line: Young mars threw out his brawny chest Subject(s): Peace SALTBUSH BILL, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now this is the law of the overland that all in the west obey Last Line: How the best day's work that he ever did was the day that he lost the fight. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Camping; Peace; Camps; Summer Camps SALVADOR, by MARILYN LERCH Poem Source First Line: There are rooms in the capitol Last Line: Peace has come to el salvador %and the dead know it Subject(s): Death; El Salvador; Peace SAMUEL GORTON, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Days ago,passing through shawomet Last Line: Quietly as a fox on the ends of my toes Subject(s): Death; Peace; Plantation Life; Preaching And Preachers SAN SALVADOR, by REYNA HERNANDEZ Poem Source First Line: The nordic summer is ripening Subject(s): Peace; San Salvador, El Salvador SANTOS VEGA: THE DEATH OF THE SINGER, by RAFAEL OBLIGADO Poem Source First Line: Under the broad-girthed ombu, beloved by the turtle-doves Last Line: Said sighing, 'because the devil overcame him' Subject(s): Argentina; Death; Grief; Peace; Poetry And Poets SATURNALIA, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sweetest calm man e'er beheld Last Line: The union ever one! Subject(s): Peace; Planets; United States; War; America SAVONAROLA BURNING, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And there are no more emperors in rome Last Line: Each time a monk believes in liberty! Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Grief; Peace; Rome, Italy; War; Sorrow; Sadness SEAL AND PATRIMONY, by LUZ MENDEZ DE LA VEGA Poem Source First Line: I cannot erase Subject(s): Peace SECRET, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: Where are you lying Last Line: And war no longer %has an age Subject(s): Peace SENTINEL SONGS: 1, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When falls the soldier brave Last Line: Brave songs! With sleepless eyes. Subject(s): Peace SENTINEL SONGS: 4, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the warrior's sword is lowered Last Line: The earth with its tale of wrong. Subject(s): Peace SENTINEL SONGS: 5. THE CAUSE OF THE SOUTH, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fallen cause still waits Last Line: Will echo from heart to heart Subject(s): Peace; Southern States; South (u.s.) SERENGETI PLAINS, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Death does not feed these plains Last Line: On its journey through the dark Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Peace SESTINA: ALTAFORTE, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Damn it all! All this our south stinks peace Last Line: "hell blot black for alway the thought ""peace!" Subject(s): Blood; Peace; War SEVEN AFTERNOONS: THE JUGGLER'S ALTERNATIVE, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: On the other hand Last Line: The solitude of waking Subject(s): Love; Peace; Sleep SEW THE FLAGS TOGETHER, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great wave of youth, ere you be spent Last Line: The united states of europe, asia and the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Patriotism; Peace SHADOWS AT CLOSE OF DAY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: A pekinese lay dreaming Last Line: Shadows at close of day. Subject(s): Night; Peace; Shadows; Silence; Sleep; Soul; Bedtime SHOULDERS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man crosses the street in rain Last Line: The rain will never stop falling. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Fathers & Sons; Peace; Nuclear Freeze SILENCE OF JUANA MARTINEZ, by WILLIAM ARCHILA Poem Source First Line: Juanita-odd now to talk to you, buried Last Line: Sleep in the smell of your coffin, and your silence no longer buried Subject(s): Peace SILENT THE FORESTS, by TORQUATO TASSO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Silent the forests, the streams Last Line: No sound a kiss, no voice or sound my sighs Subject(s): Peace; Silence SIMEON SINGER, by JOHN CHAPMAN Poem Text First Line: Oh, weep not for the dead.' alas! How weak Last Line: "an angel of the lord of hosts is he." Subject(s): Death; Grief; Jews; Peace; Saints; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Judaism SINERA CEMETERY: 25, by SALVADOR ESPRIU Poem Source First Line: By the sea I had Last Line: A house, a slow dream Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Peace; Silence SINERA CEMETERY: 27, by SALVADOR ESPRIU Poem Source First Line: Dream, meaning, concrete Last Line: Beneath dust and shadow Subject(s): Cemeteries; Peace; Rest SISTER HELEN PREJEAN VISITS ELMO PATRICK SONNER, by JESSICA JORDAN NUDEL Poem Source First Line: I remember outside Last Line: And they pulled the switch Subject(s): Peace SITTING ALONE IN PEACE BEFORE THESE CLIFFS, by HAN SHAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: This moon that is the heart's pivot Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Peace; Zen Buddhism SIXTH AVENUE SOUTH, by REYNA HERNANDEZ Poem Source First Line: When I go down sixth avenue south Subject(s): Peace SLEEP, OH MY SOUL, SLEEP, by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Morn, will it come, %sleep? Alternate Author Name(s): Unamuno Y Jugo, Miguel De Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Peace SLEEP, SLEEP HAPPY CHILD.' - BLAKE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, sleep, happy one Last Line: Of another advent dawn Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death – Children; Peace; Heaven SLIPPER TIME, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a homely time of ease and rest Last Line: This homely, human slipper time. Subject(s): Children; Life; Memory; Music & Musicians; Peace; Sleep; Soul; Childhood SLIPPING AWAY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slipping away -- slipping away! Last Line: We are slipping away to the shores of peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Earth; Faith; Happiness; Peace; Seasons; World; Belief; Creed; Joy; Delight SLOPES OF ETNA, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peace is written on the doorstep Last Line: Grey-black rock. %call it peace? Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Variant Title(s): Peac Subject(s): Peace; Volcanoes SMALL CONFESSION, by JANINA FERNANDEZ Poem Source First Line: I ought to say Subject(s): Peace SMALL COUNTRY, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behind you Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs. Subject(s): Peace SMALL SONG OF PEACE, by NGUYEN DUY NHUE Poem Source First Line: I listen as you read from the pages of truth Last Line: Only love poems now %and news of love Subject(s): Peace; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SMOKE, by LENARD M. BAZELL Poem Text First Line: Wild fantasies of blissful peace perturb my soul Last Line: What a day! Subject(s): Dreams; Peace; Smoking; Nightmares; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes SNAKES, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Guardians of the sacred Last Line: Because it is the only music %I have Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Peace SNOWSTORM, by WEN YI-TUO Poem Source First Line: During the night a snowstorm spread Last Line: Can't you see it's winter's flag of surrender!' Subject(s): Death; Peace; Soldiers; War SNOWY AFTERNOON, by JACINTA ESCUDOS Poem Source First Line: The afternoon Subject(s): Peace SO BE IT THAT PEACE IS ELUSIVE, by KENNETH GEORGE POBO Poem Source First Line: I'm glad peace doesn't last Last Line: At the window, I shut the blinds Subject(s): Peace SOLDIERS, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Solid mass and heavy might Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Peace SOLDIERS HERE TO-DAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soldiers and saviors of the homes Last Line: And reap the harvest sure! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Freedom; Patriotism; Peace; Soldiers; War; Nightmares; Liberty SOLDIERS OF PEACE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is the brave that first forget Last Line: One future, just and free! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Fate; Peace; Soldiers; Tears; Destiny SOLDIERS OF THE LIGHT, by HELEN GRAY CONE Poem Source First Line: God end war! But when brute war is ended Alternate Author Name(s): Green, Coroebus Subject(s): Peace SOLEDAD, by DEBORA ELIZABET RAMOS Poem Source First Line: Cuando se muere la tarde Subject(s): Peace SOLILOQUY; NOVEMBER 11, 1928, by N. R. A. BECKER Poem Text First Line: Ten years! Can that be all Last Line: "ten years? Can that be all?" Subject(s): Peace; Veterans Day; War; World War I; First World War SOME DAY, SOME DAY, by CRISTOBAL DE CASTILLEJO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Shalt thou find rest Subject(s): Love; Peace; Rest SOMEBODY'LL HAV' TO SHOOT YA DOWN', by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Charlie parker running a tow-line / from a red barge Last Line: That is beyond the grave like a great granite keep. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Family Life; Life Change Events; Loss; Parker, Charlie ('bird') (1920-1955); Peace; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Relatives SONG FOR FINE WEATHER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O good sun Last Line: "hear us, hear us, o good sun!" Subject(s): God;peace;religion; Theology SONG FOR IDLERS, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: A nap in the woods on a soft june day Last Line: Of a nap in a green june wood! Subject(s): Idleness; Music & Musicians; Peace; Singing & Singers; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence SONG OF HOPE, by DAISY ZAMORA Poem Source First Line: Some day the fields will be always green Subject(s): Peace SONG OF MOSES, by SEYMOUR MAYNE Poem Source Last Line: What the eyes %may have seen Subject(s): Peace SONG OF PEACE, by MARION HOOKER POE Poem Text First Line: Thou art beautiful, o peace! Last Line: Let us love,love on. Subject(s): Peace SONG OF THE BULLET, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It whizzed and whistled along the blurred Last Line: Peace! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bullets; Hate; Patriotism; Peace; War SONG OF THE GOING AWAY, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old man, upon the green hill-side Last Line: "when he crieth, ""awake!""'" Subject(s): Farewell; Life; Peace; Singing & Singers; Parting; Songs SONG OF THE SAINTS AND ANGELS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gordon, the self-refusing Last Line: Die in a psalm of peace. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; God; Gordon, Charles George (1833-1885); Homecoming; Peace; War; Dead, The SONG, FR. BONDUCA, by JOHN FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O lead me to some peaceful gloom Last Line: To conquer, yet be still a slave? Subject(s): Hearts; Peace; Silence SONG, FR. BONDUCA, by JOHN FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jack, thou'rt a toper, let's have t'other quart Last Line: Boldly, though watchmen cry 'past two o'clock.' Subject(s): Hearts; Peace; Silence SONG, FR. BONDUCA, by JOHN FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Britons, strike home Last Line: Yourselves, in druids' songs! Subject(s): Hearts; Peace; Silence SONG: 14, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the sea beyond the sand Last Line: If peace be won. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Peace SONGS FOR THE PEOPLE, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me make the songs for the people Last Line: Girdle the world with peace. Subject(s): Peace SONNET WRITTEN IN THE FALL OF 1914: 5, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I pray for peace; yet peace is but a prayer Last Line: Supreme when in all bosoms he be heard. Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War SONNET: 49, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After grey vigils, sunshine in the heart Last Line: Engulf the planets. I have seen the best. Subject(s): Peace; Joy SOUND OF A THOUSAND CLUBS, by ANAIMA CAFE Poem Source Subject(s): Peace SOUND OF MONIMBO, by YOLANDA BLANCO Poem Source First Line: And the dust clouded all our roads Subject(s): Peace SPECIES ARE BEING EXTINGUISHED, by ANAIMA CAFE Poem Source Subject(s): Peace SPEECH (AGAINST PEACE), by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Whereas, notwithstanding, I am in great pain Subject(s): Peace SPELL, by MARILYN KRYSL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My child has a headache. I say Last Line: Good with our hands Subject(s): Peace SPIRIT OF MAN, SELS., by STANTON COIT Subject(s): Peace; Religion SPIRITED ORCHID, by GIACONDA BELLI Poem Source First Line: To love you in this war weearing us down Subject(s): Peace SPLENDIDLY DEAD; AFTER READING FOR POETS SLAIN IN WAR, by MARION DOYLE Poem Text First Line: Splendidly dead,' who dares such maudlin singing Last Line: But I hear the voice of lost song crying. Alternate Author Name(s): Doyle, Marion Stauffer Subject(s): Death; Peace; Poetry & Poets; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War SPRING FANTASIES: 3. THE SYMBOL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is the symbol underneath it all Last Line: Is certified by joy and love and peace. Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love; Memory; Nature; Peace; Nightmares SPRING IN THE PARK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This day of april ardors, a careless passerby Last Line: Blossomed and blessed the hour, redeemed the town. Subject(s): April; Beauty; Happiness; Japan; Parks; Peace; Spring; Joy; Delight; Japanese ST. CHRISTOPHER OF THE GAEL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behind the wattle-woven house Last Line: The peace of perfect peace he knew. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Christianity; Christopher, Christoper (3d Century); Druids; Faith; Legends; Monks; Peace; Salvation; Druidism; Belief; Creed ST. MATTHEW, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blessed are the peace makers, for they Subject(s): Peace STANZAS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why with its ring has the connecting sea Last Line: And speed its course with zealous heart and hand! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Faith; Hope; Love; Peace; Sea; Belief; Creed; Optimism; Ocean STAR FACTORIES, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Great monoliths of hydrogen and dust Last Line: Who will inherit the dust? Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Peace STATE OF THE UNION: 15. HANDSHAKE, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bouquets are not enough Last Line: If delivered abroad Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Gold; Peace STILL ANOTHER POEM FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, by BARBARA CROOKER Poem Source First Line: As the thick air darkens, fireflies Last Line: Signal fires in the dark Subject(s): Peace STILLING THE TEMPEST, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas all she could: - the gift that nature gave Last Line: "of passion heard his whisper, ""peace, be still!" Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Peace STOLEN PEACE, by EBBY MALMGREN Poem Source First Line: Peace comes Last Line: And then slips away Subject(s): Peace STONING RUSTY, by THOMAS R. SMITH Poem Source First Line: When rusty duvell cried, we laughed Last Line: Through our brutalities, grow, grow Subject(s): Peace STORY 2, by ARGENTINA DALEY Poem Source First Line: At my uncle's funeral Subject(s): Peace STRANGE FEAST, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Went to war, returned, found peace Last Line: Likes to walk the streets now, and the desolate beach Subject(s): Love; Memory; Peace; Regret; Solitude; Walking; War STUPID MEDITATION ON PEACE, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Insomniac monkey-mind ponders the dove, Subject(s): Sex Role; Monkeys; Peace; Breast Feeding; Relationships; Nursing (infants) SUMMER SOLSTICE, BATTICALOA, SRI LANKA, by MARILYN KRYSL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The war had turned inward until it resembled Last Line: The soldiers of both sides probably wanted just this Subject(s): Peace SUNDAY MORNING BELLS, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the near city comes the clang of bells Last Line: "to ""glory in the highest, -- on earth peace""?" Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Bells; Peace; Sabbath; Worship; Sunday SUNFLOWER, by ESTHER MARIA OSSES Poem Source First Line: The evening spreads across the shore Subject(s): Peace SUNSHINE AND SHOWER, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Blow soft, ye winds, from out the south Last Line: Her peaceful radiance! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Heaven; Love - Nature Of; Peace; Youth; Paradise SURVIVAL, by FLOZARI ROCKWOOD Poem Text First Line: Once more a tyrant tries to crush to earth Last Line: To help all creeds to live in perfect peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Sutton-hemingway, Flozari Subject(s): Peace SWEETNESS OF HAY, by GINA M. TABASSO Poem Source First Line: Tossing bales of hay looks easier than it is Last Line: Between the blades Subject(s): Peace SYLVIA AT TWO: AN ODE TO JOY, by MICHELLE HOLLAND Poem Source First Line: Sylvia laughs %her asteroid eyes emanate radio waves Last Line: In the radio waves of her joy Subject(s): Peace SYMPATHY, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Watch me in the gloaming Last Line: Loving god and man. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Peace; Sympathy; Tears; Dead, The; Empathy SYNTHESIS, by JANINA FERNANDEZ Poem Source First Line: Let's say I've lived Subject(s): Peace TABERNACLE OF PEACE, by HAYIM BE'ER Poem Source First Line: In kerem abraham %ada with the right hand of her righteousness Last Line: For in salem also is his tabernacle Subject(s): Peace TAO OF PEACE, by EBBY MALMGREN Poem Source First Line: Peace has no purpose Last Line: Eludes all definition Subject(s): Peace TEN YEARS AFTER, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Text First Line: Reverberating boom of shuffling, stamping feet! Last Line: Make the will of the world your trumpet, the heart of the world your drum! Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Peace; Veterans Day; War; World War I; First World War THANKS TO SIR WALTER, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Nine weeks in a nursing home Last Line: Keep him and sleep well. Subject(s): Death; Nursing Homes; Peace; Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832); Dead, The; Old Age Homes; Assisted Living THANKSGIVING, by BESSY REYNA Poem Source First Line: And they were bestowed Subject(s): Peace THAT ONE WHO DIED FOR ME, by ANA ISTARU Poem Source First Line: That one whose chest housed Subject(s): Peace THE AFTERGLOW, by MARIANNE CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Enchanting vision stirred a weary heart Last Line: Our yuletide gift in home-world every year. Subject(s): Christmas; December; Peace; Nativity, The THE ALL FATHER'S WORD, by EMILY SOLIS COHEN JR. Poem Text First Line: When ransomed israel saw the returning sea Last Line: "peace. They that perish are my children too." Subject(s): God; Israel; Jews; Peace; Judaism THE ARK AND THE DOVE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me a story- please,' my little girl Last Line: May gently guide it to the ark of peace. Subject(s): Arks; Noah (bible); Peace THE ARSENAL AT SPRINGFIELD, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the arsenal. From floor to ceiling Last Line: The holy melodies of love arise. Subject(s): American Civil War; Peace; Springfield, Massachusetts; United States - History THE AUTHOR OF 'THE GREAT ILLUSION', by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some men, we say, are sent before their time Last Line: The rose shall dominate the wilderness. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Angell, Norman (1872-1962); Peace THE BANKRUPT PEACE MAKER, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I opened the ink well and smoke filled the room Last Line: "will you bring your fine peace to the nations today?" Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War THE BATH: AUGUST 6, 1945, by KIMIKO HAHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bathing the summer night Last Line: And to take hold. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Atomic Bomb - Victims; Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War; Peace; Radiation & Radiation Sickness; Social Protest; Survival; War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: It was a summer evening Last Line: "but 't was a famous victory." Variant Title(s): After Blenheim Subject(s): Blenheim, Battle Of; Churchill, John (1650-1722); Cynicism; Peace; Religion; Spain - War Of Succession (1701-1714); War; Marlborough, 1st Duke Of; Theology THE BATTLE-FIELD, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once this soft turf, this rivulet's sands Last Line: The blast of triumph o'er thy grave Subject(s): Peace; Religion; Social Protest; Theology THE BELFRY OF MONS, by WILFRID CHARLES THORLEY Poem Text First Line: At mons there is a belfry tall Last Line: They hear the trumpet sound. Subject(s): Bells; Death; Peace; Soldiers; Spires; War; Dead, The; Steeples THE BELL, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The temple bell was out of tune Last Line: Is it well with the heart that had you and none other? Subject(s): Bells; Evil; Peace; Singing & Singers; War THE BELLS OF PEACE, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lilies are here, tall in the garden bed Last Line: Our dreaming dead of all they died to win! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Peace THE BENEDICTION, by HARRY WEISS Poem Text First Line: There's a memory that sweetens Last Line: And heaven's own surcease. Subject(s): God; Heaven; Jews; Peace; Paradise; Judaism THE BIVOUAC OF THE DEAD, by THEODORE O'HARA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The muffled drum's sad roll has beat Last Line: That gilds your deathless tomb. Subject(s): Buena Vista, Battle Of (1847); Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism; Peace; United States - Mexican War (1846-1848); Declaration Day THE BLUE AND THE GRAY, by FRANCIS MILES FINCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the flow of the inland river Last Line: Tears and love for the gray. Variant Title(s): Decoration Day;memorial Day Subject(s): American Civil War; Graves; Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism; Peace; Soldiers; United States - History; Tombs; Tombstones; Declaration Day THE BLUE-GREEN STREAM, by WANG WEI (699-761) Poem Text First Line: Every time I have started for the yellow flower river Last Line: Dropping my fish-line forever. Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i Subject(s): Calm; China; Inland Waters; Nature; Peace; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE OTHER WORLD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Here are cakes for thy body Last Line: By night the rising star Subject(s): Death;peace;utopia; "dead, The; THE BOWER OF PEACE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When hope's illusions all have waned Last Line: His blood can makehas made them white! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Calm; Peace; Silence; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility THE BRIDAL VEIL, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're married, they say, and you think Last Line: Of bliss that can never be written or spoken. Subject(s): Brides; Love; Marriage; Peace; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE CENTENNIAL YEAR, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A hundred years - and she had sat, a queen Last Line: No pledge less true for her centennial year. Subject(s): Bells; Freedom; Peace; Storms; United States - Centennial Celebrations; Liberty THE CENTURY PRAYER, by JAMES EPHRIAM MCGIRT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord god of hosts incline thine ear Last Line: This is our prayer, lord, give us peace! Subject(s): Peace; Prayer THE CHANT OF ARDAN THE PICT, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O colum and monks of christ Last Line: Birth, sorrow, pain, weariness, death. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ; Monks; Peace; Virtue THE CHRIST OF ARGENTINE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: O, blood-red races, lift your eyes Last Line: With christ of argentine! Subject(s): Argentina; Chile; Peace; Statues; War THE CHRIST OF PANAMA, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down in the heart of the world Last Line: Set we the image of christ! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Panama Canal; Peace; Statues; Canal Zone THE CLOISTER GARTH, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: I love the quiet of this place Last Line: And gifts of wonder, beauty, and of peace. Subject(s): Healing; Peace; Silence; Cures THE COMET, by SAMUEL WILSON Poem Text First Line: For three nights had it marched across the / sky Last Line: And so I knew that all was as before. Subject(s): Death; God; Peace; Prayer; Dead, The THE COMFORTERS, by LAURENCE HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To night the sleeper Last Line: "o sorrow the sleeper!" Subject(s): Comfort; Dreams; Night; Peace; Sleep; Nightmares; Bedtime 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 COMMON PRAYER, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O hear the secret word I cannot say Last Line: "say: ""throughly do I know thee. Peace, be still!" Subject(s): Death; Love; Peace; Prayer; Dead, The THE CONFLICT: 2. AMERICAN NEUTRALITY, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall we keep an armed neutrality Last Line: Our souls cannot keep neutral and keep true. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Duty; England; Peace; United States; World War I; English; America; First World War THE CONFLICT: 3. PEACE, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peace! - but there is no peace. To hug the thought Last Line: Or would we crown with peace caligula? Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Caligula (12 A.d.- 41 A.d.); England; Peace; United States; World War I; English; America; First World War THE CONQUERED BANNER, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Furl that banner, for 'tis weary Last Line: For its people's hoped are fled! Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Flags - United States; Patriotism; Peace; United States - History; Confederacy; American Flag THE CONSOLATION, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In vain! O no; on zephyr's wings Last Line: Viola, why your stay prolong? Subject(s): Love; Peace; Voices THE DAWN, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What of the night, o watcher on the tower? Last Line: In the radiant future of the coming age! Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Peace THE DAWN OF PEACE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the cloud and the whirlwind Last Line: Shall cry, amen, amen! Subject(s): Peace THE DAY IS COMING, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come hither lads and hearken Last Line: And forth the banners go. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Great Britain - History; Peace; English History THE DEATH OF PEACE, by RONALD ROSS Poem Text First Line: Now slowly sinks the day-long labouring sun Last Line: The direst deed e'er done, the most accursèd crime. Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War THE DESERTED HOUSE, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old house stands deserted, gray Last Line: About the old house clings its peace. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Houses, Deserted; Peace 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 DISTANCE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While we lie in the road to block traffic from the air-force base Subject(s): Peace Movements THE DOOR, by FLORENCE HINDS Poem Text First Line: I wish she'd open wide the door Last Line: Could see her standing in the door! Subject(s): Forgiveness; Peace; Clemency THE DREAMERS, by WALTER ADOLPHE ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are the deathless dreamers of the world Last Line: Mystical beauty from the realms of fey. Subject(s): Peace THE EAGLE'S SONG, by RICHARD MANSFIELD Poem Text First Line: The lioness whelped, and the sturdy cub Last Line: Now that the two are one again! Subject(s): Patriotism; Peace; United States - History THE ENSHRINING OF A QUIET HOUR, by BERTHA HEATH Poem Text First Line: The peace of a quiet hour Last Line: Seek within you for this hour. Subject(s): Peace THE FAERY ISLE OF JANJIRA; TO HER HIGHNESS NAZLI RAFFIA, BEGUM JANJIRA, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fain would I dwell in your faery kingdom Last Line: When truth shall conquer and love prevail. Subject(s): Love; Peace; Spring THE FAIREST, BRIGHTEST, HUES OF ETHER FADE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of harmony, above all earthly care Subject(s): Peace; Mountains THE FAT ACTOR AND THE RUSTIC, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cardinal wolsey was a man Last Line: "a load of hay got in this afternoon!" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Obesity; Peace THE FIELD OF PINKIE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lovely eve! As loath to quit a scene Last Line: And all shall walk in lightthe light from heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Death; Fields; Peace; Pinkie, Battle Of (1547); Scotland; Warwickshire, England; Dead, The; Pastures; Meadows; Leas 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 FIRST OF MARCH, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bud is in the bough, and the leaf is in the bud Last Line: O thou sunny first of march! Be it dedicate to thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; March (month); Peace; World 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 FOREFATHER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here at the country inn Last Line: Surges hot through my heart. Subject(s): Hearts; Night; Pain; Peace; Bedtime; Suffering; Misery THE FOREST BOY, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The trees have now hid at the edge of the hurst Last Line: When ye let loose the demons of war. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Pacifism; Peace Movements THE FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit divine! Eternal, holy dove! Last Line: Creating light, and beauty, fruit, and flower! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): God; Happiness; Holy Ghost; Love; Peace; Religion; Joy; Delight; Holy Spirit; Theology THE FULLNESS OF TIME, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On a rusty iron throne Last Line: One who had been crucified! Subject(s): Devil; Jesus Christ; Peace; Time; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub THE GARDEN OF THE NATIONS, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we that are the bitten flower and fruit Subject(s): Peace THE GATEKEEPER, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunlight falls on old quebec Last Line: Gatekeeper of a peace-filled land! Subject(s): Military; Peace; Quebec, Battle Of (1775); Soldiers; War THE GIFTS OF PEACE, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: All day long the wind in the bending branches Last Line: A benediction. Subject(s): Peace THE GLEN OF ROSLIN, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! 'twas the trumpet rung! Last Line: As opal pure each morn! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Peace; Scotland; Scottish Translations; Victory; War THE GOLDEN AGE, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: O country mine! Thy golden age shall be Last Line: And it should be humanity's best home. Subject(s): Europe; Patriotism; Peace THE GOSPEL OF PEACE, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, let it rest! And give us peace Last Line: A prudent nation bore. Subject(s): Peace; Spanish-american War (1898) THE GRAVE OF BONAPARTE, by LEONARD HEATH Poem Text First Line: On a lone barren isle, where the wild roaring billows Last Line: No sound can awake thee to glory again! Subject(s): Graves; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Peace; Tombs; Tombstones THE GRIEF OF LOVE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "love, I am sick for thee, sick with an absolute grief" Last Line: "never again to mock at love, ah, never, never!" Subject(s): Death;grief;hearts;love - Loss Of;peace; "dead, The;sorrow;sadness; THE HAND AND TONGUE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two parts of us successively command Last Line: The tongue in peace; but then in warre the hand. Subject(s): Peace; War THE HAND IN THE DARK, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: How calm the spangled city spread below Last Line: Spreads over all and quenches us at last. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Peace; God; Homecoming THE HARVEST, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will arise now and go into the fields, to my love who / is at work Last Line: Where peace is and the quiet of the hills. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Love; Peace; Agriculture; Farmers THE HEAVEN-SIDE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sky was soft with tender blue Last Line: Seem isles of peace in upper air. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Angels; God; Heaven; Peace; Paradise THE HOME-VOYAGE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bear with us, o great captain, if Last Line: Dip colors as you move to anchorage. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Home; Peace; Sailing & Sailors; Stars; Dead, The THE HOUR OF TWILIGHT, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the unquiet hours depart Last Line: Beckon the wounded spirit in. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Calm; Night; Peace; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Bedtime THE IDLERS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun's red pulses beat Last Line: More than the homeward blowing wind that died an hour ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Canoes & Canoeing; Idleness; Love; Peace; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence THE ILLUMINATION OF ENGLISH AND FRENCH FLEETS AT PORTSMOUTH, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thanks to those festal fires! Mankind shall be Last Line: And how the bells of welcome pealed and chimed! Subject(s): Navy - France; Navy - Great Britain; Peace; Portsmouth, England; French Navy; English Navy THE INDIAN EMPEROR: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah fading joy, how quickly art thou past! Last Line: To gentle slumbers call. Subject(s): Books; Fate; Peace; Singing & Singers; Reading; Destiny; Songs THE INDIAN EMPEROR: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah fading joy, how quickly art thou past! Last Line: To gentle slumbers call. Subject(s): Books; Fate; Peace; Singing & Singers; Reading; Destiny; Songs THE JEWISH NEW YEAR, 5660, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When chaos lay beneath god's hand Last Line: Will bless you in your works and ways. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Holidays; Jews; Memory; New Year; Peace; Judaism THE KINDLY NEIGHBOR, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a kindly neighbor, one who stands Last Line: When man has made the man next door his friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Neighbors; Peace; Religion; Theology THE KNIGHT'S TOMB, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where is the grave of sir arthur o'kellyn Last Line: His soul is with the saints, I trust. Subject(s): Graves; Peace; Tombs; Tombstones THE LADY RECONCILED, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: A lady and a tiger held Last Line: Beware the lady reconciled. Subject(s): Friendship; Peace; Reconciliation THE LAMENT OF THE VOICELESS, by LAURA BELL EVERETT Poem Text First Line: Wars are to be,' they say, they blindly say Last Line: They mourn for you, your sons who never were. Subject(s): Pacifism; Unborn; War; Peace Movements THE LAND OF BEULAH, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Brightland of beulah, beatific mount Last Line: And still I long, and dread, to find me there. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Peace; Dead, The THE LEGEND OF THE BRONX, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With sword and bible, brood and dame Last Line: "come to our valley of homes!" Subject(s): Bronx, New York City; Legends; New York City - Dutch Period; Peace; Summer THE LESSON OF THE WAR, 1855, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The feast is spread through england Last Line: Will not be shed in vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Crimean War (1853-1856); England; Peace; English THE MILLENNIUM, by IDA TEEPLE WITTENBERGER Poem Text First Line: The armaments and power of kings Last Line: In chains in deepest hell! Subject(s): Judgment Day; Peace; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE MOON, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now gently night steals on, and deep'ning shades Last Line: Thou givest peace and sweet forgetfulness! Subject(s): Memory; Moon; Night; Peace; Thought; Bedtime; Thinking THE MORNING BREAKS, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Beyond the war-clouds and the reddened ways Last Line: Shall greet the morning light! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Peace THE MOTTO, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She lay 'twixt sleeping and waking Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Scholastica, Saint (480-542); Peace THE MUFFLED DRUMS, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For brothers laid in blood Last Line: And we chant, chant the world redeemed by woman. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Drums; Musical Instruments; Pacifism; Sex Role; Women; Peace Movements THE NATURALIST, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In gentlest worship has he bowed Last Line: Lifts will he hear and comprehend. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Peace; Woods THE NEW AGE, by FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When navies are forgotten Last Line: In the victory which is peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Paget, R. L. Variant Title(s): The Victory Which Is Peace Subject(s): Peace; Religion; Theology THE NEW DAY, by OWEN SEAMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye that have faith to look with fearless eyes Last Line: "I saw the morning break." Variant Title(s): I Saw The Morning Break;morning Subject(s): Patriotism; Peace THE NEW MARS, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Text First Line: I war against the folly that is war Last Line: For peace on earth,a lasting peace, and just! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Peace; Social Protest; War THE NEW VICTORY, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Victory comes Last Line: The stable world itself is her great monument! Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Holidays; Peace; Veterans Day THE NIGHT PRAYER, by FLORENCE WEISBERG Poem Text First Line: The bands of sleep fall on mine eyes Last Line: From thee we draw each breath. Subject(s): God; Jews; Peace; Prayer; Judaism THE OLD MEETING HOUSE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Its quiet graves were made for peace till gabriel blows his horn Last Line: While the old cracked bell to southward shook the ancient meeting house. Subject(s): Bells; Gabriel; Graves; Judgment Day; Names; Peace; Public Meetings; Tombs; Tombstones; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE OLD MEN AND THE YOUNG MEN, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said the old men to the young men Last Line: "you." Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Pacifism; Peace Movements THE OLIVE BRANCH, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sadly I walk't within the field Last Line: And love shall crown my end with peace Subject(s): Peace THE PACIFIST; EPIGRAM, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pale ebenezer thought it wrong to fight Last Line: But roaring bill (who killed him) thought it right Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Pacifism; Soldiers; Peace Movements THE PASSING OF WOODROW WILSON, PROPHET OF PEACE, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more a grieving nation bows its head Last Line: When war forever shall give place to peace! Subject(s): Death; Honor; Peace; Presidents, United States; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924); Dead, The THE PATH OF SAFETY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Two jolly german barons lived in castles by the rhine Last Line: "the noble lord von donnerblitz, the graf von schlagenstein" Subject(s): Arms & Armor;brotherhood;germany;peace;war; Germans THE PATHS OF PEACE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He would have holiday - outworn Last Line: Of all his loveliest dreams! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Forests; Peace; Spring; Youth; Nightmares; Woods THE PEACE AUTUMN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank god for rest, where none molest Last Line: The hearts of men as one! Subject(s): Peace THE PEACE CONVENTION AT BRUSSELS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still in thy streets, o paris! Doth the stain Last Line: And the tired world breathe free through a long sabbath day. Subject(s): Brussels; Peace; Revolutions THE PEACE MESSAGE, by BURTON EGBERT STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the door of his hut sat massasoit Last Line: His messenger of peace. Subject(s): Massasoit (d. 1661); Native Americans; Peace; Pilgrim Fathers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE PEACE OF EUROPE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great peace in europe! Order reigns' Last Line: Repent! God's kingdom draweth near! Subject(s): Europe; Peace THE PEACE OF GOD, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peace is god's direct assurance Last Line: Such is peace in heavenly grace. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Peace THE PEACE OF GOD, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We ask for peace, o lord! Last Line: Thou keepest for those hearts who love thee best. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): God; Life; Love; Peace; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE PEACE OF WILD THINGS, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When despair for the world grows in me Subject(s): Animals; Anxiety; Despair; Nature; Peace; Wilderness THE PEACE PEAL (AFTER FOUR YEARS OF SILENCE), by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said a wistful daw in saint peter's tower Last Line: Or lower, of pens and politics. Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War THE PEOPLE'S SONG OF PEACE, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The grass is green on bunker hill Last Line: And janus rests with rusted door. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Peace; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines THE PHANTOM FLEET, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sunset lingered in the pale green west Last Line: Then -- that high fleet of stars led on the night. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; England; Evening; Peace; Soul; Dead, The; Nightmares; English; Sunset; Twilight THE PIPE OF PEACE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the magic Last Line: The marriage ceremony? Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Marriage; Peace; Smoking; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 42, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you wonder who stays happy Last Line: I wonder about mankind Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Happiness; Peace; Solitude; Joy; Delight; Loneliness THE POET TO THE BIRDS, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You bid me hold my peace Last Line: There is no peace but one. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Birds; Peace THE POET'S JOURNAL: THE VISION, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She came, long absent from my side Last Line: And still, in passing, smiled. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Peace; Singing & Singers; Vision; Nightmares THE POOLS OF PEACE, by JOAN CAMPBELL Poem Text First Line: The little pools-of-peace lie far Last Line: So far from dusty days. Subject(s): Peace THE PORT OF PEACE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair crescent moon, with rim of gold Last Line: The stormy sea. Subject(s): Peace; Sea; Soul; Ocean THE PRESENTIMENT, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over her face, so tender and meek Last Line: A plaintive poem of peace. Subject(s): Peace THE PRINCE OF PEACE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Death sent his messengers before Last Line: Through tasks fulfilled to reach my own Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;labor & Laborers;peace THE PRINCESS: [BUGLE] SONG, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The splendor falls on castle walls Last Line: And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): The Bugle;he Hears The Bugle At Killarney;blow, Bugle, Blow;bugle Song Of Peace; A Prophecy For Memorial Day;the Horns Of Elfland Subject(s): Bugles; Peace; Supernatural THE PROFLIGATE, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peace! I must go Last Line: And husks for swine. Subject(s): Faith; Farewell; Life; Love - Loss Of; Peace; Sin; Belief; Creed; Parting 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 RETURN OF PEACE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had a vision at that mystic hour Last Line: The love-commissioned almoner of god. Subject(s): Peace; Reconstruction (1865-1876) THE ROSE OF FLAME, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, fair immaculate rose of the world, rose of my dream, my rose! Last Line: O fair immaculate rose of the world, rose of my dream, my rose! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Peace; Roses; Salvation; Spiritual Life; Nightmares THE ROSE OF PEACE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If michael, leader of god's host Last Line: A peace of heaven with hell. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Peace THE RUNNERS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Limbs that falter and fail to guide us Last Line: "I am goal and laure! The prize is -- peace!" Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Peace; God THE SAUCCESSION OF KINGS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: William the norman was brave in the field Last Line: Reigns over england beloved and at peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658); England; Peace; English THE SEARCH, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I once adored a woman's face Last Line: But most a world redeemed from care. Subject(s): Peace 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 SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 100, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Years passed. And where that lowly hermitage Last Line: And love grown perfect did their days attune. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Love; Peace; Dead, The THE SLEEPER, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The glen was fair as some arcadian dell Last Line: Forget, like sleep; and then forgive, like death! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Life; Nature; Peace; Sleep; Dead, The THE SONG OF THE PACIFIST, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What do they matter, our headlong hates, when we take the toll Last Line: In the name of the dead the banner of peace . . . That will be victory. Subject(s): Pacifism; War; World War I; Peace Movements; First World War THE SONG THAT SHALL ATONE, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars Last Line: That war is building is the throne of peace. Subject(s): Peace; War THE SOUL OF BRITAIN, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Thro' the dark of the night we have trodden Last Line: Must sink again to the prison, of party and place and creed. Subject(s): Death; Great Britain - Civil War; Heaven; Peace; Soul; Dead, The; English Civil War; Paradise THE SOUL TO THE BODY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old mate, who long hast friended me Last Line: I may behold thee face to face! Subject(s): Bodies; Friendship; Peace; Singing & Singers; Soul; Tears; Time; Songs THE SOUL'S TENDENCY TOWARDS ITS TRUE CENTRE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stones towards the earth descend Last Line: Peace to ev'ry christian heart! Subject(s): Peace; Soul THE SPIRIT OF THE SABBATH, by ISIDORE G. ASCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: We greet her in her everlasting youth. Subject(s): Death; Jews; Peace; Dead, The; Judaism THE STANDARD BEARER, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Swiftly the shrieking fire-bird gleams Last Line: And draw one deep, untroubled breath. Subject(s): Peace THE SWORD AND THE SICKLE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sword sung on the barren heath Last Line: But could not make the sickle yield Variant Title(s): "the Sword Sung On The Barren Heath""; Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Peace THE TALE OF THE TIGER TREE, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peace-of-the-heart, my own for long Last Line: Though I walk with peace-of-the-heart and rejoice. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Peace THE TASK: BOOK 2. THE TIME-PIECE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness Last Line: And the land stank, so numerous was the fry. Subject(s): Clergy; Disasters; Earthquakes; Peace; Universities & Colleges; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops THE TESTS OF PEACE, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: No less than war peace has its acid tests Last Line: And the welfare of mankind! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Peace; Religion; Theology THE THREE COUNSELLORS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: It was the fairy of the place Last Line: "in which the wars of time shall cease." Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Peace; War; Wisdom THE TOWER OF SILENCE, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silent! Tread airily! Last Line: Walk hence reverently! Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Peace; Silence; Dead, The; Paradise THE TREASURE-SEEKER, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many weary days I suffer'd Last Line: So shall peace return to thee!' Subject(s): Peace; Soul; Treasures THE TRIUMPH OF PEACE, by JAMES SHIRLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most grave opinion! Last Line: Yet with your smiles shall be restored again. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Masques; Peace; English History THE TRIUNE PRESENCE (BIRTHDAY OR NEW YEAR'S HYMN), by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Certainly I will be with thee! Father!' I have found it true Last Line: True of old, and true this moment, I will trust jehovah's word. Subject(s): Birthdays; God; Peace THE TRUE BEATITUDE, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say, when the great prompter's hand shall ring Subject(s): God; Peace THE UNKNOWN GRAVE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No name to bid us know Last Line: Fades into endless peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Graves; Hearts; Peace; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by MARGARET STINEBACK Poem Text First Line: His dreams have all grown lovely with the years Last Line: Along the path of peacegod's pathinstead! Subject(s): Courage; Graves; Peace; Social Protest; Soldiers; Unknown Soldier; War; Valor; Bravery; Tombs; Tombstones THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER SPEAKS, by IRENE COLE MACARTHUR Poem Text First Line: You lay your wreath above me tenderly Last Line: "wide world re-echoes madly, gladly, ""peace!" Subject(s): Peace THE VAMPIRE, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She rose among us where we lay Last Line: All night long he ploughed. Subject(s): Peace; Vampires THE VICTORIES OF PEACE, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Gone is the tempest that clouded Last Line: Hope for the days that have brightened. Subject(s): Peace; United States; America THE VOICE OF PEACE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though now forever still Last Line: Of love and liberty! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Independence; Liberty Bell; Peace THE VOICES, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: O waves, that break at my feet Last Line: And flings the portal wide for peace. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Peace; War; Dead, The; Paradise THE WATCHMAN, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Watchman, the judgment is at hand, give warning Last Line: "stands not a stone." Subject(s): Death; Peace; Watchmen; Dead, The THE WAY TO PEACE, by ALICE HIRSH Poem Text First Line: Above all lands bright angel-wings are spread Last Line: And angel-wings of peace enfold us all. Subject(s): Peace THE WHITE PEACE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It lies not on the sunlit hill Last Line: Floods heart and brain. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Hearts; Humanity; Peace 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 WIND'S WORD, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A star that I love, / the sea, and I Last Line: All these did he have -- and he is dead.' Subject(s): Death; Peace; Sea; Stars; Dead, The; Ocean THE WINDS OF DAY AND NIGHT, by RUSSELL LORD Poem Text First Line: Awake! Away! / urges the wind today Last Line: And the mothering winds of night sweep on! Subject(s): Night; Peace; Bedtime THE WINDS OF GOD, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the azure spaces Last Line: The winds of god go by? Subject(s): God; Peace; War; Wind THE WORD OF THE WIND, by LOUISE DRISCOLL Poem Text First Line: Wind that carries the sound of bells Last Line: And one white word for peace! Subject(s): Freedom; Grief; Peace; War; Wind; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness THE WORLD'S A BUBBLE, by POSEIDIPPUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world's a bubble, and the life of man Last Line: Not to be borne, or being borne to dye. Alternate Author Name(s): Posidippus; Poseidippos Subject(s): Human Behavior; Life; Marriage; Mortality; Peace; War; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WORLD-MAN, by HENRY VICTOR MORGAN Poem Text First Line: Make room for the world-man Last Line: He liveth in you! Subject(s): Peace; Religion; Theology THEODORE HERZL, by HARRY MYERS Poem Text First Line: Peace! No tear for him who sleepeth near Last Line: Israel lives anew! Subject(s): Herzl, Theodore (1860-1904); Jerusalem; Jews; Peace; Zionism; Judaism THERE ARE MOMENTS OF PEACE WHEN MY HEART RESTS, by PHYLLIS HOTCH Poem Source First Line: Some years these last a split second Last Line: I touch only what is my own Subject(s): Peace THERE IS STILL NO NAME FOR YOU, by MILAN DEKLEVA Poem Source First Line: For anything more will we be able to die Last Line: We dwell heroically in ignorance, like in a school exercise Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Peace; Unknown Soldier THERE'LL NEVER BE PEACE TILL JAMIE COMES HAME, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By yon castle wa,' at the close of the day Last Line: There'll never be peace till jamie comes hame. Subject(s): Peace THEREFORE FIGHT, by HELEN PHILBROOK PATTEN Poem Text First Line: Lo, I would seek to be alone with peace Last Line: And only these, can lead to final glory. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Life; Peace; Soul THERMOMETER, by CLEMENTINA SUAREZ Poem Source First Line: The fire of your love tempered the stell of my flesh Subject(s): Peace THEY CARRIED THEIR TRUTH TO THE DITCH WHERE THEY WERE THROWN, by CRISTIAN SANTOS DE PRASLIN Poem Source First Line: I'm chatting with pedro Subject(s): Peace THEY DESTROYED MY MOTHER'S HOUSE, by CALY DOMITILA CANE'K Poem Source First Line: Orphans, my parents are orphans Subject(s): Peace; Troy THEY FOLLOWED US INTO THE NIGHT, by MICHELE NAJLIS Poem Source First Line: Pale %by the road to the north Subject(s): Peace THEY SAY THAT OVER THERE, by BERNARDINA GUEVARA CORVERA Poem Source Subject(s): Peace THEY SENT ME OUT OF MY COUNTRY, by REYNA HERNANDEZ Poem Source Subject(s): Peace THIS COULD BE AN ODE, by KAYLOCK SELLERS Poem Source First Line: This could be an ode sort of Last Line: These haunt sensual memories %will sustain them Subject(s): Peace THIS COUNTRY IS IN A DREAM, by ANA ISTARU Poem Source First Line: Tell them I admit it it doesn't exist Subject(s): Peace THIS IS NO GOOD, THEY SAY, by ANA MARIA RODAS Poem Source Subject(s): Peace THIS POET OF THE MIRROR, by DIANA AVILA Poem Source Subject(s): Peace THOSE WHOM WE DO NOT KNOW, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because our country has entered Last Line: Think they know us now. Subject(s): Peace; War THOU WILT KEEP THEM, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou in perfect peace will keep them Last Line: May it keep our hearts alway! Subject(s): Peace THOUGHTS ON THE LATE WAR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was for union - you, ag'in it Last Line: Durin' the army. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Army - United States; Peace; War THY WORLD IT IS, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poet's Biography Last Line: In peace let me lie! Subject(s): Peace TIME IN SEPTEMBER, by MARYHELEN SNYDER Poem Source First Line: It appears that the bees and the sunflowers Last Line: Where a yellow radiance, black pulse at its center, waits Subject(s): Peace TIME IS BRINGING OUT IN ME, by ANA MARIA RODAS Poem Source Subject(s): Peace TIME TO LOVE, by CRISTIAN SANTOS DE PRASLIN Poem Source First Line: I swear to you, love Subject(s): Peace TO A CERTAIN LADY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They tore her scarlet gown Last Line: "in your moral modern town!" Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Life; Love; Peace; Dead, The TO A CERTAIN VERY UGLY BUILDING: THE ARMORY, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Minotaur of madness, you certainly belong there Last Line: O slumtown symbol of war's grim insanity! Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Army - Ireland; Buildings & Builders; Death; Pacifism; Social Protest; War; Weapons; Ammunition; Dead, The; Peace Movements TO A FRIEND, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And wouldst thou seek the low abode Last Line: Of hermit happiness. Subject(s): Comfort; Friendship; Life; Peace; Self-reliance; Solitude; Travel; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips TO A PACIFIST FRIEND, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To close the eyes upon a frenzied scene Last Line: I see with horror as it dares to live. Subject(s): Pacifism; Peace Movements TO ANY ONE, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whether the time be slow or fast Last Line: Why not begin? Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Peace TO DELIA: 18 (2), by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What it is to breathe and live without life Last Line: Delia, my heart hath learned out of those eyes. Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Peace TO DELIA: 38, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair and lovely maid, look from the shore Last Line: That thou be pleased, and I may sigh no more. Subject(s): Hero & Leander; Kisses; Love; Peace; Leander TO DON FRANCISCO GINER DE LOS RIOS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Since the master had gone away Last Line: Dreamed a new blossoming of spain Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Death; Peace TO HELEN (OBIIT DECEMBER 3, 1903), by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Lilies for her virgin breast Last Line: Opening now in paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Peace; Dead, The; Paradise TO JANE ADDAMS AT THE HAGUE: 1. SPEAK NOW FOR PEACE, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady of light, and our best woman, and queen Last Line: Back of the smoke is the promise of kindness again. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Addams, Jane (1860-1935); Lusitania (ship); Peace; Reform & Reformers; World War I; First World War TO KEEP THE PEACE, by DANIEL GARNETT BICKERS Poem Text First Line: Rejoicing, celebrant and wild with joy we were Last Line: Of peace shall be impossible. For vision in this work we ask! Alternate Author Name(s): Bickers, D. G. Subject(s): Earth; Peace; War; World TO MATILDA, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was, dear lamb, ordain'd to be Last Line: As erst she slept within mine arm! Subject(s): Death; Peace; Dead, The TO MATILDA, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: At a call unforseen thou wert taken! Last Line: And intimations of lands afar. Subject(s): Death; Peace; Sisters; Sympathy; Dead, The; Empathy TO MY COUNTRYMEN (A VOICE FOR PEACE), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heirs of great yesterdays, be proud with me Last Line: Be generous and win the smile of god. Subject(s): Peace TO MY GUARDIAN ANGEL, by MIRNA MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: It makes no sense to deny it Subject(s): Peace TO PEACE, by W. W. M. Poem Text First Line: We are the dead Last Line: Make green thy fields for us, and bring us tears and laughter? Subject(s): Death; Military; Peace; Social Protest; War; Women; Dead, The TO THE EARL OF OXFORD, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pen, ink, and wax, and paper send Last Line: Thoughts which angels may approve. Subject(s): Inkstands; Letters; Love; Paper; Peace; Pens & Pencils TO THE PEACE PALACE AT THE HAGUE, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Builded of love and joy and faith and hope Last Line: Thou shalt be capitol of all the earth. Subject(s): Hague, Netherlands; Peace; World War I; First World War TO THE RIVER AND WAIT, by CHRISTINE E. HEMP Poem Source First Line: We lay in bed and you said let's Last Line: Soon I will go to the river and wait Subject(s): Peace TO THE SOLDIERS OF SALVADOR, by LILIAM JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: All flesh and bone are thus betrayed Subject(s): El Salvador; Peace TO THE UNKNOWN EROS: BOOK 1: 15. PEACE, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O england, how hast thou forgot Last Line: Speak; for a good word then is a good deed. Subject(s): Peace TO THEE OLD CAUSE!, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Around the idea of thee Subject(s): Peace Movements 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 TODAY, by JUDITH MCDANIEL Poem Source First Line: This is her life. She makes coffee in the morning Last Line: Seeing each detail with her heart Subject(s): Peace; Social Protest TODAY, THESE DAYS, by DELIA QUINONEZ Poem Source First Line: Death %knocks at this cloud door Subject(s): Peace TOURNAMENT OF MAN, by ERNEST HOWARD CROSBY Poem Source First Line: Clear the field for the grand tournament of the nations! Subject(s): Holidays; Peace; Veterans Day TOWARDS DEMOCRACY, SELS., by EDWARD CARPENTER Poet's Biography Subject(s): Democracy; Freedom; Peace TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. NOT THE ACCEPTED TIME, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Amid all the turmoil and the care - the worry, the fever, the anxiety Last Line: Does the vast ever-present beneath reveal its perfect rondure. Subject(s): Peace TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. PHILOLAUS TO DIOCLES, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How often at dusk, dear friend, when thou art absent Last Line: So oft, in dreamless peace, close-linked with thee. Subject(s): Absence; Friendship; Peace; Separation; Isolation TRANQUIL LIBERTY, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peace is no peace when all its dream is war Last Line: That is not also tranquil liberty. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Peace; War TREAD THE DARK: 23, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inside me is the peace of an egg Last Line: I am prepared to enjoy it Subject(s): Eggs; Peace; Self TRENOS, by LUZ MENDEZ DE LA VEGA Poem Source First Line: Gris semilla de hielo Subject(s): Peace TRUCE AND THE PEACE (NOVEMBER, 1918), by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peace now for every fury has her day Last Line: We never knew till then that he was there Subject(s): Peace; World War I TRUE DEATH, by WALDINA MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I hardened my eyes to see poverty Subject(s): Peace TRUMPET VOLUNTARY IN PRAISE OF MY FOUR CHILDREN, by ALVARO CARDONA-HINE Poem Source First Line: Praise be for my children Last Line: Praised be my children Subject(s): Peace TUBAL CAIN, by CHARLES MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old tubal cain was a man of might Last Line: "we'll nor forget the sword!" Subject(s): Peace TV NEWS FROM THE GULF: A VILLANELLE, by SIV CEDERING Poem Source First Line: The picture as presented is quite clear Last Line: Not propelled by wings the bird comes near Subject(s): Peace TWILIGHT, by MILTON C. DOTTEN Poem Text First Line: The twilight turns the mind to inward things Last Line: In that new birthgod's gift of perfect peace. Subject(s): Evening; Past; Peace; Sunset; Twilight TWO AMERICAS, by RAFAEL POMBO Poem Source First Line: Twins in destiny and in name, two brothers in christ Last Line: Blessing two worlds at peace Subject(s): Bolivar, Simon (1783-1830); Peace; South America TWO BEDS, by BESSY REYNA Poem Source First Line: She has two beds Subject(s): Peace TWO DWELLING PLACES, by ROMAIN ROLLAND Poem Source First Line: For the finer spirits of (the world) there are two dwelling places Subject(s): Peace TWO SONGS OF PEACE: 1, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My son smells of peace when I lean over him Last Line: We suddenly realize as we grow the smell of peace vanishes out fo our lives Subject(s): Peace; Smells; Sons TWO SONGS OF PEACE: 1, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My son smells of peace when I lean over him Last Line: Promised him that %which god can't promise us Subject(s): Peace TWO SONGS OF PEACE: 2, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love was not in the war Last Line: Whose borders we shall never cross Subject(s): Peace; War; Middle Age TWO SONGS OF PEACE: 2, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love was not in the war Last Line: And of an enemy and lover %whose borders we shall never cross Subject(s): Peace ULTIMATUM, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: We will not fight Subject(s): Peace ULTIMATUM, by MARIANA YONUSG Poem Source First Line: Go %back Subject(s): Peace UNCERTAINTY, by BESSY REYNA Poem Source First Line: Uncertainty can have your name Last Line: That you spin along with the sun and you don't have answers Subject(s): Peace UNDER THE OLD ONE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Helpless improver, Last Line: Under the old one Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Peace UNDERSTANDING, by ELSIE GLENN Poem Text First Line: The cool, crisp air filtered with moonlight Last Line: I dropped asleep, thankful for this blessed peace. Subject(s): Peace; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals UNEASY PEACE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Late into the lulling night the pickers toiled Last Line: While men were meditating war with which the world still bleeds. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Peace UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT, by DIANA AVILA Poem Source First Line: Not a light and so what Subject(s): Peace UNIVERSAL PEACE, by MARGARET FRATER HILL Poem Text First Line: The angels sang of peace, to men good will Last Line: To break war's chains that still our world do bind. Subject(s): Peace; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians UNSPOKEN, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a straight-laid, bordered path Last Line: Thus the silence tells the agony and pain. Subject(s): Home; Man-woman Relationships; Peace; Silence; Sleep; Male-female Relations UNTITLED MERIDIANS, by ALPAY ULKU Poem Source First Line: Half in the matter universe, and half outside, where things are ideas Last Line: Random wants. We don't have to kill each other for the peace of a %thousand years. In this world I c Subject(s): Airships; Exhibitions; Museums; Peace UNVEILING THE MONUMENT, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The veil remove. Now let the curtain rise Last Line: And guard his own in future rolling years. Subject(s): Life; Monuments; Peace; War URGENT DECLARATION OF LOVE FOR HUMANS, by ANA ISTARU Poem Source First Line: The dream must be woven to readiness awake Subject(s): Peace VALLEY OF THE HEAVENS, by LUIS DE LEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Resplendent precinct of the skies Last Line: Leadst them through Alternate Author Name(s): Fray Luis Subject(s): Future Life; Heaven; Peace; Soul VALOUR OF PEACE, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I held some little faith amongst those times Last Line: In the gross cradles of a scoundrel realm! Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Peace VERSES ON TEXTS: 2 COR. 10, 5, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let every thought Last Line: The perfect peace of full and pure allegiance. Subject(s): Peace VERSES ON TEXTS: ESTHER, 8, 8, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For he hath given us a changeless writing Last Line: Sealed on our hearts with his own signet ring. Subject(s): God; Peace; Rest VERSES WRITTEN UPON AN ECSTASY OF HIGH CONTEMPLATION, by JOHN OF THE CROSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I enter'd in - I knew not where Last Line: Whereby man understands no more %yet far transcends all human lore Alternate Author Name(s): Juan De La Cruz, San; Juan De Yepes Subject(s): Heaven; Love; Peace VESPERS, by LOUIS MERCIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a sunday at home Last Line: Vespers sound. Subject(s): Calm; Grief; Peace; Silence; Winter; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Sorrow; Sadness VICTORY WITHOUT PEACE, by CLEMENT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The slaughter-bugles screamed once more Last Line: Which leaves no peace on earthbut death. Subject(s): Death; Peace; Victory; War; Dead, The VIET NAM, by DIANA MORAN Poem Source First Line: The men Subject(s): Peace 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 VISITING HOME, by PAUL WILLIS Poem Source First Line: The first day in the wilderness you are uneasy Last Line: That you have belonged here all this time Subject(s): Peace VOICE OF THE UNKNOWN DEAD, by HERBERT STOTESBURY Poem Text First Line: Oh, my people! Do ye wonder Last Line: Be the symbols of his peace. Subject(s): Death; Military; Peace; Soldiers; Unknown Soldier; War; Dead, The WAITING, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw them once -- the holy, quiet spaces Last Line: To know that peace is waiting, near and sure. Subject(s): Peace WAITRESS (1), by DAISY ZAMORA Poem Source First Line: From table to table she clears Subject(s): Peace WAITRESS (2), by DAISY ZAMORA Poem Source First Line: Back then I believed my body would be Subject(s): Peace WAKING NIGHTMARES: I, by JUDITH MCDANIEL Poem Source First Line: I think that when they slit open Last Line: But you have know the devil Subject(s): Peace; Social Protest WAKING NIGHTMARES: II, by JUDITH MCDANIEL Poem Source First Line: Declaring thursday that the nation's limits Last Line: Who have too little regard for human life Subject(s): Peace; Social Protest WAKING UP IN PARADISE, by MARGARITA AZURDIA Poem Source Subject(s): Peace WALK ON THE WATER, by OLGA BROUMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Chafed ocean, a chadored moon Last Line: Song without skin to hold. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Healing; Mythology - Classical; Peace; Sea; Sickness; Women's Rights; Cures; Ocean; Illness; Feminism WALKING GUARD DUTY WITH THE 81ST ARTILLERY, by STEPHEN BANKHEAD Poem Source First Line: I had searched long for this quiet, tranquil spot Last Line: They were shattered by a chopper's angry blade Subject(s): Guard Duty; Peace WAR, by JIM HANLEN Poem Source First Line: See, we're lying on the floor Last Line: And we drink like it's peace or something Subject(s): Peace WAR, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: War / I abhor Last Line: And show the monster as she is. Variant Title(s): The Illusion Of War Subject(s): Pacifism; Religion; Peace Movements; Theology WAR, by MARINELLA CORRIOLS MOLINA Poem Source First Line: Before %I knew of death Subject(s): 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 AND PEACE, 1808, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, bright futurity, whose prospect beams Last Line: One hallowed zone -- to circle all mankind. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Corunna, Spain; Moore, Sir John (1761-1809); Peace; War WAR CRIMES, by JOAN LOGGHE Poem Source First Line: The red ribbon used to tie the gift, and then Last Line: Suck articulation back inside. After war, words must suffice Subject(s): Peace WAR WITH CHINA, by ALVARO CARDONA-HINE Poem Source First Line: I found a stubby pencil Last Line: And write theses last few words %in darkness Subject(s): Peace WARRIOR GHOST, by DON WEST Poem Source First Line: We're sleeping now, my brothers Subject(s): Peace WATCHMAN! WHAT OF THE NIGHT?, by JAMES MEW Poem Text First Line: The burden of dumah. Silence. What of the / night? Last Line: With longing for that messianic morn. Subject(s): Jews; Night; Peace; Sleep; Judaism; Bedtime WAY THE LIGHT WAS, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How completely useless beauty Last Line: A bird picks up a seed and carries a life away Subject(s): Death; Desire; Ghosts; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Peace; Supernatural WE WHOM THE DEAD HAVE NOT FORGIVEN, by SARA BARD FIELD Poem Source First Line: I cry to the mountains; I cry to the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Wood, Charles Erskine Scoot, Mrs. Subject(s): Peace WE WON'T CRY FOR YOU, by ALENKA BERMUDEZ Poem Source First Line: The image comes and goes Subject(s): Peace WEARINESS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Snowy sails, silvery sails Last Line: On the strand of peace. Subject(s): Life; Peace; Sailing & Sailors WENDOVER, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Uplifted and lone, set apart with our love Last Line: Low lying on wendover town.' Subject(s): Life; Love; Peace; Shadows WHAT I LEAVE TO MY SON, by LE CU' PHACH Poem Source First Line: No point in leaving you a long list Last Line: To drag grief-laden feet down the road %to mutual murder Subject(s): Peace WHAT IS LEFT, by CRAIG VAN RIPER Poem Source First Line: The paraffin of waxwings hovering over Last Line: Till the only thing left is %compassion Subject(s): Peace WHAT IS SACRED, by LINDA CASEBEER Poem Source First Line: In cuzco, the andean mother cooks Last Line: She pours the first spoonful onto the earth Subject(s): Peace WHAT MATTERS IT?, by GEORGE FREDERICK CAMERON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What reck we of the creeds of men? Last Line: Shall all be still -- shall all be still! Subject(s): Peace WHEN I DIE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: Of this dream which is so diaphanous %and so real Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Peace WHEN IN SOME COVE I LIE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Seaward with it Subject(s): Peace; Contentment WHEN IT IS FINISHED, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When it is finished, father, and we set Last Line: That we might live. Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME, by PATRICK SARSFIELD GILMORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When johnny comes marching home again hurrah! Last Line: When johnny comes marching home. Alternate Author Name(s): Lambert, Louis Subject(s): American Civil War; Patriotism; Peace; United States - History; United States; America WHEN THE MORNING COMES, SELS., by JULIA ESQUIVEL Poem Source First Line: We must rise early to urge on the breaking of the dawn Subject(s): Peace WHEN THE WAR'S AT AN END, by ERIC POWELL DAWSON Poem Text First Line: At length when the war's at an end Last Line: How to lay our lives at love's feet. Subject(s): Peace; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; War WHEN THERE IS PEACE, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When there is peace, our land no more Last Line: When there is peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War WHEN THERE IS PEACE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is peace on the sea tonight Last Line: Amid the earthquakes of death. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Fish & Fishing; God; Love; Peace; Dead, The; Nightmares WHEN WE ARE ALL ASLEEP, by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When he returns, and finds the world so drear Last Line: "let them sleep on untroubled -- it is best." Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Peace; Second Advent; Dead, The; Second Coming Of Christ WHEN WE GO HOME AGAIN, by DAISY ZAMORA Poem Source First Line: When we go home again to our old land Subject(s): Peace WHERE FLOWN, O PEACE?, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: O peace, that lies within beloved arms Last Line: Yon smile of iron lips nightmared from out the mouth of hell. Subject(s): Dreams; Peace; Nightmares WHERE IS THE REAL NON-RESISTANT?, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who can surrender to christ, dividing his best with the stranger Last Line: Surrender, surrender, surrender? Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Peace WHERE THE FIRST SNOW MEETS THE LAST SNOW, by MARIANNE MILTON Poem Source First Line: You imagine a home for yourself there Last Line: But peace and its stunning, unmindful embrace Subject(s): Peace WHICH SWORD?, by JASON NOBLE PIERCE Poem Source First Line: A sword, a sword, and a sword Subject(s): Holidays; Peace; Veterans Day WHILE TO BETHLEHEM WE ARE GOING, by VIOLANTE DE CEO Poem Source Last Line: Sure is peace, - the sweetest, best Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Peace WHITE DAY OF PEACE, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Heard ye the golden bells of peace that angels softly / sway Last Line: Tis toleration's jubileeher white-robed festal day! Subject(s): Peace; Religion; Theology WHY?, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: The little child across the street Last Line: But what am I to her? Subject(s): Peace WILLIAM OF THE FERRY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Near clyde's gay stream there dwelt a maid Last Line: With william of the ferry Subject(s): Ferry Boats;humility;peace WINDOW POEMS: 19, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peace. May he waken Last Line: Peace to the man in the window Subject(s): Peace WINDOW POEMS: 19, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peace. May he waken Last Line: Peace to the porch and the garden. %peace to the man in the window Subject(s): Peace WINTER DAYS, by JEAN HOLMES MINTY Poem Text First Line: Today I think the fairest thing I know Last Line: On many winter days for one of peace. Subject(s): Introspection; Peace; Winter WOMAN THINGS, by YOLANDA BLANCO Poem Source First Line: As a child I was happy Subject(s): Peace WOMANREALM, by YOLANDA BLANCO Poem Source First Line: I, yolanda Subject(s): Peace WOODROW WILSON, by EMMA VORIES MEYER Poem Text First Line: That all the world might smile again, I gave Last Line: "and hear their clear glad voices: ""peace on earth!" Alternate Author Name(s): Meyer, Emma Voorhees Subject(s): Death; Pacifism; Peace; Presidents, United States; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924); Dead, The; Peace Movements WOODROW WILSON - 1856-1924, by MARGUERITE MOOERS MARSHALL Poem Text First Line: The chill of no man's land had touched his lips Last Line: "one conqueror's work""said harden""wilson's thought." Subject(s): Pacifism; Peace; Praise; Presidents, United States; War; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924); Peace Movements WORD, SELS., by CELINA GARCIA Poem Source First Line: Script for the actor Subject(s): Peace 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 WORLD PUT BACK TOGETHER, by GEORGE BRADLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To climb a tree and shout up at the sun Last Line: And what's this music whispers in my ear? Subject(s): Earth; Peace WORLD-WINTER, by LAURA BELL EVERETT Poem Text First Line: Wandering on yestereen Last Line: Of lasting peace? Subject(s): Peace; Social Protest; War WOUNDED CHRIST-HEART, by GEORGIANA KLINGLE HOLMES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Anew he is wounded! The barbs of his wounding Alternate Author Name(s): Klingle, George Subject(s): Peace WRINKLES, by YOLANDA BLANCO Poem Source First Line: There are wrinkles on my forehead now Subject(s): Peace WRITER, by HANS J. STAHLSCHMIDT Poem Source First Line: When they arrested him Last Line: The safety of the hearts of his people Subject(s): Peace YANKEES, by REYNA HERNANDEZ Poem Source First Line: Whether they cry Subject(s): El Salvador; Peace YESTERDAY'S SHADOWS, by ANA MARIA RODAS Poem Source Subject(s): Peace YET A LITTLE WHILE (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These days are long before I die Last Line: And air vibrates with coming chimes. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Peace; Seasons; Dead, The YOU ARE ON THE RIGHT TRACK, GOOD TEACHER, by ANA MARIA RODAS Poem Source Subject(s): Peace YOUNG MEN .. WERE FICKLE FOUND SINCE SUMMER TREES WERE LEAFY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go in peace my beloved; tho' never again Last Line: In thy far-distant country and sun-gladdened clime. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Peace; Dead, The YOUR DAUGHTER AT CHRISTMAS, by RON SALISBURY Poem Source First Line: It was a sense akin to revelation Last Line: Not the big clap of history. %there is no gift like my gift Subject(s): Christmas; Daughters; Peace YOUR SECRET, by CLEMENTINA SUAREZ Poem Source First Line: Entering on little tiptoes I robbed everything of your secret; I Subject(s): Peace YOUTH, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have heard the trumpets calling youth Subject(s): Peace YOUTH AND NIGHT, by WILBUR UNDERWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the shining stars Last Line: Of this strange shadowed world. Subject(s): Beauty; Bodies; Night; Peace; Youth; Bedtime YULE AT THENGELFOR, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was yule at thengelfor Last Line: At the sharp white tide of yule! Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas; Pacifism; War; Nativity, The; Peace Movements ZION, by EUGENE KOHN Poem Text First Line: Land of the cedar and palm Last Line: In god's time we shall come to thee. Subject(s): Exiles; Jews; Peace; Praise; Zionism; Judaism |
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