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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 ended—for 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 field—where 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 peace—to bliss—to 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, and—forgot!
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's—england'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 make—has 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 light—the 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 peace—god's path—instead!
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 birth—god'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 earth—but 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 jubilee—her 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