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First Line: And no one has warned me that freedom
Last Line: Between which there really is no space
Subject(s): Poland - Communist Regime


A JOURNEY TO CRACOW, by PAUL MULDOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As we high-tailed it across the meadows
Subject(s): Cracow, Poland


ABOUT MY COUSIN, by MARGARET C. SZUMOWSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I always pretended that jan gratowski
Last Line: Porkchops and potatoes
Subject(s): Cousins; Lies; Poland


ALMOST A LOVE POEM, by YEHUDA AMICHAI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If my parents and your parents
Last Line: What's your name? / hannale
Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)


ANNOTATIONS OF AUSCHWITZ: 1, by PETER PORTER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the burnt flesh is finally at rest
Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Human Rights; Jews; Shoah; Judaism


ANNOTATIONS OF AUSCHWITZ: 1, by PETER PORTER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the burnt flesh is finally at rest
Last Line: And wicks turn down to darkness in the madman's eyes
Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Human Rights; Jews


ANNOTATIONS OF AUSCHWITZ: 2, by PETER PORTER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My suit is hairy, my carpet smells of death
Last Line: While the room fills with the zyklon b I cough
Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews


ANNOTATIONS OF AUSCHWITZ: 3, by PETER PORTER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On picadilly underground I fall asleep
Last Line: But sratches web the ceiling of a train
Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews


ANNOTATIONS OF AUSCHWITZ: 4, by PETER PORTER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Around staring buildings the pale flowers grow
Last Line: Death's botanical gardens can flower again
Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews


ANNOTATIONS OF AUSCHWITZ: 5, by PETER PORTER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A man eating his dressing in the hospital
Last Line: They crowd out peace from executioners' sleep
Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews


ANNOTATIONS OF AUSCHWITZ: 6, by PETER PORTER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Forty thousand bald men drowning in a stream
Last Line: Which has not cared about or guessed its tortured scope
Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews


ANNOTATIONS OF AUSCHWITZ: 7, by PETER PORTER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: London is full of chickens on electric spits
Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism


ANNOTATIONS OF AUSCHWITZ: 7, by PETER PORTER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: London is full of chickens on electric spits
Last Line: And all poultry eaters are psychopaths
Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews


ARBEIT MACHT FREI, by DAVID LEHMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Work shall set you free:' a sensible sentiment
Last Line: Pain to the piano with you, this quiet cry.
Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Language; Truth; Words; Vocabulary


AUSCHWITZ, by SALVATORE QUASIMODO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Far from the vistula, along the northern plain
Last Line: Never from the pit of ashes %to show itself again
Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland


BABUSHKA, by ANNA WASESCHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: All this land
Last Line: My mother says: the road to perham gets shorter every year
Subject(s): Grandparents; Immigrants; Poland


BEFORE BREUGHEL THE ELDER, by ALEKSANDER WAT                        Poet's Biography
First Line: Work is a blessing
Alternate Author Name(s): Chwat, Aleksander
Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Poland - Communist Regime; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter


BEFORE BREUGHEL THE ELDER, by ALEKSANDER WAT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Work is a blessing
Last Line: Your modest servant, wat aleksander) - work is our rescue
Alternate Author Name(s): Chwat, Aleksander
Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Poland - Communist Regime


BIALA VIEZA, by MARGARET C. SZUMOWSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Farmers on slow carts carry sweet hay.
Last Line: We were born for forests deep with snow
Subject(s): Forests; Poland


BRONISLAW, by MARGARET C. SZUMOWSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mother's borsht was steaming red
Last Line: Bronislaw,' he answered
Subject(s): Family Life; Immigrants; Poland


CHAIRS, by SUSAN HELENE CASE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Actually it is the history of the furniture that matters
Last Line: Not to take a seat
Subject(s): Furniture; Jews; Mathematics; Poland - German Occupation


CHAPEL WITH SKULLS: CZERMNA, POLAND, by LINDA NEMEC FOSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not even the mass graves at katyn
Last Line: In the heart of europe, they can't seem to forget
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Poland


CHILD OF EUROPE, by CZESLAW MILOSZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We, whose lungs fill with the sweetness of day
Last Line: Tight-lipped, guided by reasons only, %cautiously let us step into the era of the unchained fire
Subject(s): Poland - Communist Regime


CHILDREN OF AUSCHWITZ, by NAUM KORZHAVIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Men tortured children %cleverly. Deliberately. Efficiently
Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews


CRACOW, NOW!, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Defeated, exiled, indefensibly committed
Last Line: Toward precarious lodging, %in the ghettos of your unsuspecting ears
Subject(s): Cracow, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews


CROWS CAW OUT LOUD, FR. FOUR HAIKUS FROM POLAND, by TAD KIELCZEWSKI    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Springtime in krakow
Subject(s): Poland; Spring


DEDICATION, by CZESLAW MILOSZ    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You whom I could not save
Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Human Rights; Jews; Poland - Communist Regime; Shoah; Judaism


DEDICATION, by CZESLAW MILOSZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You whom I could not save
Last Line: I put this book here for you, who once lived %so that you should visit us no more
Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Human Rights; Jews; Poland - Communist Regime


DI MAGILAS FUN AUSHVITS (THE SCROLLS OF AUSCHSWITZ), by JEROME ROTHENBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He vanished & reappeared in a room no bigger than a
Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Concentration Camps; Jews; Judaism


DISHES, by TENAYA DARLINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the street where I grew up, there was a man whose mother went mad from
Last Line: Plates rattle on, and I peer through a slit to gaze at the obscene shape of the moon
Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; China (porcelain); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Pottery And Potters


DOWNFALL OF POLAND [FALL OF WARSAW, 1794], by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O sacred truth! Thy triumph ceased awhile
Last Line: And freedom shrieked -- as kosciusko fell!
Subject(s): Freedom; Kosciuszko, Thaddeus (1746-1817); Poland; Liberty


DREAMS OF AUSCHWITZ, by BORIS ABRAMOVICH SLUTSKY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I often dream of auschwitz now
Last Line: Wears down what's left of people
Alternate Author Name(s): Slutzky, Boris Abramovich
Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews


EMILIE PLATER, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O rainbow of the battle-storm
Last Line: Then was thy fitting time to die.
Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace
Subject(s): Poland - Wars With Russia


END OF THE THEORY, by SUSAN HELENE CASE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Banach and tarski
Last Line: About its presumption
Subject(s): Lvov, Poland; Restaurants


FAIR SHARE OF THE CAKE, by SUSAN HELENE CASE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Steinhaus doesn't like the scottish cafe
Last Line: For any number of pieces of cake
Subject(s): Lvov, Poland; Poland - Wars With Germany


FEW BEERS AT THE STATION, by SUSAN HELENE CASE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The first doctoral candidate from lvov
Last Line: Elegant solutions
Subject(s): Lvov, Poland; Mathematics; Poland - Wars With Germany


FIXED POINTS, by SUSAN HELENE CASE    Poem Source                    
First Line: At first they meet at the cafe roma in lvov
Last Line: Which still today no one can reproduce
Subject(s): Lvov, Poland; Restaurants


FORBIDDEN MASS, KRAKOW, by LEONARD KRESS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The fanfare from st. Mary's towering crown
Subject(s): Cracow, Poland; Mass


FROM JOSEF IN THE REST HOME, by SHARON CHMIELARZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm still alive
Last Line: By the t.V. Tray
Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Immigrants; Nursing Homes; Old Age; Poland; United States


FROM POLAND, by EDWARD FIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After soulless germany, my sister writes
Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce
Subject(s): Poland; Homecoming; Family Life; Jews


FUSION, by SUSAN HELENE CASE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ulam in america
Last Line: The chestnut trees of lvov
Subject(s): Homesickness; Lvov, Poland; Mathematics; Poles In America; Teaching And Teachers


GOING TO ZAKOPANE, by MARGARET C. SZUMOWSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: And so mama divided the potato among the three of us ...'
Last Line: On the icy peak
Subject(s): Fathers; Poland; Travel


GOOD DEATH, by JOHN Z. GUZLOWSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: You say in time
Last Line: And go unnoticed
Subject(s): Chopin, Frederic Francois (1810-1849); Poland


HIMMLER AT AUSCHWITZ, 1942, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY    Poem Source                    
First Line: A dim image of heinrich himmler
Last Line: Contemplating the colossal possibilities of his revelation
Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Himmler, Heinrich (1900-1945); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews


IF CHINA, by STANISLAW BARANCZAK    Poem Source                    
First Line: If china, then only the kind
Last Line: In the world %feel at home here?
Subject(s): Poland - Communist Regime


IN THE TIME OF FALSE MESSIAHS; CIRCA 1648, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He sat in the shade of trees at moonrise
Last Line: Everywhere below him there was hope.
Subject(s): Clergy; Famine; Hope; Poland; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Optimism


IT'S AUTUMN IN LODZ, FR. FOUR HAIKUS FROM POLAND, by TAD KIELCZEWSKI    Poem Source                    
Last Line: With all six bullets
Subject(s): Autumn; Poland; Seasons


JOURNEY TO CRACOW, by PAUL MULDOON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As we high-tailed it across the meadows
Last Line: As we high-tailed it across the meadows
Subject(s): Cracow, Poland


KAWIARNIA, KRAKOW, by LEONARD KRESS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bluster of cold. The city's fortress walls
Subject(s): Cracow, Poland


KITTY RETURNS TO AUSCHWITZ, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: A woman returns to auschwitz
Last Line: No brandenburg there, %just wind of the great nothing
Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Memory


KRAKOW, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gombrowicz, prosze, pana, jest horym
Last Line: Too far. They didn't know how not to go too far
Subject(s): Krakow, Poland; Language; Marriage


LINES ON POLAND, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And have I lived to see thee, sword in hand
Last Line: Resume it, younger bards, and nobler lyres!
Subject(s): Poland


MASSACRE OF THE BOYS, by TADEUSZ ROZEWICZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The children cried 'mummy!'
Last Line: Dead tree %with no star in its crown
Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland


MOUSE, by GARY GILDNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yesterday at batting practice
Last Line: And other things to teach - %but not on any fields that I knew of
Subject(s): Baseball; Mice; Sports; Warsaw, Poland


MY NAME, by JOHN MINCZESKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: My name arived from poland in 1910 stowed away in the engine room
Last Line: Given it years of pain. My name has forgotten how to cry
Subject(s): Identity; Immigrants; Names; Poland


NUMB, by SUSAN HELENE CASE    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is as if schauder's chest
Last Line: Last merely a few months
Subject(s): Fear; Poland - Wars With Germany


ON A DRAWING BY FLAVIO, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Above my desk / the rabbi of auschwitz
Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism


ON A DRAWING BY FLAVIO, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Above my desk %the rabbi of auschwitz
Last Line: That is all that god %gave us to hold
Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews


ON ANGELS, by CZESLAW MILOSZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All was taken away from you: white dresses
Last Line: Another one %do what you can
Subject(s): Poland - Communist Regime


ON THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE LIBERATION OF AUSCHWITZ ..., by ELI W. MANDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The name is hard %a german sound made out of
Last Line: A body melting
Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland


PAN TADEUSZ, by ADAM MICKIEWICZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O lithuania, my country, thou
Last Line: Twined by the hands of village girls with rue
Subject(s): Lithuania; Poland


PERSIAN PARABLES, SELS., by ALEKSANDER WAT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By great, swift waters
Last Line: And there is no bottom to evil
Alternate Author Name(s): Chwat, Aleksander
Subject(s): Poland - Communist Regime


PIETA, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the small town where the hero was born
Last Line: Walking past the next batch of tourists
Subject(s): Poland; Farewell


PIETA, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the small town where the hero was born
Last Line: Walking past the next batch of tourists
Subject(s): Poland


POEM FOR A POLISH PROVERB, by LISA MALINOWSKI STEINMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My grandmother in a field, caught by the woody hay
Subject(s): Poland; Proverbs


POLAND, by PATRICIA AVERY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Twenty grandmothers %turquoise as the virgin
Last Line: If we do not move %we will live forever
Subject(s): Poland


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


POLAND, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Warsaw's last champion from her height surveyed
Subject(s): Poland


POLAND, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Augurs that watched archaic birds
Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K.
Subject(s): Poland


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


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


POLAND, by NEVA HERRINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: After her mother's ten-year silence
Subject(s): Poland


POLAND, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Alone, beneath the tower whence issue forth
Last Line: And humbly seeks for succor ere she dies!
Subject(s): Poland; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians


POLAND OF DEATH: 1, by ALLEN GROSSMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I hear my father underground scratching with a nail. And I say
Last Line: "and mother says, ""this is the forest primeval."" poland of death!"
Subject(s): Graves; Jews; Parents; Poland; Tombs; Tombstones; Judaism; Parenthood


POLAND OF DEATH: 2, by ALLEN GROSSMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As not in life my father appeared to me
Subject(s): Poland


POLAND/1987, SELS., by JEROME ROTHENBERG            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Poland


POLISH INSURGENT, by JAMES THOMSON (1834-1882)    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What would you have? Said I
Alternate Author Name(s): B. V.; Bysshe Vanolis
Subject(s): Freedom; Poland


POLISH KNOT, by TOMASZ JASTRUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was no good solution
Last Line: When you cut it %you cut the throat
Subject(s): Poland - Communist Regime


POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 6. THE JOYOUS, THE LAKE, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How two women can be the same, for instance, in poland
Last Line: Drops down from a tree in the sun in marseille.
Subject(s): Boats; Warsaw, Poland; Women; World War Ii; Second World War


PRAY FOR POLAND, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, not unwept, unsung thy wrongs have been
Last Line: Who reigns, and rules, and lives for evermore!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Europe; Freedom; Poland; Russia; Liberty; Soviet Union; Russians


PRAYER TO SAINT LOUSE, by JERZY FICOWSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Skirts and scarves
Last Line: Filled it %filled it
Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Gypsies; Prayer


PRETTY SOON, by EDITH BRUCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pretty soon %when people hear a quiz show expert
Last Line: Who have always gotten themselves talked about: %they really attract attention
Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews


PROJECT: FLAG, by TADEUSZ BOROSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: We're fed uo with national colors!
Last Line: The polish flag will be stripped! %the stripes, of course, are prison bars
Subject(s): Flags - Poland; Poland - Communist Regime


QUESTIONS ABOUT POETRY SINCE AUSCHWITZ, by TADEUSZ ROZEWICZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Whether it rose up as a small brown bird
Last Line: For wild bird protection %in a world soon to be whole again
Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland


RAISINS, by SUSAN HELENE CASE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Orlicz is a regular at the scottish cafe
Last Line: To prevent burning
Subject(s): Mathematics; Poland - German Occupation; Raisins


RAVENS, by GARY GILDNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: We do wind sprints, we play catch
Last Line: All right, all the way to moscow boom boom %and landing on lenin's tomb
Subject(s): Baseball; Sports; Warsaw, Poland


RECIPE FOR A WARSAW NOVEL, by CYPRIAN KAMIL NORWID    Poem Source                    
First Line: Three landlords, stupid ones; cut each in two
Last Line: A sack of roubles, cold: mix well, and mash
Subject(s): Poland


REMEMBERING THE CHILDREN OF AUSCHWITZ, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We know the story. The children
Last Line: Darkening all our skies
Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Children; Death; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Childhood; Dead, The; Shoah; Judaism


RETURN TO KRAKOW IN 1880, by CZESLAW MILOSZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So I returned here from the big capitals
Last Line: What for, if the world will forget us anyway
Subject(s): Krakow, Poland


RIZPAH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How many sons, how many generations
Last Line: That lights towards hell his bondslaves and their czar.
Subject(s): Mothers; Poland; Rizpah (bible); Russia; Tragedy; Women - Bible; Soviet Union; Russians


ROMAN POLANSKI'S 'ANNABEL LEE': KRAKOW, by RICHARD LAMB    Poem Source                    
First Line: Childe roman, war stricken
Last Line: To the summer of love and ensuing me decade
Subject(s): Krakow, Poland; Survival


ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: TWO KNIGHTS, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Crapulinski and waschlapski, / poles in poland born and bred
Last Line: "and the mighty eselinski."
Subject(s): Friendship; Heroism; Knights & Knighthood; Poland; Heroes; Heroines


SCHAUDER'S CONJECTURE, by SUSAN HELENE CASE    Poem Source                    
First Line: He was a teenager tossing cherry pits
Last Line: Without sufficient evidence of proof
Subject(s): Mathematics; Poland - German Occupation; Survival


SCOTTISH BOOK, by SUSAN HELENE CASE    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's a puzzle
Last Line: With brilliance
Subject(s): Lvov, Poland; Mathematics


SCRAP, by TOMASZ JASTRUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: After us will be neither metal
Last Line: Once again has overflowed %comes wringing his hands to warn us
Subject(s): Poland - Communist Regime


SHE SAID 'NO' TO ME, FR. FOUR HAIKUS FROM POLAND, by TAD KIELCZEWSKI    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Winter in warsaw
Subject(s): Warsaw, Poland


SING ILLINOIS, by HELEN DEGAN COHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: How easy it was to write american poems
Last Line: Than my true gods
Subject(s): Illinois; Immigrants; Poland


SOBIESKI, by M. SABISTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Soon as the first faint twilight of the coming morn gave sign
Last Line: And, like a second city, spread o'er all the neighboring ground.
Subject(s): John Iii Sobieski, King Of Poland; Sobieski, John


SONNET ON HEARING OF THE OUTBREAK OF THE POLISH INSURRECTION, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Blow ye trumpet, gather from afar
Last Line: Boleslas drove the pomeranian.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Freedom; Poland; Liberty


SONNET: POLAND, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How long, o god, shall men be ridden down
Last Line: A matter to be wept with tears of blood!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Freedom; Poland; Liberty


SUMMER IN GDANSK, FR. FOUR HAIKUS FROM POLAND, by TAD KIELCZEWSKI    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And then it gets gdark
Subject(s): Poland; Summer


SUN OF AUSCHWITZ, by TADEUSZ BOROSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: You remember the sun of auschwitz
Last Line: As your body, you look into my eyes %and call me with the whole world
Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews


TASK, by CZESLAW MILOSZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In fear and trembling, I think I would fulfill my life
Last Line: Considered himself a lost man
Subject(s): Poland - Communist Regime


THAT DAY, by MAREK BATEROWICZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: That day
Last Line: If you were trying to close them
Subject(s): Government; Military; Military Justice; Poland; War


THE BATTLE-FIELD OF RASZYN, by KAZIMIERZ BRODZINSKI    Poem Text                    
First Line: A balmy air is up, the night is still
Last Line: Clamoring for vengeance? Ah! We hear ye not.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brodsinski, Casimir
Subject(s): Poland; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians


THE DIVISION OF POLAND, by EDWIN ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon earth's lap there lay a pleasant land
Last Line: "and cry exulting, ""yea, there is a god!"
Subject(s): Poland; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians


THE FALL OF WARSAW, by SARAH LOUISA P. SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Through warsaw there is weeping
Last Line: Breathe a blessing o'er the slain!
Subject(s): Warsaw, Poland


THE INVASION OF THE TARTARS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "plundering are the tartars, / plundering jashdow castle"
Last Line: "a slave for life to be, / far, far in tartary!"
Subject(s): "jashdow Castle, Poland;russia;tatars;" Soviet Union;russians;tartars


THE KING'S JEWEL, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas a night to make the bravest
Last Line: "and he hath delivered thee!"
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Russia; Warsaw, Poland; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces; Soviet Union; Russians


THE LAST TEN OF THE FOURTH REGIMENT, by JULIUS MOSEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A thousand soldiers knelt in warsaw's square
Last Line: "in 'poland's fourth' we are the only ten."
Subject(s): Army - Poland; Russia; Warsaw, Poland; Soviet Union; Russians


THE PASSAGE OF THE POLES BY NIGHT NEAR CRACOW, by AUGUST PLATEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The chilly breezes blow
Last Line: On to free ocean's bed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Maximilian, Karl August Georg; Platten Hallermund, Graf Von
Subject(s): Cracow, Poland


THE RETREAT FROM MOSCOW, by GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The yellow snow-fog curdled thick
Last Line: The carriage disappeared.
Subject(s): Russia; Russia - Napoleonic War; Warsaw, Poland; Soviet Union; Russians


TO BE A MOUSE, by ALEKSANDER WAT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To be a mouse. Preferably a field mouse. Or a garden mouse
Last Line: A palpitating crystal
Alternate Author Name(s): Chwat, Aleksander
Subject(s): Mice; Poland - Communist Regime


TO CZARTORYSKI, ATTENDING ON FOOT THE FUNERAL OF THE POET MENINCIVICZ, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In czartoryski I commend
Last Line: One nation in wide europe free.
Subject(s): Czartorski, Prince Adam Jerzy (1770-1861; Funerals; Poetry & Poets; Poland; Burials


TO GO TO LVOV, by ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To go to lvov. Which station
Subject(s): Lvov, Poland; Travel; Lviv, Ukraine; Lemberg, Austria; Journeys; Trips


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


TO POLAND, by IRENA POPLAWSKA-LEINEWEBER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The heart-shaped land that lies beyond the sea
Last Line: The voice I loved was stilled long, long ago.
Subject(s): Poland


TRIAL, by ZBIGNIEW HERBERT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: During his great speech the prosecutor
Last Line: How many minutes of air I still have left
Subject(s): Poland - Communist Regime


TRYING TO CATCH UP, by GARY GILDNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm coaching the warsaw baseball team
Last Line: And throwing - ok, strong as bulls - %but looking as if they're about to fall over
Subject(s): Baseball; Sports; Warsaw, Poland


TWO COUNTRIES, by TADEUSZ BOROSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: That's your freedom - bootleg whiskey
Last Line: And my country - a burned out house %and a file with the kgb
Subject(s): Poland - Communist Regime


VALEDICTION FORBIDDING DESPAIR, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY    Poem Source                    
First Line: This summer is treblinka
Last Line: And the temporary wish %to rest
Subject(s): Cracow, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews


VALEDICTION FORBIDDING DESPAIR, CRACOW GHETTO, 1943, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY    Poem Source                    
First Line: This summer is treblinka
Last Line: Toward memory's ultimate destination, %resurrection
Subject(s): Cracow, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews


WARSAW, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was in warsaw when the first bomb fell
Last Line: Or -- would you curse and spit into my face?
Subject(s): Bombs; Warsaw, Poland; World War Ii


WE POLISH JEWS: 3, by CHARLES FISHMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In warsaw and every other polish city, there will
Last Line: Will we carry the mark of the polish jew - only then, %in pride and mourning, all other ranks dimini
Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Poland


YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE, by PETER PORTER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The polar dew has just warned that a nuclear rocket strike
Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Nuclear War; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb


YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE, by PETER PORTER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The polar dew has just warned that a nuclear rocket strike
Last Line: Now go quickly to your shelters
Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Nuclear War


ZWYCZAJ, by MARK ANDREW NOWAK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: With immersion, the field %researcher sees
Last Line: Heightens sensitivity to social life %as process
Subject(s): Food And Eating; Life; Poland