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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: POLAND Matches Found: 127 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 8-FEB-80, by STANISLAW BARANCZAK Poem Source 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 |
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