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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PRISONERS OF WAR Matches Found: 19 A HUN, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He was just a prisoner Last Line: Would never know how bravely a son had died. Subject(s): Courage; Death; Germany; Injustice; Prisoners Of War; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Germans; First World War ANDERSONVILLE INSINUATIONS, by ROGER WEINGARTEN Poem Source First Line: A prisoner-of-war-camp memory of being Last Line: Left running with headlights like white %vaccinations, passing through ohio with hitchhiker Subject(s): Prisoners Of War ARKHANGEL'SK, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The yellow goat in winter sunlight Last Line: Bullets rippling like moles under the plaster. Subject(s): Death; Goats; Lent; Prisoners Of War; Russia - Stalin Era; Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953); Dead, The AS TOLD TO WALLACE TERRY, by THOMAS G. PALAIMA Poem Source First Line: Wallace told us %he interviewed his soldiers Last Line: Washington, d.C. %and vietnam Subject(s): Prisoners Of War; Soldiers; Vietnam; Violence; War Correspondents CIRCLING THE FLOWERS: 4, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They wouldn't let him touch the painting Last Line: Of the club palpable, reassuring %like a whisper giving shape to an invisible room Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Prisoners Of War; Rape COMPLAINT OF THE COUNT OF SALDANA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The count don sancho diaz, the signior of saldane Last Line: When thou shalt weep in dungeon deep, and none thy weeping see Subject(s): Absence; Courts And Courtiers; Grief; Old Age; Prisoners Of War FOR AN EX-FAR EAST PRISONER OF WAR, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am that man with helmet made of thorn Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles Subject(s): Prisoners Of War GERMAN PRISONERS, by JOSEPH LEE Poem Text First Line: When first I saw you in the curious street Last Line: "and could have grasped your hand and cried, ""my brother!" Subject(s): Brotherhood; Prisoners Of War; Religion; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Theology; First World War MY PRISONER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We was in a crump-'ole, 'im and me Last Line: Wonders -- 'ow would 'e 'ave treated me? Subject(s): Prisoners Of War; War; World War I; First World War PRISONERS OF WAR, by THOMAS M. DISCH Poem Source First Line: Their language disappeared a year or so Last Line: And at ourselves, those still alive, who stand %before what might have been, a year ago, a door Subject(s): Prisoners Of War PRISONERS OF WAR, by JOHN D. C. ESTRELLA Poem Source First Line: The hope in the matter of prisoners, and prayer Subject(s): Prisoners Of War PRISONERS OF WAR, by CHARLES PERDU Poem Source First Line: It is braver to be killed Last Line: In life's prosaic mazes, %intuitively alive, %imponderably at peace? Subject(s): Prisoners Of War PRISONERS' RETURN, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To-night I saw the wounded come ashore Last Line: And humbly I shall listen to you then. Subject(s): Patriotism; Prisoners Of War; Soldiers; War SEVENTH ECLOGUE, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: It's getting dark; the wild oak fence is is hemmed Last Line: I can not die, I can not live without you Subject(s): Guard Duty; Prisoners Of War; Writing And Writers THE BRAVE VOLUNTEER, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the time of the rebellion Last Line: To let return their son. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Prisoners Of War THE PIOUS PAINTER; THE STORY AS RELATED IN FABLIAUX OF LE GRAND, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There once was a painter in catholic days Last Line: And I must give the devil his due. Subject(s): Catholic Church - Liturgy; Devil; Paintings And Painters; Prisoners Of War; Temptation; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub THE POET OF THE PRISON ISLE: RITSOS AGAINST THE COLONELS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So there you are Last Line: Just over the border Subject(s): Prisoners Of War; War; Writing & Writers THE PRISONER'S RELEASE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, in the east the wan moon climbs Last Line: Now I come I come to thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; Inquisition; Prisoners Of War; Venice, Italy; Youth; Dead, The TO A FRIEND IMPRISONED IN GERMANY, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The young man's heart labours with many a birth Last Line: Is sweet, and sweet the friendship of the dead. Subject(s): Prisoners Of War; Friendship; Youth |
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