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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SACRIFICES Matches Found: 94 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LITTLE BOY LOST, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nought loves another as itself Last Line: Are such thing done on albion's shore? Subject(s): Bible; Death - Children; Mythology; Sacrifices; Death - Babies A NAVVY'S PHILOSOPHY, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across life's varied ways we drift Last Line: Beside the master of the hall. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Brotherhood; Death; Labor & Laborers; Sacrifices; Dead, The; Work; Workers A PASTORALL; THE ANTEMASQUE, by JANE CAVENDISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come let us burne severall horrid peeces Last Line: Hag let's singe, but let's not bee too longe. Subject(s): Sacrifices; Singing & Singers; Witchcraft & Witches; Songs A RHYME OF THE WEST, by FREDERICK WILLIAM OPHEL Poem Text First Line: It was reuben steel that led the way, and his mate was palmer jake Last Line: That the wandering winds might ring at will a requiem for the dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Prospect Good; Ophel, F. W. Subject(s): Death; Deserts; Drought; Food & Eating; Friendship; Sacrifices; Dead, The A SUTTEE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gather her raven hair in one rich cluster Last Line: No more to part. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Sacrifices; Widows & Widowers AD ASTRA: 19, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Love, at the highest, asks for no reward Last Line: He swings his burning thurible of spice. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Sacrifices ANGEL ISLAND POETRY, by EMMA GEE Poem Source First Line: Across from alcatraz island was another kind of prison Last Line: And avenge %past wrongs Subject(s): Abandonment; Farewell; Immigrants; Sacrifices AT TIMES IT IS NECESSARY AND UNAVOIDABLE, by SALVADOR ESPRIU Poem Source Last Line: In difficult and deserved %liberty Subject(s): Heroism; Sacrifices BALLAD OF A GRAY CLOAK, by ELIZABETH BUELL Poem Text First Line: The gray cloak of her motherhood Last Line: Is heavy -- sweet to bear. Subject(s): Caregivers; Mothers; Sacrifices; Solitude; Loneliness BREAKING GROUND, by LINDA DECICCO ANTONAZZI Poem Source First Line: It's never easy being born Last Line: And gathers you up from your %one long summer Subject(s): Sacrifices; Strength 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 CASUALTIES: 25. BENIN SACRIFICE, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And yet another screen is rent Last Line: And another screen is rent %off our bedside Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Sacrifices CHIMALPOA; A MONODRAMA - FOUNDED ON AN EVENT IN THE MEXICAN HISTORY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Subjects! Friends! Children! I may call you my children Last Line: Perform your office! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Duty; History; Mexico; Public Worship; Sacrifices; Dead, The; Historians; Church Attendance COLORADO MORTON'S RIDE, by LEONARD BACON (1887-1954) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Colorado morton's riding far Last Line: He won't be back with the circle-bar. Subject(s): Cowboys; Sacrifices CONCERNING SACRIFICES, by PAUL D. MCKERRY Poem Source First Line: From sounion's rocky crag Last Line: Both just involve %different methods of killing Subject(s): Death; Sacrifices CURSES, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: This is noise, this is curse, this is talk Last Line: All you know of heroines is what you read %burn bleed Subject(s): Heroism; Sacrifices EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: 'EQUALITY OF SACRIFICE', by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was a have Last Line: "(together.) ""what hast thou given which I gave not?" Subject(s): Sacrifices; War; World War I; First World War FASTING, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: What though her face be pale? This onely showes Last Line: Keeps her stomach fresh for paradise. Subject(s): Heaven; Humility; Sacrifices; Strength; Paradise FOOL'S BURIAL, by HILDEGARDE FILLMORE Poem Text First Line: If you had waited, foolish love, to die Last Line: To lie all naked in a beggar's grave? Subject(s): Death; Fools; Love; Sacrifices; Dead, The; Idiots FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: SACRIFICE SELF-COMPENSATED, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: True I have had much comfort gazing on thee Last Line: That greater happiness will thence arise. Subject(s): Birth; Death; Hope; Love; Sacrifices; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The; Optimism FRANCISCA REINA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: A stricken queen, but still a queen of queens Last Line: "with orisons unto the rising sun." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Drought; Sacrifices; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke GREATER LOVE, by ANTIPATER OF SIDON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Amyntor, son of philip, lies Last Line: He died to shield a friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Sidon Subject(s): Friendship; Sacrifices H. SACRAMENT, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Love, upon a deep designe Last Line: Make us as happy as it pleaseth thee. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Last Supper, The; Sacrifices HAPPY THOUGHT FOR SOME STRUGGLING NATION, by MORRIE RYSKIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though the privates may never return Last Line: Need we burden the lord with our prayers? Subject(s): Death; Prayer; Sacrifices; Dead, The HUBRIS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The loom is computerized Last Line: Where will they hide him %when the romans come? Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Sacrifices I NEVER KNEW, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I never knew how much the love you gave me Last Line: "I never knew,I never knew." Subject(s): Love; Sacrifices; Salvation IN POVERTY STREET, by ELLIOTT FLOWER Poem Text First Line: It's dirty, ill-smelling Last Line: In poverty street. Subject(s): Charity; Poverty; Sacrifices; Philanthropy IPHIGENEIA AT AULIS: AGAMEMNON TRIES TO AVERT SACRIFICE OF IPHIGENEIA, by EURIPIDES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O! Gods! How very wretched am I grown! Last Line: Here take it for it is your victory Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Sacrifices JEPHTHAH'S DAUGHTER, by JENNIFER ATKINSON Poem Source First Line: Already two months alone %twice no blood Last Line: My father will kill him and steal his land %I am a widow in a blood-stained shawl Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Jephthah (bible); Sacrifices JEPHTHAH'S DAUGHTER, by BARBARA KEENER SHENK Poem Source First Line: My father promised, so there is no chance Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Jephthah (bible); Sacrifices JEPHTHAH'S DAUGHTER, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She stood before her father's gorgeous tent Last Line: And she was dead -- but not by violence. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Jephthah (bible); Sacrifices LET YOU WHO WOULD BE LOVERS, by FRANK ERNEST HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let you who would be lovers Last Line: And a lost key. Subject(s): Love; Sacrifices LOVE'S SUBMISSION, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What though it please you light my heart with fire Last Line: Stricken and bleeding at your beauty's feet. Subject(s): Beauty; Heaven; Love; Sacrifices; Paradise LUCRETIA; A MONODRAMA, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, my father! Good valerius Last Line: (stabs herself.) Subject(s): Honor; Rape; Rome, Italy; Sacrifices; Suicide; Women MAGDALEN, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the day that the world shall end my dear Last Line: And forfeited heaven for him. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Sacrifices; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene MEASURING LIFE, by HARRIET ELEANOR HAMILTON (BAILLE) KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Measure thy life by loss instead of gain Last Line: And whoso suffers most hath most to give. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton-king, Harriet Eleanor Variant Title(s): Love's Strength Subject(s): Defeat; Religion; Sacrifices; Theology MORNINGS OF ISABELLA BOCCACCIO, by RITA SIGNORELLI-PAPPAS Poem Source First Line: There is never any change Last Line: Of blood and bone. An offering Subject(s): Sacrifices MOTHERHOOD: 2, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Yours is the knowledge that leaves you sad Last Line: The love that redeems,god's love and yours. Subject(s): Love; Mothers; Sacrifices NEWPORT, by ALICE DUER MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On these brown rocks the waves dissolve in a spray Last Line: "to win religious liberty for these?" Subject(s): Newport, Rhode Island; Sacrifices; Tradition NO MAN'S LAND, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I've never been on no man's land Last Line: Their numbers are untold. Subject(s): Courage; Honor; Sacrifices; Soldiers; War; Valor; Bravery NOT HOW THEY LIVED, BUT HOW THEY DIED, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Sweet is the sleep of those whose lives were hurled Last Line: "not how they livedbut only how they died!" Subject(s): Death; Sacrifices; Soldiers; World War I; Dead, The; First World War ODE TO A PIG WHILE HIS NOSE WAS BEING ROASTED, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! Hark! That pig - that pig! The hideous note Last Line: To think that for your master's good you die? Variant Title(s): Ode To A Pig, Who Nose Was Being Bored Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Mankind; Nature; Pain; Pigs; Sacrifices; Selflessness; Dead, The; Paradise; Human Race; Suffering; Misery; Boars; Hogs OF GENERAL GOURAUD, by ROBERTA BALFOUR Poem Text First Line: He wears an empty sleeve Last Line: To victory, to liberty,humanity! Subject(s): Blood; Courage; Generals; Leadership; Sacrifices; War; Valor; Bravery ON A BUST OF ANTINOUS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon your face, with all its youthful glory, Last Line: Oh, blithe bithynian boy! Subject(s): Sacrifices; Sculpture & Sculptors; Youth ON THE MOUNTAIN, by NEIDHART VON REUENTHAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the mountain, in the valley Last Line: All the young ones into the bushes. Subject(s): Mothers; Old Age; Sacrifices; Women ORGAN SONGS: THE THANK-OFFERING, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My lily snatches not my gift Last Line: To him that makes thee be! Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Rites And Ceremonies; Sacrifices PASTORAL, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: Now the body is the body's flower Last Line: Into a spidery realism Subject(s): Realism; Sacrifices PHILUMENE TO ARISTIDES, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Master, for love's sake, thank me not for this Last Line: Thou shalt not know, but I, but I, for thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Sacrifices QUEEN STANDS ALONE, by LINDA A. CRONIN Poem Source First Line: It began with such enthusiasm Last Line: Before we ever swear I do Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Marriage; Sacrifices RIDDLES, R.F.C., by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was a boy of april beauty; one Last Line: Attempt to save a comrade. He was twenty years of age. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Ridley, Lt. Stewart G. (1896-1916); Sacrifices; World War I - Casualties; Airplanes; Air Pilots SACRAFICE, by CHARLOTTE DEMOREST CURREN Poem Text First Line: When, on that day, with you I felt the flame Last Line: I'd choose that day when I was crucified! Subject(s): Sacrifices SACRIFICE, by CAROLINE GILTINAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no wine unless the grape is crushed Last Line: Through sorrow and the body's pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs. Subject(s): Bread; Drinks & Drinking; Pain; Sacrifices; Wine; Suffering; Misery SACRIFICE, by FLORENCE FOSTER HALL Poem Text First Line: My love, I made a sacrifice last night Last Line: To deftly pluck all strings of my soul's lyre. Subject(s): Sacrifices SACRIFICE, by HELENE THURSTON Poem Text First Line: Oh mother mary mild Last Line: When he is dead? Subject(s): Sacrifices SANDY STAR: 1. SCULPTURED WORSHIP, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The zones of warmth around his heart Last Line: His very heart will break. Subject(s): Sacrifices SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 23, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it indeed so? If I lay here dead Last Line: My near sweet view of heaven, for earth with thee! Subject(s): Love; Sacrifices; Heaven; Paradise SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 132, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Loving is up hill Last Line: Though it be hard work Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Sacrifices SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 165, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I must climb, must climb the hill Last Line: What shall I do? Subject(s): Love; Poetry And Poets; Sacrifices SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ELSA WERTMAN, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was a peasant girl from germany Last Line: That's my son! That's my son! Subject(s): Mothers; Sacrifices STATE OF THE UNION: 10. SACRIFICE, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I tell my children not Last Line: And thorns have sprung up in the field Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Sacrifices STATE OF THE UNION: 12. OUT OF THE TOWER, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That air and light may come again Last Line: After all endemic to the country Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Courage; Patriotism; Sacrifices THE ACCUSING HANDS; A 1918 MEMORIAL DAY THOUGHT, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I had a vision of the nearer past Last Line: The clay that wore the khaki and the blue! Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Sacrifices; Soldiers; World War I; Declaration Day; First World War THE ANCIENT SACRIFICE, by MAHLON LEONARD FISHER Poem Text First Line: Ye dead and gone great armies of the world Last Line: About the blood-stained shrine of bygone wars! Subject(s): Death; History; Legacies; Military; Sacrifices; War; Dead, The; Historians THE BURNT-OFFERING, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thrice-happy he whose heart, each new-born night Last Line: Sleep's ashes only hide a glowing fire. Subject(s): Christianity; Fire; Rites And Ceremonies; Sacrifices THE CHASM, by WILLA CALVERT SMITH Poem Text First Line: There are ahead of every man Last Line: Of glory, wealth, and fame. Subject(s): Sacrifices THE CHILD TAKEN FROM THE MOTHER, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could do nothing. Nothing. Do you Last Line: And women, lovers, mothers, lesbians. Yes Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Child Custody; Sacrifices; Women's Rights THE DEBT UNPAYABLE, by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What have I given Last Line: (god grant!) all weeds in ours. Subject(s): Army - United States; Death; Honor; Navy - United States; Sacrifices; Soldiers; War - Home Front; World War I - Casualties; Dead, The; American Navy THE FATED RACE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: What! Still reject the fated race Last Line: Immanuel-was a jew Subject(s): Heroism;israel;jews;sacrifices; Heroes;heroines;judaism THE FEMINEAD: FEMALES, SACRED AND PROFANE, by JOHN DUNCOMBE Poem Text First Line: The modest muse a veil with pity throws Last Line: Your empty sneers, and shock the sex no more. Subject(s): Earth; Sacrifices; Women's Rights; World; Feminism THE GOD OF IGNORANCE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Mexitli more regarded human life! Last Line: And banish from our land this woful dread? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Sacrifices; Tuberculosis; Dead, The; Consumption (pathology) THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: ANTARA, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many singers before me! Are there yet songs unsung? Last Line: Slain lies for wild beasts and vultures. Ha! For the sacrifice! Subject(s): Arabia; Arabs - Women; Islam; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sacrifices; Male-female Relations THE HORSE THAT DIED FOR ME, by EDWIN GERARD Poem Text First Line: They gave me a fiery horse to groom, and I rode him on parade Last Line: And the white sand surges down to hide the bones of a trooper's hack. Alternate Author Name(s): Gerardy Subject(s): Animals; Cavalry; Horses; Sacrifices; War THE INDIAN QUEEN: HYMN TO THE SUN, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You to whom victory we owe Last Line: And by their loss of pow'r declare your own. Subject(s): Altars; Blood; Sacrifices; Sun THE MEN OF MONOMOY, by JOE CONE Poem Text First Line: Tell ye the story far and wide Last Line: Who sleep on handkerchief shoal. Subject(s): Courage; Men; Sacrifices; Soldiers; Story-telling; Valor; Bravery THE MOTHER'S SACRIFICE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall I render thee, father supreme Last Line: Like abraham's faith, was counted righteousness. Variant Title(s): The Cheerful Giver Subject(s): Mothers; Sacrifices THE MOTHER'S SACRIFICE, by SEBA SMITH Poem Text First Line: The cold winds swept the mountain's height Last Line: The babe looked up and sweetly smiled! Alternate Author Name(s): Downing, Major Jack Variant Title(s): The Mother In The Snow-storm Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Sacrifices; Storms; Childhood THE PIONEER'S FIELD, by RICHARD BECK Poem Text First Line: You walk a sacred ground, tread gently here Last Line: The fearless planter's worthy monument. Subject(s): Hero & Leander; Pioneers; Sacrifices; Leander THE PROFFERED CUP, by MARY SINTON LEITCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night across the meadows of a dream Last Line: And so . . . Still singing . . . Passed into the night. Subject(s): Cups; Dreams; Fountain Of Youth; Immortality; Sacrifices; Nightmares THE SACRIFICE OF ABRAHAM, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Morn breaketh in the east. The purple clouds Last Line: Upon his face, and wept. Subject(s): Abraham; Sacrifices THE SACRIFICE TO APOLLO, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Priests of apollo, sacred be the roome Last Line: Sound, whilst his altars endlesse flames expire. Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical; Sacrifices THE SELF-DEVOTED, by AGNES STRICKLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She hath forsaken courtly halls and bowers Last Line: And veils with patient smiles a breaking heart. Subject(s): Love; Sacrifices THE VICTORY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! How the church-bells' thundering harmony Last Line: Who art the widow's friend, her comforter! Subject(s): Comfort; Death; England; Sacrifices; War; Widows & Widowers; Dead, The; English THE VINE AND THE GOAT, by EVENUS Poem Text First Line: Although you eat me to the root Last Line: When you are made a sacrifice. Subject(s): Greece; Sacrifices; Greeks THE WAY OF SACRIFICE, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who hath watched, not shared, the strife Last Line: Who hath renounced his own. Subject(s): Sacrifices TO DELIA: 16 (2), by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why should I sing in verse, why should I frame Last Line: And that makes happy lovers ever dumb. Subject(s): Love; Sacrifices; Singing & Singers; Youth; Songs TOMBE DES ANGLAIS, by HAGAR PAUL Poem Text First Line: Sleep, in this forest plot Last Line: This side of heaven. Subject(s): Death; France; Sacrifices; Soldiers; War; Dead, The TREPHINING, by GARY J. WHITEHEAD Poem Source First Line: I thought that what they were doing Last Line: Then the blood in my hair turned to ice Subject(s): Sacrifices VARIATIONS ON AN IMAGE BY W. C. WILLIAMS, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: So much depends %upon Last Line: My honduran brother's %scarred, milky corneas Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Poetry And Poets; Sacrifices WAKING IN BED IN THE SHRILL, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Before dawn now %shivering Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Sacrifices WAR SONG, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In anguish we uplift / a new unhallowed song Last Line: The battle to the strong. Subject(s): Army Life; Machinery & Machinists; Sacrifices; Soldiers; War; Drills & Minor Tactics WHAT WAS LEFT OVER; FOR SUJATA BHATT, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As you said, sujata, it was not Last Line: Atomized silk of its spray. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Altars; Church Burnings; Clergy; Sacrifices; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops WINTER NIGHT, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: A winter night is a soldier Last Line: His life is hard and clean. Subject(s): Sacrifices; Soldiers WOLF AND THE SHEEP, by ZBIGNIEW HERBERT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: - I've got you, said the wolf, and yawned. The sheep Last Line: Sacrifice yourselves for the moral Subject(s): Life; Sacrifices; Sheep; Wolves WORK THROUGH IT ALL, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hope, tho' misfortune o'ertake you Last Line: Your hands busy working withal. Subject(s): Courage; Labor & Laborers; Sacrifices; Valor; Bravery; Work; Workers |
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