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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LEGEND OF SERVICE, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It pleased the lord of angels (praise his name!)
Last Line: "who serves the king must serve with perfect trust."
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Service


A ROUTE OF EVANESCENCE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: An easy morning's ride
Subject(s): Postal Service


A SUGGESTION, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I send, transmit, consign, convey
Last Line: "I wish you ""merry christmas."
Subject(s): Christmas; Expressionism - Poets; Letters; Postal Service; Nativity, The; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


A TWO-CENT STAMP, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Most potential traveller!
Last Line: Just a two-cent postage stamp!
Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


ABOU BEN ADHEM, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Abou ben adhem (may his tribe increase!)
Last Line: And lo! Ben adhem's name led all the rest!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh
Variant Title(s): Abou Ben Adhem And The Angel
Subject(s): Brotherhood; Religion; Service; Theology


ADDRESS TO THE GARDNER OF BOTHWELL ON COMPLETING 50TH YEAR OF MINISTRY, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pastor revered, beloved! The muse would fain
Last Line: The choir of heaven with harp and song! Farewell!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Clergy; Honor; Service; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops


ADDRESS TO THE REV. DR. JOHN MUIR, ST JAMES' PARISH, GLASGLOW, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Servant of god! Through fifty honoured years
Last Line: Our god, our faith, our hope, our church, the same!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Clergy; Glasgow, Scotland; God; Religion; Service; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Theology


AIR MAIL, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the hunt for a letter-box
Last Line: No one makes it his own
Subject(s): Letters; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


AIR MAIL, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the hunt for a letter-box
Last Line: No-one makes it his own
Subject(s): Letters; Postal Service


AIR: 'CAPTAIN JINKS', by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm captain hans of the submarines
Last Line: I'm in the german navy!
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Military Service, Voluntary; Sailing & Sailors; Submarines; Seamen; Sails; Submarine Warfare; U-boats


ARIA FOR THE U.S. MAIL, by MAX GARLAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: Some days it's all the hope you get
Last Line: Or worse, in its own shy way, %demanding an answer
Subject(s): Postal Service


BEST WORKER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: If the letter was not from america
Last Line: He was the best worker in the place
Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Postal Service


BIGLOW PAPERS: LETTER ... TO JOSEPH T. BUCKINGHAM, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mister eddyter, our hosea wuz down
Last Line: Ef there's thousands o' my mind
Subject(s): Military Service, Voluntary; Slavery; Soldiers; U.s. - Mexican War (1846-1848)


BRITISH VOLUNTEERS, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At the call of the bugle, and the roll of the drum
Last Line: True hearts and true rifles she trusts not in vain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): England; Military Service, Voluntary; Patriotism; Soldiers; English


BY PARCELS POST, by GEORGE ROBERT SIMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sent my love a parcel
Last Line: Eight-and-twenty years ago.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dagonet
Subject(s): Marriage; Postal Service; Seasons; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


BY THE LITTLE BIG-HORN, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down to their death in the valley of silence
Last Line: The eight nameless horsemen who never shall die.
Subject(s): Courage; Heroism; Honor; Little Bighorn, Battle Of; Loyalty; Military Service, Compulsory; Monuments; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service


CAR WASH AT THE MALL, by DAVID BAKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even mud makes a halo of a steaning, still body
Last Line: With a thirst so profound it brings joy
Subject(s): Automobiles – Service Stations


CIVIL SERVICE, by JAMES DOYLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The bureaucracy is the final beast
Subject(s): Civil Service


CLAUSEWITZ'S MAIL, by BOB HICOK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An aide found her is a shop in berlin
Last Line: And touched %at night before darkness screamed
Subject(s): Letters; Postal Service


CONJECTURAL POEM, by JORGE LUIS BORGES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Doctor francisco laprida, set upon and killed the
Last Line: And across my throat the intimate knife
Subject(s): Assassination; Independence; Military Service, Compulsory; Poetry And Poets; Revolutions


CRY TO BATTLE, by JONATHAN MITCHELL SEWALL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye see mankind the same in every age
Last Line: But the whole boundless continent is %yours!
Subject(s): American Revolution; Heroism; Military Service, Compulsory; Tyranny And Tyrants; U.s. - History


DESPOILED, by GEORGE E. BOWEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: If I could read my title clear, among the wolves that yelp
Last Line: Well, if you're not tight-muzzled, they're just a song to sing.
Subject(s): Income Tax; Service


DIFFERENT MINDS, by RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some murmur when their sky is clear
Last Line: Such rich provision made.
Variant Title(s): Content [and Discord]
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Service; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


DIXIE, by ALBERT PIKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Southrons, hear your country call you!
Last Line: And conquer peace for dixie!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Military Service, Voluntary; Patriotism; United States - History; Confederacy


DOXOLOGY, by TOM CHANDLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Father and mother returned from the service
Last Line: Lost in the laughter of children downstairs
Subject(s): Children; Parents; Service


DRAFT AGE, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You probably thought you were going to go through life
Subject(s): Military Service, Compulsory; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service


EASY HOURS, by IRENE WILLIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I didn't just fall into this job
Last Line: Take a vacation once in a while. Hey, look, %in three years I'll be vested
Subject(s): Civil Service; Labor And Laborers


EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: BOMBER IN LONDON, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On land and sea I strove with anxious care
Last Line: To escape conscription. It was in the air!
Subject(s): Military Service, Compulsory; World War I; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service; First World War


EX-BASKETBALL PLAYER, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pearl avenue runs past the high-school lot
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Basketball; Sports; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops


EX-BASKETBALL PLAYER, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pearl avenue runs past the high-school lot
Last Line: Beyond her face toward bright applauding tiers %of necco wafers, nibs, and juju beads
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Basketball; Sports


FAST GAS; FOR RICHARD, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Before the days of self service
Last Line: Is come close and touch me.
Subject(s): Accidents; Automobiles - Service Stations; Baby Boom Generation; Love; Women; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops


FILLING STATION, by ELIZABETH BISHOP    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, but it is dirty!
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops


FILLING STATION, by ELIZABETH BISHOP    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, but it is dirty!
Last Line: Somebody loves us all
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations


FLOWERS WITHOUT FRUIT, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Prune thou my words, the thoughts control
Last Line: Which bloom their hour, and fade.
Subject(s): Religion; Service; Theology


FOR THE EXAMINATION ST HO-NAN-FU: SONGS OF TWELVE MONTHS: 1, by LI HO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stars rest cold by shoals of cloud
Last Line: Blazoned in brightness, the little dipper gleams
Subject(s): Civil Service - Examinations


FREE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: When he bends the knee is when
Last Line: He cuts free
Subject(s): Freedom; Service


GAS, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That year, my mother was dying. And other things
Last Line: Behind you say it's time to step on it buddy and go
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Gasoline; Memory


GAS STATION, by THOMAS LUX    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I own a gas station. It's at the edge of the mojave desert. The only gas
Last Line: To look like a glass of water
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Gasoline; Perseverance


GETTING THE MAIL, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I walk back / toward the frog pond, carrying
Subject(s): Farm Life; Postal Service; Agriculture; Farmers; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


GETTING THE MAIL, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I walk back %toward the frog pond, carrying
Last Line: And the kyrie of a chainsaw down off wheelock mountain
Subject(s): Farm Life; Postal Service


GOTHIC, by ANTHONY WALTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: They come quietly
Last Line: To the promise of heat, %homage, %ilumination
Subject(s): Churches; Service


HARBINGER, by KURT J. FICKERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The postman comes on less than winged feet
Last Line: When the postman comes on less than winged feet %and scatters tattered letters down the street
Subject(s): Letters; Postal Service


IF WE HAD BUT A DAY, by MARY LOWE DICKINSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: We should fill the hours with the sweetest things
Last Line: If we had but a day.
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Service; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


IN THE DEAD-LETTER OFFICE, by R. STEWART    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come, rip the mail-bags open, chaps, and sort the stuff away
Last Line: "you'll maybe murmur with a sigh, ""the perth dead mail is in."
Subject(s): Death; Gold Mines & Miners; Postal Service; Dead, The; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


JOY OF SERVICE, by ALICE HIRSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Among the joys which friendship can bestow
Last Line: Reflected from a guardian angel's face.
Subject(s): Service


JUNKYARD, by WYN COOPER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I built this junkyard
Last Line: After a light rain
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Junk And Junkyards


LA VIDA ES..., by LUCIANO ERBA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The pleasant gliding of the public transport
Last Line: Gliding along beneath the horse chestnut trees
Subject(s): Public Service


LADY THAT'S KNOWN AS LOU GIVES R. W. SERVICE A PIECE OF HER MIND, by ELISAVIETTA RITCHIE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our boys were whooping it up just fine till you swung through
Last Line: Me quicker than those poor stiffs. But before any amour, I gotta mop this bloodyfloor
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Service, Robert (1874-1958); Women's Rights


LAST LINES, by X. J. KENNEDY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies wrapped up tight in sod
Last Line: May be opened for inspection
Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph
Variant Title(s): Epitaph For A Postal Cler
Subject(s): Postal Service


LEARNING TO SERVE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The minister for hellth is arguing his case
Last Line: Where they will learn to serve the deep needs of mankind
Subject(s): Government; Politics; Service


LETTER, by OTTO ORBAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I found the letter in a drawer among old bills and papers. 'if
Last Line: Indifferent curtain on the stage of delusion
Subject(s): Death; Letters; Messengers; News; Postal Service


LETTER FROM THE OLD SOD, by DENNIS MICHAEL MALONEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: My dear brother: %it is now drawing near xmas
Last Line: Wishing ye all a very merry xmas %your fond sister
Subject(s): Absence; Letters; Postal Service; Travel; Writing And Writers


LETTER TO JAIPUR, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wanted to tell you
Last Line: Lint slanting in the sun's column
Subject(s): Letters; Postal Service


LETTER TO MY YOUNG SON FROM SZIGLIGET, by MAGDA GUTAI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The yewtree is ailing with catarrh
Last Line: Inside your chest?
Subject(s): Letters; Messengers; Parents; Postal Service; Sons


LETTER, POSSIBILITY, by MICHELE BOWMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Copper %today the forecast came by mail
Last Line: When I reach the station I tear %a page from it %I make it yours
Subject(s): Letters; Paper; Postal Service


LIKE A WELL OF SWEET WATER, by LORI POWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: That is your mailbox
Last Line: The cat's in the well %and the bird sings, sings
Subject(s): Postal Service


MAIL, by RAYMOND CARVER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On my desk, a picture postcard from my son
Subject(s): Postal Service


MAIL, by CHARLES DARLING    Poem Source                    
First Line: My latest letter really got around
Subject(s): Postal Service


MAIL, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: But then, are your ideas so clear
Last Line: All written %for nothing
Subject(s): Postal Service


MAIL CALL, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The letters always just evade the hand
Subject(s): Army Life; Postal Service; World War Ii; Drills & Minor Tactics; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen; Second World War


MAIL CALL, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The letters always just evade the hand
Last Line: The soldier simply wishes for his name
Subject(s): Army Life; Postal Service; World War Ii


MAILMAN, by NAZIM HIKMET    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whether at dawn or in the middle of the night
Last Line: Highwaymen block the roads-- %your letter can't get through
Alternate Author Name(s): Ran, Nazim Hikmet
Subject(s): Postal Service


MAILMAN, by MARK STRAND    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is midnight
Last Line: You shall forgive
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Postal Service


MAILMAN CARRYING THE VILLAGE CORRESPONDENCE, by JOAN BROSSA    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Moments later a carriage pulled up
Subject(s): Letters; Postal Service


MOON OF HUNGER, MOON OF COYOTE HOWL, by JUDY JORDAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heat waves rose with gas fumes from the pump
Last Line: Earth this dark, dark star
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; African Americans; Family Life; Poverty; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops; Negroes; American Blacks; Relatives


MR LEAR RECEIVES A LETTER FROM MARIANNE NORTH, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mr lear refuses to pay for a letter insufficiently stamped and sends it away
Last Line: Mr lear stamps and dances for joy on securing miss north's letter
Subject(s): Letters; Postal Service


MY OWN LITTLE CIVIL WAR, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR.    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I come from the only county in tennessee that did not secede
Last Line: And half the weight and half-life %of a half-healed and hurting world
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles
Subject(s): American Civil War; Civil War; Military Service, Compulsory; Soldiers' Writings; U.s. - History


MY SERVANT (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If what unto the least I do
Last Line: Thy service unto me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Service


MYTH OF THE PERFECT MOVE, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I moved in a dazzling black taxi
Last Line: If she decides, to come back this way again
Variant Title(s): In Search Of The Perfect Mov
Subject(s): Moving And Movers; Postal Service; Travel


NIGHT MAIL (COMMENTARY FOR A G.P.O. FILM), by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the night mail crossing the border
Last Line: For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Postal Service


NOT LOVED ENOUGH, NOR YET QUITE LOST, by SUNITI NAMJOSHI    Poem Source                    
Last Line: I am too dear for your possessing
Subject(s): National Health Service (great Britain); Riddles


ODE ON THE DEATH OF HAIG'S HORSE: 7, by DOUGLAS GARMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: An army's voice! We have an army yet
Last Line: Our loyal passion for our tasteless kings.
Subject(s): Haig, Douglas. 1st Earl Haig (1861-1928); Military Service, Compulsory; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service


OH! BE SOMETHING!, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Be something! - oh! Be something!
Last Line: Without a purpose there!
Subject(s): Desire; Fame; Service; Usefullness; Reputation


ON FAILING THE EXAMINATION, by MENG CHIAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dawn moon struggles to shine its light
Last Line: These thoughts like wounds from a knife!
Subject(s): Civil Service - Examinations; Grief


ON RECEIVING A SOUVENIR POSTCARD, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the little desk before me
Last Line: And we're chums and lovers still.
Subject(s): Postal Service; Youth; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


OPENING THE MAIL, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She used to work down in the copy center, and
Subject(s): Women - Employment; Ambition; Automobile Racing; Postal Service; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers; Race Car Driving; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


OPPOSITES: 37, by RICHARD WILBUR            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of post, were you
Subject(s): English Language; Postal Service; Synonyms & Antonyms; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


OPPOSITES: 37, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of post, were you
Last Line: To put your letters in the mail
Subject(s): English Language; Postal Service; Synonyms And Antonyms


OTHERS, by CHARLES D. MEIGS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lord, help me live from day to day
Last Line: That I may live like thee.
Subject(s): Religion; Service; Theology


OUR COUNTRY'S CALL, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lay down the axe; fling by the spade
Last Line: And glorious must their triumph be.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Military Service, Voluntary; Patriotism; United States - History


OUTCAST; A TALE OF A LADIES' CRICKET MATCH, by PELHAM GRENVILLE WODEHOUSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out in the silent rockies
Last Line: There's a thin, sad, pale, grey hermit: %folks know him as 'jaundiced jim'
Subject(s): Courtship; Cricket (game); Man-woman Relationships; Men; Service, Robert (1874-1958); Sports


PALMYRA: OCTOBER 18, 1862, by CAROLINE COLLINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Missouri: dark wind in the trees
Last Line: Renegade, unrepentant, unforgiving
Subject(s): American Civil War; Capital Punishment; Crime And Criminals; Fights; Military Service, Voluntary; Soldiers; U.s. - History; Violence


POEM FOR BOB, by JUNE JORDAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Protected by a .357 / magnum out of sight
Last Line: Cheap / no tricks!!
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops


POEMS ON MY DWELLING IN THE REAR PARK: 2, by ZHAO YI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've suffered poverty knocked at my door
Last Line: No civil servants lie there starving to death
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Civil Service; Poverty


POST OFFICE, by RICK CANNON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Some childhood remains:
Last Line: As that second swift of air the best one %cools my face
Subject(s): Postal Service


POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 10. BIRKENHEAD POST OFFICE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sunday. Deserted square. Upon
Last Line: Odious, immune, unnoticed, slips into the sun.
Subject(s): Birkenhead (ship); Labor & Laborers; Postal Service; Work; Workers; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 11. POSTAL SURVEYOR'S 'TRAVELLING CLERK', by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: My man loads up. We start
Last Line: Of zennor, sea-girt, sacred ... Zennor of my heart.
Subject(s): Letters; Office Employees; Postal Service; Clerks; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 12. HEAD-POSTMASTER, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Into the early air
Last Line: Ahead, new life, new light, enlargement ... Liberty!
Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 3. LEICESTER POST OFFICE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twin doors swing wide. They close on me, revealing
Last Line: "whisp'ring: ""they'll put you right!"
Subject(s): Etching; Letters; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 6. INSTRUCTION, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Midnight, and duty. Dully, I divide
Last Line: Taken and trapped ... And slave.
Subject(s): Duty; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 7. POSTAL INVESTIGATOR (A), by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ten of the clock. An airless, august night
Last Line: Of loss, alike, of liberty and pension.
Subject(s): Letters; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 8. POSTAL INVESTIGATOR (B), by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Draper's assistant. Doomed to be
Last Line: To her in anglesey.
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Letters; Postal Service; Work; Workers; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 9. POSTAL INVESTIGATOR (C), by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Plaints about postal packets, gone
Last Line: She looks at me, reproachful, like some hunted fawn.
Subject(s): Etching; Letters; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


POSTAGE DUE, by JOHN M. BENNETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The magazine came back marked deceased and with 21 cents postage due
Last Line: Of my hands, staring out the window, my eyes focused on nothing in %particular
Subject(s): Death; Messengers; News; Postage Stamps; Postal Service


POSTAL CONFESSIONS, by MAX GARLAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sorting machine whirs like the blades of a fan
Last Line: Shore, as if even the shadows were richer there
Subject(s): Postal Service


POSTAL SAVINGS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Well, wife, they've given us at last
Last Line: Of trusty uncle sam.
Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


POSTCARDS, by ALICE NOTLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear barney
Last Line: Alice
Subject(s): Holidays; Letters; Love; Postal Service; Valentine's Day; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


POSTMAN, by ANNE EMILIE POULSSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The postman trudges through the street
Alternate Author Name(s): Poulsson, Emilie
Subject(s): Postal Service


POSTMAN, by LAURA ELIZABETH HOWE RICHARDS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hey! The little postman
Last Line: I wish you'd go away!
Alternate Author Name(s): Richards, Laura E.
Subject(s): Postal Service


POSTMAN, by CLIVE SANSOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rat-a-tat-tat, rat-a-tat-tat
Subject(s): Postal Service


POSTMAN, by ALICE TODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bring me a letter, postman!
Subject(s): Postal Service


POSTMAN'S KNOCK, by RODNEY BENNETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rattat! Rattat!
Subject(s): Postal Service


POSTMAN, / POSTMAN / DO YOUR DUTY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Get it to her %right away
Subject(s): Postal Service


PRAISE FOR MERCIES [SPIRITUAL AND TEMPORAL], by ISAAC WATTS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whenever I take my walks abroad, / how many poor I see!
Last Line: And try to serve thee best.
Subject(s): Service


PRE-TOWNMEETING TALK IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: About a week before town meeting
Last Line: "will make our wallets mighty sick."
Subject(s): Public Service; Towns; Vermont


R.F.D. MAILBOX, by S. A. WALSH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was haven
Last Line: Sole monument
Subject(s): Farm Life; Postal Service


RECRUITING DRIVE, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the willow the willow
Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles
Subject(s): Military Service, Compulsory; Social Protest; War; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service


RECRUITING DRIVE, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the willow the willow
Last Line: And caught in the snare of the bleeding air %the butcher-bird sings, sings, sings
Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles
Subject(s): Military Service, Compulsory; Social Protest; War


ROAD SIGN TO FORGETTING, by CHRIS GAGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: There should have been a letter
Last Line: Is disorienting without a pale blue egg %for the eye to alight upon
Subject(s): Birds; Postal Service


RUBBER TIRES, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some soothing balm the soul requires, when
Last Line: "as they leave, on learning bent, they whisper, ""what a sinful gent!"
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Labor & Laborers; Youth; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops; Work; Workers


SAD MAIL, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's strange to think how letters used to be letters, letting you know
Last Line: Time.
Subject(s): Letters; Postal Service; Writing & Writers; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


SELF-SERVICE, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Always I wanted to do it myself
Last Line: I pinch off my share, and pay
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops


SELF-SERVICE, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Always I wanted to do it myself
Last Line: I pinch off my share, and pay
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations


SERVICE, by ADA NEILL CLARK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Let me, each day, perform some useful task
Last Line: "may I with gladness hear thy words, ""well done."
Subject(s): Service


SERVICE, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A dime %in the slot
Last Line: And who knows at what price?
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Africa; Money; Plantation Life; Service; Smoking


SERVICE, by BOB HICOK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the hospital he moans he was wrong, insists through delirium
Last Line: Who'll mix the strychnine from which they'll sip, sewing up %the practical details of their faith
Subject(s): Chandler, Raymond (1888-1959); Service; Suicide


SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 7, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Eight o'clock / the postman's knock
Last Line: And three for dear mamma.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): The Postman
Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


SIR GALAHAD, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My good blade carves the casques of men
Last Line: Until I find the holy grail
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Variant Title(s): The Pure Heart
Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Service; Arthur, King


SMALL BEGINNINGS, by CHARLES MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A traveller through a dusty road strewed with acorns on the lea
Last Line: Ye were but little at the first, but mighty at the last.
Variant Title(s): Little And [or, But] Great;song Of Life
Subject(s): Hope; Religion; Service; Optimism; Theology


SOGGARTH AROON, by JOHN BANIM    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Am I the slave they say
Last Line: Soggarth aroon!
Subject(s): Ireland; Service; Irish


SOLDIERS, APPOMATTOX, by KEVIN MCFADDEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: They do a fine job at the court house, walking the line
Last Line: Permission to drum and dutifully die. Granted. Fall in
Subject(s): American Civil War; Civil War; Military Service, Compulsory; Soldiers; U.s. - History


SONG FOR THE NINETEENTH, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The morning sky is hung with mist
Last Line: Why say 'twas in your nineteenth year.
Subject(s): Military Service, Compulsory; Youth; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service


SONG OF THE GPO, by GERRY HAMILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm the bloke that's trained to sit behind the public stamp machines
Last Line: Than to write yer flippin' letter %after five, then you deserve to go without
Subject(s): Office Employees; Postal Service


SPECIMEN DAYS: PATENT-OFFICE HOSPITAL, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: February 23. - I must not let the great hospital at the patent-office pass
Last Line: From there, and it is now vacant again
Subject(s): Amputees; Hospitals; Medicine; Military Service, Voluntary; Nurses; War Injuries


STAMP COLLECTOR, by CHARLES W. PRATT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Old mr. Higgins lives alone
Last Line: And his grey mustache, and works on his stamps
Subject(s): Collectors And Collecting; Postal Service


STILL WEARING A SIZEABLE HANGOVER AT DUSK I FIND MYSELF AT A MARATHON, by JEFF ROBERT WORLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I stop for gas a fresh mountain dew
Last Line: Of old overholt and challenge me - as I search %the cracked mirror of his face - to take the first d
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Automobiles - Service Stations


STUDY IN BLACK & WHITE, by PAUL MARIANI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Seven days a week, six till ten,
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Fathers & Sons; Childhood Memories; Friendship; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops


SWEETEST WORDS, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Inclosed find check!' the sweetest
Last Line: "world is glad that was a wreck, changed by the words, ""inclosed find check."
Subject(s): Letters; Postal Service; Writing & Writers; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


SWORD AND BUCKLER; OR, SERVING-MAN'S DEFENCE, by WILLIAM BASSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A man that's neither borne to wealth, nor place
Last Line: The serving-man to no estate comes short.
Subject(s): Civil Service; Fights; Knights & Knighthood; Military; Patriotism; Soldiers; Swords


TEXACO, by TONY HOAGLAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The nozzle of the gas pump
Last Line: From some strange thirst
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops


THAT GREAT DAY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dear jesus, when I realize
Last Line: My soul for that great day.
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Prayer; Service; Work; Workers


THE AGE OF AIDS, by EDWARD FIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our postman, jim was always after me
Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Postal Service; Aids (disease); Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


THE AIR MAIL, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No stunting's allowed in the service
Last Line: We're carrying uncle sam's mail!
Subject(s): Air Travel; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


THE CONSCRIPT, by MAURICE BARING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It were disloyalty you say to change
Subject(s): Military Service, Compulsory; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service


THE COUNTRY LETTER-CARRIER, by ELIZABETH    Poem Text                    
First Line: It thaws. On field and roadway the packing drifts have
Last Line: Cheer.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sylva, Carmen; Pauline Elizabeth Ottilie Luis
Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


THE DE CARLO LOTS, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You are parceled out over the post office
Last Line: Measuring the lots, the dreams by
Subject(s): Exchange Students; Farewell; Letters; Postal Service; Universities & Colleges; Foreign Exchange Programs; Parting; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


THE DISHONEST MAILMAN, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: They are taking all my letters, and they
Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


THE LAST RALLY, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the midnight, in the rain
Last Line: And another laughs with flashing eyes, sitting bolt upright.
Subject(s): Military Service, Compulsory; World War I; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service; First World War


THE MAIL, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The star route man downshifts
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


THE MAIL HAS COME, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the bitter pangs of hope deferred
Last Line: Each kind letter thence is thrice welcome to me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine
Subject(s): American Civil War; Postal Service; United States - History; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


THE MAILBOY'S RIDE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: He rode from port bowen bravely
Last Line: The boy brought the royal mail
Subject(s): Heroism;pain;postal Service;story-telling; Heroes;heroines;suffering;misery;postmen;post Office;mail;mailmen


THE MAILMAN, by NAZIM HIKMET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whether at dawn or in the middle of the night
Alternate Author Name(s): Ran, Nazim Hikmet
Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


THE MAILMAN, by MARK STRAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is midnight
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Postal Service; Clemency; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


THE MAILMAN'S RIDE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I scanned the dark and lowering sky
Last Line: I think of that wild ride
Subject(s): Animals;crimes & Criminals;deception;horses;postal Service; Postmen;post Office;mail;mailmen


THE MIDNIGHT MAIL, by WILLIAM HURD HILLYER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Resonant, full, and deep
Last Line: That wait for the midnight mail!
Subject(s): Messages & Messengers; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


THE NIGHT MAIL NORTH (EUSTON SQUARE, 1840), by HENRY CHOLMONDELEY-PENNELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now then, take your seats! For glasgow and the north
Last Line: For the night .. Mail .. To the north?
Alternate Author Name(s): Pennell, Henry Cholmondeley
Subject(s): Postal Service; Railroad Stations; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


THE OVERLAND MAIL, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the name of the empress of india, make way
Last Line: In the name of the empress the overland-mail.
Subject(s): Duty; India - British Rule; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


THE PARCEL POST, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What farms and factories produce
Last Line: The shining parcel post!
Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


THE PASSING OF THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by VILDA SAUVAGE OWENS    Poem Text                    
First Line: They are bearing him home through the old virginia valley
Last Line: Offer a prayer—a tear!
Subject(s): Heroism; Honor; Military Service, Compulsory; Military Service, Voluntary; Unknown Soldier; War; Heroes; Heroines; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service


THE PIED PIPER, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The huge pied piper, in a giant dance
Last Line: And the millions perished in a jigging rigadoon.
Subject(s): Death; Military; Military Service, Voluntary; Patriotism; Pipers; Soldiers; War; Dead, The


THE POSTILION, by NIKOLAUS FRANZ NIEMBSCH VON STREGLENAU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Passing lovely was the night
Last Line: In my ear kept tingling.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lenau, Nikolaus
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Memory; Mourning; Postal Service; Graveyards; Bereavement; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


THE POSTMAN, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The postman goes along the street
Last Line: Than men who richer, wiser are.
Subject(s): February; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


THE R. F. D., by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all the works of uncle sam
Last Line: The r. F. D.!
Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


THE ROYAL MAIL, by E. LYTTLETON FOX    Poem Text                    
First Line: Quick! Ho, ye honest gentle-folk!
Last Line: The royal mail is past.
Subject(s): Postal Service; Yale University; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


THE SEA-KING'S BURIAL; BY THE MIDSHIPMITE'S MOTHER, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I, as his henchman served
Last Line: Most of all men?
Subject(s): Death; Loyalty; Service; Wishes; Dead, The


THE SELF-EXILED, by WALTER CHALMERS SMITH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: There came a soul to the gate of heaven
Last Line: And the angels were not silent.
Subject(s): Heaven; Service; Paradise


THE SERVANT, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now on my conscience thou art right
Last Line: Best have it, when I have it not at all.
Subject(s): God; Humility; Service


THE SERVANT'S REWARD, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Falls a benediction from the loving skies?
Last Line: Thou art serving friendship, since friendship serveth thee.
Subject(s): Service


THE SISTER OF CHARITY, by GERALD JOSEPH GRIFFIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She once was a lady of honor and wealth
Last Line: With the life and the deeds of that high-born maid?
Subject(s): Nuns; Service


THE SMITHS, by E. G. MURPHY    Poem Text                    
First Line: We had many problems set us when coolgardie was a camp
Last Line: And the maidens who were promised still await the absent smith.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dryblower
Subject(s): Deception; Names; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


THE TRAVELLING POST OFFICE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The roving breezes come and go, the reed - beds sweep and sway
Last Line: My letter chases conroy's sheep along the castlereagh.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Australia; Drovers; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


THE TWO ANGELS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: God called the nearest angels who dwell with him above
Last Line: "henceforth its sweetest song shall be the song of sin forgiven!"
Subject(s): Angels; Service


THE VISION OF SIR LAUNFAL, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over his keys the musing organist
Last Line: But is lord of the earldom as much as he.
Subject(s): Religion; Service; Theology


THE VOLUNTEER, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He leapt to arms unbidden
Last Line: This was the man we knew.
Subject(s): Military Service, Voluntary


THE WAR AT HOME, by WILLARD WATTLES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God of our fathers, with bowed heads we come
Last Line: Which makes humanity the nations' nation.
Subject(s): Humanity; Military Service, Compulsory; Prayer; Veterans Day; War; War - Home Front; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service


THYESTES, ACT 2: CHORUS, by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Climb at court for me that will
Last Line: Death to him's a strange surprise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca
Variant Title(s): Of The Meane And Sure Estate;epigram: 11
Subject(s): Death; Public Service; Dead, The


THYESTES, ACT 2: CHORUS, by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Climb at court for me that will
Last Line: Death to him's a strange surprise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca
Variant Title(s): Of The Meane And Sure Estate;epigram: 11
Subject(s): Death; Public Service; Dead, The


TO A POST-OFFICE INKWELL, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How many humble hearts have dipped
Last Line: Put heaven on a postal card.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


TO HARRY WAKELYN SMITH, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not as that other man who, slow to see
Last Line: They set your altar in the heart of youth!
Subject(s): Altars; Friendship; Honor; Service


TO MY FRIEND, GROWN FAMOUS, by EUNICE TIETJENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mail has come from home
Last Line: Of flowers, of laughter, of the flash of wings. . . .
Alternate Author Name(s): Head, Cloyd, Mrs.
Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


TO THE POSTMAN, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Most welcome of all sights and sounds
Last Line: One note ere day departs!
Subject(s): Fate; Fortune; Life; Memory; Postal Service; Destiny; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


TO THE TENTH LEGION, NEW YORK STATE VOLUNTEERS, 1862, by RUTH NATALIE CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Marching along!-marching to the war
Last Line: "for god and their country, they were marching along."
Subject(s): American Civil War; Marching & Marches; Military Service, Voluntary; New York City - 19th Century; Patriotism; United States - History


TURNED BACK, by GILLIAN CONOLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: So hot at the filling station
Last Line: Someone bringing the sunglasses back down
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations


VISITING MY MOTHER'S FAMILY CHURCH, by DEBRA JANE KAUFMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The women wear black stockings
Last Line: Amen. Amen. Now we can eat
Variant Title(s): Visiting My Mother's Family's Churc
Subject(s): Churches; Family Life; Service


VOLUNTEER BOYS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hence with the lover who sighs o'er his wine
Last Line: But health and success to the volunteer %boys
Subject(s): American Revolution; Courage; Military Service, Voluntary; Soldiers


WAR DISPLAY, by EDMUND VANCE COOKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: This is the song of the thousand who are multipled by twelve
Last Line: For oh, we are proud that we flaunt this flesh in the markets of dismal death!
Subject(s): Death; Military Service, Compulsory; Military Service, Voluntary; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; Youth; Dead, The; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service


WHAT I LIVE FOR, by GEORGE LINNAEUS BANKS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I live for those who love me, / whose hearts are kind and true
Last Line: And the good that I can do.
Variant Title(s): Why Do I Live;my Aim
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Religion; Service; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology


WHEN THE STAGE GITS IN, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pap'll git a letter, 'nd uncle zed a book
Last Line: Ill be here when the stage gits in.
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Pancakes; Postal Service; Smells; Stagecoaches; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances


WORDS FROM ROBERT SERVICE, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The things you had no right to do, the things you should have done
Last Line: Though where I don't exactly know, and don't precisely care
Subject(s): Service, Robert (1874-1958)