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Subject: SOLDIERS Matches Found: 2112 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "ABDUL BULBUL AMIR; OR, IVAN PETROFSKY SKOVAR", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The sons of the prophet are valiant and bold Last Line: Is ivan petrofsky skovar Variant Title(s): "abdul, The Bulbul Ameer; Subject(s): Soldiers "BOB ANDERSON, MY BEAU", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "bob anderson, my beau, bob, when we were first aquent" Last Line: "but I love a man that dares to act, bob anderson" Subject(s): "american Civil War;anderson, Robert (1805-1871);fort Sumter, South Carolina;soldiers;u.s. - History; "BRAVE PAULDING AND THE SPY [SEPTEMBER 23, 1780]", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Come all you brave americans Last Line: "success to north america, / ye sons of liberty" Subject(s): "american Revolution;andre, John (1750-1780);paulding, John (1758-1818);soldiers; "I'M GOING FOR A SOLDIER, JENNY", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "jenny, look unto your own" Subject(s): Love;sea;soldiers; Ocean "JIMMY'S ENLISTED, OR THE RECRUITED COLLIER", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh, what's the matter wi' you, my lass" Last Line: For of single life I'm weary Subject(s): Soldiers "LINES WRITTEN AFTER A BATTLE, BY AN ASSISTANT SURGEON", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Stiff are the warrior's muscles Last Line: The warrior is dead Subject(s): Death;soldiers; "dead, The; "MEN OF WAR, MARCH BRAVELY ON", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Here will be no scars to number Subject(s): Soldiers;war "SIR DILBERRY DIDDLE, CAPTAIN OF MILITIA; EXCELLENT NEW SONG", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Of all the brave captains that ever were seen Last Line: "in his sleep if such dreadful destruction he makes, / what havoc, ye gods, shall we have when he wa Subject(s): Courage;great Britain - Wars With France;guns;heroism;soldiers; Valor;bravery;heroes;heroines 1914: 1. PEACE, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now god be thanked who has matched us with his hour Last Line: And the worst friend and enemy is but death. Variant Title(s): Peace Subject(s): Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War 1914: 2. SAFETY, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear! Of all happy in the hour, most blest Last Line: And if these poor limbs die, safest of all. Subject(s): Freedom; Love; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Liberty; First World War 1914: 3. THE DEAD, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blow out, you bugles, over the rich dead! Last Line: And we have come into our heritage. Variant Title(s): Gifts Of The Dead Subject(s): Freedom; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I - Casualties; Liberty 1914: 4. THE DEAD, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These hearts were woven of human joys and cares Last Line: A width, a shining peace, under the night. Subject(s): Life Change Events; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I - Casualties 1914: 5. THE SOLDIER, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I should die, think only this of me Last Line: In hearts at peace, under an english heaven. Variant Title(s): The Soldier Subject(s): Death; England; Environment; Fields; Flowers; Patriotism; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; English; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; First World War 1917 - THE WAR CLASS, by GEROID TANQUARY ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: Down the long white road beneath the / moon Last Line: One great humanity? Subject(s): Guns; Military Education; Soldiers; War; Youth; Military Schools A BLACK SOLDIER REMEMBERS, by HORACE COLEMAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: My saigon daughter I saw only once Alternate Author Name(s): Shaka Aku Shango Subject(s): African Americans; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Negroes; American Blacks A BLINDED POILU TO HIS NURSE, by AGNES LEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know you only by your tears Last Line: I know you only by your tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs. Subject(s): Hospitals; Mourning; Nurses; Soldiers; Tears; War; World War I; Bereavement; First World War A CHANNEL PASSAGE, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The damned ship lurched and slithered. Quiet and quick Last Line: To choose 'twixt love and nausea, heart and belly. Subject(s): English Channel; Sea; Soldiers' Writings; Ocean A CHILD'S PRAYER, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For morn, my dome of blue Last Line: And guard my innocence for evermore. Subject(s): Prayer; Soldiers' Writings A CONFESSION OF FAITH, by JAMES SPRENT Poem Text First Line: Who would remember me were I to die Last Line: If I am worth it, keep my memory. Subject(s): Memory; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War A CONFIRMATION, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Solemn douglas firs stride slowly Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 A FINE SUMMER MORNING, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had a full cousin, called arthur macnide Last Line: "so I bid you a very good morning." Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Army Life; Militarism; Military Recruitment; Soldiers; Drills & Minor Tactics A FINGER AND A HUGE, THICK THUMB (A BALLAD OF THE TRENCHES), by JAMES NORMAN HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was nearly twelve o'clock by the sergeant's watch Last Line: A finger and a huge, thick thumb. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War A FOREIGN RULER, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He says, my reign is peace, so slays Last Line: Invades, and drowns them all in tears. Subject(s): Freedom; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Soldiers; Liberty A GAME OF BOWLS (WRITTEN DURING AN AIR RAID), by CAMILLA DOYLE Poem Text First Line: My body's crouched beneath a table shelter Last Line: Reaches me still and keeps me unafraid. Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Games; Soldiers; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements 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 A KISS, by BERNARD FREEMAN TROTTER Poem Text First Line: She kissed me when she said goodbye Last Line: Good-bye. Subject(s): Farewell; Kisses; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Parting; First World War A LETTER FROM THE TRENCHES, by CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have not brought my odyssey Last Line: But you'll forgive—you'll understand. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War A LETTER HOME (TO ROBERT GRAVES), by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here I'm sitting in the gloom Last Line: While we know such dreams are true! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War A LULLABY, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For wars his life and half a world away Last Line: Thre lying ambers of the histories Subject(s): War; Soldiers A MEMORIAL DAY POEM FOR THE CONFEDERACY, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wearing the gray, wearing the gray Last Line: The old rebel jacket our dead boy had on! Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; Confederacy; Declaration Day A MEMORY, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhile before the dawn I rose, and stept Last Line: Waikiki, october 1913 Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings A MESSAGE TO AMERICA, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You have the grit and the guts, I know Last Line: Oh, look over here and learn from france! Subject(s): France; Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919); Soldiers' Writings; Tolerance; United States; World War I; America; First World War A MOTHER BEFORE A SOLDIER'S MONUMENT, by WINNIE LYNCH ROCKETT Poem Text First Line: Was it for this I braved a pathless dark Last Line: I paid for laurel wreath and marble shaft. Variant Title(s): A Mother Before A Military Monument Subject(s): Mothers; Peace; Soldiers; War A MOTHER'S CHRONOLOGY, by EVELYN MABEL WATSON Poem Text First Line: You measure life by months and days Last Line: With which I grieving deck his grave. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; Time; Dead, The A MYSTIC AS SOLDIER, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lived my days apart Last Line: When will you sound again? Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War A NATION'S POWER NOT IN ARMIES, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The power of armies is a visible thing Last Line: In every nook a lip that it may cheer. Subject(s): Soldiers A NIGHT, NEAR BERKELEY SPRINGS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The light of the future eternal' sometimes breaks on a life Last Line: A fine dust, astonished to be rising from a cloud. Subject(s): Jackson, Thomas (stonewall) (1824-1863); Snow; Soldiers A PETITION, by ROBERT ERNEST VERNEDE Poem Text First Line: All that a man might ask, thou hast given me, england Last Line: England, for thee to die. Subject(s): England; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; English; First World War A PICTURE OF SOLDIERS, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are doughboys, of doughboy bearing Last Line: The next invention, the next impossible president. Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Soldiers; War; World War I; First World War A POPLAR AND THE MOON, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There stood a poplar, tall and straight Last Line: The stars and lilies I could see. Subject(s): Nature; Soldiers' Writings A PRAYER FOUND IN CHESTER CATHEDRAL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "give me a good digestion, lord" Last Line: "to get some happiness from life, / and pass it on to other folk" Subject(s): Soldiers A PRIVATE, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This ploughman dead in battle slept out of doors Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I; First World War A PURPLE HEART BADGE, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: A soldier's emblem lost for many a year Last Line: Who earned this military badge of fame? Subject(s): Hero And Leander; Honor; Military; Soldiers; Victory A RAID OF THE NEUTRAL GROUND, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up! Bully boys of the nepperhan!' Last Line: Peace rules the vale of the nepperhan. Subject(s): New York City - Revolutionary Period; Soldiers; War A RELATIVE THING, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are the ones you sent to fight a war Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 A REQUIEM FOR SOLDIERS LOST IN OCEAN TRANSPORTS, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When, after storms that woodlands rue Last Line: Round the lone spar where mid-sea surges pour. Subject(s): American Civil War; Disasters; Shipwrecks; Soldiers; United States - History A RIBBON TWO YARDS WIDE....., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They wind a thousand soldiers round the king Last Line: To feed the faithful eye with superstition. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Soldiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens A SECOND REVIEW OF THE GRAND ARMY [MAY 24, 1865], by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read last night of the grand review Last Line: Awakened me from my slumber. Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; Peace; Soldiers; United States - History; Declaration Day A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 22, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The street sounds to the soldiers' tread Last Line: Soldier, I wish you well. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Soldiers A SIMPLE PASTORAL, by GEORGE ALEXANDER STEVENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Aurora, lady grey, / hides her face in blushes Last Line: To our falls and risings. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevens, G. A. Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; Sailing & Sailors; Soldiers; English Navy A SOLDIER, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am a man of war and might Last Line: Yet love me. Subject(s): Soldiers A SOLDIER LISTENS, by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What was it came to distress you? Last Line: Who from the clamoring dead? Subject(s): Death; Pain; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery A SOLDIER POET, by ROSSITER JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where swell the songs thou shouldst have sung Last Line: That silence here is music there. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; Declaration Day A SOLDIER'S FAREWELL, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Beloved, farewell! 'tis an ancient tale this / call Last Line: To flower in immortality. Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Soldiers; War; Parting A SOLDIER'S GRAVE, by JOHN ALBEE Poem Text First Line: Break not his sweet repose Last Line: Break not his sweet repose. Subject(s): Graves; Soldiers; Tombs; Tombstones A SOLDIER'S REPRIEVE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the united states of america some years ago Last Line: "the lord be praised for setting my dear boy free." Subject(s): Soldiers A SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "hark! 'tis freedom that calls, come, patriots" Last Line: And strew the way over with flowers Subject(s): American Revolution;soldiers A SONG FOR TWO VOICES, by MAURICE HENRY HEWLETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O mother, mother, isn't it fun Last Line: Sin and shame, sin and shame. Subject(s): Grief; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; War; Sorrow; Sadness A SONG IN TIME OF REVOLUTION, 1860, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The heart of the rulers is sick, and the Last Line: Is felt in the bones of the dead, Variant Title(s): A Song In Time Of Revolution: 1860 Subject(s): Revolutions; Soldiers; War A SONG OF HOME-COMING, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark and cold on the far battle-field Last Line: O let the laurel grow there! Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Battleships; Homecoming; Memory; Mourning; Peace; Soldiers; War; War Injuries; Bereavement A SUBALTERN, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He turned to me with his kind, sleepy gaze Last Line: Wondering 'why he always talked such tripe'. Subject(s): Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War A TERRE (BEING THE PHILOSOPHY OF MANY SOLDIERS), by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Sit on the bed. I'm blind, and three parts shell Last Line: To do without what blood remained these wounds. Subject(s): Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War A VOICE FROM FLANDERS FIELDS, by ELLA COLTER JOHNSTON Poem Text First Line: We did not hate. We did not want to kill Last Line: But will men never find peace save by dying? Subject(s): Peace; Soldiers; War A WANDERER, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When watkin shifts the burden of his cares Last Line: Up the green world he wanders like a king. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings A WHISPERED TALE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'd heard fool heroes brag of where they'd been Last Line: Sour jokes for all those horrors left behind. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War A WIFE AND ANOTHER, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: War ends, and he's returning Last Line: I held I had not stirred god wrothfully. Subject(s): Homecoming; Marriage; Soldiers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A WOMAN OF PARIS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Retreating towards the marne, his regiment Last Line: While women such as she are at its portal! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; France; Marriage; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A WORD FOR THE COUNTRY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men, born of the land that for ages Last Line: God save the commonweal! Subject(s): England; Nations; Sailing & Sailors; Soldiers; English A WORKING PARTY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three hours ago he blundered up the trench Last Line: His startled life with lead, and all went out. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War A. H., 1855-1912, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A laurelled soldier he; yet who could find Last Line: At once into the sweetest sleep of all? Subject(s): Soldiers A.S.T.P, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I once was a very fine soldier Subject(s): Soldiers ABOVE SHELTON LAUREL, by RON RASH Poem Source First Line: Fog never lifts, though the days Last Line: Leading back to tennessee Subject(s): Absence; American Civil War; Grief; Soldiers; U.s. - History; War ABSENT WITH OFFICIAL LEAVE, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lights are beginning to go out in the barracks Last Line: With whom he labors, sleeps, and dies Subject(s): Soldiers ABSOLUTION, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The anguish of the earth absolves our eyes Last Line: What need we more, my comrades and my brothers? Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War ABSTRACTION, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They came that morning, in gowns of pale green and white Last Line: Unprovisioned and naked, had fled. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Escapes; Forests; News; Secrets; Soldiers; Fugitives; Woods ACOUSTIC SHADOWS; LT. MITCHELL, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: We climbed sand mountain and could see the dust Last Line: I'd been in a shadow and I did not hear it Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History ACTOR'S WAR; TUNISIA, 1943, by HUGO WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: March %well, here we are in our tropical kit Last Line: I think they must be slower down here, %for I can't believe that I am quicker Subject(s): Soldiers; Tunisia; World War Ii AD, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harper's and many magazines contain Subject(s): Magazines; War; Soldiers; Corpses; Pictures; Cadavers ADIEU TO A SOLDIER, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adieu o soldier Last Line: To fiercer, weightier battles give expression. Subject(s): Soldiers ADMIRAL WALKS HIS QUARTERDECK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers ADVICE FOR A JOURNEY, by SIDNEY KEYES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The drums mutter for war, and soon we must begin Last Line: You'll find, maybe, the dream under the hill - %but never canaan, nor any golden mountain Subject(s): Advice; Soldiers; World War Ii AFTER ACTION (A SOUL REMEMBERS), by ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once, in my moment of earth Last Line: In rearing a heavenly flower. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War AFTER DUNKIRK, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been silent a lifetime Last Line: Of luckier babies playing in the cot Subject(s): Dunkirk, France; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings AFTER LOOS; NOUEX LES MINES, MICHELMAS EVE, 1915, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was it only yesterday Last Line: Was it only yesterday? Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Military; Soldiers; Dead, The AFTER OUR WAR, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: After our war, the dismembered bits Last Line: After our war, how will love speak? Subject(s): Asian Americans; Poetry & Poets; Scars; Social Problems; Soldiers; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War AFTER THE BATTLE (3), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The doughboy swings back from the fight Subject(s): Soldiers AFTER THE MAD SONGS OF SAIGON, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Squeezing a half-eaten peach, %I rub the other palm Last Line: I hear mosquitoes sing Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Variant Title(s): After The Fall Of Saigon; After The Noise Of Saigo Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 AFTERWARD, by CYRIL MORTON HORNE Poem Source First Line: In the afterward, when I am dead Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I AFTERWARDS, by PETER BAKER Poem Source First Line: When the grey night is pierced Last Line: And hear the songs of silence there Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii AIR CORPS ROAR (WITH MUSIC), by JR. ROBERT R. SELWAY Poem Source First Line: Oh we're the bombadiers - we'll blow those japs to hades Subject(s): Soldiers AIR FORCE PLAYS BASEBALL NEAR THE SOUTH CHINA SEA, by DALE RITTERBUSCH Poem Source First Line: He tells me a barrage of 8-inch guns Last Line: As if the fielders weren't even there Subject(s): Air Force - United States; Battleships; Soldiers; War AIR RAID, by CLIFFORD DYMENT Poem Source First Line: Whenever I am sad because of the news Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii AIR-RAID CASUALTIES: ASHRIDGE HOSPITAL, by PATRICIA LEDWARD Poem Source First Line: On sundays friends arrive with kindly words Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii AIR-RAID WARNING, by DOUGLAS GIBSON Poem Source First Line: After the sirens sound, the air Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii ALEXANDRIAN SONGS: 2, by MIKHAIL ALEXEYEVICH KUZMIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dying is sweet Last Line: And flutes be heard from afar. Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Memory; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines ALL ARMIES ARE THE SAME, by ERNEST HEMINGWAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Dead bodies have always drawn flies Subject(s): Soldiers ALL DAY IT HAS RAINED, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day it has rained, and we on the edge of the moors Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Thomas, Edward (1878-1917); War ALL DAY IT HAS RAINED, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day it has rained, and we on the edge of the moors Last Line: On death and beauty -- till a bullet stopped his song Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Thomas, Edward (1878-1917); War ALL HOUSES ARE HAUNTED, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: Some nights in the palouse the moon-blue sky Last Line: Though nothing echoed in that open land Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History ALL THE DEAD SOLDIERS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the chill rains of the early winter I hear something Last Line: Where lie the aging women: who were so lovely: once Subject(s): Soldiers; War ALL THROUGH THAT YEAR, by N. K. CRUICKSHANK Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii ALL WE DO (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: All we do is sign the payroll Subject(s): Soldiers ALONE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've listened: and all the sounds I heard Last Line: I've thought!' -- and darkness hides my day. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings AMEN, AMEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Standing on the corner, doing no harm Subject(s): Soldiers AMMUNITION COLUMN, by GILBERT FRANKAU Poem Text First Line: I am only a cog in a giant machine, a link of an endless chain Last Line: Cog on cog in the gun-machine, link on link in the chain! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War AMNESIA, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: If there was a world more disturbing than this Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 AMNESIA, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If there was a world more disturbing than this Last Line: Fly up to them to be black %and useful to the wind Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 AN EASTERN QUESTION, by H. M. PAULL Poem Text First Line: My william was a soldier, and he says to me, says he Last Line: Whilst the man that I was faithful to has been and gone and died! Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Soldiers; War; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AN EPITAPH ON A DUTCH CAPTAIN, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies a soldier not oblig'd to fame Last Line: Could I but comprehend it in my verse. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Soldiers AN EX-SERVICEMAN MAKES A VOW, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: War is a way the statesmen play Last Line: Our world may have peace! Amen. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; God; Murder; Prayer; Social Protest; Soldiers; Veterans; War; Dead, The AN INFANTRYMAN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Painfully writhed the few last weeds upon those houseless / uplands Last Line: Sunny as a may-day dance, along that spectral avenue. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I; First World War AN IRISH AIRMAN FORESEES HIS DEATH, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I know that I shall meet my fate Last Line: In balance with this life, this death. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Air Warfare; Aviation & Aviators; Death; Freedom; Soldiers; War; World War I; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Dead, The; Liberty; First World War AN ODE IN TIME OF HESITATION, by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before the living bronze saint gaudens made Last Line: Blindness we may forgive, but baseness we will smite. Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Holidays; Memorial Day; Saint-gaudens, Augustus (1848-1907); Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; Spanish-american War (1898); United States; War; Declaration Day; America AN ODE OF BATTLES, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long ages past / the slow ice sledges bore Last Line: Throbbed with freedom's answered prayer. Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Grief; Santiago, Battle Of (1898); Soldiers; Spanish-american War (1898); U.s. - History; Dead, The; Gettysburg, Battle Of; Sorrow; Sadness AN ODE ON THE UNVEILING OF THE SHAW MEMORIA BOSTON COMMON, MAY 31, 1897, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not with slow, funereal sound Last Line: To him, to him, the dead that shall not die! Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Holidays; Memorial Day; Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; Declaration Day AN ODE TO NATURAL BEAUTY, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a power whose inspiration fills Last Line: I have been loyal to the love of love! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings AN OLD FRENCH POET, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When in your sober mood my body have ye laid Last Line: Or wheresoever, following death, my feet have strayed. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Soldiers' Writings AN OLD OLD STORY, by ROYALL HENDERSON SNOW Poem Text First Line: Pierre was lonely Last Line: And the moon came up: a great white lily. Subject(s): Farewell; Flowers; Soldiers; Solitude; World War I; Parting; Loneliness; First World War AN OLD SIOUX IN THE CITY, by WILL CHAMBERLAIN Poem Text First Line: He seems a sunburnt page ripped out Last Line: Where ages say—a gun. Subject(s): Memory; Old Age; Soldiers; War ANARCHY, by ANN YEARSLEY Poem Text First Line: Furies! Why sleep amid the carnage? -- rise Last Line: "world! Give my monsters way!—death! Keep thy steady chace!" Alternate Author Name(s): Cromartie, Ann Subject(s): Anarchism And Anarchists; Death; Soldiers; War; Dead, The ANCESTORS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold these jewelled, merchant ancestors Last Line: Put forth, and fade across the whispering sea. Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Soldiers' Writings ANCIENT HISTORY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adam, a brown old vulture in the rain Last Line: The gaunt wild man whose lovely sons were dead. Subject(s): Abel; Adam & Eve; Bible; Cain; Religion; Soldiers; Theology AND SO TODAY, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And so to-day-they lay him away Last Line: Under a sky of promises. Subject(s): Death; Patriotism; Soldiers; Washington, D.c.; Dead, The AND THE COCK CREW, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: I hate them all!' said old gaspard Last Line: And turning, looked on old gaspard. Subject(s): Death; Hate; Hospitals; Sickness; Soldiers; War; World War I; Dead, The; Illness; First World War AND THEY OBEY, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Smash down the cities Last Line: You are workmen and citizens all: we command you. Subject(s): Duty; Soldiers; World War I; First World War ANDRE, by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the place where andre met that death Last Line: Had been his name, -- if that, indeed, could be! Alternate Author Name(s): Roge, Mme. Subject(s): American Revolution; Andre, John (1750-1780); Capital Punishment; Soldiers; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty ANDRE'S LAST REQUEST [OR, REQUEST TO WASHINGTON] [OCTOBER 1, 1780], by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not the fear of death Last Line: By a soldier's death! Subject(s): American Revolution; Andre, John (1750-1780); Capital Punishment; History; Military Justice; Presidents, United States; Soldiers; Washington, George (1732-1799); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Historians; Courts Martial ANGEL'S METHOD, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: I tally everything, every death. %I can see you recognize me Last Line: You were a soldier once, too. %I was your unbridled angel Subject(s): Angels; Death; Heaven; Heroism; Soldiers ANTAEUS; A FRAGMENT, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So neck to stubborn neck, and obstinate knee to knee Last Line: But no so loud as on eurystheus of old. Subject(s): Hercules; Gays & Lesbians; Mythology - Classical; Soldiers' Writings ANTE ARAM, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before thy shrine I kneel, an unknown worshipper Last Line: Or the soft moan of any grey-eyed lute-player. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings ANTHEM FOR DOOMED YOUTH, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Last Line: And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds. Subject(s): Mortality; Mourning; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Youth; Bereavement; First World War APOCALYPSE, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Turning from plato to the rocky sergeant Subject(s): Soldiers; War; Popular Culture - United States APOLLYON, by GEORGE ROSTREVOR HAMILTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How shall unsainted john Alternate Author Name(s): Rostrevor, George Subject(s): Soldiers APOLOGIA PRO POEMATE MEO, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, too, saw god through mud Last Line: Your tears: you are not worth their merriment. Subject(s): Freedom; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Liberty; First World War APPEAL TO THE RED-HAIRED SOLDIERS, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: The chief of the franks borne on a shield Last Line: O red-haired soldiers Subject(s): Soldiers; Solitude APRIL 30, 1975; FOR BUI NGOC HUONG, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The evening nixon called his last troops off Last Line: You wash away the dust of life Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 AQUILEIA, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ropes, the ropes! Apollo send us ropes Last Line: Another day beheld the giant slain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Apollo; Death; Hair; Mothers; Mythology - Classical; Rome, Italy; Soldiers; Dead, The ARCADY UNHEEDING, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shepherds go whistling on their way Last Line: Nor blossoms red and white on every tree. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings ARCHILOCOS, by GARY N. ATLIN Poem Source First Line: Young greeks eager to die for their cities Last Line: Your youth a prize on the walls of some other city Subject(s): Greece; Soldiers ARMISTICE, by EUNICE MITCHELL LEHMER Poem Text First Line: We face the nations with one hand outstretched Last Line: In open comradeship to all the world? Subject(s): Change; Soldiers; Veterans Day; War ARMISTICE DAY, by EDMUND VANCE COOKE Poem Text First Line: Armistice day! When a new sun rose Last Line: And the wars are ended—for those who died! Subject(s): Death; Peace; Soldiers; Veterans Day; War; Dead, The ARMISTICE DAY, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The crash of shells among the falling trees Last Line: Aye—a year of proudest glory—and of musing o'er our dead! Subject(s): Holidays; Praise; Soldiers; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War ARMISTICE DAY; A PHANTASY, by JOHN J. WILLOUGHBY Poem Text First Line: The half-light of a raw november day Last Line: Shall echo, with a mighty voice ... Dismiss! Subject(s): Death; Military; Soldiers; Veterans Day; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War ARMISTICE PARADE, by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON Poem Text First Line: Down the street the khaki-clad are marching with a band Last Line: Back she creeps to read again. ... Worn letters with french stamps. Subject(s): Army Life; Flags; Marching & Marches; Military; Parades; Soldiers; Drills & Minor Tactics ARMISTICE, 1928, by KENNETH GROESBECK Poem Text First Line: There are not even mounds, any more, where they lie Last Line: And ours the retribution, deserved of our defeat. Subject(s): Honor; Military; Soldiers; Veterans; Veterans Day ARMORAIDER'S SONG (WITH MUSIC), by WINSTON JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Sing and be free, america, for your sons are the brave and strong Subject(s): Soldiers ARMORER CRUISER SQUADRON (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Away away with sword and drum here we come, full of rum Subject(s): Soldiers ARMS AND THE BOY, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let the boy try along this bayonet-blade Last Line: Nor antlers through the thickness of his curls. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War ARMS AND THE GIRL, by G. A. C. Poem Source First Line: I got a letter Subject(s): Soldiers ARMS AND THE MAN, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young croesus went to pay his call Last Line: Will captain croesus come this way?' Subject(s): Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War ARMY, by KENNETH NEAL Poem Source First Line: Tomorrow and tomorrow and tonight Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii ARMY AIR FORCE GROUND CREW SONG, by RICHARD BLACK Poem Source First Line: Hi-ho, it's hand to hand by the crew-chief's stand Subject(s): Soldiers ARMY CHAIR CORPS SONG, by WRIGHT DYES Poem Source First Line: Here we go into the file case yonder Subject(s): Soldiers ARMY DIET, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: My father says 'at sojers is Last Line: "the sojers eats the tax, 'I jing!" Subject(s): Army Life; Soldiers; War; Drills & Minor Tactics ARMY FLYING CORPS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When you join the army flying corps Subject(s): Soldiers ARMY MULE, THE NAVY GOAT AND THE KICK OF THE KANGAROO, by ALFRED EISEMAN Poem Source First Line: Were going over to the land 'down under' Subject(s): Soldiers ARNOLD AT STILLWATER, by THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, you mistake me, comrades, to think that my heart is steel! Last Line: Fell from the patriot's heaven down to the loyalist's hell! Subject(s): American Revolution; Arnold, Benedict (1741-1801); Courage; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery ARNOLD THE VILE TRAITOR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "arnold! The name, as heretofore, / shall now be benedict no more" Last Line: "and odious for the blackest crimes, / arnold shall stink to latest times" Subject(s): "american Revolution;arnold, Benedict (1741-1801);soldiers; ARNOLD'S DEPARTURE, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With evil omens from the harbour sails / the ill-fated ship that worthless arnol Last Line: And a fat lamb, in sacrifice, shall die. Subject(s): American Revolution; Arnold, Benedict (1741-1801); Soldiers; Treason & Traitors ARRIVAL, by GERALD MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: There it is again Last Line: And my coat too thin %for this cold Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ARTS OF LOVE AND HYDROLOGY AS PRACTICED IN HANOI, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: During the monsoon Last Line: The broad green %fields of the delta Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 AS I PONDERED IN SILENCE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I above all promote brave soldiers Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Soldiers AS THINGS ARE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The old home state is drier now Subject(s): Soldiers 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 ASLEEP, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under his helmet, up against his pack Last Line: Than we who must awake, and waking, say alas! Subject(s): Death; Sleep; Soldiers' Writings; Dead, The ASSAULT CONVOY, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three days of waiting in the islands Last Line: The field mouse hears the sigh of what survives Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings ASYLUM, by RICK CHRISTMAN Poem Source First Line: The asylum was in the most hotly contested area of bien-hoa province Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Insanity; Soldiers; Vietnam AT ARLINGTON, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The broken column, reared in air Last Line: And sleeps to wake at arlington. Subject(s): Arlington National Cemetery; Soldiers AT CARCASSONNE, by WINFRED ERNEST GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down the valleys of languedoc Last Line: In my children's time may there be no war. Subject(s): Carcassonne, France; Social Protest; Soldiers; War AT CARNOY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down in the hollow there's the whole brigade Last Line: To take some cursed wood ... O world god made! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War AT DAYBREAK, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I listen for him through the rain Last Line: Abides with me until to-morrow. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Soldiers' Writings AT FIFTEEN I WENT OFF TO THE ARMY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: I went out the gate, gazing eastward, %tears falling, wetting my clothes Subject(s): Soldiers AT LAST, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O'er the sunlit hills of berkshire drooped the drowsy summer calm Last Line: Where at last the soldier's sweetheart slumbers by her lover's side Subject(s): Soldiers;summer;virginia (state) AT LAST POST, by WALTER LIGHTOWLER WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: Come home! - come home! Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I AT MANILLA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The don stood on the burning deck Subject(s): Soldiers AT SUNRISE, by E. J. BARTON Poem Source First Line: See how the sun Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii AT THE TOMB OF TU DUC, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He was a man of tangled inclinations Last Line: And never a child Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ATKINS', by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yonder's the man with his life in his hand Last Line: Base to the ear as an ass's bray Subject(s): Soldiers ATLAS, by CLAUDIA EMERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the museum gift shop at the foot Last Line: They ever met another death Subject(s): American Civil War; History; Soldiers; U.s. - History; Violence; War; War Injuries ATROPOS TO OPHELIA, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your feigned indifference hardly hides your love Last Line: Give of your warmth, then, to the sable stranger Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings ATTACK, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At dawn the ridge emerges massed and dun Last Line: Flounders in mud. O jesus, make it stop! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War AUBADE AT THE ZAMA REPLACEMENT DEPOT, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At five o'clock I saw the sergeant slouch Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Soldiers AUGUST 1914, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What in our lives is burnt Last Line: A fair mouth's broken tooth. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War AUTUMN, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: October's bellowing anger breaks and cleaves Last Line: The burden of your wrongs is on my head. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Fall; First World War AUTUMN IN ENGLAND, by COLIN MITCHELL Poem Source Subject(s): Autumn; England; Seasons; Soldiers; World War I AUTUMN, 1939, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The beech boles whiten in the swollen stream Last Line: And one by one the warped old casements shut Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; War B.C. GAVE ME K.P. IN A HURRY, by ROBERT ADLER Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers BABYLON, O BABYLON, by PABLO GUEVARA Poem Source First Line: I open the scrolls of babylon Last Line: Assassins at the hour they prowl abroad Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Kidnapping; Soldiers; War BACK TO LONDON: A POEM OF LEAVE, by JOSEPH JOHNSTON LEE Poem Text First Line: I have not wept when I have seen Last Line: Lord, may we hold it fast! Subject(s): London; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War BALACLAVA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Six hundred stalwart warriors of england's pride the best Last Line: To the england they had fought for on that wild october day Subject(s): England;soldiers; English BALLAD OF 1941, by FRANCIS GELDER Poem Source First Line: Two lovers walked down a tooting street Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii BALLAD OF MU-LAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Tsk, tsk, and tsk, tsk Last Line: But when two hares run side by side, %who can tell if I'm a boy or girl? Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fathers And Daughters; Soldiers BALLAD OF THE PHILIPPINES, by FRANK LEBBY STANTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet laura, now the cypress twines Subject(s): Soldiers BANISHMENT, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am banished from the patient men who fight Last Line: And in their tortured eyes I stand forgiven. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War BANKING LESSON, 1970, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your hero's welcome was cleaning Subject(s): Banks And Banking; Politics & Government; Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BANKING LESSON, 1970, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your hero's welcome was cleaning Last Line: Stacks of bill rising in piles on the walls. %how far? Subject(s): Banks And Banking; Politics; Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BASE DETAILS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath Last Line: I'd toddle safely home and die -- in bed. Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Soldiers' Writings; Villains In Literature; World War I; First World War BASKET CASE, by BASIL T. PAQUET Poem Source First Line: I waited eighteen years to become a man Last Line: Who will see me till I die deliriously %from the spreading sepsis that was once my balls Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BASTARD KING OF ENGLAND (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh the minstrels sing of an english king who lived long years Subject(s): Soldiers BATTLE, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you mind that old fight in the rattles Last Line: The bill must go to mother and the girls! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Death; Guns; Soldiers; War; Dead, The BATTLE ARDOUR, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Unto what heaven wends this wild ecstasy Last Line: His foemen are his brothers in the skies. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; War; Dead, The BATTLE AT THE RIVER RAISIN; JANUARY 22, 1813, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now gleam and thunder, from afar Last Line: Shall swell your lasting fame. Subject(s): Faith; Life; Soldiers; War; Belief; Creed BATTLE HYMN, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: God, to thee we humbly bow Last Line: In defeat and victory Subject(s): American Civil War; Faith; Soldiers; U.s. - History BATTLE HYMN, by DONALD GOOLD JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Lord god of battle and of pain Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I BATTLE INTERLUDE, by I. CELNER Poem Source First Line: The ground shuddered, the canvas shook Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii BATTLEFIELDS, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the battlefields of birth Last Line: Mothers, maddened mothers, curse you, germany! Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Death; Germany; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Germans BEANS AND HARD-TACK, by GEOFFREY O'HARA Poem Source First Line: If you don't like your beans and hard-tack Subject(s): Soldiers BEANS FOR BREAKFAST, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Give me beans for breakfast Subject(s): Soldiers BEAUMONT-HAMEL; CAPTURED, NOVEMBER 16, 1916, by ALAN MACKINTOSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dead men at beaumont Last Line: Forward evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackintosh, Ewart Alan Subject(s): Army - Scotland; Death; Military; Scotland; Soldiers; Dead, The BEAUTY AND BEAUTY, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When beauty and beauty meet Last Line: After -- after -- Subject(s): Beauty; Soldiers' Writings BEFORE ACTION, by WILLIAM NOEL HODGSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: By all the glories of the day Last Line: Help me to die, o lord. Alternate Author Name(s): Melbourne, Edward Subject(s): Religion; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Theology; First World War BEFORE DAY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come in this hour to set my spirit free Last Line: Hungered for what my heart shall never say. Subject(s): Religion; Soldiers' Writings; Theology BEFORE GINCHY; SEPTEMBER, 1916, by E. ARMINE WODEHOUSE Poem Text First Line: Yon poisonous clod Last Line: Like dante, who have walk'd in hell. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War BEFORE THE BATTLE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Music of whispering trees Last Line: O river of stars and shadows, lead me through the night. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War BEFORE THE CHARGE (LOOS, 1915), by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night is still and the air is keen Last Line: From the face of death. We charge at dawn. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War BEFORE THE WAR OF COOLEY, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At daybreak maeve rose up from where she prayed Last Line: And sought her chamber in the dun to weep. Subject(s): Prophecy & Prophets; Soldiers BEGGAR BILL, by WALTER HENDRICKS Poem Text First Line: Shrapnel would have burst his head Last Line: "had I but turned my head that day!" Subject(s): Luck; Soldiers; War BELGIUM - 1914, by FRANK C. LEWIS Poem Source First Line: The lithe flames flicker through the veil of night Subject(s): Belgium; Soldiers; World War I BELIEF, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In medieval churches those stained glass windows I love best Last Line: Beauty survives immaculate, though all her lovers grieve Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings BELLINGLISE, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in the sloping forest that surrounds Last Line: Trace in white fire the brave frontiers of france. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War BELOVED BEWARE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before you will it so Last Line: This you know is true %love is already there Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings BEN BARLEY, by GERARD BENSON Poem Text First Line: Ben barley was a barman stout Last Line: Serve spirits in this bar.' Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Hood, Thomas (1799-1845); Soldiers; Suicide; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse BENEATH A BRIDGE IN SICILY (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers BENEATH THE BELGIUM WATERTANK, ONE COLD AND WINTRY DAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers BEQUEST, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight this anguish hurts my hands Last Line: Your beauty quickening my breath Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings BERKLEY CHURCHYARD, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How still are all the dead Last Line: Our gift of love for men. Subject(s): Churchyards; Death; Graves; Marble; Soldiers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones BETTER FAR TO PASS AWAY, by RICHARD MOLESWORTH DENNYS Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I BETWEEN THE HEDGES OF THE CENTURIES, by GILBERT WATERHOUSE Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers 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) BIRD, by ROBERT GREACEN Poem Source First Line: A bird flew tangent-wise to the open window Last Line: With poison in his beak and hatred in his wings Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii BIRD O'ER THE BATTLEFIELD, by ISABEL FISKE CONANT Poem Text First Line: Bird o'er the battlefield, singing in the lull of thunder Last Line: Is it that christ, walking storm-waves of trenches, comes near? Subject(s): Birds; Soldiers; War; World War I; First World War BIVOUAC, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was no trace of heaven Last Line: One of them wakes in terror %and the other is gone Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings BLACK SOLDIER REMEMBERS, by HORACE COLEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My saigon daughter I saw only once Last Line: Silly hats she sells americans and %I have nothing she needs but the %sad smile she already has Alternate Author Name(s): Shaka Aku Shango Subject(s): African Americans; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BLACKSMITH; MRS. GRESHAM, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: Howard gresham pried a yes from me Last Line: At last I am ready for my life to come Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History BLIGHTERS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The house is crammed: tier upon tier they grin Last Line: To mock the riddled corpses round bapaume. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War BLIND, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His headstrong thoughts that once in anger strife Last Line: Gropes with his staff along the rumbling city. Subject(s): Blindness; Soldiers' Writings; Visually Handicapped BLIZZARD OF SIXTY-SIX, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Snow came early here, and hard Last Line: And the snow keeps falling Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BLUE AND THE GRAY IN FRANCE, by GEORGE M. MAYO Poem Source First Line: Here's to the blue of the windswept north Subject(s): Soldiers BLUE EVENING, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My restless blood now lies a-quiver Last Line: "and ""hush!"" she said, between the boughs." Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings BLUE, GRAY, AND BROWN, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The camps are thick in dixie Last Line: Our brown-clad fighting sons! Subject(s): Soldiers; War; World War I; First World War BLUES FOR JIMMY, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If it were evening on a dead man's watch Last Line: Locked on my wrist to remember us by Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Soldiers; War; World War Ii; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Second World War BLUES FOR WARREN, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The beasts in the schoolroom, whose transparent faces Last Line: Are beached the spring-tide flowers of our hopes Subject(s): Communism; Death; North Sea; Politics & Government; Socialism; Soldiers; War; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War BOAT PEOPLE, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: After midnight they load up Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Seashore; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Beach; Coast; Shore BOAT PEOPLE, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After midnight they load up Last Line: A whole world away, half-drunk %on what they hunger to become Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Seashore; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BODY COUNT: THE DEAD AT TAY NINH, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We had no place to put them Last Line: Mopped up the mess for chow Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BOMBED LAST NIGHT, BOMBED THE NIGHT BEFORE. (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers BON COMRADE, by RALPH LINTON Poem Source First Line: We both were tramping the same way Subject(s): Soldiers BOOT'S SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: From the messhall of the bootcamp Subject(s): Soldiers BORDERLANDS; FOR MY GRANDMOTHER, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crush my eyes, bitter grapes Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Death; Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953; Soldiers; Dead, The BOYISH WAR; LT. MITCHELL, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys Last Line: Then I felt like six-and-a-quarter cents Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History BOYS FROM COMPANY A, by CLAUDE J. THIBODEAU Poem Source First Line: Oh, we're the boys from co. A Subject(s): Soldiers BRADY'S MICHIGAN SHARPSHOOTERS INSPECT THE AMBROTYPE OF SERGEANT RICE, by MICHAEL A. SCHAFFNER Poem Source First Line: We know it was '62 because sergeant rice Last Line: A closer look at this, my other life Subject(s): American Civil War; Military; Soldiers; U.s. - History BRANDED KRAITS, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Blackburn saw him first Last Line: Cambodia, the rains, june's weeping light Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BREAK FROM THE BUSH, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The south china sea drives in Last Line: Into the whitecaps, %laughing Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BREAK OF DAY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There seemed a smell of autumn in the air Last Line: Hark! There's the horn: they're drawing the big wood. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War BREAK OF DAY IN THE TRENCHES, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The darkness crumbles away Last Line: Just a little white with the dust. Subject(s): Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War BREEZES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The breezes, the breezes Subject(s): Soldiers BRITISH LIGHT INFANTRY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hark! Hark! The bugle's lofty sound Subject(s): Soldiers 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 BROOKLYN'S GIFT TO THE ARMY (WITH MUSIC), by BOB STUART MCKNIGHT Poem Source First Line: I'm brooklyn's gift to the army Subject(s): Soldiers BUCK PASSING, by EDWARD F. BAILEY Poem Source First Line: The general wrote an order Subject(s): Soldiers BUDAPEST, 1945, by GYULA ILLYES Poem Source First Line: It feels good to rest among the rubble Last Line: Like the birds and the children! Subject(s): Budapest, Hungary; Death; Soldiers BUDMOUTH DEARS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we lay where budmouth beach is Last Line: Down? Variant Title(s): Hussar's Song Subject(s): Soldiers BUGLES, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It used to be Last Line: Our harry when we went away! Subject(s): Fights; Soldiers; War BUMMER, by MICHAEL CASEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We were going single file Last Line: Sell the farm %and go home Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BUNKER HILL, JUNE 17, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hill, on whose green, eternal crest Last Line: Mid the old fires of bunker-hill! Subject(s): American Revolution; Bunker Hill, Battle Of; Patriotism; Soldiers; War BUNKER HILL, JUNE 17, 1840, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We've been up the brave old hill, brother Last Line: Still keep it free, or die!' Subject(s): American Revolution; Bunker Hill, Battle Of; Soldiers BUNKER'S HILL, OR THE SOLDIER'S LAMENTATION, by JOHN FREETH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am a jolly soldier, / enlisted years ago Last Line: Be destined to the cord. Alternate Author Name(s): Free, John Subject(s): American Revolution; Bunker Hill, Battle Of; Fights; Lament; Soldiers BURIAL OF SOPHOCLES, by GEOFFREY BACHE SMITH Poem Source First Line: Gather great store of roses, crimson-red Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I BURMA CASUALTY, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three endless weeks of sniping all the way Last Line: Frowsy and starving, daring to suffer alone Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings BURNING GLASS, by LAURENCE WHISTLER Poem Source First Line: A girl there was in a far city Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii BURNING SHIT AT AN KHE, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Into that pit / I had to climb down Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BURNING SHIT AT AN KHE, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Into that pit %I had to climb down Last Line: Until I'm covered and there's only one smell, %one word Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BURY THEM, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bury the dragon's teeth! Last Line: Fighting against great god. Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Fort Wagner, Battle Of (1863); Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; United States - History BURYING DETAIL, by JOHN BENSKO Poem Source First Line: No matter the slant of hill, or height Last Line: Their magpie scattering of what was once %so possessed Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History; War Injuries BUT NOT FORGOTTEN, by P. J. FLAHERTY Poem Source First Line: The hungry crash of guns, the charge of lean Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii BY THE GATEWAY OF INDIA: BOMBAY, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The storm's cold javelins constrain Last Line: Knowing life and knowing death Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings 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 BY-AND-BY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By-and-by, the maiden sighed -- by-and-by Last Line: Keep the promiscd by-and-by -- by-and-by? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Hope; Mothers; Soldiers; Time; War; Youth; Optimism CAISSONS GO ROLLING ALONG, by EDMUND L. GRUBER Poem Source First Line: Over hill, over dale Subject(s): Soldiers CALIBAN IN BLUE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Off again, %thrusting up at scald Last Line: Into the martial lascivious blue %of uncle's sky Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CALVARY, by JOHN ROTHSCHILD Poem Text First Line: Acres of crosses - wooden crosses - bleak Last Line: Of folded arms in the menacing hour? Subject(s): Calvary; Crosses; Crucifixion; Death; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The CAMOUFLAGE, by M. G. Poem Source First Line: They tell us tales of camouflage Subject(s): Soldiers CAMP ECHOES, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rally round the flag, boys! Give it to / the breeze!' Last Line: Then wrap the flag about us in the bed where last we lie. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Camp-meetings; Flags; Military Recruitment; Patriotism; Soldiers; War CAMPAIGN, by FREDERIC PROKOSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The snow falls silently through the unnatural forest Last Line: The savage and irresistible footfalls of their grief Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii CANNIBAL MAIDEN (WITH MUSIC), by COLLINS B. REED Poem Source First Line: A cannibal maid and her hottentot blade Subject(s): Soldiers CAPTAIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: He's got the longest pair of legs that ever came to france Subject(s): Soldiers CAPTAIN JAMES LESON, U.S.M.C., by BRYAN ALEC FLOYD Poem Source First Line: His corpse was returned %to the u.S. In march, 1974, from hanoi Last Line: He said before he died his natural death Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CAPTAN OF THE BUTTERFLIES, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: There is the captain of the butterflies Last Line: Reality is the greatest contagion Subject(s): Arms And Armor; Army Life; Fights; Soldiers CAPTION FOR ONE'S OWN PHOTOGRAPH, by N. K. CRUICKSHANK Poem Source First Line: A secret map is all that others see Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii CAPTIVITY, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have clipped the wings of my doves, my messengers Last Line: My heart is escaped in its night Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings CARAVANS, by P. A. A. THOMAS Poem Source First Line: The caravans still pass along the road Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii CARLSON'S RAIDERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In the memory of men ther were those who were brave Subject(s): Soldiers CASANOVA O'REILLY (WITH MUSIC), by WILLIAM L. RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: I'm casanova o'reilly the pride of the fleet Subject(s): Soldiers CASTLE WILLIAM, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: Where buttermilk channel doth seek to beguile Last Line: "down in the casemates of old ""castle bill." Subject(s): Castles; Soldiers CASUALLY AS A CRANE, by MILES VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii CASUALTIES: 1. SONG, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I can look the sun in the face Last Line: Though I can look the sun in the face Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Loss; Sickness; Soldiers CASUALTIES: 28. NIGHT SONG, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The night for me is filled with faces Last Line: Into the forests of night Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Military; Revolutions; Soldiers; War CASUALTY LIST, by HENRY LAMONT SIMPSON Poem Source First Line: How long, how long Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I CAVALIER SONG: 1642, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: If this be my last hour with thee Last Line: Without thee, I lose all. Subject(s): Cavaliers; Courage; Death; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The CAVALRY CROSSING A FORD, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A line in long array where they wind betwixt green islands Last Line: The guidon flags flutter gayly in the wind. Subject(s): American Civil War; Army Life; Cavalry; Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; United States - History; War; Drills & Minor Tactics; Declaration Day CELLAR, by ALEXANDER COMFORT Poem Source First Line: These faces - the cold apples in a loft Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii CES PETITS FANTASSINS', by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You jeered to see the soldiers when Last Line: Of their old riddled flag! Subject(s): Soldiers; Death CHAGRIN, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Caught still as absalom Last Line: And hang from implacable boughs. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Dismay CHAMPAGNE, 1914-1915, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the glad revels, in the happy fetes Last Line: Oh, frame your lips as though it were a kiss. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR, by ERNEST HEMINGWAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soldiers never do die well; Last Line: Choking through the whole attack Subject(s): World War I; Soldiers; Death; Dead, The CHAPLAIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: He doesn't wear a sunday suit nor yet a sunday face Subject(s): Soldiers CHARLES B. DREUX, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep, louisiana, weep thy gallant dead! Last Line: Forever bright! Subject(s): American Civil War; Courage; Death; Dreux, Charles (1832-1861); Louisiana; Soldiers; U.s. - History; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The CHARLIE IS MY DARLING, by CAROLINA OLIPHANT NAIRNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on a monday morning Last Line: The young chevalier. Alternate Author Name(s): Lady Nairne; Oliphant, Carolina; Nairne, Baroness Subject(s): Scotland - Relations With England; Soldiers CHEST WITH PAINTED TULIPS, by ELEMER (GEORGE) HORVATH Poem Source First Line: The soldiers burn down the village and they say Last Line: But he's already old. He lacks the strength Subject(s): History; Hungary; Paintings And Painters; Soldiers; War CHIGGERS, by JOHN W. GREENLEAF Poem Source First Line: The chigger is no bigger than a little grain of sand Subject(s): Soldiers CHILD OF WAR, by LIONEL PIGOT JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her ivory face, quivering but trembling not Subject(s): Soldiers CHILDREN'S HOUR; MRS. GRESHAM, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: This morning on the radio I heard Last Line: And I was moved by everything that moved Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History CHILDREN'S TET, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Crowds so thick on tran hung dao Last Line: Tonight the city is filled with dragons Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CHORIAMBICS: 1, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Not now, when desire burns, and the wind calls, and the Last Line: Bending over me, last light in the dark, once, as of old, your face. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings CHORIAMBICS: 2, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here the flame that was ash, shrine that was void, lost in the Last Line: Shrine therein. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings CHRIST AT EIGHT, by ERNEST HARTSOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little boy, gentle boy Last Line: To slay them all in battle! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; Youth CHRISTMAS BELLS, SAIGON, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Buses came late, each driver sullen Last Line: The bells all through the night Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Bells; Christmas; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Big-uddered piebald cattle low Last Line: But the goose-girl is weeping Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War Ii CHRISTMAS IN TOBRUK, by H. G. KNIGHT Poem Source First Line: There were six of us that christmas Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii CHRISTMAS PRAYER, by CYRIL WINTERBOTHAM Poem Source First Line: Not yet for us may christmas bring Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I CHRISTOFOR COLUMBO, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In fourteen hundred ninety two down in a spanish alley Subject(s): Soldiers CHUNG'S HOUSE: THE LIBERATION OF HA NOI, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is one way the war ends Last Line: Who taught with her tongue %impossible things Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CITIES OF DUST, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The click of footsteps down the hall Last Line: (you know the sound), a life disappearing in dust and haze Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CIVILIAN AND SOLDIER, by WOLE SOYINKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My apparition rose from the fall of lead Last Line: What it is all about? Subject(s): Nigerian Civil War; Soldiers CLARION, CLARION, by THEODORE B. HUNT Poem Text First Line: Clarion, clarion, singing so boldly Last Line: Give me the young men, the young men, I say. Subject(s): Courage; Soldiers; World War I; Youth; Valor; Bravery; First World War CLASSICS REVISITED, by MIRKO LAUER Poem Source First Line: I fought that war Last Line: In the interior gardens Subject(s): Soldiers; War; Women And War CLERK, by B. H. M. HETHERINGTON Poem Source First Line: Perched upon an office stool, neatly adding figures Subject(s): Soldiers CLOUDS, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down the blue night the unending columns press Last Line: The pacific, october 1913 Subject(s): Life Change Events; Soldiers' Writings CLUSTERS, by MARTIN OTT Poem Source First Line: In the harried stores of baghdad Last Line: Before the last petal has fallen Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts; Soldiers; War COAST ARTILLERY MARCHING SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Roarious! Roarious! Subject(s): Soldiers COAST ARTILLERY SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, they said the coast artillery would never go to war Subject(s): Soldiers COBB'S ORCHARD ; LT. MITCHELL SHORTLY BEFORE HIS DEATH AT POMEROY, WA., by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: A hungary army's enough to spook the dead Last Line: Which has bothered my mind for all these years Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History COLD, COLD, COLD, by PATRICK BYRNE Poem Source First Line: White may in our moonlit trysting place Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii COLONEL ON THE STAFF', by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: He doesn't warm up easy chairs as much as you might think Subject(s): Soldiers COME ON AND JOIN THE AIR CORPS, by SCOTT FIELD Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers COME ON AND JOIN THE AIR CORPS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers COME! LET US DANCE, by PETER BAKER Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii COMING HOME, by D. F. BROWN Poem Source First Line: There is something I want to say Last Line: This will always be light %and zoned residential Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 COMING OF WAR, by LIONEL PIGOT JOHNSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gather the people, for the battle breaks Subject(s): Soldiers COMPANIONS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leave not your bough, my slender song bird sweet Last Line: Then both took wing, and the sun stepped forth in glory. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings COMPASSION, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She in the hurling night Last Line: Of the god-faced centaur Subject(s): Compassion; Soldiers' Writings COMRADES, by JOCK CURLE Poem Source First Line: The men I seek are such as mad and ill Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii COMRADES: AN EPISODE, by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before, before he was aware Last Line: "hearing him whisper, ""o my men, my men!" Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War CONCORD HYMN; SUNG AT COMPLETION OF CONCORD MONUMENT, 1836, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the rude bridge that arched the flood Last Line: The shaft we raise to them and thee. Variant Title(s): The Concord Fight;hymn: Sung At The Completion Of The Concord Mounument Subject(s): American Revolution; Americans; Concord, Massachusetts; Fourth Of July; Freedom; Massachusetts; Monuments; Mourning; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Patriotism; Soldiers; United States; War; Independence Day; Liberty; Bereavement; America CONFEDERATE SOLDIER, KENNESAW MOUNTAIN, JULY, 1864, by PETER SCHMITT Poem Source First Line: In my field glasses the little steeple Last Line: Will congregate, in dark suits, buttons shining Subject(s): American Civil War; Civil War; Military; Soldiers; U.s. - History CONFIRMATION, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Solemn douglas firs stride slowly Last Line: And always, in our need Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CONFLICT, by FRANCIS REGINALD SCOTT Poem Text First Line: When I see the falling bombs Last Line: To make a thousand roads converge? Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. R. Subject(s): Evil; Good; Soldiers; War CONGRESS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ye tories all, rejoice and sing Subject(s): Soldiers CONICAL HAT, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A moment of awkwardness Last Line: The cool circle of its shade Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CONSCIOUS, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His fingers wake, and flutter; up the bed Last Line: No time to dream, and ask -- he knows not what. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War CONSCRIPTS, by FRANCIS KING Poem Source First Line: Related to the picnic in the wood Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii CONSCRIPTS, by EMANUEL LITVINOFF Poem Source First Line: We go to war in various ways Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii CONSCRIPTS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fall in, that awdward squad, and strike no more Last Line: And marched resplendent home with crowns and stars. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War COOTIE SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: C-c-c-cootie Subject(s): Soldiers COOTIFUL DREAM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There's a dream that comes to me sometimes Subject(s): Soldiers CORFE CASTLE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Framed in a jagged window of grey stones Last Line: Quicken the dying island with your breath Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings CORNET; MANNER OF LOVING & DYING OF CHRISTOPHER RILKE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Riding, riding, riding, day and night in the saddle Last Line: There he saw an old woman's tears Subject(s): Death; Fire; Flags; Flowers; Friendship; Grief; Love; Melancholy; Mothers And Sons; Roses; Sex; Soldiers; Travel; War CORPORAL, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Half of my youth I watched the soldiers Last Line: Against the uniform space of death Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Soldiers CORPORAL (WORLD WAR I), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: He thought he was almighty hell when he first got those stripes Subject(s): Soldiers CORPORAL (WORLD WAR II), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, the general with his epaulets Subject(s): Soldiers CORPORAL CHARLES CHUNGTU, U.S.M.C., by BRYAN ALEC FLOYD Poem Source First Line: This is what the war ended up being about Last Line: That was not a village any more %was our village Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CORPORAL KEVIN SPINA, U.S.M.C., by BRYAN ALEC FLOYD Poem Source First Line: He came of a sharecrop farm family Last Line: Someday there will be another war, %and I'm going to be a marine Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CORPORAL'S CHEVRONS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, the general with his epaulets, leadin' a parade Subject(s): Soldiers COULD THEY BUT KNOW (NOVEMBER, 1918), by WILL CHAMBERLAIN Poem Text First Line: Could they but know -- the countless heroes dead Last Line: And vision give our holy dead to-day. Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Honor; Military; Soldiers; Veterans Day; World War I; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines; First World War COUNTER-ATTACK, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: We'd gained our first objective hours before Last Line: Bleeding to death. The counter-attack had failed. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War COUNTRY I REMEMBER; MRS GRESHAM, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: By the time the train pulled into portland, I Last Line: I told him I would move to california Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History COUPLET (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come cheer up, my lads, 'tis to glory we steer! Last Line: As the soldier remarked whose post lay in the rear. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Soldiers COURAGE, by DYNELEY HUSSEY Poem Text First Line: Alone amid the battle-din untouched Last Line: And she shall lead us back to peace again. Subject(s): Courage; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Valor; Bravery; First World War COURAGE, by WINIFRED CATHERINE MARSHALL Poem Text First Line: The flags must fly - the band must play Last Line: "your white gloves -- on -- today!" Subject(s): Courage; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery COWBOY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The sunburnt cowboy sat Subject(s): Soldiers CRAMPED IN THAT FUNNELLED HOLE, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cramped in that funnelled hole, they watched the dawn Last Line: Mixed with the sour sharp odour of the shell. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War CRASH ON ARTILLERY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Crash on with your guns, boys Subject(s): Soldiers CRIPPLED SOLDIER, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I may have used but half my strength Last Line: In which we won no part. Subject(s): Soldiers; War CRISTOFOR COLOMBO (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In fourteen hundred ninety-two %a lad named cris colombo Subject(s): Soldiers CROCUS BUD ON A LOVER'S GRAVE, by TIMOTHY CORSELLIS Poem Source First Line: Rise, crocus on that dew bedampened place Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii CROSS OF WOOD, by CYRIL WINTERBOTHAM Poem Source First Line: God be with you and us who go our way Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I CRUCIFIXION, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the first he would not avoid it Last Line: Was not the end of life, and improved nothing Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings CRUSADERS, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They who have seen the vision Last Line: A light upon his face. Subject(s): Crusades; Soldiers CRUX VIA CAELORUM: 3, by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The scars of many a blow Last Line: And I shrink, suff'ring less for heavenly bliss? Subject(s): Soldiers CYPRUS, by N. BOODSON Poem Source First Line: The blue of the meidterranean Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii DA VOICE DA GERMANS MEESSED, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Giuseppe scalabrella ees returna from da war Last Line: An' den you shoulda hear da happy songs he seeng for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Soldiers DABNEY'S WIFE; SPRING 1863, by JOANNE LOWERY Poem Source First Line: It was all their idea, not hooker's Last Line: And rinsed and did not miss a thing Subject(s): African Americans - Women; American Civil War; Blood; Slavery; Soldiers; U.s. - History; War Injuries; Women And War DAD'S LETTERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My dad, ain't just the letter writin' kind Subject(s): Fathers; Soldiers DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENADOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 1, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: Long ere ruthless civil war laid waste Last Line: They idolized with fond, indulgent care. Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 10, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: When the chieftain deep into the forest shade Last Line: And on his mangled bosom died. Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 2, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: Sounds of trumpet, drum, and shrilling fife Last Line: His lifeless flesh. Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 3, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: Upon the balmy breeze of that same morning Last Line: * * * Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 4, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: At early dawn the wounded federal Last Line: Of both the rescued and the rescuer. Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 5, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: One bright morn as the lovers near the cot Last Line: Them in a loathsome dungeon south. Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 6, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: Down beside her senseless mother daisy Last Line: Death freed reuben from his clanking chains. Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 7, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: Soon upon the breeze she heard the tramp Last Line: Were lost, in the gloom of night enshrouded deeply. Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 9, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: Not till their victims charr'd remains exhaled Last Line: "but never from your wicked conscience.[""]" Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DANCE, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the wind, and as the wind Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings DANCER, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He's in his grave and on his head Last Line: And now I dance to earn my bread Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings DANNY DEEVER, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: What are the bugles blowin' for?' said files-on-parade Last Line: After hangin' danny deever in the mornin'. Variant Title(s): Files-on-parade Subject(s): Army Life; Bugles; Capital Punishment; Military Justice; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Soldiers; War; Drills & Minor Tactics; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Courts Martial DARLING, I AM COMING BACK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers DARWIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: This bloody town's a bloody cuss Subject(s): Soldiers DAUGHTERS OF WAR, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Space beats the ruddy freedom of their limbs Last Line: "years." Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Women & War; World War I; First World War DAVID, by MARY WINTER WERE Poem Text First Line: Why should the gay, the beautiful, the young Last Line: Not david—but goliath paid the price.' Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Goliath; Old Age; Soldiers; War; Youth DAVID CLEEK, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot think that death will press his claim Last Line: To everlasting golf consigns your soul. Subject(s): Golf; Soldiers' Writings; Sports DAWN, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Opposite me two germans sweat and snore Last Line: Opposite me two germans sweat and snore. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings DAWN AT BEAUMONT HAMEL, by ROSAMUND MARRIOTT WATSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The long dark night is nearly done Alternate Author Name(s): Tomson, Graham R. Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I DAWN BEHIND NIGHT, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lips! Bold, frenzied utterance, shape to the thoughts that prompted by hate Last Line: That will find us and free us and take us where its portals are opened wide. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; War; Dead, The DAWN ON THE EAST COAST, by ALUN LEWIS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From orford ness to shingle street Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; War DAWN ON THE EAST COAST, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From orford ness to shingle street Last Line: The living come back slowly from the dead Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; War DAY AND NIGHT, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through my heart's palace thoughts unnumbered throng Last Line: You, like a queen, pass out into the night. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings DAY THAT I HAVE LOVED, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tenderly, day that I have loved, I close your eyes Last Line: Day that I loved, day that I loved, the night is here! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings DAYBREAK IN A GARDEN, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the farm cocks crowing, loud, and faint, and thin Last Line: And touched the nodding peony-flowers to bid them waken. Subject(s): Morning; Soldiers' Writings DEAD AT QUANG TRI, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Captain gungho, my men Last Line: The grass we walk on %won't stay down Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 DEAD MAN'S COTTAGE, by JAMES HARRY KNIGHT-ADKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A loft with a ruckle of twisted rafters where the blue sky shows through ... Last Line: Stay. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; First World War DEAD MAN'S DUMP, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The plunging limbers over the shattered track Last Line: And our wheels grazed his dead face. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War DEAD MEN'S LOVE, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a damned successful poet Last Line: The emptiness of eyes. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings DEAD MUSICIANS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From you, beethoven, bach, mozart Last Line: They're dead ... For god's sake stop that gramophone. Subject(s): Germany; Music & Musicians; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Germans; First World War DEAD SOLDIERS' AUTUMN, by KAJETAN KOVIC Poem Source First Line: The leaves are falling now Last Line: The day when we could die for it is done Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism; Rest; Soldiers DEAR, THEY HAVE POACHED THE EYES YOU LOVED SO WELL, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The limbs that erstwhile charmed your sight Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings DEATH, by ALAN MACKINTOSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because I have made light of death Last Line: None may be there to see. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackintosh, Ewart Alan Subject(s): Death; Humility; Soldiers; Solitude; War; Dead, The; Loneliness DEATH AND THE WARRIOR, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, warrior, arm! And wear thy plume Last Line: "o death! -- and not to thine!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; Dead, The DEATH OF A HERO, by PAUL SCOTT Poem Source First Line: Not here, among the scenes he loved, to die Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii DEATH OF A SOLDIER, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life contracts and death is expected Last Line: When the wind stops and, over the heavens, %the clouds go, nevertheless, %in their direction Subject(s): Holidays; Soldiers; War DECORATION DAY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Scatter flowers o'er the graves Last Line: Scatter them, scatter them o'er. Subject(s): Graves; Heroism; Soldiers; Tombs; Tombstones; Heroes; Heroines DECORATION DAY ON THE PLACE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's lonesome - sorto' lonesome, - it's Last Line: On ev'ry soldier's grave I'd love to lay a lily thare. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Fourth Of July; Graves; Patriotism; Roses; Soldiers; Independence Day; Tombs; Tombstones DECORATION DAY--1899, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I went to the cemetery to-day Last Line: "neath the old ""red, white and blue." Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Soldiers; War; Graveyards; Dead, The DEFEATED: FOR WALES, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our courage is an old legend Last Line: In this darkness whence we came Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings DEPARTURE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eyes closed, half waking, that first morning Last Line: Deep into the unrefusing ship Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings DESERT, by M. ST. J. WILMOTH Poem Source First Line: The silence of vast spaces, where even Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii DESERT WARFARE, by G. HARKER Poem Source First Line: A universe of space, infinite sands Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii DESERTER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As I was awalking along the highway Last Line: For he will make a soldier for his queen and country Subject(s): "courts & Courtiers;cruelty;desertion, Military;soldiers; DESERTION, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So light we were, so right we were, so fair faith shone Last Line: Gay down the way, and on alo Subject(s): Desertion, Military; Soldiers' Writings DESPERATE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the soul is mad Last Line: For the soul's sweet sake Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings DESTROYER SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: You roll and toss and pound and pitch Subject(s): Soldiers; Troy DESTROYER SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The boys out in the trenches - have got a lot to say of the Subject(s): Soldiers; Troy DESTRUCTION, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the street I inhabit Last Line: To the street she must inhabit Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings DEW-WE? (DEWEY), by T. E. ROACH Poem Source First Line: Dew-we know what's going on? Subject(s): Soldiers DEWEY-DO, by R. J. MOORE Poem Source First Line: Everything is dewey in this patriotic land Subject(s): Soldiers DIED OF WOUNDS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His wet white face and miserable eyes Last Line: And some slight wound lay smiling on the bed. Subject(s): Mourning; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Bereavement; First World War DINING-ROOM TEA, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you were there, and you, and you Last Line: When you were there, and you, and you. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Soldiers' Writings; Tea DIRGE FOR A SOLDIER, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the east the morning comes Last Line: With the flag across his breast. Subject(s): Soldiers DIRT SONG, by IRVING BRICKMAN Poem Source First Line: Dirt, your tragic smell is everywhere Subject(s): Soldiers DIRTY GERTIE FROM BIZERTE (WITH MUSIC), by WILLIAM L. RUSSELL Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers DIRTY GERTIE FROM BIZERTE (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers DISABLED, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark Last Line: And put him into bed? Why don't they come? Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples; First World War DISTANCE LENDS ENCHANTMENT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I used to ride you every night Subject(s): Soldiers DITTY FOR THE DEPARTING TROOPS, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Keep you eye fixed normally on woe Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): War; Soldiers DO NOT ASK, by LAURENCE WHISTLER Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii DOMESDAY BOOK: AT NICE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, let me tell you, safe beside you now Last Line: To coroner merival in a leisure hour: Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; France; Guns; Love; Soldiers; Wine DOMESTICATED ARTILLERY MEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Di-dee-di! Di-dee-di! Subject(s): Soldiers DOMINGA, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I was asleep for a long time among Last Line: I carry a daughter inside it Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Death; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; El Salvador; Human Rights - Argentina; Murder; Soldiers; Tyranny And Tyrants; War DON JUAN'S SONG, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon is in an ecstasy Last Line: God made them frail to break. Subject(s): Don Juan; Soldiers' Writings DOUBTS, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When she sleeps, her soul, I know Last Line: Why is fragrance in the hair? Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings DOWNED BLACK PILOT LEARNS HOW TO FLY, by HORACE COLEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now that the war is over Last Line: I'll wait and see if they've declared %war on me - or just america Alternate Author Name(s): Shaka Aku Shango Subject(s): African Americans; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 DRAGONFISH, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Brown men shock the brown pool with nets Last Line: A land in the shape of the dragonfish Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 DREAM OF THE DISAPPEARED, by CECIL L. SAYRE Poem Source First Line: His death I dream Last Line: Where I can no longer %disappear Subject(s): Death; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Soldiers; War DREAM PATH, by EUGENE CROMBIE Poem Source First Line: Walking my dream-paved road on the hill of desire Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I DREAM WAR, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: With his eyes closed, he looked like a dead man on some eternal ship Last Line: A wilderness rooted in a nighttime that knows nothing of daybreaks' Subject(s): Dreams; Exiles; Soldiers DREAM-FOREST, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where sunshine flecks the green Last Line: The tangled thickets lonely. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings DREAMERS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land Last Line: And going to the office in the train. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War DRESDEN, by CIARAN CARSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Horse boyle was called horse boyle because of his brother mule Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Dresden, Germany; Soldiers; World War Ii; Second World War DRESDEN, by CIARAN CARSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Horse boyle was called horse boyle because of his brother mule Last Line: I wandered out through the steeples of rust, the gate that was a broken bed Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Dresden, Germany; Soldiers; World War Ii DRILL SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Here we march, here we march Subject(s): Soldiers DRIVER SMITH, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas driver smith of battery a was anxious to see a fight Last Line: And drawing a hundred pounds a week to tell how he won the fight. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Leadership; Parades; Soldiers; War DRYADS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When meadows are grey with the morn Last Line: Whisper, and hide, and are still. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings DULCE ET DECORUM EST, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Bent double, like old beggars under sacks Last Line: Pro patria mori. Subject(s): Chemical Warfare; Hate; Men; Patriotism; Social Protest; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War DUMBARTON'S DRUMS, by ALLAN RAMSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And he kisses and blesses his annie, o! Subject(s): Courage; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery DUNKIRK PIER, by ALAN ROOK Poem Source First Line: Deeply across the waves of our darkness fear Subject(s): Dunkirk, France; Soldiers DURHAM MILITIA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "you are going to be a militia man, a valiant volunteer" Last Line: The durham volunteers should find themselves in meat and clothes Subject(s): Beer;drinks & Drinking;kisses;soldiers;war; Ale DUST, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the white flame in us is gone Last Line: One moment, what it is to love. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings E. D. M., by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a heart I knew in other days Last Line: And that was all beneath this earthly sun. Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Bereavement EARLY MORNING, by KENNETH NEAL Poem Source First Line: The dawn's a dirty smudge of light Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii EAST, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If passion and grief and pain and hurt Last Line: In the garden of gethsemane Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings EASTER '68, by BASIL T. PAQUET Poem Source First Line: I have seen the paschal today Last Line: Only my words on their mouths Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 EASTER - HOME AGAIN, by CLIFFORD FOWLER Poem Source First Line: The wheels of the train sing a full-toned song Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I EASTER AT CHRISTMAS, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What dark and terrible shadow is swaying in the wind Last Line: An agitator and two thieves are swaying in the wind Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings EATING THE FOREST, by D. F. BROWN Poem Source First Line: Background is instrumental Last Line: Where the moon sinks %and bring the darkness home Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ECHOES: 4. INVICTUS, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the night that covers me Last Line: I am the captain of my soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Variant Title(s): R. T. Hamilton Bruce;to R. T. H. B. ...;unconquered;urbs Fortitudinis;invictus;in Memoriam: R.t. Hamilton Bruce Subject(s): Bruce, R. T. Hamilton (1846-1899); Consolation; Courage; Hope; Independence; Life Change Events; Pain; Self-control; Self-reliance; Soldiers; Strength; Valor; Bravery; Optimism; Suffering; Misery EDITORIAL IMPRESSIONS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He seemed so certain 'all was going well' Last Line: Ah, yes, but it's the press that leads the way!' Subject(s): Newspapers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Journalism; Journalists; First World War EDSON'S RAIDERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, we are edson's raiders Subject(s): Soldiers EEE AY WHO TWO, by DIANE GLANCY Poem Source Last Line: Turkey barns in these hills counterfeit arks Subject(s): Native Americans - Wars; Soldiers EIGHTY ACRES; LT. MITCHELL, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: In 1866 my son was born Last Line: And I will rest there when my time has come Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History EL RIO DE LAS ANIMAS PERDIDAS EN PURGATORIO, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: No one recollects where the spaniards died Last Line: Was brief -- far briefer than our scattering Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History ELEGIES FROM THE NORTH 5, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: Now, in a bitter or a soft voice, in the lengthened melodies of a lament, in Last Line: Shared with everyone lost like you: do you recognize yourself in this poem? Subject(s): Blood; Death; Lament; Soldiers; War ELEGY (IN MEMORIAM - JUNE 1941, R. R.), by DAVID GASCOYNE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend, whose unnatural early death Subject(s): Soldiers; Suicide; World War Ii; Second World War ELEGY (IN MEMORIAM - JUNE 1941, R. R.), by DAVID GASCOYNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend, whose unnatural early death Last Line: Slowly away into the utmost dark Subject(s): Soldiers; Suicide; World War Ii ELEGY FOR A DEAD SOLDIER, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A white sheet on the tail-gate of a truck Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War ELEGY FOR A DEAD SOLDIER, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A white sheet on the tail-gate of a truck Last Line: Upon a peace kept by a human creed %know that one soldier has not died in vain Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; World War Ii ELEGY FOR THE NATIVE GUARD, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We leave gulfport at noon; gulls overhead Subject(s): African Americans - Soldiers; American Civil War; Ship Island (mississippi) ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The men that worked for england / they have their graves at home Last Line: They have no graves as yet. Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): England; Politics & Government; Soldiers; World War I; English; First World War ELEGY ON A YOUNG WARRIOR, by PONMUTIYAR Poem Source First Line: O heart sorrowing Last Line: His beard still soft Subject(s): Soldiers ELEVENTH ARMORED, by L. E. PERRY Poem Source First Line: From the mountains, from the prairies Subject(s): Soldiers ELEVENTH HOUR, by FRANCIS ST. VINCENT MORRIS Poem Source First Line: Is this to live? - to cower and stand aside Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I ELIJAH WREN, by EDWIN CARLILE LITSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A roughneck hick from buzzard's branch in the cumber Last Line: Went up, like the prophet did of old, in a chariot of flame! Alternate Author Name(s): Litsey, E. Carl Edwin Carlile Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; Dead, The EMPEROR BUTTERFLY, by ANNA KISS Poem Source First Line: We made the corn-stalk violins wail and strode the fields Last Line: Outside world. But about people, everything Subject(s): Soldiers; War EMPTY SHELLS, by MARGARET CROSLAND Poem Source First Line: The red hands took you to the hot dust beyond Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii ENCIRCLEMENT, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wrapped in the night's diseases Last Line: And suffering has sanctified your face Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings ENCOUNTER, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She said I came a weary way Last Line: Zion and sheba in the dust Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings ENCOUNTERING A WOUNDED SOLDIER, by LU LUN Poem Source First Line: When he travels he often suffers from wounds Last Line: Touches the scars of the blade Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Soldiers; War ENDURING PEOPLE, by L. E. S. COTTERELL Poem Source First Line: The proudest caesars knew their worth Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii ENEMIES, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He stood alone in some queer sunless place Last Line: Because his face could make them understand. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War ENEMY CONSCRIPT, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What are we fighting for Last Line: And diplomats die in bed Subject(s): Death; Soldiers ENGINEER O.C.S. SONG, by HARRY A. SCHAUFFLER Poem Source First Line: Oh! While I'm in the army, sir, and how they keep me in Subject(s): Soldiers ENGINEER'S SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: He's a helluva, helluva, helluva, helluvam engineer Subject(s): Soldiers ENGINEERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O, some of us are whisky men and some of us drink gin Subject(s): Soldiers ENGLAND'S DEAD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Son of the ocean isle! Last Line: Where rest not england's dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): England; Soldiers; War; English ENGLAND, JULY 1913; TO RUPERT BROOKE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O england, england -- that july Last Line: In cambridge, I did not know you. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); England; Poetry & Poets; Soldiers' Writings; English ENGLISH, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their army barracks were fun in the jungle Last Line: With its thin rays on the windowpane Variant Title(s): Lunch At The Army Canteen Subject(s): English Language; Generals; Great Britain - Civil War; Military; Soldiers; English Civil War ENGLISH, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their army barracks were fun in the jungle Last Line: With its thin rays on the windowpane Variant Title(s): Lunch At The Army Cantee Subject(s): English Language; Generals; Great Britain - Civil War; Military; Soldiers ENGLISH SOLDIER'S SONG OF MEMORY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing, sing in memory of the brave departed Last Line: Our brethren of the sword! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Soldiers ENVOI, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: Below my room, the noise and measured beat Last Line: Brown oarsmen swinging to an ocean song, %where stately galleons bowed before the wind Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I EPIGRAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Quote satan to arnold: 'my worthy good fellow' Last Line: "you'll permit me, I hope, to die in my shoes" Subject(s): "american Revolution;arnold, Benedict (1741-1801);soldiers; EPITAPH, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You who died fighting Last Line: The rose is your joy. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; Unknown Soldier; War; Westminster Abbey; Graveyards; Dead, The; Declaration Day EPITAPH, by JOHN FRANCIS WALLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps only an elusive shadow Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii EPITAPH ON COLONEL GARDINER, WHO WAS SLAIN IN BATTLE OF PRESTON PANS, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While fainter merit asks the powers of verse Last Line: And surely his a glorious road to god. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Honor; Soldiers; Dead, The EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: THE BRIDEGROOM, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call me not false, beloved Subject(s): Soldiers EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: THE BRIDEGROOM, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call me not false, beloved Last Line: Its immortality Subject(s): Soldiers ERIC'S DIRGE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shon'st thou but to pass away Last Line: Flowers we strew above thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Funerals; Graves; Soldiers; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones ESCAPE, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: In summer insects clouded over the pond Last Line: And wait for the whipping that will surely come Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History ETHAN ALLEN, by RUFUS WILMOT GRISWOLD Poem Text First Line: So here, beneath this old gray stone Last Line: Is blotted from the scroll of fame. Subject(s): Allen, Ethan (1738-1789); Soldiers ETHAN ALLEN, SELS., by GEORGE LANSING RAYMOND Poem Source First Line: The bell that rang at lexington Subject(s): Allen, Ethan (1738-1789); American Revolution; Soldiers EVENING CLOUDS, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little flock of clouds go down to rest Last Line: And still on purley common gooseboys sing. Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); Clouds; Poetry & Poets; Soldiers' Writings EXPECTANS EXPECTAVI, by CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From morn to midnight, all day through Last Line: To thy great service dedicate. Subject(s): Religion; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Theology; First World War EXPOSURE, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us Last Line: But nothing happens. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War EXPRESSION, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call - call - and bruise the air Last Line: And smouldering wrong. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings EXTENSION IS NOT EXPECTED, by F. JOHN HERBERT Poem Source Last Line: One by one the ladies and gentlemen %are hung on the line again Subject(s): Navy - United States; Patriotism; Soldiers EZRA HOUSE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come listen, good people, while a story I do tell Last Line: He hoped to meet the doom that his country denied. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Soldiers; War F.B.C.; CHANCELLORSVILLE, MAY 3, 1863, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He was our noblest, he was our bravest & best Last Line: Still our bravest and best! Subject(s): American Civil War; Courage; Death; Heroism; Honor; Soldiers; United States - History; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines FAFAIA, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stars that seem so close and bright Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings FAILURE, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because god put his adamantine fate Last Line: And st+irred the heavy curtains on the walls. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings FAITH, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O world, thou choosest not the better part Last Line: Unto the thinking of the thought divine. Variant Title(s): The Light Of Faith;sonnet: 3 Subject(s): Faith; Religion; Soldiers; Belief; Creed; Theology FALL IN, by FRANK S. BROWN Poem Source First Line: Oh! We are a ragged, motley crew Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I FALL OF DA NANG, by GERALD MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: Tonight the newspapers report %the air-lift evacuation of da nang has failed Last Line: It's a saturday night, the end of march Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FAMILY TREE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My mother came from italy Subject(s): Soldiers FARAWAY PLACES, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This daughter watching ducks knows Last Line: Her eyes %so full of ducks Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FAREWELL TO BROTHER JONATHAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Farewell! We must part; we have turned from the land Subject(s): Soldiers FARMER NGUYEN, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When we swept through farmer nguyen's hamlet Last Line: They took more rice, and beat you, %made you carry supplies Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FATHER'S ADVICE, by BRIAN BROOKE Poem Source First Line: When I left home as a reckless boy Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I FATHERS AND SONS, by JOSEPH T. COX Poem Source First Line: My boy lives a half a world away, a man Last Line: Will always and never again be my little boy Subject(s): Absence; Army - United States; Fathers And Sons; Soldiers FATIGUE CALL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: With a pick and a shovel and with a hoe Subject(s): Soldiers FAUST: SOLDIER'S SONG, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Castles with lofty Last Line: Marching away. Subject(s): Beauty; Faust; Life; Singing & Singers; Soldiers; Songs FEELING EXCITED BY SOME MILITARY MANEUVERS AT VERONA, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the lesson I have brought away Last Line: Our common human feelings not forget! Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Soldiers; Verona, Italy FERRY CROSSING NORTH OF HAI PHONG, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Up and down the coast Last Line: River and road break free Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FEVER, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I felt the universe with my fingers; and it was Last Line: Can strike and blind and parch Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings FIELD MARSHAL, by ERNST MORITZ ARNDT Poem Source First Line: Hark, hark the trumpets blowing, hussars Subject(s): Soldiers FIELDS OF THE MARNE ARE GROWING GREEN, by FRANK CARBAUGH Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers FIGHT TO A FINISH, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boys came back. Bands played and flags were flying Last Line: To clear those junkers out of parliament. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War FIGHTING Q.M.C, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh where do the broken-down majors go Subject(s): Soldiers FIGHTING SEVENTY-NINTH, by BOB STUART MCKNIGHT Poem Source First Line: We're the lusty sons of the seventy-ninth Subject(s): Soldiers FIGHTING SOUTH OF THE CASTLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: They fought south of the castle Last Line: And at night you did not return Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);courts & Courtiers;fights;soldiers FINALE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who continually struck poses Last Line: Should find this last simplicity Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings FINDING, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the candles and dumb shadows Last Line: And a white dream of you. Subject(s): Love; Soldiers' Writings FINDING MY WAY BACK, by GERALD MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: Morning. %two sparrows sit on the tin roof Last Line: There was nothing else %I could do Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FIRST CASUALTY, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They carried him slowly Last Line: Trailing the jungle floor Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FIRST PERSON - 1981, by D. F. BROWN Poem Source First Line: There are days I have to pretend Last Line: Through %this tangle Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FIRST-LIEUTENANT - OLD STYLE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: He'a longer on the setting-up than any loot we've got Subject(s): Soldiers FLIGHT, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Voices out of the shade that cried Last Line: And stroked my face. I fell asleep. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings FLOATING PETALS, by JAN BARRY Poem Source First Line: See: here, the bougainvillea Last Line: Sealed in napalm Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FLY SONG, by PAUL EISLER Poem Source First Line: There were three flies once on a time Subject(s): Soldiers FOOD PICKER OF SAIGON, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rubbish like compost heaps burned every hour Last Line: Dream to feed them, they were gone Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Variant Title(s): The Food Pickers Of Saigo Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FOOT-SOLDIERS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis all the way to toe-town Last Line: Are six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Soldiers FOR A SOLDIER'S BIRTHDAY, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The weather is war Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): War; Soldiers; Birthdays FOR COLONEL R. W. PRATT OF THE CARLISLE INDIAN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unto the heart of these, the master saith Last Line: The lord in all his lowly ones can see! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Good; Praise; Soldiers FOR FREDA, by MARGERY SMITH Poem Source First Line: More than a year has reeled and clanmoured by Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii FOR FREEDOM, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thank god! 'tis the war-cry! They call us; we come; Last Line: O comrades, strike boldly! Our triumph is nigh! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Slavery; Soldiers; U.s. - History; Serfs FOR FRIENDS MISSING IN ACTION, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Into this tunnel of dirt Last Line: And let the truth ring %like a gong: he's gone Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FOR HARPER, KILLED IN ACTION, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When they brought you down Last Line: Flesh impacted %in the common ground Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FOR KELLY, MISSING IN ACTION, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When you disappeared %over the north Last Line: Dead as dublin, %far from home? Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FOR NEW YEAR'S DAY 1698, by NAHUM TATE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Music now thy charms display Last Line: Happy, happy, past expressing. Subject(s): Great Britain - Wars With France; Heroism; Holidays; New Year; Peace; Soldiers; War; Heroes; Heroines FOR SLEEPING NOW, by ALEXANDER COMFORT Poem Source First Line: Sleep in this land, this tomb Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii FOR THE OLD MAN, by MICHAEL CASEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The old man was mumbling Last Line: Americans %feel strange Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FOR THE UNION DEAD, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The old south boston aquarium stands Variant Title(s): Colonel Shaw And The Massachusetts 54 Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Boston; Duty; Heroism; Massachusetts; Monuments; Racism; Saint-gaudens, Augustus (1848-1907); Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; United States - History; Heroes; Heroines; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry FOR THE UNION DEAD, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old south boston aquarium stands Last Line: A savage servility %slides by on grease Variant Title(s): Colonel Shaw And The Massachusetts 5 Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Boston; Duty; Heroism; Massachusetts; Monuments; Racism; Saint-gaudens, Augustus (1848-1907); Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; U.s. - History FOR THOMAS THETCHER, D. 1764; IN CATHEDRAL YARD, WINCHESTER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Here sleeps in peace a hampshire grenadier Last Line: An honest soldier never is forgot, %whether he die by musket or by pot Subject(s): Soldiers FORTY-NINE BOTTLES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers FOUR-F CHARLIE (WITH MUSIC), by TED COURTNEY Poem Source First Line: I was at induction center, when I chanced to see him enter Subject(s): Soldiers FRAGGING, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Five men pull straws Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FRAGMENT, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I strayed about the deck, an hour, tonight Last Line: To other ghosts - this one, or that, or I. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War FRAGMENT, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where aloneness fiercely Last Line: Breaks in crimson flower from the tree %I am, in thee Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings FRAGMENT ON PAINTERS, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is an evil which that race attaints Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings FRAGMENTS FROM A CIVIL WAR: MINNESOTA 1863-64, by EVA HOOKER Poem Source First Line: The wind blows hard this winter, hard as god's mouth Last Line: Still now, like a thimble left at nightfall on the sill after sewing Subject(s): American Civil War; Civil War; Fights; Soldiers; U.s. - History FRANCE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She triumphs, in the vivid green Last Line: Voices of victory and delight. Subject(s): France; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War FRANKIE AND JOHNNY (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Frankie and johnny were lovers Last Line: He was her man, and he done her wrong Subject(s): Soldiers FREE GROWTHS, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: At the bottom of the blood there is rank vegetation Last Line: The azure in their eyes Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Growth; Heaven; Soldiers FRENCH MOTHER TO HER UNBORN CHILD, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: Beat quietly, hid heart Last Line: Hark to my whispered word - %beat quietly, hid heart Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I FRIENDS: PROEM, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He's gone / I do not understand Last Line: And he was gone. Variant Title(s): Battle: The Going;the Going Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); Death; Poetry & Poets; Soldiers' Writings; Dead, The FROM A PLAY, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are the little men grown huge with death Last Line: And all the good lads there that died for luck Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings FROM BIRTH TO BATTLEFIELD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A child is born - it gasps and cries Last Line: End in a lump of lifeless clay Subject(s): History;soldiers;war;war - Home Front; Historians FROM CORNWALL TO THE HEBRIDES, by ALAN ROOK Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii FROM HOME, by EWART ALAN MACKINTOSH Poem Source First Line: The pale sun woke in the eastern sky Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I FROM MONTAGE OF A DREAM DEFERRED: CASUALTY, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was a soldier in the army Last Line: Days are done. %son!. . .Son! Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Variant Title(s): Casualt Subject(s): African Americans; Soldiers FROM MY DIARY, JULY 1914, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leaves / murmuring by myriads in the shimmering trees Last Line: Expanding with the starr'd nocturnal flowers. Subject(s): Diaries; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War FROM THE ARAUCANA, by ALONSO DE ERCILLA Y ZUNIGA Poem Source First Line: Caciques! Defenders of our country, hear! Last Line: Upon the strongest chief the lot shall fall! Subject(s): Patriotism; Soldiers; Tyranny And Tyrants FULFILLMENT, by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was there love once? I have forgotten her Last Line: All, all my joy, my grief, my love, are thine. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War FUTILITY, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Move him into the sun Last Line: To break earth's sleep at all? Subject(s): Death; Love; Mourning; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; Bereavement; First World War G.I. BLUES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I like g.I. Coffee, like it mighty fine Subject(s): Soldiers G.I. INSOMNIA, by ABRAHAM STERN Poem Source First Line: I've got tags that jingle, jangle, jingle Subject(s): Soldiers G.I. JOE HAS LOST HIS DOUGH, by UNKNOWN+44 Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers G.I. MARCH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: G.I. Shoes will march over germany Subject(s): Soldiers G.I. MISSUE, by ROY L. WILLIAM Poem Source First Line: This is the song of a g.I. Muse Last Line: Strictly government issue Subject(s): Soldiers GARDEN OF GOLD, by KAJETAN KOVIC Poem Source First Line: The chill and the damp under the pines Last Line: And as above them, blue as death, %ripens the isbella Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; War GATE, by EUGENE CROMBIE Poem Source First Line: Musing alone beside my midnight fire Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I GELATIN FACTORY, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No need to look for the place Last Line: Late on sundays, children %circled and ate Subject(s): Politics; Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 GENERAL GORDON, THE HERO OF KHARTOUM, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! Now o'er the civilised world there hangs a gloom Last Line: And walk in general gordon's footsteps while they are here. Subject(s): Courage; Gordon, Charles George (1833-1885); Heroism; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines GENTLEMAN GEORGE, by W. A. HORN Poem Text First Line: Gentleman george in his youthful days was the pride of the eighth hussars Last Line: The slash of a whip on a skeleton hip, as the hoof-strokes echo away. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Old Age; Soldiers; Dead, The GENTLEMEN-RANKERS, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To the legion of the lost ones, to the cohort of the damned Last Line: Baa! Yah! Bah! Subject(s): Soldiers 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 GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 15, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A fine and prickly rain now descends Last Line: "the roman proverb famous." Subject(s): Animals; Germany; Horses; Rain; Soldiers; Germans GETTIN' LETTERS, by E. C D. Poem Source First Line: When you're far away from home and you're feelin' kind of Subject(s): Soldiers GHOST ARMIES, by MARGARET DELANEY Poem Text First Line: There's a tramping tramping, tramping Last Line: For all wars of ancient days and wars to be. Subject(s): Marching & Marches; Pain; Soldiers; War; Suffering; Misery GHOST-BEREFT; A SCENE FROM BOGLAND IN WAR-TIME, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thought by now for sure the sun was down Last Line: A shadowy form begins to move up the path from the river. Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Shadows; Soldiers; Supernatural; War; Dead, The GHOSTS OF CONQUEST, by ALBERT EDWARD CLEMENTS Poem Text First Line: We shall break the dry crust of this stale earth, batter it down to ... Despair Last Line: Glory on ghosts of conquest for a year and a day! Subject(s): Ghosts; Social Protest; Soldiers; Supernatural; War GIRL AT THE CHU LAI LAUNDRY, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: All this time I had forgotten Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 GIRL AT THE CHU LAI LAUNDRY, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All this time I had forgotten Last Line: Beautiful with her facts Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 GIRL TO SOLDIER ON LEAVE, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love you, titan lover Last Line: I let you -- I repine. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Women & War; World War I; First World War GLORY OF WOMEN, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: You love us when we're heroes, home on leave Last Line: His face is trodden deeper in the mud. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Women; World War I; First World War GO ASK THE DEAD, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The soldier, past full retreat, is marching out of the grave Last Line: You have climbed to the moon on a ladder of dead men's bones! Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War; Dead, The GOBLIN REVEL, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In gold and grey, with fleering looks of sin Last Line: That sinks beyond the marshes loud with frogs. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings GOD, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: In his malodorous brain what slugs and mire Last Line: Ah, this miasma of a rotting god! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; God GOD AND MY COUNTRY, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He had the bluest eyes I ever saw Last Line: "to get some cigarettes and some shaving blades." Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Soldiers; World War I; First World War GOD WHO WAITS, by LESLIE COULSON Poem Source First Line: The old men in the olden days Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I GOD'S CHALLENGERS; A SOLDIERS' HOSPITAL, by MARION PERHAM GALE Poem Text First Line: Today, I have seen / mute ghosts of men Last Line: What did we do it for? Subject(s): Death; God; Soldiers; Tragedy; War; War Injuries; World War I; Dead, The; First World War GOD'S HEROES, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Once, at a battle's close, a soldier met Last Line: Their names are syllabled on earth no more. Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Martyrs; Soldiers; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines GOD'S HILLS, by WILLIAM NOEL HODGSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In our hill-country of the north Last Line: And we shall see the hills again. Alternate Author Name(s): Melbourne, Edward Subject(s): Homesickness; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War GOLGOTHA, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through darkness curves a spume of falling flares Last Line: But the brown rats, the nimble scavengers. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War GOMMECOURT: 1, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: The wind, which heralded the blackening night Last Line: And turn the night's immensity to day; %or rockets whistle in their upward ride Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I GOMMECOURT: 2, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: The moment comes when thrice-embittered fire Last Line: To prove the unchartered honour of mankind, %to show how strong the silent passions are Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I GOMMECOURT: 3, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: The daylight broke and brought the awaited cheer Last Line: Were driven fighting in a forced retreat %across the land that gaped with shell-turned graves Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I GOMMECOURT: 4, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: The troubled day sped on in weariness Last Line: The common grass still breathed of paradise %and lvoe with silent lips was lord of earth Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I GONE IS THE SPRING, by ALAN ROOK Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii GOODBYE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: So we must say goodbye, my darling Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War Ii; Second World War GOODBYE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So we must say goodbye, my darling Last Line: On my old battledress tonight, my sweet Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War Ii GOVERNMENT ISSUE (WITH MUSIC), by BOB STUART MCKNIGHT Poem Source First Line: Before I joined the army, there were stories in the Subject(s): Soldiers GRANT, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Hail, honored hero of the east and west! Last Line: Simple in speech, sublime in common-sense. Subject(s): Freedom; Heroism; Honor; Patriotism; Soldiers; Liberty; Heroes; Heroines GRANT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall we say of the soldier Last Line: And the driving rain of a nation's tears! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); Heroism; Soldiers; Swords; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines GRAVES AT QUANG TRI, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Too late, tanks circle the old french tower Last Line: The enemy we stayed Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 GRAVES REGISTRATION, by BASIL T. PAQUET Poem Source First Line: From the trucks we see Last Line: The trucks will be back soon Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 GREASY WOPS AND YANKEE BOYS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers GREAT BELL ROLAND; SUGGESTED BY PRESIDENT'S CALL VOLUNTEERS, by THEODORE TILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Toll! Roland, toll! Last Line: Tool! Roland, toll! Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; United States - History GREATER LOVE, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Red lips are not so red Last Line: Weep, you may weep, for you may touch them not. Subject(s): Love; Pain; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Suffering; Misery; First World War GREATER THAN VICTORY, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Quickly the war-smoke lessens-out through the clearing skies Last Line: "but the greatest thing of all is this: ""no more of our boys shall die!" Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; Victory; World War I; Dead, The; First World War GREEN HELL, GREEN DEATH, by JAN BARRY Poem Source First Line: Green hell of the jungle Last Line: Green jungle: green hellfire: green death Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 GREETINGS, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The aeroplane engines in my head Last Line: If you have gone, and left no word behind Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings GROUP SHOT, by BASIL T. PAQUET Poem Source First Line: So they passed Last Line: To woo the world Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 GUERRILLA WAR, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's practically impossible / to tell civilians Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 GUERRILLA WAR, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's practically impossible %to tell civilians Last Line: After a while %you quit trying Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 GUIDARELLO GUIDARELLI; RAVENNA WARRIOR (1502), by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Share our grief when mine is dumb. Subject(s): Death; Lombardo, Tullio (1455-1532); Ravenna, Italy; Sculpture & Sculptors; Soldiers; Dead, The GUTS OF THE ARMY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Well, the doughboys are in the trenches Subject(s): Soldiers HAIKU, by MATSUO MUNEFUSA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Summer grass Last Line: Of warrior's dreams Alternate Author Name(s): Basho; Matsuo Basho Subject(s): Soldiers HAIL! HAIL!, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hail! Hail! The gang's all here Subject(s): Soldiers HALE, Y.M.C.A. (WRITTEN ON RETURNING FROM CHRISTMAS LEAVE), by KENNETH NEAL Poem Source First Line: The piano vaguely strums old tunes Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii HANDS, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: The one-handed county agent, forgiven (as they said Last Line: Anger in the intervening poplars Subject(s): Enemies; Military Recruitment; Patriotism; Soldiers; War HANGING JOHNNY (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: And they calls me hanging johnny, hooray, - hooray Subject(s): Soldiers HAPPY LANDING, by W. G. SCHAUFFLER Poem Source First Line: We're the air force of the army, we must fight our foes on high Subject(s): Soldiers HARLOT ROBED IN WAR, by LAURENCE GOLDSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Well spoken, castor. You point the moral Last Line: Lies something purer than the muses' spring Subject(s): Fights; Militarism; Soldiers; Tragedy; War HARVARD DECLARES WAR, by BRENT DOW ALLINSON Poem Text First Line: Hang out the flags!' the college president said Last Line: Thy hallowed ivied walls with strands of sable crepe! Subject(s): Death; Harvard University; Soldiers; War; World War I; World War Ii; Dead, The; First World War; Second World War HARVEST MOON, by JAN BARRY Poem Source First Line: Pumpkins' crooked grins Last Line: As a field of hay goes up in flames Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 HAUNTED, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Evening was in the wood, louring with storm Last Line: And at his heart the strangling clasp of death. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings HAUNTINGS, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the grey tumult of these after yearse Last Line: The pacific, 1914 Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings HAUTE POLITIQUE, by GRANVILLE TRACE Poem Text First Line: Driven to achievement by youth and love Last Line: Two bodies drift. Alternate Author Name(s): Chen Wei Lu Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Patriotism; Soldiers; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War HAZARD, KENTUCKY, 1942, by JO NEACE KRAUSE Poem Source First Line: In 1942 in hazard, kentucky Last Line: Strolling out to mail their letters Subject(s): Kentucky; Soldiers; Women HE DIED SMILING, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Patting goodbye, doubtless they told the lad Last Line: "and truthfully wrote the mother ""tim died smiling." Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; War HE LOOKED AT ME WITH EYES I THOUGHT, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And find his everlasting tent %and touch your cap to him Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Soldiers HE SAID TO, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crawl toward the machine guns Last Line: Being a man. Subject(s): Army Life; Men; Soldiers; Drills & Minor Tactics HE WAS SORRY THAT HE DID IT, by ? GANS Poem Source First Line: A soldier met a barber with a clipper in his hand Subject(s): Soldiers HE WENT FOR A SOLDIER, by RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He marched away with a blithe young score of him Last Line: Borne with the hell called war! Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Sanborn, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Loss; Soldiers; Women; World War I; Youth; Dead, The; First World War HE WONDERS WHETHER TO PRAISE OR TO BLAME HER, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have peace to weigh your worth, now all is over Last Line: For, foul or lovely, 'twas a fool that loved you. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings HEAD BOWED, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn is coming Last Line: As if sending messages to a planet eons away Subject(s): Arms And Armor; Military; Soldiers; War HEARSE SONG (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Did you ever think as the hearse rolls by Subject(s): Corpses; Soldiers HEART'S FIRST WORD (2), by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And all her soft dark hair Last Line: Of kisses to be kist. Subject(s): Love; Soldiers' Writings HEAVEN, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fish (fly-replete, in depth of june Last Line: There shall be no more land, say fish. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Soldiers' Writings; South Sea Islands; Anglers HEDGEHOG IN AIR RAID, by CLIFFORD DYMENT Poem Source First Line: The sky was a terrific beach Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii HELL A LA MODE, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Zero hour! / advance! Last Line: The silence of wreckage and ruin and death! Subject(s): Death; Hell; Military; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; Dead, The HELL-BOUND TRAIN (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A texas cowboy on a bar-room floor Subject(s): Soldiers HELLUVAN ENGINEER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come, all you gallant soldiers, and the story you shall hear Subject(s): Soldiers HELMETS, by TIBOR GYURKOVICS Poem Source First Line: I'm to be blamed for my impossible self Last Line: I reject my face Subject(s): History; Poetry And Poets; Soldiers; War HER LETTER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm taking pen in hand this night, and hard it is for me Last Line: "is just to see my boy again before I'm called away." Subject(s): Love; Soldiers; War HER LETTERS, by LLOYD THOMAS Poem Source First Line: Now, dear, when in your letters Subject(s): Soldiers HERE IS MUSIC: FIRE GUARD AREA OFFICER: 3 (A CROWDED HOUR), by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: A kentish cafe, chock-a-block Last Line: I'll natheless make meet off'ring to the great god, chance. Subject(s): Firefighters; Smoke; Soldiers HEREAFTER, by RONALD LEWIS CARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's autumn-time on salisbury plain Last Line: When fighting's over be there still! Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Fall; First World War HERITAGE, by LAURA HELENA BROWER Poem Text First Line: I see the gallows - o my son! My child! Last Line: Not guilty, but the blighted fruit of war! Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Death; Guilt; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; Sons; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The HERITAGE, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And if that men should cease from war Last Line: When you were born. Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Death; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; War; Dead, The HERO, by WALTER JAMES REDFERN TURNER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To be brave is not enough Subject(s): Soldiers HI-HO, HI-HO! / OFF TO WAR WE GO, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers HIALMAR [AND THE AASVOGEL], by IGNATIUS ROYSTON DUNNACHIE CAMPBELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The firing ceased: and like a wounded foe Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, Roy Subject(s): Soldiers HIGH BARBARY, by HOWARD STABLES Poem Source First Line: The distant mountains' jagged, cruel line Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I HILLS, by JULIAN GRENFELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mussoorie and chakrata hill Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I HILLS OF HOME, by MALCOLM HEMPHREY Poem Text First Line: Oh! Yon hills are filled with sunlight Last Line: And my heart is throbbing wildly for those distant hills of home. Subject(s): Homesickness; Mountains; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Hills; Downs (great Britain); First World War HIM, ON THE BICYCLE, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In a liftship near hue Last Line: Like a blaze %streaming down the trail Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 HIS MOTHER'S TEARS, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The officers were putting on the train Last Line: But more the memory of my mother's tears. Subject(s): Mothers; Soldiers HIS SHARE, by KENDALL HARRISON Poem Text First Line: Soldier, soldier, home from the wars' Last Line: "I think -- I'll sleep." Subject(s): Soldiers HISTORIC OXFORD, by ROBERT E. STERLING Poem Source First Line: Oh! Time hath loaded thee with memories Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I HITLER YOUTH (PANZER DIVISION), by ADA JACKSON Poem Text First Line: I fell. Nobody picked me up Last Line: But yet I would have liked to live! Subject(s): Death; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Soldiers; War; Dead, The HOA BINH, by MICHAEL CASEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: August thirty-first %stanley was all excited Last Line: Back in hoa ky %I hope your vote counts Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 HOLES, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Your father's fighting world war ii %and you're in a brown foxhole you dug Last Line: And wail at the whole damn sky Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Children; Fathers; Play; Soldiers; World War Ii HOLI, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The village is growing fertile Last Line: When the god's last will is done Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings HOLY COMMUNION SERVICE, SULVA BAY, by WILLIAM LITTLEJOHN Poem Source First Line: Behold a table spread! Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I HOME, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I came back late and tired last night Last Line: All night I could not sleep. Subject(s): Home; Soldiers' Writings HOME THOUGHTS FROM ABROAD, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if the ant should fail with desire Last Line: Bred in the itching warmness of your hand Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings HOME THOUGHTS FROM FRANCE, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wan, fragile faces of joy Last Line: My heart with futile bounds. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War HOME THOUGHTS IN [OR, FROM] LAVENTIE, by EDWARD WYNDHAM TENNANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Green gardens in laventie Last Line: Home, what a perfect place! Subject(s): England; Homesickness; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; English; First World War HOME, BOYS, HOME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Man, born of woman, was a sailor for to be Subject(s): Soldiers HOME, HOME ON THE BASE, by G. L. Poem Source First Line: Oh, give me a case, and a cool shady place' Subject(s): Soldiers HOMESICKNESS, by JR. E. RUTHERFORD Poem Source First Line: Gotta be a soldier! Gotta stick to biz! Subject(s): Soldiers HONOURABLE DISCHARGE, by ELAINE BANDER Poem Source First Line: Most of all I missed the uniform Last Line: To meet the train that brought my husband home Subject(s): Love - Marital; Military; Soldiers; Women And War; World War Ii HOODED LEGION, by GERALD MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: There are no words here Last Line: What hand did not turn us aside? Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 HORACE AT TWENTY, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The nightingales sing, lalage Last Line: Twas you that told me so Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings HORSE-BATHING PARADE, by W. KERSLEY HOLMES Poem Text First Line: A few clouds float across the grand blue sky Last Line: And hear the surf rush hissing up the sand. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War HOSPITAL BARGE AT CERISY, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Budging the sluggard ripples of the somme Last Line: Kings passed in the dark barge, which merlin dreamed. Subject(s): Hospital Ships; Ships & Shipping; Soldiers' Writings HOSPITAL SHIP, by WILLIAM LITTLEJOHN Poem Source First Line: There is a green-lit hospital ship Subject(s): Hospital Ships; Soldiers; World War I HOW LONG, O LORD, HOW LONG, BEFORE THE FLOOD, by ROBERT PALMER Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I HOW TO DIE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark clouds are smouldering into red Last Line: With due regard for decent taste. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War HOW WE CAME THIS FAR, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: The rattle and sway of the train as it clattered across Last Line: Even my papa, back when he was young Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History HUMANIST, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crivelli, dead four hundred years and more Last Line: By strewing marrows carefully about the feet of saints Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings HUNTING, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sighting down the long black barrel Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 HUNTING, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sighting down the long black barrel Last Line: And how much longer till I change my socks Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 I DID NOT LOSE MY HEART IN SUMMER'S EVEN, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And laughed and kissed his hand to me and died Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Soldiers I DON'T WANT NO MORE ARMY (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The officers live on top of the hill Subject(s): Soldiers I JUST FOUND MY COUNTRY, by ATTILA JOZSEF Poem Source First Line: I just found my country Last Line: Can only extend to others Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Soldiers' Writings I WANT LIFE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers I WANT TO GO HOME!, by GITZ RICE Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers I WANT TO GO HOME! (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers I WANTED WINGS TILL I GOT THE GODDAM THINGS, by JACK DOWLING Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers I WAS BORN TEN THOUSAND YEARS AGO (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers I WAS DANCING ALONE IN BINH DINH PROVINCE, by D. F. BROWN Poem Source First Line: There is an award for this Last Line: Soil hearts move through Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 I'LL TELL YOU WHERE THEY WERE (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: If you want to know where the privates were Subject(s): Soldiers I'LL TELL YOU WHERE THEY WERE (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: If you want to know where the corporals were Subject(s): Soldiers I'M A CRANKY OLD YANK IN A CLANKY OLD TANK (WITH MUSIC), by HOAGY CARMICHAEL Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers I'M DREAMING OF A WHITE MISTRESS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers I'VE BEEN LYING IN A FOXHOLE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers IF, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: If all the hells of every war-maimed soldier Last Line: That moment would bring peace ... Age-long ...World-wide. Subject(s): Peace; Soldiers; War ILLUMINATION, by D. F. BROWN Poem Source First Line: No sunrise here - three layers of green Last Line: I've been there %seen the pictures Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 IMPERIAL SONG FOR WARMTH, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snow that makes graces on a soldier's sleeve Subject(s): Soldiers; Snow IN A CAFE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kiss the maid and pass her round Last Line: Their hearts at peace, their god above them. Subject(s): Restaurants; Soldiers; World War I; Cafes; Diners; First World War IN A PLANTATION, by BASIL T. PAQUET Poem Source First Line: The bullet passed %through his right temple Last Line: Red and grey on a rubber tree Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 IN ARLINGTON, by EDNA MEAD Poem Text First Line: Does he lie gladly in the earth of home Last Line: Of honor and its wearer yesterday. Subject(s): Arlington National Cemetery; Death; Military; Soldiers; War; Dead, The IN BARRACKS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The barrack-square, washed clean with rain Last Line: Another night; another day.' Subject(s): Army Life; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Drills & Minor Tactics; First World War IN CA MAU, by HORACE COLEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Leave and the women sweep %after them in ca mau Alternate Author Name(s): Shaka Aku Shango Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 IN CELEBRATION OF SPRING, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our asian war is over; others have begun Last Line: That we will be keepers of a garden, nonetheless. Subject(s): Decay; Social Problems; Soldiers; Veterans; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Rot; Decadence IN CHRISTMAS LAND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In the beams and gleams came the christmas dreams Last Line: To the homes and hearts of you! Subject(s): Children;christmas;dreams;parades;soldiers; "childhood;nativity, The;nightmares; IN EXAMINATION, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! From quiet skies Last Line: Still scribbling, blear-eyed and stolid immortals. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings IN FLANDERS, by JAMES NORMAN HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could you have seen them marching Last Line: To see ten thousand fighting men. Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium; Reality; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; World War I; First World War IN FLANDERS FIELDS, by JOHN MCCRAE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In flanders fields the poppies blow / between the crosses, row on row Last Line: In flanders fields. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Flanders, Belgium; Freedom; Patriotism; Soldiers; World War I; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Liberty; First World War IN FRANCE, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: We're done wid the thransport. Thank heaven we're here! Last Line: "oh, meester jeem newell, please do eet som' more!" Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I; First World War IN FRANCE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it well with henri and jean and paul? Last Line: "well with them all—they are all with god!" Subject(s): Death; Death - Children; France; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; Sons; War; Dead, The; Death - Babies IN FREIBURG STATION, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In freiburg station, waiting for a train Last Line: I saw a bishop with puce gloves go by. Subject(s): Clergy; Gloves; Railroad Stations; Soldiers' Writings; Travel; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Mittens; Muffs; Journeys; Trips IN HOSPITAL: POONA (1), by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I did not fight for sleep Last Line: But love survives the venom of the snake Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Soldiers' Writings IN HOSPITAL: POONA (2), by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun has sucked and beat the encircling hills Last Line: The heart's calm voice that stills the baying hounds Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings IN MEMORIAM (EASTER 1915), by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood Last Line: Have gathered them and will do never again. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Soldiers; War; World War I; The Resurrection; First World War IN MEMORIAM: P.W, by PETER BAKER Poem Source First Line: Just as the flower of life seemed set to bloom Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii IN MEMORIAM: PRIVATE D. SUTHERLAND, by ALAN MACKINTOSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So you were david's father Last Line: But I was your officer. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackintosh, Ewart Alan Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Fathers & Sons; Leadership; Military; Soldiers; Sons; War; Dead, The IN MEMORIAM: TIMOTHY CORSELLIS, KILLED FLYING, by PATRICIA LEDWARD Poem Source First Line: You wished to a lark, and, as the lark, mount singing Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii IN MEMORY OF RUPERT BROOKE, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In alien earth, across a troubled sea Last Line: Song on his lips, and in his hand a sword. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); Poetry & Poets; Soldiers' Writings IN NEXT YEAR'S SUMMER TIME, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: I'm home. Yes. And safe. I should give Last Line: And I want to go back to that place! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Friendship; Grief; Soldiers; World War I; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; First World War IN NO MAN'S LAND, by EWART ALAN MACKINTOSH Poem Source First Line: The hedge on the lieft and the trench on the right Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I IN PICCADILLY, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lamp-lit faces, to you Last Line: Lights your passionless dust. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings IN THE DESERT TODAY, by L. CHALLONER Poem Source First Line: What did I see in the desert today Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF GHENGIS KHAN, by JAN BARRY Poem Source First Line: There, where a french legionaire Last Line: Replacing kepis with berets. 'ah so!' with 'gawd! %damn!' Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 IN THE FRONT LINE DESKS, by ELMER FRANKLIN POWELL Poem Source First Line: I tried to be a doughboy but they said my feet were flat Subject(s): Soldiers IN THE HILLS, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shadow crawls up canyon walls; the Last Line: Somewhere the loud streets thunder, and one time there was a war. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Canyons; Cowboys; Disasters; Hunger; Smoke; Soldiers; War IN THE MIDST OF DEATH IS LIFE, by CLIVE SANSOM Poem Source First Line: Within the flower, the root Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii IN THE MORNING (LOOS, 1915), by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The firefly haunts were lighted yet Last Line: In the town of loos in the morning. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War IN THE NORTHERN WOODS, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: The wind that stripped the birches by the lake Last Line: Whose small bones left no imprint on the earth Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History IN THE PINK', by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So davies wrote: 'this leaves me in the pink' Last Line: And still the war goes on -- he don't know why. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War IN THE TRENCHES, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not that we are weary Last Line: And crush the spring leaf with your armies! Subject(s): Military; Soldiers; War; World War I; First World War IN THE UNDERWORLD, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have lived in the underworld so long Last Line: Grazed the dark waves and shivering further flew. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings IN THE VILLAGE OF YEN SO, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After the dust of the village brick factory Last Line: As she does, staring in at the door Subject(s): Politics; Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 IN TIME OF SUSPENSE, by LAURENCE WHISTLER Poem Source First Line: Draw-to the curtains then, and let it rain Last Line: Blow out the candles - throw the curtains wide! Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii IN WAR, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fret the nonchalant noon Last Line: My brother, our hearts and years. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War INCOMING, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Don't let them kid you Subject(s): Politics & Government; Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 INCOMING, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Don't let them kid you Last Line: The ways they stare through [the] windows in silence Subject(s): Politics; Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 INDEPENDENCE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come all you brave soldiers, both valiant and free Last Line: And from all who'd deprive us of our %liberty Subject(s): American Revolution; Fourth Of July; Freedom; Soldiers; U.s. - Congress; U.s. - Declaration Of Independence INDIAN DAY, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn's cold imperative compels Last Line: The timeless songs of mountain streams Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings INDOLENCE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like a ringdove fat with sun Last Line: Your pleasure is the beast of love Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings INFANTRY, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By day these men ask nothing, and obey Last Line: They take their silent stations for the fight %rum's holy unction makes the dubious bold Subject(s): Army Life; Soldiers' Writings; World War Ii INFANTRY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Over hill and over dale Subject(s): Soldiers INFANTRY - KINGS OF THE HIGHWAY, by SR. R. J. BURT Poem Source First Line: Hike, all you doughboys, pass in review Subject(s): Soldiers INFANTRY, THE INFANTRY WITH DIRT BEHIND THEIR EARS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers INSCRIPTION FOR AN OLD TOMB, by CLIVE SANSOM Poem Source First Line: And when lord death with all his gear Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii INSENSIBILITY, by DOUGLAS GIBSON Poem Source First Line: Death is not indying Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii INSENSIBILITY, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy are men who yet before they are killed Last Line: The eternal reciprocity of tears. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War INSPECTION, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You! What d'you mean by this?' I rapped Last Line: "the race will bear field-marshal god's inspection." Subject(s): Army Life; Soldiers' Writings; War; Drills & Minor Tactics INTERVIEW WITH A GUY NAMED FAWKES, U.S. ARMY, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You tell them this Last Line: Those are the enemy: %waste them all Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 INTRODUCTION AND CONCLUSION OF A LONG POEM, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have gone sometimes by the gates of death Last Line: My resurrection, this my recompense! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War INVOCATION, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come down from heaven to meet me when my breath Last Line: And stillness from the pools of paradise. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War IRON GRAYS, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We twine the wreath of honor Last Line: And the war-torch burns no more Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Soldiers; War - Casualties (statistics, Etc.); World War Ii ISLAND, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watched your houseboat, young patrician Last Line: And these pale girls whose hearts are with the dead Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings IT IS MONSOON AT LAST, by BASIL T. PAQUET Poem Source First Line: The black peak at xuan loc Last Line: Over xuan loc, over me %it is monsoon at last Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 IT WILL NOT LAST, by LAURENCE WHISTLER Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii IT'S A SHORT LIFE WE LIVE HERE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN AGAIN, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have known the most dear that is granted us here Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings IT'S THE SYME THE WHOLE WORLD OVER (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Now, a'nt that a blinkin' shyme! Subject(s): Soldiers J.A.G. SONG, by LENHARDT E. BAUER Poem Source First Line: Here is the saga of the soldiers Subject(s): Soldiers J.K.; SOLDIER OF FORTUNE, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I fitly delineate jimmy Last Line: Of mirth! Subject(s): Soldiers JACK O' THE CUDGEL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the famous town of windsor on a fine summer morn Last Line: And they lived happy together, and free from all care. Subject(s): Courage; Courts & Courtiers; Heroism; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines JAM FACTORY (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, my girl, she works in the jam factory Subject(s): Soldiers JAPAN, -- OLD AND NEW, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The son of a japanese lord am I Last Line: That foreigners brought japan. Subject(s): Art & Artists; China; Japan; Sailing & Sailors; Soldiers; Soul; Japanese JASON AND MEDEA, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night appeared to authorise it Last Line: And in a nest of snakes he courted her Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings JEALOUSY, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I see you, who were so wise and cool Last Line: -- oh, when that time comes, you'll be dirty too! Subject(s): Jealousy; Soldiers' Writings JEEPERS, by CPT. TEDD Poem Source First Line: I'm sure that I shall never peep Subject(s): Soldiers JEZREEL; ON ITS SEIZURE BY THE ENGLISH UNDER ALLENBY, 1918, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did they catch as it were in a vision at shut of day Last Line: Yea, strange things and spectral may men have beheld in jezreel! Subject(s): Allenby, Edmund Henry Hynman (1861-1936); Jezreel, Israel; Soldiers; World War I; Allenby Of Megiddo, First Viscount; First World War JIM, by GEORGE VERE HOBART Poem Text First Line: I hear the drum roll, rub-a-dub, dub Last Line: If jim — poor jim — marched, too! Subject(s): Courage; Death; Grief; Soldiers; War Bonds; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness JIM, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never knew jim, did you? Our boy jim? Last Line: Aren't we, jim? Subject(s): Paris, France; Soldiers JOCK, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a soldier that's been doing of his share Last Line: Of the jocks! Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Boer War; Soldiers; South African War JOHN CHRISTIAN, by WALTER HENDRICKS Poem Text First Line: John christian knew the bible page by page Last Line: By killing christ and spilling human blood. Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Hypocrisy; Religion; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; Theology JOHN ERICSSON DAY MEMORIAL, 1918, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the gulf and the pit of the dark night, the cold night, there is Last Line: Gave -- and gave all. Subject(s): Soldiers JOHN PAUL JONES, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: Tis john paul jones - the janitor's boy Last Line: With never a thought of fame. Subject(s): Jones, John Paul (1747-1792); Love; Soldiers JOURNEY, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were the fore-runners of an army Last Line: Not knowing how you pined Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings JOY-BELLS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ring your sweet bells; but let them be farewells Last Line: Shoulder to shoulder with the motor-bus. Subject(s): Bells; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War JUDGMENT, by LESLIE COULSON Poem Source First Line: So be it, god I take what thou dost give Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I JUNGLE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In mole-blue indolence the sun %plays idly on the stagnant pool Last Line: Or does the will's long struggle end %with the last kindness of a foe or friend? Subject(s): Jungles; Soldiers' Writings JUST THINKING, by HUDSON HAWLEY Poem Source First Line: Standin' up here on the fire-step Subject(s): Soldiers K.P. BLUES, by WHITT HIGHBAUGH Poem Source First Line: I feel blue, I said blue Subject(s): Soldiers K.P. GUY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, k.P. Guy, just guard your eye Subject(s): Soldiers K.P.'S ARE SCRUBBING ALONG, by S. GOIDED Poem Source First Line: Over sinks, over pails Subject(s): Soldiers KARANJE VILLAGE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sweeper said karanje had a temple Last Line: And will she understand Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings KEATS, BEFORE ACTION, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: A little moment more - o, let me hear Last Line: Beauty is truth, truth beauty - that is all, %the very all in all Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry And Poets; Soldiers' Writings; World War I KEEP INNOCENCY, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like an old battle, youth is wild Last Line: The flame death knows his victors by. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Soldiers KEEP IT CLEAN, by GRANT A. SAUNDERS Poem Source First Line: Oh, let your songs be silent Subject(s): Soldiers KEEP THEM ROLLING, by GERALD JOSEPH GRIFFIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Can't you hear the bugles blowing from the 'paulings in the park? Subject(s): Soldiers KELLY OF THE LEGION, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now kelly was no fighter Last Line: Tis kelly leads the way. Subject(s): Paris, France; Soldiers; War KENTISH LINES IN WAR, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A saddle cornfield burnished van gogh-bright Last Line: And rides the evening on a loosened rein. Subject(s): Army Life; Fights; Soldiers; War; Drills & Minor Tactics KI-WI SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, we don't have to fight like the infantry Subject(s): Soldiers KILLED IN ACTION, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My father lived his three-score years, my son Last Line: Who shall declare which gift conveyed the greater heritage? Subject(s): Death; Military; Soldiers; War; Dead, The KILLED IN ACTION, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your 'youth' has fallen from its shelf Last Line: In inadvertence let you die. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings KINDLINESS, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When love has changed to kindliness Last Line: And love has changed to kindliness. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings KING HENRY V AND THE HERMIT OF DREUX, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He past unquestioned through the camp Last Line: Upon his dying day. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Henry V, King Of England (1387-1422); Hermits; Punishment; Repentance; Sickness; Soldiers; War; English History; Penitence; Illness KINGS, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The kings of the earth are men of might Last Line: Let them think of him to-day! Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War KINSHIP, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In summer time, with high imaginings Last Line: Oh would we not have paradise to-day? Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Soldiers; War; Dead, The KITCHEN KOPS, by D. D. Poem Source First Line: I thinks that I shall never see Subject(s): Soldiers KITCHEN POLICE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: K-k-k-k-p Subject(s): Soldiers LADY IN BLACK, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And then you can speak to him tidy %lady in black Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings LAMENT, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh absalom, beloved, what can I say Last Line: To blow on these ashes and kindle my flame Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings LAMENT, by WILLIAM N. OATIS Poem Source First Line: I put in for a c.D.D Subject(s): Soldiers LAMENTATIONS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I found him in the guard-room at the base Last Line: Such men have lost all patriotic feeling. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; War; World War I; First World War LANCE CORPORAL PURDUE GRACE, U.S.M.C., by BRYAN ALEC FLOYD Poem Source First Line: He went home when the new replacemenst arrived Last Line: Some people swim. %and some people go in boats Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LAND WITHOUT GRIEF, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: Sundays they went skiing on the mountain Last Line: Probed by descending cars with lighted beams Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History LARABELLE; CANTO THIRD, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blow that lays the soldier on the plain Last Line: No trace is found of worthy johny green. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Grief; Soldiers; War; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness LAST LINES, by ROBERT E. STERLING Poem Source First Line: Ah! Hate like this would freeze our human tears Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I LAST POEMS: SONNET 1, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sidney, in whom the heyday of romance Last Line: To my three idols -- love and arms and song. Variant Title(s): Sonnet To Sidney Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War LAST POEMS: SONNET 10, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have sought happiness, but it has been Last Line: Amid the clash of arms I was at peace. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War LAST POEMS: SONNET 11. ON RETURNING TO THE FRONT AFTER LEAVE, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Apart sweet women (for whom heaven be blessed) Last Line: That world of cowards, hypocrites, and fools. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War LAST POEMS: SONNET 12, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Clouds rosy-tinted in the setting sun Last Line: New masterpieces of more rare romance. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings LAST POEMS: SONNET 2, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not that I always struck the proper mean Last Line: Has come and scattered all my path with flowers. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings LAST POEMS: SONNET 3, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why should you be astonished that my heart Last Line: To live and dream and have my joy in yours. Subject(s): Love; Soldiers' Writings LAST POEMS: SONNET 4. TO ... IN CHURCH, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I was drawn here from a distant place Last Line: And I confess it by adoring you. Subject(s): Churches; Love; Soldiers' Writings; Cathedrals LAST POEMS: SONNET 5, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seeing you have not come with me, nor spent Last Line: And be a power to cheer and fortify. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings LAST POEMS: SONNET 6, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, you are more desirable to me Last Line: Shall drink its last of earthly happiness. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings LAST POEMS: SONNET 7, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There have been times when I could storm and plead Last Line: For that stern part that I have yet to play. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings LAST POEMS: SONNET 8, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, love of woman, you are known to be Last Line: Love only tells it what true torture is. Subject(s): Love; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War LAST POEMS: SONNET 9, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well, seeing I have no hope, then let us part Last Line: Your low, sweet voice, your smile, and your dear eyes. Subject(s): Love; Soldiers' Writings LAWRENCE AND LUDLOW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Relics of the fallen brave! Last Line: "noble is the hero's name, / glory claims it as her own!" Subject(s): "death;heroism;lawrence, James (1781-1813);memory;soldiers;trinity Churchyard (new York);" "dead, The;heroes;heroines; LE GRENIER, by ROBERTSON TROWBRIDGE Poem Text First Line: Here is the street-the house is standing yet! Last Line: And all the world to win, at twenty years! Subject(s): Army Life; Broadway, New York City; Courage; Marching & Marches; New York City - 19th Century; Soldiers; Drills & Minor Tactics; Valor; Bravery LE POMMIER DOUX, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: An apple tree there groweth Subject(s): Love;soldiers LEAD SOLDIERS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The nursery fire burns brightly Subject(s): Toys; Soldiers LEAVE, O LEAVE THEM WHERE THEY FELL, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From their far hesperides Last Line: Leave, o leave them where they fell! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): France; Soldiers; United States; War; America LEAVING POMEROY; MRS. GRESHAM, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: Running away is something children do Last Line: That suddenly I feared what I had chosen Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History LEGEND, by ANNE MCCLURE Poem Text First Line: Embattled japanese in furious wrath Last Line: With blood so spilt a thousand years ago. Subject(s): Japan; Soldiers; Japanese LEIPSYDRION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "ah, leipsydrion, thou hast betrayed them" Last Line: Stout fighters of no common clay Subject(s): Betrayal;soldiers LES CHATIMENTS: 1. TO PASSIVE OBEDIENCE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sons of the year two! Wars waking epic chords! Last Line: With finger towards the skies. Subject(s): France; French Revolution (1789); Patriotism; Soldiers; War LESSONS, by JAN BARRY Poem Source First Line: What's a patriot, dad? Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LESSONS OF THE WAR: 1. NAMING OF PARTS, by HENRY REED Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Today we have naming of parts. Yesterday Subject(s): Guns; Men; Soldiers; World War Ii; Second World War LESSONS OF THE WAR: 1. NAMING OF PARTS, by HENRY REED Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today we have naming of parts. Yesterday Last Line: Silent in all of the gardens and the bees going backwards and forwards, %for to-day we have naming o Subject(s): Guns; Men; Soldiers; World War Ii LEST WE FORGET - 1926, by CURTIS WHEELER Poem Text First Line: Lest we forget! / the months swing into years Last Line: Lest we forget! Subject(s): Holidays; Soldiers' Writings; Veterans Day LEST YOU FORGET, by EMANUEL LITVINOFF Poem Source First Line: When the toll is heavy Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii LET THE WARM AIR CONDENSE ON THE WINDOW, by IVAN HARGRAVE Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii LETTER FROM THE CAPE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across seven thousand miles of sea and time Last Line: And you shall turn the key, my sweet, and rest Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings LETTER TO A LIVE POET, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, since the last elizabethan died Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings LETTER TO NO ADDRESS, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: Another winter holds the town at bay Last Line: Its restoration under winter skies Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History LETTER; TO A NORTH VIETNAMESE SOLDIER, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thought you killed me Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LETTER; TO A NORTH VIETNAMESE SOLDIER, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thought you killed me Last Line: Do not let it all come down %to nothing Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LETTERS AND DIARY, SELS., by ALAN SEEGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Another participant in the attack upon belloy-en-santerre Subject(s): Diaries; Holidays; Soldiers' Writings; Veterans Day LEVEL MIND, by ALEXANDER COMFORT Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii LEWIE GORDON, by ALEXANDER GEDDES Poem Text First Line: O send lewie gordon hame Last Line: Ohone! My highlandman. Subject(s): Scotland - Relations With England; Soldiers LIBBY PRISON, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down south the libby prison stood Last Line: To mark their resting place. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Soldiers LIBIDO, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How should I know? The enormous wheels of will Last Line: Quieter than a dead man on a bed. Subject(s): Desire; Soldiers' Writings LIBYA, by L. CHALLONER Poem Source First Line: Where is the splendour alexander found Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii LIEBSTOD, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I who, conceived beneath another star Last Line: Our manhood faultless and our honor clean. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War LIFE, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: A child is born Last Line: On the stone of the door-sill Subject(s): Death, Return From; Future Life; Soldiers LIFE, DEATH, AND LOVE, by ALEXANDER GORDON COWIE Poem Source First Line: Life! Ah, life is a tangled webbe Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I LIGHT AFTER DARKNESS, by EDWARD WYNDHAM TENNANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the night, like some great dark drop-scene Last Line: The broken heralds of a doleful day. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War LILI MARLEEN (WITH MUSIC), by HANS LEIP Poem Source First Line: In front of the barracks, right near the heavy gate Subject(s): Soldiers LINE AFTER LINE, by PETER BAKER Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii LINES IN PRAISE OF TOMMY ATKINS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Success to tommy atkins, he's a very brave man Last Line: For remember tommy atkins is a very useful man. Subject(s): Heroism; Praise; Soldiers; Heroes; Heroines LINES ON A TUDOR MANSION, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slim sunburnt girls adorn Last Line: Will perpetuate our vision %who die young Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings LINES ON A YOUNG GIRL, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To see the intolerant toss of her silken head Last Line: When young boys tap the well-spring of her pity Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings LINES ON JOE LOCKE, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As for locke, he is all in my eye Last Line: "but the latter's well known ""to report." Subject(s): Locke, Joseph Lorenzo (1808-1864); Soldiers LINES TO A DISCONSOLATE BUDDY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Well, if you've lost your sweetheart, bill Subject(s): Soldiers LINES UPON THE DEATH OF CHARLEY DU BIGNON, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The years of manhood had not tinged Last Line: The laurel wreath of fame. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Soldiers; United States - History; Dead, The LINES WRITTEN IN A FIRE-TRENCH, by WALTER SCOTT STUART LYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis midnight, and above the hollow trench Last Line: The tense, packed faces in the black redoubt. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War LITTLE DOG'S DAY, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All in the town were still asleep Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings LITTLE DREAMS, by JOSEPH MILLS HANSON Poem Source First Line: Now france is a pleasant land to know Subject(s): Soldiers LOCHABER NO MORE, by NEIL MUNRO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell to lochaber, farewell to the glen Last Line: For thou wilt return to lochaber no more! Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I - Scotland LOFTY IN THE PALAIS DE DANSE, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are not random picked. I tell you you Last Line: Out of the dark, and you can't turn them out Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Soldiers LONDON, 1940, by ALAN ROOK Poem Source First Line: Lonely now this unreal city of desperate hopes Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii LONG TIME AGO, by LEON BLACK Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers LORD ROBERTS, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Nestor of happy warriors, blest was he Last Line: Shall come hereafter for comparison. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Memory; Roberts, Frederick Sleigh (1832-1914); Soldiers; Tyranny & Tyrants; Dead, The; Paradise; Dictators LORD ROBERTS, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: He came, he saw, he conquered; though his heart Last Line: The idol of his country and his queen. Subject(s): England; Fathers & Sons; Roberts, Frederick Sleigh (1832-1914); Soldiers; English LOTUS TEA, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Last night in ha noi Last Line: His face disappears in the tea like a river Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LOUSE HUNTING, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nudes - stark and glistening Last Line: Blown from sleep's trumpet. Subject(s): Army Life; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Drills & Minor Tactics; First World War LOUSE SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Wrap both your elbows up around your neck Subject(s): Soldiers LOVE, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is a breach in the walls, a broken gate Last Line: All this is love; and all love is but this. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings LOVE AND LUST, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No dream of mortal joy Last Line: Finding love waqs lust Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings LOVE AND LUST, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No dream of mortal joy Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings LOVE AND YOUTH AND WAR, by DERRICK NORMAN LEHMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love and youth to the war they sent Last Line: When love and youth to the war have gone? Subject(s): Hate; Love; Murder; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; World War I; Youth; First World War LOVE LANGUAGE OF A MERRY YOUNG SOLDIER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o gretel, my dove, my heart's trumpet" Last Line: Into my heart's barrack yard Subject(s): Love;soldiers LOVE OF LIFE, by JOHN W. STREETS Poem Source First Line: Reach out thy hands, thy spirit's hands, to me Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I LOVE WAS THE WORM, by JOHN+(3) HALL Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii LYDIA PINKHAM (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Let us sing of lydia pinkham and how she Subject(s): Soldiers LZ GATOR BODY COLLECTOR, by MICHAEL CASEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: See %her back is arched Last Line: I didn't mind %I had gloves on then Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 M. E. MEDLEY, by J. BROOME Poem Source First Line: Everywhere %radios blare Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii M.P., by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The m.P.'s, the m.P.'s with side-arms up and down Subject(s): Soldiers MADE IN HA NOI, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They live in different light Last Line: Lovers hurry back from fields Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MADEMOISELLE FROM ARMENTIERES (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers MADMAN, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shattered crystal of his mind Last Line: And the maddening ultimate beauty of the dreamed angelic faces Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings MADONNA IN FLANDERS, by ERNEST HARTSOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drunk as the glamor of disgrace Last Line: Hell's joke is heaven's epitaph. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Hell; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; Women In The Bible; Dead, The; Paradise; Virgin Mary MAGDALEN, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sword, whose blade has ne'er been wet Last Line: The loved, the lovely magdalen. Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Greece; Love - Complaints; Soldiers; Greeks MAHRATTA GHATS, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The valleys crack and burn, the exhausted plains Last Line: And did a thousand years go by in vain? %and does another thousand start again? Subject(s): India; Soldiers' Writings; Travel; World War Ii MAJOR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: He's crushed between the colonel, and the captain down Subject(s): Soldiers MAKATOOB, SELS., by ALAN SEEGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When to the last assault our bugles blow Subject(s): Religion; Soldiers' Writings MAKING THE CHILDREN BEHAVE, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do they think of me now Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MAKING THE CHILDREN BEHAVE, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Do they think of me now Last Line: That awaits misbehavior, %is it me they conjure? Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MAKTOOB, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A shell surprised our post one day Last Line: And wisdom of the east. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War MAN, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weak and puny, small and frail Last Line: Made him master of the world! Subject(s): Fights; Men; Soldiers; Strength MAN AND BEAST, by CLIFFORD DYMENT Poem Source Poem Explanation First Line: Hugging the ground by the lilac tree Last Line: Who is it sins now, those eyes say, %you the hunter, or I the prey? Subject(s): Birds; Soldiers; World War Ii MANEUVER SONG, by IRVING BRICKMAN Poem Source First Line: Is this the army, general ben? Subject(s): Soldiers MANHATTAN ARMING, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First o songs for a prelude Last Line: But now you smile with joy exulting old mannahatta. Variant Title(s): Drum-taps Subject(s): American Civil War; New York City - 19th Century; Soldiers; United States - History MANNER OF ITS DEATH, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And customs at 'st. James'! Variant Title(s): Poem: 468; Poem: 60 Subject(s): Andre, John (1750-1780); Death; Soldiers MANY, by AGUSTI BARTRA Poem Source First Line: Many %of those many who rose up Last Line: Many of those many who rose up Subject(s): Death; Graves; Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; War Injuries MARATHON, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stern marathon! The mountains view thee yet Last Line: For those who perished there—but not in vain! Subject(s): Death; Greece; Marathon, Greece; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Greeks MARCH OF THE ARMORED CORPS (WITH MUSIC), by BEATRICE AVER PATTON Poem Source First Line: We're uncle samuel's men of the greating forces Subject(s): Soldiers MARCH OF THE SINGANLEERS, by ROLLAND D. SNUFFER Poem Source First Line: There's tramp-tramp-tramping on the high highways Subject(s): Soldiers MARCHING (AS SEEN FROM THE LEFT FILE), by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My eyes catch ruddy necks Last Line: On strong eyes. Subject(s): Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War MARINE CORPS FLYING SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Take me somewhere east of ewa Subject(s): Soldiers MARRIAGE OF EARTH AND SPRING, by IVAR CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: Now wedded earth puts on her splendid dress Subject(s): Earth; Soldiers; World War I MARTIAL ELEGY FOR SOME LEAD SOLDIERS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For certain soldiers lately dead Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Soldiers MARY AND GABRIEL, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young mary, loitering once her garden way Last Line: The air was colder, and grey. She stood alone. Subject(s): Bible; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Soldiers' Writings; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Theology MARY LESLIE; BEFORE VITTORIA, JUNE 20, 1813, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mary leslie, blithe and shrill Last Line: That clean cup to my mouth! Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Napoleonic Wars; Soldiers; Spain; Vittoria, Spain; War MASSES, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the end of the battle Last Line: Embraced the first man; and began to walk Subject(s): Brotherhood; Courage; Hearts; Soldiers; War MATEY (CAMBRIN, MAY 1915), by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not comin' back tonight, matey Last Line: But gawd! It went through me 'eart. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Grief; Soldiers; War; World War I; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; First World War MATURITY, by PATRICIA LEDWARD Poem Source First Line: Once the wind was a gray-eyed companion Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii ME, AN' WAR GOIN' ON, by JOHN PALMER CUMMING Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers MEDICO, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: He's just a human question mark; for nerve he can't be beat Subject(s): Soldiers MEDICS SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When johnny goes marching to the front Subject(s): Soldiers MEDICS' CHANT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Get out that old broken tibia Subject(s): Soldiers MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 5. THE ROAD AT MY DOOR, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An affable irregular, / a heavily built falstaffian man Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions; Soldiers MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 5. THE ROAD AT MY DOOR, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An affable irregular, %a heavily built falstaffian man Last Line: And turn towards my chamber, caught %in the cold snows of a dream Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions; Soldiers MEMORIAL, by DALE GUHL Poem Text First Line: Decoration day - and graves of soldiers Last Line: A real memorial to them -- peace. Subject(s): Soldiers MEMORIAL DAY, by FLORIA DORIA Poem Text First Line: The dead immortal! They are the ones whom we honor today Last Line: To the ashes of our mourned and lost immortal youths! Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; Dead, The; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Again it is memorial day Last Line: On decoration day. Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; Veterans; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines; Declaration Day MEMORIAL VERSES: 2. GOKHALE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heroic heart! Lost hope of all our days! Last Line: Upbuild the temple of her unity. Subject(s): Courage; Death; Heroism; India; Memory; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines MEMORIAL, 1914-1918, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Against this lantern, shrill, alone Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Soldiers MEMORIES, by EDWARD HILTON YOUNG Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Far up at glorian the wind is sighing Last Line: Nor pay the debt I owe. Alternate Author Name(s): Kennet Of The Dene, 1st Baron Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War MEMORIES OF BRAGG AND KLEIN, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All this was fine, you said Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict (1961-1975) MEMORY, by ARTHUR NEWBERRY CHOYCE Poem Text First Line: I know a lone spot on the arras road Last Line: If I could bear to walk that road again. Alternate Author Name(s): Choyce, A. Newberry Subject(s): Death; Memory; Soldiers; War; Dead, The MEN OF THE BLOOD AND MIRE, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON Poem Source First Line: We whom the draft rejected Subject(s): Soldiers MEN WITHOUT WOMEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Why is it that from yonder tower Subject(s): Soldiers MENELAUS AND HELEN, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hot through troy's ruin menelaus broke Last Line: And paris slept on by scamander side. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Soldiers' Writings; Trojan War; World War I; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; First World War MENTAL CASES, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Who are these? Why sit they here in twilight? Last Line: Pawing us who dealt them war and madness. Subject(s): Insanity; Soldiers' Writings; War Injuries; World War I; Madness; Mental Illness; First World War MERCENARY, by ARCHILOCHUS Poem Source First Line: I don't give a damn if some thracian ape strut Last Line: I kept my hide intact. Good shields can be bought Alternate Author Name(s): Archilochos Subject(s): Soldiers MERMAID (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Twas friday morn when we set sail, and we were not far from Subject(s): Soldiers MESOPOTAMIA, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They shall not return to us, the resolute, the young Last Line: Shall we leave it unabated in its place? Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I MESS SERGEANT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: He's up too gol-darn to rout out his poor k.P.-s Subject(s): Soldiers METROPOLIS, by JOHN+(3) HALL Poem Source First Line: I dreamt that suddenly the metropolitan sky Last Line: Louder and louder - the creed, curse, cry %of men in history Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii MEXICO IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY; FOUR STUDIES IN NATURALISM, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Butterflies, over the map Subject(s): Mexico; Butterflies; Mangoes; Soldiers; Nature; Old Age MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not woman-faced and sweet, as look Last Line: Splendid beyond comparison! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Angels; Michael, The Archangel; Saints; Soldiers; Michael, Saint MID-WINTER, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old dafydd, eyes like bloodhound's red with age Last Line: And the river runs again with gladness to the sea Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings MIDDAY SWIM - MERSA MATRUH, by P. W. R. RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: It's twelve o'clock, and the yellow sun stands high Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii MIDNIGHT IN INDIA, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is no mined and cratered deep Last Line: And watch this last effulgent world arise Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings MIDNIGHT THOUGHTS AT THE CLOSE OF 1864, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark and lone, at midnight sitting Last Line: Of peace to all. Hail, infant year! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Civil War; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; War MIDNIGHT, THE CUU LONG, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The top floor, saigon's grand hotel Last Line: The trung sisters and tran hung dao Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MIDNIGHT: 1917, by MARY CRAIG SINCLAIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I drink my blood in secret grief, I weep Last Line: When hate has loosed its hounds of hell and death! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinclair, Upton, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Hate; Social Protest; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; War; Sorrow; Sadness MIDSUMMER FROST (1), by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A july ghost, aghast at the strange winter Last Line: Stabbed by life's jealous eyes. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Soldiers' Writings; Separation; Isolation MIDSUMMER FROST (2), by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A july ghost, aghast at the strange winter Last Line: Unvexed by july's warm eyes. Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Soldiers' Writings; Separation; Isolation MILITARY DRILL, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While the clouds float calm and free Last Line: Gouts of blood burn ghastly bright! Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Cruelty; Military; Murder; Social Protest; Soldiers; War MILITARY HARPIST, by RUTH PITTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Strangely assorted, the shape of song and the bloody man Last Line: Strangely assorted, the shape of song and the bloody man Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Soldiers MINE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old man,' the captain blustered Last Line: "and this field, sir, is mine." Subject(s): Soldiers MINERS, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a whispering in my hearth Last Line: Left in the ground. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War MINES, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In vietnam I was always afraid of mines Last Line: Front, put the leg down, like swimming Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MINIATURE ON A BOOK OF HOURS, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The grass so green, the sky so blue Last Line: Creavisti, domine; gauddeamus igitur Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings MIRROR, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It glimmers like a wakeful lake in the dusk narrowing room Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings MISERERE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It's a hard life and a weary one Subject(s): Soldiers MISSING, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How you put those dots together and got beethoven Last Line: Searching the sky where already you'd [or, you had] disappeared Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MISSING, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: They told me nothing more: I bow my head Last Line: Tell me he's rotting in a place abhorred - %not this, not this, o lord! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I MODERN ART, by ERNESTINE HARA Poem Text First Line: Arms awry Last Line: To a picnic? .... Subject(s): Soldiers; War MODERN HINKY-DINK, by ELSIE JANIS Poem Source First Line: Listen you sons of my old pals Subject(s): Soldiers MOMA POEMS IN TIME OF THE PLAGUE: 2. CHRIST MOCKED BY SOLDIE, by THOMAS AVENA Poem Source First Line: Buffoons %distorted as potatoes Last Line: Do something, anything Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Soldiers MONKEY, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am you are he she it is Last Line: Men run up hill. Run down hill Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MONOLOGUE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, will you come Last Line: Your narrow bed will soon %be white with snow Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings MORGAN STANWOOD; CAPE ANN, 1775, by HIRAM RICH Poem Text First Line: Morgan stanwood, patriot! Last Line: After all, we meet. Subject(s): American Revolution; Soldiers MORNING - A DEATH, by BASIL T. PAQUET Poem Source First Line: I've blown up your chest for thirty minutes Last Line: I'd so much rather be making children, %than tucking so many in Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MORNING AFTER THE BARRAGE AT EL ALAMEIN, by F. E. HUGHES Poem Source First Line: There's a devil in the dawn Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii MORNING EXPRESS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along the windswept platform, pinched and white Last Line: Who sped them stand to wave a last farewell. Subject(s): Railroads; Soldiers' Writings; Railways; Trains MORNING GLORY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this meadow starred with spring Last Line: Sleeps below the crimson thorn. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings MORNING-LAND, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old english songs, you bring to me Last Line: Clattering about the dairy floor. Subject(s): Morning; Soldiers' Writings MORTAR SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: We own the weapon that nobody loves Subject(s): Soldiers MORVA (TO THE MEMORY OF COLONEL OWEN VAUGHAN - OWEN RHOSCOMYL), by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the moon by morva Last Line: And the world's great songs be made. Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Death; Memory; Rest; Soldiers; Wales; Dead, The; Welshmen; Welshwomen MOSES: A PLAY, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pharaoh's desires Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings MOTHER AND CHILD AT THE CAPITOL; JUNE, 1921, by GRACE GUILLE PURSE Poem Text First Line: Where is the soldier? The unknown Last Line: Brings not its gift in vain! Subject(s): Capitol, Washington, D.c.; Death; Graves; Mothers; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; Washington, D.c.; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones MOTHER, TAKE IN YOUR SERVICE FLAG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, mother, take in your service flag Subject(s): Soldiers MOTIFS, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tide is slack in equipoise Last Line: And would forget you, if I could, my dear Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings MOTION WE CANNOT SEE, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: We found the path somewhat as it had been Last Line: Though it bears our blood almost forever Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History MOTOR SCHOOL SONG, by HARLAN MCNEIL Poem Source First Line: We keep 'em rolling, we never fail Subject(s): Soldiers MOTORIZED FIELD ARTILLERY SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Over hill, over dale, motorized from head to tail Subject(s): Soldiers MOUNT VERNON, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still stands the mansion; still before it sweeps Last Line: Beloved he died, at peace with god and man. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; Dead, The MOUNTAIN OVER ABERDARE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From this high quarried ledge I see Last Line: This wet evening, in a lost age Subject(s): Aberdare, Wales; Soldiers' Writings MOURN FOR THE BRAVE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, mourn for the brave Last Line: Upon the battle-plain! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Courage; Death; Heroism; Mourning; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines; Bereavement MOURNING THE DEATH, BY HEMORRHAGE, OF A CHILD FROM HONAI, by BASIL T. PAQUET Poem Source First Line: Always the children are included %in these battles for the body politic Last Line: And after the first death, the many must go %unmourned Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MOVIES FOR THE TROOPS, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In hollywood the pale white stars Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Soldiers; War; Movies; Cinema MR. GIAI'S POEM, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The french ships shelled haiphong then took the port Last Line: All four as quiet as if carved in ivory. Subject(s): Indochinese War, 1946-1954; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MULAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Tsiek tsiek and again tsiek tsiek Last Line: How can I tell if I am he or she? Subject(s): Homecoming; Identity; Soldiers; Women MULE SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: No matter what you teach a mule Subject(s): Soldiers MULVANEY AND ANOTHER, by JOHN A. MOROSO Poem Text First Line: Mary ann swabbed down the stairs Last Line: Of him who had loved mary ann. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; War; Dead, The MUMMIA, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As those of old drank mummia Last Line: Love, that our love be this! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings MUNUSCULUM, by WHEATON H. BREWER Poem Text First Line: Truly your gift was the gift of a friend Last Line: Echoes of you arise and call to me. Subject(s): Friendship; Soldiers MUSING ON A GREAT SOLDIER, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fear? Yes ... I heard you saying Last Line: Tis time for us to weep. Subject(s): Soldiers MUTABILITY, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say there's a high windless world and strange Last Line: South kensington -- makaweli, 1913 Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings MUTINY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That blazing galleon the sun Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Soldiers MY DAYS, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My days are but the tombs of buried hours Last Line: For in their works their life returns again. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings MY HERO; TO ROBERT GOULD SHAW, by BENJAMIN GRIFFITH BRAWLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flushed with the hope of high desire Last Line: And galahad to me. Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers 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 SISTER, SHE WORKS IN A LAUNDRY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers MY SON, by ADA TYRRELL Poem Text First Line: Here is his little cambric frock Last Line: My son, and bring him safely back to me! Subject(s): Fear; Military; Mothers & Sons; Reunions; Soldiers; World War I; First World War MY SOUL IS ROBBED BY YOUR MOST TREACHEROUS EYES, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And takes unto itself the strangest of strange lands Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings MY WILD EYED CADET, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers NAMELESS MEN, by EDWARD SHILLITO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Around me when I wake or sleep Last Line: The men who watch and die for me. Subject(s): Death; Redemption; Soldiers; War; Dead, The NEARER, by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nearer and ever nearer Last Line: Receive this little breath. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War NEGRO SOLDIERS, by ROSCOE C. JAMISON Poem Text First Line: These truly are the brave Last Line: That those who mock might find a better way! Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Soldiers NEUTRAL, by WRENNE JARMAN Poem Source First Line: As I was walking in the park Subject(s): Blackbirds; Soldiers; World War Ii NEW AENEID, by ALEXANDER ROBERTSON Poem Source First Line: These waters saw the gilded galleys come Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I NEW GUY, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I saw girls squatting against the wall Last Line: Like angels speaking in tongues Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 NEW LEARNING, by IAN SERRAILLIER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With hatred now all lips and wings Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii NEWS OF SUFFERING, by CLIFFORD DYMENT Poem Source First Line: Shouldering a way through crowds Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii NEWS UPDATE; FOR ERHART, GITTLESON, FLYNN & STONE, HAPILY DEAD & GONE, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Well, here I am in the centre daily times Last Line: Oh, big sighs. Windy sighs. And ghostly laughter. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Death; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The NEXT MORNING, by E. ARMINE WODEHOUSE Poem Text First Line: Today the sun shines bright Last Line: There, with the setting of the sun! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War NEXT STEP, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The next step you take Last Line: The next step Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 NHAT DA TRACH: ONE NIGHT SWAMP, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That night princess tien dung Last Line: Impenetrable swamp, sea beasts surrounding their boats, %strange birds hovering above Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 NIGHT AND DAY: 1. IN THE WORKSHOP, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dim watery lights gleaming on gibbering faces Last Line: Grazed the dark waves and shivering further flew. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings NIGHT AND DAY: 4, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wander - I wander - o will she wander here Last Line: Near. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings NIGHT DUST-OFF, by BASIL T. PAQUET Poem Source First Line: A sound like hundreds of barbers Last Line: Moving in the beaten night Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 NIGHT FLARE DROP, TEN SON NHUT, by HORACE COLEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is tet %some vietnamese excuse for fireworks Last Line: Like the vc - always comes back Alternate Author Name(s): Shaka Aku Shango Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 NIGHT IN WAR TIME, by WALTER LIGHTOWLER WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: Night and night's menace: death hath forged a dart Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I NIGHT PATROL, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Another night coats the nose and ears Last Line: Nervous fingers hit the safety catch Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 NIGHT SOWERS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, these are they that toil by night Last Line: The dews of peace perennial! Subject(s): Death; Night; Peace; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Bedtime NIGHT-PIECE, by ROBERT GREACEN Poem Source First Line: After the spools of talk are each unravelled Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii NIGHT-PIECE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye hooded witches, baleful shapes that moan Last Line: Stirs to the voice of everlasting sleep. Subject(s): Night; Soldiers' Writings; Bedtime NIGHTINGALE IN THE EAST, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: On a dark lonely night on the crimea's dread shore Last Line: One of heaven's best gifts is miss nightingale Subject(s): Death;love;nurses;soldiers; "dead, The; NIGHTS IN NHA TRANG, by JAN BARRY Poem Source First Line: The girls, %the girls of nha trang Last Line: One %saigon tea? Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 NIMROD IN SEPTEMBER, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When half the drowsy world's a-bed Last Line: Huge clamour in the sultry brakes. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings NO FOOLING, by DON LEARNARD Poem Source First Line: Top kick is a mighty man Subject(s): Soldiers NO MAN'S LAND, by JAMES HARRY KNIGHT-ADKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No man's land is an eerie sight Last Line: Is hunting for blood in no man's land. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; First World War 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 NO QUARTER, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Spare my life!' a german cried Last Line: "il n'y a pas moyen""—so he flew him." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Murder; Soldiers NOAH, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When old noah stared across the floods Last Line: Earth was saved; and noah danced a jig. Subject(s): Noah (bible); Soldiers' Writings NOCTURNE, by EDWARD DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Be thou at peace this night Subject(s): Soldiers NOCTURNE, by IVAN HARGRAVE Poem Source First Line: Clusters of spongy clouds quietly Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii 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 lived—but only how they died!" Subject(s): Death; Sacrifices; Soldiers; World War I; Dead, The; First World War NOT REVENGE - BUT THESE, by EMANUEL LITVINOFF Poem Source First Line: Is my wrath splendid? Yet I become Last Line: God, only these Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii NOVEMBER, by SOPHIE TUNNELL Poem Text First Line: The nuts are dropping in the wood Last Line: In november. Subject(s): Death; Holidays; November; Soldiers; Veterans Day; War; Dead, The NOVEMBER 11TH, by FRANK E. CAMPBELL Poem Text First Line: This day three years ago Last Line: "this great ""unknown"" acclaim ..." Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Peace; Soldiers; Unknown Soldier; Veterans Day; War; Dead, The NUI BA DEN: BLACK VIRGIN MOUNTAIN, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In dreams you've returned before Last Line: Nui ba den, home %at last Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 NUN IN NINH HOA, by JAN BARRY Poem Source First Line: It was quite a sight for a boy from tennessee Last Line: He grinned - shivered - then softly swore: %'jeesus! How'd we get in this crazy place?' Subject(s): Nuns; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 O NOBLE DEAD, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: O noble dead who rest beneath the sod Last Line: And honor thee. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Honor; Soldiers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones O THOU, GOD OF ALL, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion; Soldiers' Writings O WAE BE TO THE ORDERS THAT MARCHED MY LUVE AWA', by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: O they hae nae winsome luve like mine in the wars o' germanie! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): War; Germany; Soldiers; Farewell OAK LEAVES COME QUITE CHEAP, by A. A. IMBERMAN Poem Text First Line: Here lies giovanni Last Line: Sic transit gloria mundi. Subject(s): Death; Italy; Soldiers; Tyranny & Tyrants; War; Dead, The; Italians; Dictators OBSERVATION POST: FORWARD AREA, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The thorns are bleached and brittle Last Line: Death lives here now Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings OBSERVER'S LAMENT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I want to go home, I want to go home! Subject(s): Soldiers OCTOBER, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the land a faint blue veil of mist Last Line: Whereof ye nevermore shall be possessed. Subject(s): October; Soldiers' Writings OCTOBER CORN, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Rusty soldiers Last Line: You have won the battle. Subject(s): Soldiers; War ODE, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God save the rights of man Last Line: Her hearts of oak! Subject(s): Freedom; French Revolution (1789); Genet, Edmond Charles (1763-1834); Soldiers; Liberty ODE (IN HONOR OF THE BRAVERY AND SACRIFICES OF SOLDIERS OF THE SOUTH), by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With bayonets slanted in the glittering sun Last Line: Across those lonely desolated graves! Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Courage; Soldiers; United States - History; Confederacy; Valor; Bravery ODE III.II: HORACE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let the boy, timber-tough from vigorous soldering Last Line: Though he has the head start, and her step is hesitant Subject(s): Soldiers; Death ODE IN MEMORY OF THE AMERICAN VOLUNTEERS FALLEN FOR FRANCE, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, it is fitting on this holiday Last Line: For you have died for france and vindicated us. Variant Title(s): America And France Subject(s): Americans In France; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War ODE TO THE DODGER DEAD, by LEIGH PALMER Poem Source First Line: Our clothesline parallels the union line Last Line: The lion's corpse becomes a honeycomb Subject(s): American Civil War; Civil War; Death; Graves; Soldiers; U.s. - History; War - Casualties (statistics, Etc.) ODE WRITTEN IN [THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR] 1746, by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sleep the brave, who sink to rest Last Line: To dwell a weeping hermit there! Variant Title(s): The Sleep Of The Brave;how Sleep The Brave Subject(s): England; Freedom; Heroism; Holidays; Memorial Day; Peace; Soldiers; English; Liberty; Heroes; Heroines; Declaration Day ODE: OUR CITY BY THE SEA, by WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our city by the sea Last Line: To his temple let us throng -- %praise and pray Subject(s): American Civil War; Courage; Heroism; Soldiers; U.s. - History ODE: THE SOLDIER, by CONFUCIUS Poem Text First Line: I climbed the barren mountain Last Line: Though the dead lie far away. Alternate Author Name(s): Chung-ni; K'ung Ch'iu Subject(s): Soldiers ODI ET AMO, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did the fingers of the hand Last Line: With all the unbearable beauty of the dead Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings ODYSSEY, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we sailed homewards burning embers Last Line: To ithaca, and shiver with delight Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings OFFICER AT TONG PASS, by TU FU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Such bustling hubbub, as our troops Last Line: Do instruct the general guarding the pass %not to follow the model of ge-shu han Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): China - Civil Wars; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Soldiers OFFISA POPP; A MANEUVER IN CLASS WARFARE, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My father suited up Last Line: A goddam plowshare Subject(s): Fathers; Guns; Soldiers OH! OH! OH! IT'S A LOVELY WAR!, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Up to our waist in water Subject(s): Soldiers OH, ROLL YOUR LEG OVER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Now, this is the story Subject(s): Soldiers OH, WHAT A HORRIBLE MORNING, by JOE SCHNEIDER Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers OH, WHAT A NIGHT (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hi shoes were on the mantle piece Subject(s): Soldiers OH, YEA?, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, uncle sam, he pays the infantry Subject(s): Soldiers OK CORRAL EAST - BROTHERS IN THE NAM, by HORACE COLEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sgt. Christopher and I are %in khanh hoi down by the docks Last Line: We know who owns the night %and carry darkness with us Alternate Author Name(s): Shaka Aku Shango Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 OLD BATTLE-FIELD, by JOSEPH TWADELL SHIPLEY Poem Text First Line: The way was footless up the steep Last Line: Our lady of tours. Subject(s): Fields; Soldiers; War; World War I; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; First World War OLD HOUSE, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: We called her ghost Last Line: Caught up in brambles underneath the boughs Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History OLD MAEONIDES, by E. D. YOUNG Poem Source First Line: Others have felt this beauty into speech Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii OLD NAVY (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, we don't have to march like the infantry Subject(s): Soldiers OLD SOLDIER, by PADRAIC COLUM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We wander now who marched before Last Line: So it is to be an old soldier. Subject(s): Soldiers OLD SOLDIER OF THE QUEENS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Of an old soldier of the queens Subject(s): Soldiers OLD YEAR AND THE NEW, by JONATHAN ODELL Poem Source First Line: What though last year be past and gone Subject(s): Soldiers OLWEN AND TALIESIN, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She said where is the horseman Last Line: The honeysuckle nods in silence all along the singing lane Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings ON A BEREAVED GIRL, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She who yielded once Last Line: And leaves the floating mesh, %the soul %some shape %unknown Subject(s): Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings ON A MILITARY GRAVEYARD, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stranger, when you come to washington Subject(s): Arlington National Cemetery; Death; Graves; Military; Soldiers; Washington, D.c.; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ON A MILITARY GRAVEYARD, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stranger, when you come to washington Last Line: Obedient to their orders Subject(s): Arlington National Cemetery; Death; Graves; Military; Soldiers; Washington, D.c. ON A PHOTO OF SGT. CIARDI A YEAR LATER, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sgt. Stands so fluently in leather Last Line: The camera photographs the photographer; Subject(s): World War Ii; Photography & Photographers; Soldiers; Second World War ON A SOLDIER'S FUNERAL, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No pipes have skirled Last Line: The footfalls die. Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Funerals; Soldiers; Burials ON ARMISTICE DAY; NOVEMBER 11, 1921, by ERNEST E. DAVIES Poem Text First Line: The multitude has watched, with silent prayer Last Line: The men who put his treaty to the sword. Subject(s): Holidays; Soldiers; Veterans; Veterans Day; War ON EDWARD WEBBE, ENGLISH GUNNER, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He met the danske pirates off tuttee Last Line: In some ghost inn hung with the golden fleece! Subject(s): Soldiers ON EMBARKATION, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Consider this silent disciplined assembly Last Line: And waves me down this first clandestine mile Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings ON GOING INTO ACTION, by HUGH REX FRESTON Poem Text First Line: Now the weak impulse and the blind desire Last Line: That even hell's own gates should not prevail. Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I; First World War ON GUARD, by JOHN FRANCIS WALLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The hush of waves reminds me of my love Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii ON HIS MAJESTY'S CONQUESTS IN IRELAND, by THOMAS SHADWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How great a transport is a brave man in Last Line: And that shall crown your arms, and they your love. Subject(s): Army - Great Britain; Protestantism; Soldiers; Victory; War; William Iii, King Of England (1650-1702) ON LEAVE: MARRIAGE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As we left the highroad and sped dimly Last Line: Denying evil, plague and death and war Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings ON PARTING, by W. E. JONES Poem Source First Line: No, no, my love, e'en now the eloquent, lucid deep Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii ON RECEIVING [THE FIRST] NEWS OF THE WAR, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snow is a strange white word Last Line: Its pristine bloom. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War ON REVISITING THE SOMME, by JOHN E. STEWART Poem Source First Line: Silence befits me here, I am proudly dumb Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF HER GRACE, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rain and low clouds blown through the valley Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF HER GRACE, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rain and low clouds blown through the valley Last Line: I thought my body would catch fire Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ON THE DEATH OF SMET-SMET, THE HIPPOTAMUS-GODDESS, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was wrinkled and huge and hideous? She was our mother Last Line: Now god is dying? Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings ON THE GREAT FOG IN LONDON, DECEMBER 1762, by JAMES EYRE WEEKS Poem Text First Line: Lost and bewildered in the thickening mist Last Line: Or corks afloat upon the sullen flood. Subject(s): Disasters; Floods; Fog; Mist; Soldiers; Haze ON THE HOME GUARDS; WHO PERISHED ... LEXINGTON, MISSOURI, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The men who here in harness died Last Line: Hearts sore beset, which died at bay. Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; United States - History ON THE PORTRAIT OF A COLONEL; G.H.H., by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When now at this stern depth and shade of soul Last Line: This man's commanding trust will be my sight. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Soldiers ON THE REBURIAL OF A SECOND LIEUTENANT, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I drank a beer Subject(s): Soldiers; Death; Chess; Dead, The ON THE ROAD, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: We halted, with the urgent spring behind Last Line: I saw new radiance in the land we passed, %and heard a sudden murmur in the wind Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I ON THE TREK, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the weary, weary journey on the trek, day after day Last Line: For we're going on a long job now. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Soldiers; Dead, The ON THE WELSH MOUNTAINS, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To note precisely all I know Last Line: This wet evening, in a lost age Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings ONCE YOU'VE BEEN TO WAR, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There are times when everything I touch Last Line: Like flutes whittled from bone Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ONE BY ONE, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea; Soldiers; Cooking & Cooks; Ocean; Cookery ONE DAY, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today I have been happy. All the day Last Line: Plays hourned to a little bitter mould. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings ONE SOLDIER, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I think of him, midnight Subject(s): Soldiers ONE THOUSAND NIGHTS AND DAYS, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: Like a king on a primitive island Last Line: Kept from it by a shameful curtain Subject(s): Birds; Death; Islands; Peace; Rest; Soldiers ONLY A VOLUNTEER, by BRIAN BROOKE Poem Source First Line: War is declared in britain, such is the news and true Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I ONWARD, CHRISTIAN SOLDIER, by FLOYD HARDIN Poem Text First Line: Help me, o christ, to hold thy sacred cross Last Line: (his head appears!—thank god!—I've popped my man!) Subject(s): Christianity; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Murder; Social Protest; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; War OPEN THE DOOR AND FLY WITH ME, by MICHAEL SAVAGE Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii OPENING SCENE FOR MACBETH - 1934, by PHILIP JEROME CLEVELAND Poem Text First Line: The three spare witches meet again Last Line: "has wars and money, too!" Subject(s): Fights; Soldiers; War OPERATION MEMORY, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were smoking some of this knockout weed when Subject(s): Soldiers; Memory; Conduct Of Life OPTIMISM, by ALFRED VICTOR RATCLIFFE Poem Text First Line: At last there'll dawn the last of the long year Last Line: Your kind shall die, and sweeter days be born. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War ORGAN SONGS: HOME FROM THE WARS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A tattered soldier, gone the glow and gloss Last Line: I only faced the foe, and did not flee. Subject(s): Courage; Soldiers; War; Valor; Bravery ORISON, by RUTH JEFFERY Poem Text First Line: If only dreams came true, my dear Last Line: When love supplants the sabre. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Patriotism; Soldiers OTTERBURN, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lad who went to flanders Last Line: And never will return. Subject(s): Death; Flanders, Belgium; Military; Soldiers; War; Dead, The OUR CONFEDERATE DEAD, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unknown to me, brave boy, but still I wreathe Last Line: As the libretto of a maiden's heart. Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Death; Graves; Patriotism; Soldiers; Confederacy; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones OUR DEAD, by E. L. PETERSON JR. Poem Text First Line: We have forgotten them, thank god! They fell Last Line: Young men were made for war; god bless our boys! Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; War; Dead, The OUR MARTYRED SOLDIERS, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In homes all green, but cold in death Last Line: Than martyrs of which men can sing. Subject(s): Soldiers OUR SOLDIERS' SANTIAGO SONG, by DAVID GRAHAM ADEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Singing 'the star spangled banner' Last Line: Sang a song of praise to god. Subject(s): Heroism; National Songs; Rifles; Soldiers; War; Heroes; Heroines; National Anthems OURSELVES ALONE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: One morning, when dreaming in deep meditation Last Line: "standing together, ourselves — and alone." Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Grief; Soldiers; War; Sorrow; Sadness OUT AND FIGHT, by CHARLES GODFREY LELAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out and fight! The clouds are breaking Last Line: Be extinguished from the land. Alternate Author Name(s): Breitmann, Hans Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; United States - History OUT OF RANGE, by DANIEL RAY CAMPION Poem Source First Line: You wouldn't keep the books you'd packed for long Last Line: Beneath the vague and barren shade outside Subject(s): American Civil War; Army Life; Soldiers; U.s. - History; War OUT OF THE MORNING, by CLIVE SANSOM Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii OUT TO THE FRONTIER: 1, by TU FU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cheerless, they leave their hometowns Last Line: A true man's concerned with all the world - %how can I refuse to hold fast in hardship? Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): Army - China; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Frontier And Pioneer Life; Soldiers OVER LAND AND OVER SEA, by EVELYN O. DE SEVERSKY Poem Source First Line: Rise and drink to aviation Subject(s): Soldiers OVERSEAS; IN MEMORY OF ALAN SEEGER, by ABBIE CARTER GOODLOE Poem Text First Line: Across the vexed, insuperable sea Last Line: The imperishable essence of his soul! Subject(s): Death; Memory; Seeger, Alan (1888-1916); Soldiers; War; Dead, The OX-SOLDIER, by OUMAR BA Poem Source First Line: Don't you know %that an ox of seven seasons Last Line: And take your place for military service? Subject(s): Soldiers PACIFIST; EPIGRAM, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pale ebenezer thought it wrong to fight Last Line: But roaring bill (who killed him) thought it right Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Pacifism; Soldiers 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 PARABLE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The soul within his pastoral Last Line: According to the word of god Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings PARADE, by ESTHER RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: Out of step,' they said, as we marched along Last Line: ... But how could they know that I marched with the dead? Subject(s): Death; Fear; Marching & Marches; Soldiers; War; Dead, The PARADOX, by BENJAMIN FRANCIS MUSSER Poem Text First Line: We are a regiment, whose martial cry Last Line: Your own slain march at our side. Subject(s): Contrariness; Military; Pacifism; Peace; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; Peace Movements PARALYSIS, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For moveless limbs no pity I crave Last Line: To you alone with your hills and heaven. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings PARATROOPER'S LAMENT, by WILLIAM HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Is everybody ready? Subject(s): Soldiers PARODY OF 'THE LIBERTY SONG', by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come, shake your dull noddles, ye bumpkins, and bawl Subject(s): Soldiers PARODY PARODIZED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come, swallow your bumpers, ye tories Last Line: Who dreads not a fetter much more than %a sword Subject(s): American Revolution; Freedom; Heroism; Militarism; Soldiers; War PASS AROUND THE BOTTLE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers PASSING IT ALONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The colonel calls the major when he wants something done Subject(s): Soldiers PASTORALS, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had I ever a young field Last Line: Of decay and generation Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings PATIENCE OF THE WARRIOR, by FRANCOIS DEBLUE Poem Source First Line: From the strong battlements of their citadel Last Line: Which was always victorious over their ramparts Subject(s): Patience; Soldiers PATROL, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The branches murmur with the soft thunder Last Line: Sleep then for ever, my dreaming german soldier Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings PATROLS, by D. F. BROWN Poem Source First Line: This is where stacking pays off Last Line: How they drag their dead away %and who kept score Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PAYDAY SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It's a long time until next payday Subject(s): Soldiers PEACE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind blows %through her eyes Last Line: In her being is burning, burning Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings PEACE, by R. G. RUSTE Poem Text First Line: How will it be when peace shall come Last Line: On the blissful day when the boys come home. Subject(s): Peace; Reunions; Soldiers; War PEACE, by MARGERY SMITH Poem Source First Line: All this shall pass Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii PEACE, GOD'S OWN PEACE, by IVAR CAMPBELL Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I PEACE: 1919, by MARY CRAIG SINCLAIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The jonquils bloom again upon the hill Last Line: And tears are gathering to drown the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Sinclair, Upton, Mrs. Subject(s): Peace; Soldiers; War; World War I; First World War PEASANT FARE: MEDITATIONS ON A MUSEUM CATALOGUE FOUND, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why in these paintings of the middle ages Last Line: Of pure and honest terror Variant Title(s): Peasant Fare: At The Museum Of Fine Art Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PEASANT SONG, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The seed is costly Last Line: And, bearing endless days %somehow give praise? Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings PEASANTS, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dwarf barefooted, chanting Last Line: History staggers in their wake. %the peasants watch them die Subject(s): Peasantry; Soldiers' Writings; World War Ii PENELOPE, by URSULA WOOD Poem Source First Line: Certain parting does not wait its hour Subject(s): Soldiers PERSIA TO EUROPE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You scorn us? You dream we are ready to yield Last Line: By ormuzd and allah — our rule shall not die! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Europe; God; Iran; Soldiers; Persia PERSONAL PASSION, by JOHN+(3) HALL Poem Source First Line: Now that in history we've seen the shapes Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii PERVANEH, by JOHN FRANCIS WALLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your arms, my dear, are safety's shield Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii PHILIPPINE CONVOY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Pardon me, boy, is this the philippine convoy? Subject(s): Soldiers PICCOLOMINI, SELS., by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Twas the first leisure of my life. O tell me Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Soldiers PICKING SKULLS AT VERDUN, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A respectable, exceedingly proper paper reports Last Line: Who always see the folly when it is too late! Subject(s): Cruelty; Death; Skulls; Soldiers; Veterans Day; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War PICTURES FROM QUANG NAM, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The picture brings it back Last Line: You counted the flowers, knowing %one would be gone Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PICTURES OF THE BUDDHA, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At wat po a thousand buddhas stare Last Line: A young monk smokes and listens Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PIDDLIN' PUP, by JO ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: A farmer's dog came into town Subject(s): Soldiers PINE-TREES AND THE SKY: EVENING, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'd watched the sorrow of the evening sky Last Line: Being glad of you, o pine-trees and the sky! Subject(s): Environment; Soldiers' Writings; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation PLACIDE BOSSIER, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, friend! In the tender college time Last Line: The cross on the saint-heart shining! Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; Southern States; War; Dead, The; South (u.s.) PLAYING BASKETBALL WITH THE VIET CONG, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: You never thought it would come to this Subject(s): Politics & Government; Soldiers' Writings; Sports; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PLAYING BASKETBALL WITH THE VIET CONG, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You never thought it would come to this Last Line: There may be other scores to settle Subject(s): Politics; Soldiers' Writings; Sports; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PLEA TO ALL G.I.'S, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: New g.I. Songs are born every day all over this g.I. World Subject(s): Soldiers PLEASE, TAKE ME BACK TO THE ARMY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers PLYMOUTH SOUND, by LEONARD NEILL COOK Poem Source First Line: Obedient to the echoed harbour gun Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I POEM (FOR PRISCILLA), by NICHOLAS MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Here a hand lay. Here in a chair a body Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii POEM, READ THE SOLDIERS' WELCOME, FRANKLIN, NEW YORK, AUG. 5, 1865, by B. H. BARNES Poem Text First Line: The heroes of a hundred fields Last Line: For peace and liberty! Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Homecoming; Life; Soldiers; United States - History; Dead, The POEMS FROM THE CHINESE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Linger not in my library Last Line: And leaving to me the five birches Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings POEMS OF EXILE, by P. A. A. THOMAS Poem Source First Line: Not as a vessel in some calm lagoon Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii POETS IN TIME OF WAR (IN MEMORY OF WILFRED OWEN), by BERTRAM WARR Poem Source First Line: Poets, who in time of war Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii POILU, by STEUART M. EMERY Poem Source First Line: You're a funny fellow, poilu, in your dinky little cap Subject(s): Soldiers POINT OF BATTLE, by JOHN+(3) HALL Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii 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 POND, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: Downcast thermometers record one truth Last Line: The mind ghosting out in a shoal of stars Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History POOR AT WAR (BRITAIN, WINTER 1940), by N. K. CRUICKSHANK Poem Source First Line: O that one current steady across years! Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii POOR AVIATOR LAY DYING (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers POOR DRAFT BOARD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ten little registrants standing in a line Subject(s): Soldiers PORT OF CALL: BRAZIL, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We watch the heavy-odoured beast Last Line: Will breed a new direction through the deep Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Travel PORT OF EMBARKATION, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Freedom, farewell! Or so the soldiers say Last Line: The slow lives sank from being like a dream? Subject(s): Soldiers; Freedom; World War Ii; Liberty; Second World War PORT OF EMBARKATION, by B. G. MARCH Poem Source First Line: Oh! Pardon me boys, is this the port of embarkation Subject(s): Soldiers PORTRAIT FROM THE INFANTRY, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He smelled bad and was red-eyed with the miseries Last Line: Him back up. “isn't he awful?” she said Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii; Second World War PORTRAIT FROM THE INFANTRY, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He smelled bad and was red-eyed with the miseries Last Line: Isn't he awful?' she said Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii PORTRAIT IN PASTEL OF THE VOLUNTEER FRIEDRICH-AUGUST KLAATSCH, 1813, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little is known about this volunteer Last Line: Unsmiling acquiescence which is the whole %seduction of mars Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Army - Germany; Soldiers PORTRAIT OF A FRIEND, by FRANCIS KING Poem Source First Line: His was the cowards, not the hero's stance Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii POST-SCRIPT: FOR GWENO, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I should go away Last Line: And has its quiet honour %among the glittering stars your voices named Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings PRAYER, by WILLIAM LITTLEJOHN Poem Source First Line: Lord, if it be thy will Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I PRAYER OF A SOLDIER IN FRANCE, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My shoulders ache beneath my pack Last Line: This millionth of thy gift. Amen. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Prayer; Soldiers; World War I; First World War PRELUDE AND FUGUE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandfather had ploughed his master's land Last Line: What seemed a long way is not far to go Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings PRESIDENT DIEM'S MOTORCADE, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: President diem's limousine Last Line: To ask in confession Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PRETTIEST GAL (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Pretiest gal I ever saw was suckin' cider through Subject(s): Soldiers PRINCETON MARINES' HYMN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: From the holes of pyne and nassau Subject(s): Soldiers 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 PRIVATE, by GEORGE E. PARKER Poem Source First Line: He kicks about his meager pay, he kicks about the grub Subject(s): Soldiers PRIVATE, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This ploughman dead in battle slept out of doors Last Line: More sound in france - that, too, he secret keeps Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I PRIVATE BLAIR OF THE REGULARS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was private blair, of the regulars Last Line: And honor be from sea to sea to the deed of private blair! Subject(s): Santiago, Cuba; Soldiers; Spanish-american War (1898) PRIVATE FIRST CLASS BROOKS MORGENSTEIN, U.S.M.C., by BRYAN ALEC FLOYD Poem Source First Line: Her remembered frailty had strengthened his Last Line: And how much of him was her Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PRIVATE HILL, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I jumped right in and I crossed the sea Last Line: It's enough for me that I won the war. Subject(s): Soldiers PRIVATE IAN GODWIN, U.S.M.C., by BRYAN ALEC FLOYD Poem Source First Line: He stepped on a land mine Last Line: The soft mud of vietnam cool between his toes Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PRIVATE JACK SMITH, U.S.M.C., by BRYAN ALEC FLOYD Poem Source First Line: Since he came back %he never met with the friends he fought with in nam Last Line: Nobody has heard from him since Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PRIVATE [SONG], by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The captain told the lieutenant Subject(s): Soldiers PRIVATE'S LAMENT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There is a tavern in the town (in the town) Subject(s): Soldiers PRODIGIES, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: During the worst of those days Last Line: To hold up the sky Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PROLOGUE TO 'ANDRE', by WILLIAM DUNLAP Poem Text First Line: A native bard, a native scene displays Last Line: And praise, or damn it, for its worth alone. Subject(s): Andre, John (1750-1780); Poetry & Poets; Soldiers PROLOGUE: THE GRINDER, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing to grind? Then answer, and I'll go Last Line: Bad luck unless your sparks can warm the night Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings PROMISES: 2. COURT-MARTIAL, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the cedar tree Subject(s): American Civil War; Lynching; Confederate States Of America; Soldiers; Veterans; Ancestors & Ancestry; Confederacy; Heritage; Heredity PROPAGANDA OF MEMORY, by MAUDELLE DRISKELL Poem Source First Line: You stand in the picture, all khaki and gleam Last Line: The same way glass remembers sand Subject(s): Photography And Photographers; Soldiers PUBLIC GARDENS, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only a few top-heavy holly-hocks, wilting in arid beds Last Line: In and out of the dreaming gardens Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings QUANTRILL'S RAID; LAWRENCE, KANSAS, AUGUST 21, 1863, by JAMES IRVIN MAGORIAN Poem Source First Line: Nothing out of the ordinary Last Line: A cat befuddled by the approaching horsemen Subject(s): American Civil War; Fights; Soldiers; U.s. - History QUARTERMASTER SONG, by EDWARD FOX Poem Source First Line: When there is trouble brewing at the front Subject(s): Soldiers QUEST, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot see objectively Last Line: Have knowledge that I cannot share Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings QUESTION OF TIME, by ANTONIO CISNEROS Poem Source First Line: In 1964, %where your bearded eyes Last Line: Would have shipwrecked beneath the sun Subject(s): Death; Fights; Latin America - History; Soldiers; Spanish Armada QUIET AMERICANS, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We hold our glasses out Last Line: The sad and lovely music Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 QUIET EYES, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The boys come home, come home from war Last Line: Unharmed, unflawed, unhurt. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Eyes; Innocence; Soldiers; Soul; War; World War I; First World War R.O.M.'S LAMENT, by DUDLEY M. SHOEMAKER Poem Source First Line: Oh, once I was happy, but now I'm a wreck Subject(s): Soldiers R.O.T.C, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sons of the republic drill Last Line: The new goose-step fraternity! Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Army - United States; Reserve Officers Training Course; Soldiers; War; R.o.t.c. RAID, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The estuary siltedup Last Line: The indolent red beaches %the confusion, the fear Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings RAIDERS' DAWN, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Softly the civilized Last Line: Tells that beauty %was startled there Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings RAIDERS' LAMENT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh they say we're the raiders Subject(s): Soldiers RAIDERS' SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: They called for the army to come to tulagi Subject(s): Soldiers RAILROAD STATION, by VICENTE HUIDOBRO Poem Source First Line: The troops get off Last Line: Flutters around my cigar Subject(s): Airships; Aviation And Aviators; Military; Soldiers; Veterans; War; War Injuries RAIN ON YOUR OLD TIN HAT, by J. H. WICKERSHAM Poem Source First Line: Mist hangs low and quiet on a ragged line of hills Subject(s): Soldiers RANGE-FINDING, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The battle rent a cobweb diamond-strung Last Line: But finding nothing, sullenly withdrew. Subject(s): Decay; Nostalgia; Soldiers; War; Rot; Decadence RAOUL LUFBERY, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: His was the spirit that, in ages gone Last Line: A noble ending—and a deathless name! Subject(s): Death; France; Soldiers; World War I; Dead, The; First World War RAPELLING, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We dive happily Last Line: Out into the jungle Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 RAT HELL; LT. MITCHELL, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: The winter of 1863 and 4 Last Line: And carried back, still moaning in my dreams Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History READING THE NAMES OF THE VIETNAM WAR DEAD, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For a long day and a night we read the names Last Line: "thousands of dense black stones fall forever through the darkness under the Subject(s): Death; Memory; Names; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Dead, The REAR ADMIRAL DEWEY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Our boys in blue have gone to thrash the boasting spanish Subject(s): Soldiers RECESSIONAL, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God of our fathers, known of old Last Line: Thy mercy on thy people, lord! Variant Title(s): Lest We Forget! Subject(s): Faith; God; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Humanity; Imperialism; Patriotism; Prayer; Religion; Soldiers; Wealth; Belief; Creed; British Empire; England - Empire; Theology; Riches; Fortunes RECRUIT, by EDWIN ROLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Knowing I leave tomorrow, I look %fondly, finally, around me and drink Last Line: But the summons was too sudden %and my time too brief %and my prophets false Alternate Author Name(s): Fishman, Solomon Subject(s): Soldiers RECRUIT (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I ain't been long in this here army Subject(s): Soldiers RED APPLES, by KARL E. MUNDT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He tries to sell red apples in the street Last Line: Cannot remember belleau wood. Subject(s): Apples; Belleau Wood, France; Fruit; Social Problems; Soldiers; Unemployment; War RED POPPIES IN THE CORN, by W. CAMPBELL GALBRAITH Poem Text First Line: I've seen them in the morning light Last Line: Red poppies in the corn. Subject(s): Poppies; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War RED, WHITE AND BLUE, by M. L. Poem Source First Line: Red were her lips, as I pressed them to mine Subject(s): Soldiers REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM BLUES, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the soldier he wants to be somewhere he once was Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Sailors & Sailing; Soldiers; War; Dreams; Nightmares REFUGEE BLUES, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say this city has ten million souls Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): Ten Songs: 1 Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Refugees; Soldiers; World War Ii; Shoah; Judaism; Second World War REFUGEE BLUES, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say this city has ten million souls Last Line: Looking for you and me, my dear, looking for you and me Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): Ten Songs: Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Refugees; Soldiers; World War Ii REGIMENTAL COLONEL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: He maps out a round of drills to take all night and day Subject(s): Soldiers REINCARNATION, by EDWARD WYNDHAM TENNANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I too remember distant golden days Last Line: Until perfection reach eternity. Subject(s): Immortality; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War RELATIVE THING, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We are the ones you sent to fight a war Last Line: When you awake, %we will still be here Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 RELEASE, by WILLIAM NOEL HODGSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A leaping wind from england Last Line: We know that we have seen men broken, %we know man is divine Alternate Author Name(s): Melbourne, Edward Variant Title(s): Back To Res Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I RELEASE, by COLWYN PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: There is a healing magic in the night Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I RELICS, by HELEN PEAVY WASHBURN Poem Text First Line: To say / don't cry. Your father doesn't mean it Last Line: These things are war, long after war is done. Subject(s): Soldiers RELIEVED (GUILLEMONT), by FREDERIC MANNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are weary and silent Last Line: Where light drowns. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War REMEMBER AGAIN, by R. W. S. Poem Text First Line: Rain in the blackness. Stabs of flame in the blackness Last Line: Remember again. Subject(s): Army - United States; Army Life; Memory; Pain; Social Protest; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; Veterans Day; War; Drills & Minor Tactics; Suffering; Misery REMEMBERED WOMEN, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For a woman's face remembered as a spot of quick light on the flat land Last Line: The women they left behind, they fight on. Subject(s): Soldiers; Women REMEMBRANCE DAY, by JOHN F. DEANE Poem Source First Line: Behind the statue of st. Teresa of the flowers Last Line: Were apple orchards blossoming Variant Title(s): Fal Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944); Memory; Soldiers; War REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST, by HORACE COLEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mortars are %the devil coughing napalm? Last Line: Black fingers on our white throats Alternate Author Name(s): Shaka Aku Shango Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 REMORSE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lost in the swamp and welter of the pit Last Line: Of dying heroes and their deathless deeds.' Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War RENDEZVOUS, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I have a rendezvous with death Last Line: I shall not fail that rendezvous. Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Patriotism; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; First World War RENDEZVOUS: BELLE GLADE, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pine thicket at the edge of a clearing Last Line: And nerves edged a name in his stock. Subject(s): Burma; Guns; Night; Soldiers; Bedtime RENEWAL, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tragedy has no curtain Last Line: The instinctive trust it gave Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings REPORTS: 1. ACOUSTIC SHADOWS, by BRUCE BOND Poem Source First Line: As lee pushed north and the dead flew Last Line: Pinned them to their bodies Subject(s): Battleships; Soldiers; War REPRESSION OF WAR EXPERIENCE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now light the candles; one; two; there's a moth Last Line: I'm going stark, staring mad because of the guns. Subject(s): Science; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Scientists; First World War REQUIEM (FOR GRANVILLE CRAIG), by NICHOLAS MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Calamity has befallen our house. One who is dear is dead Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii REQUIESCANT, by FREDERICK GEORGE SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In lonely watches night by night Last Line: O house them in the home of god! Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. G. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers' Writings; World War I - Casualties; Dead, The REST YOUR HEAD, by JOHN ATKINS Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii REST; LINES FOUND UNDER THE PILLOW OF A SOLDIER WHO DIED IN HOSPITAL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I lay me down to sleep Last Line: Lead after him Subject(s): Death;soldiers; "dead, The; RESURGAM, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Exiled afar from youth and happy love Last Line: Back into earthly flesh that was its loved abode. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings RESURRECTION, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not long did we lie on the torn, red field of pain Last Line: Wondering what god would look like when he came. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Military; Rebirth; Soldiers; World War I - Casualties; Dead, The RETIRED PILOT TO HIMSELF, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I come to the simplest things Last Line: Rhapsody, %acceptance of herself Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 RETREAT, by ALAN ROOK Poem Source First Line: Faint now behind the secret eyes of these Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii RETROSPECT, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In your arms was still delight Last Line: Mataiea, january 1914 Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; South Sea Islands RETURN OF OUR SOLDIER BOYS--1899, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They are coming home, they're coming Last Line: In their uniforms of blue. Subject(s): Homecoming; Soldiers; War RETURN OF THE TROOPS, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The town is very gay to-day Last Line: I neither sped nor greet. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Homecoming; Soldiers RETURNED SOLDIER, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The soldier, full of battles and renown Last Line: You have climbed to the moon on a ladder of dead men's bones! Subject(s): Soldiers RETURNING FIRE; FOR BRUCE WEIGL AND NGO VINH LONG, by D. F. BROWN Poem Source First Line: What we think %what we remember Last Line: Second growth %that follows Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 RETURNING, WE HEAR THE LARKS, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sombre the night is Last Line: Or her kisses where a serpent hides. Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Skylarks; First World War REUNION, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Forty years. Too long a separation Last Line: The war closes its circle around them Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 REVEILLE (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I can't get them up, I can't get them up Subject(s): Soldiers REVERIE, by WILLIAM NOEL HODGSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At home they see on skiddaw Alternate Author Name(s): Melbourne, Edward Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I RHONDDA, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hum of shaft-wheel, whirr and clamour Last Line: Without counting the days Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings RIFLEMAN FORM!, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a sound of thunder afar Last Line: Riflemen, riflemen, riflemen form! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): The War Subject(s): Fights; Prudence; Rifles; Soldiers; Sound; Storms; Caution RITUAL FOR SINGING BAT, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Must we believe that what ascends aspires? Last Line: Into a misty forest of a cloud Subject(s): Soldiers; Native Americans; World War Ii; Death RIVER MUSIC, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One by one the lanterns Last Line: Even the moon might die %on her shoulder Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 RIVER TEMPLE: WAI, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The minnows leap like silver coins Last Line: Compassion of the holy womb Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings ROAD HAZARD, by MICHAEL CASEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Eddie throws an old poncho Last Line: Maybe I did appear the weakling Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ROAD TO TARTARY, by BERNARD FREEMAN TROTTER Poem Source First Line: O arab! Much I fear thou at mecca's shrine wilt Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I ROBERT G. SHAW, by HENRIETTA CORDELIA RAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When war's red banners trailed along the sky Last Line: In rev'rent love we guard thy memory. Alternate Author Name(s): Ray, Cordelia Subject(s): African Americans - Military; African Americans - Women; Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers ROBERT GOULD SHAW, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why was it that the thunder voice of fate Last Line: Have died, the present teaches, but in vain! Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers ROCKET ATTACK (2), by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rocks fallout on us Last Line: Never hear the horrible %sucking sound a rocket makes when it Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Variant Title(s): Rocket Attac Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 RONDEAU OF SOLDIERHOOD, by EUSTACHE DESCHAMPS Poem Text First Line: Summer's the time for soldierhood Last Line: And sunbeams make old winter fly. Subject(s): Seasons; Soldiers RUDIGER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright on the mountain's heathy slope Last Line: Adown the dark profound. Subject(s): Birds; Boats; Curses; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Soldiers; Swans; Weddings; Husbands; Wives RUGBY FOOTBALL, by ERIC F. WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: You came by last night's mail Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I RUN-IN, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two hours after midnight she was in her proper position Last Line: Bewildered faces, yes, of children Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings RUPERT BROOKE, by JAMES B. DOLLARD Poem Source First Line: Slain by the arrows of apollo, lo Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); Poetry And Poets; Soldiers' Writings RUPERT BROOKE, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your face was lifted to the golden sky Last Line: Tarry by that old garden of your delight. Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); Poetry & Poets; Soldiers' Writings; World War I - Casualties RUPERT BROOKE (DIED APRIL 23, 1915), by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To-day I have talked with old euripides Last Line: While our immortal fellowship remains. Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); Poetry & Poets; Soldiers' Writings RUPERT BROOKE (IN MEMORIAM), by MORAY DALTON Poem Text First Line: I never knew you save as all men know Last Line: And god has laid his finger on your lips. Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); Poetry & Poets; Soldiers' Writings; World War I - Casualties S.O.S, by KENNETH S. CLARK Poem Source First Line: Salamander starr was a jolly old tar Subject(s): Soldiers SACCO WRITES TO HIS SON, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I did not want to die. I wanted you Last Line: And my hand trembles - I am oh, so weak Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SADDER THAN WAR, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A soldier, though way-worn and weary Last Line: While his own remained ragged and torn. Subject(s): Soldiers; War SAGEBRUSH, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These are the last days of its empire. No flags fly from its dead limbs, nor do Last Line: These stiff limbs? Ants, grass, and wind. What is the price of wisdom here? Only the priest and pris Subject(s): Army - United States; Military; Soldiers; Wisdom SAILING TO BIEN HOA, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In my dream of the hydroplane I'm sailing to bien hoa. The Last Line: Dren, their damp flute, the long line of their vowels Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SAILOR'S RETURN (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Home came the sailor, home from the sea Subject(s): Soldiers SAINT JOHN BROKE THE BOW OF ST. FRANCIS, by LARRY EVERS Poem Source First Line: Saint john %the bow of saint francis Last Line: Break %break %break Subject(s): Military; Soldiers SAINT PETER TALKS ABOUT GOODNESS, by LARRY EVERS Poem Source First Line: Saint peter %sitting at heaven's door Last Line: Talks %talks %talks Subject(s): God; Heaven; Native Americans - Wars; Religion; Saints; Soldiers; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) SALUTE TO THE MEDICAL CORPS, by JR. JAMES JOSEPH RATH Poem Source First Line: Cheer, cheer the medical corps! Subject(s): Soldiers SAM DAVIS, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me his name and you are free Last Line: Who dies to save an enemy! Subject(s): American Civil War; Davis, Samuel (1842-1863); Heroism; Loyalty; Soldiers; U.s. - History; Heroes; Heroines SAN DIEGO, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: In the college san fernando, in the state of mejico Last Line: ^1^ the yucca, or spanish bayonet. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Missions & Missionaries; Sailing & Sailors; San Diego, California; Soldiers; Declaration Day SANTA CLAUS, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Halt! Who goes there? The sentry's call Last Line: Without the countersign. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Christmas; Santa Claus; Soldiers; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint SANTA YNEZ, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Still upon these cragged slopes the deer feed in the twi- / light glow Last Line: And the homes of guadalúpe throng the mother's doors around. Subject(s): Missions & Missionaries; Saints; Soldiers SATIRE: 16, by DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENALIS Poem Text First Line: What vast prerogatives, my gallus, are Last Line: Sometimes be lowzy, but be never poor. Alternate Author Name(s): Juvenal Subject(s): Country Life; Soldiers SAUL, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why quails my heart? God riding with / a mortal would absorb him Subject(s): Saul (11th Century B.c.); Soldiers' Writings SAUL, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why quails my heart? God riding with %a mortal would absorb him Last Line: Transport me instantly %for my soul yearns and fears Subject(s): Saul (11th Century B.c.); Soldiers' Writings SAVING AMERICA, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: I was twelve, we were at war %in korea. I did my part, climbing Last Line: And in the birdsong dawn, flying away, my fear Subject(s): Arms And Armor; Bombs; Korean War, 1950-1953; Soldiers; United States SEA, THE SKY, by SU MAN-SHU Poem Source Last Line: An emptiness as pure %as frost Subject(s): Heroism; Soldiers; War; Zen Buddhism SEALED RIDERS, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: Hole in the dark Last Line: I see them, see them, %and burn Subject(s): Army Life; Horseback Riding; Soldiers SEASIDE, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swiftly out from the friendly lilt of the band Last Line: And dies between the seawemple) Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SECOND BEST, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in the dark, o heart Last Line: O heart, in the great dawn! Subject(s): Religion; Soldiers' Writings; Theology SECOND-LIEUTENANT - NEW STYLE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: He's younger that most of us - far younger than the top Subject(s): Soldiers SECRET ASSIGNMENT, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: People are coming to scan my face Last Line: The reluctant martyr Subject(s): Battleships; Death; Hungary - Communist Regime; Martyrs; Soldiers; War SECRET DREAM, by DOUGLAS GIBSON Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii SECRET MUSIC, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I keep such music in my brain Last Line: And music dawned above despair. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War SEE THE WASTED CITIES!, by EMANUEL LITVINOFF Poem Source First Line: O see the wasted cities by morning Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii SEEN ON A WAR-SHRINE IN PENNSYLVANIA, by E. M. GREEVES-CARPENTER Poem Text First Line: Silent and unbetrayed, a carven rood Last Line: Whose crown of victory followed cross and thorns. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Death; Jesus Christ; Mothers & Sons; Pennsylvania; Shrines; Soldiers; War; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The SELLING MAGRITTE'S HOUSE, by BOB HICOK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The train in the fireplace Last Line: The owner? A very regular man Subject(s): Allen, Ethan (1738-1789); Houses; Investments; Landlords & Tenants; Soldiers; Stocks; Bonds SELLING MAGRITTE'S HOUSE, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The train in the fireplace Last Line: Granite wings %a joke played on the air Subject(s): Allen, Ethan (1738-1789); Houses; Investments; Landlords And Tenants; Soldiers SEMPER FIDELIS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Love, the day come for parting Subject(s): Soldiers SENDING SPRING NORTH TO GLENN MCKEE IN MAINE, by DORY L. HUDSPETH Poem Source First Line: They say spring marches Last Line: Under a pearl-gray sky Subject(s): American Civil War; Military; Soldiers; U.s. - History SENTRY, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have begun to die Last Line: In the flower of futy, the folded poppy %night Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War Ii SEPARATION, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I died into his eyes Last Line: What the hands have slain Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SEPTEMBER HOLIDAY, by CLIVE SANSOM Poem Source First Line: All nature's agents image war to me Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii SERGEANT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers SERGEANT BRANDON JUST, U.S.M.C., by BRYAN ALEC FLOYD Poem Source First Line: He was alive with death Last Line: Saying, without mercy, %I love you Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SERGEANT CHAMPE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Come sheathe your swords! My gallant boys Last Line: "arnold's to blame for andre's fame, / and andre's to be pitied" Subject(s): "american Revolution;andre, John (1750-1780);arnold, Benedict (1741-1801);champe, John;soldiers; SERGEANT'S FACE, by JOE SIMS Poem Source First Line: I do not like the sergeant's face Subject(s): Soldiers SERGEANT-MAJOR MONEY, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It wasn't our battalion, but we lay alongside it Last Line: Or, least of all, blame money, an old stiff surviving %in a new (bloddy) army he couldn't understand Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I SERVICE OF SUPPLIES, by J. B. TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: We're not so hot at drilling Subject(s): Soldiers SET ON THE AUTUMN HEAD, by ALEXANDER COMFORT Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii SEVEN DAYS' PASS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A seven day's pass, a jalopy with gas Subject(s): Soldiers SHADOWS, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon turns round the earth Last Line: Through dark, through light Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SHARING, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have not ridden a horse much Last Line: Flying through the opening fields Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SHILLIN' A DAY, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My name is o'kelly, I've heard the revelly Last Line: Gawd save the queen. Subject(s): Soldiers SHORT RATIONS, by GEORGE PALMER GARRETT JR. Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Toomer porter (my kinsman) Last Line: Would have been pure luxury Alternate Author Name(s): Garrett, George Subject(s): American Civil War; Military; Soldiers; U.s. - History; War SHOT DOWN, by JOEL T. ROGERS Poem Text First Line: Why did you send young larry out? Last Line: You are too old to waste her days. Subject(s): Soldiers; War SICK LEAVE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I'm asleep, dreaming and lulled and warm Last Line: Are they not still your brothers through our blood?' Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War SIDE BY SIDE, by LARRY EVERS Poem Source First Line: You soldier leaders Last Line: Playing %playing %playing Variant Title(s): Soldier Leader Subject(s): Leadership; Native Americans - Wars; Soldiers SIDEKICKS, by GERALD R. WHEELER Poem Source First Line: Tore bandannas for trail markers Last Line: Engraved %in black wall of stone Subject(s): Patriotism; Soldiers; War SILHOUETTES, by EDNA BINTLIFF Poem Text First Line: Stiff cat-tails mirrored in a pool Last Line: Is never known to me. Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Brothers; Soldiers; Half-brothers SIMPLON PASS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ambition, following down this far-famed slope Last Line: What groans! What shrieks! What quietness in death! Subject(s): Simplon (mountain), Switzerland; Soldiers SING A SONG TO OUR NAVY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers SIXTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Dense clouds of dust on the virginia roads-- Last Line: Of appomattox—and the final scene! Subject(s): Appomattox, Virginia; Soldiers; Southern States; War; South (u.s.) SLEEP-WALKERS, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Black congo and red amritsar Last Line: Somnambulists who wake in hell? Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Evil; Military; Social Protest; Soldiers; War SLEEPERS, by EDWARD BARTOK-BARATTA Poem Source First Line: When the soldiers had come Last Line: Slept soundly in a white feather bed Subject(s): Sleep; Soldiers SLEEPING BEAUTY, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sojourning through a southern realm in youth Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Soldiers' Writings SLEEPING OUT: FULL MOON, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They sleep within Last Line: Of light. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SLEEPY LATRINE, A PASTORAL SCENE, by EDDIE CHERKOSE Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers SLUG, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The slug had climbed, when first I shut the door Last Line: What earthly use can pen and paper be Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SLUM AND BEANS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers SMILES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There are similes for second looies Subject(s): Soldiers SNAIL GATHERERS OF CO LOA THANH, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The legends of co loa thanh, old snail city Last Line: And we without our bows Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SNOW STORM, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everywhere men speak in whispers Last Line: Force, and the night comes on. Subject(s): Army Life; Old Age; Snow; Soldiers; War; Drills & Minor Tactics SNOWSTORM, by WEN YI-TUO Poem Source First Line: During the night a snowstorm spread Last Line: Can't you see it's winter's flag of surrender!' Subject(s): Death; Peace; Soldiers; War SO WE LAY DOWN THE PEN, by GEOFFREY BACHE SMITH Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I SOISSONS: 1918, by GERALD V. STAMM Poem Text First Line: Now dreadful night unrolls, and dawn in gray Last Line: May come from poppies in the wheat. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Harvest; Soldiers; War; Wheat; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones SOJOURNERS; LT. MITCHELL, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: Someone told me that mankind always moves Last Line: His men were hungary too, quite a little Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History SOLDIER, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Home furthest off grows dearer from the way Subject(s): Soldiers SOLDIER, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though I should weep until the judgment Last Line: Though I should weep until the judgment ... Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Soldiers SOLDIER, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I within me holding Last Line: As england is, this spring morning Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SOLDIER, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Down some cold field in a world unspoken Last Line: And died. Be gentle, god, to soldiers Subject(s): Soldiers SOLDIER - HIS PRAYER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Stay with me, god. The night is dark Last Line: Be with me, god, and make me strong Subject(s): God; Soldiers; World War Ii SOLDIER AND GIRL SLEEPING (ON A PAINTING BY WILLIAM SCOTT), by SHEILA SHANNON Poem Source First Line: It is late, already, it is night Subject(s): Soldiers SOLDIER LOVER'S PARTING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come, strike a hand with mine, love! Subject(s): Soldiers SOLDIER SONG (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: You're in the army now Last Line: You're in the amry now Subject(s): Army - United States;soldiers SOLDIER SONG (1) (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: You're in the army now Subject(s): Soldiers SOLDIER SONG (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: How stands the glass around Last Line: Cures all again Subject(s): "soldiers;wolfe, James (1727-1759); SOLDIER'S BRIEF EPISTLE, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You think you're better than me Last Line: And he was very difficult to kill Subject(s): Memory; Soldiers SOLDIER'S DEATH, by KENNETH NEAL Poem Source First Line: He stopped - hit! The ground reeled and smacked his face Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii SOLDIER'S GAME, by GEORGE U. ROBINS Poem Source First Line: Here's a song of the game we play Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I SOLDIER'S REST, by ROQUE DALTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead grow more intractable every day Last Line: They are the majority! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Heroism; Soldiers; War - Casualties (statistics, Etc.) SOLDIER'S TALE, by ALEKSEY [ALEXSEI] NEDOGONOV Poem Text First Line: Two immortalities has the volga Last Line: Source and mouth are they. Subject(s): Soldiers; Volga River, Russia SOLDIER, SOLDIER, by MAURICE HENRY HEWLETT Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I SOLDIER, SOLDIER, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soldier, soldier come from the wars Last Line: An' you'd best take 'im for your true love. Subject(s): Soldiers SOLDIER-DEAD, by GILBERT" "EMERY [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: O beautiful young dead! Last Line: O beautiful young dead Alternate Author Name(s): "emery, Gilbert; Subject(s): Death;soldiers;war; "dead, The; SOLDIER-MAN BLUES (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ah'd rather be a-pimpin' fur one-eyed kate Subject(s): Soldiers SOLDIER-MAN BLUES (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ah got de so'dier-man sadness, de so'dier-man blues Subject(s): Soldiers SOLDIER: TWENTIETH CENTURY, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love you, great new titan! Last Line: Or a word in the brain's ways. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War SOLDIERS, by SUTARDJI CALZOUM BACHRI Poem Source First Line: Let the young people Last Line: Light their torches %and explode Subject(s): Soldiers SOLDIERS, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gay flags flying down the street Last Line: And the screaming fife exults! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Protest, Social; Soldiers; War SOLDIERS HERE TO-DAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soldiers and saviors of the homes Last Line: And reap the harvest sure! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Freedom; Patriotism; Peace; Soldiers; War; Nightmares; Liberty SOLDIERS OF PEACE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is the brave that first forget Last Line: One future, just and free! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Fate; Peace; Soldiers; Tears; Destiny SOLDIERS WITH WINGS (WITH MUSIC), by JR. WILLIAM PEPPER Poem Source First Line: We're soldiers with wings marching thru the air and fighting way up Subject(s): Soldiers 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 SOLDIERS; FOREST OF COURTON, JULY, 1918, by GIUSEPPE UNGARETTI Poem Source First Line: We are as Last Line: Leaves Subject(s): Soldiers SOLIDER IN THE DESERT. A ROMANCE IN PHOTOS, by RONNY SOMECK Poem Source First Line: The letter from her beau didn't spray eau-de-cologne on her face Last Line: On the plot of grass, lascivious %like a common concubine Subject(s): Letters; Soldiers SOLILOQUY, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young I had a care Last Line: A little grave that has no name. Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I; First World War SOLILOQUY OF ARNOLD, by EDWARD C. JONES Poem Source First Line: The plan is fixed; I fluctuate no more Subject(s): American Revolution; Arnold, Benedict (1741-1801); Soldiers SOME TALK OF PEACE -, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark war, exploding loud mephitic mines Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Soldiers SOMETIMES EVEN NOW I MAY, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE, by MULFORD DOUGHTY Poem Text First Line: Song of a fair may morning Last Line: Only a mile from me. Subject(s): Death; France; Military; Soldiers; War; Dead, The SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA, by BOB FREMD Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers SOMEWHERE NEAR PHU BAI, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The moon cuts through Last Line: Of the brain, counting %sheep before I know it Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SOMME, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: From amiens to abbeville Last Line: And poppy-mantled meadows blow %in murdered picardy Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I SOMME FLOWER TALK, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: Said the cornflower to the pimpernel Last Line: Here in the clash of human kind %her marshal of the fields Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I SON OF THE BEACH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Twas on a dark and stormy night Subject(s): Soldiers SONG, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh love,' they said, 'is king of kings' Last Line: Love would be merely you. Subject(s): Love; Soldiers' Writings SONG, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All suddenly the wind comes soft Last Line: And my heart puts forth its pain. Subject(s): Love; Soldiers' Writings SONG, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way of love was thus Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SONG, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart, my heart is heavy Last Line: I wish he would shoot me dead! Subject(s): Grief; Soldiers; Sorrow; Sadness SONG, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O have you seen the thorn that grows Last Line: Such beauty intermingled %with such woe Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SONG, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh journeyman, oh journeyman Last Line: Long after death has come and gone Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SONG, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lay in sheets of softest linen Last Line: And glitter in the starry night Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SONG, by CHRISTIAN MILNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At eve, when dee's transparent stream Last Line: For him who far, far hence lies low! Alternate Author Name(s): Ross, Christian Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O dewey was the morning Subject(s): Soldiers SONG, by MILES VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: If I am any hope Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii SONG AND CRY OF A SOLDIER IN THE LINES, by ALBERT EDWARD CLEMENTS Poem Text First Line: Sharpen the sky to flashes of flame Last Line: When a cross and dust mark where you fell? Subject(s): Death; Government; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War SONG FOR A FAILURE, by JOCK CURLE Poem Source First Line: The lady weds for ground and grange Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii SONG FOR ADOLF, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Now we're on our way, on our way, on our way Subject(s): Soldiers SONG FOR PELAGUIS, by NORMAN NICHOLSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the rain rains upward Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii SONG FOR THE LOST PRIVATE, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night we were to meet in the hotel Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SONG FOR THE LOST PRIVATE, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The night we were to meet in the hotel Last Line: The miles we were all from home Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SONG IN THE GREEN LIGHT, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A young girl sings in the green light Last Line: Hope is an unharvested field' Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SONG OF AN EXILE, by WILLIAM HAMILTON Poem Source First Line: I have seen the cliffs of dover Subject(s): Exiles; Soldiers; World War I SONG OF LIANG-CHOU, by WANG HAN Poem Source First Line: The grape wine is beautiful Last Line: How many soldiers ever returned Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Soldiers SONG OF NAPALM, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: After the storm, after the rain stopped pounding Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SONG OF NAPALM, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After the storm, after the rain stopped pounding Last Line: And not the jungle green %pasture unfolding before us can deny it Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SONG OF ODIN, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When odin his buckler had girded on Last Line: As he drinks from the skull of a foeman slain. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Murder; Soldiers SONG OF SONGS, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing me at morn but only with your laugh Last Line: Throbbing though you, and sobbing unsubdued. Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Soldiers' Writings SONG OF THE ARMY COOKS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: We never were made to be seen on parade Subject(s): Soldiers SONG OF THE ARMY ENGINEERS, by SR. R. J. BURT Poem Source First Line: The engineer's 'embattled banners' Subject(s): Soldiers SONG OF THE CAMPUS COMMANDOS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: He's just a joe college in khaki Subject(s): Soldiers SONG OF THE MEN OF CHIN-LING (MARCHING BACK TO THE CAPITAL), by HSIEH T'IAO Poem Text First Line: Chiang-nan is a glorious and beautiful land Last Line: And for those who have done valiantly rich reward awaits. Alternate Author Name(s): Hsuan-hui; Xie Tiao Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Soldiers SONG OF THE POWERS, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: Mine, said the stone Last Line: They all end alone %as you will, you will Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History SONG OF THE SEABEES, by PETER DE ROSE Poem Source First Line: We're the seabees of the navy Subject(s): Soldiers SONG OF THE SIGNAL CORPS, by DAWSON OLMSTEAD Poem Source First Line: In the time of war, no matter where you are Subject(s): Soldiers SONG-BOOKS OF THE WAR, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In fifty years, when peace outshines Last Line: And lived in time to share the fun. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War SONG: ON SEEING DEAD BODIES FLOATING OFF THE CAPE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first month of his absence Subject(s): Absence; Soldiers' Writings; World War Ii; Separation; Isolation; Second World War SONG: ON SEEING DEAD BODIES FLOATING OFF THE CAPE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first month of his absence Last Line: The nearness that is waiting in my bed, %the gradual self-effacement of the dead Subject(s): Absence; Soldiers' Writings; World War Ii SONG: THE WARRIOR LOVER, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When war's red tempest shall depart Last Line: To claim and clasp its bride. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Soldiers SONGS FOR THE NIGHT, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stars seem gilded nipples Last Line: Orion's sword hangs glittering Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SONGS OF SLEEP, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With joy my heart Last Line: Of the day's fire %love's pyre Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SONNET, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I said I splendidly loved you; it's not true Last Line: And do not love at all. Of these am I. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SONNET, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Death will find me Last Line: Amusedly, among the ancient dead. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SONNET, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Death will find me Last Line: Amusedly, among the ancient dead. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SONNET, by WILLIAM SINKLER MANNING Poem Source First Line: Now I am free to do, and give, and pay Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I SONNET (ABOARD A TROOPSHIP) TO GWENO, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A new occasion like a star has risen Last Line: Where knives give bitter blow on counter-blow Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SONNET (FOR PRISCILLA), by NICHOLAS MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Walking alone in familiar places Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii SONNET REVERSED, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hand trembling towards hand; the amazing lights Last Line: And henry, a stock-broker, doing well. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET SEQUENCE: 1. SENDING, by ARTHUR LEWIS JENKINS Poem Source First Line: When as of old the spartan mother sent Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I SONNET SEQUENCE: 2. REBELLION, by ARTHUR LEWIS JENKINS Poem Source First Line: Was it for this, dear god, that they were born Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I SONNET SEQUENCE: 3. PEACE, by ARTHUR LEWIS JENKINS Poem Source First Line: Surely the bitterness of death is past Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I SONNET TO BRITAIN, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Halt! Shoulder arms! Recover! As you were! Last Line: Pounding them into mummy. Shoulder, hoop! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): England; Soldiers; Wellesley, Arthur (1769-1852); English; Wellington, Duke Of SONNET TO MY FRIEND, WITH AN IDENTITY DISC, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If ever I had dreamed of my dead name Last Line: Until the name grow blurred and fade away. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Identity; Soldiers' Writings SONNET TO NEGRO SOLDIERS, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: They shall go down unto life's borderland Last Line: There breaks this day their dawn of liberty. Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Soldiers' Writings SONNET: 1, by HENRY WILLIAM HUTCHINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see across the chasm of flying years Last Line: To wake again where helen and hector move. Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I; First World War SONNET: 2, by HENRY WILLIAM HUTCHINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The falling rain is music overhead Last Line: "and sometimes, smiling, murmur, ""be it so!" Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War SONNET: IN TIME OF REVOLT, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The thing must end. I am no boy! I am Last Line: This too avuncular officiousness, %intolerable consanguinity Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SONNET: THE UNCERTAIN BATTLE, by DAVID GASCOYNE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Away the horde rode, in a storm of hail Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii; Second World War SONNET: THE UNCERTAIN BATTLE, by DAVID GASCOYNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Away the horde rode, in a storm of hail Last Line: Back down the hill, to say which side had lost Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii SOUBRETTES, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old soubrettes could always dance Last Line: Is always now a shudder and a scream Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SOUND OF GUNS, by GERALD MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: The sparrow hawk drops to the cornfield Last Line: A way to throw off the dead Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SOURCE OF NEWS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Absolute knowledge I have none Subject(s): Soldiers SOUTH WIND, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where have you been, south wind, this may-day morning Last Line: When you stole to me shyly with scent of hawthorn. Subject(s): Environment; Soldiers' Writings; Trees; Wind; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation SOUTHEND AT DUSK, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The unobtrusive trampships gather Last Line: I tell you, by the christ, there's no one there Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SPAIN, TAKE THIS CUP FROM ME, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Children of the world Last Line: Go forth, children of the world; go seek her! Subject(s): Patriotism; Soldiers; Spain SPAIN, TAKE THIS CUP FROM ME, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Children of the world Last Line: Go out, children of the world, go and look for her! Subject(s): Patriotism; Soldiers; Spain SPECIMEN DAYS: DEATH OF A WISCONSIN OFFICER, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another characteristic scene of that dark and bloody 1863, from notes Last Line: They yield the field Subject(s): Blood; Hospitals; Nurses; Physicians; Soldiers; War Injuries SPECIMEN DAYS: THE REAL WAR WILL NEVER GET IN THE BOOKS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And so good-bye to the war. I know not how it may have been, or may Last Line: Military, has already been - buried in the grave, in eternal darkness Subject(s): Army - United States; Hospitals; Sickness; Soldiers; War Injuries SPIRITUAL ISOLATION: A FRAGMENT, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My maker shunneth me Last Line: Even in the rose-time when all else is well. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: GODWIN JAMES, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harry wilmans! You who fell in a swamp Last Line: Behind the demoniac mask. Subject(s): Soldiers SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JOHN WASSON, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! The dew-wet grass of the meadow in north carolina Last Line: Take it from mine! Subject(s): Flags - United States; Patriotism; Soldiers; American Flag SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: MANY SOLDIERS, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The idea danced before us as a flag Last Line: In the dust with milton's poems. Subject(s): Soldiers SPORTSMEN IN PARADISE, by T. P. CAMERON WILSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They left the fury of the fight Last Line: "and there's a cricket-field!" Alternate Author Name(s): Tipuca; Wilson, Tony P. Cameron Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I - Casualties SPREADING CROSS, by TAMBIMUTTU Poem Source First Line: Where, where shall we find us after wreck Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii SPRING IN THE TRENCHES, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: The racing clouds have borne her message down Last Line: Behold new life within the tomb of death %'importunate and vivid as before Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I SPRING MCMXL, by DAVID GASCOYNE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: London bridge is falling down, rome's burnt, and babylon Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii; Second World War SPRING MCMXL, by DAVID GASCOYNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: London bridge is falling down, rome's burnt, and babylon Last Line: Of one they can still recognize, though scarcely understand Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii SPRING OFFENSIVE, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Halted against the shade of a last hill Last Line: Why speak they not of comrades that went under? Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War SPRING, 1916, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slow, rigid, is this masquerade Last Line: Spring! God pity your mood! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War SPRINGTIME IN ALASKA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When it's springtime in alaska Subject(s): Soldiers STABLE CALL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come off to the stable Subject(s): Soldiers STAND ROUND, MY BRAVE BOYS!, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stand round, my brave boys! With heart and with Last Line: And chorus it, long live the king! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Soldiers; Victory; War STAND-TO, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn met me today as I walked over castle hill Last Line: But pinned to the heart of darkness a tattered fire-flag flies Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii STAND-TO: GOOD FRIDAY MORNING, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'd been on duty from two till four Last Line: And get my bloody old sins washed white! Subject(s): Army Life; Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Drills & Minor Tactics; First World War STAR, by NICHOLAS MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I see heaven's high son on the lowly branch Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii STARLIGHT SCOPE MYOPIA, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Gray-blue shadows lift Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 STARLIGHT SCOPE MYOPIA, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gray-blue shadows lift Last Line: Loaded on an ox cart Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 STATE OF THE UNION: 14. THE PATRIARCHS AT THE RETURN TO CIVI, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They are at it again, the old soldiers Last Line: It out with baronial vehemence Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Variant Title(s): The Patriarchs At The Return To Civilian Rul Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; Victory; War STATE OF THE UNION: 23. CONCERNING MY COMMAND AND OTHER, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now all is being told Last Line: Not take over the market Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Nigerian Civil War; Soldiers STATION (1), by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I envy the soldiers' sleep -- ah, the sleep of a soldier Last Line: No, no one Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Sleep; Soldiers STELLA, THE BELLE OF FEDELA (WITH MUSIC), by THOMAS H. MARNETTE Poem Source First Line: Now every young yank who was in casablanc knows stella Subject(s): Soldiers STILL LATER THERE ARE WAR STORIES, by D. F. BROWN Poem Source First Line: Another buddy dead Last Line: Loaded, nobody %comes away in one piece Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 STORM AND SUNLIGHT, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In barns we crouch, and under stacks of straw Last Line: And share his benediction with the flowers. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings STORM; PROVINCETOWN, by JENNIFER ROSE Poem Source First Line: Last night's rain fell as thick as gettysburg's volleys Last Line: How the bell and foghorn learn each other's language Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Heroism; Military; Soldiers; U.s. - History; War - Casualties (statistics, Etc.) STOW-ON-THE-WOLD, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I met an old man at stow-on-the-wold Last Line: "and each was a tall and a lively lad." Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers & Sons; Soldiers; Sons; War; Death - Babies STRANGE CASE OF EDGAR ALFRED ALLEN AND OSCAR A. MCGINIS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When edgar alfred allen was a little boy with curls Subject(s): Soldiers STRANGE MEETING, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: It seemed that out of battle I escaped Last Line: "let us sleep now. . . ." Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Hell; Regret; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; Nightmares; First World War STRANGER IN MILITARY CLOTHES, by ROBERTA BLOOM Poem Source First Line: Suffering is embedded Last Line: From this electric shock %and run, %and come back Subject(s): Reunions; Soldiers; Strangers STRETCHER CASE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He woke; the clank and racket of the train Last Line: Lung tonic, mustard, liver pills and beer. Variant Title(s): Blighty Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War SUCCESS, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think if you had loved me when I wanted Last Line: And I'm alone; and you have not awoken. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SUICIDE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The end came suddenly for him Last Line: Now lies serene and serious as a man Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SUICIDE IN THE TRENCHES, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew a simple soldier boy Last Line: The hell where youth and laughter go. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War SUMMER OF LOVE, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: I went to sea in the summer of love Last Line: And we would never lose Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History SUNDAY: NEW GUINEA, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bugle sounds the measured call to prayers Subject(s): New Guinea; Sabbath; Soldiers; Sunday SUNDAY: NEW GUINEA, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bugle sounds the measured call to prayers Last Line: And your love's presence, snowy, beautiful, and kind Subject(s): New Guinea; Sabbath; Soldiers SUNDOWN IN VIRGINIA, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: This is a strange world. Onct, I wouldn't thank Last Line: Do me a favor, will you? Call me yank! Subject(s): Soldiers; Virginia (state); War; World War I; First World War SUNSET ON GIBRALTAR, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis sweet upon a summer eve to stand Last Line: Far buena vista's lights allure my weary feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Gibraltar; Soldiers; Spain - History; War; Weariness; Fatigue SURE, IT'S FUN, by RICHARD BUTLER GLAENZER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sure, it's fun to be a soldier! Oh, it's fun, fun, fun, Last Line: Fun? -- sure, it's fun, just the finest ever, son! Subject(s): Army Life; Death; Soldiers; Drills & Minor Tactics; Dead, The SURELY THE DREAMS, by DOUGLAS GIBSON Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii SURROUNDING BLUES ON THE WAY DOWN, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was barely in country Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SURROUNDING BLUES ON THE WAY DOWN, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was barely in country Last Line: Hung like huge flowers, black %like her teeth Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SURVIVORS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No doubt they'll soon get well; the shock and strain Last Line: Children, with eyes that hate you, broken and mad. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War SWAN'S WAY, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I changed myself into a swan Last Line: A dying swan's lament Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SWIMMER, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Early, before the soldiers are awake Last Line: Shivering and sure of what runs on and on Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings 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 SWORD AND BUCKLER; OR, SERVING-MAN'S DEFENCE: INTRODUCTION, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I that in seruice yet haue never knowne Last Line: To be your faithfull brother Subject(s): Brotherhood; Fights; Soldiers TABLEAU VIVANT, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's the scene where hector, reluctant Last Line: Taller than he is. Subject(s): Marriage; Soldiers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TAKE UP THE COURSES, YOU'LL HAVE A BARREL OF FUN!, by WILLARD ZIERGEBEL Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers TAMMANY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I'm a young disbursing officer Subject(s): Soldiers TANKER (WITH MUSIC), by ROBERT G. HOWIE Poem Source First Line: Keep rolling you tanker keep rolling along Subject(s): Soldiers TANKER SONG (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: They sent my horse to riley and the shipped me off to knox Subject(s): Soldiers TANKER'S HYMN, by ROBERT ROBERT ROSENBAUM Poem Source First Line: Mine eyes have seen the glory of the million-footed yank Subject(s): Soldiers TAOPING, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the vast blue-shadow-sweeping plain Last Line: Their cannon-bowelled fortress of taoping? Subject(s): China; Soldiers TAPS (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Day is done, gone the sun, from the hill, form the sky, all is Subject(s): Soldiers TATTOED LADY (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I've paid two bits to see the tattoed lady Subject(s): Soldiers TAY SO'N ARMIES, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the tay so'n soldiers Last Line: From mountains to coast Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 TEARS, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It seems I have no tears left. They should have fallen Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Soldiers; Tears TEARS, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It seems I have no tears left. They should have fallen Last Line: And silence, told me truths I had not dreamed, %amd have forgotten since their beauty passed Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Soldiers; Tears TEARS AND WAILS: AN ODE TO THE SURVIVOR, by FINTAN L. DOOLEY Poem Source First Line: Tears of my sleepless fellow, I do remember Last Line: Sure, he said, I do remember. She did promise to wait for me Subject(s): Gulf War (1991); Militarism; Soldiers; Survival; War Injuries TELL ME, STRANGER, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: Tell me, stranger, is it true Last Line: Are all the dappled fields of kew %bowing to their lord the spring? Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I TEMPLE AT QUAN LOI, 1969, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Outside the gate Last Line: Her prayers rain down like rockets Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 TEMPLE NEAR QUANG TRI, NOT ON THE MAP, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dusk, the ivy thick with sparrows Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 TEMPLE NEAR QUANG TRI, NOT ON THE MAP, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dusk, the ivy thick with sparrows Last Line: Burst off the walls into the jungle Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 TEMPLE OF LITERATURE, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nine hundred years they traveled Last Line: The wall of the quiet heart? Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 TEN YEARS AFTER, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In flanders and in france the poppies bloom Last Line: Ten years ago we could not give enough. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; Veterans Day; World War I; Dead, The; First World War TEN YEARS HAVE PASSED; ON VIEWING WAR GRAVES AT VERDUN, 1928, by DON MAITLAND BUSHBY Poem Text First Line: Ten years; but what are years to the dead Last Line: But glory and bemedaled scars! Subject(s): Death; Graves; Honor; Soldiers; Veterans Day; War; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones TENNESSEE; A CENTENNIAL POEM, 1897, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sun-shimmer'd fields of dreaming green Last Line: Love of thee. Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Freedom; Military; Soldiers; Tennessee; Confederacy; Liberty TENTING ON THE OLD CAMP GROUND, by WALTER KITTREDGE Poem Source First Line: We're tenting tonight on the old camp ground Last Line: Dying tonight, dying tonight, %dying on the old camp ground Subject(s): Patriotism; Soldiers THANKS, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Thanks for the tree Last Line: Stood among those lost trees %& moved only when I moved Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 THAT EVENING AT DINNER, by DAVID FERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the last few times we saw her it was clear Subject(s): Soldiers THAT IS WHY OUR SONS ARE HEROES, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: I was awaiting something else, my hopes were of a different kind Last Line: That is why our sons are heroes! Subject(s): Heroism; Memory; Soldiers; War; Heroes; Heroines THAT V. C., by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the days of front attack Last Line: He might have let me be a hero.' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Army Life; Soldiers; Truth; Drills & Minor Tactics THAT'S THE WRONG WAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: That's the wrong way to tickle mary Subject(s): Soldiers 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 AISNE (1914-15), by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We first saw fire on the tragic slopes Last Line: We helped to hold the lines along the aisne. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE ALTAR STONE, by RICHARD ALEXANDER Poem Text First Line: The altar stone we made Last Line: Who suffer on! Subject(s): Soldiers; Unknown Soldier THE AMERICAN SOLDIER'S HYMN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Tis god that girds our armor on Last Line: "and nations, strangers to his name, / shall thus be taught to sing his praise" Subject(s): American Revolution;soldiers THE ANZACS, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: No straws weighed they of the right or wrong Last Line: And shrines in her heart the dead. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Heaven; Soldiers; War; Graveyards; Dead, The; Paradise THE ARMORER'S ERRAND; A BALLAD OF 1775, by JULIA CAROLINE RIPLEY DORR Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Where the far skies soared clear and bright Last Line: He stormed with his comrades to share the fray! Subject(s): Allen, Ethan (1738-1789); American Revolution; Soldiers THE ASSAULT, by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The beating of the guns grows louder Last Line: Cool madness. Subject(s): Army Life; Fights; Military; Soldiers; War; Drills & Minor Tactics THE BALLAD OF JEAN RENAUD, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Back from the war came jean renaud Last Line: "my baby also therein shall sleep!" Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De Subject(s): Ghosts; Soldiers; Supernatural THE BALLAD OF THE ARMY, by TU FU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chariots rumble and roar Last Line: "with darkened sky, and drenching rain,—a melancholy sound!" Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): Army - China; Soldiers; War THE BATTLE CRY OF THE SOUTH, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brothers! The thunder-cloud is black Last Line: And the god of the maccabees! Subject(s): Bible; Soldiers; Southern States; War; South (u.s.) THE BATTLE OF ABU KLEA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye sons of mars, come join with me Last Line: Then the square was re-formed and the battle was o'er. Subject(s): Army - Great Britain; Praise; Soldiers; Victory; War THE BATTLE OF BANNOCKBURN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sir robert the bruce at bannockburn Last Line: The day he came to bannockburn! Subject(s): Bannockburn, Battle Of (1314); Soldiers; Victory; War THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1808, and in the autumn of the year Last Line: By giving them an inch or two of cold steel. Subject(s): Death; Loss; Napoleonic Wars; Soldiers; War; Dead, The THE BATTLE OF EL-TEB, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye sons of great britain, I think no shame Last Line: With his foolish and benighted rebel horde. Subject(s): Heroism; Soldiers; War; Heroes; Heroines THE BATTLE OF GUJRAY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1849, and on the 20th of february Last Line: Because india is annexed to the british dominions, and they must obey. Subject(s): British West Indies; Heroism; Soldiers; Victory; War; Heroes; Heroines THE BATTLE OF MORRIS' ISLAND; A CHEERFUL TRAGEDY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The morn was cloudy and dark and gray Last Line: Look our for the battle that's yet to come / down there on morris' island Subject(s): "american Civil War;anderson, Robert (1805-1871);fort Sumter, South Carolina;soldiers;u.s. - History; THE BATTLE OF SHINA, IN AFRICA, FOUGHT IN 1800, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: King shuac, the giant of mizra, war did declare Last Line: For to thee I owe my life, and nought but death will us sever. Subject(s): Soldiers; War THE BATTLE OF THE KEGS, by FRANCIS HOPKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gallants, attend and hear a friend Last Line: They'll make their boasts and brags, sir. Variant Title(s): British Valor Displayed Subject(s): American Revolution; Battleships; Great Britain - Civil War; Machinery & Machinists; Navy - United States; Patriotism; Soldiers; English Civil War; American Navy THE BATTLE ON THE FLOOR, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: My father was a soldier, so Last Line: A battle all her own. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Soldiers; War THE BATTLE-CRY OF FREEDOM, by GEORGE FREDERICK ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, we'll rally round the flag, boys, we'll rally once again Last Line: Shouting the battle-cry of freedom. Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; Patriotism; Soldiers; United States - History; Vicksburg Campaign (1862-63); Liberty THE BATTLEFIELD, by SYDNEY OSWALD Poem Text First Line: Around no fire the soldiers sleep tonight Last Line: To guard from hurt his faithful sleeping friend. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE BEACH ROAD BY THE WOOD, by GEOFFREY HOWARD Poem Text First Line: I know a beach road Last Line: And the face I never found. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE BEGINNING, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some day I shall rise and leave my friends Last Line: -- and my heart is sick with memories. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE BELFRY OF MONS, by WILFRID CHARLES THORLEY Poem Text First Line: At mons there is a belfry tall Last Line: They hear the trumpet sound. Subject(s): Bells; Death; Peace; Soldiers; Spires; War; Dead, The; Steeples THE BELLS OF ATLANTA (AN INCIDENT OF THE CIVIL WAR), by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn sunset on atlanta painting banners / red of mars Last Line: And the notes of drums are drownèd in thy melodies of peace. Subject(s): American Civil War; Atlanta Campaign (1864); Soldiers; U.s. - History THE BIG GAME--HERE AND OVER THERE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Stands are packed and bleachers crowded Last Line: "shall call ""safe"" ere evening falls!" Variant Title(s): The Big Game-here And Over There Subject(s): Baseball; Soldiers; Sports; War; World War I; First World War THE BLOOD-STAINED CROSS, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A black cross and a bloody Last Line: And youth. War slew them utterly. Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; Dead, The THE BLUE AND THE GRAY, by FRANCIS MILES FINCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the flow of the inland river Last Line: Tears and love for the gray. Variant Title(s): Decoration Day;memorial Day Subject(s): American Civil War; Graves; Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism; Peace; Soldiers; United States - History; Tombs; Tombstones; Declaration Day THE BOY IN ARMOR; HE SPEAKS TO THE GATHERED NATIONS, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tremble, o world! Bow down! Cringe! Be afraid! Last Line: For you shall think! And ghosts will drive you on! Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Lectures; Patriotism; Social Protest; Soldiers; Supernatural; Thought; War; Dead, The; Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking; Thinking THE BOY PATRIOT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want to be a soldier! Last Line: Or just a snare-drum, snarling in the middle of the band. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Patriotism; Soldiers; War THE BRAVEST SOLDIERS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brave, brave were the soldiers (high named to-day) who lived through the fight Last Line: But the bravest press'd to the front and fell, unnamed, unknown. Subject(s): Courage; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery THE BROKEN SOLDIER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The broken soldier sings and whistles day to dark Last Line: The bird caught in the cage whistles its joyous stave. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Soldiers; Soul; Strength; Women; World War I; First World War THE BROKEN SOLDIERS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A song for the good fighting men Last Line: Until it dwindles out of sight. Subject(s): Soldiers THE BUGLER, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HARVEY Poem Text First Line: God dreamed a man Last Line: Trumpeting men through beauty to god's side. Subject(s): Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE BUGLER; A CASE STUDY IN THE PSYCHOLOGY OF WAR, by LIN DAVIES Poem Text First Line: I can't blow taps no more Last Line: "and that squares me!" Subject(s): Bugles; Death; Music & Musicians; Psychology; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Psychologists THE BURNING OF THE TEMPLE, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fierce wrath of solomon Last Line: Gone as his mouth's last sighs. Subject(s): Jerusalem; Soldiers' Writings THE BUSY HEART, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now that we've done our best and worst, and parted Last Line: I have need to busy my heart with quietude. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE CALL, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the nothingness of sleep Last Line: The dust of the dead gods, alone. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE CALL TO ARMS, by CARL JOHN BOSTELMANN Poem Text First Line: Drums of doom are marching to the battle Last Line: God! Save young laughter from the lust of guns! Subject(s): Death; God; Military; Salvation; Soldiers; War; Dead, The THE CAMP, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tents, marquees, and baggage waggons Last Line: Nothing clean—and nothing quiet. Subject(s): Soldiers; War THE CASUALTY CLEARING STATION, by GILBERT WATERHOUSE Poem Text First Line: A bowl of daffodils Last Line: Secure from war's alarms. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE CATHEDRAL, by WILLIAM G. SHAKESPEARE Poem Text First Line: Hope and mirth are gone. Beauty is departed Last Line: Forgiving, praying, singing, feeling sorry. Alternate Author Name(s): S., W. G. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE CHALLENGE OF THE GUNS, by ARTHUR NELSON FIELD Poem Text First Line: By day, by night, along the lines Last Line: All that we have and are we lay on england's shrine. Alternate Author Name(s): Nelson, A. N. Subject(s): England; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; English; First World War THE CHANCES, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I mind as 'ow the night afore that show Last Line: The ruddy lot all rolled in one. Jim's mad. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE CHARGE OF THE HEAVY BRIGADE AT BALACLAVA: PROLOGUE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our birches yellowing and from each Last Line: Paled, and the glory grew. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Crimean War (1853-1856); Hamley, Sir Edward Bruce (1824-1893); Soldiers THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Half a league, half a league, / half a league onward Last Line: Noble six hundred! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Balaclava, Crimea; Cavalry; Courage; Crimean War (1853-1856); Duty; Heroism; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Patriotism; Russia; Soldiers; War; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines; Soviet Union; Russians THE CHARM, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In darkness the loud sea makes moan Last Line: And holiness upon the deep. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE CHASM, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the dream vultures circle above my mother's cousin Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953; Soldiers THE CHILTERNS, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your hands, my dear, adorable Last Line: And I daresay she will do. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE CHORAL UNION, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He staggered in from night and frost and fog Last Line: He wondered when lord god would turn him out. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE CLOISTER, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our eyes no longer sail the tidal streets Last Line: These he has gardened, for they please his eyes. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Women And War THE COLOR SERGEANT, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under a burning tropic sun Last Line: Yet true, in death, to his duty. Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Fights; Prejudice; San Juan Hill, Battle Of (1898); Soldiers; Spanish-american War (1898); Bias; Intolerance THE COMPLAINT OF THE SOLDIERS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: When they were come back from the wars their heads were seamed Last Line: Them! Subject(s): Homecoming; Soldiers; War THE CONFESSION OF ST. JIM-RALPH, by DENIS JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I used to sneak into the movies without paying Last Line: These things speak the clear promise of heaven Subject(s): Heroism; Travel; Crime & Criminals; Death; Soldiers; Heroes; Heroines; Journeys; Trips; Dead, The THE CONQUEROR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He hears the whir of the battle Last Line: Into a tangle of endless wars. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Sea; Soldiers; War; Ocean THE CONTEMPTIBLE NEUTRAL, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world was full of battle Last Line: While all the world's at war! Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Variant Title(s): The Looker-on Subject(s): Blood; Fights; Soldiers; War THE CONVICTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES: JOHN, SAMUEL, AND RICHARD, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a calm pleasant evening, the light fades away Last Line: You drink up your grog and be merry together. Subject(s): Friendship; Judgments; Memory; New South Wales, Australia; Prisons & Prisoners; Soldiers; Story-telling THE COW-CHACE, by JOHN ANDRE Poem Text First Line: To drive the kine one summer's morn Last Line: Should ever catch the poet. Subject(s): American Revolution; Caldwell, James (1734-1781); New Jersey; Soldiers; Wayne, Anthony (1745-1796) THE CRICKETERS OF FLANDERS, by JAMES NORMAN HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first to climb the parapet Last Line: "a sportsman and a soldier still!" Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE CROSS ROADS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old man breaking stones Last Line: And a stone is on her face. Subject(s): Funerals; Girls; Labor & Laborers; Lunch; Murder; Rest; Soldiers; Story-telling; Travel; Burials; Work; Workers; Journeys; Trips THE CROSS-TREE, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Doctor, doctor, a little of your love Subject(s): Soldiers; War; Army Life; Suicide; Drills & Minor Tactics THE CROSS; TO THE MOTHERS OF THE MARTYRED DEAD UPON FIELD OF BATTLE, by JOSEPHINE TURCK BAKER Poem Text First Line: My flesh cries out for its own flesh! Last Line: And share with thee the tortures of the cross. Subject(s): Martyrs; Mothers & Sons; Religion; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; Theology THE DASHING WHITE SERGEANT, by JOHN BURGOYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I had a beau Last Line: As a dashing white sergeant, I'd march away! Subject(s): Amazons; Courage; Soldiers; Victory; War; Valor; Bravery THE DAY'S MARCH, by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The battery grides and jingles Last Line: I lift my head and smile. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE DEAD HEROES, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flame out, you glorious skies Last Line: And claim god's kiss. Subject(s): Consolation; Soldiers' Writings THE DEAD SOLDIER, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look! They came, the triumphant army! Last Line: He dreams the dream of the dead soldier. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; Dead, The THE DEAD-BEAT, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He dropped - more sullenly than wearily Last Line: "that scum you sent last night soon died. Hooray!" Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE DEATH OF A SOLDIER, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life contracts and death is expected Last Line: In their direction Subject(s): Holidays; Soldiers; War THE DEATH-BED, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: He drowsed and was aware of silence heaped Last Line: Then, far away, the thudding of the guns. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War 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 DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM BY THE BABYLONIAN HORDES, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They left their babylon bare / or all its tall men Last Line: To a gird of babylon's mirth. Subject(s): Jerusalem; Soldiers' Writings THE DISINTERRED WARRIOR, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gather him to his grave again Last Line: Ah, let us spare, at least, their graves! Subject(s): Graves; Soldiers; Tombs; Tombstones THE DOCTOR, by ROGER WODDIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I should lose, think only this of me Last Line: I'm damned if I'll just be our man in devon. Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); Poetry & Poets; Soldiers' Writings THE DRAFTED MAN, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kissed me from the saddle, and I still can feel it burning Last Line: Coming up the canon from the smoke-blue plains! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Variant Title(s): The Smoke Blue Plains Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I; First World War THE DRAGON AND THE UNDYING, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night the flares go up; the dragon sings Last Line: To hail the burning heavens they left unsung. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE DREAM, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moonlight and dew-drenched blossom, and the scent Last Line: To the foul beast of war that bludgeons life. Subject(s): Science; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Scientists; First World War THE DRUMMER BOY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "captain gray, the men were sayin'" Last Line: Unbroken by the night's tattoo Subject(s): Boys;drums;musical Instruments;soldiers THE DYING SOLDIER, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here are houses, he moaned Last Line: He moaned and swooned to death. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE EFFECT, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He'd never seen so many dead before Last Line: Who'll buy my nice fresh corpses, two a penny?' Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE END, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the blast of lightning from the east Last Line: "nor my titanic tears the seas be dried." Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Theology; First World War THE ENGLISH DEAD (IN THE SOUDANESE CAMPAIGN), by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give honour to our heroes fall'n, how ill Last Line: But with the poppy alone, their deeds and death. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; Sudan; Dead, The THE EXILE'S REVERIES, SELECTION, by JAMES KENNEDY Poem Text First Line: Chased from my calling to this hackneyed trade Last Line: Patriots drag the felon's chain. Subject(s): Books; Exiles; Melancholy; Poetry & Poets; Revolutions; Sailing & Sailors; Soldiers; Reading; Dejection; Seamen; Sails THE FACE (GUILLEMONT), by FREDERIC MANNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the smoke of men's wrath Last Line: Broken. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE FARM AGAIN, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dreamy rain comes down Last Line: Gay phantom armies pass. Subject(s): Farm Life; Laughter; Rain; Soldiers; Agriculture; Farmers THE FATE OF THE HESSIAN, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who blusters along with his clattering blade Last Line: And field, camp, and prison knew friedrich no more! Subject(s): Fate; Hate; Legends; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Soldiers; Destiny THE FATHERS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snug at the club two fathers sat Last Line: These impotent old friends of mine. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE FEMALE GOD, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We curl into your eyes Last Line: Your world. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE FIDDLER OF BERLIN, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night, and a black pall over the city Last Line: And broken women, and ghosts. Subject(s): Death; Fiddles; Loss; Military; Mourning; Musical Instruments; Soldiers; Truth; War; Dead, The; Bereavement THE FIGHTING SWING, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once again the regiments marching down the street Last Line: Blood, dust, grapple and thrust—back to the fighting swing! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Blood; Cowboys; Fights; Soldiers; War THE FIRST GRENADIER OF FRANCE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in a certain regiment of french grenadiers Last Line: To cry out always the brave grenadier's name at the roll call. Subject(s): Courage; France; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery THE FIRST THREE [NOVEMBER 3, 1917], by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere in france,' upon a brown hillside Last Line: Upon their hillside graves our immortelles! Subject(s): Death; Enright, Thomas F.; Gresham, James D.; Hay, Merle D.; Soldiers; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE FISH, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a cool curving world he lies Last Line: And the dark tide are one with him. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sea; Soldiers' Writings; Anglers; Ocean THE FLAG OF GREEN'S BRIGADE, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O when I stood before the tatter'd flag of / green's brigade Last Line: To fight their country's battles 'round the flag of green's brigade. Subject(s): American Civil War; Flags; Patriotism; Soldiers; U.s. - History THE FLAG OF PEACE, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men long have fought for their flying flags Last Line: The rainbow flag of peace! Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Death; Earth; Nations; Peace; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; World THE FOOT-SOLDIER'S SONG, by CHARLES VILDRAC Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'd like to be the old man/ I saw along the way: Last Line: On the first day of the war. Alternate Author Name(s): Messager, Charle Subject(s): Men; Old Age; Singing & Singers; Soldiers THE FRENCH AND SPANISH GUERRILLAS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hunger, and sultry heat, and nipping blast Last Line: And hang like dreams around his guilty bed. Subject(s): Soldiers THE FUNERAL OF YOUTH: THRENODY, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day that youth had died Last Line: All, except only love. Love had died long ago. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE GATE OF THE ARMIES, by HENRI FRANCOIS JOSEPH DE REGNIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Swing out thy doors, high gate that dreadst not night Last Line: "of your red feet leaves clear its sanguine trace." Subject(s): Soldiers THE GATEKEEPER, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunlight falls on old quebec Last Line: Gatekeeper of a peace-filled land! Subject(s): Military; Peace; Quebec, Battle Of (1775); Soldiers; War THE GENERAL, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good-morning: good-morning!' the general said Last Line: But he did for them both by his plan of attack. Subject(s): Generals; Hate; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE GODDESS IN THE WOOD, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a flowered dell the lady venus stood Last Line: And the immortal eyes to look on death. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: EL HARITH, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lightly took she her leave of me, asma-u Last Line: Stoodst the day of hayáreyn. Our proof is proven! Subject(s): Arabia; Arabs - Women; Fights; Man-woman Relationships; Soldiers; War; Male-female Relations THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF 27 B.C., by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For sins ancestral, o thou guiltless roman Last Line: And gosh! Our kids are getting even worse! Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Soldiers; Tyranny & Tyrants; War; Dictators THE GRAVEYARD AT WEST POINT, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On this sweet sabbath morning, let us wander Last Line: Until the end of all! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Soldiers; United States - Military Academy; Graveyards; Dead, The THE GREAT ADVENTURE, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: In my heart is the sound of drums Last Line: We who are weak and old and hoary. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Courage; Soldiers; War; Valor; Bravery THE GREAT LOVER, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been so great a lover: filled my days Last Line: "praise you, ""all these were lovely""; say, ""he loved." Subject(s): Love; Soldiers' Writings; War THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS [MAY 9, 1775], by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here halt we our march, and pitch our tent Last Line: For the deeds of to-morrow night. Subject(s): Allen, Ethan (1738-1789); American Revolution; Soldiers; Ticonderoga, Battle Of (1775) THE GRENADIERS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two grenadiers travell'd tow'rds france one day Last Line: "for my emperor hasting to battle!" Subject(s): France; Honor; Soldiers THE GUARD AT THE BINH THUY BRIDGE, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: How still he stands as mists begin to move Last Line: He aims. At her. Then drops his aim. Idly. Subject(s): Guns; Rivers; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 THE GUARDS CAME THROUGH, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men of the twenty-first Last Line: How the guards came through. Subject(s): England; Soldiers; World War I; English; First World War THE HALLOWED STAR OF GOLD, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Twas a little gray house by an old country road Last Line: "the voice of this star through my art." Subject(s): Flags - United States; Patriotism; Soldiers; American Flag THE HAPPY WARRIOR, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is the happy warrior? Who is he Last Line: That every man in arms should wish to be. Variant Title(s): Character Of The Happy Warrior Subject(s): Human Behavior; Soldiers; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE HAWTHORN TREE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not much to me is yonder lane Last Line: Until I've heard he's dead. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE HEARSE SONG (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The old grey hearse goes rolling by Last Line: And you look like hell when they're through with you Subject(s): Corpses;funerals;soldiers; Cadavers;burials THE HELMETS, A FRAGMENT, by THOMAS PENROSE Poem Text First Line: Twas midnight - every mortal eye was closed Last Line: The agonising priest. Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Fights; Soldiers THE HERITAGE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cry out on time that he may take away Last Line: Not we, but others, hear the bird that sings. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE HERO, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jack fell as he'd have wished,' the mother said Last Line: Except that lonely woman with white hair. Subject(s): Mothers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE HILL, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Breathless, we flung us on the windy hill Last Line: -- and then you suddenly cried, and turned away. Subject(s): Desire; Love; Soldiers' Writings THE HIRED MAN, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG Poem Text First Line: He was an ex-artillery man Last Line: Almost one heard the caissons rumbling by. Subject(s): Memory; Soldiers THE HOSTS, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Purged, with the life they left, of all Last Line: We played it through as the author planned. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE HUNDRED DAYS' MEN; ILLINOIS, MAY, 1864, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis time the corn was planted, the latest wheat was sown Last Line: But joyfully, in busy may, gave up our thousands more! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): American Civil War; Government; Illinois; Indiana; Ohio; Soldiers; U.s. - History THE HUNTERS OF KENTUCKY (3), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Ye gentlemen and ladies fair Last Line: "oh! Kentucky, / the hunters of kentucky" Subject(s): "kentucky;new Orleans, Battle Of (1815);soldiers;war Of 1812; THE ILIAD: AGAMENON IN THE FIGHT, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These, then, he left, and away where ranks were now clashing the thickest Last Line: Flat upon earth, far dearer to vultures than to their home-mates. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Soldiers; Trojan War THE ILIAD: MARSHALLING OF THE ACHAIANS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like as a terrible fire feeds fast on a forest enormous Last Line: He with the girdle of ares, he with the breast of poseidon. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Soldiers; Trojan War THE ILIAD: PARIS AND DIOMEDES, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forth of his ambush leapt, and he vaunted him, uttering thiswise Last Line: Rotting, round him the birds, more numerous they than the women.' Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Mythology - Classical; Soldiers; Trojan War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE IMMORTALS, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I killed them, but they would not die Last Line: But now I call him dirty louse. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE INDIGNANT CAPTAIN OF INDUSTRY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A gentleman I chance to know Last Line: And, my! He was malignant! Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Cruelty; Militarism; Murder; Soldiers THE INTERNATIONALISTS, by PHILIP M. HARDING Poem Text First Line: Freed from tradition's bloody racks Last Line: Worth one split-second of their lives! Subject(s): Cooperation; Nations; Soldiers; War THE INVESTITURE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God with a roll of honour in his hand Last Line: You roam forlorn along the streets of gold. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE JEW, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moses, from whose loins I sprung Last Line: Then why do they sneer at me? Subject(s): Bible; Freedom; Jews; Religion; Soldiers' Writings; Liberty; Judaism; Theology THE JEWISH MOTHER AND HER SONS BEFORE ANTIOCHUS, by R. MANAHAN Poem Text First Line: The sun shone bright upon a kingly throne Last Line: "thou gavest one, I seven to god!"" and so she died." Subject(s): Courage; Jews; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery; Judaism THE JEWISH SOLDIER (1), by ALICE LUCAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother england, mother england, 'mid the / thousands Last Line: England say! Alternate Author Name(s): Montefiore, Julia Subject(s): Exiles; Great Britain - Civil War; Heroism; Jews; Right To Asylum; Soldiers; English Civil War; Heroes; Heroines; Judaism THE JOLLY COMPANY, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stars, a jolly company Last Line: Star to faint star, across the sky. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE JOURNEY, by GRACE FALLOW NORTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I went upon a journey Last Line: All my journey sung! Subject(s): Death; Nations; Soldiers; Women; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE JUNGLE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In mole-blue indolence the sun / plays idly on the stagnant pool Subject(s): Jungles; Soldiers' Writings THE KISS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To these I turn, in these I trust Last Line: Quail from your downward darting kiss. Subject(s): Kisses; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE KNIGHT IN PRISON, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wearily, drearily / half the day long Last Line: Over my wrong. Variant Title(s): In Prison Subject(s): Soldiers THE LADY OF THE BLACK TOWER, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Watch no more the twinkling stars Last Line: "to prove myself, sweet lady, thine." Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Soldiers; War THE LAST MEETING, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because the night was falling warm and still Last Line: And youth, that dying, touched my lips to song. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE LAST POST, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bugler sent a call of high romance Last Line: "jolly young fusiliers too good to die." Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL: INTRODUCTION, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way was long, the wind was cold Last Line: Twas thus the latest minstrel sung. Variant Title(s): The Minstrel Subject(s): Love; Religion; Scotland - Relations With England; Soldiers; Theology THE LIFE BEYOND, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He wakes, who never thought to wake again Last Line: It's dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE LILY OF FORT CUSTER, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And you want me to tell you the story, lad Last Line: The lily of fort custer—and she blooms in tennessee. Subject(s): Militarism; Soldiers; Tennessee; War Injuries THE LION OF LUCERNE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With equal courage soldier and commander fell Last Line: If rank and title, crowned with glory, live. Subject(s): Gratitude; Honor; Memory; Soldiers THE LITTLE DOG'S DAY, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All in the town were still asleep Subject(s): Dogs; Death - Animals; Soldiers' Writings THE LITTLE PIOU-PIOU, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, some of us lolled in the chateau Last Line: Sonnez la charge, clairons! Subject(s): Soldiers; War; World War I; First World War THE LITTLE STONES; REMEMBERING A SIGHT OF ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETARY, by BARBARA YOUNG Poem Text First Line: I saw them shining in the sun Last Line: And no more stones in arlington. Subject(s): Arlington National Cemetery; Death; Social Protest; Soldiers; Unknown Soldier; War; Dead, The THE LONG WAR, by LI PO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They fought last year by the upper valley of son-kan Last Line: They have accomplished nothing! Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Army - China; Death; Soldiers; War; Dead, The THE LOST LEGION, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Tough birds were some of our fighters, for the Last Line: But god won't give a crooked deal to men who died like men! Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE MACCABEES, by MIRIAM MYERS Poem Text First Line: When you tell of israel's heroes, those who lived Last Line: Sing aloud the well-earned praises of the maccabees so bold. Subject(s): Heroism; Israel; Jews; Soldiers; Heroes; Heroines; Judaism THE MAGPIES IN PICARDY, by T. P. CAMERON WILSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The magpies in picardy / are more than I can tell Last Line: He flies as poets might.) Alternate Author Name(s): Tipuca; Wilson, Tony P. Cameron Subject(s): Birds; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE MAHRATTA GHATS, by ALUN LEWIS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The valleys crack and burn, the exhausted plains Subject(s): India; Soldiers' Writings; Travel; World War Ii; Journeys; Trips; Second World War THE MAN HE KILLED, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had he and I but met Last Line: "or help to half-a-crown." Subject(s): Enemies; Murder; Soldiers; War THE MAN IN WHITE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soldier, knowest thou the land Last Line: "and we shall be at home." Subject(s): Kisses; Sleep; Soldiers; Strangers; Time THE MAN WHO COOKS THE GRUB, by SAMUEL ELLSWORTH KISER Poem Text First Line: We have read in song and story Last Line: Is the man who cooks the grub. Subject(s): Guns; Heroism; Men; Soldiers; War; Heroes; Heroines THE MAN WITH THE HOE, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Last Line: After the silence of the centuries? Subject(s): Art & Artists; Farm Life; Freedom; Labor & Laborers; Mankind; Millet, Jean Francois (1814-1875); Oppression; Paintings & Painters; Religion; Social Protest; Soldiers; Agriculture; Farmers; Liberty; Work; Workers; Human Race; Theology THE MANGO-TREE, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He wiled me through the furzy croft Last Line: A furzy croft; a sandy lane. Subject(s): Mango Trees; Soldiers THE MARCH OF THE GHOSTS, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chattering, clattering, here they come! Last Line: "let peace prevail through eternity!" Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Soldiers; Supernatural; War; Dead, The THE MARCH OF THE REGIMENT, 1861, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here they come!-'tis the twelfth, you know Last Line: The lilies and palms of god. Subject(s): Marching & Marches; Militarism; New York City - 19th Century; Patriotism; Soldiers; War THE MARINE (POITEVIN), by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bold marine comes back from war Last Line: All so kind. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Death; Remarriage; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Second Marriage 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 MESSENGER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She rose up in the early dawn Last Line: "the fight itself was not so hard." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Mothers; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE MESSINES ROAD, by JOHN E. STEWART Poem Text First Line: The road that runs up to messines Last Line: And give the highway back its state. Subject(s): Roads; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Paths; Trails; First World War THE MILITARY HARPIST, by RUTH PITTER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strangely assorted, the shape of song and the bloody man Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Soldiers THE MILITIAMAN, by ELMO SCOTT WATSON Poem Text First Line: O, we didn't join for glory Last Line: Fightin' like hell for the red, white and blue! Subject(s): Militarism; Soldiers; World War I; First World War THE MIRROR, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It glimmers like a wakeful lake in the dusk narrowing room Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE MOUNTAIN OF SKELETONS, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mountain strikes into a clouded sky Last Line: In what forgotten war. Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Korean War, 1950-1953; Mountains; Skeletons; Soldiers; World War I; Hills; Downs (great Britain); First World War THE MOUNTAIN OF SKULLS, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All guns are silent - 'I have won,' he saith Last Line: Go quietly, all our days. Subject(s): Skulls; Soldiers; War; World War I; First World War THE MUFFLED DRUM, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The muffled drum was heard Last Line: O'er the soldier's burial-rite. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Funerals; Soldiers; Burials THE NEW SCHOOL, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The halls that were loud with the merry tread of young and careless feet Last Line: A flame that they took with strong young hands from the altar-fires of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE NEW SERMON ON THE MOUNT, by RALPH B. URMY Poem Text First Line: Gentle jesus, meek and mild Last Line: Amen. Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Prayer; Soldiers; Veterans Day; War THE NEXT STEP, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The next step you take Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 THE NEXT WAR, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out there, we walked quite friendly up to death Last Line: He fights for death, for lives; not men, for flags. Subject(s): Death; Patriotism; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE NIGHT BEFORE AND THE NIGHT AFTER THE CHARGE, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On sword and gun the shadows reel and riot Last Line: To mark the dug-out where my comrades sleep. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; War; Dead, The THE NIGHT JOURNEY, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hands and lit faces eddy to a line Last Line: The lamps fade; and the stars. We are alone. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE NIGHT PATROL; SEPTEMBER, 1918, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behind me on the darkened pier Last Line: And silent duty on the sea. Subject(s): England; Night; Ships & Shipping; Soldiers; War; World War I; English; Bedtime; First World War THE NON-COMBATANT, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among a race high-handed, strong of heart Last Line: And hummed his music on the march to death. Subject(s): Soldiers THE OLD MAN AND JIM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old man never had much to say Last Line: "take keer of yourse'f!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Soldiers; War; Dead, The THE OLD SOLDIER, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There came an old soldier to my door Last Line: A fol-rol-dol-rol-di-do. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Soldiers THE OLD VICARAGE, GRANTCHESTER, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just now the lilac is in bloom Last Line: And is there honey still for tea? Subject(s): England; Grantchester, England; Soldiers' Writings; English THE ONE BEFORE THE LAST, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt I was in love again Last Line: You ever hurt abit! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE ONE LOST, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I mingle with your bones Last Line: Freed by your thrall. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE ONE-LEGGED MAN, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Propped up on a stick he viewed the august weald Last Line: And thought: 'thank god they had to amputate!' Subject(s): Amputees; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE OTHER ARMY, by BARTHOLOMEW GRIFFIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O'er ruined road past draggled field Last Line: And fast it grows at every hedge! Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Marching & Marches; Satire (as Poetic Genre); Soldiers; Travel; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Journeys; Trips THE PACIFIST; EPIGRAM, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pale ebenezer thought it wrong to fight Last Line: But roaring bill (who killed him) thought it right Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Pacifism; Soldiers; Peace Movements THE PARABLE OF THE OLD MAN AND THE YOUNG, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: So abram rose, and clave the wood, and went Last Line: And half the seed of europe, one by one. Subject(s): Abraham; Bible; Isaac (bible); Religion; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Theology; First World War THE PEASANTS, by ALUN LEWIS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dwarf barefooted, chanting Subject(s): Peasantry; Soldiers' Writings; World War Ii; Second World War THE PENNSYLVANIA SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: We are the troop that ne'er will stoop Last Line: "nor slaves nor cowards we will prove, / great britain shall soon see" Subject(s): American Revolution;pennsylvania;soldiers THE PEOPLE'S SONG OF PEACE, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The grass is green on bunker hill Last Line: And janus rests with rusted door. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Peace; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines THE PHANTOM REVIEW, by SQUIRE OMAR BARKER Poem Text First Line: Come phantom feet in the wind tonight and soundless drumbeats roll Last Line: "our pledge, to ease the watch you tread, ""it shall not be again!" Alternate Author Name(s): Barker, S. Omar Subject(s): Army Life; Death; Honor; Military; Social Protest; Soldiers; Drills & Minor Tactics; Dead, The 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 POET'S JOURNAL: SQUANDERED LIVES, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fisherman wades in the surges Last Line: And we to his wisdom are blind Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Life; Sailing & Sailors; Soldiers THE POPLARS, by BERNARD FREEMAN TROTTER Poem Text First Line: O, a lush green english meadow - it's there I that would lie Last Line: For a row of wind-blown poplars against an english sky. Subject(s): Poplar Trees; Soldiers; World War I; First World War THE POPPY FIELDS OF SERGEY, by KATE SLAUGHTER MCKINNEY Poem Text First Line: Oh! The poppy fields of sergey Last Line: Where the blood-red poppies grow. Subject(s): Blood; Death; Fields; Poppies; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE PRISONER, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tartars led in chains Last Line: "a han heart and a han tongue set in the body of a turk." Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Freedom; Prisons & Prisoners; Soldiers; Tatars; Liberty; Tartars THE RACE OF THE BOOMERS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bleak o' the dawn, and the plain Last Line: The indian's heart-wrung wail for his hapless hunting grounds. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Dawn; Death; June; Pain; Soldiers; Sunrise; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery THE RANKER, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: There was only one first sergeant Last Line: Who ever went to france. Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I; First World War THE REAR-GUARD, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Groping along the tunnel, step by step Last Line: Unloading hell behind him step by step. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE REASONS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They sat before a dugout Last Line: "what?" Subject(s): Fights; Military; Patriotism; Soldiers; War THE RECRUIT, by ROBERT WILLIAM CHAMBERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sez corporal madden to private mcfadden Last Line: The rigiment's flatthered to own ye, me spark! Variant Title(s): The Rookie Subject(s): Soldiers THE RECRUIT, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His mother bids him go without a tear Last Line: To look upon itself and live—or die! Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; World War I; First World War THE RECRUITING SARGEANT, by TU FU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At sunset in the village of che-kao Last Line: None but an old and broken man behind. Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): Soldiers THE RECRUITING SERGEANT; A MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT: AIR, by ISAAC BICKERSTAFFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What a charming thing's a battle! Last Line: What a charming thing's a battle! Subject(s): Guns; Soldiers; Trumpets; War THE RED HILLS, by PAO CHAO Poem Text First Line: Red hills lie athwart us as a menace in the west Last Line: Can he hope that his soldiers will give what is hardest to give? Alternate Author Name(s): Ming-yuan; Bao Zhao Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Soldiers THE REDEEMER, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Darkness: the rain sluiced down; the mire was deep Last Line: Mumbling: 'o christ almighty, now I'm stuck!' Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE REGIMENT, 1909, by JOHN CURTIS UNDERWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The traffic clears, and the crowd to the curb shifts to Last Line: But still the red blood corpuscles shall vitalize the race. Subject(s): Death; Marching & Marches; Militarism; New York City; Soldiers; Dead, The; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE RETURN, by ELEANOR ROGERS COX Poem Text First Line: Golden through the golden morning Last Line: From the soul's despair. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE RETURN OF THE GUARDS; JULY 9, 1856, by FRANCIS HASTINGS CHARLES DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, they return - but who return? Last Line: Which shakes the euxine shore. Subject(s): Crimean War (1853-1856); Homecoming; Soldiers THE RETURNED MAN, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They thought that he would come / back Last Line: Knowing that they lied! Subject(s): Heroism; Military; Soldiers; Heroes; Heroines THE RIVAL SCHOOLS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Trained in the ways of blood and iron Last Line: "urged on by ""high-born"" power?" Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I; First World War THE ROAD, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The road is thronged with women: soldiers pass Last Line: The road would serve you well enough for bed. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE RUBAIYAT OF BATTLE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Wake--for the dawn has come, and o'er the top Last Line: And seek repose amid the hostile dead! Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE SALUTE OF THE 'IMMORTALITE', by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: The coming dawn flung out her pennants grey Last Line: Till anglo-saxon peace shall lead the world. Subject(s): Battleships; Manila, Philippines; Navy - Great Britain; Soldiers; Spanish-american War (1898); English Navy THE SCHOLAR RECRUIT, by PAO CHAO Poem Text First Line: Now / late I follow time's necessity Last Line: What will become of me before it's all over? Alternate Author Name(s): Ming-yuan; Bao Zhao Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Soldiers THE SEND-OFF, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down the close darkening lanes they sang their way Last Line: Up half-known roads. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; War; World War I; First World War THE SENTRY, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We'd found an old boche dug-out, and he knew Last Line: "I see your lights!"" but ours had long died out." Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE SERGEANT'S SONG, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When lawyer's strive to heal a breach Last Line: Rollicum-rorum, tol-lol-lay! Subject(s): Soldiers THE SERGEANT'S WEDDIN', by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: E was warned agin 'er Last Line: An' a rogue is married to, etc. Subject(s): Soldiers; Wedding Song; Epithalamium THE SERVICE STAR, by KENNETH WIGGINS PORTER Poem Text First Line: She saw in the window a single star Last Line: "he is in fort leavenworth." Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Pride; Soldiers; Sons; War; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE SHOW, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My soul looked down from a vague height with death Last Line: And the fresh-severed head of it, my head. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE SIGN, by FREDERIC MANNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are here in a wood of little beeches Last Line: Across the moon. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE SILKEN SASHES, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: The turks were many -- the greeks were few Last Line: With crimson sashes together bound. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Soldiers; Dead, The THE SLEEPER OF THE VALLEY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a green hollow where a river sings Last Line: Tranquil -- with two red holes in his right side. Subject(s): Nature; Soldiers THE SLEEPING SOLDIER, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: On the wild battlefield where the bullets were flying Last Line: Overwept by the night, overwatched by the stars. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; War Injuries; Dead, The THE SOLDIER, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The large report of fame I lack Last Line: Across my brow the leaves of life. Subject(s): Bombs; Scars; Soldiers; Thunder THE SOLDIER, by SOPHIE JEWETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The soldier fought his battle silently Last Line: And all men praised the soldier when he died. Alternate Author Name(s): Burroughs, Ellen Subject(s): Soldiers; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College THE SOLDIER, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The soldier does not think of death Last Line: Touches and patiently withdraws; death waits. Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Soldiers; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines THE SOLDIER, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watch'd him sleep by the furrow Last Line: To fall when green leaves come again! Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; Dead, The THE SOLDIER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The soldier! - meek the title, yet Last Line: The captain's high command. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Freedom; Monuments; Soldiers; War; Liberty THE SOLDIER, by WILLIAM SMYTH Poem Text First Line: What dreaming drone was ever blest Last Line: Thy country and thy duty. Subject(s): Honor; Soldiers; War THE SOLDIER BOY'S DREAM, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A soldier boy lay dreaming Last Line: Of liberty, new found. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): American Civil War; Dreams; Freedom; Soldiers; United States - History; Nightmares; Liberty THE SOLDIER GENERATION, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are the sons of disaster Last Line: Will yield of our strivings, god. Subject(s): Faith; Grief; Lies; Soldiers; Truth; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness THE SOLDIER OF FORTUNE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deny your god!' they ringed me with their spears Last Line: "go, set him free who serves so well his god!" Subject(s): Soldiers THE SOLDIER SPEAKS, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If courage thrives on reeking slaughter Last Line: We have gone down to fight! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I; First World War THE SOLDIER THAT HAS SEEN SERVICE; A SKETCH FROM NATURE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "from calpe's rock, with loss of leg" Last Line: Then parts his crust and hobbles on Subject(s): Heroism;soldiers; Heroes;heroines THE SOLDIER'S DEATHBED, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like thee to die, thou sun! - my boyhood's dream Last Line: Offers a trusting spirit up to god. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; Dead, The THE SOLDIER'S DREAM, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our bugles sang truce, - for the night-cloud had lowered Last Line: And the voice in my dreaming ear melted away. Subject(s): Dreams; Home; Soldiers; War; Nightmares THE SOLDIER'S FUNERAL, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the muffled drum rolled on the air Last Line: The father had pray'd o'er his only son! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Funerals; Soldiers; Burials THE SOLDIER'S FUNERAL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the funeral march. I did not think Last Line: A mere machine of murder. Subject(s): Fate; Funerals; God; Mortality; Murder; Religion; Soldiers; Destiny; Burials; Theology THE SOLDIER'S GRAVE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a white stone placed upon yonder tomb Last Line: But who died on his own home-pillow! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Graves; Soldiers; Tombs; Tombstones THE SOLDIER'S RETURN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When wild war's deadly blast was blawn Last Line: In day and hour of danger. Subject(s): Homecoming; Soldiers THE SOLDIER'S SEA CHANGE, by DANIEL HUGH VERDER Poem Text First Line: What do you carry, slow moving ship Last Line: Crimsons the dismal flowing flood. Subject(s): Death; Patriotism; Soldiers; War - Casualties (statistics, Etc.); World War I; Youth; Dead, The; First World War THE SOLDIER'S SONG, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard a soldier sing some trifle Last Line: Out in the veldt, alone? Subject(s): Boer War; Soldiers; South African War THE SOLDIER'S TEAR, by THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the hill he turned Last Line: Has wiped away a tear. Alternate Author Name(s): Bayly, Nathaniel Thomas Haynes Subject(s): Soldiers THE SOLDIER-BOY, by WILLIAM MAGINN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I give my soldier-boy a blade Last Line: I gave my soldier-boy a blade. Subject(s): Soldiers THE SONG OF MINA'S SOLDIERS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We heard thy name, o mina Last Line: -- the mountain-bands are thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Soldiers THE SONG OF THE BEASTS, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come away! Come away Last Line: To the black unresting plains of the calling sea. Subject(s): Animals; Soldiers' Writings THE SONG OF THE PILGRIMS, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What light of unremembered skies Last Line: Among the forests of the night. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE SONG OF THE SOLDIER-BORN, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me the scorn of the stars and a peak defiant Last Line: Death in my boots may-be, but fighting, fighting. Subject(s): Soldiers; War; World War I; First World War THE STAND-TO, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn met me today as I walked over castle hill Last Line: The apples drawn too early and shatters the sutyumn rose Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii; Second World War THE STATUE OF SHERMAN BY ST. GAUDENS, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the soldier brave enough to tell Last Line: And rides through hell to save his country's life. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Variant Title(s): Saint-gauden's Statue Of General Sherman Subject(s): Saint Gaudens, Augustus (1848-1907); Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); Soldiers; Statues THE STORMING OF STONY POINT [JULY 16, 1779], by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Highlands of hudson! Ye saw them pass Last Line: "over the parapet, ""spear in hand!" Subject(s): American Revolution; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Soldiers; Stony Point, Battle Of (1779); Wayne, Anthony (1745-1796) THE STRANGER, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He waited here among us for a fortnight and a day Last Line: Me rovin' rangin' soldier lad from god knows where. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Christianity; Soldiers; Strangers THE SURPRISE AT TICONDEROGA [MAY 10, 1775], by MARY ANNA PHINNEY STANSBURY Poem Text First Line: Twas may upon the mountains, and on the airy wing Last Line: Shine the names of ethan allen and his bold volunteers! Subject(s): Allen, Ethan (1738-1789); American Revolution; Courage; Soldiers; Ticonderoga, Battle Of (1775); Valor; Bravery THE SURVIVAL OF THE UNFIT, by HEINRICH LEHR Poem Text First Line: A trillion trillion years ago Last Line: And grow into the sons of god. Subject(s): Army - United States; Military; Soldiers; Survival; World War I; First World War THE SUTTLER'S (FROM THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR), by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The brave hussars I dearly love Last Line: From a fresh-open'd barrel daily. Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Soldiers; War; Songs THE SWORD IN ITS SCABBARD, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sword is sheathed in its scabbard Last Line: And cherish such heroes true. Subject(s): Life; Soldiers; Spring THE TEARS OF SCOTLAND, by TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mourn, hapless caledonia, mourn / thy banished peace, thy laurels torn! Last Line: Thy banished peace, thy laurels torn.' Subject(s): Mourning; Scotland; Soldiers; Tears; War; Bereavement THE TENNESSEEAN TO THE FLAG, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We followed you first in the days of old Last Line: Than the love of our people for thee. Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Flags; Patriotism; Soldiers; Tennessee; Confederacy THE THINNING RANKS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: The bugles sound, the rolling drums Last Line: To honor noble dead. Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Honor; Memorial Day; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Declaration Day THE THORN OF PRESTON, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reviving with the genial airs Last Line: Sad relics of the fight! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Blood; Mourning; Soldiers; Solitude; War; Bereavement; Loneliness THE TOAST OF MARS, by MARY E. OAKES Poem Text First Line: My ghastly cry I raise on high Last Line: I give you the toast of mars! Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Soldiers; World War I; First World War THE TOMB OF ETERNAL LIFE, by KATHRYN WHITE RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From a port-hole his boy-face gazed back Last Line: Crowds heave eternal life on him. Subject(s): Future Life; Graves; Soldiers; War; Youth; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Tombs; Tombstones THE TOMBSTONE-MAKER, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He primmed his loose red mouth and leaned his head Last Line: O sir, that christian souls should come to that!' Subject(s): Graves; Mourning; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement; First World War THE TOY SOLDIER, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: I want a soldier Last Line: I'd not consider wedding one. No, that's out! Subject(s): Marriage; Soldiers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE TOY SOLDIER'S VALENTINE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: It was valentine day and the toy folk were gay Last Line: Ran away with each other. I'm glad, are n't you? Subject(s): Holidays; Soldiers; Toys; Valentine's Day THE TREASURE, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When colour goes home into the eyes Last Line: When children sleep, ere night. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE TRENCHES, by FREDERIC MANNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Endless lanes sunken in the clay Last Line: Night for menace with weary eyes. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE TROOP SHIP, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grotesque and queerly huddled Last Line: Ale on your face. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE TROOPS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dim, gradual thinning of the shapeless gloom Last Line: The legions who have suffered and are dust. Variant Title(s): Prelude: The Troops Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE TWO SOLDIERS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just at the corner of the wall Last Line: Its tragic shadow there. Subject(s): Soldiers THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by GERTRUDE HAHN Poem Text First Line: How many men of state and high degree Last Line: And moonlight, and a pretty girl to kiss. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Soldiers; Summer; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by ANGELA MORGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He is known to the sun-white majesties Last Line: They are known in the courts of god! Subject(s): Honor; Soldiers; Unknown Soldier; War THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by MARGARET STINEBACK Poem Text First Line: His dreams have all grown lovely with the years Last Line: Along the path of peace—god's path—instead! Subject(s): Courage; Graves; Peace; Social Protest; Soldiers; Unknown Soldier; War; Valor; Bravery; Tombs; Tombstones THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by CHARLES ABRAHAM WAGNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One man's shoulder, another man's thigh Last Line: To call each colored weed a flower. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; Unknown Soldier; War; Dead, The THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER MEDITATES, by JEAN EVANS Poem Text First Line: Here rests in honored glory' Last Line: Or that my grave were where I could forget. Subject(s): Soldiers THE UNSCARRED FIGHTER REMEMBERS FRANCE, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING Poem Text First Line: That amazing holiday Last Line: Standing by an open grave. Subject(s): France; Soldiers THE UNSUNG HOUR, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You glorify him as a hero, and you crown him Last Line: When his lust burned his veins into cinder, and in passion, he spared her soul. Subject(s): Courage; Fights; Soldiers; War; Valor; Bravery THE VISION OF THE ARCHANGELS, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slowly up silent peaks, the white edge of the world Last Line: With sorrowful quiet faces downward to the plain. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE VOICE, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Safe in the magic of my woods Last Line: By god! I wish -- I wish that you were dead! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE VOICE OF THE GUNS, by GILBERT FRANKAU Poem Text First Line: We are the guns, and your masters! Saw ye our flashes? Last Line: Loose them, and shatter, and spare not! We are the guns! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE VOLUNTEER, by HERBERT HENRY ASQUITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies a clerk who half his life had spent Last Line: Who goes to join the men of agincourt. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxford And Asquith, 1st Earl Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE VOLUNTEER, by ELBRIDGE JEFFERSON CUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At dawn,' he said, 'I bid them all farewell ...' Last Line: "I follow, though I die!" Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; Declaration Day THE VOLUNTEER, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in that memorable year Last Line: A martial epigram. Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Soldiers THE VOLUNTEER, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou'lt go! Thou'lt go! Last Line: And chose his pittance from the cannon's mouth? Subject(s): Soldiers THE VOLUNTEER (1914-1919), by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dreams are passed and gone, old man Last Line: Carry on, old sport, carry on! Subject(s): England; Military Recruitment; Soldiers; World War I; English; First World War THE WALL, by DAVID JONES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We don't know the ins and outs Last Line: That's the new fatigue Subject(s): Soldiers; Rome, Italy; Walls THE WAY THAT LOVERS USE, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way that lovers use is this Last Line: -- so lovers say. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE WAYFARERS, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it the hour? We leave this resting-place Last Line: Into the waste we know not, into the night? Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE WINE PRESS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A murdered man, ten miles away Last Line: Thro' a red volcanic sky ... Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Murder; Soldiers; World War I; Dead, The; Wine; First World War THE WRAITHS, by EDYTHE C. TONER Poem Text First Line: Hosts of the martyred dead! Last Line: "thus die ... Thus die?" Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Social Protest; Soldiers; Supernatural; War; Youth; Dead, The THE YOUNG BRITISH SOLDIER, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the 'arf-made recruity goes out to the east Last Line: Soldier of the queen! Subject(s): Soldiers THE YOUNG DEAD SOLDIERS, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The young dead soldiers do not speak Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War THE YOUNG SOLDIER, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the house ran lettice Last Line: With a bullet-hole straight through! Subject(s): Soldiers THE YOUNG WARRIOR, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, shed no mournful tears Last Line: Unsheathed against the wrong. Subject(s): Fights; Justice; Soldiers THEIR FRAILTY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He's got a blighty wound. He's safe; and then Last Line: So long as he's all right. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THERE WAS A LITTLE HEN AND SHE HAD A WOODEN LEG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers THERE WAS THE RICHNESS OF OUR FORMER LIVING, by E. Y. BARNARD Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii THERE WILL BE MUSIC, by IVAN HARGRAVE Poem Source First Line: After the band has gone Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii THERE'S A HOLE IN THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers THERE'S ABOUT TWO MILLION FELLOWS FROM THE NORTH, SOUTH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers THERE'S WISDOM IN WOMEN, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh love is fair, and love is rare'; my dear one she said Last Line: Have cried on love so bitterly, with so true a tongue? Subject(s): Women; Soldiers' Writings THEY DO NOT GO GENTLE, by BASIL T. PAQUET Poem Source First Line: The half-dead comatose Last Line: Red and grey on a rubber tree Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 THEY PASS, by GEORGE O'NEIL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, I have seen the valiant ones go by Last Line: Have nothing else to offer but a song ....? Subject(s): Despair; Soldiers THEY SHALL RETURN WHEN THE WARS ARE OVER, by JAMES LEWIS MILLIGAN Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers THEY', by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bishop tells us: 'when the boys come back' Last Line: And the bishop said: 'the ways of god are strange!' Subject(s): Religion; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Theology; First World War THIEN QUANG LAKE, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the window, the street sweeper Last Line: Whose name is the buddha's light Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 THINGS WE DREAMT WE DIED FOR, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flags of all sorts Last Line: By the many who have not one. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Literature; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Nightmares THINK AT THIS TIME OF THE PATIENT INFANTRY, by G. O. PHYSICK Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii THIRD CAVALRY SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh! I belong to the - hic! - third cavalry Subject(s): Soldiers THIS IS NO CASE OF PETTY RIGHT OR WRONG, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And as we love ourselves we hate our foe Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): England; Soldiers; World War I THIS IS YOUR GIFT, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: Who is the lover sleeping beside you? Last Line: Breathe with the body beside you and know Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History THIS WILL FLOAT, by F. JOHN HERBERT Poem Source First Line: This will float for a long time then be removed Last Line: You eat the colder. %they are the outcasts. %help is coming Subject(s): Heroism; Military; Soldiers; World War I - Naval Actions THOROUGHBREDS (AN INCIDENT OF THE FIGHT AROUND ATLANTA), by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Straight at the breastworks, flanked with / fire Last Line: Will be—the sons of the thoroughbred! Subject(s): American Civil War; Camp-meetings; Fights; Militarism; Soldiers; U.s. - History; U.s. - Military Academy THOSE OTHERS, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where are those others? - the men who stood Last Line: As the hallowed host goes by! Subject(s): Death; England; Patriotism; Praise; Soldiers; War; World War I; Dead, The; English; First World War THOUGHTS BEFORE DAWN; FOR MARY BUI THI KHUY, 1944-1969, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bare oaks rock and snowcrust tumbles down Last Line: Brave woman, I hope you never saw the truck. Subject(s): Amputees; Death; Medicine; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Dead, The; Drugs, Prescription THOUGHTS ON THE EVE, by EMANUEL LITVINOFF Poem Source First Line: We could love life the more Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii THOUGHTS ON THE SHAPE OF THE HUMAN BODY, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can we find? How can we rest? How can Last Line: Patiently ever, through the eternal night! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THREE CHARACTERS FROM A LOST HOME; CEDAR, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: Though they drill and count my rings Last Line: I grow unmoving till I die Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History THREE CHARACTERS FROM A LOST HOME; WATER, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: No one can record my travels Last Line: And wait for my unravelling Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History THREE CHARACTERS FROM A LOST HOME; WOODSMOKE, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: I'll make your eyes tear up Last Line: Into the woods alone Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History THREE GOLDEN STARS, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lucy, helen, ruth! Sweet names they have Last Line: When truth and love make all the nations one. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; Women; Dead, The THREE HILLS, by EDWARD CHARLES EVERARD OWEN Poem Text First Line: There is a hill in england Last Line: To souls in jeopardy. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Death; Mountains; Soldiers; War; World War I; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain); First World War THREE MEN OF TRURO: 1. E.W.B. ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The church's outpost on a neck of land Last Line: Look down, behold how bravely goes the war! Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Benson, Edward White (1829-1896); Leadership; Soldiers; War THREE STARS, by DAVID GASCOYNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night was time: %the phases of the mooon Last Line: Where from the womb of nothing shall be born a son Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii THREE TESTIMONIES OF AYACUCHO, by ANTONIO CISNEROS Poem Source First Line: From a soldier %after the battle Last Line: Of war, hunger, and the horses Subject(s): Animals; Death; Heroism; Horses; Soldiers; War THRENODY FOR A STARRY NIGHT, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White frost; intricate bare branches Last Line: End the mad feud. The worm is love Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THRUSHES, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tossed on the glittering air they soar and skim Last Line: And storms the gate of nothingness for proof. Subject(s): Birds; Soldiers' Writings; Thrushes; World War I; First World War THUMBS UP, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: If the grub don't seem worth eatin' Subject(s): Soldiers TIARE TAHITI, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mamua, when our laughter ends Last Line: Papeete, february 1914 Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Tahiti TIGER OF CAMDEN TOWN, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eternal tiger, fretting in the dark Last Line: Would ravage all things if he were released Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings TIME, by PAUL SCOTT Poem Source First Line: She said 'one day you will awake and find' Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii TO A COMRADE IN ARMS, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Red fool, my laughing comrade Subject(s): Christianity; Soldiers' Writings TO A COMRADE IN ARMS, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Red fool, my laughing comrade Last Line: What vow shall we vow who love you Subject(s): Christianity; Soldiers' Writings TO A DEAD SOLDIER, by KENDALL HARRISON Poem Text First Line: Though all the primrose paths of morning called Last Line: The laughing play of children in the sun. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; Dead, The TO A FRIEND SETTLED IN THE COUNTRY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Richard, the lot which fate to thee has given Last Line: Sweet solace to the wearied soul can yield. Subject(s): Cities; Comfort; Country Life; Fate; Soldiers; Urban Life; Destiny TO A FRIEND WANTING WAR, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I trust that when the bugles blow Last Line: To think on death's monotony. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Death; Murder; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War TO A LETTER, by F. O. WATKINS Poem Source First Line: Your inky lines, your inky words Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii TO A SKYLARK BEHIND OUR TRENCHES, by EDWARD DE STEIN Poem Text First Line: Thou little voice! Thou happy sprite Last Line: We live. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War TO A SOLDIER FRIEND, by KATHERINE DONOVAN MACKINNON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You go not forth alone, with single power Last Line: And follow you unchallenged, unafraid. Subject(s): Soldiers; Wellesley College TO A WATERFOWL, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whither, midst falling dew Last Line: Will lead my steps aright. Variant Title(s): The Waterfowl Subject(s): Birds; Faith; God; Migration; Nature; Religion; Soldiers; Waterfowl; Belief; Creed; Theology TO A WOULD-BE KING, by P. A. A. THOMAS Poem Source First Line: There have been others before thee, conqueror Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii TO A YOUNG GIRL, by CLIVE SANSOM Poem Source First Line: Were you ever young Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii TO ALEXANDER THE GREAT, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: No more he walks across the field Last Line: When he comes home again! Subject(s): Alexander, Grover Cleveland (1887-1950); Athletes; Baseball; Soldiers; Sports; World War I; First World War TO AMERICA'S UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by KARL E. MUNDT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When from your silent sleep in france you came Last Line: —the classmate Subject(s): Death; Graves; Soldiers; United States; Unknown Soldier; War; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; America TO AMERICA, ON HER FIRST SONS FALLEN IN THE GREAT WAR, by E. M. WALKER Poem Text First Line: Now you are one with us, you know our tears Last Line: "to those who hear far heaven cry, ""well done!" Subject(s): Death; Enright, Thomas F.; Gresham, James D.; Hay, Merle D.; Soldiers; World War I; Dead, The; First World War TO AN OLD LADY SEEN AT A GUEST-HOUSE FOR SOLDIERS, by ALEXANDER ROBERTSON Poem Text First Line: Quiet thou didst stand at thine appointed place Last Line: The radiance of thy benignity. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War TO AN OXFORD FRIEND KILLED IN ACTION; AFTER READING POEM BY W.M. LETTS, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: I saw you last beside the stream Last Line: Or counts her gain in trade.) Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Letts, Winifred Mary (1882-1971); Soldiers; World War I - Casualties; Dead, The TO ANY DEAD OFFICER, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, how are things in heaven? I wish you'd say Last Line: I wish they'd killed you in a decent show. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War TO ARMS!, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: To arms! To arms! The heroes cry Last Line: "were there no honour, there would be no love" Subject(s): Arms & Armor;fights;heroism;soldiers; Heroes;heroines TO C -, by P. A. A. THOMAS Poem Source First Line: The mystery and glamour of the east Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii TO C.H.V, by ROBERT ERNEST VERNEDE Poem Source First Line: What shall I bring to you, wife of mine Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I TO CERTAIN POETS, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now is the rhymer's honest trade Last Line: And leave the poet's craft to men! Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Soldiers; World War I; First World War TO EDWARD THOMAS, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the way up from sheet I met some children Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Thomas, Edward (1878-1917); World War Ii; Second World War TO EDWARD THOMAS, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the way up from sheet I met some children Last Line: Till suddenly, at arras, you possessed that hinted land Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Thomas, Edward (1878-1917); World War Ii TO FRIENDS UNKNOWN, UNSEEN, by SYLVIA READ Poem Source First Line: Passing worlds and the space between cities and cities Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii TO HIS DEAD BODY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When roaring gloom surged inward and you cried Last Line: Dear, red-faced father god who lit your mind. Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; Bereavement; First World War TO JOHN, by GERALD WILSON GRENFELL Poem Source First Line: O heart-and-soul and careless played Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I TO LUCASTA, [ON] GOING TO THE WARS, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind Last Line: Loved I not honour more. Variant Title(s): Going To The Wars;song Subject(s): Absence; Desire; Duty; Heroism; Honor; Love; Soldiers; War; Separation; Isolation; Heroes; Heroines TO MAUDE, by GARETH MARSH STANTON Poem Source First Line: Prim puritan, whose every glance belies Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I TO MY BROTHER, by MILES JEFFREY GAME DAY Poem Text First Line: This will I do when we have peace again Last Line: Proving your presence near, in spite of death. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War TO MY BROTHER, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me your hand, my brother, search my face Last Line: And through your victory I shall win the light. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War TO MY ELDEST BROTHER, LIEUTENANT .. HIS TWENTY-FIRST YEAR, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While hope, the syren fair and gay Last Line: "to hail the gallant fusileer." Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birthdays; Brothers; Soldiers; Half-brothers TO MY SON (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My son, at last the fateful day has come Subject(s): Soldiers TO MY YOUNGER BROTHER, ON HIS ENTERING THE ARMY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail! Thou dear thou gallant boy Last Line: Will bless our noble fusileer. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Brothers; Soldiers; Half-brothers TO OTHERS IN BARRACKS, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, I'd be fretful too as you have been Last Line: Those fragrances; those petals do not fall. Subject(s): Heroism; Soldiers; Heroes; Heroines TO OUR FALLEN, by ROBERT ERNEST VERNEDE Poem Text First Line: Ye sleepers, who will sing you? Last Line: Oh, brothers, sleep in peace! Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; World War I - Casualties; Dead, The TO RILKE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rilke, if you had known that I was trying Last Line: Once and for ever, rilke, but in oh a distant land Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings TO RUPERT BROOKE, by EDEN PHILLPOTTS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though we, a happy few Last Line: Hail, singer, and farewell! Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); Poetry & Poets; Soldiers' Writings; World War I - Casualties TO SIR ASTON COCKAYNE ON CAPTAIN HANNIBALL; EPIGRAM, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your captain hanniball does snort and puff Last Line: Bring captain hough to bait your hanniball. Subject(s): Cockayne, Sir Aston (1616-1684); Soldiers TO SOMEBODY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: They've put us through our paces Subject(s): Soldiers TO THE AUTHOR OF TEUCHSA GRONDIE, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Immortal bard! Thy graphic pen Last Line: As if you felt the red man's glory. Subject(s): Bards; Pride; Soldiers; Self-esteem; Self-respect TO THE DEAD, by GERALD CALDWELL SIORDET Poem Source First Line: Since in the days that many not come again Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I TO THE GUY WHO LANDED HER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Yes, she wrote me the other day Subject(s): Soldiers TO THE MEMORY OF CAPTAIN ARTHUR WATKIN WILLIAMS WYNN, WHO FELL AT ALMA, by FRANCIS HASTINGS CHARLES DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When from grim alma's blood-stained height Last Line: "among the free born dead -- they found him." Subject(s): Alma, Battle Of The (1854); Crimean War (1853-1856); Soldiers TO THE MEMORY OF RUPERT BROOKE, by ARTHUR STANLEY BOURINOT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He loved to live his life with laughing lips Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); Poetry And Poets; Soldiers' Writings TO THE MEMORY OF THE BRAVE AMERICANS UNDER GENERAL GREENE, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At eutaw springs the valiant died Last Line: A brighter phoebus of their own. Variant Title(s): Eutaw Springs Subject(s): American Revolution; Eutaw Springs, South Carolina; Greene, Nathaniel (1742-1786); Patriotism; Soldiers TO THE MEMORY OF WILFRED OWEN, by CHARLES NORMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into the sunset of their youth they strode Last Line: When lads before them paced to pave the ground. Subject(s): Death; Honor; Memory; Military; Owen, Wilfred (1893-1918); Poetry & Poets; Soldiers; Youth; Dead, The TO THE RETURNING BRAVE, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Victorious knights without reproach or fear Last Line: That liberty may greet you all, her shields of land and wave. Subject(s): Homecoming; Soldiers; World War I; First World War TO THE THAMES, by MARK HOLLOWAY Poem Source First Line: Wind slowly down the hills Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii TO THE UNFORGOTTEN DEAD, by E. D. YOUNG Poem Source First Line: Bury them deeper, deeper. The shallow earth Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii TO THE UNITED STATES, by ROBERT ERNEST VERNEDE Poem Source First Line: Traitors have carried the word about Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I TO THE UTTERMOST FARTHING, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: He too! He too!' the veteran paused, the sound Last Line: Not a man spoke - yet clamorous voices cried: %stumbling, he walked outside Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I TO THOSE WHO HAVE GONE HOME TIRED, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the streets fall [or, fell] silent Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 TO THOSE WHO HAVE GONE HOME TIRED, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After the streets fall [or, fell] silent Last Line: When your children ask you %why? Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 TO TRUE SOLDIERS, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strength of my country, whilst I bring to view Last Line: But's angry for the captain, still: is such. Subject(s): Soldiers TO VICTORY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Return to greet me, colours that were my joy Last Line: When the blithe wind laughs on the hills with uplifted voice. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War TO YOU WHO WENT, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Out on the quest, o you who went Last Line: So fine the quest, we who are sent! Subject(s): Heroism; Soldiers; Victory; War; Heroes; Heroines TO-DAY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is to-day, a child in white and blue Last Line: May thrill the lonely silences with song. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings TOAST, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hooray for x, he's a damned fine guy Subject(s): Soldiers TODAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: And if tomorrow shall be sad Last Line: At least today Subject(s): Life;soldiers;time TODAY IS MONDAY (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers TOGETHER, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Splashing along the boggy woods all day Last Line: But at the stable-door he'll say good-night. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War 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 TOMMY [ATKINS], by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o' beer Last Line: An' tommy ain't a bloomin' fool -- you bet that tommy sees! Variant Title(s): Tommy Subject(s): Army Life; England; Soldiers; Drills & Minor Tactics; English TOP, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Some kids was born with golden spoons, our top was born Subject(s): Soldiers TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE DEAD COMRADE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There among the woods, after the battle returning Last Line: And faint in death the lips I love so well. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Love; Mourning; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Bereavement TOWN AND COUNTRY, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, where love's stuff is body, arm and side Last Line: And dumb and mad and eyeless like the sky. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings TRACER BULLET, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: In a straight line Last Line: The scaffold's uneasy floor. Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Bullets; Patriotism; Soldiers; Weapons; Ammunition TRAFFIC WARNING, by RICHARD WARNER BORST Poem Text First Line: I saw the wreck a little after it happened Last Line: Drive carefully—for perilous is the highway! Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Soldiers; War; Dead, The TRANSFORMATION, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In many homes / one sees old shrapnel cases Last Line: Let me work. Subject(s): Change; Death; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War TRANSPORT (COURCELLES), by FREDERIC MANNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon swims in milkiness Last Line: Then again the limbers and grotesque mules. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War TRANSPORTATION CORPS MARCH, by ROBERT G. DAWES Poem Source First Line: Keep 'em moving is our song Subject(s): Soldiers TRANSPORTS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Out into the night they slip Subject(s): Soldiers TREE AND SKY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let my soul, a shining tree Last Line: On shafts of glory to the ecstasies they know. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings TREES, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think that I shall never see / a poem lovely as a tree Last Line: But only god can make a tree. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Animals; Courage; Environment; Faith; Gardens & Gardening; Holidays; Religion; Soldiers; Travel; Trees; World War I; Valor; Bravery; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Belief; Creed; Theology; Journeys; Trips; First World War TRENCH DUTY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shaken from sleep, and numbed and scarce awake Last Line: Blank stars. I'm wide-awake; and some chap's dead. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War TRENCH INCIDENT, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: We waited, as the thundering curtain swept Last Line: Before he entered like a wondering child %the heritage of kings Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I TROOPSHIP IN THE TROPICS, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Five thousand souls are here, and all are bounded Last Line: Time hardens. But the ruthless now grows kind Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; War TRUE BEAUTITUDE, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say, when the great prompter's hand shall ring Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings TUPAC AMARU RELEGATED, by ANTONIO CISNEROS Poem Source First Line: There are liberators Last Line: With four horses and their death Subject(s): Death; Libertarianism; Soldiers TURKISH TRENCH DOG, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: Night held me as I crawled and scrambled near Last Line: And sniffing at my prostrate form unnerved %he licked my face! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Soldiers' Writings; World War I TWELVE MONTHS AFTER, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hullo! Here's my platoon, the lot I had last year Last Line: That's where they are to-day, knocked over to a man. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War TWENTY-ONE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: I, that am twenty-one--a man-- Last Line: I, that am twenty-one—a man! Variant Title(s): Twenty-one: The Youth Subject(s): Soldiers; War; World War I; Youth; First World War TWENTY-ONE: THE OLDER MAN, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Could I be twenty-one again- Last Line: Could I be twenty-one again! Subject(s): Longing; Soldiers; World War I; Youth; First World War TWICE BETRAYED, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Some american soldier %came to your mother for love Last Line: When you come here tomorrow %and I'm gone Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 TWO ARMIES, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in the winter plain, two armies Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Soldiers; War TWO ARMIES, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in the winter plain, two armies Last Line: She regards death and time thrown up %the furious words and minerals which destroy Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Soldiers; War TWO COUNTRIES, by JOSE MARTI Poem Source First Line: I have two countries: cuba and the night Last Line: Like a cloud that dims the heavens Subject(s): Cuba; Farewell; Patriotism; Soldiers TWO HUNDRED YEARS AFTER, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trudging by corbie ridge one winter's night Last Line: Who came to fight in france and got their fill.' Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War TWO JOHNNIES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Your father's name was johnny reb Subject(s): Soldiers TWO JULYS, by CHARLES JOHN BEECH MASEFIELD Poem Source First Line: I was so vague in 1914 Subject(s): July; Soldiers; World War I TWO LEGENDS: FOR GREECE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the raving tusked boar Last Line: And lead him back to life again? Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings TWO LITTLE WORDS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: M is for the many times you made me Subject(s): Soldiers TWO SOLDIERS - A TALE; OR MYSTERIES OF PROVIDENCE, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In civil strife affection wears the rust Last Line: In spots where danger neer before had come Subject(s): Soldiers TWO TRENCH POEMS: 1 THE STORM NIGHT, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: Peal after peal of splitting thunder rolls Last Line: Shell-fodder yea - but spare our human souls %from fury-shaken skies! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I TWO TRENCH POEMS: 2 RESURRECTION, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: Five million men are dead. How can the worth Last Line: Even the poppy on the parapet %shall blossom as before when summer blows again Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I TYRONE (2), by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spirit of the buffalo soldiers Last Line: We turning each other on %in this damn war Subject(s): Military; Soldiers; War U.S.A. WILL FIGHT UNTIL THE WORLD AGAIN IS FREE, by ROBERT EMMET SHERWOOD Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Soldiers UNDERWEAR, by ROBERT E. BRANDT Poem Source First Line: Underwear, underwear Subject(s): Soldiers UNDERWEAR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Underwear, underwear! Subject(s): Soldiers UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 33. THE COUNTRY OF THE CAMISARDS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We travelled in the print of olden wars Last Line: Along the battle-field! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Soldiers; War UNFORTUNATE, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heart, you are restless as a paper scrap Last Line: Kinder than god. But, heart, she will not care. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings UNKNOWN, by ARTHUR CHAPMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have come back to my mother's land Last Line: That I have returned unknown? Subject(s): Soldiers; Unknown Soldier; War UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everything has lasted till today Last Line: Velasquez, close those doglike dolorous eyes Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings UNKNOWN WARRIOR SPEAKS, by MARGERY SMITH Poem Source First Line: You who softly wane into a shadow Subject(s): Soldiers; Unknown Soldier; World War Ii UNTO THE END, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Heroic words, like a trumpet's blast Last Line: Endure unto the end. Subject(s): Nicholas Ii, Czar Of Russia (1868-1918); Russia; Soldiers; World War I; Soviet Union; Russians; First World War UPON THE WINDS OF SPRING, by MARY CRAIG SINCLAIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I feel the terror in the world tonight Last Line: Pain stabs my heart and binds the wound with fear! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinclair, Upton, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Social Protest; Soldiers; Spring; World War I; Dead, The; First World War US POOR FISH, by FRANK W. GREENE Poem Source First Line: I wish I were a mermaid Subject(s): Soldiers VALEDICTION, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the trembling blue the golden porpoise plunged Last Line: Or you for whom my heart once paid too dear Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings VERTICAL OR HOW HALVED GOURDS GLAZED WITH RAIN WATER REFLECT ATOMIC..., by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's one of those blistering desert days Subject(s): Nuclear War; Soldiers; War; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb VETERAN AND RECRUIT, by EDWARD WENTWORTH HAZEWELL Poem Text First Line: He filled the crystal goblet Last Line: Unto the sergeant's love. Subject(s): Patriotism; Soldiers VICARIOUS ATONEMENT, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is an old and very cruel god Last Line: This bitter cup from us. Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Military; Mythology; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; Dead, The VICTOR JOFFRE!, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: The summer's night was falling o'er the / marne Last Line: In chaos. There calm and stern, stood—victor joffre. Subject(s): Anxiety; Blood; Death; Fights; Patriotism; Soldiers; War; Dead, The VICTORY, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night the ways of heaven were desolate Last Line: Thundered the black battalions of the gods. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings VICTORY AND FAILURE, by ALAN MACKINTOSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not for the day of victory Last Line: To die along with you! Alternate Author Name(s): Mackintosh, Ewart Alan Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Failure; Honor; Soldiers; Victory; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War VIETNAMIZATION, by D. F. BROWN Poem Source First Line: You're in this someplace else you dream Last Line: For a while you don't hear the music Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 VIEW-POINTS, by IRA SOUTH Poem Source First Line: All polished brass and varnished steel Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I VILLAGE FUNERAL: MAHARASHTRA, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wasted sleepy corpse Last Line: One birth and another birth? Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings VILLON, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They threw me from the gates: my matted hair Last Line: He hath put by as though they had not been. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Villon, Francois (1431-1463) VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 4: SATIRE: 6, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wote not how the world's degenerate Last Line: At our low sayle, and our hye happinesse. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Happiness; Soldiers; Youth; Joy; Delight VOICE OF THE UNKNOWN DEAD, by HERBERT STOTESBURY Poem Text First Line: Oh, my people! Do ye wonder Last Line: Be the symbols of his peace. Subject(s): Death; Military; Peace; Soldiers; Unknown Soldier; War; Dead, The VOLUNTARY MUTILATION, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: Rather than have to serve %in the emperor's armies Last Line: That what they saw was the blood %of soldiers Subject(s): Blood; Soldiers; War Injuries 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 VOW, by PETER ALFANO Poem Source First Line: Where are you going, my little man?' Subject(s): Soldiers VOYAGE, by S. ABEL Poem Source First Line: This, then, is parting - dry-eyed loneliness Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii W' BEACH, SELS., by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: The isle of imbros, set in turquoise blue Last Line: Chanting wild songs of how eternal fate %withstood that fierce invasion long ago Subject(s): Gallipoli Campaign (1915); Soldiers' Writings; World War I WAGNER, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Creeps in half wanton, half asleep Last Line: His pendulous stomach hangs a-shaking. Subject(s): Composers; Soldiers' Writings; Wagner, Richard (1813-1883) WAGON SOLDIER'S GANG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In the storm, in the night Subject(s): Soldiers WAIKIKI, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Warm perfumes like a breath from vine and tree Last Line: Waikiki, 1913 Subject(s): Hawaii; Soldiers' Writings WAIT AND SEE, by H. R. B. Poem Source First Line: You thought that I was romantic Subject(s): Soldiers WAITRESS AND THE SAILOR (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Once there was a waitress in the prince george hotel Subject(s): Soldiers WALKING AT WHITSUN, by DAVID GASCOYNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then let the cloth across my back grow warm Last Line: How sharply their invading steel must shine Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii WALKING TO WESTMINSTER, by JOHN+(3) HALL Poem Source First Line: In autumn london's aloud with wind, and I Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii WALTZING MATILDA (WITH MUSIC), by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Soldiers WAR, by JOCK CURLE Poem Source First Line: Because the world is falling and there comes no answer Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii WAR, by PATRIC DICKINSON Poem Source First Line: Cold are the stones Last Line: Helen turns in bed Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii WAR, by CARL N. LISCHKA Poem Text First Line: As a hurricane bellowing thunder Last Line: For the dawn of thy smile—and peace! Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; War - Casualties (statistics, Etc.); Dead, The WAR, by ARTHUR JOHN ARBUTHNOTT STRINGER Poem Text First Line: From hill to hill he harried me Last Line: Who'd wronged not mine nor me! Alternate Author Name(s): Arbuthnott, John Subject(s): Injustice; Murder; Social Protest; Soldiers; War WAR, by REX WILLS Poem Text First Line: Out in the bleak, cold forests of the north Last Line: Of god and man, of righteousness and reason. Subject(s): Soldiers; War Injuries; World War I; First World War WAR DEAD, by PATRICK JOHN MCALISTER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Always the dead seem unsuccessful Last Line: Of those in whom we might have been justified. Subject(s): Death; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; Dead, The 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 WAR ECONOMY, by JOHN GILGUN Poem Source First Line: There's a corner of the universe Last Line: Because gas is rationed Subject(s): Death; Depressions, Economic; Soldiers; War WAR GAMES, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Crouched in a sandbagged bunker Last Line: Lying in rooms flashing red %from flames in the distance Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WAR GUILT, by EDWIN ROLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Men dying in battle speak after speech has failed Last Line: A man walks calmlier toward night %who carries many midnights in his heart Alternate Author Name(s): Fishman, Solomon Subject(s): Soldiers; War WAR IN BOSNIA, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Under darkness of stars our son flies Last Line: Apache gunships will be out tonight Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Bosnia; Night; Soldiers; War WAR MUSIC, by LOUISA SHORE Poem Source First Line: The merest soldier is to-day Last Line: As never yet apollo's lyre %felt trembling in its strings Subject(s): Crimean War (1853-1856); Soldiers 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 WAR STORY FOR PAUL, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let me tell it for you Last Line: Naked in the stream toward me Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WAR STORY: 1. MED BUILDING, by GERALD MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: They brought the dead Last Line: They made it fit in somewhere Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WAR STORY: 11, by GERALD MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: Hot sun, %I walk into a whorehouse Last Line: Another gi waits his turn Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WAR STORY: 12, by GERALD MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: That night in the bunker Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WAR STORY: 14, by GERALD MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: In the early morning the working party Last Line: Concertina wire and made hollow, tinny %noises Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WAR STORY: 17, by GERALD MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: Well, I said, I came back Last Line: So early in the morning Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WAR STORY: 19, by GERALD MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: John bradt said, it'll be all right %when he gets home Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WAR STORY: 7, by GERALD MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: Flares in a night sky Last Line: Throwing the headlines Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WAR STORY: 8, by GERALD MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: We found him %his chest torn open Last Line: And kicked the body %in passing Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WAR STORY: 9, by GERALD MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: They shot the woman in the arm Last Line: She was the enemy Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WAR WEDDING, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The vigil: he lies awake in the barrack room, fearful she will not come Last Line: Their names are scrawled in blood along the wall Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings WAR WIDOW, by BERTRAM WARR Poem Source First Line: I can have no speech with them Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii WAR!, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "war - a dirty, loathesome, servile murder-job" Last Line: Because he made them in his image Subject(s): Death;injustice;military;social Protest;soldiers;war; "dead, The; WARNING TO TROOPS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What soldier guessed that where the stream descended Last Line: Lest perilous silence gnaw thee evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Soldiers WARRIOR MOTHERS, by FANNY BIXBY SPENCER Poem Text First Line: You wait as I for the fatal word Last Line: Will your son kill mine or will mine kill yours? Subject(s): Fear; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; Sons; War WARTIME LOVE-SONG, by PETER BAKER Poem Source First Line: The wind sings for you Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii WATCHIN' OUT FOR SUBS, by BERT LESTON TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bosun's shistle piping, 'starboard watch is on' Alternate Author Name(s): T., B. L. Subject(s): Soldiers WATER MUSIC, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in the heart of the lake Last Line: Of the heart and its ache Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings WATERLOO, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, here such valorous deeds were done Last Line: They'll swear to that in france! Subject(s): Soldiers; Waterloo; Battle Of Waterloo WAY BACK, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Six days and two thousand miles Last Line: To be joined to you again Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings WAYNE AT STONY POINT [JULY 16, 1779], by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas the heart of the murky night, and the lowest ebb of tide Last Line: Than his charge on stony point in the heart of the murky night. Subject(s): American Revolution; Soldiers; Stony Point, Battle Of (1779); Wayne, Anthony (1745-1796) WAYS, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It had been easier, not loving Last Line: Lovers go but hardly, all alone Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings WE DO SQUADS LEFT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, we do squads left and we do squads right Subject(s): Soldiers WE LOVE MRS. JONES, WE LOVE HER DAUGHTER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers WE MARCH - CRUSADERS ALL!, by F. Z. SMITH Poem Source First Line: They're coming from the highlands Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii WE'LL BE RIDIN' IN COMMAND CARS WHEN WE WIN, by CHARLES MURRAY Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers WE'RE ALL FOR YOU, UNCLE SAM (WITH MUSIC), by ROBERT ADLER Poem Source First Line: Ever since we've gone to war, we know what it's about Subject(s): Soldiers WE'RE IN THE Q.M.C, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, we don't have to hike like the infantry Subject(s): Soldiers WE'RE THE RAIDERS FROM OLD QUANTICO, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers WEDDED (1), by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They leave their love-lorn haunts Last Line: Dead, strayed, to love-strange lover. Subject(s): Love; Soldiers' Writings WELSH NIGHT, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fine flame of silver birches flickers Last Line: It wears the darkness like a shroud or shawl Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings WESTERN ORIENTAL, by N. A. BROWN Poem Source First Line: Flat-roofed sky-scraper, gleaming white in the sun Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Discoloured lights slant from the high rose window Last Line: To know if that which is be good or ill Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH A DRUNKEN SAILOR?, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH A DRUNKEN SAILOR? (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers WHAT I NEVER SAW, by TIMOTHY CORSELLIS Poem Source First Line: I was ready for death Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii WHAT SAVES US, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are wrapped around each other Subject(s): Education; Schools; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Students WHAT SAVES US, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We are wrapped around each other Last Line: The deep untangling, of one body from another Subject(s): Education; Schools; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WHAT SONGS THE SOLDIERS SANG, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those with few images, lyrics Last Line: And that there were no words for others. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Soldiers; War; Songs WHAT WOULD THE ARMY DO?, by WILLIAM WESTON Poem Source First Line: What would the army do without the engineers? Subject(s): Soldiers WHEN I AM 19 I WAS A MEDIC, by D. F. BROWN Poem Source First Line: All day I always want to know Last Line: Sliding through the grass %to get here Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WHEN LOVE HAS SAID FAREWELL, by JOCK CURLE Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii WHEN PRIVATE MUGRUMS PARLEY VOUS, by CHARLES DIVINE Poem Source First Line: I can count my francs an' santeems Subject(s): Soldiers WHEN THE BOYS COME HOME, by JOHN MILTON HAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a happy time coming Last Line: When the boys come home. Subject(s): Homecoming; Soldiers WHEN THE WAR GODS FEAST, by WILLIS KNAPP JONES Poem Text First Line: Moles-digging, clawing moles Last Line: How thirsty the war gods are! Subject(s): Soldiers; War WHEN THE WAR'S AT AN END, by ERIC POWELL DAWSON Poem Text First Line: At length when the war's at an end Last Line: How to lay our lives at love's feet. Subject(s): Peace; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; War WHEN THIS BLOODY WAR IS OVER - OH, HOW HAPPY I WILL BE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers WHERE MORNING GLORIES GLEAM, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: When the springtime mists are gray above the Last Line: Where the morning glories gleam red, white, and blue above our dead! Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; World War I; Dead, The; First World War WHISKY JOHNNY (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, whisky is the life of man Subject(s): Soldiers WHITE CLIFFS, by D. SETON-SMITH Poem Source First Line: Thou art a gem; and, set within a sea Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii WHO THREW THE OVERALLS IN MRS. MURPHY'S CHOWDER (WITH MUSIC), by GEORGE L. GIEFER Poem Source First Line: Mistress murphy gave a party just about a week ago Subject(s): Soldiers WHO'S READY?; JULY, 1862, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God help us! Who's ready? There's danger before! Last Line: All forward! We're ready, and conquer we will!' Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): American Civil War; Enemies; Freedom; Soldiers; U.s. - History; Liberty WIDOW; 2ND NEW JERSEY BRIGADE, LATE AUTUMN, 1862, by LISA RUSS Poem Source First Line: I call still question god-how now forsake me? Last Line: Borrow its blue forever from your cloud-crossed stare? Subject(s): Absence; American Civil War; Military; Soldiers; U.s. - History; Women And War WILLIAM MCKINLEY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He said: it is god's way Last Line: To glory here -- and there. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; God; Mckinley, William (1843-1901); Nations; Patriotism; Soldiers; Dead, The WILLIE B (2), by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why I would bring a wagon into battle Last Line: And I'm gone get her that tv %out of old steinhart's store Subject(s): Soldiers; War WILLIE, DANCING, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When we moved south Last Line: In trails of smoke above my head Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WILLIE, THE WEEPER (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Did you ever hear the story 'bout willie the weeper? Subject(s): Soldiers WIND IN THE BEECHWOOD, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The glorying forest shakes and swings with glancing Last Line: Moves with the chant and whisper of the glade. Subject(s): Forests; Soldiers' Writings; Wind; Woods WIND ON THE HEATH, by HENRY LIONEL FIELD Poem Source First Line: The wind blows cold today, my lass Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I WINTER BEFORE THE WAR (2), by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In fall we raked %the leaves downhill Last Line: We watched %each other's eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 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 WIRERS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pass it along, the wiring party's going out Last Line: But we can say the front-line wire's been safely mended. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War WISDOM, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When wisdom tells me that the world's a speck Last Line: Alone with upward song, alone with light!' Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings WISDOM, by IRA SOUTH Poem Source First Line: I had a friend, and sometimes we would talk Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I WISE GIRL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When willie in the regiment Subject(s): Soldiers WITH APOLOGIES TO WORDSWORTH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There was a day when desert wind and seared Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii WITH COLORS GAY, by HOWARD S. ABBOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With colors gay, adown the street Last Line: With colors gay. Subject(s): France; Marching & Marches; Soldiers WOMEN OF WAR, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Text First Line: Women, who lust for blood and harbor hate Last Line: Pity the fruit of your unhallowed seed! Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; War; Women; Dead, The WONDERMENT, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then a wind blew Last Line: To light the ways they went. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings WOOD SONG, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pine trees cast their needles softly Last Line: And your body the white shew-bread Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings WORDS FOR MY DAUGHTER, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: About eight of us were nailing up forts Last Line: To call me back into our helpless tribe. Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Daughters; Men; Parents; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War; Childhood; Parenthood WORKING CLASS, by BERTRAM WARR Poem Source First Line: We have heard no nightingales singing Last Line: And on bleached bones, when the sun shines, %we shall begin to build Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Soldiers; World War Ii WORLD WITHOUT END, by PATRIC DICKINSON Poem Source First Line: A world is breaking. Midnight's bell rings down Last Line: Building anew each towering-tumbling world %from dust, from fallen star Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii YES, CUBANS FOUGHT ON BOTH SIDES OF THE VIETNAM WAR, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the post-revolution island (as military Subject(s): Cuba; Soldiers YORK OF TENNESSEE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They say his rifle, ringing Last Line: Bold york of tennessee! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Courage; Soldiers; Tennessee; York, Alvin Cullum (1887-1964); Valor; Bravery YOUNG DEAD SOLDIERS, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The young dead soldiers do not speak Last Line: We were young, they say. We have died. Remember us Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; World War Ii YOUNG HEBREW SPEAKS, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday as I lay nigh dead with toil Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings YOUR SOLDIER, by H. J. L. Poem Source First Line: It is for you Subject(s): Soldiers YOUTH, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A young apollo, golden-haired Last Line: For the long littleness of life. Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); Poetry & Poets; Soldiers' Writings; Youth YOUTH IN ARMS, by HAROLD MONRO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy boy, happy boy Last Line: David of a thousand slings. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; War; Youth; Dead, The YPRES; SEPTEMBER, 1915, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Push on, my lord of wurtemberg, across the flemish fen! Last Line: Come, try your luck, whatever fate befalls you. Subject(s): England; Errors; Failure; Germany; Regret; Soldiers; War; World War I; Ypres, Belgium; English; Mistakes; Fallacies; Germans; First World War |
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