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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR (1898) Matches Found: 85 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF MANILA BAY, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your threats how vain, corregidor Last Line: A hundred years ago! Subject(s): Courage; Manila, Philippines; Spanish-american War (1898); Valor; Bravery A HERO OF SAN JUAN HILL, by OLIVA WARD BUSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Among the sick and wounded ones Last Line: Equality shall sit enthroned. Alternate Author Name(s): Bush-banks, Oliva Ward Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Spanish-american War (1898) A MOTHER OF '98, by MARION COUTHOUY SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My gallant love goes out to-day Last Line: God save our gallant sons! Subject(s): Spanish-american War (1898) A PRAYER, AFTER SANTIAGO, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Almighty god! Eternal source / of every arm we dare to wield Last Line: Could strike, yet spare the fallen state. Subject(s): God; Prayer; Santiago, Battle Of (1898); Spanish-american War (1898); 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 BATTLE CRY, by WILLIAM HENRY VENABLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Loud drums are rolling, the mad trumpets blow Last Line: Shall lower their banner to cuba's lone star! Subject(s): Cuba; Spanish-american War (1898) BATTLE SONG OF THE OREGON, by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The billowy headlands swiftly fly Last Line: The race that rules the wave! Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): Oregon (ship); Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898) BREATH ON THE OAT, by JOSEPH RUSSELL TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: Free are the muses, and where freedom is Last Line: Uncaptured and unflying, the wings of song. Subject(s): Peace; Spanish-american War (1898) CERVERA, by BERTRAND SHADWELL Poem Text First Line: Hail to thee, gallant foe! Last Line: Honor above them. Subject(s): Admirals; Cervera, Pasquale De (1839-1909); Navy - Spain; Sea Battles; Spanish-american War (1898); Spanish Navy; Naval Warfare COMRADES, by HENRY R. DORR Poem Text First Line: Now from their slumber waking Last Line: To the beat of the muffled drum! Subject(s): Sea Battles; Spanish-american War (1898); Naval Warfare CUBA LIBRE, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: America, hast thou forgot thy birth Last Line: And with their sickles hew their hated foes. Subject(s): Cuba; Spanish-american War (1898) CUBA, 1898, by H. R. VYNNE Poem Source First Line: Land of languor and of beauty, where the tawny Subject(s): Cuba; Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898) DECORATION DAY, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: There are graves on many hill-sides Last Line: Their censers swing in air. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Holidays; Honor; Memorial Day; Prayer; Spanish-american War (1898); Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Declaration Day DEEDS OF VALOR AT SANTIAGO, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who cries that the days of daring are those that are faded far Last Line: Themselves their peers. Subject(s): Patriotism; Santiago, Battle Of (1898); Santiago, Cuba; Spanish-american War (1898) DEWEY AND HIS MEN, by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Glistering high in the midnight sky Last Line: And the wildfire lights as dewey fights on the broad manila bay. Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): Dewey, George (1837-1917); Manila, Philippines; Spanish-american War (1898) DEWEY AT MANILA [MAY 1, 1898], by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas the very verge of may Last Line: Must be wise as well as brave. Subject(s): Dewey, George (1837-1917); Manila, Philippines; Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898) DEWEY IN MANILA BAY [MAY 1, 1898], by RICHARD VORHEES RISLEY Poem Text First Line: He took a thousand islands and he didn't lose a man Last Line: For fighting's part of what a yankee knows! Alternate Author Name(s): Risley, R. V. Subject(s): Dewey, George (1837-1917); Manila, Philippines; Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898) DEWEY IN WAITING, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: God of our fathers! Guard his ways Last Line: Imperiled cause, a country shamed? Subject(s): Dewey, George (1837-1917); Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898) EIGHT VOLUNTEERS, by LANSING C. BAILEY Poem Text First Line: Eight volunteers on an errand of death Last Line: Eight men! Who speaks? Subject(s): Heroism; Hobson, Richmond Pearson (1870-1937); Patriotism; Sailing & Sailors; Spanish-american War (1898); Heroes; Heroines; Seamen; Sails EL EMPLAZADO, by WILLIAM HENRY VENABLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: El emplazado, the summoned, the doomed one Last Line: Heaven reechoes the auto-da-fe. Subject(s): Cuba; Spanish-american War (1898) EPIGRAM, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three sorrows, three invisible swords are nailed Last Line: That vanquished spain and friendship and the gods. Subject(s): Spanish-american War (1898) ESPANA DOLOROSA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: There were tears in andalusia Last Line: Beware lest worse befall! Subject(s): Andalusia, Spain; Death; Funerals; Grief; Spanish-american War (1898); Dead, The; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness ESSEX REGIMENT MARCH, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the flower of essex is marching Last Line: We march, we sail, whoever fail, the flower of essex goes. Subject(s): Spanish-american War (1898) FOR DECORATION DAY: 1898-1899, by RUPERT HUGHES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And now the long, long lines of the nation's graves Last Line: In grand review swing past the throne of god. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Spanish-american War (1898); Declaration Day FULL CYCLE, by JOHN WHITE CHADWICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spain drew us proudly from the womb of night Last Line: And thrusts her deep in a dishonored grave. Subject(s): Spanish-american War (1898) GENERAL WHEELER AT SANTIAGO, by JAMES LINDSAY GORDON Poem Text First Line: Into the thick of the fight he went, pallid and sick and wan Last Line: Old fighting joe! Subject(s): Patriotism; Santiago, Cuba; Spanish-american War (1898); Wheeler, Joseph (1836-1906) GREETING FROM ENGLAND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: America! Dear brother land! Last Line: The hour that brings us back to back / but harbingers the larger light Subject(s): Spanish-american War (1898) HARBOR MINE, by F. MCK. Poem Source First Line: Give the speedway to the cruiser Subject(s): Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898) HOBSON AND HIS MEN, by EDWARD F. BURNS Poem Source First Line: On the girdling circuit Subject(s): Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898) HOBSON AND HIS MEN, by ROBERT LOVEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hobson went towards death and hell Last Line: Hobson and his men. Subject(s): Hobson, Richmond Pearson (1870-1937); Sea Battles; Spanish-american War (1898); Naval Warfare HOBSON'S CHOICE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Darkness and the midnight sea Last Line: "shall be ""hobson's choice." Subject(s): Spanish-american War (1898) IN MANILA BAY, by CHARLES WADSWORTH Poem Source First Line: On the broad manila bay Subject(s): Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898) JONQUILS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I look at you, beautiful jonquils Last Line: And my brother now 'biding there. Subject(s): Brothers And Sisters; Homecoming; Jonquils; Spanish-american War (1898) JUST ONE SIGNAL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The war-path is true and straight Last Line: For the way to fight is to fight Subject(s): "manila, Philippines;patriotism;spanish-american War (1898); LINES, by SAMUEL ALFRED BEADLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How I love my country you have heard Last Line: And blind to your faults as to mine. Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Racism; Spanish-american War (1898); Racial Prejudice; Bigotry MANILLA BAY, by ARTHUR HALE Poem Text First Line: From keel to fighting top, I love Last Line: With his head out of the port. Subject(s): Manila, Philippines; Spanish-american War (1898) MCILRATH OF MALATE, by JOHN JEROME ROONEY Poem Text First Line: Yes, yes, my boy, there's no mistake Last Line: And valor claimed her own! Subject(s): Manila, Philippines; Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898) ON THE EVE OF WAR, by DANSKE CAROLINA (BEDINGER) DANDRIDGE Poem Text First Line: O god of battles, who art still Last Line: Be with us still, -- be with us still! Subject(s): Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898) ON THE ROAD TO SANTIAGO, by STEPHEN CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, they got me,' said reuben mcnab Last Line: That was all Subject(s): Social Protest; Spanish-american War (1898) OUR NEW HEROES, by SYDNEY REID Poem Text First Line: They've half inch thick of tan upon their faces Last Line: And twenty thousand stand of arms laid down. Subject(s): Heroism; Spanish-american War (1898); Heroes; Heroines PHILIPPINE CONQUEST, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the army of an empire not a republic Last Line: As the englishman is fighting for the banks of london Subject(s): Social Protest; Spanish-american War (1898) 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) RETROGRESSION, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We gave a solemn pledge, and called on heaven Last Line: And 'gainst her turn her own ensanguined steel! Subject(s): Spanish-american War (1898) RETURNED FROM THE WARS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My pa's a great rough rider Last Line: It never will be filled Subject(s): Spanish-american War (1898) SANTIAGO, by THOMAS ALLIBONE JANVIER Poem Text First Line: In the stagnant pride of an outworn race Last Line: So the fight was won that our sampson planned! Subject(s): Santiago, Battle Of (1898); Santiago, Cuba; Sea Battles; Spanish-american War (1898); Naval Warfare SPAIN IN AMERICA, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When scarce the echoes of manila bay Last Line: "thou who wouldst teach us hope, with her who taught us prayer." Subject(s): Imperialism; Pelayo. First Christian King (d. 737); Santiago, Battle Of (1898); Spanish-american War (1898) SPAIN'S LAST ARMADA, by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They fling their flags upon the morn Last Line: To shed their lurid lustre on the empire that was spain. Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): Courage; Navy - Spain; Sea Battles; Spanish-american War (1898); Valor; Bravery; Spanish Navy; Naval Warfare SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: HARRY WILMANS, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was just turned twenty-one Last Line: A flag! A flag! Subject(s): Patriotism; Social Protest; Spanish-american War (1898) STRIKE THE BLOW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The four-way winds of the world have blown Last Line: Ye are king of the land and king of the foam. / strike the blow! Subject(s): Cuba;sea Battles;spanish-american War (1898); Naval Warfare STRIKE THE BLOW, by F. MCK. Poem Source First Line: The four-way winds of the world have blown Subject(s): Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898) THE BATTLE OF MANILA; A FRAGMENT, by RICHARD HOVEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By cavite on the bay Last Line: Will keep and hold the sea! Subject(s): Manila, Philippines; Navy - United States; Spanish-american War (1898); War; American Navy THE BROOKLYN AT SANTIAGO, by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twixt clouded heights spain hurls to doom Last Line: On such a ship! Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): Brooklyn (ship); Santiago, Cuba; Schley, Winfield Scott (1839-1909); Sea Battles; Spanish-american War (1898); Naval Warfare THE CALL TO THE COLORS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are you ready, o virginia Last Line: With their daggers towards the foe! Subject(s): Flags - United States; Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898); American Flag THE CHARGE AT SANTIAGO, by WILLIAM HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With shot and shell, like a loosened hell Last Line: Looks with his piercing eye! Subject(s): Courage; Santiago, Battle Of (1898); Santiago, Cuba; Spanish-american War (1898); Valor; Bravery 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 COLORED SOLDIERS OF THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All honor to the colored soldiers Last Line: "they're made of the ""proper stuff." Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Spanish-american War (1898) THE CUBAN CAUSE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What was it caused our nation Last Line: "till cuba's suffering ends." Subject(s): Cuba; Spanish-american War (1898) THE DESTROYER OF DESTROYERS, by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From santiago, spurning the morrow Last Line: Wainwright! The gloucester! Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): Gloucester (ship); Navy - United States; Santiago, Cuba; Sea Battles; Spanish-american War (1898); Troy; Wainwright, Richard (1817-1862); American Navy; Naval Warfare THE DRAGON OF THE SEAS, by THOMAS NELSON PAGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They say the spanish ships are out Last Line: Has waked to life again. Subject(s): Navy - Spain; Spanish-american War (1898); Spanish Navy THE FLAG, by HENRY LYNDEN FLASH Poem Text First Line: Up with the banner of the free! Last Line: Beneath its steadfast stars. Subject(s): Flags - United States; Spanish-american War (1898); American Flag THE FLEET AT SANTIAGO, by CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The heart leaps with the pride of their story Last Line: How we thrill with the joy of their fame! Subject(s): Navy - United States; Santiago, Battle Of (1898); Santiago, Cuba; Spanish-american War (1898); American Navy THE GATHERING, by HERBERT B. SWETT Poem Text First Line: We are coming, cuba, - coming; our starry Last Line: Cuba shall be free. Subject(s): Cuba; Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898) THE GOSPEL OF PEACE, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, let it rest! And give us peace Last Line: A prudent nation bore. Subject(s): Peace; Spanish-american War (1898) THE LISTENING SWORD (WRITTEN ON THE EVE OF THE SPANISH WAR), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still on the hilt, o patience, keep thy hand! Last Line: Then, patience, not till then, loose the appointed sword. Subject(s): Spanish-american War (1898) THE MARTYRS OF THE MAINE, by RUPERT HUGHES Poem Text First Line: And they have thrust our shattered dead away in Last Line: No! Bring them home! Subject(s): Maine (ship); Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898) THE MEN BEHIND THE GUNS, by JOHN JEROME ROONEY Poem Text First Line: A cheer and salute for the admiral, and here's to the captain bold Last Line: Men behind the guns! Subject(s): Navy - United States; Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898); American Navy THE MEN OF THE MERRIMAC, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail to hobson! Hail to hobson! Hail to all the valiant set Last Line: Shame upon us, shame upon us, should the nation e'er forget! Subject(s): Courage; Hobson, Richmond Pearson (1870-1937); Sea Battles; Spanish-american War (1898); Valor; Bravery; Naval Warfare THE PHILIPPINE CONQUEST, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the army of an empire not a republic Subject(s): Social Protest; Spanish-american War (1898) THE RACE OF THE OREGON, by JOHN JAMES MEEHAN Poem Text First Line: Lights out! And a prow turned toward the Last Line: The matchless race of the oregon. Subject(s): Oregon (ship); Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898) THE RUSH OF THE OREGON, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They held her south to magellan's mouth Last Line: For the chance of a bitter fight! Subject(s): Oregon (ship); Santiago, Cuba; Spanish-american War (1898) THE SAILING OF THE FLEET, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Two fleets have sailed from spain. The one would seek Last Line: For sons of drake are lords of colon's world Subject(s): Navy - Spain;spanish-american War (1898); Spanish Navy 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 SPANISH WAR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Come all young men and maidens of high and low degree Last Line: Their precious lives to venture all for the queen of spain Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;grief;spanish-american War (1898); Sorrow;sadness THE SPIRIT OF THE MAINE, by TUDOR JENKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In battle-line of sombre gray Last Line: The spirit of the maine! Subject(s): Cuba; Maine (ship); Naval Blockades; Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898) THE SURRENDER OF SPAIN, by JOHN MILTON HAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Land of unconquered pelayo! Land of the cid campeador Last Line: King over men who have learned all that it costs to be free. Subject(s): Pelayo. First Christian King (d. 737); Spanish-american War (1898) THE VICTORY-WRECK, by WILLIAM MCKENDREE CARLETON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O stealthily-creeping merrimac Last Line: "and even our foemen cheer!" Alternate Author Name(s): Carleton, Will Subject(s): Hobson, Richmond Pearson (1870-1937); Sea Battles; Spanish-american War (1898); Naval Warfare THE WORD OF THE LORD FROM HAVANNA, by RICHARD HOVEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus spake the lord Last Line: Remember the maine! Subject(s): Maine (ship); Spanish-american War (1898) TO SPAIN - A LAST WORD, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Iberian! Palter no more! By thine hands Last Line: Debt be paid! Subject(s): Maine (ship); Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898) WAR WITH SPAIN, by BERTRAND SHADWELL Poem Source First Line: Where fever does its deadly work Last Line: And raise the despot's flag of the grim old world Subject(s): Social Protest; Spanish-american War (1898) WHEELER'S BRIGADE AT SANTIAGO, by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the blistering tropical sun Last Line: "kept time to the tune of ""dixie." Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): Santiago, Battle Of (1898); Santiago, Cuba; Spanish-american War (1898); Wheeler, Joseph (1836-1906) WHEN THE GREAT GRAY SHIPS COME IN [AUGUST 20, 1898], by GUY WETMORE CARRYL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To eastward ringing, to westward winging, o'er mapless miles of sea Last Line: Gray ships come in! Subject(s): Navy - United States; New York Harbor; Spanish-american War (1898); American Navy WITHOUT FEAR -- WITHOUT REPROACH, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Smitten?' said christ; 'then turn the other cheek Last Line: "the pure white armor of your chivalry!" Subject(s): Spanish-american War (1898) YOU AT WASHINGTON, by ERNEST HOWARD CROSBY Poem Source First Line: There is 'great rejoicing at the nation's capital.' so says the morning's paper Last Line: May wait long for victory, but never waits in vain Subject(s): Social Protest; Spanish-american War (1898); War YOUNG SAMMY'S FIRST WILD OATS, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mid uncle sam's expanded acres Last Line: "on ""young sammy's first wild oats." Subject(s): Elections; Spanish-american War (1898); United States; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; America |
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