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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WAR INJURIES Matches Found: 23 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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 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 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 CASUALTIES: 27. THE CASUALTIES, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The casualties are not only those who are dead Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Loss; War Injuries; Dead, The CASUALTIES: 27. THE CASUALTIES, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The casualties are not only those who are dead Last Line: The unforeseen camp-follower of not just our war Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Loss; War Injuries 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 DEATH OF THE WOUNDED CHILD, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Again the hammer through the night is heard Last Line: O cold, cold, cold, cold, cold!' Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Death; War Injuries EYELESS AND LIMBLESS AND SHATTERED, FR. CHARING CROSS, by CECIL EDRIC MORNINGTON ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And here is the end of it all, and we count the loss Last Line: That science should skilfully mend what it skilfully shatters. Subject(s): War Injuries 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 I WANT TO LIVE AS A MAGICIAN, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: It is not easy to move about on this earth with crumpled Last Line: From my pocket and perch them on blooming branches Subject(s): Blood; Buddhism; Memory; Pictures; War Injuries 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 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 PAUL, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: Hotel st. Sulpice - you'll not know Last Line: "mais pourquoi pas? Quelle femme! Quelle boîte!" Subject(s): Courage; Death; War Injuries; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The 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 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: PATENT-OFFICE HOSPITAL, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: February 23. - I must not let the great hospital at the patent-office pass Last Line: From there, and it is now vacant again Subject(s): Amputees; Hospitals; Medicine; Military Service, Voluntary; Nurses; War Injuries 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 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 THE FECKLESS YEARS, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wounded took the stone-eyed girls Last Line: A crooner sang their dirge. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; War Injuries; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War 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 custerand she blooms in tennessee. Subject(s): Militarism; Soldiers; Tennessee; War Injuries 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 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 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 |
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