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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WEAPONS Matches Found: 17 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN ARMOURY, by ALCAEUS OF MYTILENE Poem Text First Line: Splendid burns the huge house with bronze; rich is the ample roof Last Line: These are things we must remember now our duty shall begin. Alternate Author Name(s): Alkaios Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Weapons; Ammunition ARMOR, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just about at the tripled-barrelled pistol Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Mothers & Sons; Weapons; Ammunition BITTER CHOICE, by ELLEN MAGRATH CARROLL Poem Text First Line: I have leant upon a sword Last Line: Blow wild! Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Children; Swords; Wind; Weapons; Ammunition; Childhood COMING CHANGES, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night came down upon the landscape - night and darkness, fear and gloom Last Line: But a truthful revelation, and a prophecy of light! Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Fights; Weapons; Ammunition DAWN, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: The hour of dawn is the hour of death Last Line: The hour of dawn is the hour of life! Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Dawn; Death; War; World War I; Weapons; Ammunition; Sunrise; Dead, The; First World War GUARD OF THE EASTERN GATE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Halifax sits on her hills by the sea Last Line: And her thunder but sleeps. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Halifax, Canada; Weapons; Ammunition IF!, by BARTHOLOMEW GRIFFIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Suppose 'twere done! Last Line: Of lingering smile on satan's face! Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Death; Devil; Satire (as Poetic Genre); War; Weapons; Ammunition; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub MAKING CANNON IN BETHLEHEM, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was long ago in bethlehem town Last Line: The great word is love, the right plan is peace! Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Bethlehem, Palestine; Jesus Christ; Peace; Social Protest; Violence; War; Weapons; Ammunition ON THE LAWN AT THE VILLA, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Americans; Weapons; Ammunition SONG OF HYBRIAS THE CRETAN, by HYBRIAS THE CRETAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My wealth's a burly spear and brand Last Line: To call me king and lord. Alternate Author Name(s): Hybrias Of Crete Variant Title(s): Skolion (song Sung At Aristocratic Banquets);a Soldier's Riches Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Weapons; Ammunition THE MUNITION WORKERS, by DIANA JAMES Poem Text First Line: They sat upon a hill Last Line: With the dread weight of an eternal sleep. Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Labor & Laborers; Weapons; Ammunition; Work; Workers THE RIFLE, by COVINGTON HALL Poem Text First Line: Tis made of hard, death-tempered steel Last Line: The message men to tyrants speak! Alternate Author Name(s): Ami, Covington; Ami, Covami Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Assassination; Death; Militarism; Murder; Rifles; Social Protest; War; Weapons; Ammunition; Dead, The THE SWORD, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: A keen-edged sword in somebody's hand Last Line: For man till he reaches the utmost—god. Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Danger; Life; Swords; Weapons; Ammunition TO A CERTAIN VERY UGLY BUILDING: THE ARMORY, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Minotaur of madness, you certainly belong there Last Line: O slumtown symbol of war's grim insanity! Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Army - Ireland; Buildings & Builders; Death; Pacifism; Social Protest; War; Weapons; Ammunition; Dead, The; Peace Movements TO ARMS!, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now let the cry, 'to arms! To arms Last Line: And her ironclads the sea! Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Humility; Trafalgar, Battle Of; War; Waterloo; Weapons; Ammunition; British Empire; England - Empire; Battle Of Waterloo TOWARD THE PIRAEUS: 5, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was not chastity that made me cold nor fear Last Line: Fiery-tempered, delicate, over-passionate steel. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Bible; Chastity; Despair; Weapons; Ammunition 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 |
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