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Subject: WOMEN & WAR
Matches Found: 11

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CONVALESCENCE, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From out the dragging vastness of the sea
Last Line: And in the sky there blooms the sun of may.
Subject(s): Women & War; World War I - Casualties


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


FROM A TRENCH, by MAUD ANNA BELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out here the dogs of war run loose
Last Line: Because we're here in hell.
Subject(s): Women & War; World War I; First World War


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


GREY KNITTING, by AMELIA BEERS WARNOCK GARVIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Something sings gently through the din of battle
Last Line: As they fall fast asleep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hale, Katherine
Subject(s): Women & War; World War I; First World War


LETTER TO THE FRONT: 10, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Surely it is time for the true grace of women
Subject(s): Women & War


LETTER TO THE FRONT: 9, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Among all the waste there are the intense stories
Subject(s): United States - Politics & Government; Women & War


MOTHER AND MATE, by GILBERT FRANKAU    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lightly she slept, that splendid mother mine
Last Line: "that, leaving you, I left you not alone."
Subject(s): Mothers; Women & War; World War I; First World War


PIERROT GOES TO WAR, by GABRIELLE ELLIOT    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the sheltered garden, pale beneath the moon
Last Line: Pierrot goes forward—but what of pierrette?
Alternate Author Name(s): Forbush, Gabrielle E.
Subject(s): Women & War; World War I; First World War


THE CALL TO ARMS IN OUR STREET, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a woman sobs her heart out
Last Line: God go with you where you go!
Subject(s): Women & War; World War I; First World War


THE HEART-CRY, by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She turned the page of wounds and death
Last Line: Rests to face life as fearlessly.
Subject(s): Grief; Women & War; World War I - Casualties; Sorrow; Sadness