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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WORLD Matches Found: 3999 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` (NOT) A SPRING POEM, by HANS LEYBOLD Poem Source First Line: A double-decker emerges from every bottle Last Line: And didn't even believe in that any more Subject(s): World War I (PROSE STATEMENT ON THE POETRY OF WAR), by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The immense poetry of war and the poetry of a work of the Last Line: Nothing will ever appease this desire except a consciousness of %fact as everyone is at least satisf Subject(s): World War Ii *:48, by IRIS N. SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: It was 9:08 when a coworker told me Last Line: The time: it was 8:48? Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) 1-SEP-39, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sit in one of the dives Last Line: Negation and despair, %show an affirming flame Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): World War Ii 1-SEP-39, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first scattering rain on the polish cities Last Line: The animals shook [or, ran], the eagle soared and dropped [or, dropt] Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): World War Ii 10:45 A.M. SEPT. 11/WTC, by MARK KUHAR Poem Source First Line: Whywhy why...Whywhywhy Last Line: Whywhywhy...Whywhywhy..Whywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhy? Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) 11TH R.S.R., by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How bright a dove's wing shows against the sky Last Line: Not one, but by the host for ever marches. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War 12-SEP, by CORY ELLEN NADEL Poem Source First Line: We had this language down there Last Line: From the night sky, lethal %as stars Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) 18-OCT-77, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Land flows into her eyes through the record player in her cell Last Line: She's murdered in her cell or kills herself, which terrifies Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities 19-JAN-44, by SALVATORE QUASIMODO Poem Source First Line: I read you the soft verses of antiquity Last Line: When even among the tombs of rubble %the malign grass rears up its flower Subject(s): World War Ii 1914, by FERENC BEKASSY Poem Source First Line: He went without fears, went gaily, since go he must Last Line: Mourn, o my sisters! Singly, for a hundred thousand dead Subject(s): World War I 1914, by MAX JACOB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Aren't lightning flashes the same shape in other countries too? Last Line: From then on I have been watched by police Subject(s): World War I 1914, by MAX JACOB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Doesn't lightning look the same to a foreigner? Someone who was at Last Line: Brothers were taking apart lebel cartridges. Since then, I've been %watched by the police Subject(s): World War I 1914, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sparrow has gone home into the tree Last Line: But pity to the hearts of men no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): World War I; First World War 1914-1918: THE DEAD SPEAK, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the earth, in the seas, we remember Last Line: That we may not forgive? Subject(s): World War I; First World War 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 1915, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Soldiers %of porcelain Last Line: And garnet %o love Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): World War I 1915, by ROGER MCDONALD Poem Source First Line: Up they go, yawning Last Line: As one %by one they totter to their knees Subject(s): World War I 1915, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hang the hills with black Last Line: You, man, arise! Subject(s): World War I; First World War 1915: FEBRUARY, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The smeared, leather-coated, leather-greaved engineer Last Line: The unseen twigs, breaking their tips with blossom. Subject(s): World War I; First World War 1915: THE TRENCHES, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night long, it has seemed for many years Last Line: Will the word come to-day? Subject(s): World War I; First World War 1916 SEEN FROM 1921, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tired with dull grief, grown old before my day Last Line: We crept in the tall grass and slept till noon. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War 1945, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing consoled aunt rose when roosevelt died Last Line: How my uncles were, when they'd be coming home Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Variant Title(s): Scenes From War: Voices From 194 Subject(s): Death; Family Life; World War Ii 1X1 (ONE TIMES ONE): 13, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Plato told Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Variant Title(s): Warnings Unheeded Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War 1X1 (ONE TIMES ONE): 13, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Plato told Last Line: El;in the top of his head:to tell %him Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Variant Title(s): Warnings Unheede Subject(s): World War Ii 1X1 (ONE TIMES ONE): 20, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What if a much of a which of a wind Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Judgment Day; War; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man 21ST CENTURY, by J. Y. HO Poem Source First Line: Sweltering sadness in this woeful world Last Line: Teamwork, so my shit might stop getting jacked Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) 22.6.1941, by ONDRA LYSOHORSKY Poem Source First Line: That day I lost everything Last Line: Deep blue at noon or studded with silent stars Subject(s): World War Ii 367TH INFANTRY, by ALLEN TUCKER Poem Source First Line: Down the street, between the waiting crowds, they come Last Line: Ready to die, %for freedom! Subject(s): World War I 50 POEMS: 5, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Am was. Are leaves few this. Is these a or Last Line: Much greenness only dying makes us grow Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): World War I 9.12.01 TWIN TOWERS, by LAURIE MCKENNA Poem Source First Line: Formal announcements %instructed people to stay put Last Line: Their %pocketbooks Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) 911 WAKEUP CALL, by R. D. ARMSTRONG Poem Source First Line: The special effects merchants have been humbled Last Line: The chickens have come home to roost, baby Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) A BALLAD OF REDHEAD'S DAY [OCTOBER 8, 1918], by RICHARD BUTLER GLAENZER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Talk of the greeks at thermopylae! Last Line: Immortal at thirty; his faith sufficed. Subject(s): Argonne, Battle Of (1918); Heroism; World War I; York, Alvin Cullum (1887-1964); Heroes; Heroines; First World War A BALLADE OF BROKEN THINGS, by BLANCHE WEITBREC Poem Text First Line: The toy no skillful fingers may repair Last Line: The broken things are the immortal things! Subject(s): World War I - Belgium A BASEBALL TEAM OF UNKNOWN NAVY PILOTS, PACIFIC THEATER, 1944, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Assigned a week's good bunt, run, throw Subject(s): Baseball; World War Ii; Aviation & Aviators; Second World War; Airplanes; Air Pilots A BATTLE SONG (WRITTEN IN THE WORLD WAR), by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peril surrounding Last Line: God for the right! Subject(s): World War I; First World War A BELGIAN CHRISTMAS EVE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, whose deep ways are in the sea Last Line: We know that thou art there. Variant Title(s): A Prayer In Time Of War Subject(s): Belgium; Christmas; World War I; Nativity, The; First World War 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 BOWER OF ROSES, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mixture of smells Last Line: Were real, and applied to you Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War A BOX COMES HOME, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember the united states of america Last Line: By the rain and oak leaves on the domino Subject(s): Coffins; Homecoming; World War Ii; Second World War A CALL TO ARMS, by MARY RAYMOND SHIPMAN ANDREWS Poem Text First Line: It is I, america, calling! Last Line: Arm, arm, americans! And remember, remember, the tuscania! Subject(s): Army - United States; Patriotism; World War I; First World War A CALL TO NATIONAL SERVICE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up and be doing, all who have a hand Last Line: So loud for promptness all around outcries! Subject(s): Great Britain; Patriotism; World War I; First World War A CAMP IN THE PRUSSIAN FOREST, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk beside the prisoners to the road Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii; Shoah; Judaism; Second World War A CHANT OF LOVE FOR ENGLAND, by HELEN GRAY CONE Poem Text First Line: A song of hate is a song of hell Last Line: England! Alternate Author Name(s): Green, Coroebus Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I - Great Britain A CHILD'S NIGHTMARE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through long nursery nights he stood / by my bed unwearying Last Line: "saying for ever, ""cat! ... Cat! ... Cat!" Subject(s): World War I; First World War 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 CROSS IN FLANDERS, by GEORGE ROSTREVOR HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the face of death, they say, he joked - he had no fear Last Line: The braver for his fear! Alternate Author Name(s): Rostrevor, George Subject(s): Courage; Fear; Flanders, Belgium; World War I - Casualties; Valor; Bravery A DEAD BOCHE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To you who'd read my songs of war / and only hear of blood and fame Last Line: Dribbling black blood from nose and beard. Subject(s): World War I; First World War A DESCRIPTIVE POEM, ADDRESSED TO TWO LADIES, SELECTION, by JOHN DALTON Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: Agape the sooty collier stands Last Line: Creative commerce, these are thine! Subject(s): Caves; Coal Mines & Miners; Earth; Rivers; Stones; Caverns; World; Granite; Rocks A DREAM, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That was a curious dream; I thought the three Last Line: That I awoke and joined too in their mirth. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Planets; Sea; Sun; Nightmares; World; Ocean A DREAM AT ARDEA (MAREMMA), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where ardea, the cliff-girt Last Line: The star of eve. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Love; Mythology - Classical; Rome, Italy; Sea; Venus (goddess); Nightmares; World; Ocean A DREAM OF PEACE, by LILY PEARL CHAMBERLIN Poem Text First Line: I dreamed that peace had come, - that nevermore Last Line: The age of peace on earth, good will to men. Subject(s): Dreams; Peace; World War I; Nightmares; First World War A DROP OF ANY SEA ...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'd like to try the deeper waters, spread Last Line: And gave himself till dark pools held him dead. Subject(s): Earth; Love; Sea; World; Ocean A FAITH ON TRAIL, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the morning of may Last Line: Him through handmaiden me.' Subject(s): Earth; Faith; Forests; World; Belief; Creed; Woods A FARM NEAR ZILLEBEKE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black clouds hide the moon, the amazement is gone Last Line: Black clouds hid the moon, tears blinded me more. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War A FIELD HOSPITAL, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He stirs, beginning to awake Subject(s): Hospitals; World War Ii; Second World War 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 FRONT, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fog over the base: the beams ranging Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii; Second World War A HARROW GRAVE IN FLANDERS, by ROBERT OFFLEY ASHBURTON CREWE-MILNES Poem Text First Line: Here in the marshland, past the battered bridge Last Line: We ask; and wait. Alternate Author Name(s): Crewe, 1st Marquess Of; Houghton, Baron Variant Title(s): Harrow And Flanders Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium; Graves; World War I - Casualties; Tombs; Tombstones A HILL IN PICARDY, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a little hill in picardy Last Line: This lonely little hill in picardy! Subject(s): World War I; First World War A HOUSE IN FESTUBERT, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With blind eyes meeting the mist and moon Last Line: -- could summer betray you? Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War 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 HYMN OF LOVE AND HATE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We hate war's horrible hell Last Line: For our love to come to its own. Subject(s): World War I; 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 KNOCK ON THE DOOR, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: They ask me if I've ever thought Subject(s): Earth; Judgment Day; World; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man A LEGEND OF THE MOON, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nightlong I yearned so madly toward the moon Last Line: Of moons and mortals and of olden days. Subject(s): Cities; Death; Earth; Legends; Life; Mankind; Moon; Urban Life; Dead, The; World; Human Race A LETTER FROM THE FRONT, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was out early today, spying about Last Line: But it struck me as being extremely ludicrous. Subject(s): World War I; 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 LOST LAND (TO GERMANY), by KATHLEEN KNOX Poem Text First Line: A childhood land of mountain ways Last Line: God help the dreams, the dreams of men! Subject(s): World War I - Germany A LYKE-WAKE DIRGE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "this ae nighte [night], this ae nighte [night]" Last Line: And christ receive thy saule [soul] Variant Title(s): The Cleveland Lyke Wake Dirge Subject(s): Death;judgment Day;wakes; "dead, The;end Of The World;doomsday;fall Of Man; A MARCH SNOW, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let the old snow be covered with the new Last Line: Even as the new snow covers up the old. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Earth; Life; March (month); Snow; World 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 MILLION YOUNG WORKMEN, 1915, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A million young workmen straight and strong lay stiff on the grass and roads Last Line: God damn the grinning kings, god damn the kaiser and the czar. Subject(s): World War I; First World War A MOTHER'S DEDICATION, by MARGARET PETERSON Poem Text First Line: Dear son of mine, the baby days are over Last Line: God shall uphold you that you fight aright. Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; World War I; First World War 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 NEW MADRIGAL TO AN OLD MELODY, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As along a dark pine-bough, in slender white mystery Last Line: For marian, our clear may, so long laid in earth. Subject(s): Earth; Fools; Grief; Hope; Moon; Seasons; Time; World; Idiots; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism A NEW WORLD, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I who had sought afar from earth Last Line: And bright with burning gold. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Earth; Fantasy; World A NEW YEAR'S EVE IN WAR TIME, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Phantasmal fears Last Line: To pale europe; and tiredly the pines intone. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; World War I; First World War A NIGHTINGALE AT FRESNOY, by JESSIE BELL RITTENHOUSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never, they say, were guns so loud Last Line: To sing the song of life! Alternate Author Name(s): Scollard, Clinton, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Life; Nightingales; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War A NOON INTERVAL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A deep, delicious hush in earth and sky Last Line: The wand waves, and the dozer sinks away. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Earth; Noon; Sleep; Summer; World A PARAPHRASE ON THE 65TH PSALM, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To thee, jehovah, grateful sion sings Last Line: And the full valleys laugh and sing and shout around. Subject(s): Bible; Earth; God; Nature; Praise; Prayer; World 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 PILOT FROM THE CARRIER, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strapped at the center of the blazing wheel Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii; Second World War A PLEA, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Text First Line: Pretty star / stay where you are Last Line: You fill me with delight. Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities; Second World War 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 RAINBOW, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: A rainbow is god's pledge of peace Last Line: Or clinging to a rose. Subject(s): Colors; Earth; Rain; Rainbows; World A RALLY, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We that are english born and bred Last Line: Answer them -- answer them, england's sons! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): World War I; First World War A REFUSAL TO MOURN THE DEATH, BY FIRE, OF A CHILD IN LONDON, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Never until the mankind making Subject(s): Air Warfare; Death - Children; Fire; Innocence; Mourning; World War Ii; Death - Babies; Bereavement; Second World War A RENASCENCE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White flabbiness goes brown and lean, dumpling arms are now brass bars Last Line: Poetry is born again. Subject(s): World War I; First World War A REVERIE ON HATHERLEY CHURCHYARD, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Nay, mock me not with shifting human smiles Last Line: For thou art righteousness, and love, and christ, and god! Subject(s): Beauty; Churchyards; Earth; Love; Nature; Truth; World A SMALL COUNTRY, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behind you Last Line: And to feel compassion Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs. Subject(s): Children; Third World; Poverty A SONG, by CHARLES ALEXANDER RICHMOND Poem Text First Line: Oh, red is the english rose Last Line: Will grow for a love that never and never can fail. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; World War I - Casualties A SONG, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is any one sad in the world, I wonder? Last Line: And what heart sorrows? O no, not mine! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Earth; Light; Love; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; World A SONG FOR AMERICA, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How comely is our motherland Last Line: And guard her as of yore. Subject(s): United States; World War I; America; First World War A SONG OF HEROES (WRITTEN IN THE WORLD WAR), by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our country calls for heroes Last Line: And for all the groaning earth! Subject(s): Heroism; World War I; Heroes; Heroines; First World War A SONG OF SHAME AND HONOR (WRITTEN IN THE WORDLD WAR), by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where's the man who will not hear Last Line: Honored through eternity! Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I; First World War A SONG OF THE SANDBAGS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No, bill, I'm not a-spooning out no patriotic tosh Last Line: The brotherhood of peace. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War A SONG OF WINTER WEATHER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It isn't the foe that we fear Last Line: And the mud. Subject(s): Death; War; Winter; World War I; Dead, The; First World War A SONNET FOR THE EARTH, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I am weary for delight and spent Last Line: A song for thee amid the farthest sky. Subject(s): Earth; World A SPECK ON THE DOT, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe this world is the tiniest dot Last Line: I've got all eternity. Subject(s): Earth; Life Change Events; World A STORY ABOUT CHICKEN SOUP, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my grandmother's house there was always chicken soup Last Line: But to live in the tragic world forever. Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; World War Ii; Shoah; Judaism; Second World War A STORY OF DOOM: BOOK 1, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Niloiya said to noah, what aileth thee Last Line: Shall have no let of me, to do its will.' Subject(s): Arks; Floods; God; Judgment Day; Noah (bible); End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man A STROKE OF SKY, by TESS GALLAGHER Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); Innocence; New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 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 SUMMER MORNING, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The summer meads are fair with daisy-snow Last Line: The ruthless wrong, the piteous agony! Subject(s): World War I; First World War A SUMMER SUNRISE; AFTER LEE O. HARRIS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The master-hand whose pencils trace Last Line: Go up to bless the new-born day. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dawn; Earth; Mountains; Summer; Sunrise; World; Hills; Downs (great Britain) 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 TINKLE OF BELLS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The light of the moon on the white Last Line: Sheer into the judgment day! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bells; Judgment Day; Moon; Snow; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man A TRUE-BLUE BROADSIDE OF '14, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And what's the news, mr. Sergeant, what news, my soldier man?' Last Line: With a leetle more broth than he meant to spare 'twixt petersburg and france.' Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): World War I; First World War A TWILIGHT MUSING, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Ye who in this vain life Last Line: Lighten and cheer? Subject(s): Earth; Evening; Life; Music & Musicians; Tears; World; Sunset; Twilight A WALTZ THOUGHT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When a man's prime passion, for years on years Last Line: Subtly shaping his witching waltz! Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Graves; Life; Love; Music & Musicians; Nature; Straw; Nightmares; World; Tombs; Tombstones A WAR, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There set out, slowly, for a different world Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War A WAR STORY, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): World War Ii; Guests; Family Life; Second World War; Visiting; Relatives A WELCOME TO THE FAIR, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: To north and south, and east and west Last Line: Is camped upon the bay! Subject(s): Exhibitions; Festivals; Panama; World's Fairs; Expositions; Fairs; Pageants 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 WHITE WORLD, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I never knew the world in white Last Line: On this fair world of thine! Subject(s): Earth; World 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 WORLD FOR LOVE, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the world is all too rude for thee, with much ado and care Last Line: Herself grow eden once again, possest of love and thee. Subject(s): Earth; Love; Nature; World A WORM FED ON THE HEART OF CORINTH, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: More amorous than solomon Subject(s): British Empire; World War I; Prophecy & Prophets; Helen Of Troy A YAWN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I grow so weary; is it death? Last Line: They live and die and so pass by. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Arks; Death; Earth; Sea; Dead, The; World; Ocean A YOUNG TREE, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are so few trees here, so few young trees Last Line: Could not our faith be more merciful? Subject(s): World War I; First World War A.E.F., by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There will bea rusty gun on the wall, sweetheart Last Line: They will tell the spider: go on, you're doing good work. Subject(s): Rifles; World War I; First World War A.G.A.V., by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rest you well among your race, you who cannot be dead Last Line: Vast tumult past, and the proud sense still of vast to-morrows to dare. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War A.S.K, by N. M. H. Poem Source First Line: You must not mourn for him, he that went out to france Subject(s): World War I ABI, VIATOR -, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: If thou hast seen the standard dim Subject(s): World War I ABRAHAM LINCOLN WALKS AT MIDNIGHT, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is portentous, and a thing of state Last Line: That he may sleep upon his hill again? Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Injustice; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Patriotism; Peace; Presidents, United States; Social Protest; World War I - United States 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 ACELDAMA, by GEORGE F. BUTLER Poem Source First Line: Still breaks the holy morn,to soothe the care Subject(s): World War I ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TO THE BRITISH NAVY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We do not like to own it Last Line: Hurrah for johnny bull! Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; World War I; English Navy; First World War 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 ASTRA: 127, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Grant that in man may dwell empyreal power Last Line: Allot each world its orbit and its place! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Earth; Soul; World AD ASTRA: 128, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Faith born of reverence ever lives and glows Last Line: If here the soul its last bright web is weaving? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Earth; Mankind; World; Human Race AD ASTRA: 131, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O baleful lure, to lead our feet astray! Last Line: Strong in whose strength man may think scorn of fate! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Judgment Day; Religion; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology AD ASTRA: 143, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: For, if there be no heaven nor hell-but here Last Line: —man true to man, and earth were heaven indeed! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Life; World; Paradise ADMIRAL DUGOUT, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He had done with fleets and squadrons, with Last Line: That he has as captain dugout, r.N.R. Subject(s): Admirals; World War I; First World War ADMONITION: TO BETSEY, by HELEN PARRY EDEN Poem Source First Line: Remember, on your knees Subject(s): World War I 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 ADVICE TO A PROPHET, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When you come, as you soon must, to the streets of our city Last Line: When the bronze annals of the oak-tree close. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Christianity; Environment; Judgment Day; Messiah; Nuclear War; Religion; Sea Monsters; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb; Theology; S AEROPLANES, by WALTER JAMES REDFERN TURNER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Iron birds floating in the sky Subject(s): World War I AFTER, by DANIEL BERRIGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: When the towers fell %a conundrum Last Line: A last day; babylon %remembered Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) 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 ANY BATTLE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Voice of earth: these are my children's voices! Born Last Line: And butchery to sacrifice! Subject(s): Death; Earth; Tears; Voices; Dead, The; World AFTER BOURLON WOOD, by HELEN DIRCKS Poem Source First Line: In one of london's most exclusive haunts Last Line: But georgius rex, it seems, is awfully keen %to give me the m.C. For being good Subject(s): Women; World War I AFTER COURT MARTIAL, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mind is not my mind, therefore Last Line: Not I the king of babylon. Subject(s): Babylon; Military Justice; World War I; Courts Martial; First World War AFTER EXPERIENCE TAUGHT ME, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: After experience taught me that all the ordinary Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War AFTER EXPERIENCE TAUGHT ME, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After experience taught me that all the ordinary Last Line: What evil, what unspeakable crime %have you made your life worth? Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Subject(s): World War Ii AFTER HEARING THE PRIME MINISTER, APRIL 27TH, 1941, by RICHARD ELWES Poem Source First Line: My god, I thank thee that my course is set Last Line: This part of champion and this march with death! Subject(s): World War Ii AFTER I QUIET DRINKING, by NORA MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: It's a bird I swallowed Last Line: To miss her anymore Subject(s): World History AFTER JUTLAND, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The city of god is late become a seaport town Last Line: The sailor he is home from sea to go back no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; World War I; First World War AFTER MY LAST SONG, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where I shall rest when my last song is over Last Line: You'll sleep here on wan cheeks grown thin and old. Subject(s): Death; Mortality; Poetry & Poets; World War I; Dead, The; First World War AFTER RAIN, by NORA MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: All over town the sidewalks Last Line: Wild with delight, they spin away Subject(s): World History AFTER THE BATTLE, by ALAN PATRICK HERBERT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So they are satisfied with our brigade Last Line: Fight, if you must, fresh battles far ahead, %but keep them dark behind your chateau door! Alternate Author Name(s): Patrick, A. P. Subject(s): World War I AFTER THE MEAL, by JEAN-MARC BERNARD Poem Source First Line: Peeping through shutters from an upstairs room Last Line: Embrace my mistress and remove her dress Subject(s): World War I AFTER THE RETREAT, by MAY SINCLAIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I could only see again Last Line: The house we passed that day. Subject(s): World War I; First World War AFTER THE TERROR, by JAY PARINI Poem Source First Line: Everything has changed, though nothing has Last Line: The windows have been bolted just in case Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) AFTER THE WAR, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last post sounded Last Line: "and she the dead!" Subject(s): World War I; First World War AFTER THE WAR, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the war - I hear men ask - what then? Last Line: Whose meaning is beyond the reach of time. Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War AFTER THE WAR, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After a war the boys play soldier with real weapons. This is a real Last Line: In the war his communiques always mentioned god. We hated him Subject(s): World War Ii AFTER THE WAR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All of our wrongs shall be righted Last Line: After the war? Subject(s): World War I; First World War AFTER-DAYS, by ERIC CHILMAN Poem Source First Line: When the last gun has long withheld Subject(s): World War I AFTERMATH, by HERBERT GARDNER BARON BURGHCLERE Poem Source First Line: Yes, he is gone, there is the message, see! Subject(s): World War I AFTERMATH, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Have you forgotten yet? Last Line: Never forget. Subject(s): Veterans Day; World War I; First World War AFTERMATH, by D. HOWARD TRIPP Poem Source First Line: With steady, silent tread Subject(s): World War I AFTERNOON TEA, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I was saying ... No, thank you; I never take cream with my tea Last Line: Let's talk of the things that matter -- your car or the newest play. . . . Subject(s): War; World War I; First World War AFTERWARD, by CYRIL MORTON HORNE Poem Source First Line: In the afterward, when I am dead Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I AFTERWARD, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sick man said: 'I pray I shall not die' Subject(s): 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 AFTERWARDS, by MARGARET ISABEL POSTGATE COLE Poem Source First Line: Oh, my beloved, shall you and I Last Line: To have your body lying here %in sheer, underneath the larches? Subject(s): Women; World War I AGNOSTIC TO MYSTIC, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why does it matter to you whether heaven or god Last Line: Sometimes, oh, sometimes it seems—! Subject(s): Cold; Earth; Mysticism; Nature; Weather; World 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 ACROSS THE BAY OF PLYMOUTH, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above the whispering sea Last Line: Man hammers nails in man, %high on his crucifix Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii AIR VIEW OF AN INDUSTRIAL SCENE, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a train at the ramp, unloading people Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii; Shoah; Judaism; Second World War AIR VIEW OF AN INDUSTRIAL SCENE, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is a train at the ramp, unloading people Last Line: We're watchers. But if we had bombs we'd drop them Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; 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 AIRMAN, by GREGG GODDARD Poem Source First Line: Wild wind, and drear, beneath the pale stars blowing Subject(s): World War I AIRMAN'S VIRTUE, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High plane for whom the winds incline Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War AIRMAN'S VIRTUE, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High plane for whom the winds incline Last Line: And fixing on a farther pole %will sheerly rise Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): World War Ii AIRMAN, R.F.C., by AGNES GROZIER HERBERTSON Poem Source First Line: He heard them in the silence of the night Last Line: And find a better world than he had found Subject(s): Women; World War I AL'S POEM, AS WRITTEN BY ONE OF HIS STUDENT, by BENNIE LEE SINCLAIR Poem Source First Line: Germany, world war ii. Bivouacked Last Line: The vandal always comes. %begone! Subject(s): World War Ii ALAN SEEGER, by WASHINGTON VAN DUSEN Poem Source First Line: No beauty could escape his loving eyes Subject(s): World War I ALBERT SPEER, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not even %a farewell. Not even Last Line: Too little of my children Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Subject(s): Speer, Albert (1905-1981); World War Ii ALL THROUGH THAT YEAR, by N. K. CRUICKSHANK Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii ALL'S WELL, by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Watchman, watchman, what of the night Subject(s): World War I ALMA MATER, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O mother earth, by the bright-sky above thee Last Line: I love thee, o, I love thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Earth; World ALONE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall I do when I stand in my place Last Line: And I stand at god's judgment alone! Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man ALONG THE PATHS O' GLORY, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along the paths o' glory there are faces new to-day Last Line: Served the truth. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): World War I; First World War AMAZONS, by RICHARD A. CROUCH Poem Source First Line: They fill the fields in mighty throng Subject(s): World War I AMBULANCE DRIVER'S PRAYER, by THOMAS F. COAKLEY Poem Source First Line: Mid blinding rain this inky night Subject(s): World War I AMBULANCE TRAIN 30, by CAROLA OMAN Poem Source First Line: A.T. 30 lies in the siding Last Line: And the occupying army boards her for cologne Subject(s): Women; World War I AMERICA AT ST. PAUL'S, by MARGARETTA BYRDE Poem Text First Line: Destiny knocked at the door Last Line: "and this is our war!" Subject(s): St. Paul's Cathedral, London; World War I - United States AMERICA AT WAR, by GERTRUDE BROWN SMITH Poem Text First Line: America, / if thy sons can go to war Last Line: And war shall never more be. Subject(s): Battleships; World War I; First World War AMERICA IN FRANCE, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, to be in paris now that pershing's there! Last Line: To make the round world safe for man . . . O god, that I were young! Subject(s): Pershing, John J. (1860-1948); World War I; First World War AMERICA ON TERRORISM, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: I was a child %when I first saw the pictures Last Line: Against all terrorism for forever Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) AMERICA RESURGENT, by WENDELL PHILLIPS STAFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She is risen from the dead! Last Line: And a helmet full of stars! Subject(s): World War I - United States AMERICA'S WELCOME HOME, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, gallantly they fared forth in khaki and in blue Last Line: Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Homecoming; Victory; World War I - United States AMERICAN CONSCRIPT, 1917, by ELLEN WINSOR Poem Source First Line: My country gave the cry; it needed me Last Line: I died to please my masters, now I know Subject(s): World War I AMERICAN CREED, by EVERARD JACK APPLETON Poem Source First Line: Straight thinking %straight talking Subject(s): World War I AMERICAN VOLUNTEERS, by MARIE VAN VORST Poem Source First Line: Neutral! America, you cannot give Subject(s): World War I AMERICANS COME!, by ELIZABETH A. WILBUR Poem Source First Line: What is the cheering, my little one? Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I 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 AMOR MUNDI, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh where are you going with your love-locks flowing Last Line: "this downhill path is easy, but there's no turning back." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; World AN ANATOMY OF THE WORLD: THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When that rich soule which to her heaven is gone Last Line: The grave keepes bodies, verse the fame enroules. Variant Title(s): To The Praise Of The Dead Subject(s): Drury, Elizabeth; Earth; Science; World; Scientists AN ANATOMY OF THE WORLD: THE SECOND ANNIVERSARY, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing could make me sooner to confesse Last Line: The trumpet, at whose voyce the people came. Subject(s): Drury, Elizabeth; Earth; World AN APPEAL TO AMERICA ON BEHALF OF THE BELGIAN DESTITUTE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seven millions stand Last Line: No man can say? Subject(s): Belgium; United States; World War I; America; First World War AN APPLE TREE IN FRANCE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An apple tree beside the way Last Line: They put to death an apple tree! Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Apple Trees; World War I; First World War AN ARCTIC EPITAPH, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No grave more nobly graced Last Line: And striving -- died. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): World War I; First World War AN ELEGY UPON THE DEATH OF MRS. BEHN; THE INCOMPARABLE APHRA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "summon the earth (the fair astrea's gone,)" Last Line: Nor would endure the world when he had lost his throne Subject(s): "behn, Aphra (1640-1689);death;earth;heaven;tears;" "dead, The;world;paradise; AN ENGLISHMAN TO A GERMAN AVIATOR, by MORRIE RYSKIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, we are enemies-and deadly ones Last Line: There is no room within our hearts for hate. Subject(s): Air Warfare; Death; Enemies; World War I; Dead, The; First World War AN ENIGMA, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chloe, I boast celestial date Last Line: What thousands I deny. Subject(s): Earth; Nature; World AN EPICUREAN ODE, by JOHN HALL (1627-1656) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since that this thing we call the world Last Line: To tell what others were, came down? Alternate Author Name(s): Hall Of Durham, John Subject(s): Earth; World 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 OFFICERS' PRISON CAMP SEEN FROM A TROOP-TRAIN, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is some school, brick, green, a sleepy hill Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; World War Ii; Convicts; Second World War AN OLD AND TWENTY-THIRD MAN, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is that the three and twentieth, strabo mine Last Line: "shall bang old vercingetorix out of gaul." Variant Title(s): The Legion Subject(s): World War I; First World War AN OLD DESIRE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I searched thro' memory's lumber-room Last Line: And there are ruins in my fire. Subject(s): Desire; Earth; Memory; Ruins; World 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 ANATOMY OF THE INFINITE, by MARTHA WEBB Poem Source First Line: Woman. It is a word Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans AND AFTERWARDS, WHEN HONOUR HAS MADE GOOD, by IRIS TREE Poem Source Last Line: The incense of our anguish and our sweat? Subject(s): Women; World War I AND BARBARROSSA SLEEPS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Defeat and death the germans knew Last Line: Unmoved, shall barbarossa sleep! Subject(s): Germany; Legends; World War I; Germans; First World War 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 THERE WAS A GREAT CALM', by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There had been years of passion -- scorching, cold Last Line: And again the spirit of pity whispered, 'why?' Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I; 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 ANGELITA, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: She came from behind, from behind their lines Last Line: And on his head her badge was glowing like a coal Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii ANGLO-SAXON CHRISTIANS, WITH GATLING GUN AND SWORD, by JR. WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON Poem Source Last Line: Set thou the glorious stars and stripes above the ancient cross Subject(s): World War I ANGRY EARTH, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Angry earth, give me thy fury Last Line: Angry earth, to outface death. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Dead, The; World ANIMA POETA: A CHRISTMAS ENTRY FOR THE SUICIDE, MAYAKOVSKY, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It has nothing to do with the warmth of moonset Last Line: Much later in your life you joined them. Subject(s): Mayakovsky, Vladimir (1893-1930); Suicide; World War I; First World War ANITA SKY, by ROB WILSON Poem Source First Line: I marinated her heart Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans ANNIVERSARY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Boom! 'what's that?' Last Line: Ten years -- come sunday Subject(s): Bombs;veterans;veterans Day;war;world War I; First World War ANNIVERSARY OF THE GREAT RETREAT (1915), by ISABEL CONSTANCE CLARKE Poem Source First Line: Now a whole year has waxed and waned and whitened Last Line: The victory is ours because you died Subject(s): Women; World War I ANONYMOUS LIEUTENANT, by CLARK MILLS Poem Source First Line: While star-shells fell in showers of constellations Last Line: Whose lives create no myth, move through no story Subject(s): World War Ii ANOTHER CAPTIVE STAR...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Must blood of murders and of wars regale Last Line: Which drowns in blood each age's history! Subject(s): Blood; Death; Earth; War; Dead, The; World ANOTHER JOURNEY FROM BETHUNE TO CUINCHY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see you walking Last Line: My time for trench round. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War ANTARES, by BIMSLEY PEABODY Poem Text First Line: The earth has whirled its little men around the sun Last Line: Hot and blood red is the heart of him! Subject(s): Earth; Hearts; Life; World 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 ANTI-MILITARIST, by CHARLES ASHLEIGH Poem Source First Line: Out of the deeps of toil am I born Last Line: I will destroy only that which stands in the way of our red redemption Subject(s): World War I ANTWERP, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Towers - eternal towers against the sky Last Line: And from their towers of tyranny hurled down. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Antwerp, Belgium; Architecture & Architects; Buildings & Builders; Stones; World War I; Granite; Rocks; First World War ANXIOUS ANTHEMIST, by GUY FORRESTER LEE Poem Source First Line: I sit down to write a poem of our fighting men's reknown Subject(s): World War I ANY FRIEND TO ANY FRIEND', by H. W. BLISS Poem Source First Line: Ev'n as I thought of you your soul had sped Subject(s): World War I ANY SOLDIER SON TO HIS MOTHER, by N. G. H. Poem Source First Line: If I am taken from this patchwork life Subject(s): World War I APOCALYPSE, by RONALD ROSS Poem Text First Line: The visions of the soul, more strange than dreams Last Line: And drew him down. And the voice answer'd, so. Subject(s): World War I; First World War APOCALYPSE, by EDWARD SHILLITO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the north Subject(s): World War I APOCALYPSE, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all sixty of us I am the only one who went Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man APOCALYPTIC, 1915, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Our world beyond a year of dread Last Line: Sculptor of immortality. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Chaos; Earth; Pain; War; World; Suffering; Misery APOLOGIA, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These bitter stammered rhymes Last Line: To belong to the infinite stream. Subject(s): Children; Earth; Life; Rhyme; Childhood; World 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 AMERICAN AUTHORS, by NATE SALSBURY Poem Text First Line: When kaiser wilhelm's little war Last Line: America -- long may she wave! Alternate Author Name(s): Ireland, Baron Subject(s): Debt; World War I; Writing & Writers; First World War APPENDIX TO 'LAZARUS': 9, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The true sphynx's form's the same as Last Line: Earth would fall from its foundation. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Egypt; Riddles; Sphinx; Dead, The; World APPRECIATION, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth was not earth before her sons appeared Last Line: That change in thee, if not thyself, I claim. Subject(s): Earth; Nature; World APRES LA MARNE, JOFFRE VISITA LE FRONT DE AUTO, by EMILIO FILIPPO TOMMASO MARINETTI Poem Source First Line: After the battle of the marne, joffre toured the front by car Subject(s): World War I APRIL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lyric tremor and lift Last Line: Is deep with love and wise with ancient good. Subject(s): April; Earth; Love; Spring; World APRIL IN THE HILLS, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Today the world is wide and fair Last Line: Till earth and I are one. Subject(s): April; Earth; Nature; Spring; World APRIL ON THE BATTLEFIELDS, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: April now walks the fields again Last Line: Spreading her lovely grief upon the graves of man. Subject(s): April; World War I; First World War APRIL SONG, by GEORGE C. MICHAEL Poem Source First Line: Orchard land! Orchard land! Subject(s): World War I APRIL, 1917, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though life returns with april's breath Last Line: And there is blood upon the air. Subject(s): World War I; First World War AQUILA (A WAR CHANGE), by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I trimmed a pen wherewith to write Last Line: The requiem for those who die Subject(s): World War I ARGUMENT, by RENE CHAR Poem Source First Line: How can we live without the unknown in front of us? Last Line: In this rebellious and solitary world of contradictions Subject(s): World War Ii ARISTARCHUS (THE NAME OF THE MOUNTAIN IN THE MOON), by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was long and long ago our love began Last Line: And I followed till I traced it to its source. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Earth; Love; World ARISTOCRATS (1), by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The noble horse with courage in his eye Variant Title(s): Sportsmen Subject(s): Hunting; World War Ii; Hunters; Second World War ARISTOCRATS (1), by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The noble horse with courage in his eye Last Line: In famous attitudes of unconcern. Listen %against the bullet cries the simple horn Variant Title(s): Sportsme Subject(s): Hunting; World War Ii ARISTOCRATS (2), by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The noble horse with courage in his eye Last Line: It is not gunfire I hear, but a hunting horn Subject(s): Hunting; World War Ii ARMED LINER, by H. SMALLEY SARSON Poem Source First Line: The dull gray paint of war Subject(s): World War I ARMENIA, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the nations new and free Last Line: Armenia. Subject(s): Armenia; World War I; First World War ARMENIAN PASTORAL, 1915, by GREGORY DJANIKIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If anoush were holding her child Last Line: Be cut from the same tongue Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ARMISTICE, by ROSENA A. GILES Poem Text First Line: I saw a soldier in the crowded street Last Line: Before you give our guilty souls their rest. Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War ARMISTICE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: And this was germany--this puff of dust Last Line: This worn gray shoddy, and this iron rust! Subject(s): Freedom; Germany; United States; World War I; Liberty; Germans; America; First World War ARMISTICE DAY, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think I hear them stirring there, today Last Line: The young dead weeping! Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War 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, 1918, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's all this hubbub and yelling %commotion and scamper of feet Last Line: We left them streched out on their pallets of mud %low down with the worm and the ant Subject(s): World War I ARMISTICE DAY, 1928, by ERNEST HARTSOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, let us wave a flag and jump and yell Last Line: The terrible cry of brothers, crucified!) Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans; 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 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 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 ARRANGEMENTS WITH EARTH FOR THREE DEAD FRIENDS, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet earth, he ran and changed his shoes to go Last Line: The change of tone, the human hope gone gray Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Dead, The; World ARREST, by SOJIN TOKIJI TAKEI Poem Source First Line: Torawaruru Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; World War Ii - Japanese-americans ARS POETICA, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the snout Last Line: I am the verse witness of my master's breath Subject(s): Surrealism; World War Ii; Poetry & Ports; Second World War ARS POETICA, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the snout Last Line: And one hand in mine %and the joy of living %I am the verse witness of my master's breath Subject(s): Surrealism; World War Ii ART, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Art has her altars and her avatars Last Line: A poe sleeps, folded in that perfect dream. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Dreams; Earth; Poetry & Poets; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Soul; Nightmares; World AS SHE IS SPOKE', by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I've heard a half a dozen times Subject(s): World War I AS THE TEAM'S HEAD BRASS, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the team's head brass flashed out on the turn Last Line: After the ploughshare and the stumbling team. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Farm Life; World War I; Agriculture; Farmers; First World War AS THE TRUCKS GO ROLLIN' BY, by L. W. SUCKERT Poem Source First Line: There's a rumble an' a jumble Subject(s): World War I AS THEY LEAVE US, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Source First Line: Bid farewell with pride Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I AS THEY PASS, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Red shout, hair %flaming, the wind cannot stop drilling holes Last Line: The stunned air now %unbearable Subject(s): Death; News; Terrorism; Tragedy; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ASH TUESDAY, by EILEEN MALONE Poem Source First Line: I think I recognize you Last Line: Hey, I always meant to tell you: %I love you Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ASH WEDNESDAY, by ALFRED LICHTENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Only yesterday powdered and lustful I walked Last Line: Where am I Subject(s): World War I ASK ME NOW, by JOHN SINCLAIR Poem Source First Line: Standing at the finish line %of the boston marathon Last Line: When they founded this great nation Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ASLEEP BY THE IRISH SEA, by ELIZABETH GLENDENNING RING Poem Source First Line: To france! How many weary miles Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I ASS WHY HARD, by GARRETT KAORU HONGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We sit out on the concrete slab Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans AT BETHLEHEM, by JOHN CURTIS UNDERWOOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Twenty-six thousand men are building at bethlehem Last Line: Mud and grime, assert and by their blood and breath maintain it Subject(s): World War I 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 CARRIZAL, by CHARLES TURNER DAZEY Poem Source First Line: By day the sky of mexico Last Line: That song will show that men are men, %though children of the slave Subject(s): World War I AT LAST POST, by WALTER LIGHTOWLER WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: Come home! - come home! Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I AT PARTING, by ABBIE CARTER GOODLOE Poem Text First Line: Now must we go our separate ways, beloved Last Line: "and breathes in tranquil rapture, ""here is peace!""?" Subject(s): Farewell; Wellesley College; World War I; Parting; First World War AT PARTING, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was sad weather when you went away Last Line: And you coming home, home through the hours of sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Women And War; World War I; First World War AT SENLIS ONCE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O how comely it was and how reviving Last Line: Sang as though nothing but joy came after! Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War AT ST. PAUL'S, by HARDWICKE DRUMMOND RAWNSLEY Poem Text First Line: Not since wren's dome has whispered with man's prayer Last Line: And christ, not odin, is acclaimed the lord. Subject(s): Prayer; St. Paul's Cathedral, London; World War I; First World War AT SUNRISE, by E. J. BARTON Poem Source First Line: See how the sun Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii AT THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR THERE WAS A RAINBOW., by PETER BAUM Poem Source Last Line: Staggering on, attracted magnetically by death Subject(s): World War I AT THE BRITISH WAR CEMETERY, BAYEUX, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walked where in their talking graves Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles Subject(s): Cemeteries; France; World War Ii; Graveyards; Second World War AT THE BRITISH WAR CEMETERY, BAYEUX, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I walked where in their talking graves Last Line: Is the one gift you cannot give Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles Subject(s): Cemeteries; France; World War Ii AT THE ENTERING OF THE NEW YEAR, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our songs went up and out the chimney Last Line: "albeit the fault may not be thine." Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; World War I; First World War AT THE FIREMEN'S EXHIBITION, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Night: and london's ancient hallows Last Line: Spreads the great tent-maker's round. Subject(s): Exhibitions; Writers, European; World's Fairs; Expositions AT THE MOON'S ECLIPSE, by ROBERT PETER TRISTRAM COFFIN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Now over most of living kind Last Line: Sad watch-dogs, and the trees Subject(s): World War Ii AT THE MOVIES, by FLORENCE RIPLEY MASTIN Poem Text First Line: They swing across the screen in brave array Last Line: Then I remember, and my heart grows cold! Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Women And War; World War I; Movies; Cinema; First World War AT THE NURSERY OF A LOCOMOTIVE PARTS PLANT NEAR BEIJING, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Huey newton and the other panthers stand around a sandbox Last Line: And the children are thankful for the visit Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities AT THE PEACE TABLE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who shall sit at the table, then, when the terms Last Line: You must please not only the living here, but must satisfy your dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War AT THE VOLCANO INTERNMENT CAMP, by MUIN OTOKICHI OZAKI Poem Source First Line: Shokudo ni Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; World War Ii - Japanese-americans ATHEISM: ANNIHILATION, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Doubt, cypress crowned, upon a ruined arch Last Line: And silence claims again her region cold and drear. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth Subject(s): Death; Earth; Love; Sleep; Dead, The; World ATLANTA EXPOSITION ODE, by MARY WESTON FORDHAM Poem Text First Line: Cast down your bucket where you are Last Line: For all one flag, one flag for all. Subject(s): African Americans - History; Exhibitions; Racial Equality; Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915); Black Heritage; World's Fairs; Expositions ATLANTIC, by GEORGE ROSTREVOR HAMILTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No season frontiers here: the snow-white foam Last Line: Marks where the ship was sunk, the sailor drowned Alternate Author Name(s): Rostrevor, George Subject(s): World War Ii 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 ATTILA, by G. R. GLASGOW Poem Source First Line: Swift the flaming wings of death Subject(s): World War I ATTITUDE OF YOUTH, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We were told that wars are made by the makers of munitions Last Line: And we sacrifice life in vain, for the one chance that we missed Subject(s): World War Ii AUBADE OF THE SINGER AND SABOTEUR, MARIE TRISTE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In the twenties, I would visit dachau often with my brother Last Line: Two of the old miracles. They were not my choices. Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Concentration Camps; Dachau, Germany; Flowers; Music & Musicians; World War Ii - Atrocities AUG-18, by MAURICE BARING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the tinkling of the cattle bell Subject(s): World War I 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): World War I 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 AUGUST MOON, by CESARE PAVESE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There's the sea, far beyond the yellow hills Last Line: The ground beneath her dark, drenched with blood Subject(s): World War Ii AUSTRALIA TO ENGLAND, by ARCHIBALD THOMAS STRONG Poem Text First Line: By all the deeds to thy dear glory done Last Line: Thy sons may stand beside thee strong and free. Subject(s): England; Freedom; World War I - Australia; English; Liberty AUSTRALIA'S MEN, by DOROTHEA MACKELLAR Poem Source First Line: There are some that go for love of a fight Subject(s): World War I AUSTRALIANS TO THE FRONT! (CAPTAIN COOK HEARS THE DRUMS), by JOHN SANDES Poem Source First Line: From the scheldt to the niemen Subject(s): World War I AUSTRIAN CAVALRY SONG, by H. ZUCKERMANN Poem Text First Line: There in the meadow-land Last Line: Over belgrade! Subject(s): Army - Austria; Cavalry; World War I; First World War AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MY ALTER EGO, SELS., by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Before our banana-shaped chopper %landed at cam ranh bay Last Line: & somewhere else among those %lost planets & dead stars Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) 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 1942, by ROY FULLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Season of rains: the horizon like an illness Last Line: Our virtues now are high and horrible %ones of a streaming wound which heals in evil Subject(s): World War Ii AUTUMN EVENING IN SERBIA, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the thin shadows Last Line: And autumn begun. Subject(s): Serbia; World War I; Servia; First World War AUTUMN IMPRESSION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A frost came overnight. Then all the day Last Line: A haunt for spirits and a home for stars. Subject(s): Autumn; Earth; Eyes; Frost; Leaves; Seasons; Stars; Fall; World AUTUMN IN ENGLAND, by COLIN MITCHELL Poem Source Subject(s): Autumn; England; Seasons; Soldiers; World War I AUTUMN, 1914, by MARY WEBB Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The scarlet-jewelled ashtree sighed - 'he cometh' Last Line: For whom then loving-cup is poured, the wild bee hummeth.' Subject(s): Women; World War I; First World War AUTUMNAL, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To-night the tumult of the autumn wind Last Line: A little while, o leaves, and we shall know! Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Earth; Seasons; Wind; Fall; Dead, The; World AVE MARIA, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hollow spaces, large and deep Last Line: That would be the heart of the mother of god! Subject(s): Beds; Earth; Future Life; God; Mary And Martha (bible); Moon; Night; Sleep; Women In The Bible; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Bedtime BABY MILK PLANT, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: The night of desert storm I've put my daughter and love on a plane Last Line: Pilot lying in a pool of it, as it mixes with his blood and curdles Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities BACCHAE ON THE DOCKS AT TENTH STREET, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: In a drizzle in the middle of a week of rain Last Line: Who, soaked by a sudden downpour, run for the tip of christopher %without a thought to thank the god Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities BACK, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They ask me where I've been Last Line: Because he bore my name. Variant Title(s): Black Subject(s): Religion; War; World War I; Theology; First World War BACK THE NIGHT BEFORE, by SKIP ROBINSON Poem Source First Line: I yearn for the huge silver airliners to pull backwards Last Line: Home again, that the only fires are in the fireplaces and in the stars Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) 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 BALDUR THE BEAUTIFUL: THE DEATH OF BALDUR, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long aeons past, ere yet was count of time Last Line: The Æsir's shout still thundered down the dark. Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Heaven; Judgment Day; Mythology; Odin (norse God); Dead, The; Paradise; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man 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 BETHLEHEM STEEL OR THE NEED FOR PREPAREDNESS, by GRACE ISABEL COLBRON Poem Source First Line: A tale of the ticker Last Line: That bethlehem steel may hold its state Subject(s): World War I BALLAD OF DEATHLESS DONS, by WILFRID BLAIR Poem Source First Line: The regulars fight with all their might, the navy keeps the seas Subject(s): World War I BALLAD OF FINE DAYS, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All in the summery weather Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War BALLAD OF FINE DAYS, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All in the summery weather Last Line: The bombers fly together %through the innocent air Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): World War Ii BALLAD OF GENE DEBS, by SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A tall, thin, elderly man Last Line: I wish I had a piece of cloth %from his old coat Subject(s): World War I BALLAD OF SKANDAR, by PHILIP METRES Poem Source First Line: Unframed by any photograph, diminished by history Last Line: Where water flows from every spout- %or so the story goes Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) BALLAD OF THE 'EASTERN CROWN', by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've sailed in 'ookers plenty Subject(s): World War I BALLAD OF THE THREE SPECTRES, by IVOR GURNEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As I went up by ovillers Last Line: Waiting the time I shal ldiscover %whether the third spake verity Subject(s): World War I BALLOON, by ALBERT-PAUL GRANIER Poem Source First Line: The grey balloon floats down to the forest horizon Last Line: White birches ruffle their feathery bark %into hackles of a the nger Subject(s): World War I 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 BANNER OF REVOLT, by MARC DE LARREGUY DE CIVRIEUX Poem Source First Line: I call in your name, brothers in obscurity Last Line: The banner of revolt and of fraternity! Subject(s): World War I BARBARA, by JACQUES PREVERT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Remember barbara %it rained without letup in brest that day Last Line: Faraway very far from brest %of which there is nothing left Subject(s): World War Ii BARBARA, by JACQUES PREVERT Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Remember barbara %it rained all day on brest that day Last Line: Of which there is nothing left Subject(s): World War Ii BARBED WIRE, by R. H. SAUTER Poem Source First Line: What bramble thicket this - grown overnight Last Line: White-tented, now, %the distance marches in a bit Subject(s): World War I BARRAGE, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thunder / the gallop of innumerable valkyrie impetuous for battle Subject(s): World War I; First World War BARRAGE, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thunder %the gallop of innumerable valkyrie impetuous for battle Subject(s): World War I 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 BAT, by NORA MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: A friend once described his cancer this way Last Line: And is tearing up the place Subject(s): World History BATTALION IN REST, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some found an owl's nest in the hollow skull Last Line: Where stars new trembled with delight's design. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War BATTALION-RELIEF, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fall in! Now get a move on!' (curse the rain) Last Line: And tell me, have we won this war or not?' Subject(s): World War I; First World War BATTLE, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Helmet and rifle, pack and overcoat Last Line: Around a cigarette, and the bright ember %would pulse with all the life there was within Subject(s): World War Ii BATTLE CRY OF THE MOTHERS, by ANGELA MORGAN Poem Source First Line: Bone of our bone, flesh of our flesh Last Line: You shall yield-for the mothers' sake! Subject(s): World War I BATTLE HYMN, by DONALD GOOLD JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Lord god of battle and of pain Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I BATTLE HYMN OF THE RUSSIAN REPUBLIC, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God, give us strength these days Last Line: Trample it with our love! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Russia; World War I; Soviet Union; Russians; First World War BATTLE INTERLUDE, by I. CELNER Poem Source First Line: The ground shuddered, the canvas shook Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii BATTLE OF BELLEAU WOOD, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was thick with prussian troopers Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Belleau Wood, France; World War I BATTLE OF BRITAIN, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What did we earth-bound make of it? A tangle Last Line: Their luck, skill, nerve. And they were young like you. Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Film (photography); Great Britain - History; World War Ii; English History; Second World War BATTLE OF SAARBURG, by ALFRED LICHTENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: The earth is growing mouldy with mist Last Line: And face death Subject(s): World War I BATTLE OF THE BULGE, 1944, by ROLAND FLINT Poem Source First Line: Uncle wilbur face down Last Line: From the heart down, front and back, %deaf dumb and paralyze Subject(s): Bulge, Battle Of The; World War Ii BATTLE OF THE SWAMPS, by MURIEL ELSIE GRAHAM Poem Source First Line: Across the blinded lowlands the beating rain blows chill Last Line: O deathless swamps of flanders, our hearts are with our men Subject(s): Women; World War I BATTLE SLEEP, by EDITH WHARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere, o sun, some corner there must be Last Line: And let some soul go seaward with that sail! Subject(s): Evening; Sleep; World War I; Sunset; Twilight; First World War BATTLE: 1. THE RETURN, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He went, and he was gay to go Last Line: What stranger would come back to me. Subject(s): World War I; First World War BATTLE: 3. HIT, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the sparkling sea Last Line: Among the dead men in the trench. Subject(s): World War I; First World War BATTLEFIELD, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind is piercing chill Last Line: Priez pour lui Subject(s): World War I; First World War BATTLEFIELD, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind is piercing chill Last Line: Ci-git 1 soldat allemand, %priez pour lui Subject(s): World War I BATTLEFIELDS OF FRANCE, by PATRICK J. O'NEILL Poem Source First Line: I'm proud to say I'm from p.A. Where the mining boys are loyal Last Line: They are fighting for old glory now, on the battlefields of france Subject(s): Coal Mines And Miners; World War I BATTLELINE, by JAMES B. DOLLARD Poem Source First Line: Athwart that land of bloss'ming vine Subject(s): World War I BAZENTIN, 1916, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That was a curious night two years ago Last Line: And slew the rascal at the small of my back. %that was a strange day! %yes, and a merry one Subject(s): World War I BE AFRAID, by JOHNNY GUNN Poem Source First Line: Doesn't look old enough to shave, this gun toting Last Line: Nothing to hide, I say, and he puts cuffs on me Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) BE, EARTH, TRUE!, by FRANZ JANOWITZ Poem Source First Line: So let this comfort as madness be contrite Last Line: Man stands and stares, amazed at what can be Subject(s): World War I BEAUCOURT REVISITED, by ALAN PATRICK HERBERT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wandered up to beaucourt; I took the river track Last Line: The new men know not beaucourt, but we are here - we know Alternate Author Name(s): Patrick, A. P. Subject(s): World War I BECAUSE, by DENNIS FRITZINGER Poem Source First Line: Because you can't see the bodies Last Line: And go to sleep. %because Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) BEFORE ACTION, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sit beside the brazier's glow Last Line: Nor any cold or heat. Subject(s): World War I; First World War 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 BATTLE, by HABBERTON LULHAM Poem Source First Line: O great eternal spirit of good Subject(s): World War I 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 MARCHING, AND AFTER (IN MEMORIAM F.W.G.), by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Orion swung southward aslant Last Line: A brightness therefrom not to fade on the morrow. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I - Casualties BEFORE SEDAN, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in this leafy place Last Line: Death will not have it so. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Corpses; France; Tragedy; World War I; Cadavers; First World War BEFORE THE ASSAULT, by ROBERT ERNEST VERNEDE Poem Source First Line: If thro' this roar o' the guns one prayer Subject(s): World War I 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 BEGINNING WITH 1914, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since it always begins Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): World War I; Ancestors & Ancestry; Fathers; Time; First World War; Heritage; Heredity BEGOTTEN OF THE SPLEEN, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The virgin mother walked barefoot Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War BEGOTTEN OF THE SPLEEN, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The virgin mother walked barefoot Last Line: Even when the lights came on-- %and the lights came on: %thefloodlights in the guard towers Subject(s): World War Ii BEHAVIORIST, by VAN K. BROCK Poem Source First Line: When they arrest you, you say, why me Last Line: You a superior being Subject(s): World War Ii BEHIND THE LINE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Treasure not so the forlorn days Last Line: Over the shades of shadows gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War BELFRIES, by ALYS FANE TROTTER Poem Source First Line: If you should go to la bassee Subject(s): World War I BELGIAN BELLS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Toll the bells for belgium, toll, toll, toll! Last Line: Peal the bells for belgium, peal, peal, peal! Subject(s): Belgium; Bells; World War I; First World War BELGIAN FLAG, by EMILE CAMMAERTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Red for the blood of soldiers Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I BELGIUM, by HARDWICKE DRUMMOND RAWNSLEY Poem Source First Line: When I bethink how nations wax and wane Subject(s): World War I BELGIUM, by EDITH WHARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not with her ruined silver spires Last Line: The home of all that makes them great. Subject(s): World War I - Belgium 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 BELGIUM THE BAR-LASS, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Source First Line: The night was still. The king sat with the queen Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): World War I BELL TOLLS AGAIN, by GERALD NICOSIA Poem Source First Line: At the world trade center %the doormen working minimum wage Last Line: And who was also %blown away Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) BELLEAU WOODS, 1918, by NATHANIEL JOHN HASENFUS Poem Text First Line: All alone in belleau woods Last Line: Gone to peaceful realms on high. Subject(s): Belleau Wood, France; World War I; First World War 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 BELLS O' BANFF', by NEIL MUNRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As I gaed down the waterside Subject(s): World War I BELLS OF FLANDERS, by DOMINIQUE BONNAUD Poem Source First Line: Sunday it is in flanders Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I BELSEN, DAY OF LIBERATION, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her parents and her dolls destroyed Last Line: They were so beautiful %and they were not afraid Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii BETTER FAR TO PASS AWAY, by RICHARD MOLESWORTH DENNYS Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I BETWEEN THE LINES, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When consciousness came back, he found he lay Last Line: He rose, and crawled away into the night. Subject(s): World War I - Casualties BIG WORDS, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've whined of coming death, but now, no more! Last Line: He cursed, prayed, sweated, wished the proud words back. Subject(s): Courage; World War I; Valor; Bravery; First World War BILL THE BOMBER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poppies gleamed like bloody pools through cotton-wolly mist Last Line: "for me bombs they wasn't wasted, though, you might say, ""thrown away." Subject(s): Bombs; War; World War I; First World War BILL'S GRAVE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm gatherin' flowers by the wayside to lay on the grave of bill Last Line: When 'e stares through the bleedin' clods and sees the blossoms of jim and me? Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War BILLY AND HIS DRUM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! It's come, kids, come! Last Line: Ef you don't hear little billy an' his big bass drum! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Drums; Judgment Day; Musical Instruments; Noises; Childhood; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man 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, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ich wunscht', ich ware ein voglein,' %sang heinrich... Last Line: It makes his children cry Subject(s): 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 BIRDS FLIT UNAFRAID, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): World War I BLACK CROSS, by REED WHITTEMORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would like to dispense with certain sorrows Last Line: Through a pretty little pattern to this desert place %is no concern of mine Subject(s): World War Ii BLACK DAHLIA, by MICHAEL THOMAS MCCLURE Poem Source First Line: The cups we drink from are the skulls of %arabs Last Line: Rise %inside %of %us %? %(grahhr) Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) BLACK HAIR, by TRACI KATO-KIRIYAMA Poem Source First Line: Black hair %long %wavy %or maybe recently Last Line: Mirror %and see %that I am there Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) BLACK MARKET, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: In a shack, in a field of mud. That's where she is Last Line: Little rainbows %of excrement. %not a sound Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii BLACK SAMSON OF BRANDYWINE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gray are the pages of record Last Line: Black samson of brandywine. Subject(s): World War I; First World War BLACKBIRD SEASON, by NORA MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: It is march, and my hands have Last Line: Splashing from glossy wings Subject(s): World History BLASPHEMY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O fairy form, o flower-like face Last Line: The dead, the dead must be. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Earth; Hearts; Love; Sea; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Ocean BLEEDING-HEART DOVE AND THE FOUNTAIN, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gentle faces stabbed dear flowered lips Last Line: Gardens where rose-laurel warlike flower bleeds in abundance Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): World War I BLENHEIM ORANGES, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone, gone again Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Oranges; World War I; First World War BLENHEIM ORANGES, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone, gone again Last Line: For the schoolboys to throw at - %they have broken every one Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Oranges; World War I BLESSED ARE THOSE, by CHARLES PEGUY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Blessed are those who died for carnal earth Last Line: Blessed is the wheat that is ripe and the wheat that is %ga thered in sheaves Subject(s): World War I BLESSING FOR NEW YORK, by MARJ HAHNE Poem Source First Line: God bless this magic city Last Line: Bless this %bless them %bless us Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) BLESSING OF TERROR, by THEA HILLMAN Poem Source First Line: I am trying to write a blessing for today. I did think I might die today. I Last Line: One more day. I don't know how long I have left. I am blessed Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) 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 JUNE RICHARDSON LUCAS Poem Text First Line: He saw the noonday sun Last Line: He did not know that he was blind! Subject(s): Blindness; Social Protest; Vision; World War I; Visually Handicapped; First World War BLOOD DROP POEMS FROM THE WAR, SELS., by AUGUST STRAMM Subject(s): World War I BLUE ROSES, by ELOISE ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: I sit beside the window sill Last Line: Across a wall. Subject(s): World War I; First World War 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 RACE, 1915, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: No sweatered men in scanty shorts Subject(s): World War I BOFORS AA GUN, by GAVIN EWART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such marvellous ways to kill a man! Last Line: The pheasant-shooter be himself the pheasant! Subject(s): World War Ii BOIS-ETOILE, by ETHEL M. HEWITT Poem Text First Line: What legend of a star that fell Last Line: To keep dead springtides' trysts with her!) Subject(s): World War I; First World War BOMBS, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: How did I know? It was my window. Not the way you think, though Last Line: Your hope your scream. Stopped everything. Everything. Still Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii BONDS -- AND BONDS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Buy a bond to break a bond Last Line: Fettering your brothers! Subject(s): War Bonds; World War I; First World War BOOK OF TRIBUTES: COSMORAMA, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look - wool / in which: gold stars we got Last Line: From devouring a lunch of air. Then there was lights. Subject(s): Cosmology; Earth; Geography; Maps; Travel; Universe; World; Journeys; Trips BOTH WORSHIPPED THE SAME GREAT NAME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Jack smith belonged to the y.M.C.A Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I BOUND TO THE MAST, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When mildly falls the deluge of the grass Last Line: Bound to the mast of song. Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; World; Paradise BOWER OF ROSES, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mixture of smells Last Line: Were real, and applied to you Subject(s): World War Ii BOX COMES HOME, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember the united states of america Last Line: At the red-taped grave in woodmere %by the rain and oakleaves on the domino Subject(s): Coffins; Homecoming; World War Ii BOXCARS, NINES AND ELEVENS, by TODD EASTON MILLS Poem Source First Line: A numbered event, the numbering Last Line: Nines, elevens, and atomic boxcars Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) BOY, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Taking his trick, the crew being at their meal Last Line: Sank in mid-ocean's all-devouring death Subject(s): World War Ii BOY NEXT DOOR, by SAMUEL ELLSWORTH KISER Poem Source First Line: There used to be a boy next door Subject(s): World War I BRAVO, PARIS EXPOSITION!, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Add to your show, before you close it, france Last Line: America's applause, love, memories and good-will. Subject(s): Exhibitions; Paris, France; World's Fairs; Expositions BREAD, by LOLA RIDGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shawled women, %trickling like a sluice out of alleys and side streets Last Line: At that cry like a bloodied gown, %flaunting their flags above Alternate Author Name(s): Lawson, David, Mrs. Subject(s): World War I BREAGHY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When twilight flutters the mountains over Last Line: Come from this heart that was touched by the flame. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Nightmares; World 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 BREAKFAST, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We ate our breakfast lying on our backs Last Line: Because the shells were screeching overhead. Subject(s): World War I; First World War BREST LEFT BEHIND, by JOHN CHIPMAN FARRAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun strikes gold the dirty street Last Line: "I don't see very many tears,"" he says." Subject(s): Holidays; Homecoming; Peace; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: It's mount hope in the background, but comet lake up close Last Line: Otherworldly place where these laughing girls can't find me Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities BRITISH ARMY OF 1914, by ALFRED W. POLLARD Poem Source First Line: Let us praise god for the dead Subject(s): World War I BRITISH MERCHANT SERVICE, 1915, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, down by millwall basin as I went the other day Last Line: For a tight place is the right place when it's wild weather at sea! Subject(s): Merchant Marine - Great Britain; World War I; First World War BROKEN ROSE, by ANNIE VIVANTI CHARTRES Poem Source First Line: Shy, youthful, silent - and misunderstood Subject(s): World War I BROTHER, by LARRY RUBIN Poem Source First Line: I wore knee-pants there where the soldiers trained Last Line: The ladle, proud of her gown, waiting for war Subject(s): World War Ii BROTHER FIRE, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When our brother fire was having his dog's day Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Fire; World War Ii; Second World War BROTHER FIRE, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When our brother fire was having his dog's day Last Line: Echo your thought in ours? 'destroy! Destroy' Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Fire; World War Ii BROTHERS, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: We never fought %wars, though each Last Line: He said, cut me Subject(s): Airships; Aviation And Aviators; Brothers; Fights; Flight; War; World War Ii BROTHERS IN ARMS, by ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When behind her violated border Subject(s): World War I BROTHERS OF THE SEA, by J. H. MACNAIR Poem Source First Line: Sea-weary, argonauts, beaching their barque Subject(s): World War I BRULE VILLAGE, WOUNDED KNEE, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: This is no forest primeval: badlands, black hills, a month Last Line: Beyond the breastworks of the cavalry, resistance of the ice is shale Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities BRUSSELS, 1919, by CAROLA OMAN Poem Source First Line: Wide are the streets, and driven clean Last Line: But understand an english joke %upon the road to waterloo Subject(s): Women; World War I BUGLE CALL, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one cares less than I Last Line: The call that I heard and made words to early this morning Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Army Life; Bugles; Morning; World War I BUILDING THE BARRICADE, by ANNA SWIR Poem Source First Line: We were afraid as we built the barricade Last Line: We did build the barricade %under fire Subject(s): World War Ii BULLINGTON, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was the high midsummer, and the sun Subject(s): World War I BURIAL AT SEA, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Forty knots, a bugle call - our heads bowed down in sorrow Last Line: We sleep above the restless graves tonight %and dream the day when the dead shall rise in laughter Subject(s): Funerals - At Sea; Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities BURIAL FLAGS, by RALPH NIXON CURREY Poem Source First Line: Here with the desert so austere that only Last Line: Red strips of cloth that ride the dusty heavens %untiringly Subject(s): World War Ii BURIAL OF SOPHOCLES, by GEOFFREY BACHE SMITH Poem Source First Line: Gather great store of roses, crimson-red Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I BURKA WOMEN, by GERALD R. WHEELER Poem Source First Line: Imprisoned behind adobe ruins Last Line: In public, walk to work %& our daughters to school' Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) BURNED, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have to go back into the forge room Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Factories; Jews; World War Ii; Farewell; Fathers; Grief; Conduct Of Life; Work; Workers; Judaism; Second World War; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness BURNING GLASS, by LAURENCE WHISTLER Poem Source First Line: A girl there was in a far city Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii 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 BUTCHER SHOP, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes walking late at night Subject(s): Butchers; World War Ii; Second World War BUTCHER SHOP, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes walking late at night Last Line: Scraped clean - a river dried to its bed %where I am fed, %where deep in the night I hear a voice Subject(s): Butchers; World War Ii BUTTONS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been watching the war map slammed up for advertising Last Line: Newspaper office where the freckle-faced young man is laughing to us? Subject(s): Social Protest; World War I; First World War BY A BRITISH BARROW, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let me lie down beside you, prince Last Line: I waste breath that were precious now in prayer Subject(s): World War Ii BY THE NORTH SEA, by WILLIAM LEONARD COURTNEY Poem Source First Line: Death and sorrow and sleep Subject(s): World War I C & H SUGAR STRIKE KAHUKU, 1923, by GARRETT KAORU HONGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You waken to food Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans CAIRO JAG, by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I get drunk or cut myself a piece of cake Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War CAIRO JAG, by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I get drunk or cut myself a piece of cake Last Line: Has a packet of chocolate and a souvenir of tripoli Subject(s): World War Ii CALL, by JESSIE POPE Poem Source First Line: Who's for the trench? Last Line: Who'll stand and bite his thumbs - %will you, my laddie? Subject(s): Women; World War I CALL OF ENGLAND, by OWEN SEAMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Come, all ye who love her well Subject(s): World War I CALL TO THE COLORS, by SARAH BEAUMONT KENNEDY Poem Source First Line: Like the seeds of wind-flowers, lightly blown Last Line: To die for a silken rag Subject(s): World War I CALLED BACK, by UNKNOWN+89 Poem Source First Line: You send them forth to do your work Subject(s): World War I CAMADEVA, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun, the moon, the mystic planets seven Last Line: When camadeva came. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Earth; Happiness; Life; Dead, The; World; Joy; Delight CAMP IN THE PRUSSIAN FOREST, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk beside the prisoners to the road Last Line: The star laughs from its rotting shroud %of flesh. O star o f men! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii 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 CAMPUS SONNET: RETURN - 1917, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was just aiming at the jagged hole Last Line: "I dreamed I . . . Am I . . . Wounded? ""you are dead." Subject(s): Universities & Colleges; World War I; First World War CANADA SPEAKS OF BRITAIN, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is that bastioned rock where dwell the free Last Line: She calls. And we will answer to our last breath, - %make light of sacrifice, and jest with death Subject(s): England; World War Ii CANADA TO ENGLAND, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great names of thy great captains gobe before Last Line: Of all past greatnesses about thee stand. Subject(s): England; Freedom; World War I - Canada; English; Liberty CANADIAN SONG (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "dark, and the shells are falling" Last Line: Now I am vainly dreaming - / dreaming of you Subject(s): Army - Canada;world War I; First World War CANADIAN SONG (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Here we are - here we are - here we are again Last Line: We gave you 'ell at neuve chapelle - and here we are again Subject(s): Army - Canada;world War I; First World War CANADIANS, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With arrows on their quarters and with numbers on their hoofs Last Line: Softly fall the feet of them along the english lanes. Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): World War I - Canada CANE CUTTERS, by JULIET S. KONO Poem Source First Line: It is early morning. The brave Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans CANTILENA MUNDI, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the rainbows rise through sunset rains Last Line: "to-morrow all the world is not." Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Absence; Earth; Presence; Rainbows; Voices; Separation; Isolation; World CANTO 16, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And before hell mouth; dry plain Subject(s): World War I; Heroism; Death; First World War; Heroes; Heroines; Dead, The CANYON GORGE ARROYO, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many other codices Subject(s): Canyons; Death; Earth; Grandparents; Tradition; Dead, The; World; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers CAPE ENGANO (DETAL FROM THE SECOND WORLD WAR), by RIGAS KAPPATOS Poem Source First Line: Cape engano with its wide azure apron Last Line: Keep silent, haunting their ships %inhabited by sea monsters Subject(s): World War Ii CAPTAIN COLIN P. KELLY, JR.; KILLED IN ACTION, DECEMBER 1941, by ROBERT NATHAN Poem Source First Line: Alone, above manila's bay Last Line: God grant our deaths may be as brave Subject(s): Heroism; Kelly, Captain Colin P., Jr.; World War Ii CAPTAIN DIVER'S DINNER, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: Enter a waiter, flitting between the tables Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii CAPTAIN GUYNEMER, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Text First Line: What high adventure, in what world afar Last Line: And in man's grateful heart shall live immortally! Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I; Airplanes; Air Pilots; First World War CAPTAIN SAID, by COVINGTON HALL Poem Source First Line: A stout ship to seattle came Last Line: And, sailing, said: 'like hell you are!' Alternate Author Name(s): Ami, Covington; Ami, Covami Subject(s): World War I CAPTAINS ADVENTUROUS, by NORAH M. HOLLAND Poem Text First Line: Captains adventurous, from your ports of quiet Last Line: Captains adventurous, the masters of the sea. Subject(s): Great Britain - Navy; World War I; First World War 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 CAPTIVES, by ERNEST HEMINGWAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some came in chains Last Line: Making death easy Subject(s): World War I; First World War CARAVANS, by P. A. A. THOMAS Poem Source First Line: The caravans still pass along the road Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii CARENTAN O CARENTAN, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Trees in the old days used to stand / and shape a shady land Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944); World War Ii; Normandy (france), Invasion Of; Second World War CARENTAN O CARENTAN, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trees in the old days used to stand %and shape a shady land Last Line: We never yet had lost a man %or known what death could do Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944); World War Ii CARNAGE: 1. DOUBT, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So thin, so frail the opalescent ice Last Line: Is hell so near to every human heart? Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Doubt; Peace; Sacrifices; Survival; World War I; Skepticism; First World War CARNAGE: 2. THE GREAT NEGATION, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When that great-minded man, sir edward grey Last Line: He might have saved the world, and he would not. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Grey, Sir Edward (1862-1935); Peace; World War I; Grey Of Fallodon, Viscount; Grey, 3d Baronet; First World War CARNAGE: 3. LOUVAIN, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Serene in beauty's olden lineage Last Line: Where the dead hail him william of louvain! Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Louvain, Belgium; Silence; Soul; World War I; Dead, The; Nightmares; First World War CARNAGE: 4. RHEIMS, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Apollo mourns another parthenon Last Line: More bitter than to battle — is to feel. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Pain; Rheims, France; Ruins; World War I; Suffering; Misery; First World War CARNAGE: 5. KULTUR, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If men must murder, pillage, sack, despoil Last Line: To answer him: once rheims was — and louvain! Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Louvain, Belgium; Rheims, France; World War I; First World War CARNAGE: 6. DESTINY, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are what we imagine, and our deeds Last Line: And dream from that despair — democracy. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Democracy; Fate; World War I; Destiny; First World War CARRIER, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She troubles the waters, and they part and close Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War CARRIER, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She troubles the waters, and they part and close Last Line: Heart gone, sea-bound, committed all to air Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): World War Ii CARRY ON!, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: They have not fought in vain, our dead Last Line: May pledge to all her sacred fires. Subject(s): Peace; Progress; World War I; First World War CARRY ON!, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's easy to fight when everything's right Last Line: Carry on, my soul! Carry on! Subject(s): Religion; World War I; Theology; First World War CASTLE HOWARD, by LAWRENCE TOYNBEE Poem Source First Line: This is the dream - this is the nightmare Last Line: I'm faced forwards, away from the past, %forced forwards with no more turning Subject(s): World War Ii CASUALLY AS A CRANE, by MILES VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii CASUALTY, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: John delaney of rifles has been shot Last Line: Yet he died for you and me Subject(s): Women; World War I CASUALTY, by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They are bringing him down Subject(s): World War I CASUALTY LIST, by W. +(2) L. Poem Source First Line: Here in happy england the fields are ... Quiet Subject(s): World War I CASUALTY LIST, by HENRY LAMONT SIMPSON Poem Source First Line: How long, how long Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I CATHOLIC BISHOPS APPROVE BUSH'S WAR, by DANIEL BERRIGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Lest I merge %with mountains that surely will fall Last Line: Not large, nor mine to choose)- %lest I Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) CAVALIER'S FAREWELL, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh god! What a lovely war Last Line: Laughed at fate's surprises Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): World War I CAVES, WAR, AND PEOPLE, by SHEPHERD BLISS Poem Source First Line: At ease,' %the young lieutenant barks at our rifle squad Last Line: How could anyone experience desire in such a hellhole? Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) CEAUSESCU'S POET LAUREATE, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: You, paunescu, what love inspired your odes Last Line: Which of your words can be made back into flesh again Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities CELLAR, by ALEXANDER COMFORT Poem Source First Line: These faces - the cold apples in a loft Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii CENOTAPH, by URSALA ROBERTS Poem Source First Line: The man in the trilby hat has furtively shifted it Last Line: There's some, you see, %as can' Subject(s): Women; World War I CENOTAPH; SEPTEMBER 1919, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not yet will those measureless fields be green again Last Line: As they drive their bargains, is the face %of god: and some young, piteous, murdered face Subject(s): Women; World War I CENSORSHIP, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The twisted hearts, the crumpled brains Last Line: At the moon or the sun! Subject(s): Censorship; Earth; Heaven; Life; Pain; World; Paradise; Suffering; Misery CENTRAL PARK, CAROUSEL, by MEENA ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: June already, it's your birth month, Last Line: If I die leave the balcony open! Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); Merry-go-rounds; New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 CEREMONY AFTER A FIRE RAID, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Myselves / the grievers Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Funerals; Mourning; World War Ii; Burials; Bereavement; Second World War CEREMONY AFTER A FIRE RAID, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Myselves %the grievers Last Line: The sundering ultimate kingdom of genesis' thunder Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Funerals; Mourning; World War Ii CERTAIN VERSES...UPON THE KINGS COMING INTO SCOTLAND: 3, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Turne the agayne o phebus fayre Last Line: Earths sole delight and heauens care. Subject(s): Apollo; Earth; Faces; Grief; Mythology - Classical; Sun; World; Sorrow; Sadness CHALK AND FLINT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come there now a mighty rally Subject(s): World War I 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 CHANGE ASSURED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: This world it is a pleasant place Last Line: When it will be too warm Subject(s): Earth;nature;pleasure;seasons; World CHANNEL FIRING, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That night your great guns, unawares Last Line: And camelot, and starlit stonehenge. Subject(s): Death; Guns; Social Protest; World War I; Dead, The; First World War CHANNEL SUNSET, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the shallow, angry english channel Last Line: The struggle of burning spears in the cold twilight. Subject(s): World War I; First World War CHANT OF EMPIRE, by JAMES RHOADES Poem Source First Line: Gray mother of mighty nations Subject(s): World War I CHANT ON HATE AGAINST ENGLAND, by ERNEST LISSAUER Poem Source First Line: French and russian, they matter not Last Line: We have one foe and one alone- %england! Subject(s): World War I CHAPLAIN TO THE FORCES, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ambassador of christ you go Last Line: Still floats the ensign of his cross. Subject(s): Chaplains, Army; World War I; First World War CHARGE, by AUGUST STRAMM Poem Source First Line: From every corner yelling terror wanting Last Line: Blindly slaughters wild-about the horror Subject(s): World War I CHEMIN DES DAMES, by CROSBIE GARSTIN Poem Source First Line: In silks and satins the ladies went Subject(s): World War I CHILD DYING, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unfriendly friendly universe, %I pack your stars into my purse Last Line: I did not know death was so strange Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; World War Ii CHILD'S PRAYERS, by CHARLES PEGUY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen the greatest saints, says god. But I tell you Last Line: Whereas I, of course, have to be for justice Subject(s): World War I CHILDREN IN FRONT OF A LONDON EATING-HOUSE FOR THE POOR, by ERNST STADLER Poem Source First Line: I saw children in a long line, ordered in pairs, standing in Last Line: With an amazing room Subject(s): World War I CHILDREN OF THE WAR, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shrunken little bodies, pallid baby faces Subject(s): World War I; Children; First World War; Childhood CHINESE HOT POT, by WING TEK LUM Poem Source First Line: My dream of america Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans CHIPS, by CHARLES PHILLIPS (1880-1933) Poem Text First Line: Wild eyed with the light of april in his eyes Last Line: (chips . . . Chips . . . Chips . . .) Subject(s): April; Earth; World CHRIST IN FLANDERS, by LUCY WHITMELL Poem Text First Line: We had forgotten you, or very nearly Last Line: And that you'll stand beside us to the last. Alternate Author Name(s): W., L. Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium; Jesus Christ; Women; World War I; First World War CHRIST'S COMING, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: The peoples long have waited Last Line: Exalt his holy name! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Judgment Day; Justice; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man CHRISTIANS AT WAR, by JOHN KENDRICK Poem Source First Line: Onward, christian soldiers! Duty's way is plain Last Line: History will say of you: 'that pack of g - d fools' Subject(s): Christianity; Hate; World War I CHRISTMAS 1944, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright cards above the fire bring no friends near Subject(s): Christmas; World War Ii; Nativity, The; Second World War CHRISTMAS 1944, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright cards above the fire bring no friends near Last Line: Hearing hatred crackle in the coal, %the voice of treason, the voice of love Subject(s): Christmas; World War Ii CHRISTMAS AT THE OFFICERS' MESS, by JOHN STREETER MANIFOLD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If you could drink with me, I say, beware Subject(s): World War Ii CHRISTMAS BELLS, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What do your clear bells ring to me Last Line: So many dead! So many dead! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Bells; Christmas; World War I; Nativity, The; First World War CHRISTMAS EVE, 1917, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many happy returns, sweet babe, of the day! Last Line: Ever happier and happier returns, dear christ, of thy day! Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Christmas; England; World War I; Nativity, The; English; First World War 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 IN WARTIME: 1916, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cheer oh, comrades, we can bide the blast Last Line: If duty done makes all the others brighter. Subject(s): Christmas; Comfort; Duty; War; World War I; Nativity, The; First World War CHRISTMAS IN WARTIME: 1917: THE LAST LAP, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We seldom were quick off the mark Last Line: Be your victorious christmas-tide. Subject(s): Christmas; England; Hope; Patience; Victory; War; World War I; Nativity, The; English; Optimism; First World War CHRISTMAS PRAYER, by CYRIL WINTERBOTHAM Poem Source First Line: Not yet for us may christmas bring Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I CHRISTMAS, 1915, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now is the midnight of the nations: dark Last Line: What new-wing'd world, or mangled god still-born? Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Christmas; World War I; Nativity, The; First World War CHRISTMAS, 1916 (THOUGHTS IN A V.A.D. HOSPITAL KITCHEN), by M. WINIFRED WEDGWOOD Poem Source First Line: There's no xmas leave for us scullions Last Line: And then 'good-bye' to the kitchen; %the treacle, the jam, and the cheese Subject(s): Women; World War I CHRYSALIDS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Her gaze meets his as he looks down Last Line: Are chrysalids of winged dreams Subject(s): Earth;reality;socialism;streets;towns; World;avenues 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 CLEAN HANDS, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Make this thing plain to us, o lord Last Line: Make this thing plain! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Holidays; Peace; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War CLEAR EYES, by TAMATHA F. Poem Source Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans CLEAR WEATHER, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A cloudless day! With a keener line Last Line: A great transparent dragon-fly. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War CLOSE YOUR RANKS, by ISAAC GREGORY SMITH Poem Source First Line: Yes! Draw them close and closer still Subject(s): World War I CLOTHES, by EDGAR BOWERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Walking back to the office after lunch Last Line: Melting, its double peaks the victory sign Subject(s): World War Ii COAST-WATCH, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With tingling eyes he stares into the dense Last Line: And once again he finds himself alone %staring across an empty moon-glazed sea Subject(s): World War Ii COCHITI LAKE, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: The desert around was as pre-cambrian sea Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities COCKTAILS CELEBRATING VIETNAMIZATION, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: It's a wingdinger. We got spies Last Line: Too hard, like one of those concrete %jockeys who's lost his ride Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) COCOTTE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a girl's sixteen, and as poor as she's pretty Last Line: They're bringing my blind boy in at the gate. Subject(s): Death; Girls; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War COLD, COLD, COLD, by PATRICK BYRNE Poem Source First Line: White may in our moonlit trysting place Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii COLLABORATEURS, ST. TROPEZ, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Paraded up a boulevard of plane trees and umbrella pines Last Line: For the sake of those who stayed silent, or resisted Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities COLONISTS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To men now of her blood and race Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): World War I COLOSSIANS: 3, 2, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why do we cling to earth? Its sweetest pleasures Last Line: No longer cling to earth, but soar to yon bright heaven! Subject(s): Earth; Jesus Christ; Praise; Singing & Singers; World; Songs COLUMBIA COMES, by THOMAS MEEK BUTLER Poem Source First Line: In war's fast deepening shades columbia stood Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I COLUMBIA'S PRAYER, by THOMAS P. BASHAW Poem Source First Line: Boy in khaki, boy in blue Subject(s): World War I COMB BAND, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh we love the gay canned music in the watches Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I COME ON, COME BACK', by STEVE SMITH Poem Source First Line: Left by the ebbing tide of battle Last Line: Come on, come back.' Subject(s): World War Ii COME REST WITH ME, O LORD!, by ALLEN COHEN Poem Source Last Line: Onto the verdant fields %of transcendent history Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) COME! LET US DANCE, by PETER BAKER Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii COMING HOME, by DOROTHY COFFIN SUSSMAN Poem Source First Line: The day before my father came home from the war Last Line: Out there with a sky so deep and close it has to be heaven Subject(s): World War Ii COMPANY, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thought, 'how terrible, if I were seen Last Line: "I thought, ""why should I, if the rest are so?" Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): God; Judgment Day; Sin; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man COMPANY FOR DINNER, by FLORENCE MCLANDBURGH Poem Source First Line: Our cousins are coming to dinner Last Line: Gee folks, but to have you is great! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Mclandburgh Subject(s): World War I COMPONENT, by F. JOHN HERBERT Poem Source First Line: Designing their own chains working on a component Last Line: So the people will feel that tandem will make ourselves free%and we will find a new basis of ethics Subject(s): Industrial Workers Of The World (i.w.w.); Labor And Laborers; Labor Unions 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, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I was marching in flanders Last Line: "I'll bear you company." Subject(s): World War I; First World War 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 CONCERNING EMPERORS: 1. GOD SENT THE REGICIDE, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would that the lying rulers of the world Last Line: God send the regicide. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; World War I; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; First World War CONCERNING EMPERORS: 2. A COLLOQUIAL REPLY - TO ANY NEWSBOY, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you lay for iago at the stage door with a brick Last Line: Yet I chase the thing he stands for with a brickbat in my hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; World War I; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; First World War CONCERT FOR EARTH, by HELEN FERGUSON CAUKIN Poem Text First Line: Sky-strutting tempest wields a windy lash Last Line: In dying, lovely, quivering, misty notes. Subject(s): Earth; World CONCERT PARTY (EGYPTIAN BASE CAMP), by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are gathering around Last Line: Silent, they drift away, over the glimmering sand. Subject(s): Egypt; World War I; First World War CONCERT PARTY: BUSSEBOOM, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stage was set, the house was packed Last Line: Were kicking men to death. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War CONCLUSION, by LESLIE NELSON JENNINGS Poem Text First Line: There is an ending, even to these things Last Line: More graciously before our hearts were broken? Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man CONDEMNED, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: Warm night fallen night Last Line: The sound of the gallop %of a bell %forgotten %forgotten Subject(s): Dadaism; World War Ii CONFESSION, by FRANCIS SALTUS SALTUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love came to earth with faith and trust Last Line: "and god serenely answered -- ""it is mine." Subject(s): Death; Earth; Faith; Love; Peace; Dead, The; World; Belief; Creed CONFLICT BEFORE VICTORY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stand at gaze upon an autumn knoll Last Line: The mellow magic of october's moon. Subject(s): Earth; Evil; God; Love; Mankind; Victory; War; World; Human Race CONQUEST, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Oh conqueror, what is left to win? Last Line: "our earthly heavens are—just outside." Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; World; Paradise CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I was a soldier of the prince of peace Last Line: For he for whom I fought has told me so Subject(s): World War I 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 CONSCRIPT, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Indifferent, flippant, earnest, but all bored Last Line: The nail-marks glowing in his feet and hands Subject(s): Religion; World War I CONSCRIPT, by ALBERTA VICKRIDGE Poem Source First Line: Then former stars were faint and signs were fled Subject(s): World War I 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 CONSEQUENCES, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He 'wanted to go,' but his wife said 'no!' Last Line: To live or to die a man! Subject(s): World War I CONSEQUENTIOUS OBJECTOR, by C. ARTHUR COAN Poem Source First Line: Be you int'rested in this here war? Last Line: Sure, I'll join that league! Subject(s): World War I CONSOLATION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In summer we suffered from dust and from Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I 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 CONVALESCENT, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We've billiards, bowls an' tennis courts, we've teas an' motorrides Last Line: As the one when I go 'ome to 'entry street Subject(s): Women; World War I CONVERSATION BOOK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I 'ave a conversation book: I brought it out Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I CONVERSATION IN GIBRALTAR, 1943, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We sit here, talking of barea and lorca Last Line: We shall be conscious of miles of perpendicular sea. %and the admiralty weather Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles Subject(s): World War Ii CORPORAL STARE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back from the line one night in june, / I gave a dinner at bethune Last Line: A fag-end dropped on the silent road. Subject(s): World War I; First World War COST, by MARY ELIZABETH COLMAN Poem Source First Line: It was a shabby house, lacking grace or dignity Last Line: I wish he were dead Subject(s): Germany; World War Ii 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 AT WAR, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And what of home - how goes it, boys Last Line: Each cries for god to understand, %'I could not help it, it was my hand.' Subject(s): World War I COUNTRY LIFE, by CHENJERAI HOVE Poem Source First Line: Our hut puffs streaks of hope Last Line: In the pulse of mother's back Subject(s): Third World COUNTRY, MY COUNTRY (WRITTEN IN THE WORLD WAR), by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair with the beauty of heaven on earth Last Line: Dare to be free for the freedom of all. Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I; First World War 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 COWARDICE, by EMYR HUMPHRIES Poem Source First Line: In journeyings my weak soul makes Last Line: The play must stay in print, avoiding action %or else the text will suffer in translation Subject(s): World War Ii CRACK SEED, by KATHY PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: The bodhisattva Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans 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 CRIMSON CROSS, by ELIZABETH BROWN DU BRIDGE Poem Source First Line: Outside the ancient city's gate Subject(s): World War I CRISIS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Has life no seer, who, with enthralled throat Last Line: Shall never again darken us with its woe. Subject(s): Dreams; Fear; Life; Time; U.s. - History; World War Ii; Nightmares; Second World War CRISIS, by MARK VAN DOREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now that the seas are lined Last Line: The feet wherewith we stumble %still, cursing our shoes Subject(s): World War Ii CROCUS, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When trees have lost remembrance of the leaves Last Line: And then lead on again the universe? Subject(s): Crocuses; Earth; Plants; Universe; World; Planting; Planters 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 CROCUSES AT NOTTINGHAM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Out here the dogs of war run loose Subject(s): World War I CROSS AND THE FLAG, by WILLIAM HENRY O'CONNELL Poem Source First Line: Hail, banner of our holy faith Subject(s): World War I 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 CROWN, by HELEN COMBES Poem Source First Line: Write us yur verse, oh, soldier Subject(s): World War I CROWS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth is raw with this one note Last Line: Starts for a moment from its dust. Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Earth; World CRUSADER'S TOMB, by LAURENCE HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O nameless warrior, whose feet Subject(s): World War I CRUTCHES' TUNE, by ELIZABETH R. STONER Poem Source First Line: Down the street, with a lilting swing Subject(s): World War I CRY, by GUSTAV SACK Poem Source First Line: Out of this adamantine need Last Line: On, up, into the boundless skies Subject(s): World War I CRY OF THE HOMELESS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Instigator of the ruin Last Line: Till death dark thee with his pall.' Subject(s): Homeless; World War I; First World War CURTAIN, by HELEN SPALDING Poem Source First Line: Goodbye. %incredulously the laced fingers loosen Last Line: Two worlds apart, to-morrow? Subject(s): World War Ii CYNICS, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY Poem Text First Line: Between old pan and pandemonium Last Line: We would reshape our lives—it is too late. Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph Subject(s): Life; War; World War I; First World War CYPRUS, by N. BOODSON Poem Source First Line: The blue of the meidterranean Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii D'ANNUNZIO, by ERNEST HEMINGWAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Half a million dead wops Last Line: The son of a bitch Subject(s): World War I; D'annunzio, Gabriele (1863-1938); First World War DAM NECK, VIRGINIA, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anti-aircraft seen from a certain distance Last Line: Of war in the animal sinews let us speak not %but of beautiful disrelation of the spiritual Subject(s): World War Ii DANCERS (DURING A GREAT BATTLE, 1916), by EDITH SITWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The floors are slippery with blood Last Line: We dance, we dance, each night Subject(s): Women; World War I 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 DAWN, by ANTONI BOGUSLAWSKI Poem Source First Line: Come, brother - forward in the dark! To what? Last Line: It is the morning. Stand to, all Subject(s): World War Ii DAWN, by ERNEST FEWSTER Poem Source First Line: O holy light! Thou who art strength! Last Line: The god-lit heavens thundering hymns of joy Subject(s): World War Ii 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 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 DISSOLVES THE MONSTERS, by EUGENE GRINDEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They did not know Last Line: The flame for us two alone is patience %for us two in every place the kiss of the living Alternate Author Name(s): Eluard, Paul Subject(s): World War Ii DAY AFTER THE CLEANUP ENDED, by JR. RADOMIR LUZA Poem Source First Line: The trees bent %in a sort of anguished manner Last Line: The kind ten lifetimes cannot hide Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) DAY AND NIGHT, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even a feather in flight can sketch Last Line: And cloisters and clinics waken %to a rending blare of trumpets Subject(s): World War I DAY OF WAR, by ARTURO GIOVANNITTI Poem Source First Line: A hawk-faced youth with rapacious eyes, standing on a shaky chair Last Line: In the city of dread and uproar Subject(s): World War I DE PROFUNDIS, by JEAN-MARC BERNARD Poem Source First Line: The trenches, lord, are stark and deep Last Line: Grant them the peace they merit Subject(s): World War I DE PROFUNDIS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whence hast thou gone Last Line: Alma victrix! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Bodies; Earth; Rome, Italy; Soul; Vision; World DEAD, by VIOLET GILLESPIE Poem Source First Line: Dear love, they say thou art at rest Subject(s): World War I DEAD COW FARM, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An ancient saga tells us how Last Line: And the cow's dead, the old cow's dead. Subject(s): World War I; First World War DEAD FOX HUNTER, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We found the little captain at the head Last Line: And the whole host of seraphim complete %must jog in scarlet to his opening meet Subject(s): World War I DEAD GERMAN SS PRISON GUARD, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Under the blood-clogged waters and the river weeds Last Line: Were known and sung and loved for poetry Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities DEAD HAVE STOPPED RUNNING, by MATTHEW MASON Poem Source First Line: They walk %through the air, now Last Line: Surprising us when they exit %on the floor where we live Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) DEAD IN EUROPE, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the planes unloaded, we fell down Last Line: O mary, marry earth, sea, air, and fire; %our sacred earth in our day is our curse Subject(s): World War Ii 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 WATCH, by ETHEL TALBOT SCHEFFAUER Poem Source First Line: In the white and delicate city, where pleasure mates with art Subject(s): World War I 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 SOLDIER, by SYDNEY OSWALD Poem Source First Line: Thy dear brown eyes which were as depths where truth Subject(s): World War I DEAD SOLDIERS, by MAX PLOWMAN Poem Source First Line: Spectrum trench. Autumn. Nineteen-sixteen Last Line: But if of life we do destroy the best %god wanders wide, and weeps in his unrest Subject(s): World War I DEAD TURK, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: Dead, dead, and dumbly chill. He seemed to lie Last Line: And calvary re-echoed with his cry- %his cry of stark amaze Subject(s): Gallipoli Campaign (1915); World War I DEAD WINGMAN, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seen on the sea, no sign; no sign, no sign Last Line: The lives' long war, lost war - the pilot sleeps Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii DEAR REIKO: 1968 - 1978, by JODY MANABE Poem Source First Line: We buy books to keep our secrets Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans DEAR_____, by NORA MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: Always, I can pick out the men who carry guns Last Line: Where tiny distant bombs %land and detonate Subject(s): World History DEATH AND THE FAIRIES, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before I joined the army Last Line: Who is holding carnival. Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium; World War I; First World War DEATH AND THE FLOWERS, by EDEN PHILLPOTTS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now is death only plucking flowers; he leaves Subject(s): World War I DEATH IN MAY, by MURIEL NEWTON Poem Source First Line: Bury your love Last Line: Out of life's dream he died %into joy's living tide Subject(s): World War Ii DEATH IS A MATTER OF MATHEMATICS., by BARRY AMIEL Poem Source Last Line: Ten out of ten means you are dead Subject(s): World War Ii 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 NED KELLY, by JOHN STREETER MANIFOLD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ned kelly fought the troopers in country Subject(s): World War Ii DEATH OF THE BALL TURRET GUNNER, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From my mother's sleep I fell into the state Last Line: When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose Subject(s): Air Warfare; Aviation And Aviators; Death; World War Ii DEATH-BED, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the state above the law Last Line: What is the question he asks with his eyes? - %yes, all-highest, to god, be sure Subject(s): World War I DEBT, by JESSIE EDGAR MIDDLETON Poem Source First Line: Sitting here in the glow of my study-lamp Last Line: I can only pray Subject(s): World War Ii DECEMBER DAYBREAK, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shrill, a joyous scream Last Line: Men soared on heaven-ascending wings to fight Subject(s): World War Ii DECLINE, by GEORG TRAKL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Above the white pond Last Line: O my brother, we blind hands climb toward midnight Subject(s): World War I DEDICATED TO CHOPIN, by HANS LEYBOLD Poem Source First Line: With their skirts rolled up, three seas dance on to land Last Line: And cockerels jump head-first into the collapsible top hat Subject(s): World War I DEDICATION OF THREE HATS, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This round hat I devote to mars %tough steel with leather lined Last Line: With wounds and cramps for three long years %limped back, and sat for school Subject(s): World War I DEDICATION TO POEMS AND BALLADS, 1ST SERIES, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea gives her shells to the shingle Last Line: Night sinks on the sea. Variant Title(s): Dedication: 1865 Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Sea; Seasons; Wind; World; Ocean DEJECTION, by GEORG TRAKL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mighty you are, dark mouth Last Line: The quiet maiden monk Subject(s): World War I DELIVERANCE, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Great and apparent dangers' are the words Last Line: This is the lesson of this fought-for hour. Subject(s): Deliberation; Freedom; World War Ii; Liberty; Second World War DELPHI; FOR GREEK INDEPENDENCE DAY, 25 MARCH 1941, by OLIFFE RICHMOND Poem Source First Line: The daisies are at delphi now Last Line: Earth's common daisies be my token %that the oracle has spoken Subject(s): World War Ii DEMONSTRATION FOR INTERVENTION IN THE WAR, by CARLO CARRA Poem Source Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Futurism (art); Paintings And Painters; World War I DER TAG: NELSON AND BEATTY, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No doubt 'twas a truly christian sight Last Line: This grey november morning.' Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Beatty, David. 1st Earl (1871-1936); Navy - Great Britain; World War I - Naval Actions; English Navy DESCEND, O DANTE, FROM THE HEAVENLY ROSE, by FLORENCE CONVERSE Poem Source Last Line: Crying for light! Come, holy candle, light our way! Subject(s): World War Ii DESERT, by M. ST. J. WILMOTH Poem Source First Line: The silence of vast spaces, where even Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii DESERT HYMN TO THE SUN, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the arches of the morning sky Last Line: But one who keeps, and shall reclaim his own. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Deserts; Earth; Food & Eating; Sun; World DESERT WARFARE, by G. HARKER Poem Source First Line: A universe of space, infinite sands Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii DESERTER, by GILBERT FRANKAU Poem Source First Line: I'm sorry I done it, major' Last Line: And the shameless soul of a nameless man %went up in the cordite-smoke Subject(s): World War I DESERTER, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There was a man, - don't mind his name Last Line: O well for her she does not know %he lies in a deserter's grave Subject(s): Women; World War I DESPAIR, by OLIVE E. LINDSAY Poem Source First Line: Half of me died at bapaume Last Line: And then will return to the other half %and show it how to live Subject(s): Women; World War I DESPOTISMS, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From hedgerows where aromas fain would be Last Line: The golden english heads like harvest grain. Subject(s): World War I; First World War DESTROYED FLYING FORTRESS (PHOTOGRAPHER UNKNOWN), by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: After the automatic eye clicks a frame Last Line: Just where we're left to brood and wonder Subject(s): Troy; Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities DESTROYERS, by JOHN GRAHAM BOWER Poem Source First Line: Through the dark night Subject(s): Troy; World War I DESTROYERS, by HENRY HEAD Poem Text First Line: On this primeval strip of western land Last Line: Are bought with death. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; World War I; First World War DESTROYERS IN THE ARCTIC, by ALAN ROSS Poem Source First Line: Camouflaged, they detach lengths of sea and sky Last Line: But cannot dream long; the sea curdles and sprawls %liverishly real, and merciless all else away fro Subject(s): Sea Battles; Troy; World War Ii DESTROYERS OFF JUTLAND, by REGINALD MCINTOSH CLEVELAND Poem Text First Line: They had hot scent across the spumy sea Last Line: These hounds that england suckled at the birth. Subject(s): Great Britain - Navy; Jutland; World War I; First World War DEVON MEN, by PERCY HASELDEN Poem Source First Line: From bideford to appledore the meadows lie aglow Subject(s): World War I DEVOTION TO DUTY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was near the king that day. I saw him snatch Last Line: This wife how her heroic husband fell.' Subject(s): World War I; First World War DICTATOR'S HOLIDAY, by FRANK LAURENCE LUCAS Poem Source First Line: Round the foot of amiatra, like a bride Last Line: The masters of the world must kill their time Subject(s): World War Ii DIDO OF TUNISIA, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had heard of these things before - of chariots rumbling Last Line: That men might struggle and fall, and not for love Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Women's Rights; World War Ii; Male-female Relations; Vergil; Feminism; Second World War DIDO OF TUNISIA, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had heard of these things before - of chariots rumbling Last Line: That men might struggle and fall, and not for love Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Women's Rights; World War Ii DIE TODAY?, by GAIL FORD Poem Source First Line: If I knew we would die today Last Line: The rising %falling %sea Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) DIED OF WOUNDS, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And so they marked me dead, the day %that I turned twenty-one? Last Line: The twenty-fourth of july! %god smiled %beguiled %by a wish so wild, %and let me always stay a child Subject(s): World War I 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 DIES IRAE, by ABRAHAM COLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day of wrath, that day of burning Last Line: Spare, lord, in that hour of terror! Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man DIES IRAE, by THOMAS OF CELANO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day of vengeance, without morrow! Last Line: Save him, god! From condemnation! Variant Title(s): The Day Of Judgment Subject(s): Consolation; Judgment Day; Religion; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology DIES IRAE, by B. H. W. Poem Source First Line: Patience: a little more and then the day Subject(s): World War I DIES IRAE DIES ILLA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "hears't thou, my soul, what serious things" Last Line: "my hope, my fear! My judge, my friend! / take charge of me, and of my end" Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World;doomsday;fall Of Man DILEMMA, by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: It is once again time to think of what we wish Last Line: And let song rise often from this site Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) DILEMMA, by JOHN COLLINGS SQUIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God heard the embattled nations sing and shout Last Line: Good god!' said god, 'I've got my work cut out' Alternate Author Name(s): Eagle, Solomon; Squire, J. C. Subject(s): World War I DIMINISHING RETURNS, by CHARLOTTE MCCAFFREY Poem Source First Line: In the fall of 2001, %it seemed that sky and earth Last Line: The families %with urns %of dirt Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) DIRGE, by GARY MEX GLAZNER Poem Source First Line: There is always some right wing-nut with his hand on the kill button Last Line: Madness our only %music Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) DIRGE, by VICTOR PEROWNE Poem Source First Line: Thou art no longer here Subject(s): World War I DIRGE OF VICTORY, by EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lift not thy trumpet, victory, to the sky Alternate Author Name(s): Dunsany, Lord; Dunsany, 18th Baron Subject(s): World War I 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 DISCOVERERS; IN MEMORY OF CHRISTIAN ENDEAVORERS WHO DIED, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High glory his who walks where god alone Last Line: For god and man, for liberty and right. Subject(s): Christianity; World War I; First World War DISCOVERY OF THIS TIME, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nobody borrowed a couple of dogs and a gun and Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War DISCOVERY OF THIS TIME, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nobody borrowed a couple of dogs and a gun and Last Line: There were all of us - all together - and we came Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): World War Ii DISDAINED APPARITIONS, by RENE CHAR Poem Source First Line: Civilizations are viscous. History shipwrecks, gold slips from god Last Line: To dream of it, who has won it in the face of crime Subject(s): World War Ii DISILLUSIONED, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: We slumber in youth Last Line: Of glory divine? Subject(s): Earth; Life; Love; Youth; World DIVINE PORTRAITURE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: An artist painted a fair scene Last Line: Till beauty overpowers each taint. Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Grief; Love; Soul; World; Sorrow; Sadness DO NOT ASK, by LAURENCE WHISTLER Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii DO YOUR ALL, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do your bit!' how cheap and trite Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): World War I DOES IT MATTER? - LOSING YOUR LEGS?, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For they'll know that you've fought for your country %and no one will worry a bit Subject(s): World War I DOMINE, DIRIGE NOS, by EDWARD HARRY WILLIAM MEYERSTEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Direct us, lord, while our aerial saints Last Line: And at thy word thrust in its sheath again Alternate Author Name(s): Meyerstein, E. H. W. Subject(s): World War Ii DOMINION, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Patrician overthrown Last Line: Except the lyric seers. Subject(s): Earth; Government; Injustice; Order; World DOOMES-DAY, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let not that day gods friends and servants scare Last Line: The bench is then their place; and not the barre. Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man DOOMSDAY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I can raise one ghost, why I will raise Last Line: . . . . . . . Subject(s): Death; Desolation; Judgment Day; Longing; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man DOOMSDAY, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The end of everything approaches Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man DOST THOU DENY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Dost thou deny the virgin birth? Last Line: When thou shalt face christ's judgment seat. Subject(s): Devil; Judgment Day; Religion; Sin; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology DOUBLE DRAM OF FALLING, by SAM HAMOD Poem Source First Line: And so we slept, %always an ocean or two Last Line: That now makes up our lives Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) DOWN-HILL ON A BICYCLE, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rolling earth stops Last Line: God, that were life! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Climbing; Earth; Life; World DOWNFALL, by GEORG TRAKL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Above the white pond Last Line: O my brother, we are the blind hands climbing toward midnight Subject(s): World War I DRAFTS, by NORA BOMFORD Poem Source First Line: Waking to darkness; early silence broken Last Line: Everything is part %of one supreme intent, the deathless heart Subject(s): Women; World War I 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 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, by HARRY BROWN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I watch them on the drill field, the awkward and the grave Last Line: And the voices of our approaching generations Subject(s): World War Ii DRINKING FROM A HELMET, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I climbed out, tired of waiting Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War DRINKING FROM A HELMET, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I climbed out, tired of waiting Last Line: And tell him I was the man Subject(s): World War Ii DRUM, by JOSEPH JOHNSTON LEE Poem Source First Line: Come! %says the drum Subject(s): World War I DRUM TAPS TO HEAVEN, by JAMES CHURCH ALVORD Poem Text First Line: Peter at heaven's gate wearied of the game Last Line: Rat-a-tat -- rat-a-tat -- tir-r-r-rah -- tah-tah! Subject(s): Heaven; World War I; Paradise; First World War DRUMS, by GRIFFITH ALEXANDER Poem Source First Line: Ere we wonder at his absence, let us tell a little Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I DUALITIES, by M. H. THATCHER Poem Text First Line: Two laws of motion rule our ancient earth Last Line: To live by law, the task of sighted man! Subject(s): Earth; Life; Nature; Seasons; World 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 DULCE ET DECORUM?, by ELINOR JENKINS Poem Source First Line: We buried of our dead the dearest one Last Line: Give us our fathers' heathen hearts again, %valour to dare, and fortitude to die Subject(s): Women; World War I DUMB IN JUNE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, the thought hurts at my heart Last Line: Dumb in june! Subject(s): Death; Earth; Hearts; June; Life; Singing & Singers; Soul; Summer; Dead, The; World; Songs DUNKER CHURCH, ANTIETAM, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: For melville, on malvern hill the elms would speak Last Line: Greening in this page of sediments and sorrow Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities DUNKIRK, by SUSAN D'ARCY CLARK Poem Text First Line: They looked at death Last Line: "immortals these,"" and laid his scythe away." Subject(s): Death; Dunkirk, France; Immortality; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War DUNKIRK, by ROBERT NATHAN Poem Source First Line: Will came back from school that day Last Line: There at his side sat francis drake, %and held him true and steered him home Subject(s): Dunkirk, France; England; Retreats (military); World War Ii DUNKIRK, by EDWIN JOHN PRATT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So long as light shall shine upon a world Last Line: Attending causes ultimately won - %thermopylae, corunna or verdun Alternate Author Name(s): Pratt, E. J. Subject(s): Dunkirk, France; Retreats (military); World War Ii DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: During the second world war, I was going home one night Subject(s): World War Ii; Sons; Survival; Thanksgiving; Second World War DUST, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard them in their sadness say Last Line: And haunted by all mystery. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Death; Dust; Earth; God; Humanity; Mankind; Dead, The; World; Human Race DUST TO DUST, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Earth wedded, life atwain Last Line: To dust will come again. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Earth; World E TENEBRIS, by HELEN SPALDING Poem Source First Line: I tuned in to a symphony Last Line: Seeking his living symphony again Subject(s): World War Ii EARLY MORNING, by KENNETH NEAL Poem Source First Line: The dawn's a dirty smudge of light Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii EARLY MORNING CALISTHENICS, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: On daniel field, the civil war's a hundred years behind us now Last Line: Each swell and juming jack is one cadet, alive and full and sexual Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities EARLY NIGHT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day was dead, with requiems of the wind Last Line: That shines for lovers, wheresoe'er they are. Subject(s): Earth; Fear; Moon; Night; Stars; Winter; World; Bedtime EARLY NOON, by INGEBORG BACHMANN Poem Source First Line: Softly the linden grows green in the opening summer Last Line: The unspeakable, said softly, steals over the land: %alreadyit is noon Subject(s): World War Ii EARLY NOON, by INGEBORG BACHMANN Poem Source First Line: Silently the linden greens in open summer Last Line: The unsayable passes, muttered low, over the land: %already it's noon Subject(s): World War Ii EARTH, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A midnight black with clouds is in the sky Last Line: By which thou shalt be judged, are written down. Subject(s): Earth; World EARTH, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Earth, let me speak to you Last Line: Finds the faint evening star. Subject(s): Earth; World EARTH, by EVELYN OSLUND Poem Text First Line: Earth turns no beaten wanderer from her breast Last Line: All the strength and all the love the earth bestows. Subject(s): Earth; World EARTH, by WILLIAM CALDWELL ROSCOE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sad is my lot; among the shining spheres Last Line: Roll on from morn to night, and on from night to morning. Subject(s): Earth; World EARTH AND A WEDDED WOMAN, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shepherd, with his eye on hazy south Last Line: Thrice beauteous is our sunshine after rain! Subject(s): Earth; Rain; Summer; World EARTH AND AIR, by FRANK ERNEST HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Earth is the tower of granite, the floor of loam Last Line: That open a door. Subject(s): Earth; World EARTH AND HEAVEN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Water calmly flowing Last Line: In heaven is love. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Love; Soul; World; Paradise EARTH AND HER PRAISERS, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earth is old Last Line: And hail upon the vine!' Subject(s): Earth; World EARTH AND MAN, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On her great venture, man Last Line: Or dated leaf. Subject(s): Earth; God; Mankind; Nature; World; Human Race EARTH CHILD, by LOIS LORING Poem Text First Line: I love you, earth Last Line: I am, indeed, your child! Subject(s): Earth; World EARTH ELEGY, by MARGARET FERGUSON GIBSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rain on the shingles, on the maples Alternate Author Name(s): Gibson, Margaret Subject(s): Earth; Nature; World EARTH LOVER, by HAROLD VINAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old loveliness has such a way Last Line: What sudden wonder brought me close to tears. Subject(s): Earth; Love; World EARTH TEDIUM, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If part of earth, I am a sullen part Last Line: And in all fruitfulness there lurks a pain. Subject(s): Earth; Life; World EARTH TO EARTH, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the region grows without a lord Last Line: With the red earth burning in your heart. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Earth; Nature; World EARTH WISDOM, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said the earth: / I love you, flower Last Line: Said the earth. Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; World EARTH'S ANSWER, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth rais'd up her head / from the darkness dread and drear Last Line: "that free love with bondage bound." Subject(s): Bible; Earth; Mythology; Religion; World; Theology EARTH'S BREAST, by ELIZABETH BARBARA CANADAY Poem Text First Line: Dear earth, it almost seems a sacrilege Last Line: Of earth. It breathes so near the heart of god. Subject(s): Earth; Walking; World EARTH'S CHILDREN CLEAVE TO EARTH, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Nature; Earth; World EARTH'S PAIN, by CATHERINE TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: Vast clouds of vapor rise up through the gloom Last Line: And on her shield of truth rose earth's new day. Subject(s): Earth; World EARTH'S PREFERENCE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth loves her young: a preference manifest Last Line: Wry in the shape she wastes her milk to rear. Subject(s): Earth; Life; World EARTH'S SECRET, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not solitarily in fields we find Last Line: For earth, that gives the milk, the spirit gives. Subject(s): Earth; Secrets; World EARTH'S STORY, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: With primal void and cosmic night Last Line: As conscious nature crowned its king. Subject(s): Earth; World EARTH'S TRIBUTE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: First the grain, and then the blade Last Line: To render god the things of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Earth; Religion; World; Theology EARTH-LOVE, by IRENE NILES Poem Text First Line: I shall not mind when time comes to me here Last Line: And watch you where you go, old lovely earth! Subject(s): Earth; Future Life; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life EARTH-WORSHIP, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Into the grass I fain would grow Last Line: New leaves to hymn thy praise! Subject(s): Earth; Grass; Life; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Praise; Worship; World EARTH: THE PASSING OF A DANCER, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She is made of mist and silver, and her Last Line: And the floor of heaven darkens, and the sound of feet is stilled. Variant Title(s): Earth: The Passing Of A Danger Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Death; Earth; Dead, The; World 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 YPRES: 1915, by WALTER SCOTT STUART LYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sacred head was bound and diapered Last Line: And thou shalt reawake, though aye be scarred. Subject(s): World War I; Ypres, Belgium; First World War EASTER EVENING, 1942, by LEONARD BACON (1887-1954) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Is this the time to speak? Shall we tell the strong Last Line: That made 'the feud with chaos and old night' Subject(s): World War Ii EASTER IN CHRISTMAS, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful are thy dwellings, lord of hosts Last Line: An agitator and two thieves are swaying in the wind Subject(s): World War Ii EASTER MONDAY, by ELEANOR FARJEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the last letter that I had from france Last Line: There are three letters you will not get Variant Title(s): Second Love: 4 Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917); Women; World War I EASTER-EGGS, by REGINALD WRIGHT KAUFFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now, mr. Wall of wall st., he built ... Yacht Subject(s): World War I EASTER: WAHIAWA, 1959: 1, by CATHY SONG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The rain stopped for one afternoon Last Line: Which grandmother had been simmering %in vinegar and blue color all morning Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans EASTER: WAHIAWA, 1959: 2, by CATHY SONG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When grandfather was a young boy Last Line: Marine-colored shells across his lap %was something like what the ocean gives %the beach after a rai Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans EASTERN WAR TIME, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Memory says: want to do right? Don't count on me Last Line: Lifting my smoky mirror Subject(s): Memory; World War Ii EASTERN WAR TIME, SELS., by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Memory; World War Ii EASY SERMON, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Sermons are easy Last Line: When the highest powers fall Subject(s): Sermons; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 EATING AN EEL, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: He's not your everyday catch, your eel Last Line: How he's alive, in all his bones? He is your meat Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii EDITH CAVELL, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was binding the wounds of her enemies when they came Last Line: It is victory speaks her name. Subject(s): Cavell, Edith (1865-1915); Nurses; World War I; First World War EDITH CAVELL, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Room 'mid the martyrs for a deathless name! Last Line: Has sealed the savage hohenzollerns' doom! Subject(s): Cavell, Edith (1865-1915); Nurses; World War I; First World War EDITH CAVELL, by FLORENCE MCLANDBURGH Poem Source First Line: On law and love and mercy Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Mclandburgh Subject(s): World War I EDITH CAVELL, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world hath its own dead; great motions start Last Line: And beautifies the world that saw it die! Subject(s): Cavell, Edith (1865-1915); Nurses; World War I - Casualties EDITORIAL, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the pause of ominous foreboding days Last Line: We wait the voice...We wait the storm Subject(s): World War I 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 EDUCATION', by PAULINE B. BARRINGTON Poem Source First Line: The rain is slipping, dripping down the street Last Line: While you sew %row after row Subject(s): Women; World War I EFFICIENCY, by FELIX EMANUEL SCHELLING Poem Source First Line: For forty years he plotted Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I EIGHTH AIR FORCE, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If, in an odd angle of the hutment Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii; Second World War EIGHTH AIR FORCE, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If, in an odd angle of the hutment Last Line: Men wash their hands, in blood, as best they can: %I find no fault in this just man Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii ELECTRONS, by ROBERTA BALFOUR Poem Text First Line: Swirl and toss their lives away Last Line: Somewhere, some time? Subject(s): Atoms; Earth; Science; Space & Space Travel; World; Scientists; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension 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 CAVE FULL OF BONES, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tibia, tarsal, skull, and shin Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War ELEGY FOR A CAVE FULL OF BONES, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tibia, tarsal, skull, and shin Last Line: I have seen our failure in %tibia, tarsal, skull, and shin Subject(s): 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 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 JUST IN CASE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lie ciardi's pearly bones Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War ELEGY JUST IN CASE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lie ciardi's pearly bones Last Line: Fragments of a written stone %undeciphered but surmised Subject(s): World War Ii ELEGY TO THE PULLEY OF SUPERIOR OBLIQUE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The three girls in a donkey cart Last Line: Of death is instant, contrived. Subject(s): Death; Disease; Girls; Lament; Warsaw Ghetto; World War Ii - Atrocities; Dead, The ELEGY; FOR KURT PORJESCZ, MISSING IN ACTION, 1 APRIL 1945, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some gone like boys to school wearing their badges Last Line: Discuss our futures, and have not concurred Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War ELEGY; FOR KURT PORJESCZ, MISSING IN ACTION, 1 APRIL 1945, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some gone like boys to school wearing their badges Last Line: Discuss our futures, and have not concurred Subject(s): World War Ii 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 EMBARKATION, 1942, by JOHN JARMAIN Poem Source First Line: In undetected trains we left our land Last Line: Waved to the workmen on the slipping quay %and they again to us for fellowship Subject(s): Army Life; World War Ii 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 ENCLOSURE, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down the track of a philippine island Last Line: On the enemy's women %with intact and incredible love Subject(s): World War Ii END, by HANS LEYBOLD Poem Source First Line: The waves of my gay drunkenness have subdued Last Line: An infinitely huge fist has wedged itself in Subject(s): World War I END OF A CAMPAIGN, by HAMISH HENDERSON Poem Source First Line: There are many dead in the brutish desert Last Line: Then death made his incision Subject(s): World War Ii END OF THE SECOND YEAR, by ARTHUR GRAEME WEST Poem Source First Line: One writes to me to ask me if I've read Last Line: To mind his shame, or feel the loss of god Subject(s): World War I END OF THE WORLD, by GEORGE ELLISTON Poem Text First Line: Once I knew that the end of the world Last Line: Who measure time by years. Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man END OF THE WORLD, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a weeping in the world Last Line: Whereby we too must die. Subject(s): Bible; Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man 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 DEAD, by BERNARD H. GUTTERIDGE Poem Source First Line: The dead are always searched Last Line: Whose white bones divide and float away %like nervous birds in the sky Subject(s): World War Ii ENFIDAVILLE, by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the church fallen like dancers Last Line: I seem again to meet %the blue eyes of the images in the church Subject(s): World War Ii ENGLAND - JUNE, 1940, by RONALD GORELL BARNES Poem Source First Line: The fields are bridal, flushed with dewy light Last Line: A resolution overmastering doom, %and warrior's crown of infinite sacrifice Alternate Author Name(s): Gorell, 3d Baron Subject(s): World War Ii ENGLAND AND AMERICA, by FLORENCE TABER HOLT Poem Text First Line: Mother and child! Though the dividing sea Last Line: Whose lives were given for this larger life. Subject(s): Mothers; World War I; First World War ENGLAND I THE WORLD WAR, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dauntless, high-hearted england! 'twas thy day Last Line: This glorious watch and ward wilt thou forego! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): England; World War I; English; First World War ENGLAND TO DENMARK, by HERBERT WARREN Poem Source First Line: Great little land, old comrades of the sea Subject(s): World War I ENGLAND TO FREE MEN, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men of my blood, you english men! Last Line: Come in—before my clock strikes twelve! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): World War I - Great Britain ENGLAND TO GERMANY IN 1914, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O england, may god punish thee!' Last Line: And present sight, your ancient name. Subject(s): Germany; World War I; Germans; First World War ENGLAND TO HER SONS, by WILLIAM NOEL HODGSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Sons of mine, I hear you thrilling %to the trumpet call of war Last Line: I accept it nothing asking, save a little space to weep Alternate Author Name(s): Melbourne, Edward Subject(s): World War I ENGLAND'S ALFRED ABROAD, by OWEN SEAMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wrong? Are they wrong? Of course they are Last Line: And the 'bus to cimiez. Subject(s): Austin, Alfred (1835-1913); Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man ENGLAND'S DEAD, by FRANK TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: Homeward the long ships leap; swift-shod with joy Subject(s): England; World War I ENGLAND'S ENEMY, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She stands like one with mazy cares distraught Last Line: Muses how rome of romans was undone. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; World War I - Great Britain; English History ENGLISH EARTH, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As over english earth I gaze Last Line: For this last battle of the soul Subject(s): World War Ii ENGLISH GRAVES, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Were I that wandering citizen whose city Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): World War I ENTHUSIASTS, by SIDNEY G. DOOLITTLE Poem Source First Line: I hate enthusiasts Last Line: I hate enthusiasts: %they fret me Subject(s): World War I ENUMERATION, by ILSE AICHINGER Poem Source First Line: The day on which you Last Line: Life goes on, %the day on which it continued Subject(s): World War Ii ENVOI, by EDWARD DE STEIN Poem Source First Line: How shall I say goodbye to you Subject(s): World War I 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 EPICEDIUM; IN MEMORY OF AMERICA'S DEAD IN THE GREAT WAR, by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER Poem Text First Line: No more for them shall evening's rose unclose Last Line: They answer, knowing all. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, J. Corson Subject(s): World War I; First World War EPILOGUE, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twenty years after the fall of troy Last Line: And I too walked away %in an agony of helpless grief and pity Subject(s): World War I EPILOGUE, by MAXWELL ANDERSON Poem Text First Line: Children of dust, astray among the suns Last Line: To mix our dust with dust of slaves and kings. Subject(s): Death; Dust; Judgment Day; Life; Time; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man EPILOGUE TO A HUMAN DRAMA, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When pavements were blown up, exposing wires Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; World War Ii; Second World War EPILOGUE TO A HUMAN DRAMA, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When pavements were blown up, exposing wires Last Line: Praising the heroes, discussing the habits of the wicked, %underlining the moral, explaining doom an Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; World War Ii EPILOGUE TO FLEET STREET ECLOGUES, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Votary: what gloomy outland region have I won? Last Line: A tabernacle even with these ghastly bones. Subject(s): Ambition; Art & Artists; Earth; Humanity; Labor & Laborers; Prostitution; World; Work; Workers; Harlots; Whores; Brothels EPILOGUE: INTERCESSION, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the muttering gun-fire dies Subject(s): World War I EPIPHANY VISION (IN THE WARD), by MARY ADAIR-MACDONALD Poem Source First Line: This is the night of a star Subject(s): World War I EPISTLE FROM A MONKEY IN THE TRENCHES TO A PARROT IN PARIS, by MARC DE LARREGUY DE CIVRIEUX Poem Source First Line: Have you read the paper, little jacko? Last Line: So, warts and all, %I'm faithfully %macaque Subject(s): World War I EPISTLE TO DR. YOUNG UPON HIS POEM ON THE LAST DAY, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now let the atheist tremble, thou alone Last Line: And practise o'er the angel in the man. Subject(s): Advice; Atheism; Future Life; God; Judgment Day; Poetry & Poets; Regret; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man EPITAPH, by BROOKE BYRNE Poem Source First Line: We were not many, and no bronze asserts Last Line: Be merciful: it was our condition of breath Subject(s): World War Ii EPITAPH, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here dead lie we because we did not choose Last Line: But young men think it is, and we were young Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I 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 AN ARMY OF MERCENARIES, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These, in the day when heaven was falling Last Line: And saved the sum of things for pay. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; World War I; Work; Workers; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: 'EQUALITY OF SACRIFICE', by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was a have Last Line: "(together.) ""what hast thou given which I gave not?" Subject(s): Sacrifices; War; World War I; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: A DEAD STATESMAN, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could not dig: I dared not rob Last Line: Mine angry and defrauded young? Subject(s): Politics & Government; War - Home Front; World War I; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: A DRIFTER OFF TARENTUM, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He from the wind-bitten north with ship and companions descended Last Line: In flame and a clamorous breath known to the eye-pecking gulls. Subject(s): World War I; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: A GRAVE NEAR CAIRO, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gods of the nile, should this stout fellow here Last Line: Get out -- get out! He knows not shame nor fear. Subject(s): Graves; World War I; Tombs; Tombstones; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: A SERVANT, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were together since the war began Subject(s): World War I; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: A SERVANT, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were together since the war began Last Line: He was my servant -- and the better man Subject(s): World War I EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: A SON, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My son was killed while laughing at some jest Subject(s): War; World War I; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: A SON, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My son was killed while laughing at some jest Last Line: What it was, and it might serve me in a time when jests are few Subject(s): War; World War I EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: ACTORS; ON A MEMORIAL ..., by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We counterfeited once for your disport Last Line: Seeing we were your servants to the last Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; World War I EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: AN ONLY SON, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have slain none except my mother. She Subject(s): World War I; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: AN ONLY SON, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have slain none except my mother. She Last Line: (blessing her slayer) died of grief for me Subject(s): World War I EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: BATTERIES OUT OF AMMUNITION, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If any mourn us in the workshop, say Last Line: We died because the shift kept holiday. Subject(s): War - Home Front; World War I; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: BOMBER IN LONDON, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On land and sea I strove with anxious care Last Line: To escape conscription. It was in the air! Subject(s): Military Service, Compulsory; World War I; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: COMMON FORM, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If any question why we died Last Line: Tell them, because our fathers lied. Subject(s): War; World War I; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: CONVOY ESCORT, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was a shepherd to fools Last Line: Yet they escaped. For I stayed. Subject(s): Naval Convoys; World War I; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: DESTROYERS IN COLLISION, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For fog and fate no charm is found Last Line: Cut down by my best friend Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks; World War I EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: EX-CLERK, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pity not! The army gave Last Line: In which death he lies content Subject(s): World War I EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: HINDU SEPOY IN FRANCE, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This man in his own country prayed we know not to what powers Last Line: We pray them to reward him for his bravery in ours. Subject(s): Courage; Hinduism; Prayer; Religion; World War I; Valor; Bravery; Theology; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: JOURNALISTS; ON A PANEL ..., by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have served our day Last Line: We have served our day. Subject(s): Newspapers; World War I; Journalism; Journalists; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: NATIVE WATER-CARRIERS (M.E.F.), by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prometheus brought down fire to men Last Line: Giving no quarter Subject(s): World War I EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: PELICANS IN WILDERNESS; GRAVE NEAR HALFA, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blown sand heaps on me, that none may learn Last Line: Out of the desert to your young at eve Subject(s): Graves; World War I EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: R.A.F. (AGED EIGHTEEN), by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Laughing through clouds, his milk-teeth still unshed Subject(s): Air Warfare; Labor & Laborers; Teenagers; World War I; Work; Workers; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: R.A.F. (AGED EIGHTEEN), by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Laughing through clouds, his milk-teeth still unshed Last Line: Childlike, with childish things not put away Subject(s): Air Warfare; Labor And Laborers; Teenagers; World War I EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: RAPED AND REVENGED, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One used and butchered me: another spied Last Line: How much a freeborn woman;s favour cost Subject(s): Rape; World War I EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: SALONIKAN GRAVE, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have watched a thousand days Subject(s): Graves; Greece; World War I; Tombs; Tombstones; Greeks; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: SALONIKAN GRAVE, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have watched a thousand days Last Line: Time, not battle, - that slays Subject(s): Graves; Greece; World War I EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: SHOCK, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My name, my speech, my self I had forgot Last Line: And on her bosom I remembered all Subject(s): Death; World War I EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: THE BEGINNER, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the first hour of my first day Last Line: Stand up to watch it well.) Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: THE COWARD, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could not look on death, which being known Last Line: Men led me to him, blindfold and alone. Subject(s): Cowardice; War; World War I; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: THE FAVOUR, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death favoured me from the first, well knowing I could not endure Last Line: Thy line is at end, he said, but at least I have saved its name Subject(s): World War I EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: THE OBEDIENT, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daily, though no ears attend Last Line: None the less, I served the gods! Subject(s): World War I EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: THE REBEL, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I had clamoured at thy gate Last Line: The witness to thy shame Subject(s): World War I EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: THE REFINED MAN, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was of delicate mind. I stepped aside for my needs Subject(s): War; World War I; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: THE REFINED MAN, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was of delicate mind. I stepped aside for my needs Last Line: I have paid my price to live with myself on the terms that I willed Subject(s): War; World War I EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: THE SLEEPY SENTINEL, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Faithless the watch that I kept: now I Subject(s): Sleep; World War I; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: THE SLEEPY SENTINEL, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Faithless the watch that I kept: now I Last Line: I sleep because I am slain. They slew me because I slept Subject(s): Sleep; World War I EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: THE WONDER, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Body and spirit I surrendered whole Last Line: From all I was -- what may the god not do? Subject(s): World War I EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: TWO CANADIAN MEMORIALS: 1, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We giving all gained all Last Line: It is fear, not death, that slays Subject(s): Fear; World War I EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: TWO CANADIAN MEMORIALS: 2, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From little towns in a far land we came Last Line: And trust that world we won for you to keep Subject(s): World War I EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: UNKNOWN FEMALE CORPSE, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Headless, lacking foot and hand Subject(s): Corpses; Women; World War I; Cadavers; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: UNKNOWN FEMALE CORPSE, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Headless, lacking foot and hand Last Line: I beseech all women's sons %know I was a mother once Subject(s): Corpses; Women; World War I EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: V.A.D. (MEDITERRANEAN), by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, would swift ships had never been, for then we ne'er had found Last Line: And -- certain keels for whose return the heathen look in vain Subject(s): World War I EPITHALAMIUM IN TIME OF WAR; 1941, by RALPH GUSTAFSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now is the time in valiant days Last Line: To her, to him, his blessings bring! Subject(s): War; World War Ii; Second World War EQUATION, by STEVE MARK KOWIT Poem Source First Line: Horrific towers of flame over manhattan like nothing Last Line: Of course, %as the mangled dead aren't our own Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ERIGE COR TUUM AD ME IN CAEULUM (SEPTEMBER 1940), by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lift up your eyes on high Last Line: Is the flower %magicians bartered for Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; World War Ii ESCAPE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are four officers, this message says Last Line: Find mr. Wrestman. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War ESCAPE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But I was dead, an hour or more Last Line: O life! O sun! Subject(s): Death; Escapes; World War I; Dead, The; Fugitives; First World War ESSAY: OF SPACE, STAINLESS STEEL, OF GIFTS, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Excellent earth, magnet jar, now Last Line: Touch this axis Subject(s): Earth; Essays; Geology; World ESSEN, by JOHN CURTIS UNDERWOOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: More than seven score thousand men are toiling there at essen Last Line: Fight with fire and fail, as fail the gun crews in the turret of a dreadnaught %mined and sinking Subject(s): World War I ET NOS CEDAMUS AMORI, SELS., by JEAN-MARC BERNARD Poem Source First Line: Spring struts up the road with a swing Last Line: In nursery rhyme Subject(s): World War I ETIQUETTE, by JEAN YAMASAKI TOYAMA Poem Source First Line: Eating a fish head is an art Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans EUROPE IS HUNGRY, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis easier to be just than generous Last Line: And thank the gods for these grim lessons learned. Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Hunger; World War I; First World War EUROPE'S PRISONERS, by SIDNEY KEYES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Never a day, never a day passes Last Line: Until at last the courage they have learned %shall burst the walls and overturn the world Subject(s): World War Ii EUTHANASY, by R. H. LAW Poem Source First Line: Prince azrael, wan azrael Subject(s): World War I EVACUEE, by EDITH PICKTHALL Poem Source First Line: The slum had been his home since he was born Last Line: Of sea and hills and sky; of silent night %unbroken by the sound of shout and fight Subject(s): World War Ii EVACUEES, by FREDA LAUGHTON Poem Source First Line: There is no sound of guns here, nor echo of guns Last Line: Not emasculate and defunct upon dishes, but alive, %springing from the earth after the discipline of Subject(s): World War Ii EVEN NOW, by LEZA LOWITZ Poem Source First Line: Into my witches' brew, communal cauldron Last Line: Making of this meal a universe, %even now, %called 'home' Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) EVENING, by CLARA MCKEE BEEDE Poem Text First Line: There are some white clouds floating by Last Line: The weary souls akin. Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Soul; World EVENING IN ENGLAND, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From its blue vase the rose of evening drops Last Line: I and a marsh bird only make a wail. Subject(s): World War I - Great Britain EVENING IN THE DESERT, by HENRY BIRCH-REYNARDSON Poem Source First Line: The mirage fades frail as a lovely dream Subject(s): World War I EVERYONE SANG, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everyone suddenly burst out singing Last Line: Was a bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will never be done. Subject(s): Holidays; Life Change Events; Veterans Day; War; World War I; First World War EVERYTHING AND NOTHING, by NORA MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: A reporter on last night's news Last Line: Lift and meet above our heads Subject(s): World History EX AETHERIBUS, by ERNST STADLER Poem Source First Line: The scent of glaciers would I like to force into my verses Last Line: Eternal strength and beauty's shining goal, %eternal youth! Subject(s): World War I EX LIBRIS, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the stream, where the ground is soft Last Line: No title, no name. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Cold; Earth; Seasons; Snow; Winter; World EX-VOTO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When their last hour shall rise Last Line: Me too, my mother. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Sea; Soul; Dead, The; World; Ocean EXAMINATION, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: He was not a hunchback. So inherently no luck in him Last Line: Rising and redoubling in the rubble to a howl Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii EXCERPTS FROM SEPTEMBER 11,2001, by JEFF PONIEWAZ Poem Source First Line: I praise the firemen: truly as heroic as the antique gods Last Line: Shalom salaam! Salaam shalom!' %ah! Om! Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) EXEMPT, by NORA MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: April 28, 1992, commencing %here and now I throw out the old calendar and begin Last Line: I forgive everything that was given to me %rather than to you Subject(s): World History EXILE, by ERICH FRIED Poem Source First Line: He took %flight Last Line: Only %his flight Subject(s): Exiles; World War Ii EXILE, SELS., by MARIE RENE AUGUSTE ALEXIS SAINT-LEGER LEGER Subject(s): Exiles; France; World War Ii 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 EXPECTED GUEST, by SIDNEY KEYES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The table is spread, the lamp glitters and sighs Last Line: The room is ready, but the guest is dead Subject(s): World War Ii EXPEDITIONAL, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Troops to our england true Last Line: Fighting in flanders. Subject(s): World War I - Great Britain 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 EYE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The atlantic is a stormy moat, and the mediterranean Last Line: Eye of the earth, and what it watches is not our wars Subject(s): Pacific Ocean; World War Ii EYES OF WAR, by CHART PITT Poem Source First Line: Like a gauzy speck in the pearling dawn Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I FABLE OF THE WAR, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The full moon is partly hidden by cloud Last Line: To betray us, lean each man on his gun %that the great work not falter but go on Subject(s): World War Ii FACE, by LUCIEN STRYK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Weekly at the start Last Line: Whoever holds the %string %will not let go Subject(s): World War Ii FACES ON THE UNPAVED ROAD PAST MOKULE'IA, by WINI TERADA Poem Source First Line: Your long dark hair streams behind you Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans FAITH, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew a couple of these dedicates Subject(s): World War Ii FAITH, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since all that is was ever bound to be Last Line: The gleam, the glory of the golden age. Subject(s): Faith; War; World War I; Belief; Creed; First World War FAITHFUL COMRADE, by PHILIP JOHN FISHER Poem Source First Line: Where stark and shattered walls Subject(s): World War I FALL, by MICHAEL CIRELLI Poem Source First Line: The flags were only able %to climb half way up their poles that day Last Line: I'd grab the oxygen mask %and inhale Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) FALL IN, by FRANK S. BROWN Poem Source First Line: Oh! We are a ragged, motley crew Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I FALLEN, by ALICE (HENDERSON) CORBIN Poem Source First Line: He was wounded and he fell in the midst of hoarse shouting Last Line: He felt her near him, and the weight dropped off - %suddenly Subject(s): Women; World War I FALLEN, by DIANA GURNEY Poem Source First Line: Shall we not lay our holly wreath Last Line: Silent christmas they are keeping; %ours the sorrow, ours the loss Subject(s): Women; World War I FALLEN, by W. KERSLEY HOLMES Poem Text First Line: We talked together in the days gone by Last Line: If honour at the last shone still unstained! Subject(s): World War I - Casualties FALLEN, by AUGUST STRAMM Poem Source First Line: The heavens wing the eye Last Line: Through %the strandy hair Subject(s): World War I FALLEN TOWER-SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, by ALLEN COHEN Poem Source First Line: Images indelibly burned %into the silver coated mind Last Line: Between the present %and our children's future Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) FALLING LEAVES; NOVEMBER 1915, by MARGARET ISABEL POSTGATE COLE Poem Source First Line: Today, as I rode by Last Line: But in their beauty strewed %like snowflakes falling on the flemish clay Subject(s): Women; World War I FAMILIAR LETTERS TO SIEGFRIED SASSOON, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never dreamed we'd meet that day / in our old haunts down fricourt way Last Line: And god! What poetry we'll write! Subject(s): Sassoon, Siegfried (1886-1967); World War I; First World War FAMILY GROUP, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That's my younger brother with his navy wings Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Brothers; World War Ii; Family Life; Half-brothers; Second World War; Relatives FAN, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ut pictura - the disconcerting lips Last Line: On the hordes! (is he who knows you doomed to die?) Subject(s): World War I FAR FLIGHT, by JESSIE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: My hand upon the wheel, I rode Last Line: My hand still on the wheel! When comes the dawn? Subject(s): Earth; Evening; Memory; Time; World; Sunset; Twilight FAREWELL, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tie the strings to my life, my lord, / then I am ready to go! Last Line: Now I am ready to go! Subject(s): Christianity; Judgment Day; Prayer; Reformation; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man FAREWELL, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, with unbowed head Subject(s): World War I FAREWELL TO A NAME AND A NUMBER, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of valour and truth, returning %to dust and night Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): World War I FAREWELL TO ANZAC, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, hump your swag and leave, lads, the ships are in the bay Last Line: Oh, we're leaving them, leaving them, quiet where they lie!) Subject(s): World War I - Australia FATHER AND SON, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now in the suburbs and the falling light Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Reunions; World War Ii; Second World War FATHER AND SON, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now in the suburbs and the falling light Last Line: Among the turtles and the lilies he turned to me %the white ignorant hollow of his face Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Reunions; World War Ii FATHER AND SON, by CALVIN DILL WILSON Poem Source First Line: Would god that I could go in place Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I FATHER O'SHEA WAS HIS REGIMENT'S PRIDE, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Father o'shea was his regiments pride Last Line: "and send him a padre like father o'shea!" Subject(s): Clergy; World War I; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; First World War FATHER'S ADVICE, by BRIAN BROOKE Poem Source First Line: When I left home as a reckless boy Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I FAUCETS, by VAN K. BROCK Poem Source First Line: ... One or two per second died Last Line: Killed one or two per second - just at auschwitz %and less than one per minute on the whole western Subject(s): World War Ii FAUN COMPLAINS, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They give me aeroplanes Subject(s): World War I FEE SIMPLE, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have brought me a bed in earth Last Line: That I who am sleeping am I. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Flowers; Graves; Sleep; Dead, The; World; Tombs; Tombstones FESTIVAL, by FREDERIC PROKOSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The cello sobs, the symphony begins Last Line: And rediscover on this festive night %the hatreds of a hundred thousand years Subject(s): World War Ii FESTUBERT: THE OLD GERMAN LINE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sparse mists of moonlight hurt our eyes Last Line: The gray rags fluttered on the dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War FEVER, by JO ANN UCHIDA Poem Source First Line: They had burned my letters Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans FEW WORDS FROM WILHELM, by WALLACE IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Man vants put leedle hier pelow Last Line: Der kaiser he iss more as yet %und all iss right vat iss!' Alternate Author Name(s): Ginger; Hashimura Togo Subject(s): World War I FIELD AMBULANCE IN RETREAT; VIA DOLOROSA, VIA SACRA, by MAY SINCLAIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A straight flagged road, laid on the rough earth Last Line: On the sacred, dolorous way. Subject(s): Travel; Women; World War I; Journeys; Trips; First World War FIELD HOSPITAL, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He stirs, beginning to awake Last Line: He neither knows, remembers - but instead %sleeps, comforted Subject(s): Hospitals; World War Ii FIELD MANOEUVRES, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The long autumn grass under my body Subject(s): World War I; First World War FIELD MANOEUVRES, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The long autumn grass under my body Last Line: Standing breast-high, in golden broom %among the blue pine-woods Subject(s): World War I FIELDS OF FLANDERS, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Last year the fields were all glad and gray Last Line: Lest all we owe them we should repay Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Socialism; Spring; Women; World War I FIFE TUNE, by JOHN STREETER MANIFOLD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: One morning in spring Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War FIFE TUNE, by JOHN STREETER MANIFOLD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One morning in spring Last Line: While we are far over %the treacherous sea Subject(s): World War Ii FIFTH AVENUE AND GRAND STREET, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I sat beside her, rolling bandages Last Line: (for women especially), of course, in peace Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): World War I FIFTY FAGGOTS, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There they stand, on their ends, the fifty faggots Last Line: Foresee or more control than robin and wren. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Environment; Trees; World War I; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; First World War FIGHT, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Red drips from my chin where I have been eating Last Line: The child cries for a suck mother and I cry for war. Subject(s): World War I; First World War 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 FIGHT TO THE DEATH, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Across the steppes of kursk, kazakhstan, the army partisans Last Line: Of starlings tightens, lets go, and hastens skyward Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities FIGHT TO THE FINISH', by S. GERTRUDE FORD Poem Source First Line: Fight the year out!' the war-lords said Last Line: On!' echoed hate where the fiends kept tryst: %asked the church, even, what said christ? Subject(s): Women; World War I FILE THREE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: File three stood motionless and pale Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I FINAL EXAMINATION, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: He's lucky %he's a young partisan who has been captured, not by Last Line: Sixteen hours later, he hangs himself Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii FINE NATURE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This fine nature clear Last Line: Amid my meadows cannot be %but ever kind and ever free Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War Ii FIRE, by ALBERT-PAUL GRANIER Poem Source First Line: Down into the barn Last Line: As a tiger paces its cage... Subject(s): World War I FIRE, by NORA MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: Twice a day, my mother and I tended the fire Last Line: By the stars; quenched, yet steady, fire Subject(s): World History FIRE AND ICE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some say the world will end in fire, / some say in ice Last Line: And would suffice. Subject(s): Death; Desire; Fire; Hate; Ice; Judgment Day; Men; Time; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man FIRE OF THE SUN, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Passionate children of the sun Last Line: Ere it is on us; you and I! Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): World War I FIRE-BRINGERS, by LAWRENCE LEE Poem Source First Line: Prometheus knew: %there was the chain Last Line: Prepares in night %bright mournings with new name Subject(s): World War Ii FIREBOMBING, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Homeowners unite Last Line: Absolution? Sentence? No matter %the thing itself is in that Subject(s): World War Ii FIREFLIES, by NORA MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: Together, we watch them drift across Last Line: For that pilot, blinking off and on all alone Subject(s): World History FIRING RANGE, ATLACATL, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Beyond the boys, tin icons of the fmln, shot-gauge target practice Last Line: At journalists or poets who limp away from here towards home Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities FIRST SNOW IN ALSACE, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The snow came down last night like moths Subject(s): Alsace, France; World War Ii; Second World War FIRST SNOW IN ALSACE, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The snow came down last night like moths Last Line: He was the first to see the snow Subject(s): Alsace, France; World War Ii FIRST TIME IN, by IVOR GURNEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After the dread tales and red yarns of the line Last Line: Are sung - but never more beautiful than there under the guns' noise Subject(s): World War I FISH STORY, by DEAN H. HONMA Poem Source First Line: Yeah that time when we went kapoho Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans FISHER LAD, by J. A. NICKLIN Poem Source First Line: Farewell and goodbye to you, maiden of teifi Subject(s): World War I FIVE SOULS, by WILLIAM NORMAN EWER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was a peasant of the polish plain Last Line: For those who bade me fight had told me so. Alternate Author Name(s): Ewer, W. N. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War FLAG, by FELIX EMANUEL SCHELLING Poem Source First Line: O come sing tipperary Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I FLAG EVERLASTING, by A. G. RIDDOCH Poem Source First Line: Flag of our faith: lead on Subject(s): World War I FLAG OF THE FREE, by FRANCIS T. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Float thou majestically Subject(s): World War I FLAG SPEAKS, by WALTER E. PECK Poem Source First Line: Ribbons of white in the flag of our land Subject(s): World War I FLAGRANTE BELLO, by K. C. SPIERS Poem Source First Line: When little kings, by mighty crowds acclaimed Subject(s): World War I FLANDERS 1915, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The men go out to flanders Subject(s): World War I FLANDERS FIELDS, by ELIZABETH DARYUSH Poem Source First Line: Here the scented daisy glows Last Line: Poppies bright and rustling wheat %are a desert to love's feet Subject(s): Women; World War I FLANDERS NOW, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There, where before no master action struck Last Line: Of glory save the light in a friend's eye. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium; World War I; First World War FLARES CLIMB HIGH UP INTO THE SKY., by PETER BAUM Poem Source Last Line: Grey-green eyes keep these wild melodies awake Subject(s): World War I FLEETS, by M. G. MEUGENS Poem Source First Line: Are you out with the fleets through the long, dark night Subject(s): World War I FLEURETTE (THE WOUNDED CANADIAN SPEAKS), by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My leg? It's off at the knee Last Line: God bless her, that little fleurette! Subject(s): Girls; World War I - Canada; World War I - Casualties FLICKERING LAMP, by DANIEL VAROUZAN Poem Source First Line: This is a night for feast and triumph Last Line: O...Snuff out, snuff out the lamp, o bride Subject(s): World War I FLIGHT, by BABETTE DEUTSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Everything is in flight now, trees and men Last Line: There is no turning back Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs. Subject(s): World War Ii FLORAL TEACHING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O ye red-blushing summer roses, ye Last Line: But rest awhile waiting the morning beam. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Life; Roses; World FLOWER BEDS IN THE TUILERIES, by GRACE ELLERY CHANNING-STETSON Poem Text First Line: France is planting her gardens Last Line: That earth shall have her spring! Subject(s): Tuileries Gardens, Paris; World War I - France FLOWER OF YOUTH, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lest heaven be thronged with grey-beards hoary Last Line: "and say: ""thank god, he has enough!" Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): God; Heaven; World War I; Youth; Paradise; First World War FLOWER-PIECES: 1. LOVE LIES BLEEDING, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love lies bleeding in the bed whereover Last Line: Love lies bleeding. Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Love; Roundels; World FLY A CLEAN FLAG, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This I heard the old flag say Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I FOCH, by FREDERICK GEORGE SCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the last trench of all Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. G. Subject(s): Foch, Ferdinand (1851-1929); World War I FOR A SCRAP OF PAPER', by PAUL HYACINTH LOYSON Poem Source First Line: Why bursts the cloud in thunder Subject(s): World War I FOR A SURVIVOR OF THE MESOPOTAMIAN CAMPAIGN, by ELIZABETH DARYUSH Poem Source First Line: War's wasted era is a desert shore Last Line: Has wrecked for them for ever earth's small ways Subject(s): Women; World War I FOR A WAR MEMORIAL, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hucksters haggle in the mart Last Line: How many men of england died %to prove they were not dead Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): World War I FOR ADVENT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet sweet sound of distant waters Last Line: Rise at the last trumpet call. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Earth; Grief; Dead, The; World; Sorrow; Sadness FOR FRANCE, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Source First Line: She had been stricken, sorely, ere this came Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I FOR FRANCES LEDWIDGE, by NORREYS JEPHSON O'CONOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You fell; and on a distant field, shell-shatter'd Last Line: For you each morning shall her fields be wet. Subject(s): Ledwidge, Francis (1891-1917); Poetry & Poets; World War I - Casualties 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 JUST ONE NIGHT, by GEZA ACHIM Poem Source First Line: Send them along for just one bloody night Last Line: Send them along for just one bloody night Subject(s): World War I FOR MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK, by AMANDA BENJAMIN HALL Poem Source First Line: Madame - o lady of the jeweled brain Last Line: Lest I affront you by this song I bring, %forgive me the discourtesy of praise Alternate Author Name(s): Brownell, John A., Mrs. Subject(s): Soong Mei-ling (1897-2003); World War Ii FOR POETS SLAIN IN WAR, by WALTER ADOLPHE ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy the poets who fell in magnificent ways! Last Line: Splendidly dead for the patria, splendidly dead! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; World War I; First World War FOR RICHARD SPENDER, by MARY DOREEN SPENDER Poem Text First Line: Gone in an instant Last Line: And what, beyond our sight, its secret orbit shows. Subject(s): Death; Generals; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War FOR ROBERT DESNOS, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the white of my thought Last Line: My secret my reason for being %and the world Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism; Desnos, Robert (1900-1945); World War Ii FOR SLEEPING NOW, by ALEXANDER COMFORT Poem Source First Line: Sleep in this land, this tomb Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii FOR THE BLINDED SOLDIERS, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We that look on, with god's goodwill Last Line: We that look on? Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Blindness; World War I; Visually Handicapped; First World War FOR THE DARKLING THRUSH, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: This time we have to hope: green cockaigne and truck stops Last Line: Who snaps at flies but eats the sandfleas Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities FOR THE FALLEN (SEPTEMBER 1914), by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children Last Line: To the end, to the end, they remain. Subject(s): Freedom; World War I - Casualties; Liberty FOR THE QUAKERS, by BIANCA BRADBURY Poem Source First Line: Theirs is the gentle finger on the pulse %of war's old woe Last Line: And touch, and hold Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; World War Ii FOR THE RED CROSS, by OWEN SEAMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ye that have gentle hearts and fain Subject(s): World War I FOR THE UNDEFEATED, by ELEANOR WELLS Poem Source First Line: Imperiled stands the day.Up the bright street Last Line: And of the harvesting of them, and of the dawn %that will dazzle the treetops when we wake Subject(s): World War Ii FOR THEY ARE ENGLAND', by WALTER O'HEARN Poem Source First Line: These are the last men Last Line: Stood and saved england - and will save it now, %for they are england! Subject(s): World War Ii FOR THOSE AT SEA', by GEOFFREY FABER Poem Source First Line: Now all our english woodland sighs october Subject(s): World War I FOR VALOUR', by MAY HERSCHEL-CLARKE Poem Source First Line: Jest bronze - you wouldn't ever know Last Line: Jest bronze - gawd! What a price to pay! Subject(s): Women; World War I FOREBODING, by DIMCHO DEBELYANOV Poem Source First Line: Year follows year, how quickly now they run! Last Line: And screaming I am hurled into black night Subject(s): World War I FORESIGHT, by LINCOLN KIRSTEIN Poet's Biography First Line: Previsioning death in advance, our doom is delayed Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War FORESIGHT, by LINCOLN KIRSTEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Previsioning death in advance, our doom is delayed Last Line: And him, dear doubtless to someone, worth her dear tears Subject(s): World War Ii FOREST OF ROSES, by NORA MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: The wild afternoon tilts Last Line: Only the old wild changing and being changed Subject(s): World History FOREST OF THE DEAD, by JAMES GRIFFYTH FAIRFAX Poem Source First Line: There are strange trees in that pale field Last Line: The spirit passes and is free: %dust to the dust; dust takes the clay Subject(s): World War I FORGET IT, SOLDIER!, by C. F. R. Poem Source First Line: Sometimes when I grow weary Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I FORGING A PASSPORT, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the north side where wind and water Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans FORGOTTEN DEAD, I SALUTE YOU, by MURIEL STUART Poem Source First Line: Dawn has flashed up the startled skies Last Line: For whom he died, remember him Subject(s): Women; World War I FORM FOURS', by FRANK SIDGWICK Poem Source First Line: If you're volunteer artist or athlete, or if you defend the home Subject(s): World War I FORMALITIES, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On september 2, 1945 Last Line: If only he were a civilian Subject(s): Macarthur, General Douglas (1880-1964); World War Ii FORMULA, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: I saw the flesh that made the lover burn Last Line: X equals a—and so, he is destroyed. Subject(s): Heaven; Judgment Day; Paradise; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man FORT SILL INTERNMENT CAMP, by MUIN OTOKICHI OZAKI Poem Source First Line: Komi ageru Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; World War Ii - Japanese-americans FOURTH OF AUGUST, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now in thy splendour go before us Subject(s): World War I FOURTH OF JULY, by STEVE DALACHINSKY Poem Source First Line: We are on a friend's balcony Last Line: In a flock %of angels' %eyes Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) FRAG, THE MIDNIGHT BLOOM, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: El tee informs private buddha he will inspect Last Line: Find out which of you is the chicken? Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) 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 FRAGMENTS, by GOTTFRIED BENN Poem Source First Line: Fragments, %refuse of the soul Last Line: Negro spirituals %or ave marias Subject(s): World War I FRAGMENTS (2), by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Open horizons round Last Line: The depths to sound. Subject(s): Earth; Nature; World FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: DAY OF SURPASSING BEAUTY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earth is bright, her forests all are golden Last Line: A crown, or cross, for one is born to-day. Subject(s): Beauty; Birth; Earth; Nature; Secrets; Child Birth; Midwifery; World FRANCE, by CECIL CHESTERTON Poem Text First Line: Because for once the sword broke in her hand Last Line: Take hold upon the battlements of hell. Subject(s): World War I - France FRANCE, by ARMENTIER OHANIAN Poem Source First Line: I was an exile from my own country & wandered Subject(s): World War I 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 FRANCE; JUNE, 1918 - JUNE, 1941, by CHARLES SCHIFF Poem Source First Line: The heat, and light, and glitter of the sun Last Line: I weep for france, and weep with europe's eyes Subject(s): World War Ii FRANKFURT 1945, by JANOS PILINSZKY Poem Source First Line: In the river bank, an empty sandpit Last Line: First, only the bitterness in their mouths, %then their hearts tasted the full sadness Subject(s): Frankfurt, Germany; World War Ii FREEBOURNE'S RIFLE, by BAKER BROWNELL Poem Source First Line: It's an old gun,' the major said Last Line: Its certainty and decision Subject(s): World War I FREEWAY POEM, by LAURIE KURIBAYASHI Poem Source First Line: He's right Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans FRENCH IN THE TRENCHES, by WILLIAM J. ROBINSON Poem Source First Line: I have a conversation book Subject(s): World War I 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 FROM A BALLOON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! We are loose. Hear how they shout Last Line: That stares into eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Balloons; Earth; Future Life; Life; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life FROM A FLEMISH GRAVEYARD, by IOLE ANEURIN WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: A year hence may the grass that waves Subject(s): World War I FROM A GERMAN WAR PRIMER, by BERTOLT BRECHT Poem Source First Line: It is considered low to talk about food Last Line: But he has one defect: %he can think Subject(s): Germany; World War Ii FROM A LETTER TO AMERICAN ON VISIT TO SUSSEX; SPRING 1942, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How simply violent things Last Line: His mud-brown tunic gently staining red, %while larks get on with their odl job of singing Subject(s): World War Ii 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 FROM ALBERT TO BAPAUME, by ALEC WAUGH Poem Source First Line: Lonely and bare and desolate Subject(s): World War I FROM AMERICA, by ELIZABETH TOWNSEND SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Oh, england, at the smoking trenches dying Subject(s): World War I FROM BOSRAH, by BEATRICE ALLHUSEN Poem Source First Line: Who is this, in regal state, who cometh ... Afar Subject(s): World War I FROM CORNWALL TO THE HEBRIDES, by ALAN ROOK Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii FROM FRANCE, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spirit drank the cafe lights Last Line: And this is life in france. Subject(s): World War I - France FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long since the sorrows of the nightingales Subject(s): World War I 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 MEN WHO DIED DELUDED, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: This is the time to speak to those who will come after Last Line: Must be confronted by the living vision on our dead faces Subject(s): World War Ii 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 SOMME, by LESLIE COULSON Poem Source First Line: In other days I sang of simple things Last Line: Vast chants of tragedy too deep - too deep %for my poor lips to tell Subject(s): World War I FROM THE TOWERS, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Insanity is not a want of reason. Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 FROM THE YOUTH OF ALL NATIONS, by H. C. HARWOOD Poem Text First Line: Think not, my elders, to rejoice Last Line: And swift usurping dynasties. Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War FRONT, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fog over the base: the beams ranging Last Line: All the air quivers, and the east sky glows Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii FRONT LINE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Standing on the fire-step Last Line: And peered into the black. Subject(s): World War I; First World War FRONT ROW SEAT IN HEAVEN, by ALLAN DAVIS WINANS Poem Source First Line: The world trade center buried %in rubble Last Line: A front row seat %in heaven Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) FUEHRER BUNKER: 1 APRIL 1945. CHORUS (8), by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old lady barkeep had a hitler Last Line: His name live on, renowned Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Subject(s): Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Legacies; World War Ii 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 FULL FLIGHT, by HICOK. BOB Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I’m in a plane that will not be flown into a building Last Line: We’ve begun our descent, and then I sense the falling Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); Airplanes; Air Pilots; New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 FUNERAL ORATION, by DRUMMOND ALLISON Poem Source First Line: For douglas whom the cloud and eddy rejected Last Line: A vigorous white worm for a cigarette %and girl friends having swords upon their snouts Subject(s): World War Ii FUNK, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When your marrer bone seems 'oller Last Line: There ain't no bloomin' funk, funk, funk. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War FURY OF AERIAL BOMBARDMENT, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You would think the fury of aerial bombardment Last Line: Distinguished the belt feed lever from the belt holding palw Subject(s): Air Warfare; God; World War Ii 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. A. R. TO A. E. F., by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hope and promise of the nation Last Line: You who fight to save the world! Subject(s): Army - United States; World War I; First World War G. I. JOE FROM KOKOMO, by WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE Poem Source First Line: Somehow he's become a friendly uncle: bachelor Last Line: Twenty-one again this june, he plans %to marry, study law, then run for office Subject(s): World War Ii GABRIEL, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once let the angel blow! Last Line: And take reproach from the fallen time! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Earth; Gabriel; Heaven; Trumpets; World; Paradise GAIA, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deep blue sea baby Last Line: Ah. Subject(s): Chuang-tzu (4th Century); Earth; World GALLANTRY, by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The colonel in a casual voice Subject(s): Courage; World War Ii; Valor; Bravery; Second World War GALLANTRY, by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The colonel in a casual voice Last Line: Plunging their heads in steel and earth %(the air commented in a whisper) Subject(s): Courage; World War Ii GALLIPOLI, by DOROTHY MARGARET STUART Poem Source First Line: Ye unforgotten, that for a great dream died Subject(s): World War I GALOSHES, by ALFRED LICHTENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: The fat man thought Last Line: And all the hundredweights of my body dance Subject(s): World War I GAMECOCKS, by EDMOND ADAM Poem Source First Line: I come crawling out of my hole Last Line: Of unpardonable masters Subject(s): World War I GARDEN CLOSES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Earth buffets and harasses Last Line: For solace and for sleep. Subject(s): Earth; Faces; Gardens & Gardening; Life; Sleep; World GASSED, by ROWLAND THIRLMERE Poem Text First Line: He is blind and nevermore Last Line: Gifts that make him more than brave. Subject(s): World War I - Casualties GATE, by EUGENE CROMBIE Poem Source First Line: Musing alone beside my midnight fire Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I GATE 6A, by JUDITH TERZI Poem Source First Line: The danse macabre begins at dawn Last Line: By electronic wands of fairy god scanners %at the threshold of paranoia Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) GENERAL INSPECTING THE TRENCHES., by ALAN PATRICK HERBERT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: If somebody shot that shit shute Alternate Author Name(s): Patrick, A. P. Subject(s): Army Life; World War I GENESIS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the outer world that was before this earth Last Line: So shall a man be after among the dead. Subject(s): Creation; Earth; Life; Light; Universe; World GENTLEMEN OF OXFORD, by NORAH M. HOLLAND Poem Source First Line: The sunny streets of oxford Subject(s): World War I GEOMETAPHYSICS, by MARGARET AVISON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The earth was once a circle-stage Subject(s): Earth; World GEOMETRICAL PLACE, by GUNTHER EICH Poem Source First Line: We have sold our shadow Last Line: Precise %to the second Subject(s): World War Ii 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 GERVAIS (KILLED AT THE DARDANELLES), by MARGARET ADELAIDE WILSON Poem Text First Line: Bees hummed and rooks called hoarsely outside Last Line: That frowns with dying wonder up to hissarlik's sky! Subject(s): Women And War; World War I - Casualties GETHSEMANE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In golden youth when seems the earth Last Line: The purpose in gethsemane. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Despair; Earth; Gethsemane; Soul; Youth; World GETHSEMANE 1914-1918, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The garden called gethsemane, %in picardy it was Last Line: I drank it when we met the gas %beyong gethsemane! Subject(s): World War I GHELUVELT; EPITAPH ON THE WORCESTERS, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Askest thou of these graves? They'll tell thee Last Line: Battle. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Graves; Worcestershire, England; World War I; Tombs; Tombstones; First World War GHOSTS (THREE YEARS AFTER THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN), by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night bomber pilot, just a fraction drunk Last Line: "they say, they say they do. ..." Subject(s): Air Warfare; Bombs; Death; Ghosts; Supernatural; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War GHOSTS OF THE NEW WORLD, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are no ghosts, you say Last Line: Calls to the slumbering host. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Death; Dreams; Earth; Explorers; Ghosts; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Supernatural; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers GHOULS, by HELEN HAMILTON Poem Source First Line: You strange old ghouls Last Line: Those dreadful lists, %of young men dead Subject(s): Women; World War I GIFT, by H. REX PRESTON Poem Source First Line: His eyes are bright and eager, with the brightness of the sun Subject(s): World War I GIFT, by FRANCIS BRETT YOUNG Poem Source First Line: Marching on tanga, marching the parched plain Subject(s): World War I GIFTS OF THE DEAD, by HABBERTON LULHAM Poem Source First Line: Ye who in sorrow's tents abide Subject(s): World War I 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 GIRL'S SONG, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The meuse and marne have little waves Last Line: I heap the stones to make his cairn %where many sleep as sound as he Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Women; World War I GIVE THANKS FOR WHAT?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "'let earth give thanks,' the deacon said" Last Line: And thank god that it ain't no wuss! Subject(s): Clergy;earth; Priests;rabbis;ministers;bishops;world GLIMPSE, by WILLIAM NOEL HODGSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I saw you fooling often in the tents Last Line: And knew you brooded on immortal things Alternate Author Name(s): Melbourne, Edward Subject(s): World War I GLORY DAYS, by TANYA KERN Poem Source First Line: Daddy wanted a uniform Last Line: Drifts atlantic floor, hot guns on the kitchen table Subject(s): Army Life; Death; Fathers; World War Ii 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 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 MADE A WORLD, by ETHEL RICHARDSON STILLWELL Poem Text First Line: God made a little world in time's beginning Last Line: And, looking on his world, still finds it good. Subject(s): Creation; Earth; God; Mankind; World; Human Race GOD OF WAR, by BERTOLT BRECHT Poem Source First Line: I saw the old god of war stand in a bog between chasm and rockface Last Line: And every five minutes he assured his public that he would take up very little of their time Subject(s): World War Ii GOD SAVE THE WORLD; A MARCHING SONG OF THE WORLD WAR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now for the world we dare to fight Last Line: God save the world! Subject(s): World War I; First World War GOD SPEED OUR SOLDIERS, by GEORGE FREDERIC VIETT Poem Source First Line: They know not where the journey ends Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I 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 GIFTS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God gave a gift to earth: a child Last Line: God will judge them and thee aright! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Children; Earth; Gifts & Giving; God; Love; Childhood; World GOD'S GRANDEUR, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The world is charged with the grandeur of god Last Line: World broods with warm breast and with ah! Bright wings. Subject(s): Christianity; Earth; Environment; Faith; God; Labor & Laborers; Men; Nature; Redemption; Religion; War; World; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Belief; Creed; Work; Workers; Theology 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 GOD'S MEASURE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God measures souls by their capacity Last Line: And clasps all earth and heaven in its embrace. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Earth; God; Heaven; Love; Soul; World; Paradise GODS OF WAR, 1914, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Fate wafts us from the pygmies' shore Last Line: And crown thee then without a thorn. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; War; World War I; First World War GOETHE'S OAK, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: I stood in a fog before the pile of shoes in an exhibition hall Last Line: Could quiet the whey-crapped mouth of another dawn coming on Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities GOING HOME, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm goin' 'ome to blighty - ain't I glad to 'ave the chance! Last Line: Thank gawd for dear old blighty in the mawnin'. Subject(s): Army - Great Britain; England; War; World War I; English; First World War GOING TO THE FRONT, by HARDWICKE DRUMMOND RAWNSLEY Poem Text First Line: I had no heart to march for war Last Line: How sweet to live—how glad and good to die! Subject(s): World War I; First World War GOING UP THE LINE, by MARTIN DONISTHORPE ARMSTRONG Poem Source First Line: O consolation and refreshment breathed Subject(s): World War I GOING WEST, by ELEANOR JEWETT Poem Source First Line: West to the hills, the long, long trail Subject(s): World War I GOLD BRAID, SELS., by ALAN ALEXANDER MILNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Some old trenches, same old view Last Line: Same old bloody war Alternate Author Name(s): Milne, A. A. Subject(s): World War I GOLD STAR, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The star upon their service flag has changed Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): World War I GOLD STRIPES, by FLORENCE A. VICARS Poem Source First Line: My bert 'as just come 'ome again Subject(s): World War I GOLDENROD, by UNKNOWN+11 Poem Source First Line: Some day the fields of flanders shall bloom Subject(s): World War I 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 GOLGOTHA WITNESSED BY MARY, by CHARLES PEGUY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For three days she wandered about, she followed Last Line: If she had known Subject(s): World War I GOLIATH AND DAVID, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet once an earlier david took Last Line: Goliath straddles over him. Subject(s): 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 GOOD KING WENCESLAS LOOK'D OUT, by OLGA KATZIN KATZIN Poem Source Last Line: No, your living shall be free %and your dead awaken! Subject(s): World War Ii GOOD NIGHT, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear earth, I am going away to-night Last Line: And I rise from my slumber to put it on. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Dead, The; World GOOD-BYE, WENDOVER; GOOD-BYE, MOUNTAIN HOME, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wives on day-coaches traveling with a baby Subject(s): Absence; Army Life; World War Ii; Separation; Isolation; Drills & Minor Tactics; Second World War GOOD-BYE, WENDOVER; GOOD-BYE, MOUNTAIN HOME, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wives on day-coaches traveling with a baby Last Line: And you might as well get used to it, your ord's Subject(s): Absence; Army Life; World War Ii GOOD-NIGHT, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You linger when you say good-night Last Line: Or only on the day of days?' Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Fear; Judgment Day; Dead, The; Parting; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man 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 GOUZEAUCOURT: THE DECEITFUL CALM, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How unpurposed, how inconsequential Last Line: That false mildness. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War GRACE NOTES, by NORA MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: Snow soars, loose in this air Last Line: Our organs rimed with frost Subject(s): World History GRAMOPHONE TUNES, by EVA DOBELL Poem Source First Line: Through the long ward the gramophone Last Line: Man that is master of his flesh, %and has the laugh of death and pain Subject(s): Women; World War I GRAND CANYON, by GRACE CONNER HARRIS Poem Text First Line: Through the webby mist Last Line: For the perfection of tomorrow. Subject(s): Earth; World GRAND ILLUSION, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not 1937 for long. A clump of ash trees and a walk Last Line: Their uncle still casting images of animals for them... Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Renoir, Jean (1894-19979); Violence; World War I; Movies; Cinema; First World War GRAND-PERE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And so when he reached my bed Last Line: Twas grand-pere joffre. Subject(s): War; World War I; First World War GRANDFATHER'S TALE, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: Start with what's in the blood. Old blood Last Line: Listening to that whisper Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii GRANDMOTHER AND THE WAR, by JULIET S. KONO Poem Source First Line: She memorized the pledge of allegiance Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans GRAVES OF GALLIPOLI, by L. L. Poem Source First Line: The herdman wandering by the lonely rills Subject(s): World War I GRAY GAUNTLET, by ELMINA ATKINSON Poem Source Subject(s): World War I GREAT ADVENTURE, by KENDALL BANNING Poem Source First Line: God, the master pilot Subject(s): World War I GREAT COMPANY, by ALYS FANE TROTTER Poem Source First Line: Perpetua, felicitas %and all the ... Saints Subject(s): World War I GREAT DAYS, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Vanish, every idle thought! Last Line: Giant hearts shall rule these days. Subject(s): Death; Graves; World War I; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; First World War GREAT GUNS OF ENGLAND, by EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Dunsany, Lord; Dunsany, 18th Baron Subject(s): World War I GREAT LAND, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Things that are good and great my land has given Last Line: Stars in heaven no hurricane shall put out Subject(s): World War Ii GREAT, STRONG, FREE, AND TRUE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great, my country, great in gold Last Line: Ever true to god and man. Subject(s): United States; World War I; America; First World War GREATER GRANDEUR, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Half a year after war's end, roosevelt and hitler dead, stalin tired Last Line: And not appropriate for events on this scale watched from this level; admiration is all Subject(s): World War Ii; Death; Statesmen; Second World War; Dead, The 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 GREECE; MAY 10, 1942, by ROBERT GILBERT VANSITTART Poem Source First Line: We fidgeted. The school-clock drawled in chimes Last Line: Ever while human blood is warm and red Subject(s): World War Ii GREENLAND ICY MOUNTAINS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Greenland's icy mountains are fascinating and grand Last Line: Let them think of the cold and hardships greenland sailors have to fight. Subject(s): Continents; Earth; Greenland; Tourists; Travel; World; Journeys; Trips GREGORIOU, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: My cousin does a wheelie in a muddied mustang, radish red Last Line: And each of our ancient maids and ministers is blessing us Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities 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 GRIEF, KERCH, 1942, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: A snow-bound road, high above the world of winnowers Last Line: On foot quite accidentally, like you and me, %and makes of this world a camera obscura Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities GRIPE, by LINCOLN KIRSTEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who is a friend? Who is a foe? Last Line: Lavishly let lads up front %spend all their love, share all my fear Subject(s): World War Ii GRODECK, by GEORG TRAKL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the evening the autumn woods ring Last Line: Today the hot flame of the spirit is fed by a more violent pain - %the grandsons still unborn Subject(s): World War I GRODEK, by GEORG TRAKL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At nightfall the autumn woods cry out Last Line: The grandsons yet unborn Subject(s): World War I GRODEK, by GEORG TRAKL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At evening the autumn forests Last Line: The grandchildren unborn Subject(s): World War I GROUND ZERO, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: What's after or before Last Line: All turned to dust Subject(s): Politics & Government; War; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 GROUND ZERO, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's after or before Last Line: All the sad battles lost or won, %all turned to dust Subject(s): Politics; War; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) GUNS OF VERDUN, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Guns of verdun point to metz Last Line: "gunners lay you east again!" Subject(s): Verdun, Battle Of (1916); World War I; First World War GUTS, by LINCOLN KIRSTEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In its seat 'twixt bowel and bladder Last Line: And exams in a peace that we pray for %make dunces of scholars at war Subject(s): World War Ii HAIG IS MOVING; AUGUST, 1918, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Haig is moving Last Line: Haig is moving! Subject(s): England; Haig, Douglas. 1st Earl Haig (1861-1928); World War I; English; First World War 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 HALF A SCORE O' SAILORMEN, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): World War I HALLOWED EARTH, by MAUDE PERRY FAETH Poem Text First Line: A carpet of gold's on the pathway Last Line: Hearts are tuned to the father above. Subject(s): Earth; Hearts; Landscape; Nature; World HALT, by EDWARD SHANKS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mark time in front! Rear fours cover! Subject(s): World War I HAMATREYA, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Minott, lee, willard, hosmer, meriam, flint / possessed the land Last Line: Like lust in the chill of the grave. Subject(s): Earth; Nature; World HAMMERFEST, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For over forty years I'd paid it atlas homage Last Line: Bring that up now? My intrusion had not profaned it: %if innocence is holy, it was holy Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Norway; World War Ii HANDFUL OF ASH, by ATOM EARCANIAN Poem Source First Line: Alas, you were a great and beautiful mansion Last Line: A handful of ash to scatter on my heart? Subject(s): World War I HAPPINESS, by EARL ALONZO BRININSTOOL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This world of ours appears to me Last Line: To smile upon and love me! Subject(s): Babies; Earth; Happiness; Hearts; Love; Infants; World; Joy; Delight HARBACH 1944, by JANOS PILINSZKY Poem Source First Line: At all times I see them Last Line: Its gates flung savagely back, %death gapes to its hinges Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii HARBOR VIEW, by FRANCES TAYLOR PATTERSON Poem Source First Line: Here where the gulls and the pilots fly Last Line: There is more sky than land Subject(s): World War Ii HARU ASAKI, by SOJIN TOKIJI TAKEI Poem Source Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; World War Ii - Japanese-americans 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 IN FLANDERS, by LOUISE DRISCOLL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In flanders' fields the crosses stand Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I HARVEST MOON: 1914, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the twilight field Last Line: The harvest-moon. Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): Harvest; Moon; Women; World War I; First World War HARVEST MOON: 1916, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moon, slow rising, over the trembling sea-rim Last Line: Light, everlasting.) Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): Harvest; Moon; Women; World War I; First World War HATE NOT, FEAR NOT, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kill if you must, but never hate: %man is but grass and hate is blight Last Line: Through blazing fires of battle hurled, %hate not, strike, fear not, stare death out! Subject(s): World War I HATE', by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I was glad to get back to the trenches again Subject(s): World War I HAUNTED, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gulp down your wine, old friends of mine Last Line: Dead, long dead, I'm ashamed to greet %dead men down the morning street Subject(s): World War I HAUNTED EARTH, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven at last Last Line: Remembering paradise! Subject(s): Earth; World 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 HAY FEVER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I do not wish the kaiser ill Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I HE PRAYED, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): World War I HE REMEMBERS SOMETHING FROM THE WAR, by JAMES WHITEHEAD Poem Source First Line: In kansas during the war Last Line: In my own father's m-4 tank %that was standing out in out alley Subject(s): World War Ii 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 HEAD SKY CONVOY PATTERN; I.M. FRANCO BELTRAMETTI, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit murmur echoes Last Line: Leaf tip holds dawn's door Subject(s): Astronauts; Beltrametti, Franco (1937-1995); Crockett, Davy (1786-1836); Earth; Planets; Sky; World HEADQUARTERS, by GILBERT FRANKAU Poem Text First Line: A league and a league from the trenches - from the traversed maze of the lines Last Line: "the blaze of some woman's roses. ... ""bombardment orders, sir." Subject(s): World War I; First World War HEART OF ALL THE WORLD, by MARION COUTHOUY SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Heartstruck she stands - our lady of all sorrows Subject(s): World War I HEARTBREAK HOTEL, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Here I sit, dumbfounded, at the old french jail in hanoi Last Line: To you and ask will you come? When will I be free? Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities HEATH COMBAT, by AUGUST STRAMM Poem Source First Line: Sunshine hillside stamping panting fear Last Line: Sunshine hillside budding bloomy death Subject(s): World War I HEAVEN AND HELL, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Speed not afar, thou wandering wraith Last Line: "for evermore." Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Hell; Religion; World; Paradise; Theology HEDGEHOG IN AIR RAID, by CLIFFORD DYMENT Poem Source First Line: The sky was a terrific beach Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii HELD CAPTIVE, by ALBERT JAMES YOUNG Poem Source First Line: You come in on it early 5:48 pdt when Last Line: Out from under all your arab american friends Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Al Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) HELLO, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hello %I'm looking into a mirror Last Line: You alone %are god Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) HELPING, by P. B. Poem Source First Line: Half a score of gutter-snipes Subject(s): World War I HENRI, by GEORGE STERLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight I drifted to the restaurant Last Line: I never asked you if you had a wife. Subject(s): World War I; First World War HER 'ALLOWANCE', by LILLIAN GARD Poem Source First Line: Er looked at me bunnet (I knows 'e aint noo!) Last Line: Be needin' a part - may my bill - who can say? - %of my 'llowance! Subject(s): Women; World War I HER PRAYER - FOR HIM, by EGBERT SANDFORD Poem Source First Line: I do not ask that he may never yield Subject(s): World War I HERE AT VERDUN, by CHESTER M. WRIGHT Poem Source First Line: I stand on a peak at verdun Subject(s): World War I HERE IS MUSIC: SECOND-LIEUTENANT E.T.; IN MEMORRIAM, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Sunlight and shimmering haze Last Line: Whose bouquet works like wine. Subject(s): Courage; Death; Fights; Honor; Patriotism; World War I; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; First World War HERE THEY LIE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here they lie who once learned here Last Line: Dead, but by free will they died: %they were true men, they had pride Subject(s): World War I HERE: AND THERE, by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Soft benediction of september sun Subject(s): World War I 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 HERO'S DREAM, by DIMCHO DEBELYANOV Poem Source First Line: The enemy's retreated and the noise Last Line: A gallant hero to his final breath Subject(s): World War I HESITATION, by AUGUST STRAMM Poem Source First Line: The heavens hanging %shadows catching clouds Last Line: Desisting %the %gory %grave Subject(s): World War I HEY! JOCK, ARE YE GLAD YE LISTED?, by NEIL MUNRO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): World War I HIC JACET QUI IN HOC SAECULO FIDELITER MILITAVIT, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He that has left hereunder Last Line: His sword unto his son. Subject(s): World War I - Casualties HIGH BARBARY, by HOWARD STABLES Poem Source First Line: The distant mountains' jagged, cruel line Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I HIGH FLIGHT, by JOHN GILLESPIE MAGEE JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth Last Line: Put out my hand and touched the face of god. Subject(s): Air Warfare; Aviation & Aviators; Religion; World War Ii; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Theology; Second World War HIGH HAUNTS, by TISH EASTMAN Poem Source First Line: There are countless tales of structurally displaced spirits Last Line: Shadow moments repeating fiercely where only falcons fly? Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) HIGH SUMMER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pinks and syringa in the garden closes Last Line: They die in flanders to keep these for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): World War I; First World War HIGH WOOD, by PHILIP JOHNSTONE Poem Source First Line: Ladies and gentlemen, this is high wood %called by french, bois des fourneaux Last Line: There are waste-paper baskets at the gate Subject(s): World War I HIGHLAND NIGHT; 1715-1815-1915, by ISABEL WESTCOTT HARPER Poem Text First Line: O turn ye homeward in the night-tide dusk! Last Line: Turn ye to me before the morning light. Subject(s): World War I - Scotland HIJACK, by LINCOLN KIRSTEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We drive all day from mildly picturesque coumbes-sur-seine Last Line: His adored grandson captured by the enemy; lost, maybe hurt Subject(s): World War Ii HILL-BORN, by ABBIE HUSTON EVANS Poem Text First Line: Back to this mould, this matrix whence I came Last Line: Packed in the star-like crevice of a rock. Subject(s): World War I; First World War HILL-BORN, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sometimes wonder if it's really true Last Line: On the green ridges of the windy gile. Subject(s): World War I; First World War 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 HIS FOOTSTEP, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boy will come no more Last Line: Like an old tune. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Feet; Footprints; Homecoming; Loss; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War HIS MAJESTY'S MINE-SWEEPERS, by R. O'D. ROSS-LEWIN Poem Source First Line: When this cruel war is over and history ... Told Subject(s): World War I HIS MOTHER SPEAKS!, by BLANCHE OLIN TWISS Poem Text First Line: He died in france! Last Line: Thank god -- he fought them all, and fighting died! Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War HIS ONLY WAY, by HABBERTON LULHAM Poem Source First Line: I stood today high on the downs Subject(s): World War I HISTORIC OXFORD, by ROBERT E. STERLING Poem Source First Line: Oh! Time hath loaded thee with memories Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I HISTORIES: THAT WOBBLE OF LIGHT, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hereby cluster all day loveliness with flick Last Line: A fire of your house. Subject(s): Earth; Planets; World HISTORY, by BABETTE DEUTSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Once it was packed like a box with the toys of childhood Last Line: Where it will lie like a box of toys, broken, %unpacked in vain Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs. Subject(s): World War Ii HISTORY OF THE AIRPLANE, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: And the wright brothers said they thought they had invented Last Line: "fill the air Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 HISTORY OF THE AIRPLANE, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the wright brothers said they thought they had invented Last Line: Fill the air %everywhere Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) HITLER SPRING, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The white cloud of maddened moths swirls Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War HITLER SPRING, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dense, the white cloud of moths whirling Last Line: Of terror, on the burnt-out wadis of the south Subject(s): World War Ii HO. JUST CAUSE I SPEAK PIDGIN NO MEAN I DUMB, by DIANE HINA KAHANU Poem Source First Line: Pidgin short Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans HODGE, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Countryman hodge has gone to fight Last Line: And hodge will come to his own again.' Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Plowing & Plowmen; World War I; First World War 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 HOLY COMMUNION SERVICE, SULVA BAY, by WILLIAM LITTLEJOHN Poem Source First Line: Behold a table spread! Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I HOLY SMOKE, by IRA COHEN Poem Source First Line: Taking tuesday back %or removing the black figure Last Line: P.S. The money goes through switzerland Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) HOLY SONNET: 7, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Last Line: As if thou hadst sealed my pardon, with thy blood. Variant Title(s): "blow Your Trumpets, Angels;'teach Me How To Repent';holy Sonnet: 165;holy Sonnets: 4;""at The Round Earth's Imagined Corners, Blow""; Subject(s): Angels; Bible; Christianity; Death; Immortality; Judgment Day; Religion; Repentance; Salvation; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology; Penitence HOME, by REGINALD WRIGHT KAUFFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My house that I so soon shall own Subject(s): World War I HOME, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A burst of sudden wings at dawn Last Line: That call across the world to me. Subject(s): Home; Ireland; Rainbows; Summer; World War I; Irish; First World War HOME, by CARLOS MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: Twenty three years later and I'm walking down twenty eighth and Last Line: And how the water spouting from fire boats rose and rose Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) HOME COMING, by R. G. T. COVENTRY Poem Source First Line: Here, by god's kindly grace Subject(s): World War I HOME FRONT, by WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE Poem Source First Line: It must have been '45, a backyard spring Subject(s): World War Ii HOME THOUGHTS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The hot red rocks of aden Subject(s): World War I 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 HOMECOMING, by LEROY FOLGE Poem Source First Line: His regiment came home today Subject(s): World War I HOMECOMING, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lost in the vastness of the void pacific Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War HOMECOMING, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lost in the vastness of the void pacific Last Line: And liberate in that high burst of love %the imprisoned souls of soldiers and of me Subject(s): World War Ii HOMECOMING, by SOJIN TOKIJI TAKEI Poem Source First Line: Akibae no Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; World War Ii - Japanese-americans HOMERIC HYMN TO THE EARTH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o universal mother, who dost keep" Last Line: "a happy life for this brief melody, / nor thou nor other songs shall unremembered be" Variant Title(s): Homeric Hymn: Earth The Mother Of All Subject(s): Earth; World HOMES, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lamplight's shaded rose Last Line: That were a home last night. Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Home; Women And War; World War I; First World War HOMES, AFTER THE WAR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the battles, the frenzy, the dread Last Line: As we welcome our heroes home. Subject(s): Homecoming; World War I; First World War HOMEWARDS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love builds a nest on earth and waits for rest Last Line: "and testifies: ""god's will is alway best." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Love; World; Paradise HOMING BRAVES, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's music in the measured tread Last Line: Stand in the pathway of their dreams! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): World War I; First World War HONEY' DRAWS THE LINE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I've beamed when you hollered 'oh, grilie!' Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I HONOR TO FRANCE!, by WILLIAM DUDLEY FOULKE Poem Source First Line: In peace we held thy worth in scant esteem Subject(s): World War I 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 HOPE, by CHARLES PEGUY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am, says god, master of the three virtues Last Line: Hope is the shoot, and the bud of the bloom %of eternity it self Subject(s): World War I HOPE'S YEARNINGS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet it is, when wearied with the jars Last Line: To realise the aspirings of the soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Earth; Faith; Heaven; Hope; Nature; Soul; World; Belief; Creed; Paradise; Optimism HORRIBLE TODAY, by MAX JACOB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was nothing more than a neapolitan christmas creche Last Line: Have you paid me for that? Subject(s): World War Ii 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 HEROES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not in the glory of battles Last Line: Theirs be a lasting fame! Subject(s): Health; Heroism; Hospitals; World War I; Heroes; Heroines; First World War HOSPITAL SHIP, by WILLIAM LITTLEJOHN Poem Source First Line: There is a green-lit hospital ship Subject(s): Hospital Ships; Soldiers; World War I HOSPITAL VISITOR, by ALYS FANE TROTTER Poem Source First Line: When yesterday I went to see my friends Last Line: Who never brag of blows for england struck, %but only yearn to 'get about a bit' Subject(s): Women; World War I HOSTING, by BROOKE BYRNE Poem Source First Line: We did not believe. This anger is surprise Last Line: The rest are the enemy Subject(s): World War Ii HOUSE IN WAR TIME, by RICHARD THOMAS CHURCH Poem Source First Line: Look at this ancient house; it has survived Last Line: Nothing has changed, except that universe %I dared to raise,before I looked on fear Alternate Author Name(s): Eccles Subject(s): World War Ii HOUSE THAT FEAR BUILT: WARSAW, 1943, by JANE FLANDERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am the boy with his hands raised over his head %in warsaw Last Line: Over every street in this world %muttering %waht's this? What's this? Subject(s): Warsaw Ghetto; World War Ii HOW DO I EXPLAIN THE HORROR?, by DIEGO DAVALOS Poem Source Last Line: Them in drum songs enveloped in your %prayers Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) HOW LONG, O LORD, HOW LONG, BEFORE THE FLOOD, by ROBERT PALMER Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I HOW MUCH LONGER?, by ROBERT MEZEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Day after day after day it goes on Last Line: The rest of her, beached on the mud, was horribly burned Subject(s): World War Ii HOW RIFLEMAN BROWN CAME TO VALHALLA, by GILBERT FRANKAU Poem Source First Line: To the lower hall of valhalla, to the heroes of no renown Subject(s): World War I HOW SLEEP THE BRAVE, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, nay, sweet england, do not grieve Last Line: Only thy joy could share. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Death; World War I - Casualties; Dead, The HOW STRANGE A THING, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How strange a thing to think upon Last Line: Doth bear us and our sin. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Curiosities & Wonders; Earth; Enigmas; Oddities; World 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 TO KILL, by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Under the parabola of a ball Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War HOW TO KILL, by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the parabola of a ball Last Line: When the mosquito death approaches Subject(s): World War Ii HOW TO SURVIVE AN ELECTRICAL STORM, by SUSAN BIRKELAND Poem Source First Line: Electrical storms tire the blood- %nightly news Last Line: And then again, %the water loves itself Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 4, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: These fought in any case Last Line: Laughter out of dead bellies. Subject(s): World War I; First World War HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 5, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: There died a myriad Last Line: For a few thousand battered books. Subject(s): World War I; First World War HUMAN NATURE, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For months and years in a forgotten war Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War HUMAN NATURE, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For months and years in a forgotten war Last Line: I am homesick for war Subject(s): World War Ii HUN WITH THE GUN, by WILL P. SNYDER Poem Source First Line: This is the thing you have made him Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I HUNDRED THOUSAND MILLION MITES., by CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Who sent us forth? Who brings us home again? Subject(s): Chaos; World War I HUNGER, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: The bay as smooth as aspic. Hulks Last Line: Gazing out through clean, cracked glass Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii HUSKS, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: They will not stay Last Line: The fruit ye leave! Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Earth; Faith; Past; Dead, The; World; Belief; Creed HYMN CONCERNING THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT, by THOMASIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As a thief, who falls at midnight on his unsuspecting prey Last Line: When the master comes, to meet him, bearing with you lamps that burn. Alternate Author Name(s): Thomasius, Christia Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man HYMN FOR THOSE IN THE AIR; TO THE ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Eternal father, by whose might Last Line: Winged with immortal joy %into thy heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C. Subject(s): World War Ii HYMN OF HATE, by HARRY MCCLINTOCK Poem Source First Line: For the sailors that drown when your ill found ships go crashing on the Last Line: That we are the workers of the world and we have not spoken-yet Subject(s): World War I HYMN OF LOVE, by RICHARD HOPE Poem Source First Line: Britannia, mother, hear our joyous hymn Subject(s): World War I HYMN OF MAN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the grey beginning of years, in the twilight of things that began Last Line: Glory to man in the highest! For man is master of things. Subject(s): Creation; Earth; God; Mankind; Soul; Universe; World; Human Race HYMN OF THE EARTH, by WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING (1817-1901) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: My highway is unfeatured air Last Line: Are mirrored in its round abode. Alternate Author Name(s): Channing Ii, William Ellery Subject(s): Earth; World HYMN OF THE FORESTS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are the harps which the winds play Last Line: While round the circling seasons swing. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Earth; Forests; Sea; Singing & Singers; World; Woods; Ocean HYMN TO EARTH, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, incomparable element Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Earth; World HYMN TO THE EARTH. HEXAMETERS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth! Thou mother of numberless children, the nurse and the mother Last Line: Wandered bleating in valleys, and warbled on blossoming branches. Subject(s): Earth; World HYMNIC CURSE, by HANS LEYBOLD Poem Source First Line: Ye fire-flowers, loudly come to blossom Last Line: Bearing columns splinter. Pylons bow down to earth, %bent Subject(s): World War I I AM GOYA, by ANDREI VOZNESENSKY Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And hammered stars into the unforgetting sky - like nails %iam goya Alternate Author Name(s): Voznesenskii, Andrei Subject(s): Goya Y Lucientes, Francisco Jose De; World War Ii I AM REVOLUTION, by COVINGTON HALL Poem Source Last Line: The omega and alpha of all evolution Alternate Author Name(s): Ami, Covington; Ami, Covami Subject(s): World War I I AM THE EYEBALL LOOKING AT YOU, by KAIPO Poem Source Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans I CAUGHT HIM ONCE, by WING TEK LUM Poem Source First Line: Gruff old fut Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans I DIDN'T RAISE MY BOY TO BE A SOLDIER, by ALFRED BRYAN Poem Source First Line: Ten million soldiers to the war have gone Last Line: Remember that my boy belongs to me! Subject(s): World War I I DON'T KNOW, by MICHAEL MCLAUGHLIN Poem Source First Line: When I hear the whistle for work Last Line: He do something I %don't know Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) I DON'T WANT TO STARTLE YOU, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew the general only by name of course Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War I DON'T WANT TO STARTLE YOU, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew the general only by name of course Last Line: Her eyes were looking at me Subject(s): World War Ii I HATE THE MOON, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hate the moon, though it makes most people glad Last Line: And I know one day it'll do me some dreadful thing. Subject(s): Moon; World War I; First World War I HAVE NO RING', by BERNARD GILBERT Poem Source First Line: I watch and listen with a dreadful fear Subject(s): World War I I LOOKED AT ENGLAND FROM A LITTLE HILL, by MABEL ESTHER ALLAN Poem Source Last Line: Broad, cool and shining in the quiet fields Subject(s): World War Ii I PAY MY DEBT FOR LAFAYETTE AND ROCHAMBEAU', by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eagle, whose fearless Last Line: Love frees the world!... Subject(s): France; Freedom; Rockwell, Kiffin Yates (1892-1916); World War I; Liberty; First World War I REMEMBER, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was my bridal night I remember Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Love - Age Differences; Marriage; World War Ii; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Second World War I REMEMBER, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was my bridal night I remember Last Line: Oh my bride, my bride Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Love - Age Differences; Marriage; World War Ii I SEE AGAIN, by GAIL FORD Poem Source First Line: The sixty-year-old man %forty-eight hours tired Last Line: I drink him drink him in Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) I SEE CHILE IN MY REARVIEW MIRROR, by AGHA SHAHID ALI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This dream of water - what does it harbor? Last Line: The waters darken. The continent vanishes Subject(s): Earth; World I STOOD WITH THE DEAD, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood with the dead, so forsaken and still Last Line: Fall in!' I shouted; 'fall in for your pay!' Subject(s): Army Life; World War I; Drills & Minor Tactics; First World War I TRACKED DOWN A DEAD MAN DOWN A TRENCH, by WALTER SCOTT STUART LYON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I saw then why he crouched so still, %and why his head hung down Subject(s): World War I I WANT THE HORIZON, by THEODORA BATES COGSWELL Poem Text First Line: That brief hill slope uprears so close! Last Line: Draw home my heart! Subject(s): Country Life; Earth; Sea; World; Ocean I WANT TO DIE IN MY OWN BED, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night the army came up from gilgal Last Line: I want to die in my own bed Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War I WANT TO DIE IN MY OWN BED, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night the army came up from gilgal Last Line: But I want to die in my own bed Subject(s): World War Ii I'M GLAD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I'm glad the sky is painted blue Last Line: All sandwiched in between Subject(s): Air;earth;environment;nature;sky; World;environmental Protection;ecology;conservation I'VE LOST MY RIFLE AND BAYONET., by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Since I've lost you Subject(s): Army Life; World War I IF BIN LADEN READ DR. SEUSS, by MARK KUHAR Poem Source First Line: So then, bin laden, is this Last Line: My friend, his name is sam I am Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) IF SO TOMORROW SAVES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven overarches earth and sea Last Line: If so tomorrow saves? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; Graves; Heaven; Sea; World; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise; Ocean IF WE MUST DIE, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If we must die, let it not be like hogs Last Line: Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back! Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): African Americans; Courage; Death; Honor; Social Protest; World War I; Negroes; American Blacks; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; First World War IF WE RETURN, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HARVEY Poem Source Subject(s): World War I IF. MOTHER TO HER DAUGHTER, by FLORENCE GUERTIN TUTTLE Poem Source First Line: If you can lose your head when all about you Last Line: And which is more-a thing of stone, my girl Subject(s): World War I IFF, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hate hitler? No, I spared him hardly a thought Subject(s): World War Ii II PETER II 22, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark, the new year succeeds the dead Last Line: The heights which crowned a deadlier year. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Time; World War I; First World War IKUMAN O, by SOJIN TOKIJI TAKEI Poem Source Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; World War Ii - Japanese-americans ILICET, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is an end of joy and sorrow Last Line: The poppied sleep, the end of all Subject(s): Death; Grief; Judgment Day; Sleep; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man ILL-POLITICAL, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Is wind across the kansas prairie. The babyface mashes stiff potato Last Line: And disappearances, the glop of spuds now greening on his plate Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities ILLUSIONS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trenches in the moonlight, in the lulling moonlight Last Line: For the moon's interpretation. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War ILLUSORY HORIZONS, V, by JEAN DE LA VILLE DE MIRMONT Poem Source First Line: Tall ships, our love of you is loss complete Last Line: For great adventures never tried Subject(s): World War I ILLUSORY HORIZONS, XI, by JEAN DE LA VILLE DE MIRMONT Poem Source First Line: Diana of bright metal, goddess-moon Last Line: Your flame of silence offered in the night Subject(s): World War I ILLUSORY HORIZONS, XIII, by JEAN DE LA VILLE DE MIRMONT Poem Source First Line: The sea is infinite and strange my dreams Last Line: Lost gulls will recognize them for their own Subject(s): World War I ILLUSORY HORIZONS, XIV, by JEAN DE LA VILLE DE MIRMONT Poem Source First Line: I've taken passage on a full-rigged ship Last Line: But will the savages think it worth the price? Subject(s): World War I IMPERFECTION, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Earth vaunts no joy that lasts Last Line: Bliss waits you yet! Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Evil; Happiness; World; Joy; Delight IMPRESSION MADE IN THE GROUND AT BILLERICAY, BY..., by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Like susan rothenberg's horses, the image Last Line: Limbs the wings that take him farther, %farther than we ever want to go Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities IN A BRITISH CEMETERY OVERSEAS, MAY, 1940, by RICHARD ELWES Poem Source First Line: For you the lilac and the apple blossom Last Line: Sleeping you fan them as with angels' breath, %from the hard-won immunity of death Subject(s): World War Ii 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 RESTAURANT, 1917, by ELEANOUR TREHANE NORTON Poem Source First Line: Encircled by the traffic's roar Last Line: Now in our hearts an empty place %and far in france an unmarked grave Subject(s): Women; World War I IN A SLUM, by A. STODART WALKER Poem Source First Line: I never heard him speak a kindly word Subject(s): World War I IN A TIME OF WAR: 1. COUNTER OR CAMP. AUGUST 1914, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Counter or camp, which of the two rules worst? Last Line: And still explores the universe with awe. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): World War I; First World War IN A TIME OF WAR: 2. THE WOUNDED, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cancelled the fair-planned life Last Line: Who grasp the incalculable, being dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): World War I; First World War IN A TIME OF WAR: 3. THE DESECRATED DREAM, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With every mighty nation now at war Last Line: Still seeks worse ways to slay and to be slain. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): World War I; First World War IN A TIME OF WAR: 4. AFTER THE ARMISTICE (NOVEMBER 1918), by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Psyche has fouled both hands in blood and clay Last Line: Then turned to cleaner work, shall she rejoice. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): World War I; First World War IN A V.A.D. PANTRY, by ALBERTA VICKRIDGE Poem Source First Line: Pots in piles of blue and white Last Line: Shed a nimbus strange and pale %round about this humble grail Subject(s): Women; World War I IN AFRICA, by ROY FULLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Parabolas of grief, the hills are never Last Line: Involved, improbable; the endless plain %precisely as it seems Subject(s): World War Ii IN AS MUCH AS IT IS ALWAYS ALREADY TAKING PLACE, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Outside, smoke mushrooms with the ghosts of sarajevo Last Line: Alvalanche. Inferno. Nations buckling %with its roar Subject(s): Death; Disappeared Persons; Fire; Tragedy; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) 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 CANADA, by ETHEL NICHOLSON Poem Text First Line: You are dead Last Line: And you are dead. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Peace; World War I - Canada; Dead, The; Paradise IN DEAR VENDOME, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My des autels, whose true Last Line: Your friend, ronsard. Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Justice; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Wind; World; Paradise IN DISTRUST OF MERITS, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strengthened to live, strengthened to die for Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; World War Ii; Anti-war Protests; Second World War IN DISTRUST OF MERITS, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strengthened to live, strengthened to die for Last Line: Beauty is everlasting %and dust is for a time Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; World War Ii IN ENGLAND, by MAY O'ROURKE Poem Source First Line: Today the lonely winds are loose Subject(s): World War I IN FESTUBERT, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now every thing that shadowy thought Last Line: And sear no more with second sight. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War 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 FIELD: AN ANSWER, by C. B. GALBREATH Poem Text First Line: In flanders fields the cannon boom Last Line: In flanders fields. Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium; 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 GALLIPOLI, by EDEN PHILLPOTTS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a fold of lion-coloured earth Last Line: Beside her hero sons, beneath the field and foam. Subject(s): Gallipoli Campaign (1915); World War I; First World War IN LAST YEAR'S CAMP, by MARY ADAIR-MACDONALD Poem Source First Line: They stole the gorse's glory Subject(s): World War I 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 (TO FIELD-MARSHAL LORD ROBERTS OF KANDAHAR), by EDWARD JOHN Poem Source First Line: Rest, though the clamorous surge of war Subject(s): World War I IN MEMORIAM, A.H., by MAURICE BARING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind had blown away the rain Last Line: Among the very brave, the very true. Variant Title(s): Udite, Si Dolgono Mesti Fringuelli Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Herbert, Auberon Thomas (1876-1916); Memory; Patriotism; World War I; Dead, The; Lucas, 8th Baron; Dingwall, 11th Baron; 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 EWART ALAN MACKINTOSH Poem Source First Line: So you were david's father Last Line: For they were only your fathers %but I was your officer Subject(s): World War I 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 MY BODY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans 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 PARENTHESIS, SELS., by DAVID JONES Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Nature; World War I IN PARENTHESIS: PART 1. THE MANY MEN SO BEAUTIFUL, by DAVID JONES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Last Line: The rain increases with the light and the weight increases Subject(s): World War I; Army Life IN PRAISE OF RIGHTEOUS WAR, by WALTER MALONE Poem Source First Line: I am coming not in a weakling's verse, with a Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I IN RUBBLE, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Right after the bomb, even before the ceiling Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 IN SEARCH OF THE TRAITOR, by MAX JACOB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The hotel again! My friend paul is a prisoner of the germans Last Line: Who is miss cypriani? Another spy Subject(s): World War Ii IN SERVICE, by J. E. EVANS Poem Source First Line: Say, pa! What is a service flag? Variant Title(s): The Service Fla Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I IN SUSSEX, by NORA MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: Our pear tree swaggers into the sunset Last Line: Of the smell of fallen fruit, both rank and sweet Subject(s): World History IN THE AGE OF GRASSHOPPERS, by JANINE POMMY VEGA Poem Source First Line: A grasshoppers with a roomy apartment building Last Line: Because we let them, because they can Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) IN THE AMBULANCE, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two rows of cabbages Last Line: "two of kidney-beans." Subject(s): World War I; First World War IN THE BINDERY, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shift begins. Metal clanks Last Line: A change of heart but then goes on. Subject(s): Factories; Industrial Workers Of The World (i.w.w.); Labor & Laborers; Labor Unions; Work; Workers IN THE CITY SQUARE, by THOMAS ERNEST HULME Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the city square at night, the meeting of the torches Last Line: To where? Alternate Author Name(s): Hulme, T. E. Subject(s): World War I; First World War IN THE CROWD, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How happy they are, in all seeming Last Line: T is better than showing the heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Earth; Secrets; Smiles; Spring; World 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 DORDOGNE, by JOHN PEALE BISHOP Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We stood up before day Subject(s): World War I; First World War IN THE DORDOGNE, by JOHN PEALE BISHOP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We stood up before day Last Line: Over the clear and silent streams %delicately bordered by poplars Subject(s): World War I IN THE EAST, by GEORG TRAKL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dark wrath of people Last Line: Wild wolves have broken through the gates Subject(s): World War I IN THE FOURTH YEAR; SEPTEMBER 3, 1939-42, by RONALD GORELL BARNES Poem Source First Line: Over this huge escarpment, valiant heart Last Line: Toil as your friend and freedom as your prize! Alternate Author Name(s): Gorell, 3d Baron Subject(s): World War Ii IN THE GALLERY WHERE THE FAT MEN GO, by LOUIS GOLDING Poem Source First Line: They are showing how we lie Last Line: Would the pictures still be hung %in the gallery where the fat men go? Subject(s): World War I IN THE LAND OF HONEY AND DANGER, by NELLIE WONG Poem Source First Line: Yeah, danger lurks Last Line: Need money %nothing too small %god bless!' Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) IN THE LONG RUN, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the long run fame finds the deserving man Last Line: In the long run. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Earth; Grief; Love; Night; World; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime IN THE MEDITERRANEAN - GOING TO THE WAR, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lovely wings of gold and green Last Line: In my heart a newer song. Subject(s): Mediterranean Sea; World War I; First World 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, by JOHN GRAHAM BOWER Poem Source First Line: Back from battle, torn and rent Subject(s): World War I 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 NIGHT, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes at night, when I sit and write Last Line: May hear, if he lists aright. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Night; Soul; Dead, The; World; Bedtime IN THE NORTH, by ALISSA LEIGH Poem Source First Line: Winter came and went, spreading %its sober gospel: earth the color Last Line: Is rubbing its face raw. In trees %birds sing a song full of silence Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) 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 TIME OF THE PERSECUTION, by LEONARD AARONSON Poem Source First Line: Down in the river the fishes are rising Last Line: For the sake of our morrow, of europe's to-morrow Subject(s): Jews; Religion; World War Ii 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 TRENCHES, by MAURICE HENRY HEWLETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I lay in the trenches Last Line: With heart as full as mine. Subject(s): World War I; First World War IN THE TRENCHES, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I snatched two poppies Last Line: Strewn. Smashed you lie. Subject(s): World War I; First World War IN THE TRENCHES II, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Impotent %how impotent is all this clamor Subject(s): World War I IN THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Ezekiel's bones, dried to dust beyond this cusp of hill Last Line: For the sun to rise upon another century Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities IN THE WAITING ROOM, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In worcester, massachusetts, %I went with aunt consuelo Last Line: And it was still the fifth %of february, 1918 Subject(s): Aunts; Children; Dentists; Imagination; Labor And Laborers; Pain; World War I IN TIME OF 'THE BREAKING OF NATIONS', by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only a man harrowing clods / in a slow silent walk Last Line: Ere their story die. Subject(s): Bible; Country Life; Religion; World War I; Theology; First World War 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 TIME OF WAR, by LESBIA THANET Poem Source First Line: I dreamed (god pity babes at play) Last Line: Only god bring you back - god bring you back Subject(s): Women; World War I IN TIME OF WAR I SING, by ALLEN CRAFTON Poem Text First Line: I sing of song! Of spontaneity Last Line: I find my song within the world's soul -- crowned. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; World War I; Songs; First World War IN TIME OF WARS AND TUMULTS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would that I'd not drawn breath here!' some one said Last Line: By empery's insatiate lust of power. Subject(s): World War I; First World War IN WAR, by IVAN ADAIR Poem Source First Line: Oh, christ, whose word in galilee Subject(s): World War I 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 IN WAR TIME, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now strikes the hour upon the clock Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): World War I IN WAR-TIME (AN AMERICAN HOMEWARD-BOUND), by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Text First Line: Further and further we leave the scene Last Line: Or hasten back? Subject(s): World War I; First World War IN WARTIME, by MARIANNA GRISWOLD VAN RENSSELAER Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Long years I longed for them, for the young Alternate Author Name(s): Van Rensselaer, Mrs. Schuyler Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me take this other glove off Subject(s): Westminster Abbey; World War Ii; Second World War IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me take this other glove off Last Line: And now, dear lord, I cannot wait %because I have a luncheon date Subject(s): Westminster Abbey; World War Ii IN WOODS NEAR THE FRONTLINE, by MIKHAIL ISAKOVSKY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Soundless and almost weightless Last Line: Accordion, turn from the dancing %and strike up a march-tuneinstead Subject(s): World War Ii INACCESSIBILITY IN THE BATTLEFIELD, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forgotten streams, yet wishful to be known Last Line: The rampart where the sleepless phantom strode. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War INCANDESCENCE, by NORA MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: In the houses of fire Last Line: All our houses burn Subject(s): World History INCIDENT, by MARY H. J. HENDERSON Poem Source First Line: He was just a boy, as I could see Last Line: Wounded to death for the mother land Subject(s): Women; World War I INDIA TO ENGLAND, by NIZAMAT JUNG Poem Source First Line: O england! In thine hour of need Subject(s): India; World War I INDIAN ARMY, by ROBERT ERNEST VERNEDE Poem Source First Line: Into the west they are marching! Subject(s): World War I INFANTRY, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: In paris town, in paris town - 'twas 'neath an april sky Last Line: Flic flac, flic flac, to call upon a king. Subject(s): World War I - France 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 INHERITANCE, by WANDA FUJIMOTO Poem Source First Line: My grandmother died Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans INN O' THE SWORD: A SONG OF YOUTH AND WAR, by ARTHUR LEWIS JENKINS Poem Source First Line: Roving along the king's highway Subject(s): World War I 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 INSCRIPTIONS FOR THE CALEDONIAN CANAL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Athwart the island here, from sea to sea Last Line: Opening a passage through the wilds subdued. Subject(s): Canals; Earth; Islands; Sea; Travel; World; Ocean; Journeys; Trips 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 INSOMNIA, by NORA MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: Predawn, a window slides open Last Line: From something still dark Subject(s): World History INSOUCIANCE, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In and out of the dreary trenches Last Line: They fly away like white-winged doves Subject(s): World War I; First World War INSTEAD OF TEARS (IN MEMORIAM OF H.M.S. COSSACK), SELECTION, by MARIE CARMICHAEL STOPES Poem Text First Line: Our grief for you, poignant and personal Last Line: You stepped through matter, sweep our spirits on! Subject(s): Death; Warships; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War INTERIOR OF BEESWAX CHAMBER, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Stickled nectars seized in Last Line: Blossoms. The wind's %picking up Subject(s): Death; Disappeared Persons; Fire; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) INTERLUDE (IN WAR-TIME), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thought that war held all my mind Last Line: As lasting memory of the storm. Subject(s): World War I; First World War INTERPRETER, by LINCOLN KIRSTEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In her cold, unlighted piece Last Line: Idly wondering which of us %will scale her stairs again Subject(s): World War Ii INTERROGATION, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We could have crossed the road but hesitated Last Line: Endurance almost done %and still the interrogation is going on Subject(s): World War Ii INTO BATTLE, by JULIAN GRENFELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The naked earth is warm with spring Last Line: And night shall fold him soft wings. Variant Title(s): He Is Dead Who Will Not Fight Subject(s): World War I; First World War INTO SPACE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the sad old world should jump a cog Last Line: While the stars looked on and wondered? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Earth; Life; Stars; Sun; World INTO THE ARMS OF ANGELS, by TIMOTHY MICHAEL RHODES Poem Source First Line: From the terror of fire, %darkness and broken glass Last Line: Her arms reaching %for one final embrace Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) INTO THE SALIENT, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sallows like heads in polynesia Last Line: Into seven days of country where you come out any door. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War 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 INVALIDED, by EDWARD SHILLITO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He limps along the city street Last Line: A life he cannot give. Subject(s): World War I - Casualties INVASION, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: We began with a thing we would never see again Last Line: See again, we fought our way out of it, and into the other Variant Title(s): Red Beach, Paestu Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii INVENTORY, by GUNTHER EICH Poem Source First Line: This is my cap Last Line: This is my thread Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; World War Ii INVITATION AU FESTIN, by AELFRIDA TILLYARD Poem Source First Line: Oh come and live with me, my love Last Line: And now good-night - your dreams eb bright! %(perhaps they will - who knows?) Subject(s): Women; World War I INVITATION TO A PAINTER: 1, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flee from london, good my walter! Boundless jail of bricks and gas Last Line: Landscape-lords are left alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Colors; Exhibitions; Landscape; Paintings & Painters; World's Fairs; Expositions INVITATION TO GROUND ZERO, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the smouldering ruin now go down: Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 INVOCATION, by GEORGE ROSTREVOR HAMILTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O thou, creator from original chaos Last Line: And man in man's free service thy new creature Alternate Author Name(s): Rostrevor, George Subject(s): Religion; World War Ii INVOCATION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who will waken the wind for me? Last Line: Who will waken the wind? Subject(s): Earth; Leprosy; Night; Pain; Wind; World; Lepers; Bedtime; Suffering; Misery 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 INVOCATION TO MOTHER EARTH, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O earth! Thy face hath not the grace Last Line: "room, mother, in thy breast!" Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Earth; World INVOCATION TO THE EARTH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rest, rest, perturbed earth! Last Line: And the pure vision closed in darkness infinite. Subject(s): Earth; World INWARD CLARION, by WALLACE B. NICHOLS Poem Source First Line: When I behold dear youth sent down to death Subject(s): World War I IRELAND, by G. A. J. C. Poem Source First Line: Outpost of europe, watcher of the seas Subject(s): World War I IRON, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Guns Last Line: The shovel is brother to the gun. Subject(s): 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 IT CANNOT BE, by F. E. MAITLAND Poem Source Subject(s): World War I IT IS COMMON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: So are the stars and the arching skies Last Line: "blessed be god, it is common" Subject(s): Earth;life; World IT IS MY DUTY (1), by F. JOHN HERBERT Poem Source First Line: And it is my duty to say yesterday Last Line: That is our rate of salt %that is our agreement of chrome and autumn Subject(s): Duty; Military; Presidents, United States; World War I - Naval Actions IT IS WELL WITH THE CHILD, by MARIANNA GRISWOLD VAN RENSSELAER Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The word has come - on the field of battle Alternate Author Name(s): Van Rensselaer, Mrs. Schuyler Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I IT MUST NOT HAPPEN, by SHARON OLINKA Poem Source First Line: My days like water. I clip the toenails Last Line: No more mass burials %by a harbor Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) IT OUT-HERODS HEROD. PRAY YOU, AVOID IT', by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight my children hunch Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War IT OUT-HERODS HEROD. PRAY YOU, AVOID IT', by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight my children hunch Last Line: Who could not, at one time, have saved them from the gas Subject(s): World War Ii IT WILL NOT LAST, by LAURENCE WHISTLER Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii IT'S A QUEER TIME, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's hard to know if you're alive or dead Last Line: It's a queer time. Subject(s): World War I; First World War IT'S ROSE-TIME HERE, by MURIEL STUART Poem Source Subject(s): World War I ITALIA REDENTA; ON HEARING ITALIAN FLAG FLYING OVER TRENT & TRIESTE, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Till yesterday 'twas 'italy unredeemed.' Last Line: "italia redenta." Subject(s): Italy; World War I; Italians; First World War ITALY - 1915, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tear from thy brow the olive wreath! Last Line: Of england's strumpet, italy! Subject(s): Italy; World War I; Italians; First World War ITALY IN ARMS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all my dreams by night and day Last Line: In this grim hour must wish thee well! Subject(s): World War I - Italy IVAN, by G. D. MARTINEAU Poem Source First Line: Brave work, ivan! Here's a new year greeting! Last Line: Victor of his own wide fields that hold the storied past! Subject(s): World War Ii JAN, by G. D. MARTINEAU Poem Source First Line: Old jan smuts, who numbered with the foe Last Line: Spirit of south africa, and christendom's right hand Subject(s): World War Ii JAN-40, by ROY FULLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swift had pains in his head. %johnson dying in bed Last Line: But the appearance of choice %in their sad and fatal voice Subject(s): World War Ii JANUARY FULL MOON, YPRES, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vantaged snow on the gray pilasters Last Line: To someone crunching through the frozen snows. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War JAWS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seven nations stood with their hands on the jaws of Last Line: "o hell!" Subject(s): World War I; First World War JAZZ BIRD, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The jazz bird sings a barnyard song Last Line: He lights it with his eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): World War I JEAN DESPREZ, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, ye whose hearts are resonant, and ring to war's romance Last Line: Then jean desprez reached out and shot . . . The prussian major dead! Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War JERUSALEM DURING A SUICIDE BOMBING, by JULIA VINOGRAD Poem Source First Line: Jerusalem strolled thru an outdoor market Last Line: Jerusalem's naked feet leave the scene of love, %nothing changes Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) JESUS POEM, by SUSAN BIRKELAND Poem Source First Line: If I'd been trapped in one of those towers Last Line: (from where we stand ) %intolerably bright Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) 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 JIHAD, by JOSEPH DONALD MCCLATCHY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A contrail's white scimitar unsheathes Last Line: His wisdom watches for each sacrifice Alternate Author Name(s): Mcclatchy, J. D. Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) JIMMY DOANE, by ROWLAND THIRLMERE Poem Text First Line: Often I think of you, jimmy doane Last Line: Your vision upbuilt as a deathless fact. Subject(s): World War I; First World War JINGO-WOMAN, by HELEN HAMILTON Poem Source First Line: Jingo-woman %(how I dislike you) Last Line: To flout and goad men into doing, %what is not asked of you? Subject(s): Women; World War I JOAN OF FRANCE TO AN ENGLISH SISTER; I.M. EDITH CAVELL,NURSE, by J. H. S. Poem Source First Line: Pity had I for france my land Subject(s): World War I JOE HILL, by ALFRED HAYES Poem Source First Line: I dreamed in saw joe hill last night Last Line: I never died,' says he Subject(s): Hill, Joe (1879-1915); Industrial Workers Of The World (i.w.w.); Labor Unions; Social Protest JOE LOUIS IN ITALY, 1944, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: In his mouth is a wad of regulation wonder bread Last Line: Until one war is over and another starts Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities JOHN DOE - BUCK PRIVATE, by ALLAN P. THOMSON Poem Source First Line: Who was it, picked from civil life Subject(s): World War I JOHN SMITH (1923-1944) [OR, DELINQUENT ELEGY], by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: My friend john smith, a usual man Last Line: As smart as most, as brave as any Subject(s): War; World War Ii JOINING THE COLOURS (WEST KENTS, DUBLIN, AUGUST 1914), by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There they go marching all in step so gay! Last Line: Out of the mist they stepped - into the mist %singing they pass Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Women; World War I 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 JOYS OF LIFE, I, by FRANTISEK GELLNER Poem Source First Line: I have to go, there's simply nothing for it Last Line: It's there my teenage vagrancy belongs Subject(s): World War I JOYS OF LIFE, XIV, by FRANTISEK GELLNER Poem Source First Line: Destiny drops us the crumbs from its table Last Line: And sorrow, frustration and pain Subject(s): World War I JUDGED WORTH EVACUATING, by LES A. MURRAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Vertical war, north of my early childhood Last Line: A hammer of impatiens flowers got him Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) JUDGEMENT, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Almighty judge, how shall poor wretches brook Last Line: There thou shalt finde my faults are thine. Subject(s): Judges; Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man JUDGEMENT, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, my day, yet ere thou art quite departed Last Line: Thou who art christ, christ who is more than thou. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man JUDGMENT, by LESLIE COULSON Poem Source First Line: So be it, god I take what thou dost give Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I JUDGMENT, by FERNAND MAZADE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night the true god lists your every crime Last Line: And the true god—I see it all—will pardon you. Subject(s): God; Judgment Day; Religion; Sin; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology JUDGMENT DAY, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Every day is judgment day Last Line: Sorrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Judgment Day; Religion; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology JUDGMENT DAY, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When through our bodies our two spirits / burn Last Line: Irked by long shadows, mocked by those bright far tones. Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man JULIAN GRENFELL, by MAURICE BARING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because of you we will be glad and gay Subject(s): Grenfell, Julian (1888-1915); World War I JULY 1ST, 1916, by AIMEE BYNG SCOTT Poem Source First Line: A soft grey mist %poppies flamed brilliant where the woodlands bent Last Line: Has passed; nature lies prostrate there %stunned by his tread Subject(s): Women; World War I JULY TROUBLES IN PETROGRAD, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Like an oscillating wave that gathers its roll Last Line: Which the thousands plot their coming Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities JUN-40, by WELDON KEES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is summer, and treachery blurs with the sounds of midnight Last Line: An idiot wind is blowing; the conscience dies Subject(s): World War Ii JUNE, 1915, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who thinks of june's first rose to-day? Last Line: Of the small eager hand, the shining eyes, the rough bright head? Subject(s): Women; World War I JUNIOR GOT THE SNAKES, by MICHAEL MCPHERSON Poem Source First Line: One time Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans JUST AS OF OLD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just as of old! The world rolls on Last Line: Just as of old. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Earth; Life; Rivers; Time; World KABUL 2002 (FROM DISLOCATIONS), by BRONWYN WINTER Poem Source First Line: Kabul seizes your eyes your throat Last Line: Peshawar is a gentler and safer place Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) KAGERA FALLS, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Follow the white nile up seven cataracts, up the nyabarongo river Last Line: And picture to tie your shoe, as if it had nothing to do with you Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities KAISER AND COUNSELLOR, by STUART PRATT SHERMAN Poem Text First Line: Through what dark pass to what place in the sun Last Line: Still draws all hearts unto its wounded side. Subject(s): World War I; First World War KARTUSHKIYA-BEROZA, by ALTER BRODY Poem Source First Line: It is twelve years since I have been there Subject(s): World War I KAUNAS 1941, by JOHANNES BOBROWSKI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Town, %branches over the river Last Line: My dark is already come Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Prussia; World War Ii 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 THE FLAG WAVING, JACK!, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only a boy, but never you mind! Last Line: God bless our boys! Subject(s): Boys; Sea Battles; World War I; Naval Warfare; First World War KENSINGTON GARDENS (1915), by VIVIANE VERNE Poem Source First Line: Dappling shadows on the summer grass Last Line: While men war in false endurement %deeming this life's great achievement Subject(s): Women; World War I KID HAS GONE TO THE COLORS, by WILLIAM HERSCHELL Poem Source Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I KILLED PIAVE-JULY 8-1918, by ERNEST HEMINGWAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Desire and / all the sweet pulsing aches Last Line: On my hot-swollen, throbbing soul Subject(s): World War I - Casualties KILLERS (1), by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am singing to you Last Line: Sixteen million men. Subject(s): World War I; First World War KILMENY (A SONG OF THE TRAWLERS), by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark, dark lay the drifters against the red west Last Line: And nobody knew where kilmeny had been. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; World War I; First World War KILROY WAS HERE, by PETER VIERECK Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Also ulysses once - that other war Subject(s): Graffiti; World War Ii KIM CHEE TEST, by JOSEPH STANTON Poem Source First Line: It wasn't because Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans KIND, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: The close green hedge, as table set Last Line: "but I was oak"" and ""I was beech." Subject(s): Earth; Nature; World KING ARTHUR: SONG OF AEOLUS, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye blust'ring brethren of the skies Last Line: There swell your lungs, and vainly, vainly threat. Variant Title(s): To Britannia Subject(s): Earth; Fear; Singing & Singers; Spring; World; Songs KING OF THE MAGICAL PUMP, by CHARLES W. WOOD Poem Source First Line: Oh, the loyalest gink with the royalest wink Last Line: In the kingdom of chumpetty-chump Subject(s): World War I KING'S HIGHWAY, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When moonlight flecks the cruiser's decks Subject(s): World War I KING'S MESSENGERS, by RONALD ARTHUR HOPWOOD Poem Source First Line: There's a stir within the city Subject(s): World War I KINGDOM OF HANDS, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: As you reach into your pocket, suddenly you touch an alien hand Last Line: Like a speller, for words beginning with sounds no one has ever heard Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii KINGS, by HUGH J. HUGHES Poem Source First Line: The kings are dying! In blood and flame Subject(s): World War I 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 KISMET, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the rock the road is cut full deep Last Line: Dear hearts, farewell, farewell!' Subject(s): Children; Earth; Roads; Sea; Childhood; World; Paths; Trails; Ocean KISMET, by ROSAMUND MARRIOTT WATSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Opal fires in the western sky Alternate Author Name(s): Tomson, Graham R. Subject(s): World War I KISS, by MILUTIN BOJIC Poem Source First Line: We were born to by happy, to love life fully Last Line: Youth is our god, and passion our strength Subject(s): World War I KITCHENER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: If death had questioned thee Subject(s): World War I KITCHENER OF KHARTOUM, by ROBERT J. C. STEAD Poem Source First Line: Weep, waves of england! Nobler clay Subject(s): World War I KITCHENER'S MARCH, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Not the muffled drums for him Last Line: Take the field again! Subject(s): Kitchener, Horatio, 1st Earl (1850-1916); World War I - Casualties KNITTING SOCKS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Click, click! How the needles go Subject(s): Hosiery; Knitting; World War I KUAN YIN MINGLES WITH THE GHOSTS, NOW ON GUIDED TOUR, by KATHY PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: I kept my self-respect by loving every stone I carried Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans KUAN YIN TURNS HER PHOTO ALBUM TO A CERTAIN POINT, by KATHY PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: When pressed, kuan yin explains Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans LA BASSEE ROAD, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Source First Line: You'll see from the la bassee road, on any Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I LA FEMME DE QUARANTE ANS, by EDWARD FAIRLY STUART GRAHAM CLOETE Poem Source First Line: I was born forty years ago Last Line: My men are dead Subject(s): World War Ii LA QUINQUE RUE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O road in dizzy moonlight bleak and blue Last Line: To trim roofs and cropped fields; the error's mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War LACHRYMOSE WRITERS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye human screech-owls, who delight Last Line: To bless the exhaustless grace they now deny. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Earth; Life; Soul; Writing & Writers; World LACKAWANNA ELEGY, by IWAN GOLL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: America %the tongues of your rivers burn with thirst Last Line: In the rose-garden of your sick soul %the holocaust waits to begin Alternate Author Name(s): Goll, Yvan Subject(s): Exiles; United States; World War Ii LAMENT, by GEORGE SUTHERLAND FRASER Poem Source First Line: In a dismal air; a light of breaking summer Last Line: In a dismal air; a light of breaking summer %cold in the water the webs of the cold light lie Subject(s): World War Ii LAMENT, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We who are left, how shall we look again Last Line: Nor feel the heart-break in the heart of things? Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War LAMENT, by GEORGE MALCOLM Poem Source First Line: As I walked under the african moon Last Line: Yet certain I am he played that tune %for archie and johnnie and me Subject(s): World War Ii LAMENT, by GEORG TRAKL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep and death, the dark eagles Last Line: The silent face of the night Subject(s): Science Fiction; World War I LAMENT, by GEORG TRAKL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep and death, the dark eagles Last Line: The silent face of night Subject(s): World War I LAMENT FROM THE DEAD, by W. E. K. Poem Source First Line: Peace! Vex us not: we are dead Subject(s): World War I LAMENT OF THE DEMOBILISED, by VERA MARY BRITTAIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Four years,' some say consolingly. 'oh well' Last Line: And we're beginning to agree with them Alternate Author Name(s): Catlin, George E. G., Mrs. Subject(s): Women; World War I LAMENTATIONS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The scrub woman for the old bank and jailhouse Last Line: One is of welcome; the other, farewell. Subject(s): Farewell; Lament; Loss; Man-woman Relationships; World War Ii; Parting; Male-female Relations; Second World War 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 LAMPLIGHT, by MAY WEDDERBURN CANNAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We planned to shake the world together Last Line: There's a scarlet cross on my breast, my dear, %and a torn cross with your name Subject(s): Women; World War I LANDSCAPE WITHOUT FIGURES, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shape of the summer has not changed at all Last Line: Though the shape of the summer has not changed at all Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): World War Ii LANDSCAPE, WITH FOOD, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: The dump runs down a wide ravine Last Line: Hip deep in flames, they eat it all Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii LANGEMARCK AT YPRES, by WILLIAM WILFRED CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the ballad of langemarck Last Line: In the great, grim fight. Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, W. W. Subject(s): World War I - Canada; Ypres, Belgium LARK ABOVE THE TRENCHES, by MURIEL ELSIE GRAHAM Poem Source First Line: All day the guns had worked their hellish will Last Line: That wounded hope arose %to greet that song Subject(s): Women; World War I LAS HORAS DE VERDAD (THE HOURS OF TRUTH), by JILL E. WIDNER Poem Source First Line: Would the hours of truth discourage her Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans LAST EVENING, by ELINOR JENKINS Poem Source First Line: Round a bright isle, set in a sea of gloom Subject(s): World War I LAST LEAVE (1918), by EILEEN NEWTON Poem Source First Line: Let us forget tomorrow! For tonight Last Line: When this dear night, with all it means to me, %is but a memory! Subject(s): Women; World War I 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 PICNIC, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The guests in their summer colors have fled Last Line: Remember that we once could say, %yesterday we had a world to lose Subject(s): World War Ii LAST POEM, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sorrow of true love is great sorrow Last Line: Removed eternally from the sun's law Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): 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 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 RIVER, by IWAN GOLL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The last river leaves for desolation Last Line: They even leave behind their tombstones already paid for Alternate Author Name(s): Goll, Yvan Subject(s): World War Ii LAST THOUGHTS 9/11 VOICES, by OPAL PALMER ADISA Poem Source First Line: All memories %are piled on the pyre Last Line: Claims you %live without regrets Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) LAST TURNINGS OF THE SEASON'S WHEEL, by DEBRA THOMAS Poem Source First Line: As the last turnings of the season's wheel Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans LAST WILL, by JOE HILL Poem Source First Line: My will is easy to decide Last Line: Good luck to all of you Alternate Author Name(s): Hillstrom, Joesph; Hagglund, Joel Subject(s): Industrial Workers Of The World (i.w.w.); Labor Unions; Social Protest LAUREL AND CYPRESS, by J. NAPIER MILNE Poem Source First Line: I watched him swinging down the street Subject(s): World War I LAVOIR, by JOHN CURTIS UNDERWOOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Two years ago ten women washed a town's stained linen on these stones Last Line: White to worship her Subject(s): World War I LE MONDE EST MECHANT, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The world is malevolent dear Last Line: What feeling and wit you display! Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Earth; Man-woman Relationships; World; Male-female Relations LE POILU DE CARCASSONNE', by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The poilus of france on the western front ... Subject(s): World War I LEARNING NOT TO CRY, by JACQUELYN MALONE Poem Source First Line: Smart tears, fleeing down her cheeks' Last Line: The channels-click click- %the chamber mapped and loaded Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) LEARNING TO SING, by NORA MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: Those walls of muscle house the future Last Line: In the world's raw entrance Subject(s): World History LEAVE, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One winds through firs - their weeds are ferns Last Line: The mote dances in a nature full of squirrels Subject(s): Loss; World War Ii; Second World War LEAVE HER, JOHNNIE!', by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A hundred miles from the longship's light Subject(s): World War I LEAVE IN 1917, by LILIAN M. ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Moonlight and death were on the narrow seas Last Line: And sweet, sweet, sweet %the finches singing in the orchard dusk! Subject(s): Women; World War I LEAVES OF HYPNOS: 128, by RENE CHAR Poem Source First Line: The baker hadn't yet unfastened the iron shutters of his shop Last Line: I loved my kind wildly that day, well beyond sacrifice Subject(s): World War Ii LEAVES OF HYPNOS: 87, by RENE CHAR Poem Source First Line: Ls, I thank you for the durance 12 partisan depot Last Line: All goes well here. Affectionately. Hypnos Subject(s): French Resistance, World War Ii; Zyngerman ("saingermain"), Leon LEAVES OF HYPNOS: 89, by RENE CHAR Poem Source First Line: Francois exhausted by five nights of succesive alerts tells me Last Line: Francois is twenty Subject(s): French Resistance, World War Ii LEAVES OF HYPNOS: 94, by RENE CHAR Poem Source First Line: This morning, as I was observing a very small snake Last Line: Killed this past week, crops up superstitiously in the image Subject(s): French Resistance, World War Ii LEAVES OF HYPNOS: 95, by RENE CHAR Poem Source First Line: The drak depths of the word numb me and immunize me Last Line: With a stonelike sobriety I remain the mother of distant cradles Subject(s): French Resistance, World War Ii LEAVES OF HYPNOS: 99, by RENE CHAR Poem Source First Line: Like a dead partridge seemed to me that poor invalid that the militia murdered Last Line: The innocent man absorbed that hell and their laughter (we captured the girl) Subject(s): French Resistance, World War Ii LEAVING FOR THE FRONT, by ALFRED LICHTENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Before dying I must just make my poem Last Line: In thirteen days maybe I'll be dead Subject(s): World War I LEAVING FOR THE FRONT, by ALFRED LICHTENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Before I die I must just find this rhyme Last Line: In thirteen days I'll probably be dead Subject(s): War; World War I LEGACY, by FREDERICK EBRIGHT Poem Source First Line: Wars end, and men come back from them Last Line: Children with puzzled eyes, and oddly old, %confused at their own sad confusion Subject(s): World War Ii LEGEND OF LILJA, by SARAH KIRSCH Poem Source First Line: If she was beautiful is uncertain the more Last Line: Will not get out of here we have %seen too much Subject(s): World War Ii LEGEND OF WOMAN, by MILUTIN BOJIC Poem Source First Line: Sleepy earth breathed its purple vapours Last Line: Down evergreen slopes came the woman Subject(s): World War I LEGEND OF YPRES, by ELINOR JENKINS Poem Source First Line: Before the throne the spirits of the slain Subject(s): World War I LENGTH OF DAYS (TO THE EARLY DEAD IN BATTLE), by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no length of days Last Line: There dwelt antiquity. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): World War I; First World War LENINGRAD (1941-1943), by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For some of us it began with wild dogs Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War LENINGRAD (1941-1943), by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For some of us it began with wild dogs Last Line: And scraped away the useless blue skin %and the dead flesh. Somehow we lived Subject(s): World War Ii LENINGRAD: 1943, by VERA INBER Poem Source First Line: From day to day Subject(s): Saint Petersburg, Russia; World War Ii LEOPOLD OF BELGIUM, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Khalifs and khans have we beheld, who trod Last Line: Trumpet his name, and flood his deeds with day. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Death; Earth; Time; Dead, The; World LES FLEURS DU MAL, by ALLEN TUCKER Poem Source First Line: From the battlefield, %from the ground uptorn, overturned Last Line: That grows only from the heart of love Subject(s): World War I LES HALLES D'YPRES, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A tangle of iron rods and spluttered beams Last Line: And flicker in playful flight. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War LESSON, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It occurs to me now Last Line: At the memory of my uncle %charging a barricade %with a homemade bomb, %I burst out laughing Subject(s): World War Ii 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 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 LET THERE BE INFINITY, by DEBRA GRACE KHATTAB Poem Source First Line: Sept. 11 I was scared shitless Last Line: And I want infinity to become the universal count %just infinity Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) LET THERE BE LIGHT!, by RUTH WRIGHT KAUFFMAN Poem Source First Line: Black with the blackness of hell and despair Subject(s): World War I LETTER FOR ALL-HALLOWS, by PETER KANE DUFAULT Poem Source First Line: I am still hurt, plin Last Line: Who, one way or another, were made ghosts %in all their country's wars Subject(s): World War Ii LETTER FROM EALING BROADWAY STATION, by AELFRIDA TILLYARD Poem Source First Line: Night fog. Tall through the murky gloom Last Line: Sister, good-night; the dawn is here Subject(s): Women; World War I LETTER FROM WALES, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is a question of identity %which I can't answer. Abel, I'll presume Last Line: But a stage before that, 'how am I to put %the question that I'm asking you to answer? Subject(s): World War I LETTER TO AN AVIATOR IN FRANCE, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A slope of summer sprinkled over Last Line: And sunset roses are in bloom. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; World War I; Airplanes; Air Pilots; First World War LETTER TO JEAN-PAUL BAUDOT, AT CHRISTMAS, by LUCIEN STRYK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Friend, on this sunny day, snow sparkling Last Line: Yours in hope of peace, for all of us %before the coming of another snow Subject(s): World War Ii LETTER TO LOUIS UNTERMEYER, 1944, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear louis: %I'd rather there had been no war at all Last Line: I'd take a hand in it if you would let me Subject(s): Untermeyer, Louis (1885-1977); World War Ii LETTER TO PARIS, by GAIL N. HARADA Poem Source First Line: Old letters accumulate like dust on my desk Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans LETTER TO S.S. FROM BRYN-Y-PIN, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor fusilier aggrieved with fate %that lets you lag in france so late Last Line: Where lurk the bogeys of old fear %to think of you, to feel you near %by our old bond, poor fusilier Subject(s): World War I LETTER TO YOUKI, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love Last Line: I've got another science I can confuse him with Subject(s): France; Love; World War Ii; Second World War LETTER TO YOUKI, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love Last Line: The censor. A thousand kisses. And have you received the little hope %chest that I sent to the hotel Subject(s): France; Love; World War Ii LETTRES D'UN SOLDAT (1914-1915), by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No introspective chaos -- I accept Subject(s): World War I; First World War LETTRES D'UN SOLDAT (1914-1915), by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No introspective chaos -- I accept Last Line: You know the phrase Subject(s): World War I LETTRES D'UN SOLDAT: 5, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The palais de justice of chambermaids Last Line: Make more awry our faulty human things Subject(s): World War I LETTRES D'UN SOLDAT: 6, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is another mother whom I love Last Line: And little will or wish, that day, for tears Subject(s): World War I LETTRES D'UN SOLDAT: 7, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hi! The creator too is blind Last Line: From that meticulous potter's thumb Subject(s): World War I LETTRES D'UN SOLDAT: 8, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John smith and his son, john smith Last Line: And-a-runny-tummy-tum Subject(s): World War I LETTRES D'UN SOLDAT: 9, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life contracts and death is expected Last Line: The clouds go, nevertheless, %in their direction Subject(s): World War I LEVEL MIND, by ALEXANDER COMFORT Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii LEVELLER, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Near martinpuisch that night of hell Last Line: His comrades of 'a' company %deeply regret his death :we shall all deeply miss so tru a pal' Subject(s): World War I LIBERTE, EGALITE, FRATERNITE, by FLORENCE CONVERSE Poem Source First Line: Let us not fear for the creative word Last Line: Let us not fear for the creative word Subject(s): France; Freedom; World War Ii LIBERTY OF MAN, by CHARLES PEGUY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Such is the difficulty, it is great Last Line: Does one love to be loved by slaves Subject(s): World War I LIBYA, by L. CHALLONER Poem Source First Line: Where is the splendour alexander found Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii LIDICE, by CHARLES SCHIFF Poem Source First Line: Now let each common and heroic man Last Line: The european dead crying out for rest, %I rest in them, and take them to my breast Subject(s): Lidice, Czechoslovakia; World War Ii LIDICE, by UNKNOWN+174 Poem Source First Line: This village has no name. We wiped it out Last Line: Was seen in essence and in crime acquired %an endless habitation and a name Subject(s): World War Ii LIDICE; TO THE DESPOILERS, by MARY SINTON LEITCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From what dark wine, with what disastrous gall Last Line: Till you implore the mercy of the dust %as refuge from the name of lidice! Subject(s): 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'S FAVORITE, by ALFRED COCHRANE Poem Source First Line: Life she loved him - she seemed the slave Subject(s): World War I LIFE'S SALUTATIONS (FROM AN ALBUM), by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This earth resembles a highway vast Last Line: Compelling our sad separation. Subject(s): Earth; Life; World 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 LIGHTS OUT, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have come to the borders of sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Life Change Events; Sleep; World War I; First World War LIGHTS OUT, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have come to the borders of sleep Last Line: That I may lose my way %and myself Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Life Change Events; Sleep; World War I LIKE LOVE, by LAURIE KURIBAYASHI Poem Source First Line: What you will remember are his hands Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans LIKE MEN OF OLD, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: There was three of them trapped in an old chateau Last Line: Of the dead men three who had held them hard till the flag came over the hill! Subject(s): Native Americans; World War I; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; First World War LIMBO, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After a week spent under raining skies, / in horror, mud and sleeplessness a wee Last Line: Draw the plough leisurely in quiet courses. Subject(s): World War I; First World War LIMITATIONS, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Thou cravest sympathy yet never think Last Line: How much I dwarfed and wronged thy nature here below! Subject(s): Earth; Hope; Sympathy; Truth; World; Optimism; Empathy LINE AFTER LINE, by PETER BAKER Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii LINES, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the centers' naked files, the basic line Last Line: The longest of their lives, the men are free Subject(s): World War Ii LINES FOR THE HOUR, by HAMILTON FISH ARMSTRONG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If what we fought for seems not worth the fighting Last Line: Knowing the slow mutations of the soul. Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War LINES TO A DICTATOR, by MARY SINTON LEITCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: London shall perish - arch and tower and wall Last Line: And cry, amazed, 'the towers are overthrown, %the walls have crumbled - but the city stands!' Subject(s): London; World War Ii 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 LINES WRITTEN IN CAPTIVITY, by F. J. PATMORE Poem Source First Line: In england the leaves are falling Subject(s): World War I LINES WRITTEN IN SURREY, 1917, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: A sudden swirl of song in the bright sky Last Line: Of english daisies dancing in english dells. Subject(s): England; World War I - Great Britain; English LISTENING POST, by ROBERT ERNEST VERNEDE Poem Source First Line: The sun's a red ball in the oak Last Line: Out of our discords harmony %sweeter than a bird's song Subject(s): World War I LITANY, by ALLEBE GREGORY Poem Source First Line: Saint genevieve, whose sleepless watch Subject(s): World War I LITANY IN WAR TIME, by J. W. A. Poem Source First Line: Now that the heavens are opened Subject(s): World War I LITTLE BELGIAN ORPHAN, by AMANDA MCKITTRICK ROS Poem Source First Line: Daddy was a belgian and so was mammy too Last Line: If nobody conquer him on earth the devil will in ---- Subject(s): World War I LITTLE CAR, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the 31st day of august in the year 1914 Last Line: We had nevertheless just been born Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): World War I LITTLE CAR, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The 31st day of august 1914 Last Line: We had just been born Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): World War I LITTLE FRIEND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Then I heard the bomber call me in Last Line: Let's go home Subject(s): Air Warfare;world War Ii; Second World War LITTLE GRIMY-FINGERED GIRL, by LEE WILSON DODD Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): World War I LITTLE HOME PAPER, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): World War I LITTLE INDIVIDUALIST, by GABRIEL-TRISTAN FRANCONI Poem Source First Line: She's lissom, with a quivering knife-blade mind Last Line: Have raised their delicate hands to kill Subject(s): World War I LITTLE MOTHER, by EVERARD JACK APPLETON Poem Source First Line: Little mother, little mother, with the shadows Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I LITTLE OLD ROAD, by GERTRUDE PALMER VAUGHAN Poem Source First Line: There's a breath of may in the breeze Subject(s): World War I LITTLE ONE-STAR FLAG, by ALFRED DAMON RUNYON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, I used to hear the family Alternate Author Name(s): Runyon, Damon Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I LITTLE PEOPLES, by B. PAUL NEUMAN Poem Source First Line: The pharoahs trampled on us in their day Subject(s): World War I LITTLE RAMSHACKLE SHACK, by ABD AL-HAYY MOORE Poem Source First Line: A little ramshackle shack on a hill Last Line: And the silence or the sound that follows it %is also part of it Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) LITTLE TOWN IN SENEGAL, by WILL THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: I hear the throbbing music down the lanes Subject(s): World War I LIVING LINE, by HAROLD BEGBIE Poem Source First Line: As long as faith and freedom last Subject(s): World War I LMFBR, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death himself, / (liquid metal fast breeder reactor) Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man 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 LONDON IN WAR, by HELEN DIRCKS Poem Source First Line: White faces, %like helpless petals on the stream Last Line: Are wounded birds %that fall %for ever Subject(s): Women; World War I LONDON TROOPS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: While they endure the moaning fray Subject(s): World War I LONDON, 1940, by ALAN ROOK Poem Source First Line: Lonely now this unreal city of desperate hopes Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii LONDON, 1941, by MERVYN LAURENCE PEAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Half masonry, half pain; her head Last Line: O mother of wounds; half masonry, half pain Subject(s): World War Ii LONE HAND, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She took her tide and she passed the bar with the first o' the morning light Subject(s): World War I LONE WOMAN, by ROBERT A. CHRISTIE Poem Source First Line: They're gathering now at yon crossroads Subject(s): World War I LONELY EAGLES, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being black in america Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Aviation & Aviators; Air Warfare; World War Ii; African Americans - Military; Family Life; James, General Daniel 'chappie' (1920-78); Airplanes; Air Pilots; Second World War; Relatives LOOK WITHIN, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, let me not be silent while we fight Last Line: While worm-infested, rotten through within! Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Fascism & Fascists; Racism; United States; World War Ii; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; America; Second World War LOOM, by JAMES HARRY KNIGHT-ADKIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Riding back from caudebec through autumn Subject(s): World War I LORD KITCHENER, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unflinching hero, watchful to foresee Last Line: By the lone orkneys, at the set of sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Kitchener, Horatio, 1st Earl (1850-1916); World War I - Casualties LOSERS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I should pass the tomb of jonah Last Line: "come on, you ... Do you want to live forever?" Subject(s): Courage; World War I; Valor; Bravery; First World War LOSSES, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was not dying: everybody died Subject(s): Death; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War LOSSES, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was not dying: everybody died Last Line: We are satisfied, if you are; but why did I die?' Subject(s): Death; World War Ii LOST ABOARD U.S.S. 'GROWLER'; IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM HICKEY, 1944, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black at that depth Variant Title(s): Pacific Lament Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea Battles; World War Ii; Naval Warfare; Second World War LOST ABOARD U.S.S. 'GROWLER'; IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM HICKEY, 1944, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black at that depth Last Line: Toss no morem sib %sleep Variant Title(s): Pacific Lamen Subject(s): Sailors And Sailing; Sea Battles; World War Ii LOST ARMY, by MARGERY LAWRENCE Poem Source First Line: Singing and shouting they swept to the treacherous forest Last Line: Darkness and silence and night is the end of their story Subject(s): Women; World War I LOST LAND: TO GERMANY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A childhood land of mountain ways Subject(s): World War I LOST PILOT, by JAMES TATE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your face did not rot Last Line: That placed you in that world %and me in this; or that misfortune %placed these worlds in us Subject(s): World War Ii LOST TRAVELLER'S DREAM, by EVA GORE-BOOTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Men say amid the hosts ... Hidden morrows hides Alternate Author Name(s): Selina Subject(s): World War I 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 LOUVAIN, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was the very heart of peace that thrilled Subject(s): World War I 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 ATTACKED, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is more sweet than flowers Last Line: Indifference. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; Love; World LOVE DEFENDED, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who extols a wilderness Last Line: Great is its relief. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Love; Pain; World; Paradise; Suffering; Misery 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 LOVE'S PERFECT POWER, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sun of my earthly worship, I declare Last Line: And love beats, burns, and freezes in its place. Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Fate; Heaven; Love; Nature; World; Destiny; Paradise LOVE, 1916, by MAY WEDDERBURN CANNAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One said to me, 'seek love, for he is joy' Last Line: And answer came, 'love now %is christened sacrifice' Subject(s): Women; World War I LULLABY, by EDITH SITWELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though the world has slipped and gone Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War LULLABY, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though the world has slipped and gone Last Line: And with the ape thou art alone - %do, do Subject(s): World War Ii LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 30, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The earth had long been avaricious Last Line: "they ""madam"" entitle, with chilling formality." Subject(s): Bells; Birds; Earth; Laughter; May (month); World LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 33, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The earth is so fair, and the heavens so bright Last Line: The corpse of my mistress dear caressing. Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Heaven; World; Paradise M. E. MEDLEY, by J. BROOME Poem Source First Line: Everywhere %radios blare Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii M. O. R. C., by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: They didn't raise their boy to be a soldier Last Line: Till the guns commenced to shoot and war began Subject(s): World War I MACHINE, by JOHN CURTIS UNDERWOOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A british commissariat clerk looked out of a shattered window at Last Line: D'armee and conquering armies Subject(s): World War I MADE SAFE FOR DEMOCRACY, by FLORENCE MCLANDBURGH Poem Source First Line: Made safe for democracy' seems mighty fine Last Line: We're makin' it safe for the missus and kids Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Mclandburgh Subject(s): World War I MADEMOISELLE FROM ARMENTIERES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Madamoiselle from armentieres, parley voo Last Line: Hinky, dinky, parley voo Subject(s): World War I MAGICIAN IN MOURNING, by DONNA SUZANNE KERR Poem Source First Line: The first day of november Last Line: How we have defiled %such gifts Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) MAGNA CARTA, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Magna carta! Magna carta! Last Line: English brothers, we are waiting! Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Magna Carta; World War I; English History; First World War 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 MAIL CALL, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The letters always just evade the hand Subject(s): Army Life; Postal Service; World War Ii; Drills & Minor Tactics; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen; Second World War MAIL CALL, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The letters always just evade the hand Last Line: The soldier simply wishes for his name Subject(s): Army Life; Postal Service; World War Ii 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 HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Affliction one day, as she harked to the roar Last Line: "and his spirit to jove who bestowed it." Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Earth; Goddesses & Gods; Life; Mankind; Mythology; Dead, The; World; Human Race 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 MAN AND DOG, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twill take some getting.' 'sir, I think 'twill so' Last Line: Together in the twilight of the wood Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Animals; World War I MAN AND NATURE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sad man on a summer day Last Line: Who can be bright without the sun.' Subject(s): Earth; Clouds; Mankind; Birds; Sea; World; Human Race; Ocean MAN BEHIND, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The band is on the quarter-deck ... Subject(s): World War I MAN FLEES SUFFOCATIION, by RENE CHAR Poem Source Last Line: Deported from the yoke and from the nuptials, I strike the iron of invisible hinges Subject(s): World War Ii MAN IN THE DEAD MACHINE, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High on a slope in new guinea Last Line: Upright, held %by the firm webbing Subject(s): World War Ii MAN IN THE TRENCH, by JAMES BERNARD FAGAN Poem Source First Line: Can you note hear me, young man in the street? Subject(s): World War I MAN OF MY TIME, by SALVATORE QUASIMODO Poem Source First Line: You are still the one with stone and sling Last Line: The black birds, the wind, cover over their hearts Subject(s): World War Ii MAN WHO CAN FIGHT AND SMILE, by NORMA BRIGHT CARSON Poem Source First Line: There is need in the world of men today Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I MANKIND, by GEORG TRAKL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Round gorges deep with fire arrayed, mankind Last Line: Into the wound saint thomas dips his hand Subject(s): World War I MANY FORMS OF PREDATOR THREATEN, MULTICELLULAR, SHELLS., by PETER BAUM Poem Source Last Line: On a white field the sweet red flower stands out beautifully Subject(s): World War I MARCH DAYS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world to-day is a nun in gray Last Line: And april airs be here! Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Lakes; March (month); Spring; Nightmares; World; Pools; Ponds MARCH TO CALUMNY, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Throckmorton's troops are already out of it -- even the segregated Last Line: So the chances of capturing her smile are next to nothing Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities MARCH TOWARD THE FRONT, by ODYSSEUS ALEPOUDELI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At daylight on st. John's day, the day after epiphany Last Line: And there in the distance, and along the horizon the first bright red flares Alternate Author Name(s): Elytis, Odysseus; Elytis, Odysseas; Alepudelis, Odisseus Subject(s): World War Ii 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 MARCHING AWAY, by EMMA A. LENT Poem Source First Line: There is a shrill of bugles Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I MARCHING FORTH TO WAR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It was grand to be a soldier and go swinging Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I MARCHING ON TANGA, by FRANCIS BRETT YOUNG Poem Source Subject(s): World War I MARCHING SOLILOQUY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Left! %left! %had a good girl when I Subject(s): World War I MARCHING SONG, by DANA BURNET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When pershing's men go marching into picardy Last Line: And pershing's men are marching, marching into picardy. Subject(s): Army - United States; World War I; First World War MARE LIBERUM, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You dare to say with perjured lips Last Line: Till liberty is safe on sea and shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Lusitania (ship); Patriotism; Submarines; World War I; Submarine Warfare; U-boats; First World War MARGARET GILL'S QUIET LIFE, by CHRISTOPHER WISEMAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a woman, dead at eighty-seven, who's left Last Line: Down at the bottom, called social studies Subject(s): World War Ii – Casualties; Women; Love – Loss Of; Conduct Of Life MARINES, by ADOLPHE E. SMYLIE Poem Source First Line: Pardon! He has no engleesh, heem' Subject(s): World War I MARK ANDERSON, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the low table by the bed Last Line: But only gaze upon the glass %of water that he could not drink Subject(s): World War I MARK TWAIN AND JOAN OF ARC, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When yankee soldiers reach the barricade Last Line: At bloodshed caused by angels, saints, and men. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Twain, Mark (samuel Langhorne Clemens); World War I; First World War MARKET AT PORTA CAPUANA, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: Comes out of the ground, comes out Last Line: Hair, and very pure, egg-noodle, stars Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii 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 CADENZA, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only this evening I saw again low in the sky Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War MARTIAL CADENZA, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only this evening I saw again low in the sky Last Line: Again, and lived and was again, and breathed again %and moved again and flashed again, time flashed Subject(s): World War Ii MARTYRED NATION, by W. H. GADSDON Poem Source First Line: Out of the deafening boom and crash Subject(s): World War I MARY, by IRENE RUTHERFORD MCLEOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mary! I'm quite alone in all the world Alternate Author Name(s): De Selincourt, Aubrey, Mrs. Variant Title(s): One Mothe Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I MASSIVE RETALIATION; SAIPAN 1944-1945; AERIAL OFFENSIVE AGAINST JAPAN, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I gaped, admitted, at some what we did Last Line: So far from home, almost beyond return Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Saipan (island); World War Ii MASTER AND PUPIL, by O. M. Poem Source First Line: Two years ago I taught him greek Subject(s): World War I MATER DOLOROSA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: What have I given thee Subject(s): World War I 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 MAY MORNING, by EARL BOWMAN MARLATT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fancy, the rapture Last Line: God. Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists; Creation; Earth; God; Life; World MAY, 1915, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us remember spring will come again Last Line: At one with love, at one with grief: blind to the scattered things and changing skies. Subject(s): Spring; Women; World War I; First World War MAY-JUNE, 1940, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Foreseen for so many years: these evils, this monstrous violence Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War MAY-JUNE, 1940, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Foreseen for so many years: these evils, this monstrous violence Last Line: It will not be in our time, alas, my dear, %it will not be in our time Subject(s): World War Ii MCMXIV [1914], by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those long uneven lines Subject(s): World War I; First World War MCMXIV [1914], by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those long uneven lines Last Line: The thousands of marriages %lasting a little while longer: %never such innocence again Subject(s): World War I MEASUREMENTS, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our world is very little in the sky Last Line: Earth's breadth, love's narrowness, must learn to see. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Earth; Love; World MEDAL, by DIMCHO DEBELYANOV Poem Source First Line: When bored or tired of dispensing Last Line: That it will turn into a medal of gold Subject(s): World War I MEDITATION, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If thou, lord god, willest to judge Last Line: Thee, the high judge, and their sin. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ; Prayer; War; World War I; First World War MEDITATION IN JUNE, 1917, by EDWARD SHANKS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How can we reason still, how look afar Subject(s): World War I MEETING OF THE POET AND THE PRESIDENT, by COLEMAN BRYAN BARKS Poem Source First Line: There is a passage in specimen days, august 12, 1863; here Last Line: The wit of their tails flicking blackflies Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) MEETINGS, by EUGENE GRINDEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet monster you hold death in your beak Last Line: Be careful of your paws %man has his feet in blood Alternate Author Name(s): Eluard, Paul Subject(s): World War Ii MEMOIR, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Papa joffre, the shoulders of him wide as the land of france Last Line: A lift of white sun on a stony beach. Subject(s): Joffre, Joseph Jacques (1852-1931); World War I; First World War MEMORIAL RAIN, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ambassador puser the ambassador Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War MEMORIAL RAIN, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ambassador puser the ambassador Last Line: He rests, he is quiet, he sleeps in a strange land Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR INVASION BEACH WHERE VACATION IN FLESH IS OVER, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see that there it is on the beach Last Line: And barely can not hear them calling, “here's one” Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR INVASION BEACH WHERE VACATION IN FLESH IS OVER, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see that there it is on the beach Last Line: And barely can not hear them calling, here's one Subject(s): World War Ii MEMORIAL SONNET (FOR TWO YOUNG SEAMEN LOST ...): 1, by GEORGE BARKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The seagull, spreadeagled, splayed on the wind Last Line: Saw I was standing in the stance of vague %horror; paralysed with mere pity's peace? Variant Title(s): Pacific Sonnets: Subject(s): Mourning; Sailors And Sailing; World War Ii MEMORIAL SONNET (FOR TWO YOUNG SEAMEN LOST ...): 2, by GEORGE BARKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From thorax of storms the voices of storms Last Line: Eternity in our cabins, pitches our pod %to the mouth of the death for which no one is ready Variant Title(s): Pacific Sonnets: Subject(s): Mourning; Sailors And Sailing; World War Ii MEMORIAL SONNET (FOR TWO YOUNG SEAMEN LOST ...): 3, by GEORGE BARKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At midday they looked up and saw their death Last Line: The funeral contribution and memorial, %the perfect and non-existent obsequies Variant Title(s): Pacific Sonnets: Subject(s): Mourning; Sailors And Sailing; World War Ii MEMORIAL TABLET (GREAT WAR, 1918), by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Squire nagged and bullied till I went to fight Last Line: What greater glory could a man desire? Subject(s): Mourning; World War I; Bereavement; First World War 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 IN HOSPITAL, by ALFRED HERMAN FRIEDRICH VAGTS Poem Text First Line: The beds are hutches, snow-frozen, where I lie, leaking away Last Line: That bends above my couch, again and yet again. Subject(s): Hospitals; World War I - Casualties MEMORIES OF A LOST WAR, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The guns know what is what, but underneath Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War MEMORIES OF A LOST WAR, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The guns know what is what, but underneath Last Line: They will be proud a while of something death %still needs to need Subject(s): World War Ii MEMORIES OF VERDUN, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The men laughed and baaed like sheep Last Line: They were afraid of less, its lieutenant Subject(s): World War I; Verdun, Battle Of (1916); First World War MEMORIES OF VERDUN, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The men laughed and baaed like sheep Last Line: I was afraid of nothing, a death; %they were afraid of less,its lieutenant Subject(s): World War I MEMORIES OF WEST STREET AND LEPKE, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only teaching on tuesdays, book-worming Variant Title(s): Life Studies: Memories Of West Street And Lepke Subject(s): Boston; Conscientious Objectors; Lepke, Louis (1897-1944); Prisons & Prisoners; World War Ii; Convicts; Second World War MEMORIES OF WEST STREET AND LEPKE, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only teaching on tuesdays, book-worming Last Line: Hanging like an oasis in his air %of lost connections Variant Title(s): Life Studies: Memories Of West Street And Lepk Subject(s): Boston; Conscientious Objectors; Lepke, Louis (1897-1944); Prisons And Prisoners; World War Ii MEMORIES: 2, by CLAIRE MORRIS GANNON Poem Text First Line: Whenever I hear a bluebird sing Last Line: Those glorious happy other days? Subject(s): Memory; Wellesley College; World War I; First World War MEMORIZING CHAUCER, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: October leaves were falling Last Line: I run for a corner, %shivering from head to foot Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities MEMORY, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There was no sound at all, no crying in the village Last Line: Who shall deliver us from the memory of these dead? Subject(s): Women; World War I MEMORY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young my heart and head were light Last Line: And silence; and the faces of my friends. Subject(s): Nature; World War I; First World War MEMORY OF ENGLAND, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am glad, I think, my happy mother died Last Line: And thoughts like these... %make me content that she, not I,%went first, went without knowing Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): World War Ii MEMORY OF THE WAR, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most what I know of war is what I learned Last Line: So that is what I did, and how I learned %about the war: I sat there till relieved Subject(s): World War Ii MEN OF VERDUN, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are five men in the moonlight Last Line: Is written on their flesh. Subject(s): Verdun, Battle Of (1916); World War I; First World War MEN OF WAKE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men betrayed, of that island a myth and a wonder Last Line: Theirs the light beyond death—the eternal debt of the living. Subject(s): Wake Island; World War Ii; Second World War MEN WHO MAN, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The men who man our batteries Last Line: The men who man the world Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): World War I MEN WHO MARCH AWAY' (SONG OF THE SOLDIERS), by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What of the faith and fire within us Last Line: Men who march away. Variant Title(s): Song Of The Soldiers Subject(s): Freedom; World War I; Liberty; First World War 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 MERCHANTMEN, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All honour be to merchantmen Last Line: All honour be to merchantmen while sun and moon do shine! Subject(s): Merchants; World War I; First World War MERRY HEART GOES ALL THE DAY', by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I jogged along the footpath way Subject(s): World War I MESOPOTAMIA, by JAMES GRIFFYTH FAIRFAX Poem Source First Line: The clouds are gathered and the wind blows ... Subject(s): World War I 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 DECK, by ALAN ROSS Poem Source First Line: The bulkhead sweating, and under naked bulbs Last Line: Marooned in it, stealthy as fishes, as may even be dead Subject(s): World War Ii METAMORPHOSES: THE GOLDEN AGE, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When faith and honesty with willing hand Last Line: And blest content prolonged the golden reign. Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Earth; Faith; Flowers; Honesty; World; Belief; Creed 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 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 MIDDLE OF A WAR, by ROY FULLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My photograph already looks historic Last Line: Only the trodden island and the dead %remain, and the once inestimable caskets Subject(s): World War Ii MIGRANTS, by DUDLEY G. DAVIES Poem Source First Line: Over the conquered countries Last Line: As they flash over, heedless %as moon and morning star Subject(s): Birds; World War Ii MIKE DILLON, DOUGHBOY, by JOHN PIERRE ROCHE Poem Source Subject(s): World War I MILAN, AUGUST 1943, by SALVATORE QUASIMODO Poem Source First Line: In vain, search in dust Last Line: Leave them on the earth of their own homes: %the city is dead, dead Subject(s): Milan, Italy; World War Ii MILITARY NECESSITY, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Iscariot, never more thy stricken name Last Line: "and they are blotted out." Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): World War I; First World War MILKING TIME, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a drip of honeysuckle in the deep green lane Last Line: "ow bill! A rottin' frenchy. Whew! 'e ain't 'arf prime." Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War MIMICRY, by NORA MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: On vacation, watching a parade from a crowded sidewalk Last Line: What do you think, now she has recognized you? Subject(s): World History MINE-SWEEPING TRAWLERS, by EDWARD HILTON YOUNG Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Not ours the fighter's glow Alternate Author Name(s): Kennet Of The Dene, 1st Baron Subject(s): World War I MINED COUNTRY, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have gone into the gray hills quilled with birches Last Line: Sure the whole world's wild Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War MINED COUNTRY, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have gone into the gray hills quilled with birches Last Line: Love in some manner restored; to be %sure the whole world's wild Subject(s): World War Ii 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 MINORITY: 1917, by MAY O'ROURKE Poem Source First Line: She curls her darkened lashes; manicures Last Line: Forgetting quite the thousand, thousand boys %who gave you their pierced hearts! Subject(s): Women; World War I MISCREANT, by FELIX EMANUEL SCHELLING Poem Source First Line: It was a slender belgian lad Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I MISERCORDIA, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He earned his bread by making wooden soldiers Subject(s): World War I; First World War MISERCORDIA, by AMY LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He earned his bread by making wooden soldiers Subject(s): World War I MISERERE: DE PROFUNDIS, by DAVID GASCOYNE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of these depths Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War MISERERE: DE PROFUNDIS, by DAVID GASCOYNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of these depths Last Line: And aid our unbelief Subject(s): World War Ii MISERERE: ECCE HOMO, by DAVID GASCOYNE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whose is this horrifying face Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Racism; World War Ii; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Second World War MISERERE: ECCE HOMO, by DAVID GASCOYNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whose is this horrifying face Last Line: That man's long journey through the night %may not have been in vain Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Racism; World War Ii 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 MISSING, by BEATRICE WITTE RAVENEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, how can he be dead? Last Line: Lord, how can he be dead? Subject(s): Women And War; World War I - Casualties MISSING, by UNKNOWN+50 Poem Source First Line: The soldier boys are marching ... Subject(s): World War I MISSING', by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When the anxious hearts say, 'where?' Subject(s): World War I MISSION TO LINZ, by RICHARD HUGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If you look at the sky Last Line: Where concerts carry %fast in summer wind Subject(s): World War Ii MISSIONARY AND HOTTENTOT, by FRANK LEBBY STANTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A world at war, and the thunder-guns Last Line: As the souls of the slain went up to god! Subject(s): World War I MISSIS MORIARTY'S BOY, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Missis moriarty called last week, and says she to me, says she Last Line: Would I be missis moriarty, or missis moriarty me? Subject(s): War; World War I; First World War MIXTURE AS BEFORE, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer is icumen in Last Line: And the aromatic night %leans against the blackout curtain Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): World War Ii MIZPAH, by GERTRUDE STEWART Poem Source First Line: Oh, man o' mine in olive drab Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I MOAT, by OLIFFE RICHMOND Poem Source First Line: The little moat that fronts our fortress-wall Last Line: Confederate shores not ocean can divide Subject(s): English Channel; World War Ii MODELS, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boy of twelve, shaping a fuselage Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War MODELS, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boy of twelve, shaping a fuselage Last Line: Not worth their welcome, as unlike to last Subject(s): World War Ii MOIRA'S KEENING, by NORREYS JEPHSON O'CONOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O mountains of erin Last Line: O boy of mine! Dead. Subject(s): Sons; World War I - Ireland MONARCHS IN WINTER, by NORA MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: Their wings tear as easily Last Line: That we forget all other hungers Subject(s): World History MONOLOGUE, by GOTTFRIED BENN Poem Source First Line: Their colons feds with mucus, brains with lies Last Line: Are gathering now and famished hawks are poised! Subject(s): World War I MONT DE CASSEL, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here on the sunnier scarp of the hill let us rest Last Line: The thunder-throated cannonade booms on. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War MOON AND THE NIGHT AND THE MEN, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the night of the belgian surrender the moon rose Last Line: Of none, nor of anyone, and the war %goes on, and the moon in the breast of man is cold Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Belgium; Leopold Iii, King Of The Belgians; World War Ii MOON POEM, by MAX JACOB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sometime during the night there are three mushrooms Last Line: In my head a bee is speaking Subject(s): World War Ii MOONLIGHT, by ROBERT GILBERT VANSITTART Poem Source First Line: Time was when we were closer, moon and earth Last Line: Their feet have never soiled my asphodel Subject(s): Moon; World War Ii MOONRISE OVER BATTLEFIELD, by EDGELL A. RICKWORD Poem Source First Line: After the fallen sun the wind was sad Last Line: Why does this damned entrancing bitch %seek lovers only among them that sleep? Alternate Author Name(s): Rickword, E. A. Subject(s): World War I MORE THAN SUSPECT, by ANDRE BRETON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The oaks are stricken by a serious illness Last Line: A whole throngs of general's heads Subject(s): Dadaism; World War I; First World War MORE THAN SUSPECT, by ANDRE BRETON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The oaks are stricken by a serious illness Last Line: A whole throng of generals' heads Subject(s): Dadaism; World War I MORITURI TE SALUTANT, by P. H. B. LYON Poem Source First Line: In this last hour, before the bugles blare Alternate Author Name(s): L., P. H. B. Subject(s): World War I MORNING, by ALFRED LICHTENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: ... And all the streets lie snug there, clean and regular Last Line: Dreams of a cerebral stroke, paralysis, bone-rot Subject(s): World War I 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 IDYLL, by VLADISLAV PETKOVIC-DIS Poem Source First Line: I too have had my happy moments Last Line: I too have had my happy moments Subject(s): World War I MORNING RUSH HOUR, 9/28/01, by PATRICIA KELLY Poem Source First Line: The toddler cries 'I want mommy, I want mommy' Last Line: Of our stricken city, this looming grief %of the ages Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) MORS LEONIS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When o'er the aged lion steals Last Line: Yet hast thou perished like a king! Subject(s): Animals; Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Death; Earth; Lions; Sleep; Dead, The; World MOTHER, by SUSAN FRANCES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the bitter, the sweet Alternate Author Name(s): Seranus; Frances, Susan Subject(s): World War I MOTHER AND CHILD (WAR VICTIMS), by EVELYN D. BANGAY Poem Text First Line: We made room for you, remembering Last Line: Of golden love, and innocence, and tears. Subject(s): Children; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women In The Bible; World War Ii; Childhood; Virgin Mary; Second World 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 MOTHER EARTH, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the star-dust and the ether-flaw Last Line: To ease thine agony. Subject(s): Earth; World MOTHER EARTH, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of all the high-strung poets and singers departed, Last Line: Holdest the poem of god, eternal thought and emotion. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Earth; Poetry & Poets; World MOTHER OF NATIONS - WHY?, by ALBERT DURRANT WATSON Poem Source First Line: Does the mother of nations draw the sword Last Line: And marched to the goals of god Subject(s): World War I MOTHERHOOD'S CHANT, by FLORENCE MCLANDBURGH Poem Source First Line: French or russian, they matter not Last Line: To us, the makers of flesh and bone, %war? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Mclandburgh Subject(s): World War I MOTHERS OF GOD, ALL TENDERNESS AND TRUTH, by RONALD GORELL BARNES Poem Source Last Line: Their hearts unspoken, like a flock of doves, %beat with white wings about the throne of god Alternate Author Name(s): Gorell, 3d Baron Subject(s): World War Ii MOTHERS OF MEN, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: I hold no cause worth my son's life,' one said Last Line: Her son the dreamer's cross? Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; World War I; First World War MOTLEY, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, death, I'd have a word with thee Last Line: Tis time thy prayers were said! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Variant Title(s): The Fool Rings His Bells Subject(s): World War I; First World War MOTLEY: PEACE, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night is o'er england, and the winds are still Last Line: These bright dews once were mixed with bloody sweat. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War MR. BRYAN ENTERS ARLINGTON, by BRENT DOW ALLINSON Poem Source First Line: Long john abraham-lazy black bones! Last Line: But there is no amnesty, now, for the dead Subject(s): World War I MR. GETTHINGSDONE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Phil ossifize is a very big man Last Line: We need mr. Getthingsdone. Subject(s): Activity; World War I; Exercise; First World War MUDROS, AFTER THE EVACUATION, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: I laughed to see the gulls that dipped to cling Last Line: Seek solitude to dull the tragedy %and needless horror of the dardanelles Subject(s): Gallipoli Campaign (1915); World War I MULES, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I never would, 'ave done it if I'd known Subject(s): World War I MUNITION WAGES, by MADELINE IDA BEDFORD Poem Source First Line: Earning high wages? Yus Last Line: I'll have repaid mi wages %in death - and pass by Subject(s): Women; World War I MURMURINGS IN A FIELD HOSPITAL, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come to me only with playthings now Last Line: And the world was all playthings. Subject(s): Hospitals; World War I; First World War MURMURS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why wilt thou make bright music Last Line: That bids the world rejoice. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Earth; Peace; Religion; Wind; World; Theology MUSA MARINA, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Dancing waves! Still the moan Last Line: Tossing this side of eternity's shore? Subject(s): Earth; Future Life; Grief; Love; Nature; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness MUSIC, by ALBERT-PAUL GRANIER Poem Source First Line: Snow was filling space with a dream of down... Last Line: Listening to stories on christmas eve Subject(s): World War I MUSIC IN THE MIRABEL (SECOND VERSION), by GEORG TRAKL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A fountain sings. White, gentle clouds, aglow Last Line: At night the ear dwells on sonata sounds Subject(s): World War I MY AUNT'S LITTLE NOTE, by EDWARD TEN BROECK PERINE Poem Source First Line: With loving memories of peter I. And jeanette ford ten broeck Last Line: For perhaps your socks may fit! Subject(s): World War I MY BAY'NIT, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first I left blighty they gave me a bay'nit Last Line: Part of me outfit every time. Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War MY COMPANY, by HERBERT READ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You became %in many acts and quiet observances Last Line: Bow my head %and share their doom Subject(s): World War I MY COUNTRY, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: My country is the world--the whole round world Last Line: The world—my country. Subject(s): Earth; Nations; World MY FATHER-IN-LAW REMEMBERS THE ARGONNE, by MARINE ROBERT WARDEN Poem Source First Line: It helps to be mad Subject(s): Argonne, Battle Of (1918); Fathers-in-law; World War I MY FOE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gurr! You cochon! Stand and fight! Last Line: Blood-guilty in sight of god. Subject(s): Clergy; Death; Murder; Religion; War; World War I; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The; Theology; First World War MY JOB, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've got a little job on 'and, the time is drawin' nigh Last Line: It's seven sharp. Good-bye, old pals! . . . A decent job in dyin'. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War MY LOST FRIENDS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One by one they have slipped from earth Last Line: Whose shores I cannot trace. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Friendship; Graves; Love; Soul; Dead, The; World; Tombs; Tombstones MY MATE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've been sittin' starin,' starin' at 'is muddy pair of boots Last Line: To sorter be a farther to 'is kid. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War MY MEN GO WEARILY, by HERBERT READ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My men, my modern christs, %your bloody agony confronts the world Subject(s): World War I MY MOTHER IS PREPARED, by IONNA-VERONIKA WARWICK Poem Source First Line: She comes for a weekend %with bulging bags Last Line: Anything, she whispered %to me in polish, saying good-bye Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) MY PRISONER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We was in a crump-'ole, 'im and me Last Line: Wonders -- 'ow would 'e 'ave treated me? Subject(s): Prisoners Of War; War; World War I; First World War MY PROMENADE SOLITAIRE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up and down in my garden fair Last Line: As it follows its promenade solitaire? Subject(s): Earth; Gardens & Gardening; Solitude; World; Loneliness MY SAILOR BOY, by VIOLA BROTHERS SHORE Poem Source First Line: I did not ask for strength to let him go Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I MY SON, by JAMES D. HUGHES Poem Text First Line: God gave my son in trust to me Last Line: And cheer for him whose work is done. Subject(s): Grief; Patriotism; World War I; Sorrow; Sadness; First World War 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 WIFE SAYS DON'T WRITE ABOUT SEPTEMBER 11TH, by RYAN G. VAN CLEAVE Poem Source First Line: For three months, I have collected facts (elvis presley got a c in eighth Last Line: Sounds like static, a tv left on after every station's signed off Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NANJING, DECEMBER, 1937, by WING TEK LUM Poem Source First Line: Thousands tethered like cattle, herded like sheep Last Line: And then it was the women's turn Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NAPOLEON, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD Poem Text First Line: For france and liberty he set apart Last Line: On a lone island 'mid the atlantic waves. Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); World War I - France NAPOLEON'S TOMB, by DANA BURNET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the great doors, where paris flowed. Last Line: Beneath the silent, cold, anonymous stars. Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); World War I - France NAPOLI AGAIN, by RICHARD HUGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Long before I hear it, naples bright Last Line: I only came %to see you living and the fountains run Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii NARCISSUS, by HANS LEYBOLD Poem Source First Line: A bright girl, dancing, points her knees Last Line: The devil shooting steeply from the ether Subject(s): World War I NASEEM, by JUANITA TORRENCE-THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: Mommy, I'm scared Last Line: I prayed, my sweet. I prayed Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NATIONAL ANTHEM, by CHARLES W. WOOD Poem Source First Line: I love my country, yes I do Last Line: I guess I won't enlist Subject(s): World War I NATIONAL GAME, by BYRON BEARDSLEY Poem Source First Line: The 'huns' had not been challenged nor scheduled to appear Last Line: But soon every fan in this troubled old world will know the completed box %score Subject(s): World War I NATIONS' DAVID, by REGINALD WRIGHT KAUFFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Erect before hell's hurricane, between the germans and the sea Subject(s): World War I NATURALIZED ALIEN, by LURANA W. SHELDON Poem Source First Line: The land I claim claims me! Last Line: To call me back to loyalty Subject(s): World War I NATURE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A hand that tries to shake a hand Subject(s): Earth; Nature; World NATURE IN WAR-TIME, by S. GERTRUDE FORD Poem Source First Line: The banished thrush, the homeless rook Last Line: Winds sweep it now; a battle-ground %between two gun-swept hills Subject(s): Women; World War I NATURE'S DRINKING-SONG, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The earth drinks rain through every pore Last Line: Come let us drink, drink, drink! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Earth; Moon; Nature; Singing & Singers; Wine; World NATURE'S WORD, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In holy moments, when great nature seems Last Line: Or where we know not, but we trust the word. Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Hearts; Nature; Nightmares; World NAVAL PHOTOGRAPH: 25 OCTOBER 1942: WHAT THE HAND, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reports of a japanese surface presence Last Line: Toward the camera, toward us, for all of the reasons anyone waves. Subject(s): Navy - United States; Photography & Photographers; Waves; World War Ii; American Navy; Second World War NAVAL RESERVE, by EVELYN UNDERHILL Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: From the undiscovered deep Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, Stuart, Mrs. Subject(s): World War I NAVIGATOR, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: This lazy prince of tennis balls and lutes Last Line: This shall be done. This shall be better done in peace! Subject(s): World War Ii NAZARETH, by UNKNOWN+63 Poem Source First Line: Across the sands by mary's well Subject(s): World War I 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 NEGLECTED GARDEN, by ELEANOR ALEXANDER Poem Source First Line: Barren the garden lies, undressed Subject(s): World War I NEGRO SOLDIERS OF AMERICA: WHAT WE ARE FIGHTING FOR, by LUCIAN B. WATKINS Poem Source First Line: We fight-and for democracy Last Line: Peace and its happiness at home! Subject(s): African Americans - Military; World War I NEIGHBORHOOD CLAIRVOYANT, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: Your body should respond to therapy Last Line: Remember to receive death with true hospitality Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii NEUTRAL, by WRENNE JARMAN Poem Source First Line: As I was walking in the park Subject(s): Blackbirds; Soldiers; World War Ii NEUTRAL?; TO THE HUMANITY OF AMERICA, by HAROLD BEGBIE Poem Source First Line: When men are told in years ahead Subject(s): World War I NEW AENEID, by ALEXANDER ROBERTSON Poem Source First Line: These waters saw the gilded galleys come Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I NEW HEAVEN, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We have our hopes and fears that flout us Subject(s): World War I NEW HEAVEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Paradise now has many a knight Last Line: And the young knights' laughter pleaseth god. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Heaven; World War I - Casualties; Paradise 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 NEW YEAR, 1916, by ADA MAY HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Those that go down in silence Last Line: The very dust is clamorous with their praise Subject(s): Women; World War I NEW YORK MEMORIAL, by MEREDITH KAREN LASKOW Poem Source First Line: My world has become a moving collage Last Line: And writing a poem for every life lost Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NEW YORK POEM, by SAM HAMILL Poem Source First Line: I sit in the dark, not brooding Last Line: I'll kiss the sword that kills me if I must Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NEWS FEEDS: 1. LAST RITES, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: My ears are full %the building screeches Last Line: I'm going to die Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NEWS FEEDS: 2. RAY'S HOWL, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: My niece she was so young Last Line: Kill them kill them %kill you all Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NEWS FEEDS: 3. 911, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: 911 911 %nana is san francisco weeping Last Line: Needing to build again %911 %911 %911 Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NEWS FEEDS: 4. AFTERMATH, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: Checking in %I am safe Last Line: Built on love %and memory Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NEWS OF NOVEMBER 1,2001, by JOHN MINCZESKI Poem Source First Line: The news is some maple leaves are still clinging Last Line: Was bearable. For once I went through life %uncomplaining Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NEWS OF SUFFERING, by CLIFFORD DYMENT Poem Source First Line: Shouldering a way through crowds Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii NEWSPAPER, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They manufacture newsprint with a grain Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 NEWSPAPER, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They manufacture newsprint with a grain Last Line: To place by the master's breakfast-the skin of days Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) 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 YEAR, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Up and down the street I know Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I NIAGARA, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within the town of buffalo Last Line: The cataract niagara. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Buffalo (city), New York; Niagara Falls; Waterfalls; World War I; First World War NIAGARA, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Driving westward near niagara, that transfiguring of the waters, Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Nature; Earth; Social Commentaries; World NIGHT, by CHARLES PEGUY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O night, o my daughter night, you who know how to hold Last Line: Bearing the white shroud Subject(s): World War I NIGHT DUTY, by EVA DOBELL Poem Source First Line: The pain and laughter of the day are done Last Line: So near in body, yet in soul as far %as those bright worlds thick strewn on that vast depth of sky Subject(s): Women; World War I 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 LETTER, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The urgent letter that I try to write Last Line: The bloodied envelope addressed to you, %is history, that wide and moral pang Subject(s): Letters; World War Ii NIGHT MANCEUVRES, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through january night we climbed Last Line: I was not desolate before. Subject(s): Desolation; Night; Silence; Winter; World War Ii; Bedtime; Second World War NIGHT MARCH, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Evening: beneath tall poplar trees %we soldiers eat and smoke and sprawl Last Line: And the dark thought in every mind %to-night they'll march us on again Subject(s): World War I NIGHT OF APRIL, by OTTO GELSTED Poem Source First Line: At dawn the dark birds flew Last Line: That we had never loved her till that hour Subject(s): Freedom; World War Ii NIGHT OF BATTLE, by YVOR WINTERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Impersonal the aim Last Line: The dark blood of the folk. Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War NIGHT OF BATTLE, by YVOR WINTERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Impersonal the aim Last Line: The dark blood of the folk Subject(s): World War Ii NIGHT ON THE CONVOY, ALEXANDRIA - MARSEILLES, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out in the blustering darkness, on the deck Last Line: We are going home ... Victims ... Three thousand souls. Subject(s): Homecoming; Navy - Great Britain; World War I; English Navy; First World War NIGHT ON THE SHORE (NORTHUMBERLAND. AUGUST 6, 1914), by MARIE CARMICHAEL STOPES Poem Source First Line: A dusky owl in velvet moth-like flight Last Line: Perforce within god's presence, too Subject(s): Women; World War I NIGHT OPERATIONS, COASTAL COMMAND RAF, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remembering that war, I'd near believe Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii; Second World War NIGHT OPERATIONS, COASTAL COMMAND RAF, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remembering that war, I'd near believe Last Line: For all the time of training, you might take %the hundred steps in darkness, not the next Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii NIGHT PATROL, by ARTHUR GRAEME WEST Poem Source First Line: Over the top! The wire's thin here, unbarbed Last Line: Of the crusader and slid past his legs, %and through the wire and home, and got our rum Subject(s): World War I NIGHT RAID, by DESMOND HAWKINS Poem Source First Line: The sleepers humped down on the benches Last Line: The night sky %throbbed under the cool bandage of the searchlights Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii NIGHT ROAD, by ROBERT A. DONALDSON Poem Text First Line: A pitch-black road, and rain Last Line: The noisy bumping of a camion train. Subject(s): Night; Roads; War; World War I; Bedtime; Paths; Trails; First World War NIGHT WATCHMAN OF PONT-AU-CHANGE, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the night watchman of rue de flandre Last Line: Even if hidden by clouds it will still be there %goodmorning, goodmorning, with all of my heart bonj Subject(s): France; Surrealism; Watchmen; World War Ii NIGHT-PIECE, by ROBERT GREACEN Poem Source First Line: After the spools of talk are each unravelled Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii NIGHTINGALES, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: A gray and greasy smoke screen Last Line: Resounds - resounds - resounds - resounds Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii NIGHTPIECE, by JOHN STREETER MANIFOLD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Three men came talking up the road Last Line: I stood in the doorway and heard these things %as the three came pasy with the step of kings Subject(s): World War Ii NINETEEN FORTY, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun just drops down through the poplars Last Line: Individual wild ducks scraped and screamed in along a marsh. Subject(s): England; Evening; Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941); World War Ii; Writing & Writers; English; Sunset; Twilight; Second World War NINETEEN-FORTY FIVE, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our father's skin Last Line: A rare comb Subject(s): Hiroshima, Japan; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Nuclear War; World War Ii NINETEEN-SEVENTEEN, by SUSAN HOOKER WHITMAN Poem Source First Line: It is long since knighthood was in flower Subject(s): World War I NIRVANA, by VLADISLAV PETKOVIC-DIS Poem Source First Line: Last night the dead paid me a visit Last Line: The colour of the transience of things Subject(s): World War I 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 SUCH THING AS A PRECISION BOMB, by PAUL GANDHI JOSEPH DOSH Poem Source First Line: September 12th %the day after Last Line: We just grew a little more aware of how violent we %have become Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NOCTURNE, by ALBERT-PAUL GRANIER Poem Source First Line: The guns have fallen silent, gagged with fog Last Line: Beating shrouds in the thick water Subject(s): World War I NOCTURNE, by IVAN HARGRAVE Poem Source First Line: Clusters of spongy clouds quietly Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii NOCTURNE MILITAIRE, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine or remember how the road at last led us Last Line: As the night patrol of bombers climbs through the rain and is gone Subject(s): Miami Beach; World War Ii; Second World War NOCTURNES: 3, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: The gods are fighting to stay awake Last Line: And white light, transfixing the northeast, is discord Subject(s): Architecture And Architects; Buildings And Builders; New York City; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NON-COMBATANT, by CICELY HAMILTON Poem Source First Line: Before on drop of angry blood was shed Last Line: Let me endure it then - I give my pride %where others give a life Subject(s): Women; World War I NON-COMBATANTS, by EVELYN UNDERHILL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: Never of us be said Last Line: We murmur not. Of us, this word shall not be said. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, Stuart, Mrs. Subject(s): Women And War; World War I; First World War NOON, by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is midday; the deep trenches glare Last Line: We bide the next shrewd move of fate %be it of life or death Subject(s): World War I NOON, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the hills and far away Last Line: And has joined us with a nod. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Kisses; Noon; Wisdom; Dead, The; World NORMANDY BEACH, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The waves on the normandy coast jump heavily toward us Last Line: Lonely companion, %there's something I have to tell you but I don't know what Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944); Normandy, France; World War Ii NORTH SEA, by JEFFERY DAY Poem Source First Line: Dawn on the drab north sea! Last Line: Tis a fight to the death; 'tis war %and the north sea is redly reeking Subject(s): Sea Battles; World War I NORTH SEA GROUND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, grimsby is a pleasant town as any man may find Subject(s): World War I NORTHERN EARTH MOOD, by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR. Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Vision the sun and stars Last Line: Shows the working of fingers. Alternate Author Name(s): Allen, Hervey Subject(s): Earth; Sun; World NOT DEAD, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walking through trees to cool my heat and pain Last Line: Breaks his slow smile. Subject(s): Thomas, David; World War I; First World War 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 NOT TO KEEP, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They sent him back to her. The letter came Last Line: They had given him back to her, but not to keep. Subject(s): World War I - Casualties NOT TOO OLD TO FIGHT, by THOMAS CHALMERS HARBAUGH Poem Source First Line: My name is danny bloomer and my age is 83 Subject(s): World War I NOTE TO TONY TOWLE (AFTER WS), by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: One must have breakfasted often on automobile primer Last Line: Rather than attribute, towards the brush with open sea Subject(s): Business; Tourists; Trade; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NOTES ON OSAMA SPOTTINGS, by Q. R. HAND Poem Source First Line: Osama spotted like %victims of rocky mountain %tick fevers Last Line: All over like %the spanish flu Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NOTES TOWARD A POEM OF REVOLUTION, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What did we in all honesty expect? Last Line: Do they hate me Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 NOTES TOWARD A POEM OF REVOLUTION, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What did we in all honesty expect? Last Line: Strike & move on Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NOTHING IS THE SAME THE DAY AFTER, by ANN MARIE SAMSON Poem Source First Line: The gathering %they are gathering in the blackness Last Line: The eyes of allah %the eyes of god Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NOTHING NEW, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the dawn of spring till the year grows hoary Last Line: "murmurs -- ""rest." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Earth; Sea; Wind; World; Ocean NOTHING TO REPORT', by MAY HERSCHEL-CLARKE Poem Source First Line: One minute we was laughin', me an' ted Last Line: The next, he lay beside me grinnin' - dead. %'there's nothing to report,' the papers said Subject(s): Women; World War I NOTICE TO TOURISTS, by LEONARDO [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: But most avoid italia's coast Last Line: For british virtues left behind? Alternate Author Name(s): Leonardo Subject(s): Earth;tourists;travel; World;journeys;trips NOV-36, by EUGENE GRINDEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Look the builders of ruins are working Last Line: And give reason roving wings Alternate Author Name(s): Eluard, Paul Subject(s): World War Ii NOVEMBER, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How has november won Last Line: How close the tears! Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; November; Tears; World NOVEMBER 11TH, 1942, by LAWRENCE TOYNBEE Poem Source First Line: Sin in the mist this morning Last Line: Which mist, like sorrow, %now blankets out of sight Subject(s): World War Ii NOVEMBER, 1941, by ROY FULLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The objects are disposed: the sky is suitable Last Line: My blood reside in human power and guilt, %whose fathers made both myth and progeny Subject(s): History; World War Ii NOW AS THEN, by ANNE RIDLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When under edward or henry the english armies Last Line: Like minot and the rest, groping we pray %'lord, turn us again, confer on us victory' Subject(s): Prayer; World War Ii NOW TO BE STILL AND REST, by P. H. B. LYON Poem Source Alternate Author Name(s): L., P. H. B. Subject(s): World War I NOX MORTIS, by PAUL BEWSHER Poem Source First Line: The afternoon %flutters and dies Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; World War I NUN SNOW, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is she / thoughtless of life Last Line: Dropping the curtain so soon! Subject(s): Earth; Moon; World NUNGESSER UND COLI SIND VERRECKT, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: They took off %and tricolor flags came out of their assholes Last Line: And the usual complete idiots found in every country Subject(s): Surrealism; World War Ii NURSE, by G. M. MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: Here in the long white ward I stand Subject(s): World War I NURSE EDITH CAVELL; TWO O'CLOCK, THE MORNING OF OCTOBER 12, 1915, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To her accustomed eyes Last Line: Announced that day she met the immortal dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Cavell, Edith (1865-1915); Death; Nurses; World War I; Dead, The; First World War NUT'S BIRTHDAY, by JESSIE POPE Poem Source First Line: When gilbert's birthday came last spring Last Line: To celebrate his natal day %in hard-won flanders' ditches Subject(s): Women; World War I O GLORIOUS FRANCE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have become a forge of snow white fire Last Line: Grown weary cries enough! Subject(s): World War I - France O SAY CAN YOU SEE, YOU WHO GLORY IN WAR, by KATHERINE DEVEREUX BLAKE Poem Source Last Line: Shall give hope to the nations and peace to the world Subject(s): World War I O, YOU HOOVER!, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My tuesdays are meatless Last Line: My! How I do hate the kaiser! Subject(s): World War I OBSERVATION POST, by KURT HEYNICKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hills march across my eyes Last Line: Drips into my thoughts. Subject(s): World War I; First World War OCCASION, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The trenches are filled in, the houseless dead Last Line: Impetuous gust of wind blew in with a shout, %fluttering your poems. And the lamp went out Subject(s): World War I OCCIDENT (FOURTH VERSION), by GEORG TRAKL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Moon, as if a dead thing Last Line: Stars that are falling Subject(s): World War I OCEAN OF EARTH, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have built a house in the middle of the ocean Last Line: The ocean that is never still Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): World War I OCTOBER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now is the world a-muse, and earth and sky Last Line: Down unillumined aisles the requiem wind. Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Mythology - Classical; Nature; October; Pan (mythology); Sky; World OCTOBER, by NORA MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: A thick cider scent presses against the screen Last Line: Beats its hands against the ground Subject(s): World History OCTOBER CLASSIC, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If only there were a way of knowing Subject(s): World Series (baseball) OCTOBER POEM, by TAMURA RYUICHI Poem Source First Line: In crisis you may know me Last Line: My dead populace signs documents for those still dying Subject(s): World War Ii 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 SUNG AT THE OPENING OF THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Uplift a thousand voices full and sweet Last Line: Her flowers. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Exhibitions; World's Fairs; Expositions ODE TO A BLACKBIRD, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Troll out thy passion from yon vantage spray Last Line: Resounding thro' the echoing arbours of my brain! Subject(s): Blackbirds; Earth; Evil; Heaven; World; Paradise ODE TO SPRING, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Hark! Did ye hear them - the rumours afloat Last Line: Bird-like to sing mid its own fragrant bower! Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Love; Spring; World ODE TO THE EARTH, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O tireless earth! O earth of long desire! Last Line: The purposes of pain! Subject(s): Earth; World ODE TO TONSILITIS, by WALLACE IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Since senatorial rules decree once more Last Line: Rejoice, ya nations! Now we'll get some action!' Alternate Author Name(s): Ginger; Hashimura Togo Subject(s): World War I OF ALL WHO DIED IN SIELNCE FAR AWAY, by IRIS TREE Poem Source Last Line: The passion-red roses clustering his brow Subject(s): Women; World War I OF CONSTANCY AND MEASURE, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One sees again how it goes Last Line: With so much else believed to be fire and air Subject(s): Gurney, Ivor (1890-1937); World War I OF MUSIC, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The miner delves in caverns of the earth Last Line: Life thrills, grows luminous-large, smells sweet with balm and myrrh. Subject(s): Caves; Earth; Life; Mines & Miners; Music & Musicians; Sailing & Sailors; Sleep; Caverns; World; Seamen; Sails OF THOSE WHO WALK ALONE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Women there are on earth, of courage and high Last Line: Earth's wrongs are ended. Subject(s): Courage; Death; Earth; Faith; Loss; Love; Soul; Women; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; World; Belief; Creed OFF DUTY, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Source First Line: The night is full of magic, and the moonlit dewdrops Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I OFF DUTY; FLEET AIR ARM, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Source First Line: Far had he hurled his bomber through the sky Last Line: Crumble and plunge, and wing the sky no more Subject(s): World War Ii OFF HELIGOLAND, by JESSIE EDGAR MIDDLETON Poem Text First Line: Ghostly ships in a ghostly sea Last Line: Stands the spirit, all silver-bright. Subject(s): Great Britain - Navy; World War I; First World War OFF THE AIR, by MATTHEW MASON Poem Source First Line: My first love was an am radio dj Last Line: On this gorgeous night of a blossoming autumn, %this final broadcast of summer Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) OFFENSIVE, SELS., by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stars dead heroes in the sky %may well approve the way you die Last Line: And man must spend his life to find %all our successes and failures are similar Subject(s): World War Ii OFFERINGS, by NORA MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: You've been feasting on words again Last Line: Swift strokes, %sparrow, chickadee, finch Subject(s): World History OFFICERS' PRISON CAMP SEEN FROM A TROOP-TRAIN, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is some school, brick, green, a sleepy hill Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; World War Ii OFTEN WHEN WARRING, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often when warring for he wist not what Last Line: And war's apology wholly stultified. Subject(s): World War I; First World War OH, EARTH!, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, earth! That liest still to-night Last Line: But gazing on the sky. Subject(s): Earth; World OHIO MEN, by EDWIN CURRAN Poem Source First Line: Ohio of the grassland and the waving, bilowy Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I 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 CLOTHES, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: A couple hundred weeks, a couple kilos more or less Last Line: You're warm, you're moving through the streets. It's dinner time Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii OLD GANG ON THE CORNER, by WILLIAM HERSCHELL Poem Source Subject(s): World War I OLD GLORY, by GEORGE B. HYNSON Poem Source First Line: A group of stars on an azure field Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I OLD HYMN-TUNES, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, old-time tunes of prayer and praise Last Line: Till silence settles over all! Subject(s): Earth; Life; Time; World OLD JIM, by NORMAN SHANNON HALL Poem Source First Line: Out in that vague, vast 'somewhere' of ... Line Subject(s): World War I OLD MAEONIDES, by E. D. YOUNG Poem Source First Line: Others have felt this beauty into speech Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii OLD POSTCARDS, by GUNTHER EICH Poem Source First Line: Here's what I wanted to put the streetcars Last Line: We'll go to minsk %and pick up grandmother Subject(s): World War Ii OLD ROAD TO PARADISE, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ours is a dark eastertide, and a scarlet spring Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I OLD SOLDIER DEAD, by ANNETTE KOHN Poem Text First Line: In flanders fields, where poppies blow' Last Line: Their own beloved country's flag. Subject(s): World War I; First World War OLD SONGS TO OTHER TUNES, XIII, by GASTON DE RUYTER Poem Source First Line: I would have you come toward me Last Line: And for you I shall wait, sure of my trust %in you Subject(s): World War I OLD SONGS TO OTHER TUNES, XV, by GASTON DE RUYTER Poem Source First Line: Wearied of life, the wave has shed Last Line: Along the reaches of the shore Subject(s): World War I OLD TOP SERGEANT, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Twenty years of the army, of drawing ... Pay Subject(s): World War I OLD WAR, by ARTHUR LEONARD PHELPS Poem Text First Line: I see you sitting in the sungleams there Last Line: Old war and all its honour and high pride. Subject(s): World War I - Canada OLD WAY, by RONALD ARTHUR HOPWOOD Poem Source First Line: There's a sea that lies uncharted Subject(s): World War I OLD WOMEN, by JOHN GRAHAM BOWER Poem Source First Line: Faint against the twilight, dim ... The evening Subject(s): World War I 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 PHOTO OF SGT. CIARDI A YEAR LATER, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sgt. Stands so fluently in leather Last Line: The shadow under the shadow is never caught: %the camera photographs the cameraman Subject(s): World War Ii ON A PHOTOGRAPH OF A GERMAN SOLDIER DEAD IN POLAND, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grant him at the end his common humanity Subject(s): World War Ii - Casualties ON A RETURN FROM EGYPT, by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To stand here in the wings of europe Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War ON A RETURN FROM EGYPT, by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To stand here in the wings of europe Last Line: I fear what I shall find Subject(s): World War Ii ON A ROADSIDE IN OHIO, by MARK KUHAR Poem Source First Line: The sign on interstate 271, right there Last Line: On the tripping tempest of these frightened times Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ON ACTIVE SERVICE, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Source First Line: For the bloke on active service, w'en 'e goes Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I ON ACTIVE SERVICE, by EDITH WHARTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He is dead that was alive Last Line: Recalling him, and spring Subject(s): World War I ON AN AMERICAN SOLDIER OF FORTUNE SLAIN IN FRANCE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You, who sought the great adventure Last Line: In the forest of argonne! Subject(s): Argonne, Battle Of (1918); Army - United States; World War I; First World War ON BEING ASKED FOR A WAR POEM, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think it better that in times like these Last Line: Or an old man upon a winter's night. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): World War I; First World War ON BEING TRANSPARENT, by SANDRA JEAN MCPHERSON Poem Source First Line: If they raise a picture Last Line: Of its short but sacred flight Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ON CROSSING BROOKLYN FERRY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, by CARL STILWELL Poem Source First Line: I am with you, walt whitman Last Line: For more human sacrificial blood- %we the people Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ON CROSSING THE RHINE BRIDGE AT COLOGNE BY NIGHT, by ERNST STADLER Poem Source First Line: The express train gropes and thrusts its way through Last Line: To self's undoing Subject(s): World War I ON ETHNIC DEFINITIONS, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the jewish cemetery in prague Last Line: With a sigh, they'll at last lie down. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Ghosts; Judgment Day; Supernatural; Graveyards; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man ON FINDING MYSELF A SOLDIER, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My bud was backward to unclose Last Line: A heart more red than blood. Subject(s): World War I; First World War 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 GOING TO THE WARS, by EARL (EARLE) BIRNEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I do not go, my dear, to storm Last Line: In hope to pass the peaks terrific, %and win the wide sundrenched pacific Subject(s): World War Ii 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 HEARING GEESE FLY OVER MANHATTAN, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Something close to chaos Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities ON HEARING THE NEWS OF THE JAPANESE SURRENDER, by LIU YA-TZU Poem Source First Line: Fireworks explode like thunderclaps all over chungking Last Line: People of the huai and the yangtze look to the recovery of their capital Subject(s): Fireworks; World War Ii ON HEAVENLY AND EARTHLY HOPE, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reflected on the lake, I love Last Line: As false and fleeting as 'tis fair. Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Hope; World; Paradise; Optimism ON HIS OWN, by ADOLPHE E. SMYLIE Poem Source First Line: You see that young kid lying there Subject(s): World War I ON LEAPING OVER THE MOON, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw new worlds beneath the water lie Last Line: As o'er our heads, a place of bliss. Subject(s): Earth; Icarus; Moon; Mythology - Classical; World ON LEAVING IRELAND, by THOMAS MICHAEL KETTLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the sun dried in blood, and hill and sea Last Line: And knew that even I shall fall on sleep. Subject(s): World War I; First World War ON NORTH BROTHER ISLAND, HALF-CRAZED SURVIVORS OF THE WRECK, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Beaux-art bas-relief in tompkins park commemorates the burning Last Line: Here, then rise, to where they can try to find some peace Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities 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 PASSING THE NEW MENIN GATE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Who will remember, passing through this gate Last Line: Rise and deride this sepulchre of crime. Subject(s): World War I; First World War ON PATROL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: He went to sea on the long patrol Subject(s): World War I ON PATROL - 1797, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Our brothers of the landward side Subject(s): World War I ON READING THAT THE REBUILDING OF YPRES APPROACHED COMPLETION, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear you now, I hear you, shy perpetual companion Last Line: "is the wind in the rampart trees." Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War 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 REPORTS OF THREATS AGAINST ARAB-AMERICANS, by NEELI CHERKOVSKI Poem Source First Line: News kiosk owner from %palestine, rabbi's son out of Last Line: Emptiness at the heart %of what we face tomorrow Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) 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 SICK LEAVE, 1916, by HAMILTON FISH ARMSTRONG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He limped beneath the arch, across the square Last Line: That smell which only is where war has been. Subject(s): Washington Square, New York City; World War I; First World War ON T.V., by MARIAH ERLICK Poem Source First Line: Tuesday was the worst day of my life Last Line: I'm here. %I'm talking Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ON TALK OF PEACE AT THIS TIME, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: France. France, I know not what is in my heart Last Line: Is made secure for us and hell is thwarted. Subject(s): France; Peace; World War I; First World War ON THE BELGIAN EXPATRIATION, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt that people from the land of chimes Last Line: Of ravaged roof, and smouldering gable-end. Subject(s): Belgium; World War I; First World War ON THE DEATH OF A MOTHER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little maiden, her doll to her Last Line: Mother to mother means dear to dear. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Fear; Kisses; Love; Mothers; Dead, The; World ON THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER SEPTEMBER 2001, by CATHY BARBER Poem Source First Line: I am am american, eyes drooping heavily Last Line: I am afraid for we are going to war Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ON THE EASTERN FRONT, by GEORG TRAKL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The wild organ of the winter storm Last Line: Wild wolves broke through the gate Subject(s): World War I ON THE FALL OF THE WORLD TRADE TOWERS, by CLAIRE BURCH Poem Source First Line: When hate crimes last in a bombscare loomed Last Line: Long day. The families wait Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ON THE FRONTIER, by NATHANIEL MICKLEM Poem Source First Line: Where is your home, sir?' such the question posed Last Line: Reft from thy pain, thy beauty and thy pride Subject(s): World War Ii ON THE HOME FRONT - 1942, by EDWIN DENBY Poem Source First Line: Because jim insulted harry eight years previous Subject(s): World War Ii ON THE ITALIAN FRONT, MCMXVI, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will die cheering, if I needs must die Last Line: "my sons' love sanctifies my soil for aye!'" Subject(s): World War I - Italy ON THE LEDGE, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can see the coast coming near Last Line: Watching an ant %climb a blade of grass and climb back down Subject(s): World War Ii ON THE PIAVE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: We called 'em wop and dago, and often Last Line: And we'll know italians better in the long years yet to come! Subject(s): Immigrants; Italy; World War I; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Italians; First World War ON THE PILOTS WHO DESTROYED GERMANY IN THE SPRING OF 1945, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood on a roof top and they wove their cage Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Variant Title(s): Responsibility: The Pilots Who Destroyed German ... 194 Subject(s): Air Warfare; Germany; Troy; World War Ii ON THE PORCH, by MARJORIE POWER Poem Source First Line: The object of the game is to work all Last Line: Once she ended with three. There is no way %to improve her game. She plays %because the one pile is Subject(s): Women; World War I 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 SHIP TO THE MAINLAND, by MUIN OTOKICHI OZAKI Poem Source First Line: Nobishi tsume Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; World War Ii - Japanese-americans ON THE WALL OF A KZ-LAGER, by JANOS PILINSZKY Poem Source First Line: Where you have fallen, you stay Last Line: Speechless, speechless, you testify against us Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii ON THE WAY OF THE CROSS, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: On the way of the cross we were comrades Last Line: And your children forever be comrades? Subject(s): Moscow; World War I; First World War ON THE WESTERN FRONT, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I found a dreadful acre of the dead Last Line: If you fail now, we shall not see or hear. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Peace; Silence; War; Dead, The; World ON THE WINGS OF THE MORNING', by JEFFERY DAY Poem Source First Line: A sudden roar, a mighty rushing sound Subject(s): World War I ON THE WIRE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O god, take the sun from the sky! Last Line: Here on the wire . . . The wire. . . . Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War ON THOSE THAT DESERVE IT, by FRANCIS QUARLES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O when our clergy, at the dreadful day Last Line: Durst ye not stoop to play the fools for him? Subject(s): Clergy; Judgment Day; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man ON TO BERLIN!, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On to berlin! And what's in the way? Last Line: Over them, over them, on to berlin! Subject(s): World War I; First World War ONCE BY HANFORD REACH, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: I cupped an explored milkweed pod Last Line: Dark seeds of death-light Subject(s): Death; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ONCE BY THE PACIFIC, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shattered water made a misty din Last Line: "before god's last ""put out the light"" was spoken." Subject(s): Judgment Day; Pacific Ocean; Seashore; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Beach; Coast; Shore ONCE WE MEAN IT, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We'll meet in madrid Last Line: For something to say Subject(s): Fascism & Fascists; World War Ii; Second World War ONE BETTY – FIVE SKULLS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The search lights caught your enemy and mine Last Line: Turned down a wheel of dials, and fell, and burned Subject(s): World War Ii; Saipan (island) ONE CAN MAKE FISTS, by JOE-ANNE MCLAUGHLIN Poem Source First Line: And fistfuls: one, two, three, even four Last Line: Though no president had proclaimed %we are at war Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ONE DAY LAST WEEK, by C. B. FOLLETTE Poem Source First Line: The end of the world %rained from the sky Last Line: Empty, unclaimed %and at the airports Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ONE DEGREE, by BEN RENZ Poem Text First Line: He stands alone Last Line: One degree. Subject(s): Earth; World ONE NIGHT, by MILLICENT SUTHERLAND Poem Source First Line: I walked into a moon of gold last night Last Line: Now pondering from the moon I turned again, %over the sands,back to our house of pain Subject(s): Women; World War I ONE O'CLOCK, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: Here are the brains here the hearts Last Line: But this ash on the lips %this taste of ash in the mouth %forever Subject(s): Dadaism; World War Ii ONLY A BOCHE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We brought him in from between the lines Last Line: Guerre. Subject(s): War; World War I; First World War 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 ONLY A VOLUNTEER, by RICHARD D. IRWIN Poem Source First Line: Why didn't I wait to be drafted Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I ONWORK, LUCK, ROOTS, DEATH AND OTHER DEBTS, by EUGENE RUGGLES Poem Source First Line: Don't give up on your blessings, %before they finish Last Line: The pacific takes both of them into its shadow Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) OPEN BOAT, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When this war is done,' says dan ... Subject(s): World War I OPEN THE DOOR AND FLY WITH ME, by MICHAEL SAVAGE Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii 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 ORANGE OF MIDSUMMER, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You came to me in the pale starting of spring Subject(s): World War I; First World War ORANGE OF MIDSUMMER, by AMY LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You came to me in the pale starting of spring Last Line: Does it? %but drink it, my beloved' Subject(s): World War I ORDER, by DENNIS KAWAHARADA Poem Source First Line: The fields seemed chaotic to him Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans ORGAN SONGS: BLESSED ARE THE MEEK, FOR THEY SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A quiet heart, submissive, meek Last Line: Than if broad lands were mine. Subject(s): Earth; Future Life; Humility; Nature; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ORIENTAL BATH, by DANIEL VAROUZAN Poem Source First Line: The inner door of the green-domed bath opens slowly Last Line: That spring, the soul of spring is passing by Subject(s): World War I ORION'S' FIGUREHEAD AT WHITEHALL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: All wind and rain, the clouds fled fast Subject(s): World War I OTHER SIDE, by GILBERT FRANKAU Poem Source First Line: Just got your letter and the poems. Thanks Subject(s): World War I OUR ANNUAL', by JOHN GRAHAM BOWER Poem Source First Line: Up the well-remembered fairway Subject(s): World War I OUR CHURCH SPIRES, by JEAN-MARC BERNARD Poem Source First Line: Sharp bell-spires, you alone have power to give Last Line: Death of the soul Subject(s): World War I OUR COUNTRY'S DESTINY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My country! Dare we do it? Dare we be Last Line: And boldly equal to our destiny! Subject(s): United States; World War I; America; First World War OUR DEAD, by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They have not gone from us Last Line: They chant on every wind, and they return %in the long roll of any deep blue wave Variant Title(s): Sonne Subject(s): Faith; World War I OUR DEAD, OVERSEAS, by EDWARD ARCHIBALD MARKHAM Poem Text First Line: In italy, in belgium, in france Last Line: Something that swings the spirit to a star. Alternate Author Name(s): Markham, E. A. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; World War I - United States; Graveyards; Dead, The OUR FIGHTING MEN, by ELLA FULLER MAITLAND Poem Source First Line: The war is like the judgment day Subject(s): World War I OUR GIFT, by CAROLINE TICKNOR Poem Source First Line: Behold thy sons, o lord! Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I OUR HERO, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flowers, only flowers - bring me dainty posies Last Line: So we left him sleeping, still amid the flow'rs. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War OUR HOLD ON THE PLANET, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We asked for rain. It didn't flash and roar Last Line: Our hold on the planet wouldn't have so increased Subject(s): Earth; Rain; World OUR MEN, THEY ARE OUR STRONGHOLD, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): World War I OUR MODEST DOUGHBOYS, by CHARLTON ANDREWS Poem Text First Line: Said the captain: 'there was wire' Last Line: Said private mike mccann. Subject(s): World War I; First World War OUR MOTHER POCAHONTAS, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Powhatan was conqueror Last Line: Our mother, pocahontas. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Native Americans; Pocahontas (1595-1617); World War I; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; First World War OUR NATIVE LAND, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The halo round the seraph's head Last Line: With sides of snow, and throat of fires! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Earth; Home; Memory; Nations; Travel; World; Journeys; Trips OUR OWN SPOON RIVER, SELS., by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poet's Biography Subject(s): World War I OUR PRISONERS OF WAR IN GERMANY, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prisoners to a foe inhuman, oh! But our hearts rebel Last Line: Follows perdition eternal ... And it has begun. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): World War I - Prisoners OUR QUEER OLD WORLD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's a purty hard world you find, my Last Line: It's a purty good world, old man! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Cruelty; Earth; Experience; Wisdom; World OUR TIME, by LEONARD BACON (1887-1954) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not in our time, america light-hearted Last Line: Win for our spirits and royalty %of death and life Subject(s): World War Ii OUR YOUTH, by ARTHUR HOBSON QUINN Poem Source First Line: Once more, once more into the fire they go Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I OUT OF ANY DEARTH, by LOUIS GINSBERG Poem Text First Line: Transmuting rocks to flowers Last Line: I will sieve my songs. Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Stones; World; Granite; Rocks OUT OF EARTH, by FREDERICK R. MCCREARY Poem Text First Line: Pattern the clouds for a moment Last Line: A thorn in the heel of death. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Earth; Heaven; Hell; Nature; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Paradise OUT OF FLANDERS, by JAMES NORMAN HALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Three of us sat on the firing-bench Variant Title(s): Hat Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I OUT OF THE DARK AND THE DEARTH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! But the darkness was densely Last Line: And that was the dawn -- the dawn! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dawn; Earth; Night; Sunrise; World; Bedtime OUT OF THE MORNING, by CLIVE SANSOM Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii OUT WITH THE WORLD, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm out with all the world to-day Last Line: Ah me! The bonny world. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Earth; World OUTPOSTS, by F. W. BENDALL Poem Source First Line: Sentry, sentry, what did you see Last Line: I prayed the lord that I'd fire straight %if I saw the man that killed my mate Subject(s): World War I OUTWARD BOUND, by NOWELL OXLAND Poem Text First Line: There's a waterfall I'm leaving Last Line: We shall go not forth again. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxland, Noel Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; World War I; First World War OVER THE BRAZIER, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What life to lead an where to go %after the war, after the war? Last Line: Mad war has now wrecked both, and what %better hopes has my little cottage got? Subject(s): World War I OVER THE PARAPET, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day long when the shells sail over Last Line: Over the parapet -- life, romance! Subject(s): War; World War I; First World War OVER THE TOP, by SYBIL BRISTOWE Poem Source First Line: Ten more minutes! - say yer prayers Last Line: Over the top - to kingdom come! Subject(s): Women; World War I OVERHEARD IN AN ASYLUM, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And here we have another case Subject(s): World War I OXFORD IN WAR-TIME, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What alters you, familiar lawn and tower Last Line: To mask the riches of her bleeding heart. Subject(s): Oxford, England; World War I - Great Britain OXFORD IN WAR-TIME, by WILBERT SNOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the tow-path past the barges Last Line: You who have fought and died. Alternate Author Name(s): Snow, Charles Wilber Subject(s): Oxford University; World War I; First World War OXFORD REVISITED IN WAR TIME, by TERTIUS VAN DYKE Poem Text First Line: Beneath fair magdalen's storied towers Last Line: And her heart is free and bold. Subject(s): Oxford University; World War I; First World War P.O.E., by LINCOLN KIRSTEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is it and so: so long Last Line: Up on your feet, our orders crack. %it's all aboard for this is it Subject(s): World War Ii PA-KE, by HERBERT CHUN Poem Source First Line: You speak of shadows Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans PADRE, by C. W. BLACKALL Poem Source First Line: E's a sportsman is our padre Subject(s): World War I PALESTINE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: How strange if it should fall to you Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): World War I PALMS AND HANDS, by HUGH SEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Larry shrugged, %jerked up his palms Last Line: Of the shock wave %of the fire storm Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) PANIC, by ROSAMOND DARGAN THOMSON Poem Source First Line: We are ill of a new wind Last Line: That glares upon us in our angry dreams Subject(s): World War Ii PARADE, by MINNA IRVING Poem Source First Line: I watch the regiments swinging by Alternate Author Name(s): Michener, Harry, Mrs. Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I PARENTHETICALLY SPEAKING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, carranza sent a cable Subject(s): World War I PARK SUICIDES, VIENNA, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: A clock has stopped at quarter to nine this morning Last Line: The shrill of a magpie by the river can be heard Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities PARSON'S JOB, by MADELINE IDA BEDFORD Poem Source First Line: What do you want %coming to this 'ere 'ell? Last Line: Teach me - ow - to pray Subject(s): Women; World War I PASSING THE BUCK, by NORMAN E. NYGAARD Poem Source First Line: The colonel has a job to do Subject(s): World War I PASSING-BELL, by WALTER SICHEL Poem Source First Line: That was the passing-bell Subject(s): World War I PASSION OF RAVENSBRUCK, by JANOS PILINSZKY Poem Source First Line: He steps out from the others Last Line: That he forgot to cry out %before he collapsed Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii PASSOVER, by VIOLET HELEN FRIEDLAENDER Poem Source First Line: The doors of life are two Subject(s): World War I PASTORAL FOR POLAND, by CLARK MILLS Poem Source First Line: Now have the cries of bombed and drowned Last Line: And these are all, and these are all Subject(s): World War Ii PATCHWORK QUILT, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is this patchwork quilt I've made %of patterned silks and old brocade Last Line: That never decked white sheets before, %blame my dazed head,blame bloody war Subject(s): Quilts; World War I PATENT LEATHER SHOE, by ALFRED LICHTENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: The poet thought: %enough. I'm sick of the whole lot! Last Line: A pity, though, about my new silk sock Subject(s): World War I PATROL, by AUGUST STRAMM Poem Source First Line: The stones threaten Last Line: Shrieking %death Subject(s): World War I PATRON SAINT (1), by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: Conquerors, I am alive in this relinquary! I am the owner of Last Line: I am the harbinger of what can never not be Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii PATRON SAINT (2), by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: Conquerors, you have heard my voice! You have shown me Last Line: Ahead, eternity. You will not be missed Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii PATTERNS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk down the garden paths Last Line: Christ! What are patterns for? Subject(s): Absence; Clothing & Dress; Fashion; Freedom; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Love - Loss Of; World War I; Separation; Isolation; Liberty; First World War PATTON, by LINCOLN KIRSTEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Skirting a scrub-pine forest there's a scent of snow in air Last Line: Rains cease. His tanks make peace Subject(s): World War Ii PAX VENTURA, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our peace was but a honey-comb Subject(s): World War I PEACE, by ELEANOR FARJEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am as awful as my brother war Last Line: Will first in peace dare shout the name of love? Subject(s): Women; World War I PEACE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When that glad day shall break to match Last Line: Better we all had died at first, %better that killed before our prime %we rotted deep in earthy slim Subject(s): World War I PEACE, by HAROLD TROWBRIDGE PULSIFER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cannon's voice is dumb Last Line: To arms! For peace is here! Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War PEACE, by MARGERY SMITH Poem Source First Line: All this shall pass Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii PEACE (NOVEMBER 11, 1918), by GRETCHEN OSGOOD WARREN Poem Text First Line: Peace, battle-worn and starved, and gaunt and pale Last Line: Yea, peace, while worlds endure, will sing their requiem. Subject(s): Holidays; Peace; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War PEACE HATH HER BELGIUMS, by SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is a belgium in the bedrooms dark Last Line: Her homemade belgium of the unemployed Subject(s): World War I PEACE INVOCATION AFTER 9/11/2002, by TERESA G. LEE Poem Source First Line: Peace did you shudder %when two airplanes Last Line: A amar nuestras diferencias Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) PEACE STUDIES AT THE RHODE ISLAND AVENUE BARBERSHOP, by KENNETH CARROLL Poem Source First Line: No flags fly in this shop Last Line: Like clumps of black hair %blown by a wayward western wind Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) PEACE WITH A SWORD, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Peace! How we love her and the good she brings Last Line: "help us, o lord!" Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I; First World War 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 PEARL HARBOR, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here are the fireworks. The men who conspired and labored Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War PEARL HARBOR, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here are the fireworks. The men who conspired and labored Last Line: Darkness and silence, the two eyes that see god; great staring eyes Subject(s): World War Ii 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 PERFECTION, by CLARE PERCY WESTPHAL Poem Text First Line: This earth / beautifully Last Line: Harmonize ... Subject(s): Earth; God; World PERFORMANCE, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last time I saw donald armstrong Last Line: Beside his hacked, glittering grave, having done %all things in this life that he could Subject(s): World War Ii PERHAPS - (TO R.A.L. DIED OF WOUNDS IN FRANCE ... 1915), by VERA MARY BRITTAIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps some day the sun will shine again Last Line: Again, because my heart for loss of you %was broken, long ago Alternate Author Name(s): Catlin, George E. G., Mrs. Subject(s): Women; World War I PERSHING AT THE TOMB OF LAFAYETTE, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: They knew they were fighting our war Last Line: "only this -- ah, but france understood! ""lafayette, we are here!" Subject(s): Lafayette, Marie Joseph, Marquis De; Pershing, John J. (1860-1948); World War I; First World War PERSONAE SEPARATE, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like the golden scale that emerges Last Line: Break, it's already almost night Subject(s): World War I; First World War PERSONAE SEPARATE, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like the golden scale that emerges Last Line: Light, today no longer, now that at day - %break, it's already almost night Subject(s): World War I 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 PERSONAL VALOUR, by VICTORIA MARY SACKVILLE-WEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If once we feared that fear itself might come Last Line: Poising ourselves above our island spray %around the bastions of our lonely keep Alternate Author Name(s): Nicholson, Harold, Mrs.; Sackville-west, Vita Subject(s): 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 PETER PAN, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And peter pan is dead? Not so! Last Line: And then go tiptoe down the stair. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Barrie, Sir James Matthew (1860-1937); World War I; First World War PETICION, by EDMOND ADAM Poem Source First Line: Whyle we enjoy tranquillitie Last Line: Tyl I have seen my love agayne! Subject(s): World War I PHASES, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a little square in paris Last Line: To that short, triumphant sting? Subject(s): World War I PHILOTHEOU, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: The singing rocks are ravished by the currents of the gulf Last Line: Through other storms like this one I come in from now Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities PHOENIX, by AUDREY ALEXANDRA BROWN Poem Source First Line: The phoenix said to me Last Line: And that to dare to die, for such as we %is evidence enough of immortality! Subject(s): Immortality; World War Ii PHOENIX, by EDWARD HARRY WILLIAM MEYERSTEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rise thyself, thou phoenix world Last Line: Renewed thy nest, re-win thy fame, %purged, cindered, and increased! Alternate Author Name(s): Meyerstein, E. H. W. Subject(s): World War Ii PHOTOGRAPHER PHOTOGRAPHING A DEAD HORSE, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: I do not share your faith in the moral power of exacting Last Line: So alas, he tries to rescue his brain %through irony, by pushing the camera's button Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities PICARDY, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the trees blossom again Last Line: Who died that we might live. Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): World War I; First World War PICKET, by MARY ALDEN HOPKINS Poem Source First Line: Men tell us women Last Line: I would rather have a vote than a war any day Subject(s): World War I 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 PICNIC; JULY 1917, by EMILIE ROSE MACAULAY Poem Source First Line: We lay and ate sweet hurt-berries Last Line: Lest, battered too long, our walls and we %should break - should break Alternate Author Name(s): Macaulay, Rose Subject(s): Women; World War I PICTURES OF THE WAR, by GILBERT FRANKAU Poem Source First Line: Not for themselves, o daughters, grandsons, sons Subject(s): World War I PIERROT AT WAR, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A year ago in carnival Last Line: And a snarl of angry drums. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): World War I; First World War PIERROT GOES, by CHARLOTTE BECKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Up among the chimneys tall Subject(s): World War I 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 PIFFLE, by GUSTAV SACK Poem Source First Line: Year after year, you gnaw your way Last Line: And so chalk up one last net gain Subject(s): World War I PILGRIMS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For oh, when the war will be over Last Line: We point . . . To a name on a cross. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War PILLBOX, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just see what's happening, worley! - worley rose Last Line: To see this life so spirited away. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War PILOT FROM THE CARRIER, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strapped at the center of the blazing wheel Last Line: Shining as the fragile sun-marked plane %that grows to him, rubbed silver tipped with flame Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii PILOT'S PSALM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The be2c is my 'bus; therefore I shall want Last Line: Else I shall dwell in the house of %colney hatch forever Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War I PIPES IN ARRAS (APRIL, 1917), by NEIL MUNRO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the burgh town of arras Last Line: Roared the artillery. Subject(s): World War I - Scotland PLACARD, by UNKNOWN+29 Poem Source First Line: Enemy's terrible losses' - in letters of red on white Subject(s): World War I PLACE DE LA CONCORDE, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Text First Line: Near where the royal victims fell Last Line: And kissed her on both cheeks! Subject(s): Place De La Concorde, Paris; World War I - France PLACE IN THE SUN OF THE SON OF HENRY CLAY, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: This burnt plate is place in the sun of the son of henry clay Last Line: Rest in peace now, in the arms of an absent howling mother Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities PLACE PIGALLE, by RICHARD WILBUR Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now homing tradesmen scatter through the streets Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War PLACE PIGALLE, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now homing tradesmen scatter through the streets Last Line: Desperate soldier's hands which kill all things Subject(s): World War Ii PLANKED WHITEFISH, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over an order of planked whitefish at a downtown club Last Line: "war is the game of a lot of god-damned fools." Subject(s): Pacifism; World War I; Peace Movements; First World War PLANTING OF THE GREEN, by ALICE (HENDERSON) CORBIN Poem Source First Line: Oh, woody dear, and did ye hear Last Line: We are answering the call! Subject(s): World War I PLUCK, by EVA DOBELL Poem Source First Line: Crippled for life at seventeen Last Line: And smoke his woodbine cigarette Subject(s): Women; World War I PLYMOUTH, by WILLIAM ASHTON Poem Full Text First Line: I've just been down to plymouth. Did you know Last Line: Were dancing on the hoe. Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Plymouth, England; War - Home Front; World War Ii; Second World War PLYMOUTH SOUND, by LEONARD NEILL COOK Poem Source First Line: Obedient to the echoed harbour gun Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I POEM, by PAUL KLEE Poem Source First Line: I stand in full armor Last Line: O glow with the dead Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets; World War I POEM, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lived in the first century of world wars. Subject(s): World War I; World War Ii; Conduct Of Life; War - Home Front; First World War; Second World War 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 FOR GEORGE HELM ALOHA WEEK 1980, by ERIC EDWARD CHOCK Poem Source First Line: I was in love with the word 'aloha' Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans POEM OUT OF CHILDHOOD, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Breathe in experience, breathe out poetry Last Line: Ricochetting from thought to thought among %the childhood, the gestures, the rigid travellers Subject(s): Adolescence; Children; World War I POEM WITHOUT A HERO: EPILOGUE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the roof of the fountain house Last Line: Fled before me to the east Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): World War Ii POEMS FROM SAINT PELAGIA PRISON 1., by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: Wednesday on a barge Last Line: Monday and tuesday cold-blooded %four thursdays off from work Subject(s): Dadaism; Prisons And Prisoners; World War Ii POEMS FROM SAINT PELAGIA PRISON 2., by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: A thread unravels Last Line: A butterfly explodes %chrysalis or glow worm Subject(s): Dadaism; Prisons And Prisoners; World War Ii POEMS FROM SAINT PELAGIA PRISON 3., by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: Who mounts Last Line: And the three sleeping children %singular singular tale %tale of the setting sun Subject(s): Dadaism; Prisons And Prisoners; World War Ii 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 POEMS TO CZECHOSLOVAKIA, SELS., by MARINA IVANOVNA TZVETAYEVA Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Tsvetayeva, Marina Ivanovna; Efron, Sergei, Mrs.; Tsvetaeva, Marina Ivanovna Subject(s): Czechoslovakia; Germany; World War Ii POET, by DIMCHO DEBELYANOV Poem Source First Line: From what the entire world is feting Last Line: But oh, that fame exacts a price! Subject(s): World War I POET AND THE BUTCHER, by CATHERINE DURNING WHETHAM Poem Source First Line: Milton, thou shouldest be living at this hour Last Line: And ask your leave to let the matter drop Subject(s): Women; World War I POETIC INJUSTICE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A scottish fighting man whose wife %turned false and tempted his best friend Last Line: While that false pain met a clean end %without remorse, how fares the scot? Subject(s): World War I POETIC JUSTICE, by FLORENCE MCLANDBURGH Poem Source First Line: If any man is found Last Line: Until his tongue is sprained Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Mclandburgh Subject(s): World War I POETRY AS INSURGENT ART, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I am signaling you through the flames. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; World War Ii; Second World War POETRY OF WORLD WAR I' BY ROBERT GRAVES, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The war-poetry boom in world war I began with the death Last Line: I'd timed my death in action to the minute...'which I quote in the first edition of my goodbye to %a Subject(s): World War I 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 POINT OF BATTLE, by JOHN+(3) HALL Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii 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 OLD SHIP!', by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She wasn't much to brag about Subject(s): World War I POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 6. THE JOYOUS, THE LAKE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How two women can be the same, for instance, in poland Last Line: Drops down from a tree in the sun in marseille. Subject(s): Boats; Warsaw, Poland; Women; World War Ii; Second World War POPPIES, by J. EUGENE CHRISMAN Poem Source First Line: Poppies? %not for me, buddy! Last Line: Poppies- %hell! Subject(s): World War I POPPIES, by JOSEPH MILLS HANSON Poem Source First Line: Poppies in the wheat fields Subject(s): World War I 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 PORTENTS, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By a cloud, by rings on the moon Last Line: Though there is no safety there %I think. Nor anywhere Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): World War Ii 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 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 PORTRAIT OF A LADY IN THE EXHIBITION OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What are you, lady? - naught is here Last Line: Were half as silent as their pictures! Variant Title(s): Every-day Characters: Portrait Of A Lady Subject(s): Exhibitions; Portraits; Royal Academy Of Arts, Great Britain; World's Fairs; Expositions PORTRAIT OF AN ITALIAN SOLDIER, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Giuseppe ugesi, prisoner at milowitz Last Line: For all of us who wait for him to speak Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities PORTSMOUTH BELLS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A lazy sea came washing in Subject(s): World War I POST CARD (SENT TO ANDRD ROUYERE, 20 AUGUST 1915), by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I write to you beneath this tent Last Line: Stud the pale blue firmament %and before existing fade Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): World War I POSTCARD: 1, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: From bulgaria the huge wild pulse of artillery Last Line: In the rotted heart of a tree Subject(s): World War Ii POT OF TEA, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You make it in your mess-tin by the brazier's rosy gleam Last Line: To-night we'll all be tellin' of the boches that we slew %as we drink the giddy victory in tea Subject(s): Army Life; Food And Eating; Tea; World War I PRAEMATURI, by MARGARET ISABEL POSTGATE COLE Poem Source First Line: When men are old, and their friends die Last Line: But there are years and years in which we shall still be young Subject(s): Women; World War I PRAETERITA, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Soft airs that fan the face Last Line: O'er brightness fled? Subject(s): Earth; Faces; Hearts; Past; World PRAIRIE, by FRANCIS PONGE Poem Source First Line: When nature, at our awakening, sometimes proposes to us Last Line: Tomorrow will be growing up on top Subject(s): World War Ii PRAISE OF CREATED THINGS, by FRANCIS OF ASSISI Poem Text First Line: Be thou praised, my lord, with all thy creatures Last Line: And produces divers fruits with colored flowers, and herbs. Alternate Author Name(s): Moriconi, Giovanni; Saint Francis; Francesco D'assisi, San Subject(s): Animals; Earth; Moon; Plants; Sun; World; Planting; Planters PRAYER, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a garden of red tulips Last Line: Fold round and crush out life / forever Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; World War I PRAYER, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Source First Line: You say there's only evil in this war Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I PRAYER, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: Lord, keep him nar to me Last Line: Lord, let us pause again %in silent memory Subject(s): Gallipoli Campaign (1915); World War I PRAYER, by WILLIAM LITTLEJOHN Poem Source First Line: Lord, if it be thy will Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I PRAYER BEFORE BATTLE, by ALFRED LICHTENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: The men are singing fervently, every man thinking of himself Last Line: Who has a tale to tell Subject(s): World War I PRAYER BEFORE BIRTH, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not yet born; o hear me Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Birth; World War Ii; Child Birth; Midwifery; Second World War PRAYER BEFORE BIRTH, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not yet born; o hear me Last Line: Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me. %otherwise kill me Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Birth; World War Ii PRAYER BEFORE WAR, by W. G. HOLE Poem Source First Line: Lord god, ere yet our drums are rolled Subject(s): World War I PRAYER FOR A WORLD HURT SORE, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord god, we lift to thee Last Line: Made whole again! Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Earth; Jesus Christ; Pain; Salvation; War; World; Suffering; Misery PRAYER FOR THOSE ON THE STAFF, by JULIAN GRENFELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fighting in mud we turn to thee Last Line: Please keep the extra a.D.C. %out of the sun and in the shade Subject(s): World War I PRAYER IN KHAKI, by ROBERT GARLAND Poem Source First Line: O lord, my god, accept my prayer of Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I PRAYER IN THE TRENCHES, by BRENT DOW ALLINSON Poem Text First Line: Lord god of hosts, be with us here! Last Line: Cometh the dawn! Subject(s): Prayer; World War I; First World War PRAYER IN TIME OF WAR, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Dear fields of my country, hedges Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Socialism; 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 PRAYER RUG OF ISLAM, by AJAN SYRIAN Poem Source First Line: Men there are who live among flowers Last Line: My heart is a place of swords! Subject(s): World War I PRAYER TO JEHANNE OF FRANCE, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O jehanne, with the trumpets in your name Subject(s): Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); World War Ii PREMATURE REJOICING, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's that over there? Last Line: That's where the difficulty is, over there. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War PREPARATIONS FOR VICTORY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My soul, dread not the pestilence that hags Last Line: The black fiend leaps brick-red as life's last picture goes. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War PREPAREDNESS, by RALPH CHAPLIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For freedom die? But we were never free Last Line: Resist the foe? Subject(s): World War I PRESENT BATTLEFIELD, by DAISY WRIGHT FIELD Poem Source First Line: The war is over, over there Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Wright Subject(s): World War I PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED 1915 - 1918, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the periscope %trench stinks of shallow buried dead Last Line: The weary circle's broken %and a bullet tears through the tired brain Subject(s): World War I PRIMAL DEATH, by AUGUST STRAMM Poem Source First Line: Space %time Last Line: Space %erring %nil Subject(s): World War I PRINCETON, MAY, 1917, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now lamp-lit gardens in the blue dusk shine Last Line: And smile, from souls at peace. Subject(s): Princeton University; World War I; First World War PRINCIP, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look at him there, a lad of nineteen years Last Line: Princip, with nineteen years, can you not tell? Subject(s): Assassination; Fate; Guns; Nations; World War I; Destiny; First World War 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 PRO PATRIA, by OWEN SEAMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: England, in this great fight to which you go Last Line: Our fortunes we confide. Subject(s): World War I - Great Britain PROCESSIONAL, by THEODORE MAYNARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shall christ not have his chosen men Subject(s): World War I PRODIGY, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I grew up bent over Subject(s): Children; Games; World War Ii; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Second World War PRODIGY, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I grew up bent over Last Line: In chess, too, the professor told me, %the masters play blindfolded, %the great ones on several boar Subject(s): Children; Games; World War Ii PROEM DEDICATORY: EPISTLE FROM MOUNT TMOLOUS; TO RICHARD H. STODDARY, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O friend, were you but couched on tmolous' Last Line: Of the world's tardy praise, shall make them dear. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Apollo; Earth; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Sea; Singing & Singers; World; Ocean PROOFREADING THE HISTORIES, by NORA MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: I start at the end, proofread backwards Last Line: And infer the words from sounds I do not hear Subject(s): World History PROPHECY, by ALFRED LICHTENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Soon there'll come - the signs are fair Last Line: Buses, screeching, overturn Subject(s): World War I PROSPECT, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: War will not always be Last Line: "but that was long ago." Subject(s): United States - History; War; World War I; First World War PROSPERITY, by FRED VOSS Poem Source First Line: The big company bought the little company Last Line: Became clear to the workers Subject(s): Corporate Life; Industrial Workers Of The World (i.w.w.); Industry; Labor And Laborers; Labor Unions; Money QUARTERMASTER, by JOHN GRAHAM BOWER Poem Source First Line: I mustn't look up from the compass-card Subject(s): World War I QUARTERMASTER CORPS, by WILLIAM C. PRYOR Poem Source Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I QUEENSLANDERS, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lean brown lords of the brisbane beaches Last Line: These are the swords of thy soul's desire! Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): World War I - Australia QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "what is earth, sexton? - a place to dig graves" Subject(s): Earth;wisdom; World QUI VIVE?, by GRACE ELLERY CHANNING-STETSON Poem Text First Line: Qui vive? Who passes by up there? Last Line: The flags of france. Subject(s): Flags - France; World War I - France 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 QUO VADITIS?, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where do ye go Subject(s): World War I R.A.F. (1940), by SYLVIA DRYHURST LYND Poem Text First Line: I heard the squadron flying home Last Line: Call them the squadron flying home. Alternate Author Name(s): Lynd, Mrs. Robert Subject(s): Royal Air Force; World War Ii; Second World War RAGNAROK: THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! Heimdal sounds the gjallar-horn Subject(s): World War I RAID, by WILLIAM EVERSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They came out of the sun undetected Last Line: Down at last for the low hover, %and the short quick quench of the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Antoninus, Brother Subject(s): World War Ii RAIDERS, by MARIAN ALLEN Poem Source First Line: In shadowy formation up they rise Last Line: Down the uncharted roadway of the skies Subject(s): Women; World War I RAIN, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rain, midnight rain, nothing but the wild rain Last Line: Cannot, the tempest tells me, disappoint. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Rain; Solitude; World War I; Loneliness; First World War RAIN MOOD, by W. FRANCIS POTTER Poem Text First Line: Rain is beating upon my face Last Line: O come, and bring impassioned solitude! Subject(s): Earth; Rain; World RAIN QUIETUDE, by GARY RICHARD KISSICK Poem Source First Line: In sleep made of sleep and remembrance, a few raindrops Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans RAINPATTER, by DIANA KEARNY POWELL Poem Text First Line: Fall lightly, rain, the earth will be Last Line: For hearts are bound with cords of rain. Subject(s): April; Earth; Rain; World RANDOLPH FIELD, 1938, by ROBERT SAMUEL GWYNN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Framed by the open window, a lone stearman Last Line: Before he sideslips into dreams of fire. Alternate Author Name(s): Gwynn, R. S. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Military; Sickness; World War Ii; Youth; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Illness; Second World War RANGE IN THE DESERT, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the lizard ran to its little prey Last Line: The lizard's tongue licks angrily %the shattered membranes of the fly Subject(s): World War Ii RANK, by LINCOLN KIRSTEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Differences between rich and poor, king and queen Last Line: Jack and I got see-double drunk Subject(s): World War Ii 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 READING GIRALDUS CAMBRENSIS, by TERENCE HANBURY WHITE Poem Source First Line: Look at the peace of inanimate things Last Line: The probity of pasture fields, dead trees, %old hills, and patient bones Subject(s): World War Ii READING MY POEMS FROM WORLD WAR II, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ships in these verses course through a blue meadow Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; World War Ii; Navy - United States; Aviation & Aviators; Sailors & Sailing; Second World War; American Navy; Airplanes; Air Pilots READY TO KILL, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ten minutes now I have been looking at this Last Line: Ready to run the red blood and slush the bowels of men all over the sweet new grass of the prairie. Subject(s): Statues; World War I; First World War REALITY DEMANDS, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reality demands / that we also mention this Subject(s): Earth; War; World REALIZATION, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is one syllable that stirs me: war Last Line: God, let me apprehend this nearer strife! Subject(s): Death; England; France; War; World War I; Dead, The; English; First World War REAPERS, by FREDERIC PROKOSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: O still, still, still Last Line: The stony silence of the sons, and the wailing of the daughters Subject(s): World War Ii REAPERS, by LAUCHLAN MACLEAN WATT Poem Source First Line: Red are the hands of the reapers Subject(s): World War I RECALLING WAR, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Entrance and exit wounds are silvered clean Subject(s): World War I; First World War RECALLING WAR, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Entrance and exit wounds are silvered clean Last Line: When learnedly the future we devote %to yet more boastful visions of despair Subject(s): World War I RECAPITULATIONS, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born downtown on a wintry day Subject(s): Birth; Family Life; Jews; World War Ii; Coming Of Age; Youth; Blacks; Divorce; Christianity; Conduct Of Life; Child Birth; Midwifery; Relatives; Judaism; Second World War RECOGNITION, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old friend, I know you line by line Last Line: But first we'll make this day, this godlike day our friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War RECOMPENSE, by JESSE M. BALL ALLEN Poem Text First Line: When sound shall cease, there being none to hear Last Line: Not failure, not defeat, but consummation! Subject(s): Future Life; God; Judgment Day; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man RECOMPENSE, by AGNES ASTON HILL Poem Source First Line: Where lovely avon winds her rippling train Last Line: You shared the glory of her greatest hour %before your eyes were shuttered in long sleep Subject(s): World War Ii RECONCILIATION, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day beside the shattered tank he'd lain Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War RECONCILIATION, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day beside the shattered tank he'd lain Last Line: Appear the argent, swan-assembled reaches Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): World War Ii RECONCILIATION, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you are standing at your hero's grave Last Line: The mothers of the men who killed your son. Subject(s): Mothers; World War I; First World War RECRUIT FROM THE SLUMS, by EMILY ORR Poem Source First Line: What has your country done for you Last Line: And when all is said, she's our mother old %and we creep to her breast at the end Subject(s): Women; World War I RED COFFINS, by JOHN CURTIS UNDERWOOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After the revolution in petrograd Last Line: But no man there could tell the truth of it Subject(s): World War I 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-ROBED FRANCE, by CHARLES BUXTON GOING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Huns stripped off my own green gown Subject(s): World War I REDEPLOYMENT, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say the war is over. But water still Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War REDEPLOYMENT, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say the war is over. But water still Last Line: I heard the dust falling between the walls Subject(s): World War Ii REFUGEE, by EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In england, on the downs Last Line: And over down and plain %all nature seemed to sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Dunsany, Lord; Dunsany, 18th Baron Subject(s): England; Refugees; World War Ii 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 REFUGEE IN NEW ENGLAND, by FRANCES MARY FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Across the snow the water-color blue Last Line: The young boy wept, his cheek against the cold ground Subject(s): World War Ii REFUGEES, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A crack ran through our hearthstone long ago Last Line: We must shape here a new philosophy Subject(s): Refugees; World War Ii REFUGEES, by WILLIAM G. SHAKESPEARE Poem Source First Line: Past the marching men, where the great road runs Alternate Author Name(s): S., W. G. Subject(s): World War I REFUSAL TO MOURN THE DEATH, BY FIRE, OF A CHILD IN LONDON, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never until the mankind making Last Line: After the first death, there is no other Subject(s): Air Warfare; Death - Children; Fire; Innocence; Mourning; World War Ii 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 REINFORCEMENTS, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The vestibule to experience is not to Last Line: The future of time is determined by the power of volition. Subject(s): World War I - United States REISE IN DIE VERGANGENHEIT, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Eyes agog in a gas mask, wrapped in burlap sacks Last Line: Of mortar, to find a flower still in bloom Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities REJECTED ODYSSEY, by JOHN PERRIN Poem Source First Line: Can you not now remember Last Line: Or the fountains of morning for you ecstasy? Subject(s): World War Ii REJOICE IN THE ABYSS (1), by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the foundations quaked and the pillars shook Last Line: Of every man prays that he may be spared %calamity that strikes each neighbouring face Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; World War Ii REJOICE IN THE ABYSS (2), by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The great pulsation passed. Glass lay around me Last Line: Of every house will be that it is spared %calamity that strikes its neighbour Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; World War Ii 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 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 RELIGION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To learn the secret of the silent grass Last Line: The life that lasts, tho' I and all men die. Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Life; Love; Religion; Secrets; World; Theology REMEMBERED MUSIC, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, lonely heart! Why do thy pulses beat Last Line: Shall with glad seraphs sing, in god's great light. Subject(s): Earth; God; Grief; Hearts; Voices; World; Sorrow; Sadness REMEMBRANCE DAY IN THE DALES, by DOROTHY UNA RATCLIFFE Poem Source First Line: It's a fine kind thought! And yet - I know Last Line: But the years are long since the lads went west Subject(s): Women; World War I REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY: COOMBE CHURCH, 1940, by ALFRED LESLIE ROWSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Here we are on this afternoon of mid-november Last Line: As they pass slowly down the church %out of my dream, and day is done Subject(s): World War Ii 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 REPORTED MISSING, by JOHN CLIFFORD BAYLISS Poem Source First Line: With broken wing they limped across the sky Last Line: So two men waited, saw the third dead face %and wondered when the wind would let them die Subject(s): World War Ii REPORTED MISSING, by ANNA GORDON KEOWN Poem Source First Line: My thought shall never be that you are dead Last Line: Of these familiar things I have no dread %being so very sure you are not dead Subject(s): Women; World War I REPORTED MISSING', by AUDREY ALEXANDRA BROWN Poem Source First Line: When thesde the steely flocks of death returning Last Line: And death itself has made him free of death Subject(s): World War Ii 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 REPRISALS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some nineteen german planes, they say Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): World War I; First World War REPRISALS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some nineteen german planes, they say Last Line: Then close your ears with dust and lie %among the other cheated dead Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): World War I REPUBLIC TO REPUBLIC, 1776-1917, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: France! / it is I answering Last Line: O liberty, my love! Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): France; World War I; 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 RESTLESS, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world is but my restless self: the sun Last Line: And reaches up his arms to have the moon! Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Asia; Autumn; Earth; Ethiopia; Ganges River, India; Mississippi; Seasons; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Fall; World 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 RESURRECTION UPDATE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And then it happened Last Line: An aspirin in a glass of water Subject(s): Earth; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; World RETINUE, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Archduke francis ferdinand, austrian heir-apparent Last Line: Of all the lords of shadow land most royally attended! Subject(s): World War I RETREAT, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Broken, bewildered by the long retreat Last Line: "all-heal and willowherb and meadowsweet." Subject(s): World War I; First World War RETREAT, by VIRGINIA GRAHAM Poem Source First Line: When there is peace again, soldier, what will you do? Last Line: So who in the wide world's going forward is what %I'd like to know Subject(s): World War Ii RETREAT, by ALAN ROOK Poem Source First Line: Faint now behind the secret eyes of these Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii RETRIBUTION, by IDA B. LUCKIE Poem Source First Line: Alas, my country! Thou wilt have no need Last Line: And all that makes humanity to mourn Subject(s): World War I RETROSPECT: THE JESTS OF THE CLOCK, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He had met hours of the clock he never guessed before Last Line: Ready once more to sweat with fear and brace for the shock, %to greet beneath a falling flare the je Subject(s): World War I RETURN, by JR. THEODORE HOWARD BANKS Poem Source First Line: When I return, let us be very still Subject(s): World War I RETURN, by DANA BURNET Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Home across the clover Last Line: Ah!' said the emperor, and smiled: %'more toys!' Subject(s): World War I RETURN, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the searchlights beckon from the night Last Line: Reel after reel of how a city burned Subject(s): World War Ii; Saipan (island); Second World War RETURN, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the searchlights beckon from the night Last Line: Reel after reel of how a city burned Subject(s): World War Ii RETURN OF THE NATIVE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About the ramparts, quiet as a mother Last Line: Incapable to stir a weed or moth. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War RETURN OF THE VILLAGE LAD, by ALFRED LICHTENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: When I was young the world was a little pond Last Line: Far off the fabulous iron serpent whistled Subject(s): World War I RETURNED - 'MISSING', by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I was sad and anxious Last Line: Might be brought back at last. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Earth; Life; Time; World RETURNED TO FRISCO, 1946, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We shouldered like pigs along the rail to try Last Line: The golden gate, fading away astern %stood like the closed gate of your own backyard Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Subject(s): World War Ii 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 IN WAR, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The windmill in his smock of white Last Line: In dead men's envied bones. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War REVEILLE, by RONALD LEWIS CARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the place to which I go Last Line: Will god tell us who has won? Subject(s): World War I - Casualties REVEILLE, by EDEN PHILLPOTTS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ended the watches of the night; oh, hear the bugles blow Last Line: And their bugles blow reveillé at the golden gates of morn. Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War REVELATIONS; CIRCA 1948, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I made no sound, at all, like the wintering Last Line: I watched. And made no sound... Subject(s): Aliens; Jerusalem; Silence; World War Ii; Extraterrestrials; Second World War REVENGE FOR RHEIMS, by STEPHEN PHILLIPS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou permanence amid all things that pass! Subject(s): World War I 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 REVERIE WHILE GIVING BLOOD, by NORA MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: The needle sinks in the vein Last Line: Beloved europe is going down Subject(s): World History REVIEWING THE SCENE, by GARY TACHIYAMA Poem Source First Line: Eleanor, don't do it' Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans REVISION (FOR NOVEMBER 11TH), by EILEEN NEWTON Poem Source First Line: In those two silent moments, when we stand Last Line: Because your soul, long-risen from the dead, %is crowned by love's immortal constancy Subject(s): Women; World War I RHEIMS, by MARGARET STEELE ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was a people's church - stout, plain folk Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I RHEIMS, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O fortress of the spirit, and thyself Last Line: And, grieving, mingle pity with their blame. Subject(s): Rheims, France; World War I; First World War RHEIMS CATHEDRAL, by FLORENCE MCLANDBURGH Poem Source First Line: Long centuries ago a holy man Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Mclandburgh Subject(s): World War I RHEIMS CATHEDRAL - 1914, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A winged death has smitten dumb thy bells Last Line: Thy bells live on, and heaven is in their tone! Subject(s): Holidays; Rheims, France; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War RHYME OF FRIENDS, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Listen now this time %shortly to my rhyme %that herewith starts Last Line: Of paper to throw %in their mimic show %'la guerre aux tranchees %that was a pretty play Subject(s): World War I RHYMES OF A RED CROSS MAN: FOREWORD, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've tinkered at my bits of rhymes Last Line: So take or leave them as you will. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Brothers; Death; War; World War I; Half-brothers; Dead, The; First World War RHYMES OF A RED CROSS MAN: L'ENVOI, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My job is done; my rhymes are ranked and ready Last Line: Love triumphs, freedom beacons, all is well. Subject(s): War; World War I; First World War RICHARD II FORTY, by LOUIS ARAGON Poem Source First Line: My country now is like a barge Last Line: The light was pallis on the leaf %still am I king of all my grief Subject(s): France; Grief; Richard Ii, King Of England (1367-1400); World War Ii RICHMOND PARK, by ROWLAND THIRLMERE Poem Text First Line: The thorns were blooming red and white Last Line: And a yaffle laughed in richmond park. Subject(s): Richmond Park, England; World War I - Great Britain RIDDLES, R.F.C., by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was a boy of april beauty; one Last Line: Attempt to save a comrade. He was twenty years of age. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Ridley, Lt. Stewart G. (1896-1916); Sacrifices; World War I - Casualties; Airplanes; Air Pilots RIDE IN FRANCE, by UNKNOWN+93 Poem Source First Line: Trotting the roan horse Subject(s): World War I RIDE NOT TOO FAST WITH BEAUTY, by ELSIE TWINING ABBOTT Poem Text Last Line: From its chain. Subject(s): Earth; Pain; World; Suffering; Misery RIDE UP THE HILL A LITTLE, AND THEN TURN, by RICHARD THOMAS CHURCH Poem Source Last Line: Then look again, and tell me what you see Alternate Author Name(s): Eccles Subject(s): World War Ii RIDERS, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is a rumbling in the graves Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I RIDING THE NORTH POINT FERRY, by WING TEK LUM Poem Source First Line: Wrinkles: like Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans RIDING WITH STRANGERS, by NORA MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: Late summer, moist air, and the smell of foxgrapes Last Line: The car would leap into the singing, whirling dark Subject(s): World History RIFFRAFF, by NORA MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: The cities of the world are burning Last Line: Let her kiss me with the kisses of her mouth Subject(s): World History RIPENESS IS ALL, by PETER VIERECK Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Through nights of slanting rain Last Line: Pain's gaudy petals fly %white with red borders Subject(s): World War Ii RIPRENDE LA VITA, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: For all the world, this is a man indifferent to all I do Last Line: And help stray silent black sheep from the fold Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities RISE UP! RISE UP, CRUSADERS!, by EDWARD SIMS VAN ZILE Poem Source First Line: Never in all the scarlet past Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I 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 STORIES, by DOROTHY COFFIN SUSSMAN Poem Source First Line: Weepy drunk, christmas eve, 1988, my father in his steamy kitchen Last Line: Hear the neckbones crack, the sound %scattering across the snow. I hear it all Subject(s): World War Ii RIVERS, by CHALLIS SILVAY Poem Text First Line: O sleeping earth! What ruthless lover Last Line: The need of mirrors for the stars? Subject(s): Earth; Rivers; Stars; World RIVERS OF FRANCE, by H. J. M. Poem Source Subject(s): World War I ROAD TO BENEVENTO, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: The road to benevento seems to flow Last Line: Of ages more dark and cold, and longer night Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii 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 ROADSIDE POEMS: THIS WORLD, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy world is made to fit thine own Last Line: Because thou, god, art all in all! Subject(s): Children; Earth; Fathers; God; Childhood; World ROBERT CLAYTON WESTMAN OF MASSACHUSETTS; DIED IN FRANCE, AUGUST 1919, by WILLARD WATTLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will make his name silver Last Line: Who have achieved indifference. Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War ROMANCE, by NEIL MUNRO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old orchard crofts of picardy Last Line: "when we three march again!" Subject(s): World War I; First World War ROMANCE TO NIGHT, by GEORG TRAKL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Under a tent of stars a lonely man Last Line: The one sleeping continues to whisper Subject(s): World War I ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 2. RETROSPECT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've snuff'd at every smell that has birth Last Line: Once more we may hope to meet with each other. Subject(s): Earth; Farewell; Fortune; Graves; World; Parting; Tombs; Tombstones ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 3. RESURRECTION, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The trumpet's wild echo fills the skies Last Line: And hell for the goats is selected. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Jesus Christ; Judgment Day; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man ROMANCING POET, by HELEN HAMILTON Poem Source First Line: Granted that you write verse, %much better verse than I Last Line: We are not glory-snatchers! Subject(s): Women; World War I RONDEAU, by EDMOND ADAM Poem Source First Line: He who can tell better than I Last Line: He who can tell Subject(s): World War I ROOM UNDER BOMBARDMENT, by PHYLLIS SHAND ALLFREY Poem Source First Line: Quickly, before the walls split, while they stand Last Line: Of shape and feeling for the broken dark Subject(s): World War Ii ROOMS, by LUCIEN STRYK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The casket under the rose Last Line: Thorns became a poem heavy with %may-pops, fruit of the passion flower Subject(s): World War Ii ROSES IN THE GARDEN, by ERNST STADLER Poem Source First Line: The roses in the garden are blossoming again... Last Line: That the passing summer carries on into the uncertain %ligh t of the fall Subject(s): World War I ROSTOV, by GEORGE SUTHERLAND FRASER Poem Source First Line: That year they fought in the snow Last Line: And stands staring with a terribly patient look %and says, 'why do you strike me, brother? I am man' Subject(s): Russia; World War Ii ROUEN; 26 APRIL - 25 MAY 1915, by MAY WEDDERBURN CANNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Early morning over rouen, hopeful, high, courageous morning Last Line: And the trains that go from rouen at the end of the day. Subject(s): Nurses; Rouen, France; Women; World War I; First World War ROUGE BOUQUET [MARCH 7, 1918], by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a wood they call the rouge bouquet Last Line: "farewell!" Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): France; Patriotism; World War I; First World War ROUMANIA, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another land has crashed into the deep Last Line: Rise, rise, roumania! Yet thy soul is whole! Subject(s): Romania; World War I; Rumania; Roumania; First World War ROUTE, by GEORGE OPPEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell the beads of the chromosomes like a rosary Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War ROUTE, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell the beads of the chromosomes like a rosary Last Line: That we confront Subject(s): World War Ii ROUTE MARCH, by CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the hills and vales along Last Line: So be merry, so be dead. Variant Title(s): Of War And Death Subject(s): World War I; First World War RUGBY FOOTBALL, by ERIC F. WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: You came by last night's mail Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I RUIN IN CATHAY: 2. 1938, by J. F. HARRIS Poem Text First Line: War lifts its iron head above the wall Last Line: Winged death glides low over china's plains. Subject(s): China; World War Ii; Second World War RUINS (YPRES, 1917), by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Ruins of trees whose woeful arms Last Line: Clay crumbling slow to clay again. Subject(s): World War I; Ypres, Belgium; First World War RUNDOWN CHURCH, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I had a son and his name was john Last Line: His son! His son! His son! Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Men; World War I RUNNER, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the condemned man ate a hearty meal' Last Line: For the other to see him off. And set off %in what seemed to be the right direction Subject(s): Bulge, Battle Of The; World War Ii RUNNER MCGEE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You've heard a good deal of the telephone Last Line: Four of us died comin' out with the news. It %will help them to know that you know Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): World War I 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 (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 RURAL ECONOMY (1917), by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was winter in those woods Last Line: Shot up a roaring harvest-home. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War RUSSIA, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What sudden voice peals to the caucasus Subject(s): World War - Russia RUSSIA - AMERICA, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wind in the world! The dark departs Last Line: With brightened wings, and smiles and beckons home! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): World War I - Russia; World War I - United States RYE UNHARVESTED, by YULIA DRUNINA Poem Source First Line: The rye, unharvested, sways Last Line: To war go the girls these days %just as the lads go Subject(s): Women; World War Ii SACRAMENT, by EVA YAA ASANTEWAA Poem Source First Line: Is it jihad? Is it crusade? Ashes to ashes Last Line: I try to wash that man right out of my hair %and send him on his way Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SACRAMENT, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Before the altar of the world in flower Last Line: This flesh (our flesh) crumbled away like bread, %this blood(our blood) poured out like wine, like w Subject(s): Women; World War I SAD HISTORY OF FOUR MAIDS AND OUR VILLAGE MILL, by GASTON DE RUYTER Poem Source First Line: Tumbled mill, beloved mill Last Line: To the mill, their catacomb Subject(s): World War I SAID ATTILA THE HUN TO-, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was not here - it was not there Subject(s): Attila, King Of The Huns (434-453); World War I SAILOR, WHAT OF THE DEBT WE OWE YOU?, by ANDREW JOHN STUART Poem Source Subject(s): World War I SAILOR-MAN, by MARK ANTHONY DE WOLFE HOWE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I like the look of khaki and the cut of army Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I SAILORS, by PATRIC DICKINSON Poem Source First Line: From beaulieu down to brixham town Last Line: And take the tiller down the tide %and out again to sea? Subject(s): World War Ii SAINT DOROTHEA, MARTYR, by BROTHER CLEMENT Poem Text First Line: Account it most strange if I should fear Last Line: You will run, you will run to welcome death! Subject(s): Death; Earth; Flowers; Love; Roses; Dead, The; World SAINT GEORGE OF ENGLAND, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Saint george he was a fighting man, as all the tales do tell Last Line: He'll come home to rest in england where the golden willows blow! Subject(s): George, Saint (3rd Century); World War I - Great Britain SAINT JEANNE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a little church in france today Last Line: Jeanne d'arc. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); World War I; First World War SAINTE JEANNE OF FRANCE, by MARION COUTHOUY SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sainte jeanne went harvesting in france Last Line: Had flowered to her name. Subject(s): France; Saints; World War I - France SAIPAN, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In times like lenses, magnified and calm Last Line: To be the following weathers of the dead Subject(s): Saipan (island); World War Ii SALEM HILL HYMN SING, by MICHAEL SCHNEIDER Poem Source First Line: A screaming comes across the sky Last Line: Is me, and all the books are about revenge Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SALL' (IN AID OF THE WOUNDED HORSES), by INEZ QUILTER Poem Source First Line: I'm none of yer london gentry Last Line: But I'm sall, plain sall, and sall goes 'ard! Subject(s): Women; World War I SALONIKA IN NOVEMBER, by BRIAN HILL Poem Source First Line: Up above the gray hills the wheeling birds Subject(s): World War I SALUT AU MONDE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O take my hand walt whitman Last Line: For all the haunts and homes of men. Subject(s): Earth; World SALUTATORY, by ANGELE MARAVAL-BERTHOIN Poem Source First Line: Our honor 'tis who stay behind Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I SALUTE TO GREECE, by WILLIAM ASHTON Poem Source First Line: What is greece to us now? Last Line: And wide the portal %opens upon that word! - 'enter, immortal!' Subject(s): Freedom; Greece; World War Ii SALUTE, CZECHOSLOVAKIA!, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Verily the new day, %for the new order Last Line: We mark the score. Silent, we mark the score Subject(s): Czechoslovakia; World War Ii SALVAGE, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Guns on the battle lines have pounded now a year Last Line: Guns on the battle lines have pounded a year now between brussels and paris. Subject(s): World War I; First World War SANTA FE INTERNMENT CAMP, by SOJIN TOKIJI TAKEI Poem Source First Line: Ashi no ue ni Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; World War Ii - Japanese-americans SANTO DOMINGO, KILOMETRO OCHO, REPUBLICA DOMINICANA, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Off the butt of a standard-issue rifle: the rose-blue swollen eye Last Line: For rum and coke, rare bright birds, and cane to suck on Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities SANTOS: NEW MEXICO, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Return to the deep sources, nothing less Last Line: The torn mind to accept the whole of its duress %and, pierced with anguish, at last act for love Subject(s): Religion; World War Ii SARAJEVO, by FRANK ORMSBY Poem Source First Line: The shot was, first, an echo in the dinaric alps Last Line: In the annals of everything %love laughter carpets tobacco machine-tools the winter olympics Subject(s): Sarajevo, Bosnia; World War I SATURDAY NIGHT, by MARY COLBURNE VEEL Poem Text First Line: Saturday night in the crowded town Last Line: Walking in arcady, land of love. Subject(s): Earth; Neighbors; Night; Streets; Towns; World; Bedtime; Avenues SAVAGE JETS SWORD THE SKY HUNGRY BOMBS TORTURE THE EARTH, by S. A. GRIFFIN Poem Source First Line: As for myself %I choose not to believe in war Last Line: I am easy this way Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SAVAGE STORY OF CARDONETTE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To cardonette, to cardonette Last Line: He cut off their ears for souvenirs %at cardonette in the morning Subject(s): World War I SAYINGS OF PATSY, by BERNICE EVANS Poem Source First Line: Says patsy: %you can't pick up Last Line: Don't contain even %the cube root Subject(s): World War I SAYINGS OF PATSY, by BERNICE EVANS Poem Source First Line: Says patsy: %we're beginning Last Line: All that money, %too Subject(s): World War I SAYINGS OF PATSY, by BERNICE EVANS Poem Source First Line: Says patsy: %sometimes, %these days Last Line: Whom they would do %without us Subject(s): World War I SCENES FROM THE DOOR, SELS., by GERTRUDE STEIN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): World War Ii SCRAP OF PAPER, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Just for a 'scrap of paper' Subject(s): World War I SCRAP OF PAPER, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A mocking question! Britain's answer came Last Line: To keep our name upon that paper white Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): World War I SCREENS (IN A HOSPITAL), by WINIFRED MARY LETTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They put a screen around his bed Last Line: But - jove! - I'm sorry that he's dead Subject(s): Patriotism; Screens; Women; World War I SCULPTURES BY DIMITRI HADZI, by DAVID FERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This metal blooms in the dark of rome's / day light. Of how many deaths Last Line: Their brightness is dark with it Subject(s): Italy; Massacres; World War Ii - Atrocities; Italians SCULPTURES BY DIMITRI HADZI, by DAVID FERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This metal blooms in the dark of rome's %day light. Of how many deaths Last Line: Their brightness is dark with it Subject(s): Italy; Massacres; World War Ii - Atrocities SEA BURIAL, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the sea's crust of prisms looking up Last Line: And ran on grass as if it could not die Subject(s): Funerals - At Sea; World War Ii; Burials At Sea; Second World War SEA BURIAL, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the sea's crust of prisms looking up Last Line: The memory that kissed a mountain girl %and ran on grass as if it could not die Subject(s): Funerals - At Sea; World War Ii SEA RHAPSODY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By day, the tremble of the boat Last Line: Restless, that yet bring rest. Subject(s): Boats; Dreams; Earth; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sleep; Youth; Nightmares; World; Seamen; Sails; Ocean SEA-VOICES, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear mother earth, farewell! / from this sequestered spot Last Line: Dear mother earth, farewell! Subject(s): Earth; Farewell; World; Parting SEAFARER, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And learn o voyager to walk Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Advice; Earth; World SEARCHING FOR MY FATHER'S BODY, by IRENA KLEPFISZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: As he sleeps leaning against a tombstone %and dreams, never considering %where he himself will one d Alternate Author Name(s): Klepfitz, Irena Subject(s): Fathers; Warsaw Ghetto; World War Ii SEARCHLIGHTS, by PAUL BEWSHER Poem Text First Line: You who have seen across the star-decked skies Last Line: Which slowly moves across the shell-torn night? Subject(s): Air Warfare; Aviation & Aviators; World War I; Airplanes; Air Pilots; First World War SEASONS (3), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh the cheerful budding-time Last Line: And all hope of life seems lost. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; Life; Nature; Seasons; World SEBASTIAN IN DREAM, by GEORG TRAKL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mother bore this infant in the white moon Last Line: When the silver voice of the angel died down in sebastian's shadow Subject(s): World War I SECOND AIR FORCE, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far off, above the plain the summer dries Subject(s): Air Warfare; Army Life; Death; World War Ii; Drills & Minor Tactics; Dead, The; Second World War SECOND AIR FORCE, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far off, above the plain the summer dries Last Line: But for them the bombers answer everything Subject(s): Air Warfare; Army Life; Death; World War Ii SECOND LOVE: 41, by ELEANOR FARJEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now that you too must shortly go the way Last Line: But oh, let end what will, I hold you fast %by immortal love, which has no first or last Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917); Women; World War I 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 SEDAN, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, from a window where the meuse is wide Last Line: And round her terrible head the morning stars. Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): World War I - France SEE THE WASTED CITIES!, by EMANUEL LITVINOFF Poem Source First Line: O see the wasted cities by morning Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii SEED-MERCHANT'S SON, by AGNES GROZIER HERBERTSON Poem Source First Line: The seed-merchant had lost his son Last Line: As he had never before seen seed or sod: %I heard him murmur: 'thank god, thank god!' Subject(s): Women; World War I SEED-TIME, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woman of the field - by the sunset furrow Last Line: "they will be wanting bread." Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): Women And War; World War I; First World War SEEDS, by CHARD POWERS SMITH Poem Text First Line: The world is barren now Last Line: Where I have always been. Subject(s): Earth; Seeds; World SEICHEPREY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A handful came to seicheprey Last Line: "and left to shattered seicheprey / unending, sweet repose" Subject(s): World War I; First World War SELF RELIANCE, by HICOK. BOB Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have a picture of earth on my wall. Last Line: On our own Subject(s): Earth; World SEMINAR FOR BACKWARD PUPILS, by GUNTHER EICH Poem Source First Line: While the dead %cool off quickly Last Line: To take service %in the dungeons of justice Subject(s): World War Ii SENTINEL, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: He stood enveloped in the darkening mist Last Line: But still above the indomitable sea %from his high cliff a sentry watched the night Subject(s): Gallipoli Campaign (1915); World War I SENTRY, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the dawn flushes the vast desert-sands Last Line: And what they would be thinking well he knew Subject(s): World War Ii 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 SEPTEMBER HOLIDAY, by CLIVE SANSOM Poem Source First Line: All nature's agents image war to me Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii SEPTEMBER, 1918, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This afternoon was the colour of water falling through sunlight Last Line: Upon a broken world. Subject(s): World War I; First World War SEPTEMBER, 1939, by VERA MARY BRITTAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The purple asters lift their heads Last Line: The aching grief of england's war. Alternate Author Name(s): Catlin, George E. G., Mrs. Subject(s): London; World War Ii; Second World War SERBIA, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Text First Line: When the heroic deeds that mark our time Last Line: Is as a crown irradiating light! Subject(s): Serbia; World War I; Servia; First World War SERBIA TO THE HOHENZOLLERNS, by CECIL CHESTERTON Poem Source First Line: I am she whose ramparts, ringed with christian swords Subject(s): World War I SERBIAN EPITAPH, by V. STANIMIROVIC Poem Source First Line: Never a serbian flower shall bloom Subject(s): World War I SERENADE IN GREY, by SAMUEL GREENBERG Poem Text First Line: The soft eyelid of the dew doth set Last Line: When color mixes to choice -- behold a lover! Subject(s): Earth; Life; Singing & Singers; World; Songs 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 SERVITUDE, by IVOR GURNEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If it were not england, who would bear Last Line: Nor guns, nor sergeant-major's bluster and noise Subject(s): World War I SET ON THE AUTUMN HEAD, by ALEXANDER COMFORT Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii SETTING OUT, by ERNST STADLER Poem Source First Line: There was a time before, when fanfares bloodily tore Last Line: Our eyes would see their fill of world and sun, and take it %in, glowing and drinking Subject(s): World War I SEVEN DAYS' LEAVE, by C. W. BLACKALL Poem Source First Line: Bravely acted, little lady Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I SEVEN LAMENTS FOR THE WAR-DEAD: 4, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I came upon an old zoology textbook, / brehm, volume ii, birds Last Line: Oh my friend / red-breasted Subject(s): Middle East – Conflicts; World War I; Death; Arab-israeli Conflict SHADOW, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here you are near me once more Last Line: Caisson of regrets %a god humbling himself Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): World War I SHADOW, by EMILIE ROSE MACAULAY Poem Source First Line: There was a shadow on the moon; I saw it poise and tilt, and go Last Line: Rim of the shadow of the hell %of the world's young men Alternate Author Name(s): Macaulay, Rose Subject(s): Women; World War I SHADOWS, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: From the foothills, you can see traffic on nagasaki bay Last Line: Who linger offshore, waiting for us to brim the tide Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities SHADOWS, by MAUDE S. REA Poem Text First Line: White-capped waves and shimmering sands Last Line: But shadows -- shadows -- come -- and go. Subject(s): Earth; World SHADOWS AND LIGHTS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: What gods have met in battle to arouse Last Line: To see the beauty in each other's eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): World War I; First World War SHAKESPEARE, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: England, that gavest to the world so much Last Line: Nearest himself in universal power. Subject(s): Dramatists; England; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); World War I; English; Dramatists; First World War SHAKESPEARE, 1916, by RONALD ROSS Poem Source First Line: Now when the sinking sun reeketh with blood Subject(s): World War I SHALL WE FORGET?, by ESTELLE MAY HURLL Poem Text First Line: Shall we forget, now victory has come Last Line: Shall we forget to pray? Subject(s): Wellesley College; World War I; First World War SHANKSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, OCTOBER 21,2001, by KENNETH POBO Poem Source First Line: At our somerest motel, gary Last Line: They can't drive away as we do Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SHAPES AND SHADOWS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: We are but shapes and shadows Last Line: But the screen remains unchanged! Subject(s): Death; Earth; Life; Shadows; Time; Dead, The; World SHE SAID ..., by JONATHAN HENDERSON BROOKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She said, 'not only music; brave men marching' Last Line: "mary, it is the same with me,"" she said." Subject(s): African Americans - Military; World War Ii; Second World War SHE SMILES ON THE TV SCREEN, by KAREN KARPOWICH Poem Source First Line: Looking like all those tough girls I knew in school Last Line: Working his beads, she said %till there was silence Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SHELL, by H. SMALLEY SARSON Poem Source First Line: Shrieking its message the flying death Last Line: Destined to kill, yet the futile end %was a child's uprooted grave Subject(s): World War I SHELLS, by AUGUST STRAMM Poem Source First Line: The knowing stops %just sensing weaves and tricks Last Line: Stubborn worldens foolish space Subject(s): World War I SHILLONG, by BERNARD H. GUTTERIDGE Poem Source First Line: I crowd all earth into a traveller's eye Last Line: White clouds towards the annihilating snows Subject(s): World War Ii SHIPS THAT SAIL IN THE NIGHT, by DYSART MCMULLEN Poem Source First Line: Hail and farewell Subject(s): World War I SHOOTING SCRIPT. PART II 3-7/70: 9. NEWSREEL, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This would not be the war we fought in. See, the foliage is Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War SHOOTING SCRIPT. PART II 3-7/70: 9. NEWSREEL, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This would not be the war we fought in. See, the foliage is Last Line: This would not be the war I fought in Subject(s): World War Ii SHOREHAM: TWILIGHT TIME, by SAMUEL PALMER Poem Text First Line: And now the trembling light Last Line: And mark'st when sparrows fall. Subject(s): Creation; Earth; Evening; God; Time; World; Sunset; Twilight SHOULD I EVER BE A SOLDIER, by JOE HILL Poem Source First Line: We're spending billions every year Last Line: You'll sing this song for ages Alternate Author Name(s): Hillstrom, Joesph; Hagglund, Joel Subject(s): World War I 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 SIGHS OF THE GUNNER FROM DAKAR, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the log dugout hidden by osiers Last Line: Explode in the brilliant sky Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): World War I SIGNAL, by AUGUST STRAMM Poem Source First Line: The drumbeat plods Last Line: Goes %plods %goes Subject(s): World War I SILENCE, by VIRGINIA BIDDLE Poem Text First Line: The battle raged with hellish spite Last Line: Where men had fallen like summer rain. Subject(s): Silence; World War I; First World War SILENCE, by LUCY KENT Poem Text First Line: Out into the afternoon Last Line: Whom silence made forever one. Subject(s): Afternoon; Earth; Life; Silence; World SILENT ARMY, by IAN ADANAC Poem Source First Line: No bugle is blown, no roll of drums Subject(s): World War I SILENT WORLD IS OUR ONLY HOMELAND, by FRANCIS PONGE Poem Source First Line: Addressing the readers of a well-run newspaper Last Line: We make use of its possibilities according to the needs of the times Subject(s): World War Ii SIMONOPETRA, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Epiphany today. Three quarters moon over neponset bay Last Line: Waits for me; waves pull back and blink at the gathering black Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities SIMPLE POEM FOR A DIFFICULT TIME, by JEFF KASS Poem Source First Line: I carry my daughter of six weeks Last Line: The thing her father once told her %being good matters Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SINCE THEY HAVE DIED TO GIVE US A GENTLENESS, by MAY WEDDERBURN CANNAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And laughter come back to the earth again Subject(s): Women; World War I SINCE YOU WENT AWAY, by ALISON (ALLISON) BROWN Poem Source First Line: Since you went away, every gay sailor lad Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I SING A SONG OF WAR-TIME, by NINA MACDONALD Poem Source Last Line: All the world is topsy-turvy %since the war began Subject(s): Women; World War I SIR STANLEY MAUDE, by JAMES GRIFFYTH FAIRFAX Poem Source First Line: Hail and farewell, across the clash of swords Subject(s): World War I SIRENS, by JOHN STREETER MANIFOLD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Odysseus heard the sirens; they were singing Last Line: In twenty minutes he forgot the sirens Subject(s): Sirens (mythology); World War Ii SIX MONTHS AFTER, by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: This is what it means Last Line: Some say the debris %also speaks Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SKY SIGNS, by JOHN GRAHAM BOWER Poem Source First Line: When all the guns are sponged and cleaned Subject(s): World War I SKYSCRAPER APOCALYPSE, by UNKNOWN+12 Poem Source First Line: Two months before the terrorist attack Last Line: As the sunrise engulfs the world %in the light of another day Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SLEEPING NOW IN COVENTRY, by ARTHUR STANLEY BOURINOT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here rests a lad Last Line: Sleeping now %in coventry! Subject(s): Coventry, England; World War Ii SLEEPING OUT WITH MY FATHER, by GIBBONS RUARK Poem Source First Line: Sweet smell of earth and easy rain on Last Line: To sleep in sweat and wake to news of war Subject(s): World War Ii SLIPPING AWAY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slipping away -- slipping away! Last Line: We are slipping away to the shores of peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Earth; Faith; Happiness; Peace; Seasons; World; Belief; Creed; Joy; Delight SLOW MOTION, by NORA MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: The flecks sink into the water Last Line: Cannot know, and cannot keep Subject(s): World History SMALL CRAFT, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When drake sailed out from devon to Last Line: All honour be to small craft, for oh! They've earned it well! Subject(s): Fights; Perseverance; Sea Battles; Ships & Shipping; World War I; Naval Warfare; First World War SMALL SACRIFICES, by GERALD R. WHEELER Poem Source First Line: Patriotism is the last resort of scoundrels' Last Line: So americans can continue life as usual, %go on another shopping spree Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SMALL TOWN, by ERNST STADLER Poem Source First Line: The many narrow alleys that cut across Last Line: And the festive light of the fields Subject(s): Towns; World War I SMALL TOWN SPORT, by ALFRED DAMON RUNYON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Son o' ol' miz mcauliffe, the widder Alternate Author Name(s): Runyon, Damon Subject(s): World War I SMALL TREASURES, by PAULA NEMEROFF WEISS Poem Source First Line: It rests in the hollow of her throat Last Line: Her hand returns to the pendant %covers it lovingly Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SMILE, SMILE, SMILE, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Head to limp head, the sunk-eyed wounded scanned Last Line: Say: how they smile! They're happy now, poor things. Subject(s): World War I; First World War SNIPER, by LUCIEN STRYK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An inch to the left Last Line: A weary kid %strayed in from trick-or-treat Subject(s): World War Ii SNOWED UNDER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of a thousand things that the year snowed under Last Line: Your mantle of ermine, tell me, pray! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Earth; Hope; Snow; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Optimism SNOWFLAKES, by FREDA EFTER Poem Text First Line: Whirling breathless through the air Last Line: Of the earth and sky! Subject(s): Earth; Sky; Snow; Trees; World SO MANY TIMES I'VE SEEN, by YULIA DRUNINA Poem Source First Line: So many times I've seen hand-to-hand combat Last Line: Knows nothing about war Subject(s): World War Ii SO WE LAY DOWN THE PEN, by GEOFFREY BACHE SMITH Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I SOCK SONG, by HELEN TOPPING MILLER Poem Source First Line: Will cosette or adelaide or jeanne with eyes of blue Last Line: Should drop another stitch, perchance, and spoil the toes of you! Subject(s): World War I SOCKS, by JESSIE POPE Poem Source First Line: Shining pins that dart and click Last Line: He'll come out on top, somehow - %slip 1, knit 2, purl 14 Subject(s): Women; World War I SOLDIER, by AGNES GROZIER HERBERTSON Poem Source First Line: There was a man was son and lover Last Line: Lovely and fair the home-fields lie Subject(s): World War Ii SOLDIER, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He needs no tinsel on his coat Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I 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 ADDRESSES HIS BODY, by EDGELL A. RICKWORD Poem Source First Line: I shall be mad if you get smashed about Last Line: Let's have a drinkm and give the cards a run %and leave dull verse to the dull peaceful time Alternate Author Name(s): Rickword, E. A. Subject(s): World War I SOLDIER ASLEEP., by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Safe may the winds return you to the place %that, howsoever it was, was better than this Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): World War Ii SOLDIER OF THE SOUTH, by GEORGE GREENLAND Poem Source First Line: Under the flag o' france for which he died Subject(s): World War I SOLDIER SONG (10), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Wash me in the water Last Line: And I shall be whiter %than the whitewash on the wall Subject(s): World War I SOLDIER SONG (11), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The bells of hell go ting-a-ling-a-ling Last Line: For you but not for me Subject(s): World War I SOLDIER SONG (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: We are fred karno's army Last Line: What a bloody fine lot %are the ragtime infantry Subject(s): World War I SOLDIER SONG (3), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "uncle sammy, he's got the infantry" Last Line: "good-bye, kaiser bill" Subject(s): Army - United States;world War I; First World War SOLDIER SONG (7), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sure, a little bit of shrapnel fell from out the sky one day Last Line: And he marked me down for duty and he sent me up the line Subject(s): World War I SOLDIER SONG (8), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I don't want to be a soldier Last Line: In merry, merry england, %and fuck my [bloody] life away Subject(s): World War I SOLDIER SONG (9), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I have no pain, dear mother, now Last Line: And leave me there to die Subject(s): World War I 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 FOLKS AT HOME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: We often sit upon the porch on ... August nights Subject(s): World War I 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 LITANY, by RICHARD RALEIGH Poem Source First Line: When the foemen's hosts draw nigh Subject(s): World War I SOLDIER'S SOLILOQUIES, I, by MARC DE LARREGUY DE CIVRIEUX Poem Source First Line: After the charleroi affair Last Line: But never know the reason why Subject(s): World War I SOLDIER'S SOLILOQUIES, IV, by MARC DE LARREGUY DE CIVRIEUX Poem Source First Line: The civvy says: 'how dear is life!' Last Line: And in civilization's name!!! Subject(s): World War I SOLDIER'S TESTAMENT, by ELIOT CRAWSHAY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: If I come to die Subject(s): World War I SOLDIER, SOLDIER, by MAURICE HENRY HEWLETT Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I 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 OF FREEDOM, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They veiled their souls with laughter Last Line: As lightly as a rose. Subject(s): Patriotism; Wellesley College; World War I; First World War SOLDIERS OF THE SOIL, by EVERARD JACK APPLETON Poem Source First Line: It's a high-falutin'title they have handed us Subject(s): World War I SOLDIERS TO PACIFISTS, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not ours to clamor shame on you Last Line: The flag of freedom, every soul %obedient to its vision Subject(s): World War I SOLIDITY, by PAUL F. KEEN Poem Text First Line: Calmly the earth survives the storm Last Line: Its pulsing bosom soft and warm. Subject(s): Earth; World 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 2, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was wrong, quite wrong Last Line: Than angelo's hand could ever carve in stone Subject(s): World War I; First World War SOLILOQUY 2, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was wrong, quite wrong Last Line: And more austere and lovely in repose %than angelo's hand could ever carve in stone Subject(s): World War I SOLILOQUY IN AN AIR-RAID, by ROY FULLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The will dissolves, the heart becomes excited Last Line: Unfolds spantaneous as the human wish, %as autumn dancing, vermilion on rocks Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; World War Ii SOLILOQUY; NOVEMBER 11, 1928, by N. R. A. BECKER Poem Text First Line: Ten years! Can that be all Last Line: "ten years? Can that be all?" Subject(s): Peace; Veterans Day; War; World War I; First World War SOME COMMON TERMS IN LATIN THAT ARE LARGER THAN OUR LIVES, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mutant-engineered bloodsucker djinns, invisibility rays Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 SOME COMMON TERMS IN LATIN THAT ARE LARGER THAN OUR LIVES, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mutant-engineered bloodsucker djinns, invisibility rays Last Line: And what's beyond the sky, and beyond that, ad infinitum Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SOME PART OF THE LYRIC, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some part of the lyric wants to exclude Last Line: Reflects the world it meant to exclude. Subject(s): Earth; Grief; Poetry & Poets; World; Sorrow; Sadness SOME YEARS AGO, by CAROLINE GARRETT Poem Source Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans SOMEDAY, BUT FOR NOW, by GARY TACHIYAMA Poem Source First Line: I take my place among you Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans SOMEONE SAYS THEY LOOKED LIKE CARTWHEELING BIRDS, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The quietest moments some %one will say are the worst Last Line: Red as if nothing %could stop them Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SOMETHING PRIVATE, by RICHARD THOMAS CHURCH Poem Source First Line: Waking this morning to a glory Last Line: Then cast for all mankind to have it Alternate Author Name(s): Eccles Subject(s): World War Ii SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE, by LE ROY C. HENDERSON Poem Source First Line: She stands alone beside the gate Subject(s): World War I SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE, 1918, by ALMON HENSLEY Poem Source First Line: Leave me alone here, proudly, with my dead Subject(s): World War I 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, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He hurried away, young heart of joy, under our devon sky! Last Line: "so I'm finding the heart to smile and say: ""oh god, if it be thy will!" Subject(s): War; World War I; First World War SONG, by EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON O'BRIEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flesh unto flowers Last Line: To turn to my side. Subject(s): Women And War; World War I; First World War SONG, by MILES VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: If I am any hope Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii SONG (8), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stream moaneth as it floweth Last Line: Lulling us from many woes. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Brooks; Earth; Rain; Seasons; Streams; Creeks; World 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 AT HANALEI, by MARTHA WEBB Poem Source First Line: A gesture of the sea Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans 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 PELAGUIS, by NORMAN NICHOLSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the rain rains upward Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii SONG FROM AN EVIL WOOD: 1, by EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no wrath in the stars Last Line: Even in plug street wood! Alternate Author Name(s): Dunsany, Lord; Dunsany, 18th Baron Subject(s): World War I; First World War SONG FROM AN EVIL WOOD: 2, by EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere lost in the haze Last Line: On the wooden walls of his cage. Alternate Author Name(s): Dunsany, Lord; Dunsany, 18th Baron Subject(s): World War I; First World War SONG FROM AN EVIL WOOD: 3, by EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I met with death in his country Last Line: And he did not look at me. Alternate Author Name(s): Dunsany, Lord; Dunsany, 18th Baron Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War SONG IN THE BLOOD, by JACQUES PREVERT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There are great puddles of blood on the world Last Line: The earth that turns and turns and turns %with its great streams of blood Subject(s): World War Ii SONG OF A SEABOOT STOCKING, by O. I. WARD Poem Text First Line: Knit, knit, knit, in the watches of the night Last Line: While overhead the fire guard keep their watch o'er london town. Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Knitting; London; World War Ii; Second World War 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 GLORY, by ERNST WILHELM LOTZ Poem Source First Line: In a coat of blue, red-collared, a handsome sight Last Line: The future looming before me star-silent still Subject(s): World War I SONG OF PEACE AND HONOR, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We, men of england, children of her might Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Socialism; World War I SONG OF THE AIR, by GORDON ALCHIN Poem Source First Line: This is the song of the plane Subject(s): World War I SONG OF THE ARTESIAN WATER, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the stock have started dying, for the lord has sent a / drought Last Line: It is flowing, ever flowing, further down. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Earth; Hope; Singing & Singers; Water; World; Optimism SONG OF THE BOMBARD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Our fathers rode to battle Subject(s): World War I SONG OF THE BROAD-AXE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weapon shapely, naked, wan Last Line: Shapes bracing the earth and braced with the whole earth. Subject(s): Axes; Earth; Hatchets; World SONG OF THE CORNFIELDS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For miles along the sunlit lands Last Line: Again we grow. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Earth; Happiness; Life; Sea; World; Joy; Delight; Ocean SONG OF THE DEAD, by JOHN HENRY MACARTNEY ABBOTT Poem Source First Line: Oh, land of ours, hear the song we make Subject(s): World War I SONG OF THE DYING GUNNER AA1, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh mother my mouth is full of stars Last Line: And I shan't be home no more Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles Subject(s): World War Ii SONG OF THE EARTHLINGS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the earth we came Last Line: Old time has laid them low. Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Life; Singing & Singers; Time; Trees; Nightmares; World; Songs SONG OF THE GUNS, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hear the guns, hear the guns! Subject(s): World War I SONG OF THE RED CROSS, by EDEN PHILLPOTTS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O gracious ones, we bless your name Last Line: The radiant cross of red. Subject(s): Red Cross; World War I; First World War SONG OF THE SEA, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The song of the sea was an ancient song Last Line: Such is the song of the sea. Subject(s): Earth; Life; Nature; Sea; Singing & Singers; World; Ocean; Songs SONG OF THE WINDS, by MARY LANIER MACGRUDER Poem Source First Line: Song of the west wind whispering - listen Subject(s): World War I SONG OF THE ZEPPELIN, by VIOLET D. CHAPMAN Poem Source First Line: The night-wind is humming Subject(s): World War I SONG ON THE END OF THE WORLD, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the day the world ends Last Line: There will be no other end of the world Subject(s): Judgment Day; World War Ii SONG TO HYMEN: 1942, by ANTHONY RICHARDSON Poem Source First Line: My friend's sweet love came into town Last Line: The key of a room that love had known Subject(s): World War Ii 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 SONGS FROM THE ANCIENT AND MODERN, by JAN DAY FEHRMAN Poem Source First Line: The island is a flower closing Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans SONGS OF CREATION: 6, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stuff out of which a poem is wrought Last Line: From being artist'cally treated. Subject(s): Creation; Earth; Women; World SONGS OF CREATION: 7, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The chiefest reason why I made Last Line: Creation made me once more sound. Subject(s): Creation; Earth; Soul; World SONGS OF PASSION, by GASTON DE RUYTER Poem Source First Line: By evening's blue-grey threshold stirs a breeze Last Line: O women, cools our brows as you pass by! Subject(s): World War I SONGS OF THE NIGHT WATCHES: THE MIDDLE WATCH, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I woke in the night, and the darkness was heavy and deep Last Line: I swear by myself, they are mine.' Subject(s): Death; Earth; Night; Singing & Singers; Soul; Dead, The; World; Bedtime; Songs SONGS ON THE VOICES OF BIRDS; SEA-MEWS IN WINTER TIME, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walked beside a dark grey sea Last Line: I walked in joy, and was not cold. Subject(s): Earth; Happiness; Sea; Snow; Winter; World; Joy; Delight; Ocean 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, by GRACE E. TOLLEMACHE Poem Text First Line: As in cool-tempered airs of april-time Last Line: The fervours that must quench its first delight. Subject(s): World War I; First World War SONNET, by GRACE E. TOLLEMACHE Poem Source First Line: England! That thou was faint of heart we said Subject(s): World War I SONNET (3), by CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you see millions of the mouthless dead Last Line: Great death has made all his for evermore. Variant Title(s): The Dead Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War SONNET (FOR PRISCILLA), by NICHOLAS MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Walking alone in familiar places Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii 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 WRITTEN IN THE FALL OF 1914: 1, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Awake, ye nations, slumbering supine Last Line: Man's broken word, and violated gods! Subject(s): World War I; First World War SONNET WRITTEN IN THE FALL OF 1914: 2, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far fall the day when england's realm shall see Last Line: Ere such a mighty work man rears on high! Subject(s): World War I; First World War SONNET WRITTEN IN THE FALL OF 1914: 3, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hearken, the feet of the destroyer tread Last Line: Ere yet thou close, o flower of christendom! Subject(s): World War I; First World War SONNET WRITTEN IN THE FALL OF 1914: 4, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As when the shadow of the sun's eclipse Last Line: Unapt for war, that gloom enshadow thee! Subject(s): World War I; First World War SONNET WRITTEN IN THE FALL OF 1914: 5, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I pray for peace; yet peace is but a prayer Last Line: Supreme when in all bosoms he be heard. Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War SONNET WRITTEN IN THE FALL OF 1914: 6, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is my faith, and my mind's heritage Last Line: That doth the greater births of time await! Subject(s): Faith; World War I; Belief; Creed; First World War SONNET WRITTEN IN THE FALL OF 1914: 7, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whence not unmoved I see the nations form Last Line: The hosts of thirty centuries have died. Subject(s): World War I; First World War 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: 1, by CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Saints have adored the lofty soul of you Last Line: I did not know and that I wished to know. Subject(s): World War I - Casualties 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: 2, by CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Such, such is death: no triumph: no defeat Last Line: And blossoms and is you, when you are dead. Subject(s): Death; World War I - Casualties; Dead, The SONNET: 2. FEBRUARY AFTERNOON, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men heard this roar of parleying starlings, saw Last Line: That we have wrought him, stone-deaf and stone-blind. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Variant Title(s): February Afternoon Subject(s): Birds; Time; World War I; First World War 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 SONNET; OXFORD, 1916, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Darkling and groping, thin of blood, we wage Last Line: The old that erred and the young that died? Subject(s): World War I; First World War SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 3, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wouldst thou give me a heavy jewelled crown Last Line: Where shall be then the beauty of the globe? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Evening; World; Sunset; Twilight SONNETS: 1. BEETHOVEN, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As from the nebulous elemental sea Last Line: Ere lapped in slumber with immortal love. Subject(s): Earth; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Sea; World; Ocean SONNETS; MORNING, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful earth! O how can I refrain Last Line: And praise, through thee, the god that gave thee birth. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Earth; Morning; Nature; Sun; World SONNETS; TO THE SETTING SUN, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou central eye of god, whose lidless ball Last Line: Still bid my memory survive and bloom. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Earth; Memory; Night; Sun; World; Bedtime SONS, by THOMAS WILLIAM HODGSON CROSLAND Poem Source First Line: We have sent them forth Alternate Author Name(s): Crosland, T. W. H. Subject(s): World War I SOPHISTICATION, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This man, I thought, had come too far Last Line: And then, had no more love for earth. Subject(s): Earth; World SORLEY'S WEATHER, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When outside the icy rain / comes leaping helter-skelter Last Line: And the ghost of sorley. Subject(s): World War I; First World War SOSPAN FACH (THE LITTLE SAUCEPAN), by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four collier lads from ebbw vale %took shelter from a shower of hail Last Line: With what relief I watch them part %another note would break my heart! Subject(s): World War I SOUL OF A NATION', by OWEN SEAMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Little things of which we lately chattered Subject(s): World War I SOUTH PACIFIC, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Least enemy is the foe Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): World War Ii; Islands Of The Pacific; Second World War; Oceania SOUTH TOWER, 96TH FLOOR, CORNER OFFICE, by F. JOHN SHARP Poem Source First Line: Fresh air seduces me Last Line: I hope I have the courage %to choose to fly Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SOWJETUNION, 1941, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Close as we are, what can we suppose of the midnight sky Last Line: Ox-bow of a river, when the men %can't rise and return to their homes Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities SPIT, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After this much time, it's still impossible. The ss man with his stiff hair Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii; Shoah; Judaism; Second World War SPIT, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After this much time, it's still impossible. The ss man with his stiff hair Last Line: Now therefore go,' he said, 'and I will be with thy mouth' Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii SPLENDIDLY DEAD; AFTER READING FOR POETS SLAIN IN WAR, by MARION DOYLE Poem Text First Line: Splendidly dead,' who dares such maudlin singing Last Line: But I hear the voice of lost song crying. Alternate Author Name(s): Doyle, Marion Stauffer Subject(s): Death; Peace; Poetry & Poets; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War 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, by F. M. H. D. Poem Source First Line: It's spring at home; I know the signs Subject(s): World War I SPRING, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pain and spilt blood and an appalling cry Last Line: Bursts, as of old, the blackbird's shameless song. Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Graves; Laughter; Pain; Spring; World; Tombs; Tombstones; Suffering; Misery SPRING, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! The hours are softly calling Last Line: Bidding thee arise. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Earth; Seasons; Spring; World SPRING 1942, by ROY FULLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once as we were sitting by Subject(s): Army Life; World War Ii; Drills & Minor Tactics; Second World War SPRING 1942, by ROY FULLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once as we were sitting by Last Line: O revolution in the whole %of human use of man and nature! Subject(s): Army Life; World War Ii SPRING 1943, by ROY FULLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The skies contain still groves of silver clouds Last Line: No, I will not believe that human art %can fail to make reality its heart Subject(s): World War Ii SPRING IN BELLEAU WOOD, by EVELYN NORCROSS SHERRILL Poem Text First Line: When spring returns to belleau wood Last Line: When spring returns to belleau wood. Subject(s): Belleau Wood, France; Spring; World War I; First World War 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 IN WAR TIME, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I feel the spring far off, far off Last Line: Gray death? Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Spring; Women; World War I; First World War SPRING IN WAR-TIME, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now the sprinkled blackthorn snow Last Line: Not yet have the daisies grown %on your clay Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Women; World War I SPRING LOVE-SONG, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the beauteous spring I see Last Line: Making all our passion vain. Subject(s): Birth; Earth; Hearts; Love; Singing & Singers; Spring; Child Birth; Midwifery; World 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 SONG ON TOAST, by LUNA CRAVEN OSBURN Poem Text First Line: Apple blossoms drifting Last Line: May sweetly woos the earth. Subject(s): Apples; Earth; Flowers; Fruit; May (month); World SPRING'S ADVENT, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spirit of spring is in the air Last Line: Mocking, she dares the circling shadow of time. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Spring; Time; World 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 SPRING-SONG, 1939, by FRANK LAURENCE LUCAS Poem Source First Line: Once more the woodlands ring with birds - but not to the birds men harken Last Line: Heart, you have heard the spartan's word - 'we fight, then, in the shade' Subject(s): World War Ii SQUARING OURSELVES, by JAMES J. MONTAGUE Poem Source First Line: How many howled about josephus every time a Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I ST. GEORGE'S DAY - YPRES, 1915, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To fill the gap, to bear the brunt Last Line: It is st. George's day. Subject(s): World War I - Great Britain ST. MIHIEL, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: They said the yankees wouldn't fight--that there was no living chance Last Line: That the yankees did come over—that the yanks are really there! Subject(s): Germany; United States; War; World War I; Germans; America; First World War ST. OUEN IN PICARDY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Gleams of english orchards dance Subject(s): World War I STALINGRAD, REVISITED, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Winterreise, storm and snow. U.S. Troops in bosnia tonight Last Line: By my bed and cried, wailing the city stalingrad, revisited Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities STALKING DRAGONFLIES ON MT. WASHUSETT, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: We hunt them Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities 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 STANZAS, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In this vain, busy world, where the good and the gay Last Line: Since the world, the base world has no pleasure for me. Subject(s): Despair; Earth; World STANZAS AGAINST FORGETTING, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You asked neither for glory nor tears Last Line: Twennty-three who called out la france as they fell Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): World War I 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 STAR SPANGLED BANNER - WITH VARIATIONS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, say, can you sing from the start to the end Subject(s): National Song - United States; Patriotism; World War I STARLING, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The starling in the ivy now Last Line: To show—his mother's eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Starlings; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War STARS, by AGNES MCCONNELL SLIGH Poem Source First Line: Can it be possible that these same stars Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I STATISTICS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Napoleon shifted Last Line: And the cool night stars. Subject(s): World War I; First World War STILL FALLS THE RAIN; THE RAIDS, 1940. NIGHT AND DAWN, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Still falls the rain - / dark as the world of man, black as our loss Last Line: "still do I love, still shed my innocent light, my blood, for thee." Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Crucifixion; Religion; World War Ii; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology; Second World War STILL KNIT THE BONES, by NORA MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: In catch-22, the hero turns a man over Last Line: When a body falls into your hands? Subject(s): World History STOIC: FOR LAURA VON COURTEN, by EDGAR BOWERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All winter long you listened for the boom Last Line: Becomes at last no meaning and no place Subject(s): World War Ii STOICS, by EDWIN JOHN PRATT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They were the oaks and beeches of our species Last Line: To those who flag us at the danger curves %along the quivering labyrinth of nerves? Alternate Author Name(s): Pratt, E. J. Subject(s): World War Ii STONES OF GREECE, by STEPHEN LUCIUS GWYNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pure, cold beyond the dream of death or birth Last Line: Our place is with our maker, and our pride Subject(s): World War Ii STONK, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: Your stonk is your amreican way of winning your war Last Line: Your stonk being your american way of doing war Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii STORM, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The storm splattering the tough magnolia Last Line: You waved to me - and stepped into darkness Subject(s): World War I STORY I CAN'T TELL, by PETER HEARNS LIOTTA Poem Source First Line: Forty-three years ago today Subject(s): World War Ii STRANGE, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange that we two, who love all quiet things Last Line: Locked in the grim fatality of war. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): World War I; First World War 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 STRANGE SCENT, by TAMARA LAULANI WONG-MORRISON Poem Source First Line: Hear the beating of the pahu Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans STRANGE SCENTS, THAT MINGLE ON THE SULTRY AIR., by GASTON DE RUYTER Poem Source Last Line: My pale arms bloodied by your mouth's fierce bite Subject(s): World War I STRANGERS, by LUCILLE DAY Poem Source First Line: I didn't know the man in black pants Last Line: Searching for something %irretrievable, precious, still there Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) STRATFORD UPON AVON, by IVOR JOHN CARNEGIE BROWN Poem Source First Line: No more the stream is gilded Last Line: Where the poet is the beacon %and every line a blaze Subject(s): World War Ii STRATOSPHERE FLIGHT, by HELEN KNIGHT GOODING Poem Text First Line: A solar system drifting god knows where Last Line: The race, which speeds a toy balloon, at dawn. Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Earth; Mars (planet); Planets; Stars; Universe; World 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 STUDY IN EVOLUTION: FROM MR. ASQUITH AND THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT, by A. B. CURTIS Poem Source First Line: And for your service and your sacrifice Last Line: We grant you votes Subject(s): World War I SUBALTERNS, by ELIZABETH DARYUSH Poem Source First Line: She said to one: how glows Last Line: Now, life's so deadly slow Subject(s): Women; World War I SUBALTERNS: A SONG OF OXFORD, by MILDRED HUXLEY Poem Text First Line: They had so much to lose; their radiant laughter Last Line: And find the grail ev'n in the fire of hell. Subject(s): Oxford University; World War I - Great Britain SUBJECTED EARTH, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walking in the flat oxfordshire fields Last Line: And all its music to make, beats on the grave-mound Subject(s): Earth; Graves; England; World; Tombs; Tombstones; English SUBMARINES, by JOHN GRAHAM BOWER Poem Source First Line: When the breaking wavelets pass ... To the sky Subject(s): Submarines; World War I SUCH FUNNY THINGS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They teach such funny things in school! Last Line: Or see the things I see! Subject(s): Children; Earth; Geography; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Childhood; World; Students SUDDEN BEAUTY, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go look around the house corner Last Line: Or, maybe, immortality. Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Immortality; Stars; World SUDDENLY ONE DAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): World War I 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 IN ENGLAND, 1914, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On london fell a clearer light Last Line: The very kiss of christ. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Women; World War I; First World War SUMMER NIGHT; VARIATIONS ON CERTAIN MELODIES: 4. CAPRICCIOSO, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, nay! The longings tender Last Line: So caught, is held to my impatient heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Earth; Fear; Life; World SUN AND MOON FLOWERS: PAUL KLEE, 1879-1940, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: First, there is the memory of the dead priest in norway Last Line: With its ice water, blue spikes of lupine, and morphine. Subject(s): Europe; Klee, Paul (1879-1940); Paintings & Painters; Sickness; World War Ii; Illness; Second World War SUN AS SPINNING TOP: 1, by FRANCIS PONGE Poem Source First Line: It is perfectly natural for the sun to shine initially Last Line: Every object finds its place between two rolls of the drum Subject(s): World War Ii SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FROM CAPT. DANIEL MAYHEW, USAAF, RET., by WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE Poem Source First Line: Big voiced, g. I. Husky, he strained Last Line: The next sunday, miss branson read to us %of lot, god's grief, and the burning cities Subject(s): World War Ii 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 SUPPOSE WAR IS COMING, by ALFRED LICHTENSTEIN Poem Source Last Line: Will rise and shells will explode overhead Subject(s): World War I SURELY THE DREAMS, by DOUGLAS GIBSON Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii SURVIVING, by PAT PHILLIPS WEST Poem Source First Line: Special days-graduations, holidays, birthdays, anniversaries Last Line: To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die' Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SURVIVOR COMES HOME, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Despair and doubt in the blood: %autumn, a smell rotten-sweet Last Line: Safe home' safe? Twig and bough %drip, drip, drip with death Subject(s): World War I 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 SWEET, SWEET DARLING, by NORA MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: Sometimes still, I pine for the bad old days Last Line: And feel %like skin and sorrow Subject(s): World History SYCAMORES IN BLOOM, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like flame-wing'd harps the seed blooms lie Last Line: The red harps of the sycamores. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Earth; Plane Trees; Singing & Singers; World; Sycamores SYNOPSIS, by MARGARET MELLISH Poem Text First Line: A planet revolving around the sun Last Line: Tomorrow is eternity. Subject(s): Earth; Future Life; Mankind; Politics & Government; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Human Race T'ANG FISHERMEN, by DANA NAONE HALL Poem Source First Line: I will recognize you Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans TAKE A LETTER TO DMITRI SHOSTAKOVITCH, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All over america last sunday afternoon goes your symphony no. 7 Subject(s): Russia; World War Ii; Soviet Union; Russians; Second World War TAKE A LETTER TO DMITRI SHOSTAKOVITCH, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All over america last sunday afternoon goes your symphony no. 7 Last Line: Contribution to the meanings of human freedom and discipline Subject(s): Russia; World War Ii TAKE THE WORLD AS IT IS, by CHARLES SWAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take the world as it is! - there are good and bad in it Last Line: And the wisest and best take the world as it is. Subject(s): Earth; Friendship; World TAKE UP THE WINGS, by LAWRENCE LEE Poem Source First Line: Deliberately chime %the sounds that end a year Last Line: To signal in our flight %the flooding source of light Subject(s): World War Ii TAKING HER TO THE OPEN MARKET, by WING TEK LUM Poem Source First Line: Scales glisten Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans TAKING OFF, by ELIZABETH HARRISON Poem Source First Line: To die in spring, to join one's fleeting breath Last Line: While ardent still it pulses, to inspire %a spring eternal, young as the robin's phrases Subject(s): World War Ii TALE OF TWO DECADES, by VERNON FRAZER Poem Source First Line: Anzio, d-day, the ...' Subject(s): World War Ii TALK, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So many were there talking that I heard Last Line: Her nobleness the indignity of defence. Subject(s): World War I - Great Britain TANKA: DEATH AT THE CAMP, by KEIHO YASUTARO SOGA Poem Source First Line: The barren wasteland Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners; World War Ii - Japanese-americans TANKS, by OSCAR C. A. CHILD Poem Source First Line: Yes, back at home I used to drive a tram Subject(s): World War I TANSU I, by RAYNETTE TAKIZAWA Poem Source First Line: In old tansu drawers Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans TAPS AT TWILIGHT, by ARTHUR JOHN ARBUTHNOTT STRINGER Poem Source First Line: Blow softly, bugles, for our honoured dead Last Line: The riddled flag of honour floats unfurled! Alternate Author Name(s): Arbuthnott, John Subject(s): World War Ii TARGET, by IVOR GURNEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I shot him, and it had to be Last Line: And god he takes no sort of heed. %this is a bloody mess indeed Subject(s): World War I TASTING THE EARTH, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a dark hour, tasting the earth Last Line: In a dark hour, tasting the earth. Subject(s): Earth; World TEARS, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Tears born of wild emotion Last Line: And all is stainless gold! Subject(s): Earth; Grief; Memory; Tears; World; Sorrow; Sadness TECUMSEH AND THE EAGLES, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tecumseh of the shawnees Last Line: "ye will have lived in vain!" Variant Title(s): The War Cry Of The Eagles Subject(s): Freedom; World War I - Canada; Liberty 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 TELLING THE BEES (AN OLD GLOUCESTERSHIRE SUPERSTITION), by G. E. REES Poem Text First Line: They dug no grave for our soldier lad, who fought and who died out there Last Line: And the tempest that bore his shouts before shall cry his message still. Subject(s): World War I - Casualties TEN DAYS LEAVE, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He steps down from the dark train, blinking; stares Last Line: Their sleep and black them out. He wonders when %he'll grow into his sleep so sound again Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; World War Ii TEN THOUSAND TOMMY ATKINSES WENT FORTH INTO THE FRAY, by MORRIE RYSKIND Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Lord so-and-so is safe and sound-the others never mind! Subject(s): World War I 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 AFTER, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Text First Line: Reverberating boom of shuffling, stamping feet! Last Line: Make the will of the world your trumpet, the heart of the world your drum! Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Peace; Veterans Day; War; World War I; First World War TENT CITY, HOMELESS SHELTER, HOOVERVILLES, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Corlears hook. Terns and cormorants stotter along the fuel dock Last Line: In starched white sheets on army cots and grope towards sleep Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities TENT-MATES, by LINCOLN KIRSTEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's no cinch to live together Last Line: Answers are articles of war: %men are seldom brothers Subject(s): Army Life; World War Ii TENTH ARMISTICE DAY, by S. GERTRUDE FORD Poem Source First Line: Lest we forget!' let us remember then Last Line: Build their memorial in the league of nations! Subject(s): Women; World War I TERMS, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One-armed, one-legged, and one-headed Last Line: But he says softly: “I am a man” Subject(s): World War Ii - Casualties TERRA DOMUS, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Above the deep-set valley Last Line: Our home is here! Subject(s): Earth; Home; World TERRITORIALS, by AGNES S. FALCONER Poem Source First Line: Where are the lads who went out to the war? Subject(s): World War I TEST OF BATTLE, by OWEN SEAMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We are not good at shouting in the street Subject(s): World War I TESTIMONY OF HANDS, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is every day the judgment day? Last Line: The hand that plies eternity! Subject(s): Future Life; Judgment Day; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man TETE-A-TETE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "a bit of ground, a smell of earth" Last Line: "they sleep, and know nor pain nor joy" Subject(s): Earth; World THANKSGIVING, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Yes--we give thanks. Thanks that the fight is won Last Line: Waves in the forefront of a better world! Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving; United States; World War I; America; First World War THANKSGIVING, by EDWARD SHILLITO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Before the winter's haunted nights are o'er Subject(s): World War I THANKSGIVING EVE, 2001, by F. JOHN SHARP Poem Source First Line: Today %I sort ruin Last Line: I can't imagine where I will begin Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) THAT EXPLOIT OF YOURS, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I meet two soldiers sometimes here in hell Last Line: Are saying the selfsame words at this very moment %concerning that exploit of yours Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): World War I THAT HAVE NO DOUBTS', by JOHN GRAHAM BOWER Poem Source First Line: The last resort of kings are we ... Subject(s): World War I THAT TUESDAY NIGHT, by GEORGE HELD Poem Source First Line: That tuesday night, after the towers Last Line: Could ever make me %safe again Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) THAT WOODEN CROSS, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That wooden cross beside the road Last Line: That wooden cross! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): World War I; First World War 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 ADDED STARTER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: They're lining up at the starting point, they're Last Line: The yankee horse looks 'round and sees—the kaiser's mount fall dead. Subject(s): Germany; United States; War; World War I; Germans; America; First World War THE ADVENTURE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To-day I killed a tiger near my shack Last Line: With clotted blood. Subject(s): Animals; Tigers; World War I; First World War THE AGRICULTURAL SHOW, FLEMINGTON, VICTORIA, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lumbering tractor rolls its panting round Last Line: Quiet lakes and milking sheds; 'fares please, fares please.' Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Exhibitions; Farm Life; World's Fairs; Expositions; Agriculture; Farmers 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 ANCRE AT HAMEL: AFTERWARDS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where tongues were loud and hearts were light Last Line: And shared its wounded moan. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE ANGELS AT HAMBURG, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In caves emptied of their workers, turning Last Line: Rides over his city like a star Subject(s): Hamburg, Germany; Bombs; World War Ii - Germany THE ANNIVERSARY, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the night I come to my room Last Line: The flesh of his forehead, and old scar. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Fathers & Sons; Memory; Scars; World War Ii; Second World War THE ANSWER OF THE LORD, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How long, o lord, how long' Last Line: "that I have made you men." Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE ANVIL, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Burned from the ore's rejected dross Last Line: And shape us to the end we mean! Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE ANXIOUS DEAD, by JOHN MCCRAE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O guns, fall silent till the dead men hear Last Line: And in content may turn them to their sleep. Subject(s): World War I - Casualties THE ARMY OF THE DEAD, by BARRY PAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed that overhead Last Line: Salute! Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE ASSAULT HEROIC, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down in the mud I lay Last Line: "attack! Stand to! Stand to!" Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE AUXILIARY CRUISER, by NOEL MARCUS FRANCIS CORBETT Poem Text First Line: The day closed in a wrath of cloud. The gale Last Line: "sir humphrey gilbert hailed them; ""be of cheer!" Subject(s): World War I - Naval Actions THE AVENUE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up the long colonnade I press, and strive Last Line: To seek and serve the beauty that must die. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE BAD LANDS, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No fresh green things in the bad lands bide Last Line: The song of a million years. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Earth; Landmark Preservation; Prairies; World; Plains THE BAD LANDS, by ROY B. HERRICK Poem Text First Line: They call them bad lands, these Last Line: The awesome building of a world. Subject(s): Earth; World THE BALLAD OF SOULFUL SAM, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You want me to tell you a story, a yarn of the firin' line Last Line: I'd only -- a deck of cards, boys, but . . . It seemed to do just the same. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE BALLAD OF ST. BARBARA, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the long gray lines came flooding upon paris in the plain Last Line: That opened like the eye of god on paris in the plain. Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): Barbara, Saint (200 A.d.); Marne, Battles Of, The (1914 & 1918); World War I; First World War THE BANKRUPT PEACE MAKER, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I opened the ink well and smoke filled the room Last Line: "will you bring your fine peace to the nations today?" Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War THE BATH, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Off, fetters of the falser life Last Line: Between the land and sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Earth; God; Life; Sea; World; Ocean THE BATTLE, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Helmet and rifle, pack and overcoat Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War THE BATTLE OF LIEGE, by DANA BURNET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now spake the emperor to all his shining battle forces Last Line: And the moon rode up behind the smoke and showed the king his dream. Subject(s): Liege, Battle Of (1914); William Ii, Kaiser Of Germany (1859-1941; World War I; First World War THE BATTLE OF THE BIGHT (NAVAL ACTION IN THE BIGHT OF HELIGOLAND), by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As rose the misty sun Last Line: Nor have they shamed their sire. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Helgoland Bight, Battle Of; Sea Battles; World War I; Naval Warfare; First World War THE BATTLE OF THE MARNE, by WILHELM KLEMM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slowly the stones begin to rouse themselves and to talk Last Line: For days, for weeks. Subject(s): Marne, Battles Of, The (1914 & 1918); World War I; First World War 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 BEELAH VIADUCT, by JOHN CLOSE Poem Text First Line: O wondrous age! A wondrous age we live in Last Line: When we have bid farewell to earthly things. Alternate Author Name(s): Poet Close Subject(s): Angels; Earth; Faith; Religion; World; Belief; Creed; Theology THE BEGINNING, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They tell strange things of the primeval earth Last Line: On certain days I dream about her still.' Subject(s): Creation; Earth; Hearts; Life; World THE BELLS OF BRUGES, by LOUISE BURTON LAIDLAW Poem Text First Line: Back with the same question, major? Last Line: "come on corporal.—damn this war!" Alternate Author Name(s): Backus, L., Mrs. Subject(s): Bells; Bruges, Belgium; World War I; First World War 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 BIRD OF VERDUN, by SARA E. FERBER Poem Text First Line: Brave bird of verdun Last Line: To the babes of verdun. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE BIRDS OF STEEL, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: This apple-tree, that once was green Last Line: Up, nearer to god, they fly and sing. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War I; First World War THE BIRTH OF THE PROPHET, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thrice three moons had waxed in heaven Last Line: "god is god; there is none other; I his chosen prophet am!" Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Birth; Earth; Heaven; Prophecy & Prophets; Child Birth; Midwifery; World; Paradise THE BIRTHDAY OF SPRING, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cry holiday! Holiday! Let us be gay Last Line: If my joy be suppressed, I shall burst into tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Birthdays; Earth; Echo (mythology); Nature; Spring; Tears; World THE BLACK DUDEEN, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Humping it here in the dug-out Last Line: That blighter that smashed me pipe. Subject(s): War; World War I; First World War THE BLIND PEDLAR, by FRANCIS OSBERT SACHEVERELL SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stand alone through each long day Last Line: Are creased in purple laughter! Alternate Author Name(s): Sitwell, Sir Osbert; Sitwell, Osbert Subject(s): Blindness; Peddling & Peddlers; World War I; Visually Handicapped; First World War THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: HE APPROACHETH THE HALL OF JUDGMENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o my heart, my mother, my heart, my mother" Last Line: "yea, millions-of-years, o my mother, my heart!" Subject(s): Judgment Day;mythology - Egyptian; End Of The World;doomsday;fall Of Man THE BOOK [OF THE WORLD], by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of this fair volume which we world do name Last Line: It is some picture on the margin wrought. Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William Variant Title(s): The Book Of Nature;the Lessons Of Nature;the World Subject(s): Bible; Books; Earth; Religion; Reading; World; Theology THE BOUGH OF NONSENSE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back from the somme two fusiliers Last Line: A row of bright pink birds, flapping their wings. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE BREATH OF LIGHT, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: From the cool and dark-lipped furrows Last Line: Hail, forever, hail! Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Variant Title(s): The Earth Breath Subject(s): Earth; World THE BRITISH COUNTRYSIDE IN PICTURES, by JAMES MCMICHAEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The frontispiece fixes as / british Subject(s): Great Britain; History; Landscape; World War Ii; Historians; Second World War THE BROKEN BALANCE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The people buying and selling, consuming pleasures, talking in the archways, Last Line: The arteries and walk in triumph on the faces Subject(s): Earth; Human Behavior; Progress; World; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature 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 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 BURDEN OF A SIGH, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When we on earth have run our race Last Line: Be felt beyond the grave! Subject(s): Death; Earth; Graves; Life; Dead, The; World; Tombs; Tombstones THE BUTTERFLY, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I watched to-day a butterfly Last Line: Have raised my thoughts from earth to god. Subject(s): Butterflies; Death; Earth; Insects; Life; Time; Dead, The; World; Bugs THE CALL, by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! 'tis the rush of the horses Last Line: And—losing such stakes—say, 't is well! Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE CALL (FRANCE, AUGUST FIRST, 1914), by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far and near, high and clear Last Line: War! War! War! Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE CALL OF THE SIDHE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Tarry thou yet, late lingerer in the twilight's Last Line: Unto the light of lights in burning adoration Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Earth; Nature; World 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 CALL TO THE RESERVISTS, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This was the message under the sea Last Line: The swarthy reservist from over the sea. Subject(s): Army - Italy; World War I; First World War THE CAMP-FOLLOWER, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We spoke, the camp-follower and I Last Line: And I sat beside her and wondered. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE CAPTIVE SHIPS AT MANILA, by DOROTHY PAUL Poem Text First Line: Our keels are furred with tropic weed Last Line: Out again to the blue! Subject(s): Manila, Philippines; World War I; First World 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 CHANGING SEASON, by ALINE NEFF Poem Text First Line: Golden sunlight floods the earth Last Line: Interpreting god's moods. Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Seasons; Weather; World THE CHILD DYING, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unfriendly friendly universe, / I pack your stars into my purse Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; World War Ii; Death - Babies; Bereavement; Second World War THE CHILD-WORLD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A child-world, yet a wondrous world no less Last Line: Of any tool he might not chance to own. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Earth; Fantasy; World THE CHILDREN, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was the first wednesday of a scarcity of candles Last Line: That evening in a coffin. Variant Title(s): Psalm 23 Subject(s): Animals; Bombs; Family Life; Horses; Sweden; World War Ii; Relatives; Second World War THE CHIVALRY OF THE SEA, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the warring waters, beneath the wandering skies Last Line: The wide-warring water, under the starry skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Sea Battles; World War I; Naval Warfare; First World War THE CHOICE, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To the judge of right and wrong Last Line: And not the living soul! Subject(s): World War I - United States THE CHOICE, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The kings go by with jewelled crowns Last Line: Escape from prison. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Variant Title(s): Lollingdon Downs: 8 Subject(s): World War I; First World War 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 CITY-BOUND IN A PARK, by MARY C. SLEVIN Poem Text First Line: This! This is earth! Beneath my heel Last Line: Riding with fierce abandon past his shining face! Subject(s): Earth; Parks; Time; World THE COMFORT OF THE STARS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I am overmatched by petty cares Last Line: My trouble merged in wonder and in love. Subject(s): Earth; Hearts; Life; Love; Planets; Stars; World THE COMING OF THE SNOW, by MARION L. BERTRAND Poem Text First Line: At yestere'en the world was dull and bare Last Line: We had not been such fretful, restless men. Subject(s): Earth; Silence; World THE COMING POET, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it far to the town?' said the poet Last Line: Fame at his crumbled head. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; World War I; First World War THE CONFLICT: 1. TO WILLIAM WATSON IN ENGLAND, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Singer of england's ire across the sea Last Line: He cannot tear our plighted souls apart. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): England; Singing & Singers; Watson, William (1858-1935); World War I; English; First World War THE CONFLICT: 2. AMERICAN NEUTRALITY, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall we keep an armed neutrality Last Line: Our souls cannot keep neutral and keep true. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Duty; England; Peace; United States; World War I; English; America; First World War THE CONFLICT: 3. PEACE, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peace! - but there is no peace. To hug the thought Last Line: Or would we crown with peace — caligula? Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Caligula (12 A.d.- 41 A.d.); England; Peace; United States; World War I; English; America; First World War THE CONFLICT: 4. WILSON, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Patience - but peace of heart we cannot choose Last Line: The wolf of europe has not triumphed yet. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Duty; Patience; United States; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924); World War I; America; First World War THE CONFLICT: 5. KRUPPISM, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crowned on the twilight battlefield, there bends Last Line: So long shall we serve krupp instead of christ. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Death; Germany; Jesus Christ; Krupp (industrial Conglomerate); Loss; Loyalty; World War I; Dead, The; Germans; First World War THE CONFLICT: 6. THE REAL GERMANY, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bismarck - or rapt beethoven with his dreams Last Line: Of buried guns gives birth to germany. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Ambition; Art & Artists; Bismark, Otto Von (1815-1898); Music & Musicians; Philosophy & Philosophers; World War I; First World War THE CONNAUGHT RANGERS, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the connaught rangers when they were passing by Last Line: And the green flags on their bayonets will flutter in the wind. Subject(s): World War I - Ireland THE CONTINUOUS IS BROKEN, AND RESUMES, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adam made the world Last Line: Anyone is out there, listening. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Creation; Earth; Sin; World THE CONVALESCENT, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So I walked among the willows very quietly all night Last Line: But mother's sayin' nothin', and she clasps -- a silver cross. Subject(s): Brothers; Death; War; World War I; Half-brothers; Dead, The; First World War THE CONVENT IN '45, by MARIA LUISA SPAZIANI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time of white violets; and on the slopes Subject(s): Italy - World War Ii THE CORNUCOPIA OF RED AND GREEN COMFITS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Currants and honey! Last Line: In new ribbons sent from potsdam. Subject(s): Hunger; World War I; First World War THE COST, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of late we heard dark oracles proclaim Last Line: A nobler vision, happier fate be thine! Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE COWARD, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ave you seen bill's mug in the noos today? Last Line: Wot's the matter with bill! Subject(s): Army - Great Britain; Cowardice; War; World War I; First World War 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 CRISIS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth upon earth / between the confines of the day Last Line: Felt that he wished to sit and sharpen an arrow Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Sky; Stars; World THE CRY OF JOB, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, thou lovest the heart that's pure Last Line: Come with thy judgment day to me! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Bible; God; Job (bible); Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE CRYSTAL PALACE, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With ganial foire / thransfuse my loyre Last Line: This cristial exhibition. Subject(s): Exhibitions; World's Fairs; Expositions THE CZAR'S LAST CHRISTMAS LETTER: A BARN IN THE URALS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: You were never told, mother, how old illya was drunk Last Line: And I am nicholas. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Letters; Mothers & Sons; Nicholas Ii, Czar Of Russia (1868-1918); Parents; World War I; Childhood; Nativity, The; Parenthood; First World War THE DANCERS (DURING A GREAT BATTLE, 1916), by EDITH SITWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The floors are slippery with blood Subject(s): Women; World War I; First World War THE DARKEST HOUR; OXFORD, 1917, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Smother thy flickering light, the vigil is o'er Last Line: A cold moon gilds the waves of acheron. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE DAWN OF DARKNESS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Come earth's little children pit-pat from their Last Line: Hope departed with the twilight, leaving only dumb despair. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Earth; Night; World; Bedtime THE DAWN PATROL, by PAUL BEWSHER Poem Text First Line: Sometimes I fly at dawn above the sea Last Line: In thanks to him who brings me safely home. Subject(s): Air Warfare; Holidays; Thanksgiving; World War I; First World War THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: With a whirl of thought oppressed Last Line: I damn such fools! -- go, go, you're bit.' Variant Title(s): On The Day Of Judgement Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Judgment Day; Religion; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O day of life, of light, of love Last Line: Make all things new! And without end! Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT; AN ODE ATTEMPTED IN ENGLISH SAPPHIC, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the fierce north-wind with his airy forces Last Line: Shout the redeemer. Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE DAY OF JUDGMENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Asunder shall the clouds be rolled Last Line: With vanished light like dead men's eyes Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World;doomsday;fall Of Man 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, by A. E. MURRAY Poem Text First Line: The dead are with us everywhere Last Line: The splendour of their sacrifice for years to come. Subject(s): World War I - Casualties THE DEAD AND THE LIVING ONE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead woman lay in her first night's grave Last Line: There was a deeper gloom around. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE DEAD IN EUROPE, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the planes unloaded, we fell down Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War THE DEAD KINGS, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: All the dead kings came to me Last Line: I woke, 'twas day in picardy. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Ireland; World War I; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Irish; First World War THE DEAD WINGMAN, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seen on the sea, no sign; no sign, no sign Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii; Second World War 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 DEAD: 1, by DAVID MORTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Think you the dead are lonely in that place? Last Line: Are ever by great beauty visited. Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE DEATH OF PEACE, by RONALD ROSS Poem Text First Line: Now slowly sinks the day-long labouring sun Last Line: The direst deed e'er done, the most accursèd crime. Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War THE DEATH OF RICHARD WAGNER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mourning on earth, as when dark hours descend Last Line: From the depths of the sea Subject(s): Composers; Death; Earth; Grief; Roundels; Sea; Wagner, Richard (1813-1883); Dead, The; World; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean THE DEATH OF THE BALL TURRET GUNNER, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: From my mother's sleep I fell into the state Subject(s): Air Warfare; Aviation & Aviators; Death; World War Ii; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Dead, The; Second World 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, by EDWARD VERRALL LUCAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No more old england will they see Last Line: (although to live is almost shame). Subject(s): Death; World War I - Casualties; Dead, The 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 DEFENDERS, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His wage of rest at nightfall still Last Line: The stranger from his cottage fire? Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE DEVONSHIRE MOTHER, by MARJORIE WILSON Poem Text First Line: The king have called the devon lads and they be answering fine Last Line: With his tanned face, his eyes of blue, and he so strappin' tall. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Women And War; World War I; Childhood; First World War THE DOLLAR-A-YEAR MEN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now a hearty and vigorous cheer, men Last Line: The patriot dollar-a-year men! Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I; First World War THE DOOM OF YS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you hear the bell? 'tis a silver chime Last Line: It rings o'er the town that the deep sea hides!' Subject(s): Judgment Day; Sin; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man 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 DREAM, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed last night, that I myself did lay Last Line: And we bow down in dread, o'ershadowed by death's wing! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Earth; Graves; Grief; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness THE DREAM-WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, like a sleeping child Last Line: Breathes low in the gardens of sleep in the west. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Earth; Sleep; Wind; World THE DUG-OUT, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why do you lie with your legs ungainly huddled Last Line: And when you sleep you remind me of the dead. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE DYING POET, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between the motionless and silent grass Last Line: Falls, and I shall not see another morn. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Earth; Kisses; Life; Loss; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Nightmares; World THE DYING POETS FAREWELL, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou wondrous arch of azure Last Line: To that high and laurelled quire. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Earth; Farewell; Flowers; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Dead, The; World; Parting 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 EARTH, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our eyeless bark sails free Last Line: Strikes never moon or star. Subject(s): Earth; World THE EARTH, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They tell me that the earth is still the same Last Line: Careless if on his face were smile or frown? Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Earth; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; World THE EARTH, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Which seems so barren once gave birth Last Line: Who plowed her seas and reaped her grains Subject(s): Earth; Heroism; World; Heroes; Heroines THE EARTH AND MAN, by STOPFORD AUGUSTUS BROOKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little sun, a little rain Last Line: Have left it younger than a boy. Subject(s): Mankind; Earth; Human Race; World THE EARTH CRY, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How blue the sky is and how sweet the air! Last Line: That god is good and you have quite forgot. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Earth; Spiritual Life; World THE EARTH IS A LIVING THING, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is a black shambling bear Last Line: Feel her brushing it clean Subject(s): Earth; Life; World THE EARTH MOTHER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wise old mother lets man play a while Last Line: "welcome to love, and sleep, and holiday." Subject(s): Earth; Kisses; Love; Mothers; Seasons; Soul; World THE EARTH-CHILD, by GERALD LOUIS GOULD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the veins of the world comes the blood of men Last Line: For my dreams are one with my body, yea, one with the world. Subject(s): Earth; World THE EARTHQUAKE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An hour ago the lulling twilight Last Line: And still shall weep, a world above its loss. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Disasters; Earth; Earthquakes; Evening; Loss; World; Sunset; Twilight 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 ENCLOSURE, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down the track of a philippine island Last Line: With intact and incredible love Subject(s): World War Ii; Second 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 END OF THE WORLD, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Comrades! The end of the world's at hand! Last Line: For the end of the world is here. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE END OF THE WORLD, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The snow had fallen many nights and days Last Line: "he can stay with me while I do not lift them." Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE END OF THE WORLD, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Quite unexpectedly as vasserot Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Circus; Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE END OF THE WORLD, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The end of the world: it was given to me to see it Last Line: Postpones the end of the world: in which we live forever Subject(s): God; Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE ENDLESS ARMY, by GRETCHEN OSGOOD WARREN Poem Text First Line: With folded hands beside the fire Last Line: Dim regiments of shades march by. Subject(s): Women And War; World War I; First World War THE EPITAPH ENDING IN AND, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the last storm, when hawks Subject(s): Judgment Day; Millenium; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE ESTRANGEMENT, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dim through cloud vails the moonlight trembles down Last Line: Shrills malice at the soul grown strange in france. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): France; World War I; First World War THE ETERNAL JUSTICE, by ANNE REEVE ALDRICH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thank god that god shall judge my soul, not man! Last Line: All's well with thee if thou art in just hands. Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE EVERLASTING ARMS, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tides of death go swiftly home Last Line: Transfigured in his gaze. Subject(s): Death; Wales; World War I; Dead, The; Welshmen; Welshwomen; First World War THE EYE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The atlantic is a stormy moat, and the mediterranean Subject(s): Pacific Ocean; World War Ii; Second World War 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 FARMER REMEMBERS THE SOMME, by VANCE PALMER Poem Text First Line: Will they never fade or pass! Last Line: And the dark somme flowing. Subject(s): Memory; World War I; First World War THE FATHER, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That was his sort Last Line: And cut him short. Subject(s): Fathers; World War I; First World War 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 FAUN COMPLAINS, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They give me aeroplanes Last Line: Who mock my little horns and pointed ears Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE FEAR, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not fear to die Last Line: Lest I wake up dead. Subject(s): World War I; First World War 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 FEMINEAD: FEMALES, SACRED AND PROFANE, by JOHN DUNCOMBE Poem Text First Line: The modest muse a veil with pity throws Last Line: Your empty sneers, and shock the sex no more. Subject(s): Earth; Sacrifices; Women's Rights; World; Feminism THE FESTUBERT SHRINE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sycamore on either side Last Line: We are no less poor than they. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Prayer; Women In The Bible; World War I; Virgin Mary; First World War THE FIFTEEN DAYS OF JUDGEMENT, by SEBASTIAN EVANS Poem Text First Line: Then there shall be signs in heaven Last Line: Mark yon shadow on the dial! Subject(s): God; Heaven; Judgment Day; Ruins; Storms; Paradise; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE FINAL CONFLAGRATION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "verily, verily that day shall come" Last Line: "this done, who shattered all, shall all restore" Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World;doomsday;fall Of Man THE FIRST AIR-RAID WARNING, by EVELYN D. BANGAY Poem Text First Line: When the quiet acres I look upon were shaken Last Line: Not seed-time and harvest, but wars, shall pass away. Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; World War Ii; Second World War THE FIRST BATTLE OF YPRES, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grey field of flanders, grim old battle-plain Last Line: From bixschoote to baecelaere and down to the lys river. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): World War I; Ypres, Belgium; First World War THE FIRST BOOK OF URIZEN, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of the primeval priest's assum'd power Last Line: 9. And the salt ocean rolled englob'd Variant Title(s): The Book Of Urizen Subject(s): Bible; Creation; Judgment Day; Mythology; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE FIRST FUNERAL, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The whole field was so smelly; / we smelt the poor dog first Last Line: And said: 'poor dog, amen!' Subject(s): Animals; Corpses; Dogs; World War I; Cadavers; First World War THE FIRST OF MARCH, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bud is in the bough, and the leaf is in the bud Last Line: O thou sunny first of march! Be it dedicate to thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; March (month); Peace; World 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 FLAG, by EDWARD A. HORTON Poem Text First Line: Why do I love our flag? Ask why Last Line: God give it leadership, and might! Subject(s): Flags - United States; World War I; American Flag; First World War 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 FLAG WE LOVE SO WELL (MARCHING SONG), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: March along, march along, with a song Last Line: Chorus: on, on, by dark or dawn, etc. Subject(s): Flags - United States; World War I; American Flag; First World War THE FOOL, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But it isn't playing the game,' he said Last Line: In the last great game of all. Subject(s): Brothers; Death; War; World War I; Half-brothers; Dead, The; First World War THE FOUR BROTHERS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Make war songs out of these Last Line: New sleepy-time songs. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE FOURTH OF JULY, 1776, by MAURICE HENRY HEWLETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When england's king put english to the horn Last Line: On england with more honour to her name. Subject(s): World War I - Great Britain; World War I - United States THE FRONTIER, by PHILIP GUEDALLA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Guns o' position is long and lean Last Line: Than a gunner with guns to lay. Subject(s): France; Oxford University; World War I; First World War THE FUNDAMENTAL PROJECT OF TECHNOLOGY, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under glass: glass dishes which changed Last Line: To look back and say, a flash, a white flash sparkled. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Atomic Bomb - Victims; Judgment Day; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb THE FURY OF AERIAL BOMBARDMENT, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You would think the fury of aerial bombardment Subject(s): Air Warfare; God; World War Ii; Second World War THE GALLOWS, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a weasel lived in the sun Last Line: On the dead oak tree bough. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Variant Title(s): Gallows 1916 Subject(s): Animals; Nature; World War I; First World 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 GERMAN AMERICAN TO HIS ADOPTED COUNTRY, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The great guns crashing angrily Last Line: Still guards the teuton's holy grail! Subject(s): German Americans; U.s. - Foreign Population; World War I; First World War THE GHOSTS OF OXFORD, by WILBERT SNOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I went walking up and down Last Line: The darkened streets of oxford town. Alternate Author Name(s): Snow, Charles Wilber Subject(s): Oxford, England; World War I - Great Britain THE GODS' TWILIGHT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair may has come with her bright golden radiance Last Line: Headlong together, and old night is lord. Subject(s): Earth; Evening; Grief; May (month); Poetry & Poets; World; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness THE GOLDEN AGE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When the morning breaks above us Last Line: Nourished by eternal truth. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Day; Earth; Youth; World THE GOLDEN CROSS, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We hold in memory all the whiter moons Last Line: And lilies wet from no fair woodland's breast. Subject(s): Conscientious Objectors; World War I; First World War THE GREAT EXHIBITION OF 1862 (1), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The great exchanges press each other's heels Last Line: The dog returns in snowy wilds to roam. Subject(s): Exhibitions; World's Fairs; Expositions THE GREAT EXHIBITION OF 1862 (2), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They snuff the breath of intervening seas Last Line: Our sense of brotherhood and charity! Subject(s): Exhibitions; World's Fairs; Expositions THE GREAT GREY KING, 1800-1900, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: The great grey king, the lastest and best of his line, spake thus Last Line: In the silent fields with his peers; and another reigned in his stead. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Judgment Day; Spiritual Life; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE GREATEST WONDER, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To spread the azure canopy of heaven Last Line: That angels stand amazed to think on it. Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William Subject(s): Christmas; Earth; Heaven; Nativity, The; World; Paradise THE GRUNTER, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you're complaining of your task, and sighing Last Line: His wages, will land some morning at the dump, and there he'll stay for ages. Subject(s): Industrial Workers Of The World (i.w.w.); Labor & Laborers; Labor Unions; Wages; Work; Workers; Salaries 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 GUNS IN SUSSEX, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Light green of grass and richer green of bush Last Line: But still I hear the mutter of the guns. Subject(s): Desolation; England; Guns; Patriotism; Sussex, England; War; World War I; English; First World War THE GYRE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world was a globe that sat on a table Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Earth; God; World THE HAGGIS OF PRIVATE MCPHEE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hae ye heard whit ma auld mither's postit tae me? Last Line: For he thocht o' the haggis o' private mcphee. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War 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 HEALERS, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a vision of the night I saw them Last Line: Braver than the brave? Subject(s): Courage; Death; First Aid; Healing; Nurses; Physicians; World War I; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Cures; Doctors; 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 THE HELL GATE OF SOISSONS, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My name is darino, the poet. You have heard? Last Line: By the valor of twelve english martyrs, the hell-gate of soissons is won! Subject(s): World War I; First World War 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 HERO OF VIMY; AN INCIDENT OF THE GREAT WAR, by BRENT DOW ALLINSON Poem Text First Line: We charged at vimy, -- zero was at four Last Line: I cried to heaven,—and wondered if god laughed! Subject(s): Heroism; World War I; Heroes; Heroines; First World War THE HEROES, by M. FORREST Poem Text First Line: In that valhalla where the heroes go Last Line: "pass in, mon brave,"" said that wise sentinel." Subject(s): World War I - Belgium THE HOLY EARTH, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the immense cathedral of the holy earth Last Line: Upon her myriad altars flames the one sacred fire. Subject(s): Churches; Earth; God; Cathedrals; World THE HOLY WAR, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A tinker out of bedford Last Line: And bunyan was his name! Subject(s): Bunyan, John (1628-1688); World War I; First World War THE HOMECOMING OF THE SHEEP, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sheep are coming home in greece Last Line: And the climbing moon grows small. Subject(s): Greece; Sheep; World War I; Greeks; First World War THE HOOSIER IN EXILE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hoosier in exile - a toast Last Line: "the hoosier in exile!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Exiles; Nightmares; World THE HORSES, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What was our share in the sinning? Subject(s): World War I; Horses; Animals; First World War 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 HOUSE OF DEATH, by A. T. NANKIVELL Poem Text First Line: Surely the keeper of the house of death Last Line: And all his courts are gay with flowers of spring. Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE HOUSE THAT FEAR BUILT: WARSAW, 1943, by JANE FLANDERS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the boy with his hands raised over his head / in warsaw Subject(s): Warsaw Ghetto; World War Ii; Second World War THE HOUSEWIFE, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She must go back, she said Last Line: Into the night, shells falling thick and fast. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE HUMAN NOTE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the harmonies of heaven stole a note of throbbing pain Last Line: Yea, the wistful human groping, and the doubt that makes it dear. Subject(s): Earth; Fear; Heaven; Life; Love; Pain; World; Paradise; Suffering; Misery THE HYPOCRITES REWARD, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When came his final judgment Last Line: He wore them in god's name. Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man 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 INDIAN QUEEN: SONG OF AERIAL SPIRITS, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor mortals that are clog'd with earth below Last Line: They slide to us and air. Subject(s): Bodies; Earth; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Singing & Singers; Spiritual Life; World; Songs THE INEVITABLE. SURAT: 59, by KORAN Poem Text First Line: When the day of wrath and mercy cometh, none shall doubt it come Last Line: "oh, ""companions of the right hand!"" oh! Ye others who were wise!" Alternate Author Name(s): Quran Subject(s): Heaven; Islam; Judgment Day; Paradise; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE INTERROGATION, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We could have crossed the road but hesitated Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World 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 INVOLUNTARY SLACKER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Strong, young and healthy--so the whole world says Last Line: Was ever crucifixion such as mine? Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); War; World War I; Estrangement; Outcasts; First World War THE ISLAND OF SKYROS; SONNET, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, where we stood together, we three men Last Line: "war with this force, and breathe, and am its king." Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Skyros (island), Greece; World War I - Casualties THE JEWISH CONSCRIPT; IN RUSSIA, by FLORENCE KIPER FRANK Poem Text First Line: They have dressed me up in a soldier's dress Last Line: He also died in vain. Subject(s): Jews; Russia - Army-military Life; World War I; Judaism; First World War THE JOKE, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He'd even have his joke Last Line: And now god knows when I shall hear the rest! Subject(s): World War I; First World War 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 JOY OF EARTH, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the sudden wings arising from the Last Line: Though our hearts and footsteps wander far from home. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Earth; Nature; World THE JUDGE-MENT DAY, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God hides from man the reck'ning day, that he Last Line: Expect the coming of it ev'ry day. Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE JUDGEMENT, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! The judgment trump has blown Last Line: In one flood of viewless flame. Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE JUDGEMENT DAY, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In doing justice, god shall then be known Last Line: Who shewing mercy here, few priz'd, or none. Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE KAISER AND BELGIUM, by STEPHEN PHILLIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He said: 'thou petty people, let me pass' Last Line: Then thy destruction slake thy madman's thirst. Subject(s): Liege, Battle Of (1914); William Ii, Kaiser Of Germany (1859-1941; World War I; First World War THE KAISER AND GOD, by BARRY PAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Led by wilhelm, as you tell Last Line: We, fighting to the end, commend our souls. Subject(s): William Ii, Kaiser Of Germany (1859-1941; World War I; First World War THE KINGDOM OF GOD, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through storm and sun the age draws on Last Line: As the waters fill the sea.' Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Earth; God; Heaven; World; Paradise 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 LAMENT OF THE DEMOBILIZED, by VERA MARY BRITTAIN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Four years.' some say consolingly. 'oh well Alternate Author Name(s): Catlin, George E. G., Mrs. Subject(s): World War I; Veterans; First World War THE LARK, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A lull in the racket and brattle Last Line: Is drowned in the shattering brattle. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE LAST HERO, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We laid him to rest with tenderness Last Line: How all the story of earth was told. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Earth; Heroism; World War I - Casualties; World; Heroes; Heroines THE LAST MAN: INSIGNIFICANCE OF THE WORLD, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why what's the world and time? A fleeting thought Last Line: A brief parenthesis in chaos. Subject(s): Earth; Time; Transience; World; Impermanence 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 LAST RALLY, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the midnight, in the rain Last Line: And another laughs with flashing eyes, sitting bolt upright. Subject(s): Military Service, Compulsory; World War I; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service; First World War THE LATE STAND-TO, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought of cottages nigh brooks Last Line: I gave stand-to! The east was red. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE LEADER, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the man they deemed of languid blood Last Line: His name becomes the whispered hope of men. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE LEGLESS FIGHTER PILOT, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He takes his calf in his hand, lifts the Subject(s): Air Warfare; Aviation & Aviators; Amputees; World War Ii; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Second World War THE LESSON, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It occurs to me now Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War THE LEWIS AND CLARK TRAIL, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: As o'er a sea untried and dark Last Line: Throw open wide the door! Subject(s): Exhibitions; Oregon; Roads; World's Fairs; Expositions; Paths; Trails THE LIARS, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: We were the castanet units Last Line: We are the liars from france. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE LINES, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the centers' naked files, the basic line Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War THE LITTLE PEOPLE'S CALL, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: What is this? They say the irish fighting spirit Last Line: Strings—it's the little people calling, calling you to war! Subject(s): Ireland; War; World War I; Irish; First World War THE LITTLE PEOPLES, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little peoples of the troubled earth Last Line: The white world's burden must forever bear! Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): World War I; First World War 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 LIVING DEAD, by RALPH CHAPLIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie Last Line: And dare not speak! Subject(s): Freedom; Industrial Workers Of The World (i.w.w.); Labor Unions; Liberty THE LONELY GARDEN, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder what the trees will say Last Line: When they find out he's marched away. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; World War I; First World War THE LONG VACATION, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the time the boys come home from school Last Line: The roads of the world run heavenward every one. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Classmates; Homecoming; Mothers; Sons; War; World War I; Schoolmates; First World War 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 LOST ONES, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere is music from the linnets' bills Last Line: Crying about the dark for those who died. Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE LOST PILOT, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your face did not rot Subject(s): World War Ii; Fathers; Second World War THE LUTE OF LIFE, by ARVIA MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ash and flame, sand and dew Last Line: Upon the cross the spirit sings. Subject(s): Earth; Fire; Lutes; World 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 MAMMOTH, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soon as the deluge ceased to pour Last Line: A second mammoth dies. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Europe; Life; Dead, The; World THE MAN FROM ATHABASKA, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh the wife she tried to tell me that 'twas nothing but the thrumming Last Line: And I'll rest in athabaska, and I'll leave it nevermore. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE MAN IN THE DEAD MACHINE, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High on a slope in new guinea Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War THE MAN OF THE MARNE, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gray battalions were driving down Last Line: Remember the marne and ferdinand foch. Subject(s): Foch, Ferdinand (1851-1929); Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War THE MAN WITH THE BROKEN FINGERS', by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And death is a quiet step into a sweet clean midnight Subject(s): Torture; World War Ii; Norway; Nazis THE MAP OF THE WORLD CONFUSED WITH ITS TERRITORY, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a drawer I found a map of the world Subject(s): Maps; Earth; World THE MARNE, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down through dim centuries of shame Last Line: Unteach us love of man. Subject(s): Marne, Battles Of, The (1914 & 1918); World War I; First World War THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rintrah roars and shakes his fires in the burdened air Last Line: For every thing that lives is holy Subject(s): Bible; Imagination; Judgment Day; Mythology; Vision; Fancy; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE MATIN-SONG OF FRIAR TUCK, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If souls could sing to heaven's high king Last Line: Te deum! Te deum laudamus! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Dreams; Earth; Soul; Dead, The; Nightmares; World THE MEASURE, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Now frail the flower and strong the weed Last Line: Measures the long step of the sun. Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Nature; Planets; World THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The meek shall inherit the earth, -- yes Last Line: Six feet of earth -- at the last -- and worms for a fellowship nigh. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Humility; Inheritance & Succession; Pain; Dead, The; World; Heirs; Suffering; Misery THE MEETING, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: She was a blossoming slip of english may Last Line: "he holds her fast -- ""my rose! My little rose...." Subject(s): Women - Employment; World War I; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers; First World War THE MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION (WRITTEN FOR MUSIC), by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brothers from far-away lands Last Line: The storm from the wave and the night from the day! Subject(s): Exhibitions; World's Fairs; Expositions THE MEMORY OF EARTH, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the wet dusk silver sweet Last Line: "so to close her tragic story." Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Memory; Tragedy; Dead, The; World THE MEN THAT FOUGHT AT MINDEN, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The men that fought at minden, they was rookies in their time Last Line: Ho! Run an' get the beer, johnny raw! Subject(s): Army - Great Britain; Minden, Germany; World War I; First World War THE MERCHANTMEN, by MORLEY ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: The skippers and the mates, they know! Last Line: As endless as some dog-watch song. Subject(s): World War I - Naval Actions THE MERCIFUL HAND, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your fine white hand is heaven's gift Last Line: The love-alliance of mankind. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Nurses; World War I; First World War THE MESSAGES, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot quite remember - there were five Last Line: "whispered their dying messages to me...." Subject(s): World War I - Casualties THE MESSIAH, by MABEL WARREN ARNOLD Poem Text First Line: He came unto a world that was not ready Last Line: To welcome as its king the baby boy. Subject(s): Earth; World 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 METAL CHECKS, by LOUISE DRISCOLL Poem Text First Line: The bearer / here is a sack, a gunny sack Last Line: One—two—three—four— Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, by LLOYD MIFFLIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Immurmurous hall, with aisles of grateful shade Last Line: The flower of man's creative, god-like mind! Subject(s): Exhibitions; History; Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York; World's Fairs; Expositions; Historians 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 MILLENNIUM, by IDA TEEPLE WITTENBERGER Poem Text First Line: The armaments and power of kings Last Line: In chains in deepest hell! Subject(s): Judgment Day; Peace; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE MINE-SWEEPERS, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn off the foreland -- the young flood making Last Line: "sent back unity, claribel, assyrian, stormcock, and golden gain." Subject(s): Mine-sweepers; Ships & Shipping; World War I; First World War THE MOBILIZATION IN BRITTANY, by GRACE FALLOW NORTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was silent in the street Last Line: So this is the way of war ... Subject(s): Brittany, France; World War I; First World War THE MODERN SAINT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No monkish garb he wears, no beads he tells Last Line: And ministers to men with all his might. Subject(s): Earth; Eyes; Faces; Hearts; Saints; World THE MOON, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Their footprints on her face Last Line: For women are, after all, only space. Subject(s): Earth; Snow; Women; World THE MOON AND THE NIGHT AND THE MEN, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the night of the belgian surrender the moon rose Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Belgium; Leopold Iii, King Of The Belgians; World War Ii; Second World War THE MORNING BEFORE THE BATTLE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To-day, the fight: my end is very soon Last Line: That dead men blossomed in the garden-close. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE MORNING PAPER, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Carnage! / humanity disgraced! Subject(s): World War I - Casualties THE MOTHER (2), by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her boys are not shut out. They come Last Line: And not go out again. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Mothers; Women And War; World War I; First World War THE MOTHER ON THE SIDEWALK, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mother on the sidewalk as the troops are marching by Last Line: Is a lasting holy tribute to all mothers' love of right. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Mothers; Patriotism; World War I; First World War 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 MOUNTAIN RAPTURE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Contentment have I known in lowlands green Last Line: Of fiery heavings, throbbed into repose. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Earth; Passion; Singing & Singers; World THE MOURNERS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I look into the aching womb of night Last Line: How happy are the dead! Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE NAME OF FRANCE, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give us a name to fill the mind Last Line: I give you france! Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): World War I - France THE NATION'S COURAGE (WRITTEN IN THE WORLD WAR), by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As thou hast kept our nation, lord Last Line: Lead thou the armies of the right! Subject(s): Prayer; United States; World War I; America; First World War THE NEUTRAL, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who canst stop this slaughter if thou wilt Last Line: The mute accusing army of the dead? Subject(s): German Americans; World War I; First World War THE NEW ALLY, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Their great gray ships go plunging forth Last Line: Their pact with freedom while we slept! Subject(s): World War I - United States THE NEW CHRISTMAS, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the good old days, in the spacious days, when the christmas Last Line: As the snow a man shakes from his shoulders as he comes to his own front gate. Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Christmas; Earth; Snow; Socialism; Nativity, The; World THE NEW CRUSADE, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life is a trifle Last Line: Who war against war. Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I - United States THE NEW DAY, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From a vision red with war Last Line: Man's land. Subject(s): Freedom; World War I; Liberty; First World War THE NEW JERUSALEM, by ALLAN M. LAING Poem Text First Line: And did these feet, in pre-war days Last Line: In england's blind and shuttered land! Subject(s): Jerusalem; World War Ii; Second World War 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 SLAVERY (GERMAN EXPATRIATION OF CIVIL POPULATIONS OF BELGIUM), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men of freedom, for whose ease Last Line: December 15, 1916. Subject(s): Belgium; World War I; First World War THE NEW WORLD, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, let us make a new world,' said the proud Last Line: But justice, queened by pity, rules the new. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE NEW WORLD; TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now is the time of the splendour of youth Last Line: Hail to the sunrise! Hail to the pioneers! Subject(s): World War I - United States THE NEW ZEALANDER, by BEN KENDIM Poem Text First Line: Samothrace and imbros lie Last Line: Tom, his brother, envied him. Subject(s): New Zealand; World War I; First World War THE NEXT WAR, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You young friskies who to-day / jump and fight in father's hay Last Line: Playing at royal welch fusiliers. Subject(s): World War I; First World War 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 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 NOBLER ARMY, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The men who fight in europe - they fight to maim and kill Subject(s): Coal Mines & Miners; World War I; First World War THE NORSEMAN'S RIDE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The frosty fires of northern starlight Last Line: "gleam surtur's hoofs of gold!" Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Earth; Mythology; Silence; Singing & Singers; World THE NORTH SEA GROUND, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, grimsby is a pleasant town as any man may find Last Line: Oh, the dead lying quiet on the north sea ground! Subject(s): North Sea; World War I - Naval Actions THE ODYSSEY OF 'ERBERT 'IGGINS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Me and ed and a stretcher Last Line: "we'll 'owl in their fyces: 'no-o-o!'" Subject(s): Army Life; World War I; Drills & Minor Tactics; First World War THE OLD AND THE NEW EARTH, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the first bright dawn of sabbath-day Last Line: And entering, dwell there eternally. Subject(s): Earth; World THE OLD MEETING HOUSE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Its quiet graves were made for peace till gabriel blows his horn Last Line: While the old cracked bell to southward shook the ancient meeting house. Subject(s): Bells; Gabriel; Graves; Judgment Day; Names; Peace; Public Meetings; Tombs; Tombstones; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE OLD SOLDIER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lest the young soldiers be strange in heaven Last Line: Waiting to welcome them by the strange door. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I - Casualties; Dead, The; Paradise 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 OPEN DOOR, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mystery of life Last Line: And crown his plan. Subject(s): Earth; God; Hearts; Hope; Life; Soul; World; Optimism THE OWL, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Downhill I came, hungry, and yet not starved Last Line: Soldiers and poor, unable to rejoice. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Birds; Owls; World War I; First World War THE PAIN OF EARTH, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Does the earth grow grey with grief Last Line: In our hearts the tears are shed. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Earth; Grief; World; Sorrow; Sadness 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 PASSENGERS OF A RETARDED SUBMERSIBLE, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The american people: / what was it kept you so long, brave german submersible? Last Line: Shall be ever the home for us this land can never be. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Germany; Lusitania (ship); World War I; Germans; First World War THE PEACE PEAL (AFTER FOUR YEARS OF SILENCE), by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said a wistful daw in saint peter's tower Last Line: Or lower, of pens and politics. Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War THE PEACEFUL WARRIOR, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have [or, there is] no joy in strife Last Line: Unless the world is free? Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): World War I; 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 PERFORMANCE, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last time I saw donald armstrong Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S ANNUAL, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We are returning to new england for two weeks! My sister Last Line: Throughout the afternoon. Subject(s): Aging; Love - Erotic; Jews; Marriage; Mayas; Mexico; Morality; Photography & Photographers; Poetry & Poets; Vermont; World War Ii; Judaism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Ethics; Second World War THE PICTURE OF ST. JOHN: BOOK 3. THE CHILD, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sad son of earth, if ever to thy care Last Line: "I come!"" I cried; and with the cry awoke." Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Children; Earth; Fate; Life; Saints; Childhood; World; Destiny THE PITY OF IT, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walked in loamy wessex lanes afar Last Line: And their brood perish everlastingly.' Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE PLAYERS, by FRANCIS LAWRENCE BICKLEY Poem Text First Line: We challenged death. He threw with weighted dice Last Line: With that nor death nor time can take away. Subject(s): Death; World War I - Casualties; Dead, The THE POET, by THOMAS ERNEST HULME Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over a large table, smooth, he leaned in ecstasies Last Line: On the smooth table. Alternate Author Name(s): Hulme, T. E. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; World War I; First World War THE POET, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! He traffics with the sun Last Line: And uncaring give us death. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Fate; Love; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Sun; Wind; Dead, The; World; Destiny; Ocean THE POET'S DESIRE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He craves not the boon of pleasure Last Line: And the voice before he dies. Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Earth; Poetry & Poets; Voices; World 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 POWER OF SONG, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Columns uplifted high Last Line: Throughout the earth. Subject(s): Earth; Fame; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Virtue; World; Reputation THE PRAYERS OF SAINTS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No fragrance of the early months, when earth Last Line: Perfumed and perfect for that heavenly place. Subject(s): Earth; Faces; God; Prayer; Saints; World THE PRICE OF HONOR (THE COLOMBIAN INDEMNITY), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How much is a country's honor worth? Last Line: Give us our measureless honor again. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE PROMISE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Alas! For stifled love, as tho' dull earth Last Line: Then let thy world within flame to love's glowing kiss! Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Love; Night; World; Bedtime THE PROPHET, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a country Last Line: This sometime seer, crass but cassandra-like. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE QUAKER MEETING-HOUSE, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the corn-rows from our barracks stood Last Line: With windows burning like the fires of home. Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Houses; Religion; War; World War I; Quakers; Theology; First World War THE QUESTION, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder if the old cow died or not Last Line: Till doomsday if the old cow died or not. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE RAGGED STONE, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I was walking with my dear, my dear come back at last Last Line: I'll not be walking with my dear next year, nor yet alone. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Legends; Love; Stones; War; World War I; Dead, The; Granite; Rocks; First World War THE RAID, by WILLIAM EVERSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They came out of the sun undetected Alternate Author Name(s): Antoninus, Brother Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War THE RANGE IN THE DESERT, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the lizard ran to its little prey Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War 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 READER OF THE SENTENCES, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dead soldiers rise and walk into the trees Last Line: There is the day's work to be done. Subject(s): Books; Children; Eckehart, Johannes (meister) (1260-1327); Jesus Christ; Martyrs; Memory; Resurrection, The; World War Ii; Reading; Childhood; Eckhart, Meister; Second 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 REAWAKENING, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Green in light are the hills, and a calm wind flowing Last Line: Springs, like a child from the womb, when the lonely one calls. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): World War I; First World War 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 RED CHRISTMAS, by WILLIAM H. DRAPER Poem Text First Line: O take away the mistletoe Last Line: Twined with the holly berry. Alternate Author Name(s): Draper, W. H. Subject(s): Christmas; World War I; Nativity, The; First World War THE RED COUNTRY, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the red country Last Line: With your secret eyes, and sow for us, that we must reap again? Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE RED CROSS NURSE, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One summer day, gleaming in memory Subject(s): World War I; Red Cross; Nurses; First World War THE RED CROSS NURSE, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The battle-smoke still fouled the day Last Line: A crimson cross is on her breast! Subject(s): Nurses; World War I - Casualties THE RED CROSS NURSES, by THOMAS LANSING MASSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out where the line of battle cleaves Last Line: The red cross nurses stand. Alternate Author Name(s): Masson, Tom Subject(s): Nurses; Red Cross; World War I; First World War THE RED CROSS SPIRIT SPEAKS, by JOHN FINLEY (1874-) Poem Text First Line: Wherever war with its red woes Last Line: Of war's red line. Subject(s): Red Cross; World War I; First World War THE RED RETREAT, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tramp, tramp, the grim road, the road from mons to wipers Last Line: The graves of me mateys there, the grim, sour graves. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War 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 REFUGEES, by EDWIN MUIR Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A crack ran through our hearthstone long ago Subject(s): Refugees; World War Ii; Second World War 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, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the rumbling guns. I saw the smoke Last Line: And I heard beauty singing up the hill. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE RETURN OF AUGUST, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Darkly a mortal age has come and gone Last Line: The summer wanes: the ploughman comes with spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE REVELATION, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The same old sprint in the morning, boys, to the same old din and smut Last Line: But all of us wonder what we'll do when we have to go back again. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE REWARD, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The heights and caverns of the hills Last Line: Forgetfulness of misery. Subject(s): Earth; Life; Love; Mothers; Nature; Pain; Rewards; World; Suffering; Misery 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 RIVERS, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The terrain in my country Last Line: And they revive Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs. Subject(s): Rivers; Third World; Death 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 ROAD TO DIEPPE, by JOHN FINLEY (1874-) Poem Text First Line: Before I knew, the dawn was on the road Last Line: Forget long hates in one consummate faith. Subject(s): Dieppe, France; World War I; First World War THE ROAD TO FRANCE, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: Thank god, our liberating lance Last Line: See, with what proud hearts we advance to france! Subject(s): France; Patriotism; World War I; First World War THE ROSE ENTHRONED, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It melts and seethes, the chaos that shall grow Last Line: A fair and fragile weed. Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Flowers; Life; Nature; Roses; World 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 RUNNER, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the condemned man ate a hearty meal' Subject(s): Bulge, Battle Of The; World War Ii; Second World War THE SEA FIGHT; IN MEMORIAM CAPTAIN PROWSE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down went the grand 'queen mary' Last Line: With his comrades all around. Subject(s): Sea Battles; World War I; Naval Warfare; First World War THE SEARCHLIGHT, by DOROTHEA LAMORE Poem Text First Line: Out of the dark a yellow light Last Line: Earth has all secrets you want to know? Subject(s): Earth; Light; Night; Sky; World; Bedtime THE SEARCHLIGHTS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shadow by shadow, stripped for fight Last Line: She moves to the eternal goal. Subject(s): Morality; World War I; Ethics; First World War THE SECOND COMING, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Turning and turning in the widening gyre Last Line: Slouches towards bethlehem to be born? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Chaos; Easter; History; Holidays; Imagination; Judgment Day; Men; Millenium; Religion; Vision; War; The Resurrection; Historians; Fancy; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology THE SECULAR MASQUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An hundred times the rowling sun Last Line: Dance of huntsmen, nymphs, warriours, and lovers. Subject(s): Earth; Goddesses & Gods; Mankind; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Plays & Playwrights ; War; World; Human Race; Dramatists THE SEEKERS, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friends and loves we have none, nor wealth, nor blest abode Last Line: But the hope, the burning hope, and the road, the lonely road. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Cities; Earth; Roads; Solitude; Travel; Urban Life; World; Paths; Trails; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips 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 SENTRY'S MISTAKE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The chapel at the crossways bore no scar Last Line: "made him once more ""the terror of the hun." Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE SHADOW OF DEATH, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's an end to my art! / I must die and I know it Last Line: I may father no longer! Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE SHARING OF THE EARTH, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take the world,' cried god from his heaven Last Line: "we'll admit you whenever you call!" Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Earth; Poetry & Poets; Thought; World; Thinking THE SHIP OF LIBERTY; LINES ON THE LAUNCHING OF THE 'NEWBURGH', by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O ship of liberty! Last Line: Our hearts go forth with thee. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; World War I; First World War THE SHIPS OF GRIEF, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On seas where every pilot fails Last Line: There is a sun will strike the sea. Subject(s): Grief; Ships & Shipping; World War I; Sorrow; Sadness; First World War THE SHIPS THAT NEVER FOUGHT, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The great gray ships come slowly in, and range Last Line: And yet no stain or shame is theirs—the ships that never fought! Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; War; World War I; First World War THE SHORT ROAD TO HEAVEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a short road to heaven, but you must take it young Last Line: The night darkens on them—and there's god at the door. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Heaven; Mothers; Roads; War; World War I; Youth; Paradise; Paths; Trails; First World War 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 SICK NOUGHT, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do the wife and baby travelling to see Last Line: This was our peace, this was our war Subject(s): World War Ii - Casualties THE SICK-ROOM, by MARIA WHITE LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A spirit is treading the earth Last Line: And a heap of ashes gray. Subject(s): Earth; Life; Spring; World 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 SILENT TOAST, by FREDERICK GEORGE SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They stand with reverent faces Last Line: Are lit with a light divine. Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. G. Subject(s): Toasts; World War I - Casualties THE SILVER STRIPES, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we've honored the heroes returning from france Last Line: Though they've only the silver to show. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE SKY-SENT DEATH, by WALTER JAMES REDFERN TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting on a stone a shepherd Last Line: Free, in no man's keeping. Subject(s): World War I; First World War 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'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 SOLDIERS OF THE DUSK, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Black men holding up the earth Last Line: Victims of the war god's lust. Subject(s): African Americans - Military; World War I; First World War THE SOMNAMBULIST, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Celestials must have piloted Last Line: Find heaven's rapture earth unveiled. Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Night; Truth; World; Bedtime THE SONG OF THE ELEMENTS, by MARY ANN BROWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sit amidst the universe Last Line: Of its own unvanquished power. Alternate Author Name(s): Gray, James, Mrs.; Gray, Mary Anne Browne Subject(s): Air; Earth; Fire; Universe; Water; World THE SONG OF THE GUNS AT SEA, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh hear! Oh hear! Last Line: Come! ... Come! ... The time is come! Subject(s): World War I - Naval Actions THE SONG OF THE PACIFIST, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What do they matter, our headlong hates, when we take the toll Last Line: In the name of the dead the banner of peace . . . That will be victory. Subject(s): Pacifism; War; World War I; Peace Movements; First World War 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 SOUL OF JEANNE D'ARC, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She came not into the presence Last Line: "my captain! Oh, my captain, let me go back!"" she said." Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); World War I - France THE SPECTRAL ARMY, by GRETCHEN OSGOOD WARREN Poem Text First Line: I dream that on far heaven's steep Last Line: They left the reckoning to god. Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE SPIRES OF OXFORD, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the spires of oxford Last Line: Than even oxford town. Subject(s): Oxford University; World War I; First World War THE SPOILS OF WAR, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What does our soldier bring from war? Last Line: Could knightly soldier bring from war? Subject(s): Army - United States; World War I; First World War THE SPRING IN IRELAND: 1916, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do not forget my charge I beg of you Last Line: We sail away -- be with us mananan! Subject(s): Ireland; Spring; World War I; Irish; 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 STARS IN THEIR COURSES, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And now, while the dark vast earth shakes Last Line: On these disastrous wars! Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE STEEPLE, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: There's mist in the hollows Last Line: For birds and for bells! Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE STILL HOUR, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As in the silent darkening room I lay Last Line: Whence one deep moaning, one deep moaning came. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE STOIC: FOR LAURA VON COURTEN, by EDGAR BOWERS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: All winter long you listened for the boom Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War THE STORM, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The storm that trickles its long march Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE STORM-KING, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stand back! Stand back / from my giant track! Last Line: I am monarch, and earth must obey! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Earth; Storms; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; World THE STRETCHER-BEARER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My stretcher is one scarlet stain Last Line: O prince of peace! 'ow long, 'ow long? Subject(s): Army Life; War; World War I; Drills & Minor Tactics; First World War THE SUMME, AND THE THE SATISFACTION, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I drew up mine account Last Line: By law, the bond once cancelled. Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE SUN'S ECLIPSE -- JULY 8TH, 1842, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis cloudless morning, but a frown misplaced Last Line: The thrilling joy, whose tears were on my cheek! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Earth; Eclipses; Sun; Dead, The; World THE SUN-THIEF, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A desolate mountain region. Snow and Last Line: Cold and clear in the moonlight. Unbroken silence.] Subject(s): Earth; Escapes; Fire; Grief; Hermes (mythology); Humanity; Love; Mythology; Prisons & Prisoners; Prometheus; Religion; Sun; Zeus; World; Fugitives; Sorrow; Sadness; Convicts; Theology THE SUPERMAN, by ROBERT GRANT (1852-1940) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Horror-haunted belgian plains riven by shot and shell Last Line: Let chaos come, let moloch rule, and christ give place to baal. Subject(s): World War I; First World War 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 SWORD OF LAFAYETTE (INSCRIBED TO RAYMOND POINCARE), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was the time of our despair Last Line: The sacred sword of lafayette. Subject(s): Lafayette, Marie Joseph, Marquis De; World War I; First World War THE SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, while orion, flaming south Last Line: On holy paths -- on sacred ways and sweet. Subject(s): Australia; Exhibitions; Tasman, Abel (1603-1659); World's Fairs; Expositions THE THAW, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the civil sun drying earth's tears Last Line: So shall my silence with their music chime. Subject(s): Earth; Sun; Time; World THE THREAT, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: How tame has earth become Last Line: The thirst of emptiness. Subject(s): Earth; Emptiness; World THE THUNDER STORM, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Above the heavens are flaming Last Line: I would know that thou art near. Subject(s): Earth; Lightning; Storms; Weather; World; Lightning Rods 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 LIEUTENANT JOHN LEARMONTH, A. I. F., by JOHN STREETER MANIFOLD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is not sorrow, this is work: I build Subject(s): Crete; World War Ii; Second World War 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 TOWER OF SKULLS, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He knows his dust is fire and seed Last Line: He knows his dust is fire and seed. Subject(s): World War I – Casualties THE TOY BAND (A SONG OF THE GREAT RETREAT), by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dreary lay the long road, dreary lay the town Last Line: Fall in! Fall in! Follow the fife and drum! Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE TRAITORS OF CAPORETTO; A LEGEND OF TODAY, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whose feet are these that plod all day Last Line: Shall perish as they fall. Subject(s): Army - Italy; Caporetto, Battle Of (1917); Italy; Treason & Traitors; World War I; Italians; First World War THE TRANSIT, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was as if the ring had gone from the horizon Last Line: But for the space of a thought it was as if it seemed. Subject(s): Earth; Music & Musicians; World THE TRAVELLER'S RETURN, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: O'er hampshire's snow-heaped hills the sun Last Line: Remorse is punishment enough! Subject(s): Earth; Homecoming; Travel; World; Journeys; Trips THE TRENCHES, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scratches in the dirt? / no, that sounds much too nice Last Line: Squash! And he needs no twice. Subject(s): World War I; First World War 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 TROPHY, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wise king crowned with blessings on his throne Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War THE TROUBLED SPIRIT, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said god, go, spirit, thou hast served me well Last Line: Some weariness, while time smiles to himself. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE TRUE WITNESS, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friend, I heard thee say to me Last Line: I know he is! Subject(s): Earth; Jesus Christ; Life; Love; Religion; World; Theology THE TRUMPET CALL (1), by DMITRY SERGEYEVICH MEREZHKOVSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over earth awakes a whirring Last Line: "glad or grieving, thou shalt rise." Alternate Author Name(s): Merezhovski, Dmitri Subject(s): Christianity; Judgment Day; Trumpets; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE TURQUOISE BOWL, by KATHRYN WHITE RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bowl in the hand is the earth Last Line: The winged sun sting its side like a bee. Subject(s): Bowls; Earth; World THE TWILIGHT OF EARTH, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The wonder of the world is o'er Last Line: Dominion and ancestral sway. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Earth; Mythology - Celtic; Past; World THE TWIN TOWERS ARCANE, by JACK HIRSCHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such mourning as we Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 THE TWINS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were two brothers, john and james Last Line: And john? Well, search the potter's field. Subject(s): Brothers; War; World War I; Half-brothers; First World War THE U-BOAT CREWS, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, alas for those blond boys who stalk Subject(s): Navy - Germany; Submarines; World War I; Submarine Warfare; U-boats; First World War THE U. S. SAILOR WITH THE JAPANESE SKULL, by WINFIELD TOWNLEY SCOTT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bald-bare, bone-bare, and ivory yellow: skull Subject(s): Skulls; World War Ii; Second World War THE UNCHANGEABLE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though I within these last two years of grace Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; Human Behavior; First World War; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE UNDEFEATED FLAG, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Aye, set that banner in the sky--let every towering crag Last Line: Show out old glory in the sun—the undefeated flag! Subject(s): Flags - United States; World War I; American Flag; First World War THE UNDERGRADUATE KILLED IN BATTLE; OXFORD, 1915, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet as the lawn beneanth his sandalled tread Last Line: And in unwitting lordship saw the blue. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE UNDYING, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In thin clear light unshadowed shapes go by Last Line: Ripe berries on neglected boughs that wasted. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Death; Grief; World War I; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; First World War THE UNKNOWN EARTH, by PAUL SANDOZ Poem Text First Line: In the cold rain the scents of spring will hurt Last Line: And every worm is cool and green and proud. Subject(s): Earth; Spring; World THE UNRETURNING, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For us, the dead, though young Last Line: That we have died in vain! Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE VALLEY OF THE BLUE SHROUDS, by JOHN FINLEY (1874-) Poem Text First Line: O shards of walls that once held precious life Last Line: But rises as thy soul, immortal france! Subject(s): World War I - France THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were faces to remember in the valley of the shadow Last Line: Maimed. Subject(s): Death; Life; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE VETERAN; MAY, 1916, by MARGARET ISABEL POSTGATE COLE Poem Text First Line: We came upon him sitting in the sun Last Line: "nineteen, the third of may." Subject(s): Veterans; Women; World War I; Youth; First World War THE VICTOR OF THE MARNE (INSCRIBED TO JOSEPH JACQUES CESAIRE JOFFRE), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, may, thou darling of the year Last Line: In spite of frontiers and of flags the world shall be as one. Subject(s): Joffre, Joseph Jacques (1852-1931); World War I; First World War THE VIGIL, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: England! Where the sacred flame Last Line: Forth! And god defend the right! Subject(s): World War I - Great Britain THE VINDICTIVE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How should we praise those lads of the old vindictive Last Line: In those red gates of hell? Subject(s): Death; Desire; England; Fear; Hearts; Ships & Shipping; Soul; World War I; Dead, The; English; First World War THE VIRGIN OF ALBERT (NOTRE DAME DE BREBIERES), by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Shyly expectant, gazing up at her Last Line: "and comfort them, and hearken all their prayers!" Subject(s): Notre Dame De Brebieres (basilica); Prayer; World War I; First World War THE VISION, by WILLIAM TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: We met, a hundred of us met Last Line: Flew up and kicked the beam. Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Facades; Judgment Day; Religion; Vision; Appearances; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology THE VISION OF SPRING, 1916, by HENRY HOWARTH BASHFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night in a cottage far Last Line: Lo, the dawn out-topped the night. Subject(s): World War I; First World War 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 ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sez I: my country calls? Well, let it call Last Line: I've gotta go, bill, gotta go. Subject(s): War; World War I; First World War 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 VOYAGE, by EUGENE JOLAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have buried the city Last Line: The train is thundering toward eternity. Subject(s): Cities; Earth; Railroads; Travel; Urban Life; World; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE WAKENED GOD, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The war-god wakened drowsily Last Line: And scourged the crouching lands again. Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Variant Title(s): The Awakened War God Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE WAR FILMS, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O living pictures of the dead Last Line: To take their death for mine. Subject(s): Death; Religion; World War I; Dead, The; Theology; First World War THE WAR IN EUROPE: 1915; ABDALLAH OF CAIRO SPEAKS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the prophet! If these be christians, where shall / we find the heathen? Last Line: I will repeat the fátiha and leave them to their doom! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Muslims; Prayer; Religion; World War I; Moslems; Theology; First World War THE WAR IN THE AIR, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For a saving grace, we didn't see our dead Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii; Second World War THE WATCHERS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the challenge 'who goes there?' Last Line: When I at last am seen and known. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE WAVES, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Children are we Last Line: Sorrows and hopes of earth! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Earth; Grief; Heaven; Sea; Waves; World; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise; Ocean THE WEARY WEDDING, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O daughter, why do ye laugh and weep, one with another? Last Line: Mother, my mother. Subject(s): Daughters; Earth; Grief; Marriage; World; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEEPING EARTH, by PEARL LENORE POLLARD CURRAN Poem Text First Line: What! Is earth sodden of anguish? Last Line: With thy wisdom. Alternate Author Name(s): Worth, Patience Subject(s): Earth; World THE WELCOME, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He'd scarcely come from leave and london Last Line: While any of those who were there have tongues. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE WEST FRONT, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No country know I so well Last Line: Nor lorn jerusalem. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Masefield, John (1878-1967); Somme, Battle Of The (1916); World War I; First World War THE WHEAT AND THE TARES, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Satan hath with devil's cunning Last Line: Tares are tares, and wheat is wheat. Subject(s): Judgment Day; Judgments; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE WHISTLE OF SANDY MCGRAW, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You may talk o' your lutes and your dulcimers fine Last Line: You wee penny whistle o' sandy mcgraw. Subject(s): Death; Music & Musicians; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE WHITE COMRADE (AFTER W.H. LEATHAM'S 'THE COMRADE IN WHIRE'), by ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under our curtain of fire Last Line: "but of late they have troubled me." Subject(s): Jesus Christ; World War I - Casualties THE WHITE PORCH, by CATHY SONG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wrap the blue towel Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans THE WHITE SHIPS AND THE RED, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With drooping sail and pennant Last Line: But one -- shall be like blood. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Ghost Ships; Lusitania (ship); Submarines; World War I; Submarine Warfare; U-boats; First World War THE WIDE WORLD IS DREAR, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Oh say not the wide world is lonely and drear Last Line: And rewarded with smiles for the fall of a tear. Subject(s): Earth; World THE WIDOW OF THE BEAST OF INGOLSTADT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A fork in the garden, the widow digging Last Line: Her husband's watch had just stopped in his grave. Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Marriage; Widows & Widowers; World War Ii; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Second World War THE WIFE OF FLANDERS, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Low and brown barns, thatched and repatched and tattered Last Line: Ride on and prosper. You have lost your spurs. Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): World War I - Belgium THE WIFE OF LLEW, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And gwydion said to math, when it was spring Last Line: And bore away his wife of birds and flowers. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE WILLIAM P. FRYE [FEBRUARY 28, 1915], by JEANNE ROBERT FOSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw her first abreast the boston light Last Line: To make the harbor glad because she's come. Subject(s): Submarines; William P. Frye (ship); World War I - United States; Submarine Warfare; U-boats THE WINDOW, AT THE MOMENT OF FLAME, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: And all this while I have been playing with toys Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 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 WINTER SLEEP, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A maiden o'erwearied Last Line: Thy lover is here. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Earth; Kisses; Sleep; Spring; Winter; World THE WORLD, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fie! What a wretched world is this! Last Line: With death, that hourly waits for me. Subject(s): Earth; World THE WORLD, by FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world is wise, for the world is old Last Line: But the love of god would do all for thee. Subject(s): Earth; God; Religion; World; Theology THE WORLD, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love built a stately house; where fortune came Last Line: And built a braver palace then before. Subject(s): Earth; Faith; Jesus Christ; Redemption; World; Belief; Creed THE WORLD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By day she wooes me, soft, exceeding fair Last Line: Till my feet, cloven too, take hold on hell? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; World THE WORLD, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When adam first did from his dust arise Last Line: And ever will the same. Subject(s): Earth; God; World THE WORLD (1), by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw eternity the other night Last Line: But for his bride. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Variant Title(s): A Vision Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Earth; Freedom; Future Life; Mankind; Religion; World; Liberty; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Human Race; Theology THE WORLD IS SO SMALL, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world's a very little place Last Line: To suit me so. Subject(s): Babies; Earth; Infants; World THE WORLD PLAY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The entrance-price you willy-nilly pay Last Line: Are shaken by its moods, -- mirth, anguish, mystery. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Comedy; Earth; Plays & Playwrights ; Tragedy; World; Dramatists THE WORLD WAR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This -- after nineteen centuries of christ! Last Line: And let this worst of warfare be the last! Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE WORLD WAS SURELY MADE FOR ME, by MAUD MORRISON HUEY Poem Text First Line: The world was surely made for me Last Line: It suits me so completely. Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Nature; World THE WORLD WE MAKE, by ALFRED GRANT WALTON Poem Text First Line: We make the world in which we live Last Line: We make our world -- and there we live. Subject(s): Earth; World THE WORLD'S ADVANCE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Judge mildly the tasked world; and disincline Last Line: Ere reason ripens for the vacant place. Subject(s): Earth; Progress; World THE WORLD'S AGE, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who will say the world is dying? Last Line: That the world is young. Subject(s): Earth; World THE WORLD'S ALL RIGHT, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be honest, kindly, simple, true Last Line: What ho! The world's all right, I say. Subject(s): Earth; Happiness; World; Joy; Delight THE WORLD'S HARMONIES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh listen, listen, for the earth Last Line: Who turneth from his sin. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; Life; Singing & Singers; World THE WORLD: A CHILD'S SONG, by WILLIAM BRIGHTY RANDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful world Last Line: "you can love and think, and the earth cannot!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Matthew; Holbeach, Henry Variant Title(s): The Wonderful World;the Child's World;the World;the Child In The Midst Subject(s): Earth; World THE WORLD; QUATRAINS, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world is older than our earliest dates Last Line: Phantasmal, pale, her awful death-morn gleams! Subject(s): Earth; World THE WRECK OF THE 'STELLA', by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Easter comes like the gleam of a dawn that delivers the slave Last Line: For great is the empire of earth, more great the command of the soul. Subject(s): Earth; Easter; Holidays; Love; Tears; Time; World; The Resurrection THE YELLOW LEAF, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The year is on the wane - the blue Last Line: Visions, whose resting-place is heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Autumn; Earth; Leaves; Nature; Seasons; Fall; World 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 MOTHER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In dreadful times of death and war Last Line: With frankincense and myrrh. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Comfort; Mothers; War; World War I; First World War THE ZONNEBEKE ROAD, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Morning, if this late withered light can claim Last Line: And freeze you back with that one hope, disdain. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War THEIR NURSES, by W. H. O. Poem Source First Line: We rocked their blue-lined cradles Subject(s): World War I THEIR VERY MEMORY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear, o hear / they were as the welling waters Last Line: Tears of joy and music's rally. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War THEN AND NOW, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When battles were fought Last Line: Stab first.' Subject(s): World War I; First World War THEN GIVE US WINGS, by ANTHONY EUWER Poem Source First Line: If wings will help our men to see Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I THERE IS BUT ONE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I have sung of blood and battle Last Line: Have I made my lesson plain? Subject(s): Clergy; Good; Religion; World War I; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Theology; First World War THERE IS SILENCE, by CRAIG MOORE Poem Source Last Line: Through it, to the sun beyond the angry hellish plumes Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) THERE IS STILL SPLENDOUR, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O when will life taste clean again? For the air Last Line: Which flames against that treason to mankind Subject(s): World War Ii THERE WAS THE RICHNESS OF OUR FORMER LIVING, by E. Y. BARNARD Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii THERE WILL BE DREAMS AGAIN, by MABEL HILLYER EASTMAN Poem Source Subject(s): World War I THERE WILL BE MUSIC, by IVAN HARGRAVE Poem Source First Line: After the band has gone Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS', by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: There will come soft rain and the smell of the ground Last Line: Would scarcely know that we were gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Spring; War - Home Front; Women; World War I; First World War THEY ALSO SERVE ...', by OLIFFE RICHMOND Poem Source First Line: Imagination flies out on the airman's wings Last Line: Death in her name, that truth has trusted me to hold %humbly, in turn, at her good hour, her torch o Subject(s): World War Ii THEY ALSO SERVE', by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, father! Hear us when we plead Subject(s): World War I THEY CAME FROM AFAR, by ALYS FANE TROTTER Poem Source First Line: With rainbow gifts life filled her ... Hands Subject(s): World War I THEY HELD THEIR GROUND, by PHILIP BYARD CLAYTON Poem Source First Line: Grey broke the light of that sabbath dawn Subject(s): World War I THEY MARCHED OVER THE FIELD OF WATERLOO, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: They sailed with the free salt upon their lips %to sunlight from the tomb Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): World War Ii THEY MAY RAIL AT THIS LIFE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They may rail at this life-from the hour I began it Last Line: And leave earth to such spirits as you, love, and me. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Creation; Earth; Evening; Love; Poetry & Poets; World; Sunset; Twilight 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 THINGS THAT WERE YOURS, by DYNELEY HUSSEY Poem Source First Line: These things were yours, these little simple things Subject(s): World War I THINK AT THIS TIME OF THE PATIENT INFANTRY, by G. O. PHYSICK Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii THIRD STATE, by HANS LEYBOLD Poem Source First Line: Crushed beings that fight their way through shadows Last Line: Of the sea of time. There, our future treasures grow Subject(s): World War I THIRD WORLD CALLING, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This loud morning / sensed a small cry in the news paper Last Line: Fresh from the blasted fields! Subject(s): Third World THIRD WORLD CALLING, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This loud morning %sensed a small cry in the news paper Last Line: Fresh from the blasted fields Subject(s): Third World THIRD YPRES, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Triumph! How strange, how strong had triumph come Last Line: The dead men from that chaos, or my soul? Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War THIS BEAUTIFUL EARTH, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the beauty I have seen Last Line: Where we go! Subject(s): Earth; World THIS COMPOST: 1., by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something startles me where I thought I was safest Last Line: I am sure I shall expose some of the foul meat. Subject(s): Earth; World THIS COMPOST: 2., by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold this compost! Behold it well! Last Line: Leavings from them at last. Subject(s): Earth; World THIS FLAT EARTH, by NORA MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: I bear my body toward you Last Line: We read about it in the papers Subject(s): World History THIS GENERATION, by FRANCIS OSBERT SACHEVERELL SITWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their youth was fevered - passionate Alternate Author Name(s): Sitwell, Sir Osbert; Sitwell, Osbert Subject(s): World War I 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 SPINNING EARTH, by HAROLD VINAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This spinning earth we prattle of so much Last Line: Rings like a terrible bugle down the sky. Subject(s): Earth; World THIS WAR, SELS, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O, brothers of the lyre and reed Last Line: Till stars that watch have sign to sing %a sister's flowering Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): World War I 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 THOMAS OF THE LIGHT HEART, by OWEN SEAMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Facing the guns, he jokes as well Last Line: Nor play what isn't cricket. There's his creed. Subject(s): World War I; First World War 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, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: City of merchants, lords of trade and gold Last Line: Then build his temple on high, -- not, not till then. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Earth; Thought; World; Thinking THOUGHTS INSPIRED BY A WAR-TIME BILLBOARD, by WALLACE IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I stand by a fence on a peaceable street Last Line: Of the fighters that trooped from the studio door Alternate Author Name(s): Ginger; Hashimura Togo Subject(s): World War I THOUGHTS ON THE EVE, by EMANUEL LITVINOFF Poem Source First Line: We could love life the more Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii THREE EGRETS, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Seen from this unprotected openness, that summer morning Last Line: For something more %than what must simply be remembered Subject(s): Grief; Mortality; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) 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 LADS, by ELIZABETH CHANDLER FORMAN Poem Source First Line: Down the road rides a german lad Last Line: For I'm off to the war and away Subject(s): Women; World War I THREE MEN, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a house born of the brown earth Last Line: And wondered where it was calling. Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Variant Title(s): An Adobe House Subject(s): Earth; Houses; Men; Poetry & Poets; World THREE PIKE STREET, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: End of century, february thaw, horse stalls of a delancey cul-de-sac Last Line: Rose grunts and pees in sawdust, turns to her curds and whey Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities THREE PLEAS, by HENRY TREECE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Stand by me, death, lest these dark days Last Line: Put to some use your handsome hand %and show me the face behind your mask Subject(s): World War Ii 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 THOUSAND YEARS AFTER, by EDITH M. TUTTLE Poem Source First Line: That time great hector stayed and comforted Last Line: And hector's laugh that stilled his infant's fears %is deathless song to bridge three thousand years Subject(s): World War Ii THROUGH THE MEUSE-ARGONNE TODAY, by ROBERT CARY Poem Text First Line: Not fraught with death and havoc the campaign Last Line: As through the meuse-argonne they lead the way. Subject(s): World War I; First World War 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 TIDE, by ALAN PATRICK HERBERT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is a last year's map Alternate Author Name(s): Patrick, A. P. Subject(s): World War I TIME, by PAUL SCOTT Poem Source First Line: She said 'one day you will awake and find' Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii TIME AND PLACE: 11/11/01, by NEIL NAKADATE Poem Source First Line: At almost 88 my father finds the times Last Line: On any of these maps' Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) TIME CHANGE, by CHARLES PAPPAS Poem Source First Line: Thoughts between after midnight and before dawn Last Line: Our world and peoples nearer harmony Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) TIME TO DIE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, by KAREN ELIZABETH HARLAN Poem Source First Line: He called to say he was stuck at work Last Line: I'm sorry, I have to take time to die Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) TIPPERARY DAYS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, weren't they the fine boys! You never saw the beat of them Last Line: ('r! Ain't war just 'ell?) Subject(s): Army Life; Death; War; World War I; Drills & Minor Tactics; Dead, The; First World War TO 'HIM THAT'S AWA', by MRS. J. O. ARNOLD Poem Source First Line: If I have ever dimmed with tears Subject(s): World War I TO A BLACK SOLDIER FALLEN IN THE WAR, by MARY BURRILL Poem Source First Line: O earth, lie light upon him Last Line: Why, for freedom, die?' Subject(s): World War I TO A BOASTER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea shall not cover you Last Line: And be forgotten. Subject(s): Earth; Graves; Pride; Sea; World; Tombs; Tombstones; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Ocean TO A BULL-DOG, by JOHN COLLINGS SQUIRE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We shan't see willie [or, willy] any more, mamie Last Line: And he won't be coming here any more. Alternate Author Name(s): Eagle, Solomon; Squire, J. C. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; World War I; First World War TO A CANADIAN AVIATOR WHO DIED FOR HIS COUNTRY IN FRANCE, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tossed like a falcon from the hunter's wrist Last Line: Mounting in circles, faithful beyond death. Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; World War I; First World War TO A CANADIAN LAD KILLED IN THE WAR, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O noble youth that held our honour in keeping Last Line: Thy valour stainless in our heart of hearts. Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C. Subject(s): World War I - Casualties TO A CONSCRIPT OF 1940, by HERBERT READ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A soldier passed me in the freshly fallen snow Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War TO A CONSCRIPT OF 1940, by HERBERT READ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A soldier passed me in the freshly fallen snow Last Line: As he stood against the fretted hedge, which was like white lace Subject(s): World War Ii TO A DOG, by JOHN JAY CHAPMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Past happiness dissolves. It fades away Last Line: If but his footstep sounded on the stair! Variant Title(s): His Vanished Master Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; World War I - Casualties TO A FAIR MAIDEN WHO BLADE ME SHUN WINE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And must I wholly banish hence Last Line: To grace the praise of water. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Muses; World; Paradise 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 HERO, by OSCAR C. A. CHILD Poem Text First Line: We may not know how fared your soul before Last Line: The kindled spirit burned the body up. Subject(s): World War I - Casualties 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 LOG OF WOOD UPON THE FIRE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When horace, as the snows descended Last Line: To realms celestial. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Earth; Fire; Life; Wood; Dead, The; World TO A MOTHER, by EDEN PHILLPOTTS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Robbed mother of the stricken motherland Last Line: Eden phillpotts Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; World War I; First World War TO A PAIR OF LOVERS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: If you only love each other Last Line: Love each other best Subject(s): Earth;hearts;love; World TO A SCHOOLMATE-KILLED IN ACTION, by HAROLD TROWBRIDGE PULSIFER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gordan rand, we saw you last Last Line: We salute you, -- gordan rand! Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War 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 IN HOSPITAL, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Courage came to you with your boyhood's grace Last Line: God's good indeed. Subject(s): World War I - Casualties TO A WAR POET, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You sang the battle Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): World War I; First World War TO A WAR POET, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You sang the battle Last Line: Why should you stay here to gurgle and stammer %of war? Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): World War I 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 FRIEND, by ROBERT NATHAN Poem Source First Line: You asked me: %cannot youth save the world? Last Line: I do not know why I did not remember them Subject(s): 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 ALL OUR DEAD, by LUCY LYTTLETON Poem Source First Line: Between the heart and the lips we stay ... Words Subject(s): World War I TO AMERICA, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How would you have us, as we are? Last Line: Or tightening chains about your feet? Subject(s): Justice; World War I; First World War TO AMERICA, by CHARLES LANGBRIDGE MORGAN Poem Text First Line: When the fire sinks in the grate Last Line: The fruits of hope, and love shall be awake. Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Charles Subject(s): World War I - United States TO AMERICA, by MORLEY ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Whatever penman wrote or orator Last Line: And hear your armies thundering prophecy. Subject(s): World War I - United States TO AMERICA IN WAR TIME, by OSCAR W. FIRKINS Poem Text First Line: Grave hour and solemn choice - bare is the sword Last Line: Love that we dreamt not, dared not—soar to thee! Subject(s): World War I - United States 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 BELGIUM, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For right, not might, you fought. The foe Last Line: For right, not might. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Belgium; World War I; First World War TO BELGIUM, by EDEN PHILLPOTTS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Champion of human honour, let us lave Last Line: Little no more, but infinitely great. Subject(s): World War I - France TO BELGIUM IN EXILE, by OWEN SEAMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Land of the desolate, mother of tears Last Line: And come with honour to your own again. Subject(s): World War I - Belgium TO BELGIUM; CROWNED WITH THORNS, by HELEN GRAY CONE Poem Text First Line: Thou that a brave brief space didst keep Last Line: The awful honor of the crown of christ? Alternate Author Name(s): Green, Coroebus Subject(s): World War I - Belgium TO BUDDY, ON THE EDGE, by DEAN H. HONMA Poem Source First Line: Buddy calls the other day Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans 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 DEATH, by GERRIT ENGELKE Poem Source First Line: But spare me, death Last Line: Then carry me off, death Subject(s): World War I TO DELIA: 28 (2), by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like as the spotless ermelin distressed Last Line: Thus shades my life so long as wants endure. Subject(s): Earth; Fortune; Life; Soul; World TO E. T.: 1917, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You sleep too well - too far away Last Line: Had wept for you, my dear. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917); World War I; First World War TO EARTH, by CHARLES R. MURPHY Poem Text First Line: Oh, fortunate the waiting that shall end in wonder Last Line: And men be the seeds of our wild planting. Subject(s): Earth; World 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 ENGLAND, by FRANCIS BURDETT MONEY-COUTTS Poem Source First Line: When the agony is done and you are free Subject(s): England; World War I TO ENGLAND, OUR MOTHER, by JAMES A. MACKERETH Poem Source First Line: We are your children, o mother Subject(s): World War I TO FRANCE, by HERBERT JONES Poem Text First Line: Those who have stood for thy cause when the dark was around thee Last Line: And all who have loved thee, they rise and salute and revere thee! Subject(s): World War I - France TO FRANCE, by FREDERICK GEORGE SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is the gift we have given thee, sister? Last Line: Hail thee as sister and queen evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. G. Subject(s): World War I - France TO FRANCE!, by EDWIN CURRAN Poem Source First Line: To france! To france! The magic music Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I 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 GALLANT FRANCE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lord himself died on the cross Last Line: Shall rise in victory! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): France; World War Ii; Second World War TO GERMANY, by CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are blind like us. Your hurt no man designed Last Line: The darkness and the thunder and the rain. Subject(s): Germany; World War I; Germans; First World War TO GREAT BRITAIN, by HARDWICKE DRUMMOND RAWNSLEY Poem Source First Line: Britain! You with a heart of flame Subject(s): World War I TO HAPPIER DAYS, by MABEL MCELLIOTT Poem Source First Line: Against the shabby house I pass each day Subject(s): World War I TO HAYDN, by THOMAS HOLCROFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who is the mighty master that can trace / the eternal lineaments of nature's fac Last Line: And consonance sublime amid confusion hears. Subject(s): Fights; Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809); Judgment Day; Thunder; War; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man TO HER OF WHOM THEY DREAM, by EUGENE GRINDEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nine hundred thousand prisoners of war Last Line: For having been able to believe in shame %even to stifle it Alternate Author Name(s): Eluard, Paul Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; World War Ii TO HIM WHOM THE CAP FITS, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That is the sword of england. Arthur drew Subject(s): World War I 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 HIS EXCELLENCY, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One of all our brave commanders Last Line: In the streets of proud berlin.' Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): World War I; First World War TO HIS LOVE, by IVOR GURNEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: He's gone, and all our plans Subject(s): World War I; First World War TO HIS LOVE, by IVOR GURNEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He's gone, and all our plans Last Line: Hide that red wet %thing I must somehow forget Subject(s): World War I TO ITALY, by MORAY DALTON Poem Text First Line: Thou art the world's desired, the golden fleece Last Line: Whose hearts are thine, belovèd italy. Subject(s): World War I - Italy TO ITALY, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of noble minds! How shall we pay Last Line: Whose forward spirit debtors every race! Subject(s): Army - Italy; World War I; First World War TO JANE ADDAMS AT THE HAGUE: 1. SPEAK NOW FOR PEACE, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady of light, and our best woman, and queen Last Line: Back of the smoke is the promise of kindness again. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Addams, Jane (1860-1935); Lusitania (ship); Peace; Reform & Reformers; World War I; First World War TO JANE ADDAMS AT THE HAGUE: 1. TOLSTOI IS PLOWING YET, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tolstoi is plowing yet. When the smoke clouds break Last Line: Forward, across the field, his horses go. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Tolstoy, Leo (1828-1910); World War I; 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 KEEP THE PEACE, by DANIEL GARNETT BICKERS Poem Text First Line: Rejoicing, celebrant and wild with joy we were Last Line: Of peace shall be impossible. For vision in this work we ask! Alternate Author Name(s): Bickers, D. G. Subject(s): Earth; Peace; War; World TO LEONIDE MASSINE IN 'CLEOPATRA', by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O beauty doomed and perfect for an hour Last Line: Be still; you have drained the cup; you have played your part. Subject(s): Ballet; Dancing & Dancers; Massine, Leonide (1896-1979); World War I; First World War TO LUCASTA ON GOING TO THE WARS FOR THE FOURTH TIME, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It doesn't matter what's the cause Last Line: And his pride keeps him here. Subject(s): World War I; First World War TO LUCASTA, ABOUT THAT WAR, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A long winter from home the gulls blew Subject(s): War; World War Ii; Second World War TO LUCASTA, ABOUT THAT WAR, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A long winter from home the gulls blew Last Line: Which is called (as noted) war. And it stinks Subject(s): World War Ii TO MARGOT HEINEMANN, by JOHN CORNFORD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heart of the heartless world Variant Title(s): Huesca Subject(s): Desire; Love; World War Ii; Second World War TO MARGOT HEINEMANN, by JOHN CORNFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Heart of the heartless world Last Line: Don't forget my love Variant Title(s): Huesc Subject(s): Desire; Love; World War Ii TO MAUDE, by GARETH MARSH STANTON Poem Source First Line: Prim puritan, whose every glance belies Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I TO MILITARY PROGRESS, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You use your mind Last Line: Red. Variant Title(s): To The Soul Of 'progress' Subject(s): World War I; First World War TO MOTHER EARTH, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O earth, earth, earth! Where wilt thou hide thy slain? Last Line: The wrath of man but works his will, earth's sovereign judge is he. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Earth; Social Protest; War; World TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 24. THE WORLD'S NEED, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: The whole round world is but a woman's child Last Line: Enjoy and bless her for eternally. Subject(s): Babies; Children; Earth; Mothers; Infants; Childhood; World 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 BROTHER (IN MEMORY OF JULY 1, 1916), by VERA MARY BRITTAIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your battle-wounds are scars upon my heart Last Line: As once in france %two years ago Alternate Author Name(s): Catlin, George E. G., Mrs. Subject(s): Women; World War I TO MY BROTHER; KILLED: CHAUMONT WOOD, OCTOBER, 1918, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O you so long dead Last Line: The language as long as the language survives Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): World War I; Brothers; Death; Time; First World War TO MY BROTHER; KILLED: CHAUMONT WOOD, OCTOBER, 1918, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O you so long dead Last Line: I can tell you, and not lie - %save of peace alone Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): World War I TO MY COUNTRY, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One told me he had heard it whispered: 'lo!' Last Line: Suffer and bleed, and tell the world good-by! Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I; First World War TO MY DAUGHTER BETTY, THE GIFT OF GOD (ELIZABETH DOROTHY), by THOMAS MICHAEL KETTLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In wiser days, my darling rosebud, blown Last Line: And for the secret scripture of the poor. Subject(s): World War I; First World War TO MY GODSON, by MILDRED HUXLEY Poem Text First Line: They shall come back through heaven's bars Last Line: Calling you from the starlit skies. Subject(s): World War I - Casualties TO MY MOTHER, by GEORGE BARKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most near, most dear, most loved and most far, Last Line: That she will move from mourning into morning. Variant Title(s): Sonnet To My Mother Subject(s): Love; Mothers; World War Ii; Second World War TO MY PUPILS, GONE BEFORE THEIR DAY, by GUY KENDALL Poem Text First Line: You seemed so young, to know Last Line: Eternity awaits us to correct. Subject(s): World War I; First World War TO MY SON, by BABETTE DEUTSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Now the blackout of frontiers Last Line: Or alter the face you will meet there, %leave you these words with my love Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs. Subject(s): World War Ii TO MY SONS, by JERZY ZULAWSKI Poem Source First Line: I went to the battle, dear sons of mine Last Line: To fight for a poland that's ours, that is free Subject(s): World War I TO OUR DEAD, by WILLIAM LEONARD COURTNEY Poem Text First Line: Sleep well, heroic souls, in silence sleep Last Line: Shall shine like beacon-stars of sacrifice. Subject(s): World War I - Casualties 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 OUR PRESIDENT, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hope of the nations, lift thy stricken heart Subject(s): World War I; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924); First World War TO PADEREWSKI, PATRIOT, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Son of a martyred race, that long Last Line: Shall plead for thy distracted land. Subject(s): Composers; Music & Musicians; Paderewski, Ignacy Jan (1860-1941); World War I; First World War TO POETS AND AIRMEN, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thinkers and airmen - all such Last Line: And all of time shut down in one shot %of night, by a gun uttered Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; World War Ii TO ROBERT NICHOLS, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here by a snowbound river Last Line: And singing birds are mute. Subject(s): World War I; First World War 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 RUSSIA NEW AND FREE (INSCRIBED TO MADAME BRESHKOVSKAYA), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Land of the martyrs - of the martyred dead Last Line: And hear thy chanted hymns of hope for russia new and free. Subject(s): Russian Revolution; World War I - Russia TO SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI; OCTOBER 4, 1943, by MARY WINTER WERE Poem Text First Line: You walked the fields of italy Last Line: Your own incomparable land. Subject(s): Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); Italy - World War Ii; Saints TO SERVE IS TO GAIN, by CHARLES HENRY MACKINTOSH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He profits most who serves us best!' Subject(s): World War I TO SHAKESPEARE, 1916, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With what white wrath must turn thy bones Subject(s): World War I TO SOME WHO HAVE FALLEN, by MORAY DALTON Poem Text First Line: Spring is god's season;may you see his spring Last Line: To the bare beauty of our sussex downs. Subject(s): World War I - Casualties TO SOMEBODY, by HAROLD SETON Poem Source First Line: They've put us through our paces Subject(s): World War I TO STATECRAFT EMBALMED, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is nothing to be said for you. Guard Last Line: Foe. Subject(s): Thoth (egyptian God); World War I; First World War TO THE 'REFUGEES' OF THE BOSTON AUTHORS CLUB, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Right welcome, adventurers all! Last Line: We are glad you are home again! Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; World War I; First World War TO THE BELGIANS, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O race that caesar knew Last Line: Nameless, immortal dead. Subject(s): Damien, Father (1840-1889); World War I - Belgium TO THE BELOVED OF ONE DEAD, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sunlight shall not easily seem fair Last Line: His wild white body and his thirsting eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne Subject(s): World War I TO THE BOY ELIS, by GEORG TRAKL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Elis, when the ouzel calls in the black wood Last Line: The last gold of perished stars Subject(s): World War I TO THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, by RONALD GORELL BARNES Poem Source First Line: British soldiers, once again Alternate Author Name(s): Gorell, 3d Baron Subject(s): World War I 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 DEFILERS, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, thieves, and take your riches, creep Last Line: And cast your spittle in god's face. Subject(s): Earth; Environment; Prostitution; World; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Harlots; Whores; Brothels TO THE FALLEN, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the flame-scarred night one came to me Last Line: Till heaven is sunk in hell—thou art not dead. Subject(s): World War I - Casualties TO THE FIFTEENTH OF PIZZALE LORETTO, by SALVATORE QUASIMODO Poem Source First Line: Esposito, fiorani, fogagnolo Last Line: Death that is life can cast no shadow Subject(s): Italy; World War Ii TO THE FIRST GUN, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Speak, silent, patient gun! Last Line: Of all thy comrades, best. Subject(s): World War I; First World War TO THE GIRL WHO HELPED IN THE WAR, by JOSEPHINE DODGE DASKAM BACON Poem Text First Line: Before the flag had floated free Last Line: But it made a woman of you! Subject(s): War - Home Front; Women; World War I; First World War TO THE GLORY OF THE NEEDLE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Never before have they plied so well Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I TO THE IRISH DEAD', by ESSEX EVANS Poem Source First Line: Tis a green isle set in a silver water Subject(s): World War I TO THE MEMORY OF FIELD-MARSHAL EARL KITCHENER, by OWEN SEAMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soldier of england, you who served her well Last Line: But might not live to see. Subject(s): Kitchener, Horatio, 1st Earl (1850-1916); World War I - Casualties TO THE MEMORY OF FIELD-MARSHAL EARL ROBERTS, by OWEN SEAMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He died, as soldiers die, amid the strife Subject(s): World War I TO THE MEN WHO HAVE DIED FOR ENGLAND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: All ye who fought since england was a name Subject(s): England; World War I TO THE NECROPHILE, by WALTER CONRAD ARENSBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With love are you gone mad, o lover of france Last Line: "not yours the human vow: ""till death us part!" Subject(s): Disdain; France; Marriage; World War I; Scorn; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; First World War TO THE OTHERS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This was the gleam then that lured from far Last Line: With the banner of christ over them—our knights new-made. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Women; World War I; First World War TO THE OXFORD MEN IN THE WAR, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often, on afternoons gray and sombre Last Line: Even the enemy has his share. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Oxford University; World War I - Great Britain TO THE PATRIOTIC LADY ACROSS THE WAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: She wore a liberty loan button Last Line: To make the world safe for democracy Subject(s): World War I TO THE PEACE PALACE AT THE HAGUE, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Builded of love and joy and faith and hope Last Line: Thou shalt be capitol of all the earth. Subject(s): Hague, Netherlands; Peace; World War I; First World War TO THE QUEEN OF BOHEMIAH, by ELIZA [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "long since, it was by me desir'd" Last Line: And with bright angels compasy round Alternate Author Name(s): Eliza+1 Subject(s): "courts & Courtiers;earth;elizabeth, Queen Of Bohemia;freedom;heaven;" World;liberty;paradise 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 SEAMEN, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You seamen, I have eaten your hard bread Last Line: And ships will dip their colours in salute %to you, henceforth, when passing zuydecoote Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Dunkirk, France; World War Ii TO THE SOLDIERS OF THE GREAT WAR, by GERRIT ENGELKE Poem Source First Line: Rise up! Out of the trenches, muddy holes, concrete bunkers Last Line: Of thousandfold love ring out around the earth! Subject(s): World War I TO THE SPHINX, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sleepless sphinx! Last Line: Eternal sphinx! Subject(s): Earth; Egypt; Patience; Sphinx; Time; World TO THE SPIRIT OF LUTHER, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Luther, come back to thy degenerate land Last Line: Brutes breed them bodies: who shall breed them souls? Subject(s): Germany; Luther, Martin (1483-1546); World War I; Germans; 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 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brothers in blood! They who this wrong began Last Line: Freedom and honor and sweet loving-kindness. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I - United States 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 THE VANGUARD, by BEATRIX BRICE Poem Source First Line: Oh little mighty force that stood for england Subject(s): World War I TO THE WINGLESS VICTORY; A PRAYER, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wingless victory, whose shrine Last Line: O wingless victory! Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War I; First World War TO THE WOMEN OF ENGLAND, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: While you weep Last Line: Yet-%pinned a feather on a boy and killed him Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): World War I TO THE WORLD, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: False world, goodnight: since thou hast brought / that hour upon my morn of age Last Line: Here in my bosom, and at home. Subject(s): Earth; World TO THE WRITER OF CHRIST IN FLANDERS, by E. M. V. Poem Source First Line: On the battlefields of flanders men have Subject(s): World War I TO THOSE BORN LATER, by BERTOLT BRECHT Poem Source First Line: Truly, I live in dark times! Last Line: Which you have escaped Subject(s): World War Ii TO TONY - AGED THREE (IN MEMORY T.P.C.W.), by MARJORIE WILSON Poem Text First Line: Gemmed with white daisies was the great green world Last Line: To win that heritage of peace you have. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Wilson, T.p. Cameron (1889-1918); Women And War; World War I - Casualties 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 W. W. IN HASTE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have given you our money, we have given you our boys Last Line: Get excited! Go the limit! And -- then -- more! Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924); World War I; First World War TODAY AND TO-MORROW, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the world is out in leaf Last Line: Fast asleep and weary -- Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Spring Fancies: 2 Subject(s): Change; Earth; Life; Spring; World 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 TOLL-PAYERS, by ALISON LINDSAY Poem Source First Line: Children, today made fatherless Subject(s): World War I TOM TAYLOR, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On pay-day nights, neck-full with beer Last Line: While tome, five fingers to his nose, %skips off....And the last bugle blows Subject(s): World War I TOMB OF LIEUTENANT JOHN LEARMONTH, A. I. F., by JOHN STREETER MANIFOLD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is not sorrow, this is work: I build Last Line: And look on death as equals, I am filled %with queer affection for the human race Subject(s): Crete; World War Ii TOMMIES IN THE TRAIN, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The the sun shines, %the coltsfoot flowers along the railway banks Last Line: Endlessly, in one motion depart %from each other Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): World War I TORSO, by IWAN GOLL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Europe, you shuddering torso! Last Line: Europe, you crumbling torso, you rump of the world! Alternate Author Name(s): Goll, Yvan Subject(s): Europe; World War I; First World War TOWARD LILLERS, by IVOR GURNEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In october marching, taking the sweet air Last Line: As the heroes of marathon their renown we know Subject(s): Lillers, France; World War I TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. AT MENTONE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why speak ye not, ye beautiful lands and seas Last Line: Why utterest not the voice we long to hear? Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Earth; History; Mankind; Peasantry; Graveyards; Dead, The; World; Historians; Human Race TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. CONCLUSION, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! What a world I would create from my own, my lovers Last Line: We shall need no other world, no other worlds. Subject(s): Beauty; Creation; Earth; Friendship; Love; Socialism; World TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. STANDING BEYOND TIME, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Standing beyond time Last Line: Standing beyond time. Subject(s): Earth; History; World; Historians TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. WHO SHALL COMMAND THE HEART (1), by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because the starry lightnings and the life Last Line: Forsakes this world and seeks a fairer one. Subject(s): Earth; Life; Universe; World TOWARDS MORNING, by ERNST STADLER Poem Source First Line: Day wants to rise. Night no more opposes light Last Line: Might burst open, and a light crown us, as if from the %hai r of our beloved women Subject(s): World War I TOWERS DOWN, by CLIVE MATSON Poem Source First Line: I am crying. %I am putting on a black shirt Last Line: It is not enough Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) TOY FACTORY, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother works here Subject(s): Toys; World War Ii; Second World War TOY FACTORY, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother works [or, is] here Last Line: Their spades are heavy, %their spades are much too heavy. %perhaps that's how %it's supposed to be? Subject(s): Toys; World War Ii TRAFALGAR DAY, 1940, by WILLIAM ASHTON Poem Source First Line: They have dropped a bomb on st. Paul's Last Line: And no one had warned them, 'they' did not know, none said %how dangerous it is to wake our dead Subject(s): England; World War Ii TRAFALGAR SQUARE, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fool that I was! My heart was sore Last Line: Sailing the sky with one arm and one eye. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Nelson, Horatio, Viscount (1758-1805); Trafalgar Square, London; World War I - Casualties TRAINS, by JOHN PIERRE ROCHE Poem Source First Line: Over thousands of miles Subject(s): World War I TRAITOR, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He hangs out a flag from his home and his office Last Line: The traitor who holds up a nation for gain! Subject(s): World War I TRANSCONTINENTAL BUS, by DANIEL SMYTHE Poem Source First Line: On a strange land we have the light now Last Line: And thoughts in the darl wind that cools our words Subject(s): World War Ii 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 TRANSIENT BARRACKS, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer. Sunset. Someone is playing Last Line: And the thing about it is, it's real Subject(s): Army Life; Homecoming; World War Ii; Drills & Minor Tactics; Second World War TRANSIENT BARRACKS, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer. Sunset. Someone is playing Last Line: And the thing about it is, it's real Subject(s): Army Life; Homecoming; World War Ii 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 TRANSPORT OF WOUNDED IN MESOPOTAMIA, 1917, by MARGERY LAWRENCE Poem Source First Line: You who sat safe at home Last Line: And let us die! Subject(s): Women; World War I TRANSPORT UP AT YPRES, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The thoroughfares that seem so dead to daylight passers-by Last Line: While overhead with fleering light stare down those withered suns. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War TRAVELLING AMERICA, I AM ENGLAND-HAUNTED, by JOYCE ANSTRUTHER PLACZEK Poem Source Last Line: I shall stay here long. Strangeness, at last, brings peace Subject(s): World War Ii TRAWLERS, by HILTON BROWN Poem Source First Line: Dawn squall raking the harbour, an east wind's whistle Last Line: But - who looks landward? Who forsakes the fishing? %nobody.Not one man Subject(s): World War Ii TREAD THE DARK: 51, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sink back upon the ground, expecting to die Subject(s): Animals; Children; Exhibitions; Zebras; Zoos; Childhood; World's Fairs; Expositions TREASON OF GANELON, by ELISE AYLEN Poem Source First Line: The ageing king, the warrior Last Line: The fight is ended Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, Duncan Cambpell, Mrs. Subject(s): World War Ii TREES, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Text First Line: We marvel how the elms can grow Last Line: When dawn breaks cool and still. Subject(s): Elm Trees; Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities; Second World War 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 TREES ON THE CALAIS ROAD, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like mourners filing into church at a funeral Last Line: Of that dead army driving by. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Trees; World War I; First World War TREMBLING, by JILL E. WIDNER Poem Source First Line: The butterfly was caught Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans 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 IDYLL, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sat together in the trench Last Line: It's rather cold here, sir; suppose we move? Subject(s): World War I; First World War TRENCH IDYLL, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sat together in the trench Subject(s): World War I 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 TRENCH LIFE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fear never dies, much as we laugh at fear Last Line: Blossoms from mud, and under the rain's whips, %flagellant-like we writhe with laughing lips Subject(s): World War I TRENCH NOMENCLATURE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Genius named them, as I live! What but genius could compress Last Line: From the fabled vase the genie in his shattering horror came. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War TRENCH RAID NEAR HOOGE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At an hour before the rosy-fingered Last Line: Lit earth and heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War TRENCHES: ST. ELOI, by THOMAS ERNEST HULME Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the flat slope of st. Eloi Last Line: Nothing suggests itself. There is nothing to do but keep on. Alternate Author Name(s): Hulme, T. E. Subject(s): World War I; First World War TRI-COLOUR, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poppies, you try to tell me, glowing there in the wheat Last Line: God's accolade! Lift me up, friends. I'm going to win -- my cross. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War TRIBE, by CATHY SONG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was born Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans TRIFLES, I, by JEAN DE LA VILLE DE MIRMONT Poem Source First Line: O windmills, windjammers with mast and sail Last Line: O windmills, windjammers with mast and sail? Subject(s): World War I TRIFLES, IV, by JEAN DE LA VILLE DE MIRMONT Poem Source First Line: Twas from the isles of spice you hailed Last Line: A private in salvation army ranks Subject(s): World War I TRIFLES, VII, by JEAN DE LA VILLE DE MIRMONT Poem Source First Line: In volume 3 of my memoirs you may read Last Line: The only lover whom you did not eat? Subject(s): World War I TROLL'S COURTSHIP (WRITTEN AFTER AN AIR RAID, APRIL 1941), by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the misty night humming to themselves like morons Last Line: To be - for all their kudos - %wrong, wrong in the end Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; World War Ii TROOP TRAIN, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It stops the town we come through. Workers raise Subject(s): Army Life; World War Ii; Drills & Minor Tactics; Second World War TROOP TRAIN, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It stops the town we come through. Workers raise Last Line: The place of life found after trains and death - %nightfall of nations brilliant after war Subject(s): Army Life; World War Ii TROPHY, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wise king crowned with blessings on his throne Last Line: Or father and son, co-princes of one mind, %irreconcilables,their treaty signed Subject(s): World War Ii TROPHY, W.W.I, by JANET LEWIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A cross, %I had it from a friend, a russian woman Last Line: In itself it says: %verdun %and the death of a man Alternate Author Name(s): Winters, Janet Lewis; Winters, Yvor, Mrs. Subject(s): World War I TRUCE AND THE PEACE (NOVEMBER, 1918), by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peace now for every fury has her day Last Line: We never knew till then that he was there Subject(s): Peace; World War I TRUMMERFRAUEN, by DIANE THIEL Poem Source First Line: When the sirens began, we went underground Last Line: Like a place where the heart had been Subject(s): Germany; World War Ii TRUMPET, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thy trumpet lies in the dust Subject(s): Trumpets; World War I TRUMPET, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rise up, rise up %and, as the trumpet blowing Last Line: To the old wars; %arise, arise! Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Trumpets; World War I TRUMPET CALL, by CAROLINE TICKNOR Poem Source First Line: I dreamed last night of the trumpet-call Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I TRUMPETS, by GEORG TRAKL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Under pollarded willows, where brown children are playing Last Line: Scarlet banners, laughter, blood, madness and %trumpet-call Subject(s): World War I TRUST, by CYRIL ARGENTINE ALINGTON Poem Source First Line: They trusted god - unslumbering and unsleeping Subject(s): World War I TRYST, by EDITH WHARTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I said to the woman: whence do you come Last Line: When the king rides by, she said Subject(s): World War I TULE LAKE LAVA BEDS, THE MODOC WARS, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Time is motion, energy, stress, and speed, divided by the sun's Last Line: As the desert music wavers, unmetered and unspoke Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities 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 TUTU ON THE CURB, by ERIC EDWARD CHOCK Poem Source First Line: Tutu standing on the corner Subject(s): Loss; World War Ii - Japanese-americans TWA WEELUMS, by VIOLET JACOB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm sairgint weelum henderson frae pairth Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy Erskine, Violet Subject(s): World War I TWAS YOU WHO RAISED YOUR BOY TO BE A SOLDIER, by GERALD G. LIVELY Poem Source First Line: O! Mothers of the world I hear you weeping Last Line: And mothers, you are paying for your sin Subject(s): 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 TWELVE O'CLOCK, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At seventeen I've come to read a poem Last Line: And everything, forever, everything is changed. Subject(s): Einstein, Albert (1879-1955); Heisenberg, Werner Karl (1901-1976); Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; World War Ii; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb; Parenthood; Feminism; Second 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 TWENTY-TWO, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): World War I TWILIGHT, by ALFRED LICHTENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: A flabby boy is playing with a pond Last Line: A pram begins to yell and dogs to curse Subject(s): World War I TWILIGHT, by ERNST STADLER Poem Source First Line: Heavily on to the streets of the town fell the evening twilight Last Line: Over towers and roofs, the night rages Subject(s): World War I TWIN, by HALEH HATAMI Poem Source First Line: In double-pained dread, I wait my turn. Doubly afraid Last Line: To one unfailing response. La ilaha illa allah, there is no god but %god Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) TWIN PENDANTS, by BEN JACKSON Poem Text First Line: From the ice-choked throat of the northern pole Last Line: To rest in the caves of your ocean? Subject(s): Earth; World TWIN TOWERS ARCANE, by JACK HIRSCHMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such mourning as we Last Line: Hanging in mid-air Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) TWO CHRISTMAS CARDS: 1, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The seas netted with ambushes Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War TWO CHRISTMAS CARDS: 1, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The seas netted with ambushes Last Line: Of the veils under veils of the vanished englands Subject(s): World War Ii TWO CHRISTMAS CARDS: 2, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For an hour on christmas eve Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War TWO CHRISTMAS CARDS: 2, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For an hour on christmas eve Last Line: And the ox knelt down at midnight Subject(s): World War Ii TWO FLAGS UPON WESTMINSTER TOWERS, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This day is holy' - so sweet spenser wrote Last Line: From these free flags -- if you can see for tears! Subject(s): World War I; First World War TWO FUSILIERS, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And have we done with war at last? / well, we've been lucky devils both Last Line: In dead men breath. Subject(s): World War I; First World War 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 IMPRESSIONS, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The colorless morning glides upward Last Line: Brushed amorously backward! Subject(s): World War I; First World War 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 MOUNTAINS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Monadnock looms against the pale blue dome Last Line: Like emerson midst shifts of humankind. Subject(s): Earth; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Freedom; Mountains; New England; Sky; World; Liberty; Hills; Downs (great Britain) TWO PICTURES (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: And the dewy plain Subject(s): World War I TWO POEMS FROM THE WAR: 1, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, not the loss of the accomplished thing! Last Line: All-possible irradiance of dawn. Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): World War I; First World War TWO POEMS FROM THE WAR: 2, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like moon-dark, like brown water you escape Last Line: All beauty has become your dwelling place. Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): World War I; First World War TWO SONGS: 1, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've heard them lilting at loom and belting Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): World War I; First World War TWO SONGS: 1, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've heard them lilting at loom and belting Last Line: The flowers of the town are all turned away Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): World War I TWO THOUGHTS OF DEATH: 2, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So I said underneath the dusky trees Last Line: And whose day shall no more turn back to night. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Earth; Love; Memory; Dead, The; World 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 TWO VIEWPOINTS, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Source First Line: He was a french boy scout - a little lad Subject(s): World War I TWO VOICES, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's something in the air, he said Last Line: "and still ""we're going south, man,"" deadly near." Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War TWO VOICES, by DAVID WESCOTT BROWN Poem Source First Line: The roads are all torn,' 'but the sun's in the sky,' Last Line: The bullets are near us;' 'not nearer than god' Subject(s): World War I TWO WORLDS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God's world is bathed in beauty Last Line: Back to thy holy land! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; God; Heaven; Love; World; Paradise TWO: 3, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Next to of course god america I Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Americans; Freedom; Hypocrisy; Patriotism; Politics & Government; United States; World War I; Liberty; America; First World War TWO: 3, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Next to of course god america I Last Line: He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Americans; Freedom; Hypocrisy; Patriotism; Politics; United States; World War I TYWATER, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death of sir nihil, book the nth Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Violence; World War Ii; Theology; Second World War TYWATER, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death of sir nihil, book the nth Last Line: And what to say of him, god knows %such violence. And such repose Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Violence; World War Ii U-24 ANCHORS OFF NEW ORLEANS: 1938, by TURNER CASSITY Poem Source First Line: The only major city, one would hope Last Line: For symbolism there will be torpedo Variant Title(s): U-24 Anchors Off New Orleans (1938 Subject(s): New Orleans; Submarines; World War Ii U. S. SAILOR WITH THE JAPANESE SKULL, by WINFIELD TOWNLEY SCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bald-bare, bone-bare, and ivory yellow: skull Last Line: Sailor boy who thinks of home, voyages laden, will %not say, 'alas! I did not know him at all' Subject(s): Skulls; World War Ii ULTIMA RATIO REGUM, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The guns spell money's ultimate reason Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War ULTIMA RATIO REGUM, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The guns spell money's ultimate reason Last Line: On the death of one so young, and so silly %lying under the olive trees, o world, o death? Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): World War Ii ULTIMATE HELL, by FRANKLIN HENRY GIDDINGS Poem Source First Line: Satan? I am Subject(s): World War I UN BEL DI VEDREMO, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hello nbc, this is london speaking' Subject(s): Italy; War; World War I; World War Ii; Italians; First World War; Second World War UN BEL DI VEDREMO, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hello nbc, this is london speaking' Last Line: The second as evil farce' Subject(s): Italy; War; World War I; World War Ii UNCONQUERED HOPE, by GILBERT OLIVER THOMAS Poem Source First Line: From sea to sea, from shore to shore Subject(s): World War I UNDER HEAVEN, by DIANE S. MEHTA Poem Source First Line: Time to rearrange heaven %or what goes under it Last Line: Every settlement sprawls %sideways, deserts are soul-shaped Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) UNDER THE CLOUD, by DENNIS NURKSE Poem Source First Line: We ran in all directions Last Line: And the radiance behind it Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) UNEMPLOYED SOLDIER, by JOHN E. NORDQUIST Poem Source First Line: Now the great world war is over and the fighting is all done Last Line: Then there will be jobs for us. %(chorus) Subject(s): World War I UNFURLING OF THE FLAG, by CLARA ENDICOTT SEARS Poem Source First Line: There's a streak across the sky line Subject(s): Flags - United States; Patriotism; World War I UNHARMED, by ROBYN SARAH Poem Source First Line: War has a long wake. Waves of two long wars Last Line: We are the writing that stayed dry, %and cannot read itself Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) UNKNOWN SOLDIER ARMISTICE DAY AT ARLINGTON, by GRANTLAND RICE Poem Source First Line: The wind today is full of ghosts ... Subject(s): Arlington National Cemetery; Unknown Soldier; World War I UNKNOWN WARRIOR, by ELIZABETH DARYUSH Poem Source First Line: Not that broad path chose he, which whoso wills Last Line: Yea, who dares thus die, haply he may see, %suddenly, unsought immortality Subject(s): Women; World War I 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 UNMENTIONED IN DISPATCHES, by HELEN HESTER COLVILL Poem Source First Line: The lowliest combatants are we Subject(s): World War I UNQUIET EARTH, by LOUISE DRISCOLL Poem Text First Line: When they call earth quiet Last Line: Our feet once trod. Subject(s): Earth; World UNSEEN FIRE, by RALPH NIXON CURREY Poem Source First Line: This is a damned inhuman sort of war Last Line: Inhumanly from nearly five miles height %meets our bouquet of death - and turns sharp right Subject(s): World War Ii UNSER GOTT, by KARLE WILSON BAKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They held a great prayer-service in berlin Last Line: And there shall fall a million murdered men! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Charlotte Subject(s): World War I 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 USE ME, ENGLAND, by ELIZABETH BRIDGES Poem Source Subject(s): World War I V-DAY, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Savor the hour as it comes. Preserve it in amber Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War V-DAY, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Savor the hour as it comes. Preserve it in amber Last Line: With a promise kept, with the dangers of battle ended %and the fearful perils of peace not yet begun Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): World War Ii V-J DAY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the tallest day in time the dead came back Last Line: Wheels jammed and flaming on a metal sea Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War V-J DAY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the tallest day in time the dead came back Last Line: On the tallest day in time we saw them coming %wheels jammed and flaming on a metal sea Subject(s): World War Ii V.A.D. SCULLERY-MAID'S SONG, by M. WINIFRED WEDGWOOD Poem Source First Line: Washing up the dishes Last Line: Which everybody hates Subject(s): Women; World War I V.A.D.', by MARY ADAIR-MACDONALD Poem Source First Line: We in the busy ward Subject(s): World War I VALE ATQUE AVE, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I shall return to thee Last Line: I shall return to thee earth, my mother. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Earth; Hearts; Love; Mothers; World VALE FROM CARTHAGE (SPRING, 1944), by PETER VIERECK Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I, now at carthage. He, shot dead at rome Last Line: Roman, you'll see your forum square no more %what's left but this to say of any war? Subject(s): World War Ii VALE OF SHADOWS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is a vale in the flemish land Subject(s): World War I VALEDICTORY; THE SCHOLAR TO THE ASHES OF HIS LIBRARY, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Gone the books of many names Last Line: Be the man that they should make. Subject(s): Death; Fire; Librarians & Libraries; World War Ii; Dead, The; Library; Librarians; Second World War VALLEY OF THE SHADOW, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God, I am travelling out to death's sea Last Line: Peace o'er the valleys and cold hills for ever! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Religion; World War I - Casualties; Theology VALMONDOIS: FROM A SUITE FOR FRANCE, by CLARK MILLS Poem Source First Line: After the coffee and the cognac Last Line: This was the place the bombers in formation choose Subject(s): World War Ii VALSE DE FLEURS, by DENIS HUDSON Poem Source First Line: The house is in disorder Last Line: Fingering sadly the broken semblance of a violin Subject(s): World War Ii VANDAL'S DEATH, by GABRIEL-TRISTAN FRANCONI Poem Source First Line: A shell has burst a t the abandoned altar Last Line: But the steeple cock still proudly crows above Subject(s): World War I VENI, SANCTE SPIRITUS!, by JEAN-PIERRE CALLOC'H Poem Source First Line: Now in the one thousand nine hundred and Last Line: New day the earth shall not remember its sorrow Subject(s): World War I VERDUN, by EDEN PHILLPOTTS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three hundred thousand men, but not enough Last Line: Thou star upon the crown of liberty! Subject(s): Verdun, Battle Of (1916); World War I; First World War VERGISSMEINNICHT, by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Three weeks gone and the combatants gone Variant Title(s): Elegy For An 88 Gunner Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War VERGISSMEINNICHT, by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three weeks gone and the combatants gone Last Line: Has done the lover mortal hurt Variant Title(s): Elegy For An 88 Gunne Subject(s): World War Ii VERMONT WILL DO HER PART, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who would be free himself must strike Last Line: Will do her glorious part. Subject(s): Freedom; Vermont; World War I; Liberty; First World War VERSES -FOR AN UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These verses I have made for you Last Line: This pair of socks-my heart-warm gift! Subject(s): World War I VET, by LINCOLN KIRSTEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A tired new trooper scans the beach Last Line: Tomorrow he'll be down the line %waiting one more chance to die Subject(s): World War Ii VETERAN, by ANDREW MOTION Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Across the field, the wood Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944); Veterans; World War Ii; Normandy (france), Invasion Of; Second World War VETERAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Where are my comrades who joined in the first Subject(s): World War I VICHY, by DUDLEY G. DAVIES Poem Source First Line: These men lost heart and hope, let faith grow cold Last Line: Then that false brood shall creep and crawl from sight, %like jackals at the first return of light Subject(s): France; World War Ii VICTORY, by MARION PATTON WALDRON Poem Source First Line: Many and many are weeping for their lovers Last Line: While I-I have my lover back again! Subject(s): World War I 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 VICTORY BELLS, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the bells across the trees Last Line: And home-coming for weary men. Subject(s): Bells; Holidays; Patriotism; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War VICTORY!, by S. J. DUNCAN-CLARK Poem Source First Line: Out of the night it leaped the seas Subject(s): World War I VIEW FROM CORTONA, by RICHARD HUGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Land breaks yellow south below, pale squares Last Line: Fat and silly from behind, curving out of sight %into a past weak as the future of stone Subject(s): World War Ii VIEW-POINTS, by IRA SOUTH Poem Source First Line: All polished brass and varnished steel Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I VIKING SHIP; BYGDO, NORWAY, by NORREYS JEPHSON O'CONOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our boat thrusts steadily through the blue water Last Line: And we at last about to be counfounded Subject(s): Bygdo, Norway; World War Ii VIOLIN SONGS: FAITH, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth, if aught should check thy race Last Line: "from the sun of liberty!" Subject(s): Earth; Faith; Space And Space Travel; World; Belief; Creed VIRTUE [OR, VERTUE], by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright Last Line: Then chiefly lives. Variant Title(s): Memento Mori;sweet Day;virtue [immortal];sweet Life Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Judgment Day; Mortality; Soul; Transience; Virtue; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Impermanence VISIBILITY ZERO, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day with mist against the hurdling wind Last Line: We need not waken what we need not see Subject(s): Army Life; World War Ii; Drills & Minor Tactics; Second World War VISIBILITY ZERO, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day with mist against the hurdling wind Last Line: We need not waken and we need not see Subject(s): Army Life; World War Ii VISIBLE SOUND, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Aye, have we not felt it and known Last Line: In the soul of all beauty is one. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Earth; God; World VISION, by DOROTHY PAUL Poem Source First Line: Above the broken walls the apple boughs Subject(s): World War I VISION, by FRANK SIDGWICK Poem Source First Line: Is it because that lad is dead Subject(s): World War I VISION OF WAR, by LINCOLN COLCORD Poem Source First Line: I went out into the night of quiet stars Subject(s): World War I VISION OF WAR: 14, by LINCOLN COLCORD Poem Source First Line: Tell me, was belgium heroically true in times of peace? Last Line: Our country calls! Our country, and our king! Subject(s): World War I VISION OF WAR: 15, by LINCOLN COLCORD Poem Source First Line: Ah, england, england, england! Last Line: But no more talk of wrong of conquest, thou born arch-conqueror!) Subject(s): World War I VISIONS OF ITALY (AFTER CAPORETTO), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a black and baneful day Last Line: As lover to his bride. Subject(s): Caporetto, Battle Of (1917); Italy; World War I; Italians; First World War VITA BREVIS EST, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gray thing, life, and the bright thing, love Last Line: Then the woven boughs, and the long cool rest. Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Life; Love; World; Paradise VIVE LA FRANCE!, by CHARLOTTE HOLMES CRAWFORD Poem Text First Line: Franceline rose in the dawning gray Last Line: "vive la france!" Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I - France VIVISECTION, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wild nature not by kindness won, because Last Line: Nor shall it die within me till I die. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Earth; Faith; Life; Time; World; Belief; Creed VLAMERTINGHE: PASSING THE CHATEAU, JULY 1917, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And all her silken flanks with garlands drest Last Line: Is scarcely right; this red should have been much duller. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Belgium; World War I; First World War VOICE OF RACHEL WEEPING, by BEATRICE CREGAN Poem Source First Line: Beloved, little beloved, where shall I find. Subject(s): World War I VOICES OF HELLAS, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time, that has crumbled to impotent nothingness Last Line: Knowing that beside her stand the immortals Subject(s): World War Ii VOLLEYBALL, MANZANAR, SIERRAS, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Here's a still life set in apple orchards on the plains of uz Last Line: The earth to overlap a reeling and burgeoned moon Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities VOLUNTEER, by HELEN PARRY EDEN Poem Source First Line: He had no heart for war, its ways and means Last Line: Should look 'you did not shield us!' as they wended across his window when the war was ended Subject(s): Women; World War I VOLUNTEER, by KAREN KARPOWICH Poem Source First Line: The fires at ground zero stopped burning today Last Line: The folding chairs we sit on %have such hard backs Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) VOYAGE, by S. ABEL Poem Source First Line: This, then, is parting - dry-eyed loneliness Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii W (VIVA): 30, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sing of olaf glad and big Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Social Protest; World War I; First World War W (VIVA): 30, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sing of olaf glad and big Last Line: More brave than me:more blond than you Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Social Protest; World War I 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 WAITING, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The flowerless weeds along the tangled hedge Last Line: And from ourselves we hide our own hearts' mystery! Subject(s): Earth; Hearts; Night; Stars; Waiting; Weeds; World; Bedtime WAITING IN WINTER (1), by STANLEY BURNSHAW Poem Text First Line: They were tired, tired, and outside Last Line: And earth and heaven looked harsh. . . . Subject(s): Death; Earth; Heaven; Sleep; Dead, The; World; Paradise WAKE ISLAND, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Proof of america! A fire on the sea, Subject(s): Wake Island; World War Ii; Second World War WAKING, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hasten toward immense and earthly joy, the eyelids blinking as they dance Last Line: Await you on the mineral hill of the incandescence of living Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism; World War Ii 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 SONG, by IVOR GURNEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The miles go sliding by Last Line: Scattering the forward dust %from dawn to late of eve Subject(s): World War I 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 WALT, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Going up for the assault that morning Last Line: Hugger-mugger anyhow %inside my shirt Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Old Age; Sea Voyages; World War I WAR, by WARREN ARIAIL Poem Text First Line: We faced each other, he and I Last Line: I wear -- my souvenir of war. Subject(s): World War I; First World War WAR, by ANDRE BRETON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watch the beast as it licks itself Last Line: The beast licks its sex I said nothing Subject(s): World War I; First World War WAR, by ANDRE BRETON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watch the beast as it licks itself Last Line: The beast licks its sex I've said nothing Subject(s): World War I WAR, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Source First Line: The serpent-horror writhing in her hair Subject(s): World War I 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 MAX JACOB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At night the suburban boulevards are full of snow Last Line: Dim streetlamps cast the light of my death in the snow Subject(s): World War Ii WAR, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There set out, slowly, for a different world Last Line: You can't break eggs without making an omelette %that's what they tell the eggs Subject(s): World War Ii WAR, by JOSEPH LANGLAND Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When my young brother was killed Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War WAR, by JOSEPH LANGLAND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When my young brother was killed Last Line: And let the murmuring waters %wash over their blood-hot feet with a springing crown %of tears Subject(s): World War Ii WAR, by MARY WHITE OVINGTON Poem Source First Line: Said the lord of hosts Last Line: Let it go on, %he said Subject(s): World War I WAR, by WILLIAM LIGHTFOOT VISSCHER Poem Source First Line: By blazing homes, through forests torn Subject(s): World War I WAR, by SCOTT WANNBERG Poem Source First Line: The war had its grandchildren over for the afternoon Last Line: Nobody should look that young. %nobody Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) 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 (ON THE GERMAN INVASION OF BELGIUM), by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: They who take the sword Last Line: With the sword they shall be slain. Subject(s): Fights; Swords; Victory; World War I - Belgium WAR AUTOBIOGRAPHY; WRITTEN IN ILLNESS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven is clouded, mists of rain Last Line: That twice has passed before my sight. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War WAR BABY, by WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE Poem Source First Line: When I was born Last Line: The wolf, he finds only mountains %of spectacles, hair, and winter coats Subject(s): World War Ii WAR FILM, by TERESA HOOLEY Poem Source First Line: I saw, %with a catch of the breath and the heart's uplifting Last Line: He thought it was a game %and laughed, and laughed Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Women; World War I WAR GIRLS, by JESSIE POPE Poem Source First Line: There's the girl who clips your ticket for the train Last Line: Till the khaki soldier boys come marching back Subject(s): Women; World War I WAR GOD, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why cannot the one good Last Line: Love's need does not cease Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): World War Ii WAR GRAVE, by AUGUST STRAMM Poem Source First Line: Sticks imploring crossing arms Last Line: Flickers %tear %glare %oblivion Subject(s): World War I WAR GRAVE, by AUGUST STRAMM Poem Source First Line: Stakes implore crossed arms Last Line: In tears %luster %oblivion Subject(s): World War I WAR HORSE, by L. FLEMING Poem Source First Line: When the shells are bursting round Subject(s): World War I WAR IN THE AIR, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For a saving grace, we didn't see our dead Last Line: With the help of the losers we left out there %in the air, in the empty air Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii WAR IN THE DARK, by ROLFE HUMPHRIES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This fighting grows more hideous hour by hour Last Line: Who knows what light or music, clear to all, %waits beyond sleep, the other side of cold? Subject(s): World War Ii WAR OF THE WORLDS, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: After my shift at the foundling hospital, the moon is down Last Line: Shards of evil caught in the blinking retinas of every single child Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities WAR PASTORAL, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: When they came, they came like honey from a jar Last Line: Like shadows in the flaring, bloody sun Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii WAR POET, by SIDNEY KEYES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the man who looked for peace and found Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; War; World War Ii; Second World War WAR POET, by SIDNEY KEYES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am the man who looked for peace and found Last Line: Though my face is a burnt book %and a wasted town Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; War; World War Ii WAR PROFITS, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The horns of the moon are tipped Subject(s): Profiteering; World War I; First World War WAR QUARTET, by OSCAR WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: One morning the world woke up and there was no news Last Line: One morning the world woke up and there was no news Subject(s): World War Ii WAR RISKS, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let go aft' ... And out she slides Subject(s): World War I WAR ROSARY, by NELLIE HURST Poem Source First Line: I knit, I knit, I pray, I pray Subject(s): World War I WAR SEQUENCE: WAR ALTARS, by RENA CAREY SHEFFIELD Poem Text First Line: Within the green jade temple of chapei Last Line: The silent buddha sits and meditates. Subject(s): China; World War Ii; Second World War WAR SONNET: THOUGHTS OF A BRITON IN THE FOURTH YEAR OF WAR, by EDWARD HARRY WILLIAM MEYERSTEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How far away the nights when I could sleep Last Line: And peace, that gleamed a virtue, looms a crime Alternate Author Name(s): Meyerstein, E. H. W. Subject(s): World War Ii WAR SONNET: THUS ANSWERED, by EDWARD HARRY WILLIAM MEYERSTEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is no comfort that a million share Last Line: Wherewith the nights, till succour come, are fraught Alternate Author Name(s): Meyerstein, E. H. W. Subject(s): World War Ii WAR SPIRIT, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is the dark immortal's hour Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): World War I WAR STORY, by JON STALLWORTHY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of one who grew up at gallipoli Last Line: He tripped, as it seemed to him over his scabbard, %and stubbed his fingers on a dead man's face Subject(s): Gallipoli Campaign (1915); World War I WAR VERSE (1914), by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O two-penny poets, be still-- Last Line: From leman and brialmont. Subject(s): World War I; First World War WAR WIDOW, by BERTRAM WARR Poem Source First Line: I can have no speech with them Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii WAR YAWP, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: America! / england's cheeky kid brother Subject(s): World War I; First World War WAR YAWP, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: America! %england's cheeky kid brother Subject(s): World War I WAR'S PEOPLE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the tender amaranthine domes Last Line: Strange stars, and dream-like sounds, changed speech and law are ours. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War WAR-TIME CRADLE SONG, by FEDERICO SCHARMEL IRIS Poem Source First Line: The king sent out your father to war Last Line: And bring me the king's head for reward Subject(s): World War I WAR-TIME IN THE MOUNTAINS, by ANN COBB Poem Text First Line: Dulcimer over the fireboard, hanging sence allusago Last Line: Beat and beget sons and daughters to sing the old songs at his feet. Subject(s): Dulcimers; Kentucky; Mountains; Music & Musicians; Wellesley College; World War I; Hills; Downs (great Britain); First World War WARD 6, by TANURE OJAIDE Poem Source First Line: Chekhov, my country is ward 6 Last Line: Free of excoriating pain, free of this disease Subject(s): Third World WARDEN'S WATCH: 2 A.M., by ROBERT W. CUMBERLAND Poem Source First Line: The night is still: the quarter moon slips down Last Line: Yet stand and wait means but to sit and hear Subject(s): World War Ii WARNING, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Nature without a plan? Last Line: Simply dislodgement. Subject(s): Nature; World War Ii; Second World War WARS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the old wars drum of hoofs and the beat of shod feet Last Line: Dreamed out in the heads of men. Subject(s): World War I; First World War WARSAW, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was in warsaw when the first bomb fell Last Line: Or -- would you curse and spit into my face? Subject(s): Bombs; Warsaw, Poland; World War Ii WARSAW, 17 SEPTEMBER, 1939, by LEO MINSTER Poem Source First Line: Space long was ours, factories to frame our guns Last Line: Poland, you gave us time - and victory! Subject(s): World War Ii WARTIME LOVE-SONG, by PETER BAKER Poem Source First Line: The wind sings for you Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii WASHING OUR HANDS OF THE REST OF AMERICA, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The water is moving again in the lakes of central america Subject(s): Allergies; Disease; Earth; Nature; Pollution; Sickness; Water; World; Illness WATCHIN' OUT FOR SUBS, by U. A. L. Poem Source First Line: Bosun's shistle piping, 'starboard watch is on' Subject(s): World War I WATCHING WAR MOVIES, by LUCIEN STRYK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Always the same: watching Last Line: The war goes on and on Subject(s): World War Ii WATCHMEN OF THE NIGHT, by CECIL EDRIC MORNINGTON ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lords of the seas' great wilderness Last Line: For sons who guard thee night and day! Subject(s): Great Britain - Navy; World War I; First World War WATER, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: This could be samothrace, 1440 b.C.E. This could be thebes Last Line: I sacrifice the origin of all ideals on earth to give this girl a drink Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities WATER BORN, by NORMAN HINDLEY Poem Source First Line: Moomomi beach, narrow and hooked like a horseshoe Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans WATER OF TEARS, by FRANCIS PONGE Poem Source First Line: To cry or see one cry is rather embarrassing to see Last Line: Laboratory comrades, please verify Subject(s): World War Ii WAYSIDE CALVARY, by OWEN SEAMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now with the full year memory holds her tryst Subject(s): World War I WAYSIDE IN FRANCE, by ADOLPHE E. SMYLIE Poem Source First Line: Come shake hands, my little peach blossom Subject(s): World War I WE ARE OF ONE BLOOD', by C. L. MCIRVINE Poem Source First Line: Two nations, but one people, in our color, race Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I WE ARE WITH FRANCE, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are with france-not by the ties Last Line: And leave our grown-up cares behind. Subject(s): France; World War I; First World War WE FACE THE FUTURE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hour is big with sooth and sign, with errant men at war Last Line: Shod with a faith that springtime keeps, and all the stars opine. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Future; World War I; First World War WE HOPE TO WIN, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We hope to win?' by god's help - 'yes' Last Line: We hope to win. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): World War I; First World War 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 MEAN TO THRASH THESE PRUSSIAN PUPS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: We'll drown the whole lot in the rhine Subject(s): World War I WE MOTHERS KNOW, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peace,' they have said Last Line: It shall be so. Subject(s): Mothers; World War I; First World War WE SAW THREE DIFFERENT STORE-LADIES, by SHERI MAE AKAMINE Poem Source Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans WE SHOW YOU THAT DEATH AS A DANCER, by HAMISH HENDERSON Poem Source First Line: Death the dancer poked his skull Last Line: When we lie stickit in the sand %he'll dance into his promised land Subject(s): World War Ii WE THAT ARE OLD HAVE LITTLE WILL, by STEPHEN LUCIUS GWYNN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Death's honour - or, at last, delight %in victory Subject(s): World War Ii WE WILLED IT NOT, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We willed it not. We have not lived in hate Last Line: Not lightly shall the treason be atoned. Subject(s): World War I; First World War WE WORRIED WOODY-WOOD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Don't quote the president, as ye stand Subject(s): World War I WE'RE EXTREMELY FORTUNATE, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're extremely fortunate / not to know precisely Subject(s): Earth; World WEAVERS, by GERALD R. WHEELER Poem Source First Line: Afghan refugee %children hunch over looms Last Line: Plotting against freedom %& themselves Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WEBFOOT IN THE LEAD, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Well, I've been to see the capers Last Line: That can make a bigger track. Subject(s): Davenport, Homer (1867-1912); Exhibitions; Miller, Joaquin (1837-1913); World's Fairs; Expositions WELCOME HOME, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up the vast harbor, goal of millions of dreamers Last Line: A brotherhood complete. Subject(s): Homecoming; World War I; First World War WELCOME TO HIROSHIMA, by MARY JO SALTER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is what you first see, stepping off the train Last Line: Worked its filthy way out like a tongue. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Hiroshima, Japan; Literary Form; World War Ii; Nuclear Freeze; Second World War WENDELL PHILLIPS, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw him stand, upon the judgment day Last Line: If but one soul be lost, how is man saved?' Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man 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 WHALE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rain, with a silver flail Last Line: "and there was whale!" Subject(s): Creation; God; Judgment Day; Whales; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man WHAT AILS THE WORLD?, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What ails the world?' the poet cried Last Line: Unanswered -- and the poet dies. Subject(s): Earth; Poetry & Poets; World WHAT CAN WE DO?, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At last, after patient years, we have grit and grace Last Line: They shall have right to look god in the face. Subject(s): World War I; First World War WHAT COMES NEXT, by NORA MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: She flexes her fingers Last Line: Scalded her, she could not keep up Subject(s): World History WHAT FOR?, by JOHN KENDRICK Poem Source First Line: Now the simple folks are praying Last Line: Shall be uttered %nevermore Subject(s): World War I WHAT GOES WITHIN AND THERE CAN BE CONTAINED., by FRANZ JANOWITZ Poem Source Last Line: Approaches the word on which the whole world turns Subject(s): World War I WHAT GREW IN JOAN'S GARDEN?, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text First Line: What grew in joan's garden? Last Line: God and france and victory Subject(s): World War I WHAT I NEVER SAW, by TIMOTHY CORSELLIS Poem Source First Line: I was ready for death Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii WHAT IS TERRIBLE, by ROY FULLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life at last I know is terrible Last Line: Horror is ever to be flushed and real %it must be for them and changed by them all Subject(s): World War Ii WHAT MY GRANDFATHER DID IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR, by PETER CONSTANTINE Poem Source First Line: My grandfather was given a medal Last Line: His best friend ate all nine at once and died Subject(s): Grandparents; World War Ii WHAT MY GRANDMOTHER DID IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR, by PETER CONSTANTINE Poem Source First Line: The day after we lost the war Last Line: The soft rattling words of our tongue Subject(s): Grandparents; World War Ii WHAT REWARD?, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You gave your life, boy Last Line: O god, for such a sacrifice %say, what reward for him? Subject(s): Insanity; Women; World War I WHAT THINK YE?', by W. A. BRISCOE Poem Source First Line: What are we fighting for, men of my race Subject(s): World War I WHAT WE ARE, by PEARLE MOORE STEVENS Poem Text First Line: I may not scale the mountain top Last Line: For what we really are. Subject(s): Good; Judgment Day; Truth; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE AGE OF AQUARIUS? APRIL 23, 2002, by ALLEN COHEN Poem Source First Line: Yet another birthday %to acknowledge the passage of time Last Line: We must take the leap from empire to love Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WHEEL, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: Outside, night. You can barely breathe Last Line: Don't want to dance. You want to know! Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii WHEN EVIL-DOING COMES LIKE FALLING RAIN, by BERTOLT BRECHT Poem Source First Line: Like one who brings an important letter to the counter after office hours Last Line: Unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer Subject(s): World War Ii WHEN HE COMES, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: A vision fair - of clouds and sky Last Line: To do him honor there. Subject(s): Earth; Holy Ghost; Lightning; Religion; Soul; World; Holy Spirit; Lightning Rods; Theology WHEN I'M KILLED, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I'm killed, don't think of me Last Line: Your playfellow from the grave. Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War WHEN IT IS FINISHED, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When it is finished, father, and we set Last Line: That we might live. Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War WHEN LOVE HAS SAID FAREWELL, by JOCK CURLE Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii WHEN MY BROTHER AND I BUILT AND FLEW THE FIRST MAN-CARRYING..., by JACK FOLEY Poem Source First Line: How to name this horror %what language Last Line: Who died %and, dying, %live Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WHEN THE COCK CROWS; TO THE MEMORY OF FRANK LITTLE, by ARTURO GIOVANNITTI Poem Source First Line: Six men drove up to hsi house at midnight and woke the poor woman who kept it Last Line: Even then, even then, I shall not deny him Subject(s): Labor Unions; Social Protest; Strikes; World War I WHEN THE FRENCH BAND PLAYS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There's a military band that plays Subject(s): World War I WHEN THE TOWERS FELL, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From our high window we saw the towers Last Line: Each life, put out, lies down within us Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 WHEN THERE IS PEACE, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When there is peace, our land no more Last Line: When there is peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War WHEN THEY HAVE MADE AN END, by GERALD H. CROW Poem Source Subject(s): World War I WHERE KITCHENER SLEEPS, by WILLIAM WILFRED CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O grim and iron-bastioned Last Line: Thunder at bursay's feet? Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, W. W. Subject(s): Kitchener, Horatio, 1st Earl (1850-1916); Sea; World War I; Ocean; First World War WHERE LITTLE POND MEETS THE OCEAN, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Out early, in search of the last light Last Line: In smiling, her way to say %oh yes, this is where I want to be Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities 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 WHERE THE FOUR WINDS MEET, by GEOFFREY DALRYMPLE NASH Poem Source First Line: There are songs of the north and ... The south Subject(s): World War I WHERE WE CRASHED, by RICHARD HUGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was calling airspeed Last Line: And in this grass %I didn't die Subject(s): World War Ii WHERE WOLVES RAN THROUGH THE BRIGHT NIGHT SNOW., by PETER BAUM Poem Source Last Line: Raging towards us with deafening explosions Subject(s): World War I WHERE YOU SLEEP, by DEBRA THOMAS Poem Source First Line: The moon nears our zenith Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans WHICH?, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Birth-day or earth-day Last Line: Which the well-worth day? Subject(s): Birthdays; Earth; Happiness; World; Joy; Delight WHILE SUMMERS PASS, by ALINE MIACAELIS Poem Source First Line: Summer comes and summer goes Subject(s): World War I 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 WHITE CROSS, by REED WHITTEMORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blatz was drafted, act of god and neighbors Last Line: Reading his name, poor blatz, and possibly %dreaming of heroes Subject(s): World War Ii WHITE FRINGED-ORCHIS, by CAROLINE HAZARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Low swampy ground, with spagnum moss Last Line: The candles of the lord. Subject(s): Earth; Love; Swamps; World; Bogs; Fens; Marshes WHITE PORCH, by CATHY SONG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wrap the blue towel Last Line: Cloth, hair and hands %smuggling you in Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans WHO BLEW UP AMERICA, by AMIRI BARAKA Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): United States; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001; America WHO MADE THE LAW THAT MEN SHOULD DIE IN MEADOWS?, by LESLIE COULSON Poem Source Last Line: He who made the law shall walk alone with death, %who made the law? Subject(s): World War I WHO SLEEPS?, by ELEANOR ALEXANDER Poem Source First Line: Midnight and england; in the curtained room Subject(s): World War I WHO WERE YOU?, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On september 11, a man and a woman jumped from one of the burning Last Line: And has not %landed yet Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WHY HORSES SLEEP STANDING UP, by NORA MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: Our lungs can no longer bear Last Line: The east. Gleaming pewter hooves Subject(s): World History WIDOW, by C. M. MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: My heart is numb with sorrow Subject(s): World War I WIDOW-MOTHER, by ADA JACKSON Poem Text First Line: Soldier boy, soldier boy Last Line: Presently I'll know. Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Mothers & Sons; War; Widows & Widowers; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War WIEDERSEHEN, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When open trucks with german prisoners in them Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War WIEDERSEHEN, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When open trucks with german prisoners in them Last Line: Your grandchildren, german, do they believe the story, %the boy in arkansas, blonder than you? Subject(s): World War Ii WILD WITH ALL REGRETS; ANOTHER VERSION OF 'A TERRE', by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My arms have mutinied against me -- brutes! Last Line: To do without what blood remained me from my wound. Subject(s): World War I; First World War WILDERNESS, by SIDNEY KEYES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The red rock wilderness Last Line: Flesh is fire in this wilderness of fire %which is our dwelling Subject(s): World War Ii WILL BOLAND & I WALK DOWN THE BEACH, by STEVE MARK KOWIT Poem Source First Line: Seething over this filthy war that every chest-thumping Last Line: The last of the light of this world setting behind them Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WILLIAM II PRINCE OF PEACE, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O prince of peace, o lord of war Last Line: For if thou fail, a world shall fall! Subject(s): William Ii, Kaiser Of Germany (1859-1941; World War I; First World War WILLIAMS DREAMLAND THEATER, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: I passed through harlem sundays only as a child Last Line: With all the news from akron, memphis, and thermopylae Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities WIND IN THE TREES, by S. DONALD COX Poem Source First Line: Wind! Wind! What do you bring Subject(s): World War I WIND ON THE DOWNS, by MARIAN ALLEN Poem Source First Line: I like to think of you as brown and tall Last Line: And when I leave the meadow, almosty wait %that you should open first the wooden gate Subject(s): Women; World War I 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 WINDWARD OF HILO, by JOHN N. MILLER Poem Source First Line: When I was eight years old the war broke out Last Line: As we stole our way home, pledged to silence %knowing we owed our taste to the dead soldiers Subject(s): Pearl Harbor; World War Ii WINGS IN THE NIGHT, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now in the soft spring midnight Last Line: Over the wild grey water. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Comfort; Mothers; Soul; War; World War I; First World War WINTER ELEGY (1998-99), by ALISSA LEIGH Poem Source First Line: A year of omens and predictions Last Line: The violinist's bow, thin antigone, %was tearing out its hair in a frenzy Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WINTER SOLSTICE--2001, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Sunder %and give, only towering shadows of buildings Last Line: Into trebles %of flame Subject(s): Buildings And Builders; Memory; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WINTER THEY BOMBED PEARL HARBOR., by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: But I can't bring my brother back Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): World War Ii WINTER WARFARE, by EDGELL A. RICKWORD Poem Full Text First Line: Colonel cold strode up the line Alternate Author Name(s): Rickword, E. A. Subject(s): World War I; First World War WINTER WARFARE, by EDGELL A. RICKWORD Poem Source First Line: Colonel cold strode up the line Last Line: Stabbing those who lingered there %torn by screaming steel Alternate Author Name(s): Rickword, E. A. Subject(s): World War I WIRELESS, by PATRICK REGINALD CHAMBERS Poem Source First Line: There sits a little demon Subject(s): World War I WIRELESS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now to those who search the deep Last Line: And a little child may lead them. Subject(s): Death; Night; Sea; Ships & Shipping; World War I; Dead, The; Bedtime; Ocean; First World War 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 IRA SOUTH Poem Source First Line: I had a friend, and sometimes we would talk Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I WISTERIA, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: As he went to sleep it seemed to hug the wall and windows all the closer Last Line: In a fine warm sweet-smelling midnight summer rain Subject(s): Naples, Italy; Wisteria; World War Ii 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 THE SAME PRIDE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One star for all she had Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): World War I WITHDRAWAL FROM CRETE, by AUDREY ALEXANDRA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Doggedly, %inch by bitter inch brought dear with blood Last Line: When we'll remember anguisg passed away %as a dream and the dark shadow of a dream Subject(s): Crete; World War Ii WITHOUT COMPLAINT, by MILUTIN BOJIC Poem Source First Line: Nothing more for us is new or strange Last Line: With which he left that morning for the mountain Subject(s): World War I WOES OF A ROOKIE, by WILLIAM L. COLESTOCK Poem Source First Line: I enlisted in the infantry last summer Subject(s): World War I WOMAN'S CRY, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Red!' cried the women by the neva's tide Last Line: Red!' cried the women. Let them cry no more Subject(s): World War I WOMAN'S GAME, by VICTOR PEROWNE Poem Source First Line: Was there ever a game we did not share Subject(s): World War I WOMAN'S TOLL, by RUTH DUFFIN Poem Source First Line: O mother, mourning for the son who keeps Subject(s): World War I WOMEN AT MUNITION MAKING, by MARY GABRIELLE COLLINS Poem Source First Line: Their hands should minister unto the flame of life Last Line: Must it anew be sacrificed on earth? Subject(s): Women; World War I WOMEN TO MEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: God bless you, lads! Subject(s): Women; World War I WOMEN WILL SOON KNIT AGAIN', by ROGER BURLINGAME Poem Source First Line: On the steps, in the corners Last Line: You cannot tell it then from the bursts of the mitrailleuse! Subject(s): World War Ii WORDS FROM CONFINEMENT, by CESARE PAVESE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bright and early we went down to the fishmarket Last Line: We were drunk on the news: we were going home! Subject(s): World War Ii WORDS, LIKE SURVIVORS, by TOM GUARNERA Poem Source First Line: It's like the pearl harbor, some people say Last Line: I only believe the tears Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WORKERS, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We laid the keel of the ship that sails the waters Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I 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 WORKMAN'S CHORAL SONG; AT OPENING OF DUTCH INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: No monster of iron on gunpowder fed Last Line: "we, too, have out rest and our heaven" Subject(s): Exhibitions;labor & Laborers; World's Fairs;expositions WORLD HISTORY, by CARL DENNIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Better believe ten thousand angels Last Line: Are waiting to serve him supper and hear the news Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WORLD LINES; A WAR STORY, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And there I was, is how these things begin Last Line: His buttons and bones are somewhere out there still Subject(s): World War Ii WORLD MUSIC, by FRANCES LOUISA BUSHNELL Poem Text First Line: Jubilant, the music through the fields a-ringing Last Line: Pipe of pan was once its naming, now it hath a name diviner. Subject(s): Earth; World WORLD PEACE HYMN, by BENJAMIN D. DAVIES Poem Text First Line: On earth peace and goodwill toward men, the Last Line: Singing melodies of peace. Subject(s): Earth; Peace; United Nations; World WORLD SERIES OPENED - BATTER UP!, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The outfield is a-creepin' in to catch ... Subject(s): World War I WORLD TRADE CENTER, by JULIA VINOGRAD Poem Source First Line: I am an old woman in a black dress Last Line: Dying soldiers kneel to me %and I smile Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WORLD WAR II, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was over target berlin the flak shot up our plane Last Line: Destroying the germans and their cities Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): World War Ii; Air Raids; Aviation & Aviators; Rescues WORLD WAR II, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was over target berlin the flak shot up our plane Last Line: And went on hauling bombs over the continent of europe %destroying the germans and their cities Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Homosexuality; 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 WORLD'S FAIR, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The crowd moves forward on the midway Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Exhibitions; World's Fairs; Expositions WORLD'S ONE HOPE, by BERTOLT BRECHT Poem Source First Line: Is oppression as old at the moss around ponds? Last Line: It is the world's one hope Subject(s): World War Ii WORLDS, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 1120's not the only year eirik gnupson Subject(s): Vikings; Earth; World WORLDS, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For alexander there was no far east Subject(s): Alexander The Great (356-323 B.c.); Earth; Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727); World WOUNDED, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it not strange? A year ago today Last Line: Lead on! I'll live to fight another day. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War WOUNDED SOLDIER IN THE CONVENT, by FRANCOIS COPPEE Poem Source First Line: What it that clanging noise I hear Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I WRESTLING WITH THE ANGEL, by NORA MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: A beautiful young man streaks beneath Last Line: It holds the lost, cherishes, grinds them Subject(s): World History WRIST WATCH MAN, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His is marching dusty highways and he's riding Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I WRITTEN ON SERVICE IN EGYPT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Behind us in vermilion state Subject(s): World War I WTC BOOM BOX: THE SUBWAY JOKE UNSOUNDED, by EUGENIA MACER-STORY Poem Source First Line: The room is empty except for the drums Last Line: Subway jokes unsounded in the midnight storm Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WYKHAMIST, by NORA GRIFFITHS Poem Source First Line: In the wake of the yellow sunset one pale star Last Line: Pass with the others down the twilit street Subject(s): Women; World War I Y.M.C.A., by C. A. L. T. Poem Source First Line: Oh monday night's the night for me! Last Line: Oh tommy atkins! Brave and true - %I humbly thank god for you Subject(s): Women; World War I Y2K, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mutation of bells. Chapels vanishing in fog Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 Y2K, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mutation of bells. Chapels vanishing in fog Last Line: Long time night, the usual. So forth and so on Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) YANKEE CLIPPER, by LEONARD BACON (1887-1954) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We're making sail on the yankee clipper Last Line: And we'll eat our chowder in nwe bedford town. %blow! Blow! Blow the man down! Subject(s): World War Ii YARDS OF SARAJEVO, by RICHARD HUGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Time of day: a dim dream, probably Last Line: The station loud. All rebuilt %and modern. Only the lighting bad Subject(s): Sarajevo, Bosnia; World War Ii YONSEI, by JULIET S. KONO Poem Source First Line: I hear the music Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans YOU, by CLAIRE STUDER-GOLL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You have the mane Last Line: Across the worlds. Alternate Author Name(s): Goll, Claire Subject(s): California; Colorado (state); Earth; Nature; Travel; World; Journeys; Trips YOU ARE THERE, by NORA MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: Let's suppose you are really there Last Line: You want others to get it, too. %and then what? Subject(s): World History YOU ARE TOO HUMAN, by MIKI KASHTAN Poem Source First Line: You are sitting in the cockpit Last Line: What is the right thing to do? Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) YOU REMEMBER, ALYOSHA, THE ROADS OF SMOLENSK PROVINCE, by KONSTANTIN SIMENOV Poem Source Last Line: And proud that russian women farewelled us rpudly %with threefold kisses, in the russian way Subject(s): Russia; Women; World War Ii YOU SAY YOU SAID, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Few words are best' Last Line: "me against subterfuge." Subject(s): World War I - United States YOU WERE SO WHITE, SO SOFT, by JOHN PIERRE ROCHE Poem Source First Line: I knew your gentle touch Last Line: The luxury of sheets! Subject(s): World War I YOU WHO SLEEP, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: In the west you're still asleep Last Line: And you who suffer more %each day %who no longer hope %but are still watching Subject(s): Dadaism; World War Ii YOU. LOVE POEMS, SELS., by AUGUST STRAMM Subject(s): World War I YOUNG AND OLD, by HENRY ALLSOPP Poem Source First Line: What makes the dale so strange, my dear? Subject(s): World War I 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 FELLOW MY LAD, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are you going, young fellow my lad Last Line: "we will owe to our lads like you." Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War YOUNG TREE, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are so few trees here, so few young trees Subject(s): World War I YOUR ACCOUNTING, by EMME MAAK Poem Text First Line: If you've walked with wisdom - known the way Last Line: You've done god's work -- you'll get god's pay! Subject(s): God; Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man YOUR LAD, AND MY LAD, by RANDALL PARRISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down toward the deep-blue water, marching to throb of Last Line: As your dear lad, and my dear lad, go on their way to france. Subject(s): Army - United States; World War I; First World War YOUR SLEEP, by IWAN GOLL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your sleep is a closed almond Last Line: Alas, when you open them, %what color will they be? Alternate Author Name(s): Goll, Yvan Subject(s): World War Ii YOUTH IN ARMS, by ERON O. ROWLAND Poem Text First Line: O youth who erstwhile stood before thy elders Last Line: Armed cap a pie? Subject(s): World War I; Youth; First World War YPRES, by RONALD GORELL BARNES Poem Text First Line: City of stark desolation Last Line: Built in the heart of man. Alternate Author Name(s): Gorell, 3d Baron Subject(s): World War I; Ypres, Belgium; First World War YPRES TOWER, RYE, by EDWARD CHARLES EVERARD OWEN Poem Text First Line: Tower of ypres that watchest, gravely smiling Last Line: Live your dreaming fens, your bastioned hill. Subject(s): World War I; First World War 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 ZENITH, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: It was part of her parlour's darkness Subject(s): Grandparents; World War Ii; Radio; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Second World War ZEPP DAYS, by P. H. B. LYON Poem Source First Line: In london town the lights are low Alternate Author Name(s): L., P. H. B. Subject(s): World War I ZEPPELINS, by NANCY CUNARD Poem Source First Line: I saw the people climbing up the street Last Line: But in the morning men began again %to mock death following in bitter pain Subject(s): Women; World War I ZERO, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O rosy red, o torrent splendour Last Line: It's plain we were born for this, naught else. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War ZILLEBEKE BROOK, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This conduit stream that's tangled here and there Last Line: On my way up to sanctuary wood. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Brooks; World War I; Streams; Creeks; First World War ZNAMENSKAYA SQUARE, LENINGRAD, 1941, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The older girl pulls the child's Subject(s): Saint Oetersburg, Russia; World War Ii; Children - Death; Second World War ZONE, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the end you are weary of this ancient world Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Paris, France; World War I; First World War ZONE, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: After all you are weary of this oldtime world Last Line: Sun cut throat Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Paris, France; World War I; First World War ZONE, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You're tired of this old world at last Last Line: Sun throat cut Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Paris, France; World War I ZONE, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At last you're tired of this elderly world Last Line: Situated in paris between the rue aumont-thieville and the avenue des ternes Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Paris, France; World War I ZONE, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You have grown weary of a world effete Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Paris, France; World War I ZONE, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now the time comes when you are bored with antiquity Last Line: Neck of the sun cut Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Paris, France; World War I ZONE, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the end you are weary of this ancient world Last Line: The lowly christs of dim expectancies %adieu adieu %sun corseless head Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Paris, France; World War I |
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