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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WORLD WAR I - CASUALTIES Matches Found: 64 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 |
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