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Subject: WORLD WAR I - UNITED STATES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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


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 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


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


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


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


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 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 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 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 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 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


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 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


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