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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WORLD WAR II Matches Found: 1003 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` (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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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'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 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 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 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 ANATOMY OF THE INFINITE, by MARTHA WEBB Poem Source First Line: Woman. It is a word Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans 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 ANITA SKY, by ROB WILSON Poem Source First Line: I marinated her heart Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans 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 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 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 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 ARMY, by KENNETH NEAL Poem Source First Line: Tomorrow and tomorrow and tonight Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii 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 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 SUNRISE, by E. J. BARTON Poem Source First Line: See how the sun Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii 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 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 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 VOLCANO INTERNMENT CAMP, by MUIN OTOKICHI OZAKI Poem Source First Line: Shokudo ni Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; World War Ii - Japanese-americans 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 INTERLUDE, by I. CELNER Poem Source First Line: The ground shuddered, the canvas shook Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 CANE CUTTERS, by JULIET S. KONO Poem Source First Line: It is early morning. The brave Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 CHINESE HOT POT, by WING TEK LUM Poem Source First Line: My dream of america Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans 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 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 CLEAR EYES, by TAMATHA F. Poem Source Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans 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 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 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! 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 COMRADES, by JOCK CURLE Poem Source First Line: The men I seek are such as mad and ill Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 CYPRUS, by N. BOODSON Poem Source First Line: The blue of the meidterranean Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 WARFARE, by G. HARKER Poem Source First Line: A universe of space, infinite sands Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii 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 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 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 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 DO NOT ASK, by LAURENCE WHISTLER Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii 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 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 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 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 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 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: 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ENDURING PEOPLE, by L. E. S. COTTERELL Poem Source First Line: The proudest caesars knew their worth Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii 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 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 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 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 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 JOHN FRANCIS WALLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps only an elusive shadow Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii 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 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 ETIQUETTE, by JEAN YAMASAKI TOYAMA Poem Source First Line: Eating a fish head is an art Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 FEVER, by JO ANN UCHIDA Poem Source First Line: They had burned my letters Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans 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 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 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 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-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 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 FISH STORY, by DEAN H. HONMA Poem Source First Line: Yeah that time when we went kapoho Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 FORT SILL INTERNMENT CAMP, by MUIN OTOKICHI OZAKI Poem Source First Line: Komi ageru Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; World War Ii - Japanese-americans 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 FREEWAY POEM, by LAURIE KURIBAYASHI Poem Source First Line: He's right Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans 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 CORNWALL TO THE HEBRIDES, by ALAN ROOK Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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-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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 HEDGEHOG IN AIR RAID, by CLIFFORD DYMENT Poem Source First Line: The sky was a terrific beach Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii 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 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 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 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 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 HOME FRONT, by WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE Poem Source First Line: It must have been '45, a backyard spring Subject(s): World War Ii 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 IKUMAN O, by SOJIN TOKIJI TAKEI Poem Source Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; World War Ii - Japanese-americans 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 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 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 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 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: 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 INSENSIBILITY, by DOUGLAS GIBSON Poem Source First Line: Death is not indying Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 JUNIOR GOT THE SNAKES, by MICHAEL MCPHERSON Poem Source First Line: One time Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 LEVEL MIND, by ALEXANDER COMFORT Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii 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 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 LIKE LOVE, by LAURIE KURIBAYASHI Poem Source First Line: What you will remember are his hands Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 LOVE WAS THE WORM, by JOHN+(3) HALL Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii 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 M. E. MEDLEY, by J. BROOME Poem Source First Line: Everywhere %radios blare Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 MATURITY, by PATRICIA LEDWARD Poem Source First Line: Once the wind was a gray-eyed companion Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 NEWS OF SUFFERING, by CLIFFORD DYMENT Poem Source First Line: Shouldering a way through crowds Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 OPEN THE DOOR AND FLY WITH ME, by MICHAEL SAVAGE Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii ORDER, by DENNIS KAWAHARADA Poem Source First Line: The fields seemed chaotic to him Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans 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 OUT OF THE MORNING, by CLIVE SANSOM Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 PEACE, by MARGERY SMITH Poem Source First Line: All this shall pass Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 REST YOUR HEAD, by JOHN ATKINS Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii 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 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 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 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 REVIEWING THE SCENE, by GARY TACHIYAMA Poem Source First Line: Eleanor, don't do it' Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans 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 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 RIDING THE NORTH POINT FERRY, by WING TEK LUM Poem Source First Line: Wrinkles: like Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 SCENES FROM THE DOOR, SELS., by GERTRUDE STEIN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): World War Ii 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 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 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 SECRET DREAM, by DOUGLAS GIBSON Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii SEE THE WASTED CITIES!, by EMANUEL LITVINOFF Poem Source First Line: O see the wasted cities by morning Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii 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 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, 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 SET ON THE AUTUMN HEAD, by ALEXANDER COMFORT Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 - 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 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'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 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 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 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 SONG, by MILES VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: If I am any hope Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii 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 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 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 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: 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 SONNET (FOR PRISCILLA), by NICHOLAS MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Walking alone in familiar places Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii 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 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 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 SPREADING CROSS, by TAMBIMUTTU Poem Source First Line: Where, where shall we find us after wreck Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii 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 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-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 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 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 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 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 STORY I CAN'T TELL, by PETER HEARNS LIOTTA Poem Source First Line: Forty-three years ago today Subject(s): World War Ii STRANGE SCENT, by TAMARA LAULANI WONG-MORRISON Poem Source First Line: Hear the beating of the pahu Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans 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 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 SURELY THE DREAMS, by DOUGLAS GIBSON Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 MUSIC, by IVAN HARGRAVE Poem Source First Line: After the band has gone Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii 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 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 THINK AT THIS TIME OF THE PATIENT INFANTRY, by G. O. PHYSICK Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii THOUGHTS ON THE EVE, by EMANUEL LITVINOFF Poem Source First Line: We could love life the more Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii 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 TIME, by PAUL SCOTT Poem Source First Line: She said 'one day you will awake and find' Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii 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 LETTER, by F. O. WATKINS Poem Source First Line: Your inky lines, your inky words Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 TREMBLING, by JILL E. WIDNER Poem Source First Line: The butterfly was caught Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans TRIBE, by CATHY SONG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was born Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 VOYAGE, by S. ABEL Poem Source First Line: This, then, is parting - dry-eyed loneliness Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 WIDOW, by BERTRAM WARR Poem Source First Line: I can have no speech with them Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 LOVE HAS SAID FAREWELL, by JOCK CURLE Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii 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 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 YOU SLEEP, by DEBRA THOMAS Poem Source First Line: The moon nears our zenith Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 |
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