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Subject: ANTI-WAR PROTESTS
Matches Found: 16

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ALL QUIET, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How come nobody is being bombed today?
Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Bly, Robert (b. 1926); Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Anti-war Protests


AT A MARCH AGAINST THE VIETNAM WAR (LATER VERSION), by ROBERT BLY            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Newspapers rise high in the air over maryland
Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Anti-war Protests


FABLE, by TOM SLEIGH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: But where, oh where is the holy idiot,
Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Anti-war Protests


FRESCO: DEPARTURE FOR AN IMPERIALIST WAR, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They stand there weeping in the stained daylight
Last Line: Weeping, their arms embrace the only country they love
Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Death; Imperialism; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War; Anti-war Protests; Dead, The


I WILL NOT FIGHT, by ADA HILTON DAVIES    Poem Text                    
First Line: I will not bear my country's arms again
Last Line: To conquer for these profit-lords more spoil.
Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Anti-war Protests


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


LET THERE BE NO NEED OF WAR, by CLARA JOHNSTON PIERCE    Poem Text                    
First Line: My son has gentle eyes, and hair blown back
Last Line: My son, -- but let there be no need of war.
Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Anti-war Protests


MARCH IN WASHINGTON AGAINST THE VIETNAM WAR, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Looking down, I see feet moving calmly, gaily
Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Vietnamese Conflict (1961-1975); Anti-war Protests


ME AGAIN, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They say I do not realize
Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Morality; War; Anti-war Protests; Ethics


O WHAT CAN AIL THEE, KNIGHT AT ARMS?, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The day the students were arrested
Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Poetry & Poets; Love - Erotic; Anti-war Protests


PARADE, by EDITH LOVELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: I don't know why
Last Line: "and life to maim humanity."
Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Parades; Women; Anti-war Protests


PROTEST SONG, by PETER GIZZI            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is not a declaration of love or a song of war
Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Poetry & Poets; Iraq War (2003-2011); Anti-war Protests


THE DRUM, by JOHN SCOTT (1730-1783)    Poem Text                    
First Line: I hate that drum's discordant sound
Last Line: To fill the catalogue of human woes.
Variant Title(s): Ode On Hearing The Drum;report On The Foregoing
Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Drums; Musical Instruments; Napoleon I (1769-1821); War; Anti-war Protests


THE GIFT OF FIRE, by LISEL MUELLER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a time of damnation
Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel
Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Self-immolation; Anti-war Protests


TREASON, by JAMES TATE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The man that was following me looked like a government
Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Anti-war Protests


WHAT WERE THEY LIKE, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Did the people of vietnam use lanterns or stones
Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Anti-war Protests