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Subject: ARMS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PATRIOT I, by JEAN LEWIS MORRIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A patriot I! This is my cry
Last Line: I'm a munition maker.
Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Patriotism; Selfishness; Social Protest; United States; War; America


AN ARMOURY, by ALCAEUS OF MYTILENE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Splendid burns the huge house with bronze; rich is the ample roof
Last Line: These are things we must remember now our duty shall begin.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alkaios
Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Weapons; Ammunition


ARMOR, by SHARON OLDS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just about at the tripled-barrelled pistol
Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Mothers & Sons; Weapons; Ammunition


ARMS OLD AND NEW, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How changed our warfare and the arms we yield
Last Line: We arm the depths above us and beneath!
Subject(s): Arms & Armor


BITTER CHOICE, by ELLEN MAGRATH CARROLL    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have leant upon a sword
Last Line: Blow wild!
Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Children; Swords; Wind; Weapons; Ammunition; Childhood


CAPTAN OF THE BUTTERFLIES, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is the captain of the butterflies
Last Line: Reality is the greatest contagion
Subject(s): Arms And Armor; Army Life; Fights; Soldiers


CHOICE OF PRIDES, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To tell the truth, it would have its points
Last Line: Or the feckless of despair
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Arms And Armor; Honor; Pride


COMING CHANGES, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Night came down upon the landscape - night and darkness, fear and gloom
Last Line: But a truthful revelation, and a prophecy of light!
Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Fights; Weapons; Ammunition


CONNOISSEUR'S GUIDE TO THE BAY AREA: 3. NATURAL AIR CONDITIONING, by GILBERT SORRENTINO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: They don't like you they come
Last Line: Wallace stegner on the floor
Subject(s): Arms And Armor; Disasters; Earthquakes; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975


DAWN, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The hour of dawn is the hour of death
Last Line: The hour of dawn is the hour of life!
Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Dawn; Death; War; World War I; Weapons; Ammunition; Sunrise; Dead, The; First World War


DEDICATION FOR A SPEAR, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To pillar's height reach up, and rest thee now
Last Line: A spear long shaken in the blaze of war.
Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos
Subject(s): Arms & Armor


FEBRUARY 1944 [OR, THE GIANT WEAPON], by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Today the giant weapon came
Subject(s): Anniversaries; Arms & Armor; Books; Marriage; Winters, Yvor (1900-1968); Reading; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


FEBRUARY 1944 [OR, THE GIANT WEAPON], by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Today the giant weapon came
Last Line: Found, in doubled vision no cost %of time or death shall blind
Subject(s): Anniversaries; Arms And Armor; Books; Marriage; Winters, Yvor (1900-1968)


GREATEST OF WEAPONS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The jawbone samson swung was great--it served its purpose well
Last Line: As that large bat, the monster bat, the warclub of babe ruth!
Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Baseball; Sports


GUARD OF THE EASTERN GATE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Halifax sits on her hills by the sea
Last Line: And her thunder but sleeps.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Halifax, Canada; Weapons; Ammunition


HARK, WHERE THE TRUMPET NOW CALLS YOU TO ARMS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Arms And Armor


HEAD BOWED, by SANDOR CSOORI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Autumn is coming
Last Line: As if sending messages to a planet eons away
Subject(s): Arms And Armor; Military; Soldiers; War


IF!, by BARTHOLOMEW GRIFFIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Suppose 'twere done!
Last Line: Of lingering smile on satan's face!
Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Death; Devil; Satire (as Poetic Genre); War; Weapons; Ammunition; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub


JOHN W. MORTON, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tinged with flame and sore beset
Last Line: Morton and forrest were as one.
Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Southern States; War; South (u.s.)


KNIFE, by LASZLO NAGY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Knife, I longed to hold you
Last Line: My knife - oh knife
Subject(s): Arms And Armor; Knives; Murder


MAKING CANNON IN BETHLEHEM, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was long ago in bethlehem town
Last Line: The great word is love, the right plan is peace!
Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Bethlehem, Palestine; Jesus Christ; Peace; Social Protest; Violence; War; Weapons; Ammunition


MEMO: UNDERSTANDING AS I DO....., by MARK SVENVOLD    Poem Source                    
First Line: The real trouble, seen in hindsight
Last Line: And then, like a sea, %closed behind
Subject(s): Arms And Armor; Freedom; Military


MIRRORS, by RAFAEL ESTRADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The mirror is a distant precursor of the cinema
Last Line: Obscene gesture back at him
Subject(s): Arms And Armor; Conscience; Knives; Murder


MY BAY'NIT, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When first I left blighty they gave me a bay'nit
Last Line: Part of me outfit every time.
Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War


ON THE LAWN AT THE VILLA, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Americans; Weapons; Ammunition


PROUD SONNET, by JEAN RICHEPIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The load we bear of trouble is self-made
Last Line: You who would stab my heart, search where you will!
Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Fights


REVELATION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: He had a peek at the arms dump
Last Line: Revealing forgetfulness
Subject(s): Arms And Armor; Death


RIDDLE: 10, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: If the rope is folded
Subject(s): Arms;mouths;riddles


SAVING AMERICA, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was twelve, we were at war %in korea. I did my part, climbing
Last Line: And in the birdsong dawn, flying away, my fear
Subject(s): Arms And Armor; Bombs; Korean War, 1950-1953; Soldiers; United States


SONG OF ARMS, FR. MARDI, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our clubs! Our clubs!
Last Line: Shout narvi! Her groves in the storm!
Subject(s): Arms & Armor


SONG OF HYBRIAS THE CRETAN, by HYBRIAS THE CRETAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My wealth's a burly spear and brand
Last Line: To call me king and lord.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hybrias Of Crete
Variant Title(s): Skolion (song Sung At Aristocratic Banquets);a Soldier's Riches
Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Weapons; Ammunition


THE HELMETS, A FRAGMENT, by THOMAS PENROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas midnight - every mortal eye was closed
Last Line: The agonising priest.
Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Fights; Soldiers


THE MUNITION WORKERS, by DIANA JAMES    Poem Text                    
First Line: They sat upon a hill
Last Line: With the dread weight of an eternal sleep.
Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Labor & Laborers; Weapons; Ammunition; Work; Workers


THE PATH OF SAFETY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Two jolly german barons lived in castles by the rhine
Last Line: "the noble lord von donnerblitz, the graf von schlagenstein"
Subject(s): Arms & Armor;brotherhood;germany;peace;war; Germans


THE RIFLE, by COVINGTON HALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis made of hard, death-tempered steel
Last Line: The message men to tyrants speak!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ami, Covington; Ami, Covami
Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Assassination; Death; Militarism; Murder; Rifles; Social Protest; War; Weapons; Ammunition; Dead, The


THE SWORD, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A keen-edged sword in somebody's hand
Last Line: For man till he reaches the utmost—god.
Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Danger; Life; Swords; Weapons; Ammunition


TO A CERTAIN VERY UGLY BUILDING: THE ARMORY, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Minotaur of madness, you certainly belong there
Last Line: O slumtown symbol of war's grim insanity!
Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Army - Ireland; Buildings & Builders; Death; Pacifism; Social Protest; War; Weapons; Ammunition; Dead, The; Peace Movements


TO A NINE-INCH GUN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Whether your shell hits the target or not
Last Line: Seek bread to fill their mouths again
Subject(s): Arms & Armor;guns;krupp (industrial Conglomerate);murder;war


TO ARMS!, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: To arms! To arms! The heroes cry
Last Line: "were there no honour, there would be no love"
Subject(s): Arms & Armor;fights;heroism;soldiers; Heroes;heroines


TO ARMS!, by ALFRED AUSTIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now let the cry, 'to arms! To arms
Last Line: And her ironclads the sea!
Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Humility; Trafalgar, Battle Of; War; Waterloo; Weapons; Ammunition; British Empire; England - Empire; Battle Of Waterloo


TOWARD THE PIRAEUS: 5, by HILDA DOOLITTLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was not chastity that made me cold nor fear
Last Line: Fiery-tempered, delicate, over-passionate steel.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Bible; Chastity; Despair; Weapons; Ammunition


TRACER BULLET, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: In a straight line
Last Line: The scaffold's uneasy floor.
Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Bullets; Patriotism; Soldiers; Weapons; Ammunition


WEAPON, by JUDITH WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The will to power destroys the power to will
Last Line: In the one stroke we win the world and lose it. %the will to power destroys the power to will
Subject(s): Arms And Armor; Assassination; Human Rights; War