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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ARMY - UNITED STATES Matches Found: 43 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CALL TO ARMS, by MARY RAYMOND SHIPMAN ANDREWS Poem Text First Line: It is I, america, calling! Last Line: Arm, arm, americans! And remember, remember, the tuscania! Subject(s): Army - United States; Patriotism; World War I; First World War A HARVEST SONG, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the mellow days of autumn Last Line: And she sings the reaper's song. Subject(s): Army - United States; Grief; Marching & Marches; Memory; Music & Musicians; Sorrow; Sadness ABSTRACT OF THE SURGEON-GENERAL'S REPORT, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The surgeon-general by brevet Last Line: Editions of your cookery-books Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Army - United States; Generals; Poetry And Poets AN ADDRESS TO THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF ... AMERICAN ARMY, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Accept, great men, that share of honest praise Last Line: Alike in merits, and alike in fame! Subject(s): American Revolution; Army - United States; Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799) ANSWER WORLD!, by ANGELA MORGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I believe in armies Last Line: "here am I! Here am I!" Subject(s): Army - United States; Injustice; Justice; Nations; Problems; Social Protest; War ARMY BUGLE CALLS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I can't get 'em up, I can't get 'em up" Last Line: To thy rest Subject(s): Army - United States;bugles AURORA-BOREALIS; COMMEMORATIVE OF DISSOLUTION OF ARMIES,1865, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What power disbands the northern lights Last Line: Midnight and morn. Subject(s): American Civil War; Army - United States; U.s. - History DE BUGLE ON DE HILL, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I doan like de noise ob de marchin' ob de boys Last Line: At de sound ob de bugle on de hill. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Army - Austria; Army - United States FATHERS AND SONS, by JOSEPH T. COX Poem Source First Line: My boy lives a half a world away, a man Last Line: Will always and never again be my little boy Subject(s): Absence; Army - United States; Fathers And Sons; Soldiers G. A. R. TO A. E. F., by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hope and promise of the nation Last Line: You who fight to save the world! Subject(s): Army - United States; World War I; First World War GOD AND THE CHAPLAIN'S PRAYER, by PARK JERAULD WHITE JR. Poem Text First Line: You say it's never right to laugh at prayer? Last Line: You'd find your holy place filled by another! Subject(s): Army - United States; Clergy; Prayer; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops GOLDSBORO NARRATIVE #4: MY FATHER'S VIET NAM TOUR NEAR OVER, by FORREST HAMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The young dead soldier was younger Last Line: And, afterwards, there's nothing left %to look forward to Subject(s): Army - United States; Death - Children; War MARCHING SONG, by DANA BURNET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When pershing's men go marching into picardy Last Line: And pershing's men are marching, marching into picardy. Subject(s): Army - United States; World War I; First World War MILITARISM, by DERRICK NORMAN LEHMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like molten lava down the mountain steep Last Line: With nineveh, with tyre and babylon. Subject(s): Army - United States; Army Life; Militarism; War; Drills & Minor Tactics NEWSMAN'S ADDRESS (1784), by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What tempests gloom'd the by-past year Last Line: That wrangling is the life of news Subject(s): Army - United States; News; Newspapers; Sailors And Sailing NORTHERN SOLDIER (1), by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ours not to sleep in shady bowers Subject(s): American Revolution; Army - United States ON AN AMERICAN SOLDIER OF FORTUNE SLAIN IN FRANCE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You, who sought the great adventure Last Line: In the forest of argonne! Subject(s): Argonne, Battle Of (1918); Army - United States; World War I; First World War PATRIOTISM AND A PENSION, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ole fo'th ob july Last Line: An' one jes' fo' comin' out alive. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): African Americans; Army - United States; Fourth Of July; Patriotism; Negroes; American Blacks; Independence Day R.O.T.C, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sons of the republic drill Last Line: The new goose-step fraternity! Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Army - United States; Reserve Officers Training Course; Soldiers; War; R.o.t.c. REMEMBER AGAIN, by R. W. S. Poem Text First Line: Rain in the blackness. Stabs of flame in the blackness Last Line: Remember again. Subject(s): Army - United States; Army Life; Memory; Pain; Social Protest; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; Veterans Day; War; Drills & Minor Tactics; Suffering; Misery SAGEBRUSH, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These are the last days of its empire. No flags fly from its dead limbs, nor do Last Line: These stiff limbs? Ants, grass, and wind. What is the price of wisdom here? Only the priest and pris Subject(s): Army - United States; Military; Soldiers; Wisdom SOLDIER SONG (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: You're in the army now Last Line: You're in the amry now Subject(s): Army - United States;soldiers SOLDIER SONG (3), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "uncle sammy, he's got the infantry" Last Line: "good-bye, kaiser bill" Subject(s): Army - United States;world War I; First World War SOLDIER SONG (4), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the infantry, the infantry, with the dirt behind their ears" Last Line: They couldn't lick the infantry in a hundred thousand years Subject(s): Army - United States SPECIMEN DAYS: THE REAL WAR WILL NEVER GET IN THE BOOKS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And so good-bye to the war. I know not how it may have been, or may Last Line: Military, has already been - buried in the grave, in eternal darkness Subject(s): Army - United States; Hospitals; Sickness; Soldiers; War Injuries TAPS, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are embosomed in the sod Last Line: With manifold fond measures. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Army - United States THE ABSENT BOY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They miss him in the orchard, where the fruit is sunning over Last Line: For somewhere in the thick of strife they know their boy is there Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Absence; Army - United States; Unknown Soldier; War; Separation; Isolation THE AMERICAN SOLDIER, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in a vale, a stranger now to arms Last Line: She leaves her soldier -- famine and a name! Subject(s): Army - United States THE DEBT UNPAYABLE, by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What have I given Last Line: (god grant!) all weeds in ours. Subject(s): Army - United States; Death; Honor; Navy - United States; Sacrifices; Soldiers; War - Home Front; World War I - Casualties; Dead, The; American Navy THE GATHERING OF THE GRAND ARMY, by CHARLOTTE L. FORTEN GRIMKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through all the city's streets there poured a flood Last Line: And love and peace prevail from shore to shore. Subject(s): American Civil War; Army - United States; United States - History THE KNIGHTS OF THE NEW CHIVALRY, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What does our soldier take to war? Last Line: Could knightly soldier take to war? Subject(s): Army - United States THE MUSTER; SUGGESTED BY TWO DAYS' REVIEW AT WASHINGTON, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The abrahamic river - / patriarch of floods Last Line: By rills from kansas lone. Subject(s): American Civil War; Army - United States; U.s. - History THE NORTHERN SOLDIER (2), by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In vain you talk of fruits and flowers Last Line: Our free-born limbs to bind. Subject(s): American Revolution; Army - United States THE SPOILS OF WAR, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What does our soldier bring from war? Last Line: Could knightly soldier bring from war? Subject(s): Army - United States; World War I; First World War THE SURVIVAL OF THE UNFIT, by HEINRICH LEHR Poem Text First Line: A trillion trillion years ago Last Line: And grow into the sons of god. Subject(s): Army - United States; Military; Soldiers; Survival; World War I; First World War THE TEMPERANCE ARMY, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come all ye friends, and citizens Last Line: Will do you all no harm. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Army - United States THE TWO BRAVE SOLDIERS, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My friends, I pray you listen, Last Line: And caused them both to fall. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Army - United States THE UNIFORM, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of the sleeves, I remember their weight, like wet wool Last Line: A wounded eardrum wasn't much in the scheme. Subject(s): Army - United States; Clothing & Dress; Military THE VOLUNTEERS, by WILLIAM HAINES LYTLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The volunteers! The volunteers / I dream, as in the by-gone years Last Line: Shall spring the volunteers once more. Subject(s): Army - United States; Heroism; U.s. - Mexican War (1846-1848); Heroes; Heroines THOUGHTS ON THE LATE WAR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was for union - you, ag'in it Last Line: Durin' the army. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Army - United States; Peace; War TO THE UNITED STATES ARMY, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It felt unusual Subject(s): Army - United States WAKE, MASSACHUSETTS, by MARION PERHAM GALE Poem Text First Line: This place has known a sturdy growth of men Last Line: Set the glance backward! To our grandsires, hail! Subject(s): Army - United States; Freedom; Gratitude; Statesmen; Liberty YOUR LAD, AND MY LAD, by RANDALL PARRISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down toward the deep-blue water, marching to throb of Last Line: As your dear lad, and my dear lad, go on their way to france. Subject(s): Army - United States; World War I; First World War |
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