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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ARMY LIFE Matches Found: 115 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FINE SUMMER MORNING, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had a full cousin, called arthur macnide Last Line: "so I bid you a very good morning." Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Army Life; Militarism; Military Recruitment; Soldiers; Drills & Minor Tactics A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 34. THE NEW MISTRESS, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, sick I am to see you, will you never let me be? Last Line: Sick.' Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Army Life; England; Patriotism; Drills & Minor Tactics; English AMERICANS PLAYING SLOW-PITCH SOFTBALL AT AN AIRBASE ..., by HALVARD JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Early september %the first game of Last Line: Don't look back. Something may be %gaining on you.' Subject(s): Army Life; Baseball; Korean War, 1950-1953; Sports ARMISTICE PARADE, by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON Poem Text First Line: Down the street the khaki-clad are marching with a band Last Line: Back she creeps to read again. ... Worn letters with french stamps. Subject(s): Army Life; Flags; Marching & Marches; Military; Parades; Soldiers; Drills & Minor Tactics ARMY DIET, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: My father says 'at sojers is Last Line: "the sojers eats the tax, 'I jing!" Subject(s): Army Life; Soldiers; War; Drills & Minor Tactics ARMY LIFE: VETS, by DAVID HUDDLE Poem Source First Line: Five years later I met a former grunt Last Line: Didn't feel expelled from the human race Subject(s): Army Life AS HOUR AND YEAR COLLAPSED, by JOE WENDEROTH Poem Source First Line: We were a whole army underground Last Line: Has never been what we are Variant Title(s): We Were A Whole Army Undergroun Subject(s): Army Life BIVOUAC ON A MOUNTAIN SIDE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see before me now a travelling army halting Last Line: Studded, breaking out, the eternal stars. Subject(s): American Civil War; Army Life; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Drills & Minor Tactics; Declaration Day BOOTS, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're foot - slog - slog - sloggin' over africa Last Line: An' there's no discharge in the war! Subject(s): Army Life; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Patriotism; War; Drills & Minor Tactics; British Empire; England - Empire BUGLE CALL, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one cares less than I Last Line: The call that I heard and made words to early this morning Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Army Life; Bugles; Morning; World War I 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 CAVALRY CROSSING A FORD, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A line in long array where they wind betwixt green islands Last Line: The guidon flags flutter gayly in the wind. Subject(s): American Civil War; Army Life; Cavalry; Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; United States - History; War; Drills & Minor Tactics; Declaration Day CELLS, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've a head like a concertina: I've a tongue like a button stick Last Line: "for ""drunk and resisting the guard." Subject(s): Army Life; Drills & Minor Tactics CHOLERA CAMP, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We've got the cholerer in camp Last Line: (gawd 'elp us!) Subject(s): Army Life; Cholera; Drills & Minor Tactics CLASS INCIDENT FROM GRAVES, by ALAN CHARLES BROWNJOHN Poem Source First Line: At the officers' table, for half an hour afterwards, port Last Line: Mitchell's still in there, hob-nobbing with the officers Subject(s): Army Life COMMUNING WITH MOTHER NATURE ON MOUNT WASHINGTON: 'I WALK ALONE'..., by MARTHA KINNEY Poem Source First Line: Hey, dig the marines taking a break Last Line: Right smack off the captain's knife Subject(s): Army Life; Nature; Women DANNY DEEVER, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: What are the bugles blowin' for?' said files-on-parade Last Line: After hangin' danny deever in the mornin'. Variant Title(s): Files-on-parade Subject(s): Army Life; Bugles; Capital Punishment; Military Justice; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Soldiers; War; Drills & Minor Tactics; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Courts Martial DREAMING IN THE TRENCHES, by WILLIAM GORDON MCCABE Poem Text First Line: I picture her in the quaint old room Last Line: Petersburg trenches, 1'64. Subject(s): Army Life; War; Drills & Minor Tactics 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 GENERAL INSPECTING THE TRENCHES., by ALAN PATRICK HERBERT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: If somebody shot that shit shute Alternate Author Name(s): Patrick, A. P. Subject(s): Army Life; World War I 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 GO DOWN FOR THE PRESIDENT, by FREDERICK TURNER Poem Source First Line: Go down, go down, all you little men Last Line: Should not the men go down, go down? Subject(s): Army Life; Politics GOING TO DINNER, by EDWARD SHANKS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beat the knife on the plate and the fork on the can Last Line: Make a most infernal clatter, here the dinner comes! Subject(s): Army Life 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 GRENADIER, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The queen she sent to look for me Last Line: Nor thirteen pence a day. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Army Life; War; Drills & Minor Tactics GUNGA DIN, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You may talk o' gin and beer Last Line: You're a better man than I am, gunga din! Subject(s): Army Life; Courage; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Heroism; India; Loyalty; Drills & Minor Tactics; Valor; Bravery; British Empire; England - Empire; Heroes; Heroines HE SAID TO, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crawl toward the machine guns Last Line: Being a man. Subject(s): Army Life; Men; Soldiers; Drills & Minor Tactics HOLD OFF SHE'S DRILLING, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Subject(s): Army Life I STOOD WITH THE DEAD, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood with the dead, so forsaken and still Last Line: Fall in!' I shouted; 'fall in for your pay!' Subject(s): Army Life; World War I; Drills & Minor Tactics; First World War I WILL, I WILL NOT, by KIRK NESSET Poem Source First Line: In less pretty lives I plundered and razed Last Line: So willful, whose silence we render %with clamor, more air Subject(s): Army Life I'VE LOST MY RIFLE AND BAYONET., by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Since I've lost you Subject(s): Army Life; World War I IN BARRACKS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The barrack-square, washed clean with rain Last Line: Another night; another day.' Subject(s): Army Life; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Drills & Minor Tactics; First World War IN PARENTHESIS: PART 1. THE MANY MEN SO BEAUTIFUL, by DAVID JONES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Last Line: The rain increases with the light and the weight increases Subject(s): World War I; Army Life 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 INSPECTION, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You! What d'you mean by this?' I rapped Last Line: "the race will bear field-marshal god's inspection." Subject(s): Army Life; Soldiers' Writings; War; Drills & Minor Tactics JOINING THE ARMY: A SONG, by WANG TS'AN Poem Source First Line: I follow the army to campaign on distant roads Last Line: Such decrees cannot be disobeyed Subject(s): Army Life KENTISH LINES IN WAR, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A saddle cornfield burnished van gogh-bright Last Line: And rides the evening on a loosened rein. Subject(s): Army Life; Fights; Soldiers; War; Drills & Minor Tactics LANCER, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I 'listed at home for a lancer Last Line: Oh who would not sleep with the brave? Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Army Life; War; Drills & Minor Tactics LE GRENIER, by ROBERTSON TROWBRIDGE Poem Text First Line: Here is the street-the house is standing yet! Last Line: And all the world to win, at twenty years! Subject(s): Army Life; Broadway, New York City; Courage; Marching & Marches; New York City - 19th Century; Soldiers; Drills & Minor Tactics; Valor; Bravery LETTER FROM A MOST-LOVED AMERICAN GENERAL, 1996, by JOE WENDEROTH Poem Source First Line: I have retreated with my whole army Last Line: The freedom to not have to speak of what we fight for Subject(s): Army Life; Letters LOOT, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you've ever stole a pheasant-egg Last Line: Loot! Loot! Loot! Subject(s): Army Life; Drills & Minor Tactics LOUSE HUNTING, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nudes - stark and glistening Last Line: Blown from sleep's trumpet. Subject(s): Army Life; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Drills & Minor Tactics; First World War 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 MANDALAY, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: By the old moulmein pagoda, lookin' lazy [or, eastward to] at the sea Last Line: Crost the bay! Subject(s): Army Life; Asia; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Mandalay, Burma; Drills & Minor Tactics; Far East; East Asia; Orient; British Empire; England - Empire MARY MURRAY OF MURRAY HILL, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lady of belmont looked out to the east Last Line: "kind hostess, thy bounty hath cost us too dear!" Subject(s): Army Life; Murray Hill, New York; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Drills & Minor Tactics 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 MONDAY MORNING REVEILLE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Birdless, the blood red dawn the engines roar Subject(s): Army Life; Drills & Minor Tactics NIGHT PIECE FOR MY TWENTY-SEVENTH BIRTHDAY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Punctually now, by all we learned at school Last Line: Law is the last law to be understood Subject(s): Army Life; Birthdays; Drills & Minor Tactics NIGHT PIECE FOR MY TWENTY-SEVENTH BIRTHDAY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Punctually now, by all we learned at school Last Line: Law is the last law to be understood Subject(s): Army Life; Birthdays OFFICERS' MESS, by GAVIN EWART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's going to be a thick night tonight (and the night before Last Line: Yes, I think you can count on that, old boy - %tonight'll be a thick night Subject(s): Army Life OONTS, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wot makes the soldier's 'eart to penk, wot makes him to perspire? Last Line: But 'e gets into the drinkin'-casks, and then o' course we dies. Subject(s): Army Life; Drills & Minor Tactics OUT OF RANGE, by DANIEL RAY CAMPION Poem Source First Line: You wouldn't keep the books you'd packed for long Last Line: Beneath the vague and barren shade outside Subject(s): American Civil War; Army Life; Soldiers; U.s. - History; War POETIC HISTORY OF THE 7TH IOWA REGIMENT: ARRIVED AT CAMP MONTGOMERY, by GEORGE S. RUTHERFORD Poem Text First Line: Arrived in good season at our journey's end Last Line: Whose tribe was assembled through this rebels advice. Subject(s): American Civil War; Army Life; U.s. - History; Drills & Minor Tactics POLITICALLY INCORRECT SAGA, by VICTOR HOWES Poem Source First Line: She joined the army and she hoped Last Line: Three years a soldier - not yet groped Subject(s): Army Life POT OF TEA, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You make it in your mess-tin by the brazier's rosy gleam Last Line: To-night we'll all be tellin' of the boches that we slew %as we drink the giddy victory in tea Subject(s): Army Life; Food And Eating; Tea; World War I PRESTO FURIOSO, by OWEN SEAMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spontaneous us! Last Line: Good old eagle! Subject(s): Army Life; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Drills & Minor Tactics PRIVATE, by MORRIS WEISSMAN Poem Source First Line: The buck private %obeys orders Last Line: Private sector -- synonomous with profit %ever greater profit Subject(s): Army Life; Privacy QUIS CUSTODIET...?, by VICTOR HOWES Poem Source First Line: The colonel told the captain, 'post a guard Last Line: Captain, we never had this conversation Subject(s): Army Life REFLECTIONS WHILE OILING A MACHINE GUN, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think of plato in a schoolroom dusk Subject(s): Army Life; Memory; Drills & Minor Tactics 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 REVERIE DURING BRIEFING, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The simplest memory is books by ferny windows Subject(s): Army Life; Memory; Drills & Minor Tactics RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE ARMY, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where 'ave you been this week or more Last Line: Right in the front of the army! Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Army Life; War; Drills & Minor Tactics ROLL-CALL, by NATHANIEL GRAHAM SHEPHERD Poem Text First Line: Corporal green!' the orderly cried Last Line: "here!" Variant Title(s): Calling The Roll Subject(s): Army Life; Patriotism; Drills & Minor Tactics ROUTE MARCHIN', by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're marchin' on relief over injia's sunny plains Last Line: "kiko kissywarsti don't you hamsher argy jow?" Subject(s): Army Life; Drills & Minor Tactics SCREW-GUNS, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Smokin' my pipe on the mountings, sniffin' the mornin' cool Last Line: But you can't get away from the guns! Subject(s): Army Life; Drills & Minor Tactics SEALED RIDERS, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: Hole in the dark Last Line: I see them, see them, %and burn Subject(s): Army Life; Horseback Riding; Soldiers 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 SEVEN POEMS OF LAMENT: 003, by WANG TS'AN Poem Source First Line: This frontier post brings me sorrow Last Line: Coming and going they question no more Subject(s): Army Life SING, YE TRENCHES!, by HELEN COALE CREW Poem Text First Line: Sing, ye trenches bloody-lipped! Last Line: Paean shout for lycidas! Subject(s): Army Life; Death; Drills & Minor Tactics; Dead, The SNOW STORM, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everywhere men speak in whispers Last Line: Force, and the night comes on. Subject(s): Army Life; Old Age; Snow; Soldiers; War; Drills & Minor Tactics SOLDIER (T.P.), by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the runner's whistle lights the last miles of darkness Subject(s): Army Life; War; Drills & Minor Tactics SOLDIER (T.P.), by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the runner's whistle lights the last miles of darkness Last Line: As the leaf chars or is kindled; as the bough burns Subject(s): Army Life; War SOLDIER SONG (5), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A-a-all we do is sign the pa-a-ay roll Last Line: And we never get a god damn cent Subject(s): Army Life; Drills & Minor Tactics SOLDIER SONG (6), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "there's a long, long trace awinding" Last Line: "she's goin' to rock, by heck" Subject(s): Army Life; Drills & Minor Tactics SONG (2), by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the clouds that are so light Last Line: Without which it were not Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Absence; Army Life 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 STAND-TO: GOOD FRIDAY MORNING, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'd been on duty from two till four Last Line: And get my bloody old sins washed white! Subject(s): Army Life; Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Drills & Minor Tactics; First World War SURE, IT'S FUN, by RICHARD BUTLER GLAENZER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sure, it's fun to be a soldier! Oh, it's fun, fun, fun, Last Line: Fun? -- sure, it's fun, just the finest ever, son! Subject(s): Army Life; Death; Soldiers; Drills & Minor Tactics; Dead, The 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 THAT V. C., by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the days of front attack Last Line: He might have let me be a hero.' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Army Life; Soldiers; Truth; Drills & Minor Tactics THE 'EATHEN, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The 'eathen in 'is blindness bows down to wood an' stone Last Line: Mind you keep your rifle an' yourself jus' so! Subject(s): Army Life; Drills & Minor Tactics THE ARTILLERYMAN'S VISION, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While my wife at my side lies slumbering, and the wars are over long Last Line: And bombs bursting in air, and at night the vari-color'd rockets. Subject(s): American Civil War; Army Life; United States - History; Drills & Minor Tactics THE ASSAULT, by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The beating of the guns grows louder Last Line: Cool madness. Subject(s): Army Life; Fights; Military; Soldiers; War; Drills & Minor Tactics THE BUGLER'S FIRST COMMUNION, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bugler boy from barrack (it is over the hill there) Last Line: Forward-like, but however, and like favourable heaven heard these. Subject(s): Army Life; Eucharist; Gays & Lesbians; Drills & Minor Tactics; Communion; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE CROSS-TREE, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Doctor, doctor, a little of your love Subject(s): Soldiers; War; Army Life; Suicide; Drills & Minor Tactics THE LADIES, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I've taken my fun where I've found it Last Line: Are sisters under their skins! Subject(s): Army Life; Women; Drills & Minor Tactics THE MARCHING FEET, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drums, drums, drums to the fore! Last Line: The far-off calling of a drum! Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Army Life; Drums; Marching & Marches; Musical Instruments; Drills & Minor Tactics THE NOTHING REDEMPTION, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some men's voices rose and fell far away Subject(s): Army Life; Drills & Minor Tactics THE ODYSSEY OF 'ERBERT 'IGGINS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Me and ed and a stretcher Last Line: "we'll 'owl in their fyces: 'no-o-o!'" Subject(s): Army Life; World War I; Drills & Minor Tactics; First World War THE PHANTOM REVIEW, by SQUIRE OMAR BARKER Poem Text First Line: Come phantom feet in the wind tonight and soundless drumbeats roll Last Line: "our pledge, to ease the watch you tread, ""it shall not be again!" Alternate Author Name(s): Barker, S. Omar Subject(s): Army Life; Death; Honor; Military; Social Protest; Soldiers; Drills & Minor Tactics; Dead, The THE PYRES, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pyres in the night, in the night! Last Line: The glory of war! Subject(s): Army Life; War; Drills & Minor Tactics THE SHUT-EYE SENTRY, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sez the junior orderly sergeant Last Line: We'll 'elp 'im for 'is mother, an' 'e'll 'elp us by-an'-by! Subject(s): Army Life; Drills & Minor Tactics THE SORROW OF OBEDIENCE, by JOHN CIARDI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lieutenant ordered me to ask abdhul Last Line: I was once more left to grieve for my imperfections Subject(s): Obedience; Army Life; Dogs THE STRETCHER-BEARER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My stretcher is one scarlet stain Last Line: O prince of peace! 'ow long, 'ow long? Subject(s): Army Life; War; World War I; Drills & Minor Tactics; First World War THERE WAS A TIME, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a time when this poor frame was whole Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Army Life; Sickness TIPPERARY DAYS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, weren't they the fine boys! You never saw the beat of them Last Line: ('r! Ain't war just 'ell?) Subject(s): Army Life; Death; War; World War I; Drills & Minor Tactics; Dead, The; First World War TOMMY [ATKINS], by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o' beer Last Line: An' tommy ain't a bloomin' fool -- you bet that tommy sees! Variant Title(s): Tommy Subject(s): Army Life; England; Soldiers; Drills & Minor Tactics; English TOUR OF DUTY: ENTRY, by DAVID HUDDLE Poem Source First Line: Arrived in khakis, overseas cap, bloused boots Last Line: Noticing all around me m-16's %slung like toys on the backs of the ones in green Subject(s): Army Life TOUR OF DUTY: R & R, by DAVID HUDDLE Poem Source First Line: Out of tan son nhut flying to bangkok Last Line: But what I've kept %is miss moore, handing me my cool white cloth Subject(s): Army Life TOUR OF DUTY: WORK, by DAVID HUDDLE Poem Source First Line: I am a white, episcopal-raised, almost Last Line: Packing his lunch. I must tell tri what next Subject(s): Army Life 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 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 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 WAFFLEBUTT, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reveille rung on the telephone awakes Last Line: Where day and day destroys us after all Subject(s): Army Life; Drills & Minor Tactics WAFFLEBUTT, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reveille rung on the telephone awakes Last Line: Where day and day destroys us after all Subject(s): Army Life WAR SONG, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In anguish we uplift / a new unhallowed song Last Line: The battle to the strong. Subject(s): Army Life; Machinery & Machinists; Sacrifices; Soldiers; War; Drills & Minor Tactics WEAPONS TRAINING, by BRUCE DAWE Poem Source First Line: And when I say eyes right I want to hear Last Line: And you know what you are? You're dead dead dead Subject(s): Army Life WITH THE ARMY: A BALLAD, by LUO BIN-WANG Poem Source First Line: What matters in their lives: to be seen with respect Last Line: It is right that they die to repay their lord Subject(s): Army Life; Frontier And Pioneer Life |
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