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Subject: CAVELL, EDITH (1865-1915)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` EDITH CAVELL, by LAURENCE BINYON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She was binding the wounds of her enemies when they came
Last Line: It is victory speaks her name.
Subject(s): Cavell, Edith (1865-1915); Nurses; World War I; First World War


EDITH CAVELL, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Room 'mid the martyrs for a deathless name!
Last Line: Has sealed the savage hohenzollerns' doom!
Subject(s): Cavell, Edith (1865-1915); Nurses; World War I; First World War


EDITH CAVELL, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The world hath its own dead; great motions start
Last Line: And beautifies the world that saw it die!
Subject(s): Cavell, Edith (1865-1915); Nurses; World War I - Casualties


NURSE EDITH CAVELL; TWO O'CLOCK, THE MORNING OF OCTOBER 12, 1915, by ALICE MEYNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To her accustomed eyes
Last Line: Announced that day she met the immortal dead.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Subject(s): Cavell, Edith (1865-1915); Death; Nurses; World War I; Dead, The; First World War


UNTIL THE DAWN, by HENRY CHAPPELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: A lonely grave hard by the prison wall
Last Line: Of earth and sorrow pale before its light.
Subject(s): Cavell, Edith (1865-1915); Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Graves; Mourning; Nurses; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement