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First Line: Of all the brave captains that ever were seen
Last Line: "in his sleep if such dreadful destruction he makes, / what havoc, ye gods, shall we have when he wa
Subject(s): Courage;great Britain - Wars With France;guns;heroism;soldiers; Valor;bravery;heroes;heroines


A BALLAD OF MANILA BAY, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Your threats how vain, corregidor
Last Line: A hundred years ago!
Subject(s): Courage; Manila, Philippines; Spanish-american War (1898); Valor; Bravery


A BATTLE CRY, by LEE SHIPPEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Give me a battle to fight
Last Line: I am in love with life!
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


A BOOK OF AIRS SONG 18, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The man of life upright
Last Line: And quiet pilgrimage.
Variant Title(s): The Armour Of Innocence;integer Vitae;justvm Et Tenacem;dovine And Moral Songs: 2
Subject(s): Contentment; Courage; Honor; Masculinity (psychology); Valor; Bravery


A CAPTIVE DEER, by IDA M. FOLSOM    Poem Text                    
First Line: A spirit cowed, that once has faced
Last Line: A spirit cowed?
Subject(s): Courage; Death; Deer; Freedom; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Liberty


A CROSS IN FLANDERS, by GEORGE ROSTREVOR HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the face of death, they say, he joked - he had no fear
Last Line: The braver for his fear!
Alternate Author Name(s): Rostrevor, George
Subject(s): Courage; Fear; Flanders, Belgium; World War I - Casualties; Valor; Bravery


A CRY FROM AN INDIAN WIFE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: My forest brave, my red-skin love, farewell
Last Line: Perhaps the white man's god has willed it so.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Marriage; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; War; Worry; Valor; Bravery; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


A FRAGMENT, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rest on your battle-fields, ye brave
Last Line: We cannot mourn you now.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Variant Title(s): A Dirge
Subject(s): Courage; Fame; Shame; Valor; Bravery; Reputation


A GOTHAMITE IN CAMELOT, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now james h. Brown in gotham town
Last Line: But that he had awoken!
Subject(s): Courage; Fights; Knights & Knighthood; Valor; Bravery


A HUMBLE HEROINE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas at the seige of matagarda, during the peninsular war
Last Line: Likewise mrs reston, whose name should be written in; letters of gold.
Subject(s): Courage; Heroism; Victory; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines


A HUN, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He was just a prisoner
Last Line: Would never know how bravely a son had died.
Subject(s): Courage; Death; Germany; Injustice; Prisoners Of War; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Germans; First World War


A LEAP FOR LIFE, by GEORGE POPE MORRIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old ironsides at anchor lay
Last Line: And fainted on the deck!
Alternate Author Name(s): Morris, George Perkins
Variant Title(s): The Main Truck
Subject(s): Constitution (ship); Courage; Valor; Bravery


A NEW YEAR'S HOPE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dare not hope that in this dawning year
Last Line: I still may courage have to struggle on.
Subject(s): Courage; Holidays; Hope; New Year; Valor; Bravery; Optimism


A PINDARIC ODE, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brave infant of saguntum clear
Last Line: Had sowed these fruits, and got the harvest in.
Variant Title(s): To The Immortal Memory ... Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary And Sir Henry Morrison;the Ode On Cary And Morison
Subject(s): Cary, Lucius. 2d Viscount Falkland; Courage; Death; Life; Morison, Sir Henry (1608-1629); Valor; Bravery; Dead, The


A PRAYER, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord, let me live like a regular man
Last Line: And drop a regular tear!
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


A SONG OF COURAGE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brave as a lion I must be
Last Line: I sense it tho my sight is dim.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


A STREET MOTHER, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My eyes were staring high
Last Line: Swooned at her feet!
Subject(s): Courage; Desire; Mothers; Valor; Bravery


A SUNSET, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond horizon's bar in twilight splendid
Last Line: The mood of faith, of courage, and of reverence.
Subject(s): Courage; Evening; Faith; Nature; Valor; Bravery; Sunset; Twilight; Belief; Creed


A THOUGHT FROM NIETSZCHE, by CHARLES JAMES    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have been dealt a cruel blow
Last Line: Me stronger than I was.
Subject(s): Courage; Grief; Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (1844-1900); Strength; Valor; Bravery; Sorrow; Sadness


A TRIBUTE TO THE BRAVE, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though furled be the banner of blood on the plain
Last Line: That beauty shall bind on the brow of the brave.
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


A VERY MOURNFUL BALLAD ON THE SIEGE AND CONQUEST OF ALHAMA, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The moorish king rides up and down / through granada's royal town
Last Line: "woe is me, alhama"
Subject(s): Courage; Valor;bravery


ACADEMY AT VENICE, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A modern daub it was, perchance
Subject(s): Courage


ADMIRAL DEATH, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Boys, are ye calling a toast tonight?
Last Line: And they sleep with admiral death.
Subject(s): Courage; Death; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The


AFTER THE BATTLE, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: My father, that hero with the sad sweet smile
Last Line: "give the poor man a drink,"" my father said."
Subject(s): Courage; Heroism; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines


AGED CARLE, FR. THE ANTIQUARY, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why sit'st thou by that ruin'd hall
Last Line: When time and thou shall part for ever!
Variant Title(s): Time; The Omnipoten
Subject(s): Courage; Time


AGINCOURT, by MICHAEL DRAYTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair stood the wind for france
Last Line: Such a king harry?
Variant Title(s): The Ballad Of Agincourt;ode To The Cambro-britons;ode: 12;to The Cambro-britons, And Their Harp;agincourt: The Battle;his Battle Of Agincourt;to The Cambro-britans, And Their Harpe, His Ballad Of Agincourt
Subject(s): Agincourt, Battle Of (1415); Courage; Henry V, King Of England (1387-1422); War; Valor; Bravery


ALL'S WELL, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY    Poem Source                    
First Line: How fared the fight with thee today
Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A.
Subject(s): Courage


ALLIES, by ST. CLAIR ADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: We all like allies
Subject(s): Courage


ALWAYS THE TIMID, by ALICE MONKS MEARS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Always the timid fear the secret heart
Last Line: The crystal springs, the onyx-paneled room.
Subject(s): Courage; Strength; Valor; Bravery


AMBITION, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I didn't always think penelope
Last Line: Drunken war.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Ambition; Courage; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Valor; Bravery; Odysseus


AMBITION'S TRAIL, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If all the end of this continuous striving
Last Line: On, on, ambitious soul.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Ambition; Courage; Valor; Bravery


AMBITIOUS OYSTER, by JOSEPH MORRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: An oyster lived in an oyster shell
Subject(s): Courage


AMELIA EARHART, by ANN WHITFORD PAUL    Poem Source                    
First Line: While other girls wore skirts and pinafores
Last Line: It's just like flying!'
Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes


AN EVENING'S LOVE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You charm'd me not with that fair face
Last Line: Which made us brave before.
Subject(s): Courage; Fortune; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Singing & Singers; War; Valor; Bravery; Songs


AN EVENING'S LOVE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After the pangs of a desperate lover
Last Line: Ah what a joy to hear, shall we again!
Subject(s): Courage; Fortune; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Singing & Singers; War; Valor; Bravery; Songs


AN EVENING'S LOVE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Calm was the even, and clear was the sky
Last Line: He laugh'd out with a ha ha ha ha.
Subject(s): Courage; Fortune; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Singing & Singers; War; Valor; Bravery; Songs


AN EVENING'S LOVE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Celimena, of my heart
Last Line: When we come together.
Subject(s): Courage; Fortune; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Singing & Singers; War; Valor; Bravery; Songs


ARNOLD AT STILLWATER, by THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, you mistake me, comrades, to think that my heart is steel!
Last Line: Fell from the patriot's heaven down to the loyalist's hell!
Subject(s): American Revolution; Arnold, Benedict (1741-1801); Courage; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery


AS RED MEN DIE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Captive! Is there a hell to him like this?
Last Line: He bends to death—but never to disgrace.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Courage; Hostages; Iroquois Indians; Native Americans; Pride; Valor; Bravery; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Self-esteem; Self-respect


AUSTRALIA'S HERO, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No! They didn't raise no statue - no - nor fix no big brass plate
Last Line: Attempt to carry a life-line to the shore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais
Subject(s): Australia; Courage; Death; Heroism; Honor; Knights & Knighthood; Memory; Sailing & Sailors; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines


BACKSASS, by FRED CHAPPELL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A southernism generally confined to negative constructions
Last Line: 100% 40-carat backsass
Subject(s): Appalachia; Courage; History; Strength


BALANCE A STRAW, FR. REPRISAL, by TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come ye brave british lads who have courage to fight
Last Line: In the cause, etc.
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


BALLAD, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The druid urien had daughters seven
Subject(s): Courage


BALLAD OF A LITTLE FUN, by JAMES MAURICE THOMPSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I rode a horse, a dappled bay
Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, Maurice
Subject(s): Courage


BALLAD OF CALNAN'S CHRISTMAS, by HELEN GRAY CONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: When you hear the fire-gongs beat fierce along the startled street
Alternate Author Name(s): Green, Coroebus
Subject(s): Christmas; Courage


BALLADE OF THE BRAVE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Prate not to me of weaklings, who
Last Line: This is the ballade of the brave!
Subject(s): Courage; Hearts; Life; Soul; Valor; Bravery


BALLADE OF THE GAMEFISH, by GRANTLAND RICE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where the puddle is shallow, the weakfish stay
Subject(s): Courage


BARBARA FRIETCHIE [SEPTEMBER 13, 1862], by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up from the meadows rich with corn
Last Line: On thy stars below in frederick town!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Americans; Courage; Flags - United States; Frietschie, Barbara (1766-1862); Maryland; Patriotism; United States - History; United States; Valor; Bravery; American Flag; Fritchie, Barbara (1766-1862); America


BARCLAY OF URY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up the streets of aberdeen
Last Line: Paint the golden morrow!
Subject(s): Courage; Scotland; Valor; Bravery


BARON GIOVANNI NICOTERA; SALERNO, 1858, by HARRIET ELEANOR HAMILTON (BAILLE) KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Salerno waits amid the heat
Last Line: I behold god in heaven, and strive.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton-king, Harriet Eleanor
Subject(s): Courage; Italy - Revolutions; Nicotera, Baron Giovanni (1828-1894); Valor; Bravery


BEARING SORROW, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748)    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The human race are sons of sorrow born
Subject(s): Courage


BECAUSE OF THESE MEN'S COURAGE, NO SMOKE ROSE, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: With freedom, while in the front line they went down
Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos
Subject(s): Courage


BECOMING A MAN, by STRICKLAND GILLILAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I used to think, when I was small, that all I need to do
Subject(s): Courage


BEFORE SENTENCE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To-night, though every kind of poison sap
Last Line: And thine enslaving amour with the slav!
Subject(s): Courage; France; Honor; Justice; Trials; Waiting; Weariness; Valor; Bravery; Fatigue


BEST O' FELLERS, by FRANK LEBBY STANTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Courage


BIG WORDS, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've whined of coming death, but now, no more!
Last Line: He cursed, prayed, sweated, wished the proud words back.
Subject(s): Courage; World War I; Valor; Bravery; First World War


BILL BOWLS THE SAILOR, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bill bowels was an amiable gentle youth
Last Line: And they were taken on board and landed safe in fair england.
Subject(s): Boats; Courage; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Valor; Bravery; Ocean


BLIND OLD MILTON, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Place me once more, my daughter, where the sun
Last Line: Until the door shall ope and let him in.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin)
Subject(s): Courage; Milton, John (1608-1674); Valor; Bravery


BOND OF BLOOD, by WILL HENRY THOMPSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The words of a rebel old and battered
Subject(s): Courage


BRAVE, by NICHOLAS ROWE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The brave do never shun the light
Subject(s): Courage


BRAVE LORD WILLOUGHBY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The fifteenth [day] of july
Last Line: And thus I end the bloody bout / of brave lord willoughby
Subject(s): Courage;war; Valor;bravery


BRAVE MAN, by JOANNA BAILLIE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The brave man is not he who feels no fear
Subject(s): Courage


BRAVE RETREATS, by WILLIAM O. PERKINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Give me a land of brave retreats
Last Line: The happiness I seek.
Subject(s): Courage; Hunting; Valor; Bravery; Hunters


BRAVE WOMEN OF TANN, by WILLIAM JAMES LINTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sate the heavy burghers
Alternate Author Name(s): Spartacus
Subject(s): Courage


BREAKER AND MAKER, by GRANTLAND RICE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fate called a quitter from the crowd
Subject(s): Courage


BUFFALO CLOUDS OVER THE MAESTRO HOON, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a useless thing to do with the morning
Last Line: Still strange to one another while on their honeymoons.
Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Courage; Ignorance; Lions; Niagara Falls; Waterfalls; Valor; Bravery; Dullness; Stupdity


BUILD A LITTLE FENCE OF TRUST, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Courage


BY THE LITTLE BIG-HORN, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down to their death in the valley of silence
Last Line: The eight nameless horsemen who never shall die.
Subject(s): Courage; Heroism; Honor; Little Bighorn, Battle Of; Loyalty; Military Service, Compulsory; Monuments; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service


BY THE SHENANDOAH; OCTOBER, 1863, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My home is drear and still to-night
Last Line: My courtney fair and my philip bold!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): American Civil War; Courage; Nature; U.s. - History; Valor; Bravery


CAVALIER SONG: 1642, by EDWARD BLISS REED    Poem Text                    
First Line: If this be my last hour with thee
Last Line: Without thee, I lose all.
Subject(s): Cavaliers; Courage; Death; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The


CAVALIER'S ESCAPE, by GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Trample! Trample! Went the roan
Subject(s): Courage


CERTAIN VICTORY, by SAMUEL ELLSWORTH KISER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Why should I sit in doubt or fear?
Subject(s): Courage


CHANUKAH LIGHTS, by PHILIP MAX RASKIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I kindled my eight little candles
Last Line: A heavenly-glorious light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Raskin, P. M.
Subject(s): Courage; Fasts & Feasts; Freedom; Hanukkah; Jews; Light; Valor; Bravery; Liberty; Judaism


CHARLES B. DREUX, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Weep, louisiana, weep thy gallant dead!
Last Line: Forever bright!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Courage; Death; Dreux, Charles (1832-1861); Louisiana; Soldiers; U.s. - History; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The


CHEER, BOYS, CHEER, by CHARLES MACKAY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Courage


CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE (COMPLETE), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not in those climes where I have late been straying
Last Line: If such there were -- with you, the moral of his strain!
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Courage; Death; Homosexuality; Horace (65-8 B.c.); Love; Poetry And Poets; Sea; Travel


CHILDE ROLAND TO THE DARK TOWER CAME', by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My first thought was, he lied in every word
Last Line: "tower came."
Subject(s): Courage; Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Valor; Bravery; Dramatists


CID'S COURTSHIP, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now of rodrigo de bivar great was the fame that run
Last Line: An honored husband thou shalt have in thy dead father's place
Subject(s): Courage; Courts And Courtiers; Courtship; Marriage; Victory


CID: PART 6, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dead the king
Last Line: By don arias
Subject(s): Cid, El (1043-1099); Courage; Courts And Courtiers; Fights


CLARION, CLARION, by THEODORE B. HUNT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Clarion, clarion, singing so boldly
Last Line: Give me the young men, the young men, I say.
Subject(s): Courage; Soldiers; World War I; Youth; Valor; Bravery; First World War


COLUMBUS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The cordage creaks and rattles in the wind
Last Line: Is more than time enough to find a world.
Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Courage; Explorers; Valor; Bravery; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers


COLUMBUS [CROSSING THE ATLANTIC], by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How in god's [or, heaven's] name did columbus get over
Last Line: Is a pure wonder, I must say, to me.
Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Courage; Explorers; Valor; Bravery; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers


COMMEMORATION ODE READ AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Weak-winged is song
Last Line: But ask whatever else, and we will dare!
Variant Title(s): Ode Recited At The Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865
Subject(s): American Civil War; Courage; Harvard University; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Peace; Presidents, United States; United States - History; Valor; Bravery


COMPENSATION, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Because I craved a gift too great
Last Line: Nor cheated life with cheaper bliss.
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


CONQUEROR, by GRANTLAND RICE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here I shall wait
Subject(s): Courage


CONSTANCY, FR. SERAGLIO, by CHARLES DIBDIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blow high, blow low! Let tempest tear
Last Line: Blow high, blow low! Let tempest tear,' etc.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dibdin, Charles Isaac Mungo; Dibdin, Charles, Jr.
Subject(s): Absence; Courage; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Valor; Bravery; Ocean


COURAGE, by CARRIE ADAMS BERRY    Poem Text                    
First Line: To own ourselves despite conflicting wills
Last Line: We ask for light ... We ask for strength to do!
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


COURAGE, by OZORA STEARNS DAVIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I love the man who dares to face defeat
Last Line: And god's great city lets the victor in.
Subject(s): Courage; Heaven; Valor; Bravery; Paradise


COURAGE, by CAROLINE CAIN DURKEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Metallic sky, dull coppered slate
Last Line: A whistle on the lips that cannot smile.
Subject(s): Courage; Farm Life; Valor; Bravery; Agriculture; Farmers


COURAGE, by JOHN GALSWORTHY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Courage is but a word, and yet, of words
Last Line: "dying, it answers: ""here! I am not dead!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


COURAGE, by DYNELEY HUSSEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Alone amid the battle-din untouched
Last Line: And she shall lead us back to peace again.
Subject(s): Courage; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Valor; Bravery; First World War


COURAGE, by BEN JONSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A valiant man %ought not to undergo or tempt a danger
Subject(s): Courage


COURAGE, by HERBERT KAUFMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis not because of muscled meat
Last Line: If we disdain our fears?
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


COURAGE, by LOUIS LAVATER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two kinds of courage are there in the creed
Subject(s): Courage


COURAGE, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hast thou made shipwreck of thy happiness?
Last Line: Where a bark went down.
Subject(s): Courage; Disasters; Shipwrecks; Valor; Bravery


COURAGE, by WINIFRED CATHERINE MARSHALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The flags must fly - the band must play
Last Line: "your white gloves -- on -- today!"
Subject(s): Courage; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery


COURAGE, by O. B. MERRICK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Courage! A thing inherent in the strong
Last Line: And carry on to victory down life's trail.
Subject(s): Courage; Victory; Valor; Bravery


COURAGE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To-day I opened wide my eyes
Last Line: Maybe you'll have a little rhyme %to spare for me
Subject(s): Courage


COURAGE, by TILLA BARBARA SPERRY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The young birch bends to ruthless fate
Last Line: Your fate courageously.
Subject(s): Birch Trees; Courage; Valor; Bravery


COURAGE MEANS RUNNING, by WILLIAM EMPSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fearful 'had the root of the matter,' bringing
Last Line: There is not much else that we dare to praise
Subject(s): Courage


COURAGE THAT OVERCOMES, by MARGARETE ROSE AKIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I need the courage of the desert-palm
Last Line: And I lose the courage that the palm maintains.
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


COURAGE TO LIVE, by GRACE NOLL CROWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: To those who have tried and seemingly have failed
Last Line: With courage to live, courage to try again.
Subject(s): Comfort; Courage; Valor; Bravery


COURAGE, TEMPERANCE, AND WISDOM, by DEBRA KANG DEAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear annette: sixteen years ago our mothers
Last Line: Me ke aloha pumehana, kang
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang
Subject(s): Courage; Mothers; Wisdom


CRISES, by JOSEPH MORRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: We lead out our days in monotonous ways
Subject(s): Courage


CROSSING A FOOTBRIDGE ON SALT CREEK EARLY MORNING IN MID-AUGUST, by TWYLA HANSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This time the great blue heron doesn't take flight
Last Line: It's taken my whole life to become this harmless
Subject(s): August; Bridges; Courage; Morning


DEAD PARTISAN, by JOY DAVIDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the sun laughed his first laugh
Subject(s): Courage


DEATH AND LIFE, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN    Poem Text                    
First Line: He is dead
Last Line: I smile, and they think me brave—or a hypocrite.
Subject(s): Courage; Death; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The


DEATH THE LEVELLER, FR. THE CONTENTION OF AJAX AND ULYSSES, by JAMES SHIRLEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The glories of our blood and state / are shadows, not substantial things
Last Line: Smell sweet, and blossom in their dust.
Variant Title(s): Calchas's Song;death The Conqueror;earth's Victories;of Death;the King Of Kings;song: No Armour Against Fate;blood And State;a Dirge
Subject(s): Courage; Death; Holidays; New Year; War; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The


DESTINY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not to be thought of that the flood
Last Line: Of earth's first blood, have titles manifold.
Variant Title(s): British Freedom;the British Heritage;england, 1802
Subject(s): Courage; England; Freedom; Valor; Bravery; English; Liberty


DIPSYCHUS, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The scene is different, and the place, the air
Last Line: And feel your feet upon the ground!
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


DIRGE, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Leave untended the herd
Subject(s): Courage


DISARMAMENT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Put up the sword!' the voice of christ once more
Last Line: "and peace unweaponed conquers every wrong!"
Subject(s): Courage; Disarmament; Peace; Valor; Bravery


DISSIDENT WOMAN, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: I saw a man at my feet
Last Line: A corny voice %that refuses to think %to beleive %to know %that this is the way %we'll always be
Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Women; Women's Rights


DODGIN' TROUBLE, by JOSEPH MORRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: W'en I sees ol' man trouble
Subject(s): Courage


DON'T CARE' AND 'NEVER MIND', by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Don't care' is no friend of mine
Alternate Author Name(s): Hotair, Dopeton
Subject(s): Courage


DOOM OF DEVORGOIL, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He is not here - thoses pleasures are not ours
Last Line: The rescued house of devorgil!
Subject(s): Courage; History


DOORS OF DARING, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountains that inclose the vale
Last Line: Until you dare to die.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


DROP YOUR BUCKET WHERE YOU ARE, by SAM WALTER FOSS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, ship ahoy!' rang out the cry
Subject(s): Courage


DUMBARTON'S DRUMS, by ALLAN RAMSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And he kisses and blesses his annie, o!
Subject(s): Courage; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery


ECCLESIASTES: SIMON, SON OF ONIAS, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: How was he honoured in the midst of the people
Subject(s): Courage


ECHOES: 4. INVICTUS, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the night that covers me
Last Line: I am the captain of my soul.
Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E.
Variant Title(s): R. T. Hamilton Bruce;to R. T. H. B. ...;unconquered;urbs Fortitudinis;invictus;in Memoriam: R.t. Hamilton Bruce
Subject(s): Bruce, R. T. Hamilton (1846-1899); Consolation; Courage; Hope; Independence; Life Change Events; Pain; Self-control; Self-reliance; Soldiers; Strength; Valor; Bravery; Optimism; Suffering; Misery


EL GORDO, by CALVIN WILLLIAM TRUESDALE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Some of us knew he would cause terrible problems once we had made
Last Line: #name?
Subject(s): Courage; Hero And Leander


ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD, by THOMAS GRAY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The curfew tolls the knell of parting day
Last Line: The bosom of his father and his god.
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Courage; Death; England; Faith; Graves; Love; Mourning; Graveyards; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; English; Belief; Creed; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement


EMPEDOCLES ON ETNA; A DRAMATIC POEM, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mules, I think, will not be here this hour
Last Line: The stars in their calm.
Subject(s): Apollo; Courage; Death; Mythology - Classical; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The


EPISTLE TO THE LADY MARGARET, COUNTESS OF CUMBERLAND, by SAMUEL DANIEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He that of such a height hath built his mind
Last Line: Than all the gold that leaden minds can frame.
Variant Title(s): Epistle To The Lady Margaret;epistle To .. Countess Of Cumberland;suave Mari Magno
Subject(s): Courage; Cumberland, Margaret Clifford, Countess; Valor; Bravery


EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: HINDU SEPOY IN FRANCE, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This man in his own country prayed we know not to what powers
Last Line: We pray them to reward him for his bravery in ours.
Subject(s): Courage; Hinduism; Prayer; Religion; World War I; Valor; Bravery; Theology; First World War


EVERY-DAY HEROES, by BERTRAND SHADWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'll sing you a song with a full, deep breath
Last Line: "in this sordid world there are heroes still."
Subject(s): Courage; Heroism; Humanity; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines


EXODUS: CANTEMUS DOMINO, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I will sing unto the lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously
Last Line: Who is like thee, glorious in holiness %fearful in praises %doing wonders?
Variant Title(s): War Song Of The Red Se
Subject(s): Courage; War


F.B.C.; CHANCELLORSVILLE, MAY 3, 1863, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He was our noblest, he was our bravest & best
Last Line: Still our bravest and best!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Courage; Death; Heroism; Honor; Soldiers; United States - History; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines


FACING THE WALL, by MRS. R. A. MEDLAM    Poem Text                    
First Line: I seem to be chasing a will-o-the-wisp
Last Line: A ladder over that wall.
Subject(s): Courage; Faith; Fights; Valor; Bravery; Belief; Creed


FAILURES, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We who have failed, remember this of us
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Courage


FAREWELL, FR. THE PIRATE, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell! Farewell! The voice you hear
Last Line: Farewell! Save memory of you!
Subject(s): Courage; Farewell


FEIGNED COURAGE, by CHARLES LAMB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Horatio, of ideal courage vain
Last Line: And the black prince goes whimpering to bed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Elia
Subject(s): Courage; Heroism; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines


FELLOW WHO HAD DONE HIS BEST, by FRANK LEBBY STANTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Courage


FIRS AT DAWN, by IRMA SCOTT LERICHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tall silent firs with your lifted arms
Last Line: Haggard, and gaunt, and beautiful still.
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


FIRST DAY OF WAR, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twixt sleep and wakefulness sweet dreams that lightly pass. Calm
Last Line: Dead.
Subject(s): Courage; Dreams; Love; War; Valor; Bravery; Nightmares


FLEE FROM THE PRESS, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O born in days when wits were fresh and clear
Subject(s): Courage


FOR A PICTURE WHERE A QUEEN LAMENTS OVER THE TOMB OF A SLAIN KNIGHT, by THOMAS CAREW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brave youth, to whom fate in one hour
Last Line: I'll die thy valour's sacrifice.
Subject(s): Courage; Grief; Valor; Bravery; Sorrow; Sadness


FOR WHAT IS LIFE?, by BEN JONSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Courage


FORTUNE, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Madam fortune, thou in vain
Last Line: And in victory's hour am dying.
Subject(s): Courage; Fortune; Life; Valor; Bravery


FORWARD, by SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let me stand still upon the height of life
Alternate Author Name(s): Coolidge, Susan
Subject(s): Courage


FOUR LEAF CLOVER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: What we call luck is simply pluck
Subject(s): Courage; Four-leaf Clovers


FRANCES WARD, by ANN WHITFORD PAUL    Poem Source                    
First Line: For months and months her wagon train
Last Line: And went on walking...Walking
Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes


FREEDOM (3), by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are not free: freedom doth not consist
Subject(s): Courage


FROM A TALK, by YEVGENY ALEXANDROVICH YEVTUSHENKO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They tell me: 'man
Last Line: Was called 'brave!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Evtushenko, Evgeni
Subject(s): Courage


GALLANTRY, by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The colonel in a casual voice
Subject(s): Courage; World War Ii; Valor; Bravery; Second World War


GALLANTRY, by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The colonel in a casual voice
Last Line: Plunging their heads in steel and earth %(the air commented in a whisper)
Subject(s): Courage; World War Ii


GARCIA PEREZ DE VARGAS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: King ferdinand alone did stand one day upon the hill
Last Line: Seven turbans green, sore hacked I ween, before don garci hung
Variant Title(s): Garci Perez De Varga
Subject(s): Courage; Enemies; Knights And Knighthood


GENERAL GORDON, THE HERO OF KHARTOUM, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Alas! Now o'er the civilised world there hangs a gloom
Last Line: And walk in general gordon's footsteps while they are here.
Subject(s): Courage; Gordon, Charles George (1833-1885); Heroism; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines


GIVE ME GAY COURAGE, by EDITH M. SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Give me a magic belief
Last Line: To meet the sunset's end.
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


GIVE ME THE NERVE, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And the courage that keepeth new-budding
Subject(s): Courage


GLANCE AT HISTORY, by WALT MASON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Courage


GOD'S FORESTRY, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is a tree so dear to heaven
Last Line: And grows but in the soil of pain.
Subject(s): Courage; God; Valor; Bravery


GOD'S WILL FOR YOU AND ME [OR US], by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "just to be tender, just to be true"
Last Line: "this is god's will, for you and me"
Subject(s): Courage; Valor;bravery


GOING HOME, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Everyday you were dying
Last Line: Be, flying straight right out of here
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Courage; Survival


GOLDA MABOVITCH, by ANN WHITFORD PAUL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Her family left the town of pinsk
Last Line: For every child to own a book
Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes


GRACIE OF ALABAMA, by FRANCIS ORRERY TICKNOR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On, sons of mighty stature
Subject(s): Courage


GREAT MEN, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis thus the spirit of a single mind
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Courage


GREAT STAR FLYER, by RAE ROBINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here lies one who took her chances
Last Line: Lived a sportsman to the end.
Subject(s): Courage; Death; Life; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The


GREENCASTLE JENNY, by HELEN GRAY CONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, greencastle streets were a stream of steel
Alternate Author Name(s): Green, Coroebus
Subject(s): Courage


GRISELDA, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This marquis hath hir spoused with a ryng
Subject(s): Courage


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


HABAKKUK: THE PRAYER OF HABAKKUK, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: O lord, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid
Variant Title(s): Domine, Audiv
Subject(s): Courage


HAIL! - AND FAREWELL!, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: They died that we might live
Last Line: That we might live!
Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John
Subject(s): Courage; Religion; War; Valor; Bravery; Theology


HAPPINESS, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Think ye, that sic as you and I
Subject(s): Courage


HARRIET HANSON, by ANN WHITFORD PAUL    Poem Source                    
First Line: At five a.M. Her work began
Last Line: Of fellow workers follow her!
Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes


HE WHISTLED, by FRANK LEBBY STANTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When craps wuz burnt to flinders
Subject(s): Courage


HEART OF OAK, by DAVID GARRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, cheer up, my lads! 'tis to glory we steer
Last Line: Heart of oak etc.
Subject(s): Courage; Navy - Great Britain; Quebec, Battle Of (1759); Valor; Bravery; English Navy


HELVELLYN, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I climbed the drak brow of the mighty helvellyn
Last Line: In the arms of helvellyn and catchedicam.
Variant Title(s): Hellvellyn
Subject(s): Animals; Courage; Dogs; Helvellyn (mountain), England; Mountain Climbing; Valor; Bravery


HERE IS MUSIC: FIRE GUARD AREA OFFICER: 2, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: For full three years
Last Line: Obey blest beckonings till I draw last hungry breath.
Subject(s): Courage; Fights; Firefighters; Memory; War; Valor; Bravery


HERE IS MUSIC: FIRE GUARD AREA OFFICER: 1, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: What time, day long, from house to house, from door
Last Line: "honour be yours, strong, brave, true, steadfast countrymen."
Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Courage; Fights; Firefighters; Guard Duty; Honor; Patriotism; Valor; Bravery


HERE IS MUSIC: SECOND-LIEUTENANT E.T.; IN MEMORRIAM, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sunlight and shimmering haze
Last Line: Whose bouquet works like wine.
Subject(s): Courage; Death; Fights; Honor; Patriotism; World War I; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; First World War


HERITAGE, by MAY BRYANT FULLAM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Our birdman loved his ship
Last Line: To take his place with friends and kin e'en as he did on earth.
Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Courage; Explorers; Heritage; Heredity; Valor; Bravery; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers


HERO IN DESPAIR, by JOHN MILTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All otherwise to me my thoughts protend
Subject(s): Courage


HEROIC LOVE, by JAMES GRAHAM (1612-1650)    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: My dear and only love, I pray
Last Line: So I can love no more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Montrose, 1st Marquis Of
Variant Title(s): An Excellent New Ballad;i'll Never Love Thee More;montrose's Love;a Proper New Ballad;montrose To His Mistress
Subject(s): Courage; Fidelity; Love - Complaints; Valor; Bravery; Faithfulness; Constancy


HIDDEN STRENGTH, by JOSEPH ADDISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The gods in bounty work up storms about us
Subject(s): Courage


HIS NAME, by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O, the billows of fire
Subject(s): Courage


HIS STILLNESS, by SHARON OLDS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The doctor said to my father, you asked me
Subject(s): Fathers; Incurable Diseases; Courage; Valor; Bravery


HOPE, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hope evermore and believe, o man, for e'en as thy thought
Last Line: Nevertheless it is good, though there is better than it.
Subject(s): Courage; Hope; Religion; Valor; Bravery; Optimism; Theology


HOPE, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765)    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hope, of all passions, most befriends us here
Subject(s): Courage


HOPES, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tho' day by day old hopes depart
Last Line: And forward-looking eyes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Courage; Hope; Valor; Bravery; Optimism


HORATIUS [AT THE BRIDGE], FR. LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME, by THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lars porsena of clusium
Last Line: In the brave days of old.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macaulay, 1st Baron
Variant Title(s): Ponte Sublico;horatius; A Lay Made About The Year Of The City
Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Horatius; Rome, Italy; War; Valor; Bravery; Liberty


HOW HE SAVED ST. MICHAEL'S, by MARY ANNA PHINNEY STANSBURY    Poem Text                    
First Line: So you beg for a story, my darling, my brown-eyed leopold
Last Line: And the slave who saved st. Michael's went out from its door, a man.
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


HOW WE BURNED THE 'PHILADELPHIA', by BARRETT EASTMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: By the beard of the prophet the bashaw swore
Last Line: And troubled his soul no more.
Subject(s): Courage; Decatur, Stephen (1779-1820); Navy - United States; Patriotism; Philadelphia (ship); Pirates; Tripoli; Valor; Bravery; American Navy; Piracy; Buccaneers


I HAVE FOUGHT A GOOD FIGHT', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who art thou that comest with a stedfast face
Last Line: And I did not tremble, happy in his love
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): God; Blood; Courage; Fights


I SAW HIM WALKING ALONE SLOWLY AT NIGHT, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Jews; Youth; Courage; Judaism; Valor; Bravery


I TELL THEE, PRIEST, by GEORGE GASCOIGNE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Courage


IDA LEWIS, by ANN WHITFORD PAUL    Poem Source                    
First Line: From the lighthouse %ida saw
Last Line: To the lighthouse %ida rowed
Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes


IDYLLS OF THE KING: GARETH AND LYNETTE, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The last tall son of lot and bellicent
Last Line: But he that told it later says lynette.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Courage; Jesus Christ; Arthur, King; Valor; Bravery


IF I WERE A MAN, A YOUNG MAN, AND KNEW WHAT I KNOW, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Courage


IF I WERE A VOICE, by CHARLES MACKAY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Courage


IF ONE HAS FAILED TO REACH THE END HE SOUGHT, by WILLIAM J. LAMPTON    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Courage


IF WE MUST DIE, by CLAUDE MCKAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If we must die, let it not be like hogs
Last Line: Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!
Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli
Subject(s): African Americans; Courage; Death; Honor; Social Protest; World War I; Negroes; American Blacks; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; First World War


IMAGINARY ILLS, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But human bodies are sick fools
Last Line: In like proportion less will hurt them
Variant Title(s): Borrowing Troubl
Subject(s): Courage


IMMORTAL GUEST, by HANNAH MORE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The soul on earth is an immortal guest
Subject(s): Courage


IN APIA BAY, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ruin and death held sway
Last Line: Of splendid chivalry and valor high!
Subject(s): Apia Bay, Samoan Islands; Courage; Disasters; Hurricanes; Shipwrecks; Valor; Bravery


IN MEMORIAM HONORE MERCIER, by CARROLL RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O, true and gentle, kind and brave!
Last Line: May never see his like again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll
Subject(s): Courage; Friendship; Heroism; Memory; Mercier, Louis Honore (1840-1894); Patriotism; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines


IN THE BEGINNING, by ANGELA MORGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The great god dreamed a dream through me
Subject(s): Courage


IN THE TUNNEL, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Didn't know flynn
Last Line: Say that you've been 'yar.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret
Variant Title(s): Flynn Of Virginia
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


INCIDENT OF WAR, by MAURICE THOMSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our new flag-bearer, pale and slim
Subject(s): Courage


INFLUENCE, by JOSEPH MORRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Drop a pebble in the water
Subject(s): Courage


INFLUENCE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This learned I from the shadow of a tree
Subject(s): Courage


INSPIRATION, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: However the battle is ended
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Courage


INVITED GUESTS, by FRANCES EKIN ALLISON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A crowd of troubles passed him by
Last Line: "we go — where we're expected."
Subject(s): Courage; Guests; Hope; Valor; Bravery; Visiting; Optimism


IPHIGENEIA AND AGAMEMNON, FR. THE HELLENICS, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Iphigeneia, when she heard her doom
Last Line: "o father! Grieve no more; the ships can sail."
Variant Title(s): Sacrifice
Subject(s): Aulis, Greece; Courage; Tragedy; Valor; Bravery


IS LIFE WORTH LIVING, by ALFRED AUSTIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is life worth living? Yes, so long
Subject(s): Courage; Religion; Seasons


ISLAND, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Daddy neptune one day to freedom did say
Subject(s): Courage; Great Britain; Patriotism


JACK O' THE CUDGEL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the famous town of windsor on a fine summer morn
Last Line: And they lived happy together, and free from all care.
Subject(s): Courage; Courts & Courtiers; Heroism; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines


JACOB, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My sons, and ye the children of my sons
Last Line: Yet is my heart therewith not satisfied.
Subject(s): Courage; Death; Jacob (bible); Valor; Bravery; Dead, The


JASPER AT FORT MOULTRIE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm only a sergeant!' jasper said
Last Line: All honor and praise to you!
Subject(s): American Revolution; Courage; Flags - United States; Patriotism; Valor; Bravery; American Flag


JENNY CARRISTER, THE HEROINE OF LUCKNOW-MINE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A heroic story I will unfold
Last Line: That jenny carrister was the noblest heroine I've ever heard of in my day.
Subject(s): Courage; Heroism; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines


JIM, by GEORGE VERE HOBART    Poem Text                    
First Line: I hear the drum roll, rub-a-dub, dub
Last Line: If jim — poor jim — marched, too!
Subject(s): Courage; Death; Grief; Soldiers; War Bonds; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


JOB, SELS., by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE                       
Subject(s): Animals; Courage; Death; Social Protest


JOB: WISDOM, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: But where shall wisdom be found?
Subject(s): Courage; Wisdom


JOGGIN' ERLONG, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: De da'kest hour, dey allus say
Last Line: De mo'n is allus brightah w'en de night 's been long.
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


JOHN DORY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: As it fell on a holy day
Last Line: "was clapped fast under board, a"
Subject(s): Courage; Valor;bravery


JOHNNY BARTHOLOMEW, by THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The journals this morning are full of a tale
Subject(s): Courage


JOHNNY BOER, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Men fight all shapes and sizes as the racing horses run
Last Line: And we'll be running after him with our little maxim gun.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Boer War; Courage; Guns; Proverbs; South African War; Valor; Bravery; Maxims; Adages


JOHNSTON AT SHILOH, by FLEMING JAMES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mid dim and solemn forests, in the dawning chill and gray
Subject(s): Courage


JOSEPH STURGE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The very gentlest of all human natures
Subject(s): Courage


JUDAS MACCABEUS, by HENRY SNOWMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Victor of god! O thou whose lamp of fame
Last Line: Come, great deliverer, arise! Arise!
Subject(s): Courage; Jews; Patriotism; Slavery; Valor; Bravery; Judaism; Serfs


JUDGES: SONG OF DEBORAH; FRAGMENTS, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Then sang deborah
Last Line: His deeds will the people of israel praise.
Subject(s): Courage; Deborah (bible); Women In The Bible; Valor; Bravery


JUDGES: WAR SONG OF KISHON, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Then sang deborah and barak the son of abinboam on that day, saying
Subject(s): Courage; Deborah (bible); Women In The Bible


JULIUS CAESAR, SELS., by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Courage; Death; Religion


KATE SHELLEY, by ANN WHITFORD PAUL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lightning ripped apart the sky. Thunder pounded loud
Last Line: Dry and safe and warm
Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes


KEEP A STIFF UPPER LIP, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There has something gone wrong
Subject(s): Courage


KEEP A-PLUGGING AWAY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've a humble little motto
Last Line: Keep a-pluggin' away.
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


KEEP A-TRYING, by NIXON WATERMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Say 'I will!' and then stick to it
Alternate Author Name(s): Martin, Peter
Subject(s): Courage


KILLDEER, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Killdeer! Killdeer!' that startled cry
Last Line: "kill-deer, kill-deer."
Subject(s): Courage; Fights; Valor; Bravery


KING HENRY IV, SELS., by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Courage


KING HENRY V, SELS., by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Agincourt, Battle Of (1415); Courage; Harfleur, France, Battle Of; History; War


KING HENRY VI, SELS., by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Country Life; Courage; Faith; History; Religion


KING JOHN, SELS., by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If england to itself do rest but true
Subject(s): Courage; Death; History


KING PHILIP'S MEN, by AUDREY ALEXANDRA BROWN    Poem Text                    
First Line: At dusk they heard the roar
Last Line: "dauntless in death!"
Subject(s): Courage; Disasters; Faith; God; Philip, King (native American Chief); Shipwrecks; Spain; Spanish Armada; Valor; Bravery; Belief; Creed; Metacomet; King Philip's War (1675-76)


KOSSUTH, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A race of nobles may die out
Last Line: "sounds on, outliving chains and death."
Subject(s): Courage; Kossuth, Louis (1802-1894); Valor; Bravery


LA PUCELLE DE VERCHERES, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Name of heaven! 'no woman, 'you say, 'may be
Last Line: But to test our own was madeleine's soul lent us from heaven an hour.
Subject(s): Courage; Death; Religion; United States - Colonial Period; Women; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Theology


LA ROCHELLE, by RICHARD ALDINGTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lightly the land-locked waves slide in the harbor
Last Line: Forgive us our treachery
Subject(s): War; Forgiveness; Courage


LAMENT OF MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS, ON THE APPROACH OF SPRING, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now nature hangs her mantle green
Last Line: Bloom on my peaceful grave!
Subject(s): Courage; Lament; Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Valor; Bravery; Mary Stuart


LAMENT OVER SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "come to me grief, for ever"
Last Line: "sidney, the spirit heroic, / sidney is dead. O dead, dead"
Subject(s): "courage;sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586);" Valor;bravery


LAND ON YOUR FEET, by SAM WALTER FOSS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You take a cat up by the tail
Subject(s): Courage


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


LEGACY, by EVERARD JACK APPLETON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have looked my last on joyous youth; days of the white dreams are gone
Subject(s): Courage


LEGEND OF GHOST LAGOON, by JOSEPH SCHULL    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's a wicked night and the sea is wild
Subject(s): Courage


LET'S BE BRAVE WHEN THE LAUGHTER DIES, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Courage


LIFE, by JOSEPH MORRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Life is a seesaw that goes up and down
Subject(s): Courage


LIFE (2), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Well - well, the world must turn upon its axis
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Courage


LIFE ON THE LAKES: AY, AY, SIR!, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wires lead back from the grey old town
Last Line: That has kept the faith, and the orders lie.
Subject(s): Courage; Faith; Valor; Bravery; Belief; Creed


LITTLE HAS BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT COWARDS, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ    Poem Source                    
Last Line: The justification of the cowards %about whom %according to my good friend %little has been written
Subject(s): Courage


LIVINGSTONE, by FRANCIS BROOKS    Poem Text                    
First Line: On dusky shoulders
Last Line: Death!
Subject(s): Africa; Courage; Immortality; Slavery; Valor; Bravery; Serfs


LORD ROBERTS' TRIUMPHAL ENTRY INTO PRETORIA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the year of 1900, and on the 5th of june
Last Line: And beat all foreign foes from our shores.
Subject(s): Courage; Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Victory; Valor; Bravery; Bruce, Robert; The Bruce


LOSERS, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I should pass the tomb of jonah
Last Line: "come on, you ... Do you want to live forever?"
Subject(s): Courage; World War I; Valor; Bravery; First World War


LOSS OF THE BIRKENHEAD, by FRANCIS HASTINGS CHARLES DOYLE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Right on our flank the crimson sun went down
Subject(s): Birkenhead (ship); Courage; Disasters; Shipwrecks


MAN MUST WANT, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's wanting keeps us young and fit
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Courage


MAN WHO BRINGS UP THE REAR END, by SAM WALTER FOSS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Folks watch the drum major and say 'see him come!'
Subject(s): Courage


MAN WHO THINKS HE CAN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: If you think you are beaten, you are
Subject(s): Courage


MAN'S NAME, by RICHARD REALF    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the packed horror of the night
Subject(s): Courage


MARIA MITCHELL, by ANN WHITFORD PAUL    Poem Source                    
First Line: With her father, each clear night
Last Line: Because of her, back safe to shore
Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes


MARMION: CANTO 1. THE CASTLE, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Day set on norham's castled steep
Last Line: Which gave again the prospect fair.
Subject(s): Castles; Christmas; Courage; Faith; Flodden Field, England; Love; Nativity, The; Valor; Bravery; Belief; Creed


MARMION: CANTO 6. THE BATTLE, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While great events were on the gale
Last Line: And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
Subject(s): Courage; Douglas, Alexander. 5th Earl Of Angus; Flodden, Battle Of (1513); Freedom; History; Valor; Bravery; Liberty; Historians


MARSTON MOOR, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To horse! To horse! Sir nicholas, the clarion's note is high!
Variant Title(s): Sir Nicholas At Marston Moo
Subject(s): Courage; Marston Moor, England


MARTIAL ELEGY, by TYRTAEUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How glorious fall the valiant, sword in hand
Last Line: For having perished in the front of war.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tyrtaios
Variant Title(s): Youthful Valor;the Young Hero
Subject(s): Courage; War; Valor; Bravery


MARY BUTLER'S RIDE, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TAYLOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ebenezer eastman, of gilmanton, is dead
Subject(s): Courage


MARY JANE MCLEOD, by ANN WHITFORD PAUL    Poem Source                    
First Line: She went with mama to her work
Last Line: She learned to read!
Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes


MASSES, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the end of the battle
Last Line: Embraced the first man; and began to walk
Subject(s): Brotherhood; Courage; Hearts; Soldiers; War


MATISSE TOO, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Matisse, too, when the fingers ceased to work
Last Line: Damn the fathers. We are talking about defiance
Subject(s): Matisse, Henri (1869-1954); Courage; Art & Atists; Perseverance; Fathers


MATTER OF DIRECTION, by ST. CLAIR ADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Side by side on the sands of the beach
Subject(s): Courage


MEDLEY OF THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS ON THE ITALIAN CRISIS, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Had I a thousand mouths, a thousand tongues
Last Line: For truth and liberty be found in rome.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Courage; Garibaldi, Giuseppe (1807-1882); Italy; Popes; Rome, Italy; Valor; Bravery; Italians; Papacy


MEMORIAL DAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Is it enough to think to-day
Last Line: And be ourselves, in turn, the brave!
Subject(s): Courage; Holidays; May (month); Memorial Day; Valor; Bravery; Declaration Day


MEMORIAL VERSES: 2. GOKHALE, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Heroic heart! Lost hope of all our days!
Last Line: Upbuild the temple of her unity.
Subject(s): Courage; Death; Heroism; India; Memory; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines


MONTGOMERY AT QUEBEC, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Round quebec's embattled walls
Last Line: To the brave montgomery!
Subject(s): American Revolution; Courage; Montgomery, Richard (1738-1775); Quebec, Battle Of (1775); Valor; Bravery


MOURN FOR THE BRAVE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, mourn for the brave
Last Line: Upon the battle-plain!
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Courage; Death; Heroism; Mourning; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines; Bereavement


MUSHROOM AND THE OAK, by JOSEPH MORRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A mushroom popped through the ground
Subject(s): Courage


MY GIRL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A little corner with its crib
Last Line: A little kiss -- my girl is gone
Subject(s): Courage;death;girls;graves; "valor;bravery;dead, The;tombs;tombstones;


MY LITTLE WIFE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: My little wife's a world too sweet
Last Line: For such a man as I am!
Subject(s): Courage;marriage;trojan War;women; Valor;bravery;weddings;husbands;wives


MY STOUT OLD HEART AND I ARE FRIENDS, by E. HOUGH    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Courage


MY TRIUMPH, SELS., by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let the thick curtain fall
Subject(s): Courage


MYTHOLOGY, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Because no one has ever asked
Last Line: I already knew the answer
Subject(s): Courage; Goddesses And Gods; Heroism; Mythology


NATURE GIFTS, by EFFIE CLOUSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mother says, 'get up, jack'
Last Line: "all my burdens grow more light."
Subject(s): Courage; Pleasure; Valor; Bravery


NATURE'S GENTLEMAN, by WILLIAM JAMES LINTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He boasts nor wealth nor high descent, yet he may claim to be
Alternate Author Name(s): Spartacus
Subject(s): Courage


NEW YEAR RESOLVE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As the dead year is clasped by a dead december
Last Line: The wan, worn face of the bruised old world.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Courage; Future; Holidays; New Year; Valor; Bravery


NIGHT THOUGHTS, SELS., by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765)            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Courage; Death; Friendship; Religion


NO MAN'S LAND, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I've never been on no man's land
Last Line: Their numbers are untold.
Subject(s): Courage; Honor; Sacrifices; Soldiers; War; Valor; Bravery


NOT YET, MY SOUL, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not yet, my soul, these friendly fields desert
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Courage


NOW, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rise! For the day is passing
Last Line: You may wake to find it past!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Activity; Courage; Time; Exercise; Valor; Bravery


O MOTHER STATE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Courage


O NAVIS, by FELIX LOPE DE VEGA CARPIO    Poem Source     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Poor bark of life, upon the billows hoarse
Last Line: Until the end thy fated course pursue!
Alternate Author Name(s): Lope De Vega
Subject(s): Courage; Writing And Writers


ODE (IN HONOR OF THE BRAVERY AND SACRIFICES OF SOLDIERS OF THE SOUTH), by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With bayonets slanted in the glittering sun
Last Line: Across those lonely desolated graves!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Courage; Soldiers; United States - History; Confederacy; Valor; Bravery


ODE ON THE DEATH OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bury the great duke / with an empire's lamentation
Last Line: God accept him, christ receive him!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Variant Title(s): Let Us Bury The Great Duke
Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Great Britain - History; Valor; Bravery; Liberty; English History


ODE ON VENICE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh venice! Venice! When thy marble walls
Last Line: One freeman more, america, to thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Variant Title(s): The Race With Death
Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Venice, Italy; Valor; Bravery; Liberty


ODE: OUR CITY BY THE SEA, by WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our city by the sea
Last Line: To his temple let us throng -- %praise and pray
Subject(s): American Civil War; Courage; Heroism; Soldiers; U.s. - History


OF GENERAL GOURAUD, by ROBERTA BALFOUR    Poem Text                    
First Line: He wears an empty sleeve
Last Line: To victory, to liberty,—humanity!
Subject(s): Blood; Courage; Generals; Leadership; Sacrifices; War; Valor; Bravery


OF THOSE WHO WALK ALONE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Women there are on earth, of courage and high
Last Line: Earth's wrongs are ended.
Subject(s): Courage; Death; Earth; Faith; Loss; Love; Soul; Women; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; World; Belief; Creed


OH, THE WATER, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You are the hero of this poem
Subject(s): Courage; Hope; Poetry & Poets; Women; Valor; Bravery; Optimism


OH, THE WATER, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You are the hero of this poem
Last Line: They know you've come home
Subject(s): Courage; Hope; Poetry And Poets; Women


OLD BRADDOCK, by JOHN VANCE CHENEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fire! Fire in allentown
Last Line: Know how he fell—dead.
Subject(s): Courage; Fire; Valor; Bravery


OLD SEA WOLF, by JUAN B. DELGADO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Old sea wolf, bold captain
Last Line: Between two immensities, %ocean and sky!
Subject(s): Courage; Sailors And Sailing; Sea


ON FILE, by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If an unkind word appears
Last Line: Then go out and burn the file.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hotair, Dopeton
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


ON MISS J. SCOTT OF AYR, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Had each scot of ancient times
Last Line: Had yielded like a coward.
Subject(s): Courage


ON THE FIRING LINE, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For glory? For good? For fortune, or for fame?
Last Line: Far out on the roaring red firing line.
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


ON THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Toll for the brave!
Last Line: Shall plough the wave no more.
Variant Title(s): The Royal George
Subject(s): Courage; Disasters; Kempenfelt, Richard (1718-1782); Sea; Shipwrecks; Valor; Bravery; Ocean


ON THE OREGON COAST; FOR WILLIAM STAFFORD, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The waves come -- the large fourth wave
Last Line: And figure out what to say to our children.
Subject(s): Courage; Legacies; Transience; Waves; Valor; Bravery; Impermanence


ON THE SNUFF OF A CANDLE, THE NIGHT BEFORE HE DIED, by WALTER RALEIGH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Cowards fear to die, but courage stout
Last Line: Rather than live in snuff, will be put out.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


ON THE STAR OF 'THE LEGION OF HONOR', by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Star of the brave! - whose beam hath shed
Last Line: For evermore with them or thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


ON THINKING GLAD, by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Never mind a change of scene
Alternate Author Name(s): Hotair, Dopeton
Subject(s): Courage


OPTIMISM, by NEWTON MACKINTOSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Be brave, faint heart
Last Line: Be brave, faint heart!
Subject(s): Courage; Hearts; Hope; Life; Valor; Bravery; Optimism


OPTIMIST, by JOSEPH B. STRAUSS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I love the play
Subject(s): Courage


ORGAN SONGS: HOME FROM THE WARS, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A tattered soldier, gone the glow and gloss
Last Line: I only faced the foe, and did not flee.
Subject(s): Courage; Soldiers; War; Valor; Bravery


OTHER SIDE OF IT, by ST. CLAIR ADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: We must have faith in ourselves
Subject(s): Courage


OUR HEROES, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here's a hand to the boy who has courage
Last Line: Will give you the strength for the strife.
Subject(s): Courage; Forthrightness


OUR JUNIORS, by ANNA M. ALLEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: They set a light upon the hill
Last Line: Upon the hill a beacon light.
Subject(s): Courage; Light; Youth; Valor; Bravery


OUR LOST AVIATORS, by ISOLA M. OHAVER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Brave hearts were they
Last Line: Do know.
Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Courage; Death; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The


OUR STATE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The south-land boasts its teeming cane
Last Line: While near her church-spire stands the school.
Variant Title(s): Massachusetts (1);dedication Of A School House
Subject(s): Courage; Massachusetts; Patriotism; Valor; Bravery


PADDLE YOUR OWN CANOE, by SARAH KNOWLES BOLTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Voyager upon life's sea
Subject(s): Courage


PAUL, by EDWARD BLISS REED    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hotel st. Sulpice - you'll not know
Last Line: "mais pourquoi pas? Quelle femme! Quelle boîte!"
Subject(s): Courage; Death; War Injuries; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The


PEACE, by BHARTRIHARI    Poem Text                    
First Line: Courage, my son! Now to the silent wood
Last Line: Nor echo through our peace.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bhartrhari
Subject(s): Courage; Peace; Valor; Bravery


PEACE HATH HER VICTORIES, by WALLACE RICE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All sobbing, shrieking, swirls the gale
Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De
Subject(s): Courage


PHILOSOPHY, by GRANTLAND RICE    Poem Source                    
First Line: This, then, is the main idea I hold
Subject(s): Courage


PIONEERS, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They're the 'utterly foolish dreamers'
Subject(s): Courage


PITT, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And thou, blest star of europe's darkest hour
Subject(s): Courage


PLAUDITS FOR THOSE WHO FAIL, by THOMAS STEPHEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Reserve your plaudits for the man
Last Line: God bless them for what they endure.
Subject(s): Courage; Failure; Heroism; Poverty; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines


PLAYING OFF BASE, by ST. CLAIR ADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The first time loudermilk reached first base
Subject(s): Courage


POCAHONTAS, by ANN WHITFORD PAUL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Young daughter of a native chief
Last Line: Young daughter of a native chief
Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes


POINT OF VIEW, by MARY SINTON LEITCH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When earth seems dark with envy
Subject(s): Courage


POLITENESS, by WALT MASON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In my youth I knew an aleck who was most exceeding
Subject(s): Courage


PRAYER FOR COURAGE, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Courage; Religion


PRESS ONWARD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Keep a brave spirit, and never despair
Subject(s): Courage


PRETTY GOOD SCHEMES, by WALT MASON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's a pretty good scheme to be cheery, and sing as
Subject(s): Courage


PROCRASTINATION, by ROBERT SOUTHWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shun delays, they breed remorse
Last Line: Babel's babes against the rocke.
Variant Title(s): Loss In Delay
Subject(s): Courage; Procrastination; Valor; Bravery


PROMETHEUS UNBOUND; A LYRICAL DRAMA IN FOUR ACTS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Monarch of gods and daemons, and all spirits
Last Line: This is alone life; joy, empire, and victory!
Subject(s): Courage; Faith; Freedom; Supernatural; Valor; Bravery; Belief; Creed; Liberty


PROUD MAISIE, FR. THE HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Proud maisie is in the wood
Last Line: Welcome, proud lady!'
Variant Title(s): Madge Wildfire's [death] Song;the Pride Of Youth
Subject(s): Courage; Love; Vanity; Valor; Bravery


PROWHEAD, by ALICE MONKS MEARS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not alone fate fathers the generation of the brave
Last Line: The shards of a colored bowl that held the kitchen plant?
Subject(s): Courage; Heroism; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines


PYTHIAN ODES: 4. COURAGE IN EXILE, by PINDAR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When some great oak-tree, glorious in mens' gaze
Last Line: And its home lies desolate
Subject(s): Courage; Exiles


QUATRAIN, by HANZALA BADGHISI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If lordship in a lion's jaws should hang
Last Line: Or else, like heroes, thine be death to face.
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


RACHEL CARSON, by ANN WHITFORD PAUL    Poem Source                    
First Line: When rachel was a child
Last Line: And all things growing wild
Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes


RECOMPENSE, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have not known the sweep of far blue seas
Last Line: And I, on bended knees, have talked with god.
Subject(s): Courage; Hearts; Love; Valor; Bravery


REVOLUTIONS, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Before man parted for this earthly strand
Last Line: The band will quit man's heart:--he will breathe free.
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


RICHES, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765)    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Much learning shows how little mortals know
Subject(s): Courage


ROAD, by PHILIP MAX RASKIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Heave no sigh for things undone
Last Line: Let your aim be onward far, %far!
Alternate Author Name(s): Raskin, P. M.
Subject(s): Courage


ROBIN HOOD, by WILLIAM JAMES LINTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O for an hour with robin hood, deep, deep in the forest green
Alternate Author Name(s): Spartacus
Subject(s): Courage


ROOM!, by ANGELA MORGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I will hew great spaces for my soul
Subject(s): Courage


ROOSEVELT AND THE ANTINOE, by EDWIN JOHN PRATT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Her high freeboard towering above the pier
Alternate Author Name(s): Pratt, E. J.
Subject(s): Courage; Disasters; Shipwrecks


RULE, by JOHN WESLEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do all the good you can
Variant Title(s): Do Goo
Subject(s): Courage


S. ANDREW, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Farre on his manly shoulders had the saint
Last Line: The tyrant for his crosse he well repayes.
Subject(s): Courage; Saints; Valor; Bravery


SACAJAWEA, by ANN WHITFORD PAUL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Long years ago a girl embarked
Last Line: She walked into our history books
Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes


SACRIFICE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though love repine, and reason chafe
Last Line: When for the truth he ought to die.'
Variant Title(s): The Safest Way
Subject(s): Courage; Religion; Valor; Bravery; Theology


SALMON SPEAKS, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grandmother and grandfather swam
Last Line: And otoliths the navigation of light
Subject(s): Courage


SAMSON AGONISTES, by JOHN MILTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A little onward lend thy guiding hand
Last Line: And calm of mind all passion spent.
Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Religion; Samson; Valor; Bravery; Liberty; Theology


SAY NOT, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Say not the struggle nought availeth
Last Line: But westward, look, the land is bright.
Variant Title(s): Courage;despondency Rebuked;the Incoming Tide;keeping On;hope
Subject(s): Consolation; Courage; Freedom; Hope; Perseverance; Religion; Valor; Bravery; Liberty; Optimism; Theology


SCHOOL FENCIBLES, by WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We come in arms, we stand ten score
Subject(s): Courage


SCOTLAND'S MAIDEN MARTYR, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A troop of soldiers waited at the door
Subject(s): Courage


SECOND MACCABEES, SELS., by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE                       
Subject(s): Courage


SEEKER, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The creeds he wrought of dream and thought
Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don
Subject(s): Courage


SHERIDAN'S RIDE [DECEMBER 19, 1864], by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up from the south, at break of day
Last Line: "from winchester, -- twenty miles away!"
Subject(s): American Civil War; Animals; Cedar Creek, Battle Of (1864); Courage; Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism; Sheridan, Philip Henry (1831-1888); United States - History; War; Valor; Bravery; Declaration Day


SIMON WOLF, by FELIX NAPOLEON GERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The measure of a worthy man
Last Line: Felix n. Gerson.
Subject(s): Courage; Jews; Wolf, Simon (1836-1923); Valor; Bravery; Judaism


SMOKE AND STEEL, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Smoke of the fields in spring is one
Subject(s): Courage; Justice; Steel; Valor; Bravery


SMOKE AND STEEL, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Smoke of the fields in spring is one
Subject(s): Courage; Justice; Steel


SOHRAB AND RUSTUM, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And the first gray of morning filled the east
Last Line: Emerge, and shine upon the aral sea.
Subject(s): Courage; War; Valor; Bravery


SOLDIER, by GEORGE WITHER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now in myself I notice take
Subject(s): Courage


SOLDIER'S TEAR, by ALEXANDER LEE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Upon the hill he turned
Subject(s): Courage


SOLILOQUY FOR A THIRD ACT, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is this sullen cruious interval
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Courage


SONG OF GLADNESS, by JAMES WILLIAM FOLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Each little day
Alternate Author Name(s): Foley, J. W.
Subject(s): Courage


SONG OF MYSELF, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: I celebrate myself, and sing myself
Last Line: I stop somewhere waiting for you.
Variant Title(s): Walt Whitman
Subject(s): Animals; Courage; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Sea; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Valor; Bravery; Theology; Ocean


SONG OF THE CORNISH MEN, by ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: A good sword and a trusty hand!
Last Line: "will know the reason why."
Alternate Author Name(s): Hawker Of Morwenstow; Hawker, R. S.
Variant Title(s): And Shall Trelawny Die?;the Song Of The Western Men;trelawny
Subject(s): Cornwall, England; Courage; Freedom; Trelawney, Sir Jonathan (1650-1721); Valor; Bravery; Liberty


SONNET TO MANON: ON HER LIGHTHEARTEDNESS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I would I had thy courage, dear, to face
Subject(s): Courage; Forgetfulness; Valor; Bravery


SONNET: 40, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Against the rock I climb, both high and hard
Last Line: For dread to fall, my hand, now hold thee fast.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Climbing; Courage; Valor; Bravery


SOUL CAPTAINS, by EVERARD JACK APPLETON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The guardian of the gate looked down and watched
Subject(s): Courage


SPAIN'S LAST ARMADA, by WALLACE RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They fling their flags upon the morn
Last Line: To shed their lurid lustre on the empire that was spain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De
Subject(s): Courage; Navy - Spain; Sea Battles; Spanish-american War (1898); Valor; Bravery; Spanish Navy; Naval Warfare


STATE OF THE UNION: 12. OUT OF THE TOWER, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That air and light may come again
Last Line: After all endemic to the country
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Courage; Patriotism; Sacrifices


STATE OF THE UNION: 9. PHAEMON'S DOG, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A race at one time across country
Last Line: With so much meat in their mouths
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Animals; Courage; Dogs


STICK TO IT, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stick to it, boy
Last Line: Victory's nearer, perhaps, than you think it is!
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Courage


STORY OF SIGURD THE VOLSUNG, SELS., by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896)            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Courage


STRENGTH, by ELLEN M. HUNTINGTON GATES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our strength is greater than we dare to think
Subject(s): Courage


STRONG HEARTS, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Strong hearts within the present live
Subject(s): Courage


SUCCESS, by C. C. CAMERON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Genius, that power which dazzles mortal eyes
Last Line: Unless you're beaten there, you're bound to win.
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


SWORD SONG, by KARL THEODORE KORNER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou sword at my left side
Alternate Author Name(s): Korner, Charles Theodore
Subject(s): Courage; War


THANK GOD FOR FOOLS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thank god for fools - for men who dare to dream
Last Line: Theirs - the requiem of the unafraid
Subject(s): Courage; Valor;bravery


THE AUDACIOUS, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Only the audacious fly
Last Line: To make their dreams come true.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


THE BALLAD OF PACO TOWN, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In paco town and in paco tower
Last Line: Ever and ever the victory!
Subject(s): Courage; Philippines; Revolutions; Valor; Bravery


THE BATTLE OF ALEXANDRIA, OR THE RECONQUEST OF EGYPT, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was on the 21st of march in the year of 1801
Last Line: And for his undaunted bravery, his name will never be forgot.
Subject(s): Courage; Heroism; Victory; War; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines


THE BIRD, by EDWARD BLISS REED    Poem Text                    
First Line: Once when a child, he found within the neighbouring wood
Last Line: Swift flew his soul to god, far in the happy skies.
Subject(s): Courage; Death; War; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The


THE BIRKENHEAD, by HENRY YULE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Amid the loud ebriety of war
Last Line: Aboard the birkenhead in simon's bay!
Subject(s): Birkenhead (ship); Courage; Valor; Bravery


THE BLACK RIDERS: 15, by STEPHEN CRANE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Tell brave deeds of war
Last Line: Ah, I think there were braver deeds.
Subject(s): Courage; War; Valor; Bravery


THE BOLD DRAGOON, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas a marechal of france, and he fain would honour gain
Last Line: Whack, fal de ral, &c.
Subject(s): Courage; Napoleonic Wars; Valor; Bravery


THE BRAVE, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For whom are your gyves? For the cowardly one
Last Line: But never, in mercy, place chains on the brave!
Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Presidents, United States; Wallace, Sir William (1270-1305); Washington, George (1732-1799); Valor; Bravery; Liberty


THE BRAVE BROTHER, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two little brothers thro' the forest roam'd
Last Line: For their deliverance.
Subject(s): Brothers; Courage; Half-brothers; Valor; Bravery


THE BRAVE EARL BRAND, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: O did you ever hear of the brave earl brand
Last Line: I' the brave nights so early
Subject(s): Courage; Valor;bravery


THE BRAVEST MAN, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: God! But it takes a man to stand
Last Line: Then is the time when manhood's born!
Subject(s): Courage; Mankind; Valor; Bravery; Human Race


THE BRAVEST SOLDIERS, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brave, brave were the soldiers (high named to-day) who lived through the fight
Last Line: But the bravest press'd to the front and fell, unnamed, unknown.
Subject(s): Courage; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery


THE BRAVO, by YANNIS PAPADIAMANTOPOULOS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the jewel-case of his scarlet mouth
Last Line: Whose hearts are wounded at his flowery glance.
Alternate Author Name(s): Moreas, Jean
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE AT [OR AFTER] CORUNNA, by CHARLES WOLFE    Poem Text                 Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note
Last Line: But we left him alone with his glory.
Variant Title(s): After Corunna;the Burial Of Sir John Moore
Subject(s): Corunna, Spain; Courage; Death; Funerals; Great Britain - History; Moore, Sir John (1761-1809); Napoleonic Wars; Pennisular War (1808-1814); Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Burials; English History


THE BURNING OF THE STEAMER 'CITY OF MONTREAL.', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A sad tale of the sea I will relate, which will your hearts appal
Last Line: Therefore be prepared for that happy land where all troubles are o'er.
Subject(s): Courage; Disasters; Fire; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Smoke; Steamboats; Valor; Bravery


THE CARPERS (AN ASPECT), by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Always the worm in the bud, the fly in the amber
Last Line: "carpers"" at odds with our age!"
Subject(s): Courage; Desire; Dreams; Mankind; Valor; Bravery; Nightmares; Human Race


THE CHALLENGE, by HENRY CHAPPELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: I hear men say, he changes as the wind
Last Line: What man of you can say I writ a lie?
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


THE CHARGE AT SANTIAGO, by WILLIAM HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With shot and shell, like a loosened hell
Last Line: Looks with his piercing eye!
Subject(s): Courage; Santiago, Battle Of (1898); Santiago, Cuba; Spanish-american War (1898); Valor; Bravery


THE CHARGE OF THE HEAVY BRIGADE AT BALACLAVA: THE CHARGE, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The charge of the gallant three hundred, the heavy brigade!
Last Line: Glory to all the three hundred, and all the brigade!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Balaclava, Crimea; Courage; Crimean War (1853-1856); Valor; Bravery


THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Half a league, half a league, / half a league onward
Last Line: Noble six hundred!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Balaclava, Crimea; Cavalry; Courage; Crimean War (1853-1856); Duty; Heroism; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Patriotism; Russia; Soldiers; War; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines; Soviet Union; Russians


THE CLEPINGTON CATASTROPHE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas on a monday morning, and in the year of 1884
Last Line: To help the widows and the fatherless is god's command.
Subject(s): Courage; Disasters; Firefighters; Valor; Bravery


THE CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It isn't fun when your hopes seem finished
Last Line: If somehow or other you keep on going!
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


THE DANCE OF DEATH, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Night and morning were at meeting
Last Line: And dawn is glimmering pale.
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


THE DASHING WHITE SERGEANT, by JOHN BURGOYNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If I had a beau
Last Line: As a dashing white sergeant, I'd march away!
Subject(s): Amazons; Courage; Soldiers; Victory; War; Valor; Bravery


THE DEATH OF WALLENSTEIN, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All well -- and now let it be ended, seni. Come
Last Line: [the curtain drops.]
Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von
Subject(s): Courage; Death; Treason And Traitors; Wallenstein, Albrecht (1583-1634); Valor; Bravery; Dead, The


THE DEATH-DAY OF KORNER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A song for the death day of the brave
Last Line: With the sword, his bride!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Courage; Death; Korner, Karl Theodor (1791-1813); Pride; Singing & Singers; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Songs


THE DEEP, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I must have peace, increasing peace
Last Line: Be spun from dust.
Subject(s): Courage; Tides; Winter; Valor; Bravery


THE DEFENSE OF LAWRENCE [SEPTEMBER 14, 1856], by RICHARD REALF    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: All night upon the guarded hill
Last Line: The pulses of the grass.
Variant Title(s): The Defence Of Lawrence
Subject(s): Courage; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Kansas; Slavery; Valor; Bravery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs


THE DESERTER, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blindest and most frantic prayer
Last Line: "see the wretch that dared not live!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


THE DREAMS AHEAD, by EDWIN CARLILE LITSEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What would we do in this world of ours
Last Line: The dreams -- and faith -- and love!
Alternate Author Name(s): Litsey, E. Carl Edwin Carlile
Subject(s): Courage; Dreams; Valor; Bravery; Nightmares


THE EAGLE OF CORINTH, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Did you hear of the fight at corinth
Last Line: On the nation's loftiest dome.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Birds; Corinth, Mississippi, Battle Of (1862); Courage; Eagles; United States - History; Valor; Bravery


THE ENDLESS BATTLE, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no hope, and yet I keep on fighting
Last Line: Something within me keeps me fighting on!
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


THE ENGLISH FLAG, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Winds of the world, give answer! They are whimpering to and fro
Last Line: "ye have but my waves to conquer. Go forth, for it is there!"
Variant Title(s): The Flag Of England
Subject(s): Courage; Flags - Great Britain; Valor; Bravery


THE EVERLASTING HILLS, by BESSIE WILLIAMS OSMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Down in dear old indiana
Last Line: In the everlasting hills.
Subject(s): Courage; Indiana; Valor; Bravery


THE FIGHT OF THE ARMSTRONG PRIVATEER, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell the story to your sons
Last Line: In the harbor of fayal the azore!
Subject(s): Azores; Courage; General Armstrong (ship); Mountains; Navy - United States; United States; War Of 1812; Valor; Bravery; Hills; Downs (great Britain); American Navy; America


THE FIRST GRENADIER OF FRANCE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in a certain regiment of french grenadiers
Last Line: To cry out always the brave grenadier's name at the roll call.
Subject(s): Courage; France; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery


THE GREAT ADVENTURE, by THOMAS WALSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: In my heart is the sound of drums
Last Line: We who are weak and old and hoary.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett
Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Courage; Soldiers; War; Valor; Bravery


THE HEAD OF BRAN THE BLEST, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the head of bran
Last Line: Speech death cannot swallow!
Subject(s): Courage; Heroism; Legends, Welsh; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines


THE HEALERS, by LAURENCE BINYON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a vision of the night I saw them
Last Line: Braver than the brave?
Subject(s): Courage; Death; First Aid; Healing; Nurses; Physicians; World War I; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Cures; Doctors; First World War


THE HERO, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Learn to endure
Last Line: Themselves engage.
Subject(s): Courage; Heroism; Strength; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines


THE HERO OF THE GUN, by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The captain galloped to the front
Last Line: "and—I have kept my word!"
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


THE HIGHER COURAGE, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come back again, my olden heart!
Last Line: Wait on to show the truly right.
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


THE HOLE IN THE SEA, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's there
Last Line: The driest thing there is.
Subject(s): Courage; Language; Religion; Sea; Secrets; Spirituality; Story-telling; Valor; Bravery; Words; Vocabulary; Theology; Ocean


THE HOME-COMING, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Straight upward from the crowded square
Last Line: May rule the kingdom of the air.
Subject(s): Courage; Flight; Home; Pigeons; Valor; Bravery; Flying


THE HORRORS OF MAJUBA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas after the great majuba fight
Last Line: That their fame will be handed down to posterity for many a day!
Subject(s): Bands; Courage; Fights; Heroism; Music & Musicians; Orchestras; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines


THE INEVITABLE, by SARAH KNOWLES BOLTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I like the man who faces what he must
Last Line: Who by a life heroic conquers fate.
Variant Title(s): Conquering Fate
Subject(s): Courage; Fate; Religion; Valor; Bravery; Destiny; Theology


THE INTREPID MARINER, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shelley speaks: / beyond helvetius' dim beginning down
Last Line: There! ... On our quarter .. God, they'll run us down!
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


THE JEWISH MOTHER AND HER SONS BEFORE ANTIOCHUS, by R. MANAHAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sun shone bright upon a kingly throne
Last Line: "thou gavest one, I seven to god!"" and so she died."
Subject(s): Courage; Jews; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery; Judaism


THE KNIGHT'S LEAP; A LEGEND OF ALTENAHR, by CHARLES KINGSLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So the foemen have fired the gate, men of mine?
Last Line: For such a bold rider's soul.
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


THE KNIGHTS, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not dust! Not dust the chivalry
Last Line: And epic deeds are done again!
Subject(s): Courage; Knights & Knighthood; Valor; Bravery


THE LADY OF PROVENCE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The war-note of the saracen
Last Line: She hath lived -- she hath loved -- her task is done!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Courage; Provence, France; Valor; Bravery


THE LADY OF THE LAKE: CANTO 1. THE CHASE, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Harp of the north! That mouldering long hast hung
Last Line: And morning dawned on ben-venue.
Subject(s): Courage; Evening; Fairies; Holidays; Katrine, Loch (scotland); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Trees; Women - Bible; Valor; Bravery; Sunset; Twilight; Elves; Virgin Mary


THE LAST RACE, by ERNEST HAROLD BAYNES    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have the mount on courage to-day
Last Line: As he noses me out at the wire.
Subject(s): Courage; Death; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The


THE LAYE OF THE LADYE OF FAEL, by GUIOT DE DIJON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For myne owne courage will I synge
Last Line: For saracens are felons all.
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


THE LIE, by WALTER RALEIGH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Go, soul, the body's guest
Last Line: No stab the soule can kill.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter
Variant Title(s): The Soul's Errand;the Lye
Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Lies; Social Protest; Soul; Truth; Valor; Bravery; Liberty


THE LIGHT-BRINGER, by WITTER BYNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is a time of death and blinded pain
Last Line: But forever.
Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel
Subject(s): Courage; Military; War; Valor; Bravery


THE LITTLE DRUMMER, by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis of a little drummer
Last Line: With his rat-tat-too.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Courage; Missouri; U.s. - History; Valor; Bravery


THE LUMBERMEN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wildly round our woodland quarters
Last Line: Through the world our way!
Subject(s): Courage; Lumber And Lumbering; Valor; Bravery


THE MAN, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All our light mockeries / have ever paled before thy white desire
Last Line: A power man knows not, that doth rend and shake him!
Subject(s): Courage; Mankind; Men; Valor; Bravery; Human Race


THE MAN IN CHRYSANTHEMUM LAND, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a brave little berry-brown man
Last Line: Who fight for chrysanthemum land.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Courage; Fights; Japan; United States; Valor; Bravery; Japanese; America


THE MAN WHO RODE TO CONEMAUGH, by JOHN ELIOT BOWEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Into the town of conemaugh
Last Line: "run for your lives to the mountain side!"
Subject(s): Conemaugh (river), Pennsylvania; Courage; Johnstown Flood (1889); Valor; Bravery


THE MARTIAL COURAGE OF A DAY IS VAIN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To think that such assurance can stand fast!
Subject(s): Napoleonic Wars; Courage


THE MEN OF MONOMOY, by JOE CONE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tell ye the story far and wide
Last Line: Who sleep on handkerchief shoal.
Subject(s): Courage; Men; Sacrifices; Soldiers; Story-telling; Valor; Bravery


THE MEN OF THE ALAMO, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To houston at gonzales town, ride, ranger, for your life
Last Line: "thermopylae left one alive -- the alamo left none."
Subject(s): Alamo; Bowie, James (1796-1836); Courage; Crockett, Davy (1786-1836); Santa Anna, Antonio Lopez De (1794-1876); Texas Revolution (1835-1836); Travis, William Barret (1809-1836); Valor; Bravery


THE MEN OF THE MERRIMAC, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail to hobson! Hail to hobson! Hail to all the valiant set
Last Line: Shame upon us, shame upon us, should the nation e'er forget!
Subject(s): Courage; Hobson, Richmond Pearson (1870-1937); Sea Battles; Spanish-american War (1898); Valor; Bravery; Naval Warfare


THE MIGHTY THREE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Watchfires are blazing on hill and plain
Last Line: And again he returned to his suffering
Subject(s): Courage;heroism;war; Valor;bravery;heroes;heroines


THE MOCK HERO, by MRS. LEICESTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Horatio, of idle courage vain
Last Line: And the black prince goes whimpering to bed!
Subject(s): Courage; Heroism; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines


THE MOTHERLAND, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I have borne in memory what has tamed
Last Line: Felt for thee as a lover or a child!
Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Valor; Bravery; Liberty


THE PASSING OF YOUTH, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At pisa, where the cypress-spires alway
Last Line: "beyond the flaming rampire of the world."
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Aging; Courage; Death; Melancholy; Pisa, Italy; Youth; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Dejection


THE PATH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far, far I've strayed me in the long endeavor
Last Line: And just ahead, my home.
Subject(s): Courage; Hope; Roads; Truth; Youth; Valor; Bravery; Optimism; Paths; Trails


THE PATRIOT; AN OLD STORY, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was roses, roses all the way
Last Line: T is god shall repay: I am safer so.
Subject(s): Arnold Of Brescia (1100-1155); Clergy; Courage; Reform & Reformers; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Valor; Bravery


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 8, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A fine young man on horseback
Last Line: Mean nothing when you're dead
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Courage; Death; Mortality; Youth; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The


THE PRICE, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whatever of freedom we own
Last Line: Unless you are willing to fight for it.
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


THE PRIVATE OF THE BUFFS; OR, THE BRITISH SOLDIER IN CHINA, by FRANCIS HASTINGS CHARLES DOYLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night, among his fellow roughs
Last Line: Because his soul was great.
Subject(s): China; Courage; Heroism; Patriotism; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines


THE QUALITY OF COURAGE, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Black trees against an orange sky
Last Line: Somewhere . . . In heaven . . . She walks . . . That . . . Road. . . .
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


THE RELIEF OF MAFEKING, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Success to colonel baden-powell and his praises loudly sing
Last Line: Passages from shakespeare which did their hearts delight.
Subject(s): Baden-powell, Robert (1857-1941); Courage; Heroism; Baden-powell Of Gilwell, 1st Baron; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines


THE RIDE OF COLLINS GRAVES, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No song of a soldier riding down
Last Line: For he offered his life for the people's sake!
Subject(s): Courage; Floods; Graves, Collins; Williamsburg, Massachusetts; Valor; Bravery


THE RIDERS OF THE PLAINS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who is it lacks the knowledge? Who are the curs that dare
Last Line: And they keep the peace of our people and the honour of british law.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Canada; Courage; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Honor; North West Mounted Police (canada); Canadians; Valor; Bravery; British Empire; England - Empire


THE ROAST BEEF OF OLD ENGLAND, by RICHARD LEVERIDGE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Our fathers of old were robust, stout, and strong
Last Line: And o, the old english roast beef!
Alternate Author Name(s): Loveridge, Richard
Subject(s): Beef; Courage; England; Food & Eating; Patriotism; Valor; Bravery; English


THE ROCK PILE, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here is the rock pile; so, blow on blow
Last Line: Do the birds sing? I do not know.
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


THE ROSARY OF MY TEARS, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some reckon their age by years
Last Line: It reaches the haven through tears.
Variant Title(s): Night Thoughts
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


THE SAILOR BOY, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He rose at dawn and, fired with hope
Last Line: Far worse than any death to me.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Courage; Sailing & Sailors; Valor; Bravery; Seamen; Sails


THE SHANNON AND THE CHESAPEAKE [JUNE 1, 1813], by THOMAS TRACY BOUVE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The captain of the shannon came sailing up the bay
Last Line: They lie apart at the mother-heart of god's eternal sea.
Subject(s): Chesapeake (ship); Courage; Sea Battles; Shannon (ship); War Of 1812; Valor; Bravery; Naval Warfare


THE SIEGE OF CORINTH, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the year since jesus died for men
Last Line: Thus was corinth lost and won!
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Variant Title(s): The Storming Of Corinth
Subject(s): Corinth, Greece; Courage; Valor; Bravery


THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 10, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Blow soft, ye winds, to soothe a hero's pillow
Last Line: Compared with that which in man's world we find!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Courage; Heroism; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines


THE SOLDIER'S RETURN, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O! Day thrice lovely! When at length the soldier
Last Line: The faithful tender arms with mute embracing.
Subject(s): Courage; War; Valor; Bravery


THE SONG OF THE BOW, FR. THE WHITE COMPANY, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What of the bow?
Last Line: And the land where the true hearts dwell.
Subject(s): Courage; England; Patriotism; Valor; Bravery; English


THE STIRRUP-CUP, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your eyes - and a thousand stars
Last Line: And where is the thing to defeat me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


THE SURPRISE AT TICONDEROGA [MAY 10, 1775], by MARY ANNA PHINNEY STANSBURY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas may upon the mountains, and on the airy wing
Last Line: Shine the names of ethan allen and his bold volunteers!
Subject(s): Allen, Ethan (1738-1789); American Revolution; Courage; Soldiers; Ticonderoga, Battle Of (1775); Valor; Bravery


THE TALENTS, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: We have not all the talents ten received
Last Line: Or word of thine bring smile to some sad face?
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


THE TEN THOUSAND, by JAMES THOMSON (1834-1882)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hence through the continent ten thousand greeks
Last Line: "to cries resounding loud ""the sea! The sea!"
Alternate Author Name(s): B. V.; Bysshe Vanolis
Subject(s): Courage; War; Valor; Bravery


THE TEST, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He fears not death, and therefore he is brave'
Last Line: If he have lived his life with dauntless heart.
Subject(s): Courage; Death; Life; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The


THE TITANIC, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tell me, do ye never hear it when the wind is / from the sea?
Last Line: Was that loyal note of courage which goes singing through the world!
Subject(s): Courage; Disasters; Fights; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship); Valor; Bravery


THE UNFORGOTTEN HEROES, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark! How the orient's bells are proclaiming
Last Line: Something of sympathy, something of tears.
Subject(s): Asia; Courage; Heroism; Memory; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines


THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by MARGARET STINEBACK    Poem Text                    
First Line: His dreams have all grown lovely with the years
Last Line: Along the path of peace—god's path—instead!
Subject(s): Courage; Graves; Peace; Social Protest; Soldiers; Unknown Soldier; War; Valor; Bravery; Tombs; Tombstones


THE UNSUNG HOUR, by HERBERT KAUFMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You glorify him as a hero, and you crown him
Last Line: When his lust burned his veins into cinder, and in passion, he spared her soul.
Subject(s): Courage; Fights; Soldiers; War; Valor; Bravery


THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES; THE 10TH SATIRE OF JUVENAL, IMITATED, by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784)    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let observation with extensive view
Last Line: And makes the happiness she does not find.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson, Dr.
Subject(s): Austria; Charles Vii, Holy Roman Emperor; Charles Xii, King Of Sweden (1682-1718); Courage; Freedom; Harley, Edward. 2d Earl Of Oxford; Hyde, Edward. 1st Earl Of Clarendon; Laud, William. Archbiship Of Canterbury; Lydiat, Thomas (1572-1646); Pride; Sedle


THE VOICE OF THE WORM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The prophets and the saints forever keep
Last Line: "and cries, ""have courage! Live!"
Subject(s): Courage; Death; Devil; Pain; Prophecy & Prophets; Saints; Voices; Worms; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Suffering; Misery


THE VOLUNTEERS: A CHALLENGE, by CHARLES MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come if you dare, reivers and raiders!
Last Line: Yes! Every one of you, come if you dare!
Subject(s): Bullets; Courage; Fire; Guns; Valor; Bravery


THE WHIRLPOOL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: He was caught in the whirlpool of dismay
Last Line: "it will give you the courage to meet face to face, / the changeable whirlpool of life"
Subject(s): Courage; Valor;bravery


THE WINDS OF FATE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: One ship drives east and another drives west
Last Line: And not the calm or the strife.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Variant Title(s): Ships East And West
Subject(s): Courage; Religion; Valor; Bravery; Theology


THE WOODS OF WESTERMAIN, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Enter these enchanted woods
Last Line: You who dare.
Subject(s): Courage; Environment; Forests; Magic; Mythology; Trees; Valor; Bravery; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Woods


THE YOUNG VOLUNTEER, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: With a knock upon the window comes the young volunteer
Last Line: All the greater the recruiting of this dead volunteer.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Courage; Death; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The


THEOLOGY IN EXTREMIS, by ALFRED COMYNS LYALL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oft in the pleasant summer years
Subject(s): Courage; Martyrs


THERE AIN'T NO NEED TO, by ST. CLAIR ADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: When you're out hunting with your pup
Subject(s): Courage


THERE WAS AN OLD MAN OF BOULAK, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Which might vex you, old man of boulak!
Subject(s): Courage; Crocodiles


THEY ONLY LIVE WHO DARE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stand upright! Speak thy thoughts! Declare
Subject(s): Courage


THIS TO DO, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have this that I must do
Last Line: Purse of my body and buy courage. %paying for it with the coins of my breath
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Courage


THOMAS AT CHICKAMAUGA, by KATE BROWNLEE SHERWOOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: It was that fierce contested field where chickamauga lay
Last Line: "they in the thickest fight shall stand and proudly answer, ""here!"
Subject(s): American Civil War; Chickamauga, Battle Of (1863); Courage; Thomas, George Henry (1816-1870); U.s. - History; Valor; Bravery


THREE THINGS, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Three things are given man to do
Subject(s): Courage


TO A SUCCESSFUL MAN; (WHAT THE GHOSTS SAID), by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And after all the labour and the pains
Last Line: In your last dreams they may come back to you.
Subject(s): Courage; Dreams; Faces; Fame; Labor & Laborers; Love; Valor; Bravery; Nightmares; Reputation; Work; Workers


TO AN OAK TREE, FR. WAVERLEY, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Emblem of england's ancient faith
Last Line: Rome bound with oak her patriots' brows, %as albyn shadows wogan's tomb
Subject(s): Courage; Oak Trees


TO HIS MOTHER, C. L. M., by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the dark womb where I began
Last Line: O grave, keep shut lest I be shamed
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Variant Title(s): C. L. M
Subject(s): Courage; Mothers


TO MUFFET, by ALMA TATUM GARNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Early the fires of life burned fierce
Last Line: Melts the heart and soul.
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


TO THE MAN WHO FAILS, by ALFRED JAMES WATERHOUSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let others sing to the hero who wins in the ceaseless
Subject(s): Courage


TODAY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: With every rising of the sun
Subject(s): Courage


TOLLABLE WELL!', by FRANK LEBBY STANTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Spite o' the tempests a-blowin'
Subject(s): Courage


TORY PARODY OF 'THE BRAVE AMERICANS ALL' SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come, shake your dull noddles, ye pumpkins, and bawl
Last Line: Protected and free %in folly, etc
Subject(s): American Revolution; Courage; Freedom


TRAVELLER; OR, A PROSPECT OF SOCIETY, by OLIVER GOLDSMITH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow
Last Line: To men remote from power but rarely known, %leave reason, faith, and conscience all their own
Variant Title(s): Hollan
Subject(s): Courage; Travel


TREES, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I think that I shall never see / a poem lovely as a tree
Last Line: But only god can make a tree.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce
Subject(s): Animals; Courage; Environment; Faith; Gardens & Gardening; Holidays; Religion; Soldiers; Travel; Trees; World War I; Valor; Bravery; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Belief; Creed; Theology; Journeys; Trips; First World War


TRUE BALM, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: High-spirited friend / I send nor balms nor corsives to your wound
Last Line: Even in youth.
Variant Title(s): An Ode;the Noble Balm
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


TRUE HEROISM, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let others write of battles fought
Subject(s): Courage


TRUE UNTIL DEATH, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a' for our rightfu' king
Last Line: The lee-lang night, and weep.
Variant Title(s): The Farewell;it Was A' For Our Rightfu' King
Subject(s): Absence; Courage; Separation; Isolation; Valor; Bravery


TRY, TRY AGAIN, by T. H. PALMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tis a lesson you should heed
Last Line: You will conquer, never fear; %try, try again
Subject(s): Courage


TWO, by EVERARD JACK APPLETON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now, if aught be true, then this holds true
Subject(s): Courage


ULRIC DAHLGREN, by KATE BROWNLEE SHERWOOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: A flash of light across the night
Last Line: In our republic's coronet!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Courage; Dahlgren, Ulric; Richmond Campaign (1864); U.s. - History; Valor; Bravery


UNC' RASTUS TO MARSE DEWEY, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: My dear mars dewey: we sutney is please
Last Line: O' de heroes what comes f'm de conq'rin' o' spain.
Subject(s): Courage; Heroism; War; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines


UNCONQUERED, by ROSE GOULD CLARK    Poem Text                    
First Line: I did not know if stalwart courage you possessed
Last Line: Your soul, in victory, sounds faith's triumphant note.
Subject(s): Courage; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Valor; Bravery


UNCONQUERED, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have fallen once, I have fallen thrice
Last Line: The path that the weaklings flee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


UNDER A THOUSAND WORDS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A thousand words on courage. -this request
Last Line: "but you call this instinct."
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Courage; Writing & Writers; Valor; Bravery


UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 25. MOTHER AND SON, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not yours, o mother, to complain
Last Line: So sits the while at home the mother well content.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Courage; Mothers; Valor; Bravery


UNKNOWN HERO, by WILLIAM GORDON MCCABE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sweet malvern hill is wreathed in flame
Subject(s): Courage


UNLESS IT WAS COURAGE, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Again today, balloons aloft in the hazy here
Last Line: But I was happy, and my happiness made others happy.
Subject(s): Courage; Happiness; Hot-air Balloons; Valor; Bravery; Joy; Delight


UPON A DYING LADY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With the old kindness, the old distinguished grace
Last Line: It is about to die.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Christmas Trees; Courage; Death; Dolls; Toys; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The


VALIANT REDRESS, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss
Subject(s): Courage


VALOR, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the reproofs of chance
Subject(s): Courage


VALOUR, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is held %that valour is the chiefest virtue, and
Subject(s): Courage


VI ET ARMIS, by ANDREW DOWNING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis an ancient roman proverb
Last Line: You can conquer if you will!
Subject(s): Courage; Life; Strength; Victory; Valor; Bravery


VICTORY, by KARL E. MUNDT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A morning sunrise on a western plain!
Last Line: The world now teems with opportunity.
Subject(s): Courage; Victory; Valor; Bravery


VIKING-THROES, by DARRELL FIGGIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Life's a battle, full of stress
Alternate Author Name(s): Ireland, Michael
Subject(s): Courage


VIOLET SHEEHY, by ANN WHITFORD PAUL    Poem Source                    
First Line: High heat met dry timber! Fire out of control!
Last Line: Stumbled onto the train that churned through the blaze
Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes


VOLUNTEER BOYS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hence with the lover who sighs o'er his wine
Last Line: But health and success to the volunteer %boys
Subject(s): American Revolution; Courage; Military Service, Voluntary; Soldiers


WANDA GAG, by ANN WHITFORD PAUL    Poem Source                    
First Line: When father died, the neighbors told her
Last Line: Supported by her artist's pen
Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes


WAR, by HERBERT CADETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Private smith of the royals; the veldt and a slate-black sky
Subject(s): Courage


WASHINGTON BY THE DELAWARE, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The snow was red with patriot blood
Last Line: Think, think of washington!
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin
Subject(s): American Revolution; Courage; Delaware (river); Trenton, Battle Of (1776); Valor; Bravery


WATCH YOURSELF GO BY, by STRICKLAND GILLILAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Just stand aside and watch yourself go by
Last Line: Have stood aside and watched yourself go by.
Variant Title(s): A Cure For Fault-finding
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


WAYWARD WINGS, by EDWARD GRUSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hope rose triumphant, when ascending wings
Last Line: To tyros skies lay not their secrets bare.
Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Courage; Youth; Valor; Bravery


WEALTH, by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784)    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To purchase heaven has gold the power?
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson, Dr.
Subject(s): Courage


WHAT ENDURES?, FR. SONG OF THE BLOOD-AXE, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing endures but personal qualities
Subject(s): Courage


WHAT INDEED?, by GRANTLAND RICE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The road's a trifle hard ahead
Subject(s): Courage


WHERE EVERY BIRD IS BOLD TO GO, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Must thrust the tears away
Subject(s): Courage


WHERE IGNORANCE IS BLISS, by THOMAS GRAY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To each his sufferings: all are men
Subject(s): Courage


WHERE THERE'S A WILL THERE'S A WAY, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We have faith in old proverbs full surely
Last Line: "for ""where there's a will there's a way."
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


WHICH PATH SHALL YOURS BE?, by RAY D. SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: What is there in living when one has lost all
Last Line: Which of them shall yours be — the weak or the strong?
Subject(s): Courage; Hope; Roads; Strength; Valor; Bravery; Optimism; Paths; Trails


WHISTLER, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whistle, old chap; you just go on and
Subject(s): Courage


WHITE IRIS, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN    Poem Text                    
First Line: When my lord condemned her to death
Last Line: Women are braver creatures now.
Subject(s): Courage; Daughters; Pain; Women; Valor; Bravery; Suffering; Misery


WILL, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O, well for him whose will is strong
Last Line: The city sparkles like a grain of salt.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery


WILMA RUDOLPH, by ANN WHITFORD PAUL    Poem Source                    
First Line: One leg was bent; her foot turned in
Last Line: She ran %and ran %and ran
Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes


WINNER, by GRANTLAND RICE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The cove who never kids himself
Subject(s): Courage


WINTER STARS, by LARRY LEVIS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Aging; Courage; Stars; Sickness; Valor; Bravery; Illness


WITH YOU, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I would not have them back again
Last Line: With you, sweet heart, with you!
Subject(s): Courage; Life; Love; Tears; Valor; Bravery


WORDS WITH WALLACE STEVENS, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You were so rash. I'd play saying
Last Line: Dress, lolling in the garden, longing....
Subject(s): Collaboration; Courage; Faith; God; Innocence; Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955); Valor; Bravery; Belief; Creed


WORK FOR SMALL MEN, by SAM WALTER FOSS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Don't hate your neighbor if his creed
Subject(s): Courage


WORK THROUGH IT ALL, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hope, tho' misfortune o'ertake you
Last Line: Your hands busy working withal.
Subject(s): Courage; Labor & Laborers; Sacrifices; Valor; Bravery; Work; Workers


YORK OF TENNESSEE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They say his rifle, ringing
Last Line: Bold york of tennessee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Courage; Soldiers; Tennessee; York, Alvin Cullum (1887-1964); Valor; Bravery