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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DUTY Matches Found: 82 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "BEDLAM: A POEM ON HIS MAJESTY'S HAPPY ESCAPE, SELS.", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: What mean these loud aerial cracks I hear? Last Line: "to see thy towering temple shine so fair / through the night-flaming, elemental air" Subject(s): Escapes;freedom;guard Duty; Fugitives;liberty A DOMESTIC POEM FOR PORTIA, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is all it is Last Line: The light of what we are, has to be enough. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Duty; Memory A FAREWELL TO POETRY, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Arcadian scenes adieu! In cyrrha's vale Last Line: Tho' ev'ry moving trill be steep'd in tears. Subject(s): Duty; Farewell; Great Britain; Patriotism; Poetry & Poets; Parting AND THEY OBEY, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Smash down the cities Last Line: You are workmen and citizens all: we command you. Subject(s): Duty; Soldiers; World War I; First World War ANTS, by DAISY WRIGHT FIELD Poem Text First Line: I read of a man who was tied down Last Line: By the little things. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Wright Subject(s): Ants; Duty; Insects; Women; Bugs BEFORE THE JUDGMENT-SEAT, by SHIHO OKAMOTO Poem Text First Line: A little heart to judgment-seat was brought Last Line: "with this fair, cruel sister I will dwell!" Subject(s): Duty; Fate; Destiny BY THE RIVERS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: That spring he was fourteen Last Line: By the rivers of salt. Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Duty; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Survival; Shoah; Judaism CHIMALPOA; A MONODRAMA - FOUNDED ON AN EVENT IN THE MEXICAN HISTORY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Subjects! Friends! Children! I may call you my children Last Line: Perform your office! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Duty; History; Mexico; Public Worship; Sacrifices; Dead, The; Historians; Church Attendance CHRISTMAS IN WARTIME: 1916, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cheer oh, comrades, we can bide the blast Last Line: If duty done makes all the others brighter. Subject(s): Christmas; Comfort; Duty; War; World War I; Nativity, The; First World War CONTENT, by LONA COX SMITH Poem Text First Line: This day of mine was full of tasks Last Line: Just ere the setting sun. Subject(s): Duty DUTY, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sweetest lives are those to duty wed Last Line: Of service which thou renderest. Variant Title(s): Reward Of Service Subject(s): Duty; Religion; Theology DUTY, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Duty - that's to say, complying Last Line: Pure nonentity of duty! Subject(s): Duty DUTY, by ELLEN STURGIS HOOPER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I slept and dreamed that life was beauty Last Line: A noonday light and truth to thee. Variant Title(s): Beauty And Duty Subject(s): Duty; Religion; Theology DUTY, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When duty comes a-knocking at your gate Last Line: And bring seven other duties to your door. Subject(s): Duty ECLOGUE: THE 'LOTMENTS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Zoo you be in your groun' then, I do zee Last Line: If I could get a little patch o' ground. Subject(s): Duty; Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Property; Social Protest; Spring; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers; Possessions ELEGY ON A QUID OF TOBACCO, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It lay before me on the close-grazed grass Last Line: Thou didst thy duty, man can do no more. Subject(s): Duty; Pleasure; Snuff (tobacco); Substance Abuse; Temptation; Addictive Behavior FOR THE UNION DEAD, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The old south boston aquarium stands Variant Title(s): Colonel Shaw And The Massachusetts 54 Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Boston; Duty; Heroism; Massachusetts; Monuments; Racism; Saint-gaudens, Augustus (1848-1907); Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; United States - History; Heroes; Heroines; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry FOR THE UNION DEAD, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old south boston aquarium stands Last Line: A savage servility %slides by on grease Variant Title(s): Colonel Shaw And The Massachusetts 5 Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Boston; Duty; Heroism; Massachusetts; Monuments; Racism; Saint-gaudens, Augustus (1848-1907); Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; U.s. - History GOTHAM, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: Far off (no matter whether east or west) Last Line: I know it duty, and I feel it fame. Subject(s): Duty; Freedom; Gold; Great Britain - Rulers; Liberty GUARD DUTY, by TONY+(1) CURTIS Poem Source First Line: A cold lspring morning in berlin Last Line: Startle the thing into so many bloody pieces Subject(s): Berlin, Germany; Guard Duty; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945) GUARD DUTY, BIEN HOA, 1968, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He was just another soldier Last Line: No one sleeps anymore Subject(s): Guard Duty; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 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 IT IS MY DUTY (1), by F. JOHN HERBERT Poem Source First Line: And it is my duty to say yesterday Last Line: That is our rate of salt %that is our agreement of chrome and autumn Subject(s): Duty; Military; Presidents, United States; World War I - Naval Actions JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 3, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair dawn'd the morning, and the early sun Last Line: "we ratify thy mission. Go in peace." Subject(s): Duty; Faith; France; Heroism; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Religion; Belief; Creed; Heroes; Heroines; Theology JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 4, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The feast was spread, the sparkling bowl went round Last Line: "we march to rescue orleans from the foe." Subject(s): Duty; France; Heroism; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Love; Man-woman Relationships; Missions & Missionaries; Obedience; War; Heroes; Heroines; Male-female Relations JOY AND DUTY, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Joy is a duty, --so with golden lore Last Line: "life is divine when duty is a joy." Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Clergy; Duty; Happiness; Wisdom; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Joy; Delight KEEP TROTH, by BASIL BUNTING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When algebra is done, boys Last Line: Keep troth and spoken time Subject(s): Schools; England; Patriotism; Duty; Students KIND OF AN ODE TO DUTY, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O duty %why hast thou not the visage of a sweetie or a cutie? Last Line: That in the words of the poet, when duty whispers low, thou must, %this ertswhile youth replies, I j Subject(s): Duty LOVE, NOT DUTY, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thought may well be ever ranging Last Line: Above all things -- mind it, mind it! Subject(s): Duty MEDICINE 2; FOR JOHN MURRAY, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the nurses, interns, doctors came running full tilt down the hall Last Line: But that was his job: to just stand there and watch her die. Subject(s): Duty; Euthanasia; Hospitals; Physicians; Women; Women's Rights; Doctors; Feminism NIGHT; AN EPISTLE TO ROBERT LLOYD, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: When foes insult, and prudent friends dispense Last Line: Alone, than err with millions on thy side. Subject(s): Duty; Facades; Lloyd, Robert (1733-1764); Mankind; Morality; Night; Appearances; Human Race; Ethics; Bedtime NOT NOW, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The path of duty I clearly trace Last Line: "oh, not to-day: not now!" Subject(s): Duty; Failure ODE TO DUTY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stern daughter of the voice of god Last Line: And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live! Variant Title(s): To Duty Subject(s): Duty; Religion; Theology ODES: BOOK 2: ODE 9. AT STUDY, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whither did my fancy stray? Last Line: Languishes for true content. Subject(s): Duty OF CAUTION, by FRANCESCO DA BARBERINI Poem Text First Line: Say, wouldst thou guard thy son Last Line: Be free of fruit to all. Alternate Author Name(s): Barberino, Francesco Da Variant Title(s): Sentenze Of Caution Subject(s): Guard Duty; Italian Renaissance; Prudence; Caution ON A SAINT'S DAY, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And long ere dinner-time I have / full eight close pages wrote Last Line: Well done, sir walter scott! Subject(s): Duty; Writing & Writers ONE NIGHT ON GUARD DUTY, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The first salvo is gone before I can turn Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Guard Duty PHI BETA KAPPA POEM; HARVARD, 1914, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, friends, and scholars, we are here to serve Last Line: The sunrise kindling all the peaks with fire. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Duty; Harvard University; Idealism; New England; Tradition; Heritage; Heredity POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 6. INSTRUCTION, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Midnight, and duty. Dully, I divide Last Line: Taken and trapped ... And slave. Subject(s): Duty; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen PRISON AS A GRAY BOX, by HELEN DEGAN COHEN Poem Source First Line: There is something you refuse to recognize Last Line: Then we are afraid Subject(s): Guard Duty; Prisons And Prisoners REGRET OF THE RANEE IN THE HALL OF PEACOCKS, by ADELE FLORENCE CORY NICOLSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This man has taken my husband's life Last Line: Take him away to death! Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, Laurence Subject(s): Assassination; Duty; India; Passion; Regret RESPONSIBILITY, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Have you ever seen god Last Line: Baroque sustenance of the people Subject(s): Creation; Duty; God SEHNSUCHT, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whence are ye, vague desires Last Line: Than you. Subject(s): Duty SEVENTH ECLOGUE, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: It's getting dark; the wild oak fence is is hemmed Last Line: I can not die, I can not live without you Subject(s): Guard Duty; Prisoners Of War; Writing And Writers SIR PATRICK SPENS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: "the king sits in dunfermline town [or, dumferling toune]" Last Line: "and there lies gude [or, good, guid] sir patrick spens, / with the scots lords at his feit [or, fee Variant Title(s): Sir Patrick Spence Subject(s): Disasters;drowning;duty;sailing & Sailors;sea;shipwrecks;war; Ocean SKIPPER IRESON'S RIDE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the rides since the birth of time Last Line: By the women of marblehead! Subject(s): Disasters; Duty; Ireson, Floyd; Marblehead, Massachusetts; Shipwrecks SO NIGH IS GRANDEUR TO MAN, by ? COOK Poem Source Subject(s): Duty; Philosophy And Philosophers SOLEDAD POEMS: UPSTAIRS IN THE EDUCATION WING, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source Last Line: They are mutant locusts %laying eggs in the dead Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Guard Duty; Police; Prisons And Prisoners SOLEDAD PRISON POEMS: FULL MOON OVER SOLEDAD, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: The light of a full moon Last Line: Like the wing of an owl Subject(s): Guard Duty; Police; Prisons And Prisoners; Solitude SOMETIMES, by PEARL SATTER YERKES Poem Text First Line: Sometimes it's hard to listen Last Line: To everything but pain! Subject(s): Duty STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whose woods these are I think I know Last Line: And miles to go before I sleep. Subject(s): Duty; Evening; Forests; Religion; Snow; Solitude; Winter; Sunset; Twilight; Woods; Theology; Loneliness THE ADVANCE GUARD, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They fret and fume at the humdrum round round of sleep and food and toil Last Line: For civilization dogs the heels of a highly uncivilized crew. Subject(s): Guard Duty; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers THE ASS SPEAKS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the little ass of christ Last Line: The whip, for jesus christ his sake. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Asses & Mules; Christmas; Duty; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary; Theology THE BEYOND, by MYRTILLA FILSON STEWART Poem Text First Line: To the great beyond we're plunging Last Line: It pays to live true to our god. Subject(s): Duty THE BUGLE, by EDWARD FORRESTER SUTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh calling, and calling, at the rising of the sun Last Line: "I call, I call!" Alternate Author Name(s): Sutton, E. Subject(s): Bugles; Duty; Faith; God; Messengers; Patriotism; Belief; Creed THE BURDEN, by MARIANNE FARNINGHAM HEARN Poem Text First Line: To every one on earth Last Line: Her joy and god's high praise. Subject(s): Duty THE CELLAR, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want my father to stop sending me down there Last Line: Yet another cry for mercy. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Antwerp, Belgium; Betrayal; Cellars; Duty; Fathers & Daughters; Food Habits; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Penance; Potatoes; Shame; Survival; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Basements; Shoah; Judaism 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 CONFLICT: 2. AMERICAN NEUTRALITY, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall we keep an armed neutrality Last Line: Our souls cannot keep neutral and keep true. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Duty; England; Peace; United States; World War I; English; America; First World War THE CONFLICT: 4. WILSON, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Patience - but peace of heart we cannot choose Last Line: The wolf of europe has not triumphed yet. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Duty; Patience; United States; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924); World War I; America; First World War THE ENGLISH BOY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look from the ancient mountains down Last Line: The altars of the land. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Duty; England; Youth; English THE KNITTING, by MARGARET BARBER Poem Text First Line: What will it be when I am done?' she said Last Line: "I should go mad more quickly; so I knit." Subject(s): Duty THE OLD CHICKASAH TO HIS GRANDSON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now go to the battle, my boy Last Line: Till the steps of thy coming I see. Subject(s): Duty; Grandchildren; Grandparents; Native Americans; War; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE OVERLAND MAIL, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the name of the empress of india, make way Last Line: In the name of the empress the overland-mail. Subject(s): Duty; India - British Rule; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 36, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What makes a young man grieve Last Line: These words pain an old man Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Aging; Chinese Literature; Duty; Grief; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 70, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A hermit's heart is heavy Last Line: The cinnamon trees detain him Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Duty; Grief; Hermits; Sorrow; Sadness THE PRODIGAL'S BROTHER SPEAKS, by BESS SAMUEL AYRES Poem Text First Line: Each night he talked of distant joppa's lure Last Line: And share vicariously his garnered sights. Subject(s): Brothers; Duty; Farm Life; Travel; Half-brothers; Agriculture; Farmers; Journeys; Trips THE QUESTIONING SPIRIT, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The human spirits saw I on a day Last Line: Come all to this true ignorance and thee. Subject(s): Duty THE SONG OF JUDITH, PARAPHAS'D FROM THE APOCRYPHA, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Begin the song! To god the timbrels strike Last Line: Roll'd in a deluge of sulphureous flame! Subject(s): Bible; Death; Duty; God; Grief; Israel; Judith (bible); Revenge; Seduction; War; Women In The Bible; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE SORCERESS OF THE MOON, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Its gates are griffin-guarded gates Last Line: The sorceress of the moon! Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Courts & Courtiers; Guard Duty; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE VOICE OF LOVE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was love who called me, a morning in the meadow Last Line: "and aid thy task,"" quoth he." Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Duty; Love THE WATCH BY NIGHT, by EMMA LEE GLENN Poem Text First Line: Centurion, centurion Last Line: Could keep immanuel from his throne. Subject(s): Guard Duty; Watchmen THREE GUESTS, by ETHEL SKIPTON BARRINGER Poem Text First Line: Fill joy's room with the sweet incense of Last Line: She deigns to stay -- always. Subject(s): Duty; Guests; Visiting TO A FRIEND, by ERNEST HARTSOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gold nights are these I spend Last Line: Of dreams: death cannot rob us much. . . . Subject(s): Death; Duty; Dead, The TO DUTY, by THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Light of dim mornings, shield from heat and cold Last Line: Oh, can it be, thine other name is heaven? Subject(s): Duty TO LUCASTA, [ON] GOING TO THE WARS, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind Last Line: Loved I not honour more. Variant Title(s): Going To The Wars;song Subject(s): Absence; Desire; Duty; Heroism; Honor; Love; Soldiers; War; Separation; Isolation; Heroes; Heroines WALKING GUARD DUTY WITH THE 81ST ARTILLERY, by STEPHEN BANKHEAD Poem Source First Line: I had searched long for this quiet, tranquil spot Last Line: They were shattered by a chopper's angry blade Subject(s): Guard Duty; Peace WAS THIS THE TASK?, by MARIE AUSTIN MAJOR Poem Text First Line: To hear the wind whistling Last Line: Or that herod might see -- one day? Subject(s): Duty WATCH BOOK, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: I was beautiful when it was summer Last Line: Cutting capers. It is eight o'clock. Time for bed. %that is all, is all Subject(s): Courthouses; Guard Duty; Kidnapping; Law And Lawyers; Prisons And Prisoners; Women - Captives WATCH DOGS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Peking and heide, two brave dogs Last Line: The waters, sky, and moon! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Guard Duty WHEN MY TURN COMES, by BARRETT EASTMAN Poem Text First Line: When my turn comes, dear shipmates all Last Line: All the long night through. Subject(s): Death; Duty; Fate; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The; Destiny; Seamen; Sails WILLIAM BROWN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He bore the name of william Last Line: All but the name of william brown. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Duty; Fate; God; Dead, The; Destiny |
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