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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FIGHTS Matches Found: 207 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 3, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: Bats swallow my shadow Last Line: My hand on the horizon %of its tail the scaly sieve Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Fights; Mist; Mountains; Sea A DIALOGUE, OCCASIONED BY MARCH OF HIGHLANDERS INTO LANCASHIRE, 1745, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Were you not sadly frighten'd, honest harry Last Line: Harry. Yoi, sur, as lung as ere I con, I will. Subject(s): Blood; Fights; Lancashire, England; Scotland - Relations With England A FRAGMENT OF A DANISH SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: King christian stood beside the mast Last Line: "when juel comes, what strength shall try the fray?'" Subject(s): Fights;war 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 SONG OF BATTLE, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: How goes it, my brother, with you? Does the Last Line: O you with the weapon of godlife's splendid and terrible sword! Subject(s): Fights; Swords; Tyranny & Tyrants; Dictators A SONG OF THE WELSH, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a race in an island place which rose in the morning gleam Last Line: In a home that is ever the harp of song and legend and fairy tale. Subject(s): Fights; Freedom; Tyranny & Tyrants; Wales; Waterloo; Liberty; Welshmen; Welshwomen; Battle Of Waterloo A SURVEY OF THE AMPHITHEATRE, by MOSES BROWNE Poem Text First Line: On, pegasus! Why, whither turn ye? Last Line: To diebut get their living by't. Subject(s): Fights; Italian Renaissance; Sports - Arenas & Stadia; Theater & Theaters; Travel; Stage Life; Journeys; Trips A TAIL OF A KANGAROO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "it wasn't on the chinee coast, nor yet upon japan" Last Line: As their parents are to travellers who've anything to lose Subject(s): Fights;kangaroos;women AD ASTRA: 7, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: So thro' the change of days, when winter hoar Last Line: The mocking winds that desolate the earth! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fights; Hearts AFTER THE BATTLE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Once on a time, it matters little when Last Line: Of those that plucked them. Subject(s): Fights; War AGAINST DEATH, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mary ellen's eyelids grew purplish Last Line: Trying to make death die Subject(s): Death; Fights; Tuberculosis AMBOYNA: SONG OF THE SEA FIGHT, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who ever saw a noble sight Last Line: As this so brave, so bloody sea fight. Subject(s): Fights; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Singing & Singers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Songs AN ANCIENT FEUD, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The young rack the old Last Line: One all to lose. Subject(s): Aging; Death; Fights; Youth; Dead, The AN OLD SONG, by SOLOMON BLOOMGARDEN Poem Text First Line: In the blossom-land japan Last Line: "and one who sings her child to sleep." Alternate Author Name(s): Yehoash Subject(s): Death; Fights; Dead, The ANCIENT BALLAD: MUDARRA AND RODRIGO, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A-hunting went the noble knight %and don ridrigo was he hight Last Line: My father's curse and sancha's foe! %struck home the young mudarra Subject(s): Fights; Knights And Knighthood; Swords ANSELM KIEFER, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the border between reality and the imagination Subject(s): Fights; Reality ANSELM KIEFER, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the border between reality and the imagination Last Line: The rails battered to silence behind your back - Subject(s): Fights; Reality ARABIAN NIGHTS: PSALM OF BATTLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: God is praise and glory Last Line: Beside an eternal river of scented honey Subject(s): Death;fights;victory; "dead, The; AT BAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Desperate, at last I stand Last Line: But to greet you hand or fist. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fate; Fights; Life; Destiny AT THE BARRICADE, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was it a living woman there Last Line: "finish your work. Fire once again." Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Fights; Marching & Marches; Versailles, Frances ATTACK, 1940, by PABLO GUEVARA Poem Source First Line: Seeing the movements of cowherds Last Line: My two sane angels! Subject(s): Fights; Rotterdam, Netherlands AVENGING CHILDE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hurrah! Hurrah! Avoid the way of the avenging childe Last Line: My daughter now may pay the vow she plighted long ago!' Subject(s): Fights; Vengeance; Youth BAL MASQUE: 1915, by MARY CRAIG SINCLAIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sabres sing, the deep-bass guns resound Last Line: "till up from hell a voice commands: ""come home!" Alternate Author Name(s): Sinclair, Upton, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Enemies; Fights; War; Dead, The BALLAD OF FLORENTIN, by GEORGES DUHAMEL Poem Text First Line: He fought the fight for twenty days Last Line: And silently, not to wake her up. Subject(s): Death; Fights; Mothers & Sons; Dead, The BATTLE-CRIES, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, jim hez gone-ye didn't know? Last Line: Sick of his bloody spree. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Blood; Fights; Social Problems BILL MAYNE'S STORY, by R. HOLT Poem Text First Line: They were yarning in the bar-room of a shanty in the west Last Line: Bout that truthful little story told by mayne. Alternate Author Name(s): 6 X 8 Subject(s): Fights; Honesty; Story-telling BILL SWEENY OF THE BLACK GANG, by JAMES BARNES Poem Text First Line: Ther's a feller in the black gang Last Line: If they don't say! I'd like to know! Subject(s): Fights; Fire; Firefighters BIRDS, THE BEASTS, AND THE BAT, by FRANCIS HOPKINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A war broke out in former days Last Line: And his just fate in silence mourns Subject(s): Fights; French And Indian Wars; Victory; War BITCHFIGHT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: No fellas here (they're watching, though Last Line: To claw each other's eyes out. Subject(s): Fights; Violence; Women BOHUNK LOVE, by DEBORAH O'HARRA Poem Source First Line: We're coming off the grapevine careening Last Line: Alive with their terrible love Subject(s): Family Life; Fights; Love; Politics BOYS, THE BROOM HANDLE, AND THE RETARDED GIRL, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who was asking for it - Last Line: That flag they've hung there, though we'd all avoid %touching the girl Subject(s): Boys; Fights; Girls BROTHERS, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: We never fought %wars, though each Last Line: He said, cut me Subject(s): Airships; Aviation And Aviators; Brothers; Fights; Flight; War; World War Ii BUGLES, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It used to be Last Line: Our harry when we went away! Subject(s): Fights; Soldiers; War BUNKER'S HILL, OR THE SOLDIER'S LAMENTATION, by JOHN FREETH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am a jolly soldier, / enlisted years ago Last Line: Be destined to the cord. Alternate Author Name(s): Free, John Subject(s): American Revolution; Bunker Hill, Battle Of; Fights; Lament; Soldiers CAPTAN OF THE BUTTERFLIES, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: There is the captain of the butterflies Last Line: Reality is the greatest contagion Subject(s): Arms And Armor; Army Life; Fights; Soldiers CAPTIVE KNIGHT, by MIKHAIL YUREVICH LERMONTOV Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silent I sit by the prison's high window Last Line: Then my cold face from this visor uncloaking. Alternate Author Name(s): Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich Subject(s): Animals; Fights; Horses; Knights & Knighthood; Prisons & Prisoners; Swords; Convicts CASUALTIES: 16. AUGUST AFTERNOON, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the blind noon Last Line: After cats Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Anger; Fights; Terror CASUALTIES: 21. THE BEAST, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Long pronounced in tumult underground Last Line: For brother to hurl against brother Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Brothers; Dragons; Fights; Monsters 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 CLARA BARTON, by CHAMP ATLEE Poem Source First Line: She couldn't have believed Last Line: At the amusement park next door Subject(s): Fights; Violence; War; Women And War COMING CHANGES, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night came down upon the landscape - night and darkness, fear and gloom Last Line: But a truthful revelation, and a prophecy of light! Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Fights; Weapons; Ammunition CONDOR'S NEST, by OLEGARIO VICTOR ANDRADE Poem Source First Line: In the black shadow of the mountain-side Last Line: As once from his lone peak amid the sky! Subject(s): Argentina; Fights; South America; Victory CROSS PURPOSES, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Daddy voted for al smith Last Line: With marriage if it cost too much Subject(s): Fights; Religion CUBA CONFRONTATION, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With my hammer head Last Line: Deep in her pillow Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Cuba - Rebellions Against Spanish Rule; Fights DAWNING IN VALENCIA, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These blasting winds of march, caught in the attic Last Line: Tangling centaurs of love in your rose trees Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Fights; Spain; War DIALOGUE OF LIBERALS (1940), by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: Violence like a blank sure-footed beast Last Line: Lest we forget our subtler strengths as men Subject(s): Fights; Justice; Libertarianism DIFFERENT GAME, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He broke his jaw, lost the sight of one eye Last Line: A different game then. Red and yellow cards today. Subject(s): Blindness; Fights; Silence; Violence DISSONANCE, by T. A. WIGGINTON Poem Text First Line: An age - old song, in mystic minstrelsy Last Line: While harmony swept on to joy. Subject(s): Fights; Love DOMESTIC SCENES, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was nearly daylight when she gave birth to the child, Subject(s): Family Life; Stillbirth; Marriage; Death; Fights; Murder; Poisons & Poisoning; Relatives; Death - Childbirth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dead, The EARTH'S BATTLE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Fight well, encased in christ's armor Last Line: No matter what else betide. Subject(s): Bible; Fights; Religion; Religious Discrimination; Victory; Theology; Religious Conflict EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 13. CUPID IS A WARRIOR, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lovers are skilled in all the art of wars Last Line: Conceived his humour in her secret sport. Subject(s): Fights; Love ENCHANTED BAMBOO ARROW, by LARRY EVERS Poem Source First Line: Enchanted enchanted bamboo arrow Last Line: Decaying %decaying %decaying Subject(s): Fights; Landmark Preservation; Native Americans - Wars; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) EPIGRAM, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It happen'd lately at a fair, or wake Last Line: If I had had but any brains at all. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Fights ESTADIO CHILE, by VICTOR JARA Poem Source First Line: There are five thousand of us here Last Line: Will give birth to the moment Subject(s): Fascism And Fascists; Fights; Protest, Social; Violence EXHORTATION, by CATULLE MENDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou mayst be manly an thou wilt. Go! Clench thy hilt and brave the squall Last Line: Who in despair breathe living air and shrink in dread from death's release. Subject(s): Fights EXPERT DOPE, by NATE SALSBURY Poem Text First Line: When dempsey fights car-pon-ty-ay Last Line: Oh, well, thass up ta georges an' jack. Alternate Author Name(s): Ireland, Baron Subject(s): Fights EXTEMPORE VERSES ON A TRIAL OF SKILL BETWEEN MSSRS. FIGG AND SUTTON, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long was the great figg by the prize-fighting swains Last Line: Who scorn'd any fence but a jolly abdomen? Subject(s): Figg, James (1694-1734); Fights; Sutton, Ned 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 FALL IN!, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: We thought that reason had mastered men Last Line: In the name of our god -- fall in! Subject(s): Fights FAMILY BIBLE, by AL MASARIK Poem Source First Line: I didn't know him long Last Line: From the family bible Subject(s): Family Life; Fights; Holidays FEUD, by VIRGINIA STAIT Poem Text First Line: When the cruelest word of them all is spoken Last Line: What a rose would forget! Subject(s): Fights; Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements FIGHT GOES ON, by EDILBERTO COUTINHO Poem Source First Line: First half Last Line: It was such a pleasure baking it for you Subject(s): Fights; Human Rights; Mothers And Sons; Social Problems FIGHTERS, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: He stuns himself at these encounters Last Line: I bleed and I wait Subject(s): Fights; Poetry And Poets; War FIGHTING SOUTH OF THE CASTLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: They fought south of the castle Last Line: And at night you did not return Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);courts & Courtiers;fights;soldiers FIST FIGHT, by DOUG COCKRELL Poem Source First Line: An uncontrollable night %and mike wants more than blood Last Line: Around the bonfires, motorcycles appear; %women blush up to the light %and not even a cop car goes b Subject(s): Fights; Poetry And Poets FRAGMENTS FROM A CIVIL WAR: MINNESOTA 1863-64, by EVA HOOKER Poem Source First Line: The wind blows hard this winter, hard as god's mouth Last Line: Still now, like a thimble left at nightfall on the sill after sewing Subject(s): American Civil War; Civil War; Fights; Soldiers; U.s. - History FRIEDRICH'S VOW, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dusked and gathered the folds of the night Last Line: By a lone far valley of fair lorraine. Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Battleships; Blood; Death; Fights; Franco-prussian War (1870-1871); Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement GENERAL LESLY'S MARCH TO LONGMARSTON MOOR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "march, march / why, the deuce, do ye na march?" Last Line: "cock up your bonnets. March, march, etc" Subject(s): Fights;marching & Marches GHAZALS: 3, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The alfalfa was sweet and damp in fields where shepherds Last Line: Two walls of bone, brain veering, bucking in fatal velocity? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Farm Life; Fights; Imaginary Conversations; Agriculture; Farmers GOLDFINCH, MY FATHER, IN THE FORSYTHIA, by LEN ROBERTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He is going on forever Last Line: The one that shot straight %from the heart Subject(s): Fathers; Fights GRIN, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you're up against a bruiser Last Line: And grin. Subject(s): Fights GUARDS KNEELED, THEY RAISED THEIR WEAPONS, THEY FIRED', by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Finally is liberated, then they pull the body out Subject(s): Fights GUERRILLA'S GOODBYE, by JAVIER HERAUD Poem Source First Line: One afternoon he said to his girl Last Line: Alongside the guerrillas Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Fights; Guerrillas; Oppression HAMMER AND ANVIL, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: Look forth and tell me what they do Last Line: Men's hammers break, god's anvil stands. Subject(s): Fights; Judgments HARLOT ROBED IN WAR, by LAURENCE GOLDSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Well spoken, castor. You point the moral Last Line: Lies something purer than the muses' spring Subject(s): Fights; Militarism; Soldiers; Tragedy; War 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 HOW WE FIGHT, by MARK WARREN HALPERIN Poem Text First Line: As only those who lived together a long time Alternate Author Name(s): Halperin, Mark Subject(s): Fights; Relationships HYMN FOR THE HEALING OF STRIFE, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heroes of hampden's race, and ye Last Line: And bind the bonds of brotherhood! Subject(s): Africa; Fights; Freedom; Peace; Liberty 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'M NOT PLAYING AROUND, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER Poem Source First Line: A dozen scratches it takes Last Line: Making myself invisible Subject(s): Fights IDOL, by RICARDO JAIMES FREYRE Poem Source First Line: Oh, the incessant thunder that shakes the earth! Oh Last Line: Of redemption will light up the world Subject(s): Fights; Poetry And Poets IRON HEEL, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER Poem Text First Line: Through all the ages Last Line: Fight, fight, fight on! Subject(s): Fights; Monsters ISN'T IT TRUE!, by BERNICE GIBBS ANDERSON Poem Text First Line: Isn't it funny - this fight over money? Last Line: Isn't it queer? Subject(s): Fights KENTISH LINES IN WAR, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A saddle cornfield burnished van gogh-bright Last Line: And rides the evening on a loosened rein. Subject(s): Army Life; Fights; Soldiers; War; Drills & Minor Tactics 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 LATE ROUND, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: When the fighters slow down, moving towards eaach other Last Line: And are separated, but they don't let go Subject(s): Boxing And Boxers; Fights; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Sports LIGHTS, by ERNESTO CARDENAL Poem Source First Line: That top-secret flight at night Last Line: Of all that was about to come Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Central America; Fights; Nicaragua; Revolutions LONG JIM, by R. HOLT Poem Text First Line: We'd made a lively start away when 'mulga' had cut-out Last Line: "it's time, I think,"" said mayne, ""for us to clear." Alternate Author Name(s): 6 X 8 Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Death; Escapes; Fights; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Dead, The; Fugitives LOSSES, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: In every battle something dies Last Line: Hurt with the thing that anger smote. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Betrayal; Fights; Love - Complaints MAIDEN TRIBUTE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The noble king ramiro within the chamber sate Last Line: That day began our freedom, and wiped away our shame Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Fights; Moors (people); Spain - History MAN, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weak and puny, small and frail Last Line: Made him master of the world! Subject(s): Fights; Men; Soldiers; Strength MARCH OF BERNARDO DEL CARPIO, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: With three thousand men of leon, from the city bernard goes Last Line: But steadfast heart and spirit bold, alphonso ne'er shall sell Subject(s): Bernardo Del Carpio; Courts And Courtiers; Fights; Romance; Spain MINED, by JOEL T. ROGERS Poem Text First Line: Wearily, wearily, crawled the ship Last Line: As a woman shakes her hair. Subject(s): Battleships; Death; Fights; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The MISSED, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He fumed from the kitchen Last Line: Hers are black frost Subject(s): Anger; Family Life; Fights; Knives MOOR CALLAYNOS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I had six moorish nurses, but the seventh was not a moor Last Line: No more,' he cries, 'this moon will rise above the woods of seine!' Variant Title(s): The Moor Calayno Subject(s): Absence; Fights; Knights And Knighthood; Romance; Tyranny And Tyrants MOST OF ALL, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Did you enjoy the weekend, darling?:' Last Line: But most of all I loved the fight.' Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Fights MYTHE, by GREG RAPPLEYE Poem Source First Line: There is a couple with a baby Last Line: Or the end of the story Subject(s): Family Life; Fights NE'ER JAUP ANITHER'S FACE WI' GLAUR, by HUGH C. WILSON Poem Text First Line: Ye many who, in manhood's race, are lagging, left behind the few Last Line: Let each one look at hame afore he jaups anither's face wi' glaur. Subject(s): Fights NETTLES, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was running in the field with the tall nettles Subject(s): Fields; Fights; Pastures; Meadows; Leas NETTLES, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was running in the field with the tall nettles Last Line: Even I wouldn't come upon it until years later Subject(s): Fields; Fights NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 8. A HOST OF SPIRITS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We fought and saw the stars and fell Last Line: Take us; like men we fought. Subject(s): Death; Fights; Life; Dead, The O'TOOLE AND MCSHARRY, by THOMAS E. SPENCER Poem Text First Line: In the valley of the lachlan, where the perfume from the pines Last Line: Always flying from the ghost of con mcsharry. Subject(s): Desire; Fights; Friendship; Regret ON THE FREQUENT REVIEW OF THE TROOPS, by M. [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: Reviews are gaudy shows - allowed Last Line: "let causists tell us, if they can, / is england's welfare furthered?" Alternate Author Name(s): M. Subject(s): Death;england;fights;guns; "dead, The;english; OPENING SCENE FOR MACBETH - 1934, by PHILIP JEROME CLEVELAND Poem Text First Line: The three spare witches meet again Last Line: "has wars and money, too!" Subject(s): Fights; Soldiers; War OTHELLO'S REPORT, by RUDOLFO HINOSTROZA Poem Source First Line: ...Once in aleppo %yes, it was in aleppo Last Line: And a passion for love %tense as a tattoo, signorina' Subject(s): Fights; Memory; Moors (people); War OUR HOUSE, by MARCO MARTOS Poem Source First Line: In galleons, on war-horses, with their lances Last Line: Starving beggars, all claim us as their own Subject(s): Fights; Houses; Revolutions; War OUT OF THE RANKS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the bitter fight I have made my way Last Line: And hope for the dawn of a better day. Subject(s): Death; Faces; Fights; Tears; Dead, The PALESTINE, 1192-1917, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gallant knights of christendom riding out together Last Line: For lion-heart hath come again to claim you for his own. Subject(s): Fights; Knights & Knighthood; Palestine; War PALMYRA: OCTOBER 18, 1862, by CAROLINE COLLINS Poem Source First Line: Missouri: dark wind in the trees Last Line: Renegade, unrepentant, unforgiving Subject(s): American Civil War; Capital Punishment; Crime And Criminals; Fights; Military Service, Voluntary; Soldiers; U.s. - History; Violence PARTY, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My wife of forty years coughed, then melted into a nymphet Last Line: Even when he shrieked, 'you couldn't make a decent %sandal, you!' it barely bothered me. I swear Subject(s): Fights; Marriage POT AND KETTLE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Away! I cried, to a spiteful wasp Last Line: Should please your masters pot and kettle.' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Fights PROUD SONNET, by JEAN RICHEPIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The load we bear of trouble is self-made Last Line: You who would stab my heart, search where you will! Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Fights QUANTRILL'S RAID; LAWRENCE, KANSAS, AUGUST 21, 1863, by JAMES IRVIN MAGORIAN Poem Source First Line: Nothing out of the ordinary Last Line: A cat befuddled by the approaching horsemen Subject(s): American Civil War; Fights; Soldiers; U.s. - History QUESTION OF TIME, by ANTONIO CISNEROS Poem Source First Line: In 1964, %where your bearded eyes Last Line: Would have shipwrecked beneath the sun Subject(s): Death; Fights; Latin America - History; Soldiers; Spanish Armada REPLANTING THE PEACH ORCHARD, by RONALD E. MCFARLAND Poem Source First Line: The way blood flowed and flesh Last Line: Larry's pockets bulged with lead Subject(s): American Civil War; Civil War; Death; Fights; Military; U.s. - History; Violence; War - Casualties (statistics, Etc.) RIFLEMAN FORM!, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a sound of thunder afar Last Line: Riflemen, riflemen, riflemen form! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): The War Subject(s): Fights; Prudence; Rifles; Soldiers; Sound; Storms; Caution ROAST LEVIATHAN, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old jews!' well, david, aren't we? Last Line: Jeered at? Well, let them laugh. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Angels; Feasts; Fights; God; Jews; Monsters; Judaism SALTBUSH BILL'S SECOND FIGHT, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The news came down on the castlereagh, and went to the world at / large Last Line: They wish they could swear like stingy smith when he read that neighbour's note. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Fights; Sheep SAN JUAN, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stuttering gatling and sputtering / mauser Last Line: To set out for hell in a gentleman's way. Subject(s): Fights; Murder SANCHO SANCHEZ, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sancho sanchez lay a-dying in the house of mariquita Last Line: "he has thrown his hat behind him for the glory of the lord!" Subject(s): Bullfights & Bullfighters; Death; Fights; Spain; Dead, The SENSELESS ONES, by RAMON PINYOL Poem Source First Line: Senseless ones, workers lame and ignorant Last Line: Bosses to work, no more lords: our cry! Subject(s): Fights; Hunger; Labor And Laborers; Tyranny And Tyrants SMALL CRAFT, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When drake sailed out from devon to Last Line: All honour be to small craft, for oh! They've earned it well! Subject(s): Fights; Perseverance; Sea Battles; Ships & Shipping; World War I; Naval Warfare; First World War SMALL ODE TO A BLACK CUBAN BOXER, by NICOLAS GUILLEN Poem Source First Line: Your gloves Last Line: Know proud, authentic black! Subject(s): African Americans; Fights; Victory SMALL WAR, by GABRIEL FERRATER Poem Source First Line: They brought anti-tank mines, useless Last Line: All emblematic, immemorial Subject(s): Death - Children; Fights; Pyrenees (mountains), Europe; War SONGS OF SOULS THAT FAILED, by MARION COUTHOUY SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We come from the war-swept valleys Last Line: To cover our grief and rest. Subject(s): Cowardice; Fights; Riots; War; Weariness; Fatigue SOUNDS OF THE CITY, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: From where I sit the city's ceaseless roar Last Line: Whose every hour a tragedy reveals. Subject(s): Cities; Fights; Labor & Laborers; Urban Life; Work; Workers STILL LIFE: CONEY ISLAND & COUNTRY GYM, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: The guys who wrestled Last Line: Through the sand, love %I can feel it shaking Subject(s): Coney Island, New York City; Fights; Wrestling And Wrestlers SUFFRAGE, 1917: IMPRISONED FOR OBSTRUCTING TRAFFIC, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: I could not sleep thinking of the girl Last Line: Cell by cell, line by line, the voiceless and the free Subject(s): Fights; Labor Unions; Police; Prisons And Prisoners; Strikes; Women - Captives SWORD AND BUCKLER; OR, SERVING-MAN'S DEFENCE, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man that's neither borne to wealth, nor place Last Line: The serving-man to no estate comes short. Subject(s): Civil Service; Fights; Knights & Knighthood; Military; Patriotism; Soldiers; Swords SWORD AND BUCKLER; OR, SERVING-MAN'S DEFENCE: INTRODUCTION, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I that in seruice yet haue never knowne Last Line: To be your faithfull brother Subject(s): Brotherhood; Fights; Soldiers TAURONOMACHIA, OR FIGHT BETWEEN TAURUS AND ONOS, SELS., by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Therefore I beg, oh darling muse Last Line: This once: and hang me if I write again Subject(s): Fights; Science THE ANGRY ONES, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They are the smashers of harsh traditions Last Line: A thunderbolt from the hand of god! Subject(s): Anger; Fights THE ASSAULT, by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The beating of the guns grows louder Last Line: Cool madness. Subject(s): Army Life; Fights; Military; Soldiers; War; Drills & Minor Tactics THE BATTLE OF EH ALMA: FOUGHT IN 1854, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the heights of alma the battle began Last Line: Which was responded to by hurrahs, loud and clear. Subject(s): Alma, Battle Of The (1854); Blood; Crimean War (1853-1856); Death; Fights; War; Dead, The THE BATTLE OF FLODDEN FIELD, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the 9th of september, a very beautiful day Last Line: And king james the fourth of scotland, alas! Was dead! Subject(s): Army - Scotland; Fights; Flodden, Battle Of (1513) THE BATTLE OF OMDURMAN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye sons of great britain! Come join with me Last Line: And to establish what's right wherever they go. Subject(s): Death; Fights; Great Britain - History; Military; Victory; War; Dead, The; English History THE BOYS, THE BROOM HANDLE, AND THE RETARDED GIRL, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who was asking for it - Last Line: Touching the girl Subject(s): Boys; Fights; Girls THE CAMPEADOR'S SPECTRE HOST, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On leon's towers deep midnight lay Last Line: That more than men had fought for god! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Blood; Death; Fights; Spain; Swords; Dead, The THE CAPTURE OF HAVANA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year 1762 that france and spain Last Line: And the londoners applauded the british for the honours they had won. Subject(s): Battleships; Fights; Great Britain - Foreign Relations; Havana, Cuba; Victory THE CAPTURE OF LUCKNOW, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas near the begum kothie the battle began Last Line: "and enjoy yourselves, my heroes, while ye are here." Subject(s): Fights; Heroism; Honor; Military; Missions & Missionaries; War; Heroes; Heroines THE COLOR SERGEANT, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under a burning tropic sun Last Line: Yet true, in death, to his duty. Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Fights; Prejudice; San Juan Hill, Battle Of (1898); Soldiers; Spanish-american War (1898); Bias; Intolerance THE CONTEMPTIBLE NEUTRAL, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world was full of battle Last Line: While all the world's at war! Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Variant Title(s): The Looker-on Subject(s): Blood; Fights; Soldiers; War THE DUELL, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Sad fruit of misapplyed valour! Here Last Line: Yf thou in courage faylst, thy name of spirit? Subject(s): Fights; Future Life; God; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE FIGHT WITH THE SNAPPING TURTLE; OR, THE AMERICAN ST. GEORGE, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have you heard of philip slingsby Last Line: All in pennsylvanian bonds!' Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Clay, Henry (1777-1852); Fights; Turtles; Tyler, John (1790-1862); United States - Politics & Government; Webster, Daniel (1782-1852); Tortoises THE FIGHTING SWING, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once again the regiments marching down the street Last Line: Blood, dust, grapple and thrustback to the fighting swing! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Blood; Cowboys; Fights; Soldiers; War THE GLORY OF THE PAST, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: I dreamed of warriors bold Last Line: In days of long ago. Subject(s): Fights; Knights & Knighthood; Victory THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: EL HARITH, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lightly took she her leave of me, asma-u Last Line: Stoodst the day of hayáreyn. Our proof is proven! Subject(s): Arabia; Arabs - Women; Fights; Man-woman Relationships; Soldiers; War; Male-female Relations THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: LEBID, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone are they the lost camps, light flittings, long so Last Line: Woe be to all false friends! Woe to the envious! Subject(s): Arabia; Arabs - Women; Enemies; Fights; Friendship - False Friends; War; Fair Weather Friends THE GYMNASIAD, OR BOXING MATCH: BOOK 3, by PAUL WHITEHEAD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As when two monarchs of the brindled breed Last Line: High soared applause on acclamation's wing. Subject(s): Applause; Boxing & Boxers; Fights; Heroism; Victory; Heroes; Heroines THE HELMETS, A FRAGMENT, by THOMAS PENROSE Poem Text First Line: Twas midnight - every mortal eye was closed Last Line: The agonising priest. Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Fights; Soldiers 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 ILIAD: BOOK 22. HECTOR AND ACHILLES, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But when the two were met, and close at hand Last Line: "jove and th' immortal gods shall so decree." Subject(s): Fights THE LAST FIGHT, by LAURANCE J. NICOLSON Poem Text First Line: He left his home with failing hope and breath Last Line: "home! Home at last!" Alternate Author Name(s): Bard Of Thule Subject(s): Death; Fights; Dead, The THE LEPER KNIGHT; A LEGEND OF MALTA, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: St. Elmo's walls are high and strong Last Line: Had kept his vow in dying. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Fights; Knights & Knighthood; Legends; Malta; Muslims; Tyranny & Tyrants; Moslems THE LESSON, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One afternoon, as joseph west Last Line: Beat headstrong till he'd have no more. Subject(s): Boys; Fights THE LIVING DEAD, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Battles have you and I to fight and we Last Line: And only we know of the hell. Subject(s): Death; Fights; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness 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 MARCH WIN', by JAMES NORVAL Poem Text First Line: The march win' sat gurlin' on he room winnock sill Last Line: It's easy work to count their gains that daur the march win'! Subject(s): Fights THE PRIDE OF THE KINGS, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Two monarchs of the cymry on a hill Last Line: And cleft his skull, and bore the cloak away. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fights; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE REASONS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They sat before a dugout Last Line: "what?" Subject(s): Fights; Military; Patriotism; Soldiers; War THE REBEL SURPRISE NEAR TAMAI, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the 22nd of march, in the year 1885 Last Line: Just equally the same as in a foreign land. Subject(s): Fights; Pity; Revolutions; Sea Battles; War; Naval Warfare THE SAMURAI, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Samurai, take thy blade! Last Line: Honor to him who falls! Subject(s): Fights; Military; Victory THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 20, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: To the hoar king thus counsell'd eliduc Last Line: And battle shall he have both stark and grim!' Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Fights; Knights & Knighthood THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 22, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Defeat a brave man will not contemplate Last Line: Urged host on host god's coinage to debase. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Fights; Knights & Knighthood; Swords THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 23, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Now happen'd it as eliduc foresaw Last Line: Yet higher still the next its storm-crests threw! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Fights; Knights & Knighthood THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 25, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Surprised, out-flank'd by this new-breathed force Last Line: Than the soft clash and chime of closing swords! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Fights; Knights & Knighthood; Swords THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 26, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Sir eliduc's bright blade is at his throat Last Line: To dwell with those lost souls in battle slain. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Fights; Knights & Knighthood; Dead, The THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 3, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: In brittany there lived a stainless knight Last Line: In peace his counsel more and more prevail'd. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Fights; Knights & Knighthood THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 55, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: But swift upon their dream came winged fate Last Line: Pressingly to take ship across the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Fights; Knights & Knighthood THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 69, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Sir eliduc, now raised to highest trust Last Line: Any that cross'd his wing'd and fiery zeal! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Fights THE STORMING OF DARGAI HEIGHTS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the 20th of november, and in the year of 1897 Last Line: And give them always strength to put their enemies to flight. Subject(s): Death; Fights; Tragedy; War; Dead, The THE SURPRISE OF ANTIOCH, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mournfully beamed the pale moonlight Last Line: The traitor's head away! Subject(s): Blood; Christianity; Crusades; Fights; Swords THE TEMPTRESS, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old devil, when you come with horns and tail Last Line: Old devil, I must really own, you win. Subject(s): Devil; Fights; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub THE THIRD PERSON, by EDMUND VANCE COOKE Poem Text First Line: I know a man (accounted wise) Last Line: (and very much like you and me.) Subject(s): Fights; Food & Eating 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 TRAGEDY OF ASGARD: THE LAST BATTLE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Loud with a terrible clamour once again Last Line: Over that anguish flowed the unquiet sea. Subject(s): Fights; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Norse; Odin (norse God); Thor (norse God Of Thunder) 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 WILD BEAST, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One spring as I went walking Last Line: Upon an easter morn. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Fights; Lions THE YOUNG WARRIOR, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, shed no mournful tears Last Line: Unsheathed against the wrong. Subject(s): Fights; Justice; Soldiers THERE SWEPT ADOWN THAT DREARY GLEN, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Fights; Death; Sound; Dead, The THIRD PERSONS, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He shouldn't have been so accommodating Last Line: For such an intrusion Subject(s): Fights; Marriage THOROUGHBREDS (AN INCIDENT OF THE FIGHT AROUND ATLANTA), by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Straight at the breastworks, flanked with / fire Last Line: Will bethe sons of the thoroughbred! Subject(s): American Civil War; Camp-meetings; Fights; Militarism; Soldiers; U.s. - History; U.s. - Military Academy TO ARMS!, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: To arms! To arms! The heroes cry Last Line: "were there no honour, there would be no love" Subject(s): Arms & Armor;fights;heroism;soldiers; Heroes;heroines TO HAYDN, by THOMAS HOLCROFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who is the mighty master that can trace / the eternal lineaments of nature's fac Last Line: And consonance sublime amid confusion hears. Subject(s): Fights; Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809); Judgment Day; Thunder; War; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man TO THE MODERN BATTLESHIP, by ROBERT JAMES Poem Text First Line: Oh, men have fought with arrows Last Line: Three cheers for the battleship! Subject(s): Battleships; Enemies; Fights TO THE OTHER WOMAN, by BETTY MADSEN Poem Text First Line: One of us must lose this thing Last Line: And oh, be very proud that god has given you so much! Subject(s): Fights TOM THE PORTER, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As tom the porter went up ludgate hill Last Line: Took up his load and trudged into the city. Subject(s): Fights; Indifference; London; Pity; Revolutions TOTEM, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: How he tried to steal my words Last Line: A foaming stripped tiger becomes my totem Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Fights; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships TRANSLATIONS OF PINDAR: 6. TO AGESIAS OF SYRACUSE, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who seeks a goodly bower to raise Last Line: No meaner theme assign of poesy! Subject(s): Fights; Goddesses & Gods; Labor & Laborers; Mythology; Work; Workers TRIP-HAMMER WITH OVERTONES, by THOMAS DEL VECCHIO Poem Text First Line: Only idealists fight wide open Last Line: But you'll know him in victory. Subject(s): Fights; Hate TUSCALOOSA SAM, by ROBERT HENRY NEWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a man in arkansaw Last Line: "some whiskers, and four eyes!" Alternate Author Name(s): Kerr, Orpheus Variant Title(s): A Great Fight Subject(s): Fights; Strangers TWILIGHT, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: Behind this barn two men are fighting Last Line: And now, again, they fight Subject(s): Fights; Friendship - False Friends; Quarrels TWO SQUIRRELS FIGHT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: While chipmunks continue feeding Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Fights; Nature; Squirrels UNHAPPY ENDINGS, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In their first fight, collin jones, with his pale skin like mine Last Line: Bottles rain %on the ring: green vases exploding into white bouquets Subject(s): Fights; Social Problems; Social Workers UNTITLED LITTLE VERSES ..., by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The water is green. The two boats out at a distance Last Line: Of a field beside the green, winter sea. Subject(s): Animals; Fights; Horses; Life; Peasantry VENGEANCE OF MUDARA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: To the chase goes rodrigo with hound and with hawk Last Line: As he spake, there was blood on the spear of mudara Subject(s): Cruelty; Fights; Knights And Knighthood; Vengeance VICTOR JOFFRE!, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: The summer's night was falling o'er the / marne Last Line: In chaos. There calm and stern, stoodvictor joffre. Subject(s): Anxiety; Blood; Death; Fights; Patriotism; Soldiers; War; Dead, The VII TO CORINNA, by CATHERINE A. SALMONS Poem Source First Line: So that's how it is - I'm supposed to endure your constant Last Line: I give you my solemn oath: I'm not guilty as charged Subject(s): Fights; Relationships WAR (ON THE GERMAN INVASION OF BELGIUM), by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: They who take the sword Last Line: With the sword they shall be slain. Subject(s): Fights; Swords; Victory; World War I - Belgium WAR SONG: 1, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "hear my voice, birds of war!" Last Line: Bear your angers to the place of fighting Subject(s): Fights;native Americans;native Americans - Wars;ojibwa Indians;survival; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America WHERE THE SMOKE COMES FROM, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mangoes in moscow-and a biplane circling Last Line: And silence all the angels from ardennes, %who sing like wolves, like men: truth... I love much. Subject(s): Byzantine Empire; Cavalry; Cossacks; Fights; Revolutions; Russia - Army-military Life; Tyranny And Tyrants; War WOMEN THEY COULD KILL FOR, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two brothers laughing about it now Last Line: Clawing on a beer-wet linoleum floor Subject(s): Brothers; Fights; Jealousy; Women; Half-brothers WOMEN THEY COULD KILL FOR, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two brothers laughing about it now Last Line: Clawing on a beer-wet linoleum floor Subject(s): Brothers; Fights; Jealousy; Women WRITTEN IN THE NOUVEAUX INTERETS, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blest be the princes, who have fought Last Line: That happiness is but opinion. Subject(s): Fights; Happiness; Names; Joy; Delight WRONG WORDS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Don't tell me you can't remember Last Line: Stir cain in the blood Subject(s): Brothers; Fights; Past |
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