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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 god—life'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 die—but 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 thrust—back 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 be—the 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, stood—victor 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