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Discover our poem explanations - click here!Searching... Subject: FIRST WORLD WAR Matches Found: 1016 11TH R.S.R., by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How bright a dove's wing shows against the sky Last Line: Not one, but by the host for ever marches. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War 1914, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sparrow has gone home into the tree Last Line: But pity to the hearts of men no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): World War I; First World War 1914-1918: THE DEAD SPEAK, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In the earth, in the seas, we remember Last Line: That we may not forgive? Subject(s): World War I; First World War 1914: 1. PEACE, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now god be thanked who has matched us with his hour Last Line: And the worst friend and enemy is but death. Variant Title(s): Peace Subject(s): Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War 1914: 2. SAFETY, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear! Of all happy in the hour, most blest Last Line: And if these poor limbs die, safest of all. Subject(s): Freedom; Love; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Liberty; First World War 1914: 5. THE SOLDIER, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: If I should die, think only this of me Last Line: In hearts at peace, under an english heaven. Variant Title(s): The Soldier Subject(s): Death; England; Environment; Fields; Flowers; Patriotism; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; English; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; First World War 1915, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hang the hills with black Last Line: You, man, arise! Subject(s): World War I; First World War 1915: FEBRUARY, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The smeared, leather-coated, leather-greaved engineer Last Line: The unseen twigs, breaking their tips with blossom. Subject(s): World War I; First World War 1915: THE TRENCHES, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: All night long, it has seemed for many years Last Line: Will the word come to-day? Subject(s): World War I; First World War 1916 SEEN FROM 1921, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tired with dull grief, grown old before my day Last Line: We crept in the tall grass and slept till noon. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War A BALLAD OF REDHEAD'S DAY [OCTOBER 8, 1918], by RICHARD BUTLER GLAENZER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Talk of the greeks at thermopylae! Last Line: Immortal at thirty; his faith sufficed. Subject(s): Argonne, Battle Of (1918); Heroism; World War I; York, Alvin Cullum (1887-1964); Heroes; Heroines; First World War A BATTLE SONG (WRITTEN IN THE WORLD WAR), by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peril surrounding Last Line: God for the right! Subject(s): World War I; First World War A BELGIAN CHRISTMAS EVE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, whose deep ways are in the sea Last Line: We know that thou art there. Variant Title(s): A Prayer In Time Of War Subject(s): Belgium; Christmas; World War I; Nativity, The; First World War A BLINDED POILU TO HIS NURSE, by AGNES LEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know you only by your tears Last Line: I know you only by your tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs. Subject(s): Hospitals; Mourning; Nurses; Soldiers; Tears; War; World War I; Bereavement; First World War A CALL TO ARMS, by MARY RAYMOND SHIPMAN ANDREWS Poem Text First Line: It is I, america, calling! Last Line: Arm, arm, americans! And remember, remember, the tuscania! Subject(s): Army - United States; Patriotism; World War I; First World War A CALL TO NATIONAL SERVICE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up and be doing, all who have a hand Last Line: So loud for promptness all around outcries! Subject(s): Great Britain; Patriotism; World War I; First World War A CHILD'S NIGHTMARE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Through long nursery nights he stood / by my bed unwearying Last Line: "saying for ever, ""cat! ... Cat! ... Cat!" Subject(s): World War I; First World War A CONFESSION OF FAITH, by JAMES SPRENT Poem Text First Line: Who would remember me were I to die Last Line: If I am worth it, keep my memory. Subject(s): Memory; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War A DEAD BOCHE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To you who'd read my songs of war / and only hear of blood and fame Last Line: Dribbling black blood from nose and beard. Subject(s): World War I; First World War A DREAM OF PEACE, by LILY PEARL CHAMBERLIN Poem Text First Line: I dreamed that peace had come, - that nevermore Last Line: The age of peace on earth, good will to men. Subject(s): Dreams; Peace; World War I; Nightmares; First World War A FARM NEAR ZILLEBEKE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Black clouds hide the moon, the amazement is gone Last Line: Black clouds hid the moon, tears blinded me more. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War A FINGER AND A HUGE, THICK THUMB (A BALLAD OF THE TRENCHES), by JAMES NORMAN HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was nearly twelve o'clock by the sergeant's watch Last Line: A finger and a huge, thick thumb. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War A HILL IN PICARDY, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a little hill in picardy Last Line: This lonely little hill in picardy! Subject(s): World War I; First World War A HOUSE IN FESTUBERT, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With blind eyes meeting the mist and moon Last Line: -- could summer betray you? Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War A HUN, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He was just a prisoner Last Line: Would never know how bravely a son had died. Subject(s): Courage; Death; Germany; Injustice; Prisoners Of War; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Germans; First World War A HYMN OF LOVE AND HATE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We hate war's horrible hell Last Line: For our love to come to its own. Subject(s): World War I; First World War A KISS, by BERNARD FREEMAN TROTTER Poem Text First Line: She kissed me when she said goodbye Last Line: Good-bye. Subject(s): Farewell; Kisses; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Parting; First World War A LETTER FROM THE FRONT, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was out early today, spying about Last Line: But it struck me as being extremely ludicrous. Subject(s): World War I; First World War A LETTER FROM THE TRENCHES, by CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have not brought my odyssey Last Line: But you'll forgive—you'll understand. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War A LETTER HOME (TO ROBERT GRAVES), by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Here I'm sitting in the gloom Last Line: While we know such dreams are true! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War A MESSAGE TO AMERICA, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You have the grit and the guts, I know Last Line: Oh, look over here and learn from france! Subject(s): France; Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919); Soldiers' Writings; Tolerance; United States; World War I; America; First World War A MILLION YOUNG WORKMEN, 1915, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A million young workmen straight and strong lay stiff on the grass and roads Last Line: God damn the grinning kings, god damn the kaiser and the czar. Subject(s): World War I; First World War A MOTHER'S DEDICATION, by MARGARET PETERSON Poem Text First Line: Dear son of mine, the baby days are over Last Line: God shall uphold you that you fight aright. Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; World War I; First World War A MYSTIC AS SOLDIER, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lived my days apart Last Line: When will you sound again? Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War A NEW YEAR'S EVE IN WAR TIME, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Phantasmal fears Last Line: To pale europe; and tiredly the pines intone. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; World War I; First World War A NIGHTINGALE AT FRESNOY, by JESSIE BELL RITTENHOUSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never, they say, were guns so loud Last Line: To sing the song of life! Alternate Author Name(s): Scollard, Clinton, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Life; Nightingales; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War A PETITION, by ROBERT ERNEST VERNEDE Poem Text First Line: All that a man might ask, thou hast given me, england Last Line: England, for thee to die. Subject(s): England; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; English; First World War A PICTURE OF SOLDIERS, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They are doughboys, of doughboy bearing Last Line: The next invention, the next impossible president. Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Soldiers; War; World War I; First World War A PRIVATE, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This ploughman dead in battle slept out of doors Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I; First World War A RALLY, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We that are english born and bred Last Line: Answer them -- answer them, england's sons! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): World War I; First World War A RENASCENCE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White flabbiness goes brown and lean, dumpling arms are now brass bars Last Line: Poetry is born again. Subject(s): World War I; First World War A SONG FOR AMERICA, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How comely is our motherland Last Line: And guard her as of yore. Subject(s): United States; World War I; America; First World War A SONG OF HEROES (WRITTEN IN THE WORLD WAR), by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our country calls for heroes Last Line: And for all the groaning earth! Subject(s): Heroism; World War I; Heroes; Heroines; First World War A SONG OF SHAME AND HONOR (WRITTEN IN THE WORDLD WAR), by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where's the man who will not hear Last Line: Honored through eternity! Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I; First World War A SONG OF THE SANDBAGS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No, bill, I'm not a-spooning out no patriotic tosh Last Line: The brotherhood of peace. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War A SONG OF WINTER WEATHER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It isn't the foe that we fear Last Line: And the mud. Subject(s): Death; War; Winter; World War I; Dead, The; First World War A SUBALTERN, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He turned to me with his kind, sleepy gaze Last Line: Wondering 'why he always talked such tripe'. Subject(s): Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War A SUMMER MORNING, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The summer meads are fair with daisy-snow Last Line: The ruthless wrong, the piteous agony! Subject(s): World War I; First World War A TERRE (BEING THE PHILOSOPHY OF MANY SOLDIERS), by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Sit on the bed. I'm blind, and three parts shell Last Line: To do without what blood remained these wounds. Subject(s): Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War A TRUE-BLUE BROADSIDE OF '14, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And what's the news, mr. Sergeant, what news, my soldier man?' Last Line: With a leetle more broth than he meant to spare 'twixt petersburg and france.' Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): World War I; First World War A WHISPERED TALE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'd heard fool heroes brag of where they'd been Last Line: Sour jokes for all those horrors left behind. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War A WORKING PARTY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three hours ago he blundered up the trench Last Line: His startled life with lead, and all went out. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War A YOUNG TREE, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are so few trees here, so few young trees Last Line: Could not our faith be more merciful? Subject(s): World War I; First World War A.E.F., by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There will bea rusty gun on the wall, sweetheart Last Line: They will tell the spider: go on, you're doing good work. Subject(s): Rifles; World War I; First World War A.G.A.V., by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rest you well among your race, you who cannot be dead Last Line: Vast tumult past, and the proud sense still of vast to-morrows to dare. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War ABSOLUTION, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The anguish of the earth absolves our eyes Last Line: What need we more, my comrades and my brothers? Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TO THE BRITISH NAVY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We do not like to own it Last Line: Hurrah for johnny bull! Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; World War I; English Navy; First World War ADMIRAL DUGOUT, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He had done with fleets and squadrons, with Last Line: That he has as captain dugout, r.N.R. Subject(s): Admirals; World War I; First World War AFTER ACTION (A SOUL REMEMBERS), by ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once, in my moment of earth Last Line: In rearing a heavenly flower. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War AFTER COURT MARTIAL, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mind is not my mind, therefore Last Line: Not I the king of babylon. Subject(s): Babylon; Military Justice; World War I; Courts Martial; First World War AFTER JUTLAND, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The city of god is late become a seaport town Last Line: The sailor he is home from sea to go back no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; World War I; First World War AFTER MY LAST SONG, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where I shall rest when my last song is over Last Line: You'll sleep here on wan cheeks grown thin and old. Subject(s): Death; Mortality; Poetry & Poets; World War I; Dead, The; First World War AFTER THE RETREAT, by MAY SINCLAIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I could only see again Last Line: The house we passed that day. Subject(s): World War I; First World War AFTER THE WAR, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last post sounded Last Line: "and she the dead!" Subject(s): World War I; First World War AFTER THE WAR, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the war - I hear men ask - what then? Last Line: Whose meaning is beyond the reach of time. Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War AFTER THE WAR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All of our wrongs shall be righted Last Line: After the war? Subject(s): World War I; First World War AFTERMATH, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Have you forgotten yet? Last Line: Never forget. Subject(s): Veterans Day; World War I; First World War AFTERNOON TEA, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I was saying ... No, thank you; I never take cream with my tea Last Line: Let's talk of the things that matter -- your car or the newest play. . . . Subject(s): War; World War I; First World War ALONG THE PATHS O' GLORY, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along the paths o' glory there are faces new to-day Last Line: Served the truth. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): World War I; First World War AMERICA AT WAR, by GERTRUDE BROWN SMITH Poem Text First Line: America, / if thy sons can go to war Last Line: And war shall never more be. Subject(s): Battleships; World War I; First World War AMERICA IN FRANCE, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, to be in paris now that pershing's there! Last Line: To make the round world safe for man . . . O god, that I were young! Subject(s): Pershing, John J. (1860-1948); World War I; First World War AMMUNITION COLUMN, by GILBERT FRANKAU Poem Text First Line: I am only a cog in a giant machine, a link of an endless chain Last Line: Cog on cog in the gun-machine, link on link in the chain! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War AN APPEAL TO AMERICA ON BEHALF OF THE BELGIAN DESTITUTE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seven millions stand Last Line: No man can say? Subject(s): Belgium; United States; World War I; America; First World War AN APPLE TREE IN FRANCE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An apple tree beside the way Last Line: They put to death an apple tree! Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Apple Trees; World War I; First World War AN ARCTIC EPITAPH, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No grave more nobly graced Last Line: And striving -- died. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): World War I; First World War AN ENGLISHMAN TO A GERMAN AVIATOR, by MORRIE RYSKIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, we are enemies-and deadly ones Last Line: There is no room within our hearts for hate. Subject(s): Air Warfare; Death; Enemies; World War I; Dead, The; First World War AN INFANTRYMAN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Painfully writhed the few last weeds upon those houseless / uplands Last Line: Sunny as a may-day dance, along that spectral avenue. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I; First World War AN IRISH AIRMAN FORESEES HIS DEATH, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I know that I shall meet my fate Last Line: In balance with this life, this death. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Air Warfare; Aviation & Aviators; Death; Freedom; Soldiers; War; World War I; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Dead, The; Liberty; First World War AN OLD AND TWENTY-THIRD MAN, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is that the three and twentieth, strabo mine Last Line: "shall bang old vercingetorix out of gaul." Variant Title(s): The Legion Subject(s): World War I; First World War AN OLD OLD STORY, by ROYALL HENDERSON SNOW Poem Text First Line: Pierre was lonely Last Line: And the moon came up: a great white lily. Subject(s): Farewell; Flowers; Soldiers; Solitude; World War I; Parting; Loneliness; First World War AND BARBARROSSA SLEEPS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Defeat and death the germans knew Last Line: Unmoved, shall barbarossa sleep! Subject(s): Germany; Legends; World War I; Germans; First World War AND THE COCK CREW, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: I hate them all!' said old gaspard Last Line: And turning, looked on old gaspard. Subject(s): Death; Hate; Hospitals; Sickness; Soldiers; War; World War I; Dead, The; Illness; First World War AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM', by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There had been years of passion -- scorching, cold Last Line: And again the spirit of pity whispered, 'why?' Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War AND THEY OBEY, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Smash down the cities Last Line: You are workmen and citizens all: we command you. Subject(s): Duty; Soldiers; World War I; First World War ANIMA POETA: A CHRISTMAS ENTRY FOR THE SUICIDE, MAYAKOVSKY, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It has nothing to do with the warmth of moonset Last Line: Much later in your life you joined them. Subject(s): Mayakovsky, Vladimir (1893-1930); Suicide; World War I; First World War ANNIVERSARY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Boom! 'what's that?' Last Line: Ten years -- come sunday Subject(s): Bombs;veterans;veterans Day;war;world War I; First World War ANOTHER JOURNEY FROM BETHUNE TO CUINCHY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see you walking Last Line: My time for trench round. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War ANTHEM FOR DOOMED YOUTH, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Last Line: And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds. Subject(s): Mortality; Mourning; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Youth; Bereavement; First World War ANTWERP, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Towers - eternal towers against the sky Last Line: And from their towers of tyranny hurled down. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Antwerp, Belgium; Architecture & Architects; Buildings & Builders; Stones; World War I; Granite; Rocks; First World War APOCALYPSE, by RONALD ROSS Poem Text First Line: The visions of the soul, more strange than dreams Last Line: And drew him down. And the voice answer'd, so. Subject(s): World War I; First World War APOLOGIA PRO POEMATE MEO, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I, too, saw god through mud Last Line: Your tears: you are not worth their merriment. Subject(s): Freedom; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Liberty; First World War APPEAL TO AMERICAN AUTHORS, by NATE SALSBURY Poem Text First Line: When kaiser wilhelm's little war Last Line: America -- long may she wave! Alternate Author Name(s): Ireland, Baron Subject(s): Debt; World War I; Writing & Writers; First World War APRIL ON THE BATTLEFIELDS, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: April now walks the fields again Last Line: Spreading her lovely grief upon the graves of man. Subject(s): April; World War I; First World War APRIL, 1917, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though life returns with april's breath Last Line: And there is blood upon the air. Subject(s): World War I; First World War ARMENIA, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the nations new and free Last Line: Armenia. Subject(s): Armenia; World War I; First World War ARMISTICE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: And this was germany--this puff of dust Last Line: This worn gray shoddy, and this iron rust! Subject(s): Freedom; Germany; United States; World War I; Liberty; Germans; America; First World War ARMISTICE DAY, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think I hear them stirring there, today Last Line: The young dead weeping! Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War ARMISTICE DAY, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The crash of shells among the falling trees Last Line: Aye—a year of proudest glory—and of musing o'er our dead! Subject(s): Holidays; Praise; Soldiers; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War ARMISTICE DAY, 1928, by ERNEST HARTSOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, let us wave a flag and jump and yell Last Line: The terrible cry of brothers, crucified!) Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War ARMISTICE DAY; A PHANTASY, by JOHN J. WILLOUGHBY Poem Text First Line: The half-light of a raw november day Last Line: Shall echo, with a mighty voice ... Dismiss! Subject(s): Death; Military; Soldiers; Veterans Day; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War ARMS AND THE BOY, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let the boy try along this bayonet-blade Last Line: Nor antlers through the thickness of his curls. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War ARMS AND THE MAN, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Young croesus went to pay his call Last Line: Will captain croesus come this way?' Subject(s): Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War AS THE TEAM'S HEAD BRASS, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the team's head brass flashed out on the turn Last Line: After the ploughshare and the stumbling team. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Farm Life; World War I; Agriculture; Farmers; First World War AT CARNOY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down in the hollow there's the whole brigade Last Line: To take some cursed wood ... O world god made! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War AT PARTING, by ABBIE CARTER GOODLOE Poem Text First Line: Now must we go our separate ways, beloved Last Line: "and breathes in tranquil rapture, ""here is peace!""?" Subject(s): Farewell; Wellesley College; World War I; Parting; First World War AT PARTING, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was sad weather when you went away Last Line: And you coming home, home through the hours of sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Women And War; World War I; First World War AT SENLIS ONCE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O how comely it was and how reviving Last Line: Sang as though nothing but joy came after! Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War AT ST. PAUL'S, by HARDWICKE DRUMMOND RAWNSLEY Poem Text First Line: Not since wren's dome has whispered with man's prayer Last Line: And christ, not odin, is acclaimed the lord. Subject(s): Prayer; St. Paul's Cathedral, London; World War I; First World War AT THE ENTERING OF THE NEW YEAR, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our songs went up and out the chimney Last Line: "albeit the fault may not be thine." Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; World War I; First World War AT THE MOVIES, by FLORENCE RIPLEY MASTIN Poem Text First Line: They swing across the screen in brave array Last Line: Then I remember, and my heart grows cold! Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Women And War; World War I; Movies; Cinema; First World War AT THE PEACE TABLE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who shall sit at the table, then, when the terms Last Line: You must please not only the living here, but must satisfy your dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War ATTACK, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At dawn the ridge emerges massed and dun Last Line: Flounders in mud. O jesus, make it stop! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War AUGUST 1914, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What in our lives is burnt Last Line: A fair mouth's broken tooth. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War AUSTRIAN CAVALRY SONG, by H. ZUCKERMANN Poem Text First Line: There in the meadow-land Last Line: Over belgrade! Subject(s): Army - Austria; Cavalry; World War I; First World War AUTUMN, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: October's bellowing anger breaks and cleaves Last Line: The burden of your wrongs is on my head. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Fall; First World War AUTUMN EVENING IN SERBIA, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the thin shadows Last Line: And autumn begun. Subject(s): Serbia; World War I; Servia; First World War AUTUMN, 1914, by MARY WEBB Poem Text First Line: The scarlet-jewelled ashtree sighed - 'he cometh' Last Line: For whom then loving-cup is poured, the wild bee hummeth.' Subject(s): Women; World War I; First World War BACK, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They ask me where I've been Last Line: Because he bore my name. Variant Title(s): Black Subject(s): Religion; War; World War I; Theology; First World War BACK TO LONDON: A POEM OF LEAVE, by JOSEPH JOHNSTON LEE Poem Text First Line: I have not wept when I have seen Last Line: Lord, may we hold it fast! Subject(s): London; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War BANISHMENT, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am banished from the patient men who fight Last Line: And in their tortured eyes I stand forgiven. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War BARRAGE, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thunder / the gallop of innumerable valkyrie impetuous for battle Subject(s): World War I; First World War BASE DETAILS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath Last Line: I'd toddle safely home and die -- in bed. Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Soldiers' Writings; Villains In Literature; World War I; First World War BATTALION IN REST, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some found an owl's nest in the hollow skull Last Line: Where stars new trembled with delight's design. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War BATTALION-RELIEF, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fall in! Now get a move on!' (curse the rain) Last Line: And tell me, have we won this war or not?' Subject(s): World War I; First World War BATTLE HYMN OF THE RUSSIAN REPUBLIC, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God, give us strength these days Last Line: Trample it with our love! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Russia; World War I; Soviet Union; Russians; First World War BATTLE SLEEP, by EDITH WHARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere, o sun, some corner there must be Last Line: And let some soul go seaward with that sail! Subject(s): Evening; Sleep; World War I; Sunset; Twilight; First World War BATTLE: 1. THE RETURN, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He went, and he was gay to go Last Line: What stranger would come back to me. Subject(s): World War I; First World War BATTLE: 3. HIT, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the sparkling sea Last Line: Among the dead men in the trench. Subject(s): World War I; First World War BATTLEFIELD, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind is piercing chill Last Line: Priez pour lui Subject(s): World War I; First World War BEFORE ACTION, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sit beside the brazier's glow Last Line: Nor any cold or heat. Subject(s): World War I; First World War BEFORE ACTION, by WILLIAM NOEL HODGSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By all the glories of the day Last Line: Help me to die, o lord. Alternate Author Name(s): Melbourne, Edward Subject(s): Religion; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Theology; First World War BEFORE GINCHY; SEPTEMBER, 1916, by E. ARMINE WODEHOUSE Poem Text First Line: Yon poisonous clod Last Line: Like dante, who have walk'd in hell. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War BEFORE SEDAN, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here in this leafy place Last Line: Death will not have it so. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Corpses; France; Tragedy; World War I; Cadavers; First World War BEFORE THE BATTLE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Music of whispering trees Last Line: O river of stars and shadows, lead me through the night. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War BEFORE THE CHARGE (LOOS, 1915), by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night is still and the air is keen Last Line: From the face of death. We charge at dawn. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War BEGINNING WITH 1914, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since it always begins Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): World War I; Ancestors & Ancestry; Fathers; Time; First World War; Heritage; Heredity BEHIND THE LINE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Treasure not so the forlorn days Last Line: Over the shades of shadows gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War BELGIAN BELLS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Toll the bells for belgium, toll, toll, toll! Last Line: Peal the bells for belgium, peal, peal, peal! Subject(s): Belgium; Bells; World War I; First World War BELLEAU WOODS, 1918, by NATHANIEL JOHN HASENFUS Poem Text First Line: All alone in belleau woods Last Line: Gone to peaceful realms on high. Subject(s): Belleau Wood, France; World War I; First World War BELLINGLISE, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in the sloping forest that surrounds Last Line: Trace in white fire the brave frontiers of france. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War BIG WORDS, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've whined of coming death, but now, no more! Last Line: He cursed, prayed, sweated, wished the proud words back. Subject(s): Courage; World War I; Valor; Bravery; First World War BILL THE BOMBER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The poppies gleamed like bloody pools through cotton-wolly mist Last Line: "for me bombs they wasn't wasted, though, you might say, ""thrown away." Subject(s): Bombs; War; World War I; First World War BILL'S GRAVE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm gatherin' flowers by the wayside to lay on the grave of bill Last Line: When 'e stares through the bleedin' clods and sees the blossoms of jim and me? Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War BIRD O'ER THE BATTLEFIELD, by ISABEL FISKE CONANT Poem Text First Line: Bird o'er the battlefield, singing in the lull of thunder Last Line: Is it that christ, walking storm-waves of trenches, comes near? Subject(s): Birds; Soldiers; War; World War I; First World War BLACK SAMSON OF BRANDYWINE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gray are the pages of record Last Line: Black samson of brandywine. Subject(s): World War I; First World War BLENHEIM ORANGES, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gone, gone again Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Oranges; World War I; First World War BLIGHTERS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The house is crammed: tier upon tier they grin Last Line: To mock the riddled corpses round bapaume. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War BLIND, by JUNE RICHARDSON LUCAS Poem Text First Line: He saw the noonday sun Last Line: He did not know that he was blind! Subject(s): Blindness; Social Protest; Vision; World War I; Visually Handicapped; First World War BLUE ROSES, by ELOISE ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: I sit beside the window sill Last Line: Across a wall. Subject(s): World War I; First World War BLUE, GRAY, AND BROWN, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The camps are thick in dixie Last Line: Our brown-clad fighting sons! Subject(s): Soldiers; War; World War I; First World War BOIS-ETOILE, by ETHEL M. HEWITT Poem Text First Line: What legend of a star that fell Last Line: To keep dead springtides' trysts with her!) Subject(s): World War I; First World War BONDS -- AND BONDS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Buy a bond to break a bond Last Line: Fettering your brothers! Subject(s): War Bonds; World War I; First World War BREAK OF DAY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There seemed a smell of autumn in the air Last Line: Hark! There's the horn: they're drawing the big wood. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War BREAK OF DAY IN THE TRENCHES, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The darkness crumbles away Last Line: Just a little white with the dust. Subject(s): Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War BREAKFAST, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We ate our breakfast lying on our backs Last Line: Because the shells were screeching overhead. Subject(s): World War I; First World War BREST LEFT BEHIND, by JOHN CHIPMAN FARRAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun strikes gold the dirty street Last Line: "I don't see very many tears,"" he says." Subject(s): Holidays; Homecoming; Peace; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War BRITISH MERCHANT SERVICE, 1915, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, down by millwall basin as I went the other day Last Line: For a tight place is the right place when it's wild weather at sea! Subject(s): Merchant Marine - Great Britain; World War I; First World War BUTTONS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have been watching the war map slammed up for advertising Last Line: Newspaper office where the freckle-faced young man is laughing to us? Subject(s): Social Protest; World War I; First World War CAMPUS SONNET: RETURN - 1917, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was just aiming at the jagged hole Last Line: "I dreamed I . . . Am I . . . Wounded? ""you are dead." Subject(s): Universities & Colleges; World War I; First World War CANADIAN SONG (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "dark, and the shells are falling" Last Line: Now I am vainly dreaming - / dreaming of you Subject(s): Army - Canada;world War I; First World War CANADIAN SONG (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Here we are - here we are - here we are again Last Line: We gave you 'ell at neuve chapelle - and here we are again Subject(s): Army - Canada;world War I; First World War CANTO 16, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: And before hell mouth; dry plain Subject(s): World War I; Heroism; Death; First World War; Heroes; Heroines; Dead, The CAPTAIN GUYNEMER, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Text First Line: What high adventure, in what world afar Last Line: And in man's grateful heart shall live immortally! Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I; Airplanes; Air Pilots; First World War CAPTAINS ADVENTUROUS, by NORAH M. HOLLAND Poem Text First Line: Captains adventurous, from your ports of quiet Last Line: Captains adventurous, the masters of the sea. Subject(s): Great Britain - Navy; World War I; First World War CAPTIVES, by ERNEST HEMINGWAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some came in chains Last Line: Making death easy Subject(s): World War I; First World War CARNAGE: 1. DOUBT, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So thin, so frail the opalescent ice Last Line: Is hell so near to every human heart? Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Doubt; Peace; Sacrifices; Survival; World War I; Skepticism; First World War CARNAGE: 2. THE GREAT NEGATION, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When that great-minded man, sir edward grey Last Line: He might have saved the world, and he would not. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Grey, Sir Edward (1862-1935); Peace; World War I; Grey Of Fallodon, Viscount; Grey, 3d Baronet; First World War CARNAGE: 3. LOUVAIN, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Serene in beauty's olden lineage Last Line: Where the dead hail him william of louvain! Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Louvain, Belgium; Silence; Soul; World War I; Dead, The; Nightmares; First World War CARNAGE: 4. RHEIMS, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Apollo mourns another parthenon Last Line: More bitter than to battle — is to feel. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Pain; Rheims, France; Ruins; World War I; Suffering; Misery; First World War CARNAGE: 5. KULTUR, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If men must murder, pillage, sack, despoil Last Line: To answer him: once rheims was — and louvain! Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Louvain, Belgium; Rheims, France; World War I; First World War CARNAGE: 6. DESTINY, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are what we imagine, and our deeds Last Line: And dream from that despair — democracy. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Democracy; Fate; World War I; Destiny; First World War CARRY ON!, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: They have not fought in vain, our dead Last Line: May pledge to all her sacred fires. Subject(s): Peace; Progress; World War I; First World War CARRY ON!, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's easy to fight when everything's right Last Line: Carry on, my soul! Carry on! Subject(s): Religion; World War I; Theology; First World War CHAMPAGNE, 1914-1915, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the glad revels, in the happy fetes Last Line: Oh, frame your lips as though it were a kiss. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War CHANNEL FIRING, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: That night your great guns, unawares Last Line: And camelot, and starlit stonehenge. Subject(s): Death; Guns; Social Protest; World War I; Dead, The; First World War CHANNEL SUNSET, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the shallow, angry english channel Last Line: The struggle of burning spears in the cold twilight. Subject(s): World War I; First World War CHAPLAIN TO THE FORCES, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ambassador of christ you go Last Line: Still floats the ensign of his cross. Subject(s): Chaplains, Army; World War I; First World War CHILDREN OF THE WAR, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shrunken little bodies, pallid baby faces Subject(s): World War I; Children; First World War; Childhood CHRIST IN FLANDERS, by LUCY WHITMELL Poem Text First Line: We had forgotten you, or very nearly Last Line: And that you'll stand beside us to the last. Alternate Author Name(s): W., L. Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium; Jesus Christ; Women; World War I; First World War CHRISTMAS BELLS, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What do your clear bells ring to me Last Line: So many dead! So many dead! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Bells; Christmas; World War I; Nativity, The; First World War CHRISTMAS EVE, 1917, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Many happy returns, sweet babe, of the day! Last Line: Ever happier and happier returns, dear christ, of thy day! Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Christmas; England; World War I; Nativity, The; English; First World War CHRISTMAS IN WARTIME: 1916, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cheer oh, comrades, we can bide the blast Last Line: If duty done makes all the others brighter. Subject(s): Christmas; Comfort; Duty; War; World War I; Nativity, The; First World War CHRISTMAS IN WARTIME: 1917: THE LAST LAP, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We seldom were quick off the mark Last Line: Be your victorious christmas-tide. Subject(s): Christmas; England; Hope; Patience; Victory; War; World War I; Nativity, The; English; Optimism; First World War CHRISTMAS, 1915, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now is the midnight of the nations: dark Last Line: What new-wing'd world, or mangled god still-born? Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Christmas; World War I; Nativity, The; First World War CLARION, CLARION, by THEODORE B. HUNT Poem Text First Line: Clarion, clarion, singing so boldly Last Line: Give me the young men, the young men, I say. Subject(s): Courage; Soldiers; World War I; Youth; Valor; Bravery; First World War CLEAN HANDS, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Make this thing plain to us, o lord Last Line: Make this thing plain! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Holidays; Peace; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War CLEAR WEATHER, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A cloudless day! With a keener line Last Line: A great transparent dragon-fly. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War COCOTTE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When a girl's sixteen, and as poor as she's pretty Last Line: They're bringing my blind boy in at the gate. Subject(s): Death; Girls; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War COMRADES, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I was marching in flanders Last Line: "I'll bear you company." Subject(s): World War I; First World War COMRADES: AN EPISODE, by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before, before he was aware Last Line: "hearing him whisper, ""o my men, my men!" Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War CONCERNING EMPERORS: 1. GOD SENT THE REGICIDE, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Would that the lying rulers of the world Last Line: God send the regicide. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; World War I; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; First World War CONCERNING EMPERORS: 2. A COLLOQUIAL REPLY - TO ANY NEWSBOY, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you lay for iago at the stage door with a brick Last Line: Yet I chase the thing he stands for with a brickbat in my hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; World War I; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; First World War CONCERT PARTY (EGYPTIAN BASE CAMP), by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They are gathering around Last Line: Silent, they drift away, over the glimmering sand. Subject(s): Egypt; World War I; First World War CONCERT PARTY: BUSSEBOOM, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stage was set, the house was packed Last Line: Were kicking men to death. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War CONSCIOUS, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His fingers wake, and flutter; up the bed Last Line: No time to dream, and ask -- he knows not what. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War CONSCRIPTS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fall in, that awdward squad, and strike no more Last Line: And marched resplendent home with crowns and stars. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War CORPORAL STARE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Back from the line one night in june, / I gave a dinner at bethune Last Line: A fag-end dropped on the silent road. Subject(s): World War I; First World War COULD THEY BUT KNOW (NOVEMBER, 1918), by WILL CHAMBERLAIN Poem Text First Line: Could they but know -- the countless heroes dead Last Line: And vision give our holy dead to-day. Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Honor; Military; Soldiers; Veterans Day; World War I; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines; First World War COUNTER-ATTACK, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: We'd gained our first objective hours before Last Line: Bleeding to death. The counter-attack had failed. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War COUNTRY, MY COUNTRY (WRITTEN IN THE WORLD WAR), by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair with the beauty of heaven on earth Last Line: Dare to be free for the freedom of all. Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I; First World War COURAGE, by DYNELEY HUSSEY Poem Text First Line: Alone amid the battle-din untouched Last Line: And she shall lead us back to peace again. Subject(s): Courage; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Valor; Bravery; First World War CRAMPED IN THAT FUNNELLED HOLE, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cramped in that funnelled hole, they watched the dawn Last Line: Mixed with the sour sharp odour of the shell. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War CRY OF THE HOMELESS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Instigator of the ruin Last Line: Till death dark thee with his pall.' Subject(s): Homeless; World War I; First World War CYNICS, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY Poem Text First Line: Between old pan and pandemonium Last Line: We would reshape our lives—it is too late. Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph Subject(s): Life; War; World War I; First World War D'ANNUNZIO, by ERNEST HEMINGWAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Half a million dead wops Last Line: The son of a bitch Subject(s): World War I; D'annunzio, Gabriele (1863-1938); First World War DAUGHTERS OF WAR, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Space beats the ruddy freedom of their limbs Last Line: "years." Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Women & War; World War I; First World War DAWN, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: The hour of dawn is the hour of death Last Line: The hour of dawn is the hour of life! Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Dawn; Death; War; World War I; Weapons; Ammunition; Sunrise; Dead, The; First World War DEAD COW FARM, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An ancient saga tells us how Last Line: And the cow's dead, the old cow's dead. Subject(s): World War I; First World War DEAD MAN'S COTTAGE, by JAMES HARRY KNIGHT-ADKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A loft with a ruckle of twisted rafters where the blue sky shows through ... Last Line: Stay. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; First World War DEAD MAN'S DUMP, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The plunging limbers over the shattered track Last Line: And our wheels grazed his dead face. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War DEAD MUSICIANS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From you, beethoven, bach, mozart Last Line: They're dead ... For god's sake stop that gramophone. Subject(s): Germany; Music & Musicians; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Germans; First World War DEATH AND THE FAIRIES, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before I joined the army Last Line: Who is holding carnival. Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium; World War I; First World War DESPOTISMS, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From hedgerows where aromas fain would be Last Line: The golden english heads like harvest grain. Subject(s): World War I; First World War DESTROYERS, by HENRY HEAD Poem Text First Line: On this primeval strip of western land Last Line: Are bought with death. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; World War I; First World War DESTROYERS OFF JUTLAND, by REGINALD MCINTOSH CLEVELAND Poem Text First Line: They had hot scent across the spumy sea Last Line: These hounds that england suckled at the birth. Subject(s): Great Britain - Navy; Jutland; World War I; First World War DEVOTION TO DUTY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was near the king that day. I saw him snatch Last Line: This wife how her heroic husband fell.' Subject(s): World War I; First World War DIED OF WOUNDS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His wet white face and miserable eyes Last Line: And some slight wound lay smiling on the bed. Subject(s): Mourning; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Bereavement; First World War DISABLED, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark Last Line: And put him into bed? Why don't they come? Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples; First World War DISCOVERERS; IN MEMORY OF CHRISTIAN ENDEAVORERS WHO DIED, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High glory his who walks where god alone Last Line: For god and man, for liberty and right. Subject(s): Christianity; World War I; First World War DREAMERS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land Last Line: And going to the office in the train. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War DRUM TAPS TO HEAVEN, by JAMES CHURCH ALVORD Poem Text First Line: Peter at heaven's gate wearied of the game Last Line: Rat-a-tat -- rat-a-tat -- tir-r-r-rah -- tah-tah! Subject(s): Heaven; World War I; Paradise; First World War DULCE ET DECORUM EST, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Bent double, like old beggars under sacks Last Line: Pro patria mori. Subject(s): Chemical Warfare; Hate; Men; Patriotism; Social Protest; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War EASTER AT YPRES: 1915, by WALTER SCOTT STUART LYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sacred head was bound and diapered Last Line: And thou shalt reawake, though aye be scarred. Subject(s): World War I; Ypres, Belgium; First World War EDITH CAVELL, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was binding the wounds of her enemies when they came Last Line: It is victory speaks her name. Subject(s): Cavell, Edith (1865-1915); Nurses; World War I; First World War EDITH CAVELL, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Room 'mid the martyrs for a deathless name! Last Line: Has sealed the savage hohenzollerns' doom! Subject(s): Cavell, Edith (1865-1915); Nurses; World War I; First World War EDITORIAL IMPRESSIONS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He seemed so certain 'all was going well' Last Line: Ah, yes, but it's the press that leads the way!' Subject(s): Newspapers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Journalism; Journalists; First World War ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The men that worked for england / they have their graves at home Last Line: They have no graves as yet. Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): England; Politics & Government; Soldiers; World War I; English; First World War ENEMIES, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He stood alone in some queer sunless place Last Line: Because his face could make them understand. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War ENGLAND AND AMERICA, by FLORENCE TABER HOLT Poem Text First Line: Mother and child! Though the dividing sea Last Line: Whose lives were given for this larger life. Subject(s): Mothers; World War I; First World War ENGLAND I THE WORLD WAR, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dauntless, high-hearted england! 'twas thy day Last Line: This glorious watch and ward wilt thou forego! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): England; World War I; English; First World War ENGLAND TO GERMANY IN 1914, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O england, may god punish thee!' Last Line: And present sight, your ancient name. Subject(s): Germany; World War I; Germans; First World War EPICEDIUM; IN MEMORY OF AMERICA'S DEAD IN THE GREAT WAR, by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER Poem Text First Line: No more for them shall evening's rose unclose Last Line: They answer, knowing all. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, J. Corson Subject(s): World War I; First World War EPITAPH ON AN ARMY OF MERCENARIES, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These, in the day when heaven was falling Last Line: And saved the sum of things for pay. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; World War I; Work; Workers; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: 'EQUALITY OF SACRIFICE', by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was a have Last Line: "(together.) ""what hast thou given which I gave not?" Subject(s): Sacrifices; War; World War I; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: A DEAD STATESMAN, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I could not dig: I dared not rob Last Line: Mine angry and defrauded young? Subject(s): Politics & Government; War - Home Front; World War I; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: A DRIFTER OFF TARENTUM, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He from the wind-bitten north with ship and companions descended Last Line: In flame and a clamorous breath known to the eye-pecking gulls. Subject(s): World War I; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: A GRAVE NEAR CAIRO, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gods of the nile, should this stout fellow here Last Line: Get out -- get out! He knows not shame nor fear. Subject(s): Graves; World War I; Tombs; Tombstones; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: A SERVANT, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We were together since the war began Subject(s): World War I; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: A SON, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My son was killed while laughing at some jest Subject(s): War; World War I; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: AN ONLY SON, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have slain none except my mother. She Subject(s): World War I; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: BATTERIES OUT OF AMMUNITION, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If any mourn us in the workshop, say Last Line: We died because the shift kept holiday. Subject(s): War - Home Front; World War I; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: BOMBER IN LONDON, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On land and sea I strove with anxious care Last Line: To escape conscription. It was in the air! Subject(s): Military Service, Compulsory; World War I; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: COMMON FORM, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If any question why we died Last Line: Tell them, because our fathers lied. Subject(s): War; World War I; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: CONVOY ESCORT, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was a shepherd to fools Last Line: Yet they escaped. For I stayed. Subject(s): Naval Convoys; World War I; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: HINDU SEPOY IN FRANCE, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This man in his own country prayed we know not to what powers Last Line: We pray them to reward him for his bravery in ours. Subject(s): Courage; Hinduism; Prayer; Religion; World War I; Valor; Bravery; Theology; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: JOURNALISTS; ON A PANEL ..., by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have served our day Last Line: We have served our day. Subject(s): Newspapers; World War I; Journalism; Journalists; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: R.A.F. (AGED EIGHTEEN), by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Laughing through clouds, his milk-teeth still unshed Subject(s): Air Warfare; Labor & Laborers; Teenagers; World War I; Work; Workers; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: SALONIKAN GRAVE, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have watched a thousand days Subject(s): Graves; Greece; World War I; Tombs; Tombstones; Greeks; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: THE BEGINNER, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the first hour of my first day Last Line: Stand up to watch it well.) Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: THE COWARD, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I could not look on death, which being known Last Line: Men led me to him, blindfold and alone. Subject(s): Cowardice; War; World War I; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: THE REFINED MAN, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was of delicate mind. I stepped aside for my needs Subject(s): War; World War I; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: THE SLEEPY SENTINEL, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Faithless the watch that I kept: now I Subject(s): Sleep; World War I; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: UNKNOWN FEMALE CORPSE, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Headless, lacking foot and hand Subject(s): Corpses; Women; World War I; Cadavers; First World War ESCAPE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are four officers, this message says Last Line: Find mr. Wrestman. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War ESCAPE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But I was dead, an hour or more Last Line: O life! O sun! Subject(s): Death; Escapes; World War I; Dead, The; Fugitives; First World War EUROPE IS HUNGRY, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis easier to be just than generous Last Line: And thank the gods for these grim lessons learned. Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Hunger; World War I; First World War EVERYONE SANG, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Everyone suddenly burst out singing Last Line: Was a bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will never be done. Subject(s): Holidays; Life Change Events; Veterans Day; War; World War I; First World War EXPECTANS EXPECTAVI, by CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From morn to midnight, all day through Last Line: To thy great service dedicate. Subject(s): Religion; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Theology; First World War EXPOSURE, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us Last Line: But nothing happens. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War FAITH, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since all that is was ever bound to be Last Line: The gleam, the glory of the golden age. Subject(s): Faith; War; World War I; Belief; Creed; First World War FAMILIAR LETTERS TO SIEGFRIED SASSOON, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I never dreamed we'd meet that day / in our old haunts down fricourt way Last Line: And god! What poetry we'll write! Subject(s): Sassoon, Siegfried (1886-1967); World War I; First World War FATHER O'SHEA WAS HIS REGIMENT'S PRIDE, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Father o'shea was his regiments pride Last Line: "and send him a padre like father o'shea!" Subject(s): Clergy; World War I; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; First World War FESTUBERT: THE OLD GERMAN LINE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sparse mists of moonlight hurt our eyes Last Line: The gray rags fluttered on the dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War FIELD AMBULANCE IN RETREAT; VIA DOLOROSA, VIA SACRA, by MAY SINCLAIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A straight flagged road, laid on the rough earth Last Line: On the sacred, dolorous way. Subject(s): Travel; Women; World War I; Journeys; Trips; First World War FIELD MANOEUVRES, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The long autumn grass under my body Subject(s): World War I; First World War FIFTY FAGGOTS, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There they stand, on their ends, the fifty faggots Last Line: Foresee or more control than robin and wren. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Environment; Trees; World War I; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; First World War FIGHT, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Red drips from my chin where I have been eating Last Line: The child cries for a suck mother and I cry for war. Subject(s): World War I; First World War FIGHT TO A FINISH, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boys came back. Bands played and flags were flying Last Line: To clear those junkers out of parliament. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War FIVE SOULS, by WILLIAM NORMAN EWER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was a peasant of the polish plain Last Line: For those who bade me fight had told me so. Alternate Author Name(s): Ewer, W. N. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War FLANDERS NOW, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There, where before no master action struck Last Line: Of glory save the light in a friend's eye. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium; World War I; First World War FLOWER OF YOUTH, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lest heaven be thronged with grey-beards hoary Last Line: "and say: ""thank god, he has enough!" Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): God; Heaven; World War I; Youth; Paradise; First World War FOR POETS SLAIN IN WAR, by WALTER ADOLPHE ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy the poets who fell in magnificent ways! Last Line: Splendidly dead for the patria, splendidly dead! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; World War I; First World War FOR THE BLINDED SOLDIERS, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We that look on, with god's goodwill Last Line: We that look on? Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Blindness; World War I; Visually Handicapped; First World War FRAGMENT, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I strayed about the deck, an hour, tonight Last Line: To other ghosts - this one, or that, or I. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War FRANCE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She triumphs, in the vivid green Last Line: Voices of victory and delight. Subject(s): France; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War FROM A TRENCH, by MAUD ANNA BELL Poem Text First Line: Out here the dogs of war run loose Last Line: Because we're here in hell. Subject(s): Women & War; World War I; First World War FROM MY DIARY, JULY 1914, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Leaves / murmuring by myriads in the shimmering trees Last Line: Expanding with the starr'd nocturnal flowers. Subject(s): Diaries; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War FROM THE YOUTH OF ALL NATIONS, by H. C. HARWOOD Poem Text First Line: Think not, my elders, to rejoice Last Line: And swift usurping dynasties. Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War FRONT LINE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Standing on the fire-step Last Line: And peered into the black. Subject(s): World War I; First World War FULFILLMENT, by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was there love once? I have forgotten her Last Line: All, all my joy, my grief, my love, are thine. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War FUNK, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When your marrer bone seems 'oller Last Line: There ain't no bloomin' funk, funk, funk. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War FUTILITY, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Move him into the sun Last Line: To break earth's sleep at all? Subject(s): Death; Love; Mourning; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; Bereavement; First World War G. A. R. TO A. E. F., by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hope and promise of the nation Last Line: You who fight to save the world! Subject(s): Army - United States; World War I; First World War GERMAN PRISONERS, by JOSEPH LEE Poem Text First Line: When first I saw you in the curious street Last Line: "and could have grasped your hand and cried, ""my brother!" Subject(s): Brotherhood; Prisoners Of War; Religion; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Theology; First World War GHELUVELT; EPITAPH ON THE WORCESTERS, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Askest thou of these graves? They'll tell thee Last Line: Battle. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Graves; Worcestershire, England; World War I; Tombs; Tombstones; First World War GIRL TO SOLDIER ON LEAVE, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love you, titan lover Last Line: I let you -- I repine. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Women & War; World War I; First World War GLORY OF WOMEN, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: You love us when we're heroes, home on leave Last Line: His face is trodden deeper in the mud. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Women; World War I; First World War GOD AND MY COUNTRY, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He had the bluest eyes I ever saw Last Line: "to get some cigarettes and some shaving blades." Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Soldiers; World War I; First World War GOD SAVE THE WORLD; A MARCHING SONG OF THE WORLD WAR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now for the world we dare to fight Last Line: God save the world! Subject(s): World War I; First World War GOD'S CHALLENGERS; A SOLDIERS' HOSPITAL, by MARION PERHAM GALE Poem Text First Line: Today, I have seen / mute ghosts of men Last Line: What did we do it for? Subject(s): Death; God; Soldiers; Tragedy; War; War Injuries; World War I; Dead, The; First World War GOD'S HILLS, by WILLIAM NOEL HODGSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In our hill-country of the north Last Line: And we shall see the hills again. Alternate Author Name(s): Melbourne, Edward Subject(s): Homesickness; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War GODS OF WAR, 1914, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fate wafts us from the pygmies' shore Last Line: And crown thee then without a thorn. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; War; World War I; First World War GOING HOME, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm goin' 'ome to blighty - ain't I glad to 'ave the chance! Last Line: Thank gawd for dear old blighty in the mawnin'. Subject(s): Army - Great Britain; England; War; World War I; English; First World War GOING TO THE FRONT, by HARDWICKE DRUMMOND RAWNSLEY Poem Text First Line: I had no heart to march for war Last Line: How sweet to live—how glad and good to die! Subject(s): World War I; First World War GOLGOTHA, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through darkness curves a spume of falling flares Last Line: But the brown rats, the nimble scavengers. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War GOLIATH AND DAVID, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Yet once an earlier david took Last Line: Goliath straddles over him. Subject(s): World War I; First World War GOUZEAUCOURT: THE DECEITFUL CALM, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How unpurposed, how inconsequential Last Line: That false mildness. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War GRAND ILLUSION, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not 1937 for long. A clump of ash trees and a walk Last Line: Their uncle still casting images of animals for them... Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Renoir, Jean (1894-19979); Violence; World War I; Movies; Cinema; First World War GRAND-PERE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And so when he reached my bed Last Line: Twas grand-pere joffre. Subject(s): War; World War I; First World War GREAT DAYS, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Vanish, every idle thought! Last Line: Giant hearts shall rule these days. Subject(s): Death; Graves; World War I; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; First World War GREAT, STRONG, FREE, AND TRUE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great, my country, great in gold Last Line: Ever true to god and man. Subject(s): United States; World War I; America; First World War GREATER LOVE, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Red lips are not so red Last Line: Weep, you may weep, for you may touch them not. Subject(s): Love; Pain; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Suffering; Misery; First World War GREATER THAN VICTORY, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Quickly the war-smoke lessens-out through the clearing skies Last Line: "but the greatest thing of all is this: ""no more of our boys shall die!" Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; Victory; World War I; Dead, The; First World War GREY KNITTING, by AMELIA BEERS WARNOCK GARVIN Poem Text First Line: Something sings gently through the din of battle Last Line: As they fall fast asleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Hale, Katherine Subject(s): Women & War; World War I; First World War GUNS OF VERDUN, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Guns of verdun point to metz Last Line: "gunners lay you east again!" Subject(s): Verdun, Battle Of (1916); World War I; First World War HAIG IS MOVING; AUGUST, 1918, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Haig is moving Last Line: Haig is moving! Subject(s): England; Haig, Douglas. 1st Earl Haig (1861-1928); World War I; English; First World War HARVARD DECLARES WAR, by BRENT DOW ALLINSON Poem Text First Line: Hang out the flags!' the college president said Last Line: Thy hallowed ivied walls with strands of sable crepe! Subject(s): Death; Harvard University; Soldiers; War; World War I; World War Ii; Dead, The; First World War; Second World War HARVEST MOON: 1914, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the twilight field Last Line: The harvest-moon. Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): Harvest; Moon; Women; World War I; First World War HARVEST MOON: 1916, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Moon, slow rising, over the trembling sea-rim Last Line: Light, everlasting.) Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): Harvest; Moon; Women; World War I; First World War HAUTE POLITIQUE, by GRANVILLE TRACE Poem Text First Line: Driven to achievement by youth and love Last Line: Two bodies drift. Alternate Author Name(s): Chen Wei Lu Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Patriotism; Soldiers; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War HE WENT FOR A SOLDIER, by RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He marched away with a blithe young score of him Last Line: Borne with the hell called war! Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Sanborn, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Loss; Soldiers; Women; World War I; Youth; Dead, The; First World War HEADQUARTERS, by GILBERT FRANKAU Poem Text First Line: A league and a league from the trenches - from the traversed maze of the lines Last Line: "the blaze of some woman's roses. ... ""bombardment orders, sir." Subject(s): World War I; First World War HENRI, by GEORGE STERLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight I drifted to the restaurant Last Line: I never asked you if you had a wife. Subject(s): World War I; First World War 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 HEREAFTER, by RONALD LEWIS CARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's autumn-time on salisbury plain Last Line: When fighting's over be there still! Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Fall; First World War HIGH SUMMER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pinks and syringa in the garden closes Last Line: They die in flanders to keep these for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): World War I; First World War HILL-BORN, by ABBIE HUSTON EVANS Poem Text First Line: Back to this mould, this matrix whence I came Last Line: Packed in the star-like crevice of a rock. Subject(s): World War I; First World War HILL-BORN, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sometimes wonder if it's really true Last Line: On the green ridges of the windy gile. Subject(s): World War I; First World War HILLS OF HOME, by MALCOLM HEMPHREY Poem Text First Line: Oh! Yon hills are filled with sunlight Last Line: And my heart is throbbing wildly for those distant hills of home. Subject(s): Homesickness; Mountains; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Hills; Downs (great Britain); First World War HIS FOOTSTEP, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boy will come no more Last Line: Like an old tune. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Feet; Footprints; Homecoming; Loss; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War HIS MOTHER SPEAKS!, by BLANCHE OLIN TWISS Poem Text First Line: He died in france! Last Line: Thank god -- he fought them all, and fighting died! Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War HODGE, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Countryman hodge has gone to fight Last Line: And hodge will come to his own again.' Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Plowing & Plowmen; World War I; First World War HOME, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A burst of sudden wings at dawn Last Line: That call across the world to me. Subject(s): Home; Ireland; Rainbows; Summer; World War I; Irish; First World War HOME THOUGHTS FROM FRANCE, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wan, fragile faces of joy Last Line: My heart with futile bounds. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War HOME THOUGHTS IN [OR, FROM] LAVENTIE, by EDWARD WYNDHAM TENNANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Green gardens in laventie Last Line: Home, what a perfect place! Subject(s): England; Homesickness; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; English; First World War HOMES, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lamplight's shaded rose Last Line: That were a home last night. Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Home; Women And War; World War I; First World War HOMES, AFTER THE WAR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the battles, the frenzy, the dread Last Line: As we welcome our heroes home. Subject(s): Homecoming; World War I; First World War HOMING BRAVES, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's music in the measured tread Last Line: Stand in the pathway of their dreams! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): World War I; First World War HORSE-BATHING PARADE, by W. KERSLEY HOLMES Poem Text First Line: A few clouds float across the grand blue sky Last Line: And hear the surf rush hissing up the sand. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War HOSPITAL HEROES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not in the glory of battles Last Line: Theirs be a lasting fame! Subject(s): Health; Heroism; Hospitals; World War I; Heroes; Heroines; First World War HOW TO DIE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark clouds are smouldering into red Last Line: With due regard for decent taste. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 4, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: These fought in any case Last Line: Laughter out of dead bellies. Subject(s): World War I; First World War HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 5, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: There died a myriad Last Line: For a few thousand battered books. Subject(s): World War I; First World War I HATE THE MOON, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hate the moon, though it makes most people glad Last Line: And I know one day it'll do me some dreadful thing. Subject(s): Moon; World War I; First World War I PAY MY DEBT FOR LAFAYETTE AND ROCHAMBEAU', by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eagle, whose fearless Last Line: Love frees the world!... Subject(s): France; Freedom; Rockwell, Kiffin Yates (1892-1916); World War I; Liberty; First World War I STOOD WITH THE DEAD, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stood with the dead, so forsaken and still Last Line: Fall in!' I shouted; 'fall in for your pay!' Subject(s): Army Life; World War I; Drills & Minor Tactics; First World War IF WE MUST DIE, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If we must die, let it not be like hogs Last Line: Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back! Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): African Americans; Courage; Death; Honor; Social Protest; World War I; Negroes; American Blacks; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; First World War II PETER II 22, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark, the new year succeeds the dead Last Line: The heights which crowned a deadlier year. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Time; World War I; First World War ILLUSIONS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Trenches in the moonlight, in the lulling moonlight Last Line: For the moon's interpretation. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War IN A CAFE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kiss the maid and pass her round Last Line: Their hearts at peace, their god above them. Subject(s): Restaurants; Soldiers; World War I; Cafes; Diners; First World War IN A TIME OF WAR: 1. COUNTER OR CAMP. AUGUST 1914, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Counter or camp, which of the two rules worst? Last Line: And still explores the universe with awe. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): World War I; First World War IN A TIME OF WAR: 2. THE WOUNDED, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cancelled the fair-planned life Last Line: Who grasp the incalculable, being dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): World War I; First World War IN A TIME OF WAR: 3. THE DESECRATED DREAM, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With every mighty nation now at war Last Line: Still seeks worse ways to slay and to be slain. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): World War I; First World War IN A TIME OF WAR: 4. AFTER THE ARMISTICE (NOVEMBER 1918), by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Psyche has fouled both hands in blood and clay Last Line: Then turned to cleaner work, shall she rejoice. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): World War I; First World War IN BARRACKS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The barrack-square, washed clean with rain Last Line: Another night; another day.' Subject(s): Army Life; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Drills & Minor Tactics; First World War IN FESTUBERT, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now every thing that shadowy thought Last Line: And sear no more with second sight. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War IN FLANDERS, by JAMES NORMAN HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could you have seen them marching Last Line: To see ten thousand fighting men. Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium; Reality; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; World War I; First World War IN FLANDERS FIELD: AN ANSWER, by C. B. GALBREATH Poem Text First Line: In flanders fields the cannon boom Last Line: In flanders fields. Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium; World War I; First World War IN FLANDERS FIELDS, by JOHN MCCRAE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In flanders fields the poppies blow / between the crosses, row on row Last Line: In flanders fields. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Flanders, Belgium; Freedom; Patriotism; Soldiers; World War I; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Liberty; First World War IN FRANCE, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: We're done wid the thransport. Thank heaven we're here! Last Line: "oh, meester jeem newell, please do eet som' more!" Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I; First World War IN GALLIPOLI, by EDEN PHILLPOTTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a fold of lion-coloured earth Last Line: Beside her hero sons, beneath the field and foam. Subject(s): Gallipoli Campaign (1915); World War I; First World War IN MEMORIAM (EASTER 1915), by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood Last Line: Have gathered them and will do never again. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Soldiers; War; World War I; The Resurrection; First World War IN MEMORIAM, A.H., by MAURICE BARING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind had blown away the rain Last Line: Among the very brave, the very true. Variant Title(s): Udite, Si Dolgono Mesti Fringuelli Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Herbert, Auberon Thomas (1876-1916); Memory; Patriotism; World War I; Dead, The; Lucas, 8th Baron; Dingwall, 11th Baron; First World War IN NEXT YEAR'S SUMMER TIME, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: I'm home. Yes. And safe. I should give Last Line: And I want to go back to that place! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Friendship; Grief; Soldiers; World War I; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; First World War IN THE AMBULANCE, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two rows of cabbages Last Line: "two of kidney-beans." Subject(s): World War I; First World War IN THE CITY SQUARE, by THOMAS ERNEST HULME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the city square at night, the meeting of the torches Last Line: To where? Alternate Author Name(s): Hulme, T. E. Subject(s): World War I; First World War IN THE DORDOGNE, by JOHN PEALE BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We stood up before day Subject(s): World War I; First World War IN THE MEDITERRANEAN - GOING TO THE WAR, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lovely wings of gold and green Last Line: In my heart a newer song. Subject(s): Mediterranean Sea; World War I; First World War IN THE MORNING (LOOS, 1915), by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The firefly haunts were lighted yet Last Line: In the town of loos in the morning. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War IN THE PINK', by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So davies wrote: 'this leaves me in the pink' Last Line: And still the war goes on -- he don't know why. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War IN THE TRENCHES, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not that we are weary Last Line: And crush the spring leaf with your armies! Subject(s): Military; Soldiers; War; World War I; First World War IN THE TRENCHES, by MAURICE HENRY HEWLETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I lay in the trenches Last Line: With heart as full as mine. Subject(s): World War I; First World War IN THE TRENCHES, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I snatched two poppies Last Line: Strewn. Smashed you lie. Subject(s): World War I; First World War IN THE WAITING ROOM, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In worcester, massachusetts, / I went with aunt consuelo Subject(s): Aunts; Children; Dentists; Imagination; Labor & Laborers; Pain; World War I; Childhood; Fancy; Work; Workers; Suffering; Misery; First World War IN TIME OF 'THE BREAKING OF NATIONS', by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Only a man harrowing clods / in a slow silent walk Last Line: Ere their story die. Subject(s): Bible; Country Life; Religion; World War I; Theology; First World War IN TIME OF WAR I SING, by ALLEN CRAFTON Poem Text First Line: I sing of song! Of spontaneity Last Line: I find my song within the world's soul -- crowned. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; World War I; Songs; First World War IN TIME OF WARS AND TUMULTS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Would that I'd not drawn breath here!' some one said Last Line: By empery's insatiate lust of power. Subject(s): World War I; First World War IN WAR, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fret the nonchalant noon Last Line: My brother, our hearts and years. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War IN WAR-TIME (AN AMERICAN HOMEWARD-BOUND), by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Text First Line: Further and further we leave the scene Last Line: Or hasten back? Subject(s): World War I; First World War INACCESSIBILITY IN THE BATTLEFIELD, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forgotten streams, yet wishful to be known Last Line: The rampart where the sleepless phantom strode. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War INSENSIBILITY, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy are men who yet before they are killed Last Line: The eternal reciprocity of tears. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War INSOUCIANCE, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In and out of the dreary trenches Last Line: They fly away like white-winged doves Subject(s): World War I; First World War INTERLUDE (IN WAR-TIME), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thought that war held all my mind Last Line: As lasting memory of the storm. Subject(s): World War I; First World War INTO BATTLE, by JULIAN GRENFELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The naked earth is warm with spring Last Line: And night shall fold him soft wings. Variant Title(s): He Is Dead Who Will Not Fight Subject(s): World War I; First World War INTO THE SALIENT, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sallows like heads in polynesia Last Line: Into seven days of country where you come out any door. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War INTRODUCTION AND CONCLUSION OF A LONG POEM, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have gone sometimes by the gates of death Last Line: My resurrection, this my recompense! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War INVOCATION, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come down from heaven to meet me when my breath Last Line: And stillness from the pools of paradise. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War IRON, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Guns Last Line: The shovel is brother to the gun. Subject(s): World War I; First World War IT'S A QUEER TIME, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's hard to know if you're alive or dead Last Line: It's a queer time. Subject(s): World War I; First World War ITALIA REDENTA; ON HEARING ITALIAN FLAG FLYING OVER TRENT & TRIESTE, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Till yesterday 'twas 'italy unredeemed.' Last Line: "italia redenta." Subject(s): Italy; World War I; Italians; First World War ITALY - 1915, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tear from thy brow the olive wreath! Last Line: Of england's strumpet, italy! Subject(s): Italy; World War I; Italians; First World War JANUARY FULL MOON, YPRES, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Vantaged snow on the gray pilasters Last Line: To someone crunching through the frozen snows. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War JAWS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seven nations stood with their hands on the jaws of Last Line: "o hell!" Subject(s): World War I; First World War JEAN DESPREZ, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, ye whose hearts are resonant, and ring to war's romance Last Line: Then jean desprez reached out and shot . . . The prussian major dead! Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War JEZREEL; ON ITS SEIZURE BY THE ENGLISH UNDER ALLENBY, 1918, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Did they catch as it were in a vision at shut of day Last Line: Yea, strange things and spectral may men have beheld in jezreel! Subject(s): Allenby, Edmund Henry Hynman (1861-1936); Jezreel, Israel; Soldiers; World War I; Allenby Of Megiddo, First Viscount; First World War JIMMY DOANE, by ROWLAND THIRLMERE Poem Text First Line: Often I think of you, jimmy doane Last Line: Your vision upbuilt as a deathless fact. Subject(s): World War I; First World War JOY-BELLS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ring your sweet bells; but let them be farewells Last Line: Shoulder to shoulder with the motor-bus. Subject(s): Bells; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War KAISER AND COUNSELLOR, by STUART PRATT SHERMAN Poem Text First Line: Through what dark pass to what place in the sun Last Line: Still draws all hearts unto its wounded side. Subject(s): World War I; First World War KEEP THE FLAG WAVING, JACK!, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only a boy, but never you mind! Last Line: God bless our boys! Subject(s): Boys; Sea Battles; World War I; Naval Warfare; First World War KILLERS (1), by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am singing to you Last Line: Sixteen million men. Subject(s): World War I; First World War KILMENY (A SONG OF THE TRAWLERS), by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark, dark lay the drifters against the red west Last Line: And nobody knew where kilmeny had been. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; World War I; First World War KINGS, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The kings of the earth are men of might Last Line: Let them think of him to-day! Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War LA QUINQUE RUE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O road in dizzy moonlight bleak and blue Last Line: To trim roofs and cropped fields; the error's mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War LAMENT, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We who are left, how shall we look again Last Line: Nor feel the heart-break in the heart of things? Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War LAMENTATIONS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I found him in the guard-room at the base Last Line: Such men have lost all patriotic feeling. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; War; World War I; First World War LAST POEMS: SONNET 1, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sidney, in whom the heyday of romance Last Line: To my three idols -- love and arms and song. Variant Title(s): Sonnet To Sidney Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War LAST POEMS: SONNET 10, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have sought happiness, but it has been Last Line: Amid the clash of arms I was at peace. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War LAST POEMS: SONNET 11. ON RETURNING TO THE FRONT AFTER LEAVE, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Apart sweet women (for whom heaven be blessed) Last Line: That world of cowards, hypocrites, and fools. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War LAST POEMS: SONNET 8, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, love of woman, you are known to be Last Line: Love only tells it what true torture is. Subject(s): Love; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War LENGTH OF DAYS (TO THE EARLY DEAD IN BATTLE), by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no length of days Last Line: There dwelt antiquity. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): World War I; First World War LES HALLES D'YPRES, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A tangle of iron rods and spluttered beams Last Line: And flicker in playful flight. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War LETTER TO AN AVIATOR IN FRANCE, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A slope of summer sprinkled over Last Line: And sunset roses are in bloom. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; World War I; Airplanes; Air Pilots; First World War LETTRES D'UN SOLDAT (1914-1915), by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No introspective chaos -- I accept Subject(s): World War I; First World War LIEBSTOD, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I who, conceived beneath another star Last Line: Our manhood faultless and our honor clean. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War LIGHT AFTER DARKNESS, by EDWARD WYNDHAM TENNANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the night, like some great dark drop-scene Last Line: The broken heralds of a doleful day. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War LIGHTS OUT, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have come to the borders of sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Life Change Events; Sleep; World War I; First World War LIKE MEN OF OLD, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: There was three of them trapped in an old chateau Last Line: Of the dead men three who had held them hard till the flag came over the hill! Subject(s): Native Americans; World War I; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; First World War LIMBO, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After a week spent under raining skies, / in horror, mud and sleeplessness a wee Last Line: Draw the plough leisurely in quiet courses. Subject(s): World War I; First World War LINES FOR THE HOUR, by HAMILTON FISH ARMSTRONG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If what we fought for seems not worth the fighting Last Line: Knowing the slow mutations of the soul. Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War LINES WRITTEN IN A FIRE-TRENCH, by WALTER SCOTT STUART LYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis midnight, and above the hollow trench Last Line: The tense, packed faces in the black redoubt. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War LOSERS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I should pass the tomb of jonah Last Line: "come on, you ... Do you want to live forever?" Subject(s): Courage; World War I; Valor; Bravery; First World War LOUSE HUNTING, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nudes - stark and glistening Last Line: Blown from sleep's trumpet. Subject(s): Army Life; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Drills & Minor Tactics; First World War LOVE AND YOUTH AND WAR, by DERRICK NORMAN LEHMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love and youth to the war they sent Last Line: When love and youth to the war have gone? Subject(s): Hate; Love; Murder; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; World War I; Youth; First World War MAGNA CARTA, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Magna carta! Magna carta! Last Line: English brothers, we are waiting! Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Magna Carta; World War I; English History; First World War MAKTOOB, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A shell surprised our post one day Last Line: And wisdom of the east. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War MARCHING (AS SEEN FROM THE LEFT FILE), by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My eyes catch ruddy necks Last Line: On strong eyes. Subject(s): Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War MARCHING SONG, by DANA BURNET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When pershing's men go marching into picardy Last Line: And pershing's men are marching, marching into picardy. Subject(s): Army - United States; World War I; First World War MARE LIBERUM, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You dare to say with perjured lips Last Line: Till liberty is safe on sea and shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Lusitania (ship); Patriotism; Submarines; World War I; Submarine Warfare; U-boats; First World War MARK TWAIN AND JOAN OF ARC, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When yankee soldiers reach the barricade Last Line: At bloodshed caused by angels, saints, and men. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Twain, Mark (samuel Langhorne Clemens); World War I; First World War MATEY (CAMBRIN, MAY 1915), by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not comin' back tonight, matey Last Line: But gawd! It went through me 'eart. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Grief; Soldiers; War; World War I; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; First World War MAY, 1915, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let us remember spring will come again Last Line: At one with love, at one with grief: blind to the scattered things and changing skies. Subject(s): Spring; Women; World War I; First World War MCMXIV [1914], by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Those long uneven lines Subject(s): World War I; First World War MEDITATION, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If thou, lord god, willest to judge Last Line: Thee, the high judge, and their sin. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ; Prayer; War; World War I; First World War MEMOIR, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Papa joffre, the shoulders of him wide as the land of france Last Line: A lift of white sun on a stony beach. Subject(s): Joffre, Joseph Jacques (1852-1931); World War I; First World War MEMORIAL RAIN, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ambassador puser the ambassador Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War MEMORIAL TABLET (GREAT WAR, 1918), by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Squire nagged and bullied till I went to fight Last Line: What greater glory could a man desire? Subject(s): Mourning; World War I; Bereavement; First World War MEMORIES, by EDWARD HILTON YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Far up at glorian the wind is sighing Last Line: Nor pay the debt I owe. Alternate Author Name(s): Kennet Of The Dene, 1st Baron Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War MEMORIES OF VERDUN, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The men laughed and baaed like sheep Last Line: They were afraid of less, its lieutenant Subject(s): World War I; Verdun, Battle Of (1916); First World War MEMORIES: 2, by CLAIRE MORRIS GANNON Poem Text First Line: Whenever I hear a bluebird sing Last Line: Those glorious happy other days? Subject(s): Memory; Wellesley College; World War I; First World War MEMORY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young my heart and head were light Last Line: And silence; and the faces of my friends. Subject(s): Nature; World War I; First World War MEN OF VERDUN, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are five men in the moonlight Last Line: Is written on their flesh. Subject(s): Verdun, Battle Of (1916); World War I; First World War MEN WHO MARCH AWAY' (SONG OF THE SOLDIERS), by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What of the faith and fire within us Last Line: Men who march away. Variant Title(s): Song Of The Soldiers Subject(s): Freedom; World War I; Liberty; First World War MENELAUS AND HELEN, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hot through troy's ruin menelaus broke Last Line: And paris slept on by scamander side. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Soldiers' Writings; Trojan War; World War I; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; First World War MENTAL CASES, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Who are these? Why sit they here in twilight? Last Line: Pawing us who dealt them war and madness. Subject(s): Insanity; Soldiers' Writings; War Injuries; World War I; Madness; Mental Illness; First World War MERCHANTMEN, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All honour be to merchantmen Last Line: All honour be to merchantmen while sun and moon do shine! Subject(s): Merchants; World War I; First World War MILITARY NECESSITY, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Iscariot, never more thy stricken name Last Line: "and they are blotted out." Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): World War I; First World War MILKING TIME, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a drip of honeysuckle in the deep green lane Last Line: "ow bill! A rottin' frenchy. Whew! 'e ain't 'arf prime." Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War MINERS, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a whispering in my hearth Last Line: Left in the ground. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War MISERCORDIA, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He earned his bread by making wooden soldiers Subject(s): World War I; First World War MISSIS MORIARTY'S BOY, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Missis moriarty called last week, and says she to me, says she Last Line: Would I be missis moriarty, or missis moriarty me? Subject(s): War; World War I; First World War MONT DE CASSEL, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here on the sunnier scarp of the hill let us rest Last Line: The thunder-throated cannonade booms on. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War MORE THAN SUSPECT, by ANDRE BRETON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The oaks are stricken by a serious illness Last Line: A whole throngs of general's heads Subject(s): Dadaism; World War I; First World War MOTHER AND MATE, by GILBERT FRANKAU Poem Text First Line: Lightly she slept, that splendid mother mine Last Line: "that, leaving you, I left you not alone." Subject(s): Mothers; Women & War; World War I; First World War MOTHERS OF MEN, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: I hold no cause worth my son's life,' one said Last Line: Her son the dreamer's cross? Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; World War I; First World War MOTLEY, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, death, I'd have a word with thee Last Line: Tis time thy prayers were said! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Variant Title(s): The Fool Rings His Bells Subject(s): World War I; First World War MOTLEY: PEACE, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night is o'er england, and the winds are still Last Line: These bright dews once were mixed with bloody sweat. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War MR. GETTHINGSDONE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Phil ossifize is a very big man Last Line: We need mr. Getthingsdone. Subject(s): Activity; World War I; Exercise; First World War MURMURINGS IN A FIELD HOSPITAL, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come to me only with playthings now Last Line: And the world was all playthings. Subject(s): Hospitals; World War I; First World War MY BAY'NIT, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When first I left blighty they gave me a bay'nit Last Line: Part of me outfit every time. Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War MY FOE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gurr! You cochon! Stand and fight! Last Line: Blood-guilty in sight of god. Subject(s): Clergy; Death; Murder; Religion; War; World War I; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The; Theology; First World War MY JOB, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've got a little job on 'and, the time is drawin' nigh Last Line: It's seven sharp. Good-bye, old pals! . . . A decent job in dyin'. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War MY MATE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've been sittin' starin,' starin' at 'is muddy pair of boots Last Line: To sorter be a farther to 'is kid. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War MY PRISONER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We was in a crump-'ole, 'im and me Last Line: Wonders -- 'ow would 'e 'ave treated me? Subject(s): Prisoners Of War; War; World War I; First World War MY SON, by JAMES D. HUGHES Poem Text First Line: God gave my son in trust to me Last Line: And cheer for him whose work is done. Subject(s): Grief; Patriotism; World War I; Sorrow; Sadness; First World War MY SON, by ADA TYRRELL Poem Text First Line: Here is his little cambric frock Last Line: My son, and bring him safely back to me! Subject(s): Fear; Military; Mothers & Sons; Reunions; Soldiers; World War I; First World War NEARER, by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nearer and ever nearer Last Line: Receive this little breath. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War NEXT MORNING, by E. ARMINE WODEHOUSE Poem Text First Line: Today the sun shines bright Last Line: There, with the setting of the sun! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War NIAGARA, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within the town of buffalo Last Line: The cataract niagara. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Buffalo (city), New York; Niagara Falls; Waterfalls; World War I; First World War NIGHT ON THE CONVOY, ALEXANDRIA - MARSEILLES, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out in the blustering darkness, on the deck Last Line: We are going home ... Victims ... Three thousand souls. Subject(s): Homecoming; Navy - Great Britain; World War I; English Navy; First World War NIGHT ROAD, by ROBERT A. DONALDSON Poem Text First Line: A pitch-black road, and rain Last Line: The noisy bumping of a camion train. Subject(s): Night; Roads; War; World War I; Bedtime; Paths; Trails; First World War NO MAN'S LAND, by JAMES HARRY KNIGHT-ADKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No man's land is an eerie sight Last Line: Is hunting for blood in no man's land. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; First World War NON-COMBATANTS, by EVELYN UNDERHILL Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: Never of us be said Last Line: We murmur not. Of us, this word shall not be said. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, Stuart, Mrs. Subject(s): Women And War; World War I; First World War NOT DEAD, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Walking through trees to cool my heat and pain Last Line: Breaks his slow smile. Subject(s): Thomas, David; World War I; First World War NOT HOW THEY LIVED, BUT HOW THEY DIED, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Sweet is the sleep of those whose lives were hurled Last Line: "not how they lived—but only how they died!" Subject(s): Death; Sacrifices; Soldiers; World War I; Dead, The; First World War NURSE EDITH CAVELL; TWO O'CLOCK, THE MORNING OF OCTOBER 12, 1915, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To her accustomed eyes Last Line: Announced that day she met the immortal dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Cavell, Edith (1865-1915); Death; Nurses; World War I; Dead, The; First World War OBSERVATION POST, by KURT HEYNICKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hills march across my eyes Last Line: Drips into my thoughts. Subject(s): World War I; First World War ODE IN MEMORY OF THE AMERICAN VOLUNTEERS FALLEN FOR FRANCE, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, it is fitting on this holiday Last Line: For you have died for france and vindicated us. Variant Title(s): America And France Subject(s): Americans In France; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War OFF HELIGOLAND, by JESSIE EDGAR MIDDLETON Poem Text First Line: Ghostly ships in a ghostly sea Last Line: Stands the spirit, all silver-bright. Subject(s): Great Britain - Navy; World War I; First World War OFTEN WHEN WARRING, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Often when warring for he wist not what Last Line: And war's apology wholly stultified. Subject(s): World War I; First World War OLD BATTLE-FIELD, by JOSEPH TWADELL SHIPLEY Poem Text First Line: The way was footless up the steep Last Line: Our lady of tours. Subject(s): Fields; Soldiers; War; World War I; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; First World War OLD SOLDIER DEAD, by ANNETTE KOHN Poem Text First Line: In flanders fields, where poppies blow' Last Line: Their own beloved country's flag. Subject(s): World War I; First World War ON AN AMERICAN SOLDIER OF FORTUNE SLAIN IN FRANCE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You, who sought the great adventure Last Line: In the forest of argonne! Subject(s): Argonne, Battle Of (1918); Army - United States; World War I; First World War ON BEING ASKED FOR A WAR POEM, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think it better that in times like these Last Line: Or an old man upon a winter's night. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): World War I; First World War ON FINDING MYSELF A SOLDIER, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My bud was backward to unclose Last Line: A heart more red than blood. Subject(s): World War I; First World War ON GOING INTO ACTION, by HUGH REX FRESTON Poem Text First Line: Now the weak impulse and the blind desire Last Line: That even hell's own gates should not prevail. Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I; First World War ON LEAVING IRELAND, by THOMAS MICHAEL KETTLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the sun dried in blood, and hill and sea Last Line: And knew that even I shall fall on sleep. Subject(s): World War I; First World War ON PASSING THE NEW MENIN GATE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Who will remember, passing through this gate Last Line: Rise and deride this sepulchre of crime. Subject(s): World War I; First World War ON READING THAT THE REBUILDING OF YPRES APPROACHED COMPLETION, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear you now, I hear you, shy perpetual companion Last Line: "is the wind in the rampart trees." Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War ON RECEIVING [THE FIRST] NEWS OF THE WAR, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Snow is a strange white word Last Line: Its pristine bloom. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War ON SICK LEAVE, 1916, by HAMILTON FISH ARMSTRONG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He limped beneath the arch, across the square Last Line: That smell which only is where war has been. Subject(s): Washington Square, New York City; World War I; First World War ON TALK OF PEACE AT THIS TIME, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: France. France, I know not what is in my heart Last Line: Is made secure for us and hell is thwarted. Subject(s): France; Peace; World War I; First World War ON THE BELGIAN EXPATRIATION, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt that people from the land of chimes Last Line: Of ravaged roof, and smouldering gable-end. Subject(s): Belgium; World War I; First World War ON THE PIAVE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: We called 'em wop and dago, and often Last Line: And we'll know italians better in the long years yet to come! Subject(s): Immigrants; Italy; World War I; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Italians; First World War ON THE WAY OF THE CROSS, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: On the way of the cross we were comrades Last Line: And your children forever be comrades? Subject(s): Moscow; World War I; First World War ON THE WIRE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O god, take the sun from the sky! Last Line: Here on the wire . . . The wire. . . . Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War ON TO BERLIN!, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On to berlin! And what's in the way? Last Line: Over them, over them, on to berlin! Subject(s): World War I; First World War ONLY A BOCHE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We brought him in from between the lines Last Line: Guerre. Subject(s): War; World War I; First World War OPTIMISM, by ALFRED VICTOR RATCLIFFE Poem Text First Line: At last there'll dawn the last of the long year Last Line: Your kind shall die, and sweeter days be born. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War ORANGE OF MIDSUMMER, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You came to me in the pale starting of spring Subject(s): World War I; First World War OUR COUNTRY'S DESTINY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My country! Dare we do it? Dare we be Last Line: And boldly equal to our destiny! Subject(s): United States; World War I; America; First World War OUR HERO, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flowers, only flowers - bring me dainty posies Last Line: So we left him sleeping, still amid the flow'rs. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War OUR MODEST DOUGHBOYS, by CHARLTON ANDREWS Poem Text First Line: Said the captain: 'there was wire' Last Line: Said private mike mccann. Subject(s): World War I; First World War OUR MOTHER POCAHONTAS, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Powhatan was conqueror Last Line: Our mother, pocahontas. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Native Americans; Pocahontas (1595-1617); World War I; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; First World War OUTWARD BOUND, by NOWELL OXLAND Poem Text First Line: There's a waterfall I'm leaving Last Line: We shall go not forth again. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxland, Noel Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; World War I; First World War OVER THE PARAPET, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day long when the shells sail over Last Line: Over the parapet -- life, romance! Subject(s): War; World War I; First World War OXFORD IN WAR-TIME, by WILBERT SNOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the tow-path past the barges Last Line: You who have fought and died. Alternate Author Name(s): Snow, Charles Wilber Subject(s): Oxford University; World War I; First World War OXFORD REVISITED IN WAR TIME, by TERTIUS VAN DYKE Poem Text First Line: Beneath fair magdalen's storied towers Last Line: And her heart is free and bold. Subject(s): Oxford University; World War I; First World War PATTERNS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I walk down the garden paths Last Line: Christ! What are patterns for? Subject(s): Absence; Clothing & Dress; Fashion; Freedom; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Love - Loss Of; World War I; Separation; Isolation; Liberty; First World War PEACE, by HAROLD TROWBRIDGE PULSIFER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cannon's voice is dumb Last Line: To arms! For peace is here! Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War PEACE (NOVEMBER 11, 1918), by GRETCHEN OSGOOD WARREN Poem Text First Line: Peace, battle-worn and starved, and gaunt and pale Last Line: Yea, peace, while worlds endure, will sing their requiem. Subject(s): Holidays; Peace; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War PEACE WITH A SWORD, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Peace! How we love her and the good she brings Last Line: "help us, o lord!" Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I; First World War PEACE: 1919, by MARY CRAIG SINCLAIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The jonquils bloom again upon the hill Last Line: And tears are gathering to drown the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Sinclair, Upton, Mrs. Subject(s): Peace; Soldiers; War; World War I; First World War PERSHING AT THE TOMB OF LAFAYETTE, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: They knew they were fighting our war Last Line: "only this -- ah, but france understood! ""lafayette, we are here!" Subject(s): Lafayette, Marie Joseph, Marquis De; Pershing, John J. (1860-1948); World War I; First World War PERSONAE SEPARATE, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like the golden scale that emerges Last Line: Break, it's already almost night Subject(s): World War I; First World War PETER PAN, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And peter pan is dead? Not so! Last Line: And then go tiptoe down the stair. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Barrie, Sir James Matthew (1860-1937); World War I; First World War PICARDY, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the trees blossom again Last Line: Who died that we might live. Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): World War I; First World War PICKING SKULLS AT VERDUN, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A respectable, exceedingly proper paper reports Last Line: Who always see the folly when it is too late! Subject(s): Cruelty; Death; Skulls; Soldiers; Veterans Day; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War PIERROT AT WAR, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A year ago in carnival Last Line: And a snarl of angry drums. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): World War I; First World War PIERROT GOES TO WAR, by GABRIELLE ELLIOT Poem Text First Line: In the sheltered garden, pale beneath the moon Last Line: Pierrot goes forward—but what of pierrette? Alternate Author Name(s): Forbush, Gabrielle E. Subject(s): Women & War; World War I; First World War PILGRIMS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For oh, when the war will be over Last Line: We point . . . To a name on a cross. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War PILLBOX, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just see what's happening, worley! - worley rose Last Line: To see this life so spirited away. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War PLANKED WHITEFISH, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over an order of planked whitefish at a downtown club Last Line: "war is the game of a lot of god-damned fools." Subject(s): Pacifism; World War I; Peace Movements; First World War POEM, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lived in the first century of world wars. Subject(s): World War I; World War Ii; Conduct Of Life; War - Home Front; First World War; Second World War PRAYER IN THE TRENCHES, by BRENT DOW ALLINSON Poem Text First Line: Lord god of hosts, be with us here! Last Line: Cometh the dawn! Subject(s): Prayer; World War I; First World War PRAYER OF A SOLDIER IN FRANCE, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My shoulders ache beneath my pack Last Line: This millionth of thy gift. Amen. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Prayer; Soldiers; World War I; First World War PREMATURE REJOICING, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What's that over there? Last Line: That's where the difficulty is, over there. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War PREPARATIONS FOR VICTORY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My soul, dread not the pestilence that hags Last Line: The black fiend leaps brick-red as life's last picture goes. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War PRINCETON, MAY, 1917, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now lamp-lit gardens in the blue dusk shine Last Line: And smile, from souls at peace. Subject(s): Princeton University; World War I; First World War PRINCIP, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look at him there, a lad of nineteen years Last Line: Princip, with nineteen years, can you not tell? Subject(s): Assassination; Fate; Guns; Nations; World War I; Destiny; First World War PROSPECT, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: War will not always be Last Line: "but that was long ago." Subject(s): United States - History; War; World War I; First World War QUIET EYES, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boys come home, come home from war Last Line: Unharmed, unflawed, unhurt. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Eyes; Innocence; Soldiers; Soul; War; World War I; First World War RAIN, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Rain, midnight rain, nothing but the wild rain Last Line: Cannot, the tempest tells me, disappoint. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Rain; Solitude; World War I; Loneliness; First World War RAOUL LUFBERY, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: His was the spirit that, in ages gone Last Line: A noble ending—and a deathless name! Subject(s): Death; France; Soldiers; World War I; Dead, The; First World War READY TO KILL, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ten minutes now I have been looking at this Last Line: Ready to run the red blood and slush the bowels of men all over the sweet new grass of the prairie. Subject(s): Statues; World War I; First World War REALIZATION, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is one syllable that stirs me: war Last Line: God, let me apprehend this nearer strife! Subject(s): Death; England; France; War; World War I; Dead, The; English; First World War RECALLING WAR, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Entrance and exit wounds are silvered clean Subject(s): World War I; First World War RECOGNITION, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old friend, I know you line by line Last Line: But first we'll make this day, this godlike day our friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War RECONCILIATION, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you are standing at your hero's grave Last Line: The mothers of the men who killed your son. Subject(s): Mothers; World War I; First World War RED POPPIES IN THE CORN, by W. CAMPBELL GALBRAITH Poem Text First Line: I've seen them in the morning light Last Line: Red poppies in the corn. Subject(s): Poppies; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War REINCARNATION, by EDWARD WYNDHAM TENNANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I too remember distant golden days Last Line: Until perfection reach eternity. Subject(s): Immortality; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War RELIEVED (GUILLEMONT), by FREDERIC MANNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are weary and silent Last Line: Where light drowns. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War REMORSE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lost in the swamp and welter of the pit Last Line: Of dying heroes and their deathless deeds.' Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War RENDEZVOUS, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I have a rendezvous with death Last Line: I shall not fail that rendezvous. Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Patriotism; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; First World War REPRESSION OF WAR EXPERIENCE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now light the candles; one; two; there's a moth Last Line: I'm going stark, staring mad because of the guns. Subject(s): Science; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Scientists; First World War REPRISALS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some nineteen german planes, they say Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): World War I; First World War REPUBLIC TO REPUBLIC, 1776-1917, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: France! / it is I answering Last Line: O liberty, my love! Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): France; World War I; First World War RETREAT, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Broken, bewildered by the long retreat Last Line: "all-heal and willowherb and meadowsweet." Subject(s): World War I; First World War RETURN OF THE NATIVE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: About the ramparts, quiet as a mother Last Line: Incapable to stir a weed or moth. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War RETURNING, WE HEAR THE LARKS, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sombre the night is Last Line: Or her kisses where a serpent hides. Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Skylarks; First World War REUNION IN WAR, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The windmill in his smock of white Last Line: In dead men's envied bones. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War REVEILLE, by EDEN PHILLPOTTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ended the watches of the night; oh, hear the bugles blow Last Line: And their bugles blow reveillé at the golden gates of morn. Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War RHEIMS, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O fortress of the spirit, and thyself Last Line: And, grieving, mingle pity with their blame. Subject(s): Rheims, France; World War I; First World War RHEIMS CATHEDRAL - 1914, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A winged death has smitten dumb thy bells Last Line: Thy bells live on, and heaven is in their tone! Subject(s): Holidays; Rheims, France; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War RHYMES OF A RED CROSS MAN: FOREWORD, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've tinkered at my bits of rhymes Last Line: So take or leave them as you will. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Brothers; Death; War; World War I; Half-brothers; Dead, The; First World War RHYMES OF A RED CROSS MAN: L'ENVOI, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My job is done; my rhymes are ranked and ready Last Line: Love triumphs, freedom beacons, all is well. Subject(s): War; World War I; First World War ROBERT CLAYTON WESTMAN OF MASSACHUSETTS; DIED IN FRANCE, AUGUST 1919, by WILLARD WATTLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will make his name silver Last Line: Who have achieved indifference. Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War ROMANCE, by NEIL MUNRO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old orchard crofts of picardy Last Line: "when we three march again!" Subject(s): World War I; First World War ROUEN; 26 APRIL - 25 MAY 1915, by MAY WEDDERBURN CANNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Early morning over rouen, hopeful, high, courageous morning Last Line: And the trains that go from rouen at the end of the day. Subject(s): Nurses; Rouen, France; Women; World War I; First World War ROUGE BOUQUET [MARCH 7, 1918], by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a wood they call the rouge bouquet Last Line: "farewell!" Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): France; Patriotism; World War I; First World War ROUMANIA, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another land has crashed into the deep Last Line: Rise, rise, roumania! Yet thy soul is whole! Subject(s): Romania; World War I; Rumania; Roumania; First World War ROUTE MARCH, by CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the hills and vales along Last Line: So be merry, so be dead. Variant Title(s): Of War And Death Subject(s): World War I; First World War RUINS (YPRES, 1917), by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Ruins of trees whose woeful arms Last Line: Clay crumbling slow to clay again. Subject(s): World War I; Ypres, Belgium; First World War RURAL ECONOMY (1917), by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was winter in those woods Last Line: Shot up a roaring harvest-home. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War SAINT JEANNE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a little church in france today Last Line: Jeanne d'arc. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); World War I; First World War SALVAGE, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Guns on the battle lines have pounded now a year Last Line: Guns on the battle lines have pounded a year now between brussels and paris. Subject(s): World War I; First World War SEARCHLIGHTS, by PAUL BEWSHER Poem Text First Line: You who have seen across the star-decked skies Last Line: Which slowly moves across the shell-torn night? Subject(s): Air Warfare; Aviation & Aviators; World War I; Airplanes; Air Pilots; First World War SECRET MUSIC, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I keep such music in my brain Last Line: And music dawned above despair. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War SEED-TIME, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Woman of the field - by the sunset furrow Last Line: "they will be wanting bread." Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): Women And War; World War I; First World War SEICHEPREY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A handful came to seicheprey Last Line: "and left to shattered seicheprey / unending, sweet repose" Subject(s): World War I; First World War SEPTEMBER, 1918, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This afternoon was the colour of water falling through sunlight Last Line: Upon a broken world. Subject(s): World War I; First World War SERBIA, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Text First Line: When the heroic deeds that mark our time Last Line: Is as a crown irradiating light! Subject(s): Serbia; World War I; Servia; First World War SHADOWS AND LIGHTS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What gods have met in battle to arouse Last Line: To see the beauty in each other's eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): World War I; First World War SHAKESPEARE, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: England, that gavest to the world so much Last Line: Nearest himself in universal power. Subject(s): Dramatists; England; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); World War I; English; Dramatists; First World War SHALL WE FORGET?, by ESTELLE MAY HURLL Poem Text First Line: Shall we forget, now victory has come Last Line: Shall we forget to pray? Subject(s): Wellesley College; World War I; First World War SICK LEAVE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I'm asleep, dreaming and lulled and warm Last Line: Are they not still your brothers through our blood?' Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War SILENCE, by VIRGINIA BIDDLE Poem Text First Line: The battle raged with hellish spite Last Line: Where men had fallen like summer rain. Subject(s): Silence; World War I; First World War 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 SMILE, SMILE, SMILE, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Head to limp head, the sunk-eyed wounded scanned Last Line: Say: how they smile! They're happy now, poor things. Subject(s): World War I; First World War SOLDIER SONG (3), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "uncle sammy, he's got the infantry" Last Line: "good-bye, kaiser bill" Subject(s): Army - United States;world War I; First World War SOLDIER: TWENTIETH CENTURY, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love you, great new titan! Last Line: Or a word in the brain's ways. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War SOLDIERS OF FREEDOM, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They veiled their souls with laughter Last Line: As lightly as a rose. Subject(s): Patriotism; Wellesley College; World War I; First World War SOLILOQUY, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young I had a care Last Line: A little grave that has no name. Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I; First World War SOLILOQUY 2, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was wrong, quite wrong Last Line: Than angelo's hand could ever carve in stone Subject(s): World War I; First World War SOLILOQUY; NOVEMBER 11, 1928, by N. R. A. BECKER Poem Text First Line: Ten years! Can that be all Last Line: "ten years? Can that be all?" Subject(s): Peace; Veterans Day; War; World War I; First World War SON, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He hurried away, young heart of joy, under our devon sky! Last Line: "so I'm finding the heart to smile and say: ""oh god, if it be thy will!" Subject(s): War; World War I; First World War SONG, by EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON O'BRIEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flesh unto flowers Last Line: To turn to my side. Subject(s): Women And War; World War I; First World War SONG AND CRY OF A SOLDIER IN THE LINES, by ALBERT EDWARD CLEMENTS Poem Text First Line: Sharpen the sky to flashes of flame Last Line: When a cross and dust mark where you fell? Subject(s): Death; Government; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War SONG FROM AN EVIL WOOD: 1, by EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no wrath in the stars Last Line: Even in plug street wood! Alternate Author Name(s): Dunsany, Lord; Dunsany, 18th Baron Subject(s): World War I; First World War SONG FROM AN EVIL WOOD: 2, by EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere lost in the haze Last Line: On the wooden walls of his cage. Alternate Author Name(s): Dunsany, Lord; Dunsany, 18th Baron Subject(s): World War I; First World War SONG FROM AN EVIL WOOD: 3, by EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I met with death in his country Last Line: And he did not look at me. Alternate Author Name(s): Dunsany, Lord; Dunsany, 18th Baron Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War SONG OF THE RED CROSS, by EDEN PHILLPOTTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O gracious ones, we bless your name Last Line: The radiant cross of red. Subject(s): Red Cross; World War I; First World War SONG-BOOKS OF THE WAR, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In fifty years, when peace outshines Last Line: And lived in time to share the fun. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War SONNET, by GRACE E. TOLLEMACHE Poem Text First Line: As in cool-tempered airs of april-time Last Line: The fervours that must quench its first delight. Subject(s): World War I; First World War SONNET (3), by CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you see millions of the mouthless dead Last Line: Great death has made all his for evermore. Variant Title(s): The Dead Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War SONNET WRITTEN IN THE FALL OF 1914: 1, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Awake, ye nations, slumbering supine Last Line: Man's broken word, and violated gods! Subject(s): World War I; First World War SONNET WRITTEN IN THE FALL OF 1914: 2, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far fall the day when england's realm shall see Last Line: Ere such a mighty work man rears on high! Subject(s): World War I; First World War SONNET WRITTEN IN THE FALL OF 1914: 3, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hearken, the feet of the destroyer tread Last Line: Ere yet thou close, o flower of christendom! Subject(s): World War I; First World War SONNET WRITTEN IN THE FALL OF 1914: 4, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As when the shadow of the sun's eclipse Last Line: Unapt for war, that gloom enshadow thee! Subject(s): World War I; First World War SONNET WRITTEN IN THE FALL OF 1914: 5, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I pray for peace; yet peace is but a prayer Last Line: Supreme when in all bosoms he be heard. Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War SONNET WRITTEN IN THE FALL OF 1914: 6, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is my faith, and my mind's heritage Last Line: That doth the greater births of time await! Subject(s): Faith; World War I; Belief; Creed; First World War SONNET WRITTEN IN THE FALL OF 1914: 7, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whence not unmoved I see the nations form Last Line: The hosts of thirty centuries have died. Subject(s): World War I; First World War SONNET: 1, by HENRY WILLIAM HUTCHINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see across the chasm of flying years Last Line: To wake again where helen and hector move. Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I; First World War SONNET: 2, by HENRY WILLIAM HUTCHINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The falling rain is music overhead Last Line: "and sometimes, smiling, murmur, ""be it so!" Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War SONNET: 2. FEBRUARY AFTERNOON, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men heard this roar of parleying starlings, saw Last Line: That we have wrought him, stone-deaf and stone-blind. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Variant Title(s): February Afternoon Subject(s): Birds; Time; World War I; First World War SONNET; OXFORD, 1916, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Darkling and groping, thin of blood, we wage Last Line: The old that erred and the young that died? Subject(s): World War I; First World War SORLEY'S WEATHER, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When outside the icy rain / comes leaping helter-skelter Last Line: And the ghost of sorley. Subject(s): World War I; First World War SPLENDIDLY DEAD; AFTER READING FOR POETS SLAIN IN WAR, by MARION DOYLE Poem Text First Line: Splendidly dead,' who dares such maudlin singing Last Line: But I hear the voice of lost song crying. Alternate Author Name(s): Doyle, Marion Stauffer Subject(s): Death; Peace; Poetry & Poets; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War SPRING IN BELLEAU WOOD, by EVELYN NORCROSS SHERRILL Poem Text First Line: When spring returns to belleau wood Last Line: When spring returns to belleau wood. Subject(s): Belleau Wood, France; Spring; World War I; First World War SPRING IN WAR TIME, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I feel the spring far off, far off Last Line: Gray death? Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Spring; Women; World War I; First World War SPRING OFFENSIVE, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Halted against the shade of a last hill Last Line: Why speak they not of comrades that went under? Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War SPRING, 1916, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slow, rigid, is this masquerade Last Line: Spring! God pity your mood! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War ST. MIHIEL, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: They said the yankees wouldn't fight--that there was no living chance Last Line: That the yankees did come over—that the yanks are really there! Subject(s): Germany; United States; War; World War I; Germans; America; First World War STAND-TO: GOOD FRIDAY MORNING, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'd been on duty from two till four Last Line: And get my bloody old sins washed white! Subject(s): Army Life; Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Drills & Minor Tactics; First World War STARLING, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The starling in the ivy now Last Line: To show—his mother's eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Starlings; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War STATISTICS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Napoleon shifted Last Line: And the cool night stars. Subject(s): World War I; First World War STRANGE, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strange that we two, who love all quiet things Last Line: Locked in the grim fatality of war. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): World War I; First World War STRANGE MEETING, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: It seemed that out of battle I escaped Last Line: "let us sleep now. . . ." Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Hell; Regret; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; Nightmares; First World War STRETCHER CASE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He woke; the clank and racket of the train Last Line: Lung tonic, mustard, liver pills and beer. Variant Title(s): Blighty Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War SUICIDE IN THE TRENCHES, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I knew a simple soldier boy Last Line: The hell where youth and laughter go. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War SUMMER IN ENGLAND, 1914, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On london fell a clearer light Last Line: The very kiss of christ. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Women; World War I; First World War SUNDOWN IN VIRGINIA, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: This is a strange world. Onct, I wouldn't thank Last Line: Do me a favor, will you? Call me yank! Subject(s): Soldiers; Virginia (state); War; World War I; First World War SURVIVORS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No doubt they'll soon get well; the shock and strain Last Line: Children, with eyes that hate you, broken and mad. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War TEN YEARS AFTER, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In flanders and in france the poppies bloom Last Line: Ten years ago we could not give enough. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; Veterans Day; World War I; Dead, The; First World War TEN YEARS AFTER, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Text First Line: Reverberating boom of shuffling, stamping feet! Last Line: Make the will of the world your trumpet, the heart of the world your drum! Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Peace; Veterans Day; War; World War I; First World War THANKSGIVING, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Yes--we give thanks. Thanks that the fight is won Last Line: Waves in the forefront of a better world! Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving; United States; World War I; America; First World War THAT WOODEN CROSS, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That wooden cross beside the road Last Line: That wooden cross! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE ACCUSING HANDS; A 1918 MEMORIAL DAY THOUGHT, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I had a vision of the nearer past Last Line: The clay that wore the khaki and the blue! Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Sacrifices; Soldiers; World War I; Declaration Day; First World War THE ADDED STARTER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: They're lining up at the starting point, they're Last Line: The yankee horse looks 'round and sees—the kaiser's mount fall dead. Subject(s): Germany; United States; War; World War I; Germans; America; First World War THE ADVENTURE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To-day I killed a tiger near my shack Last Line: With clotted blood. Subject(s): Animals; Tigers; World War I; First World War THE AISNE (1914-15), by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We first saw fire on the tragic slopes Last Line: We helped to hold the lines along the aisne. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE ANCRE AT HAMEL: AFTERWARDS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where tongues were loud and hearts were light Last Line: And shared its wounded moan. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE ANSWER OF THE LORD, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How long, o lord, how long' Last Line: "that I have made you men." Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE ANVIL, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Burned from the ore's rejected dross Last Line: And shape us to the end we mean! Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE ARMY OF THE DEAD, by BARRY PAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed that overhead Last Line: Salute! Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE ASSAULT HEROIC, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down in the mud I lay Last Line: "attack! Stand to! Stand to!" Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE AVENUE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up the long colonnade I press, and strive Last Line: To seek and serve the beauty that must die. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE BALLAD OF SOULFUL SAM, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You want me to tell you a story, a yarn of the firin' line Last Line: I'd only -- a deck of cards, boys, but . . . It seemed to do just the same. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE BALLAD OF ST. BARBARA, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the long gray lines came flooding upon paris in the plain Last Line: That opened like the eye of god on paris in the plain. Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): Barbara, Saint (200 A.d.); Marne, Battles Of, The (1914 & 1918); World War I; First World War THE BANKRUPT PEACE MAKER, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I opened the ink well and smoke filled the room Last Line: "will you bring your fine peace to the nations today?" Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War THE BATTLE OF LIEGE, by DANA BURNET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now spake the emperor to all his shining battle forces Last Line: And the moon rode up behind the smoke and showed the king his dream. Subject(s): Liege, Battle Of (1914); William Ii, Kaiser Of Germany (1859-1941; World War I; First World War THE BATTLE OF THE BIGHT (NAVAL ACTION IN THE BIGHT OF HELIGOLAND), by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As rose the misty sun Last Line: Nor have they shamed their sire. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Helgoland Bight, Battle Of; Sea Battles; World War I; Naval Warfare; First World War THE BATTLE OF THE MARNE, by WILHELM KLEMM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slowly the stones begin to rouse themselves and to talk Last Line: For days, for weeks. Subject(s): Marne, Battles Of, The (1914 & 1918); World War I; First World War THE BATTLEFIELD, by SYDNEY OSWALD Poem Text First Line: Around no fire the soldiers sleep tonight Last Line: To guard from hurt his faithful sleeping friend. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE BEACH ROAD BY THE WOOD, by GEOFFREY HOWARD Poem Text First Line: I know a beach road Last Line: And the face I never found. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE BELLS OF BRUGES, by LOUISE BURTON LAIDLAW Poem Text First Line: Back with the same question, major? Last Line: "come on corporal.—damn this war!" Alternate Author Name(s): Backus, L., Mrs. Subject(s): Bells; Bruges, Belgium; World War I; First World War THE BIG GAME--HERE AND OVER THERE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Stands are packed and bleachers crowded Last Line: "shall call ""safe"" ere evening falls!" Variant Title(s): The Big Game-here And Over There Subject(s): Baseball; Soldiers; Sports; War; World War I; First World War THE BIRD OF VERDUN, by SARA E. FERBER Poem Text First Line: Brave bird of verdun Last Line: To the babes of verdun. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE BIRDS OF STEEL, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: This apple-tree, that once was green Last Line: Up, nearer to god, they fly and sing. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War I; First World War THE BLACK DUDEEN, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Humping it here in the dug-out Last Line: That blighter that smashed me pipe. Subject(s): War; World War I; First World War THE BLIND PEDLAR, by FRANCIS OSBERT SACHEVERELL SITWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stand alone through each long day Last Line: Are creased in purple laughter! Alternate Author Name(s): Sitwell, Sir Osbert; Sitwell, Osbert Subject(s): Blindness; Peddling & Peddlers; World War I; Visually Handicapped; First World War THE BOUGH OF NONSENSE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Back from the somme two fusiliers Last Line: A row of bright pink birds, flapping their wings. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE BROKEN SOLDIER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The broken soldier sings and whistles day to dark Last Line: The bird caught in the cage whistles its joyous stave. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Soldiers; Soul; Strength; Women; World War I; First World War THE BUGLER, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HARVEY Poem Text First Line: God dreamed a man Last Line: Trumpeting men through beauty to god's side. Subject(s): Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE CALL, by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! 'tis the rush of the horses Last Line: And—losing such stakes—say, 't is well! Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE CALL (FRANCE, AUGUST FIRST, 1914), by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far and near, high and clear Last Line: War! War! War! Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE CALL TO ARMS IN OUR STREET, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a woman sobs her heart out Last Line: God go with you where you go! Subject(s): Women & War; World War I; First World War THE CALL TO THE RESERVISTS, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This was the message under the sea Last Line: The swarthy reservist from over the sea. Subject(s): Army - Italy; World War I; First World War THE CAMP-FOLLOWER, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We spoke, the camp-follower and I Last Line: And I sat beside her and wondered. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE CAPTIVE SHIPS AT MANILA, by DOROTHY PAUL Poem Text First Line: Our keels are furred with tropic weed Last Line: Out again to the blue! Subject(s): Manila, Philippines; World War I; First World War THE CASUALTY CLEARING STATION, by GILBERT WATERHOUSE Poem Text First Line: A bowl of daffodils Last Line: Secure from war's alarms. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE CATHEDRAL, by WILLIAM G. SHAKESPEARE Poem Text First Line: Hope and mirth are gone. Beauty is departed Last Line: Forgiving, praying, singing, feeling sorry. Alternate Author Name(s): S., W. G. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE CHALLENGE OF THE GUNS, by ARTHUR NELSON FIELD Poem Text First Line: By day, by night, along the lines Last Line: All that we have and are we lay on england's shrine. Alternate Author Name(s): Nelson, A. N. Subject(s): England; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; English; First World War THE CHANCES, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I mind as 'ow the night afore that show Last Line: The ruddy lot all rolled in one. Jim's mad. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE CHIVALRY OF THE SEA, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Over the warring waters, beneath the wandering skies Last Line: The wide-warring water, under the starry skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Sea Battles; World War I; Naval Warfare; First World War THE CHOICE, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The kings go by with jewelled crowns Last Line: Escape from prison. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Variant Title(s): Lollingdon Downs: 8 Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE CHORAL UNION, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He staggered in from night and frost and fog Last Line: He wondered when lord god would turn him out. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE COMING POET, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it far to the town?' said the poet Last Line: Fame at his crumbled head. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; World War I; First World War THE CONFLICT: 1. TO WILLIAM WATSON IN ENGLAND, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Singer of england's ire across the sea Last Line: He cannot tear our plighted souls apart. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): England; Singing & Singers; Watson, William (1858-1935); World War I; English; First World War THE CONFLICT: 2. AMERICAN NEUTRALITY, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall we keep an armed neutrality Last Line: Our souls cannot keep neutral and keep true. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Duty; England; Peace; United States; World War I; English; America; First World War THE CONFLICT: 3. PEACE, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peace! - but there is no peace. To hug the thought Last Line: Or would we crown with peace — caligula? Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Caligula (12 A.d.- 41 A.d.); England; Peace; United States; World War I; English; America; First World War THE CONFLICT: 4. WILSON, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Patience - but peace of heart we cannot choose Last Line: The wolf of europe has not triumphed yet. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Duty; Patience; United States; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924); World War I; America; First World War THE CONFLICT: 5. KRUPPISM, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crowned on the twilight battlefield, there bends Last Line: So long shall we serve krupp instead of christ. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Death; Germany; Jesus Christ; Krupp (industrial Conglomerate); Loss; Loyalty; World War I; Dead, The; Germans; First World War THE CONFLICT: 6. THE REAL GERMANY, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bismarck - or rapt beethoven with his dreams Last Line: Of buried guns gives birth to germany. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Ambition; Art & Artists; Bismark, Otto Von (1815-1898); Music & Musicians; Philosophy & Philosophers; World War I; First World War THE CONVALESCENT, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So I walked among the willows very quietly all night Last Line: But mother's sayin' nothin', and she clasps -- a silver cross. Subject(s): Brothers; Death; War; World War I; Half-brothers; Dead, The; First World War THE CORNUCOPIA OF RED AND GREEN COMFITS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Currants and honey! Last Line: In new ribbons sent from potsdam. Subject(s): Hunger; World War I; First World War THE COST, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of late we heard dark oracles proclaim Last Line: A nobler vision, happier fate be thine! Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE COWARD, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ave you seen bill's mug in the noos today? Last Line: Wot's the matter with bill! Subject(s): Army - Great Britain; Cowardice; War; World War I; First World War THE CRICKETERS OF FLANDERS, by JAMES NORMAN HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first to climb the parapet Last Line: "a sportsman and a soldier still!" Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE CZAR'S LAST CHRISTMAS LETTER: A BARN IN THE URALS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You were never told, mother, how old illya was drunk Last Line: And I am nicholas. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Letters; Mothers & Sons; Nicholas Ii, Czar Of Russia (1868-1918); Parents; World War I; Childhood; Nativity, The; Parenthood; First World War THE DANCERS (DURING A GREAT BATTLE, 1916), by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The floors are slippery with blood Subject(s): Women; World War I; First World War THE DARKEST HOUR; OXFORD, 1917, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Smother thy flickering light, the vigil is o'er Last Line: A cold moon gilds the waves of acheron. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE DAWN PATROL, by PAUL BEWSHER Poem Text First Line: Sometimes I fly at dawn above the sea Last Line: In thanks to him who brings me safely home. Subject(s): Air Warfare; Holidays; Thanksgiving; World War I; First World War THE DAY'S MARCH, by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The battery grides and jingles Last Line: I lift my head and smile. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE DEAD AND THE LIVING ONE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dead woman lay in her first night's grave Last Line: There was a deeper gloom around. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE DEAD KINGS, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the dead kings came to me Last Line: I woke, 'twas day in picardy. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Ireland; World War I; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Irish; First World War THE DEAD-BEAT, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He dropped - more sullenly than wearily Last Line: "that scum you sent last night soon died. Hooray!" Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE DEAD: 1, by DAVID MORTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Think you the dead are lonely in that place? Last Line: Are ever by great beauty visited. Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE DEATH OF PEACE, by RONALD ROSS Poem Text First Line: Now slowly sinks the day-long labouring sun Last Line: The direst deed e'er done, the most accursèd crime. Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War THE DEATH-BED, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: He drowsed and was aware of silence heaped Last Line: Then, far away, the thudding of the guns. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE DEFENDERS, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His wage of rest at nightfall still Last Line: The stranger from his cottage fire? Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE DEVONSHIRE MOTHER, by MARJORIE WILSON Poem Text First Line: The king have called the devon lads and they be answering fine Last Line: With his tanned face, his eyes of blue, and he so strappin' tall. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Women And War; World War I; Childhood; First World War THE DOLLAR-A-YEAR MEN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now a hearty and vigorous cheer, men Last Line: The patriot dollar-a-year men! Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I; First World War THE DRAFTED MAN, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kissed me from the saddle, and I still can feel it burning Last Line: Coming up the canon from the smoke-blue plains! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Variant Title(s): The Smoke Blue Plains Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I; First World War THE DRAGON AND THE UNDYING, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night the flares go up; the dragon sings Last Line: To hail the burning heavens they left unsung. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE DREAM, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Moonlight and dew-drenched blossom, and the scent Last Line: To the foul beast of war that bludgeons life. Subject(s): Science; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Scientists; First World War THE DUG-OUT, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why do you lie with your legs ungainly huddled Last Line: And when you sleep you remind me of the dead. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE DYING SOLDIER, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here are houses, he moaned Last Line: He moaned and swooned to death. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE EFFECT, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He'd never seen so many dead before Last Line: Who'll buy my nice fresh corpses, two a penny?' Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE END, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: After the blast of lightning from the east Last Line: "nor my titanic tears the seas be dried." Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Theology; First World War THE ENDLESS ARMY, by GRETCHEN OSGOOD WARREN Poem Text First Line: With folded hands beside the fire Last Line: Dim regiments of shades march by. Subject(s): Women And War; World War I; First World War THE ESTRANGEMENT, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dim through cloud vails the moonlight trembles down Last Line: Shrills malice at the soul grown strange in france. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): France; World War I; First World War THE EVERLASTING ARMS, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tides of death go swiftly home Last Line: Transfigured in his gaze. Subject(s): Death; Wales; World War I; Dead, The; Welshmen; Welshwomen; First World War THE FACE (GUILLEMONT), by FREDERIC MANNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the smoke of men's wrath Last Line: Broken. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE FARMER REMEMBERS THE SOMME, by VANCE PALMER Poem Text First Line: Will they never fade or pass! Last Line: And the dark somme flowing. Subject(s): Memory; World War I; First World War THE FATHER, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That was his sort Last Line: And cut him short. Subject(s): Fathers; World War I; First World War THE FATHERS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Snug at the club two fathers sat Last Line: These impotent old friends of mine. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE FAUN COMPLAINS, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They give me aeroplanes Last Line: Who mock my little horns and pointed ears Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE FEAR, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I do not fear to die Last Line: Lest I wake up dead. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE FESTUBERT SHRINE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sycamore on either side Last Line: We are no less poor than they. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Prayer; Women In The Bible; World War I; Virgin Mary; First World War THE FIRST BATTLE OF YPRES, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grey field of flanders, grim old battle-plain Last Line: From bixschoote to baecelaere and down to the lys river. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): World War I; Ypres, Belgium; First World War THE FIRST FUNERAL, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The whole field was so smelly; / we smelt the poor dog first Last Line: And said: 'poor dog, amen!' Subject(s): Animals; Corpses; Dogs; World War I; Cadavers; First World War THE FIRST THREE [NOVEMBER 3, 1917], by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere in france,' upon a brown hillside Last Line: Upon their hillside graves our immortelles! Subject(s): Death; Enright, Thomas F.; Gresham, James D.; Hay, Merle D.; Soldiers; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE FLAG, by EDWARD A. HORTON Poem Text First Line: Why do I love our flag? Ask why Last Line: God give it leadership, and might! Subject(s): Flags - United States; World War I; American Flag; First World War THE FLAG WE LOVE SO WELL (MARCHING SONG), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: March along, march along, with a song Last Line: Chorus: on, on, by dark or dawn, etc. Subject(s): Flags - United States; World War I; American Flag; First World War THE FOOL, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But it isn't playing the game,' he said Last Line: In the last great game of all. Subject(s): Brothers; Death; War; World War I; Half-brothers; Dead, The; First World War THE FOUR BROTHERS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Make war songs out of these Last Line: New sleepy-time songs. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE FRONTIER, by PHILIP GUEDALLA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Guns o' position is long and lean Last Line: Than a gunner with guns to lay. Subject(s): France; Oxford University; World War I; First World War THE GALLOWS, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a weasel lived in the sun Last Line: On the dead oak tree bough. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Variant Title(s): Gallows 1916 Subject(s): Animals; Nature; World War I; First World War THE GENERAL, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good-morning: good-morning!' the general said Last Line: But he did for them both by his plan of attack. Subject(s): Generals; Hate; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE GERMAN AMERICAN TO HIS ADOPTED COUNTRY, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The great guns crashing angrily Last Line: Still guards the teuton's holy grail! Subject(s): German Americans; U.s. - Foreign Population; World War I; First World War THE GOLDEN CROSS, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We hold in memory all the whiter moons Last Line: And lilies wet from no fair woodland's breast. Subject(s): Conscientious Objectors; World War I; First World War THE GUARDS CAME THROUGH, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men of the twenty-first Last Line: How the guards came through. Subject(s): England; Soldiers; World War I; English; First World War THE GUNS IN SUSSEX, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Light green of grass and richer green of bush Last Line: But still I hear the mutter of the guns. Subject(s): Desolation; England; Guns; Patriotism; Sussex, England; War; World War I; English; First World War THE HAGGIS OF PRIVATE MCPHEE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hae ye heard whit ma auld mither's postit tae me? Last Line: For he thocht o' the haggis o' private mcphee. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE HAWTHORN TREE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not much to me is yonder lane Last Line: Until I've heard he's dead. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE HEALERS, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a vision of the night I saw them Last Line: Braver than the brave? Subject(s): Courage; Death; First Aid; Healing; Nurses; Physicians; World War I; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Cures; Doctors; First World War THE HELL GATE OF SOISSONS, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My name is darino, the poet. You have heard? Last Line: By the valor of twelve english martyrs, the hell-gate of soissons is won! Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE HERO, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jack fell as he'd have wished,' the mother said Last Line: Except that lonely woman with white hair. Subject(s): Mothers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE HERO OF VIMY; AN INCIDENT OF THE GREAT WAR, by BRENT DOW ALLINSON Poem Text First Line: We charged at vimy, -- zero was at four Last Line: I cried to heaven,—and wondered if god laughed! Subject(s): Heroism; World War I; Heroes; Heroines; First World War THE HOLY WAR, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A tinker out of bedford Last Line: And bunyan was his name! Subject(s): Bunyan, John (1628-1688); World War I; First World War THE HOMECOMING OF THE SHEEP, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sheep are coming home in greece Last Line: And the climbing moon grows small. Subject(s): Greece; Sheep; World War I; Greeks; First World War THE HORSES, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What was our share in the sinning? Subject(s): World War I; Horses; Animals; First World War THE HOSTS, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Purged, with the life they left, of all Last Line: We played it through as the author planned. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE HOUSE OF DEATH, by A. T. NANKIVELL Poem Text First Line: Surely the keeper of the house of death Last Line: And all his courts are gay with flowers of spring. Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE HOUSEWIFE, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She must go back, she said Last Line: Into the night, shells falling thick and fast. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE IMMORTALS, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I killed them, but they would not die Last Line: But now I call him dirty louse. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE INVESTITURE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God with a roll of honour in his hand Last Line: You roam forlorn along the streets of gold. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE INVOLUNTARY SLACKER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Strong, young and healthy--so the whole world says Last Line: Was ever crucifixion such as mine? Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); War; World War I; Estrangement; Outcasts; First World War THE JEWISH CONSCRIPT; IN RUSSIA, by FLORENCE KIPER FRANK Poem Text First Line: They have dressed me up in a soldier's dress Last Line: He also died in vain. Subject(s): Jews; Russia - Army-military Life; World War I; Judaism; First World War THE JOKE, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He'd even have his joke Last Line: And now god knows when I shall hear the rest! Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE JOURNEY, by GRACE FALLOW NORTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I went upon a journey Last Line: All my journey sung! Subject(s): Death; Nations; Soldiers; Women; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE KAISER AND BELGIUM, by STEPHEN PHILLIPS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He said: 'thou petty people, let me pass' Last Line: Then thy destruction slake thy madman's thirst. Subject(s): Liege, Battle Of (1914); William Ii, Kaiser Of Germany (1859-1941; World War I; First World War THE KAISER AND GOD, by BARRY PAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Led by wilhelm, as you tell Last Line: We, fighting to the end, commend our souls. Subject(s): William Ii, Kaiser Of Germany (1859-1941; World War I; First World War THE KISS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To these I turn, in these I trust Last Line: Quail from your downward darting kiss. Subject(s): Kisses; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE LAMENT OF THE DEMOBILIZED, by VERA MARY BRITTAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Four years.' some say consolingly. 'oh well Alternate Author Name(s): Catlin, George E. G., Mrs. Subject(s): World War I; Veterans; First World War THE LARK, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lull in the racket and brattle Last Line: Is drowned in the shattering brattle. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE LAST MEETING, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because the night was falling warm and still Last Line: And youth, that dying, touched my lips to song. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE LAST POST, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bugler sent a call of high romance Last Line: "jolly young fusiliers too good to die." Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE LAST RALLY, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the midnight, in the rain Last Line: And another laughs with flashing eyes, sitting bolt upright. Subject(s): Military Service, Compulsory; World War I; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service; First World War THE LATE STAND-TO, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thought of cottages nigh brooks Last Line: I gave stand-to! The east was red. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE LEADER, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the man they deemed of languid blood Last Line: His name becomes the whispered hope of men. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE LIARS, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: We were the castanet units Last Line: We are the liars from france. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE LITTLE PEOPLE'S CALL, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: What is this? They say the irish fighting spirit Last Line: Strings—it's the little people calling, calling you to war! Subject(s): Ireland; War; World War I; Irish; First World War THE LITTLE PEOPLES, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little peoples of the troubled earth Last Line: The white world's burden must forever bear! Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE LITTLE PIOU-PIOU, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, some of us lolled in the chateau Last Line: Sonnez la charge, clairons! Subject(s): Soldiers; War; World War I; First World War THE LONELY GARDEN, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder what the trees will say Last Line: When they find out he's marched away. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; World War I; First World War THE LONG VACATION, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the time the boys come home from school Last Line: The roads of the world run heavenward every one. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Classmates; Homecoming; Mothers; Sons; War; World War I; Schoolmates; First World War THE LOST LEGION, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Tough birds were some of our fighters, for the Last Line: But god won't give a crooked deal to men who died like men! Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE LOST ONES, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere is music from the linnets' bills Last Line: Crying about the dark for those who died. Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE MAGPIES IN PICARDY, by T. P. CAMERON WILSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The magpies in picardy / are more than I can tell Last Line: He flies as poets might.) Alternate Author Name(s): Tipuca; Wilson, Tony P. Cameron Subject(s): Birds; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE MAN FROM ATHABASKA, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh the wife she tried to tell me that 'twas nothing but the thrumming Last Line: And I'll rest in athabaska, and I'll leave it nevermore. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE MAN OF THE MARNE, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gray battalions were driving down Last Line: Remember the marne and ferdinand foch. Subject(s): Foch, Ferdinand (1851-1929); Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War THE MARNE, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down through dim centuries of shame Last Line: Unteach us love of man. Subject(s): Marne, Battles Of, The (1914 & 1918); World War I; First World War THE MEETING, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: She was a blossoming slip of english may Last Line: "he holds her fast -- ""my rose! My little rose...." Subject(s): Women - Employment; World War I; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers; First World War THE MEN THAT FOUGHT AT MINDEN, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The men that fought at minden, they was rookies in their time Last Line: Ho! Run an' get the beer, johnny raw! Subject(s): Army - Great Britain; Minden, Germany; World War I; First World War THE MERCIFUL HAND, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your fine white hand is heaven's gift Last Line: The love-alliance of mankind. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Nurses; World War I; First World War THE MESSINES ROAD, by JOHN E. STEWART Poem Text First Line: The road that runs up to messines Last Line: And give the highway back its state. Subject(s): Roads; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Paths; Trails; First World War THE METAL CHECKS, by LOUISE DRISCOLL Poem Text First Line: The bearer / here is a sack, a gunny sack Last Line: One—two—three—four— Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE MILITIAMAN, by ELMO SCOTT WATSON Poem Text First Line: O, we didn't join for glory Last Line: Fightin' like hell for the red, white and blue! Subject(s): Militarism; Soldiers; World War I; First World War THE MINE-SWEEPERS, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn off the foreland -- the young flood making Last Line: "sent back unity, claribel, assyrian, stormcock, and golden gain." Subject(s): Mine-sweepers; Ships & Shipping; World War I; First World War THE MOBILIZATION IN BRITTANY, by GRACE FALLOW NORTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was silent in the street Last Line: So this is the way of war ... Subject(s): Brittany, France; World War I; First World War THE MORNING BEFORE THE BATTLE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: To-day, the fight: my end is very soon Last Line: That dead men blossomed in the garden-close. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE MOTHER (2), by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her boys are not shut out. They come Last Line: And not go out again. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Mothers; Women And War; World War I; First World War THE MOTHER ON THE SIDEWALK, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mother on the sidewalk as the troops are marching by Last Line: Is a lasting holy tribute to all mothers' love of right. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Mothers; Patriotism; World War I; First World War THE MOUNTAIN OF SKELETONS, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mountain strikes into a clouded sky Last Line: In what forgotten war. Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Korean War, 1950-1953; Mountains; Skeletons; Soldiers; World War I; Hills; Downs (great Britain); First World War THE MOUNTAIN OF SKULLS, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All guns are silent - 'I have won,' he saith Last Line: Go quietly, all our days. Subject(s): Skulls; Soldiers; War; World War I; First World War THE MOURNERS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I look into the aching womb of night Last Line: How happy are the dead! Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE NATION'S COURAGE (WRITTEN IN THE WORLD WAR), by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As thou hast kept our nation, lord Last Line: Lead thou the armies of the right! Subject(s): Prayer; United States; World War I; America; First World War THE NEUTRAL, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who canst stop this slaughter if thou wilt Last Line: The mute accusing army of the dead? Subject(s): German Americans; World War I; First World War THE NEW DAY, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From a vision red with war Last Line: Man's land. Subject(s): Freedom; World War I; Liberty; First World War THE NEW SCHOOL, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The halls that were loud with the merry tread of young and careless feet Last Line: A flame that they took with strong young hands from the altar-fires of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE NEW SLAVERY (GERMAN EXPATRIATION OF CIVIL POPULATIONS OF BELGIUM), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men of freedom, for whose ease Last Line: December 15, 1916. Subject(s): Belgium; World War I; First World War THE NEW WORLD, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, let us make a new world,' said the proud Last Line: But justice, queened by pity, rules the new. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE NEW ZEALANDER, by BEN KENDIM Poem Text First Line: Samothrace and imbros lie Last Line: Tom, his brother, envied him. Subject(s): New Zealand; World War I; First World War THE NEXT WAR, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You young friskies who to-day / jump and fight in father's hay Last Line: Playing at royal welch fusiliers. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE NEXT WAR, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out there, we walked quite friendly up to death Last Line: He fights for death, for lives; not men, for flags. Subject(s): Death; Patriotism; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE NIGHT PATROL; SEPTEMBER, 1918, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behind me on the darkened pier Last Line: And silent duty on the sea. Subject(s): England; Night; Ships & Shipping; Soldiers; War; World War I; English; Bedtime; First World War THE NOBLER ARMY, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The men who fight in europe - they fight to maim and kill Subject(s): Coal Mines & Miners; World War I; First World War THE ODYSSEY OF 'ERBERT 'IGGINS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Me and ed and a stretcher Last Line: "we'll 'owl in their fyces: 'no-o-o!'" Subject(s): Army Life; World War I; Drills & Minor Tactics; First World War THE ONE-LEGGED MAN, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Propped up on a stick he viewed the august weald Last Line: And thought: 'thank god they had to amputate!' Subject(s): Amputees; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE OWL, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Downhill I came, hungry, and yet not starved Last Line: Soldiers and poor, unable to rejoice. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Birds; Owls; World War I; First World War THE PARABLE OF THE OLD MAN AND THE YOUNG, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: So abram rose, and clave the wood, and went Last Line: And half the seed of europe, one by one. Subject(s): Abraham; Bible; Isaac (bible); Religion; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Theology; First World War THE PASSENGERS OF A RETARDED SUBMERSIBLE, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The american people: / what was it kept you so long, brave german submersible? Last Line: Shall be ever the home for us this land can never be. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Germany; Lusitania (ship); World War I; Germans; First World War THE PEACE PEAL (AFTER FOUR YEARS OF SILENCE), by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said a wistful daw in saint peter's tower Last Line: Or lower, of pens and politics. Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War THE PEACEFUL WARRIOR, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have [or, there is] no joy in strife Last Line: Unless the world is free? Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE PITY OF IT, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walked in loamy wessex lanes afar Last Line: And their brood perish everlastingly.' Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE POET, by THOMAS ERNEST HULME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over a large table, smooth, he leaned in ecstasies Last Line: On the smooth table. Alternate Author Name(s): Hulme, T. E. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; World War I; First World War THE POPLARS, by BERNARD FREEMAN TROTTER Poem Text First Line: O, a lush green english meadow - it's there I that would lie Last Line: For a row of wind-blown poplars against an english sky. Subject(s): Poplar Trees; Soldiers; World War I; First World War THE PRICE OF HONOR (THE COLOMBIAN INDEMNITY), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How much is a country's honor worth? Last Line: Give us our measureless honor again. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE PROPHET, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is a country Last Line: This sometime seer, crass but cassandra-like. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE QUAKER MEETING-HOUSE, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the corn-rows from our barracks stood Last Line: With windows burning like the fires of home. Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Houses; Religion; War; World War I; Quakers; Theology; First World War THE QUESTION, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder if the old cow died or not Last Line: Till doomsday if the old cow died or not. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE RAGGED STONE, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I was walking with my dear, my dear come back at last Last Line: I'll not be walking with my dear next year, nor yet alone. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Legends; Love; Stones; War; World War I; Dead, The; Granite; Rocks; First World War THE RANKER, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: There was only one first sergeant Last Line: Who ever went to france. Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I; First World War THE REAR-GUARD, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Groping along the tunnel, step by step Last Line: Unloading hell behind him step by step. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE REAWAKENING, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Green in light are the hills, and a calm wind flowing Last Line: Springs, like a child from the womb, when the lonely one calls. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE RECRUIT, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His mother bids him go without a tear Last Line: To look upon itself and live—or die! Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; World War I; First World War THE RED CHRISTMAS, by WILLIAM H. DRAPER Poem Text First Line: O take away the mistletoe Last Line: Twined with the holly berry. Alternate Author Name(s): Draper, W. H. Subject(s): Christmas; World War I; Nativity, The; First World War THE RED COUNTRY, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the red country Last Line: With your secret eyes, and sow for us, that we must reap again? Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE RED CROSS NURSE, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One summer day, gleaming in memory Subject(s): World War I; Red Cross; Nurses; First World War THE RED CROSS NURSES, by THOMAS LANSING MASSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out where the line of battle cleaves Last Line: The red cross nurses stand. Alternate Author Name(s): Masson, Tom Subject(s): Nurses; Red Cross; World War I; First World War THE RED CROSS SPIRIT SPEAKS, by JOHN FINLEY (1874-) Poem Text First Line: Wherever war with its red woes Last Line: Of war's red line. Subject(s): Red Cross; World War I; First World War THE RED RETREAT, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tramp, tramp, the grim road, the road from mons to wipers Last Line: The graves of me mateys there, the grim, sour graves. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE REDEEMER, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Darkness: the rain sluiced down; the mire was deep Last Line: Mumbling: 'o christ almighty, now I'm stuck!' Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE RETURN, by ELEANOR ROGERS COX Poem Text First Line: Golden through the golden morning Last Line: From the soul's despair. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE RETURN, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the rumbling guns. I saw the smoke Last Line: And I heard beauty singing up the hill. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE RETURN OF AUGUST, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Darkly a mortal age has come and gone Last Line: The summer wanes: the ploughman comes with spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE REVELATION, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The same old sprint in the morning, boys, to the same old din and smut Last Line: But all of us wonder what we'll do when we have to go back again. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE RIVAL SCHOOLS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Trained in the ways of blood and iron Last Line: "urged on by ""high-born"" power?" Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I; First World War THE ROAD, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The road is thronged with women: soldiers pass Last Line: The road would serve you well enough for bed. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE ROAD TO DIEPPE, by JOHN FINLEY (1874-) Poem Text First Line: Before I knew, the dawn was on the road Last Line: Forget long hates in one consummate faith. Subject(s): Dieppe, France; World War I; First World War THE ROAD TO FRANCE, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: Thank god, our liberating lance Last Line: See, with what proud hearts we advance to france! Subject(s): France; Patriotism; World War I; First World War THE RUBAIYAT OF BATTLE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Wake--for the dawn has come, and o'er the top Last Line: And seek repose amid the hostile dead! Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE SEA FIGHT; IN MEMORIAM CAPTAIN PROWSE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down went the grand 'queen mary' Last Line: With his comrades all around. Subject(s): Sea Battles; World War I; Naval Warfare; First World War THE SEARCHLIGHTS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shadow by shadow, stripped for fight Last Line: She moves to the eternal goal. Subject(s): Morality; World War I; Ethics; First World War THE SEND-OFF, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down the close darkening lanes they sang their way Last Line: Up half-known roads. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; War; World War I; First World War THE SENTRY, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We'd found an old boche dug-out, and he knew Last Line: "I see your lights!"" but ours had long died out." Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE SENTRY'S MISTAKE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The chapel at the crossways bore no scar Last Line: "made him once more ""the terror of the hun." Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE SHADOW OF DEATH, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here's an end to my art! / I must die and I know it Last Line: I may father no longer! Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE SHIP OF LIBERTY; LINES ON THE LAUNCHING OF THE 'NEWBURGH', by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O ship of liberty! Last Line: Our hearts go forth with thee. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; World War I; First World War THE SHIPS OF GRIEF, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On seas where every pilot fails Last Line: There is a sun will strike the sea. Subject(s): Grief; Ships & Shipping; World War I; Sorrow; Sadness; First World War THE SHIPS THAT NEVER FOUGHT, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The great gray ships come slowly in, and range Last Line: And yet no stain or shame is theirs—the ships that never fought! Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; War; World War I; First World War THE SHORT ROAD TO HEAVEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a short road to heaven, but you must take it young Last Line: The night darkens on them—and there's god at the door. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Heaven; Mothers; Roads; War; World War I; Youth; Paradise; Paths; Trails; First World War THE SHOW, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My soul looked down from a vague height with death Last Line: And the fresh-severed head of it, my head. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE SIGN, by FREDERIC MANNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are here in a wood of little beeches Last Line: Across the moon. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE SILVER STRIPES, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When we've honored the heroes returning from france Last Line: Though they've only the silver to show. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE SKY-SENT DEATH, by WALTER JAMES REDFERN TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting on a stone a shepherd Last Line: Free, in no man's keeping. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE SOLDIER SPEAKS, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If courage thrives on reeking slaughter Last Line: We have gone down to fight! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I; First World War THE SOLDIER'S SEA CHANGE, by DANIEL HUGH VERDER Poem Text First Line: What do you carry, slow moving ship Last Line: Crimsons the dismal flowing flood. Subject(s): Death; Patriotism; Soldiers; War - Casualties (statistics, Etc.); World War I; Youth; Dead, The; First World War THE SOLDIERS OF THE DUSK, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Black men holding up the earth Last Line: Victims of the war god's lust. Subject(s): African Americans - Military; World War I; First World War THE SONG OF THE PACIFIST, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What do they matter, our headlong hates, when we take the toll Last Line: In the name of the dead the banner of peace . . . That will be victory. Subject(s): Pacifism; War; World War I; Peace Movements; First World War THE SONG OF THE SOLDIER-BORN, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me the scorn of the stars and a peak defiant Last Line: Death in my boots may-be, but fighting, fighting. Subject(s): Soldiers; War; World War I; First World War THE SPECTRAL ARMY, by GRETCHEN OSGOOD WARREN Poem Text First Line: I dream that on far heaven's steep Last Line: They left the reckoning to god. Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE SPIRES OF OXFORD, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the spires of oxford Last Line: Than even oxford town. Subject(s): Oxford University; World War I; First World War THE SPOILS OF WAR, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What does our soldier bring from war? Last Line: Could knightly soldier bring from war? Subject(s): Army - United States; World War I; First World War THE SPRING IN IRELAND: 1916, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do not forget my charge I beg of you Last Line: We sail away -- be with us mananan! Subject(s): Ireland; Spring; World War I; Irish; First World War THE STARS IN THEIR COURSES, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And now, while the dark vast earth shakes Last Line: On these disastrous wars! Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE STEEPLE, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: There's mist in the hollows Last Line: For birds and for bells! Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE STILL HOUR, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As in the silent darkening room I lay Last Line: Whence one deep moaning, one deep moaning came. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE STORM, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The storm that trickles its long march Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE STRETCHER-BEARER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My stretcher is one scarlet stain Last Line: O prince of peace! 'ow long, 'ow long? Subject(s): Army Life; War; World War I; Drills & Minor Tactics; First World War THE SUPERMAN, by ROBERT GRANT (1852-1940) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Horror-haunted belgian plains riven by shot and shell Last Line: Let chaos come, let moloch rule, and christ give place to baal. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE SURVIVAL OF THE UNFIT, by HEINRICH LEHR Poem Text First Line: A trillion trillion years ago Last Line: And grow into the sons of god. Subject(s): Army - United States; Military; Soldiers; Survival; World War I; First World War THE SWORD OF LAFAYETTE (INSCRIBED TO RAYMOND POINCARE), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was the time of our despair Last Line: The sacred sword of lafayette. Subject(s): Lafayette, Marie Joseph, Marquis De; World War I; First World War THE TOAST OF MARS, by MARY E. OAKES Poem Text First Line: My ghastly cry I raise on high Last Line: I give you the toast of mars! Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Soldiers; World War I; First World War THE TOMBSTONE-MAKER, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He primmed his loose red mouth and leaned his head Last Line: O sir, that christian souls should come to that!' Subject(s): Graves; Mourning; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement; First World War THE TOY BAND (A SONG OF THE GREAT RETREAT), by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dreary lay the long road, dreary lay the town Last Line: Fall in! Fall in! Follow the fife and drum! Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE TRAITORS OF CAPORETTO; A LEGEND OF TODAY, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whose feet are these that plod all day Last Line: Shall perish as they fall. Subject(s): Army - Italy; Caporetto, Battle Of (1917); Italy; Treason & Traitors; World War I; Italians; First World War THE TRENCHES, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Scratches in the dirt? / no, that sounds much too nice Last Line: Squash! And he needs no twice. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE TRENCHES, by FREDERIC MANNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Endless lanes sunken in the clay Last Line: Night for menace with weary eyes. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE TROOP SHIP, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grotesque and queerly huddled Last Line: Ale on your face. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE TROOPS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dim, gradual thinning of the shapeless gloom Last Line: The legions who have suffered and are dust. Variant Title(s): Prelude: The Troops Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE TROUBLED SPIRIT, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said god, go, spirit, thou hast served me well Last Line: Some weariness, while time smiles to himself. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE TWINS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There were two brothers, john and james Last Line: And john? Well, search the potter's field. Subject(s): Brothers; War; World War I; Half-brothers; First World War THE U-BOAT CREWS, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, alas for those blond boys who stalk Subject(s): Navy - Germany; Submarines; World War I; Submarine Warfare; U-boats; First World War THE UNCHANGEABLE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though I within these last two years of grace Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; Human Behavior; First World War; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE UNDEFEATED FLAG, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Aye, set that banner in the sky--let every towering crag Last Line: Show out old glory in the sun—the undefeated flag! Subject(s): Flags - United States; World War I; American Flag; First World War THE UNDERGRADUATE KILLED IN BATTLE; OXFORD, 1915, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet as the lawn beneanth his sandalled tread Last Line: And in unwitting lordship saw the blue. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE UNDYING, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In thin clear light unshadowed shapes go by Last Line: Ripe berries on neglected boughs that wasted. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Death; Grief; World War I; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; First World War THE UNRETURNING, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For us, the dead, though young Last Line: That we have died in vain! Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There were faces to remember in the valley of the shadow Last Line: Maimed. Subject(s): Death; Life; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE VETERAN; MAY, 1916, by MARGARET ISABEL POSTGATE COLE Poem Text First Line: We came upon him sitting in the sun Last Line: "nineteen, the third of may." Subject(s): Veterans; Women; World War I; Youth; First World War THE VICTOR OF THE MARNE (INSCRIBED TO JOSEPH JACQUES CESAIRE JOFFRE), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, may, thou darling of the year Last Line: In spite of frontiers and of flags the world shall be as one. Subject(s): Joffre, Joseph Jacques (1852-1931); World War I; First World War THE VINDICTIVE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How should we praise those lads of the old vindictive Last Line: In those red gates of hell? Subject(s): Death; Desire; England; Fear; Hearts; Ships & Shipping; Soul; World War I; Dead, The; English; First World War THE VIRGIN OF ALBERT (NOTRE DAME DE BREBIERES), by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Shyly expectant, gazing up at her Last Line: "and comfort them, and hearken all their prayers!" Subject(s): Notre Dame De Brebieres (basilica); Prayer; World War I; First World War THE VISION OF SPRING, 1916, by HENRY HOWARTH BASHFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night in a cottage far Last Line: Lo, the dawn out-topped the night. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE VOICE OF THE GUNS, by GILBERT FRANKAU Poem Text First Line: We are the guns, and your masters! Saw ye our flashes? Last Line: Loose them, and shatter, and spare not! We are the guns! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE VOLUNTEER, by HERBERT HENRY ASQUITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies a clerk who half his life had spent Last Line: Who goes to join the men of agincourt. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxford And Asquith, 1st Earl Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE VOLUNTEER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sez I: my country calls? Well, let it call Last Line: I've gotta go, bill, gotta go. Subject(s): War; World War I; First World War THE VOLUNTEER (1914-1919), by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dreams are passed and gone, old man Last Line: Carry on, old sport, carry on! Subject(s): England; Military Recruitment; Soldiers; World War I; English; First World War THE WAKENED GOD, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The war-god wakened drowsily Last Line: And scourged the crouching lands again. Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Variant Title(s): The Awakened War God Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE WAR FILMS, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O living pictures of the dead Last Line: To take their death for mine. Subject(s): Death; Religion; World War I; Dead, The; Theology; First World War THE WAR IN EUROPE: 1915; ABDALLAH OF CAIRO SPEAKS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the prophet! If these be christians, where shall / we find the heathen? Last Line: I will repeat the fátiha and leave them to their doom! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Muslims; Prayer; Religion; World War I; Moslems; Theology; First World War THE WATCHERS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the challenge 'who goes there?' Last Line: When I at last am seen and known. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE WELCOME, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He'd scarcely come from leave and london Last Line: While any of those who were there have tongues. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE WEST FRONT, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No country know I so well Last Line: Nor lorn jerusalem. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Masefield, John (1878-1967); Somme, Battle Of The (1916); World War I; First World War THE WHISTLE OF SANDY MCGRAW, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You may talk o' your lutes and your dulcimers fine Last Line: You wee penny whistle o' sandy mcgraw. Subject(s): Death; Music & Musicians; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE WHITE SHIPS AND THE RED, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With drooping sail and pennant Last Line: But one -- shall be like blood. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Ghost Ships; Lusitania (ship); Submarines; World War I; Submarine Warfare; U-boats; First World War THE WIFE OF LLEW, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And gwydion said to math, when it was spring Last Line: And bore away his wife of birds and flowers. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE WINE PRESS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A murdered man, ten miles away Last Line: Thro' a red volcanic sky ... Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Murder; Soldiers; World War I; Dead, The; Wine; First World War THE WORLD WAR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This -- after nineteen centuries of christ! Last Line: And let this worst of warfare be the last! Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE YOUNG MOTHER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In dreadful times of death and war Last Line: With frankincense and myrrh. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Comfort; Mothers; War; World War I; First World War THE ZONNEBEKE ROAD, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Morning, if this late withered light can claim Last Line: And freeze you back with that one hope, disdain. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War THEIR VERY MEMORY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hear, o hear / they were as the welling waters Last Line: Tears of joy and music's rally. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War THEN AND NOW, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When battles were fought Last Line: Stab first.' Subject(s): World War I; First World War THERE IS BUT ONE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I have sung of blood and battle Last Line: Have I made my lesson plain? Subject(s): Clergy; Good; Religion; World War I; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Theology; First World War THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS', by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: There will come soft rain and the smell of the ground Last Line: Would scarcely know that we were gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Spring; War - Home Front; Women; World War I; First World War THEY', by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bishop tells us: 'when the boys come back' Last Line: And the bishop said: 'the ways of god are strange!' Subject(s): Religion; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Theology; First World War THIRD YPRES, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Triumph! How strange, how strong had triumph come Last Line: The dead men from that chaos, or my soul? Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War THOMAS OF THE LIGHT HEART, by OWEN SEAMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Facing the guns, he jokes as well Last Line: Nor play what isn't cricket. There's his creed. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THOSE OTHERS, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where are those others? - the men who stood Last Line: As the hallowed host goes by! Subject(s): Death; England; Patriotism; Praise; Soldiers; War; World War I; Dead, The; English; First World War THREE HILLS, by EDWARD CHARLES EVERARD OWEN Poem Text First Line: There is a hill in england Last Line: To souls in jeopardy. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Death; Mountains; Soldiers; War; World War I; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain); First World War THROUGH THE MEUSE-ARGONNE TODAY, by ROBERT CARY Poem Text First Line: Not fraught with death and havoc the campaign Last Line: As through the meuse-argonne they lead the way. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THRUSHES, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tossed on the glittering air they soar and skim Last Line: And storms the gate of nothingness for proof. Subject(s): Birds; Soldiers' Writings; Thrushes; World War I; First World War TIPPERARY DAYS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, weren't they the fine boys! You never saw the beat of them Last Line: ('r! Ain't war just 'ell?) Subject(s): Army Life; Death; War; World War I; Drills & Minor Tactics; Dead, The; First World War TO A BULL-DOG, by JOHN COLLINGS SQUIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We shan't see willie [or, willy] any more, mamie Last Line: And he won't be coming here any more. Alternate Author Name(s): Eagle, Solomon; Squire, J. C. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; World War I; First World War TO A CANADIAN AVIATOR WHO DIED FOR HIS COUNTRY IN FRANCE, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tossed like a falcon from the hunter's wrist Last Line: Mounting in circles, faithful beyond death. Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; World War I; First World War TO A FRIEND WANTING WAR, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I trust that when the bugles blow Last Line: To think on death's monotony. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Death; Murder; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War TO A MOTHER, by EDEN PHILLPOTTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Robbed mother of the stricken motherland Last Line: Eden phillpotts Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; World War I; First World War TO A SCHOOLMATE-KILLED IN ACTION, by HAROLD TROWBRIDGE PULSIFER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gordan rand, we saw you last Last Line: We salute you, -- gordan rand! Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War TO A SKYLARK BEHIND OUR TRENCHES, by EDWARD DE STEIN Poem Text First Line: Thou little voice! Thou happy sprite Last Line: We live. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War TO A WAR POET, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You sang the battle Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): World War I; First World War TO ALEXANDER THE GREAT, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: No more he walks across the field Last Line: When he comes home again! Subject(s): Alexander, Grover Cleveland (1887-1950); Athletes; Baseball; Soldiers; Sports; World War I; First World War TO AMERICA, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How would you have us, as we are? Last Line: Or tightening chains about your feet? Subject(s): Justice; World War I; First World War TO AMERICA, ON HER FIRST SONS FALLEN IN THE GREAT WAR, by E. M. WALKER Poem Text First Line: Now you are one with us, you know our tears Last Line: "to those who hear far heaven cry, ""well done!" Subject(s): Death; Enright, Thomas F.; Gresham, James D.; Hay, Merle D.; Soldiers; World War I; Dead, The; First World War TO AN OLD LADY SEEN AT A GUEST-HOUSE FOR SOLDIERS, by ALEXANDER ROBERTSON Poem Text First Line: Quiet thou didst stand at thine appointed place Last Line: The radiance of thy benignity. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War TO ANY DEAD OFFICER, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well, how are things in heaven? I wish you'd say Last Line: I wish they'd killed you in a decent show. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War TO BELGIUM, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For right, not might, you fought. The foe Last Line: For right, not might. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Belgium; World War I; First World War TO CERTAIN POETS, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now is the rhymer's honest trade Last Line: And leave the poet's craft to men! Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Soldiers; World War I; First World War TO E. T.: 1917, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You sleep too well - too far away Last Line: Had wept for you, my dear. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917); World War I; First World War TO GERMANY, by CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are blind like us. Your hurt no man designed Last Line: The darkness and the thunder and the rain. Subject(s): Germany; World War I; Germans; First World War TO HIS DEAD BODY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When roaring gloom surged inward and you cried Last Line: Dear, red-faced father god who lit your mind. Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; Bereavement; First World War TO HIS EXCELLENCY, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One of all our brave commanders Last Line: In the streets of proud berlin.' Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): World War I; First World War TO HIS LOVE, by IVOR GURNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He's gone, and all our plans Subject(s): World War I; First World War TO ITALY, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of noble minds! How shall we pay Last Line: Whose forward spirit debtors every race! Subject(s): Army - Italy; World War I; First World War TO JANE ADDAMS AT THE HAGUE: 1. SPEAK NOW FOR PEACE, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lady of light, and our best woman, and queen Last Line: Back of the smoke is the promise of kindness again. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Addams, Jane (1860-1935); Lusitania (ship); Peace; Reform & Reformers; World War I; First World War TO JANE ADDAMS AT THE HAGUE: 1. TOLSTOI IS PLOWING YET, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tolstoi is plowing yet. When the smoke clouds break Last Line: Forward, across the field, his horses go. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Tolstoy, Leo (1828-1910); World War I; First World War TO LEONIDE MASSINE IN 'CLEOPATRA', by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O beauty doomed and perfect for an hour Last Line: Be still; you have drained the cup; you have played your part. Subject(s): Ballet; Dancing & Dancers; Massine, Leonide (1896-1979); World War I; First World War TO LUCASTA ON GOING TO THE WARS FOR THE FOURTH TIME, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It doesn't matter what's the cause Last Line: And his pride keeps him here. Subject(s): World War I; First World War TO MILITARY PROGRESS, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You use your mind Last Line: Red. Variant Title(s): To The Soul Of 'progress' Subject(s): World War I; First World War TO MY BROTHER, by MILES JEFFREY GAME DAY Poem Text First Line: This will I do when we have peace again Last Line: Proving your presence near, in spite of death. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War TO MY BROTHER, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me your hand, my brother, search my face Last Line: And through your victory I shall win the light. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War TO MY BROTHER; KILLED: CHAUMONT WOOD, OCTOBER, 1918, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O you so long dead Last Line: The language as long as the language survives Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): World War I; Brothers; Death; Time; First World War TO MY COUNTRY, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One told me he had heard it whispered: 'lo!' Last Line: Suffer and bleed, and tell the world good-by! Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I; First World War TO MY DAUGHTER BETTY, THE GIFT OF GOD (ELIZABETH DOROTHY), by THOMAS MICHAEL KETTLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In wiser days, my darling rosebud, blown Last Line: And for the secret scripture of the poor. Subject(s): World War I; First World War TO MY PUPILS, GONE BEFORE THEIR DAY, by GUY KENDALL Poem Text First Line: You seemed so young, to know Last Line: Eternity awaits us to correct. Subject(s): World War I; First World War TO OUR PRESIDENT, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hope of the nations, lift thy stricken heart Subject(s): World War I; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924); First World War TO PADEREWSKI, PATRIOT, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Son of a martyred race, that long Last Line: Shall plead for thy distracted land. Subject(s): Composers; Music & Musicians; Paderewski, Ignacy Jan (1860-1941); World War I; First World War TO ROBERT NICHOLS, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here by a snowbound river Last Line: And singing birds are mute. Subject(s): World War I; First World War TO STATECRAFT EMBALMED, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is nothing to be said for you. Guard Last Line: Foe. Subject(s): Thoth (egyptian God); World War I; First World War TO THE 'REFUGEES' OF THE BOSTON AUTHORS CLUB, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Right welcome, adventurers all! Last Line: We are glad you are home again! Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; World War I; First World War TO THE FIRST GUN, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Speak, silent, patient gun! Last Line: Of all thy comrades, best. Subject(s): World War I; First World War TO THE GIRL WHO HELPED IN THE WAR, by JOSEPHINE DODGE DASKAM BACON Poem Text First Line: Before the flag had floated free Last Line: But it made a woman of you! Subject(s): War - Home Front; Women; World War I; First World War TO THE NECROPHILE, by WALTER CONRAD ARENSBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With love are you gone mad, o lover of france Last Line: "not yours the human vow: ""till death us part!" Subject(s): Disdain; France; Marriage; World War I; Scorn; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; First World War TO THE OTHERS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This was the gleam then that lured from far Last Line: With the banner of christ over them—our knights new-made. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Women; World War I; First World War TO THE PEACE PALACE AT THE HAGUE, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Builded of love and joy and faith and hope Last Line: Thou shalt be capitol of all the earth. Subject(s): Hague, Netherlands; Peace; World War I; First World War TO THE RETURNING BRAVE, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Victorious knights without reproach or fear Last Line: That liberty may greet you all, her shields of land and wave. Subject(s): Homecoming; Soldiers; World War I; First World War TO THE SPIRIT OF LUTHER, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Luther, come back to thy degenerate land Last Line: Brutes breed them bodies: who shall breed them souls? Subject(s): Germany; Luther, Martin (1483-1546); World War I; Germans; First World War TO THE WINGLESS VICTORY; A PRAYER, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wingless victory, whose shrine Last Line: O wingless victory! Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War I; First World War TO VICTORY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Return to greet me, colours that were my joy Last Line: When the blithe wind laughs on the hills with uplifted voice. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War TO W. W. IN HASTE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have given you our money, we have given you our boys Last Line: Get excited! Go the limit! And -- then -- more! Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924); World War I; First World War TOGETHER, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Splashing along the boggy woods all day Last Line: But at the stable-door he'll say good-night. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War TORSO, by IWAN GOLL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Europe, you shuddering torso! Last Line: Europe, you crumbling torso, you rump of the world! Alternate Author Name(s): Goll, Yvan Subject(s): Europe; World War I; First World War TRANSFORMATION, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In many homes / one sees old shrapnel cases Last Line: Let me work. Subject(s): Change; Death; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War TRANSPORT (COURCELLES), by FREDERIC MANNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon swims in milkiness Last Line: Then again the limbers and grotesque mules. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War TRANSPORT UP AT YPRES, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The thoroughfares that seem so dead to daylight passers-by Last Line: While overhead with fleering light stare down those withered suns. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War TREES, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I think that I shall never see / a poem lovely as a tree Last Line: But only god can make a tree. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Animals; Courage; Environment; Faith; Gardens & Gardening; Holidays; Religion; Soldiers; Travel; Trees; World War I; Valor; Bravery; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Belief; Creed; Theology; Journeys; Trips; First World War TREES ON THE CALAIS ROAD, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like mourners filing into church at a funeral Last Line: Of that dead army driving by. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Trees; World War I; First World War TRENCH DUTY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shaken from sleep, and numbed and scarce awake Last Line: Blank stars. I'm wide-awake; and some chap's dead. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War TRENCH IDYLL, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We sat together in the trench Last Line: It's rather cold here, sir; suppose we move? Subject(s): World War I; First World War TRENCH NOMENCLATURE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Genius named them, as I live! What but genius could compress Last Line: From the fabled vase the genie in his shattering horror came. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War TRENCH RAID NEAR HOOGE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At an hour before the rosy-fingered Last Line: Lit earth and heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War TRENCHES: ST. ELOI, by THOMAS ERNEST HULME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the flat slope of st. Eloi Last Line: Nothing suggests itself. There is nothing to do but keep on. Alternate Author Name(s): Hulme, T. E. Subject(s): World War I; First World War TRI-COLOUR, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poppies, you try to tell me, glowing there in the wheat Last Line: God's accolade! Lift me up, friends. I'm going to win -- my cross. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War TWELVE MONTHS AFTER, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hullo! Here's my platoon, the lot I had last year Last Line: That's where they are to-day, knocked over to a man. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War TWENTY-ONE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: I, that am twenty-one--a man-- Last Line: I, that am twenty-one—a man! Variant Title(s): Twenty-one: The Youth Subject(s): Soldiers; War; World War I; Youth; First World War TWENTY-ONE: THE OLDER MAN, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Could I be twenty-one again- Last Line: Could I be twenty-one again! Subject(s): Longing; Soldiers; World War I; Youth; First World War TWO FLAGS UPON WESTMINSTER TOWERS, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This day is holy' - so sweet spenser wrote Last Line: From these free flags -- if you can see for tears! Subject(s): World War I; First World War TWO FUSILIERS, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: And have we done with war at last? / well, we've been lucky devils both Last Line: In dead men breath. Subject(s): World War I; First World War TWO HUNDRED YEARS AFTER, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Trudging by corbie ridge one winter's night Last Line: Who came to fight in france and got their fill.' Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War TWO IMPRESSIONS, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The colorless morning glides upward Last Line: Brushed amorously backward! Subject(s): World War I; First World War TWO POEMS FROM THE WAR: 1, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, not the loss of the accomplished thing! Last Line: All-possible irradiance of dawn. Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): World War I; First World War TWO POEMS FROM THE WAR: 2, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like moon-dark, like brown water you escape Last Line: All beauty has become your dwelling place. Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): World War I; First World War TWO SONGS: 1, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've heard them lilting at loom and belting Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): World War I; First World War TWO VOICES, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's something in the air, he said Last Line: "and still ""we're going south, man,"" deadly near." Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War TWO: 3, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Next to of course god america I Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Americans; Freedom; Hypocrisy; Patriotism; Politics & Government; United States; World War I; Liberty; America; First World War UN BEL DI VEDREMO, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hello nbc, this is london speaking' Subject(s): Italy; War; World War I; World War Ii; Italians; First World War; Second World War UNTO THE END, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Heroic words, like a trumpet's blast Last Line: Endure unto the end. Subject(s): Nicholas Ii, Czar Of Russia (1868-1918); Russia; Soldiers; World War I; Soviet Union; Russians; First World War UPON THE WINDS OF SPRING, by MARY CRAIG SINCLAIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I feel the terror in the world tonight Last Line: Pain stabs my heart and binds the wound with fear! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinclair, Upton, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Social Protest; Soldiers; Spring; World War I; Dead, The; First World War VERDUN, by EDEN PHILLPOTTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three hundred thousand men, but not enough Last Line: Thou star upon the crown of liberty! Subject(s): Verdun, Battle Of (1916); World War I; First World War VERMONT WILL DO HER PART, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who would be free himself must strike Last Line: Will do her glorious part. Subject(s): Freedom; Vermont; World War I; Liberty; First World War VICTORY AND FAILURE, by ALAN MACKINTOSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not for the day of victory Last Line: To die along with you! Alternate Author Name(s): Mackintosh, Ewart Alan Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Failure; Honor; Soldiers; Victory; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War VICTORY BELLS, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the bells across the trees Last Line: And home-coming for weary men. Subject(s): Bells; Holidays; Patriotism; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War VISIONS OF ITALY (AFTER CAPORETTO), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a black and baneful day Last Line: As lover to his bride. Subject(s): Caporetto, Battle Of (1917); Italy; World War I; Italians; First World War VLAMERTINGHE: PASSING THE CHATEAU, JULY 1917, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And all her silken flanks with garlands drest Last Line: Is scarcely right; this red should have been much duller. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Belgium; World War I; First World War W (VIVA): 30, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sing of olaf glad and big Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Social Protest; World War I; First World War WAR, by WARREN ARIAIL Poem Text First Line: We faced each other, he and I Last Line: I wear -- my souvenir of war. Subject(s): World War I; First World War WAR, by ANDRE BRETON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I watch the beast as it licks itself Last Line: The beast licks its sex I said nothing Subject(s): World War I; First World War WAR, by REX WILLS Poem Text First Line: Out in the bleak, cold forests of the north Last Line: Of god and man, of righteousness and reason. Subject(s): Soldiers; War Injuries; World War I; First World War WAR AUTOBIOGRAPHY; WRITTEN IN ILLNESS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven is clouded, mists of rain Last Line: That twice has passed before my sight. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War WAR PROFITS, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The horns of the moon are tipped Subject(s): Profiteering; World War I; First World War WAR VERSE (1914), by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O two-penny poets, be still-- Last Line: From leman and brialmont. Subject(s): World War I; First World War WAR YAWP, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: America! / england's cheeky kid brother Subject(s): World War I; First World War WAR'S PEOPLE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the tender amaranthine domes Last Line: Strange stars, and dream-like sounds, changed speech and law are ours. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War WAR-TIME IN THE MOUNTAINS, by ANN COBB Poem Text First Line: Dulcimer over the fireboard, hanging sence allusago Last Line: Beat and beget sons and daughters to sing the old songs at his feet. Subject(s): Dulcimers; Kentucky; Mountains; Music & Musicians; Wellesley College; World War I; Hills; Downs (great Britain); First World War WARS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the old wars drum of hoofs and the beat of shod feet Last Line: Dreamed out in the heads of men. Subject(s): World War I; First World War WATCHMEN OF THE NIGHT, by CECIL EDRIC MORNINGTON ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lords of the seas' great wilderness Last Line: For sons who guard thee night and day! Subject(s): Great Britain - Navy; World War I; First World War WE ARE WITH FRANCE, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are with france-not by the ties Last Line: And leave our grown-up cares behind. Subject(s): France; World War I; First World War WE FACE THE FUTURE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hour is big with sooth and sign, with errant men at war Last Line: Shod with a faith that springtime keeps, and all the stars opine. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Future; World War I; First World War WE HOPE TO WIN, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We hope to win?' by god's help - 'yes' Last Line: We hope to win. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): World War I; First World War WE MOTHERS KNOW, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peace,' they have said Last Line: It shall be so. Subject(s): Mothers; World War I; First World War WE WILLED IT NOT, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We willed it not. We have not lived in hate Last Line: Not lightly shall the treason be atoned. Subject(s): World War I; First World War WELCOME HOME, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up the vast harbor, goal of millions of dreamers Last Line: A brotherhood complete. Subject(s): Homecoming; World War I; First World War WHAT CAN WE DO?, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At last, after patient years, we have grit and grace Last Line: They shall have right to look god in the face. Subject(s): World War I; First World War WHEN I'M KILLED, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When I'm killed, don't think of me Last Line: Your playfellow from the grave. Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War WHEN IT IS FINISHED, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When it is finished, father, and we set Last Line: That we might live. Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War WHEN THERE IS PEACE, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When there is peace, our land no more Last Line: When there is peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War WHERE KITCHENER SLEEPS, by WILLIAM WILFRED CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O grim and iron-bastioned Last Line: Thunder at bursay's feet? Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, W. W. Subject(s): Kitchener, Horatio, 1st Earl (1850-1916); Sea; World War I; Ocean; First World War WHERE MORNING GLORIES GLEAM, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: When the springtime mists are gray above the Last Line: Where the morning glories gleam red, white, and blue above our dead! Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; World War I; Dead, The; First World War WILD WITH ALL REGRETS; ANOTHER VERSION OF 'A TERRE', by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My arms have mutinied against me -- brutes! Last Line: To do without what blood remained me from my wound. Subject(s): World War I; First World War WILLIAM II PRINCE OF PEACE, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O prince of peace, o lord of war Last Line: For if thou fail, a world shall fall! Subject(s): William Ii, Kaiser Of Germany (1859-1941; World War I; First World War WINGS IN THE NIGHT, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now in the soft spring midnight Last Line: Over the wild grey water. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Comfort; Mothers; Soul; War; World War I; First World War WINTER WARFARE, by EDGELL A. RICKWORD Poem Text First Line: Colonel cold strode up the line Alternate Author Name(s): Rickword, E. A. Subject(s): World War I; First World War WIRELESS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now to those who search the deep Last Line: And a little child may lead them. Subject(s): Death; Night; Sea; Ships & Shipping; World War I; Dead, The; Bedtime; Ocean; First World War WIRERS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pass it along, the wiring party's going out Last Line: But we can say the front-line wire's been safely mended. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War WOUNDED, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it not strange? A year ago today Last Line: Lead on! I'll live to fight another day. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War YOUNG FELLOW MY LAD, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where are you going, young fellow my lad Last Line: "we will owe to our lads like you." Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War YOUR LAD, AND MY LAD, by RANDALL PARRISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down toward the deep-blue water, marching to throb of Last Line: As your dear lad, and my dear lad, go on their way to france. Subject(s): Army - United States; World War I; First World War YOUTH IN ARMS, by ERON O. ROWLAND Poem Text First Line: O youth who erstwhile stood before thy elders Last Line: Armed cap a pie? Subject(s): World War I; Youth; First World War YPRES, by RONALD GORELL BARNES Poem Text First Line: City of stark desolation Last Line: Built in the heart of man. Alternate Author Name(s): Gorell, 3d Baron Subject(s): World War I; Ypres, Belgium; First World War YPRES TOWER, RYE, by EDWARD CHARLES EVERARD OWEN Poem Text First Line: Tower of ypres that watchest, gravely smiling Last Line: Live your dreaming fens, your bastioned hill. Subject(s): World War I; First World War YPRES; SEPTEMBER, 1915, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Push on, my lord of wurtemberg, across the flemish fen! Last Line: Come, try your luck, whatever fate befalls you. Subject(s): England; Errors; Failure; Germany; Regret; Soldiers; War; World War I; Ypres, Belgium; English; Mistakes; Fallacies; Germans; First World War ZERO, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O rosy red, o torrent splendour Last Line: It's plain we were born for this, naught else. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War ZILLEBEKE BROOK, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This conduit stream that's tangled here and there Last Line: On my way up to sanctuary wood. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Brooks; World War I; Streams; Creeks; First World War ZONE, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the end you are weary of this ancient world Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Paris, France; World War I; First World War ZONE, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After all you are weary of this oldtime world Last Line: Sun cut throat Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Paris, France; World War I; First World War |
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