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


A HARROW GRAVE IN FLANDERS, by ROBERT OFFLEY ASHBURTON CREWE-MILNES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here in the marshland, past the battered bridge
Last Line: We ask; and wait.
Alternate Author Name(s): Crewe, 1st Marquess Of; Houghton, Baron
Variant Title(s): Harrow And Flanders
Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium; Graves; World War I - Casualties; Tombs; Tombstones


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


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


FLANDERS, by FREDERICK VICTOR BRANFORD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two broken trees possess the plain
Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium


FLANDERS, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Flanders, the name of a place, a country of people
Last Line: Washing wooden bowls in the winter sun by a window.
Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium


FLANDERS GRAVE, by NATHANIEL NATHANSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: In flanders fields peace reigns tonight
Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium


FLANDERS NOW, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


FLANDERS POPPIES, by IAN DUNCAN COLVIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Poppies, ye flaming blushes of july
Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium; Holidays; Veterans Day


FLANDERS, O HOUSE OF PLENTY, by KAREL VAN DE WOESTIJNE    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium


HOMAGE TO FLANDERS, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Country of still canals, green willows, golden fields, all
Last Line: Was a low land under a huge sky that I did not remember
Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium


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


OTTERBURN, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lad who went to flanders
Last Line: And never will return.
Subject(s): Death; Flanders, Belgium; Military; Soldiers; War; Dead, The


SIR HUGH AND THE SWANS (KUNG VON DER ROSEN, BRUGES, 1488), by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wintry nights in flanders
Last Line: Sir hugh o' the rose lies dead.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium


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