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Subject: FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR (1870-1871)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` EIGHTEEN-SEVENTY, SELS., by ARTHUR RIMBAUD            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Franco-prussian War (1870-1871); Travel


FRIEDRICH'S VOW, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dusked and gathered the folds of the night
Last Line: By a lone far valley of fair lorraine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais
Subject(s): Battleships; Blood; Death; Fights; Franco-prussian War (1870-1871); Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement


HERE AND THERE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here the warm sunshine fills
Last Line: Dear christ, soothe, save them there.
Subject(s): Franco-prussian War (1870-1871)


HURRAH, GERMANIA!, by FERDINAND FREILIGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hurrah! Thou lady proud and fair
Last Line: Hurrah! Germania!
Alternate Author Name(s): Freiligrath, Hermann Ferdinand
Subject(s): Franco-prussian War (1870-1871); Nationalism - Germany


LOVE AND WAR, by ARTHUR PATCHETT MARTIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The chancellor mused as he nibbled his pen
Last Line: "to march with the great german army."
Subject(s): Army - Germany; Franco-prussian War (1870-1871)


RHINE SONG OF THE GERMAN SOLDIERS AFTER VICTORY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is the rhine! Our mountain vineyards
Last Line: Lift up thy voice, o rhine!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Franco-prussian War (1870-1871); Rhine (river), Europe; Victory


THE BOMB AND THE ORGAN; AN INCIDENT OF SEIGE OF STRASBURG, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the great church the holy organ stood
Last Line: As though it were a fortress of the foe!
Subject(s): Franco-prussian War (1870-1871); Organs (musical Instruments)


THE GERMAN-FRENCH CAMPAIGN, 1870-1871, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All her corn-fields rippled in the sunshine
Last Line: After france?
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Franco-prussian War (1870-1871)


THE TRUMPET OF GRAVELOTTE, by FERDINAND FREILIGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Death and destruction they belched forth in vain
Last Line: And we thought of the dead and the dying!
Alternate Author Name(s): Freiligrath, Hermann Ferdinand
Subject(s): Franco-prussian War (1870-1871)


TO A FRENCH POET AND REFUGEE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The time is past - that time of little cheer
Last Line: Bemoan the sorrows and defeats of france.
Subject(s): Franco-prussian War (1870-1871); Hugo, Victor (1802-1885); Refugees