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Subject: GALLIPOLI CAMPAIGN (1915)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DEAD TURK, by GEOFFREY DEARMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dead, dead, and dumbly chill. He seemed to lie
Last Line: And calvary re-echoed with his cry- %his cry of stark amaze
Subject(s): Gallipoli Campaign (1915); World War I


IN GALLIPOLI, by EDEN PHILLPOTTS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


MUDROS, AFTER THE EVACUATION, by GEOFFREY DEARMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I laughed to see the gulls that dipped to cling
Last Line: Seek solitude to dull the tragedy %and needless horror of the dardanelles
Subject(s): Gallipoli Campaign (1915); World War I


ORTHODOXIES 22, by ECE AYHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The encounter between an elder of the church and a saint
Last Line: During the world war I equinox dreadnoughts hit the flour factories at gallipoli
Subject(s): Churches; Gallipoli Campaign (1915)


PRAYER, by GEOFFREY DEARMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lord, keep him nar to me
Last Line: Lord, let us pause again %in silent memory
Subject(s): Gallipoli Campaign (1915); World War I


SENTINEL, by GEOFFREY DEARMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: He stood enveloped in the darkening mist
Last Line: But still above the indomitable sea %from his high cliff a sentry watched the night
Subject(s): Gallipoli Campaign (1915); World War I


W' BEACH, SELS., by GEOFFREY DEARMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The isle of imbros, set in turquoise blue
Last Line: Chanting wild songs of how eternal fate %withstood that fierce invasion long ago
Subject(s): Gallipoli Campaign (1915); Soldiers' Writings; World War I


WAR STORY, by JON STALLWORTHY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of one who grew up at gallipoli
Last Line: He tripped, as it seemed to him over his scabbard, %and stubbed his fingers on a dead man's face
Subject(s): Gallipoli Campaign (1915); World War I