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First Line: I imagine how easily you could have gotten away
Last Line: And the doors all locked
Subject(s): Germany


A GERMAN REQUIEM, by JAMES FENTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not what they built. It is what they knocked down
Subject(s): Germany; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Germans; Shoah; Judaism


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 JEWISH FAMILY; IN A SMALL VALLEY OPPOSITE ST. GOAR, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Genius of raphael! If thy wings
Last Line: And proud jerusalem!
Subject(s): Germany; Jews; Rhine (river), Europe; Germans; Judaism


A LEGEND OF COLOGNE, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Above the bones / st. Ursula owns
Last Line: That these are but shadows -- the woman was real!
Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret
Subject(s): Cologne, Germany; Legends, German


A LOST LAND (TO GERMANY), by KATHLEEN KNOX    Poem Text                    
First Line: A childhood land of mountain ways
Last Line: God help the dreams, the dreams of men!
Subject(s): World War I - Germany


A MONARCH'S DEATHBED, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A monarch on his deathbed lay
Last Line: Imperial albert died!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Albert I, King Of Germany (1255-1308); Assassination; Kindness; Women


A PROPHESY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: High deeds, o germans, are to come from you
Last Line: First open traitor to the german name!
Subject(s): Germany


A SECOND VIEW OF THE SEVEN MOUNTAINS, by ANN RADCLIFFE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mountains! When next I saw ye it was noon
Last Line: Ye watched the ages of the world below.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann
Subject(s): Climbing; Mountains; Seven Mountains (siebengebirge), Germany; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ADDITIONAL VERSES, TO 'GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!', by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: God bless our prince and bride!
Last Line: God bless the queen!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): William I, Kaiser Of Germany (1797-1888)


AIX-LA-CHAPELLE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Was it to disenchant, and to undo
Last Line: Where unremitting frosts the rocky crescent bleach.
Subject(s): Aachen, Germany; Aix-la-chapelle


AIX-LA-CHAPELLE; THE TOMB OF CHARLEMAGNE, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I stood in that cathedral old, the work of kingly power
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Aachen, Germany; Charlemagne (742-814); Graves


AIX-LA-CHAPPELLE, 1945, by EDGAR BOWERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How quietly in ruined state
Last Line: Monstered by lucid violence
Subject(s): Aachen, Germany


AN INCIDENT OF THE FIRE AT HAMBURG, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The tower of old saint nicholas soared upward to the skies
Last Line: "pealed forth the grand old german hymn, -- ""all good souls, praise the lord!"
Subject(s): Fire; Hamburg, Germany


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


ANNO 1839, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear distant germany, how often
Last Line: My tender verses there I wove.
Subject(s): Germany; Germans


ARMGART, by MARY ANN EVANS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good morning, fraulein
Last Line: T is better that our griefs should not spread far.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary
Subject(s): Germany; Grief; Man-woman Relationships; Philosophy & Philosophers; Sickness; Singing & Singers; Germans; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations; Illness; Songs


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


AT ALTENAHR, by THOMAS ASHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Came, on a sabbath noon, my sweet
Last Line: But -- meet no angels, pansie?
Variant Title(s): Meet Me No Angels, Pansie?
Subject(s): Altenahr, Germany


AT THE VILLA OF THE EMPEROR FREDERICK III AT SAN REMO, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: San remo's palms in beauty stand / beside the storied sea
Last Line: The long waves ebb and flow.
Subject(s): Death; Germany; Love; Peace; Dead, The; Germans


ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 21, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Argonauts without a ship
Last Line: Cry aloud, and so awoke me.
Subject(s): Argo (ship); Germany; Jason; Sailing & Sailors; Germans; Seamen; Sails


AUBADE OF THE SINGER AND SABOTEUR, MARIE TRISTE, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: In the twenties, I would visit dachau often with my brother
Last Line: Two of the old miracles. They were not my choices.
Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Concentration Camps; Dachau, Germany; Flowers; Music & Musicians; World War Ii - Atrocities


AUGSBURG ADORATION, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mozart, goethe, and the duke of wellington
Last Line: The green forum's sparrows are the sparrows of home
Subject(s): Augsburg, Germany


BATTLEFIELDS, by PERCY MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the battlefields of birth
Last Line: Mothers, maddened mothers, curse you, germany!
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): Death; Germany; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Germans


BERLIN - ALEXANDERPLATZ, by JOSEF HANZLIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the colourful autumn afternoon
Last Line: But do we under stand them? Or are we unaware %that even that strange berliners' tshuss %was once th
Subject(s): Berlin, Germany


BERLIN AIR RAID, by AARON KRAMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: For ten years they were listening to different
Subject(s): Germany


BERLIN JOURNAL, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear herbert, / while you sail across the ocean
Subject(s): Berlin, Germany


BERLIN JOURNAL, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear herbert, %while you sail across the ocean
Last Line: And seal the poem with a noble rhyme!
Subject(s): Berlin, Germany


BERLIN RUINS; ANHALTER BAHNHOF, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It has an edge, or many edges
Last Line: It may survive its own stiff laurel
Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom
Subject(s): Berlin, Germany


BERLIN, 1871, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The spring day was all of a flutter with flags
Last Line: Life rides like a conqueror triumphing by.
Subject(s): Berlin, Germany


BERLIN: FIRST NIGHT & EARLY MORNING, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've lost place
Subject(s): Berlin, Germany


BINGEN ON THE RHINE, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A soldier of the legion lay dying in algiers
Last Line: The rhine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline
Subject(s): Germany; Patriotism; War; Germans


BISMARCK AT CANOSSA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not all disgraced, in that italian town
Last Line: Than his whom scorn saw shuddering in the snow!
Subject(s): Bismark, Otto Von (1815-1898); Germany; Germans


BITBURG, by DANNY SIEGEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who ever heard of it before cbs
Subject(s): Bitburg, Germany


BOOK OF YOLEK, by ANTHONY HECHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dowsed coals fume and hiss after your meal
Last Line: Though they killed him in the camp they sent him to, %he will walk in as you're sitting down to a me
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Germany; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews


BOY'S MAGIC [OR, WONDER] HORN, SELS., by CLEMENS BRENTANO                       
Subject(s): National Songs - Germany


CATALINA DE ERAUZO (1588-1646), by TULIO MORA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fury of hail on the drab hills, the aroma of storms
Last Line: And this desire to live without parodying myself once
Subject(s): Aachen, Germany


CHRISTINE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Most quaintly touching, in her
Last Line: "than yet I am to you. So ist good night."
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Death; Germany; Grief; Love; Dead, The; Germans; Sorrow; Sadness


CITIES: 2. BERLIN, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How shall the great destroyer save herself
Last Line: Of shame, misery, revolution, despair.
Subject(s): Berlin, Germany; Despair; Revolutions; Shame


COLOGNE, by JOHN BATE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Today my heart is heavy
Subject(s): Cologne, Germany


COLOGNE CATHEDRAL, by FRANCES WILLS SHAW    Poem Source                    
First Line: The little white prayers
Subject(s): Cologne, Germany


COLOGNE; EPIGRAM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In koln, a town of monks and bones
Last Line: Shall henceforth wash the river rhine?
Variant Title(s): Epigram;expectoration The Second
Subject(s): Cologne, Germany; Hate; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances


CONSTANTINE'S AMPHITHEATRE AT TREVES, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the spot, where mighty constantine
Last Line: To swell the vintage of this peaceful land.
Subject(s): Treves, Germany


CONVERSATION IN GOTHIC (BONN-AM-RHEIN, 1939), by JOHN STREETER MANIFOLD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The thin trees shiver, the rhine runs cold
Last Line: Undine submerges and disappears
Subject(s): Germany


COST, by MARY ELIZABETH COLMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was a shabby house, lacking grace or dignity
Last Line: I wish he were dead
Subject(s): Germany; World War Ii


CREMATORIUM IN DACHAU, by HANNES PETURSSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cunning building %of pink, slender stones
Last Line: On a deflated belly, %not yet decomposed
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Dachau, Germany; Human Rights


CUI BONO?, by HENRY CHAPPELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: My lords and commons, in your place of trust
Last Line: Seems quite the thing in teaching moderation.
Subject(s): Nationalism - Germany; Politics & Government; War


DEAD MUSICIANS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


DOT LEEDLE BOY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O t's a leedle gristmas story
Last Line: For dot leedle boy of mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Germany; Santa Claus; Childhood; Nativity, The; Germans; Nicholas, Saint


DRESDEN, by CIARAN CARSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Horse boyle was called horse boyle because of his brother mule
Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Dresden, Germany; Soldiers; World War Ii; Second World War


DRESDEN, by CIARAN CARSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Horse boyle was called horse boyle because of his brother mule
Last Line: I wandered out through the steeples of rust, the gate that was a broken bed
Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Dresden, Germany; Soldiers; World War Ii


DRESDEN, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Dresden, Germany


DRILL AT NATHANYA, by JOHANNES EDFELT    Poem Source                    
First Line: As strange as it would be to encounter a five-legged zebra
Last Line: Thick and black against the ash-gray heavens
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Germany; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Military


ENGLAND TO GERMANY IN 1914, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


EPILOGUE: THE GERMAN MUSE, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here no age augustan flourished
Last Line: Mocks the servitude of song.
Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von
Subject(s): Germany; Germans


FAIR SHARE OF THE CAKE, by SUSAN HELENE CASE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Steinhaus doesn't like the scottish cafe
Last Line: For any number of pieces of cake
Subject(s): Lvov, Poland; Poland - Wars With Germany


FEW BEERS AT THE STATION, by SUSAN HELENE CASE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The first doctoral candidate from lvov
Last Line: Elegant solutions
Subject(s): Lvov, Poland; Mathematics; Poland - Wars With Germany


FOOTNOTE: ADOLPH HITLER, GERMAN CHANCELLOR, 1933, by HENRY HARRISON    Poem Text                    
First Line: There was a man
Last Line: Thought the jews would not see germany again.
Subject(s): Germany; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Jews; Spain; Germans; Judaism


FOR LORE; I.M. ELONORE REED-WYMAR, 1932-1986, by DESMOND GRAHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Maybe she was part of hanover [or, frankfurt] destroyed
Last Line: And let everyone she ever cared for %use her as a bridge to cross
Subject(s): Germany; Hunger


FRAGMENTS FROM A METRICAL JOURNAL: ANDERNACHT, by JOHN RUSKIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twilight's mists are gathering grey
Last Line: The owl and bat are tenants there.
Subject(s): Andernacht, Germany


FRAGMENTS FROM A METRICAL JOURNAL: ST. GOAR, by JOHN RUSKIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Past a rock with frowning front
Last Line: Their tresses in his placid wave.
Subject(s): St. Goar, Germany


FRANKFURT 1945, by JANOS PILINSZKY    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the river bank, an empty sandpit
Last Line: First, only the bitterness in their mouths, %then their hearts tasted the full sadness
Subject(s): Frankfurt, Germany; World War Ii


FREDERICK III OF GERMANY, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not the bold brandenburg, at prussia's birth
Last Line: The manliest emperor, the imperial man!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Germany; Heroism; Prussia; Germans; Heroes; Heroines


FREEDOM, by MAXIMILIAN GOTTFRIED SCHENKENDORF    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Freedom that I love
Last Line: Was to thee most dear.
Subject(s): Freedom; Nationalism - Germany; Liberty


FROM A GERMAN WAR PRIMER, by BERTOLT BRECHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is considered low to talk about food
Last Line: But he has one defect: %he can think
Subject(s): Germany; World War Ii


FUNCKTIONSLUST, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's german for the pleasure in what one does best.
Last Line: A baby who never speaks a word of german knows, %tasting the nipple, the sweet milk flooding in.
Subject(s): Family Life; Germany; Language - Pronunciation


GARDEN AT HEIDELBERG, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fill me the beaker
Last Line: For this fresh air and fragrant wine.
Subject(s): Heidelberg, Germany; Travel; Journeys; Trips


GERMAN FATHERLAND, by ERNST MORITZ ARNDT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Which is the german's fatherland?
Subject(s): Germany; Patriotism


GERMAN REQUIEM, by JAMES FENTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not what they built. It is what they knocked down
Last Line: It is what they do not say
Subject(s): Germany; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews


GERMANY, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let me sing germania' s glory!
Last Line: Ever flourish germany!
Subject(s): Germany; Love; Singing & Singers; Time; Germans; Songs


GERMANY, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little things make germany a lovely place
Subject(s): Germany; Germans


GERMANY, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little things make germany a lovely place
Subject(s): Germany


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 1, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the mournful month of november 'twas
Last Line: And the contact new vigour produces.
Subject(s): Freedom; Germany; Singing & Singers; Liberty; Germans; Songs


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 10, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On leaving hagen the night came on
Last Line: So amen to my invocation!
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Marriage; Westphalia, Germany; Wine; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 11, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold the wood of teutoburg
Last Line: And towards it I gave a few dollars.
Subject(s): Freedom; Germany; Jahn, Frederick Ludwig (1778-1852); Neander, Johann August (1789-1850); Liberty; Germans; Mendel, David


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 12, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the wood in the dark the postchaise bump'd on
Last Line: It appear'd, though with much mutilation.
Subject(s): Censorship; Freedom; Germany; Liberty; Germans


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 13, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun arose near paderborn
Last Line: Thou dost suffer a sad expiation.
Subject(s): Censorship; Germany; Germans


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 14, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind was humid, and barren the land
Last Line: "o sun, thou accusing fire!"
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Germany; Murder; Singing & Singers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Germans; Songs


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 15, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A fine and prickly rain now descends
Last Line: "the roman proverb famous."
Subject(s): Animals; Germany; Horses; Rain; Soldiers; Germans


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 16, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The carriage's jolting woke me up
Last Line: "when I view the matter closely."
Subject(s): Chezy, Helmine (1783-1856); Germany; Karschin, Anna Luise (1711-1791); Mendelssohn, Moses (1729-1786); Mendelssohn-bartholdy, Felix (1809-1847); Chezy, Wilhelmine Christiane Von Klencke; Germans; Karsch, Anna


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 17, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wrangled in dream with the emperor thus
Last Line: "o emperor, come thou quickly!"
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dreams; Germany; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Nightmares; Germans


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 18, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The town of minden's a fortress strong
Last Line: As by my feelings knew I.
Subject(s): Freedom; Germany; Liberty; Germans


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 19, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O danton, great was thy mistake
Last Line: "a comforting draught he was blending."
Subject(s): Germany; Germans


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 2, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whilst heavenly joys were warbled thus
Last Line: "our outward and inward dealings."
Subject(s): Germany; Germans


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 20, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In an hour from harburg to hamburg I went
Last Line: "but I leave the peel uneaten."
Subject(s): Germany; Politics & Government; Germans


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 22, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: More changed than even the city itself
Last Line: Smoked sprats they are commonly known as!
Subject(s): Censorship; Hamburg, Germany


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 23, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though as a republic hamburg was ne'er
Last Line: "yes, even to hell in a canter!"
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Hamburg, Germany; Publishing; Publishers


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 24, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How I managed to mount the narrow stairs
Last Line: "with a little rum mix'd in it."
Subject(s): Germany; Love; Minstrels; Germans


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 25, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some tea the goddess quickly made
Last Line: And in my works as a poet.
Subject(s): Freedom; Germany; Poetry & Poets; Liberty; Germans


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 26, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The cheeks of the goddess glow'd all-red
Last Line: "methinks it by far the best place is."
Subject(s): Future; Grief; Hamburg, Germany; Kisses; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 27, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When summer's pleasant days have come
Last Line: Thou hadst better mind thy behaviour!
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Germany; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Summer; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Germans


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 3, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the old cathedral at aix-la-chapelle
Last Line: "long life to the king,"" shouting loudly."
Subject(s): Aachen, Germany; Charlemagne (742-814); Freedom; Aix-la-chapelle; Liberty


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 4, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas late at night when I reach'd cologne
Last Line: His foolish fond subjects, the poor men!
Subject(s): Cologne, Germany; Courts & Courtiers; Legends; Luther, Martin (1483-1546); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 5, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And when I came to the bridge o'er the rhine
Last Line: "farewell, we shall meet hereafter."
Subject(s): France; Germany; Musset, Alfred De (1810-1857); Rhine (river), Europe; Germans


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 6, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On paganini used always to wait
Last Line: "I'm the deed which thy thoughts engender."
Subject(s): Germany; Germans


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 7, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I homeward went, and as soundly I slept
Last Line: And I awoke from my slumbers.
Subject(s): Dreams; Germany; Hearts; Sleep; Nightmares; Germans


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 8, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From cologne to hagen it costs to post
Last Line: "of ""vive l'empereur!"" repeated."
Subject(s): Freedom; Germany; Tears; Liberty; Germans


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 9, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I left cologne on my onward road
Last Line: With laurel leaves round their muzzle.
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Germany; Germans


GRIMM'S LAW; A NEW SONG, by CHARLES NEAVES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Etymology once was a wild kind of thing
Last Line: That grimm's law was what caused the confusion at babel
Subject(s): Anthropology; Germany; Race Awareness


GUARD DUTY, by TONY+(1) CURTIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A cold lspring morning in berlin
Last Line: Startle the thing into so many bloody pieces
Subject(s): Berlin, Germany; Guard Duty; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945)


HANS LACK-LAND, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell, my wife, said lack-land hans
Last Line: My name will never mention.
Subject(s): Farewell; Germany; Parting; Germans


HARD TO TRANSLATE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My friend klaus a german goes
Last Line: They stick there
Subject(s): Germany - Allied Occupation


HEART OF DARKNESS ADAPTED FROM JOSEPH CONRAD, by HEINER MULLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the hard-currency-bar of the hotel metropol
Last Line: The horror the horror the horror
Subject(s): Communism; Germany


HERMANN AND DOROTHEA, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Truly, I never have seen the market and street so deserted
Last Line: "might against might, and peace should revisit us all with its gladness."
Subject(s): Exiles; Freedom; Germany; Liberty; Germans


HINTERLAND, by NIKOS-ALEXIS ASLANOGLOU    Poem Source                    
First Line: The farther I go into the hinterland
Last Line: In memory's conflagration ashes amid lights
Subject(s): Germany


HIS CROWN OF SHAME (ON THE SINKING OF THE 'LUSITANIA'), by HENRY CHAPPELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Another gem to deck your crown of shame
Last Line: Hell's horrors pale before a prussian brain.
Subject(s): Disasters; Drowning; Grief; Heaven; Lusitania (ship); Shipwrecks; William Ii, Kaiser Of Germany (1859-1941; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


HOHENSALZBURG, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I should always have known; those who sang from the river
Last Line: A dweller of the earth, invisible
Subject(s): Germany; Relationships


HOME, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My native land I will not leave
Last Line: A star in heav'n, I trust.
Subject(s): Germany; Patriotism; Germans


HOTEL STEINPLATZ, BERLIN, DECEMBER 25 (1966), by CHARLES OLSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Snow %coming %to my window, going up
Last Line: The tree itself alone -- ah now no snow at all
Subject(s): Berlin, Germany


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


IN A CARRIAGE, UPON THE BANKS OF THE RHINE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Amid this dance of objects sadness steals
Last Line: And in fit measure cheers autumnal days.
Subject(s): Germany; Germans


IN DARMSTADT, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grey hungry men are loading
Last Line: Need it there to learn to eat
Variant Title(s): At Abroad And At Hom
Subject(s): Darmstadt, Germany; Hunger


IN THE CATHEDRAL AT COLOGNE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O for the help of angels to complete
Last Line: Of penetrating harps and voices sweet!
Subject(s): Cologne, Germany


IN THE FORTIETH PRESIDENCY: BITBURG, by AARON KRAMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Why suddenly astounded %does the planet gape
Last Line: After forty years, %would leap wherever he'd take them %withbayonets and cheers
Subject(s): Bitburg, Germany


IN THE PUBLIC GARDENS, by JOHN BETJEMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Ausgang we were out of love %und eingang we are in
Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Germany; Love


IN THE TRAIN, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Jammed standing in the
Last Line: Aching guilt on theirs
Subject(s): Germany; Railroads


INCIDENT OF THE FRENCH CAMP, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You know we french stormed ratisbon
Last Line: Smiling, the boy fell dead.
Variant Title(s): Ratisbon;an Incident At Ratisbon
Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); Napoleonic Wars; Ratisbon [regensburg], Germany


INSIDE DACHAU, by SHERMAN ALEXIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Having lied to our german hosts about our plan
Last Line: I have nothing new to say about death.
Subject(s): Dachau, Germany; Concentration Camps


IT IS A GERMAN HONEYMOON, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They are stalking humming birds
Last Line: Found, you could not see it in %an electron microscope
Subject(s): Germany; Marriage


IVY SONG; ON RECEIVING IVY LEAVES .. CASTLE OF RHEINFELS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! How could fancy crown with thee
Last Line: And all is thine at length!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Castles; Germany; Ivy; Ruins; Time; Germans


KATHE KOLLWITZ, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Held between wars
Subject(s): Women; Germany; Wars; Death; Children; Art & Artists; Germans; Dead, The; Childhood


KOBES I, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In eighteen hundred and forty-eight
Last Line: The echo rang wildly long after.
Subject(s): Germany; Ghosts; Life; Secrets; Supernatural; Germans


KRANKENHAUS OF LEUTKIRCH, by RICHMOND LATTIMORE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The forest nuns, who sheltered us and healed
Last Line: And pyschic mannikins who, with folded wing, %sit on the mushroom circles of the forest floor
Subject(s): Germany


LANDSCAPE BEYOND WARSAW, by PETER HUCHEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: March strikes the ice of the sky
Last Line: The hare's tracks in the snow %once told us where
Subject(s): East Germany


LINES WRITTEN IN THE ALBUM AT ELBINGERODE, IN HARTZ FOREST, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I stood on brocken's sovran height, and saw
Last Line: Himself our father, and the world our home.
Subject(s): Hartz Forest, Germany; Nostalgia


LOGISTICS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A good enough place I guess
Last Line: Us army prophylactic station
Subject(s): Germany - Allied Occupation


LONG ROOT, by DEBRA MARQUART    Poem Source                    
First Line: She liked to tell jokes
Last Line: I must say them %backward
Subject(s): German Americans; Germany; Grandchildren; Grandparents


LOOK TO THE END, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The german empire is no more
Last Line: O, god!—and we've been proud!
Subject(s): Disasters; Germany; Lusitania (ship); Shipwrecks; United States; War; Germans; America


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)


LUTZOW'S WILD BAND, by KARL THEODORE KORNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What gleams through the woods in the morning sun?
Last Line: That was lützow's wild and unconquered band!
Alternate Author Name(s): Korner, Charles Theodore
Subject(s): Nationalism - Germany; War


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 11, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the rhine, that beautiful river
Last Line: Resemble my mistress fair.
Variant Title(s): Song
Subject(s): Cologne, Germany; Rhine (river), Europe


MAIL, by SARAH KIRSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Somewhere in the world my tree stands, for I know that every person
Last Line: Red front,' the outstretched thumbs indicate the way of the world
Subject(s): East Germany


MANY CROSS THE RHINE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: From my brown cigar
Variant Title(s): Poem: 107; Poem: 12
Subject(s): Germany


MASQUE TO COMMEMORATE THE SPIRIT OF THE WARS OF LIBERATION, by GERHART HAUPTMANN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But rarely I appear before the curtain
Last Line: [the old marshal, touched by the director's wand, drops lifeless.
Subject(s): Masques; Napoleonic Wars; Nationalism - Germany


MEN AND BOYS, by KARL THEODORE KORNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The storm is out; the land is roused
Last Line: Swing the battle-sword who can!
Alternate Author Name(s): Korner, Charles Theodore
Variant Title(s): Men And Knaves
Subject(s): Germany; Patriotism; Germans


MICE, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here's to the mice that scare the lions
Last Line: Gnawing away the thrones.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Mice; Nicholas Ii, Czar Of Russia (1868-1918); Socialism; William Ii, Kaiser Of Germany (1859-1941


MUNICH, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here hitler had his first success, disguised
Last Line: In markets far removed from earth and blood
Subject(s): Munich, Germany


MUNICH, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here hitler had his first success, disguised
Last Line: The vegetables are stacked like giant jewels %in markets far removed from earth and blood
Subject(s): Munich, Germany


MY COUNTRY WEEPS, by ANDREAS GRYPHIUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We are finished, yet still
Last Line: That so much treasuer has been %plundered from our souls
Subject(s): Germany; Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)


MY PEOPLE, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That rock is crumbling
Subject(s): Bible; Germany


NIGHT THOUGHTS, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When, germany, I think of thee
Last Line: And all my german cares beguiling!
Subject(s): Germany; Night; Thought; Germans; Bedtime; Thinking


NIGHT THOUGHTS, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I brood on germany in the night
Last Line: My german burden with her lovely smile
Subject(s): Germany


NORDEN, by MONICA OCHTRUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our daughter, jennifer, comes home from her trip to west germany. She
Last Line: On the table. People look up. Converstion stops. When you take light %from the candle a sailor dies
Subject(s): Boats; Germany; Harbors; Travel


NORTH SEA, by SIDNEY KEYES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The evening thickens. Figures like frieze
Last Line: Of dusseldorf, the ringing, river-enfolding %city that brought such sorrow on us both
Subject(s): Dusseldorf, Germany


NUMB, by SUSAN HELENE CASE    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is as if schauder's chest
Last Line: Last merely a few months
Subject(s): Fear; Poland - Wars With Germany


O HOMELAND, CYNICAL EUPHONE, by DURS GRUNBEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: So many glinting images in artists' brains
Last Line: Germany?' ... O homeland, cynical euphone
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Germany


O WAE BE TO THE ORDERS THAT MARCHED MY LUVE AWA', by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: O they hae nae winsome luve like mine in the wars o' germanie!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac
Subject(s): War; Germany; Soldiers; Farewell


ODE TO THE GERMANS, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The spirit of britannia
Last Line: And be free! -- and be free!
Subject(s): Freedom; Germany; Liberty; Germans


OH GERMANY!, by EMIL VON SCHONAICH-CAROLATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A german town with gables
Last Line: To-day and evermore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Prince Emil Rudolf Osman Of Schoenaich-carolath-shields; The Poet Prince From The Haseldorfer Marsch
Subject(s): Germany


OLD HEIDELBERG, by JOSEPH VICTOR VON SCHEFFEL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old heidelberg, I love you
Last Line: Back unto neckar's strand!
Subject(s): Heidelberg, Germany


ON A FIRST VIEW OF THE GROUP CALLED THE SEVEN MOUNTAINS, by ANN RADCLIFFE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When first I saw ye, mountains, the broad sun
Last Line: While peals resistless shook the trembling world!—
Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann
Subject(s): Mountains; Seven Mountains (siebengebirge), Germany; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ON MY JOYFUL DEPARTURE FROM THE CITY OF COLOGNE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As I am a rhymer
Last Line: In the body-and-soul-stinking town of cologne.
Variant Title(s): An Expectoration
Subject(s): Cologne, Germany; Hate; Travel; Journeys; Trips


ON READING AN ANTHOLOGY OF POSTWAR GERMAN POETRY, by LISEL MUELLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: America saved me
Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Germany; Germans


ON THE BURNING OF BOOKS, by BERTOLT BRECHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the new masters announced that books full of harmful knowledge
Last Line: Recored the truth in my books? And now %you class me with liars
Subject(s): Books; Germany; Nazis


ON THE LOWER RHINE, by ARTHUR W. UPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By dusseldorf the singing rhine-stream bends
Last Line: And passionately soughtest thy mother-sea!
Subject(s): Dusseldorf, Germany; Heine, Heinrich (1797-1856); Poetry & Poets; Rhine (river), Europe; Sonnet (as Literary Form)


ON THE PILOTS WHO DESTROYED GERMANY IN THE SPRING OF 1945, by STEPHEN SPENDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I stood on a roof top and they wove their cage
Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir
Variant Title(s): Responsibility: The Pilots Who Destroyed German ... 194
Subject(s): Air Warfare; Germany; Troy; World War Ii


ON THE WATCHMAN'S ARRIVAL IN PARIS, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good, watchman with face so sad and despairing
Last Line: The censorship will of itself disappear.
Subject(s): France; Freedom; Germany; Liberty; Germans


OPENING OF THE TOMB OF CHARLEMAGNE, by AUBREY DE VERE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Amid the cloistered gloom of aachen's aisle
Subject(s): Aachen, Germany; Charlemagne (742-814); Graves


OTHO THE GREAT, by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So, I am safe emerged from these broils
Last Line: I will to bed!--to-morrow-- [dies.
Subject(s): Hungary; Otto The Great, King Of Germany (912-73); Revolutions; Otho The Great; Ottol The Great


OUR LADY'S CHAPEL; A LEGEND OF COBLENTZ, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whoe'er has crossed the mosel bridge
Last Line: Only light up one taper at a time.
Subject(s): Churches; Coblentz, Germany; Cathedrals


PAINTINGS IN THE MUSEUMS OF MUNICH AND VENICE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cranach's lot and his daughter
Last Line: Seen in this beautiful picture
Subject(s): Cranach, Lucas (1472-1553); Geerten Tot Sint Jans (1465-1495); Munich, Germany; Museums; Paintings And Painters; Venice, Italy


PATRIOTIC SONG, by ERNST MORITZ ARNDT    Poem Text                    
First Line: God, who gave iron, purposed never
Last Line: Or freedom's death we'll die!
Variant Title(s): Song Of The Fatherland
Subject(s): Germany; Patriotism; Germans


PHILATELIC LESSONS: THE GERMAN COLLECTION, by LAWRENCE PERRY SPINGARN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The zollverein was hardly neutral. One recalls
Last Line: The prussian boundaries were drawn by polish chaps
Subject(s): Germany


PICTURES, by SARAH KIRSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: My mother drives the goat
Last Line: Trample their late heads %under my postwar shoes
Subject(s): East Germany


PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE HARTZ JOURNEY, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In black coats and silken stockings
Last Line: When loudly the trumpet's note swell'd.
Subject(s): Hartz Forest, Germany; Travel; Journeys; Trips


POEMS TO CZECHOSLOVAKIA, SELS., by MARINA IVANOVNA TZVETAYEVA            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Tsvetayeva, Marina Ivanovna; Efron, Sergei, Mrs.; Tsvetaeva, Marina Ivanovna
Subject(s): Czechoslovakia; Germany; World War Ii


PORTRAIT IN PASTEL OF THE VOLUNTEER FRIEDRICH-AUGUST KLAATSCH, 1813, by RICHARD HOWARD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little is known about this volunteer
Last Line: Unsmiling acquiescence which is the whole %seduction of mars
Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph
Subject(s): Army - Germany; Soldiers


RECOLLECTIONS FROM KRAHWINKEL'S DAYS OF TERROR, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We, mayor and senate of the town
Last Line: And hold your tongues, or more's the pity.
Subject(s): Freedom; Germany; Terror; Liberty; Germans


REMINISCENCES OF HAMMONIA, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Orphan children, two and two
Last Line: Many million orphan children.
Subject(s): Hamburg, Germany; Orphans; Foundlings


RETURN TO GERMANY, by ANDREA MOORHEAD    Poem Source                    
First Line: A return to germany, to the desolate land where mountain streams
Last Line: Flown, aachen where thehearth is green in pine and sweet with %the scent of night
Subject(s): Germany


RHYMING, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bells go chiming
Last Line: O'er high germany.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Germany; Rhyme; Germans


ROADS, by PETER HUCHEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Choked sunset %of crashing time
Last Line: Humming cloth of flies %closed their wounds
Subject(s): East Germany


ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: OUR MARINE (A NAUTICAL TALE), by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A dream of a fleet we lately dreamt
Last Line: "to the point from which we started."
Subject(s): Germany; Prutz, Robert Eduard (1816-1872); Germans


ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 16. IN OCTOBER 1849, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The weather now is calm and mild
Last Line: Seeing thou'rt ill, to say no more about it.
Subject(s): Freedom; Germany; Hungary; Liberty; Germans


ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 4. THE DYING ONE, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Flying after bliss and light
Last Line: O have pity, gracious lord!
Subject(s): Death; Germany; Home; Dead, The; Germans


SMALL PARK IN EAST GERMANY: 1969, by GERDA MAYER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Crumbling and weathered, their features half-erased
Subject(s): Cold War; Germany; Travel


SONG OF THE FATHERLAND, by ERNST MORITZ ARNDT    Poem Text                    
First Line: God, who gave iron, purposed ne'er
Last Line: Or freedom's death we'll die!
Subject(s): Nationalism - Germany; Patriotism


SONG OF THE GI'S & THE MG, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are the lords of the cigarette
Last Line: The best we can do for you
Subject(s): Germany - Allied Occupation


SONNET: 10. DRESDEN POETRY, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At dresden on the elbe, that handsome city
Last Line: Tis a true oracle, that evening journal!
Subject(s): Dresden, Germany; Poetry & Poets


SONNET: 6. THE NIGHT WATCH ON THE DRACHENFELS; TO FRITZ VON B--., by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas midnight as we scaled the mountain height
Last Line: A wretched cold and cough took home with me!
Subject(s): Germany; Patriotism; Germans


SPRING GREETING TO THE FATHERLAND, by MAXIMILIAN GOTTFRIED SCHENKENDORF    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fatherland, thy pleasures greet me
Last Line: Keep this concord, and be true!
Subject(s): Nationalism - Germany


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


STUTTGART: IN A NIGHTCLUB (ILLEGAL), by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One of our new aristocrats
Last Line: Head? They were very fine eyes
Subject(s): Germany - Allied Occupation


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 ANGELS AT HAMBURG, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In caves emptied of their workers, turning
Last Line: Rides over his city like a star
Subject(s): Hamburg, Germany; Bombs; World War Ii - Germany


THE ASS-ELECTION, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Being tired of freedom for some time past
Last Line: With evident gratification.
Subject(s): Elections; Germany; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Germans


THE AUGSBURG ADORATION, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mozart, goethe, and the duke of wellington
Subject(s): Augsburg, Germany


THE BARON'S LAST BANQUET, by ALBERT GORTON GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O'er a low couch the setting sun / had thrown its latest ray
Last Line: Old rudiger sat, dead.
Subject(s): Germany; Germans


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 BATTUE OF BERLIN, by HARRY GRAHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a winter's morning / the kaiser's sport was done
Last Line: That 'twas a famous morning's sport!
Alternate Author Name(s): Streamer, Col. D.
Subject(s): Berlin, Germany; Southey, Robert (1774-1843); War


THE BOOK OF YOLEK, by ANTHONY HECHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dowsed coals fume and hiss after your meal
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Germany; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Germans; Shoah; Judaism


THE CHILD, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The good their gifts in dream enjoy
Last Line: To wear their clothes in peace.
Subject(s): Germany; Germans


THE CHILD AND HIND, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, maids and matrons, to caress
Last Line: Wiesbaden's gentle hind.
Subject(s): Children; Deer; Legends, German; Wiesbaden, Germany; Childhood


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 DEAD TO THE LIVING, by FERDINAND FREILIGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bullet in the marble breast, the gash upon the brow
Last Line: "they once were free—they fell—and now, forever they are slaves!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Freiligrath, Hermann Ferdinand
Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Germany - Revolution - 1848-1849; Dead, The; Liberty


THE DIVER, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, where is the knight or the squire so bold
Last Line: Shore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von
Subject(s): Drowning; Germany; Germans


THE FOUNTAIN, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That was the lorelei, tall within the jet
Last Line: Caught in the fountain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Cologne, Germany; Fountains; Lorelei


THE FUNERAL OF THE GERMAN EMPEROR, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye sons of germany, your noble emperor william now is dead
Last Line: The founder of the fatherland germany, that he did revere.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Leadership; William I, Kaiser Of Germany (1797-1888); Dead, The


THE GERMAN ART, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By no kind augustus reared
Last Line: From its deep—the heart!
Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Germany; Germans


THE IRON CHANCELLOR, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Above the grave where bismarck sleeps
Last Line: Two eagles screamed of victory.
Subject(s): Bismark, Otto Von (1815-1898); Germany; Prussia; Germans


THE KAISER AND BELGIUM, by STEPHEN PHILLIPS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 KAISER'S FEAST, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The kaiser feasted in his hall
Last Line: At the kaiser's feast that night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Louis Iv, King Of Germany (1283-1347); Women; Clemency


THE MEN THAT FOUGHT AT MINDEN, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 MOTHER TONGUE, by MAXIMILIAN GOTTFRIED SCHENKENDORF    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mother tongue, oh, tongue most dear
Last Line: Then my mother tongue I speak.
Subject(s): German Language; Nationalism - Germany


THE MUNICH MANNEQUINS, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Silence; Language; Munich, Germany; Words; Vocabulary


THE NEW JEWISH HOSPITAL AT HAMBURG, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A hospital for jews who're sick and needy
Last Line: His brethren's great, incurable misfortune.
Subject(s): Hamburg, Germany; Hospitals; Jews; Judaism


THE NEW JEWISH HOSPITAL AT HAMBURG, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A hospital for the poor and weary jew
Last Line: For his poor brethren's immedicable ill.
Subject(s): Hamburg, Germany; Hospitals; Jews; Judaism


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 PATH OF SAFETY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Two jolly german barons lived in castles by the rhine
Last Line: "the noble lord von donnerblitz, the graf von schlagenstein"
Subject(s): Arms & Armor;brotherhood;germany;peace;war; Germans


THE PROMISE, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You no more shall barefoot crawl
Last Line: And the worthy burgomaster.
Subject(s): Freedom; Germany; Liberty; Germans


THE RITTERS RIDE FORTH, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O, beautiful valley
Last Line: The ritters ride forth!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac
Subject(s): Germany; Germans


THE RITTERS RIDE HOME, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As eagles return to their eyrie
Last Line: The ritters' last home!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac
Subject(s): Germany; Germans


THE ROMANCE OF COLOGNE, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis even - on the pleasant banks of rhine
Last Line: Or hearts or vows are broken?
Subject(s): Cologne, Germany


THE STIRRUP-CUP, by GEORG HERWEGH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The anxious night is gone at last
Last Line: At the break of day to die!
Subject(s): Germany - Revolution - 1848-1849


THE TENDENCY, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: German bard! Extol our glorious
Last Line: To the common public's level.
Subject(s): Freedom; Germany; Liberty; Germans


THE TROOPER'S DEATH, by GEORG HERWEGH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The weary night is o'er at last!
Last Line: Such dying!
Subject(s): Germany; War; Germans


THE U-BOAT CREWS, by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 WATCH ON THE RHINE, by MAX SCHNECKENBURGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: A voice resounds like thunder peal
Last Line: Firm stand thy sons to watch the rhine!
Subject(s): Germany; Patriotism; Rhine (river), Europe; Germans


THE WATCHMAN'S SONG, by FRANZ EMANUEL GEIBEL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Awake -- awake! The cry rings out
Last Line: Kingdom, and power, and glory stay!
Subject(s): Germany - Revolution - 1848-1849


THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The world is topsy-turvy turn'd
Last Line: "long life to the king!"" shouting gladly."
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Germany; Heroism; Germans; Heroes; Heroines


TO A BAVARIAN GIRL, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou, bavaria's brown-eyed daughter
Last Line: Flower of isar's vale!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Danube (river); Dreams; Germany; Girls; Life; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Germans


TO EMILY; WITH A FLASK OF RHINE WATER, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The old catholic city was still
Last Line: That the rhine seemed all eau de cologne!
Subject(s): Cologne, Germany; Rhine (river), Europe


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 THE GERMAN PEOPLE, by JOHANN CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH HOLDERLIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do not jeer at the child, when with a whip and spur
Last Line: Make me pay for this blasphemy!
Alternate Author Name(s): Holderlin, J. C. F.; Holderlin, Friedrich
Subject(s): Germany


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 WATCHMAN (ON A RECENT OCCASION), by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If heart and style remain still true
Last Line: The proper direction in which to be turning.
Subject(s): Germany; Treason & Traitors; Germans


TRACTORS, by RONNY SOMECK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sons of doctor mengele sell tractors
Last Line: Even on the head of a beast
Subject(s): Germany


TRUMMERFRAUEN, by DIANE THIEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the sirens began, we went underground
Last Line: Like a place where the heart had been
Subject(s): Germany; World War Ii


UNION SONG, by ERNST MORITZ ARNDT    Poem Text                    
First Line: This blessed hour we are united
Last Line: We must believe in, we must hold!
Subject(s): Germany; Patriotism; Germans


VIGNETTES OVERSEAS: 11. HAMBURG, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The day that I come home
Last Line: Beating under the foam.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Hamburg, Germany; Homecoming


VOICES OF THE DEAD: IN THE GERMAN RANKS, by JULIA DE BURGOS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let me enter, brothers, through the great cemetery
Last Line: Offer me a world among the dead
Subject(s): Germany; Politics


WALK IN WURZBURG, by WILLIAM PLOMER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Passing a dull red college-block
Last Line: To coax the delicate wings from the commonplace husk %and detect why the horde we are destroys itsel
Subject(s): Germany; X-rays


WALKING FLOWERS AT BERLIN, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes! Under the lindens, my dear friend
Last Line: Each neck, how swanlike it seems!
Subject(s): Berlin, Germany; Flowers; Women


WEAVERS, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From darkened eyes no tears are falling
Last Line: We weave. We are weaving
Subject(s): Freedom; Germany


WESTPHALIAN SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When thou to my true love com'st
Last Line: "say, I come tomorrow"
Subject(s): Death;germany;hearts;heaven;love - Loss Of; "dead, The;germans;paradise;


WHY NOT?, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know one german
Last Line: I'd do the same
Subject(s): Germany


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


WIND, by RON PADGETT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now it is over and everyone knew it
Last Line: "the postcard making it ""right"" instead of wrong"
Subject(s): Exchange Students; Germany; Foreign Exchange Programs; Germans


YES, I LIVE IN A DARK AGE, by BERTOLT BRECHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: To the cities I come in troubled times
Subject(s): Germany


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