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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: GERMANY Matches Found: 241 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 18-FEB-43, by CATHERINE TUFARIELLO Poem Source 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 overthat 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 seesthe 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 freethey felland 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 deepthe 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 |
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