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Subject: HITLER, ADOLF (1889-1945)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ADOLF HITLER, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Eight long years, my will was
Last Line: Death is. Will death and you resume %dominion. %have your will once more
Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D.
Subject(s): Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945)


AROUND PASTOR BONHOEFFER: THE PLOT AGAINST HITLER, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Jittery, missing their cues
Last Line: Let the phone ring!
Subject(s): Bonhoeffer, Dietrich (1906-1945); Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945)


CLAUS VON STAUFFENBERG; OF THE BOMB-PLOT ON HITLER, 1944, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What made the place a landscape of despair
Last Line: Falling toward history, and under snow
Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom
Subject(s): Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Stauffenberg, Claus Von. Graf. (1904-44)


DOCTOR JOSEPH GOEBBELS, MINISTER FOR PROPAGANDA, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I came here to read nursery tales
Last Line: Sick of their own taste, sick of winning. %they'll think of us. That's a beginning
Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D.
Subject(s): Goebbels, Joseph (1897-1945); Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945)


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


FROM HERR HITLER TO HIS PEOPLE, by MARION TARR MOODY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The fatherland shall reign supreme and I
Last Line: These eyes that watch, though dead, for my downfall.
Subject(s): Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945)


FUEHRER BUNKER: 1 APRIL 1945. CHORUS (8), by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old lady barkeep had a hitler
Last Line: His name live on, renowned
Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D.
Subject(s): Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Legacies; World War Ii


FUHRER, by DIANA JAMES    Poem Text                    
First Line: The dead are holy ones and when men die
Last Line: But say he was a man who broke the world.
Subject(s): Evil; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Sin


GHOSTS WALK UPON THEIR GRAVES, by NEAL GALLATIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: No longer does the war god beat
Last Line: Ghosts sit upon their graves and wait.
Subject(s): China; Ethiopia; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Mussolini, Benito (1883-1945); War


GREAT MEN, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Consider greatness
Last Line: While far down the long slope gleams the pale sea
Subject(s): Greatness; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945); Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945)


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)


HITLER SPRING, by EUGENIO MONTALE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thick white cloud of crazy moths is whirling
Subject(s): Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945)


HITLER YOUTH (PANZER DIVISION), by ADA JACKSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I fell. Nobody picked me up
Last Line: But yet I would have liked to live!
Subject(s): Death; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Soldiers; War; Dead, The


HITLER'S FIRST PHOTOGRAPH, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: And who's this little fellow in his itty-bitty robe?
Subject(s): Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945)


HITLER'S FIRST PHOTOGRAPH, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And who's this little fellow in his itty-bitty robe?
Last Line: A history teacher loosens his collar %and yawns over homework
Subject(s): Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945)


LETTER TO HITLER, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last winter we were
Last Line: Out all over the room!
Subject(s): Books; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); War


MERCY, by PABLO MEDINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I see him in the middle of a field
Last Line: Go about their loving
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Cruelty; History; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Mercy


PASSOVER, EASTER, HITLER'S BIRTHDAY, by SUSAN HAHN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The angel of death passes over
Last Line: When will the angel of death enter your room and say enough
Subject(s): Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945)


PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT, by LISEL MUELLER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Three images flash on the screen
Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel
Subject(s): Pasteur, Louis (1822-1895); Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Books; Youth; Reading


SATURDAY IN VIENNA, 1920, by B. Z. NIDITCH    Poem Text                    
First Line: No exit / or explanation
Subject(s): Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945)


THE DAY IS A POEM (SEPTEMBER 19, 1939), by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: This morning hitler spoke in danzig, we hear his voice
Last Line: Painful to excess, inhuman as a hawk's cry
Subject(s): Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Poetry & Poets


THE WIDOW OF THE BEAST OF INGOLSTADT, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A fork in the garden, the widow digging
Last Line: Her husband's watch had just stopped in his grave.
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Marriage; Widows & Widowers; World War Ii; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Second World War