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Subject: MARCHING & MARCHES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A HARVEST SONG, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O the mellow days of autumn
Last Line: And she sings the reaper's song.
Subject(s): Army - United States; Grief; Marching & Marches; Memory; Music & Musicians; Sorrow; Sadness


A MARCHING SONG, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We mix from many lands
Last Line: Live, for the truth is living; wake, for night is dead.
Subject(s): England; Justice; Marching & Marches; English


A VERMONT BOOTMAKER, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's lots of other themes and things
Last Line: The boots that loren lawrence made?
Subject(s): Marching & Marches; Parades; Vermont


ARMISTICE PARADE, by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Down the street the khaki-clad are marching with a band
Last Line: Back she creeps to read again. ... Worn letters with french stamps.
Subject(s): Army Life; Flags; Marching & Marches; Military; Parades; Soldiers; Drills & Minor Tactics


AT THE BARRICADE, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Was it a living woman there
Last Line: "finish your work. Fire once again."
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Fights; Marching & Marches; Versailles, Frances


CASTING THE FIRST VOTE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From mountain homes engirdled
Last Line: And truth's brave deeds are wrought.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Freedom; Marching & Marches; Patriotism; War; Youth; Liberty


GENERAL LESLY'S MARCH TO LONGMARSTON MOOR, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "march, march / why, the deuce, do ye na march?"
Last Line: "cock up your bonnets. March, march, etc"
Subject(s): Fights;marching & Marches


GHOST ARMIES, by MARGARET DELANEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's a tramping tramping, tramping
Last Line: For all wars of ancient days and wars to be.
Subject(s): Marching & Marches; Pain; Soldiers; War; Suffering; Misery


LE GRENIER, by ROBERTSON TROWBRIDGE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here is the street-the house is standing yet!
Last Line: And all the world to win, at twenty years!
Subject(s): Army Life; Broadway, New York City; Courage; Marching & Marches; New York City - 19th Century; Soldiers; Drills & Minor Tactics; Valor; Bravery


LINES, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see them on their winding way
Last Line: How late -- but oh, how loved they come!
Subject(s): Marching & Marches


MARCH OF THE MEN OF HARLECH, by ALEXANDER BOSWELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Dauntless sons of celtic sires
Last Line: To victory, ye brave!
Subject(s): Marching & Marches; Victory


MARCHING DAYS, by LOIS CANFIL    Poem Text                    
First Line: To some far rendezvous the days march past
Last Line: To walk as comrade with the days and years.
Subject(s): Marching & Marches; Past


PARADE, by ESTHER RUSSELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out of step,' they said, as we marched along
Last Line: ... But how could they know that I marched with the dead?
Subject(s): Death; Fear; Marching & Marches; Soldiers; War; Dead, The


SOUSA, by JAMES HOWARD FLOWER    Poem Text                    
First Line: John philip sousa! Proud the name
Last Line: With wagner and gounod.
Subject(s): Marching & Marches; Music & Musicians


SUB DIVO, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Do ye hear them, hear them ever
Last Line: God himself is on the way.
Subject(s): Marching & Marches


SUNDAY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was sunday-/ eleven in the morning; people were at / church
Last Line: It was sunday!
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Insanity; Marching & Marches; Sabbath; Social Protest; Madness; Mental Illness; Sunday


THE BLIND LEGION, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Their drums roll on the night. Their fifes shrill up the dawn
Last Line: Know only in my heart, -- they are marching, marching on.
Subject(s): Marching & Marches


THE FLAG GOES BY, by HENRY HOLCOMB BENNETT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hats off! / along the street there comes
Last Line: The flag is passing by!
Subject(s): Flags - United States; Marching & Marches; Patriotism; American Flag


THE GERMAN BAND, by EARL DERR BIGGERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Just a german band a-playing in a narrow alley-way
Last Line: Just a german band a-playing in a narrow alley-way.
Subject(s): Bands; Marching & Marches; Music & Musicians; Parades; Patriotism; Orchestras


THE GOAL OF THE WORLD, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O the goal of the world is joy
Last Line: The soul to its nobler realms above!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Chopin, Frederic Francois (1810-1849); Death; Funerals; Happiness; Life; Marching & Marches; Dead, The; Burials; Joy; Delight


THE MARCH OF THE REGIMENT, 1861, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here they come!-'tis the twelfth, you know
Last Line: The lilies and palms of god.
Subject(s): Marching & Marches; Militarism; New York City - 19th Century; Patriotism; Soldiers; War


THE MARCH UP MOUNT HOOD, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fall in line at the midnight call
Last Line: Man is nothing—god is all.
Subject(s): Marching & Marches


THE MARCHING FEET, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Drums, drums, drums to the fore!
Last Line: The far-off calling of a drum!
Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers
Subject(s): Army Life; Drums; Marching & Marches; Musical Instruments; Drills & Minor Tactics


THE NIGHT-MARCH, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With banners furled, and clarions mute
Last Line: His mandate sends.
Subject(s): Marching & Marches


THE OTHER ARMY, by BARTHOLOMEW GRIFFIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O'er ruined road past draggled field
Last Line: And fast it grows at every hedge!
Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Marching & Marches; Satire (as Poetic Genre); Soldiers; Travel; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Journeys; Trips


THE REGIMENT, 1909, by JOHN CURTIS UNDERWOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The traffic clears, and the crowd to the curb shifts to
Last Line: But still the red blood corpuscles shall vitalize the race.
Subject(s): Death; Marching & Marches; Militarism; New York City; Soldiers; Dead, The; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


TO THE TENTH LEGION, NEW YORK STATE VOLUNTEERS, 1862, by RUTH NATALIE CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Marching along!-marching to the war
Last Line: "for god and their country, they were marching along."
Subject(s): American Civil War; Marching & Marches; Military Service, Voluntary; New York City - 19th Century; Patriotism; United States - History


WITH COLORS GAY, by HOWARD S. ABBOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With colors gay, adown the street
Last Line: With colors gay.
Subject(s): France; Marching & Marches; Soldiers