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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MILITARISM Matches Found: 17 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FINE SUMMER MORNING, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had a full cousin, called arthur macnide Last Line: "so I bid you a very good morning." Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Army Life; Militarism; Military Recruitment; Soldiers; Drills & Minor Tactics HARLOT ROBED IN WAR, by LAURENCE GOLDSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Well spoken, castor. You point the moral Last Line: Lies something purer than the muses' spring Subject(s): Fights; Militarism; Soldiers; Tragedy; War MERCENARIES, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They come from all over the planet Last Line: —this army of men on the job! Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Militarism; Work; Workers MILITARISM, by DERRICK NORMAN LEHMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like molten lava down the mountain steep Last Line: With nineveh, with tyre and babylon. Subject(s): Army - United States; Army Life; Militarism; War; Drills & Minor Tactics PARODY PARODIZED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come, swallow your bumpers, ye tories Last Line: Who dreads not a fetter much more than %a sword Subject(s): American Revolution; Freedom; Heroism; Militarism; Soldiers; War SONG TO FIDEL, by ERNESTO GUEVARA Poem Source First Line: You said the sun would rise Last Line: Nothing more Subject(s): Castro, Fidel (b. 1926); Communism; Cubism; Guerrillas; Latin America - History; Militarism TEARS AND WAILS: AN ODE TO THE SURVIVOR, by FINTAN L. DOOLEY Poem Source First Line: Tears of my sleepless fellow, I do remember Last Line: Sure, he said, I do remember. She did promise to wait for me Subject(s): Gulf War (1991); Militarism; Soldiers; Survival; War Injuries THE INDIGNANT CAPTAIN OF INDUSTRY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A gentleman I chance to know Last Line: And, my! He was malignant! Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Cruelty; Militarism; Murder; Soldiers THE KNIGHT OF THE BURNING PESTLE, by FRANCIS BEAUMONT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From all that's near the court, from all that's great Last Line: My heart. God give you good night!—come, george. [exeunt. Subject(s): Militarism THE LILY OF FORT CUSTER, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And you want me to tell you the story, lad Last Line: The lily of fort custer—and she blooms in tennessee. Subject(s): Militarism; Soldiers; Tennessee; War Injuries 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 MILITIAMAN, by ELMO SCOTT WATSON Poem Text First Line: O, we didn't join for glory Last Line: Fightin' like hell for the red, white and blue! Subject(s): Militarism; Soldiers; World War I; First World War THE NATION IN ARMS, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the tale that is told of an almost universally respected minister Last Line: Of militarism -- for the plain and simple reason that they'd got to! Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Militarism 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 THE RIFLE, by COVINGTON HALL Poem Text First Line: Tis made of hard, death-tempered steel Last Line: The message men to tyrants speak! Alternate Author Name(s): Ami, Covington; Ami, Covami Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Assassination; Death; Militarism; Murder; Rifles; Social Protest; War; Weapons; Ammunition; Dead, The THOROUGHBREDS (AN INCIDENT OF THE FIGHT AROUND ATLANTA), by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Straight at the breastworks, flanked with / fire Last Line: Will be—the sons of the thoroughbred! Subject(s): American Civil War; Camp-meetings; Fights; Militarism; Soldiers; U.s. - History; U.s. - Military Academy TO THE SOLDIER TIRED, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My tomkins! Why sheathe your invincible steel Last Line: You'll be in it, my tomkins, again! Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Militarism |
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