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Subject: PACIFISM
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MESSAGE OF PEACE, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was once a pirate, greedy and bold
Last Line: A pious example of christian peace!
Subject(s): Brotherhood; Christianity; Hypocrisy; Pacifism; Peace; Social Protest; War; Peace Movements


ASCENSION, by KANEKO MITSUHARU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Today is execution day for the pacifists
Last Line: To stain the sky with blood that is still hot
Subject(s): Pacifism


FARTHER VIEW, by FLORA SHUFELT RIVOLA    Poem Text                    
First Line: The united states of the world-our goal!
Last Line: Good-will-land lies, I know
Subject(s): Nations; Pacifism; Peace; United States; Peace Movements; America


OPENING DAY, by DAVID MCKAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gusts of wind cruise like fish
Last Line: Else gets up, the seagulls yammering upriver.
Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; History; Pacifism; Social Protest; Nuclear Freeze; Historians; Peace Movements


PACIFIST, FROM LOST YOUTH: THE LAST WAR, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Don't believe
Subject(s): Pacifism


PACIFIST; EPIGRAM, by HILAIRE BELLOC    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pale ebenezer thought it wrong to fight
Last Line: But roaring bill (who killed him) thought it right
Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene
Subject(s): Pacifism; Soldiers


PACIFISTS, by MARK ANTHONY DE WOLFE HOWE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You are a pacifist? So am I
Subject(s): Holidays; Pacifism; Veterans Day


PACIFISTS, by GEORGE WOODCOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The icy, empty dawn cracks in the fields
Last Line: We rest our billhooks and talk of starlit town %as the weak sun breaks on the land without a hill
Subject(s): Pacifism


PARADOX, by BENJAMIN FRANCIS MUSSER    Poem Text                    
First Line: We are a regiment, whose martial cry
Last Line: Your own slain march at our side.
Subject(s): Contrariness; Military; Pacifism; Peace; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; Peace Movements


PEACE PROSPECT, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Too many people scribbling on each other's tongues
Last Line: Bright animals waiting %for the right genetic moment
Subject(s): Pacifism; Peace; Social Protest


PLANKED WHITEFISH, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over an order of planked whitefish at a downtown club
Last Line: "war is the game of a lot of god-damned fools."
Subject(s): Pacifism; World War I; Peace Movements; First World War


REARMAMENT, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These grand and fatal movements toward death: the grandeur of the mass
Last Line: Dream-led masses down the dark mountain
Subject(s): Beauty; Pacifism; Peace Movements


THE FOREST BOY, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The trees have now hid at the edge of the hurst
Last Line: When ye let loose the demons of war.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Pacifism; Peace Movements


THE LAMENT OF THE VOICELESS, by LAURA BELL EVERETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wars are to be,' they say, they blindly say
Last Line: They mourn for you, your sons who never were.
Subject(s): Pacifism; Unborn; War; Peace Movements


THE MUFFLED DRUMS, by PERCY MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For brothers laid in blood
Last Line: And we chant, chant the world redeemed by woman.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): Drums; Musical Instruments; Pacifism; Sex Role; Women; Peace Movements


THE OLD MEN AND THE YOUNG MEN, by WITTER BYNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Said the old men to the young men
Last Line: "you."
Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel
Subject(s): Pacifism; Peace Movements


THE PACIFIST; EPIGRAM, by HILAIRE BELLOC            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pale ebenezer thought it wrong to fight
Last Line: But roaring bill (who killed him) thought it right
Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene
Subject(s): Pacifism; Soldiers; Peace Movements


THE SONG OF THE PACIFIST, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What do they matter, our headlong hates, when we take the toll
Last Line: In the name of the dead the banner of peace . . . That will be victory.
Subject(s): Pacifism; War; World War I; Peace Movements; First World War


TO A CERTAIN VERY UGLY BUILDING: THE ARMORY, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Minotaur of madness, you certainly belong there
Last Line: O slumtown symbol of war's grim insanity!
Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Army - Ireland; Buildings & Builders; Death; Pacifism; Social Protest; War; Weapons; Ammunition; Dead, The; Peace Movements


TO A PACIFIST FRIEND, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To close the eyes upon a frenzied scene
Last Line: I see with horror as it dares to live.
Subject(s): Pacifism; Peace Movements


WAR, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: War / I abhor
Last Line: And show the monster as she is.
Variant Title(s): The Illusion Of War
Subject(s): Pacifism; Religion; Peace Movements; Theology


WOODROW WILSON, by EMMA VORIES MEYER    Poem Text                    
First Line: That all the world might smile again, I gave
Last Line: "and hear their clear glad voices: ""peace on earth!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Meyer, Emma Voorhees
Subject(s): Death; Pacifism; Peace; Presidents, United States; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924); Dead, The; Peace Movements


WOODROW WILSON - 1856-1924, by MARGUERITE MOOERS MARSHALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The chill of no man's land had touched his lips
Last Line: "one conqueror's work""—said harden—""wilson's thought."
Subject(s): Pacifism; Peace; Praise; Presidents, United States; War; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924); Peace Movements


YULE AT THENGELFOR, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was yule at thengelfor
Last Line: At the sharp white tide of yule!
Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas; Pacifism; War; Nativity, The; Peace Movements