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| Searching... Subject: PACIFISM Matches Found: 24 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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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 |
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