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Subject: PHILIPPINES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF MANILA BAY, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Your threats how vain, corregidor
Last Line: A hundred years ago!
Subject(s): Courage; Manila, Philippines; Spanish-american War (1898); Valor; Bravery


AGUINALDO (PATRIOT AND EMPIRE), by BERTRAND SHADWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: When arms and numbers both have failed
Last Line: And cry against thee unto god.
Subject(s): Aguinaldo, Emilio (1869-1964); Philippines; Revolutions


BALLADE OF EXPANSION, by HILDA JOHNSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Time was he sang the british brute
Last Line: The ethical expansionist!
Subject(s): Imperialism; Philippines; United States; America


BATTLE OF MANILA, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out of the deep, o lord
Subject(s): Manila, Philippines


BROWNOUT, by BINO A. REALUYO    Poem Source                    
First Line: At night, the light goes out
Last Line: So this is how it begins: these last hours of my womb, %the conception of fear
Subject(s): Philippines; Women


DEWEY AND HIS MEN, by WALLACE RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Glistering high in the midnight sky
Last Line: And the wildfire lights as dewey fights on the broad manila bay.
Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De
Subject(s): Dewey, George (1837-1917); Manila, Philippines; Spanish-american War (1898)


DEWEY AT MANILA [MAY 1, 1898], by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas the very verge of may
Last Line: Must be wise as well as brave.
Subject(s): Dewey, George (1837-1917); Manila, Philippines; Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898)


DEWEY IN MANILA BAY [MAY 1, 1898], by RICHARD VORHEES RISLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: He took a thousand islands and he didn't lose a man
Last Line: For fighting's part of what a yankee knows!
Alternate Author Name(s): Risley, R. V.
Subject(s): Dewey, George (1837-1917); Manila, Philippines; Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898)


IN GUISAD VALLEY, by LUISA IGLORIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: We steeled ourselves
Last Line: Linking limbs %and leafy foliage
Subject(s): Philippines


JUST ONE SIGNAL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The war-path is true and straight
Last Line: For the way to fight is to fight
Subject(s): "manila, Philippines;patriotism;spanish-american War (1898);


MANILA, by EUGENE FITCH WARE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, dewy was the morning, upon the first of may
Last Line: And dewey feel discouraged? I dew not think we dew
Alternate Author Name(s): Ironquill
Variant Title(s): Manila Ba
Subject(s): Dewey, George (1837-1917); Manila, Philippines


MANILLA BAY, by ARTHUR HALE    Poem Text                    
First Line: From keel to fighting top, I love
Last Line: With his head out of the port.
Subject(s): Manila, Philippines; Spanish-american War (1898)


MCILRATH OF MALATE, by JOHN JEROME ROONEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Yes, yes, my boy, there's no mistake
Last Line: And valor claimed her own!
Subject(s): Manila, Philippines; Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898)


ON A SOLDIER FALLEN IN THE PHILIPPINES, by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Streets of the roaring town
Last Line: And sinned in the dark.
Subject(s): Patriotism; Philippines; Revolutions


THE BALLAD OF PACO TOWN, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In paco town and in paco tower
Last Line: Ever and ever the victory!
Subject(s): Courage; Philippines; Revolutions; Valor; Bravery


THE BATTLE OF MANILA; A FRAGMENT, by RICHARD HOVEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By cavite on the bay
Last Line: Will keep and hold the sea!
Subject(s): Manila, Philippines; Navy - United States; Spanish-american War (1898); War; American Navy


THE CAPTIVE SHIPS AT MANILA, by DOROTHY PAUL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Our keels are furred with tropic weed
Last Line: Out again to the blue!
Subject(s): Manila, Philippines; World War I; First World War


THE DEED OF LIEUTENANT MILES [FEBRUARY 5, 1899], by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When you speak of dauntless deeds
Last Line: And his valiant volunteers!
Variant Title(s): Ballad Of Lieutenant Miles
Subject(s): Heroism; Miles, W. G.; Philippines; Revolutions; Heroes; Heroines


THE FIGHT AT DAJO, by ALFRED E. WOOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: There are twenty dead who'er sleeping near
Last Line: Army's fame.
Subject(s): Philippines; Revolutions


THE ISLANDS OF THE SEA, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God is shaping the great future of the island
Last Line: Whose dread commands o'er awe-struck lands are borne on eagle's wings.
Subject(s): Philippines


THE QUARRY, by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Between the rice swamps and the fields of tea
Last Line: They settled to the slot and disappeared.
Subject(s): Eden; Elephants; Love; Philippines; Religion; Theology


THE SALUTE OF THE 'IMMORTALITE', by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The coming dawn flung out her pennants grey
Last Line: Till anglo-saxon peace shall lead the world.
Subject(s): Battleships; Manila, Philippines; Navy - Great Britain; Soldiers; Spanish-american War (1898); English Navy


TYPHOON IN MANILA, by JUDY BLAESKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dawn is dark - deep clouds hide the sun
Subject(s): Manila, Philippines; Typhoons