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Subject: PRISONERS OF WAR
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A HUN, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He was just a prisoner
Last Line: Would never know how bravely a son had died.
Subject(s): Courage; Death; Germany; Injustice; Prisoners Of War; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Germans; First World War


ANDERSONVILLE INSINUATIONS, by ROGER WEINGARTEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A prisoner-of-war-camp memory of being
Last Line: Left running with headlights like white %vaccinations, passing through ohio with hitchhiker
Subject(s): Prisoners Of War


ARKHANGEL'SK, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The yellow goat in winter sunlight
Last Line: Bullets rippling like moles under the plaster.
Subject(s): Death; Goats; Lent; Prisoners Of War; Russia - Stalin Era; Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953); Dead, The


AS TOLD TO WALLACE TERRY, by THOMAS G. PALAIMA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wallace told us %he interviewed his soldiers
Last Line: Washington, d.C. %and vietnam
Subject(s): Prisoners Of War; Soldiers; Vietnam; Violence; War Correspondents


CIRCLING THE FLOWERS: 4, by BOB HICOK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They wouldn't let him touch the painting
Last Line: Of the club palpable, reassuring %like a whisper giving shape to an invisible room
Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Prisoners Of War; Rape


COMPLAINT OF THE COUNT OF SALDANA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The count don sancho diaz, the signior of saldane
Last Line: When thou shalt weep in dungeon deep, and none thy weeping see
Subject(s): Absence; Courts And Courtiers; Grief; Old Age; Prisoners Of War


FOR AN EX-FAR EAST PRISONER OF WAR, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am that man with helmet made of thorn
Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles
Subject(s): Prisoners Of War


GERMAN PRISONERS, by JOSEPH LEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: When first I saw you in the curious street
Last Line: "and could have grasped your hand and cried, ""my brother!"
Subject(s): Brotherhood; Prisoners Of War; Religion; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Theology; First World War


MY PRISONER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We was in a crump-'ole, 'im and me
Last Line: Wonders -- 'ow would 'e 'ave treated me?
Subject(s): Prisoners Of War; War; World War I; First World War


PRISONERS OF WAR, by THOMAS M. DISCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Their language disappeared a year or so
Last Line: And at ourselves, those still alive, who stand %before what might have been, a year ago, a door
Subject(s): Prisoners Of War


PRISONERS OF WAR, by JOHN D. C. ESTRELLA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The hope in the matter of prisoners, and prayer
Subject(s): Prisoners Of War


PRISONERS OF WAR, by CHARLES PERDU    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is braver to be killed
Last Line: In life's prosaic mazes, %intuitively alive, %imponderably at peace?
Subject(s): Prisoners Of War


PRISONERS' RETURN, by JAMES MONAHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To-night I saw the wounded come ashore
Last Line: And humbly I shall listen to you then.
Subject(s): Patriotism; Prisoners Of War; Soldiers; War


SEVENTH ECLOGUE, by MIKLOS RADNOTI    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's getting dark; the wild oak fence is is hemmed
Last Line: I can not die, I can not live without you
Subject(s): Guard Duty; Prisoners Of War; Writing And Writers


THE BRAVE VOLUNTEER, by JULIA A. MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the time of the rebellion
Last Line: To let return their son.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan
Subject(s): Prisoners Of War


THE PIOUS PAINTER; THE STORY AS RELATED IN FABLIAUX OF LE GRAND, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There once was a painter in catholic days
Last Line: And I must give the devil his due.
Subject(s): Catholic Church - Liturgy; Devil; Paintings And Painters; Prisoners Of War; Temptation; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub


THE POET OF THE PRISON ISLE: RITSOS AGAINST THE COLONELS, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So there you are
Last Line: Just over the border
Subject(s): Prisoners Of War; War; Writing & Writers


THE PRISONER'S RELEASE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo, in the east the wan moon climbs
Last Line: Now I come — I come to thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Death; Inquisition; Prisoners Of War; Venice, Italy; Youth; Dead, The


TO A FRIEND IMPRISONED IN GERMANY, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The young man's heart labours with many a birth
Last Line: Is sweet, and sweet the friendship of the dead.
Subject(s): Prisoners Of War; Friendship; Youth