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Subject: RIFLES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A.E.F., by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There will bea rusty gun on the wall, sweetheart
Last Line: They will tell the spider: go on, you're doing good work.
Subject(s): Rifles; World War I; First World War


BIRD, by CHON PONGGON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I aimed at a bird
Last Line: Perched on the muzzle of a rifle
Subject(s): Rifles


CIVILIAN, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The largest stock of armaments allows me
Subject(s): Rifles


FALLING STAR, by JOEL T. ROGERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: He did not meet them in the cloud
Last Line: A star has fallen to the dark.
Subject(s): Heaven; Rifles; War; Paradise


MASTER, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Master went a-hunting
Last Line: It matters not to master.
Subject(s): Hunting; Rifles; Hunters


MISCHIEF, by CHON PONGGON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I aim at a tree with a rifle
Last Line: I quit my game
Subject(s): Rifles


NOVEMBER POEM, by ROCHELLE RATNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: This morning all the hunters
Last Line: Then he says be careful
Subject(s): Animals; Deer; Fields; Hunting; Rifles


OUR SOLDIERS' SANTIAGO SONG, by DAVID GRAHAM ADEE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Singing 'the star spangled banner'
Last Line: Sang a song of praise to god.
Subject(s): Heroism; National Songs; Rifles; Soldiers; War; Heroes; Heroines; National Anthems


PORTRAIT OF THE GREAT WHITE HUNTER FOXHUNTING IN THE ABSENCE OF BIG..., by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Open the stable gate!
Last Line: Out of a hole in my head
Subject(s): Animals; Ducks; Hunting; Portraits; Rifles; Mallards; Drakes; Hunters


PORTRAIT OF THE GREAT WHITE HUNTER FOXHUNTING IN THE ABSENCE OF BIG..., by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Open the stable gate!
Last Line: These words are coming %out of a hole in my head
Subject(s): Animals; Ducks; Hunting; Portraits; Rifles


RIFLEMAN FORM!, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a sound of thunder afar
Last Line: Riflemen, riflemen, riflemen form!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Variant Title(s): The War
Subject(s): Fights; Prudence; Rifles; Soldiers; Sound; Storms; Caution


THE BATTLE OF ATBARA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye sons of great britain, pray list to me
Last Line: And to annihilate barbarity, and to establish what is right.
Subject(s): Death; Great Britain - History; Rifles; War; Dead, The; English History


THE CHRISTMAS RIFLE, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the spine of the ridge
Last Line: The weight of his hand comes down on my shoulder.
Subject(s): Christmas Gifts; Fathers & Sons; Hunting; Rifles; Hunters


THE EAGLE AND THE DOVE, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Intent on prey, an eagle spread
Last Line: "o wisdom! Thou speakest like a dove!"
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Birds; Eagles; Hunting; Rifles; Wings; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Hunters


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