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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LITTLE BOY LOST, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nought loves another as itself
Last Line: Are such thing done on albion's shore?
Subject(s): Bible; Death - Children; Mythology; Sacrifices; Death - Babies


A NAVVY'S PHILOSOPHY, by PATRICK MACGILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Across life's varied ways we drift
Last Line: Beside the master of the hall.
Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Brotherhood; Death; Labor & Laborers; Sacrifices; Dead, The; Work; Workers


A PASTORALL; THE ANTEMASQUE, by JANE CAVENDISH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come let us burne severall horrid peeces
Last Line: Hag let's singe, but let's not bee too longe.
Subject(s): Sacrifices; Singing & Singers; Witchcraft & Witches; Songs


A RHYME OF THE WEST, by FREDERICK WILLIAM OPHEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: It was reuben steel that led the way, and his mate was palmer jake
Last Line: That the wandering winds might ring at will a requiem for the dead.
Alternate Author Name(s): Prospect Good; Ophel, F. W.
Subject(s): Death; Deserts; Drought; Food & Eating; Friendship; Sacrifices; Dead, The


A SUTTEE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gather her raven hair in one rich cluster
Last Line: No more to part.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Sacrifices; Widows & Widowers


AD ASTRA: 19, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Love, at the highest, asks for no reward
Last Line: He swings his burning thurible of spice.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Sacrifices


ANGEL ISLAND POETRY, by EMMA GEE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Across from alcatraz island was another kind of prison
Last Line: And avenge %past wrongs
Subject(s): Abandonment; Farewell; Immigrants; Sacrifices


AT TIMES IT IS NECESSARY AND UNAVOIDABLE, by SALVADOR ESPRIU    Poem Source                    
Last Line: In difficult and deserved %liberty
Subject(s): Heroism; Sacrifices


BALLAD OF A GRAY CLOAK, by ELIZABETH BUELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The gray cloak of her motherhood
Last Line: Is heavy -- sweet to bear.
Subject(s): Caregivers; Mothers; Sacrifices; Solitude; Loneliness


BREAKING GROUND, by LINDA DECICCO ANTONAZZI    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's never easy being born
Last Line: And gathers you up from your %one long summer
Subject(s): Sacrifices; Strength


CARNAGE: 1. DOUBT, by PERCY MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So thin, so frail the opalescent ice
Last Line: Is hell so near to every human heart?
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): Doubt; Peace; Sacrifices; Survival; World War I; Skepticism; First World War


CASUALTIES: 25. BENIN SACRIFICE, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And yet another screen is rent
Last Line: And another screen is rent %off our bedside
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Sacrifices


CHIMALPOA; A MONODRAMA - FOUNDED ON AN EVENT IN THE MEXICAN HISTORY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Subjects! Friends! Children! I may call you my children
Last Line: Perform your office!
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Duty; History; Mexico; Public Worship; Sacrifices; Dead, The; Historians; Church Attendance


COLORADO MORTON'S RIDE, by LEONARD BACON (1887-1954)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Colorado morton's riding far
Last Line: He won't be back with the circle-bar.
Subject(s): Cowboys; Sacrifices


CONCERNING SACRIFICES, by PAUL D. MCKERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: From sounion's rocky crag
Last Line: Both just involve %different methods of killing
Subject(s): Death; Sacrifices


CURSES, by NICOLE BLACKMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is noise, this is curse, this is talk
Last Line: All you know of heroines is what you read %burn bleed
Subject(s): Heroism; Sacrifices


EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: 'EQUALITY OF SACRIFICE', by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was a have
Last Line: "(together.) ""what hast thou given which I gave not?"
Subject(s): Sacrifices; War; World War I; First World War


FASTING, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: What though her face be pale? This onely showes
Last Line: Keeps her stomach fresh for paradise.
Subject(s): Heaven; Humility; Sacrifices; Strength; Paradise


FOOL'S BURIAL, by HILDEGARDE FILLMORE    Poem Text                    
First Line: If you had waited, foolish love, to die
Last Line: To lie all naked in a beggar's grave?
Subject(s): Death; Fools; Love; Sacrifices; Dead, The; Idiots


FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: SACRIFICE SELF-COMPENSATED, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: True I have had much comfort gazing on thee
Last Line: That greater happiness will thence arise.
Subject(s): Birth; Death; Hope; Love; Sacrifices; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The; Optimism


FRANCISCA REINA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: A stricken queen, but still a queen of queens
Last Line: "with orisons unto the rising sun."
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Drought; Sacrifices; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke


GREATER LOVE, by ANTIPATER OF SIDON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Amyntor, son of philip, lies
Last Line: He died to shield a friend.
Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Sidon
Subject(s): Friendship; Sacrifices


H. SACRAMENT, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Love, upon a deep designe
Last Line: Make us as happy as it pleaseth thee.
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Last Supper, The; Sacrifices


HAPPY THOUGHT FOR SOME STRUGGLING NATION, by MORRIE RYSKIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though the privates may never return
Last Line: Need we burden the lord with our prayers?
Subject(s): Death; Prayer; Sacrifices; Dead, The


HUBRIS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The loom is computerized
Last Line: Where will they hide him %when the romans come?
Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Sacrifices


I NEVER KNEW, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I never knew how much the love you gave me
Last Line: "I never knew,—I never knew."
Subject(s): Love; Sacrifices; Salvation


IN POVERTY STREET, by ELLIOTT FLOWER    Poem Text                    
First Line: It's dirty, ill-smelling
Last Line: In poverty street.
Subject(s): Charity; Poverty; Sacrifices; Philanthropy


IPHIGENEIA AT AULIS: AGAMEMNON TRIES TO AVERT SACRIFICE OF IPHIGENEIA, by EURIPIDES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O! Gods! How very wretched am I grown!
Last Line: Here take it for it is your victory
Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Sacrifices


JEPHTHAH'S DAUGHTER, by JENNIFER ATKINSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Already two months alone %twice no blood
Last Line: My father will kill him and steal his land %I am a widow in a blood-stained shawl
Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Jephthah (bible); Sacrifices


JEPHTHAH'S DAUGHTER, by BARBARA KEENER SHENK    Poem Source                    
First Line: My father promised, so there is no chance
Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Jephthah (bible); Sacrifices


JEPHTHAH'S DAUGHTER, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She stood before her father's gorgeous tent
Last Line: And she was dead -- but not by violence.
Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Jephthah (bible); Sacrifices


LET YOU WHO WOULD BE LOVERS, by FRANK ERNEST HILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let you who would be lovers
Last Line: And a lost key.
Subject(s): Love; Sacrifices


LOVE'S SUBMISSION, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What though it please you light my heart with fire
Last Line: Stricken and bleeding at your beauty's feet.
Subject(s): Beauty; Heaven; Love; Sacrifices; Paradise


LUCRETIA; A MONODRAMA, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Welcome, my father! Good valerius
Last Line: (stabs herself.)
Subject(s): Honor; Rape; Rome, Italy; Sacrifices; Suicide; Women


MAGDALEN, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the day that the world shall end my dear
Last Line: And forfeited heaven for him.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Sacrifices; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene


MEASURING LIFE, by HARRIET ELEANOR HAMILTON (BAILLE) KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Measure thy life by loss instead of gain
Last Line: And whoso suffers most hath most to give.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton-king, Harriet Eleanor
Variant Title(s): Love's Strength
Subject(s): Defeat; Religion; Sacrifices; Theology


MORNINGS OF ISABELLA BOCCACCIO, by RITA SIGNORELLI-PAPPAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is never any change
Last Line: Of blood and bone. An offering
Subject(s): Sacrifices


MOTHERHOOD: 2, by CLYDE MCGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Yours is the knowledge that leaves you sad
Last Line: The love that redeems,—god's love and yours.
Subject(s): Love; Mothers; Sacrifices


NEWPORT, by ALICE DUER MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On these brown rocks the waves dissolve in a spray
Last Line: "to win religious liberty for these?"
Subject(s): Newport, Rhode Island; Sacrifices; Tradition


NO MAN'S LAND, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I've never been on no man's land
Last Line: Their numbers are untold.
Subject(s): Courage; Honor; Sacrifices; Soldiers; War; Valor; Bravery


NOT HOW THEY LIVED, BUT HOW THEY DIED, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sweet is the sleep of those whose lives were hurled
Last Line: "not how they lived—but only how they died!"
Subject(s): Death; Sacrifices; Soldiers; World War I; Dead, The; First World War


ODE TO A PIG WHILE HIS NOSE WAS BEING ROASTED, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark! Hark! That pig - that pig! The hideous note
Last Line: To think that for your master's good you die?
Variant Title(s): Ode To A Pig, Who Nose Was Being Bored
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Mankind; Nature; Pain; Pigs; Sacrifices; Selflessness; Dead, The; Paradise; Human Race; Suffering; Misery; Boars; Hogs


OF GENERAL GOURAUD, by ROBERTA BALFOUR    Poem Text                    
First Line: He wears an empty sleeve
Last Line: To victory, to liberty,—humanity!
Subject(s): Blood; Courage; Generals; Leadership; Sacrifices; War; Valor; Bravery


ON A BUST OF ANTINOUS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon your face, with all its youthful glory,
Last Line: Oh, blithe bithynian boy!
Subject(s): Sacrifices; Sculpture & Sculptors; Youth


ON THE MOUNTAIN, by NEIDHART VON REUENTHAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the mountain, in the valley
Last Line: All the young ones into the bushes.
Subject(s): Mothers; Old Age; Sacrifices; Women


ORGAN SONGS: THE THANK-OFFERING, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My lily snatches not my gift
Last Line: To him that makes thee be!
Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Rites And Ceremonies; Sacrifices


PASTORAL, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now the body is the body's flower
Last Line: Into a spidery realism
Subject(s): Realism; Sacrifices


PHILUMENE TO ARISTIDES, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Master, for love's sake, thank me not for this
Last Line: Thou shalt not know, but I, but I, for thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Sacrifices


QUEEN STANDS ALONE, by LINDA A. CRONIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It began with such enthusiasm
Last Line: Before we ever swear I do
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Marriage; Sacrifices


RIDDLES, R.F.C., by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He was a boy of april beauty; one
Last Line: Attempt to save a comrade. He was twenty years of age.
Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Ridley, Lt. Stewart G. (1896-1916); Sacrifices; World War I - Casualties; Airplanes; Air Pilots


SACRAFICE, by CHARLOTTE DEMOREST CURREN    Poem Text                    
First Line: When, on that day, with you I felt the flame
Last Line: I'd choose that day when I was crucified!
Subject(s): Sacrifices


SACRIFICE, by CAROLINE GILTINAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no wine unless the grape is crushed
Last Line: Through sorrow and the body's pain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs.
Subject(s): Bread; Drinks & Drinking; Pain; Sacrifices; Wine; Suffering; Misery


SACRIFICE, by FLORENCE FOSTER HALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: My love, I made a sacrifice last night
Last Line: To deftly pluck all strings of my soul's lyre.
Subject(s): Sacrifices


SACRIFICE, by HELENE THURSTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh mother mary mild
Last Line: When he is dead?
Subject(s): Sacrifices


SANDY STAR: 1. SCULPTURED WORSHIP, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The zones of warmth around his heart
Last Line: His very heart will break.
Subject(s): Sacrifices


SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 23, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it indeed so? If I lay here dead
Last Line: My near sweet view of heaven, for earth with thee!
Subject(s): Love; Sacrifices; Heaven; Paradise


SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 132, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Loving is up hill
Last Line: Though it be hard work
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Sacrifices


SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 165, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I must climb, must climb the hill
Last Line: What shall I do?
Subject(s): Love; Poetry And Poets; Sacrifices


SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ELSA WERTMAN, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was a peasant girl from germany
Last Line: That's my son! That's my son!
Subject(s): Mothers; Sacrifices


STATE OF THE UNION: 10. SACRIFICE, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How shall I tell my children not
Last Line: And thorns have sprung up in the field
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Sacrifices


STATE OF THE UNION: 12. OUT OF THE TOWER, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That air and light may come again
Last Line: After all endemic to the country
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Courage; Patriotism; Sacrifices


THE ACCUSING HANDS; A 1918 MEMORIAL DAY THOUGHT, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I had a vision of the nearer past
Last Line: The clay that wore the khaki and the blue!
Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Sacrifices; Soldiers; World War I; Declaration Day; First World War


THE ANCIENT SACRIFICE, by MAHLON LEONARD FISHER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ye dead and gone great armies of the world
Last Line: About the blood-stained shrine of bygone wars!
Subject(s): Death; History; Legacies; Military; Sacrifices; War; Dead, The; Historians


THE BURNT-OFFERING, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thrice-happy he whose heart, each new-born night
Last Line: Sleep's ashes only hide a glowing fire.
Subject(s): Christianity; Fire; Rites And Ceremonies; Sacrifices


THE CHASM, by WILLA CALVERT SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: There are ahead of every man
Last Line: Of glory, wealth, and fame.
Subject(s): Sacrifices


THE CHILD TAKEN FROM THE MOTHER, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I could do nothing. Nothing. Do you
Last Line: And women, lovers, mothers, lesbians. Yes
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Child Custody; Sacrifices; Women's Rights


THE DEBT UNPAYABLE, by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What have I given
Last Line: (god grant!) all weeds in ours.
Subject(s): Army - United States; Death; Honor; Navy - United States; Sacrifices; Soldiers; War - Home Front; World War I - Casualties; Dead, The; American Navy


THE FATED RACE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: What! Still reject the fated race
Last Line: Immanuel-was a jew
Subject(s): Heroism;israel;jews;sacrifices; Heroes;heroines;judaism


THE FEMINEAD: FEMALES, SACRED AND PROFANE, by JOHN DUNCOMBE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The modest muse a veil with pity throws
Last Line: Your empty sneers, and shock the sex no more.
Subject(s): Earth; Sacrifices; Women's Rights; World; Feminism


THE GOD OF IGNORANCE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mexitli more regarded human life!
Last Line: And banish from our land this woful dread?
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Death; Sacrifices; Tuberculosis; Dead, The; Consumption (pathology)


THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: ANTARA, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How many singers before me! Are there yet songs unsung?
Last Line: Slain lies for wild beasts and vultures. Ha! For the sacrifice!
Subject(s): Arabia; Arabs - Women; Islam; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sacrifices; Male-female Relations


THE HORSE THAT DIED FOR ME, by EDWIN GERARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: They gave me a fiery horse to groom, and I rode him on parade
Last Line: And the white sand surges down to hide the bones of a trooper's hack.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gerardy
Subject(s): Animals; Cavalry; Horses; Sacrifices; War


THE INDIAN QUEEN: HYMN TO THE SUN, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You to whom victory we owe
Last Line: And by their loss of pow'r declare your own.
Subject(s): Altars; Blood; Sacrifices; Sun


THE MEN OF MONOMOY, by JOE CONE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tell ye the story far and wide
Last Line: Who sleep on handkerchief shoal.
Subject(s): Courage; Men; Sacrifices; Soldiers; Story-telling; Valor; Bravery


THE MOTHER'S SACRIFICE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What shall I render thee, father supreme
Last Line: Like abraham's faith, was counted righteousness.
Variant Title(s): The Cheerful Giver
Subject(s): Mothers; Sacrifices


THE MOTHER'S SACRIFICE, by SEBA SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: The cold winds swept the mountain's height
Last Line: The babe looked up and sweetly smiled!
Alternate Author Name(s): Downing, Major Jack
Variant Title(s): The Mother In The Snow-storm
Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Sacrifices; Storms; Childhood


THE PIONEER'S FIELD, by RICHARD BECK    Poem Text                    
First Line: You walk a sacred ground, tread gently here
Last Line: The fearless planter's worthy monument.
Subject(s): Hero & Leander; Pioneers; Sacrifices; Leander


THE PROFFERED CUP, by MARY SINTON LEITCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night across the meadows of a dream
Last Line: And so . . . Still singing . . . Passed into the night.
Subject(s): Cups; Dreams; Fountain Of Youth; Immortality; Sacrifices; Nightmares


THE SACRIFICE OF ABRAHAM, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Morn breaketh in the east. The purple clouds
Last Line: Upon his face, and wept.
Subject(s): Abraham; Sacrifices


THE SACRIFICE TO APOLLO, by MICHAEL DRAYTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Priests of apollo, sacred be the roome
Last Line: Sound, whilst his altars endlesse flames expire.
Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical; Sacrifices


THE SELF-DEVOTED, by AGNES STRICKLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She hath forsaken courtly halls and bowers
Last Line: And veils with patient smiles a breaking heart.
Subject(s): Love; Sacrifices


THE VICTORY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark! How the church-bells' thundering harmony
Last Line: Who art the widow's friend, her comforter!
Subject(s): Comfort; Death; England; Sacrifices; War; Widows & Widowers; Dead, The; English


THE VINE AND THE GOAT, by EVENUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Although you eat me to the root
Last Line: When you are made a sacrifice.
Subject(s): Greece; Sacrifices; Greeks


THE WAY OF SACRIFICE, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He who hath watched, not shared, the strife
Last Line: Who hath renounced his own.
Subject(s): Sacrifices


TO DELIA: 16 (2), by SAMUEL DANIEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why should I sing in verse, why should I frame
Last Line: And that makes happy lovers ever dumb.
Subject(s): Love; Sacrifices; Singing & Singers; Youth; Songs


TOMBE DES ANGLAIS, by HAGAR PAUL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sleep, in this forest plot
Last Line: This side of heaven.
Subject(s): Death; France; Sacrifices; Soldiers; War; Dead, The


TREPHINING, by GARY J. WHITEHEAD    Poem Source                    
First Line: I thought that what they were doing
Last Line: Then the blood in my hair turned to ice
Subject(s): Sacrifices


VARIATIONS ON AN IMAGE BY W. C. WILLIAMS, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: So much depends %upon
Last Line: My honduran brother's %scarred, milky corneas
Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Poetry And Poets; Sacrifices


WAKING IN BED IN THE SHRILL, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Before dawn now %shivering
Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Sacrifices


WAR SONG, by JOHN DAVIDSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In anguish we uplift / a new unhallowed song
Last Line: The battle to the strong.
Subject(s): Army Life; Machinery & Machinists; Sacrifices; Soldiers; War; Drills & Minor Tactics


WHAT WAS LEFT OVER; FOR SUJATA BHATT, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As you said, sujata, it was not
Last Line: Atomized silk of its spray.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Altars; Church Burnings; Clergy; Sacrifices; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops


WINTER NIGHT, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A winter night is a soldier
Last Line: His life is hard and clean.
Subject(s): Sacrifices; Soldiers


WOLF AND THE SHEEP, by ZBIGNIEW HERBERT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: - I've got you, said the wolf, and yawned. The sheep
Last Line: Sacrifice yourselves for the moral
Subject(s): Life; Sacrifices; Sheep; Wolves


WORK THROUGH IT ALL, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hope, tho' misfortune o'ertake you
Last Line: Your hands busy working withal.
Subject(s): Courage; Labor & Laborers; Sacrifices; Valor; Bravery; Work; Workers