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| Searching... Subject: SECOND WORLD WAR Matches Found: 215 1X1 (ONE TIMES ONE): 13, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Plato told Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Variant Title(s): Warnings Unheeded Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War A BASEBALL TEAM OF UNKNOWN NAVY PILOTS, PACIFIC THEATER, 1944, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Assigned a week's good bunt, run, throw Subject(s): Baseball; World War Ii; Aviation & Aviators; Second World War; Airplanes; Air Pilots A BOWER OF ROSES, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poet's Biography First Line: The mixture of smells Last Line: Were real, and applied to you Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War A BOX COMES HOME, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I remember the united states of america Last Line: By the rain and oak leaves on the domino Subject(s): Coffins; Homecoming; World War Ii; Second World War A CAMP IN THE PRUSSIAN FOREST, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walk beside the prisoners to the road Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii; Shoah; Judaism; Second World War A FIELD HOSPITAL, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He stirs, beginning to awake Subject(s): Hospitals; World War Ii; Second World War A FRONT, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fog over the base: the beams ranging Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii; Second World War A PILOT FROM THE CARRIER, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strapped at the center of the blazing wheel Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii; Second World War A PLEA, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Text First Line: Pretty star / stay where you are Last Line: You fill me with delight. Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities; Second World War A REFUSAL TO MOURN THE DEATH, BY FIRE, OF A CHILD IN LONDON, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Never until the mankind making Subject(s): Air Warfare; Death - Children; Fire; Innocence; Mourning; World War Ii; Death - Babies; Bereavement; Second World War A STORY ABOUT CHICKEN SOUP, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In my grandmother's house there was always chicken soup Last Line: But to live in the tragic world forever. Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; World War Ii; Shoah; Judaism; Second World War A WAR, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There set out, slowly, for a different world Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War A WAR STORY, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): World War Ii; Guests; Family Life; Second World War; Visiting; Relatives AFTER EXPERIENCE TAUGHT ME, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: After experience taught me that all the ordinary Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War AIR VIEW OF AN INDUSTRIAL SCENE, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a train at the ramp, unloading people Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii; Shoah; Judaism; Second World War AIRMAN'S VIRTUE, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High plane for whom the winds incline Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War AN OFFICERS' PRISON CAMP SEEN FROM A TROOP-TRAIN, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is some school, brick, green, a sleepy hill Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; World War Ii; Convicts; Second World War ARISTOCRATS (1), by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The noble horse with courage in his eye Variant Title(s): Sportsmen Subject(s): Hunting; World War Ii; Hunters; Second World War ARMISTICE, by ROSENA A. GILES Poem Text First Line: I saw a soldier in the crowded street Last Line: Before you give our guilty souls their rest. Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War ARS POETICA, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the snout Last Line: I am the verse witness of my master's breath Subject(s): Surrealism; World War Ii; Poetry & Ports; Second World War AT THE BRITISH WAR CEMETERY, BAYEUX, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walked where in their talking graves Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles Subject(s): Cemeteries; France; World War Ii; Graveyards; Second World War BALLAD OF FINE DAYS, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All in the summery weather Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War BATTLE OF BRITAIN, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What did we earth-bound make of it? A tangle Last Line: Their luck, skill, nerve. And they were young like you. Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Film (photography); Great Britain - History; World War Ii; English History; Second World War BEGOTTEN OF THE SPLEEN, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The virgin mother walked barefoot Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War BLUES FOR JIMMY, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If it were evening on a dead man's watch Last Line: Locked on my wrist to remember us by Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Soldiers; War; World War Ii; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Second World War BLUES FOR WARREN, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The beasts in the schoolroom, whose transparent faces Last Line: Are beached the spring-tide flowers of our hopes Subject(s): Communism; Death; North Sea; Politics & Government; Socialism; Soldiers; War; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War BROTHER FIRE, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When our brother fire was having his dog's day Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Fire; World War Ii; Second World War BURNED, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have to go back into the forge room Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Factories; Jews; World War Ii; Farewell; Fathers; Grief; Conduct Of Life; Work; Workers; Judaism; Second World War; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness BUTCHER SHOP, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes walking late at night Subject(s): Butchers; World War Ii; Second World War CAIRO JAG, by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I get drunk or cut myself a piece of cake Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War CARENTAN O CARENTAN, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Trees in the old days used to stand / and shape a shady land Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944); World War Ii; Normandy (france), Invasion Of; Second World War CARRIER, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She troubles the waters, and they part and close Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War CEREMONY AFTER A FIRE RAID, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Myselves / the grievers Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Funerals; Mourning; World War Ii; Burials; Bereavement; Second World War CHRISTMAS 1944, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bright cards above the fire bring no friends near Subject(s): Christmas; World War Ii; Nativity, The; Second World War CRISIS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Has life no seer, who, with enthralled throat Last Line: Shall never again darken us with its woe. Subject(s): Dreams; Fear; Life; Time; U.s. - History; World War Ii; Nightmares; Second World War DELIVERANCE, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Great and apparent dangers' are the words Last Line: This is the lesson of this fought-for hour. Subject(s): Deliberation; Freedom; World War Ii; Liberty; Second World War DIDO OF TUNISIA, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had heard of these things before - of chariots rumbling Last Line: That men might struggle and fall, and not for love Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Women's Rights; World War Ii; Male-female Relations; Vergil; Feminism; Second World War DISCOVERY OF THIS TIME, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nobody borrowed a couple of dogs and a gun and Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War DRESDEN, by CIARAN CARSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Horse boyle was called horse boyle because of his brother mule Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Dresden, Germany; Soldiers; World War Ii; Second World War DRINKING FROM A HELMET, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I climbed out, tired of waiting Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War DUNKIRK, by SUSAN D'ARCY CLARK Poem Text First Line: They looked at death Last Line: "immortals these,"" and laid his scythe away." Subject(s): Death; Dunkirk, France; Immortality; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: During the second world war, I was going home one night Subject(s): World War Ii; Sons; Survival; Thanksgiving; Second World War EIGHTH AIR FORCE, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If, in an odd angle of the hutment Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii; Second World War ELEGY (IN MEMORIAM - JUNE 1941, R. R.), by DAVID GASCOYNE Poet's Biography First Line: Friend, whose unnatural early death Subject(s): Soldiers; Suicide; World War Ii; Second World War ELEGY FOR A CAVE FULL OF BONES, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tibia, tarsal, skull, and shin Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War ELEGY FOR A DEAD SOLDIER, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A white sheet on the tail-gate of a truck Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War ELEGY JUST IN CASE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lie ciardi's pearly bones Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War ELEGY; FOR KURT PORJESCZ, MISSING IN ACTION, 1 APRIL 1945, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some gone like boys to school wearing their badges Last Line: Discuss our futures, and have not concurred Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War EPILOGUE TO A HUMAN DRAMA, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When pavements were blown up, exposing wires Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; World War Ii; Second World War EPITHALAMIUM IN TIME OF WAR; 1941, by RALPH GUSTAFSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now is the time in valiant days Last Line: To her, to him, his blessings bring! Subject(s): War; World War Ii; Second World War FAMILY GROUP, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That's my younger brother with his navy wings Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Brothers; World War Ii; Family Life; Half-brothers; Second World War; Relatives FATHER AND SON, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Now in the suburbs and the falling light Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Reunions; World War Ii; Second World War FIFE TUNE, by JOHN STREETER MANIFOLD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One morning in spring Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War FIRST SNOW IN ALSACE, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The snow came down last night like moths Subject(s): Alsace, France; World War Ii; Second World War FOR RICHARD SPENDER, by MARY DOREEN SPENDER Poem Text First Line: Gone in an instant Last Line: And what, beyond our sight, its secret orbit shows. Subject(s): Death; Generals; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War FORESIGHT, by LINCOLN KIRSTEIN Poet's Biography First Line: Previsioning death in advance, our doom is delayed Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War GALLANTRY, by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poet's Biography First Line: The colonel in a casual voice Subject(s): Courage; World War Ii; Valor; Bravery; Second World War GHOSTS (THREE YEARS AFTER THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN), by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night bomber pilot, just a fraction drunk Last Line: "they say, they say they do. ..." Subject(s): Air Warfare; Bombs; Death; Ghosts; Supernatural; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War GOOD-BYE, WENDOVER; GOOD-BYE, MOUNTAIN HOME, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wives on day-coaches traveling with a baby Subject(s): Absence; Army Life; World War Ii; Separation; Isolation; Drills & Minor Tactics; Second World War GOODBYE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: So we must say goodbye, my darling Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War Ii; Second World War GREATER GRANDEUR, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Half a year after war's end, roosevelt and hitler dead, stalin tired Last Line: And not appropriate for events on this scale watched from this level; admiration is all Subject(s): World War Ii; Death; Statesmen; Second World War; Dead, The HARVARD DECLARES WAR, by BRENT DOW ALLINSON Poem Text First Line: Hang out the flags!' the college president said Last Line: Thy hallowed ivied walls with strands of sable crepe! Subject(s): Death; Harvard University; Soldiers; War; World War I; World War Ii; Dead, The; First World War; Second World War HIGH FLIGHT, by JOHN GILLESPIE MAGEE JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth Last Line: Put out my hand and touched the face of god. Subject(s): Air Warfare; Aviation & Aviators; Religion; World War Ii; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Theology; Second World War HITLER SPRING, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The white cloud of maddened moths swirls Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War HOMECOMING, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lost in the vastness of the void pacific Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War HOW TO KILL, by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Under the parabola of a ball Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War HUMAN NATURE, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For months and years in a forgotten war Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War I DON'T WANT TO STARTLE YOU, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I knew the general only by name of course Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War I REMEMBER, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was my bridal night I remember Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Love - Age Differences; Marriage; World War Ii; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Second World War I WANT TO DIE IN MY OWN BED, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night the army came up from gilgal Last Line: I want to die in my own bed Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War IN DISTRUST OF MERITS, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strengthened to live, strengthened to die for Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; World War Ii; Anti-war Protests; Second World War IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me take this other glove off Subject(s): Westminster Abbey; World War Ii; Second World War INSTEAD OF TEARS (IN MEMORIAM OF H.M.S. COSSACK), SELECTION, by MARIE CARMICHAEL STOPES Poem Text First Line: Our grief for you, poignant and personal Last Line: You stepped through matter, sweep our spirits on! Subject(s): Death; Warships; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War IT OUT-HERODS HEROD. PRAY YOU, AVOID IT', by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight my children hunch Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War LAMENTATIONS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The scrub woman for the old bank and jailhouse Last Line: One is of welcome; the other, farewell. Subject(s): Farewell; Lament; Loss; Man-woman Relationships; World War Ii; Parting; Male-female Relations; Second World War LEAVE, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One winds through firs - their weeds are ferns Last Line: The mote dances in a nature full of squirrels Subject(s): Loss; World War Ii; Second World War LENINGRAD (1941-1943), by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For some of us it began with wild dogs Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War LESSONS OF THE WAR: 1. NAMING OF PARTS, by HENRY REED Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Today we have naming of parts. Yesterday Subject(s): Guns; Men; Soldiers; World War Ii; Second World War LETTER TO YOUKI, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My love Last Line: I've got another science I can confuse him with Subject(s): France; Love; World War Ii; Second World War LITTLE FRIEND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Then I heard the bomber call me in Last Line: Let's go home Subject(s): Air Warfare;world War Ii; Second World War LONELY EAGLES, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Being black in america Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Aviation & Aviators; Air Warfare; World War Ii; African Americans - Military; Family Life; James, General Daniel 'chappie' (1920-78); Airplanes; Air Pilots; Second World War; Relatives LOOK WITHIN, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, let me not be silent while we fight Last Line: While worm-infested, rotten through within! Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Fascism & Fascists; Racism; United States; World War Ii; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; America; Second World War LOSSES, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was not dying: everybody died Subject(s): Death; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War LOST ABOARD U.S.S. 'GROWLER'; IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM HICKEY, 1944, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Black at that depth Variant Title(s): Pacific Lament Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea Battles; World War Ii; Naval Warfare; Second World War LULLABY, by EDITH SITWELL Poet's Biography First Line: Though the world has slipped and gone Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War MAIL CALL, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The letters always just evade the hand Subject(s): Army Life; Postal Service; World War Ii; Drills & Minor Tactics; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen; Second World War MARTIAL CADENZA, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only this evening I saw again low in the sky Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War MAY-JUNE, 1940, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Foreseen for so many years: these evils, this monstrous violence Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR INVASION BEACH WHERE VACATION IN FLESH IS OVER, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see that there it is on the beach Last Line: And barely can not hear them calling, “here's one” Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War MEMORIES OF A LOST WAR, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poet's Biography First Line: The guns know what is what, but underneath Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War MEMORIES OF WEST STREET AND LEPKE, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only teaching on tuesdays, book-worming Variant Title(s): Life Studies: Memories Of West Street And Lepke Subject(s): Boston; Conscientious Objectors; Lepke, Louis (1897-1944); Prisons & Prisoners; World War Ii; Convicts; Second World War MEN OF WAKE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men betrayed, of that island a myth and a wonder Last Line: Theirs the light beyond death—the eternal debt of the living. Subject(s): Wake Island; World War Ii; Second World War MINED COUNTRY, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They have gone into the gray hills quilled with birches Last Line: Sure the whole world's wild Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War MISERERE: DE PROFUNDIS, by DAVID GASCOYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of these depths Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War MISERERE: ECCE HOMO, by DAVID GASCOYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whose is this horrifying face Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Racism; World War Ii; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Second World War MODELS, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boy of twelve, shaping a fuselage Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War MOTHER AND CHILD (WAR VICTIMS), by EVELYN D. BANGAY Poem Text First Line: We made room for you, remembering Last Line: Of golden love, and innocence, and tears. Subject(s): Children; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women In The Bible; World War Ii; Childhood; Virgin Mary; Second World War NAVAL PHOTOGRAPH: 25 OCTOBER 1942: WHAT THE HAND, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reports of a japanese surface presence Last Line: Toward the camera, toward us, for all of the reasons anyone waves. Subject(s): Navy - United States; Photography & Photographers; Waves; World War Ii; American Navy; Second World War NIGHT MANCEUVRES, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through january night we climbed Last Line: I was not desolate before. Subject(s): Desolation; Night; Silence; Winter; World War Ii; Bedtime; Second World War NIGHT OF BATTLE, by YVOR WINTERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Impersonal the aim Last Line: The dark blood of the folk. Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War NIGHT OPERATIONS, COASTAL COMMAND RAF, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Remembering that war, I'd near believe Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii; Second World War NINETEEN FORTY, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun just drops down through the poplars Last Line: Individual wild ducks scraped and screamed in along a marsh. Subject(s): England; Evening; Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941); World War Ii; Writing & Writers; English; Sunset; Twilight; Second World War NOCTURNE MILITAIRE, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine or remember how the road at last led us Last Line: As the night patrol of bombers climbs through the rain and is gone Subject(s): Miami Beach; World War Ii; Second World War ON A PHOTO OF SGT. CIARDI A YEAR LATER, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sgt. Stands so fluently in leather Last Line: The camera photographs the photographer; Subject(s): World War Ii; Photography & Photographers; Soldiers; Second World War ON A RETURN FROM EGYPT, by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To stand here in the wings of europe Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War ONCE WE MEAN IT, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We'll meet in madrid Last Line: For something to say Subject(s): Fascism & Fascists; World War Ii; Second World War PEARL HARBOR, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here are the fireworks. The men who conspired and labored Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War PLACE PIGALLE, by RICHARD WILBUR Poet's Biography First Line: Now homing tradesmen scatter through the streets Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War PLYMOUTH, by WILLIAM ASHTON Poem Text First Line: I've just been down to plymouth. Did you know Last Line: Were dancing on the hoe. Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Plymouth, England; War - Home Front; World War Ii; Second World War POEM, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lived in the first century of world wars. Subject(s): World War I; World War Ii; Conduct Of Life; War - Home Front; First World War; Second World War POETRY AS INSURGENT ART, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I am signaling you through the flames. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; World War Ii; Second World War POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 6. THE JOYOUS, THE LAKE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How two women can be the same, for instance, in poland Last Line: Drops down from a tree in the sun in marseille. Subject(s): Boats; Warsaw, Poland; Women; World War Ii; Second World War PORT OF EMBARKATION, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Freedom, farewell! Or so the soldiers say Last Line: The slow lives sank from being like a dream? Subject(s): Soldiers; Freedom; World War Ii; Liberty; Second World War PORTRAIT FROM THE INFANTRY, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He smelled bad and was red-eyed with the miseries Last Line: Him back up. “isn't he awful?” she said Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii; Second World War PRAYER BEFORE BIRTH, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I am not yet born; o hear me Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Birth; World War Ii; Child Birth; Midwifery; Second World War PRODIGY, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I grew up bent over Subject(s): Children; Games; World War Ii; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Second World War R.A.F. (1940), by SYLVIA DRYHURST LYND Poem Text First Line: I heard the squadron flying home Last Line: Call them the squadron flying home. Alternate Author Name(s): Lynd, Mrs. Robert Subject(s): Royal Air Force; World War Ii; Second World War RANDOLPH FIELD, 1938, by ROBERT SAMUEL GWYNN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Framed by the open window, a lone stearman Last Line: Before he sideslips into dreams of fire. Alternate Author Name(s): Gwynn, R. S. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Military; Sickness; World War Ii; Youth; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Illness; Second World War READING MY POEMS FROM WORLD WAR II, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ships in these verses course through a blue meadow Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; World War Ii; Navy - United States; Aviation & Aviators; Sailors & Sailing; Second World War; American Navy; Airplanes; Air Pilots RECAPITULATIONS, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was born downtown on a wintry day Subject(s): Birth; Family Life; Jews; World War Ii; Coming Of Age; Youth; Blacks; Divorce; Christianity; Conduct Of Life; Child Birth; Midwifery; Relatives; Judaism; Second World War RECONCILIATION, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day beside the shattered tank he'd lain Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War REDEPLOYMENT, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They say the war is over. But water still Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War REFUGEE BLUES, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Say this city has ten million souls Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): Ten Songs: 1 Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Refugees; Soldiers; World War Ii; Shoah; Judaism; Second World War RETURN, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the searchlights beckon from the night Last Line: Reel after reel of how a city burned Subject(s): World War Ii; Saipan (island); Second World War REVELATIONS; CIRCA 1948, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I made no sound, at all, like the wintering Last Line: I watched. And made no sound... Subject(s): Aliens; Jerusalem; Silence; World War Ii; Extraterrestrials; Second World War ROUTE, by GEORGE OPPEN Poet's Biography First Line: Tell the beads of the chromosomes like a rosary Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War RUIN IN CATHAY: 2. 1938, by J. F. HARRIS Poem Text First Line: War lifts its iron head above the wall Last Line: Winged death glides low over china's plains. Subject(s): China; World War Ii; Second World War SEA BURIAL, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the sea's crust of prisms looking up Last Line: And ran on grass as if it could not die Subject(s): Funerals - At Sea; World War Ii; Burials At Sea; Second World War SECOND AIR FORCE, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far off, above the plain the summer dries Subject(s): Air Warfare; Army Life; Death; World War Ii; Drills & Minor Tactics; Dead, The; Second World War SEPTEMBER, 1939, by VERA MARY BRITTAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The purple asters lift their heads Last Line: The aching grief of england's war. Alternate Author Name(s): Catlin, George E. G., Mrs. Subject(s): London; World War Ii; Second World War SHE SAID ..., by JONATHAN HENDERSON BROOKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She said, 'not only music; brave men marching' Last Line: "mary, it is the same with me,"" she said." Subject(s): African Americans - Military; World War Ii; Second World War SHOOTING SCRIPT. PART II 3-7/70: 9. NEWSREEL, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poet's Biography First Line: This would not be the war we fought in. See, the foliage is Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War SONG OF A SEABOOT STOCKING, by O. I. WARD Poem Text First Line: Knit, knit, knit, in the watches of the night Last Line: While overhead the fire guard keep their watch o'er london town. Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Knitting; London; World War Ii; Second World War SONG: ON SEEING DEAD BODIES FLOATING OFF THE CAPE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first month of his absence Subject(s): Absence; Soldiers' Writings; World War Ii; Separation; Isolation; Second World War SONNET: THE UNCERTAIN BATTLE, by DAVID GASCOYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Away the horde rode, in a storm of hail Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii; Second World War SOUTH PACIFIC, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Least enemy is the foe Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): World War Ii; Islands Of The Pacific; Second World War; Oceania SPIT, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poet's Biography First Line: After this much time, it's still impossible. The ss man with his stiff hair Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii; Shoah; Judaism; Second World War SPRING 1942, by ROY FULLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once as we were sitting by Subject(s): Army Life; World War Ii; Drills & Minor Tactics; Second World War SPRING MCMXL, by DAVID GASCOYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: London bridge is falling down, rome's burnt, and babylon Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii; Second World War STILL FALLS THE RAIN; THE RAIDS, 1940. NIGHT AND DAWN, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Still falls the rain - / dark as the world of man, black as our loss Last Line: "still do I love, still shed my innocent light, my blood, for thee." Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Crucifixion; Religion; World War Ii; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology; Second World War SUN AND MOON FLOWERS: PAUL KLEE, 1879-1940, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: First, there is the memory of the dead priest in norway Last Line: With its ice water, blue spikes of lupine, and morphine. Subject(s): Europe; Klee, Paul (1879-1940); Paintings & Painters; Sickness; World War Ii; Illness; Second World War TAKE A LETTER TO DMITRI SHOSTAKOVITCH, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All over america last sunday afternoon goes your symphony no. 7 Subject(s): Russia; World War Ii; Soviet Union; Russians; Second World War THE ANNIVERSARY, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the night I come to my room Last Line: The flesh of his forehead, and old scar. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Fathers & Sons; Memory; Scars; World War Ii; Second World War THE BATTLE, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Helmet and rifle, pack and overcoat Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War THE BRITISH COUNTRYSIDE IN PICTURES, by JAMES MCMICHAEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The frontispiece fixes as / british Subject(s): Great Britain; History; Landscape; World War Ii; Historians; Second World War THE CHILD DYING, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unfriendly friendly universe, / I pack your stars into my purse Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; World War Ii; Death - Babies; Bereavement; Second World War THE CHILDREN, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was the first wednesday of a scarcity of candles Last Line: That evening in a coffin. Variant Title(s): Psalm 23 Subject(s): Animals; Bombs; Family Life; Horses; Sweden; World War Ii; Relatives; Second World War THE DEAD IN EUROPE, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the planes unloaded, we fell down Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War THE DEAD WINGMAN, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seen on the sea, no sign; no sign, no sign Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii; Second World War THE DEATH OF THE BALL TURRET GUNNER, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: From my mother's sleep I fell into the state Subject(s): Air Warfare; Aviation & Aviators; Death; World War Ii; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Dead, The; Second World War THE ENCLOSURE, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down the track of a philippine island Last Line: With intact and incredible love Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War THE EYE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The atlantic is a stormy moat, and the mediterranean Subject(s): Pacific Ocean; World War Ii; Second World War THE FECKLESS YEARS, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wounded took the stone-eyed girls Last Line: A crooner sang their dirge. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; War Injuries; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War THE FIRST AIR-RAID WARNING, by EVELYN D. BANGAY Poem Text First Line: When the quiet acres I look upon were shaken Last Line: Not seed-time and harvest, but wars, shall pass away. Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; World War Ii; Second World War THE FURY OF AERIAL BOMBARDMENT, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You would think the fury of aerial bombardment Subject(s): Air Warfare; God; World War Ii; Second World War THE HOUSE THAT FEAR BUILT: WARSAW, 1943, by JANE FLANDERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the boy with his hands raised over his head / in warsaw Subject(s): Warsaw Ghetto; World War Ii; Second World War THE INTERROGATION, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We could have crossed the road but hesitated Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War THE LEGLESS FIGHTER PILOT, by SHARON OLDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He takes his calf in his hand, lifts the Subject(s): Air Warfare; Aviation & Aviators; Amputees; World War Ii; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Second World War THE LESSON, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It occurs to me now Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War THE LINES, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the centers' naked files, the basic line Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War THE LOST PILOT, by JAMES TATE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your face did not rot Subject(s): World War Ii; Fathers; Second World War THE MAHRATTA GHATS, by ALUN LEWIS Poet's Biography First Line: The valleys crack and burn, the exhausted plains Subject(s): India; Soldiers' Writings; Travel; World War Ii; Journeys; Trips; Second World War THE MAN IN THE DEAD MACHINE, by DONALD HALL Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: High on a slope in new guinea Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Death; War; World War Ii; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Dead, The; Second World War THE MAN IN THE DEAD MACHINE, by DONALD HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High on a slope in new guinea Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War THE MOON AND THE NIGHT AND THE MEN, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the night of the belgian surrender the moon rose Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Belgium; Leopold Iii, King Of The Belgians; World War Ii; Second World War THE NEW JERUSALEM, by ALLAN M. LAING Poem Text First Line: And did these feet, in pre-war days Last Line: In england's blind and shuttered land! Subject(s): Jerusalem; World War Ii; Second World War THE PEASANTS, by ALUN LEWIS Poet's Biography First Line: The dwarf barefooted, chanting Subject(s): Peasantry; Soldiers' Writings; World War Ii; Second World War THE PERFORMANCE, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The last time I saw donald armstrong Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S ANNUAL, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We are returning to new england for two weeks! My sister Last Line: Throughout the afternoon. Subject(s): Aging; Love - Erotic; Jews; Marriage; Mayas; Mexico; Morality; Photography & Photographers; Poetry & Poets; Vermont; World War Ii; Judaism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Ethics; Second World War THE RAID, by WILLIAM EVERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They came out of the sun undetected Alternate Author Name(s): Antoninus, Brother Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War THE RANGE IN THE DESERT, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the lizard ran to its little prey Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War THE READER OF THE SENTENCES, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dead soldiers rise and walk into the trees Last Line: There is the day's work to be done. Subject(s): Books; Children; Eckehart, Johannes (meister) (1260-1327); Jesus Christ; Martyrs; Memory; Resurrection, The; World War Ii; Reading; Childhood; Eckhart, Meister; Second World War THE REFUGEES, by EDWIN MUIR Poet's Biography First Line: A crack ran through our hearthstone long ago Subject(s): Refugees; World War Ii; Second World War THE RUNNER, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And the condemned man ate a hearty meal' Subject(s): Bulge, Battle Of The; World War Ii; Second World War THE STAND-TO, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn met me today as I walked over castle hill Last Line: The apples drawn too early and shatters the sutyumn rose Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii; Second World War THE STOIC: FOR LAURA VON COURTEN, by EDGAR BOWERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All winter long you listened for the boom Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War THE TOMB OF LIEUTENANT JOHN LEARMONTH, A. I. F., by JOHN STREETER MANIFOLD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is not sorrow, this is work: I build Subject(s): Crete; World War Ii; Second World War THE TROPHY, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wise king crowned with blessings on his throne Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War THE U. S. SAILOR WITH THE JAPANESE SKULL, by WINFIELD TOWNLEY SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bald-bare, bone-bare, and ivory yellow: skull Subject(s): Skulls; World War Ii; Second World War THE WAR IN THE AIR, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For a saving grace, we didn't see our dead Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii; Second World War THE WIDOW OF THE BEAST OF INGOLSTADT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A fork in the garden, the widow digging Last Line: Her husband's watch had just stopped in his grave. Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Marriage; Widows & Widowers; World War Ii; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Second World War THE YOUNG DEAD SOLDIERS, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The young dead soldiers do not speak Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War TO A CONSCRIPT OF 1940, by HERBERT READ Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A soldier passed me in the freshly fallen snow Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War TO EDWARD THOMAS, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the way up from sheet I met some children Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Thomas, Edward (1878-1917); World War Ii; Second World War TO GALLANT FRANCE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lord himself died on the cross Last Line: Shall rise in victory! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): France; World War Ii; Second World War TO LUCASTA, ABOUT THAT WAR, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A long winter from home the gulls blew Last Line: Which is called (as noted) war. And it stinks Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War TO LUCASTA, ABOUT THAT WAR, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A long winter from home the gulls blew Subject(s): War; World War Ii; Second World War TO MARGOT HEINEMANN, by JOHN CORNFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heart of the heartless world Variant Title(s): Huesca Subject(s): Desire; Love; World War Ii; Second World War TO MY MOTHER, by GEORGE BARKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Most near, most dear, most loved and most far, Last Line: That she will move from mourning into morning. Variant Title(s): Sonnet To My Mother Subject(s): Love; Mothers; World War Ii; Second World War TOY FACTORY, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother works here Subject(s): Toys; World War Ii; Second World War TRANSIENT BARRACKS, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Summer. Sunset. Someone is playing Last Line: And the thing about it is, it's real Subject(s): Army Life; Homecoming; World War Ii; Drills & Minor Tactics; Second World War TREES, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Text First Line: We marvel how the elms can grow Last Line: When dawn breaks cool and still. Subject(s): Elm Trees; Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities; Second World War TROOP TRAIN, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It stops the town we come through. Workers raise Subject(s): Army Life; World War Ii; Drills & Minor Tactics; Second World War TWELVE O'CLOCK, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At seventeen I've come to read a poem Last Line: And everything, forever, everything is changed. Subject(s): Einstein, Albert (1879-1955); Heisenberg, Werner Karl (1901-1976); Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; World War Ii; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb; Parenthood; Feminism; Second World War TWO CHRISTMAS CARDS: 1, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The seas netted with ambushes Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War TWO CHRISTMAS CARDS: 2, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For an hour on christmas eve Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War TYWATER, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Death of sir nihil, book the nth Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Violence; World War Ii; Theology; Second World War ULTIMA RATIO REGUM, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The guns spell money's ultimate reason Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War UN BEL DI VEDREMO, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hello nbc, this is london speaking' Subject(s): Italy; War; World War I; World War Ii; Italians; First World War; Second World War V-DAY, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Savor the hour as it comes. Preserve it in amber Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War V-J DAY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the tallest day in time the dead came back Last Line: Wheels jammed and flaming on a metal sea Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War VALEDICTORY; THE SCHOLAR TO THE ASHES OF HIS LIBRARY, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Gone the books of many names Last Line: Be the man that they should make. Subject(s): Death; Fire; Librarians & Libraries; World War Ii; Dead, The; Library; Librarians; Second World War VERGISSMEINNICHT, by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Three weeks gone and the combatants gone Variant Title(s): Elegy For An 88 Gunner Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War VETERAN, by ANDREW MOTION Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Across the field, the wood Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944); Veterans; World War Ii; Normandy (france), Invasion Of; Second World War VISIBILITY ZERO, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day with mist against the hurdling wind Last Line: We need not waken what we need not see Subject(s): Army Life; World War Ii; Drills & Minor Tactics; Second World War WAKE ISLAND, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Proof of america! A fire on the sea, Subject(s): Wake Island; World War Ii; Second World War WAR, by JOSEPH LANGLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When my young brother was killed Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War WAR POET, by SIDNEY KEYES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the man who looked for peace and found Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; War; World War Ii; Second World War WAR SEQUENCE: WAR ALTARS, by RENA CAREY SHEFFIELD Poem Text First Line: Within the green jade temple of chapei Last Line: The silent buddha sits and meditates. Subject(s): China; World War Ii; Second World War WARNING, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Nature without a plan? Last Line: Simply dislodgement. Subject(s): Nature; World War Ii; Second World War WELCOME TO HIROSHIMA, by MARY JO SALTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is what you first see, stepping off the train Last Line: Worked its filthy way out like a tongue. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Hiroshima, Japan; Literary Form; World War Ii; Nuclear Freeze; Second World War WIDOW-MOTHER, by ADA JACKSON Poem Text First Line: Soldier boy, soldier boy Last Line: Presently I'll know. Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Mothers & Sons; War; Widows & Widowers; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War WIEDERSEHEN, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When open trucks with german prisoners in them Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War ZENITH, by TED KOOSER Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: It was part of her parlour's darkness Subject(s): Grandparents; World War Ii; Radio; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Second World War ZNAMENSKAYA SQUARE, LENINGRAD, 1941, by SHARON OLDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The older girl pulls the child's Subject(s): Saint Oetersburg, Russia; World War Ii; Children - Death; Second World War |
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