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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1X1 (ONE TIMES ONE): 13, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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         Poet Analysis         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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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         Poet Analysis         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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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         Poet Analysis         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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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         Poet Analysis         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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation                 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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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         Poet Analysis         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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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         Poet Analysis         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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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         Poet Analysis         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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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         Poet Analysis         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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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         Poet Analysis         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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation                 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         Poet Analysis         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 Analysis             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