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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: UNKNOWN SOLDIER Matches Found: 28 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DNA SHOWS THAT I'M THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Only politicians shitting out of their mouths Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Politics; Social Protest; Unknown Soldier ELEGY FOR AN UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by JAMES KEIR BAXTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There was a time when I would magnify Last Line: Who born of silence has burned back to silence Alternate Author Name(s): Hemi; Baxter, James K. Subject(s): Unknown Soldier EPITAPH, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You who died fighting Last Line: The rose is your joy. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; Unknown Soldier; War; Westminster Abbey; Graveyards; Dead, The; Declaration Day GRAVES OF UNKNOWN SOLDIERS, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The clues are here like dominoes Last Line: We worship? What were their names? Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Graves; Unknown Soldier MAY 30, 1893, by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It seemed to be but chance, yet who shall say Last Line: It was to die unknown and rest forgot? Alternate Author Name(s): Hotair, Dopeton Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Unknown Soldier; Declaration Day NEW SPOON RIVER, SELS., by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Unknown Soldier NOVEMBER 11TH, by FRANK E. CAMPBELL Poem Text First Line: This day three years ago Last Line: "this great ""unknown"" acclaim ..." Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Peace; Soldiers; Unknown Soldier; Veterans Day; War; Dead, The SEVEN LAMENTS FOR THE WAR-DEAD: 3, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tomb of the unknown soldier Last Line: By the glutton of hearts. Amen Subject(s): Middle East – Conflicts; Unknown Soldier; Arab-israeli Conflict THE ABSENT BOY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They miss him in the orchard, where the fruit is sunning over Last Line: For somewhere in the thick of strife they know their boy is there Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Absence; Army - United States; Unknown Soldier; War; Separation; Isolation THE ALTAR STONE, by RICHARD ALEXANDER Poem Text First Line: The altar stone we made Last Line: Who suffer on! Subject(s): Soldiers; Unknown Soldier THE LITTLE STONES; REMEMBERING A SIGHT OF ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETARY, by BARBARA YOUNG Poem Text First Line: I saw them shining in the sun Last Line: And no more stones in arlington. Subject(s): Arlington National Cemetery; Death; Social Protest; Soldiers; Unknown Soldier; War; Dead, The THE PASSING OF THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by VILDA SAUVAGE OWENS Poem Text First Line: They are bearing him home through the old virginia valley Last Line: Offer a prayer—a tear! Subject(s): Heroism; Honor; Military Service, Compulsory; Military Service, Voluntary; Unknown Soldier; War; Heroes; Heroines; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service THE UNKNOWN, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, under sacred ground Last Line: His unknown name! Subject(s): Holidays; Unknown Soldier; Veterans Day THE UNKNOWN, by ELMER O. LAUGHLIN Poem Text First Line: I do not understand Last Line: She won't forget. Subject(s): History; Unknown Soldier; Historians THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And then I felt a fever in my veins Last Line: Was that a whisper in the evening breeze? Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Death; Social Protest; Unknown Soldier; War; Dead, The THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by ANGELA MORGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He is known to the sun-white majesties Last Line: They are known in the courts of god! Subject(s): Honor; Soldiers; Unknown Soldier; War THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by ARTHUR B. RHINOW Poem Text First Line: I - they look so solemn and fine. Who are they? Last Line: Myself—ah, the music. Subject(s): Honor; Social Protest; Unknown Soldier; War THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by MARGARET STINEBACK Poem Text First Line: His dreams have all grown lovely with the years Last Line: Along the path of peace—god's path—instead! Subject(s): Courage; Graves; Peace; Social Protest; Soldiers; Unknown Soldier; War; Valor; Bravery; Tombs; Tombstones THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by VIRGINIA LYNE TUNSTALL Poem Text First Line: Ah, does he see, the dead boy lying there Last Line: To glimpse through closing mists his mother's eyes! Subject(s): Unknown Soldier THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by CHARLES ABRAHAM WAGNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One man's shoulder, another man's thigh Last Line: To call each colored weed a flower. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; Unknown Soldier; War; Dead, The THERE IS STILL NO NAME FOR YOU, by MILAN DEKLEVA Poem Source First Line: For anything more will we be able to die Last Line: We dwell heroically in ignorance, like in a school exercise Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Peace; Unknown Soldier TO AMERICA'S UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by KARL E. MUNDT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When from your silent sleep in france you came Last Line: —the classmate Subject(s): Death; Graves; Soldiers; United States; Unknown Soldier; War; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; America UNIDENTIFIED, by MARIE LOUISE HERSEY Poem Text First Line: They'll find me on my face and drag me / forth Last Line: Vibrant with hidden footsteps but no sound. Subject(s): Unknown Soldier UNKNOWN, by ARTHUR CHAPMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have come back to my mother's land Last Line: That I have returned unknown? Subject(s): Soldiers; Unknown Soldier; War UNKNOWN SOLDIER ARMISTICE DAY AT ARLINGTON, by GRANTLAND RICE Poem Source First Line: The wind today is full of ghosts ... Subject(s): Arlington National Cemetery; Unknown Soldier; World War I UNKNOWN WARRIOR SPEAKS, by MARGERY SMITH Poem Source First Line: You who softly wane into a shadow Subject(s): Soldiers; Unknown Soldier; World War Ii VOICE OF THE UNKNOWN DEAD, by HERBERT STOTESBURY Poem Text First Line: Oh, my people! Do ye wonder Last Line: Be the symbols of his peace. Subject(s): Death; Military; Peace; Soldiers; Unknown Soldier; War; Dead, The WORDS ON PUBLIC AFFAIRS, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Continents twisted in the grip of war Last Line: Was that a whisper in the evening trees? Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Unknown Soldier |
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