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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: VALOR Matches Found: 328 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "SIR DILBERRY DIDDLE, CAPTAIN OF MILITIA; EXCELLENT NEW SONG", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Of all the brave captains that ever were seen Last Line: "in his sleep if such dreadful destruction he makes, / what havoc, ye gods, shall we have when he wa Subject(s): Courage;great Britain - Wars With France;guns;heroism;soldiers; Valor;bravery;heroes;heroines A BALLAD OF MANILA BAY, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your threats how vain, corregidor Last Line: A hundred years ago! Subject(s): Courage; Manila, Philippines; Spanish-american War (1898); Valor; Bravery A BATTLE CRY, by LEE SHIPPEY Poem Text First Line: Give me a battle to fight Last Line: I am in love with life! Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery A BOOK OF AIRS SONG 18, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man of life upright Last Line: And quiet pilgrimage. Variant Title(s): The Armour Of Innocence;integer Vitae;justvm Et Tenacem;dovine And Moral Songs: 2 Subject(s): Contentment; Courage; Honor; Masculinity (psychology); Valor; Bravery A CAPTIVE DEER, by IDA M. FOLSOM Poem Text First Line: A spirit cowed, that once has faced Last Line: A spirit cowed? Subject(s): Courage; Death; Deer; Freedom; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Liberty A CROSS IN FLANDERS, by GEORGE ROSTREVOR HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the face of death, they say, he joked - he had no fear Last Line: The braver for his fear! Alternate Author Name(s): Rostrevor, George Subject(s): Courage; Fear; Flanders, Belgium; World War I - Casualties; Valor; Bravery A CRY FROM AN INDIAN WIFE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: My forest brave, my red-skin love, farewell Last Line: Perhaps the white man's god has willed it so. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Marriage; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; War; Worry; Valor; Bravery; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America A FRAGMENT, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rest on your battle-fields, ye brave Last Line: We cannot mourn you now. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Variant Title(s): A Dirge Subject(s): Courage; Fame; Shame; Valor; Bravery; Reputation A GOTHAMITE IN CAMELOT, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now james h. Brown in gotham town Last Line: But that he had awoken! Subject(s): Courage; Fights; Knights & Knighthood; Valor; Bravery A HUMBLE HEROINE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas at the seige of matagarda, during the peninsular war Last Line: Likewise mrs reston, whose name should be written in; letters of gold. Subject(s): Courage; Heroism; Victory; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines A HUN, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He was just a prisoner Last Line: Would never know how bravely a son had died. Subject(s): Courage; Death; Germany; Injustice; Prisoners Of War; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Germans; First World War A LEAP FOR LIFE, by GEORGE POPE MORRIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old ironsides at anchor lay Last Line: And fainted on the deck! Alternate Author Name(s): Morris, George Perkins Variant Title(s): The Main Truck Subject(s): Constitution (ship); Courage; Valor; Bravery A NEW YEAR'S HOPE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dare not hope that in this dawning year Last Line: I still may courage have to struggle on. Subject(s): Courage; Holidays; Hope; New Year; Valor; Bravery; Optimism A PINDARIC ODE, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brave infant of saguntum clear Last Line: Had sowed these fruits, and got the harvest in. Variant Title(s): To The Immortal Memory ... Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary And Sir Henry Morrison;the Ode On Cary And Morison Subject(s): Cary, Lucius. 2d Viscount Falkland; Courage; Death; Life; Morison, Sir Henry (1608-1629); Valor; Bravery; Dead, The A PRAYER, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, let me live like a regular man Last Line: And drop a regular tear! Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery A SONG OF COURAGE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brave as a lion I must be Last Line: I sense it tho my sight is dim. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery A STREET MOTHER, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My eyes were staring high Last Line: Swooned at her feet! Subject(s): Courage; Desire; Mothers; Valor; Bravery A SUNSET, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond horizon's bar in twilight splendid Last Line: The mood of faith, of courage, and of reverence. Subject(s): Courage; Evening; Faith; Nature; Valor; Bravery; Sunset; Twilight; Belief; Creed A THOUGHT FROM NIETSZCHE, by CHARLES JAMES Poem Text First Line: I have been dealt a cruel blow Last Line: Me stronger than I was. Subject(s): Courage; Grief; Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (1844-1900); Strength; Valor; Bravery; Sorrow; Sadness A TRIBUTE TO THE BRAVE, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though furled be the banner of blood on the plain Last Line: That beauty shall bind on the brow of the brave. Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery A VERY MOURNFUL BALLAD ON THE SIEGE AND CONQUEST OF ALHAMA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The moorish king rides up and down / through granada's royal town Last Line: "woe is me, alhama" Subject(s): Courage; Valor;bravery ADMIRAL DEATH, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boys, are ye calling a toast tonight? Last Line: And they sleep with admiral death. Subject(s): Courage; Death; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The AFTER THE BATTLE, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: My father, that hero with the sad sweet smile Last Line: "give the poor man a drink,"" my father said." Subject(s): Courage; Heroism; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines AGINCOURT, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair stood the wind for france Last Line: Such a king harry? Variant Title(s): The Ballad Of Agincourt;ode To The Cambro-britons;ode: 12;to The Cambro-britons, And Their Harp;agincourt: The Battle;his Battle Of Agincourt;to The Cambro-britans, And Their Harpe, His Ballad Of Agincourt Subject(s): Agincourt, Battle Of (1415); Courage; Henry V, King Of England (1387-1422); War; Valor; Bravery ALWAYS THE TIMID, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: Always the timid fear the secret heart Last Line: The crystal springs, the onyx-paneled room. Subject(s): Courage; Strength; Valor; Bravery AMBITION, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I didn't always think penelope Last Line: Drunken war. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Ambition; Courage; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Valor; Bravery; Odysseus AMBITION'S TRAIL, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If all the end of this continuous striving Last Line: On, on, ambitious soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Ambition; Courage; Valor; Bravery AN EVENING'S LOVE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You charm'd me not with that fair face Last Line: Which made us brave before. Subject(s): Courage; Fortune; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Singing & Singers; War; Valor; Bravery; Songs AN EVENING'S LOVE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the pangs of a desperate lover Last Line: Ah what a joy to hear, shall we again! Subject(s): Courage; Fortune; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Singing & Singers; War; Valor; Bravery; Songs AN EVENING'S LOVE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Calm was the even, and clear was the sky Last Line: He laugh'd out with a ha ha ha ha. Subject(s): Courage; Fortune; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Singing & Singers; War; Valor; Bravery; Songs AN EVENING'S LOVE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Celimena, of my heart Last Line: When we come together. Subject(s): Courage; Fortune; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Singing & Singers; War; Valor; Bravery; Songs ARNOLD AT STILLWATER, by THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, you mistake me, comrades, to think that my heart is steel! Last Line: Fell from the patriot's heaven down to the loyalist's hell! Subject(s): American Revolution; Arnold, Benedict (1741-1801); Courage; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery AS RED MEN DIE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Captive! Is there a hell to him like this? Last Line: He bends to death—but never to disgrace. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Courage; Hostages; Iroquois Indians; Native Americans; Pride; Valor; Bravery; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Self-esteem; Self-respect AUSTRALIA'S HERO, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No! They didn't raise no statue - no - nor fix no big brass plate Last Line: Attempt to carry a life-line to the shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Australia; Courage; Death; Heroism; Honor; Knights & Knighthood; Memory; Sailing & Sailors; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines BALANCE A STRAW, FR. REPRISAL, by TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come ye brave british lads who have courage to fight Last Line: In the cause, etc. Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery BALLADE OF THE BRAVE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Prate not to me of weaklings, who Last Line: This is the ballade of the brave! Subject(s): Courage; Hearts; Life; Soul; Valor; Bravery BARBARA FRIETCHIE [SEPTEMBER 13, 1862], by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Up from the meadows rich with corn Last Line: On thy stars below in frederick town! Subject(s): American Civil War; Americans; Courage; Flags - United States; Frietschie, Barbara (1766-1862); Maryland; Patriotism; United States - History; United States; Valor; Bravery; American Flag; Fritchie, Barbara (1766-1862); America BARCLAY OF URY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up the streets of aberdeen Last Line: Paint the golden morrow! Subject(s): Courage; Scotland; Valor; Bravery BARON GIOVANNI NICOTERA; SALERNO, 1858, by HARRIET ELEANOR HAMILTON (BAILLE) KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Salerno waits amid the heat Last Line: I behold god in heaven, and strive. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton-king, Harriet Eleanor Subject(s): Courage; Italy - Revolutions; Nicotera, Baron Giovanni (1828-1894); Valor; Bravery BEFORE SENTENCE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To-night, though every kind of poison sap Last Line: And thine enslaving amour with the slav! Subject(s): Courage; France; Honor; Justice; Trials; Waiting; Weariness; Valor; Bravery; Fatigue BIG WORDS, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've whined of coming death, but now, no more! Last Line: He cursed, prayed, sweated, wished the proud words back. Subject(s): Courage; World War I; Valor; Bravery; First World War BILL BOWLS THE SAILOR, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bill bowels was an amiable gentle youth Last Line: And they were taken on board and landed safe in fair england. Subject(s): Boats; Courage; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Valor; Bravery; Ocean BLIND OLD MILTON, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Place me once more, my daughter, where the sun Last Line: Until the door shall ope and let him in. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Courage; Milton, John (1608-1674); Valor; Bravery BRAVE LORD WILLOUGHBY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The fifteenth [day] of july Last Line: And thus I end the bloody bout / of brave lord willoughby Subject(s): Courage;war; Valor;bravery BRAVE RETREATS, by WILLIAM O. PERKINS Poem Text First Line: Give me a land of brave retreats Last Line: The happiness I seek. Subject(s): Courage; Hunting; Valor; Bravery; Hunters BUFFALO CLOUDS OVER THE MAESTRO HOON, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a useless thing to do with the morning Last Line: Still strange to one another while on their honeymoons. Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Courage; Ignorance; Lions; Niagara Falls; Waterfalls; Valor; Bravery; Dullness; Stupdity BY THE LITTLE BIG-HORN, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down to their death in the valley of silence Last Line: The eight nameless horsemen who never shall die. Subject(s): Courage; Heroism; Honor; Little Bighorn, Battle Of; Loyalty; Military Service, Compulsory; Monuments; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service BY THE SHENANDOAH; OCTOBER, 1863, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My home is drear and still to-night Last Line: My courtney fair and my philip bold! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): American Civil War; Courage; Nature; U.s. - History; Valor; Bravery CAVALIER SONG: 1642, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: If this be my last hour with thee Last Line: Without thee, I lose all. Subject(s): Cavaliers; Courage; Death; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The CHANUKAH LIGHTS, by PHILIP MAX RASKIN Poem Text First Line: I kindled my eight little candles Last Line: A heavenly-glorious light. Alternate Author Name(s): Raskin, P. M. Subject(s): Courage; Fasts & Feasts; Freedom; Hanukkah; Jews; Light; Valor; Bravery; Liberty; Judaism CHARLES B. DREUX, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep, louisiana, weep thy gallant dead! Last Line: Forever bright! Subject(s): American Civil War; Courage; Death; Dreux, Charles (1832-1861); Louisiana; Soldiers; U.s. - History; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The CHILDE ROLAND TO THE DARK TOWER CAME', by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My first thought was, he lied in every word Last Line: "tower came." Subject(s): Courage; Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Valor; Bravery; Dramatists CLARION, CLARION, by THEODORE B. HUNT Poem Text First Line: Clarion, clarion, singing so boldly Last Line: Give me the young men, the young men, I say. Subject(s): Courage; Soldiers; World War I; Youth; Valor; Bravery; First World War COLUMBUS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cordage creaks and rattles in the wind Last Line: Is more than time enough to find a world. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Courage; Explorers; Valor; Bravery; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLUMBUS [CROSSING THE ATLANTIC], by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How in god's [or, heaven's] name did columbus get over Last Line: Is a pure wonder, I must say, to me. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Courage; Explorers; Valor; Bravery; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COMMEMORATION ODE READ AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weak-winged is song Last Line: But ask whatever else, and we will dare! Variant Title(s): Ode Recited At The Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865 Subject(s): American Civil War; Courage; Harvard University; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Peace; Presidents, United States; United States - History; Valor; Bravery COMPENSATION, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because I craved a gift too great Last Line: Nor cheated life with cheaper bliss. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery CONSTANCY, FR. SERAGLIO, by CHARLES DIBDIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blow high, blow low! Let tempest tear Last Line: Blow high, blow low! Let tempest tear,' etc. Alternate Author Name(s): Dibdin, Charles Isaac Mungo; Dibdin, Charles, Jr. Subject(s): Absence; Courage; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Valor; Bravery; Ocean COURAGE, by CARRIE ADAMS BERRY Poem Text First Line: To own ourselves despite conflicting wills Last Line: We ask for light ... We ask for strength to do! Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery COURAGE, by OZORA STEARNS DAVIS Poem Text First Line: I love the man who dares to face defeat Last Line: And god's great city lets the victor in. Subject(s): Courage; Heaven; Valor; Bravery; Paradise COURAGE, by CAROLINE CAIN DURKEE Poem Text First Line: Metallic sky, dull coppered slate Last Line: A whistle on the lips that cannot smile. Subject(s): Courage; Farm Life; Valor; Bravery; Agriculture; Farmers COURAGE, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Courage is but a word, and yet, of words Last Line: "dying, it answers: ""here! I am not dead!" Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery COURAGE, by DYNELEY HUSSEY Poem Text First Line: Alone amid the battle-din untouched Last Line: And she shall lead us back to peace again. Subject(s): Courage; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Valor; Bravery; First World War COURAGE, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis not because of muscled meat Last Line: If we disdain our fears? Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery COURAGE, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hast thou made shipwreck of thy happiness? Last Line: Where a bark went down. Subject(s): Courage; Disasters; Shipwrecks; Valor; Bravery COURAGE, by WINIFRED CATHERINE MARSHALL Poem Text First Line: The flags must fly - the band must play Last Line: "your white gloves -- on -- today!" Subject(s): Courage; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery COURAGE, by O. B. MERRICK Poem Text First Line: Courage! A thing inherent in the strong Last Line: And carry on to victory down life's trail. Subject(s): Courage; Victory; Valor; Bravery COURAGE, by TILLA BARBARA SPERRY Poem Text First Line: The young birch bends to ruthless fate Last Line: Your fate courageously. Subject(s): Birch Trees; Courage; Valor; Bravery COURAGE THAT OVERCOMES, by MARGARETE ROSE AKIN Poem Text First Line: I need the courage of the desert-palm Last Line: And I lose the courage that the palm maintains. Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery COURAGE TO LIVE, by GRACE NOLL CROWELL Poem Text First Line: To those who have tried and seemingly have failed Last Line: With courage to live, courage to try again. Subject(s): Comfort; Courage; Valor; Bravery DEATH AND LIFE, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: He is dead Last Line: I smile, and they think me brave—or a hypocrite. Subject(s): Courage; Death; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The DEATH THE LEVELLER, FR. THE CONTENTION OF AJAX AND ULYSSES, by JAMES SHIRLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The glories of our blood and state / are shadows, not substantial things Last Line: Smell sweet, and blossom in their dust. Variant Title(s): Calchas's Song;death The Conqueror;earth's Victories;of Death;the King Of Kings;song: No Armour Against Fate;blood And State;a Dirge Subject(s): Courage; Death; Holidays; New Year; War; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The DESTINY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not to be thought of that the flood Last Line: Of earth's first blood, have titles manifold. Variant Title(s): British Freedom;the British Heritage;england, 1802 Subject(s): Courage; England; Freedom; Valor; Bravery; English; Liberty DIPSYCHUS, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The scene is different, and the place, the air Last Line: And feel your feet upon the ground! Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery DISARMAMENT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Put up the sword!' the voice of christ once more Last Line: "and peace unweaponed conquers every wrong!" Subject(s): Courage; Disarmament; Peace; Valor; Bravery DOORS OF DARING, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mountains that inclose the vale Last Line: Until you dare to die. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery DUMBARTON'S DRUMS, by ALLAN RAMSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And he kisses and blesses his annie, o! Subject(s): Courage; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery ECHOES: 4. INVICTUS, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the night that covers me Last Line: I am the captain of my soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Variant Title(s): R. T. Hamilton Bruce;to R. T. H. B. ...;unconquered;urbs Fortitudinis;invictus;in Memoriam: R.t. Hamilton Bruce Subject(s): Bruce, R. T. Hamilton (1846-1899); Consolation; Courage; Hope; Independence; Life Change Events; Pain; Self-control; Self-reliance; Soldiers; Strength; Valor; Bravery; Optimism; Suffering; Misery ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The curfew tolls the knell of parting day Last Line: The bosom of his father and his god. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Courage; Death; England; Faith; Graves; Love; Mourning; Graveyards; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; English; Belief; Creed; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement EMPEDOCLES ON ETNA; A DRAMATIC POEM, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mules, I think, will not be here this hour Last Line: The stars in their calm. Subject(s): Apollo; Courage; Death; Mythology - Classical; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The EPISTLE TO THE LADY MARGARET, COUNTESS OF CUMBERLAND, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He that of such a height hath built his mind Last Line: Than all the gold that leaden minds can frame. Variant Title(s): Epistle To The Lady Margaret;epistle To .. Countess Of Cumberland;suave Mari Magno Subject(s): Courage; Cumberland, Margaret Clifford, Countess; Valor; Bravery EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: HINDU SEPOY IN FRANCE, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This man in his own country prayed we know not to what powers Last Line: We pray them to reward him for his bravery in ours. Subject(s): Courage; Hinduism; Prayer; Religion; World War I; Valor; Bravery; Theology; First World War EVERY-DAY HEROES, by BERTRAND SHADWELL Poem Text First Line: I'll sing you a song with a full, deep breath Last Line: "in this sordid world there are heroes still." Subject(s): Courage; Heroism; Humanity; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines F.B.C.; CHANCELLORSVILLE, MAY 3, 1863, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He was our noblest, he was our bravest & best Last Line: Still our bravest and best! Subject(s): American Civil War; Courage; Death; Heroism; Honor; Soldiers; United States - History; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines FABULITA, by JOAQUIN MARIA BARTRINA Poem Source First Line: Juan tenia un Last Line: No analices Subject(s): Valor FACING THE WALL, by MRS. R. A. MEDLAM Poem Text First Line: I seem to be chasing a will-o-the-wisp Last Line: A ladder over that wall. Subject(s): Courage; Faith; Fights; Valor; Bravery; Belief; Creed FEIGNED COURAGE, by CHARLES LAMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Horatio, of ideal courage vain Last Line: And the black prince goes whimpering to bed. Alternate Author Name(s): Elia Subject(s): Courage; Heroism; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines FIRS AT DAWN, by IRMA SCOTT LERICHE Poem Text First Line: Tall silent firs with your lifted arms Last Line: Haggard, and gaunt, and beautiful still. Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery FIRST DAY OF WAR, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Twixt sleep and wakefulness sweet dreams that lightly pass. Calm Last Line: Dead. Subject(s): Courage; Dreams; Love; War; Valor; Bravery; Nightmares FOR A PICTURE WHERE A QUEEN LAMENTS OVER THE TOMB OF A SLAIN KNIGHT, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brave youth, to whom fate in one hour Last Line: I'll die thy valour's sacrifice. Subject(s): Courage; Grief; Valor; Bravery; Sorrow; Sadness FORTUNE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Madam fortune, thou in vain Last Line: And in victory's hour am dying. Subject(s): Courage; Fortune; Life; Valor; Bravery 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 GENERAL GORDON, THE HERO OF KHARTOUM, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! Now o'er the civilised world there hangs a gloom Last Line: And walk in general gordon's footsteps while they are here. Subject(s): Courage; Gordon, Charles George (1833-1885); Heroism; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines GIVE ME GAY COURAGE, by EDITH M. SMITH Poem Text First Line: Give me a magic belief Last Line: To meet the sunset's end. Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery GOD'S FORESTRY, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: There is a tree so dear to heaven Last Line: And grows but in the soil of pain. Subject(s): Courage; God; Valor; Bravery GOD'S WILL FOR YOU AND ME [OR US], by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "just to be tender, just to be true" Last Line: "this is god's will, for you and me" Subject(s): Courage; Valor;bravery GREAT STAR FLYER, by RAE ROBINS Poem Text First Line: Here lies one who took her chances Last Line: Lived a sportsman to the end. Subject(s): Courage; Death; Life; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The GUNGA DIN, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You may talk o' gin and beer Last Line: You're a better man than I am, gunga din! Subject(s): Army Life; Courage; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Heroism; India; Loyalty; Drills & Minor Tactics; Valor; Bravery; British Empire; England - Empire; Heroes; Heroines HAIL! - AND FAREWELL!, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: They died that we might live Last Line: That we might live! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Courage; Religion; War; Valor; Bravery; Theology HEART OF OAK, by DAVID GARRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, cheer up, my lads! 'tis to glory we steer Last Line: Heart of oak etc. Subject(s): Courage; Navy - Great Britain; Quebec, Battle Of (1759); Valor; Bravery; English Navy HELVELLYN, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I climbed the drak brow of the mighty helvellyn Last Line: In the arms of helvellyn and catchedicam. Variant Title(s): Hellvellyn Subject(s): Animals; Courage; Dogs; Helvellyn (mountain), England; Mountain Climbing; Valor; Bravery HERE IS MUSIC: FIRE GUARD AREA OFFICER: 2, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: For full three years Last Line: Obey blest beckonings till I draw last hungry breath. Subject(s): Courage; Fights; Firefighters; Memory; War; Valor; Bravery HERE IS MUSIC: FIRE GUARD AREA OFFICER: 1, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: What time, day long, from house to house, from door Last Line: "honour be yours, strong, brave, true, steadfast countrymen." Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Courage; Fights; Firefighters; Guard Duty; Honor; Patriotism; Valor; Bravery HERE IS MUSIC: SECOND-LIEUTENANT E.T.; IN MEMORRIAM, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Sunlight and shimmering haze Last Line: Whose bouquet works like wine. Subject(s): Courage; Death; Fights; Honor; Patriotism; World War I; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; First World War HERITAGE, by MAY BRYANT FULLAM Poem Text First Line: Our birdman loved his ship Last Line: To take his place with friends and kin e'en as he did on earth. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Courage; Explorers; Heritage; Heredity; Valor; Bravery; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers HEROIC LOVE, by JAMES GRAHAM (1612-1650) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: My dear and only love, I pray Last Line: So I can love no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Montrose, 1st Marquis Of Variant Title(s): An Excellent New Ballad;i'll Never Love Thee More;montrose's Love;a Proper New Ballad;montrose To His Mistress Subject(s): Courage; Fidelity; Love - Complaints; Valor; Bravery; Faithfulness; Constancy HIS STILLNESS, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The doctor said to my father, you asked me Subject(s): Fathers; Incurable Diseases; Courage; Valor; Bravery HOPE, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hope evermore and believe, o man, for e'en as thy thought Last Line: Nevertheless it is good, though there is better than it. Subject(s): Courage; Hope; Religion; Valor; Bravery; Optimism; Theology HOPES, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tho' day by day old hopes depart Last Line: And forward-looking eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Courage; Hope; Valor; Bravery; Optimism HORATIUS [AT THE BRIDGE], FR. LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME, by THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lars porsena of clusium Last Line: In the brave days of old. Alternate Author Name(s): Macaulay, 1st Baron Variant Title(s): Ponte Sublico;horatius; A Lay Made About The Year Of The City Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Horatius; Rome, Italy; War; Valor; Bravery; Liberty HOW HE SAVED ST. MICHAEL'S, by MARY ANNA PHINNEY STANSBURY Poem Text First Line: So you beg for a story, my darling, my brown-eyed leopold Last Line: And the slave who saved st. Michael's went out from its door, a man. Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery HOW WE BURNED THE 'PHILADELPHIA', by BARRETT EASTMAN Poem Text First Line: By the beard of the prophet the bashaw swore Last Line: And troubled his soul no more. Subject(s): Courage; Decatur, Stephen (1779-1820); Navy - United States; Patriotism; Philadelphia (ship); Pirates; Tripoli; Valor; Bravery; American Navy; Piracy; Buccaneers I SAW HIM WALKING ALONE SLOWLY AT NIGHT, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Jews; Youth; Courage; Judaism; Valor; Bravery IDYLLS OF THE KING: GARETH AND LYNETTE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last tall son of lot and bellicent Last Line: But he that told it later says lynette. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Courage; Jesus Christ; Arthur, King; Valor; Bravery IF WE MUST DIE, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If we must die, let it not be like hogs Last Line: Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back! Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): African Americans; Courage; Death; Honor; Social Protest; World War I; Negroes; American Blacks; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; First World War IN APIA BAY, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ruin and death held sway Last Line: Of splendid chivalry and valor high! Subject(s): Apia Bay, Samoan Islands; Courage; Disasters; Hurricanes; Shipwrecks; Valor; Bravery IN MEMORIAM HONORE MERCIER, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, true and gentle, kind and brave! Last Line: May never see his like again. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Courage; Friendship; Heroism; Memory; Mercier, Louis Honore (1840-1894); Patriotism; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines IN THE TUNNEL, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Didn't know flynn Last Line: Say that you've been 'yar. Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Variant Title(s): Flynn Of Virginia Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery INVITED GUESTS, by FRANCES EKIN ALLISON Poem Text First Line: A crowd of troubles passed him by Last Line: "we go — where we're expected." Subject(s): Courage; Guests; Hope; Valor; Bravery; Visiting; Optimism IPHIGENEIA AND AGAMEMNON, FR. THE HELLENICS, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Iphigeneia, when she heard her doom Last Line: "o father! Grieve no more; the ships can sail." Variant Title(s): Sacrifice Subject(s): Aulis, Greece; Courage; Tragedy; Valor; Bravery JACK O' THE CUDGEL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the famous town of windsor on a fine summer morn Last Line: And they lived happy together, and free from all care. Subject(s): Courage; Courts & Courtiers; Heroism; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines JACOB, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My sons, and ye the children of my sons Last Line: Yet is my heart therewith not satisfied. Subject(s): Courage; Death; Jacob (bible); Valor; Bravery; Dead, The JASPER AT FORT MOULTRIE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm only a sergeant!' jasper said Last Line: All honor and praise to you! Subject(s): American Revolution; Courage; Flags - United States; Patriotism; Valor; Bravery; American Flag JENNY CARRISTER, THE HEROINE OF LUCKNOW-MINE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A heroic story I will unfold Last Line: That jenny carrister was the noblest heroine I've ever heard of in my day. Subject(s): Courage; Heroism; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines JIM, by GEORGE VERE HOBART Poem Text First Line: I hear the drum roll, rub-a-dub, dub Last Line: If jim — poor jim — marched, too! Subject(s): Courage; Death; Grief; Soldiers; War Bonds; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness JOGGIN' ERLONG, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: De da'kest hour, dey allus say Last Line: De mo'n is allus brightah w'en de night 's been long. Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery JOHN DORY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As it fell on a holy day Last Line: "was clapped fast under board, a" Subject(s): Courage; Valor;bravery JOHNNY BOER, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men fight all shapes and sizes as the racing horses run Last Line: And we'll be running after him with our little maxim gun. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Boer War; Courage; Guns; Proverbs; South African War; Valor; Bravery; Maxims; Adages JUDAS MACCABEUS, by HENRY SNOWMAN Poem Text First Line: Victor of god! O thou whose lamp of fame Last Line: Come, great deliverer, arise! Arise! Subject(s): Courage; Jews; Patriotism; Slavery; Valor; Bravery; Judaism; Serfs JUDGES: SONG OF DEBORAH; FRAGMENTS, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: Then sang deborah Last Line: His deeds will the people of israel praise. Subject(s): Courage; Deborah (bible); Women In The Bible; Valor; Bravery KEEP A-PLUGGING AWAY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've a humble little motto Last Line: Keep a-pluggin' away. Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery KILLDEER, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Killdeer! Killdeer!' that startled cry Last Line: "kill-deer, kill-deer." Subject(s): Courage; Fights; Valor; Bravery KING PHILIP'S MEN, by AUDREY ALEXANDRA BROWN Poem Text First Line: At dusk they heard the roar Last Line: "dauntless in death!" Subject(s): Courage; Disasters; Faith; God; Philip, King (native American Chief); Shipwrecks; Spain; Spanish Armada; Valor; Bravery; Belief; Creed; Metacomet; King Philip's War (1675-76) KOSSUTH, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A race of nobles may die out Last Line: "sounds on, outliving chains and death." Subject(s): Courage; Kossuth, Louis (1802-1894); Valor; Bravery LA PUCELLE DE VERCHERES, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Name of heaven! 'no woman, 'you say, 'may be Last Line: But to test our own was madeleine's soul lent us from heaven an hour. Subject(s): Courage; Death; Religion; United States - Colonial Period; Women; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Theology LAMENT OF MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS, ON THE APPROACH OF SPRING, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now nature hangs her mantle green Last Line: Bloom on my peaceful grave! Subject(s): Courage; Lament; Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Valor; Bravery; Mary Stuart LAMENT OVER SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "come to me grief, for ever" Last Line: "sidney, the spirit heroic, / sidney is dead. O dead, dead" Subject(s): "courage;sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586);" Valor;bravery LE GRENIER, by ROBERTSON TROWBRIDGE Poem Text First Line: Here is the street-the house is standing yet! Last Line: And all the world to win, at twenty years! Subject(s): Army Life; Broadway, New York City; Courage; Marching & Marches; New York City - 19th Century; Soldiers; Drills & Minor Tactics; Valor; Bravery LIFE ON THE LAKES: AY, AY, SIR!, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The wires lead back from the grey old town Last Line: That has kept the faith, and the orders lie. Subject(s): Courage; Faith; Valor; Bravery; Belief; Creed LIVINGSTONE, by FRANCIS BROOKS Poem Text First Line: On dusky shoulders Last Line: Death! Subject(s): Africa; Courage; Immortality; Slavery; Valor; Bravery; Serfs LORD ROBERTS' TRIUMPHAL ENTRY INTO PRETORIA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1900, and on the 5th of june Last Line: And beat all foreign foes from our shores. Subject(s): Courage; Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Victory; Valor; Bravery; Bruce, Robert; The Bruce LOSERS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I should pass the tomb of jonah Last Line: "come on, you ... Do you want to live forever?" Subject(s): Courage; World War I; Valor; Bravery; First World War MARMION: CANTO 1. THE CASTLE, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Day set on norham's castled steep Last Line: Which gave again the prospect fair. Subject(s): Castles; Christmas; Courage; Faith; Flodden Field, England; Love; Nativity, The; Valor; Bravery; Belief; Creed MARMION: CANTO 6. THE BATTLE, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While great events were on the gale Last Line: And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. Subject(s): Courage; Douglas, Alexander. 5th Earl Of Angus; Flodden, Battle Of (1513); Freedom; History; Valor; Bravery; Liberty; Historians MARTIAL ELEGY, by TYRTAEUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How glorious fall the valiant, sword in hand Last Line: For having perished in the front of war. Alternate Author Name(s): Tyrtaios Variant Title(s): Youthful Valor;the Young Hero Subject(s): Courage; War; Valor; Bravery MEDLEY OF THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS ON THE ITALIAN CRISIS, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Had I a thousand mouths, a thousand tongues Last Line: For truth and liberty be found in rome. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Courage; Garibaldi, Giuseppe (1807-1882); Italy; Popes; Rome, Italy; Valor; Bravery; Italians; Papacy MEMORIAL DAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Is it enough to think to-day Last Line: And be ourselves, in turn, the brave! Subject(s): Courage; Holidays; May (month); Memorial Day; Valor; Bravery; Declaration Day MEMORIAL VERSES: 2. GOKHALE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heroic heart! Lost hope of all our days! Last Line: Upbuild the temple of her unity. Subject(s): Courage; Death; Heroism; India; Memory; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines MONTGOMERY AT QUEBEC, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Round quebec's embattled walls Last Line: To the brave montgomery! Subject(s): American Revolution; Courage; Montgomery, Richard (1738-1775); Quebec, Battle Of (1775); Valor; Bravery MOURN FOR THE BRAVE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, mourn for the brave Last Line: Upon the battle-plain! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Courage; Death; Heroism; Mourning; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines; Bereavement MY GIRL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A little corner with its crib Last Line: A little kiss -- my girl is gone Subject(s): Courage;death;girls;graves; "valor;bravery;dead, The;tombs;tombstones; MY LITTLE WIFE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My little wife's a world too sweet Last Line: For such a man as I am! Subject(s): Courage;marriage;trojan War;women; Valor;bravery;weddings;husbands;wives NATURE GIFTS, by EFFIE CLOUSE Poem Text First Line: Mother says, 'get up, jack' Last Line: "all my burdens grow more light." Subject(s): Courage; Pleasure; Valor; Bravery NEW YEAR RESOLVE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the dead year is clasped by a dead december Last Line: The wan, worn face of the bruised old world. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Courage; Future; Holidays; New Year; Valor; Bravery NO MAN'S LAND, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I've never been on no man's land Last Line: Their numbers are untold. Subject(s): Courage; Honor; Sacrifices; Soldiers; War; Valor; Bravery NOW, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rise! For the day is passing Last Line: You may wake to find it past! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Activity; Courage; Time; Exercise; Valor; Bravery ODE (IN HONOR OF THE BRAVERY AND SACRIFICES OF SOLDIERS OF THE SOUTH), by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With bayonets slanted in the glittering sun Last Line: Across those lonely desolated graves! Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Courage; Soldiers; United States - History; Confederacy; Valor; Bravery ODE ON THE DEATH OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bury the great duke / with an empire's lamentation Last Line: God accept him, christ receive him! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Let Us Bury The Great Duke Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Great Britain - History; Valor; Bravery; Liberty; English History ODE ON VENICE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh venice! Venice! When thy marble walls Last Line: One freeman more, america, to thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): The Race With Death Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Venice, Italy; Valor; Bravery; Liberty OF GENERAL GOURAUD, by ROBERTA BALFOUR Poem Text First Line: He wears an empty sleeve Last Line: To victory, to liberty,—humanity! Subject(s): Blood; Courage; Generals; Leadership; Sacrifices; War; Valor; Bravery OF THOSE WHO WALK ALONE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Women there are on earth, of courage and high Last Line: Earth's wrongs are ended. Subject(s): Courage; Death; Earth; Faith; Loss; Love; Soul; Women; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; World; Belief; Creed OH, THE WATER, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are the hero of this poem Subject(s): Courage; Hope; Poetry & Poets; Women; Valor; Bravery; Optimism OLD BRADDOCK, by JOHN VANCE CHENEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fire! Fire in allentown Last Line: Know how he fell—dead. Subject(s): Courage; Fire; Valor; Bravery ON FILE, by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If an unkind word appears Last Line: Then go out and burn the file. Alternate Author Name(s): Hotair, Dopeton Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery ON THE FIRING LINE, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For glory? For good? For fortune, or for fame? Last Line: Far out on the roaring red firing line. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery ON THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Toll for the brave! Last Line: Shall plough the wave no more. Variant Title(s): The Royal George Subject(s): Courage; Disasters; Kempenfelt, Richard (1718-1782); Sea; Shipwrecks; Valor; Bravery; Ocean ON THE OREGON COAST; FOR WILLIAM STAFFORD, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The waves come -- the large fourth wave Last Line: And figure out what to say to our children. Subject(s): Courage; Legacies; Transience; Waves; Valor; Bravery; Impermanence ON THE SNUFF OF A CANDLE, THE NIGHT BEFORE HE DIED, by WALTER RALEIGH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Cowards fear to die, but courage stout Last Line: Rather than live in snuff, will be put out. Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery ON THE STAR OF 'THE LEGION OF HONOR', by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Star of the brave! - whose beam hath shed Last Line: For evermore with them or thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery OPTIMISM, by NEWTON MACKINTOSH Poem Text First Line: Be brave, faint heart Last Line: Be brave, faint heart! Subject(s): Courage; Hearts; Hope; Life; Valor; Bravery; Optimism ORGAN SONGS: HOME FROM THE WARS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A tattered soldier, gone the glow and gloss Last Line: I only faced the foe, and did not flee. Subject(s): Courage; Soldiers; War; Valor; Bravery OUR JUNIORS, by ANNA M. ALLEN Poem Text First Line: They set a light upon the hill Last Line: Upon the hill a beacon light. Subject(s): Courage; Light; Youth; Valor; Bravery OUR LOST AVIATORS, by ISOLA M. OHAVER Poem Text First Line: Brave hearts were they Last Line: Do know. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Courage; Death; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The OUR STATE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The south-land boasts its teeming cane Last Line: While near her church-spire stands the school. Variant Title(s): Massachusetts (1);dedication Of A School House Subject(s): Courage; Massachusetts; Patriotism; Valor; Bravery PAUL, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: Hotel st. Sulpice - you'll not know Last Line: "mais pourquoi pas? Quelle femme! Quelle boîte!" Subject(s): Courage; Death; War Injuries; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The PEACE, by BHARTRIHARI Poem Text First Line: Courage, my son! Now to the silent wood Last Line: Nor echo through our peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Bhartrhari Subject(s): Courage; Peace; Valor; Bravery PLAUDITS FOR THOSE WHO FAIL, by THOMAS STEPHEN Poem Text First Line: Reserve your plaudits for the man Last Line: God bless them for what they endure. Subject(s): Courage; Failure; Heroism; Poverty; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines PROCRASTINATION, by ROBERT SOUTHWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shun delays, they breed remorse Last Line: Babel's babes against the rocke. Variant Title(s): Loss In Delay Subject(s): Courage; Procrastination; Valor; Bravery PROMETHEUS UNBOUND; A LYRICAL DRAMA IN FOUR ACTS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Monarch of gods and daemons, and all spirits Last Line: This is alone life; joy, empire, and victory! Subject(s): Courage; Faith; Freedom; Supernatural; Valor; Bravery; Belief; Creed; Liberty PROUD MAISIE, FR. THE HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Proud maisie is in the wood Last Line: Welcome, proud lady!' Variant Title(s): Madge Wildfire's [death] Song;the Pride Of Youth Subject(s): Courage; Love; Vanity; Valor; Bravery PROWHEAD, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: Not alone fate fathers the generation of the brave Last Line: The shards of a colored bowl that held the kitchen plant? Subject(s): Courage; Heroism; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines QUATRAIN, by HANZALA BADGHISI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If lordship in a lion's jaws should hang Last Line: Or else, like heroes, thine be death to face. Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery RECOMPENSE, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have not known the sweep of far blue seas Last Line: And I, on bended knees, have talked with god. Subject(s): Courage; Hearts; Love; Valor; Bravery REVOLUTIONS, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before man parted for this earthly strand Last Line: The band will quit man's heart:--he will breathe free. Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery S. ANDREW, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Farre on his manly shoulders had the saint Last Line: The tyrant for his crosse he well repayes. Subject(s): Courage; Saints; Valor; Bravery SACRIFICE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though love repine, and reason chafe Last Line: When for the truth he ought to die.' Variant Title(s): The Safest Way Subject(s): Courage; Religion; Valor; Bravery; Theology SAMSON AGONISTES, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little onward lend thy guiding hand Last Line: And calm of mind all passion spent. Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Religion; Samson; Valor; Bravery; Liberty; Theology SAY NOT, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say not the struggle nought availeth Last Line: But westward, look, the land is bright. Variant Title(s): Courage;despondency Rebuked;the Incoming Tide;keeping On;hope Subject(s): Consolation; Courage; Freedom; Hope; Perseverance; Religion; Valor; Bravery; Liberty; Optimism; Theology SHERIDAN'S RIDE [DECEMBER 19, 1864], by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up from the south, at break of day Last Line: "from winchester, -- twenty miles away!" Subject(s): American Civil War; Animals; Cedar Creek, Battle Of (1864); Courage; Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism; Sheridan, Philip Henry (1831-1888); United States - History; War; Valor; Bravery; Declaration Day SIMON WOLF, by FELIX NAPOLEON GERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The measure of a worthy man Last Line: Felix n. Gerson. Subject(s): Courage; Jews; Wolf, Simon (1836-1923); Valor; Bravery; Judaism SMOKE AND STEEL, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Smoke of the fields in spring is one Subject(s): Courage; Justice; Steel; Valor; Bravery SOHRAB AND RUSTUM, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the first gray of morning filled the east Last Line: Emerge, and shine upon the aral sea. Subject(s): Courage; War; Valor; Bravery SONG OF MYSELF, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I celebrate myself, and sing myself Last Line: I stop somewhere waiting for you. Variant Title(s): Walt Whitman Subject(s): Animals; Courage; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Sea; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Valor; Bravery; Theology; Ocean SONG OF THE CORNISH MEN, by ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A good sword and a trusty hand! Last Line: "will know the reason why." Alternate Author Name(s): Hawker Of Morwenstow; Hawker, R. S. Variant Title(s): And Shall Trelawny Die?;the Song Of The Western Men;trelawny Subject(s): Cornwall, England; Courage; Freedom; Trelawney, Sir Jonathan (1650-1721); Valor; Bravery; Liberty SONNET TO MANON: ON HER LIGHTHEARTEDNESS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would I had thy courage, dear, to face Subject(s): Courage; Forgetfulness; Valor; Bravery SONNET: 40, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Against the rock I climb, both high and hard Last Line: For dread to fall, my hand, now hold thee fast. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Climbing; Courage; Valor; Bravery SPAIN'S LAST ARMADA, by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They fling their flags upon the morn Last Line: To shed their lurid lustre on the empire that was spain. Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): Courage; Navy - Spain; Sea Battles; Spanish-american War (1898); Valor; Bravery; Spanish Navy; Naval Warfare SUCCESS, by C. C. CAMERON Poem Text First Line: Genius, that power which dazzles mortal eyes Last Line: Unless you're beaten there, you're bound to win. Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery THANK GOD FOR FOOLS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Thank god for fools - for men who dare to dream Last Line: Theirs - the requiem of the unafraid Subject(s): Courage; Valor;bravery THE AUDACIOUS, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only the audacious fly Last Line: To make their dreams come true. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery THE BALLAD OF PACO TOWN, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In paco town and in paco tower Last Line: Ever and ever the victory! Subject(s): Courage; Philippines; Revolutions; Valor; Bravery THE BATTLE OF ALEXANDRIA, OR THE RECONQUEST OF EGYPT, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was on the 21st of march in the year of 1801 Last Line: And for his undaunted bravery, his name will never be forgot. Subject(s): Courage; Heroism; Victory; War; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines THE BIRD, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: Once when a child, he found within the neighbouring wood Last Line: Swift flew his soul to god, far in the happy skies. Subject(s): Courage; Death; War; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The THE BIRKENHEAD, by HENRY YULE Poem Text First Line: Amid the loud ebriety of war Last Line: Aboard the birkenhead in simon's bay! Subject(s): Birkenhead (ship); Courage; Valor; Bravery THE BLACK RIDERS: 15, by STEPHEN CRANE Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Tell brave deeds of war Last Line: Ah, I think there were braver deeds. Subject(s): Courage; War; Valor; Bravery THE BOLD DRAGOON, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a marechal of france, and he fain would honour gain Last Line: Whack, fal de ral, &c. Subject(s): Courage; Napoleonic Wars; Valor; Bravery THE BRAVE, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For whom are your gyves? For the cowardly one Last Line: But never, in mercy, place chains on the brave! Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Presidents, United States; Wallace, Sir William (1270-1305); Washington, George (1732-1799); Valor; Bravery; Liberty THE BRAVE BROTHER, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two little brothers thro' the forest roam'd Last Line: For their deliverance. Subject(s): Brothers; Courage; Half-brothers; Valor; Bravery THE BRAVE EARL BRAND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O did you ever hear of the brave earl brand Last Line: I' the brave nights so early Subject(s): Courage; Valor;bravery THE BRAVEST MAN, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: God! But it takes a man to stand Last Line: Then is the time when manhood's born! Subject(s): Courage; Mankind; Valor; Bravery; Human Race THE BRAVEST SOLDIERS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brave, brave were the soldiers (high named to-day) who lived through the fight Last Line: But the bravest press'd to the front and fell, unnamed, unknown. Subject(s): Courage; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery THE BRAVO, by YANNIS PAPADIAMANTOPOULOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the jewel-case of his scarlet mouth Last Line: Whose hearts are wounded at his flowery glance. Alternate Author Name(s): Moreas, Jean Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE AT [OR AFTER] CORUNNA, by CHARLES WOLFE Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note Last Line: But we left him alone with his glory. Variant Title(s): After Corunna;the Burial Of Sir John Moore Subject(s): Corunna, Spain; Courage; Death; Funerals; Great Britain - History; Moore, Sir John (1761-1809); Napoleonic Wars; Pennisular War (1808-1814); Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Burials; English History THE BURNING OF THE STEAMER 'CITY OF MONTREAL.', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sad tale of the sea I will relate, which will your hearts appal Last Line: Therefore be prepared for that happy land where all troubles are o'er. Subject(s): Courage; Disasters; Fire; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Smoke; Steamboats; Valor; Bravery THE CARPERS (AN ASPECT), by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always the worm in the bud, the fly in the amber Last Line: "carpers"" at odds with our age!" Subject(s): Courage; Desire; Dreams; Mankind; Valor; Bravery; Nightmares; Human Race THE CHALLENGE, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: I hear men say, he changes as the wind Last Line: What man of you can say I writ a lie? Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery THE CHARGE AT SANTIAGO, by WILLIAM HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With shot and shell, like a loosened hell Last Line: Looks with his piercing eye! Subject(s): Courage; Santiago, Battle Of (1898); Santiago, Cuba; Spanish-american War (1898); Valor; Bravery THE CHARGE OF THE HEAVY BRIGADE AT BALACLAVA: THE CHARGE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The charge of the gallant three hundred, the heavy brigade! Last Line: Glory to all the three hundred, and all the brigade! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Balaclava, Crimea; Courage; Crimean War (1853-1856); Valor; Bravery THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Half a league, half a league, / half a league onward Last Line: Noble six hundred! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Balaclava, Crimea; Cavalry; Courage; Crimean War (1853-1856); Duty; Heroism; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Patriotism; Russia; Soldiers; War; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines; Soviet Union; Russians THE CLEPINGTON CATASTROPHE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on a monday morning, and in the year of 1884 Last Line: To help the widows and the fatherless is god's command. Subject(s): Courage; Disasters; Firefighters; Valor; Bravery THE CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It isn't fun when your hopes seem finished Last Line: If somehow or other you keep on going! Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery THE DANCE OF DEATH, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night and morning were at meeting Last Line: And dawn is glimmering pale. Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery THE DASHING WHITE SERGEANT, by JOHN BURGOYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I had a beau Last Line: As a dashing white sergeant, I'd march away! Subject(s): Amazons; Courage; Soldiers; Victory; War; Valor; Bravery THE DEATH OF WALLENSTEIN, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All well -- and now let it be ended, seni. Come Last Line: [the curtain drops.] Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Courage; Death; Treason And Traitors; Wallenstein, Albrecht (1583-1634); Valor; Bravery; Dead, The THE DEATH-DAY OF KORNER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A song for the death day of the brave Last Line: With the sword, his bride! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Courage; Death; Korner, Karl Theodor (1791-1813); Pride; Singing & Singers; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Songs THE DEEP, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I must have peace, increasing peace Last Line: Be spun from dust. Subject(s): Courage; Tides; Winter; Valor; Bravery THE DEFENSE OF LAWRENCE [SEPTEMBER 14, 1856], by RICHARD REALF Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: All night upon the guarded hill Last Line: The pulses of the grass. Variant Title(s): The Defence Of Lawrence Subject(s): Courage; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Kansas; Slavery; Valor; Bravery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs THE DESERTER, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blindest and most frantic prayer Last Line: "see the wretch that dared not live!" Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery THE DREAMS AHEAD, by EDWIN CARLILE LITSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What would we do in this world of ours Last Line: The dreams -- and faith -- and love! Alternate Author Name(s): Litsey, E. Carl Edwin Carlile Subject(s): Courage; Dreams; Valor; Bravery; Nightmares THE EAGLE OF CORINTH, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Did you hear of the fight at corinth Last Line: On the nation's loftiest dome. Subject(s): American Civil War; Birds; Corinth, Mississippi, Battle Of (1862); Courage; Eagles; United States - History; Valor; Bravery THE ENDLESS BATTLE, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no hope, and yet I keep on fighting Last Line: Something within me keeps me fighting on! Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery THE ENGLISH FLAG, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Winds of the world, give answer! They are whimpering to and fro Last Line: "ye have but my waves to conquer. Go forth, for it is there!" Variant Title(s): The Flag Of England Subject(s): Courage; Flags - Great Britain; Valor; Bravery THE EVERLASTING HILLS, by BESSIE WILLIAMS OSMAN Poem Text First Line: Down in dear old indiana Last Line: In the everlasting hills. Subject(s): Courage; Indiana; Valor; Bravery THE FIGHT OF THE ARMSTRONG PRIVATEER, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell the story to your sons Last Line: In the harbor of fayal the azore! Subject(s): Azores; Courage; General Armstrong (ship); Mountains; Navy - United States; United States; War Of 1812; Valor; Bravery; Hills; Downs (great Britain); American Navy; America THE FIRST GRENADIER OF FRANCE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in a certain regiment of french grenadiers Last Line: To cry out always the brave grenadier's name at the roll call. Subject(s): Courage; France; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery THE GREAT ADVENTURE, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: In my heart is the sound of drums Last Line: We who are weak and old and hoary. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Courage; Soldiers; War; Valor; Bravery THE HEAD OF BRAN THE BLEST, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the head of bran Last Line: Speech death cannot swallow! Subject(s): Courage; Heroism; Legends, Welsh; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines THE HEALERS, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a vision of the night I saw them Last Line: Braver than the brave? Subject(s): Courage; Death; First Aid; Healing; Nurses; Physicians; World War I; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Cures; Doctors; First World War THE HERO, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Learn to endure Last Line: Themselves engage. Subject(s): Courage; Heroism; Strength; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines THE HERO OF THE GUN, by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The captain galloped to the front Last Line: "and—I have kept my word!" Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery THE HIGHER COURAGE, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come back again, my olden heart! Last Line: Wait on to show the truly right. Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery THE HOLE IN THE SEA, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's there Last Line: The driest thing there is. Subject(s): Courage; Language; Religion; Sea; Secrets; Spirituality; Story-telling; Valor; Bravery; Words; Vocabulary; Theology; Ocean THE HOME-COMING, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Straight upward from the crowded square Last Line: May rule the kingdom of the air. Subject(s): Courage; Flight; Home; Pigeons; Valor; Bravery; Flying THE HORRORS OF MAJUBA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas after the great majuba fight Last Line: That their fame will be handed down to posterity for many a day! Subject(s): Bands; Courage; Fights; Heroism; Music & Musicians; Orchestras; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines THE INEVITABLE, by SARAH KNOWLES BOLTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I like the man who faces what he must Last Line: Who by a life heroic conquers fate. Variant Title(s): Conquering Fate Subject(s): Courage; Fate; Religion; Valor; Bravery; Destiny; Theology THE INTREPID MARINER, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shelley speaks: / beyond helvetius' dim beginning down Last Line: There! ... On our quarter .. God, they'll run us down! Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery THE JEWISH MOTHER AND HER SONS BEFORE ANTIOCHUS, by R. MANAHAN Poem Text First Line: The sun shone bright upon a kingly throne Last Line: "thou gavest one, I seven to god!"" and so she died." Subject(s): Courage; Jews; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery; Judaism THE KNIGHT'S LEAP; A LEGEND OF ALTENAHR, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So the foemen have fired the gate, men of mine? Last Line: For such a bold rider's soul. Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery THE KNIGHTS, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not dust! Not dust the chivalry Last Line: And epic deeds are done again! Subject(s): Courage; Knights & Knighthood; Valor; Bravery THE LADY OF PROVENCE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The war-note of the saracen Last Line: She hath lived -- she hath loved -- her task is done! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Courage; Provence, France; Valor; Bravery THE LADY OF THE LAKE: CANTO 1. THE CHASE, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harp of the north! That mouldering long hast hung Last Line: And morning dawned on ben-venue. Subject(s): Courage; Evening; Fairies; Holidays; Katrine, Loch (scotland); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Trees; Women - Bible; Valor; Bravery; Sunset; Twilight; Elves; Virgin Mary THE LAST RACE, by ERNEST HAROLD BAYNES Poem Text First Line: I have the mount on courage to-day Last Line: As he noses me out at the wire. Subject(s): Courage; Death; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The THE LAYE OF THE LADYE OF FAEL, by GUIOT DE DIJON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For myne owne courage will I synge Last Line: For saracens are felons all. Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery THE LIE, by WALTER RALEIGH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Go, soul, the body's guest Last Line: No stab the soule can kill. Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter Variant Title(s): The Soul's Errand;the Lye Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Lies; Social Protest; Soul; Truth; Valor; Bravery; Liberty THE LIGHT-BRINGER, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is a time of death and blinded pain Last Line: But forever. Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Courage; Military; War; Valor; Bravery THE LITTLE DRUMMER, by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis of a little drummer Last Line: With his rat-tat-too. Subject(s): American Civil War; Courage; Missouri; U.s. - History; Valor; Bravery THE LUMBERMEN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wildly round our woodland quarters Last Line: Through the world our way! Subject(s): Courage; Lumber And Lumbering; Valor; Bravery THE MAN, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All our light mockeries / have ever paled before thy white desire Last Line: A power man knows not, that doth rend and shake him! Subject(s): Courage; Mankind; Men; Valor; Bravery; Human Race THE MAN IN CHRYSANTHEMUM LAND, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a brave little berry-brown man Last Line: Who fight for chrysanthemum land. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Courage; Fights; Japan; United States; Valor; Bravery; Japanese; America THE MAN WHO RODE TO CONEMAUGH, by JOHN ELIOT BOWEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into the town of conemaugh Last Line: "run for your lives to the mountain side!" Subject(s): Conemaugh (river), Pennsylvania; Courage; Johnstown Flood (1889); Valor; Bravery THE MEN OF MONOMOY, by JOE CONE Poem Text First Line: Tell ye the story far and wide Last Line: Who sleep on handkerchief shoal. Subject(s): Courage; Men; Sacrifices; Soldiers; Story-telling; Valor; Bravery THE MEN OF THE ALAMO, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To houston at gonzales town, ride, ranger, for your life Last Line: "thermopylae left one alive -- the alamo left none." Subject(s): Alamo; Bowie, James (1796-1836); Courage; Crockett, Davy (1786-1836); Santa Anna, Antonio Lopez De (1794-1876); Texas Revolution (1835-1836); Travis, William Barret (1809-1836); Valor; Bravery THE MEN OF THE MERRIMAC, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail to hobson! Hail to hobson! Hail to all the valiant set Last Line: Shame upon us, shame upon us, should the nation e'er forget! Subject(s): Courage; Hobson, Richmond Pearson (1870-1937); Sea Battles; Spanish-american War (1898); Valor; Bravery; Naval Warfare THE MIGHTY THREE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Watchfires are blazing on hill and plain Last Line: And again he returned to his suffering Subject(s): Courage;heroism;war; Valor;bravery;heroes;heroines THE MOCK HERO, by MRS. LEICESTER Poem Text First Line: Horatio, of idle courage vain Last Line: And the black prince goes whimpering to bed! Subject(s): Courage; Heroism; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines THE MOTHERLAND, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I have borne in memory what has tamed Last Line: Felt for thee as a lover or a child! Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Valor; Bravery; Liberty THE PASSING OF YOUTH, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At pisa, where the cypress-spires alway Last Line: "beyond the flaming rampire of the world." Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Aging; Courage; Death; Melancholy; Pisa, Italy; Youth; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Dejection THE PATH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far, far I've strayed me in the long endeavor Last Line: And just ahead, my home. Subject(s): Courage; Hope; Roads; Truth; Youth; Valor; Bravery; Optimism; Paths; Trails THE PATRIOT; AN OLD STORY, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was roses, roses all the way Last Line: T is god shall repay: I am safer so. Subject(s): Arnold Of Brescia (1100-1155); Clergy; Courage; Reform & Reformers; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Valor; Bravery THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 8, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A fine young man on horseback Last Line: Mean nothing when you're dead Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Courage; Death; Mortality; Youth; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The THE PRICE, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever of freedom we own Last Line: Unless you are willing to fight for it. Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery THE PRIVATE OF THE BUFFS; OR, THE BRITISH SOLDIER IN CHINA, by FRANCIS HASTINGS CHARLES DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night, among his fellow roughs Last Line: Because his soul was great. Subject(s): China; Courage; Heroism; Patriotism; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines THE QUALITY OF COURAGE, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black trees against an orange sky Last Line: Somewhere . . . In heaven . . . She walks . . . That . . . Road. . . . Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery THE RELIEF OF MAFEKING, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Success to colonel baden-powell and his praises loudly sing Last Line: Passages from shakespeare which did their hearts delight. Subject(s): Baden-powell, Robert (1857-1941); Courage; Heroism; Baden-powell Of Gilwell, 1st Baron; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines THE RIDE OF COLLINS GRAVES, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No song of a soldier riding down Last Line: For he offered his life for the people's sake! Subject(s): Courage; Floods; Graves, Collins; Williamsburg, Massachusetts; Valor; Bravery THE RIDERS OF THE PLAINS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who is it lacks the knowledge? Who are the curs that dare Last Line: And they keep the peace of our people and the honour of british law. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Canada; Courage; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Honor; North West Mounted Police (canada); Canadians; Valor; Bravery; British Empire; England - Empire THE ROAST BEEF OF OLD ENGLAND, by RICHARD LEVERIDGE Poem Text First Line: Our fathers of old were robust, stout, and strong Last Line: And o, the old english roast beef! Alternate Author Name(s): Loveridge, Richard Subject(s): Beef; Courage; England; Food & Eating; Patriotism; Valor; Bravery; English THE ROCK PILE, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Here is the rock pile; so, blow on blow Last Line: Do the birds sing? I do not know. Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery THE ROSARY OF MY TEARS, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some reckon their age by years Last Line: It reaches the haven through tears. Variant Title(s): Night Thoughts Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery THE SAILOR BOY, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He rose at dawn and, fired with hope Last Line: Far worse than any death to me.' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Courage; Sailing & Sailors; Valor; Bravery; Seamen; Sails THE SHANNON AND THE CHESAPEAKE [JUNE 1, 1813], by THOMAS TRACY BOUVE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The captain of the shannon came sailing up the bay Last Line: They lie apart at the mother-heart of god's eternal sea. Subject(s): Chesapeake (ship); Courage; Sea Battles; Shannon (ship); War Of 1812; Valor; Bravery; Naval Warfare THE SIEGE OF CORINTH, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the year since jesus died for men Last Line: Thus was corinth lost and won! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): The Storming Of Corinth Subject(s): Corinth, Greece; Courage; Valor; Bravery THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 10, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Blow soft, ye winds, to soothe a hero's pillow Last Line: Compared with that which in man's world we find! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Courage; Heroism; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines THE SOLDIER'S RETURN, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O! Day thrice lovely! When at length the soldier Last Line: The faithful tender arms with mute embracing. Subject(s): Courage; War; Valor; Bravery THE SONG OF THE BOW, FR. THE WHITE COMPANY, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What of the bow? Last Line: And the land where the true hearts dwell. Subject(s): Courage; England; Patriotism; Valor; Bravery; English THE STIRRUP-CUP, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your eyes - and a thousand stars Last Line: And where is the thing to defeat me! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery THE SURPRISE AT TICONDEROGA [MAY 10, 1775], by MARY ANNA PHINNEY STANSBURY Poem Text First Line: Twas may upon the mountains, and on the airy wing Last Line: Shine the names of ethan allen and his bold volunteers! Subject(s): Allen, Ethan (1738-1789); American Revolution; Courage; Soldiers; Ticonderoga, Battle Of (1775); Valor; Bravery THE TALENTS, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: We have not all the talents ten received Last Line: Or word of thine bring smile to some sad face? Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery THE TEN THOUSAND, by JAMES THOMSON (1834-1882) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hence through the continent ten thousand greeks Last Line: "to cries resounding loud ""the sea! The sea!" Alternate Author Name(s): B. V.; Bysshe Vanolis Subject(s): Courage; War; Valor; Bravery THE TEST, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He fears not death, and therefore he is brave' Last Line: If he have lived his life with dauntless heart. Subject(s): Courage; Death; Life; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The THE TITANIC, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: Tell me, do ye never hear it when the wind is / from the sea? Last Line: Was that loyal note of courage which goes singing through the world! Subject(s): Courage; Disasters; Fights; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship); Valor; Bravery THE UNFORGOTTEN HEROES, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! How the orient's bells are proclaiming Last Line: Something of sympathy, something of tears. Subject(s): Asia; Courage; Heroism; Memory; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines 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 UNSUNG HOUR, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You glorify him as a hero, and you crown him Last Line: When his lust burned his veins into cinder, and in passion, he spared her soul. Subject(s): Courage; Fights; Soldiers; War; Valor; Bravery THE VOICE OF THE WORM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The prophets and the saints forever keep Last Line: "and cries, ""have courage! Live!" Subject(s): Courage; Death; Devil; Pain; Prophecy & Prophets; Saints; Voices; Worms; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Suffering; Misery THE VOLUNTEERS: A CHALLENGE, by CHARLES MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come if you dare, reivers and raiders! Last Line: Yes! Every one of you, come if you dare! Subject(s): Bullets; Courage; Fire; Guns; Valor; Bravery THE WHIRLPOOL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: He was caught in the whirlpool of dismay Last Line: "it will give you the courage to meet face to face, / the changeable whirlpool of life" Subject(s): Courage; Valor;bravery THE WINDS OF FATE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: One ship drives east and another drives west Last Line: And not the calm or the strife. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Variant Title(s): Ships East And West Subject(s): Courage; Religion; Valor; Bravery; Theology THE WOODS OF WESTERMAIN, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enter these enchanted woods Last Line: You who dare. Subject(s): Courage; Environment; Forests; Magic; Mythology; Trees; Valor; Bravery; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Woods THE YOUNG VOLUNTEER, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: With a knock upon the window comes the young volunteer Last Line: All the greater the recruiting of this dead volunteer. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Courage; Death; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The THOMAS AT CHICKAMAUGA, by KATE BROWNLEE SHERWOOD Poem Text First Line: It was that fierce contested field where chickamauga lay Last Line: "they in the thickest fight shall stand and proudly answer, ""here!" Subject(s): American Civil War; Chickamauga, Battle Of (1863); Courage; Thomas, George Henry (1816-1870); U.s. - History; Valor; Bravery TO A SUCCESSFUL MAN; (WHAT THE GHOSTS SAID), by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And after all the labour and the pains Last Line: In your last dreams they may come back to you. Subject(s): Courage; Dreams; Faces; Fame; Labor & Laborers; Love; Valor; Bravery; Nightmares; Reputation; Work; Workers TO MUFFET, by ALMA TATUM GARNER Poem Text First Line: Early the fires of life burned fierce Last Line: Melts the heart and soul. Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery TREES, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think that I shall never see / a poem lovely as a tree Last Line: But only god can make a tree. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Animals; Courage; Environment; Faith; Gardens & Gardening; Holidays; Religion; Soldiers; Travel; Trees; World War I; Valor; Bravery; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Belief; Creed; Theology; Journeys; Trips; First World War TRUE BALM, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High-spirited friend / I send nor balms nor corsives to your wound Last Line: Even in youth. Variant Title(s): An Ode;the Noble Balm Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery TRUE UNTIL DEATH, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a' for our rightfu' king Last Line: The lee-lang night, and weep. Variant Title(s): The Farewell;it Was A' For Our Rightfu' King Subject(s): Absence; Courage; Separation; Isolation; Valor; Bravery ULRIC DAHLGREN, by KATE BROWNLEE SHERWOOD Poem Text First Line: A flash of light across the night Last Line: In our republic's coronet! Subject(s): American Civil War; Courage; Dahlgren, Ulric; Richmond Campaign (1864); U.s. - History; Valor; Bravery UNC' RASTUS TO MARSE DEWEY, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: My dear mars dewey: we sutney is please Last Line: O' de heroes what comes f'm de conq'rin' o' spain. Subject(s): Courage; Heroism; War; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines UNCONQUERED, by ROSE GOULD CLARK Poem Text First Line: I did not know if stalwart courage you possessed Last Line: Your soul, in victory, sounds faith's triumphant note. Subject(s): Courage; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Valor; Bravery UNCONQUERED, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have fallen once, I have fallen thrice Last Line: The path that the weaklings flee. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery UNDER A THOUSAND WORDS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand words on courage. -this request Last Line: "but you call this instinct." Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Courage; Writing & Writers; Valor; Bravery UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 25. MOTHER AND SON, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not yours, o mother, to complain Last Line: So sits the while at home the mother well content. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Courage; Mothers; Valor; Bravery UNLESS IT WAS COURAGE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again today, balloons aloft in the hazy here Last Line: But I was happy, and my happiness made others happy. Subject(s): Courage; Happiness; Hot-air Balloons; Valor; Bravery; Joy; Delight UPON A DYING LADY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With the old kindness, the old distinguished grace Last Line: It is about to die. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Christmas Trees; Courage; Death; Dolls; Toys; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The VI ET ARMIS, by ANDREW DOWNING Poem Text First Line: Tis an ancient roman proverb Last Line: You can conquer if you will! Subject(s): Courage; Life; Strength; Victory; Valor; Bravery VICTORY, by KARL E. MUNDT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A morning sunrise on a western plain! Last Line: The world now teems with opportunity. Subject(s): Courage; Victory; Valor; Bravery WASHINGTON BY THE DELAWARE, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The snow was red with patriot blood Last Line: Think, think of washington! Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): American Revolution; Courage; Delaware (river); Trenton, Battle Of (1776); Valor; Bravery WATCH YOURSELF GO BY, by STRICKLAND GILLILAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just stand aside and watch yourself go by Last Line: Have stood aside and watched yourself go by. Variant Title(s): A Cure For Fault-finding Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery WAYWARD WINGS, by EDWARD GRUSE Poem Text First Line: Hope rose triumphant, when ascending wings Last Line: To tyros skies lay not their secrets bare. Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Courage; Youth; Valor; Bravery WHERE THERE'S A WILL THERE'S A WAY, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have faith in old proverbs full surely Last Line: "for ""where there's a will there's a way." Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery WHICH PATH SHALL YOURS BE?, by RAY D. SMITH Poem Text First Line: What is there in living when one has lost all Last Line: Which of them shall yours be — the weak or the strong? Subject(s): Courage; Hope; Roads; Strength; Valor; Bravery; Optimism; Paths; Trails WHITE IRIS, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: When my lord condemned her to death Last Line: Women are braver creatures now. Subject(s): Courage; Daughters; Pain; Women; Valor; Bravery; Suffering; Misery WILL, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, well for him whose will is strong Last Line: The city sparkles like a grain of salt. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery WINTER STARS, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Aging; Courage; Stars; Sickness; Valor; Bravery; Illness WITH YOU, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would not have them back again Last Line: With you, sweet heart, with you! Subject(s): Courage; Life; Love; Tears; Valor; Bravery WORDS WITH WALLACE STEVENS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were so rash. I'd play saying Last Line: Dress, lolling in the garden, longing.... Subject(s): Collaboration; Courage; Faith; God; Innocence; Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955); Valor; Bravery; Belief; Creed WORK THROUGH IT ALL, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hope, tho' misfortune o'ertake you Last Line: Your hands busy working withal. Subject(s): Courage; Labor & Laborers; Sacrifices; Valor; Bravery; Work; Workers YORK OF TENNESSEE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They say his rifle, ringing Last Line: Bold york of tennessee! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Courage; Soldiers; Tennessee; York, Alvin Cullum (1887-1964); Valor; Bravery |
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