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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: VETERANS DAY Matches Found: 198 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SONG OF VICTORY, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But now above the thunder of the drums Subject(s): Holidays; Patriotism; Veterans Day ACTIVITIES IN PEACE, by THOMAS WOODROW WILSON Poem Source First Line: Peace does not mean inaction. There may be Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day ADDRESS OF MAJOR GENERAL FOX CONNOR, by FOX CONNOR Poem Source First Line: Those scouts who have advanced far enough in Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day AFTER, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Source First Line: After the darkness, dawning Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day AFTER BATTLE, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the first larks began to soar Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day AFTERMATH, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Have you forgotten yet? Last Line: Never forget. Subject(s): Veterans Day; World War I; First World War ALLOQUY; TO THE FIRST GREAT WAR DEAD, by AMABEL KING Poem Source First Line: Sleep, soldiers, sleep Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day AMERICA'S ANSWER, by R. W. LILLARD Poem Text First Line: Rest ye in peace, ye flanders dead! Last Line: In flanders fields. Variant Title(s): America's Reply Subject(s): Holidays; Patriotism; Veterans Day AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM', by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There had been years of passion -- scorching, cold Last Line: And again the spirit of pity whispered, 'why?' Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War ANNIVERSARY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Boom! 'what's that?' Last Line: Ten years -- come sunday Subject(s): Bombs;veterans;veterans Day;war;world War I; First World War ARCHITECTS OF DREAM, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Source First Line: We cannot rest, whose hearts are like the breakers Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Holidays; Peace; Veterans Day ARMISTICE, by CHARLES BUXTON GOING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How close the white-ranked crosses stand Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day ARMISTICE, by EUNICE MITCHELL LEHMER Poem Text First Line: We face the nations with one hand outstretched Last Line: In open comradeship to all the world? Subject(s): Change; Soldiers; Veterans Day; War ARMISTICE, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wintry war is over, and he stands Last Line: Leafless in may. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Change; Trees; Veterans; Veterans Day; War ARMISTICE (FULL TEXT AS SIGNED ON NOVEMBER 11, 1918), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: One - cessation of operations by land and in Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day ARMISTICE DAY, by ZELMA DUNNING BOWEN Poem Text First Line: I saw your son march by today Last Line: That the world his peace might know. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day ARMISTICE DAY, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I stood with three comrades in parliament square Last Line: A cold bugle calls, and the city moves on Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles Subject(s): Holidays; London; Veterans Day ARMISTICE DAY, by HENRIETTE CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The old town clock has struck eleven Last Line: Murmur the name of you. Subject(s): Holidays; Memory; Prayer; Veterans Day ARMISTICE DAY, by EDMUND VANCE COOKE Poem Text First Line: Armistice day! When a new sun rose Last Line: And the wars are ended—for those who died! Subject(s): Death; Peace; Soldiers; Veterans Day; War; Dead, The ARMISTICE DAY, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Drums, drums, and marching feet! Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day ARMISTICE DAY, by HELEN HUTCHCRAFT Poem Text First Line: I can hear a sound Last Line: As the drums go by. Subject(s): Holidays; Parades; Peace; Veterans Day ARMISTICE DAY, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think I hear them stirring there, today Last Line: The young dead weeping! Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War ARMISTICE DAY, by ANGELO PATRI Poem Source First Line: Twas like this, my children Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day ARMISTICE DAY, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The crash of shells among the falling trees Last Line: Aye—a year of proudest glory—and of musing o'er our dead! Subject(s): Holidays; Praise; Soldiers; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War ARMISTICE DAY, 1918-1928, by NANCY BYRD TURNER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That day the guns fell silent at a word Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day ARMISTICE DAY, 1926, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Source First Line: Let us evoke no phantom throng Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day ARMISTICE DAY, 1928, by ERNEST HARTSOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, let us wave a flag and jump and yell Last Line: The terrible cry of brothers, crucified!) Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War ARMISTICE DAY: LEST WE FORGET, by ALMA LUNDMAN Poem Source First Line: November eleventh may well be remembered Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day ARMISTICE DAY; A PHANTASY, by JOHN J. WILLOUGHBY Poem Text First Line: The half-light of a raw november day Last Line: Shall echo, with a mighty voice ... Dismiss! Subject(s): Death; Military; Soldiers; Veterans Day; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War ARMISTICE, 1928, by KENNETH GROESBECK Poem Text First Line: There are not even mounds, any more, where they lie Last Line: And ours the retribution, deserved of our defeat. Subject(s): Honor; Military; Soldiers; Veterans; Veterans Day AT GALLIPOLI, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ship after ship, crammed with soldiers, moved Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day AT HALF-MAST, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: Fly the flag at half-mast Last Line: Till the day breaks again. Subject(s): Death; Flags - United States; Military; Social Protest; Veterans Day; War; Dead, The; American Flag BAPTISM ON ARMISTICE DAY, by CHAD WALSH Poem Source First Line: Remembering now the reckless race to ... Marne Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day BASIS OF PEACE, by THOMAS WOODROW WILSON Poem Source First Line: Peace can be rebuilt only upon the ancient and Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day BEFORE MARCHING, AND AFTER (IN MEMORIAM F.W.G.), by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Orion swung southward aslant Last Line: A brightness therefrom not to fade on the morrow. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I - Casualties BEFORE THE CENOTAPH, by DOROTHY MARGARET STUART Poem Source First Line: Not with dark pomp of death we keep Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day BREST LEFT BEHIND, by JOHN CHIPMAN FARRAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun strikes gold the dirty street Last Line: "I don't see very many tears,"" he says." Subject(s): Holidays; Homecoming; Peace; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War BUGLE SONG OF PEACE; A PROPHECY FOR MEMORIAL DAY, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: Blow, bugle, blow! Last Line: The day has dawned at last. Subject(s): Bugles; Holidays; Memorial Day; Peace; Veterans Day; War; Declaration Day CALL, by OSCAR W. FIRKINS Poem Source First Line: I was second lieutenant of a hastily recruited Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day CAPTAIN GUYNEMER, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Text First Line: What high adventure, in what world afar Last Line: And in man's grateful heart shall live immortally! Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I; Airplanes; Air Pilots; First World War CHALLENGE, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: Oh that some spirit might in us renew Last Line: "our god is working with us, now and here!" Subject(s): Holidays; Religion; Veterans Day; Theology CHALLENGE, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: This is no time for fear, for doubts of good Subject(s): Holidays; Religion; Veterans Day CHRIST OF THE ANDES, by ANNA P. HANNUM Poem Source First Line: Far far away to the south of these united Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day CHRIST OF THE ANDES, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After volcanoes husht with snows Subject(s): Holidays; Jesus Christ; Veterans Day CLEAN HANDS, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Make this thing plain to us, o lord Last Line: Make this thing plain! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Holidays; Peace; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War COMRADES IN A COMMON CAUSE, by BISHOP BRENT Poem Source First Line: We comrades in the common cause have come Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day CONTRACT OF CORPORAL TWING, by SOLON K. STEWART Poem Source First Line: Two men sat on a sandstone ledge, looking out Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day COULD THEY BUT KNOW (NOVEMBER, 1918), by WILL CHAMBERLAIN Poem Text First Line: Could they but know -- the countless heroes dead Last Line: And vision give our holy dead to-day. Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Honor; Military; Soldiers; Veterans Day; World War I; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines; First World War CROWNING OF PEACE, by NORA ARCHIBALD SMITH Poem Source First Line: Goddess of liberty - traditional costume Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day DAY OF GLORY, by DOROTHEA FRANCES (CANFIELD) FISHER Poem Source First Line: If the armistice is signed, a salvo of cannon Alternate Author Name(s): Canfield, Dorothy Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day DE PROFUNDIS, by BRENT DOW ALLINSON Poem Source First Line: Cometh the dawn; ye men who know Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day DESIGN FOR PEACE, by JANET NORRIS BANGS Poem Source First Line: How shall the bayonet and bomb Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day DRAW THE SWORD, O REPUBLIC, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the blue sky of a clear vision Last Line: Draw the sword! Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day DREAMERS CRY THEIR DREAM, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Source First Line: The dreamers upon the hilltops Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day EAGLE YOUTH, by KARLE WILSON BAKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They have taken his horse and plume Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Charlotte Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Holidays; Veterans Day EARTH SONG, by DAVID MCKEE WRIGHT Poem Source First Line: Mother and maker of us all Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day EVERYONE SANG, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everyone suddenly burst out singing Last Line: Was a bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will never be done. Subject(s): Holidays; Life Change Events; Veterans Day; War; World War I; First World War FALLEN, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Those we have loved the dearest Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day FIVE SOULS, by WILLIAM NORMAN EWER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was a peasant of the polish plain Last Line: For those who bade me fight had told me so. Alternate Author Name(s): Ewer, W. N. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War FIXED DESIRE OF THE HUMAN HEART, by THOMAS WOODROW WILSON Poem Source First Line: I consider the agitation for international arbitration Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day FLANDERS POPPIES, by IAN DUNCAN COLVIN Poem Source First Line: Poppies, ye flaming blushes of july Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium; Holidays; Veterans Day FOR REMEMBRANCE, by BASIL EBERS Poem Text First Line: What is it, o dear country of our pride Last Line: But the fixed goal of our humanity. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day FOR THEE THEY DIED, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For thee their pilgrim swords were tried Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day FORGET-ME-NOT DAY, by NAN TERRELL REED Poem Text First Line: Shall we forget, when nations meet Last Line: And need a world that's kind. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day FRIENDSHIP BREEDS PEACE, by THOMAS WOODROW WILSON Poem Source First Line: America is at peace because she entertains a Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day FRUITS OF VICTORY, by WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT Poem Source First Line: The great war is ended. It will change the Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day GOLDEN DAY, by ARTHUR WALLACE PEACH Poem Source First Line: The guns of war are silent Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day GREAT ARMISTICE, by ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the uproar and stench Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day GREAT POWERS CONFERENCE, by EDITH LOVEJOY PIERCE Poem Source First Line: The blind men add the figures, draw the maps Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day GREEN HILL FAR AWAY', by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Was it indeed only last march, or in another Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day HARVARD PHI BETA KAPPA POEM, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When all our troubled errantries are done Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day HOW AMERICA FINISHED, by GREGORY MASON Poem Source First Line: The legend, 'heaven, hell, or hoboken by Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day HYMN FOR [OR, TO] THE VICTORIOUS DEAD, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: God, by the sea, by the resounding sea Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day HYMN OF HATE, by JOSEPH DANA MILLER Poem Source First Line: And this I hate - not men, for flag, for race Subject(s): Holidays; Peace; Veterans Day IMAGE, by EDWARD H. SOTHERN Poem Source First Line: It is mankind that is crucified,' said my mate Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day INDEPENDENT, SELS., by UNKNOWN Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day ISAIAH 55: 6-12. QUOTATIONS FOR PEACE DAY, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day LESSONS, by HELEN WEBER Poem Source First Line: Strange lesson taught by war Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day LEST WE FORGET - 1926, by CURTIS WHEELER Poem Text First Line: Lest we forget! / the months swing into years Last Line: Lest we forget! Subject(s): Holidays; Soldiers' Writings; Veterans Day LEST WE FORGET; ARMISTICE NIGHT, 1920, by CURTIS WHEELER Poem Text First Line: The cold rain falls on dun-sur-meuse tonight Last Line: "when taps blew so much more than just ""goodnight." Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day LET DREAMERS WAKE, by LILITH LORRAINE Poem Source First Line: Now, if ever, lets poets sing Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Mary M. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day LET US DECLARE!, SELS., by ANGELA MORGAN Poem Source First Line: Come, workers! Poets, artists, dreamers, more and more Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day LETTER BY AN AMERICAN OFFICER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I am writing you a few lines to say that I am Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day LETTERS AND DIARY, SELS., by ALAN SEEGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Another participant in the attack upon belloy-en-santerre Subject(s): Diaries; Holidays; Soldiers' Writings; Veterans Day LITANY FOR PEACE, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK Poem Source First Line: No longer homes are flame against Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day LOCKSLEY HALL, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Comrades, leave me here a little, while as yet 'tis early morn Last Line: For the mighty wind arises, roaring seaward, and I go. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Disappointment; Freedom; Grief; Holidays; Love; Religion; Veterans Day; War; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology LOOK IN THEIR EYES, by ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Youthful and buoyant and blithe they went into Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day LOVE HONOR ONLY BETTER THAN PEACE, by THOMAS WOODROW WILSON Poem Source First Line: There are all sorts of people in the united Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day LOVE, GIVE ME THE FEEL OF TO-MORROW, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY Poem Text First Line: Come, love, help me move all the mirrors out of my workshop Last Line: Broadcasting a forever-and-ever armistice day. Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day MAKE WAY!, by FLORENCE CROCKER COMFORT Poem Source First Line: The crashing sky has swept old paths aside Subject(s): Holidays; Peace; Veterans Day MARSHAL FOCH'S ARMISTICE DAY MESSAGE TO AMERICA, 1926, by STEPHANE LAUZANNE Poem Source First Line: It is a great wave of idealism and fraternity ...' Subject(s): Foch, Ferdinand (1851-1929); Holidays; Veterans Day MAY NIGHT, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Blue are the twilight heavens above the hill Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day MEMORIAL DAY, by WILLIAM E. BROOKS Poem Text First Line: I heard a cry in the night from a far-flung host Last Line: In the name of our dead will we hear? Will we grant them sleep? Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Peace; Veterans Day; Declaration Day MEMORIAL RAIN, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ambassador puser the ambassador Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War MEMORIAL RAIN, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ambassador puser the ambassador Last Line: He rests, he is quiet, he sleeps in a strange land Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I MESSAGE OF MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH TO THE AMERICAN LEGION, by FERDINAND FOCH Poem Source First Line: It is out of sacrifice and suffering that the Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day MESSAGE OF PEACE, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bid the din of battle cease! Subject(s): Holidays; Patriotism; Veterans Day NEW SONG, by ARTHUR GORDON FIELD Poem Source First Line: Poet, take up thy lyre Subject(s): Holidays; Patriotism; Veterans Day NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE EDITORIAL SECTION, SELS., by UNKNOWN Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day NIGHTINGALES OF FLANDERS, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day NON-DENOMINATIONAL PRAYER FOR ARMISTICE DAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O god, who art full of compassion, who dwell- Subject(s): Compassion; Holidays; Veterans Day NOVEMBER, by SOPHIE TUNNELL Poem Text First Line: The nuts are dropping in the wood Last Line: In november. Subject(s): Death; Holidays; November; Soldiers; Veterans Day; War; Dead, The 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 NOVEMBER POPPIES, by HILARY CORKE Poem Source First Line: I walked with you this eleventh in the coppice Last Line: Every november the thin red legions are mustered %and they flower like clockwork in her bitterest ho Subject(s): Holidays; Poppies; Veterans Day ON ARMISTICE DAY; NOVEMBER 11, 1921, by ERNEST E. DAVIES Poem Text First Line: The multitude has watched, with silent prayer Last Line: The men who put his treaty to the sword. Subject(s): Holidays; Soldiers; Veterans; Veterans Day; War ON READING THE WAR DIARY OF A DEFUNCT AMBASSADOR, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So that's your diary - that's your private mind Last Line: That once kept europe safe for perpetuity. Subject(s): Diaries; Diplomacy And Diplomats; Freedom; Peace; Veterans Day; Liberty OUR DEAD HEROES, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rest on, o heroes! In your silent slumber! Last Line: And heaven, still just, bestow the martyr's palm. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day OUR HONORED DEAD, by HENRY WARD BEECHER Poem Source First Line: Oh, tell me not that they are dead- that gen- Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day PACIFISTS, by MARK ANTHONY DE WOLFE HOWE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You are a pacifist? So am I Subject(s): Holidays; Pacifism; Veterans Day PARIS AGAIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Big blue overcoat and breeches red as red Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day PATH TO PEACE, by SIDNEY S. ROBINS Poem Source First Line: It may be there is a hope of getting the nations Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day PATRIOTIC SON, by LYMAN ABBOTT Poem Source First Line: A nation is made great, not by its fruitful Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day PEACE, by HAROLD TROWBRIDGE PULSIFER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cannon's voice is dumb Last Line: To arms! For peace is here! Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War PEACE, by GEORGE WASHINGTON Poem Source First Line: My first wish is to see the whole world at peace Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day PEACE, by THOMAS WOODROW WILSON Poem Source First Line: I call you to witness, my fellow-countrymen Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day PEACE (NOVEMBER 11, 1918), by GRETCHEN OSGOOD WARREN Poem Text First Line: Peace, battle-worn and starved, and gaunt and pale Last Line: Yea, peace, while worlds endure, will sing their requiem. Subject(s): Holidays; Peace; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War PEACE AT MORNING, by DANA BURNET Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wake at the touch of morning: and the city is Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day PEACE AT TOO GREAT A PRICE, by THOMAS WOODROW WILSON Poem Source First Line: There is a price which is too great to pay for Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day PEACE CALL, by EDGAR LLOYD HAMPTON Poem Source First Line: I am the voice of the uplands ringing from hill to hill Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day PEACE TRIUMPHANT, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Earth, mother earth, do you feel light flowing Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day PEACE UNIVERSAL, by ANNA H. THORNE Poem Source First Line: Gift of the living god to mortal man Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day PHILADELPHIA PUBLIC LEDGER, SELS., by UNKNOWN Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day PICKING SKULLS AT VERDUN, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A respectable, exceedingly proper paper reports Last Line: Who always see the folly when it is too late! Subject(s): Cruelty; Death; Skulls; Soldiers; Veterans Day; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War PRAYER FOR THE SPIRITUAL UNION OF MANKIND, by HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK Poem Source First Line: Grant unto us such clear vision of the sin of Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day PREPARE, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O human hearts Last Line: But from yourselves! Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Holidays; Peace; Veterans Day; War PRESIDENT WILSON'S WAR PROCLAMATION, SELS., by WILSON WOODROW Poem Source First Line: The power against which we are arrayed has Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day PRESIDENT'S WAR MESSAGE, by WILSON WOODROW Poem Source First Line: Gentlemen of the congress Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day RE-ARMAMENT, by MARK ANTHONY DE WOLFE HOWE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not all the armor forged by man, not all the Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day REGARDING THE ONE MINUTE OF SILENCE ON ARMISTICE DAY, by HENRY STEPHENS SALT Poem Text First Line: Small help from that famed silence can we win Last Line: Brief spell of silence? Nay! Long spell of thought! Subject(s): Holidays; Silence; Social Protest; Veterans Day; War REIGN OF PEACE, by ELIZA THORNTON Poem Source First Line: Beautiful vision! How bright it rose Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day RELINQUISHING, by THEDA KENYON Poem Source First Line: Sure, 'twas like the angels' footsteps when your Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day REMEMBER AGAIN, by R. W. S. Poem Text First Line: Rain in the blackness. Stabs of flame in the blackness Last Line: Remember again. Subject(s): Army - United States; Army Life; Memory; Pain; Social Protest; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; Veterans Day; War; Drills & Minor Tactics; Suffering; Misery REMEMBERING DAY, by MARY WIGHT SAUNDERS Poem Text First Line: All the soldiers marching along Last Line: For this is our remembering day. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day REQUIEM, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: The fires of war are quenched Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day RHEIMS CATHEDRAL - 1914, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A winged death has smitten dumb thy bells Last Line: Thy bells live on, and heaven is in their tone! Subject(s): Holidays; Rheims, France; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War SAECLA FERARUM, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas when at last the million flags were stacked Last Line: Familiar invitations in their cries. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day SELF-SACRIFICE, by WILSON WOODROW Poem Source First Line: Our life is but a little span. One generation Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day SOLDIERS OF FREEDOM, by THOMAS WOODROW WILSON Poem Source First Line: To the soldiers of the national army Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day SOLILOQUY; NOVEMBER 11, 1928, by N. R. A. BECKER Poem Text First Line: Ten years! Can that be all Last Line: "ten years? Can that be all?" Subject(s): Peace; Veterans Day; War; World War I; First World War SOME FOLKLORE OF THE 1990'S, by MIRIAM A. COHEN Poem Source First Line: Politicians have been %saving half-cents Last Line: At the dinning room table %taking a seat %it's true Subject(s): Holidays; Politics; Veterans Day SONG FOR TOMORROW, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Source First Line: O children of men, o sons and daughters of sorrow Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day SONG OF VICTORY, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But now above the thunder of the drums Subject(s): Holidays; Patriotism; Veterans Day SPIRIT OF AMERICA IS PEACE, by THOMAS WOODROW WILSON Poem Source First Line: In my efforts for peace I have been conscious of Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day STACKING THE NEEDLES, by THEDA KENYON Poem Source First Line: Lo, in a thousand citadels Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day SUGGESTED ADDRESS FOR USE BY LEGION SPEAKER ON ARMISTICE DAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: As the world pauses to turn back the pages of Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day TAPS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, now that the charge is won Last Line: Sleep. Subject(s): Holidays; Sleep; Veterans Day TEN YEARS AFTER, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In flanders and in france the poppies bloom Last Line: Ten years ago we could not give enough. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; Veterans Day; World War I; Dead, The; First World War TEN YEARS AFTER, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Text First Line: Reverberating boom of shuffling, stamping feet! Last Line: Make the will of the world your trumpet, the heart of the world your drum! Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Peace; Veterans Day; War; World War I; First World War TEN YEARS HAVE PASSED; ON VIEWING WAR GRAVES AT VERDUN, 1928, by DON MAITLAND BUSHBY Poem Text First Line: Ten years; but what are years to the dead Last Line: But glory and bemedaled scars! Subject(s): Death; Graves; Honor; Soldiers; Veterans Day; War; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones TENTH ANNIVERSARY, by RALPH SNEEDEN Poem Source First Line: A wave would rise, thin to translucence Last Line: Of gulls vicious, crazy with hope above the rising net Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; Waves THE CHRIST OF THE ANDES, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After volcanoes husht with snows Subject(s): Holidays; Jesus Christ; Veterans Day THE DAY; NOVEMBER 11, 1918, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not as they planned it or will plan again Last Line: Who still are blind awhile, facing the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Freedom; Justice; Navy - United States; Veterans Day; War; Liberty; American Navy THE GOAL AND THE WAY, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: The future lies / with those whose eyes Last Line: Who falters now shames god, and dies. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Holidays; Patriotism; Religion; Veterans Day; Theology THE KNOWN SOLDIER; FOR THE DAY OF PRESIDENT WILSON'S BURIAL, by MARK ANTHONY DE WOLFE HOWE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now through the stifling air, thick with the murk Last Line: While safe he sleeps among the deathless dead. Subject(s): Funerals; Holidays; Veterans Day; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924); Burials THE MAN OF THE MARNE, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gray battalions were driving down Last Line: Remember the marne and ferdinand foch. Subject(s): Foch, Ferdinand (1851-1929); Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War THE NEW CITY, by MARGUERITE WILKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have we seen her, the new city, o my brothers, where she stands Last Line: Happier, if our human travail builds their avenues to god! Subject(s): Holidays; Patriotism; Veterans Day THE NEW SERMON ON THE MOUNT, by RALPH B. URMY Poem Text First Line: Gentle jesus, meek and mild Last Line: Amen. Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Prayer; Soldiers; Veterans Day; War THE NEW VICTORY, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Victory comes Last Line: The stable world itself is her great monument! Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Holidays; Peace; Veterans Day THE OLD SOLDIER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lest the young soldiers be strange in heaven Last Line: Waiting to welcome them by the strange door. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I - Casualties; Dead, The; Paradise THE SOLDIER'S DIRGE, by ELIZABETH HARMAN Poem Text First Line: Dead in the battle,-dead on the field Last Line: To his memory, honor; to him, good-night. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day 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 VALLEY OF DECISION, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: The world is in the valley of decision Last Line: Or sink despairing into its own hell? Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; War THE WAR AT HOME, by WILLARD WATTLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God of our fathers, with bowed heads we come Last Line: Which makes humanity the nations' nation. Subject(s): Humanity; Military Service, Compulsory; Prayer; Veterans Day; War; War - Home Front; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service THE YOUNG DEAD, by EDITH WHARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, how I pity the young dead who gave Last Line: And the lark singing for them overhead! Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Veterans Day; Dead, The THESE TEN YEARS SINCE WE WENT TO WAR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It is not altogether easy to recapture the mood Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day THEY JUST WON'T TALK, by MARY KATHARINE REELY Poem Source First Line: Mable. Yes? ... Oh, yes, miss spangler Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day TO AN ETHICAL PREACHER, by BRENT DOW ALLINSON Poem Text First Line: Four square against the genial tides of peace Last Line: Could never be but for your priceless words! Subject(s): Preaching & Preachers; Veterans Day; War TO MEN UNBORN, by DAVID OSBORNE HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When spring comes on with freshness of new leaves Last Line: Peace seen afar through grief and hate and strife! Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day TO MY COUNTRY, by MARGUERITE WILKINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beams from your forest built my little home Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day TO MY FATHER, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: I kneel, my father, here beside thy grave Last Line: Where thou my father with the angels art. Subject(s): Angels; Death; Fathers; Graves; Heaven; Veterans Day; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise TO PEACE, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cup, the ruby cup Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day TO PEACE, WITH VICTORY, by CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I could not welcome you, oh! Longed-for peace Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day TO THE CANADIAN MOTHERS, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why mourn thy dead, that are the world's Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day TO THE DEAD DOUGHBOYS, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Be nothing in this book constured Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day TO THE PREACHERS ON ARMISTICE DAY, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O ye who preach about god's love to man Last Line: This armistice day? Subject(s): God; Preaching & Preachers; Religion; Veterans Day; War; Theology TOURNAMENT OF MAN, by ERNEST HOWARD CROSBY Poem Source First Line: Clear the field for the grand tournament of the nations! Subject(s): Holidays; Peace; Veterans Day TRAIL, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Uncouth, unconquered, unafraid Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day TRUE FREEDOM, by CHARLES MACKAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tis not in blood that liberty inscribes her civil laws Subject(s): Holidays; Patriotism; Veterans Day TWO SILENCES, by ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sirens wailed and moaned Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day UNITED STATES OF EUROPE: AN INTERVIEW WITH DR. NICHOLAS, by EDWARD MARSHALL Poem Source First Line: The united states of europe Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day UNIVERSAL PEACE MOVEMENT, by THOMAS WOODROW WILSON Poem Source First Line: A great deal of the (universal) peace movement Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day UNKNOWN, by BRUCE BARTON Poem Source First Line: My mother wept when I failed to return,' he Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day UNKNOWN SOLDIER HONORED BY ENGLAND, by PHILIP GIBBS Poem Source First Line: No military potentate of high rank or great Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day UNSEEN HOST, by PERCIVAL WILDE Poem Source First Line: At an improvised american hospital in paris. A Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day V.A.D, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There's an angel in our ward as keeps a-flittin' Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day VALE-ATQUE SALVE, by MARK ANTHONY DE WOLFE HOWE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A broken figure disappears alone Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day VETERAN'S DAY, 1981, by CAROLE SIMMONS OLES Poem Source First Line: In last week's new york times I read Last Line: Think of the world as a white page where, once, %someone with an arm, an hand, could have written st Subject(s): Holidays; New York Times (newspaper); Veterans Day VICTORY BELLS, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the bells across the trees Last Line: And home-coming for weary men. Subject(s): Bells; Holidays; Patriotism; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War VICTORY PARADE, by GEORGE EDWARD HOFFMAN Poem Source First Line: Cruisers, destroyers, carriers align Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day WAR THUS COMES TO AN END, by THOMAS WOODROW WILSON Poem Source Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day WASTE OF WAR, by WILLIAM LEROY STIDGER Poem Source First Line: This the law of all war through all ages Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day WE WHO BUILD VISIONS, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ Poem Source First Line: Stalled on the sidelines we must hope and wait Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day WHAT AMERICANS BELIEVE IN, by CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT Poem Source First Line: Americans believe in individual liberty so far Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day WHAT IS PATRIOTISM, by AGNES REPPLIER Poem Source First Line: Not dilating with pleasurable emotions when Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day WHEN POPPIES BLOOM AGAIN, by HENRY ALBERT PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: I did not know my england Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day WHICH SWORD?, by JASON NOBLE PIERCE Poem Source First Line: A sword, a sword, and a sword Subject(s): Holidays; Peace; Veterans Day WILD WEATHER, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A great wind sweeps Last Line: His quiet hand will lead the sunshine in. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; Victory; War WITHOUT REGRET, by LILITH LORRAINE Poem Source First Line: This is the day the prophets have foretold Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Mary M. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day |
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