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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WAR Matches Found: 7553 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "'THE BRIGADE MUST NOT KNOW, SIR!' [MAY 2, 1863]", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Who've ye got there? Only a dying brother' Last Line: "living, he laid the first stones of a nation; / and dead, he builds it yet" Subject(s): "american Civil War;chancellorsville, Battle Of (1863);jackson, Thomas (stonewall) (1824-1863);u.s. - History; "BLACK SPIRITUAL: SWING LOW, SWEET CHARIOT (1)", by ANONYMOUS - AFRICAN AMERICAN Poem Text First Line: "swing low, sweet chariot" Last Line: Coming for to carry me home Variant Title(s): "swing Low, Sweet Chariot; Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music;american Civil War;black Songs;homecoming;u.s. - History; Negro Spirituals "BOB ANDERSON, MY BEAU", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "bob anderson, my beau, bob, when we were first aquent" Last Line: "but I love a man that dares to act, bob anderson" Subject(s): "american Civil War;anderson, Robert (1805-1871);fort Sumter, South Carolina;soldiers;u.s. - History; "CAST DOWN, BUT NOT DESTROYED", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh, northern men - true hearts and bold" Last Line: "unflinching to the conflict press, / and, fearless, trust our cause to god!" Subject(s): "american Civil War;bull Run, Battles Of;troy;u.s. - History;" "manassas, Batlle Of; "CHEVY CHASE [OR, CHACE]", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: God prosper long our noble king Last Line: "and grant, henceforth, that foul debate / 'twixt noblemen may cease" Subject(s): "hunting;otterburn, Battle Of (1388);war;" Hunters "COME, YE LADS WHO WISH TO SHINE", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "danger face, maintain your ground / and see your country righted" Subject(s): Canada;war Of 1812; Canadians "FAREWELL, PEACE [JUNE 18, 1812]", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "farewell, peace! Another crisis" Last Line: "never know the smile of beauty, / nor the blessing of a wife" Subject(s): War Of 1812 "FORT MCHENRY [SEPTEMBER 13, 1814]", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "thy blue waves, patapsco, flow'd soft" Last Line: And when the brave fall - ever hallow their tomb Subject(s): "fort Mchenry, Battle Of (1814);war Of 1812; "HULL'S SURRENDER; OR, VILLANY SOMEWHERE", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "ye columbians so bold, attend while I sing" Last Line: By our fathers we swear it shall dwell here no more Subject(s): War Of 1812 - Canadian Campaign "MEN OF WAR, MARCH BRAVELY ON", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Here will be no scars to number Subject(s): Soldiers;war "OLD FORT MEIGS [APRIL 28-MAY 9, 1813]", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Oh! Lonely is our old green fort Last Line: "when we fought here with harrison, / a long time ago" Subject(s): "fort Meigs, Battle Of (1813);harrison, William Henry (1773-1841);war Of 1812; "THE CONSTITUTION'S LAST FIGHT [FEBRUARY 20, 1815]", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A yankee ship and a yankee crew Last Line: "'old ironsides' means victory, / acrost the western ocean" Subject(s): Constitution (ship);sea Battles;war Of 1812; Naval Warfare "THE MAUNDING SOULDIER, OR THE FRUITS OF WARRE IS BEGGERY", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "good, your worship, cast your eyes" Last Line: That your substance never may decay Subject(s): War "WAR-SONG OF LACHLAND, HIGH CHIEF OF MACLEAN", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A weary month has wander'd o'er Last Line: The fools might face the lightning's blaze / as wisely and as well! Subject(s): War (NOT) A SPRING POEM, by HANS LEYBOLD Poem Source First Line: A double-decker emerges from every bottle Last Line: And didn't even believe in that any more Subject(s): World War I (PROSE STATEMENT ON THE POETRY OF WAR), by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The immense poetry of war and the poetry of a work of the Last Line: Nothing will ever appease this desire except a consciousness of %fact as everyone is at least satisf Subject(s): World War Ii ....THE KINGDOM OF THE AIR, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whose peacock cry bereaves those myrtle groves? Last Line: Or make a lash close over its long stare. Subject(s): Love; Peace; Silence; War 1-AUG, by JOHN CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: When the dusk comes I feel as if it is sweeping Subject(s): Nuclear War 1-SEP-39, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sit in one of the dives Last Line: Negation and despair, %show an affirming flame Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): World War Ii 1-SEP-39, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first scattering rain on the polish cities Last Line: The animals shook [or, ran], the eagle soared and dropped [or, dropt] Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): World War Ii 1/26/1939, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When barcelona fell, the darkened glass Last Line: I meet it all the faces that I see Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) 1/26/39, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When barcelona fell, the darkened glass Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) 10, by RUTH IRUPE SANABRIA Poem Source First Line: Walking off the subway up the ramp through the turnstile Last Line: Meanings are not synonymous %in this language Subject(s): Politics; War 11TH R.S.R., by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How bright a dove's wing shows against the sky Last Line: Not one, but by the host for ever marches. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War 15TH MARCH 1939, by GERDA MAYER Poem Source First Line: And she said %the germans have marched into prague Last Line: Not bad %as uniforms go Subject(s): War 18-OCT-77, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Land flows into her eyes through the record player in her cell Last Line: She's murdered in her cell or kills herself, which terrifies Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities 19-AUG, by JOHN CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: A strange calm comes over with the clouds Subject(s): Nuclear War 19-JAN-44, by SALVATORE QUASIMODO Poem Source First Line: I read you the soft verses of antiquity Last Line: When even among the tombs of rubble %the malign grass rears up its flower Subject(s): World War Ii 1914, by FERENC BEKASSY Poem Source First Line: He went without fears, went gaily, since go he must Last Line: Mourn, o my sisters! Singly, for a hundred thousand dead Subject(s): World War I 1914, by MAX JACOB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Aren't lightning flashes the same shape in other countries too? Last Line: From then on I have been watched by police Subject(s): World War I 1914, by MAX JACOB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Doesn't lightning look the same to a foreigner? Someone who was at Last Line: Brothers were taking apart lebel cartridges. Since then, I've been %watched by the police Subject(s): World War I 1914, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sparrow has gone home into the tree Last Line: But pity to the hearts of men no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): World War I; First World War 1914 AND AFTER, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Would you end war? Last Line: So surely will your selfishness bring war. Subject(s): Peace; War 1914-1918: THE DEAD SPEAK, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the earth, in the seas, we remember Last Line: That we may not forgive? Subject(s): World War I; First World War 1914: 1. PEACE, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now god be thanked who has matched us with his hour Last Line: And the worst friend and enemy is but death. Variant Title(s): Peace Subject(s): Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War 1914: 2. SAFETY, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear! Of all happy in the hour, most blest Last Line: And if these poor limbs die, safest of all. Subject(s): Freedom; Love; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Liberty; First World War 1914: 3. THE DEAD, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blow out, you bugles, over the rich dead! Last Line: And we have come into our heritage. Variant Title(s): Gifts Of The Dead Subject(s): Freedom; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I - Casualties; Liberty 1914: 4. THE DEAD, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These hearts were woven of human joys and cares Last Line: A width, a shining peace, under the night. Subject(s): Life Change Events; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I - Casualties 1914: 5. THE SOLDIER, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I should die, think only this of me Last Line: In hearts at peace, under an english heaven. Variant Title(s): The Soldier Subject(s): Death; England; Environment; Fields; Flowers; Patriotism; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; English; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; First World War 1915, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Soldiers %of porcelain Last Line: And garnet %o love Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): World War I 1915, by ROGER MCDONALD Poem Source First Line: Up they go, yawning Last Line: As one %by one they totter to their knees Subject(s): World War I 1915, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hang the hills with black Last Line: You, man, arise! Subject(s): World War I; First World War 1915: FEBRUARY, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The smeared, leather-coated, leather-greaved engineer Last Line: The unseen twigs, breaking their tips with blossom. Subject(s): World War I; First World War 1915: THE TRENCHES, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night long, it has seemed for many years Last Line: Will the word come to-day? Subject(s): World War I; First World War 1916 SEEN FROM 1921, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tired with dull grief, grown old before my day Last Line: We crept in the tall grass and slept till noon. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War 1917 - THE WAR CLASS, by GEROID TANQUARY ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: Down the long white road beneath the / moon Last Line: One great humanity? Subject(s): Guns; Military Education; Soldiers; War; Youth; Military Schools 1940, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I lay in the bath the air was filling with bells Last Line: You great big wonderful world! Oh what have you done? Subject(s): War 1944 - THE INVASION COAST, by JACK BEECHING Poem Source First Line: Waiting today while planes roar over the seacoast Subject(s): War 1945, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing consoled aunt rose when roosevelt died Last Line: How my uncles were, when they'd be coming home Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Variant Title(s): Scenes From War: Voices From 194 Subject(s): Death; Family Life; World War Ii 1945, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A year in the pacific Subject(s): Fathers; War 1945, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A year in the pacific Last Line: - ah jeanie, you're still in words Subject(s): Fathers; War 1945 DISPATCH: WAR CORRESPONDENT JAMES MCGLINCY, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Driving into hiroshima Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): War Correspondents 1X1 (ONE TIMES ONE): 12, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a goodly co Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): War 1X1 (ONE TIMES ONE): 12, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a goodly co Last Line: To the god of things like they err Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): War 1X1 (ONE TIMES ONE): 13, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Plato told Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Variant Title(s): Warnings Unheeded Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War 1X1 (ONE TIMES ONE): 13, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Plato told Last Line: El;in the top of his head:to tell %him Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Variant Title(s): Warnings Unheede Subject(s): World War Ii 1X1 (ONE TIMES ONE): 20, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What if a much of a which of a wind Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Judgment Day; War; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man 1X1 (ONE TIMES ONE): 20, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What if a much of a which of a wind Last Line: The most who die, the more we live Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Judgment Day; War 1X1 (ONE TIMES ONE): 39, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All ignorance toboggans into know Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): War 1X1 (ONE TIMES ONE): 39, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All ignorance toboggans into know Last Line: We'll move away still further: into now Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): War 1X1 (ONE TIMES ONE): 52, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life is more true than reason will deceive Last Line: -but beauty is more now than dying's when Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): War 2-AUG, by JOHN CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: The acid smell of my body, the propped Subject(s): Nuclear War 22.6.1941, by ONDRA LYSOHORSKY Poem Source First Line: That day I lost everything Last Line: Deep blue at noon or studded with silent stars Subject(s): World War Ii 28-JUL, by JOHN CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: The seventeen selves emerge, bent, like locusts Subject(s): Nuclear War 3 OF 25, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Downing his drink to toasts of cut-rate jokes Last Line: When camera clicks, with quick, conclusive fact Variant Title(s): 3 For 25 Subject(s): War 3 OF 25, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Downing his drink to toasts of cut-rate jokes Last Line: Is right only if he remains in black and white %when camera clicks with quick, conclusive fact Variant Title(s): 3 For 2 Subject(s): War 31-JAN-03, by CARY WATERMAN Poem Source First Line: Before sleep, I go out into the january dark afraid of the Last Line: Outside the raccoon snuffles through the dark Subject(s): Politics; War 363 DAYS SHORT, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: My hands stained vermilion, I walk through the student union Last Line: That held the brush that painted a naked woman Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) 367TH INFANTRY, by ALLEN TUCKER Poem Source First Line: Down the street, between the waiting crowds, they come Last Line: Ready to die, %for freedom! Subject(s): World War I 50 POEMS: 5, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Am was. Are leaves few this. Is these a or Last Line: Much greenness only dying makes us grow Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): World War I 6-AUG, by BRUCE SPANG Poem Source First Line: The sky ripped open Subject(s): Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War 8/24 (THE FARMHOUSE FINALLY SPEAKS), by JOHN CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: There is a woman dying inside of me. Her delirious Subject(s): Nuclear War A BALLAD OF A COWARD, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The trumpets pealed; the echoes sang Last Line: And happy and amazed fell dead. Subject(s): Cowardice; Death; Family Life; Redemption; War; Dead, The; Relatives A BALLAD OF ATHLONE; OR, HOW THEY BROKE DOWN THE BRIDGE, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Does any man dream that a gael can fear? Last Line: And the ten that shook bloody hands with death! Subject(s): Shannon (river), Ireland; War 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 BALLAD OF ORLEANS (1429), by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The fray began at the middle-gate Last Line: To-day there is not one. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Hundred Years' War; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Orleans, France A BALLAD OF REDHEAD'S DAY [OCTOBER 8, 1918], by RICHARD BUTLER GLAENZER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Talk of the greeks at thermopylae! Last Line: Immortal at thirty; his faith sufficed. Subject(s): Argonne, Battle Of (1918); Heroism; World War I; York, Alvin Cullum (1887-1964); Heroes; Heroines; First World War A BALLADE OF BROKEN THINGS, by BLANCHE WEITBREC Poem Text First Line: The toy no skillful fingers may repair Last Line: The broken things are the immortal things! Subject(s): World War I - Belgium A BASEBALL TEAM OF UNKNOWN NAVY PILOTS, PACIFIC THEATER, 1944, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Assigned a week's good bunt, run, throw Subject(s): Baseball; World War Ii; Aviation & Aviators; Second World War; Airplanes; Air Pilots A BATTLE BALLAD TO GENERAL J.E. JOHNSTON, by FRANCIS ORRERY TICKNOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A summer sunday morning Last Line: The life-blood of the brave. Subject(s): American Civil War; Bull Run, Battles Of; Johnston, Joseph E. (1807-1891); United States - History; Manassas, Batlle Of A BATTLE PICTURE, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three mounted buglers laced in gold Last Line: All the mad plumes dance for joy! Subject(s): War A BATTLE SONG (WRITTEN IN THE WORLD WAR), by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peril surrounding Last Line: God for the right! Subject(s): World War I; First World War A BELGIAN CHRISTMAS EVE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, whose deep ways are in the sea Last Line: We know that thou art there. Variant Title(s): A Prayer In Time Of War Subject(s): Belgium; Christmas; World War I; Nativity, The; First World War A BLINDED POILU TO HIS NURSE, by AGNES LEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know you only by your tears Last Line: I know you only by your tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs. Subject(s): Hospitals; Mourning; Nurses; Soldiers; Tears; War; World War I; Bereavement; First World War A BOWER OF ROSES, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mixture of smells Last Line: Were real, and applied to you Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War A BOX COMES HOME, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember the united states of america Last Line: By the rain and oak leaves on the domino Subject(s): Coffins; Homecoming; World War Ii; Second World War A BOY, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the noise of tired people working, Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Boys; Beauty; War; God A CALL TO ACTION, by CALLINUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How long, young men, unsoldiered, disregarding Last Line: Work for many hands he does alone. Subject(s): War A CALL TO ARMS, by MARY RAYMOND SHIPMAN ANDREWS Poem Text First Line: It is I, america, calling! Last Line: Arm, arm, americans! And remember, remember, the tuscania! Subject(s): Army - United States; Patriotism; World War I; First World War A CALL TO NATIONAL SERVICE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up and be doing, all who have a hand Last Line: So loud for promptness all around outcries! Subject(s): Great Britain; Patriotism; World War I; First World War A CAMP IN THE PRUSSIAN FOREST, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk beside the prisoners to the road Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii; Shoah; Judaism; Second World War A CANTICLE: SIGNIFICANT OF NATIONAL EXALTATION CLOSE OF WAR, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O the precipice titanic Last Line: The hosts of human kind. Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History A CASUALTY LIST, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was always waiting in our mother's eyes Last Line: Anxiety or wonder any more. Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): Death; War - Home Front; Dead, The A CHANT OF LOVE FOR ENGLAND, by HELEN GRAY CONE Poem Text First Line: A song of hate is a song of hell Last Line: England! Alternate Author Name(s): Green, Coroebus Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I - Great Britain A CHILD'S NIGHTMARE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through long nursery nights he stood / by my bed unwearying Last Line: "saying for ever, ""cat! ... Cat! ... Cat!" Subject(s): World War I; First World War A CHRISTMAS GHOST-STORY; CHRISTMAS-EVE 1899, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: South of the line, inland from far durban Last Line: But tarries yet the cause for which he died.' Subject(s): Boer War; Christmas; South African War; Nativity, The A CHRISTMAS NOTE FOR GERALDINE UDELL, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do the prairie flowers, the huge autumn Subject(s): Christmas; War; Nativity, The A CHRISTOPHER OF THE SHENANDOAH, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mute he sat in the saddle Last Line: Come life or come death I could n't do less than follow his guide. Subject(s): American Civil War; Snicker's Ferry, Battle Of (1864); U.s. - History A CONFESSION OF FAITH, by JAMES SPRENT Poem Text First Line: Who would remember me were I to die Last Line: If I am worth it, keep my memory. Subject(s): Memory; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War A COUP D'ETAT; AN INCIDENT IN THE NIGHT OF DECEMBER 4, 1851, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The child received two bullets in the brain Last Line: Must sew the shrouds of children eight years old. Subject(s): Death - Children; France; Grandparents; Guns; Murder; Napoleon Iii (1808-1873); War; Death - Babies; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers 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 CRY TO ARMS, by HENRY TIMROD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! Woodsmen of the mountain side! Last Line: And for the lily's sake! Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Patriotism; United States - History; Confederacy A DANISH BARROW; ON THE EAST DEVON COAST, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lie still, old dane, below thy heap! Last Line: As thou within the mother's breast. Subject(s): Alfred The Great (849-1899); Great Britain - Danish Invasions; War; Alfred, King Of Wessex A DEAD AIRMAN, by MORAY DALTON Poem Text First Line: May's tapestry of green and gold Last Line: Can so view death. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Death; War; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Dead, The A DEAD BOCHE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To you who'd read my songs of war / and only hear of blood and fame Last Line: Dribbling black blood from nose and beard. Subject(s): World War I; First World War A DEAD CARPENTER, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall be said of this soldier now dead? Last Line: Rest you, and rest you for ever and ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): War A DIALOGUE; OVERHEARD IN A VILLAGE NEAR PORTSMOUTH, DURING WAR FRANCE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Says sue to jack, 'the reason why we english wins the day Last Line: "jabbering beggars, no! Who'd understand 'em if they did?" Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): French & Indian Wars; Navy - France; Navy - Great Britain; Prayer; War; French Navy; English Navy A DIRGE FOR KING NIALL OF THE NINE HOSTAGES (A.D. 405), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When we hosted forth afar Last Line: Host on host we faced the fight / but never fled the foe Subject(s): "niall, King Of Ireland (d. 405);war; A DIRGE FOR MCPHERSON; KILLED IN FRONT OF ATLANTA, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arms reversed and banners craped Last Line: Sarpedon of the mighty war. Subject(s): American Civil War; Atlanta Campaign (1864); Funerals; Mcpherson, James Birdseye (1828-1864); United States - History; Burials A DIVINE IMAGE, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cruelty has a human heart Last Line: The human heart, its hungry gorge. Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Religion; War; Theology A DREAM OF PEACE, by LILY PEARL CHAMBERLIN Poem Text First Line: I dreamed that peace had come, - that nevermore Last Line: The age of peace on earth, good will to men. Subject(s): Dreams; Peace; World War I; Nightmares; First World War A FAREWELL TO PATRICK SARSFIELD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "farewell, o patrick sarsfield! May luck be on your path!" Last Line: The beloved of damsels and dames. / och! Ochone! Subject(s): "sarsfield, Patrick, Earl Of Lucan;war; A FARM NEAR ZILLEBEKE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black clouds hide the moon, the amazement is gone Last Line: Black clouds hid the moon, tears blinded me more. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War A FIELD HOSPITAL, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He stirs, beginning to awake Subject(s): Hospitals; World War Ii; Second World War A FINGER AND A HUGE, THICK THUMB (A BALLAD OF THE TRENCHES), by JAMES NORMAN HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was nearly twelve o'clock by the sergeant's watch Last Line: A finger and a huge, thick thumb. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War A FRAGMENT OF A DANISH SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: King christian stood beside the mast Last Line: "when juel comes, what strength shall try the fray?'" Subject(s): Fights;war A FRIEND'S SONG FOR SIMOISIUS, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The breath of dew, and twilight's grace Last Line: The one inexorable thing!) Variant Title(s): A Friend's Lament For Simooisius Subject(s): War A FRONT, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fog over the base: the beams ranging Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii; Second World War A GEORGIA VOLUNTEER, by MARY ASHLEY TOWNSEND Poem Text First Line: Far up the lonely mountain-side Last Line: A georgia volunteer. Alternate Author Name(s): Xariffa Subject(s): American Civil War; Georgia (state); Holidays; Memorial Day; U.s. - History; Declaration Day A GRAVE NEAR PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Head-board and foot-board duly placed Last Line: The -- buried gun. Subject(s): American Civil War; Graves; Guns; U.s. - History; Tombs; Tombstones A HARROW GRAVE IN FLANDERS, by ROBERT OFFLEY ASHBURTON CREWE-MILNES Poem Text First Line: Here in the marshland, past the battered bridge Last Line: We ask; and wait. Alternate Author Name(s): Crewe, 1st Marquess Of; Houghton, Baron Variant Title(s): Harrow And Flanders Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium; Graves; World War I - Casualties; Tombs; Tombstones A HERO OF SAN JUAN HILL, by OLIVA WARD BUSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Among the sick and wounded ones Last Line: Equality shall sit enthroned. Alternate Author Name(s): Bush-banks, Oliva Ward Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Spanish-american War (1898) A HILL IN PICARDY, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a little hill in picardy Last Line: This lonely little hill in picardy! Subject(s): World War I; First World War A HOUSE IN FESTUBERT, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With blind eyes meeting the mist and moon Last Line: -- could summer betray you? Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War 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 HYMN OF LOVE AND HATE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We hate war's horrible hell Last Line: For our love to come to its own. Subject(s): World War I; First World War A KISS, by BERNARD FREEMAN TROTTER Poem Text First Line: She kissed me when she said goodbye Last Line: Good-bye. Subject(s): Farewell; Kisses; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Parting; First World War A LAMENT FOR THE RED EARL, by RICHARD MAHONY Poem Text First Line: His grave is lone by gaudalquiver Last Line: Cold as my hero's clay. Subject(s): War A LESSON FROM THE CORPS, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you find the body, it has cauliflower ears Last Line: Only the dead can tell you the distance from here to there - see more at: http://iwp.Uiowa.Edu/91st/ Subject(s): Politics & Government; War A LETTER FROM BERLIN, by JON STALLWORTHY Poet's Biography First Line: My dear, today a letter from berlin Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; War; Shoah; Judaism A LETTER FROM THE FRONT, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was out early today, spying about Last Line: But it struck me as being extremely ludicrous. Subject(s): World War I; First World War A LETTER FROM THE TRENCHES, by CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have not brought my odyssey Last Line: But you'll forgive—you'll understand. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War A LETTER HOME (TO ROBERT GRAVES), by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here I'm sitting in the gloom Last Line: While we know such dreams are true! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War A LOST LAND (TO GERMANY), by KATHLEEN KNOX Poem Text First Line: A childhood land of mountain ways Last Line: God help the dreams, the dreams of men! Subject(s): World War I - Germany A LULLABY, by G. R. GLASGOW Poem Text First Line: Because some men in khaki coats Last Line: Until the dawn of day. Subject(s): War A LULLABY, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For wars his life and half a world away Last Line: Thre lying ambers of the histories Subject(s): War; Soldiers A MEDITATION, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How often in the years that close Last Line: Silent the victors stood, scorning to raise a shout. Subject(s): American Civil War; Funerals; U.s. - History; Burials A MEDITATION IN TIME OF WAR, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For one throb of the artery Last Line: Mankind inanimate phantasy. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): War A MESSAGE OF PEACE, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was once a pirate, greedy and bold Last Line: A pious example of christian peace! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Christianity; Hypocrisy; Pacifism; Peace; Social Protest; War; Peace Movements A MESSAGE TO AMERICA, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You have the grit and the guts, I know Last Line: Oh, look over here and learn from france! Subject(s): France; Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919); Soldiers' Writings; Tolerance; United States; World War I; America; First World War A MILLION YOUNG WORKMEN, 1915, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A million young workmen straight and strong lay stiff on the grass and roads Last Line: God damn the grinning kings, god damn the kaiser and the czar. Subject(s): World War I; First World War A MONUMENT FOR SCUTARI, AFTER THE CRIMEAN WAR, SEPT. 1855, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cypresses of scutari Last Line: But from the spirit's slavery. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Crimean War (1853-1856); Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910); Scutari (lake), Europe A MOTHER BEFORE A SOLDIER'S MONUMENT, by WINNIE LYNCH ROCKETT Poem Text First Line: Was it for this I braved a pathless dark Last Line: I paid for laurel wreath and marble shaft. Variant Title(s): A Mother Before A Military Monument Subject(s): Mothers; Peace; Soldiers; War A MOTHER OF '98, by MARION COUTHOUY SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My gallant love goes out to-day Last Line: God save our gallant sons! Subject(s): Spanish-american War (1898) A MOTHER'S DEDICATION, by MARGARET PETERSON Poem Text First Line: Dear son of mine, the baby days are over Last Line: God shall uphold you that you fight aright. Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; World War I; First World War A MOTHER'S SONG, by LELIA S. MARSTALLER Poem Text First Line: My son, your country is calling Last Line: And I am one of the mothers. . . . Subject(s): Mothers; Nations; War A MYSTIC AS SOLDIER, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lived my days apart Last Line: When will you sound again? Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War A NAMELESS GRAVE; SONNET, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A soldier of the union mustered out' Last Line: And I can give thee nothing in return. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History A NEW SONG TO AN OLD TUNE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "john bull, esquire, my jo john" Last Line: "shots in my locker yet remain, / john bull, esquire, my jo!" Subject(s): American Civil War;great Britain - Foreign Relations;u.s. - History A NEW YEAR'S EVE IN WAR TIME, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Phantasmal fears Last Line: To pale europe; and tiredly the pines intone. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; World War I; First World War A NIGHT IN TIME OF WAR, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds are up, to sweep and tune Last Line: The savage turning in his tomb! Subject(s): War A NIGHT OF TERROR, 1870, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They woke me up, for my small eyes were tight Last Line: And, on the night of terror, childhood ceased! Subject(s): Night; Terror; War; Bedtime A NIGHTINGALE AT FRESNOY, by JESSIE BELL RITTENHOUSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never, they say, were guns so loud Last Line: To sing the song of life! Alternate Author Name(s): Scollard, Clinton, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Life; Nightingales; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War A NORSE WAR-SONG, A.D. 750, FR. THE DEATH SONG OF LODBROC, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER CRAIG Poem Text First Line: We hew'd with our swords Last Line: We hew'd with our swords. Subject(s): War A PARAPHRASE ON THE 13TH CHAPTER OF ISAIAH, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High on the loftiest mountain-tops, unfurl Last Line: And harp, where eccho'd once thy feastful halls. Subject(s): Advice; Bible; Desolation; God; Vengeance; War A PATRIOT I, by JEAN LEWIS MORRIS Poem Text First Line: A patriot I! This is my cry Last Line: I'm a munition maker. Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Patriotism; Selfishness; Social Protest; United States; War; America A PETITION, by ROBERT ERNEST VERNEDE Poem Text First Line: All that a man might ask, thou hast given me, england Last Line: England, for thee to die. Subject(s): England; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; English; First World War A PICTURE OF SOLDIERS, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are doughboys, of doughboy bearing Last Line: The next invention, the next impossible president. Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Soldiers; War; World War I; First World War A PILOT FROM THE CARRIER, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strapped at the center of the blazing wheel Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii; Second World War A PLEA, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Text First Line: Pretty star / stay where you are Last Line: You fill me with delight. Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities; Second World War A POEM FOR SOMEONE KILLED IN SPAIN, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though oars are breaking the breathless gaze Last Line: Are man's responsibilities Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) A PRAYER, by MAGDALENE C. STEPHENS Poem Text First Line: Dear god, on far horizons Last Line: May serve peace gloriously. Subject(s): Prayer; Tragedy; War A PRAYER USED BY FRANCIS I WHEN HE WAS AT WAR WITH CHARLES V, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Almighty lord of hosts, by whose commands Last Line: Triumphant hymns to thee, th' eternal king. Subject(s): Peace; Prayer; Victory; War A PRAYER, AFTER SANTIAGO, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Almighty god! Eternal source / of every arm we dare to wield Last Line: Could strike, yet spare the fallen state. Subject(s): God; Prayer; Santiago, Battle Of (1898); Spanish-american War (1898); War A PRESIDENT, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, whom the slave-lords with contemptuous feet Last Line: Which gave us treason, war, and lastly -- thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Freedom; Leadership; Treason And Traitors; War; Liberty A PRIVATE, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This ploughman dead in battle slept out of doors Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I; First World War A RAID OF THE NEUTRAL GROUND, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up! Bully boys of the nepperhan!' Last Line: Peace rules the vale of the nepperhan. Subject(s): New York City - Revolutionary Period; Soldiers; War A RALLY, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We that are english born and bred Last Line: Answer them -- answer them, england's sons! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): World War I; First World War A REFUSAL TO MOURN THE DEATH, BY FIRE, OF A CHILD IN LONDON, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Never until the mankind making Subject(s): Air Warfare; Death - Children; Fire; Innocence; Mourning; World War Ii; Death - Babies; Bereavement; Second World War A RENASCENCE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White flabbiness goes brown and lean, dumpling arms are now brass bars Last Line: Poetry is born again. Subject(s): World War I; First World War A RENUNCIATION OF THE DESERT PRIMROSE; FOR J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am tired of the black and white photograph Last Line: I have fallen behind... Subject(s): Nuclear War; Oppenheimer, Julius Robert (1904-1967); Regret; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb A REQUIEM FOR SOLDIERS LOST IN OCEAN TRANSPORTS, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When, after storms that woodlands rue Last Line: Round the lone spar where mid-sea surges pour. Subject(s): American Civil War; Disasters; Shipwrecks; Soldiers; United States - History A ROUNDHEAD'S RALLYING SONG, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How beautiful is the battle Last Line: We whose armour is the armour of the lord! Variant Title(s): The Rally Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain - Civil War; Liberty; English Civil War A RUNIC ODE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes - 'tis decreed my sword no more Last Line: As e'er in battle bar'd my breast. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; War; Dead, The A SCAEN OF SIR ROBERT HOARD'S PLAY, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lead faster on why creep you thus to fight Last Line: Finis Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Howard, Sir Robert (1626-1698); War A SECOND REVIEW OF THE GRAND ARMY [MAY 24, 1865], by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read last night of the grand review Last Line: Awakened me from my slumber. Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; Peace; Soldiers; United States - History; Declaration Day A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 28. THE WELSH MARCHES, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High the vanes of shrewsbury gleam Last Line: Put to sleep my mother's curse? Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): War A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 35, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the idle hill of summer Last Line: Woman bore me, I will rise. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): War A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 56. THE DAY OF BATTLE, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far I hear the bugle blow Last Line: And take the bullet in your brain.' Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): War A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 63, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hoed and trenched and weeded Last Line: Last poems Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): War A SOLDIER, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is that fallen lance that lies as hurled Last Line: Further than target ever showed or shone Subject(s): Holidays; War A SOLDIER LISTENS, by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What was it came to distress you? Last Line: Who from the clamoring dead? Subject(s): Death; Pain; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery A SOLDIER'S FAREWELL, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Beloved, farewell! 'tis an ancient tale this / call Last Line: To flower in immortality. Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Soldiers; War; Parting A SONG, by CHARLES ALEXANDER RICHMOND Poem Text First Line: Oh, red is the english rose Last Line: Will grow for a love that never and never can fail. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; World War I - Casualties A SONG FOR AMERICA, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How comely is our motherland Last Line: And guard her as of yore. Subject(s): United States; World War I; America; First World War A SONG FOR TWO VOICES, by MAURICE HENRY HEWLETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O mother, mother, isn't it fun Last Line: Sin and shame, sin and shame. Subject(s): Grief; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; War; Sorrow; Sadness A SONG IN TIME OF REVOLUTION, 1860, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The heart of the rulers is sick, and the Last Line: Is felt in the bones of the dead, Variant Title(s): A Song In Time Of Revolution: 1860 Subject(s): Revolutions; Soldiers; War A SONG OF BATTLE, by MARY BELTZHOOVER JENKINS Poem Text First Line: Sing me a song of battle Last Line: Smiles on the battle-peace. Subject(s): War; Wellesley College A SONG OF DEFEAT, by STEPHEN LUCIUS GWYNN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not for the lucky warriors Last Line: And victory less than defeat. Subject(s): Ireland; War; Irish A SONG OF HEROES (WRITTEN IN THE WORLD WAR), by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our country calls for heroes Last Line: And for all the groaning earth! Subject(s): Heroism; World War I; Heroes; Heroines; First World War A SONG OF HOME-COMING, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark and cold on the far battle-field Last Line: O let the laurel grow there! Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Battleships; Homecoming; Memory; Mourning; Peace; Soldiers; War; War Injuries; Bereavement A SONG OF SHAME AND HONOR (WRITTEN IN THE WORDLD WAR), by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where's the man who will not hear Last Line: Honored through eternity! Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I; First World War A SONG OF THE SANDBAGS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No, bill, I'm not a-spooning out no patriotic tosh Last Line: The brotherhood of peace. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War A SONG OF THERMOPYLAE (HERODOTUS), by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In olden days when there were other gods Last Line: And all thy golden visions sink. Subject(s): Greece; Leonidas, King Of Sparta (d. 480 B.c.); Thermopylae, Battle Of; War; Greeks A SONG OF WINTER WEATHER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It isn't the foe that we fear Last Line: And the mud. Subject(s): Death; War; Winter; World War I; Dead, The; First World War A STORY ABOUT CHICKEN SOUP, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my grandmother's house there was always chicken soup Last Line: But to live in the tragic world forever. Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; World War Ii; Shoah; Judaism; Second World War A SUBALTERN, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He turned to me with his kind, sleepy gaze Last Line: Wondering 'why he always talked such tripe'. Subject(s): Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War A SUMMER MORNING, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The summer meads are fair with daisy-snow Last Line: The ruthless wrong, the piteous agony! Subject(s): World War I; First World War A TENT SCENE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our generals sat in their tent one night Last Line: "will be dislodged at morn!" Subject(s): American Civil War; Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); United States - History A TERRE (BEING THE PHILOSOPHY OF MANY SOLDIERS), by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Sit on the bed. I'm blind, and three parts shell Last Line: To do without what blood remained these wounds. Subject(s): Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War A TROJAN SLAVE, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've often wandered in the fields of troy Subject(s): Troy; Trojan War; Slavery; Serfs A TRUE-BLUE BROADSIDE OF '14, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And what's the news, mr. Sergeant, what news, my soldier man?' Last Line: With a leetle more broth than he meant to spare 'twixt petersburg and france.' Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): World War I; First World War A UTILITARIAN VIEW OF THE MONITOR'S FIGHT, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Plain be the phrase, yet apt the verse Last Line: And a singe runs through lace and feather. Subject(s): American Civil War; Monitor (ship); Sea Battles; United States - History; Naval Warfare A VISIT TO GETTYSBURG, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will / touch stone Subject(s): American Civil War; Blood; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); United States - History; War; Gettysburg, Battle Of A VOICE FROM FLANDERS FIELDS, by ELLA COLTER JOHNSTON Poem Text First Line: We did not hate. We did not want to kill Last Line: But will men never find peace save by dying? Subject(s): Peace; Soldiers; War A VOICE OF THE LOYAL NORTH, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sing 'our country's' song tonight Last Line: God keep us all! Amen! Subject(s): American Civil War; Classmates; United States - History; Schoolmates A VOICE PROPHETIC, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the carnage rose prophetic a voice Last Line: Nay, nor the world, nor any living thing, will so cohere.) Subject(s): American Civil War; Americans; Patriotism; United States - History A VOW, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will haunt these states Subject(s): United States; War; America A VOW TO MARS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Store of courage to me grant Last Line: Offer'd up a wolfe to thee. Subject(s): War A WAR, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There set out, slowly, for a different world Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War A WAR ECHO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "wake up early, chillun!" Last Line: Ca'se we got dat tax to pay Subject(s): War A WAR SONG OF TYROL, by JOHANN CHRYSOSTOMOS SENN Poem Text First Line: Wild eagle of the tyrol Last Line: "I've been among the dead!" Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Singing & Singers; Tyrol, Austria; Victory; War A WAR SONG TO ENGLISHMEN, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prepare, prepare the iron helm of war Last Line: Prepare, prepare. Subject(s): Bible; England; Mythology; Patriotism; War; English A WAR STORY, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): World War Ii; Guests; Family Life; Second World War; Visiting; Relatives A WAR TAX, by CHARLOTTE BECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Faith, tim 'as just enlisted Last Line: To thry an' cheer the byes? Subject(s): Taxes; War A WAR-LULLABY; AUGUST, 1916, by EMILE CAMMAERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fire dwindles and the wind moans Last Line: Baby soon will be asleep. ... Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Fear; Marriage; War; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A WARRIOR'S PRAYER, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long since, in sore distress, I heard one pray Last Line: Rest from the fight! Subject(s): Religion; War; Theology A WEDDING AT CANA, LEBANON, 2007, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He said, 'it is terrible what happens.' Subject(s): Marriage; War; Lebanon; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A WELCOME TO LINCOLN'S REMAINS, by MARTHA A. PARKS Poem Text First Line: Illinois' immortal son Last Line: Resting on her breast. Subject(s): American Civil War; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; U.s. - History A WHISPERED TALE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'd heard fool heroes brag of where they'd been Last Line: Sour jokes for all those horrors left behind. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War A WIFE IN LONDON, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sits in the tawny vapour Last Line: And of new love that they would learn. Subject(s): Boer War; South African War A WIFE'S LAMENT, by MACKINLAY KANTOR Poem Text First Line: Behind his sharpened axle swords Last Line: Here on the marble seat. Subject(s): Lament; War A WOMAN OF PARIS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Retreating towards the marne, his regiment Last Line: While women such as she are at its portal! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; France; Marriage; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A WORD FOR THE HOUR, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The firmament breaks up. In black eclipse Last Line: Brighter shall shine the stars which still remain. Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History A WORKING PARTY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three hours ago he blundered up the trench Last Line: His startled life with lead, and all went out. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War A WORM FED ON THE HEART OF CORINTH, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: More amorous than solomon Subject(s): British Empire; World War I; Prophecy & Prophets; Helen Of Troy A YOUNG TREE, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are so few trees here, so few young trees Last Line: Could not our faith be more merciful? Subject(s): World War I; First World War A. B. C. OF A NAVAL TRAINEE, by ROY FULLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A is the anger we hide with some danger Last Line: Our ending, our z and our only escape Subject(s): War A.E.F., by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There will bea rusty gun on the wall, sweetheart Last Line: They will tell the spider: go on, you're doing good work. Subject(s): Rifles; World War I; First World War A.G.A.V., by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rest you well among your race, you who cannot be dead Last Line: Vast tumult past, and the proud sense still of vast to-morrows to dare. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War A.J.J, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When he's returned I'll tell him -- oh Last Line: The news must keep for aye Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Jackson, Adalbert J. (d. 1892); War A.S.K, by N. M. H. Poem Source First Line: You must not mourn for him, he that went out to france Subject(s): World War I ABEL, by DEMETRIOS CAPETANAKIS Poem Source First Line: My brother cain, the wounded, like to sit Subject(s): War ABI, VIATOR -, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: If thou hast seen the standard dim Subject(s): World War I ABOUT EYES, by EDWIN ROLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The terror of the serene plane is in their eyes Last Line: And the arc-plummet fall of the bombs, the grotesque explosion, %the hysteria of the insane siren, t Alternate Author Name(s): Fishman, Solomon Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) ABOVE SHELTON LAUREL, by RON RASH Poem Source First Line: Fog never lifts, though the days Last Line: Leading back to tennessee Subject(s): Absence; American Civil War; Grief; Soldiers; U.s. - History; War ABOVE THE BATTLE'S FRONT, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh foolish people, and without understanding Last Line: Thorn-crowned above the water and the land. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Buddhism; Evil; Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); Hate; Jesus Christ; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Saints; Social Protest; Tolstoy, Leo (1828-1910); War; Buddha; Buddhists ABOVE THE CHURCHYARD, CROCKATEEMORE, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: A stop to see the tombs Last Line: As if such visits will keep %all threats farther from anyone's life Subject(s): Churchyards; Death; Graves; War ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mr. Stone Last Line: The curtain falls Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1), by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not as when some great captain falls Last Line: Of that paternal soul. Variant Title(s): An Horatian Ode;abraham Lincoln: An Horation Ode Subject(s): American Civil War; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; United States - History ABRAHAM LINCOLN ON THE FOURTH NIGHT OF INSOMNIA, by RYAN G. VAN CLEAVE Poem Source First Line: The loud voice in the hallway. The skittish pony Last Line: I am a shipwrecked dog whose eyes reflect nothing Subject(s): American Civil War; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; U.s. - History ABRAHAM LINCOLN WALKS AT MIDNIGHT, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is portentous, and a thing of state Last Line: That he may sleep upon his hill again? Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Injustice; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Patriotism; Peace; Presidents, United States; Social Protest; World War I - United States ABSOLUTION, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The anguish of the earth absolves our eyes Last Line: What need we more, my comrades and my brothers? Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War ACCEPTATION, by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We do accept thee, heavenly peace! Last Line: And leave to god and heaven the rest. Subject(s): American Civil War; Peace; U.s. - History ACELDAMA, by GEORGE F. BUTLER Poem Source First Line: Still breaks the holy morn,to soothe the care Subject(s): World War I ACHTUNG! ACHTUNG!, by MARY HACKER Poem Source First Line: I'm war. Remember me? Subject(s): War ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TO THE BRITISH NAVY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We do not like to own it Last Line: Hurrah for johnny bull! Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; World War I; English Navy; First World War ACOUSTIC SHADOWS; LT. MITCHELL, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: We climbed sand mountain and could see the dust Last Line: I'd been in a shadow and I did not hear it Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History ACROSS THE LONG DARK BORDER, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My sister and I learned about our first war Last Line: War between the states. Subject(s): American Civil War; Divorce; Novels & Novelists; United States - History ACTIVIST MILICIANO, by SHERRY MANGAN Poem Source First Line: As he felt the wall against his back and against Last Line: To see how it all came out Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) ACTOR'S WAR; TUNISIA, 1943, by HUGO WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: March %well, here we are in our tropical kit Last Line: I think they must be slower down here, %for I can't believe that I am quicker Subject(s): Soldiers; Tunisia; World War Ii AD, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harper's and many magazines contain Subject(s): Magazines; War; Soldiers; Corpses; Pictures; Cadavers ADDRESS TO THE ORANGE-TREE AT VERSAILLES, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When france with civil wars was torn Last Line: To heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Oranges; Trees; Versailles, Frances; War ADMIRAL DUGOUT, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He had done with fleets and squadrons, with Last Line: That he has as captain dugout, r.N.R. Subject(s): Admirals; World War I; First World War ADMIRAL EVANS, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: The wide seas search for him. But vain their quest Last Line: They fashioned him to fight — still fights he on! Subject(s): Evans, Robley Dunglison (1846-1912); Sailing & Sailors; War; Seamen; Sails ADMONITION: TO BETSEY, by HELEN PARRY EDEN Poem Source First Line: Remember, on your knees Subject(s): World War I ADOLESCENCE, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the history has been made Last Line: And am part, still, of the done war Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): War ADVENT 1966, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because in vietnam the vision of a burning babe Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict (1961-1975); Advent; War Atrocities; Social Commentaries ADVERSARIA CRITICA, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wars and woes the world may fill Last Line: Just as ill-informed as t'other! Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): War ADVICE FOR A JOURNEY, by SIDNEY KEYES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The drums mutter for war, and soon we must begin Last Line: You'll find, maybe, the dream under the hill - %but never canaan, nor any golden mountain Subject(s): Advice; Soldiers; World War Ii ADVICE TO A PROPHET, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When you come, as you soon must, to the streets of our city Last Line: When the bronze annals of the oak-tree close. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Christianity; Environment; Judgment Day; Messiah; Nuclear War; Religion; Sea Monsters; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb; Theology; S ADVICE TO A RAVEN IN RUSSIA, by JOEL BARLOW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black fool, why winter here? These frozen skies Last Line: Dash him to dust, and let the world repose. Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); War AEGEAN, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where only flowers fret Last Line: Of battles on the plain %and the bright oar and the oar spray Subject(s): Aegean Sea; Trojan War AENEID: AENEAS TELLS OF THE TROJAN HORSE, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: By destiny compell'd, and in despair Last Line: And ilian tow'rs and priam's empire stood Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): War AENEID: DIDO, QUEENE OF CARTHAGE, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Then he unlockt the horse, and suddenly Last Line: Troy is a fire, the grecians have the town Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Trojan War AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH BEFORE THE ATOMIC BOMB, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why did such terrible events / catch my eye Last Line: Of contained passion? Variant Title(s): Fires In Childhood Subject(s): Nuclear War; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH BEFORE THE ATOMIC BOMB, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why did such terrible events %catch my eye Variant Title(s): Fires In Childhoo Subject(s): Nuclear War AEROPLANES, by WALTER JAMES REDFERN TURNER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Iron birds floating in the sky Subject(s): World War I AFGHANI NOMAD COAT (PART V), by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lawn is set for vacation Subject(s): Nuclear War AFTER A HYPOTHETICAL WAR, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No rule nor ruler; only water and clay Subject(s): War AFTER A WAR, by MICHAEL HAMBURGER Poem Source First Line: The outcome? Conflicting rumours Last Line: The war is over. Somebody must have won %somebody will have won, when peace is declared Subject(s): War AFTER A YEAR IN KOREA, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Old uncle oscar hated cold, hauled Last Line: The bomb, good summers short, %the winters hard, more bitter every year Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Korean War, 1950-1953; Prairies - Texas AFTER ACTION (A SOUL REMEMBERS), by ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once, in my moment of earth Last Line: In rearing a heavenly flower. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War AFTER BOMBARDMENT, by JOHN SLEIGH PUDNEY Poem Source First Line: Freedom I never saw in words Subject(s): War AFTER BOURLON WOOD, by HELEN DIRCKS Poem Source First Line: In one of london's most exclusive haunts Last Line: But georgius rex, it seems, is awfully keen %to give me the m.C. For being good Subject(s): Women; World War I AFTER COURT MARTIAL, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mind is not my mind, therefore Last Line: Not I the king of babylon. Subject(s): Babylon; Military Justice; World War I; Courts Martial; First World War AFTER EXPERIENCE TAUGHT ME, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: After experience taught me that all the ordinary Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War AFTER EXPERIENCE TAUGHT ME, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After experience taught me that all the ordinary Last Line: What evil, what unspeakable crime %have you made your life worth? Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Subject(s): World War Ii AFTER HEARING THE PRIME MINISTER, APRIL 27TH, 1941, by RICHARD ELWES Poem Source First Line: My god, I thank thee that my course is set Last Line: This part of champion and this march with death! Subject(s): World War Ii AFTER JUTLAND, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The city of god is late become a seaport town Last Line: The sailor he is home from sea to go back no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; World War I; First World War AFTER MY LAST SONG, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where I shall rest when my last song is over Last Line: You'll sleep here on wan cheeks grown thin and old. Subject(s): Death; Mortality; Poetry & Poets; World War I; Dead, The; First World War AFTER OUR WAR, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: After our war, the dismembered bits Last Line: After our war, how will love speak? Subject(s): Asian Americans; Poetry & Poets; Scars; Social Problems; Soldiers; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War AFTER SIX THOUSAND YEARS, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Going on six thousand years Subject(s): War AFTER SPOTSYLVANIA COURT HOUSE, by DAVID FERRY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read the brown sentences of my great-grandfather Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History AFTER SPOTSYLVANIA COURT HOUSE, by DAVID FERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read the brown sentences of my great-grandfather Last Line: The incense has the odor of old paper Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History AFTER THE ANTI-WAR MARCH, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We had a different driver on the way home. I sat Subject(s): Politics & Government; War AFTER THE ANTI-WAR MARCH, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We had a different driver on the way home. I sat Last Line: Is eating some peppermint candies to stay awake Subject(s): Politics; War AFTER THE BATTLE, by ALAN PATRICK HERBERT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So they are satisfied with our brigade Last Line: Fight, if you must, fresh battles far ahead, %but keep them dark behind your chateau door! Alternate Author Name(s): Patrick, A. P. Subject(s): World War I AFTER THE BATTLE, by ANTONI MALCZEWSKI Poem Source First Line: The hill beside the wood had dressed in green Last Line: Grass till it tinkled like distant armour Subject(s): War AFTER THE BATTLE, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing banners and cannon and roll of drum! Last Line: Ah, the riding away is another thing! Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): War AFTER THE BATTLE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Once on a time, it matters little when Last Line: Of those that plucked them. Subject(s): Fights; War AFTER THE BATTLE (OF AUGHRIM), by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Night closed around the conqueror's way Last Line: Oh! Who would live a slave in this? Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): War AFTER THE BATTLE OF ACTIUM, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I rejoice with you in the triumph of caesar Last Line: With the joys of carefree bacchus Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): War AFTER THE MEAL, by JEAN-MARC BERNARD Poem Source First Line: Peeping through shutters from an upstairs room Last Line: Embrace my mistress and remove her dress Subject(s): World War I AFTER THE RETREAT, by MAY SINCLAIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I could only see again Last Line: The house we passed that day. Subject(s): World War I; First World War AFTER THE WAR, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last post sounded Last Line: "and she the dead!" Subject(s): World War I; First World War AFTER THE WAR, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the war - I hear men ask - what then? Last Line: Whose meaning is beyond the reach of time. Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War AFTER THE WAR, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After a war the boys play soldier with real weapons. This is a real Last Line: In the war his communiques always mentioned god. We hated him Subject(s): World War Ii AFTER THE WAR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All of our wrongs shall be righted Last Line: After the war? Subject(s): World War I; First World War AFTER TU FU (A.D. 713-770), by EDWIN ROLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The innocents were condemned to death in the hall of justice Last Line: Dig deep again in the great caves of the east %again our wise men talk in the hall of peace Alternate Author Name(s): Fishman, Solomon Subject(s): Nuclear War AFTER TWENTY YEARS, by OLLIE BARNES DAYTON Poem Text First Line: They marched away those boys in brown Last Line: The sound of taps for broken lives? Subject(s): War AFTER VIOLENCE, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stained-glass blue day. But smoke after a noise Subject(s): War AFTER WAR, by JOHN KINGSTON FINERAN Poem Text First Line: Victors are bored, and victims bitterly Last Line: The only undefeated are the dead. Subject(s): War AFTER-DAYS, by ERIC CHILMAN Poem Source First Line: When the last gun has long withheld Subject(s): World War I AFTERLIFE, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The many of us that came through the war Last Line: It will feel strange at first. But so it goes Subject(s): War AFTERMATH, by HERBERT GARDNER BARON BURGHCLERE Poem Source First Line: Yes, he is gone, there is the message, see! Subject(s): World War I AFTERMATH, by EURIPIDES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pergamon city of the phrygians Subject(s): War 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 AFTERMATH, by D. HOWARD TRIPP Poem Source First Line: With steady, silent tread Subject(s): World War I AFTERNOON RAIN ON ROUTE 5, by NGUYEN TUAN TRINH Poem Source First Line: Afternoon rain soaked %the white stubbled field Last Line: So I feel the love %of the poet of viet bac Subject(s): Indochinese War, 1946-1954 AFTERNOON TEA, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I was saying ... No, thank you; I never take cream with my tea Last Line: Let's talk of the things that matter -- your car or the newest play. . . . Subject(s): War; World War I; First World War AFTERWARD, by CYRIL MORTON HORNE Poem Source First Line: In the afterward, when I am dead Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I AFTERWARD, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sick man said: 'I pray I shall not die' Subject(s): World War I AFTERWARDS, by PETER BAKER Poem Source First Line: When the grey night is pierced Last Line: And hear the songs of silence there Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii AFTERWARDS, by MARGARET ISABEL POSTGATE COLE Poem Source First Line: Oh, my beloved, shall you and I Last Line: To have your body lying here %in sheer, underneath the larches? Subject(s): Women; World War I 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 AIR FORCE PLAYS BASEBALL NEAR THE SOUTH CHINA SEA, by DALE RITTERBUSCH Poem Source First Line: He tells me a barrage of 8-inch guns Last Line: As if the fielders weren't even there Subject(s): Air Force - United States; Battleships; Soldiers; War AIR RAID, by CLIFFORD DYMENT Poem Source First Line: Whenever I am sad because of the news Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii AIR RAID ACROSS THE BAY OF PLYMOUTH, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above the whispering sea Last Line: Man hammers nails in man, %high on his crucifix Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii AIR RAID: BARCELONA, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black smoke of sound Last Line: Men uncover bodies %from ruins of stone Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Air Warfare; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) AIR VIEW OF AN INDUSTRIAL SCENE, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a train at the ramp, unloading people Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii; Shoah; Judaism; Second World War AIR VIEW OF AN INDUSTRIAL SCENE, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is a train at the ramp, unloading people Last Line: We're watchers. But if we had bombs we'd drop them Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii AIR-RAID CASUALTIES: ASHRIDGE HOSPITAL, by PATRICIA LEDWARD Poem Source First Line: On sundays friends arrive with kindly words Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii AIR-RAID WARNING, by DOUGLAS GIBSON Poem Source First Line: After the sirens sound, the air Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii AIRMAN, by GREGG GODDARD Poem Source First Line: Wild wind, and drear, beneath the pale stars blowing Subject(s): World War I AIRMAN, by WILLIAM ROBERT RODGERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Afterwards he may take thought Alternate Author Name(s): Rodgers, W. R. Subject(s): War AIRMAN, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He will watch the hawk with an indifferent eye Last Line: Hands, wings, are found. Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Air Force - United States; Aviation & Aviators; Birds; Hawks; War - Casualties (statistics, Etc.) AIRMAN'S VIRTUE, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High plane for whom the winds incline Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War AIRMAN'S VIRTUE, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High plane for whom the winds incline Last Line: And fixing on a farther pole %will sheerly rise Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): World War Ii AIRMAN, R.F.C., by AGNES GROZIER HERBERTSON Poem Source First Line: He heard them in the silence of the night Last Line: And find a better world than he had found Subject(s): Women; World War I AIRSTRIP IN ESSEX, 1960, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a lost road into the air Last Line: In poland the wind rides on a jagged wall. %smoke rises from the stones; no, it is mist Subject(s): War AL'S POEM, AS WRITTEN BY ONE OF HIS STUDENT, by BENNIE LEE SINCLAIR Poem Source First Line: Germany, world war ii. Bivouacked Last Line: The vandal always comes. %begone! Subject(s): World War Ii ALABAMA, by JULIA TUTWILER Poem Source First Line: Alabama, alabama Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History ALABANZA: IN PRAISE OF LOCAL 100, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Alabanza. Praise the cook with a shaven head Last Line: I will teach you. Music is all we have Subject(s): Politics; War ALAN SEEGER, by WASHINGTON VAN DUSEN Poem Source First Line: No beauty could escape his loving eyes Subject(s): World War I ALAS FOR US SOLDIERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: What plant is not faded? Last Line: As we push them along the track Subject(s): War ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON, by FRANCIS ORRERY TICKNOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His soul to god! On a battle-psalm! Last Line: To the home of the glorified! Subject(s): American Civil War; Johnston, Albert Sidney (1803-1862); Shiloh, Battle Of (1862); U.s. - History ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON [APRIL 6, 1862], by KATE BROWNLEE SHERWOOD Poem Text First Line: I hear again the tread of war go thundering through the land Last Line: One heart, one hope, one destiny, one flag from sea to sea. Subject(s): American Civil War; Johnston, Albert Sidney (1803-1862); Shiloh, Battle Of (1862); United States - History ALBERT SPEER, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not even %a farewell. Not even Last Line: Too little of my children Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Subject(s): Speer, Albert (1905-1981); World War Ii ALBI: SUNDAYS BEFORE THE WAR, by CLAIRE MALROUX Poem Source First Line: The shrill sound of a phonograph Last Line: Into the abyss of history Alternate Author Name(s): Roux, Claire Sara Subject(s): War ALCIDA: VERSES WRITTEN UNDER A PICTURE OF VENUS, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When nature forg'd the fair unhappy mould Last Line: Lent gods and men a poison and a hell. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Trojan War; Venus (goddess) ALEXANDRIAN SONGS: 2, by MIKHAIL ALEXEYEVICH KUZMIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dying is sweet Last Line: And flutes be heard from afar. Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Memory; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines ALFRED THE HARPER, by JOHN STERLING (1806-1844) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark fell the night, the watch was set Last Line: And slew ten thousand foes. Variant Title(s): King Alfred The Harper Subject(s): Alfred The Great (849-1899); Great Britain - Danish Invasions; War; Alfred, King Of Wessex ALIKE AND YET UNLIKE: GENERAL RICHARD TAYLOR WRITES TO HENRY ADAMS, by HELEN A. PINKERTON Poem Source First Line: Washington, d.C., january 1879 %we spoke last evening of your work and mine Last Line: Could wish for you, I should wish such a death Variant Title(s): Alike And Yet Unlik Subject(s): Change; History; War ALL, by FRANCIS ALEXANDER DURIVAGE Poem Text First Line: There hangs a saber, and there's a rein Last Line: And his horse pined to death -- I have told you all. Subject(s): War ALL DAY IT HAS RAINED, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day it has rained, and we on the edge of the moors Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Thomas, Edward (1878-1917); War ALL DAY IT HAS RAINED, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day it has rained, and we on the edge of the moors Last Line: On death and beauty -- till a bullet stopped his song Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Thomas, Edward (1878-1917); War ALL ELEGIES ARE BLACK AND WHITE, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When villon went to his college Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) ALL ELEGIES ARE BLACK AND WHITE, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When villon went to his college Last Line: Whose elegies are white %dios! Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) ALL HOUSES ARE HAUNTED, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: Some nights in the palouse the moon-blue sky Last Line: Though nothing echoed in that open land Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History ALL QUIET, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How come nobody is being bombed today? Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Bly, Robert (b. 1926); Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Anti-war Protests ALL QUIET ALONG THE POTOMAC TONIGHT (WITH MUSIC), by LAMAR FONTAINE Poem Source Subject(s): American Civil War; Potomac River; Rivers; U.s. - History ALL RUIN IS THE SAME, by EMANUEL LITVINOFF Poem Source First Line: All ruin is the same, the form of death Subject(s): War ALL THAT IS LEFT, by MATSUO MUNEFUSA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old battle field, fresh with spring flowers again Last Line: Of twice ten thousand warriors slain. Alternate Author Name(s): Basho; Matsuo Basho Subject(s): War ALL THE DEAD SOLDIERS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the chill rains of the early winter I hear something Last Line: Where lie the aging women: who were so lovely: once Subject(s): Soldiers; War ALL THINGS MADE NEW FOR NOW, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come down from portland on the early flight Subject(s): War ALL THROUGH THAT YEAR, by N. K. CRUICKSHANK Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii ALL'S WELL, by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Watchman, watchman, what of the night Subject(s): World War I ALLATOONA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Winds that sweep the southern mountains Last Line: Of the terror and the glory / of the battle of allatoona pass! Subject(s): "allatoona Pass, Georgia;american Civil War;atlanta Campaign (1864);u.s. - History; ALMA, by RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though till now ungraced in story Last Line: Alma, roll thy waters proudly, proudly roll them to the sea. Subject(s): Alma River (russia); Crimean War (1853-1856); Rivers; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians ALMERIA, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A dish for the bishop, a crushed and bitter dish Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): War ALMOST FORTY YEARS, by WALTER SNOW Poem Source First Line: With beads and holy water, with shekels, pounds, and dollars Last Line: And faces like spring blossoms Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) ALONG THE PATHS O' GLORY, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along the paths o' glory there are faces new to-day Last Line: Served the truth. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): World War I; First World War ALPHABET: 10, by INGER CHRISTENSEN Poem Source First Line: June night exists, june night exists Last Line: Of the atom bomb Subject(s): War ALTERAM PARTEM, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Or shall I say, vain word, false thought Last Line: Than never to have fought at all.' Subject(s): War ALTERNATION, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the fountain and the rill Last Line: Of whence we spring and what we are. Subject(s): Play; War AMAZONS, by RICHARD A. CROUCH Poem Source First Line: They fill the fields in mighty throng Subject(s): World War I AMBOYNA: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A poet once the spartan's led to fight Last Line: Let caesar live, and carthage be subdu'd! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Great Britain - Dutch War (1672-1678); Honor; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; English; Dramatists AMBOYNA: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As needy gallants, in the scrivener's hands Last Line: As much improper as would honesty. Variant Title(s): Satire On The Dutch Subject(s): Cruelty; Great Britain - Dutch War (1672-1678); Merchants; Plays & Playwrights ; Religion; Dramatists; Theology AMBROSE: NAM, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cloudgatherer %with muscularf tautness Last Line: How many people were killed in the war, both sides Subject(s): Cambodia; Communism; Poetry And Poets; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War AMBULANCE DRIVER'S PRAYER, by THOMAS F. COAKLEY Poem Source First Line: Mid blinding rain this inky night Subject(s): World War I AMBULANCE TRAIN 30, by CAROLA OMAN Poem Source First Line: A.T. 30 lies in the siding Last Line: And the occupying army boards her for cologne Subject(s): Women; World War I AMERICA AT ST. PAUL'S, by MARGARETTA BYRDE Poem Text First Line: Destiny knocked at the door Last Line: "and this is our war!" Subject(s): St. Paul's Cathedral, London; World War I - United States AMERICA AT WAR, by GERTRUDE BROWN SMITH Poem Text First Line: America, / if thy sons can go to war Last Line: And war shall never more be. Subject(s): Battleships; World War I; First World War AMERICA IN FRANCE, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, to be in paris now that pershing's there! Last Line: To make the round world safe for man . . . O god, that I were young! Subject(s): Pershing, John J. (1860-1948); World War I; First World War AMERICA RESURGENT, by WENDELL PHILLIPS STAFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She is risen from the dead! Last Line: And a helmet full of stars! Subject(s): World War I - United States AMERICA'S WELCOME HOME, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, gallantly they fared forth in khaki and in blue Last Line: Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Homecoming; Victory; World War I - United States AMERICAN, by JAMES BERTOLINO Poem Source First Line: He stands bent before negation Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Nuclear War AMERICAN CONSCRIPT, 1917, by ELLEN WINSOR Poem Source First Line: My country gave the cry; it needed me Last Line: I died to please my masters, now I know Subject(s): World War I AMERICAN CONSTITUTION FRIGATE'S ENGAGEMENT ... GUERRIERE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come jolly lads, ye hearts of gold Last Line: Our barve commander now we'll toast, %in punch, and wine, and brandy Subject(s): Constitution (ship); Navy - United States; Sea Battles; War Of 1812 AMERICAN CREED, by EVERARD JACK APPLETON Poem Source First Line: Straight thinking %straight talking Subject(s): World War I AMERICAN LIGHT, by GARY SHORT Poem Source First Line: I watched the distant explosions Last Line: Her lipstick flamed red on my cheek Subject(s): Politics; War AMERICAN SPRING, by MICHAEL DAVID MADONICK Poem Source First Line: To wonder, in an age of innocence Subject(s): Nuclear War AMERICAN VOLUNTEERS, by MARIE VAN VORST Poem Source First Line: Neutral! America, you cannot give Subject(s): World War I AMERICAN WARS, by URSULA KROEBER LE GUIN Poem Source First Line: Like the topaz in the toad's head Last Line: And how we tell the story is forever after Subject(s): Politics; War AMERICANS COME!, by ELIZABETH A. WILBUR Poem Source First Line: What is the cheering, my little one? Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I AMERICANS PLAYING SLOW-PITCH SOFTBALL AT AN AIRBASE ..., by HALVARD JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Early september %the first game of Last Line: Don't look back. Something may be %gaining on you.' Subject(s): Army Life; Baseball; Korean War, 1950-1953; Sports AMMUNITION COLUMN, by GILBERT FRANKAU Poem Text First Line: I am only a cog in a giant machine, a link of an endless chain Last Line: Cog on cog in the gun-machine, link on link in the chain! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War AMONG THE FALLEN, by ROBERT BHAIN CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: The midnight herons, the filling station pumps Last Line: Raging, an anger more kind than love Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) AMONG THE RED GUNS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Dreams of the way and the end go on Subject(s): War AMONG THESE TURF-STACKS, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): War AMONG THOSE KILLED IN THE DAWN RAID WAS A MAN AGED A HUNDRED, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the morning was waking over the war Subject(s): War; Old Age; Death; Dead, The AMORES [THE LOVES]: BOOK 1, ELEGY 1, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For mighty wars I thought to tune my lute Last Line: While in unequal verse I sing my woes. Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Translating & Interpreting; War; Eros AMORETTI: 69, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The famous warriors of the antique world Last Line: Gotten at last with labour and long toyle. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): War; Immortality AN ADDRESS TO THE PLEBIANS, SELECTION, by JOHN LEARMONT Poem Text First Line: Poor crawlin' bodies, sair neglectit Last Line: An' safest shield. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Freedom; Graves; War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Liberty; Tombs; Tombstones AN AIRSTRIP IN ESSEX, 1960, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a lost road into the air Subject(s): War AN ANTE-BELLUM SERMON, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: We is gathered hyeah, my brothahs Last Line: Huh uh! Chillun, let us pray! Subject(s): African Americans; American Civil War; Freedom; United States - History; Negroes; American Blacks; Liberty AN APPEAL TO AMERICA ON BEHALF OF THE BELGIAN DESTITUTE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seven millions stand Last Line: No man can say? Subject(s): Belgium; United States; World War I; America; First World War AN APPLE TREE IN FRANCE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An apple tree beside the way Last Line: They put to death an apple tree! Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Apple Trees; World War I; First World War AN ARCTIC EPITAPH, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No grave more nobly graced Last Line: And striving -- died. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): World War I; First World War AN ARMY CORPS ON THE MARCH, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With its cloud of skirmishers in advance Last Line: As the army corps advances. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History AN EASTERN QUESTION, by H. M. PAULL Poem Text First Line: My william was a soldier, and he says to me, says he Last Line: Whilst the man that I was faithful to has been and gone and died! Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Soldiers; War; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AN ELEGY ON SIR CHARLES LUCAS AND SIR GEORGE LISLE, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In measures solemn as the groans that fall Last Line: The monuments of their base cruelty. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Great Britain - Civil War; Injustice; Lisle, Sir George (d. 1648); Lucas, Sir Charles; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; English Civil War AN ELEGY UPON THE MOST INCOMPARABLE KING CHARLES THE FIRST, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call for amazed thoughts, a wounded sense Last Line: If zimri dies in peace that slew his lord. Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Great Britain - Civil War; English Civil War AN ENGLISHMAN TO A GERMAN AVIATOR, by MORRIE RYSKIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, we are enemies-and deadly ones Last Line: There is no room within our hearts for hate. Subject(s): Air Warfare; Death; Enemies; World War I; Dead, The; First World War AN EPISTLE TO A FRIEND, TO PERSUADE HIM TO THE WARS, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wake, friend, from forth thy lethargy: the drum Last Line: Who falls for love of god, shall rise a star. Subject(s): War AN EPITAPH, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When sunday tidings from the front Last Line: And priest and people borrowed of her cheer. Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History AN EPITAPH ON SIR JOHN PROWDE, LIEUTENANT TO CHARLES MORGAN, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After a march of twenty years and more Last Line: That honour laid me in the bed of war. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Epitaphs; Groenlo, The Netherlands; Prowde, Sir John (d. 1627); War 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 AN EX-SERVICEMAN MAKES A VOW, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: War is a way the statesmen play Last Line: Our world may have peace! Amen. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; God; Murder; Prayer; Social Protest; Soldiers; Veterans; War; Dead, The AN INCIDENT OF THE WEST, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: More annoyed than for many a week before Last Line: For the faults of the dead in the canyon Subject(s): Accidents;canyons;death;tragedy;war; "dead, The; AN INFANTRYMAN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Painfully writhed the few last weeds upon those houseless / uplands Last Line: Sunny as a may-day dance, along that spectral avenue. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I; First World War AN INTERIM, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While the war drags on, always worse Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict (1961-1975); War Atrocities; Social Commentaries AN IRISH AIRMAN FORESEES HIS DEATH, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I know that I shall meet my fate Last Line: In balance with this life, this death. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Air Warfare; Aviation & Aviators; Death; Freedom; Soldiers; War; World War I; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Dead, The; Liberty; First World War AN ODE IN TIME OF HESITATION, by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before the living bronze saint gaudens made Last Line: Blindness we may forgive, but baseness we will smite. Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Holidays; Memorial Day; Saint-gaudens, Augustus (1848-1907); Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; Spanish-american War (1898); United States; War; Declaration Day; America AN ODE OF BATTLES, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long ages past / the slow ice sledges bore Last Line: Throbbed with freedom's answered prayer. Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Grief; Santiago, Battle Of (1898); Soldiers; Spanish-american War (1898); U.s. - History; Dead, The; Gettysburg, Battle Of; Sorrow; Sadness AN OFFICERS' PRISON CAMP SEEN FROM A TROOP-TRAIN, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is some school, brick, green, a sleepy hill Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; World War Ii; Convicts; Second World War AN OLD AND TWENTY-THIRD MAN, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is that the three and twentieth, strabo mine Last Line: "shall bang old vercingetorix out of gaul." Variant Title(s): The Legion Subject(s): World War I; First World War AN OLD BATTLE-FIELD, by LI HUA Poem Text First Line: Vast, vast - an endless wilderness of sand Last Line: Still twinkles on the frost-flakes scattered round. Subject(s): War AN OLD BATTLE-FIELD, by FRANK LEBBY STANTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The softest whisperings of the scented south Last Line: Dream of the battle and an unmarked grave! Subject(s): American Civil War; Peace; United States - History AN OLD OLD STORY, by ROYALL HENDERSON SNOW Poem Text First Line: Pierre was lonely Last Line: And the moon came up: a great white lily. Subject(s): Farewell; Flowers; Soldiers; Solitude; World War I; Parting; Loneliness; First World War AN OLD SIOUX IN THE CITY, by WILL CHAMBERLAIN Poem Text First Line: He seems a sunburnt page ripped out Last Line: Where ages say—a gun. Subject(s): Memory; Old Age; Soldiers; War AN UNINSCRIBED MONUMENT - BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silence and solitude may hint Last Line: Silent as I, and lonesome as the land. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History; Wilderness Campaign (1864) ANAGRAM BORN OF MADNESS AT CZERNOWITZ, 12 NOVEMBER 1920, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: They were the strong nudes of a forgotten Last Line: "hold on to me and we'll sing." Subject(s): Celan, Paul (1920-1970); Czernowitz (chernvits), Romania; Korean War, 1950-1953; Nuclear War; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb ANARCHY, by ANN YEARSLEY Poem Text First Line: Furies! Why sleep amid the carnage? -- rise Last Line: "world! Give my monsters way!—death! Keep thy steady chace!" Alternate Author Name(s): Cromartie, Ann Subject(s): Anarchism And Anarchists; Death; Soldiers; War; Dead, The ANATOMY OF THE INFINITE, by MARTHA WEBB Poem Source First Line: Woman. It is a word Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans ANCIENT IRISH RANN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Heroes polishing their glowing weapons Last Line: These are the sounds of music that delight at early morn Subject(s): War AND AFTERWARDS, WHEN HONOUR HAS MADE GOOD, by IRIS TREE Poem Source Last Line: The incense of our anguish and our sweat? Subject(s): Women; World War I AND BARBARROSSA SLEEPS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Defeat and death the germans knew Last Line: Unmoved, shall barbarossa sleep! Subject(s): Germany; Legends; World War I; Germans; First World War AND GROW, by JOHN MILTON HAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As patience paints the flower red, so grass Subject(s): War AND THE COCK CREW, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: I hate them all!' said old gaspard Last Line: And turning, looked on old gaspard. Subject(s): Death; Hate; Hospitals; Sickness; Soldiers; War; World War I; Dead, The; Illness; First World War AND THE GREATEST OF THESE IS WAR, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around the council-board of hell, with satan at / their head Last Line: And hell rang with the acclamation of the fiends. Subject(s): Devil; Evil; Hell; Monsters; War; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub AND THE WORLD'S FACE, by JULIAN SYMONS Poem Source Subject(s): War 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 AND THEY OBEY, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Smash down the cities Last Line: You are workmen and citizens all: we command you. Subject(s): Duty; Soldiers; World War I; First World War AND WHEN THEY ALL MEET!, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come to the love feast, pussie. We want you right away Last Line: When no one of the guests could find an animal to slay! Subject(s): Animals; War ANDALUCIA, by GENEVIEVE TAGGARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silence like light intense Last Line: In andalucia, land of naked silences Alternate Author Name(s): Wolf, Robert Leopold, Mrs. Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) ANDERSONVILLE INSINUATIONS, by ROGER WEINGARTEN Poem Source First Line: A prisoner-of-war-camp memory of being Last Line: Left running with headlights like white %vaccinations, passing through ohio with hitchhiker Subject(s): Prisoners Of War ANEURIN'S HARP, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prince of bards was old aneurin Last Line: Fall to him -- are falling now! Subject(s): Mythology; War ANGELITA, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: She came from behind, from behind their lines Last Line: And on his head her badge was glowing like a coal Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii ANGELS OF THE RUINS, by RAFAEL ALBERTI Poem Source First Line: But at last there came the day, the hour of shovels and buckets Last Line: The resurrection of voices in charring echoes Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) ANGLO-SAXON CHRISTIANS, WITH GATLING GUN AND SWORD, by JR. WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON Poem Source Last Line: Set thou the glorious stars and stripes above the ancient cross Subject(s): World War I ANIMA POETA: A CHRISTMAS ENTRY FOR THE SUICIDE, MAYAKOVSKY, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It has nothing to do with the warmth of moonset Last Line: Much later in your life you joined them. Subject(s): Mayakovsky, Vladimir (1893-1930); Suicide; World War I; First World War ANIMAL FARM, OR SONG OF THE COLONIAL GOVERNOR-GENERAL, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Admit it. You hate the body Last Line: It shamed you to cover with dung Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 ANITA SKY, by ROB WILSON Poem Source First Line: I marinated her heart Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans ANNALS OF THE REVOLUTION: LEXINGTON, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: I, sylvanus wood %nineteen years old Last Line: That day seized %by an american Subject(s): War ANNALS OF THE REVOLUTION: THE EXPEDITION AGAINST THE SENECAS, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: After a dreary march through woods Last Line: At the hands of continental soldiers %so severe a blow Subject(s): 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 ANNIVERSARY, by PATRICIA Y. IKEDA Poem Source First Line: End of summer and %orchards sell peaches so ripe Last Line: Turned red, turned round %and big as fire Subject(s): Politics; War ANNIVERSARY OF THE GREAT RETREAT (1915), by ISABEL CONSTANCE CLARKE Poem Source First Line: Now a whole year has waxed and waned and whitened Last Line: The victory is ours because you died Subject(s): Women; World War I ANNIVERSARY POEM; ALUMNI OF THE FRIENDS' YEARLY MEETING SCH., by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more, dear friends, you meet beneath a clouded sky Last Line: The crown for cross! Subject(s): Alumni; American Civil War; Friends, Religious Society Of; U.s. - History; Quakers ANNUS MIRABILIS: AN ACCOUNT OF THE ENSUING POEM, IN A LETTER TO THE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, %I am so many ways obliged to you and so little able to return Last Line: Pretending to a greater, which I have given them Variant Title(s): An Account Of The Ensuing Poem, In A Letter To The Honourable Sr. Rob Subject(s): England; Letters; Poetry And Poets; War ANNUS MIRABILIS: THE YEAR OF WONDERS, 1666, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In thriving arts long time had holland grown Last Line: And gently lay us on the spicy shore. Subject(s): Great Britain - Dutch War (1664-1667); Monck, George. 1st Duke Of Albemarle; Navy - Dutch; Navy - Great Britain; English Navy ANONYMOUS LIEUTENANT, by CLARK MILLS Poem Source First Line: While star-shells fell in showers of constellations Last Line: Whose lives create no myth, move through no story Subject(s): World War Ii ANOTHER CAPTIVE STAR...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Must blood of murders and of wars regale Last Line: Which drowns in blood each age's history! Subject(s): Blood; Death; Earth; War; Dead, The; World ANOTHER EPITAPH ON AN ARMY OF MERCENARIES; REPLY TO HOUSMAN, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a god-damned lie to say that these Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Housman, Alfred Edward (1859-1936); War ANOTHER EPITAPH ON AN ARMY OF MERCENARIES; REPLY TO HOUSMAN, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a god-damned lie to say that these Last Line: In spite of all their kind some elements of worth %with difficulty persist here and there on earth Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Housman, Alfred Edward (1859-1936); War ANOTHER GLORIOUS VICTORY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Old neptune, the god of the ocean one day Last Line: The trident of neptune in future they'll wield, %and conquering ride on the blue wat'ry field Subject(s): Navy - United States; Privateers; Saratoga (ship); Sea Battles; War Of 1812 ANOTHER JOURNEY FROM BETHUNE TO CUINCHY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see you walking Last Line: My time for trench round. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War ANOTHER RUNIC ODE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At length appears the wish'd-for night Last Line: I smile in the embrace of death! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; War; Dead, The ANSWER WORLD!, by ANGELA MORGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I believe in armies Last Line: "here am I! Here am I!" Subject(s): Army - United States; Injustice; Justice; Nations; Problems; Social Protest; War ANTHEM FOR DOOMED YOUTH, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Last Line: And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds. Subject(s): Mortality; Mourning; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Youth; Bereavement; First World War ANTI-ELEGY FROM HOUSTON, by RONALD E. MCFARLAND Poem Source First Line: Simmons, you crazy grape Subject(s): Nuclear War ANTI-MILITARIST, by CHARLES ASHLEIGH Poem Source First Line: Out of the deeps of toil am I born Last Line: I will destroy only that which stands in the way of our red redemption Subject(s): World War I ANTONIO MELIDORI; DRAMATIC SKETCH, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why comes he not? Here on this emerald sward Last Line: [he dies.] Subject(s): Greek War Of Independence (1821-1832) ANTWERP, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Towers - eternal towers against the sky Last Line: And from their towers of tyranny hurled down. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Antwerp, Belgium; Architecture & Architects; Buildings & Builders; Stones; World War I; Granite; Rocks; First World War ANXIOUS ANTHEMIST, by GUY FORRESTER LEE Poem Source First Line: I sit down to write a poem of our fighting men's reknown Subject(s): World War I ANY FRIEND TO ANY FRIEND', by H. W. BLISS Poem Source First Line: Ev'n as I thought of you your soul had sped Subject(s): World War I ANY SOLDIER SON TO HIS MOTHER, by N. G. H. Poem Source First Line: If I am taken from this patchwork life Subject(s): World War I APOCALYPSE, by KIHARA KOICHI Poem Source First Line: In 1945, when the first atomic bomb was dropped on hiroshima, among Last Line: They march the burnt-out fields Subject(s): Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War APOCALYPSE, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Turning from plato to the rocky sergeant Subject(s): Soldiers; War; Popular Culture - United States APOCALYPSE, by RICHARD REALF Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Straight to his heart the bullet crushed Last Line: Raised conquering hands toward heaven and cried, %'all hail the stars and stripes!' and died Subject(s): American Civil War; Patriotism; U.s. - History APOCALYPSE, by RONALD ROSS Poem Text First Line: The visions of the soul, more strange than dreams Last Line: And drew him down. And the voice answer'd, so. Subject(s): World War I; First World War APOCALYPSE, by EDWARD SHILLITO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the north Subject(s): World War I APOCALYPTIC, 1915, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Our world beyond a year of dread Last Line: Sculptor of immortality. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Chaos; Earth; Pain; War; World; Suffering; Misery APOLOGIA PRO POEMATE MEO, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, too, saw god through mud Last Line: Your tears: you are not worth their merriment. Subject(s): Freedom; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Liberty; First World War APOSTROPHE TO MAN, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Detestable race, continue to expunge yourself, die out Last Line: Homo called sapiens Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Mankind; War; Human Race APOSTROPHE TO MAN, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Detestable race, continue to expunge yourself, die out Last Line: Breed, crowd, encroach, expand, expunge yourself, die out, %homo called sapiens Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Mankind; War APOSTROPOHE TO GREECE; FROM THE PARTHENON, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O land of sage and stoic Last Line: Bright with the light serene of immortality. Subject(s): Greek War Of Independence (1821-1832) APPEAL TO AMERICAN AUTHORS, by NATE SALSBURY Poem Text First Line: When kaiser wilhelm's little war Last Line: America -- long may she wave! Alternate Author Name(s): Ireland, Baron Subject(s): Debt; World War I; Writing & Writers; First World War APPENDIX TO THE ANNIAD: 1 (THOUSANDS - KILLED IN ACTION), by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You need the untranslatable ice to watch Last Line: Why nothing exhausts you like this sympathy Subject(s): War APPOMATTOX; ON THE DEATH OF GRANT, by BENJAMIN DAVENPORT HOUSE Poem Source First Line: To peace-white ashes sunk war's lurid flame Subject(s): American Civil War; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); U.s. - History APPROACH OF PHARAOH, by CAEDMON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then they saw Subject(s): War APRES LA MARNE, JOFFRE VISITA LE FRONT DE AUTO, by EMILIO FILIPPO TOMMASO MARINETTI Poem Source First Line: After the battle of the marne, joffre toured the front by car Subject(s): World War I APRES MOI LE DELUGE, by EILEEN MURPHY Poem Source First Line: When I heard about Last Line: & said, 'have ya heard? We finally won the war' Subject(s): Politics; War APRIL ON THE BATTLEFIELDS, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: April now walks the fields again Last Line: Spreading her lovely grief upon the graves of man. Subject(s): April; World War I; First World War APRIL SONG, by GEORGE C. MICHAEL Poem Source First Line: Orchard land! Orchard land! Subject(s): World War I APRIL, 1917, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though life returns with april's breath Last Line: And there is blood upon the air. Subject(s): World War I; First World War APRIL, 1942, by MARK VAN DOREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How terrible their trust, the little leaves Subject(s): War AQUILA (A WAR CHANGE), by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I trimmed a pen wherewith to write Last Line: The requiem for those who die Subject(s): World War I ARCHDUCHESS ANNE: 1, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In middle age an evil thing Last Line: For captives he held fast. Subject(s): Hate; Love; Love - Loss Of; War ARGUMENT, by RENE CHAR Poem Source First Line: How can we live without the unknown in front of us? Last Line: In this rebellious and solitary world of contradictions Subject(s): World War Ii ARISTOCRATS (1), by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The noble horse with courage in his eye Variant Title(s): Sportsmen Subject(s): Hunting; World War Ii; Hunters; Second World War ARISTOCRATS (1), by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The noble horse with courage in his eye Last Line: In famous attitudes of unconcern. Listen %against the bullet cries the simple horn Variant Title(s): Sportsme Subject(s): Hunting; World War Ii ARISTOCRATS (2), by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The noble horse with courage in his eye Last Line: It is not gunfire I hear, but a hunting horn Subject(s): Hunting; World War Ii ARITHMETIC ON THE FRONTIER, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A great and glorious thing it is Last Line: Are cheap -- alas! As we are dear. Subject(s): War ARKHANGEL'SK, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The yellow goat in winter sunlight Last Line: Bullets rippling like moles under the plaster. Subject(s): Death; Goats; Lent; Prisoners Of War; Russia - Stalin Era; Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953); Dead, The ARMAGEDDON, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world is growing weary of its emperors and / kings Last Line: The devil having ridden on the gale. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Religion; Tyranny & Tyrants; War; Theology ARMED LINER, by H. SMALLEY SARSON Poem Source First Line: The dull gray paint of war Subject(s): World War I ARMED PEACE; JANUARY, 1899, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hopes of humanity fly, the doubts and the terrors remain Last Line: Craves the flesh of the peoples for bread, and the blood of their slaughter for wine. Subject(s): Peace; War ARMENIA, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the nations new and free Last Line: Armenia. Subject(s): Armenia; World War I; First World War ARMISTICE, by CODY W. COPELAND Poem Text First Line: A soldier stood among his fallen comrades Last Line: Cease firing! Subject(s): War ARMISTICE, by PAUL DEHN Poem Source First Line: It is finished. The enormous dust-cloud over europe Last Line: Gangrene was corn, and the monuments went mad Subject(s): War ARMISTICE, by ROSENA A. GILES Poem Text First Line: I saw a soldier in the crowded street Last Line: Before you give our guilty souls their rest. Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War 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 WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: And this was germany--this puff of dust Last Line: This worn gray shoddy, and this iron rust! Subject(s): Freedom; Germany; United States; World War I; Liberty; Germans; America; First World 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 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 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 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, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's all this hubbub and yelling %commotion and scamper of feet Last Line: We left them streched out on their pallets of mud %low down with the worm and the ant Subject(s): World War I 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; 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 ARMS AND THE BOY, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let the boy try along this bayonet-blade Last Line: Nor antlers through the thickness of his curls. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War ARMS AND THE MAN, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young croesus went to pay his call Last Line: Will captain croesus come this way?' Subject(s): Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War ARMY, by KENNETH NEAL Poem Source First Line: Tomorrow and tomorrow and tonight Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii ARMY BURN WARD, by MARTIN GALVIN Poem Source First Line: First the doctor peels dead skin away Last Line: Unblinking as the brides inside him die Subject(s): Politics; War ARMY CATS, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over by the cemetery next to the cp Subject(s): Lebanon; War; Bombs; Cats ARMY CORRESPONDENT'S LAST RIDE; FIVE FORKS, APRIL 1, 1865, by GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! Pony. Down the lonely road Last Line: And took the first despatch! Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; War; Declaration Day ARMY DIET, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: My father says 'at sojers is Last Line: "the sojers eats the tax, 'I jing!" Subject(s): Army Life; Soldiers; War; Drills & Minor Tactics ARMY HYMN, by FREDERIC DENISON Poem Text First Line: O thou enthroned above the skies Last Line: And spread abroad thy grace. Subject(s): American Civil War; Peace; United States - History ARMY HYMN; 'OLD HUNDRED', by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lord of hosts! Almighty king! Last Line: Join our loud anthem, praise to thee! Subject(s): American Civil War; Prayer; United States - History ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O remnant of that perished host Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History ARREST, by SOJIN TOKIJI TAKEI Poem Source First Line: Torawaruru Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; World War Ii - Japanese-americans ARREST OF ANTONIO EL CAMBORIO IN THE STREETS OF SEVILLE, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Antonio torres heredia %son and grandson of camborios Last Line: While the sky above is shining %like the croup of a colt Subject(s): Freedom; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) ARS POETICA, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the snout Last Line: I am the verse witness of my master's breath Subject(s): Surrealism; World War Ii; Poetry & Ports; Second World War ARS POETICA, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the snout Last Line: And one hand in mine %and the joy of living %I am the verse witness of my master's breath Subject(s): Surrealism; World War Ii ART OF WAR, by RONALD WILSON Poem Source First Line: All along route 29 between Last Line: Their heads bent over topographic %maps Subject(s): Art And Artists; War ARTICLES OF WAR, by DUNSTAN THOMPSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dead young man stood up in his grave Last Line: Is returned by the tide to the rock, %o to send to a friendly last love Subject(s): War ARTILLERY SHOOT, by JAMES FORSYTH Poem Source First Line: The landscape's private and all that it contains Subject(s): War AS BY FIRE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I feel so passionate a yearning Last Line: Our places are assigned. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Life; Passion; War AS SHE IS SPOKE', by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I've heard a half a dozen times Subject(s): World War I AS THE TEAM'S HEAD BRASS, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the team's head brass flashed out on the turn Last Line: After the ploughshare and the stumbling team. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Farm Life; World War I; Agriculture; Farmers; First World War AS THE TRUCKS GO ROLLIN' BY, by L. W. SUCKERT Poem Source First Line: There's a rumble an' a jumble Subject(s): World War I AS THEY LEAVE US, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Source First Line: Bid farewell with pride Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I AS TOLD TO WALLACE TERRY, by THOMAS G. PALAIMA Poem Source First Line: Wallace told us %he interviewed his soldiers Last Line: Washington, d.C. %and vietnam Subject(s): Prisoners Of War; Soldiers; Vietnam; Violence; War Correspondents ASH WEDNESDAY, by ALFRED LICHTENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Only yesterday powdered and lustful I walked Last Line: Where am I Subject(s): World War I ASHBY, by JOHN REUBEN THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To the brave all homage render Last Line: Keep above his dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, John Randolph Subject(s): American Civil War; Ashby, Turner (b. 1932); U.s. - History ASHES OF GLORY, by AUGUSTUS JULIAN REQUIER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fold up the gorgeous silken sun Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History ASHES OF SOLDIERS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ashes of soldiers south or north Last Line: For the ashes of all dead soldiers south or north. Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History ASIDE, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mail-day, and over the world in a thousand drag-nets Subject(s): War; Letters ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL, by JR. JOEL B. PECKHAM Poem Source First Line: I'm driving home from atlanta, down 441 - an unlit Last Line: The saint himself. I can't remember, but it seems %important now Subject(s): Politics; War ASLEEP BY THE IRISH SEA, by ELIZABETH GLENDENNING RING Poem Source First Line: To france! How many weary miles Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I ASOLANDO: ROSNY, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woe, he went galloping into the war Last Line: Rosny, rosny! Subject(s): War; Farewell; Parting ASS WHY HARD, by GARRETT KAORU HONGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We sit out on the concrete slab Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans ASTRONOMY, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wain upon the northern steep Last Line: Is buried with the pole. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): War AT A MARCH AGAINST THE VIETNAM WAR (LATER VERSION), by ROBERT BLY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Newspapers rise high in the air over maryland Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Anti-war Protests AT BETHLEHEM, by JOHN CURTIS UNDERWOOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Twenty-six thousand men are building at bethlehem Last Line: Mud and grime, assert and by their blood and breath maintain it Subject(s): World War I AT CARCASSONNE, by WINFRED ERNEST GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down the valleys of languedoc Last Line: In my children's time may there be no war. Subject(s): Carcassonne, France; Social Protest; Soldiers; War AT CARNOY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down in the hollow there's the whole brigade Last Line: To take some cursed wood ... O world god made! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War AT CARRIZAL, by CHARLES TURNER DAZEY Poem Source First Line: By day the sky of mexico Last Line: That song will show that men are men, %though children of the slave Subject(s): World War I AT FIRST I WAS GIVEN, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At first I was given centuries Last Line: Before you run out into the street and they shoot Subject(s): War; Life Change Events; Memor AT FORT PILLOW, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You shudder as you think upon Last Line: And one lone sister's desperate cry! Subject(s): Graves; Southern States; War; Tombs; Tombstones; South (u.s.) AT FREDERICKSBURG [DECEMBER 13, 1862], by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God send us peace, and keep red strife away Last Line: No matter what birth or what race or what creed. Subject(s): American Civil War; Fredericksburg, Battle Of (1862); United States - History AT GETTYSBURG, by MAUREEN EPPSTEIN Poem Source First Line: The dead are deafening Last Line: Remembers the smell of gunpowder, %the dying screams Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); U.s. - History AT GETTYSBURG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Like a furnace of fire blazed the midsummer sun Subject(s): War 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 AT LAST, by GEORGE E. BOWEN Poem Text First Line: Gaze through the opal mist across the main Last Line: Spain's castles crumble into desert sands. Subject(s): Freedom; Honor; Mist; Spain; War; Liberty AT LAST POST, by WALTER LIGHTOWLER WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: Come home! - come home! Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I AT LEXINGTON, by BENJAMIN SLEDD Poem Source First Line: All day a pilgrim had I gone Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History AT MAGNOLIA CEMETERY, by HENRY TIMROD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep sweetly in your humble graves Last Line: By mourning beauty crowned! Variant Title(s): Ode Sung On The Occasion Of Decorating The Graves - Charleston;decoration Day At Charleston;magnolia Cemetery Ode;ode For Decoration Day;hymn For Memorial Day;ode On Decorating The Graves;magnolia Cemetery;lines;ode At Magnolia Cemetery;ode Sung At Magnolia Cemetery Subject(s): American Civil War; Cemeteries; Charleston, South Carolina; Confederate States Of America; Patriotism; United States - History; Graveyards; Confederacy AT PARTING, by ABBIE CARTER GOODLOE Poem Text First Line: Now must we go our separate ways, beloved Last Line: "and breathes in tranquil rapture, ""here is peace!""?" Subject(s): Farewell; Wellesley College; World War I; Parting; First World War AT PARTING, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was sad weather when you went away Last Line: And you coming home, home through the hours of sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Women And War; World War I; First World War AT PORT ROYAL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tent-lights glimmer on the land Last Line: Their broken saxon words. Subject(s): American Civil War; Patriotism; Port Royal, Battle Of (1861); United States - History AT SENLIS ONCE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O how comely it was and how reviving Last Line: Sang as though nothing but joy came after! Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War AT SIXTIES AND SEVENTIES, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anything goes! They cried incontinent Subject(s): War AT ST. PAUL'S, by HARDWICKE DRUMMOND RAWNSLEY Poem Text First Line: Not since wren's dome has whispered with man's prayer Last Line: And christ, not odin, is acclaimed the lord. Subject(s): Prayer; St. Paul's Cathedral, London; World War I; First World War AT SUNRISE, by E. J. BARTON Poem Source First Line: See how the sun Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii AT TABUWON, by CHO JI-HOON Poem Source First Line: Finally I've come out safe from a month-long siege Last Line: The living and the dead alike %possess no restful place; only the wind blows Subject(s): Korean War, 1950-1953 AT THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR THERE WAS A RAINBOW., by PETER BAUM Poem Source Last Line: Staggering on, attracted magnetically by death Subject(s): World War I AT THE BORDER, by DERICK BURLESON Poem Source First Line: A pile of machetes and hoes Last Line: Before he swings the blade Subject(s): Rivers; Rwanda; War AT THE BRITISH WAR CEMETERY, BAYEUX, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walked where in their talking graves Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles Subject(s): Cemeteries; France; World War Ii; Graveyards; Second World War AT THE BRITISH WAR CEMETERY, BAYEUX, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I walked where in their talking graves Last Line: Is the one gift you cannot give Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles Subject(s): Cemeteries; France; World War Ii AT THE CANNON'S MOUTH, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Palely intent, he urged his keel Last Line: The star ascended in his nativity. Subject(s): Albemarle (ship); American Civil War; Cushing, William Barker (1842-1874); United States - History AT THE CENOTAPH, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are the living so much use Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Death; War; Dead, The AT THE CENOTAPH, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are the living so much use Last Line: Keep going to your wars, you fools, as of yore; %I'm the civilisation you're fighting for Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Death; War AT THE CLOSE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To thee, dear god of mercy, both appeal Last Line: He tore the fall'n, the eternal was his foe. Subject(s): Curses; War AT THE DARK HOUR, by PAUL DEHN Poem Source First Line: Our love was conceived in silence and must live silently Subject(s): War AT THE ENTERING OF THE NEW YEAR, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our songs went up and out the chimney Last Line: "albeit the fault may not be thine." Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; World War I; First World War AT THE FRONT, by GEROID TANQUARY ROBINSON Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The king: / 'when I was at the front today Last Line: "so red—red?—I'm done!" Subject(s): War - Home Front AT THE GATES, by KOFI AWOONOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I do not know which god sent me Last Line: To push my boat into the river Alternate Author Name(s): Awoonor-williams, George Subject(s): Single People; War AT THE MOMENT OF VICTORY, by EDWIN ROLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At the moment of victory he examines his own heart Last Line: And warnings: without strength and purest purpose they %ask only for betrayal: les hommes sans volon Alternate Author Name(s): Fishman, Solomon Subject(s): War AT THE MOON'S ECLIPSE, by ROBERT PETER TRISTRAM COFFIN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Now over most of living kind Last Line: Sad watch-dogs, and the trees Subject(s): World War Ii AT THE MOVIES, by FLORENCE RIPLEY MASTIN Poem Text First Line: They swing across the screen in brave array Last Line: Then I remember, and my heart grows cold! Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Women And War; World War I; Movies; Cinema; First World War AT THE NURSERY OF A LOCOMOTIVE PARTS PLANT NEAR BEIJING, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Huey newton and the other panthers stand around a sandbox Last Line: And the children are thankful for the visit Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities AT THE PASSING OF A BELOVED MONARCH, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The everlasting wisdom has ordained Last Line: That millions yet unborn shall bless her reign. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Crowns; George Vi, King Of England (1894-1952); Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Memory; Prayer; War; Wisdom; British Empire; England - Empire AT THE PEACE TABLE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who shall sit at the table, then, when the terms Last Line: You must please not only the living here, but must satisfy your dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War AT THE READY, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the aerial squadron, / wheat fields are ready Last Line: Repeating instructions to the already dead. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Military; Missions & Missionaries; War AT THE VOLCANO INTERNMENT CAMP, by MUIN OTOKICHI OZAKI Poem Source First Line: Shokudo ni Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; World War Ii - Japanese-americans AT THE WAR OFFICE, LONDON, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last year I called this world of gaingivings Last Line: From ind to occident. Subject(s): Boer War; South African War AT VSHCHIZH, by FEODOR (FYODOR) IVANOVICH TYUTCHEV Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After the tumult and the blood Last Line: Into that peace all history must feed Subject(s): War AT WAT UMONG, by GALEN GARWOOD Poem Source First Line: Wat umong lies close to the city Last Line: And whose hunger cannot be sated Subject(s): Politics; War ATLANTIC, by GEORGE ROSTREVOR HAMILTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No season frontiers here: the snow-white foam Last Line: Marks where the ship was sunk, the sailor drowned Alternate Author Name(s): Rostrevor, George Subject(s): World War Ii ATLANTIC DISPATCHES, 1982, by MARK PAWLAK Poem Source First Line: The new governor assures the islanders Last Line: Then resume their place on street corners %and in the queues outside the employment offices Subject(s): Falkland Islands War (1982); Thatcher, Margaret (b.1925) ATLAS, by CLAUDIA EMERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the museum gift shop at the foot Last Line: They ever met another death Subject(s): American Civil War; History; Soldiers; U.s. - History; Violence; War; War Injuries ATLAS OF OREGON, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After a day of horizontal rain Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Nuclear War ATOM-BOMB, by PATRICIA CLARE LAMB Poem Source First Line: I want to detonate your calm, my dear Subject(s): Nuclear War ATTACK, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At dawn the ridge emerges massed and dun Last Line: Flounders in mud. O jesus, make it stop! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War ATTILA, by G. R. GLASGOW Poem Source First Line: Swift the flaming wings of death Subject(s): World War I ATTITUDE OF YOUTH, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We were told that wars are made by the makers of munitions Last Line: And we sacrifice life in vain, for the one chance that we missed Subject(s): World War Ii AUBADE ENDING WITH LINES FROM THE JAPANESE, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sound of wind hissing through muslin curtains Last Line: We're alive and can see each other, you and I Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 AUBADE OF THE SINGER AND SABOTEUR, MARIE TRISTE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In the twenties, I would visit dachau often with my brother Last Line: Two of the old miracles. They were not my choices. Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Concentration Camps; Dachau, Germany; Flowers; Music & Musicians; World War Ii - Atrocities AUG-18, by MAURICE BARING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the tinkling of the cattle bell Subject(s): World War I AUGUST 1914, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What in our lives is burnt Last Line: A fair mouth’s broken tooth. Subject(s): World War I AUGUST 1914, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What in our lives is burnt Last Line: A fair mouth's broken tooth. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War AUGUST FOR THE PEOPLE, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: August for the people and their favourite islands Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): War AUGUST MOON, by CESARE PAVESE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There's the sea, far beyond the yellow hills Last Line: The ground beneath her dark, drenched with blood Subject(s): World War Ii AUNT AGNES HATCHER TELLS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the war when rationing was over Last Line: Slide out babies like payday from that %billion dollar behind Subject(s): African Americans - History; Death; Family Life; Hunger; Slavery; War AURORA-BOREALIS; COMMEMORATIVE OF DISSOLUTION OF ARMIES,1865, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What power disbands the northern lights Last Line: Midnight and morn. Subject(s): American Civil War; Army - United States; U.s. - History AUSTRALIA TO ENGLAND, by ARCHIBALD THOMAS STRONG Poem Text First Line: By all the deeds to thy dear glory done Last Line: Thy sons may stand beside thee strong and free. Subject(s): England; Freedom; World War I - Australia; English; Liberty AUSTRALIA'S MEN, by DOROTHEA MACKELLAR Poem Source First Line: There are some that go for love of a fight Subject(s): World War I AUSTRALIANS TO THE FRONT! (CAPTAIN COOK HEARS THE DRUMS), by JOHN SANDES Poem Source First Line: From the scheldt to the niemen Subject(s): World War I AUSTRIAN CAVALRY SONG, by H. ZUCKERMANN Poem Text First Line: There in the meadow-land Last Line: Over belgrade! Subject(s): Army - Austria; Cavalry; World War I; First World War AUTHORITIES, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Commanders, and behind them heads of state Subject(s): War AUTOCRATIC POLICY OF THE FEDERAL AMERICANS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At length a fierce autocracy is seen Last Line: Drift between north and south like floating wood. Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History AUTUMN, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: October's bellowing anger breaks and cleaves Last Line: The burden of your wrongs is on my head. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Fall; First World War AUTUMN 1942, by ROY FULLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Season of rains: the horizon like an illness Last Line: Our virtues now are high and horrible %ones of a streaming wound which heals in evil Subject(s): World War Ii AUTUMN ACROSS THE FRONTIER, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The last red leaves droop sadly o'er the slain Last Line: Yet dreams, and woodlands, and the chase are mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): War AUTUMN EVENING IN SERBIA, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the thin shadows Last Line: And autumn begun. Subject(s): Serbia; World War I; Servia; First World War AUTUMN IN CALIFORNIA, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn in california is a mild Subject(s): California; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) AUTUMN IN CALIFORNIA, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn in california is a mild Last Line: Loud, wiry, and tremulous Subject(s): California; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) AUTUMN IN ENGLAND, by COLIN MITCHELL Poem Source Subject(s): Autumn; England; Seasons; Soldiers; World War I AUTUMN JOURNAL: 6, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And I remember spain Last Line: Would find its frontier on the spanish front, %its body in arag-tag army Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): War AUTUMN JOURNAL: 7, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Conferences, adjournments, ultimatums Last Line: No longer one of the sights of london but maybe %we shall have fireworks here by this day week Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): War AUTUMN, 1914, by MARY WEBB Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The scarlet-jewelled ashtree sighed - 'he cometh' Last Line: For whom then loving-cup is poured, the wild bee hummeth.' Subject(s): Women; World War I; First World War AUTUMN, 1939, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The beech boles whiten in the swollen stream Last Line: And one by one the warped old casements shut Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; War AWAKE!, by WILLIAM ROBERT RODGERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wind that speeds the bee and plucks the bee-line Last Line: And we on our ringed ground its roar will wait %freely. Awake! Before it is too late Alternate Author Name(s): Rodgers, W. R. Subject(s): War AZALEAS FLOODING THE LANDSCAPE, by SHIN TONG'YOP Poem Source First Line: A few flowering azaleas dotting the roadside Last Line: You lay bleeding in quiet, %your cigarette case thrown down on the grass Subject(s): Korean War, 1950-1953 AZTEC SONG, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh nothing will cut down the flower of war Last Line: Dust rises over the bells Subject(s): Aztecs; Flowers; War BABY MILK PLANT, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: The night of desert storm I've put my daughter and love on a plane Last Line: Pilot lying in a pool of it, as it mixes with his blood and curdles Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities BABYLON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Thou glory of a thousand kings Last Line: Hurled headlong from thy lofty throne- / forgotten and forlorn! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;jews;war; Judaism BABYLON, O BABYLON, by PABLO GUEVARA Poem Source First Line: I open the scrolls of babylon Last Line: Assassins at the hour they prowl abroad Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Kidnapping; Soldiers; War BACCHAE ON THE DOCKS AT TENTH STREET, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: In a drizzle in the middle of a week of rain Last Line: Who, soaked by a sudden downpour, run for the tip of christopher %without a thought to thank the god Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities BACK, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They ask me where I've been Last Line: Because he bore my name. Variant Title(s): Black Subject(s): Religion; War; World War I; Theology; First World War BACK TO LONDON: A POEM OF LEAVE, by JOSEPH JOHNSTON LEE Poem Text First Line: I have not wept when I have seen Last Line: Lord, may we hold it fast! Subject(s): London; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War BAD FAIRIES, by KEVIN ANDREW MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Like fairies at a christening Last Line: A single voice? Absurd Subject(s): Politics; War BAGHDAD, by KENT JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Oh, little crown of iron forged to likeness of imam's face Last Line: Soon wake up and rub your eyes and know that you are %dead Subject(s): Politics; War BAGRAM, AFGHANISTAN, 2002, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The interrogation celebrated spikes and cuffs Subject(s): Afghanistan War BAINBRIDGE'S VICTORY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When our good constitution was last moor'd in port Last Line: So our cans we toss'd off with good liquor quite full, %to bainbridge, and jones, and decatur, and h Subject(s): Bainbridge, William (1774-1833); Constitution (ship); Navy - United States; Sea Battles; War Of 1812 BAL MASQUE: 1915, by MARY CRAIG SINCLAIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sabres sing, the deep-bass guns resound Last Line: "till up from hell a voice commands: ""come home!" Alternate Author Name(s): Sinclair, Upton, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Enemies; Fights; War; Dead, The BALL'S BLUFF; A REVERIE, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One noonday, at my window in the town Last Line: Far footfalls died away till none were left. Subject(s): American Civil War; Americans; Ball's Bluff, Battle Of; United States - History; United States; War; America BALLAD, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O what is that sound which so thrills the ear Last Line: Their feet are heavy on the floor %and their eyes are burning Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): The Quarr Subject(s): Freedom; War BALLAD, by HENRY TREECE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Oh, come my joy, my soldier boy Subject(s): War BALLAD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Rise, rise, bright genius rise Last Line: Sing washington and common sense Subject(s): American Revolution; Freedom; U.s. - Continental Army; War BALLAD OF 1941, by FRANCIS GELDER Poem Source First Line: Two lovers walked down a tooting street Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii BALLAD OF A DISSENTER, by SAMUEL HAZO Poem Source First Line: The president speaks about government leaks Last Line: And to learn that your dream was mistaken Subject(s): Politics; War BALLAD OF BETHLEHEM STEEL OR THE NEED FOR PREPAREDNESS, by GRACE ISABEL COLBRON Poem Source First Line: A tale of the ticker Last Line: That bethlehem steel may hold its state Subject(s): World War I BALLAD OF DEATHLESS DONS, by WILFRID BLAIR Poem Source First Line: The regulars fight with all their might, the navy keeps the seas Subject(s): World War I BALLAD OF EMMA SAMSON, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The courage of man is one thing, but that of a maid is more Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History BALLAD OF FINE DAYS, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All in the summery weather Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War BALLAD OF FINE DAYS, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All in the summery weather Last Line: The bombers fly together %through the innocent air Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): World War Ii BALLAD OF GENE DEBS, by SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A tall, thin, elderly man Last Line: I wish I had a piece of cloth %from his old coat Subject(s): World War I BALLAD OF HECTOR IN HADES, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, this is where I stood that day Last Line: A corpse with streaming hair. Subject(s): Trojan War; War BALLAD OF ISHMAEL DAY, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One summer morning a daring band Last Line: His fame shall be fresh and young alway - %honor to old ishmael day! Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); U.s. - History BALLAD OF THE 'EASTERN CROWN', by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've sailed in 'ookers plenty Subject(s): World War I BALLAD OF THE LEATHER MEDAL, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only a leather medal, hanging there on the wall Last Line: Stranger, let me present you -- my wife, that was millie macgee Subject(s): Death; War BALLAD OF THE SABRE CROSS AND 7, by IRVING BACHELLER Poem Text First Line: A troop of sorrels led by vic and then a troop of bays Last Line: In the rolling waves we dug their graves and left them under the sod. Subject(s): Generals; Native Americans - Wars; War BALLAD OF THE THREE SPECTRES, by IVOR GURNEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As I went up by ovillers Last Line: Waiting the time I shal ldiscover %whether the third spake verity Subject(s): World War I BALLAD OF THE WAR, by GEORGE HERBERT SASS Poem Source First Line: Watchman, what of the night Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History BALLADE OF OLD NAVIES, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Gone are the old-time wooden fleets Last Line: No more we battle man to man. Subject(s): Navy - United States; Past; War; American Navy BALLADS OF A BOHEMIAN: L'ENVOI, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We've finished up the filthy war Last Line: And so here ends my book. Subject(s): Finality; Paris, France; Victory; War BALLOON, by ALBERT-PAUL GRANIER Poem Source First Line: The grey balloon floats down to the forest horizon Last Line: White birches ruffle their feathery bark %into hackles of a the nger Subject(s): World War I BALTIMORE GRAYS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ah, well I remember that long summer's day Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History BANISHED, by ARTURO SERRANO PLAJA Poem Source First Line: These I have seen with my eyes Last Line: These I have seen with my eyes Subject(s): Freedom; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) BANISHMENT, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am banished from the patient men who fight Last Line: And in their tortured eyes I stand forgiven. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War BANNER OF REVOLT, by MARC DE LARREGUY DE CIVRIEUX Poem Source First Line: I call in your name, brothers in obscurity Last Line: The banner of revolt and of fraternity! Subject(s): World War I BARBARA, by JACQUES PREVERT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Remember barbara %it rained without letup in brest that day Last Line: Faraway very far from brest %of which there is nothing left Subject(s): World War Ii BARBARA, by JACQUES PREVERT Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Remember barbara %it rained all day on brest that day Last Line: Of which there is nothing left Subject(s): World War Ii BARBARA, by JACQUES PREVERT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Remember barbara %it rained down on brest all that day Last Line: Of which nothing remains Subject(s): War 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 BARBED WIRE, by R. H. SAUTER Poem Source First Line: What bramble thicket this - grown overnight Last Line: White-tented, now, %the distance marches in a bit Subject(s): World War I BARCELONA CELEBRATES THREE YEARS OF FRANCO, by AARON KRAMER Poem Source First Line: Over the sunless ways [or, skies] of barcelona Last Line: We'll drive your shadow out of barcelona! Subject(s): Barcelona, Spain; Franco, Francisco (1892-1975); Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) BARCELONA: THE LAST NIGHT, by AARON KRAMER Poem Source First Line: I am lying past midnight Last Line: And the lad in the bookstore, the crone at the hotel, %eyes flashing, back stiffening: %'of course I Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) BAREFOOT MARCH, by MAJDA KNE Poem Source First Line: A small million words have been said about your Last Line: White swamp flowers. I grab this dark image of mine Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Marching And Marches; War BAREFOOTED BOYS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: By the sword of st. Michael Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History BARRAGE, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thunder / the gallop of innumerable valkyrie impetuous for battle Subject(s): World War I; First World War BARRAGE, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thunder %the gallop of innumerable valkyrie impetuous for battle Subject(s): World War I BASE DETAILS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath Last Line: I'd toddle safely home and die -- in bed. Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Soldiers' Writings; Villains In Literature; World War I; First World War BATTALION IN REST, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some found an owl's nest in the hollow skull Last Line: Where stars new trembled with delight's design. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War BATTALION-RELIEF, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fall in! Now get a move on!' (curse the rain) Last Line: And tell me, have we won this war or not?' Subject(s): World War I; First World War BATTLE, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you mind that old fight in the rattles Last Line: The bill must go to mother and the girls! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Death; Guns; Soldiers; War; Dead, The BATTLE, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Levies of cain, to shadow run Last Line: Or reach the slayer to condemn? Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): War BATTLE, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Helmet and rifle, pack and overcoat Last Line: Around a cigarette, and the bright ember %would pulse with all the life there was within Subject(s): World War Ii BATTLE ABOVE THE CLOUDS, by THERON BROWN Poem Source First Line: By the banks of chattanooga, watching with a soldier's heed Subject(s): American Civil War; Chattanooga Campaign; Lookout Mountain, Battle Of (1863); U.s. - History BATTLE AFTER WAR, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of a darkness, into a slow light Subject(s): Blindness; War; Visually Handicapped BATTLE AFTER WAR, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of a darkness, into a slow light Last Line: He said. And we see two now in his place, %where there was room for only one before Subject(s): Blindness; War BATTLE ARDOUR, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Unto what heaven wends this wild ecstasy Last Line: His foemen are his brothers in the skies. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; War; Dead, The BATTLE AT THE RIVER RAISIN; JANUARY 22, 1813, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now gleam and thunder, from afar Last Line: Shall swell your lasting fame. Subject(s): Faith; Life; Soldiers; War; Belief; Creed BATTLE BETWEEN THE CHESAPEAKE AND SHANNON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Twas in the morning, the fifth day of june Last Line: If wounded - 'tis our country's intention, %for all that's d isabl'd to give a good pension Subject(s): Chesapeake (ship); Navy - United States; Sea Battles; War Of 1812 BATTLE BUNNY; MALVERN HILL, 1864, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bunny, lying in the grass Last Line: Twixt a rabbit's god and man's. Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): American Civil War; Animals; Rabbits; United States - History; Hares BATTLE CONTINUES, SELS., by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) BATTLE CRY, by WILLIAM HENRY VENABLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Loud drums are rolling, the mad trumpets blow Last Line: Shall lower their banner to cuba's lone star! Subject(s): Cuba; Spanish-american War (1898) BATTLE CRY OF THE MOTHERS, by ANGELA MORGAN Poem Source First Line: Bone of our bone, flesh of our flesh Last Line: You shall yield-for the mothers' sake! Subject(s): World War I BATTLE HYMN, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: God, to thee we humbly bow Last Line: In defeat and victory Subject(s): American Civil War; Faith; Soldiers; U.s. - History BATTLE HYMN, by DONALD GOOLD JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Lord god of battle and of pain Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord Last Line: While god is marching on. Subject(s): American Civil War; Americans; Freedom; Patriotism; Religion; United States - History; United States; War; Liberty; Theology; America BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord Last Line: While god is marching on Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History BATTLE HYMN OF THE RUSSIAN REPUBLIC, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God, give us strength these days Last Line: Trample it with our love! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Russia; World War I; Soviet Union; Russians; First World War BATTLE HYMN OF THE SPANISH REBELLION, by LOUIS ALEXANDER MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The church's one foundation Last Line: The bombing-planes of jove. Alternate Author Name(s): Smalacombe, John; Mackay, L. A. Subject(s): Muslims; Revolutions; Spain; War; Moslems BATTLE INTERLUDE, by I. CELNER Poem Source First Line: The ground shuddered, the canvas shook Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii BATTLE OF BELLEAU WOOD, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was thick with prussian troopers Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Belleau Wood, France; World War I BATTLE OF BOTHWELL BRIDGE, by ALLAN CURR Poem Source First Line: Twas on a sabbath morning in the sunny month of june Subject(s): War BATTLE OF BRITAIN, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What did we earth-bound make of it? A tangle Last Line: Their luck, skill, nerve. And they were young like you. Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Film (photography); Great Britain - History; World War Ii; English History; Second World War BATTLE OF IVRY, by THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now glory to the lords of hosts, from whom all glories are! Last Line: Navarre! Alternate Author Name(s): Macaulay, 1st Baron Variant Title(s): Henry Of Navarre;ivry; A Song Of The Huguenots Subject(s): Henry Iv, King Of France (1553-1610); Huguenots; Ivry-la-battaille, France; War BATTLE OF JARAMA, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the earth and the drowned platinum Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): War BATTLE OF LAKE ERIE, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To clear the lake of perry's fleet Last Line: With spirit laid him close on board - %they're ours - he said - and closed the game Subject(s): Lake Erie, Battle Of; Navy - United States; Perry, Oliver Hazard (1785-1819); War Of 1812 BATTLE OF LAKE ERIE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sure wont you hear, what glory there Last Line: So I'll have bo more of it, but a little bit of - tid-re-I, &c Subject(s): Lake Erie, Battle Of; Navy - United States; War Of 1812 BATTLE OF MALDON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Then he bade each of the youths let go his horse Subject(s): Maldon (england), Battle Of; Vikings; War BATTLE OF MALDON, SELS., by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Courage shall grow keener, clearer the will Last Line: Lay me down by my lord's white hand Subject(s): War BATTLE OF MURFREESBORO, 1862-1922, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He shakes the dust from off his feet Last Line: And skyscrapers tower in far new york. Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): American Civil War; Murfreesboro, Battle Of (1862); U.s. - History BATTLE OF PLATTSBURG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Twas autumn, around me leaves were descending Last Line: But nature and art will continue to charm us, %while so happy we'll live, on the banks of lake champ Subject(s): Navy - United States; Plattsburg, Battle Of; War Of 1812 BATTLE OF SAARBURG, by ALFRED LICHTENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: The earth is growing mouldy with mist Last Line: And face death Subject(s): World War I BATTLE OF SOMERSET, by CORNELIUS C. CULLEN Poem Text First Line: I gazed, and lo! Afar and near Last Line: And cease this bloody strife. Subject(s): American Civil War; Somerset, Kentucky, Battle Of (1862); United States - History BATTLE OF STONE RIVER, TENNESSEE; VIEW FROM OXFORD CLOISTERS, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With tewksbury and barnet heath Last Line: Like yorkist and lancastrian? Subject(s): American Civil War; Rosecrans, William Starke (1819-1898); Stone River, Battle Of (1863); U.s. - History BATTLE OF THE ALMA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "brightly, briskly runs the alma, cold and green from mountain snow" Last Line: And the battle of the alma hath been won! Subject(s): Alma River (russia);crimean War (1853-1856);rivers;russia; Soviet Union;russians BATTLE OF THE ALMA, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark lowered the thunder-cloud of death Last Line: A prison and a tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): England; Europe; France; War; English BATTLE OF THE BALTIC, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of nelson and the north / sing the glorious day's reknown Last Line: Of the brave! Variant Title(s): The Battle Of Copenhagen Subject(s): Baltic Sea; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Nelson, Horatio, Viscount (1758-1805); Sea Battles; War; Naval Warfare BATTLE OF THE BULGE, 1944, by ROLAND FLINT Poem Source First Line: Uncle wilbur face down Last Line: From the heart down, front and back, %deaf dumb and paralyze Subject(s): Bulge, Battle Of The; World War Ii BATTLE OF THE SHANNON AND CHESAPEAKE; A BRITISH BALLAD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: On board the shannon frigate in the merry month of may Last Line: Likewise to gallant captain broke and all his valiant crew, %who beat the bold americans and brought Subject(s): Navy - United States; Sea Battles; Shannon (ship); War Of 1812 BATTLE OF THE SWAMPS, by MURIEL ELSIE GRAHAM Poem Source First Line: Across the blinded lowlands the beating rain blows chill Last Line: O deathless swamps of flanders, our hearts are with our men Subject(s): Women; World War I BATTLE ON THE BLACKBIRD'S FIELD, by VASKO POPA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Singing we ride over the field Last Line: From below there follows %the blackbird's farewell song Alternate Author Name(s): Popa, Vasco Subject(s): War BATTLE RAINBOW, by JOHN REUBEN THOMPSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The warm, weary day was departing-the smile Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, John Randolph Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History BATTLE SLEEP, by EDITH WHARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere, o sun, some corner there must be Last Line: And let some soul go seaward with that sail! Subject(s): Evening; Sleep; World War I; Sunset; Twilight; First World War BATTLE SONG, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day, like our souls, is fiercely dark Last Line: Or find a grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer Subject(s): War BATTLE SONG OF THE OREGON, by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The billowy headlands swiftly fly Last Line: The race that rules the wave! Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): Oregon (ship); Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898) BATTLE SUMMERS, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Again the glory of the days! Last Line: What in the hurly can ye do? %little, 'tis like - yet we can die Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History BATTLE: 1. THE RETURN, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He went, and he was gay to go Last Line: What stranger would come back to me. Subject(s): World War I; First World War BATTLE: 3. HIT, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the sparkling sea Last Line: Among the dead men in the trench. Subject(s): World War I; First World War BATTLEFIELD, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind is piercing chill Last Line: Priez pour lui Subject(s): World War I; First World War BATTLEFIELD, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind is piercing chill Last Line: Ci-git 1 soldat allemand, %priez pour lui Subject(s): World War I BATTLEFIELDS, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the battlefields of birth Last Line: Mothers, maddened mothers, curse you, germany! Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Death; Germany; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Germans BATTLEFIELDS OF FRANCE, by PATRICK J. O'NEILL Poem Source First Line: I'm proud to say I'm from p.A. Where the mining boys are loyal Last Line: They are fighting for old glory now, on the battlefields of france Subject(s): Coal Mines And Miners; World War I BATTLELINE, by JAMES B. DOLLARD Poem Source First Line: Athwart that land of bloss'ming vine Subject(s): World War I BAY BILLY, by FRANK HARRISON GASSAWAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You may talk of horses of renown Last Line: "the whole line answered, ""here!" Alternate Author Name(s): Derrick Dogg Subject(s): American Civil War; Animals; Horses; United States - History; War BAZENTIN, 1916, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That was a curious night two years ago Last Line: And slew the rascal at the small of my back. %that was a strange day! %yes, and a merry one Subject(s): World War I BE SERIOUS, by RUTH STONE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps it will snow %oh do be serious Last Line: How the poor die in the streets Subject(s): Politics; War BE SURE, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: You who are roofed and fed Last Line: Only their bodies build you barricade. Subject(s): Disasters; Fear; War BE, EARTH, TRUE!, by FRANZ JANOWITZ Poem Source First Line: So let this comfort as madness be contrite Last Line: Man stands and stares, amazed at what can be Subject(s): World War I BEACH BURIAL, by KENNETH SLESSOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Softly and humbly to the gulf of arabs Subject(s): Graves; War; Tombs; Tombstones BEACH BURIAL, by KENNETH SLESSOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Softly and humbly to the gulf of arabs Last Line: Enlisted on the other front. %el alamein Subject(s): Graves; War BEACH WARFARE, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: There are more daniel boones Last Line: Convinced that love can kill Subject(s): Seashore; War BEAT! BEAT! DRUMS!, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Beat! Beat! Drums! - blow! Bugles! Blow / through the windows - through doors Last Line: So strong you thump o terrible drums -- so loud you bugles blow. Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day BEATITUDES, by ALFRED-MAURICE DE ZAYAS Poem Source First Line: Can you tell me who is good and who is bad? Last Line: Of christinaity? The sermon on the mount Subject(s): Politics; War BEAU IDEAL, by JESSIE POPE Poem Source First Line: Since rose a classic taste possessed Last Line: Must have one member in a sling %or, preferably, missing Subject(s): War BEAUCOURT REVISITED, by ALAN PATRICK HERBERT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wandered up to beaucourt; I took the river track Last Line: The new men know not beaucourt, but we are here - we know Alternate Author Name(s): Patrick, A. P. Subject(s): World War I BEAUFORT EXILE'S LAMENT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Now chant me a dirge for the isles of the sea Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History BEAUREGARD, by CATHERINE ANNE WARFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our trust is now in thee Last Line: Beauregard! Alternate Author Name(s): Warfield, Catherine M. Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauregard, Pierre Gustave T. (1818-93); Confederate States Of America; Patriotism; Shiloh, Battle Of (1862); United States - History; Confederacy BEAUREGARD'S APPEAL, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yea! Since the need is bitter Last Line: The eucharist of prayer. Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauregard, Pierre Gustave T. (1818-93); Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Confederacy BEAUTIFUL AND LOVING DAYS GONE BY, by PHAM HO Poem Source First Line: I shot him. %the beautiful and loving days gone by Last Line: Grieved for the boy I had lost Subject(s): Indochinese War, 1946-1954 BECOMING MILTON, by COLEMAN BRYAN BARKS Poem Source First Line: Milton, the airport driver, retired now Last Line: Nail it, but he can't do that, tom Subject(s): Bly, Robert (b. 1926); Men; War BEFORE ACTION, by LEON GELLERT Poem Source First Line: We always had to do our work at night Last Line: Wondering why I smiled Subject(s): War BEFORE ACTION, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sit beside the brazier's glow Last Line: Nor any cold or heat. Subject(s): World War I; First World War BEFORE ACTION, by WILLIAM NOEL HODGSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: By all the glories of the day Last Line: Help me to die, o lord. Alternate Author Name(s): Melbourne, Edward Subject(s): Religion; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Theology; First World War BEFORE BATTLE, by HABBERTON LULHAM Poem Source First Line: O great eternal spirit of good Subject(s): World War I BEFORE BATTLE, by JAMES NEUGASS Poem Source First Line: Long after the sun has gone down Last Line: No one hears the shot but our first man has fallen Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) BEFORE GINCHY; SEPTEMBER, 1916, by E. ARMINE WODEHOUSE Poem Text First Line: Yon poisonous clod Last Line: Like dante, who have walk'd in hell. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War 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 SEDAN, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in this leafy place Last Line: Death will not have it so. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Corpses; France; Tragedy; World War I; Cadavers; First World War BEFORE THE ASSAULT, by ROBERT ERNEST VERNEDE Poem Source First Line: If thro' this roar o' the guns one prayer Subject(s): World War I BEFORE THE BATTLE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Music of whispering trees Last Line: O river of stars and shadows, lead me through the night. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War BEFORE THE CHARGE (LOOS, 1915), by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night is still and the air is keen Last Line: From the face of death. We charge at dawn. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War BEFORE VICKSBURG, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While sherman stood beneath the hottest fire Last Line: "more cartridges, sir, -- calibre fifty-four!" Subject(s): American Civil War; Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); United States - History; Vicksburg Campaign (1862-63) BEGGAR BILL, by WALTER HENDRICKS Poem Text First Line: Shrapnel would have burst his head Last Line: "had I but turned my head that day!" Subject(s): Luck; Soldiers; War BEGINNING WITH 1914, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since it always begins Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): World War I; Ancestors & Ancestry; Fathers; Time; First World War; Heritage; Heredity BEGOTTEN OF THE SPLEEN, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The virgin mother walked barefoot Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War BEGOTTEN OF THE SPLEEN, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The virgin mother walked barefoot Last Line: Even when the lights came on-- %and the lights came on: %thefloodlights in the guard towers Subject(s): World War Ii BEHAVIORIST, by VAN K. BROCK Poem Source First Line: When they arrest you, you say, why me Last Line: You a superior being Subject(s): World War Ii BEHIND THE LINE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Treasure not so the forlorn days Last Line: Over the shades of shadows gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War BEIRUT TANK, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Staring up into the tank's belly lit Subject(s): Lebanon; War; Tanks (military Science) BELFRIES, by ALYS FANE TROTTER Poem Source First Line: If you should go to la bassee Subject(s): World War I BELGIAN BELLS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Toll the bells for belgium, toll, toll, toll! Last Line: Peal the bells for belgium, peal, peal, peal! Subject(s): Belgium; Bells; World War I; First World War BELGIAN FLAG, by EMILE CAMMAERTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Red for the blood of soldiers Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I BELGIUM, by HARDWICKE DRUMMOND RAWNSLEY Poem Source First Line: When I bethink how nations wax and wane Subject(s): World War I BELGIUM, by EDITH WHARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not with her ruined silver spires Last Line: The home of all that makes them great. Subject(s): World War I - Belgium BELGIUM - 1914, by FRANK C. LEWIS Poem Source First Line: The lithe flames flicker through the veil of night Subject(s): Belgium; Soldiers; World War I BELGIUM THE BAR-LASS, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Source First Line: The night was still. The king sat with the queen Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): World War I BELIEF, by COLLEEN MORTON BUSCH Poem Source First Line: They don't want to go Last Line: You bare skin on the green grass could save him Subject(s): Politics; War BELIEVE, BELIEVE, by BOB KAUFMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Believe in this. Young apple seeds Last Line: Rising above the mushroom time Subject(s): Social Commentary; Music & Musicians; Materialism; War BELLEAU WOODS, 1918, by NATHANIEL JOHN HASENFUS Poem Text First Line: All alone in belleau woods Last Line: Gone to peaceful realms on high. Subject(s): Belleau Wood, France; World War I; First World War BELLINGLISE, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in the sloping forest that surrounds Last Line: Trace in white fire the brave frontiers of france. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War BELLS O' BANFF', by NEIL MUNRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As I gaed down the waterside Subject(s): World War I BELLS OF FLANDERS, by DOMINIQUE BONNAUD Poem Source First Line: Sunday it is in flanders Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I BELSEN, DAY OF LIBERATION, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her parents and her dolls destroyed Last Line: They were so beautiful %and they were not afraid Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii BELTANE (FIRE OF GOD), by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON Poem Text First Line: Red flares the pile with the flames mounting higher Last Line: God of the fire rides forth at the dawn! Subject(s): Battleships; Death; Fire; War; Dead, The BENICASIM, by SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Here for a little we pause Subject(s): War BETHEL, by AUGUSTINE JOSEPH HICKEY DUGANNE Poem Text First Line: We mustered at midnight, in darkness we formed Last Line: "column! Forward!" Subject(s): American Civil War; Bethel, Virgina, Battle Of (1861); United States - History; Great Bethel (church), Virginia; Big Bethel (church), Virginia; Little Bethel (church), Virginia BETRAYAL, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: Bra unhooked from the front Last Line: Cover the earth again Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) BETTER FAR TO PASS AWAY, by RICHARD MOLESWORTH DENNYS Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I BETWEEN BATTLES, by ZHANG ZHIMIN Poem Source First Line: The roar of cannon %has died away Last Line: Horses are gently %nibbling at patches of turf Subject(s): War BETWEEN THE LINES, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When consciousness came back, he found he lay Last Line: He rose, and crawled away into the night. Subject(s): World War I - Casualties BETWEEN THE WARS, by ROBERT HASS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I ran, it rained. Late in the afternoon Last Line: Starved children begging chocolate on the tracks Subject(s): Youth; War BETWEEN THE WARS, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You cannot hear her Last Line: Unspeakable, its icy space [or, spaces] opening Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 BEYOND THE BAR, by BEATRICE B. BEEBE Poem Text First Line: Send no one over by the way of war! Last Line: The unknown soldier. Subject(s): Brotherhood; War BEYOND THE POTOMAC, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They slept on the field which their valor had won Last Line: Since they passed o'er the river? Subject(s): American Civil War; Maryland; United States - History BEYOND THE WAR, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now seres the planet like a leaf Last Line: A sister's flowering. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): War BHAGAVAD-GITA, SELS., by UNKNOWN Subject(s): War BIG DREAM, LITTLE DREAM, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The elgonyi say, there are big dreams and little dreams Subject(s): Men; War BIG DREAM, LITTLE DREAM, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The elgonyi say, there are big dreams and little dreams Last Line: And before you know there is war Subject(s): Men; War BIG PARADE, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: Outside another gray day Last Line: To gouge out the eyes of those who can see Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) 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 BIGLOW PAPERS: LETTER ... TO JOSEPH T. BUCKINGHAM, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mister eddyter, our hosea wuz down Last Line: Ef there's thousands o' my mind Subject(s): Military Service, Voluntary; Slavery; Soldiers; U.s. - Mexican War (1846-1848) BILL THE BOMBER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poppies gleamed like bloody pools through cotton-wolly mist Last Line: "for me bombs they wasn't wasted, though, you might say, ""thrown away." Subject(s): Bombs; War; World War I; First World War BILL WILLIAMS (B. 1922), by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: Bill williams, bombardier Last Line: Half-comprehending what we did Subject(s): War BILL'S GRAVE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm gatherin' flowers by the wayside to lay on the grave of bill Last Line: When 'e stares through the bleedin' clods and sees the blossoms of jim and me? Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War BILLION SCUDS BURSTING OVER ARLES, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: Now that you have returned Last Line: And the town are the peaceful %things of spring Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) BILLY BUSH SAM-TON, by FAWZIA AFZAL-KHAN Poem Source First Line: Osama %sam a %uncle sam Last Line: Are you proud %of me Subject(s): Politics; War BINGEN ON THE RHINE, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A soldier of the legion lay dying in algiers Last Line: The rhine. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Subject(s): Germany; Patriotism; War; Germans BIOGRAPHER'S MANDATE, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of course he became famous toward the end Subject(s): War BIRD, by ROBERT GREACEN Poem Source First Line: A bird flew tangent-wise to the open window Last Line: With poison in his beak and hatred in his wings Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii BIRD, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ich wunscht', ich ware ein voglein,' %sang heinrich... Last Line: It makes his children cry Subject(s): World War Ii BIRD O'ER THE BATTLEFIELD, by ISABEL FISKE CONANT Poem Text First Line: Bird o'er the battlefield, singing in the lull of thunder Last Line: Is it that christ, walking storm-waves of trenches, comes near? Subject(s): Birds; Soldiers; War; World War I; First World War BIRDS FLIT UNAFRAID, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): World War I BIRDS, THE BEASTS, AND THE BAT, by FRANCIS HOPKINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A war broke out in former days Last Line: And his just fate in silence mourns Subject(s): Fights; French And Indian Wars; Victory; War BIRDWATCHER, by HENRY TREECE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Between decision and ensuing act Subject(s): War BIRTHDAY POEM, NOV. 4TH, by JR. JOHN THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: As in your innocent eyes last night Subject(s): War BIVOUAC IN THE SNOW, by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Halt! - the march is over Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History BIVOUAC ON A MOUNTAIN SIDE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see before me now a travelling army halting Last Line: Studded, breaking out, the eternal stars. Subject(s): American Civil War; Army Life; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Drills & Minor Tactics; Declaration Day BLACK CROSS, by REED WHITTEMORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would like to dispense with certain sorrows Last Line: Through a pretty little pattern to this desert place %is no concern of mine Subject(s): World War Ii BLACK GOD, by PARK IN-HWAN Poem Source First Line: Who is sobbing in the graveyard? Last Line: Of the wat %shall be your theme Subject(s): Korean War, 1950-1953 BLACK MARKET, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: In a shack, in a field of mud. That's where she is Last Line: Little rainbows %of excrement. %not a sound Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii BLACK SAMSON OF BRANDYWINE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gray are the pages of record Last Line: Black samson of brandywine. Subject(s): World War I; First World War BLACK-OUT, by MARY DESIREE ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: I never feared the darkness as a child Last Line: Like hunted beasts, for warning of their fears Subject(s): War BLACK-OUT, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The war that we have carefully for years provoked Subject(s): War BLACK-OUT, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The war that we have carefully for years provoked Last Line: Darkness and silence, the two eyes that see god. Great staring eyes Subject(s): War BLACKSMITH; MRS. GRESHAM, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: Howard gresham pried a yes from me Last Line: At last I am ready for my life to come Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History BLEEDING-HEART DOVE AND THE FOUNTAIN, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gentle faces stabbed dear flowered lips Last Line: Gardens where rose-laurel warlike flower bleeds in abundance Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): World War I BLENHEIM ORANGES, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone, gone again Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Oranges; World War I; First World War BLENHEIM ORANGES, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone, gone again Last Line: For the schoolboys to throw at - %they have broken every one Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Oranges; World War I BLESSED ARE THOSE, by CHARLES PEGUY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Blessed are those who died for carnal earth Last Line: Blessed is the wheat that is ripe and the wheat that is %ga thered in sheaves Subject(s): World War I BLESSED EVENT (THERE WERE ALSO SOME CASUALTIES), by ADA JACKSON Poem Text First Line: In labour when / the raid began Last Line: Her soul instead. Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Birth; Death; War; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The BLIGHTERS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The house is crammed: tier upon tier they grin Last Line: To mock the riddled corpses round bapaume. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War BLIND, by JUNE RICHARDSON LUCAS Poem Text First Line: He saw the noonday sun Last Line: He did not know that he was blind! Subject(s): Blindness; Social Protest; Vision; World War I; Visually Handicapped; First World War BLIND SPOTS, by LOIS ETHLEEN SCHMIDT Poem Text First Line: They said that he was first to fall Last Line: When there is war. Subject(s): War BLOOD AND SAND, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If there ever was a spoiled darling Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Spanish Literature BLOOD AND SAND, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If there ever was a spoiled darling Last Line: Noticed you again, federico Subject(s): Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Spanish Literature BLOOD DROP POEMS FROM THE WAR, SELS., by AUGUST STRAMM Subject(s): World War I BLOOM'S PHOTOGRAPH, by BILL WADSWORTH Poem Source First Line: In reykjavik that year the bomb Last Line: We shut the book on mooly's 'yes' Subject(s): Politics; War BLOW JOB, by ARLENE STONE Poem Source First Line: They told us radiation was Subject(s): Nuclear War BLUE HERONS, by SASCHA FEINSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Against a window of unresolved Last Line: Blue herons paralyzed in oil Subject(s): Politics; War BLUE ROSES, by ELOISE ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: I sit beside the window sill Last Line: Across a wall. Subject(s): World War I; First World War BLUE, GRAY, AND BROWN, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The camps are thick in dixie Last Line: Our brown-clad fighting sons! Subject(s): Soldiers; War; World War I; First World War BLUEJAY AND THE MOCKINGBIRD, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mockingbird, knowing he owned the tree Subject(s): War BLUES FOR JIMMY, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If it were evening on a dead man's watch Last Line: Locked on my wrist to remember us by Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Soldiers; War; World War Ii; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Second World War BLUES FOR WARREN, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The beasts in the schoolroom, whose transparent faces Last Line: Are beached the spring-tide flowers of our hopes Subject(s): Communism; Death; North Sea; Politics & Government; Socialism; Soldiers; War; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War BOAT RACE, 1915, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: No sweatered men in scanty shorts Subject(s): World War I BOFORS AA GUN, by GAVIN EWART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such marvellous ways to kill a man! Last Line: The pheasant-shooter be himself the pheasant! Subject(s): World War Ii BOIS-ETOILE, by ETHEL M. HEWITT Poem Text First Line: What legend of a star that fell Last Line: To keep dead springtides' trysts with her!) Subject(s): World War I; First World War BOMBARDMENT AFTER THE WAR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am an unexploded shell Last Line: Ah, but war is a cursed thing! Subject(s): War BOMBING CASUALTIES IN SPAIN, by HERBERT READ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dolls' faces are rosier but these were children Subject(s): Social Protest; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) BOMBING CASUALTIES IN SPAIN, by HERBERT READ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dolls' faces are rosier but these were children Last Line: After a night of riot %extinct in the dry morning air Subject(s): Social Protest; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) BOMBING THEM BACK TO THE STONE AGE, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: Now my poems are mobilizing against kissinger Last Line: Sharpening bamboo metaphors Subject(s): War BOMBS, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: How did I know? It was my window. Not the way you think, though Last Line: Your hope your scream. Stopped everything. Everything. Still Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii BOMBSHELTER, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: First, the metagon flashbulb, stronger Last Line: Through mushroom clouds %to someplace we couldn't name Subject(s): Bombs; Nuclear War BONDS -- AND BONDS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Buy a bond to break a bond Last Line: Fettering your brothers! Subject(s): War Bonds; World War I; First World War BONDS FOR ALL, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Buy a bond for grandma -- Last Line: With war bonds for all Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; War Bonds BONEHEAD BILL, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder 'oo and wot e' was Last Line: The cove I croaked last night. Subject(s): Death; Paris, France; War; Dead, The BONEY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh boney was a warrior Last Line: There he died a prisoner %john browns war Subject(s): War BONNY ELOISE, by J. R. THOMAS Poem Source First Line: O, sweet is the vale where the mohawk gently glides Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History BONNYBELL: THE GRAY SPHEX, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bonnybell comes to the room of her lover Last Line: She wounds in the war. Subject(s): War; Women - Heroes BOOK OF SONGS, SELS., by UNKNOWN Subject(s): War BOOK OF SONGS, SELS., by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: How few of us are left, how few! Last Line: Were it not for our prince's own concerns %what should we be doing here in the mud? Subject(s): War BOOTS, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're foot - slog - slog - sloggin' over africa Last Line: An' there's no discharge in the war! Subject(s): Army Life; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Patriotism; War; Drills & Minor Tactics; British Empire; England - Empire BORDERLANDS; FOR MY GRANDMOTHER, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crush my eyes, bitter grapes Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Death; Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953; Soldiers; Dead, The BORODINO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "one foot in the stirrup, one hand on the mane" Last Line: Only love turns away from the revelling crowd / to her own on the plain Subject(s): "borodino, Battle Of (1812);russia;russia - Napoleonic War;" Soviet Union;russians BOSTON HYMN; READ IN MUSIC HALL, JANUARY 1, 1863, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The word of the lord by night Last Line: His way home to the mark. Subject(s): American Civil War; Americans; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Patriotism; Pilgrim Fathers; United States - History; United States; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; America BOSTON PRIVATEERING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The argus with her hundred eyes Last Line: For know, that these brave fighting men, %have now restor'd his goods again Subject(s): Navy - United States; Privateers; War Of 1812 BOSTON TO THE BOERS, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sword of gideon, sword of god Last Line: That red, dread day at bunker hill. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Boer War; South African War BOTH WORSHIPPED THE SAME GREAT NAME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Jack smith belonged to the y.M.C.A Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I BOTHWELL BRIDGE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o billie, billie, bonny billie" Last Line: The bloody battle of bothwell bridge Subject(s): "bothwell, Scotland;scotland - Relations With England;war; BOUGHT EMBRACE, by GEORGE SUTHERLAND FRASER Poem Source First Line: Holding the naked body I had brought Subject(s): War BOWER OF ROSES, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mixture of smells Last Line: Were real, and applied to you Subject(s): World War Ii BOWING HER HEAD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Her head is bowed downwards; so pensive her air Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History BOX COMES HOME, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember the united states of america Last Line: At the red-taped grave in woodmere %by the rain and oakleaves on the domino Subject(s): Coffins; Homecoming; World War Ii BOY, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Taking his trick, the crew being at their meal Last Line: Sank in mid-ocean's all-devouring death Subject(s): World War Ii BOY BRITTAN [FEBRUARY 8, 1862], by BYRON FORCEYTHE WILLSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Boy brittan - only a lad a fair-haired boy - sixteen Last Line: "my darling, thou shalt rest!" Alternate Author Name(s): Willson, Forceythe Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Fort Henry, Battle Of (1862); Sailing & Sailors; United States - History; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails BOY NEXT DOOR, by SAMUEL ELLSWORTH KISER Poem Source First Line: There used to be a boy next door Subject(s): World War I BOYISH WAR; LT. MITCHELL, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys Last Line: Then I felt like six-and-a-quarter cents Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History BRADY'S MICHIGAN SHARPSHOOTERS INSPECT THE AMBROTYPE OF SERGEANT RICE, by MICHAEL A. SCHAFFNER Poem Source First Line: We know it was '62 because sergeant rice Last Line: A closer look at this, my other life Subject(s): American Civil War; Military; Soldiers; U.s. - History BRAND LOYALTY, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: In the two-minute tv spot Subject(s): Nuclear War 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 WOMAN, by GRACE MONTE DE RAMOS Poem Source First Line: I am a mother of sons Last Line: Who kill and are killed Subject(s): Politics; War BREAD, by LOLA RIDGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shawled women, %trickling like a sluice out of alleys and side streets Last Line: At that cry like a bloodied gown, %flaunting their flags above Alternate Author Name(s): Lawson, David, Mrs. Subject(s): World War I BREAK OF DAY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There seemed a smell of autumn in the air Last Line: Hark! There's the horn: they're drawing the big wood. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War BREAK OF DAY IN THE TRENCHES, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The darkness crumbles away Last Line: Just a little white with the dust. Subject(s): Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War BREAKFAST, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We ate our breakfast lying on our backs Last Line: Because the shells were screeching overhead. Subject(s): World War I; First World War BREAKFAST TABLE, AUGUST 5, 1945, by GERALDINE CLINTON LITTLE Poem Source First Line: We can imagine the table, can see Subject(s): Nuclear War BREAKOUT, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: You must have sawed off your own nightmares Last Line: To be your accomplice Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) BREATH ON THE OAT, by JOSEPH RUSSELL TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: Free are the muses, and where freedom is Last Line: Uncaptured and unflying, the wings of song. Subject(s): Peace; Spanish-american War (1898) 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 BRETHREN, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woodpecker hammers Subject(s): Woodpeckersl Nursing Homes; War BRIDGE-GUARD IN THE KARROO, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sudden the desert changes Subject(s): War BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: It's mount hope in the background, but comet lake up close Last Line: Otherworldly place where these laughing girls can't find me Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities BRIGADAS INTERNACIONALES, by EDWIN ROLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To say we were right is not boastful, %nor we saw, when all others were blind Last Line: Proclaim in pride: we saw. We acted. Fought. %we died, while others in cowardice lived on Alternate Author Name(s): Fishman, Solomon Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) BRIGADE MUST NOT KNOW, SIR!', by JOHN WILLIAMSON PALMER Poem Source First Line: Who've ye got there? Only a dying brother' Last Line: Living, he laid the first stones of a nation; %and dead, he builds it yet Subject(s): American Civil War; Chancellorsville, Battle Of (1863); Jackson, Thomas (stonewall) (1824-1863); U.s. - History BRIGADES ARRIVE IN 1936, by WALTER SNOW Poem Source First Line: They came with the four great winds in their leaf-green youth Last Line: Of stenching crocodiles Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) BRIGHT STARRY NIGHT, by NGUYEN BINH THUYET Poem Source First Line: Night comes, stars slowly rise Last Line: But there is no night that I don't think of you Subject(s): Indochinese War, 1946-1954 BRILLIANT NAVAL VICTORY ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O freemen! Raise a joyful strain Last Line: Till the bright arch of naval fame, %o'er the broad ocean bend Subject(s): Lake Champlain, Battle Of; Navy - United States; War Of 1812 BRILLIANT NAVAL VICTORY; PERRY, BETTER THAN ENGLISH CIDER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Huzza! For the brave yankee boys Last Line: But such perry as she's taken here %she never will wish for again, sir Subject(s): Lake Erie, Battle Of; Navy - United States; Perry, Oliver Hazard (1785-1819); War Of 1812 BRILLIANT VICTORY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hark how the church bell's thundering harmony Last Line: Our wasp has stung the frolic hard, %and thus our laurels grow Subject(s): Decatur, Stephen (1779-1820); Navy - United States; Sea Battles; War Of 1812 BRILLIANT VICTORY; ON CAPTURE OF BRITISH SCHOONER DOMINICO, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come my jovial sons of america Last Line: Who daring fought the british schooner, %and as bravely overthrew Subject(s): Decatur (ship); Navy - United States; Privateers; Sea Battles; War Of 1812 BRITISH ARMY OF 1914, by ALFRED W. POLLARD Poem Source First Line: Let us praise god for the dead Subject(s): World War I BRITISH MERCHANT SERVICE, 1915, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, down by millwall basin as I went the other day Last Line: For a tight place is the right place when it's wild weather at sea! Subject(s): Merchant Marine - Great Britain; World War I; First World War BRITISH MUSEUM READING ROOM, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the hive-like dome the stooping haunted readers Last Line: The guttural sorrow of the refugees Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums; War BROKEN MUG, by JOHN ESTEN COOKE Poem Source First Line: My mug is broken, my heart is sad Alternate Author Name(s): Cook, John Esten Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History BROKEN ROSE, by ANNIE VIVANTI CHARTRES Poem Source First Line: Shy, youthful, silent - and misunderstood Subject(s): World War I BROTHER, by LARRY RUBIN Poem Source First Line: I wore knee-pants there where the soldiers trained Last Line: The ladle, proud of her gown, waiting for war Subject(s): World War Ii BROTHER FIRE, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When our brother fire was having his dog's day Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Fire; World War Ii; Second World War BROTHER FIRE, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When our brother fire was having his dog's day Last Line: Echo your thought in ours? 'destroy! Destroy' Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Fire; World War Ii BROTHER JONATHAN'S LAMENT FOR SISTER CAROLINE [DECEMBER 2O, 1860], by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She has gone, - she has left us in passion and pride Last Line: Remember the pathway that leads to our door! Subject(s): Patriotism; South Carolina; State Rights; War; Secession BROTHER, TELL ME OF THE BATTLE, by GEORGE FREDERICK ROOT Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History BROTHERS, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: We never fought %wars, though each Last Line: He said, cut me Subject(s): Airships; Aviation And Aviators; Brothers; Fights; Flight; War; World War Ii BROTHERS IN ARMS, by ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When behind her violated border Subject(s): World War I BROTHERS OF THE SEA, by J. H. MACNAIR Poem Source First Line: Sea-weary, argonauts, beaching their barque Subject(s): World War I BROWN OF OSSAWATOMIE [DECEMBER 2, 1859], by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John brown of ossawatomie spake on his dying day Last Line: To love! Subject(s): Abolitionists; American Civil War; Brown, John (1800-1859); Capital Punishment; Freedom; Slavery; United States - History; Anti-slavery; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Liberty; Serfs BRUCE AND THE SPIDER, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For scotland's and for freedom's right Last Line: And patience wins the race. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): History; Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); War; Historians; Bruce, Robert; The Bruce BRULE VILLAGE, WOUNDED KNEE, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: This is no forest primeval: badlands, black hills, a month Last Line: Beyond the breastworks of the cavalry, resistance of the ice is shale Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities BRUSSELS, 1919, by CAROLA OMAN Poem Source First Line: Wide are the streets, and driven clean Last Line: But understand an english joke %upon the road to waterloo Subject(s): Women; World War I BUENA VISTA, by ALBERT PIKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the rio grande's waters to the icy lakes of Last Line: And everlasting glory unto buena vista's dead! Subject(s): Buena Vista, Battle Of (1847); Patriotism; Santa Anna, Antonio Lopez De (1794-1876); Taylor, Zachary (1784-1850); U.s. - Mexican War (1846-1848) BUFFALO WAR, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: War over %everybody gone home Last Line: Nobody dead %everybody dying Subject(s): Buffalo (city), New York; War BUGLE CALL, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one cares less than I Last Line: The call that I heard and made words to early this morning Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Army Life; Bugles; Morning; World War I 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 BUGLES, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It used to be Last Line: Our harry when we went away! Subject(s): Fights; Soldiers; War BUILDING THE BARRICADE, by ANNA SWIR Poem Source First Line: We were afraid as we built the barricade Last Line: We did build the barricade %under fire Subject(s): World War Ii BULL IN THE OLIVE FIELD, by SOL FUNAROFF Poem Source First Line: With the first banderillas of daybreak Last Line: Twisted in agony like christs in the grove Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) BULLDOZER, by DONALD A. STAUFFER Poem Source First Line: The jungle is the frame for the machine Subject(s): War BULLINGTON, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was the high midsummer, and the sun Subject(s): World War I BUNKER HILL, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: A low redoubt, dug into tumbled earth-- Last Line: Of bunker, hill, and its immortal name! Subject(s): American Revolution; Bunker Hill, Battle Of; War BUNKER HILL, JUNE 17, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hill, on whose green, eternal crest Last Line: Mid the old fires of bunker-hill! Subject(s): American Revolution; Bunker Hill, Battle Of; Patriotism; Soldiers; War BUNYIP AND THE WHISTLING KETTLE, by JOHN STREETER MANIFOLD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I knew a most superior camper Last Line: And loud it screamed, the lifeless metal, %far into the malicious night Subject(s): Camping; War BURIAL AT SEA, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Forty knots, a bugle call - our heads bowed down in sorrow Last Line: We sleep above the restless graves tonight %and dream the day when the dead shall rise in laughter Subject(s): Funerals - At Sea; Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities BURIAL FLAGS, by RALPH NIXON CURREY Poem Source First Line: Here with the desert so austere that only Last Line: Red strips of cloth that ride the dusty heavens %untiringly Subject(s): World War Ii BURIAL OF SOPHOCLES, by GEOFFREY BACHE SMITH Poem Source First Line: Gather great store of roses, crimson-red Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I BURMA HILLS, by BERNARD H. GUTTERIDGE Poem Source First Line: Sometimes in the hills Subject(s): War BURNED, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have to go back into the forge room Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Factories; Jews; World War Ii; Farewell; Fathers; Grief; Conduct Of Life; Work; Workers; Judaism; Second World War; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness BURNING CITIES OF DESIRE, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: You crawl into bed with your husband Last Line: Your naked breasts in my hands Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) BURNING GLASS, by LAURENCE WHISTLER Poem Source First Line: A girl there was in a far city Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii BURNING OF JAN PALACH, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: Day after day the malignant photographs Last Line: Already our great-grandchildren accuse us of cancer Subject(s): War BURY THEM, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bury the dragon's teeth! Last Line: Fighting against great god. Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Fort Wagner, Battle Of (1863); Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; United States - History BURYING DETAIL, by JOHN BENSKO Poem Source First Line: No matter the slant of hill, or height Last Line: Their magpie scattering of what was once %so possessed Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History; War Injuries BUT NOT FORGOTTEN, by P. J. FLAHERTY Poem Source First Line: The hungry crash of guns, the charge of lean Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii BUTCHER SHOP, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes walking late at night Subject(s): Butchers; World War Ii; Second World War BUTCHER SHOP, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes walking late at night Last Line: Scraped clean - a river dried to its bed %where I am fed, %where deep in the night I hear a voice Subject(s): Butchers; World War Ii BUTLER'S PROCLAMATION, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay! Drop the treacherous mask! Throw by Last Line: Save -- immortality of shame! Subject(s): American Civil War; Butler, Benjamin Franklin (1818-1893); New Orleans, Battle Of (1862); United States - History; Women BUTTADEUS, by WILLIAM SAMUEL JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: I understand: that smoke-cloud is souchez Last Line: Where waits the peace of god. Subject(s): Crucifixion; God; War; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion BUTTONS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been watching the war map slammed up for advertising Last Line: Newspaper office where the freckle-faced young man is laughing to us? Subject(s): Social Protest; World War I; First World War BY A BRITISH BARROW, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let me lie down beside you, prince Last Line: I waste breath that were precious now in prayer Subject(s): World War Ii BY CHICKAMAUGA RIVER, by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Again the wandering breezes bring Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History BY THE ALMA, by JAMES DAWSON Poem Source First Line: You have found me out at last, will, sit down beside me here Variant Title(s): After The Battl Subject(s): Alma River (russia); Crimean War (1853-1856); Rivers BY THE ALMA RIVER, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Willie, fold your little hands Last Line: "by the alma river." Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Absence; Alma River (russia); Crimean War (1853-1856); Rivers; Russia; War; Separation; Isolation; Soviet Union; Russians BY THE NORTH SEA, by WILLIAM LEONARD COURTNEY Poem Source First Line: Death and sorrow and sleep Subject(s): World War I BY THE PASSES; A SONG, by LI HE Poem Source First Line: The turkish horn draws the north wind Last Line: North of the tents the sky must end, %flowing out from the passes the river's sound comes Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Frontier And Pioneer Life; War BY THE POTOMAC, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The soft new grass is creeping o'er the graves Last Line: And all our heavy heritage of grief. Variant Title(s): Accomplices Subject(s): American Civil War; Potomac River; Rivers; United States - History 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 BY THE WOOD, by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How still the day is, and the air how bright! Last Line: Be worthy of our deaths and your delight. Subject(s): War BY-AND-BY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By-and-by, the maiden sighed -- by-and-by Last Line: Keep the promiscd by-and-by -- by-and-by? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Hope; Mothers; Soldiers; Time; War; Youth; Optimism C & H SUGAR STRIKE KAHUKU, 1923, by GARRETT KAORU HONGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You waken to food Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans C'EST LA GUERRE, by DAVID SMITH-FERRI Poem Source First Line: Having planned it well in advance Last Line: In the name of human dignity, %the difference Subject(s): War CAESAR, by PAUL VALERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Caesar, serene caesar, your foot on all Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); War CAESAR AND CHRIST, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: Proud caesar came in strength of steel Last Line: And he lives. Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Death; Evil; Good; Jesus Christ; War; Dead, The CAIRO JAG, by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I get drunk or cut myself a piece of cake Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War CAIRO JAG, by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I get drunk or cut myself a piece of cake Last Line: Has a packet of chocolate and a souvenir of tripoli Subject(s): World War Ii CALL, by JESSIE POPE Poem Source First Line: Who's for the trench? Last Line: Who'll stand and bite his thumbs - %will you, my laddie? Subject(s): Women; World War I CALL ALL', by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Whoop! The doodles have broken loose Last Line: "mother and maiden, and child and slave, / a common triumph or a single grave" Subject(s): American Civil War;confederate States Of America;u.s. - History; Confederacy CALL AND ANSWER, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me why it is we don't lift our voices these days Last Line: Hurry, cry now! Soon sunday night will come Subject(s): Politics & Government; War CALL AND ANSWER, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me why it is we don't lift our voices these days Last Line: Hurry, cry now! Soon sunday night will come Subject(s): Politics; War CALL OF ENGLAND, by OWEN SEAMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Come, all ye who love her well Subject(s): World War I CALL TO THE COLORS, by SARAH BEAUMONT KENNEDY Poem Source First Line: Like the seeds of wind-flowers, lightly blown Last Line: To die for a silken rag Subject(s): World War I CALLED BACK, by UNKNOWN+89 Poem Source First Line: You send them forth to do your work Subject(s): World War I CALLIGRAM, 15 MAY 1915, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sky's as blue and black as ink Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): War CALLIGRAM, 15 MAY 1915, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sky's as blue and black as ink Last Line: Sends shining on our battery Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): War CALM AND FULL THE OCEAN, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): War CALM AND FULL THE OCEAN, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): War CALVARY, by JOHN ROTHSCHILD Poem Text First Line: Acres of crosses - wooden crosses - bleak Last Line: Of folded arms in the menacing hour? Subject(s): Calvary; Crosses; Crucifixion; Death; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The CALVARY SONG, by ROSSITER WORTHINGTON RAYMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our bugles sound gayly. To horse and away Last Line: And our country, our country will never forget! Subject(s): Cavalry; War CAMBODIA, by JAMES FENTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One man shall smile one day and say goodbye Last Line: And still they die. And still the war goes on Subject(s): Cambodia; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War CAMBRIDGE RANT, by WILLIAM IRWIN THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: Dear mr. President, %when first did standing up before a crowd Last Line: American movies are played in the dark Subject(s): Politics; War CAMEO APPEARANCE, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I had a small, nonspeaking part Subject(s): War CAMOUFLAGE, by JOHN STREETER MANIFOLD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Because the paint is not the shadow of branches Subject(s): War CAMP ECHOES, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rally round the flag, boys! Give it to / the breeze!' Last Line: Then wrap the flag about us in the bed where last we lie. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Camp-meetings; Flags; Military Recruitment; Patriotism; Soldiers; War CAMP IN THE PRUSSIAN FOREST, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk beside the prisoners to the road Last Line: The star laughs from its rotting shroud %of flesh. O star o f men! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii CAMPAIGN, by JOSEPH ADDISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While crouds of princes your deserts proclaim Last Line: And those who paint 'em truest praise 'em most Subject(s): Blenheim, Battle Of; Churchill, John (1650-1722); Spain - War Of Succession (1701-1714) CAMPAIGN, by FREDERIC PROKOSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The snow falls silently through the unnatural forest Last Line: The savage and irresistible footfalls of their grief Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii CAMPAIGN OF A BILLION FLOWERS, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: When he proclaimed compulsory joy, the computers Last Line: To thorns like a ratspaw, why violets blackened wherever %he walked Subject(s): War CAMPS OF GREEN, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not alone those camps of white, old comrades of wars Last Line: Nor drummer to beat the morning drum. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History CAMPTOWN, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The streets that slept all afternoon in sun Last Line: And we're late and lost unless we run Subject(s): War CAMPTOWN, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The streets that slept all afternoon in sun Last Line: And we're late and lost unless we run Subject(s): War CAMPUS SONNET: RETURN - 1917, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was just aiming at the jagged hole Last Line: "I dreamed I . . . Am I . . . Wounded? ""you are dead." Subject(s): Universities & Colleges; World War I; First World War CAN'T, by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How history repeats itself Last Line: The steadfast man whose name was grant. Subject(s): American Civil War; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); U.s. - History; Wilderness Campaign (1864) CANADA SPEAKS OF BRITAIN, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is that bastioned rock where dwell the free Last Line: She calls. And we will answer to our last breath, - %make light of sacrifice, and jest with death Subject(s): England; World War Ii CANADA TO ENGLAND, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great names of thy great captains gobe before Last Line: Of all past greatnesses about thee stand. Subject(s): England; Freedom; World War I - Canada; English; Liberty CANADA'S THERMOPYLAE, by ANNIE BETHUNE MACDOUGALD Poem Text First Line: Though his head was bowed to the caesar'a toll Last Line: Canada's thermopylae. Subject(s): Death; Monuments; War; Dead, The CANADIAN SONG (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "dark, and the shells are falling" Last Line: Now I am vainly dreaming - / dreaming of you Subject(s): Army - Canada;world War I; First World War CANADIAN SONG (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Here we are - here we are - here we are again Last Line: We gave you 'ell at neuve chapelle - and here we are again Subject(s): Army - Canada;world War I; First World War CANADIANS, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With arrows on their quarters and with numbers on their hoofs Last Line: Softly fall the feet of them along the english lanes. Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): World War I - Canada CANDLESTICK, by JAROSLAV SEIFERT Poem Source First Line: God knows what happened to the candlestick Last Line: But it came! Subject(s): War CANE CUTTERS, by JULIET S. KONO Poem Source First Line: It is early morning. The brave Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans CANNAE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Save where garganus, with low-ridged bound Last Line: So sharp a check of greatness so supreme. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Italy; War; Italians CANTICLE DE PROFUNDIS, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Glory to thee, father of all the immortal Last Line: Glory to thee! Variant Title(s): A Canticle In War Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day CANTO 16, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And before hell mouth; dry plain Subject(s): World War I; Heroism; Death; First World War; Heroes; Heroines; Dead, The CANTO 25; THE WAR CLOUD, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Five happy years have told their flight Last Line: And all the coming storm await. Subject(s): Heroism; Nations; Native Americans; Prophecy & Prophets; War; Heroes; Heroines; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America CAPE ENGANO (DETAL FROM THE SECOND WORLD WAR), by RIGAS KAPPATOS Poem Source First Line: Cape engano with its wide azure apron Last Line: Keep silent, haunting their ships %inhabited by sea monsters Subject(s): World War Ii CAPSULES, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: There's nothing new or crazy Last Line: We even love one another. Or we try Subject(s): War CAPT. SALLY TOMPKINS, C.S.A, by BEVERLY RANDOLPH TUCKER Poem Source First Line: A clock has struck! A life has paid the cost Subject(s): American Civil War; Physicians; U.s. - History CAPTAIN COLIN P. KELLY, JR.; KILLED IN ACTION, DECEMBER 1941, by ROBERT NATHAN Poem Source First Line: Alone, above manila's bay Last Line: God grant our deaths may be as brave Subject(s): Heroism; Kelly, Captain Colin P., Jr.; World War Ii CAPTAIN DIVER'S DINNER, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: Enter a waiter, flitting between the tables Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii 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 CAPTAIN HULL'S VICTORY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ye brave seamen all, where'er you be Last Line: Like true americans our rights will defend, %and to our government we'll all eb a friend Subject(s): Constitution (ship); Navy - United States; Sea Battles; War Of 1812 CAPTAIN IN TIME OF PEACE, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crudely continues what has been begun Last Line: A clumsy brute in uniform Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): War CAPTAIN SAID, by COVINGTON HALL Poem Source First Line: A stout ship to seattle came Last Line: And, sailing, said: 'like hell you are!' Alternate Author Name(s): Ami, Covington; Ami, Covami Subject(s): World War I CAPTAIN'S WIFE, by THEODORE TILTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We gathered roses, blanche and I, for little madge Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History CAPTAINS ADVENTUROUS, by NORAH M. HOLLAND Poem Text First Line: Captains adventurous, from your ports of quiet Last Line: Captains adventurous, the masters of the sea. Subject(s): Great Britain - Navy; World War I; First World War CAPTION FOR ONE'S OWN PHOTOGRAPH, by N. K. CRUICKSHANK Poem Source First Line: A secret map is all that others see Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii CAPTIVES, by ERNEST HEMINGWAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some came in chains Last Line: Making death easy Subject(s): World War I; First World War CAPTIVES GOING HOME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: No flaunting banners o'er them wave Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History CAPTURE OF LITTLE YORK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "when britain, with envy and malice inflamed" Last Line: "our foes on the ocean have been forced to yield, / and fresh laurels we now gather up in the field" Subject(s): "toronto, Canada;war Of 1812 - Canadian Campaign; CAPTURE OF THE ESSEX; FREE TRADE - SAILORS' RIGHTS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Some two years since, the gallant ship %'the essex' known in fame, sirs Last Line: Her crown, wealth, empire, all must waste! %and sink, in endless ruin! Subject(s): Essex (ship); Free Trade; Navy - United States; War Of 1812 CARACTACUS, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before proud rome's imperial throne Last Line: He bade the slave be free again. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Rome, Italy; War CARAVANS, by P. A. A. THOMAS Poem Source First Line: The caravans still pass along the road Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii CARELESS LOVE, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who have been lonely once Subject(s): War CARENTAN O CARENTAN, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Trees in the old days used to stand / and shape a shady land Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944); World War Ii; Normandy (france), Invasion Of; Second World War CARENTAN O CARENTAN, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trees in the old days used to stand %and shape a shady land Last Line: We never yet had lost a man %or known what death could do Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944); World War Ii CARMEN BELLICOSUM, by GUY HUMPHREYS MCMASTER Poem Text First Line: In their ragged regimentals Last Line: Hurling death! Variant Title(s): The Old Continentals Subject(s): American Revolution; Brandywine Creek, Battle Of (1777); Patriotism; War CARMEN SECULARE, FOR THE YEAR MDCC, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy elder look, great janus, cast Last Line: With everlasting beams of friendly light. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Goddesses & Gods; Heroism; Mythology; Nations; Peace; War; Heroes; Heroines CARNAGE: 1. DOUBT, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So thin, so frail the opalescent ice Last Line: Is hell so near to every human heart? Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Doubt; Peace; Sacrifices; Survival; World War I; Skepticism; First World War CARNAGE: 2. THE GREAT NEGATION, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When that great-minded man, sir edward grey Last Line: He might have saved the world, and he would not. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Grey, Sir Edward (1862-1935); Peace; World War I; Grey Of Fallodon, Viscount; Grey, 3d Baronet; First World War CARNAGE: 3. LOUVAIN, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Serene in beauty's olden lineage Last Line: Where the dead hail him william of louvain! Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Louvain, Belgium; Silence; Soul; World War I; Dead, The; Nightmares; First World War CARNAGE: 4. RHEIMS, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Apollo mourns another parthenon Last Line: More bitter than to battle — is to feel. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Pain; Rheims, France; Ruins; World War I; Suffering; Misery; First World War CARNAGE: 5. KULTUR, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If men must murder, pillage, sack, despoil Last Line: To answer him: once rheims was — and louvain! Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Louvain, Belgium; Rheims, France; World War I; First World War CARNAGE: 6. DESTINY, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are what we imagine, and our deeds Last Line: And dream from that despair — democracy. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Democracy; Fate; World War I; Destiny; First World War CAROL FOR THE VICTORY AT AGINCOURT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Deo gracias anglia Last Line: That we with mirth may safely sing %'deo gracias' Subject(s): War CAROLINA, by JOHN A. WAGNER Poem Source First Line: Carolina! Carolina Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History CAROLINA [JANUARY, 1865], by HENRY TIMROD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The despot treads thy sacred sands Last Line: Carolina! Subject(s): American Civil War; Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); South Carolina; United States - History CARPENTER SWAM TO SPAIN, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The ship hushed the waves to sleep at midnight Last Line: Ciudad de barcelona, ciudad de barcelona Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) CARRIER, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She troubles the waters, and they part and close Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War CARRIER, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She troubles the waters, and they part and close Last Line: Heart gone, sea-bound, committed all to air Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): World War Ii CARRY ON!, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: They have not fought in vain, our dead Last Line: May pledge to all her sacred fires. Subject(s): Peace; Progress; World War I; First World War CARRY ON!, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's easy to fight when everything's right Last Line: Carry on, my soul! Carry on! Subject(s): Religion; World War I; Theology; First World War CARTER GLASS OF VIRGINIA, by JOHN FRANCIS STEELE Poem Text First Line: There stands a man who looks out from the stars Last Line: There stands a man! Subject(s): Nations; Stars; War CARTRIDGES, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You sleep weightless on my palm, the revolver Last Line: Calling me home, home, home, at any price Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) CASEAR BORGIA, SON OF POPE ALEXANDER THE SIXTH: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The unhappy man, who once has trail'd a pen Last Line: The pope says grace, but 'tis the devil gives thanks. Subject(s): Death; Nations; Poetry & Poets; Theater & Theaters; War; Dead, The; Stage Life CASH IN HAND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come all ye jolly seamen bold Last Line: The british boys, we always knew, %at jingling cash are handy Subject(s): Navy - United States; Rodgers, John (1773-1838); Sea Battles; War Of 1812 CASIDA OF SOBBING, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I have shut my balcony door Last Line: All there is to hear is sobbing Subject(s): Grief; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) CASSANDRA, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mad girl with the staring eyes and long white fingers Last Line: And gods disgusting—you and I, cassandra Subject(s): Cassandra (mythology); War CASSANDRA, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mad girl with the staring eyes and long white fingers Last Line: No: you'll still mumble in a corner a crust of truth, to men %and gods disgusting. - you and I, cass Subject(s): Cassandra; War CASTING THE FIRST VOTE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From mountain homes engirdled Last Line: And truth's brave deeds are wrought. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Freedom; Marching & Marches; Patriotism; War; Youth; Liberty CASTLE HOWARD, by LAWRENCE TOYNBEE Poem Source First Line: This is the dream - this is the nightmare Last Line: I'm faced forwards, away from the past, %forced forwards with no more turning Subject(s): World War Ii CASUALLY AS A CRANE, by MILES VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii CASUALTIES: 2. SKULLS AND CUPS, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Look up, %how do you tell a skull Last Line: Broken up the fields after nsukka' Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Nigerian Civil War; Skeletons; Skulls CASUALTIES: 27. THE CASUALTIES, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The casualties are not only those who are dead Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Loss; War Injuries; Dead, The CASUALTIES: 27. THE CASUALTIES, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The casualties are not only those who are dead Last Line: The unforeseen camp-follower of not just our war Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Loss; War Injuries CASUALTIES: 28. NIGHT SONG, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The night for me is filled with faces Last Line: Into the forests of night Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Military; Revolutions; Soldiers; War CASUALTY, by VIRGINIA HAMILTON ADAIR Poem Source First Line: Fear arrived at my door Last Line: And the green rains Subject(s): Politics; War CASUALTY, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: John delaney of rifles has been shot Last Line: Yet he died for you and me Subject(s): Women; World War I CASUALTY, by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They are bringing him down Subject(s): World War I CASUALTY, by EDWIN ROLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It seemed %the sky was a harbor, into which rode Last Line: Found the thin axis of his whirling fears, %the exact center Alternate Author Name(s): Fishman, Solomon Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) CASUALTY LIST, by W. +(2) L. Poem Source First Line: Here in happy england the fields are ... Quiet Subject(s): World War I CASUALTY LIST, by HENRY LAMONT SIMPSON Poem Source First Line: How long, how long Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I CAVALIER TUNES: GIVE A ROUSE THEN FOR THE CLINIC, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: King charles, and who'll do him right now? Last Line: King charles! Subject(s): Cavaliers; War CAVALIER'S FAREWELL, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh god! What a lovely war Last Line: Laughed at fate's surprises Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): World War I CAVALRY CHARGE, by FRANCIS ALEXANDER DURIVAGE Poem Source First Line: With bray of trumpet Subject(s): War CAVALRY CROSSING A FORD, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A line in long array where they wind betwixt green islands Last Line: The guidon flags flutter gayly in the wind. Subject(s): American Civil War; Army Life; Cavalry; Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; United States - History; War; Drills & Minor Tactics; Declaration Day CEAUSESCU'S POET LAUREATE, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: You, paunescu, what love inspired your odes Last Line: Which of your words can be made back into flesh again Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities CEDAR MOUNTAIN [AUGUST 9, 1862], by ANNIE (ADAMS) FIELDS Poem Text First Line: Ring the bells, nor ring them slowly Last Line: These lives that now we dedicate. Subject(s): American Civil War; Cedar Mountain, Battle Of (1862); United States - History CELESTIAL EMPEROR, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Against the invisible antagonist Subject(s): War CELESTIAL NAVIGATION, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: Those nights I used to shoot three stars Last Line: Its cold volcano to the runaway Subject(s): War CELLAR, by ALEXANDER COMFORT Poem Source First Line: These faces - the cold apples in a loft Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii CELLO, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a dead tree falls in a forest Subject(s): Politics & Government; War CELLO, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a dead tree falls in a forest Last Line: Shouldering the dead Subject(s): Politics; War CENOTAPH, by URSALA ROBERTS Poem Source First Line: The man in the trilby hat has furtively shifted it Last Line: There's some, you see, %as can' Subject(s): Women; World War I CENOTAPH; SEPTEMBER 1919, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not yet will those measureless fields be green again Last Line: As they drive their bargains, is the face %of god: and some young, piteous, murdered face Subject(s): Women; World War I CENSORSHIP; A POEM IN THE CHINESE STYLE, by ARTHUR DAVID WALEY Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I have been a censor for fifteen months Last Line: To sit by and see the blind man %on the sightless horse, riding into the bottomless abyss Subject(s): War CEREMONY AFTER A FIRE RAID, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Myselves / the grievers Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Funerals; Mourning; World War Ii; Burials; Bereavement; Second World War CEREMONY AFTER A FIRE RAID, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Myselves %the grievers Last Line: The sundering ultimate kingdom of genesis' thunder Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Funerals; Mourning; World War Ii CERVERA, by BERTRAND SHADWELL Poem Text First Line: Hail to thee, gallant foe! Last Line: Honor above them. Subject(s): Admirals; Cervera, Pasquale De (1839-1909); Navy - Spain; Sea Battles; Spanish-american War (1898); Spanish Navy; Naval Warfare CHALK AND FLINT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come there now a mighty rally Subject(s): World War I CHAMBER MUSIC: 36, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear an army charging upon the land Last Line: My love, my love, my love, why have you left me alone? Variant Title(s): Thirty Six Subject(s): War CHAMPAGNE, 1914-1915, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the glad revels, in the happy fetes Last Line: Oh, frame your lips as though it were a kiss. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR, by ERNEST HEMINGWAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soldiers never do die well; Last Line: Choking through the whole attack Subject(s): World War I; Soldiers; Death; Dead, The CHANCE MEETING, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: By chance, we meet in the mall, outside the k-mart Last Line: It is just like being inside you Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) CHANNEL FIRING, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That night your great guns, unawares Last Line: And camelot, and starlit stonehenge. Subject(s): Death; Guns; Social Protest; World War I; Dead, The; First World War CHANNEL SUNSET, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the shallow, angry english channel Last Line: The struggle of burning spears in the cold twilight. Subject(s): World War I; First World War CHANT FOR THE BRYANT FESTIVAL, NOVEMBER 5, 1864, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One hour be silent, sounds of war! Last Line: Fulfil her poet's prophecies! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878); Fame; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Truth; War; Reputation CHANT OF EMPIRE, by JAMES RHOADES Poem Source First Line: Gray mother of mighty nations Subject(s): World War I CHANT ON HATE AGAINST ENGLAND, by ERNEST LISSAUER Poem Source First Line: French and russian, they matter not Last Line: We have one foe and one alone- %england! Subject(s): World War I CHAPLAIN TO THE FORCES, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ambassador of christ you go Last Line: Still floats the ensign of his cross. Subject(s): Chaplains, Army; World War I; First World War CHARGE, by AUGUST STRAMM Poem Source First Line: From every corner yelling terror wanting Last Line: Blindly slaughters wild-about the horror Subject(s): World War I CHARGE THAT CAN CHEERILY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Now coil up your nonsense 'bout england's great navy Last Line: Disdaining to strike while a stick is left standing Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; Navy - United States; War Of 1812 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 CHARLESTON, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Calmly beside her tropic strand Last Line: Pass from the world to glory. Subject(s): American Civil War; Charleston, South Carolina; United States - History CHARLESTON, by HENRY TIMROD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Calm as that second summer which precedes / the first fall of snow Last Line: April, 1'63. Subject(s): American Civil War; Charleston, South Carolina; United States - History CHARLESTON AT THE CLOSE OF 1863, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What! Still does the mother of treason uprear Last Line: Where her dead martyrs rest! Subject(s): American Civil War; Charleston, South Carolina; United States - History CHATTANOOGA (NOVEMBER, 1863), by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A kindling impulse seized the host Last Line: And death a starry night. Subject(s): American Civil War; Chattanooga Campaign; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); U.s. - History CHEMIN DES DAMES, by CROSBIE GARSTIN Poem Source First Line: In silks and satins the ladies went Subject(s): World War I CHESAPEAKE AND SHANNON; A LIST OF THE KILLED AND WOUNDED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Columbians here behold the list Last Line: Receive thy grateful sacrifice, %of holy freedom's choicest tear Subject(s): Chesapeake (ship); Navy - United States; Sea Battles; War Of 1812 CHESAPEAKE AND SHANNON; ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF CAPT. LAWRENCE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Columbia mourns in silent woe Last Line: Vain though 'tis die, the sacred tear, %for lawrence is in heaven the same Subject(s): Chesapeake (ship); Lawrence, James (1781-1813); Navy - United States; Sea Battles; War Of 1812 CHEST WITH PAINTED TULIPS, by ELEMER (GEORGE) HORVATH Poem Source First Line: The soldiers burn down the village and they say Last Line: But he's already old. He lacks the strength Subject(s): History; Hungary; Paintings And Painters; Soldiers; War CHIAPAS, by HOLLY THOMAS Poem Source First Line: I don't now you, child Last Line: Your father, 'disappeared' after the burning %eats his own Subject(s): Politics; War CHICKAMAUGA, by MARY EVELYN DAVID Poem Text First Line: The sharp, clear crack of rifles, and the deep Last Line: By the river of death! Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, Mollie E.; Davis, Mollie E. Moore Subject(s): American Civil War; Chickamauga, Battle Of (1863); Death; United States - History; Dead, The CHICKAMAUGA: 1898, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: They are camped on chickamauga Last Line: In the freedom-war of life Subject(s): "american Civil War;chickamauga, Battle Of (1863);holidays;memorial Day;u.s. - History;" Declaration Day CHICKAMAUGA: 1898, by GEORGE TITUS FERRIS Poem Source First Line: From laughing leas the bugles sing Subject(s): American Civil War; Chickamauga, Battle Of (1863); Holidays; Memorial Day; U.s. - History CHILD DYING, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unfriendly friendly universe, %I pack your stars into my purse Last Line: I did not know death was so strange Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; World War Ii CHILD'S PRAYERS, by CHARLES PEGUY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen the greatest saints, says god. But I tell you Last Line: Whereas I, of course, have to be for justice Subject(s): World War I CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE: CANTO 3, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is thy face like thy mother's, my fair child Last Line: As, with a sigh, I deem thou mightst have been to me! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Outward Bound;byron And Childe Harold Subject(s): War CHILDREN, by WILLIAM SOUTAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the street they lie Last Line: With blind and fearful faces: %and our charity is in the children's faces Subject(s): War CHILDREN IN FRONT OF A LONDON EATING-HOUSE FOR THE POOR, by ERNST STADLER Poem Source First Line: I saw children in a long line, ordered in pairs, standing in Last Line: With an amazing room Subject(s): World War I CHILDREN OF EROS & DUST, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: It is almost as if we were children Last Line: Play out our lives in his chalk-covered light Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) CHILDREN OF THE WAR, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shrunken little bodies, pallid baby faces Subject(s): World War I; Children; First World War; Childhood CHILDREN PLAYING - AFTER THE PERSIAN GULF WAR, by JOHN L. STANIZZI Poem Source First Line: The heavy equipment, %done for the day Last Line: April exploding everywhere Subject(s): Politics; War CHILDREN'S EXODUS, by KAREN GERSHON Poem Source First Line: It was an ordinary train Last Line: The refugee life facing us Subject(s): War CHILDREN'S HOUR; MRS. GRESHAM, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: This morning on the radio I heard Last Line: And I was moved by everything that moved Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History CHILDREN: 1914-18, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These were our children who died for our lands: they were Last Line: But who shall return us our children? Subject(s): War CHINA DOLLS, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: My cock a discarded butt, I roll a big one on my thigh Last Line: You have told me the only time you are not a whore %is when I am f -- you Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) CHINESE HOT POT, by WING TEK LUM Poem Source First Line: My dream of america Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans CHIVALRY AND SLAVERY, SELECTION, by JOHN BURKE Poem Text First Line: It chanced that in a southern state Last Line: * * * Subject(s): American Civil War; Cruelty; Death; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Slavery; United States - History; Dead, The; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs CHOEURK'S EYES, by BRITTON GILDERSLEEVE Poem Source First Line: She had no choices. %always and forever Last Line: Until it is all her eyes will see %forever Subject(s): Blindness; Cambodia; War; Women CHOICES, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would you rather have health insurance Subject(s): Politics & Government; War CHOICES, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would you rather have health insurance Last Line: And it's hard to tell the difference Subject(s): Politics; War CHORAL SONG, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soon greek oars will whip up Subject(s): Politics & Government; War CHORAL SONG, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soon greek oars will whip up Last Line: As easily as one plucks a flower?' Subject(s): Politics; War CHRIST AT EIGHT, by ERNEST HARTSOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little boy, gentle boy Last Line: To slay them all in battle! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; Youth CHRIST IN FLANDERS, by LUCY WHITMELL Poem Text First Line: We had forgotten you, or very nearly Last Line: And that you'll stand beside us to the last. Alternate Author Name(s): W., L. Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium; Jesus Christ; Women; World War I; First World War CHRISTIANITY AND WAR, by ERNEST HOWARD CROSBY Poem Text First Line: Talk, if you will, of hero deed Last Line: Of war-like followers of jesus. Subject(s): Christianity; Evil; Good; Hypocrisy; Jesus Christ; Religion; War; Theology CHRISTIANS AT WAR, by JOHN KENDRICK Poem Source First Line: Onward, christian soldiers! Duty's way is plain Last Line: History will say of you: 'that pack of g - d fools' Subject(s): Christianity; Hate; World War I CHRISTMAS 1944, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright cards above the fire bring no friends near Subject(s): Christmas; World War Ii; Nativity, The; Second World War CHRISTMAS 1944, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright cards above the fire bring no friends near Last Line: Hearing hatred crackle in the coal, %the voice of treason, the voice of love Subject(s): Christmas; World War Ii CHRISTMAS AFTER WAR, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall misery make mirth Last Line: Their bethlehem. Subject(s): Christmas; Grief; War; Nativity, The; Sorrow; Sadness CHRISTMAS AT THE OFFICERS' MESS, by JOHN STREETER MANIFOLD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If you could drink with me, I say, beware Subject(s): World War Ii CHRISTMAS BELLS, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What do your clear bells ring to me Last Line: So many dead! So many dead! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Bells; Christmas; World War I; Nativity, The; First World War CHRISTMAS CARD OF HALLEY'S COMET, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fast and faint and temporary star Subject(s): War CHRISTMAS EVE, 1917, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many happy returns, sweet babe, of the day! Last Line: Ever happier and happier returns, dear christ, of thy day! Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Christmas; England; World War I; Nativity, The; English; First World War CHRISTMAS EVE, SOUTH, 1865, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poverty, remorseless spectre Last Line: For heaven is real, and earth deceiving. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): American Civil War; Christmas; Reconstruction (1865-1876); Southern States; United States - History; Nativity, The; South (u.s.) CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Big-uddered piebald cattle low Last Line: But the goose-girl is weeping Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War Ii CHRISTMAS IN TOBRUK, by H. G. KNIGHT Poem Source First Line: There were six of us that christmas Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii CHRISTMAS IN WARTIME: 1916, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cheer oh, comrades, we can bide the blast Last Line: If duty done makes all the others brighter. Subject(s): Christmas; Comfort; Duty; War; World War I; Nativity, The; First World War CHRISTMAS IN WARTIME: 1917: THE LAST LAP, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We seldom were quick off the mark Last Line: Be your victorious christmas-tide. Subject(s): Christmas; England; Hope; Patience; Victory; War; World War I; Nativity, The; English; Optimism; First World War CHRISTMAS NOTE FOR GERALDINE UDELL, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do the prairie flowers, the huge autumn Last Line: Of the flowing ocean Subject(s): Christmas; War CHRISTMAS OF LONG AGO, by MORTON BRYAN WHARTON Poem Source First Line: I am thinking tonight in sadness Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History CHRISTMAS PRAYER, by CYRIL WINTERBOTHAM Poem Source First Line: Not yet for us may christmas bring Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I CHRISTMAS, 1915, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now is the midnight of the nations: dark Last Line: What new-wing'd world, or mangled god still-born? Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Christmas; World War I; Nativity, The; First World War CHRISTMAS, 1916 (THOUGHTS IN A V.A.D. HOSPITAL KITCHEN), by M. WINIFRED WEDGWOOD Poem Source First Line: There's no xmas leave for us scullions Last Line: And then 'good-bye' to the kitchen; %the treacle, the jam, and the cheese Subject(s): Women; World War I CHRISTMAS, 1917, by BRENT DOW ALLINSON Poem Text First Line: Is it a mocking jest that christmas bells Last Line: Let nations pass so man himself be free. Subject(s): Christmas; Freedom; Hate; Humanity; Social Protest; War; Nativity, The; Liberty CHROME BABIES EATING CHOCOLATE SNOWMEN IN THE MOONLIGHT, by A. K. REDWING Poem Source First Line: In chua hai, dead machine guns lie frozen in the sun Last Line: The feathers land selectively in living rooms %from maine to seattle Subject(s): War CHRONICLE, by JURGEN BECKER Poem Source First Line: Today the sky is clear. A weather for Last Line: With sea charts on the passenger seat Subject(s): Bombs; War CID: PART 4, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Of the king right Last Line: To a man of valor Subject(s): Animals; Cid, El (1043-1099); Heroism; Horses; Spain - History; War CIGARETTE FOR THE BAMBINO, by GAVIN EWART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hey, joe! Cugarrette! Cioccolat'! Subject(s): Italy; War CIRCLING THE FLOWERS: 4, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They wouldn't let him touch the painting Last Line: Of the club palpable, reassuring %like a whisper giving shape to an invisible room Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Prisoners Of War; Rape CISSBURY RING, by PAUL CURTIS COLTMAN Poem Source First Line: The plain is alive with shadow: rout of rags Last Line: No shouting at the gate now. Warriors silent %their long bronze trumpets choked with earth Subject(s): War CITIES: 4. ROME, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Raped of decadent power Last Line: The sacred rage of a rival despot thunder. Subject(s): Rome, Italy; War CITIES: 6. TOKIO, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mad dogs of war Last Line: To beg from door to door. Subject(s): Buddhism; Honor; Peace; Tokyo; War; Buddha; Buddhists CITY, by BEN MADDOW Poem Source First Line: Children of the cold sun and the broken horizon Subject(s): War CITY OF ANGUISH, by EDWIN ROLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At midnight they roused us. In the distance we heard Last Line: War is your comrade struck dead beside you, %his shared cigarette still alive in your lips Alternate Author Name(s): Fishman, Solomon Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) CITY OF BEGGERS, by ALFRED HAYES Poem Source First Line: The wops came down to the port Subject(s): War CITY OF ORPHANS, by JOHN HAINES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How strange to think of those streets Subject(s): War CIVIL WAR, by DEBORA GREGER Poem Source First Line: I will never forget that library in the rain Last Line: The librarian of the dead %surrendered its pages to be turned Subject(s): Librarians And Libraries; United States; War CIVIL WAR, by CHARLES DAWSON SHANLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rifleman, shoot me a fancy shot Last Line: "load again, rifleman, keep your hand in!" Variant Title(s): The Fancy Shot Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History; War CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA - EXPOSTULATION, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No darker record on the roll of time Last Line: Nor heaven nor earth will bid your cause god-speed Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): American Civil War; Emancipation Movement And Proclamation; Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896); U.s. - History CIVIL WARS, by BENJAMIN DOWNING Poem Source First Line: Of all the insurrections that the day Last Line: Leaving them lame, unled, and balkanized Subject(s): War CIVIL WARS BETWEEN THE HOUSES OF LANCASTER AND YORK (AFTER LUCAN), by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sing the civil warres, tumultuous broyles Last Line: The alps and us, the pyrenei and rhene Subject(s): Great Britain - Civil War CIVIL WARS: KING RICHARD II IS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A place there is, where proudly raised there stands Last Line: She must confess, or else deny the light Subject(s): Great Britain - Civil War CIVILIAN AND SOLDIER, by WOLE SOYINKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My apparition rose from the fall of lead Last Line: What it is all about? Subject(s): Nigerian Civil War; Soldiers CIVILL WARR, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Untoward passions, peace: I'm wearied quite Last Line: Of mine will help: sweet jesu lend me aid. Subject(s): Anger; Self-consciousness; War CLARA BARTON, by CHAMP ATLEE Poem Source First Line: She couldn't have believed Last Line: At the amusement park next door Subject(s): Fights; Violence; War; Women And War CLARE'S DRAGOONS, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Vive la! For ireland's wrong Last Line: And the shamrock shine for ever new! Subject(s): Army - Ireland; War CLARIBEL'S PRAYER, by M. L. PARMELEE Poem Source First Line: The day, with cold gray feet, clung shivering to the hills Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History 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 CLASSIC OF POETRY: 167, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Gather them, gather them, fiddlehead ferns Last Line: Our hearts are wounded with pain, %no man knows how much we mourn Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); War CLASSIC OF POETRY: 177. 'SIXTH MONTH', by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In the sixth month, it was all tumult Last Line: Nan-zhong, loyal to parent and friend Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); War CLASSICS REVISITED, by MIRKO LAUER Poem Source First Line: I fought that war Last Line: In the interior gardens Subject(s): Soldiers; War; Women And War CLAY PIPE, by J. O. GARRETT Poem Text First Line: The old log house, built by his own hands Last Line: "I shall sleep."" and a door closed silently." Subject(s): American Civil War; Grandparents; Pioneers; Southern States; United States - History; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; South (u.s.) CLAY'S MEMORY, by SALAM AL-ASADI Poem Source First Line: The night is a descending myth Last Line: And sparrows trembling against closed horizons Subject(s): Politics; War 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 CLEAR EYES, by TAMATHA F. Poem Source Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans CLEAR WEATHER, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A cloudless day! With a keener line Last Line: A great transparent dragon-fly. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War CLEBURNE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Another ray of light hath fled, another southern brave Subject(s): American Civil War; Cleburne, Patrick Ronayne (1828-1864); Generals; U.s. - History CLEMENCY, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For punishment in warre Last Line: Where the fault springs, there let the judgement fall. Subject(s): War CLOSE YOUR RANKS, by ISAAC GREGORY SMITH Poem Source First Line: Yes! Draw them close and closer still Subject(s): World War I CLOTHES, by EDGAR BOWERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Walking back to the office after lunch Last Line: Melting, its double peaks the victory sign Subject(s): World War Ii CLOUDS IN THE WEST, by AUGUSTUS JULIAN REQUIER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! On the wind that whistles from the west Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History CLUSTERS, by MARTIN OTT Poem Source First Line: In the harried stores of baghdad Last Line: Before the last petal has fallen Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts; Soldiers; War COAST-WATCH, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With tingling eyes he stares into the dense Last Line: And once again he finds himself alone %staring across an empty moon-glazed sea Subject(s): World War Ii COBB'S ORCHARD ; LT. MITCHELL SHORTLY BEFORE HIS DEATH AT POMEROY, WA., by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: A hungary army's enough to spook the dead Last Line: Which has bothered my mind for all these years Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History COCHITI LAKE, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: The desert around was as pre-cambrian sea Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities COCOTTE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a girl's sixteen, and as poor as she's pretty Last Line: They're bringing my blind boy in at the gate. Subject(s): Death; Girls; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War COFFIN, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: There's no use writing this poem Last Line: Imagine the click Subject(s): War COLD NIGHT, by BERNARD SPENCER Poem Source First Line: Thick wool is muslin tonight, and the wire Subject(s): War COLD, COLD, COLD, by PATRICK BYRNE Poem Source First Line: White may in our moonlit trysting place Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii COLLABORATEURS, ST. TROPEZ, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Paraded up a boulevard of plane trees and umbrella pines Last Line: For the sake of those who stayed silent, or resisted Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities COLLATERAL DAMAGE, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: Even though it is spring you wear long sleeves Last Line: Delight as if you were a saigon whore Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) COLONEL, by CAROLYN FORCHE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What you have heard is true. I was in his house. His wife carried a tray Last Line: Some of the ears on the floor were pressed to the ground Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn Subject(s): Men; Military; War COLONEL ELLSWORTH, by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It fell upon us like a crushing woe Last Line: Will steel our aching hearts to strike again! Subject(s): Alexandria, Virginia; American Civil War; Ellsworth, Elmer Ephraim (1837-18610; U.s. - History COLONEL TIL, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: We have seen scores of magnates come Last Line: Colonel til! Subject(s): Baseball; Farewell; Praise; Sports; Sportsmanship; War; Parting COLONISTS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To men now of her blood and race Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): World War I COLUMBIA COMES, by THOMAS MEEK BUTLER Poem Source First Line: In war's fast deepening shades columbia stood Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I COLUMBIA'S PRAYER, by THOMAS P. BASHAW Poem Source First Line: Boy in khaki, boy in blue Subject(s): World War I COMB BAND, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh we love the gay canned music in the watches Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I COME ON, COME BACK', by STEVE SMITH Poem Source First Line: Left by the ebbing tide of battle Last Line: Come on, come back.' Subject(s): World War Ii COME UP FROM THE FIELDS FATHER, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Come up from the fields father, here's a letter from our pete Last Line: To follow, to seek, to be with her dear dead son. Variant Title(s): A Letter From Camp Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; United States; War; Declaration Day; America COME! LET US DANCE, by PETER BAKER Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii COMING (APRIL, 1861), by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: World, art thou 'ware of a storm? Last Line: Be swept, as by fire, away! Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History; War COMING HOME, by DOROTHY COFFIN SUSSMAN Poem Source First Line: The day before my father came home from the war Last Line: Out there with a sky so deep and close it has to be heaven Subject(s): World War Ii COMMEMORATION ODE, by KARL MYERS Poem Text First Line: Man has not lost, in whatsoever night Last Line: And wreathe the laurel with the asphodel. Subject(s): American Civil War; Garnett, Robert Selden (1819-1861); Monuments; U.s. - History 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 COMMEMORATIVE OF A NAVAL VICTORY, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sailors there are of gentlest breed Last Line: Glides white through the phosphorus sea. Subject(s): American Civil War; Sea Battles; United States - History; Naval Warfare COMMENCEMENT, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arthur and dennis, karen, gene, and joy Subject(s): War COMMODORE RODGERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Our commodore's return'd again Last Line: And all columbia's sailors, %they are her nation's pride Subject(s): Navy - United States; Rodgers, John (1773-1838); Sea Battles; War Of 1812 COMMUNION, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: Bra unhooked from the front Last Line: I can almost believe in sin Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) COMPANY COMMANDER, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: My mouth will flame the sulphurs of the pit Last Line: Over the top Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Desire; War COMPANY FOR DINNER, by FLORENCE MCLANDBURGH Poem Source First Line: Our cousins are coming to dinner Last Line: Gee folks, but to have you is great! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Mclandburgh Subject(s): World War I COMPLAINT AND PETITION, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mr. President: on a clear cold Last Line: And love will quit the world Subject(s): Politics & Government; War COMPLAINT AND PETITION, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mr. President: on a clear cold Last Line: And love will quit the world Subject(s): Politics; War COMPLAINT OF THE COUNT OF SALDANA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The count don sancho diaz, the signior of saldane Last Line: When thou shalt weep in dungeon deep, and none thy weeping see Subject(s): Absence; Courts And Courtiers; Grief; Old Age; Prisoners Of War COMPRESSION, by SEBASTIAN EGGERT Poem Source First Line: In a darkened corner of the shop Last Line: I often wonder when that old metal tank will blow Subject(s): Politics; War COMPROMISE; INSCRIBED TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1861, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Compromise! Who dares to speak it Last Line: We will never, never yield!' Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; Government; U.s. - History; United States; Liberty; America COMRADES, by JOCK CURLE Poem Source First Line: The men I seek are such as mad and ill Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii COMRADES, by HENRY R. DORR Poem Text First Line: Now from their slumber waking Last Line: To the beat of the muffled drum! Subject(s): Sea Battles; Spanish-american War (1898); Naval Warfare COMRADES, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I was marching in flanders Last Line: "I'll bear you company." Subject(s): World War I; First World War COMRADES, by RICHARD HOVEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Comrades, pour the wine tonight Last Line: When strong men die together! Subject(s): Absence; Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Friendship; War; Separation; Isolation; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse COMRADES! JOIN THE FLAG OF GLORY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): War COMRADES: AN EPISODE, by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before, before he was aware Last Line: "hearing him whisper, ""o my men, my men!" Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War CONCERNING EMPERORS: 1. GOD SENT THE REGICIDE, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would that the lying rulers of the world Last Line: God send the regicide. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; World War I; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; First World War CONCERNING EMPERORS: 2. A COLLOQUIAL REPLY - TO ANY NEWSBOY, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you lay for iago at the stage door with a brick Last Line: Yet I chase the thing he stands for with a brickbat in my hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; World War I; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; First World War CONCERT AT SEA, by HUBERT CREEKMORE Poem Source First Line: Although the ship's bell marks the time, it is Subject(s): War CONCERT PARTY (EGYPTIAN BASE CAMP), by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are gathering around Last Line: Silent, they drift away, over the glimmering sand. Subject(s): Egypt; World War I; First World War CONCERT PARTY: BUSSEBOOM, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stage was set, the house was packed Last Line: Were kicking men to death. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War CONCORD HYMN; SUNG AT COMPLETION OF CONCORD MONUMENT, 1836, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the rude bridge that arched the flood Last Line: The shaft we raise to them and thee. Variant Title(s): The Concord Fight;hymn: Sung At The Completion Of The Concord Mounument Subject(s): American Revolution; Americans; Concord, Massachusetts; Fourth Of July; Freedom; Massachusetts; Monuments; Mourning; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Patriotism; Soldiers; United States; War; Independence Day; Liberty; Bereavement; America CONDEMNED, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: Warm night fallen night Last Line: The sound of the gallop %of a bell %forgotten %forgotten Subject(s): Dadaism; World War Ii CONDOLENCE TO A FRIEND, by HOANG LOC Poem Source First Line: Yesterday, I still followed you Last Line: To drive out our common enemy Subject(s): Indochinese War, 1946-1954 CONFEDERACY, by JANE T. H. CROSS Poem Source First Line: Born in a day, full-grown our nation stood Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; U.s. - History CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL DAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The marching armies of the past Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History CONFEDERATE SOLDIER, KENNESAW MOUNTAIN, JULY, 1864, by PETER SCHMITT Poem Source First Line: In my field glasses the little steeple Last Line: Will congregate, in dark suits, buttons shining Subject(s): American Civil War; Civil War; Military; Soldiers; U.s. - History CONFESSION OVERHEARD IN THE SUBWAY, by KENNETH FEARING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You will ask how I came to be eavesdropping, in the first place Last Line: I have done my duty, as a public spirited citizen, in any case Subject(s): War CONFESSION OVERHEARD IN THE SUBWAY, by KENNETH FEARING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You will ask how I came to be eavesdropping, in the first place Last Line: I have done my duty, as a public spirited citizen, in any case Subject(s): War CONFLICT, by FRANCIS REGINALD SCOTT Poem Text First Line: When I see the falling bombs Last Line: To make a thousand roads converge? Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. R. Subject(s): Evil; Good; Soldiers; War CONFLICT BEFORE VICTORY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stand at gaze upon an autumn knoll Last Line: The mellow magic of october's moon. Subject(s): Earth; Evil; God; Love; Mankind; Victory; War; World; Human Race CONQUERING EAGLES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I read the classic book -- and raised mine eyes Last Line: The conquering eagles of imperial rome! Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Rhyme; Rome, Italy; Sea; War; Ocean CONQUERORS, by CARL JOHN BOSTELMANN Poem Text First Line: With caesar dead now, and augustus dust Last Line: And life is theirs who love and keep their peace. Subject(s): Peace; Roman Empire; Terror; War CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for death Last Line: Shall you be overcome Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): War CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I was a soldier of the prince of peace Last Line: For he for whom I fought has told me so Subject(s): World War I CONSCIOUS, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His fingers wake, and flutter; up the bed Last Line: No time to dream, and ask -- he knows not what. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War CONSCRIPT, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Indifferent, flippant, earnest, but all bored Last Line: The nail-marks glowing in his feet and hands Subject(s): Religion; World War I CONSCRIPT, by ALBERTA VICKRIDGE Poem Source First Line: Then former stars were faint and signs were fled Subject(s): World War I CONSCRIPTS, by FRANCIS KING Poem Source First Line: Related to the picnic in the wood Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii CONSCRIPTS, by EMANUEL LITVINOFF Poem Source First Line: We go to war in various ways Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii CONSCRIPTS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fall in, that awdward squad, and strike no more Last Line: And marched resplendent home with crowns and stars. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War CONSEQUENCES, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He 'wanted to go,' but his wife said 'no!' Last Line: To live or to die a man! Subject(s): World War I CONSEQUENTIOUS OBJECTOR, by C. ARTHUR COAN Poem Source First Line: Be you int'rested in this here war? Last Line: Sure, I'll join that league! Subject(s): World War I CONSOLATION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In summer we suffered from dust and from Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I CONSOLATION IN WAR, by LEWIS MUMFORD Poem Source First Line: Happy the dead! Last Line: Their death is justified Subject(s): War CONSPIRATORS, by FREDERIC PROKOSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: And if the dead, and the dead Last Line: And weaving their vast wing's thunder over the indies %the birds, the birds, sob for the time of man Subject(s): War CONSTITUTION AND THE GUERRIERE (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It ofttimes has been told how the british sea men Last Line: But let the world say what they will, %the yankee boys for fighting are the dandy, oh! Subject(s): Constitution (ship); Guerriere (ship); Navy - United States; War Of 1812 CONSTITUTION AND THE GUERRIERE (3) (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I often have been told Last Line: But the yankee boys at fighting are the dandy, oh! Subject(s): Constitution (ship); Guerriere (ship); War Of 1812 CONVALESCENCE, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From out the dragging vastness of the sea Last Line: And in the sky there blooms the sun of may. Subject(s): Women & War; World War I - Casualties CONVALESCENT, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We've billiards, bowls an' tennis courts, we've teas an' motorrides Last Line: As the one when I go 'ome to 'entry street Subject(s): Women; World War I CONVERSATION, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whether the moorings are invisible Last Line: Into this delicate and dangerous place Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): War CONVERSATION, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whether the moorings are invisible Last Line: The guns and enemies that face %into this delicate and dangerous place Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): War CONVERSATION BOOK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I 'ave a conversation book: I brought it out Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I CONVERSATION IN GIBRALTAR, 1943, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We sit here, talking of barea and lorca Last Line: We shall be conscious of miles of perpendicular sea. %and the admiralty weather Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles Subject(s): World War Ii CONVERSATION WITH A JAPANESE STUDENT, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That lovely climbing vine, so fresh Last Line: And tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Art & Artists; Japan; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Nagasaki, Japan; Nuclear War; Paintings & Painters; Women; Japanese; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb CONVOY, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Draw the blanket of ocean Last Line: And the three ships %come sailing in Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles Subject(s): War CONVOY, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ships are fitted, and the convoy sails Last Line: Ask the man struck dead by the lifeboat somewhere aft Subject(s): War COPLAS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the high wilderness Last Line: I don't sleep so I won't dream Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) COPLAS ON THE BAD GOVERNMENT OF TOLEDO, by GOMEZ MANRIQUE Poem Source First Line: When mighty rome was conqueror Last Line: Full little thrust will it deliver! Subject(s): Government; Politics; War COQ D'OR, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fountain is frozen in the plaza Last Line: Will be tumbling about us. Subject(s): Cities; News; Newspapers; War; Urban Life; Journalism; Journalists CORNET; MANNER OF LOVING & DYING OF CHRISTOPHER RILKE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Riding, riding, riding, day and night in the saddle Last Line: There he saw an old woman's tears Subject(s): Death; Fire; Flags; Flowers; Friendship; Grief; Love; Melancholy; Mothers And Sons; Roses; Sex; Soldiers; Travel; War CORPORAL STARE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back from the line one night in june, / I gave a dinner at bethune Last Line: A fag-end dropped on the silent road. Subject(s): World War I; First World War CORPSMAN UP, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: You enter the loft late at night Last Line: A pressure bandage %on your heart Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) CORSICAN MONSTER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Good people all I pray give ear to what I have to tell Last Line: They will find our bull an over match for their barking bug-a-bow Subject(s): War COST, by MARY ELIZABETH COLMAN Poem Source First Line: It was a shabby house, lacking grace or dignity Last Line: I wish he were dead Subject(s): Germany; World War Ii 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 COUNTDOWN, by HANS MAGNUS ENZENSBERGER Poem Source First Line: Twenty rods deep in the ground Subject(s): Nuclear War COUNTER-ATTACK, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: We'd gained our first objective hours before Last Line: Bleeding to death. The counter-attack had failed. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War COUNTERSIGN (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Alas! The rolling hours pass along Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History; War COUNTRY AT WAR, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And what of home - how goes it, boys Last Line: Each cries for god to understand, %'I could not help it, it was my hand.' Subject(s): World War I COUNTRY I REMEMBER; MRS GRESHAM, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: By the time the train pulled into portland, I Last Line: I told him I would move to california Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History COUNTRY, MY COUNTRY (WRITTEN IN THE WORLD WAR), by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair with the beauty of heaven on earth Last Line: Dare to be free for the freedom of all. Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I; First World War COUPLE NEXT DOOR, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tend their yard every weekend, %when they re-paint or straighten Last Line: On the grass. I should look away but don't Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 COUPLE OF THE MOUNTAINS, by VU HU'U CHINH Poem Source First Line: Seven years ago you were seventeen Last Line: In all seasons, you send your fragrance out Subject(s): Indochinese War, 1946-1954 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 COWARDICE, by EMYR HUMPHRIES Poem Source First Line: In journeyings my weak soul makes Last Line: The play must stay in print, avoiding action %or else the text will suffer in translation Subject(s): World War Ii COZZO GRILLO, by HERBERT B. MALLALIEU Poem Source First Line: Silence here bears gunfire in its breath Subject(s): War CRACK SEED, by KATHY PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: The bodhisattva Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans CRAMPED IN THAT FUNNELLED HOLE, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cramped in that funnelled hole, they watched the dawn Last Line: Mixed with the sour sharp odour of the shell. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War CRANES IN AUGUST, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: They clutter the house Last Line: From many throats, repeated Subject(s): Cranes (birds); Politics; War CRAVEN, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the turret, shut in his ironclad tower Last Line: Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud, and strong. Variant Title(s): Craven: Mobile Bay, 1864 Subject(s): American Civil War; Craven, Tunis Augustus M. (1813-1864); Mobile Bay, Battle Of (1864); Tecumseh (ship); United States - History CREATURES OF PROMETHEUS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fill the air with their Last Line: It nothing will survive Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) CRIME THAT TOOK PLACE AT GRANADA (FOR FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA), by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We saw him go, rifles on either side Last Line: The crime that took place at granada - his granada Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Freedom; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) CRIME WAS IN GRANADA: 1. THE CRIME, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He was seen, walking between rifles Last Line: Know it-poor grandma!-in his granada Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Assassination; Death; Garcia Lorca, Federico (1898-1936); Poetry And Poets; Tragedy; War CRIMEAN INVALID SOLDIERS REAPING AT ALDERSHOT, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reap ye the ripe ripe corn Last Line: And the work of a thousand hands. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Crimean War (1853-1856); Veterans CRIMSON CROSS, by ELIZABETH BROWN DU BRIDGE Poem Source First Line: Outside the ancient city's gate Subject(s): World War I CRIPPLED SOLDIER, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I may have used but half my strength Last Line: In which we won no part. Subject(s): Soldiers; War CRISIS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Has life no seer, who, with enthralled throat Last Line: Shall never again darken us with its woe. Subject(s): Dreams; Fear; Life; Time; U.s. - History; World War Ii; Nightmares; Second World War CRISIS, by MARK VAN DOREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now that the seas are lined Last Line: The feet wherewith we stumble %still, cursing our shoes Subject(s): World War Ii CROCUS BUD ON A LOVER'S GRAVE, by TIMOTHY CORSELLIS Poem Source First Line: Rise, crocus on that dew bedampened place Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii CROCUSES AT NOTTINGHAM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Out here the dogs of war run loose Subject(s): World War I CROMWELL, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After the celebrated carved misericords Last Line: And just outside the door %the swords Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions; War CROSS AND THE FLAG, by WILLIAM HENRY O'CONNELL Poem Source First Line: Hail, banner of our holy faith Subject(s): World War I CROSS OF WOOD, by CYRIL WINTERBOTHAM Poem Source First Line: God be with you and us who go our way Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I CROSSING THE BORDER, FIRST SERIES: 6, by TU FU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Drawing a bow -- you must draw a strong one Last Line: What's the use -- of further death and wounds Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): War CROSSTOWN, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back in new york I grab a taxi at port authority Last Line: X-rays, so it’s cancer Subject(s): New York City; City Traffic; Taxis; Buses; Democracy; War; Politics & Politicians; African Americans; Racism; Nightmares CROTCHETS, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One thing I don't like most in the world, he said Last Line: So don't try to, she says, tell me there is no god Subject(s): War CROWN, by HELEN COMBES Poem Source First Line: Write us yur verse, oh, soldier Subject(s): World War I CRUCIFIXION IN THE DESERT, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are bones inside Last Line: It will never stop never Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) CRUSADER, by ROGER MCGOUGH Poem Source First Line: In bed %like a dead %crusader Last Line: On the %glistening %back of the night Subject(s): Violence; War CRUSADER'S TOMB, by LAURENCE HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O nameless warrior, whose feet Subject(s): World War I CRUTCHES' TUNE, by ELIZABETH R. STONER Poem Source First Line: Down the street, with a lilting swing Subject(s): World War I CRY, by GUSTAV SACK Poem Source First Line: Out of this adamantine need Last Line: On, up, into the boundless skies Subject(s): World War I CRY OF THE HOMELESS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Instigator of the ruin Last Line: Till death dark thee with his pall.' Subject(s): Homeless; World War I; First World War CUBA LIBRE, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: America, hast thou forgot thy birth Last Line: And with their sickles hew their hated foes. Subject(s): Cuba; Spanish-american War (1898) CUBA, 1898, by H. R. VYNNE Poem Source First Line: Land of languor and of beauty, where the tawny Subject(s): Cuba; Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898) CUCHULAIN'S WOOING, by ELEANOR ROGERS COX Poem Text First Line: Great-limbed and swift and beautiful Last Line: Unto his fair-faced love he came. Subject(s): War CUI BONO?, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: My lords and commons, in your place of trust Last Line: Seems quite the thing in teaching moderation. Subject(s): Nationalism - Germany; Politics & Government; War CUMBERLAND GAP, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "lay down, boys and take a little nap" Last Line: Fourteen miles to the cumberland gap Subject(s): American Civil War;cumberland Gap;u.s. - History CURTAIN, by HELEN SPALDING Poem Source First Line: Goodbye. %incredulously the laced fingers loosen Last Line: Two worlds apart, to-morrow? Subject(s): World War Ii CYCLE; SEVEN WAR POEMS, by SEAN JENNETT Poem Source First Line: It is on the sea and under the waves of the sea Subject(s): War CYNICS, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY Poem Text First Line: Between old pan and pandemonium Last Line: We would reshape our lives—it is too late. Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph Subject(s): Life; War; World War I; First World War CYPRUS, by N. BOODSON Poem Source First Line: The blue of the meidterranean Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii D'ANNUNZIO, by ERNEST HEMINGWAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Half a million dead wops Last Line: The son of a bitch Subject(s): World War I; D'annunzio, Gabriele (1863-1938); First World War DABNEY'S WIFE; SPRING 1863, by JOANNE LOWERY Poem Source First Line: It was all their idea, not hooker's Last Line: And rinsed and did not miss a thing Subject(s): African Americans - Women; American Civil War; Blood; Slavery; Soldiers; U.s. - History; War Injuries; Women And War DAFFODILS, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The day the war against iraq begins Subject(s): Iraq War (2003); Daffodils DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENADOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 1, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: Long ere ruthless civil war laid waste Last Line: They idolized with fond, indulgent care. Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 10, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: When the chieftain deep into the forest shade Last Line: And on his mangled bosom died. Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 2, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: Sounds of trumpet, drum, and shrilling fife Last Line: His lifeless flesh. Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 3, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: Upon the balmy breeze of that same morning Last Line: * * * Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 4, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: At early dawn the wounded federal Last Line: Of both the rescued and the rescuer. Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 5, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: One bright morn as the lovers near the cot Last Line: Them in a loathsome dungeon south. Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 6, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: Down beside her senseless mother daisy Last Line: Death freed reuben from his clanking chains. Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 7, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: Soon upon the breeze she heard the tramp Last Line: Were lost, in the gloom of night enshrouded deeply. Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 9, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: Not till their victims charr'd remains exhaled Last Line: "but never from your wicked conscience.[""]" Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DALI: SMART BOMB IN ANTHROPOMORPHIC ECHO, by AL ROCHELAU Poem Source First Line: During the bagdad assault Last Line: And hardly a whisper Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) DAM NECK, VIRGINIA, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anti-aircraft seen from a certain distance Last Line: Of war in the animal sinews let us speak not %but of beautiful disrelation of the spiritual Subject(s): World War Ii DANCE OF THE SWORD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Blood, wind, and glee Subject(s): War DANCERS (DURING A GREAT BATTLE, 1916), by EDITH SITWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The floors are slippery with blood Last Line: We dance, we dance, each night Subject(s): Women; World War I DANNY, by MALCOLM COWLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You marched off southward with the fire of twenty Subject(s): American Civil War DANNY DEEVER, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: What are the bugles blowin' for?' said files-on-parade Last Line: After hangin' danny deever in the mornin'. Variant Title(s): Files-on-parade Subject(s): Army Life; Bugles; Capital Punishment; Military Justice; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Soldiers; War; Drills & Minor Tactics; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Courts Martial DARK NIGHT, GO AWAY, by E. HANK BUCHMANN Poem Source First Line: Eating steak and beans Last Line: As if they were empty guns Subject(s): Memory; War DARK VALENTINE, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This daylit doll, this dim divinity Variant Title(s): Neo-classical Poem Subject(s): War DARK VALENTINE, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This daylit doll, this dim divinity Last Line: And we advance. Is love disguised? %he is. As you imagined him Variant Title(s): Neo-classical Poe Subject(s): War DARWINITY, by HERMAN CHARLES MERIVALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Power to thine elbow, thou newest of sciences Last Line: Born in the sea with a cold in its head? Subject(s): Creation; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Evolution; War DAUGHTERS OF WAR, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Space beats the ruddy freedom of their limbs Last Line: "years." Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Women & War; World War I; First World War DAVID, by MARY WINTER WERE Poem Text First Line: Why should the gay, the beautiful, the young Last Line: Not david—but goliath paid the price.' Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Goliath; Old Age; Soldiers; War; Youth DAWN, by ANTONI BOGUSLAWSKI Poem Source First Line: Come, brother - forward in the dark! To what? Last Line: It is the morning. Stand to, all Subject(s): World War Ii DAWN, by ERNEST FEWSTER Poem Source First Line: O holy light! Thou who art strength! Last Line: The god-lit heavens thundering hymns of joy Subject(s): World War Ii DAWN, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: The hour of dawn is the hour of death Last Line: The hour of dawn is the hour of life! Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Dawn; Death; War; World War I; Weapons; Ammunition; Sunrise; Dead, The; First World War DAWN AT BEAUMONT HAMEL, by ROSAMUND MARRIOTT WATSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The long dark night is nearly done Alternate Author Name(s): Tomson, Graham R. Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I DAWN AT LEXINGTON, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A stealthy tramping through the dark Last Line: Flooding the world with light! Subject(s): American Revolution; Lexington, Battle Of (1775); Revere, Paul (1735-1818); War; Concord, Battle Of DAWN BEHIND NIGHT, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lips! Bold, frenzied utterance, shape to the thoughts that prompted by hate Last Line: That will find us and free us and take us where its portals are opened wide. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; War; Dead, The DAWN DISSOLVES THE MONSTERS, by EUGENE GRINDEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They did not know Last Line: The flame for us two alone is patience %for us two in every place the kiss of the living Alternate Author Name(s): Eluard, Paul Subject(s): World War Ii DAWN ON THE EAST COAST, by ALUN LEWIS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From orford ness to shingle street Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; War DAWN ON THE EAST COAST, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From orford ness to shingle street Last Line: The living come back slowly from the dead Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; War DAWN ON THE SIXTH DAY, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: Bra unhooked from the front Last Line: Gasping for breath %just like us Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) DAWNING IN VALENCIA, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These blasting winds of march, caught in the attic Last Line: Tangling centaurs of love in your rose trees Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Fights; Spain; War DAY AND NIGHT, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even a feather in flight can sketch Last Line: And cloisters and clinics waken %to a rending blare of trumpets Subject(s): World War I DAY OF THESE DAYS, by LAURIE LEE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such a morning it is when love Subject(s): Morning; War DAY OF THESE DAYS, by LAURIE LEE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such a morning it is when love Last Line: And their white teeth sweeter than cucumbers Subject(s): Morning; War DAY OF WAR, by ARTURO GIOVANNITTI Poem Source First Line: A hawk-faced youth with rapacious eyes, standing on a shaky chair Last Line: In the city of dread and uproar Subject(s): World War I DE PROFUNDIS, by JEAN-MARC BERNARD Poem Source First Line: The trenches, lord, are stark and deep Last Line: Grant them the peace they merit Subject(s): World War I DEAD, by VIOLET GILLESPIE Poem Source First Line: Dear love, they say thou art at rest Subject(s): World War I DEAD COW FARM, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An ancient saga tells us how Last Line: And the cow's dead, the old cow's dead. Subject(s): World War I; First World War DEAD DO NOT WANT US DEAD, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Even a cucumber, even a single anise seed: feasting Subject(s): Politics; War DEAD FOX HUNTER, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We found the little captain at the head Last Line: And the whole host of seraphim complete %must jog in scarlet to his opening meet Subject(s): World War I DEAD GERMAN SS PRISON GUARD, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Under the blood-clogged waters and the river weeds Last Line: Were known and sung and loved for poetry Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities DEAD IN EUROPE, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the planes unloaded, we fell down Last Line: O mary, marry earth, sea, air, and fire; %our sacred earth in our day is our curse Subject(s): World War Ii DEAD MAN'S COTTAGE, by JAMES HARRY KNIGHT-ADKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A loft with a ruckle of twisted rafters where the blue sky shows through ... Last Line: Stay. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; First World War DEAD MAN'S DUMP, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The plunging limbers over the shattered track Last Line: And our wheels grazed his dead face. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War DEAD MARINE, by LOUIS O. COXE Poem Source First Line: This is the death by water Subject(s): War DEAD MEN'S WATCH, by ETHEL TALBOT SCHEFFAUER Poem Source First Line: In the white and delicate city, where pleasure mates with art Subject(s): World War I DEAD MUSICIANS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From you, beethoven, bach, mozart Last Line: They're dead ... For god's sake stop that gramophone. Subject(s): Germany; Music & Musicians; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Germans; First World War DEAD PAST, by ALVAH BESSIE Poem Source First Line: For all of thirteen years Last Line: This past and cannot be separated from it Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) DEAD SOLDIER, by SYDNEY OSWALD Poem Source First Line: Thy dear brown eyes which were as depths where truth Subject(s): World War I DEAD SOLDIERS, by MAX PLOWMAN Poem Source First Line: Spectrum trench. Autumn. Nineteen-sixteen Last Line: But if of life we do destroy the best %god wanders wide, and weeps in his unrest Subject(s): World War I DEAD TURK, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: Dead, dead, and dumbly chill. He seemed to lie Last Line: And calvary re-echoed with his cry- %his cry of stark amaze Subject(s): Gallipoli Campaign (1915); World War I DEAD WINGMAN, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seen on the sea, no sign; no sign, no sign Last Line: The lives' long war, lost war - the pilot sleeps Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii DEAR JESSE HELMS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something is happening Last Line: Something obscene. Subject(s): Hate; Helms, Jesse (b. 1921); War DEAR MOTHER, I'VE COME HOME TO DIE, by EDGAR BOWERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dear mother, I remember well Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History DEAR REIKO: 1968 - 1978, by JODY MANABE Poem Source First Line: We buy books to keep our secrets Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans DEATH, by ALAN MACKINTOSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because I have made light of death Last Line: None may be there to see. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackintosh, Ewart Alan Subject(s): Death; Humility; Soldiers; Solitude; War; Dead, The; Loneliness DEATH AND THE FAIRIES, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before I joined the army Last Line: Who is holding carnival. Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium; World War I; First World War DEATH AND THE FLOWERS, by EDEN PHILLPOTTS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now is death only plucking flowers; he leaves Subject(s): World War I DEATH BY WATER, by EDWIN ROLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nearing land, we heard the cry of gulls and Last Line: Seeking cover in wheatfields, finding always %the fascist face behind the olive tree Alternate Author Name(s): Fishman, Solomon Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) DEATH IN MAY, by MURIEL NEWTON Poem Source First Line: Bury your love Last Line: Out of life's dream he died %into joy's living tide Subject(s): World War Ii DEATH IN THE CORN, by FRIEDRICH ADOLF AXEL DETLEV VON LILIENCRON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Among popples in a field of maize Alternate Author Name(s): Liliencron, Detlev Von Subject(s): War DEATH IS A MATTER OF MATHEMATICS., by BARRY AMIEL Poem Source Last Line: Ten out of ten means you are dead Subject(s): World War Ii DEATH OF A HERO, by PAUL SCOTT Poem Source First Line: Not here, among the scenes he loved, to die Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii DEATH OF A SOLDIER, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life contracts and death is expected Last Line: When the wind stops and, over the heavens, %the clouds go, nevertheless, %in their direction Subject(s): Holidays; Soldiers; War DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by ELEAZAR PARMLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lincoln is dead! And all the land Last Line: The other, slavery's cursed chains. Subject(s): American Civil War; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; U.s. - History DEATH OF LINCOLN DESPOTISM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Twas out upon mid-ocean that the san jacinto Last Line: And hold them till abe lincoln and all his northern scum / shall own our independence of 'yankee-doo Subject(s): "american Civil War;confederate States Of America;mason, James Murry (1798-1871);slidell, John (1793-1871);u.s. - History;" Confederacy DEATH OF NED KELLY, by JOHN STREETER MANIFOLD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ned kelly fought the troopers in country Subject(s): World War Ii DEATH OF STONEWALL JACKSON, by HENRY LYNDEN FLASH Poem Text First Line: Not midst the lightning of the stormy fight Last Line: He rises with the crown! Subject(s): American Civil War; Chancellorsville, Battle Of (1863); Jackson, Thomas (stonewall) (1824-1863); United States - History DEATH OF THE BALL TURRET GUNNER, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From my mother's sleep I fell into the state Last Line: When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose Subject(s): Air Warfare; Aviation And Aviators; Death; World War Ii DEATH OF THE CRANEMAN, by ALFRED HAYES Poem Source First Line: Happened like this: it was hot as hell Subject(s): War DEATH OF THE WOUNDED CHILD, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Again the hammer through the night is heard Last Line: O cold, cold, cold, cold, cold!' Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Death; War Injuries 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 DEATH THE PEACEMAKER, by ELLEN H. FLAGG Poem Source First Line: A waste of land, a sodden plain Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; U.s. - History DEATH VOW OF DON ALONZO OF AGUILAR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Fernando, king of aragon, before granada lies Last Line: And buried him near the waters clear of the brook of alpuxarra Variant Title(s): The Death Of Don Alonzo Of Aguila Subject(s): Alonzo De Aguilar, Lord Of Montilla, Don; Conversion; Death; Spanish Armada; War DEATH-BED, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the state above the law Last Line: What is the question he asks with his eyes? - %yes, all-highest, to god, be sure Subject(s): World War I DEBT, by JESSIE EDGAR MIDDLETON Poem Source First Line: Sitting here in the glow of my study-lamp Last Line: I can only pray Subject(s): World War Ii DECATUR'S VICTORY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ye heroes who bled for the rights of mankind Last Line: For columbia still generous and brave, just and free, %ere long of the ocean the mistress shall be Subject(s): Constitution (ship); Decatur, Stephen (1779-1820); Navy - United States; Sea Battles; War Of 1812 DECEMBER DAYBREAK, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shrill, a joyous scream Last Line: Men soared on heaven-ascending wings to fight Subject(s): World War Ii DECLINE, by GEORG TRAKL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Above the white pond Last Line: O my brother, we blind hands climb toward midnight Subject(s): World War I DECORATION DAY, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: There are graves on many hill-sides Last Line: Their censers swing in air. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Holidays; Honor; Memorial Day; Prayer; Spanish-american War (1898); Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Declaration Day DECORATION DAY--1899, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I went to the cemetery to-day Last Line: "neath the old ""red, white and blue." Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Soldiers; War; Graveyards; Dead, The DEDICATED TO CHOPIN, by HANS LEYBOLD Poem Source First Line: With their skirts rolled up, three seas dance on to land Last Line: And cockerels jump head-first into the collapsible top hat Subject(s): World War I DEDICATION OF THREE HATS, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This round hat I devote to mars %tough steel with leather lined Last Line: With wounds and cramps for three long years %limped back, and sat for school Subject(s): World War I DEEDS OF VALOR AT SANTIAGO, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who cries that the days of daring are those that are faded far Last Line: Themselves their peers. Subject(s): Patriotism; Santiago, Battle Of (1898); Santiago, Cuba; Spanish-american War (1898) DEFEAT AND VICTORY, by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the clangor of cannon Last Line: Don't give up the ship! Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): Chesapeake (ship); Lawrence, James (1781-1813); Sea Battles; War Of 1812; Naval Warfare DEFEAT OF THE REBELS, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The enemy forces are in wild flight Subject(s): War DEFEATED, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In battles of no renown Last Line: The grapes of the anger of god Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): War DEFENSES, by BEN MADDOW Poem Source First Line: White sky, and moonlight famous in our eyes Last Line: Our trees, our harbors, and our happiness Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) DEFINITION OF THE FRONTIERS, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First there is the wind but not like the familiar wind but long and without lapses Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Nature; War; Boundaries; Borders DEITIES AND BEASTS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tall atlas, jupiter, hercules, thor Last Line: Is never mentioned in the press at all Subject(s): Cold War; Missiles; Guided Missiles; Ballistic Missiles DEITIES AND BEASTS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tall atlas, jupiter, hercules, thor Last Line: Is never mentioned in the press at all Subject(s): Cold War; Missiles DEJECTION, by GEORG TRAKL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mighty you are, dark mouth Last Line: The quiet maiden monk Subject(s): World War I DELIVERANCE, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Great and apparent dangers' are the words Last Line: This is the lesson of this fought-for hour. Subject(s): Deliberation; Freedom; World War Ii; Liberty; Second World War DELPHI; FOR GREEK INDEPENDENCE DAY, 25 MARCH 1941, by OLIFFE RICHMOND Poem Source First Line: The daisies are at delphi now Last Line: Earth's common daisies be my token %that the oracle has spoken Subject(s): World War Ii DELTA FLIGHT 659, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm writing this on a plane, sean penn, Subject(s): Penn, Sean; Air Travel; Iraq War DEMAENETA SENT EIGHT SONS / TO FIGHT THE RANKS OF THE FOE, by DIOSCORIDES Poem Source Last Line: One sentence she said only: %'sparta, I bore them for thee' Subject(s): War DEMETRIUS FLED THE FIGHT IN FEAR., by ERYCIUS OF CYZICUS Poem Source Last Line: Die. Let sparta feel no shame. %my milk fed cowards in her name Subject(s): War DEMONSTRATION FOR INTERVENTION IN THE WAR, by CARLO CARRA Poem Source Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Futurism (art); Paintings And Painters; World War I DENIAL, by LUCIE MCKEE Poem Source First Line: Today we are quite light - levitated by Last Line: The bed, read about spain with a flashlight Subject(s): Politics; War DENNIS, by CHARLOTTE BECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Such a 'ootin' an' a 'owlin' Last Line: Then went back to bein' queer! Subject(s): Heroism; War; Heroes; Heroines DEPARTURE, by CAROLYN FORCHE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We take it with us, the cry Last Line: Of cities we slipped through Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn Subject(s): War DEPARTURE, by CAROLYN FORCHE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We take it with us, the cry Last Line: Were brief, like the smallest %of cities we slipped through Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn Subject(s): War DEPARTURE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While the far farewell music thins and fails Last Line: Bondslave to realms, but circle earth and seas?' Subject(s): Boer War; South African War DER TAG: NELSON AND BEATTY, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No doubt 'twas a truly christian sight Last Line: This grey november morning.' Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Beatty, David. 1st Earl (1871-1936); Navy - Great Britain; World War I - Naval Actions; English Navy DESCEND, O DANTE, FROM THE HEAVENLY ROSE, by FLORENCE CONVERSE Poem Source Last Line: Crying for light! Come, holy candle, light our way! Subject(s): World War Ii DESERT, by CLIFFORD DYMENT Poem Source First Line: Beside a dune high as a tree Subject(s): Nuclear War DESERT, by M. ST. J. WILMOTH Poem Source First Line: The silence of vast spaces, where even Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii DESERT FLOWERS, by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Living in a wide landscape are flowers Last Line: Of what the others never set eyes on. Subject(s): War DESERT STORM, by VOLKER BRAUN Poem Source First Line: Saddam hussein the troublesome supplier Last Line: The phantom armies of the new one's armageddon Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) DESERT WARFARE, by G. HARKER Poem Source First Line: A universe of space, infinite sands Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii DESERTER, by GILBERT FRANKAU Poem Source First Line: I'm sorry I done it, major' Last Line: And the shameless soul of a nameless man %went up in the cordite-smoke Subject(s): World War I DESERTER, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There was a man, - don't mind his name Last Line: O well for her she does not know %he lies in a deserter's grave Subject(s): Women; World War I DESERTER, by JOHN STREETER MANIFOLD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Born with all arms, he sought a separate peace Subject(s): War DESPAIR, by OLIVE E. LINDSAY Poem Source First Line: Half of me died at bapaume Last Line: And then will return to the other half %and show it how to live Subject(s): Women; World War I DESPOTISMS, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From hedgerows where aromas fain would be Last Line: The golden english heads like harvest grain. Subject(s): World War I; First World War DESTIN, by ROGER MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: 44, the last summer of the war Last Line: Of what I've now seen fifty times in reruns Subject(s): Children; Family Life; War DESTINY IS MEMORY, by TIA BALLANTINE Poem Source First Line: After bombs remove oil-stained pavement, bricks Last Line: A fire burns the last remaining tree Subject(s): Politics; War DESTROYED FLYING FORTRESS (PHOTOGRAPHER UNKNOWN), by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: After the automatic eye clicks a frame Last Line: Just where we're left to brood and wonder Subject(s): Troy; Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities DESTROYERS, by JOHN GRAHAM BOWER Poem Source First Line: Through the dark night Subject(s): Troy; World War I DESTROYERS, by HENRY HEAD Poem Text First Line: On this primeval strip of western land Last Line: Are bought with death. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; World War I; First World War DESTROYERS IN THE ARCTIC, by ALAN ROSS Poem Source First Line: Camouflaged, they detach lengths of sea and sky Last Line: But cannot dream long; the sea curdles and sprawls %liverishly real, and merciless all else away fro Subject(s): Sea Battles; Troy; World War Ii DESTROYERS OFF JUTLAND, by REGINALD MCINTOSH CLEVELAND Poem Text First Line: They had hot scent across the spumy sea Last Line: These hounds that england suckled at the birth. Subject(s): Great Britain - Navy; Jutland; World War I; First World War DESTRUCTION OF COLUMBIA, by ELIZABETH OTIS MARSHALL DANNELLY Poem Text First Line: Methinks there'll be emblazoned on the dismal walls of hell Last Line: "time cannot teach forgetfulness,"" the past can never die." Subject(s): American Civil War; Columbia, South Carolina; United States - History DEVON MEN, by PERCY HASELDEN Poem Source First Line: From bideford to appledore the meadows lie aglow Subject(s): World War I DEVOTION TO DUTY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was near the king that day. I saw him snatch Last Line: This wife how her heroic husband fell.' Subject(s): World War I; First World War DEWEY AND HIS MEN, by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Glistering high in the midnight sky Last Line: And the wildfire lights as dewey fights on the broad manila bay. Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): Dewey, George (1837-1917); Manila, Philippines; Spanish-american War (1898) DEWEY AT MANILA [MAY 1, 1898], by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas the very verge of may Last Line: Must be wise as well as brave. Subject(s): Dewey, George (1837-1917); Manila, Philippines; Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898) DEWEY IN MANILA BAY [MAY 1, 1898], by RICHARD VORHEES RISLEY Poem Text First Line: He took a thousand islands and he didn't lose a man Last Line: For fighting's part of what a yankee knows! Alternate Author Name(s): Risley, R. V. Subject(s): Dewey, George (1837-1917); Manila, Philippines; Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898) DEWEY IN WAITING, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: God of our fathers! Guard his ways Last Line: Imperiled cause, a country shamed? Subject(s): Dewey, George (1837-1917); Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898) DICTATOR'S HOLIDAY, by FRANK LAURENCE LUCAS Poem Source First Line: Round the foot of amiatra, like a bride Last Line: The masters of the world must kill their time Subject(s): World War Ii DIDO OF TUNISIA, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had heard of these things before - of chariots rumbling Last Line: That men might struggle and fall, and not for love Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Women's Rights; World War Ii; Male-female Relations; Vergil; Feminism; Second World War DIDO OF TUNISIA, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had heard of these things before - of chariots rumbling Last Line: That men might struggle and fall, and not for love Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Women's Rights; World War Ii DIED OF WOUNDS, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And so they marked me dead, the day %that I turned twenty-one? Last Line: The twenty-fourth of july! %god smiled %beguiled %by a wish so wild, %and let me always stay a child Subject(s): World War I DIED OF WOUNDS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His wet white face and miserable eyes Last Line: And some slight wound lay smiling on the bed. Subject(s): Mourning; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Bereavement; First World War DIES IRAE, by B. H. W. Poem Source First Line: Patience: a little more and then the day Subject(s): World War I DIFFICULT TO SLEEP, by ELISABETH HALLETT Poem Source First Line: Difficult to sleep this way Last Line: We haven't got your forwarding address Subject(s): Politics; War DIGEST, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mostly it was wars %with their justification Last Line: Their questions, knowing the answers %already, unable to apply them Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): War DIGRESSION ON THE NUCLEAR AGE, by ELIZABETH S. ADCOCK Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In some difficult part of africa, a termite tribe Alternate Author Name(s): Adcock, Betty Subject(s): History; War; Historians DIGRESSION ON THE NUCLEAR AGE, by ELIZABETH S. ADCOCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In some difficult part of africa, a termite tribe Last Line: That whatever it is we're working on won't work Alternate Author Name(s): Adcock, Betty Subject(s): History; War DILEMMA, by JOHN COLLINGS SQUIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God heard the embattled nations sing and shout Last Line: Good god!' said god, 'I've got my work cut out' Alternate Author Name(s): Eagle, Solomon; Squire, J. C. Subject(s): World War I DIRGE, by THOMAS WILLIAM PARSONS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Room for a soldier! Lay him in the clover Last Line: Shall memory come to dream upon it. Variant Title(s): Dirge For One Who Fell In Battle Subject(s): American Civil War; Bethel, Virgina, Battle Of (1861); Patriotism; U.s. - History; Winthrop, Theodore (1828-1861); Great Bethel (church), Virginia; Big Bethel (church), Virginia; Little Bethel (church), Virginia DIRGE, by VICTOR PEROWNE Poem Source First Line: Thou art no longer here Subject(s): World War I DIRGE, by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Low lies in the dust the honored head Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History DIRGE FOR A SOLDIER [SEPTEMBER 1, 1862], by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Close his eyes; his work is done! Last Line: Lay him low! Subject(s): American Civil War; Kearny, Philip (1814-1862); Patriotism; United States - History DIRGE FOR ASHBY, by JOSEPHINE JUNKIN PRESTON Poem Text First Line: Heard ye that thrilling word Last Line: Ashby is dead! Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; U.s. - History; Dead, The DIRGE FOR THE BARREL-ORGAN OF THE NEW BARBARISM, by LOUIS ARAGON Poem Source First Line: Those stopped by the barrage Last Line: Giants whose profiles loomed high %thrown by anger against a white sky Subject(s): War DIRGE FOR THE NEW SUNRISE, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bound to my heart as ixion to the wheel Subject(s): Nuclear War; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb DIRGE FOR THE NEW SUNRISE, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bound to my heart as ixion to the wheel Last Line: As if in love - there was no more living then, %and no more love. Gone is the heart of man Subject(s): Nuclear War DIRGE OF VICTORY, by EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lift not thy trumpet, victory, to the sky Alternate Author Name(s): Dunsany, Lord; Dunsany, 18th Baron Subject(s): World War I DISABLED, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark Last Line: And put him into bed? Why don't they come? Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples; First World War DISCOURSE ON PEACE, by JACQUES PREVERT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Near the end of an extremely important discourse Last Line: The delicate question of money Subject(s): War DISCOVERERS; IN MEMORY OF CHRISTIAN ENDEAVORERS WHO DIED, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High glory his who walks where god alone Last Line: For god and man, for liberty and right. Subject(s): Christianity; World War I; First World War DISCOVERIES, by VERNON WATKINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poles are flying where the two eyes set Last Line: The christian paradox, bringing its great reward %by loss; the moment known to kirkegaard Subject(s): War DISCOVERY OF THIS TIME, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nobody borrowed a couple of dogs and a gun and Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War DISCOVERY OF THIS TIME, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nobody borrowed a couple of dogs and a gun and Last Line: There were all of us - all together - and we came Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): World War Ii DISDAINED APPARITIONS, by RENE CHAR Poem Source First Line: Civilizations are viscous. History shipwrecks, gold slips from god Last Line: To dream of it, who has won it in the face of crime Subject(s): World War Ii DISTRUST OF LOGIC, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was after his skull lodged down Subject(s): Nuclear War DITTY FOR THE DEPARTING TROOPS, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Keep you eye fixed normally on woe Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): War; Soldiers DIVIDENDS, by HUBERT CREEKMORE Poem Source First Line: We are bringing back some canceled notes Subject(s): War DIXIE, by DANIEL DECATUR EMMETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wish I was in de land ob cotton Last Line: Chorus. Variant Title(s): Dixie's Land Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; Patriotism; United States - History; Liberty DIXIE, by ALBERT PIKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Southrons, hear your country call you! Last Line: And conquer peace for dixie! Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Military Service, Voluntary; Patriotism; United States - History; Confederacy DO NOT ASK, by LAURENCE WHISTLER Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii DO NOT EMBRACE YOUR MIND'S NEW NEGRO FRIEND, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But island by island we must go across Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): War DO YOUR ALL, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do your bit!' how cheap and trite Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): World War I DOCTRINE OF CATEGORIES, by HANS MAGNUS ENZENSBERGER Poem Source First Line: The wet bush %shining in front of the window Subject(s): Nuclear War DOES IT MATTER? - LOSING YOUR LEGS?, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For they'll know that you've fought for your country %and no one will worry a bit Subject(s): World War I DOES SPRING COME TO A LOST LAND?, by LEE SANG-HWA Poem Source First Line: Now someone else's land - does spring come to a usurped land? Last Line: And spring will be usurped, too, I fear Subject(s): War DOING ZAZEN ON THE SNOW IN FRONT OF THE COLORADO STATE CAPITOL AN..., by LEN EDGERLY Poem Source First Line: I'm new at this, %unsure of my arguments Last Line: Ready t be written down Subject(s): Politics; War DOME OF SUNDAY, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With focus sharp as flemish-painted face Last Line: Clean in the eye of one who stands transfixed %in fascination of her brightness Subject(s): Bourgeoisie; War DOMESDAY BOOK: ANTON SOSNOWSKI, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anton sosnowski, from the shakespeare school Last Line: And what makes poverty and waste in lives: Subject(s): Anger; Faces; Hate; War DOMESDAY BOOK: BARRETT BAYS, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was walking by the river, barrett said Last Line: Came in and led him from the jury room. Subject(s): France; Life; Love; Past; War DOMESDAY BOOK: CONSIDER FREELAND, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look at that tract of land there -- five good acres Last Line: Of elenor murray: -- Subject(s): Life; Love; War; Youth DOMESDAY BOOK: THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why don't they come to me to find the cause Last Line: She talks with susan hamilton like this: Subject(s): Death; Letters; Nations; War; Dead, The DOMINE, DIRIGE NOS, by EDWARD HARRY WILLIAM MEYERSTEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Direct us, lord, while our aerial saints Last Line: And at thy word thrust in its sheath again Alternate Author Name(s): Meyerstein, E. H. W. Subject(s): World War Ii DOMINGA, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I was asleep for a long time among Last Line: I carry a daughter inside it Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Death; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; El Salvador; Human Rights - Argentina; Murder; Soldiers; Tyranny And Tyrants; War DON'T BE AFRAID, by DAVID VOGEL Poem Source Last Line: Heads and no one will find us Subject(s): War DON'T BELIEVE IN WAR, by BULAT SHALVOVICH OKUDZHAVA Poem Source Last Line: You're as exposed as an open palm, %and the bullets' only target Subject(s): War DON'T CHEER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't cheer, damn you! Don't cheer! Last Line: Humble your hearts and pray Subject(s): War DONELSON (FEBRUARY, 1862), by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bitter cup Last Line: In vain seek donelson. Subject(s): American Civil War; Donelson, Fort; U.s. - History; Wallace, Lewis (1827-1905) DOOMSDAY, by HANS MAGNUS ENZENSBERGER Poem Source First Line: Conceivable, after all %if not plausible Subject(s): Judgment Day; Nuclear War DOOMSDAY VERSE, by SIDNEY WADE Poem Source First Line: In the dying order, they go first Last Line: Our vehicles possess a ranging thirst Subject(s): Politics; War DOUBLE NEGATIVE, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hours of boredom, minutes in mortal range ...' Subject(s): War DOVE, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: The dove is a common bird Last Line: May play in the street again Subject(s): War DOVER BEACH, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea is calm to-night Last Line: Where ignorant armies clash by night. Subject(s): Desire; Doubt; Dover, England; England; Faith; Love; Love - Marital; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Sea; Seashore; Social Protest; Time; War; Skepticism; English; Belief; Creed; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Theology; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore DOWNFALL, by GEORG TRAKL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Above the white pond Last Line: O my brother, we are the blind hands climbing toward midnight Subject(s): World War I DRAFT-DODGERS VS. POETRY-DODGERS, by UNKNOWN+12 Poem Source First Line: Rather than fulfilling their military obligation Last Line: Now the young are needed to go to poetry Subject(s): Politics; War DRAFTS, by NORA BOMFORD Poem Source First Line: Waking to darkness; early silence broken Last Line: Everything is part %of one supreme intent, the deathless heart Subject(s): Women; World War I DREAM & LIE OF GEORGE W. BUSH (AFTER PICASSO'S DREAM & LIE OF..., by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Owl fandango escabeche swords of octopus of evil omen Last Line: Embedded in the rock Subject(s): Politics; War DREAM OF THE DISAPPEARED, by CECIL L. SAYRE Poem Source First Line: His death I dream Last Line: Where I can no longer %disappear Subject(s): Death; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Soldiers; War DREAM OF THE RED BRUSH, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: I know li po dipped his brush Last Line: Of ten thousand women Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) DREAM PATH, by EUGENE CROMBIE Poem Source First Line: Walking my dream-paved road on the hill of desire Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I DREAMERS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land Last Line: And going to the office in the train. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War DREAMING IN THE TRENCHES, by WILLIAM GORDON MCCABE Poem Text First Line: I picture her in the quaint old room Last Line: Petersburg trenches, 1'64. Subject(s): Army Life; War; Drills & Minor Tactics DRESDEN, by CIARAN CARSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Horse boyle was called horse boyle because of his brother mule Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Dresden, Germany; Soldiers; World War Ii; Second World War DRESDEN, by CIARAN CARSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Horse boyle was called horse boyle because of his brother mule Last Line: I wandered out through the steeples of rust, the gate that was a broken bed Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Dresden, Germany; Soldiers; World War Ii DRILL, by HARRY BROWN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I watch them on the drill field, the awkward and the grave Last Line: And the voices of our approaching generations Subject(s): World War Ii DRINKING FROM A HELMET, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I climbed out, tired of waiting Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War DRINKING FROM A HELMET, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I climbed out, tired of waiting Last Line: And tell him I was the man Subject(s): World War Ii DRINKING IN THE DAYTIME, by FREDERICK SEIDEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Anything is better than this Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Love - Erotic; War; Conduct Of Life; Wine DRIVE TO LONE RANGER, by RAY A. YOUNG BEAR Poem Source First Line: For listening and instructional purposes Last Line: The force that placed us here %cannot be trusted Subject(s): Nuclear War DRIVER SMITH, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas driver smith of battery a was anxious to see a fight Last Line: And drawing a hundred pounds a week to tell how he won the fight. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Leadership; Parades; Soldiers; War DRIVING HOME THE COWS, by KATE PUTNAM OSGOOD Poem Text First Line: Out of the clover and blue-eyed grass Last Line: Together they followed the cattle home. Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; Peace; United States - History; Declaration Day DROWNING THE BOOK, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now listen, howie, if anyone ever read Subject(s): War DRUM, by JOSEPH JOHNSTON LEE Poem Source First Line: Come! %says the drum Subject(s): World War I DRUM, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The war ends. The lines of women push Subject(s): War; Man-woman Relationships; Freedom; Male-female Relations; Liberty DRUM TAPS TO HEAVEN, by JAMES CHURCH ALVORD Poem Text First Line: Peter at heaven's gate wearied of the game Last Line: Rat-a-tat -- rat-a-tat -- tir-r-r-rah -- tah-tah! Subject(s): Heaven; World War I; Paradise; First World War DRUMMER HODGE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They throw in drummer hodge, to rest Last Line: His stars eternally. Variant Title(s): The Dead Drummer Subject(s): Boer War; Travel; War; South African War; Journeys; Trips DRUMS, by GRIFFITH ALEXANDER Poem Source First Line: Ere we wonder at his absence, let us tell a little Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I DRUNK METAPHYSICS, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've never been one soul Last Line: Sixty trillion cells-all drunk! Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 DRY LOAF, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is equal to living in a tragic land Subject(s): Men; War DRY LOAF, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is equal to living in a tragic land Last Line: No doubt that soldiers had to be marching %and that drums had to be rolling, rolling, rolling Subject(s): Men; War DUCKS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In her first home each book had a light around it Last Line: The ducks were building a nest. Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Ducks; Family Life; Iran; War; Mallards; Drakes; Relatives; Persia DULCE ET DECORUM EST, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Bent double, like old beggars under sacks Last Line: Pro patria mori. Subject(s): Chemical Warfare; Hate; Men; Patriotism; Social Protest; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War DULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORI, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Disciplined in the school of hard campaigning Last Line: Track of the outlaw, though she sets off late Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): War DULCE ET DECORUM?, by ELINOR JENKINS Poem Source First Line: We buried of our dead the dearest one Last Line: Give us our fathers' heathen hearts again, %valour to dare, and fortitude to die Subject(s): Women; World War I DUNKER CHURCH, ANTIETAM, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: For melville, on malvern hill the elms would speak Last Line: Greening in this page of sediments and sorrow Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities DUNKIRK, by SUSAN D'ARCY CLARK Poem Text First Line: They looked at death Last Line: "immortals these,"" and laid his scythe away." Subject(s): Death; Dunkirk, France; Immortality; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War DUNKIRK, by ROBERT NATHAN Poem Source First Line: Will came back from school that day Last Line: There at his side sat francis drake, %and held him true and steered him home Subject(s): Dunkirk, France; England; Retreats (military); World War Ii DUNKIRK, by EDWIN JOHN PRATT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So long as light shall shine upon a world Last Line: Attending causes ultimately won - %thermopylae, corunna or verdun Alternate Author Name(s): Pratt, E. J. Subject(s): Dunkirk, France; Retreats (military); World War Ii DUPONT'S ROUND FIGHT (NOVEMBER, 1861), by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In time and measure perfect moves Last Line: And victory of law. Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History DURHAM MILITIA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "you are going to be a militia man, a valiant volunteer" Last Line: The durham volunteers should find themselves in meat and clothes Subject(s): Beer;drinks & Drinking;kisses;soldiers;war; Ale DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: During the second world war, I was going home one night Subject(s): World War Ii; Sons; Survival; Thanksgiving; Second World War DURING THE WAR, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When my brother came home from war Subject(s): War; Grief; Social Commentaries; Sorrow; Sadness DUSK IN WAR TIME, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A half-hour more and you will lean Last Line: Waiting at dusk for one who is dead! Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): War DUST OF THE WORLD, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: I draw you in dark ink as you lie naked Last Line: And last time since we bagan this affair Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) DUTY TO DEATH, LD, by DICK ROBERTS Poem Source First Line: See now, dead friend Subject(s): War DYING, by TOGE SANKICHI Poem Source First Line: ! %loud in my ear: screams Last Line: Die %? Subject(s): Nuclear War DYING SOLDIER BOY, by A. B. CUNNINGHAM Poem Source First Line: Upon manassa's bloody plain a soldier boy lay dying Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History DYKES, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have no heart for the fishing - we have no hand for the oar Subject(s): War E TENEBRIS, by HELEN SPALDING Poem Source First Line: I tuned in to a symphony Last Line: Seeking his living symphony again Subject(s): World War Ii E-MAIL FOR SAM, by SAMUEL HAZO Poem Source First Line: Dear sam, %I received your email request for a poem. I too saw the Last Line: And I am sending the enclosed as my contribution Subject(s): Politics; War E. D. M., by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a heart I knew in other days Last Line: And that was all beneath this earthly sun. Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Bereavement EAGLE VALOR, CHICKEN MIND, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unhappy country, what wings you have! Even here, Subject(s): War EAGLE VALOR, CHICKEN MIND, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unhappy country, what wings you have! Even here, Last Line: Pathos of the result Subject(s): War EARLY MARCH, by NORMAN NICHOLSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We did not expect this; we were not ready for this Last Line: Has caught us half asleep. We had never thought of this Subject(s): War EARLY MORNING, by KENNETH NEAL Poem Source First Line: The dawn's a dirty smudge of light Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii EARLY MORNING CALISTHENICS, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: On daniel field, the civil war's a hundred years behind us now Last Line: Each swell and juming jack is one cadet, alive and full and sexual Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities EARLY NOON, by INGEBORG BACHMANN Poem Source First Line: Softly the linden grows green in the opening summer Last Line: The unspeakable, said softly, steals over the land: %alreadyit is noon Subject(s): World War Ii EARLY NOON, by INGEBORG BACHMANN Poem Source First Line: Silently the linden greens in open summer Last Line: The unsayable passes, muttered low, over the land: %already it's noon Subject(s): World War Ii EAST OF NEW YORK, by MICHAEL WOLFE Poem Source First Line: Fifty thousand crickets are talking to the moon Last Line: Accompanied by clouds and by our outcry Subject(s): Politics; War EASTER - HOME AGAIN, by CLIFFORD FOWLER Poem Source First Line: The wheels of the train sing a full-toned song Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I EASTER AT YPRES: 1915, by WALTER SCOTT STUART LYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sacred head was bound and diapered Last Line: And thou shalt reawake, though aye be scarred. Subject(s): World War I; Ypres, Belgium; First World War EASTER EVENING, 1942, by LEONARD BACON (1887-1954) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Is this the time to speak? Shall we tell the strong Last Line: That made 'the feud with chaos and old night' Subject(s): World War Ii EASTER IN CHRISTMAS, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful are thy dwellings, lord of hosts Last Line: An agitator and two thieves are swaying in the wind Subject(s): World War Ii EASTER MONDAY, by ELEANOR FARJEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the last letter that I had from france Last Line: There are three letters you will not get Variant Title(s): Second Love: 4 Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917); Women; World War I EASTER-EGGS, by REGINALD WRIGHT KAUFFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now, mr. Wall of wall st., he built ... Yacht Subject(s): World War I EASTER: WAHIAWA, 1959: 1, by CATHY SONG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The rain stopped for one afternoon Last Line: Which grandmother had been simmering %in vinegar and blue color all morning Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans EASTER: WAHIAWA, 1959: 2, by CATHY SONG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When grandfather was a young boy Last Line: Marine-colored shells across his lap %was something like what the ocean gives %the beach after a rai Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans EASTERN WAR TIME, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Memory says: want to do right? Don't count on me Last Line: Lifting my smoky mirror Subject(s): Memory; World War Ii EASTERN WAR TIME, SELS., by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Memory; World War Ii EATING AN EEL, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: He's not your everyday catch, your eel Last Line: How he's alive, in all his bones? He is your meat Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii EAVESDROPPING ON AMERICA, by BILL RANSOM Poem Source First Line: Women in the next booth compare shades of makeup Last Line: Where can love, that thin guerrilla, take a stand? Subject(s): Politics; War ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 16. WARS OF YORK & LANCASTER, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus is the storm abated by the craft Last Line: Gathers unblighted strength from hour to hour. Subject(s): War Of The Roses ECONOMIC MAN, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He would have liked to find a use for leaves Subject(s): War ED JONES (1922-1944), by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: Ed jones from alabama Last Line: Here, where jones continually collapses, %crushed and beautiful Subject(s): War EDINBURGH AFTER FLODDEN, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: News of battle! News of battle! Last Line: Be our universal grave!' Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Edinburgh, Scotland; Flodden, Battle Of (1513); Scotland - Relations With England; War EDITH CAVELL, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was binding the wounds of her enemies when they came Last Line: It is victory speaks her name. Subject(s): Cavell, Edith (1865-1915); Nurses; World War I; First World War EDITH CAVELL, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Room 'mid the martyrs for a deathless name! Last Line: Has sealed the savage hohenzollerns' doom! Subject(s): Cavell, Edith (1865-1915); Nurses; World War I; First World War EDITH CAVELL, by FLORENCE MCLANDBURGH Poem Source First Line: On law and love and mercy Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Mclandburgh Subject(s): World War I EDITH CAVELL, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world hath its own dead; great motions start Last Line: And beautifies the world that saw it die! Subject(s): Cavell, Edith (1865-1915); Nurses; World War I - Casualties EDITORIAL, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the pause of ominous foreboding days Last Line: We wait the voice...We wait the storm Subject(s): World War I EDITORIAL IMPRESSIONS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He seemed so certain 'all was going well' Last Line: Ah, yes, but it's the press that leads the way!' Subject(s): Newspapers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Journalism; Journalists; First World War EDUCATION', by PAULINE B. BARRINGTON Poem Source First Line: The rain is slipping, dripping down the street Last Line: While you sew %row after row Subject(s): Women; World War I EFFICIENCY, by FELIX EMANUEL SCHELLING Poem Source First Line: For forty years he plotted Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I EGIL'S SAGA, SELS., by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I crossed the deep sea Last Line: Who beyond land-starred seas %sweetened a poet's words? Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; War EIGHT NAVAL VICTORY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Columbia's ships triumphant ride, %and humble haughty briton's pride Last Line: And bold in her defence have stood! %and suits the british henry's race Subject(s): Lake Erie, Battle Of; Navy - United States; Perry, Oliver Hazard (1785-1819); War Of 1812 EIGHT VOLUNTEERS, by LANSING C. BAILEY Poem Text First Line: Eight volunteers on an errand of death Last Line: Eight men! Who speaks? Subject(s): Heroism; Hobson, Richmond Pearson (1870-1937); Patriotism; Sailing & Sailors; Spanish-american War (1898); Heroes; Heroines; Seamen; Sails EIGHTEEN SIXTY-ONE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arm'd year - year of the struggle Last Line: I repeat you, hurrying, crashing, sad, distracted year. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History EIGHTEEN-SEVENTY, SELS., by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Franco-prussian War (1870-1871); Travel EIGHTH AIR FORCE, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If, in an odd angle of the hutment Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii; Second World War EIGHTH AIR FORCE, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If, in an odd angle of the hutment Last Line: Men wash their hands, in blood, as best they can: %I find no fault in this just man Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii EIGHTY ACRES; LT. MITCHELL, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: In 1866 my son was born Last Line: And I will rest there when my time has come Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History EIN FESTE BURG IST UNSER GOTT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We wait beneath the furnace blast Last Line: Endure and wait and labor! Subject(s): American Civil War; Luther, Martin (1483-1546); Slavery; U.s. - History; Serfs EISENHOWER'S VISIT OF FRANCO, 1959, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The american hero must triumph over Last Line: Of bare fields, / in spain Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) EISENHOWER'S VISIT OF FRANCO, 1959, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The american hero must triumph over Last Line: Of bare fields, %in spain Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) EL EMPLAZADO, by WILLIAM HENRY VENABLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: El emplazado, the summoned, the doomed one Last Line: Heaven reechoes the auto-da-fe. Subject(s): Cuba; Spanish-american War (1898) EL MAGHARA, by EDWIN GERARD Poem Text First Line: Out east on the sands of distraction that dip to the peep of the sun Last Line: Then back over razor-like edges we trekked through the desert again. Alternate Author Name(s): Gerardy Subject(s): Cavalry; War EL MAHDI TO THE TRIBES OF THE SOUDAN, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have heard the voice of the lord Last Line: Shall rule in the earth alone! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): God; Islam; Muhammad Ahmad (1844-1885); Religion; Sudan; War; Al-mahdi; Muhammad Ahmad Ibn As-sayyid 'abd Allah; Theology EL RIO DE LAS ANIMAS PERDIDAS EN PURGATORIO, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: No one recollects where the spaniards died Last Line: Was brief -- far briefer than our scattering Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History EL SALVADOR, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Eva tells me %that she is from el salvador Last Line: Not even the jews Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; El Salvador; Escapes; Exiles; Human Rights - Argentina; Immigrants; Memory; War ELECTRIC STORM, by MICHAEL C. MARTIN Poem Source First Line: A rumble of guns - not earthly ones Subject(s): War ELEGIA, by EDWIN ROLFE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Madrid madrid madrid madrid Alternate Author Name(s): Fishman, Solomon Subject(s): Madrid, Spain; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) ELEGIA, by EDWIN ROLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Madrid madrid madrid madrid Last Line: My sons will love you as their father did %madrid madrid madrid Alternate Author Name(s): Fishman, Solomon Subject(s): Madrid, Spain; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) ELEGIES FROM THE NORTH 5, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: Now, in a bitter or a soft voice, in the lengthened melodies of a lament, in Last Line: Shared with everyone lost like you: do you recognize yourself in this poem? Subject(s): Blood; Death; Lament; Soldiers; War ELEGY (IN MEMORIAM - JUNE 1941, R. R.), by DAVID GASCOYNE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend, whose unnatural early death Subject(s): Soldiers; Suicide; World War Ii; Second World War ELEGY (IN MEMORIAM - JUNE 1941, R. R.), by DAVID GASCOYNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend, whose unnatural early death Last Line: Slowly away into the utmost dark Subject(s): Soldiers; Suicide; World War Ii ELEGY FOR A CAVE FULL OF BONES, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tibia, tarsal, skull, and shin Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War ELEGY FOR A CAVE FULL OF BONES, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tibia, tarsal, skull, and shin Last Line: I have seen our failure in %tibia, tarsal, skull, and shin Subject(s): World War Ii ELEGY FOR A DEAD SOLDIER, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A white sheet on the tail-gate of a truck Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War ELEGY FOR A DEAD SOLDIER, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A white sheet on the tail-gate of a truck Last Line: Upon a peace kept by a human creed %know that one soldier has not died in vain Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; World War Ii ELEGY FOR GARCIA LORCA, by JOY DAVIDMAN Poem Source First Line: There was a man Last Line: He who is not dead will be reborn daily with the rising sun Subject(s): Garcia Lorca, Federico (1898-1936); Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) ELEGY FOR HER BROTHER SAKHR, by TUMADIR BINT IBN AL-SHARID AL-KHANSA Poem Source First Line: Cry out for sakhr when a dove with necklaces Last Line: When the wind howled his people were happy %as a wind of dust blew under a freezing cloud Alternate Author Name(s): Tumardir Bint `amir Al-harith Ibn Ash-sharid; Al-khansa Subject(s): Brothers; Death; War ELEGY FOR OUR DEAD, by EDWIN ROLFE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a place where, wisdom won, right recorded Alternate Author Name(s): Fishman, Solomon Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); War ELEGY FOR OUR DEAD, by EDWIN ROLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is a place where, wisdom won, right recorded Last Line: Not sought for self, live in new faces, smiling, %remembering what they did here. Deeds were their l Alternate Author Name(s): Fishman, Solomon Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); War ELEGY FOR THE NATIVE GUARD, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We leave gulfport at noon; gulls overhead Subject(s): African Americans - Soldiers; American Civil War; Ship Island (mississippi) ELEGY FOR THE SPANISH DEAD, by JAMES RORTY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Life takes its final meaning Last Line: Europe to its doom, the new world to its birth Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) ELEGY FOR TWO BANJOS, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Haul up the flag, you mourners Subject(s): War ELEGY FOR TWO BANJOS, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Haul up the flag, you mourners Subject(s): War ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The men that worked for england / they have their graves at home Last Line: They have no graves as yet. Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): England; Politics & Government; Soldiers; World War I; English; First World War ELEGY JUST IN CASE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lie ciardi's pearly bones Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War ELEGY JUST IN CASE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lie ciardi's pearly bones Last Line: Fragments of a written stone %undeciphered but surmised Subject(s): World War Ii ELEGY ON JEFFERSON DAVIS, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No more the white refulgent streets Last Line: Orestes fled in night and day. Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Consolation; Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889); U.s. - History; Confederacy ELEGY ON THE DEAD, by WALTER SNOW Poem Source First Line: No pasaran! But heavy is the toll of those Last Line: The ancient walls of churches, jails, and farmhouses Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) ELEGY ON THE EVE, by GEORGE BARKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not from the glory of the cloud's pile and rift Subject(s): War ELEGY ON THE URGENCY OF FAXES AND PHONECALLS AGAIN, by JOAN PAYNE KINCAID Poem Source First Line: Drums and chants grow silent Last Line: Live like the forests with momentary %permission Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Fax (facsimile Telegraphy); Nigerian Civil War; Telephones ELEGY TO THE PULLEY OF SUPERIOR OBLIQUE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The three girls in a donkey cart Last Line: Of death is instant, contrived. Subject(s): Death; Disease; Girls; Lament; Warsaw Ghetto; World War Ii - Atrocities; Dead, The ELEGY; FOR KURT PORJESCZ, MISSING IN ACTION, 1 APRIL 1945, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some gone like boys to school wearing their badges Last Line: Discuss our futures, and have not concurred Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War ELEGY; FOR KURT PORJESCZ, MISSING IN ACTION, 1 APRIL 1945, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some gone like boys to school wearing their badges Last Line: Discuss our futures, and have not concurred Subject(s): World War Ii ELEVENTH HOUR, by FRANCIS ST. VINCENT MORRIS Poem Source First Line: Is this to live? - to cower and stand aside Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I ELLSWORTH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Who is this ye say is slain? Last Line: Such a sacred offering / god will not despise Subject(s): "alexandria, Virginia;american Civil War;ellsworth, Elmer Ephraim (1837-18610;u.s. - History; EMANCIPATORS, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you ground the lenses and the moons swam free Subject(s): War EMBARCATION, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, where vespasian's legions struck the sands Last Line: As if they knew not that they weep the while. Subject(s): Boer War; South African War EMBARKATION, 1942, by JOHN JARMAIN Poem Source First Line: In undetected trains we left our land Last Line: Waved to the workmen on the slipping quay %and they again to us for fellowship Subject(s): Army Life; World War Ii EMPEROR BUTTERFLY, by ANNA KISS Poem Source First Line: We made the corn-stalk violins wail and strode the fields Last Line: Outside world. But about people, everything Subject(s): Soldiers; War EMPIRE OF DREAMS, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the first page of my dreambook Subject(s): Dreams; War; Nightmares EMPTY HOUSE, by HANS MAGNUS ENZENSBERGER Poem Source First Line: Woe, the wet spot in the kitchen Subject(s): Nuclear War EMPTY SHELLS, by MARGARET CROSLAND Poem Source First Line: The red hands took you to the hot dust beyond Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii EMPTY SLEEVE, by J. R. BAGBY Poem Source First Line: Tom, old fellow, I grieve to see Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History ENCLOSURE, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down the track of a philippine island Last Line: On the enemy's women %with intact and incredible love Subject(s): World War Ii ENCOUNTERING A WOUNDED SOLDIER, by LU LUN Poem Source First Line: When he travels he often suffers from wounds Last Line: Touches the scars of the blade Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Soldiers; War END, by HANS LEYBOLD Poem Source First Line: The waves of my gay drunkenness have subdued Last Line: An infinitely huge fist has wedged itself in Subject(s): World War I END AND THE BEGINNING, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After every war %someone has to tidy up Last Line: With a cornstalk in his teeth, %gawking at clouds Subject(s): War END OF A CAMPAIGN, by HAMISH HENDERSON Poem Source First Line: There are many dead in the brutish desert Last Line: Then death made his incision Subject(s): World War Ii END OF THE SECOND YEAR, by ARTHUR GRAEME WEST Poem Source First Line: One writes to me to ask me if I've read Last Line: To mind his shame, or feel the loss of god Subject(s): World War I ENDLESS, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the tall black sky you look out of your body Subject(s): War ENDLESS, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the tall black sky you look out of your body Last Line: The broken and their children born and unborn %of the endless war Subject(s): War ENDURING PEOPLE, by L. E. S. COTTERELL Poem Source First Line: The proudest caesars knew their worth Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii ENEMIES, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He stood alone in some queer sunless place Last Line: Because his face could make them understand. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War ENEMY, by BETTINA WEGNER Poem Source First Line: The moon had a courtyard Last Line: The children had clear vision %they knew their enemy %and made use of everything Subject(s): War ENEMY DEAD, by BERNARD H. GUTTERIDGE Poem Source First Line: The dead are always searched Last Line: Whose white bones divide and float away %like nervous birds in the sky Subject(s): World War Ii ENFIDAVILLE, by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the church fallen like dancers Last Line: I seem again to meet %the blue eyes of the images in the church Subject(s): World War Ii ENGINE FAILURE, by TIMOTHY CORSELLIS Poem Source First Line: We are used to the murmur Subject(s): War ENGLAND - JUNE, 1940, by RONALD GORELL BARNES Poem Source First Line: The fields are bridal, flushed with dewy light Last Line: A resolution overmastering doom, %and warrior's crown of infinite sacrifice Alternate Author Name(s): Gorell, 3d Baron Subject(s): World War Ii ENGLAND AND AMERICA, by FLORENCE TABER HOLT Poem Text First Line: Mother and child! Though the dividing sea Last Line: Whose lives were given for this larger life. Subject(s): Mothers; World War I; First World War ENGLAND AND SPAIN; OR, VALOUR AND PATRIOTISM, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too long have tyranny and power combined Last Line: Eternal haloes round her sainted head. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Great Britain; Patriotism; Spain; War ENGLAND BEFORE THE STORM, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day that is the night of days Last Line: Its fighting rag outrolled. Subject(s): England; War; English ENGLAND I THE WORLD WAR, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dauntless, high-hearted england! 'twas thy day Last Line: This glorious watch and ward wilt thou forego! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): England; World War I; English; First World War ENGLAND TO DENMARK, by HERBERT WARREN Poem Source First Line: Great little land, old comrades of the sea Subject(s): World War I ENGLAND TO FREE MEN, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men of my blood, you english men! Last Line: Come in—before my clock strikes twelve! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): World War I - Great Britain ENGLAND TO GERMANY IN 1914, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O england, may god punish thee!' Last Line: And present sight, your ancient name. Subject(s): Germany; World War I; Germans; First World War ENGLAND TO HER SONS, by WILLIAM NOEL HODGSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Sons of mine, I hear you thrilling %to the trumpet call of war Last Line: I accept it nothing asking, save a little space to weep Alternate Author Name(s): Melbourne, Edward Subject(s): World War I ENGLAND'S DEAD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Son of the ocean isle! Last Line: Where rest not england's dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): England; Soldiers; War; English ENGLAND'S DEAD, by FRANK TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: Homeward the long ships leap; swift-shod with joy Subject(s): England; World War I ENGLAND'S ENEMY, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She stands like one with mazy cares distraught Last Line: Muses how rome of romans was undone. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; World War I - Great Britain; English History ENGLISH, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their army barracks were fun in the jungle Last Line: With its thin rays on the windowpane Variant Title(s): Lunch At The Army Canteen Subject(s): English Language; Generals; Great Britain - Civil War; Military; Soldiers; English Civil War ENGLISH, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their army barracks were fun in the jungle Last Line: With its thin rays on the windowpane Variant Title(s): Lunch At The Army Cantee Subject(s): English Language; Generals; Great Britain - Civil War; Military; Soldiers ENGLISH EARTH, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As over english earth I gaze Last Line: For this last battle of the soul Subject(s): World War Ii ENGLISH GRAVE AT CONCORD, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: I came to a grave within a chain Last Line: Where days are dust and families Subject(s): War ENGLISH GRAVES, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Were I that wandering citizen whose city Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): World War I ENGLISH WAR SONG, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who fears to die? Who fears to die? Last Line: England for aye! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): England; War; English ENLISTED TODAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I know the sun shines, and the lilacs are blowing Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History ENOUGH, by MATTHEW SHENODA Poem Source First Line: It's happening again %it never stopped Last Line: Everything I know to love Subject(s): Politics; War ENTERPRISE AND BOXER (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "again columbia's stripes, unfurl'd" Last Line: "and more, much more can be obtain'd / upon the same condition" Subject(s): Boxer (ship);enterprise (ship);sea Battles;war Of 1812; Naval Warfare ENTHUSIASTS, by SIDNEY G. DOOLITTLE Poem Source First Line: I hate enthusiasts Last Line: I hate enthusiasts: %they fret me Subject(s): World War I ENTHUSIASTS, by LIONEL PIGOT JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let your swords flash, and wound the golden air of god Last Line: To battle, see! Flash by armed angels of the lord. Subject(s): War ENUMERATION, by ILSE AICHINGER Poem Source First Line: The day on which you Last Line: Life goes on, %the day on which it continued Subject(s): World War Ii ENVOI, by EDWARD DE STEIN Poem Source First Line: How shall I say goodbye to you Subject(s): World War I ENVOI, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: Below my room, the noise and measured beat Last Line: Brown oarsmen swinging to an ocean song, %where stately galleons bowed before the wind Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I EPICEDIUM; IN MEMORY OF AMERICA'S DEAD IN THE GREAT WAR, by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER Poem Text First Line: No more for them shall evening's rose unclose Last Line: They answer, knowing all. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, J. Corson Subject(s): World War I; First World War EPIGRAM, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three sorrows, three invisible swords are nailed Last Line: That vanquished spain and friendship and the gods. Subject(s): Spanish-american War (1898) EPIGRAM FOR THE DEAD AT TEGEA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It was by these men's valor that wide-lawned tegea never Subject(s): War EPIGRAM: 9, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of carthage he, that worthy warrior Last Line: At monzon thus I restless rest in spain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 81 Subject(s): Carthage; Pain; Peace; Spain; War; Suffering; Misery EPIGRAM: A BURNT SHIP, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of a fired ship, which, by no way Last Line: They in the sea being burnt, they in the burnt ship drown'd. Subject(s): War EPILOGUE, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twenty years after the fall of troy Last Line: And I too walked away %in an agony of helpless grief and pity Subject(s): World War I EPILOGUE TO A HUMAN DRAMA, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When pavements were blown up, exposing wires Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; World War Ii; Second World War EPILOGUE TO A HUMAN DRAMA, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When pavements were blown up, exposing wires Last Line: Praising the heroes, discussing the habits of the wicked, %underlining the moral, explaining doom an Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; World War Ii EPILOGUE TO CASUALTIES, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the east central state of nigeria, four years Last Line: For eastern pastures, as they were before the war Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Airships; Aviation And Aviators; Nigeria; Ruins; War EPILOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1673, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No poor dutch peasant, winged with all his fear Last Line: We'll boldly back, and say their price is rais'd. Variant Title(s): Epilogue Spoken At The Acting Of The 'silent Woman' Subject(s): England; Fear; France; Oxford University; Plays & Playwrights ; War; English; Dramatists EPILOGUE: INTERCESSION, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the muttering gun-fire dies Subject(s): World War I EPIMANES: TRIUMPHAL SONG OF THE ROMAN ARMY, by FALVIUS VOPISCUS Poem Text First Line: A thousand, a thousand, a thousand Last Line: Than all syria can furnish of wine! Subject(s): Army - Roman; War EPIPHANY VISION (IN THE WARD), by MARY ADAIR-MACDONALD Poem Source First Line: This is the night of a star Subject(s): World War I EPISTLE FROM A MONKEY IN THE TRENCHES TO A PARROT IN PARIS, by MARC DE LARREGUY DE CIVRIEUX Poem Source First Line: Have you read the paper, little jacko? Last Line: So, warts and all, %I'm faithfully %macaque Subject(s): World War I EPITAPH, by BROOKE BYRNE Poem Source First Line: We were not many, and no bronze asserts Last Line: Be merciful: it was our condition of breath Subject(s): World War Ii EPITAPH, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here dead lie we because we did not choose Last Line: But young men think it is, and we were young Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I EPITAPH, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You who died fighting Last Line: The rose is your joy. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; Unknown Soldier; War; Westminster Abbey; Graveyards; Dead, The; Declaration Day EPITAPH, by EDWIN ROLFE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in this earth, / deeper than grave was dug Alternate Author Name(s): Fishman, Solomon Subject(s): Epitaphs; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) EPITAPH, by EDWIN ROLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in this earth, %deeper than grave was dug Last Line: Over and under earth ceaselessly growing, %over and under earth endlessly growing Alternate Author Name(s): Fishman, Solomon Subject(s): Epitaphs; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) EPITAPH, by JOHN FRANCIS WALLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps only an elusive shadow Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii EPITAPH, by JIRI WOLKER Poem Source First Line: Here lies the poet wolker, lover of the world Subject(s): War EPITAPH ON A JACOBITE, by THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To my true king I offered free from stain Last Line: O'er english dust. A broken heart lies here. Alternate Author Name(s): Macaulay, 1st Baron Subject(s): War EPITAPH ON A NEW ARMY, by MICHAEL THWAITES Poem Source First Line: No drums they wished, whose thoughts were tied Last Line: Who did not fancy much their job %but thought it best, and did it Subject(s): War EPITAPH ON A TYRANT, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Tyranny & Tyrants; Villains In Literature; Dictators EPITAPH ON A TYRANT, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after Last Line: When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter %and when he cried the little children die Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Tyranny And Tyrants; Villains In Literature EPITAPH ON A YOUNG NAVAL OFFICER, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sailor! If vigour nerve thy frame Last Line: Such tears will not disgrace the brave! -- Subject(s): Epitaphs; Sailing & Sailors; War; Seamen; Sails EPITAPH ON AN ARMY OF MERCENARIES, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These, in the day when heaven was falling Last Line: And saved the sum of things for pay. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; World War I; Work; Workers; First World War EPITAPH ON THOMAS CLERE, SURREY'S FAITHFUL FRIEND AND FOLLOWER, by HENRY HOWARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Norfolk sprung thee, lambeth holds thee dead Last Line: Heaven had not won, nor earth so timely lost. Alternate Author Name(s): Surrey, Earl Of Subject(s): Clere, Thomas (d. 1545); War EPITAPH: INSCRIPTION FROM ANTICYRA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: They whose life is given utterly over to valor Subject(s): War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: 'EQUALITY OF SACRIFICE', by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was a have Last Line: "(together.) ""what hast thou given which I gave not?" Subject(s): Sacrifices; War; World War I; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: A DEAD STATESMAN, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could not dig: I dared not rob Last Line: Mine angry and defrauded young? Subject(s): Politics & Government; War - Home Front; World War I; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: A DRIFTER OFF TARENTUM, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He from the wind-bitten north with ship and companions descended Last Line: In flame and a clamorous breath known to the eye-pecking gulls. Subject(s): World War I; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: A GRAVE NEAR CAIRO, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gods of the nile, should this stout fellow here Last Line: Get out -- get out! He knows not shame nor fear. Subject(s): Graves; World War I; Tombs; Tombstones; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: A SERVANT, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were together since the war began Subject(s): World War I; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: A SERVANT, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were together since the war began Last Line: He was my servant -- and the better man Subject(s): World War I EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: A SON, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My son was killed while laughing at some jest Subject(s): War; World War I; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: A SON, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My son was killed while laughing at some jest Last Line: What it was, and it might serve me in a time when jests are few Subject(s): War; World War I EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: ACTORS; ON A MEMORIAL ..., by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We counterfeited once for your disport Last Line: Seeing we were your servants to the last Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; World War I EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: AN ONLY SON, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have slain none except my mother. She Subject(s): World War I; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: AN ONLY SON, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have slain none except my mother. She Last Line: (blessing her slayer) died of grief for me Subject(s): World War I EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: BATTERIES OUT OF AMMUNITION, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If any mourn us in the workshop, say Last Line: We died because the shift kept holiday. Subject(s): War - Home Front; World War I; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: BOMBER IN LONDON, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On land and sea I strove with anxious care Last Line: To escape conscription. It was in the air! Subject(s): Military Service, Compulsory; World War I; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: COMMON FORM, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If any question why we died Last Line: Tell them, because our fathers lied. Subject(s): War; World War I; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: CONVOY ESCORT, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was a shepherd to fools Last Line: Yet they escaped. For I stayed. Subject(s): Naval Convoys; World War I; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: DESTROYERS IN COLLISION, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For fog and fate no charm is found Last Line: Cut down by my best friend Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks; World War I EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: EX-CLERK, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pity not! The army gave Last Line: In which death he lies content Subject(s): World War I 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 EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: JOURNALISTS; ON A PANEL ..., by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have served our day Last Line: We have served our day. Subject(s): Newspapers; World War I; Journalism; Journalists; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: NATIVE WATER-CARRIERS (M.E.F.), by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prometheus brought down fire to men Last Line: Giving no quarter Subject(s): World War I EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: PELICANS IN WILDERNESS; GRAVE NEAR HALFA, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blown sand heaps on me, that none may learn Last Line: Out of the desert to your young at eve Subject(s): Graves; World War I EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: R.A.F. (AGED EIGHTEEN), by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Laughing through clouds, his milk-teeth still unshed Subject(s): Air Warfare; Labor & Laborers; Teenagers; World War I; Work; Workers; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: R.A.F. (AGED EIGHTEEN), by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Laughing through clouds, his milk-teeth still unshed Last Line: Childlike, with childish things not put away Subject(s): Air Warfare; Labor And Laborers; Teenagers; World War I EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: RAPED AND REVENGED, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One used and butchered me: another spied Last Line: How much a freeborn woman;s favour cost Subject(s): Rape; World War I EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: SALONIKAN GRAVE, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have watched a thousand days Subject(s): Graves; Greece; World War I; Tombs; Tombstones; Greeks; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: SALONIKAN GRAVE, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have watched a thousand days Last Line: Time, not battle, - that slays Subject(s): Graves; Greece; World War I EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: SHOCK, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My name, my speech, my self I had forgot Last Line: And on her bosom I remembered all Subject(s): Death; World War I EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: THE BEGINNER, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the first hour of my first day Last Line: Stand up to watch it well.) Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: THE COWARD, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could not look on death, which being known Last Line: Men led me to him, blindfold and alone. Subject(s): Cowardice; War; World War I; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: THE FAVOUR, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death favoured me from the first, well knowing I could not endure Last Line: Thy line is at end, he said, but at least I have saved its name Subject(s): World War I EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: THE OBEDIENT, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daily, though no ears attend Last Line: None the less, I served the gods! Subject(s): World War I EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: THE REBEL, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I had clamoured at thy gate Last Line: The witness to thy shame Subject(s): World War I EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: THE REFINED MAN, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was of delicate mind. I stepped aside for my needs Subject(s): War; World War I; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: THE REFINED MAN, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was of delicate mind. I stepped aside for my needs Last Line: I have paid my price to live with myself on the terms that I willed Subject(s): War; World War I EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: THE SLEEPY SENTINEL, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Faithless the watch that I kept: now I Subject(s): Sleep; World War I; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: THE SLEEPY SENTINEL, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Faithless the watch that I kept: now I Last Line: I sleep because I am slain. They slew me because I slept Subject(s): Sleep; World War I EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: THE WONDER, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Body and spirit I surrendered whole Last Line: From all I was -- what may the god not do? Subject(s): World War I EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: TWO CANADIAN MEMORIALS: 1, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We giving all gained all Last Line: It is fear, not death, that slays Subject(s): Fear; World War I EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: TWO CANADIAN MEMORIALS: 2, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From little towns in a far land we came Last Line: And trust that world we won for you to keep Subject(s): World War I EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: UNKNOWN FEMALE CORPSE, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Headless, lacking foot and hand Subject(s): Corpses; Women; World War I; Cadavers; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: UNKNOWN FEMALE CORPSE, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Headless, lacking foot and hand Last Line: I beseech all women's sons %know I was a mother once Subject(s): Corpses; Women; World War I EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: V.A.D. (MEDITERRANEAN), by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, would swift ships had never been, for then we ne'er had found Last Line: And -- certain keels for whose return the heathen look in vain Subject(s): World War I EPITHALAMIUM IN TIME OF WAR; 1941, by RALPH GUSTAFSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now is the time in valiant days Last Line: To her, to him, his blessings bring! Subject(s): War; World War Ii; Second World War EPODE: TO THE PEOPLE OF ROME, COMMISERATING ... CIVIL WARS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now civill warres, a seond age consume Last Line: If not, in name of heav'n abroad! Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Roman Empire; War ERIGE COR TUUM AD ME IN CAEULUM (SEPTEMBER 1940), by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lift up your eyes on high Last Line: Is the flower %magicians bartered for Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; World War Ii ES LA GUERRA, by JAMES NEUGASS Poem Source First Line: Of the bomb-wings that fell Last Line: To a new place, just as close to the lines Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) ESCAPE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are four officers, this message says Last Line: Find mr. Wrestman. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War ESCAPE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But I was dead, an hour or more Last Line: O life! O sun! Subject(s): Death; Escapes; World War I; Dead, The; Fugitives; First World War ESCAPE, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: In summer insects clouded over the pond Last Line: And wait for the whipping that will surely come Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History ESCAPE, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Escaping form the emeny's hand Subject(s): War ESCAPE FROM EAST BERLIN, by PETER SEARS Poem Source First Line: The berlin wall went through our heads Subject(s): Berlin Wall; Cold War ESCAPE OF COUNT FERNAN GONZALEZ, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: They have carried afar into navarre the great count of castile Last Line: Their swords shine bright, infanta, -- and every blade is thine' Subject(s): Escapes; Knights And Knighthood; Romance; Spain - War Of Succession (1701-1714) ESPANA DOLOROSA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: There were tears in andalusia Last Line: Beware lest worse befall! Subject(s): Andalusia, Spain; Death; Funerals; Grief; Spanish-american War (1898); Dead, The; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness ESSEN, by JOHN CURTIS UNDERWOOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: More than seven score thousand men are toiling there at essen Last Line: Fight with fire and fail, as fail the gun crews in the turret of a dreadnaught %mined and sinking Subject(s): World War I ESSENTIAL SERBO-CROAT, by KENNETH JOHN SMITH Poem Source First Line: Guraj push Last Line: Izgubio sam sve I have lost everything %ne mogu vam pomoci %I can't help you Subject(s): War ESSEX REGIMENT MARCH, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the flower of essex is marching Last Line: We march, we sail, whoever fail, the flower of essex goes. Subject(s): Spanish-american War (1898) ET NOS CEDAMUS AMORI, SELS., by JEAN-MARC BERNARD Poem Source First Line: Spring struts up the road with a swing Last Line: In nursery rhyme Subject(s): World War I ETHIOPIA SALUTING THE COLORS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who are you dusky woman, so ancient hardly human Last Line: Are the things so strange and marvellous you see or have seen? Subject(s): African Americans - Women; American Civil War; Georgia (state); Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); United States - History ETHNOGENESIS, by HENRY TIMROD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hath not the morning dawned with added light? Last Line: Strange tropic warmth and hints of summer seas. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Southern States; United States - History; Confederacy; South (u.s.) ETIQUETTE, by JEAN YAMASAKI TOYAMA Poem Source First Line: Eating a fish head is an art Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans EUROPE, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At that dread season when th' indignant north Last Line: "but spain, the brave, the virtuous, shall be free." Subject(s): Europe; War EUROPE IS HUNGRY, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis easier to be just than generous Last Line: And thank the gods for these grim lessons learned. Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Hunger; World War I; First World War EUROPE'S PRISONERS, by SIDNEY KEYES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Never a day, never a day passes Last Line: Until at last the courage they have learned %shall burst the walls and overturn the world Subject(s): World War Ii EUTHANASY, by R. H. LAW Poem Source First Line: Prince azrael, wan azrael Subject(s): World War I EVACUEE, by EDITH PICKTHALL Poem Source First Line: The slum had been his home since he was born Last Line: Of sea and hills and sky; of silent night %unbroken by the sound of shout and fight Subject(s): World War Ii EVACUEES, by FREDA LAUGHTON Poem Source First Line: There is no sound of guns here, nor echo of guns Last Line: Not emasculate and defunct upon dishes, but alive, %springing from the earth after the discipline of Subject(s): World War Ii EVEN AT WAR, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loose in his lap, the hands Last Line: By tomorrow. Bar the door. Subject(s): War EVENING IN CAMP, by PATRICIA LEDWARD Poem Source First Line: Mist and cold descend form the hills of wales Subject(s): War EVENING IN ENGLAND, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From its blue vase the rose of evening drops Last Line: I and a marsh bird only make a wail. Subject(s): World War I - Great Britain EVENING IN THE DESERT, by HENRY BIRCH-REYNARDSON Poem Source First Line: The mirage fades frail as a lovely dream Subject(s): World War I 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 EVIL, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whilst the red spittle of the grape-shot sings Subject(s): War EVILS OF WAR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: How evil a thing is war, that bows men to shameful rest! Last Line: Ah, where are the mighty now, the spears and the generous hands? Subject(s): War EX AETHERIBUS, by ERNST STADLER Poem Source First Line: The scent of glaciers would I like to force into my verses Last Line: Eternal strength and beauty's shining goal, %eternal youth! Subject(s): World War I EXAMINATION, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: He was not a hunchback. So inherently no luck in him Last Line: Rising and redoubling in the rubble to a howl Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii EXAMINATION OF THE HERO IN A TIME OF WAR, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Force is my lot and not pink-clustered Subject(s): Heroism; War; Heroes; Heroines EXAMINATION OF THE HERO IN A TIME OF WAR, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Force is my lot and not pink-clustered Last Line: May truly bear its heroic fortunes %for the large, the solitary figure Subject(s): Heroism; War EXILE, by ERICH FRIED Poem Source First Line: He took %flight Last Line: Only %his flight Subject(s): Exiles; World War Ii EXILE, SELS., by MARIE RENE AUGUSTE ALEXIS SAINT-LEGER LEGER Subject(s): Exiles; France; World War Ii EXIT WOUND, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: Dripping wet and loving Last Line: Like an exit wound %through my heart Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) EXODUS 15. SONG OF ISRAEL FOR THE OVERTHROW OF EGYPT IN THE RED SEA, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: Thy right hand, o lord Last Line: They sank as lead in the mighty waters. Subject(s): War EXODUS, SELS., by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: The lord is a man of war Subject(s): Jews; War EXODUS: 15, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Then sang moses and the children of israel this song unto the lord Subject(s): War EXODUS: CANTEMUS DOMINO, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: I will sing unto the lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously Last Line: Who is like thee, glorious in holiness %fearful in praises %doing wonders? Variant Title(s): War Song Of The Red Se Subject(s): Courage; War EXPECTANS EXPECTAVI, by CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From morn to midnight, all day through Last Line: To thy great service dedicate. Subject(s): Religion; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Theology; First World War EXPECTED GUEST, by SIDNEY KEYES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The table is spread, the lamp glitters and sighs Last Line: The room is ready, but the guest is dead Subject(s): World War Ii EXPEDITIONAL, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Troops to our england true Last Line: Fighting in flanders. Subject(s): World War I - Great Britain EXPOSURE, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us Last Line: But nothing happens. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War EYE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The atlantic is a stormy moat, and the mediterranean Last Line: Eye of the earth, and what it watches is not our wars Subject(s): Pacific Ocean; World War Ii EYELESS AND LIMBLESS AND SHATTERED, FR. CHARING CROSS, by CECIL EDRIC MORNINGTON ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And here is the end of it all, and we count the loss Last Line: That science should skilfully mend what it skilfully shatters. Subject(s): War Injuries EYES OF A BLIND MAN, by EDWIN ROLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Her voice is a magnet into which flows %all I remember. It is her voice I see Last Line: Her voice is now what her eyes and the curve of her lips are%to all other men Alternate Author Name(s): Fishman, Solomon Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) EYES OF A BOY, by EDWIN ROLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is greatness in you, greater than your shoulders Last Line: To be with you in battle. Yet even now, I think, %I'm old enough Alternate Author Name(s): Fishman, Solomon Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) EYES OF MEN RUNNING, FALLING, SCREAMING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): War EYES OF WAR, by CHART PITT Poem Source First Line: Like a gauzy speck in the pearling dawn Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I EZRA HOUSE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come listen, good people, while a story I do tell Last Line: He hoped to meet the doom that his country denied. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Soldiers; War 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 FABLE, by FREDERIC PROKOSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: O the vines were golden, the birds were loud Subject(s): War FABLE, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: But where, oh where is the holy idiot, Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Anti-war Protests FABLE OF THE WAR, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The full moon is partly hidden by cloud Last Line: To betray us, lean each man on his gun %that the great work not falter but go on Subject(s): World War Ii FACADE: 27. WHEN SIR BEELZEBUB, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When / sir / beelzebub called for his syllabub in the hotel in hell Last Line: ... None of them come! Subject(s): Crimean War (1853-1856); Hell; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron FACE, by LUCIEN STRYK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Weekly at the start Last Line: Whoever holds the %string %will not let go Subject(s): World War Ii FACES ON THE UNPAVED ROAD PAST MOKULE'IA, by WINI TERADA Poem Source First Line: Your long dark hair streams behind you Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans FACING IT, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My black face fades Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): African Americans; Americans; Kent State University - Riot, 1970; United States; War; Negroes; American Blacks; America FACING IT, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My black face fades Last Line: No, she's brushing a boy's hair Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): African Americans; Americans; Kent State University - Riot, 1970; United States; War FACTS, by CECILIA BUSTAMANTE Poem Source First Line: The invisible machines of war Last Line: That expertly penetrates %the tree of life Subject(s): Bullets; Death - Children; Guns; War FADED COAT OF BLUE, by J. H. MCNAUGHTON Poem Source First Line: My brave lad sleeps in his faded coat of blue Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History FAILURE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, o arm of the lord! Last Line: But the failure of the lord! Subject(s): Failure; Farewell; God; War; Parting FAIRY TALE, by MIROSLAV HOLUB Poem Source First Line: He built himself a house Last Line: Rain %into the world Subject(s): War FAITH, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew a couple of these dedicates Subject(s): World War Ii FAITH, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since all that is was ever bound to be Last Line: The gleam, the glory of the golden age. Subject(s): Faith; War; World War I; Belief; Creed; First World War FAITHFUL COMRADE, by PHILIP JOHN FISHER Poem Source First Line: Where stark and shattered walls Subject(s): World War I FALKLAND AT NEWBURY, 1643, by FREDERICK JOHN FARGUS Poem Text First Line: Now which is wrong or right? Too glib we talk Last Line: A soldier's death to end a statesman's doubts. Alternate Author Name(s): Conway, Hugh Subject(s): Cary, Lucius. 2d Viscount Falkland; Great Britain - Civil War; English Civil War FALL 1961, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back and forth, back and forth Subject(s): War FALL 1961, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back and forth, back and forth Last Line: Is the orange and black %oriole's swinging nest! Subject(s): War FALL IN, by FRANK S. BROWN Poem Source First Line: Oh! We are a ragged, motley crew Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I FALL OF TECUMSEH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: What heavy-hoofed coursers the wilderness roam Last Line: By the mound where his followers bore him Subject(s): "harrison, William Henry (1773-1841);tecumseh (1768-1813);thames, Battle Of The (1813);war Of 1812; FALLEN, by ALICE (HENDERSON) CORBIN Poem Source First Line: He was wounded and he fell in the midst of hoarse shouting Last Line: He felt her near him, and the weight dropped off - %suddenly Subject(s): Women; World War I FALLEN, by DIANA GURNEY Poem Source First Line: Shall we not lay our holly wreath Last Line: Silent christmas they are keeping; %ours the sorrow, ours the loss Subject(s): Women; World War I FALLEN, by W. KERSLEY HOLMES Poem Text First Line: We talked together in the days gone by Last Line: If honour at the last shone still unstained! Subject(s): World War I - Casualties FALLEN, by AUGUST STRAMM Poem Source First Line: The heavens wing the eye Last Line: Through %the strandy hair Subject(s): World War I FALLEN TOWER OF SILOAM, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Should the building totter, run for an archway! Subject(s): War FALLING INTO SAND, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: Yearning rests in the sea Last Line: Or change books into nipples Subject(s): Nuclear War; Sex FALLING LEAVES; NOVEMBER 1915, by MARGARET ISABEL POSTGATE COLE Poem Source First Line: Today, as I rode by Last Line: But in their beauty strewed %like snowflakes falling on the flemish clay Subject(s): Women; World War I FALLING STAR, by JOEL T. ROGERS Poem Text First Line: He did not meet them in the cloud Last Line: A star has fallen to the dark. Subject(s): Heaven; Rifles; War; Paradise FAMILIAL, by JACQUES PREVERT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The mother does knitting Last Line: Life with the graveyard Subject(s): Family Life; War FAMILIAR LETTERS TO SIEGFRIED SASSOON, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never dreamed we'd meet that day / in our old haunts down fricourt way Last Line: And god! What poetry we'll write! Subject(s): Sassoon, Siegfried (1886-1967); World War I; First World War FAMILY DINNER, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: I smell lilacs in the loft. Perhaps they Last Line: At the table, napalming %a fleeing army Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) FAMILY GROUP, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That's my younger brother with his navy wings Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Brothers; World War Ii; Family Life; Half-brothers; Second World War; Relatives FAN, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ut pictura - the disconcerting lips Last Line: On the hordes! (is he who knows you doomed to die?) Subject(s): World War I FAR MEMORY: 3. AGAIN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Born in the year of war Last Line: Of another life. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; War FAREWELL, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, with unbowed head Subject(s): World War I FAREWELL HYMN; DEDICATED TO OFFICERS AND MEN OF MERRIMAC, by PHINEAS STOWE Poem Source First Line: Saviour o'er the restless ocean Last Line: But we'll hope to dwell together, %on that calm and heavenly shore Subject(s): American Civil War; Navy - United States; Sea Battles; U.s. - History; Virginia (ship) FAREWELL TO A NAME AND A NUMBER, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of valour and truth, returning %to dust and night Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): World War I FAREWELL TO ANZAC, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, hump your swag and leave, lads, the ships are in the bay Last Line: Oh, we're leaving them, leaving them, quiet where they lie!) Subject(s): World War I - Australia FAREWELL TO BROTHER JONATHAN, by UNKNOWN+23 Poem Source First Line: Farewell! We must part; we have turned from the land Last Line: To the path through the valley and %shadow of death! Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Farewell; Patriotism; U.s. - History FAREWELL TO THE COURT, by HENRY LEE (1530-1610) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His golden locks time hath to silver turned Last Line: To be your beadsman now, that was your knight. Variant Title(s): Farewell To Arms Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; War FAREWELL TO THE OLD YEAR, 1863, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, old year 'the bourne' is near Last Line: To give new year good morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Civil War; Grief; Holidays; New Year; Peace; Time; United States; War; Sorrow; Sadness; America FARRAGUT, by WILLIAM TUCKEY MEREDITH Poem Text First Line: Farragut, farragut Last Line: Thunderbolt stroke! Subject(s): American Civil War; Farragut, David Glascow (1801-1870); Mobile Bay, Battle Of (1864); Patriotism; United States - History FATHER AND SON, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now in the suburbs and the falling light Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Reunions; World War Ii; Second World War FATHER AND SON, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now in the suburbs and the falling light Last Line: Among the turtles and the lilies he turned to me %the white ignorant hollow of his face Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Reunions; World War Ii FATHER AND SON, by CALVIN DILL WILSON Poem Source First Line: Would god that I could go in place Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I FATHER O'SHEA WAS HIS REGIMENT'S PRIDE, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Father o'shea was his regiments pride Last Line: "and send him a padre like father o'shea!" Subject(s): Clergy; World War I; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; First World War FATHER'S ADVICE, by BRIAN BROOKE Poem Source First Line: When I left home as a reckless boy Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I FAUCETS, by VAN K. BROCK Poem Source First Line: ... One or two per second died Last Line: Killed one or two per second - just at auschwitz %and less than one per minute on the whole western Subject(s): World War Ii FAUN COMPLAINS, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They give me aeroplanes Subject(s): World War I FEARS IN SOLITUDE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A green and silent spot, amid the hills Last Line: Love, and the thoughts that yearn for human kind. Variant Title(s): The Dell Subject(s): England; Fear; Poetry & Poets; War; English FEBRUARY 2003 - A SONNET, by JAMES RIOUX Poem Source First Line: Old scripts and the dull eyes of cowboy scribes Last Line: Our dumbstruck pasts hung broadcast and shining? Subject(s): Politics; War FEBRUARY 30TH, by FREDERICK SEIDEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The speckled pigeon standing on the ledge Subject(s): Pigeons; War; Modern Life; Politics & Government FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA, by EDWIN ROLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ten years have passed since I found in a book shop in albacete Last Line: The men with the patent-leather hats and souls of patent leather Alternate Author Name(s): Fishman, Solomon Subject(s): Spain; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) FELLOWSHIP, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The winners have, as written, their reward Subject(s): War FEMALE DRUMMER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A maiden I was at the age of fifteen Last Line: So boldly I will march to fight for him again Subject(s): War FERRYING: NORTH ATLANTIC, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: Storm over the ice-cap. Reykjavik and prestwick Last Line: And all our good green cash went up in smoke Subject(s): War FERRYING: SOUTH ATLANTIC, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: They lost both engines over the river north of belem Last Line: And imagine the bosom of amazon, the great brown god Subject(s): War FERRYING: THE HUMP, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: Bad karma, bad turbulence, or bad balance Last Line: Got that bow-legged cupid into every mother's bed in omaha Subject(s): War FESTIVAL, by FREDERIC PROKOSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The cello sobs, the symphony begins Last Line: And rediscover on this festive night %the hatreds of a hundred thousand years Subject(s): World War Ii FESTUBERT: THE OLD GERMAN LINE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sparse mists of moonlight hurt our eyes Last Line: The gray rags fluttered on the dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War FEVER, by JO ANN UCHIDA Poem Source First Line: They had burned my letters Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans FEW WORDS FROM WILHELM, by WALLACE IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Man vants put leedle hier pelow Last Line: Der kaiser he iss more as yet %und all iss right vat iss!' Alternate Author Name(s): Ginger; Hashimura Togo Subject(s): World War I FIELD AMBULANCE IN RETREAT; VIA DOLOROSA, VIA SACRA, by MAY SINCLAIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A straight flagged road, laid on the rough earth Last Line: On the sacred, dolorous way. Subject(s): Travel; Women; World War I; Journeys; Trips; First World War FIELD HOSPITAL, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He stirs, beginning to awake Last Line: He neither knows, remembers - but instead %sleeps, comforted Subject(s): Hospitals; World War Ii FIELD MANOEUVRES, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The long autumn grass under my body Subject(s): World War I; First World War FIELD MANOEUVRES, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The long autumn grass under my body Last Line: Standing breast-high, in golden broom %among the blue pine-woods Subject(s): World War I FIELDS OF FLANDERS, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Last year the fields were all glad and gray Last Line: Lest all we owe them we should repay Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Socialism; Spring; Women; World War I FIFE TUNE, by JOHN STREETER MANIFOLD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: One morning in spring Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War FIFE TUNE, by JOHN STREETER MANIFOLD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One morning in spring Last Line: While we are far over %the treacherous sea Subject(s): World War Ii FIFTH AVENUE AND GRAND STREET, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I sat beside her, rolling bandages Last Line: (for women especially), of course, in peace Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): World War I FIFTIES, by WENDY ROSE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Full of concrete caves Subject(s): Nuclear War FIFTY FAGGOTS, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There they stand, on their ends, the fifty faggots Last Line: Foresee or more control than robin and wren. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Environment; Trees; World War I; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; First World War FIGHT, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Red drips from my chin where I have been eating Last Line: The child cries for a suck mother and I cry for war. Subject(s): World War I; First World War FIGHT AT FINSBURH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Gable burning.' %then hnaef the king, a novice in battle, said Last Line: Or which of the young men Subject(s): War FIGHT AT FORT SUMTER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Twas a wonderful brave fight Last Line: And a stern retribution %to the south Subject(s): American Civil War; Fort Sumter, South Carolina; U.s. - History FIGHT TO A FINISH, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boys came back. Bands played and flags were flying Last Line: To clear those junkers out of parliament. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War FIGHT TO THE DEATH, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Across the steppes of kursk, kazakhstan, the army partisans Last Line: Of starlings tightens, lets go, and hastens skyward Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities FIGHT TO THE FINISH', by S. GERTRUDE FORD Poem Source First Line: Fight the year out!' the war-lords said Last Line: On!' echoed hate where the fiends kept tryst: %asked the church, even, what said christ? Subject(s): Women; World War I FIGHT; THE TALE OF A GUNNER AT PLATTSBURGH, 1814, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jock bit his mittens off and blew his thumbs Last Line: The world made free. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Variant Title(s): Fight Subject(s): Drums; Freedom; Musical Instruments; Patriotism; Plattsburg, Battle Of; Selflessness; War Of 1812; Liberty FIGHTERS, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: He stuns himself at these encounters Last Line: I bleed and I wait Subject(s): Fights; Poetry And Poets; War FIGHTING SOUT OF THE WALL: 1, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Last year fighting at the sourec of the sang-kan Last Line: Only used by the sage when he has no other way Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): War FIGHTING SOUT OF THE WALL: 2, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The battlefield is a swirling blur Last Line: All are there in the sound of the drums Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): War FIGURING IT ALL UP, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The captain strode the quarter deck Last Line: The old arithmetic? Subject(s): Battleships;disasters;sea;shipwrecks;war;waves; Ocean FILE THREE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: File three stood motionless and pale Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I FINAL EXAMINATION, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: He's lucky %he's a young partisan who has been captured, not by Last Line: Sixteen hours later, he hangs himself Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii FINE NATURE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This fine nature clear Last Line: Amid my meadows cannot be %but ever kind and ever free Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War Ii FINLAND IS DOWN, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Five planets and a brilliant young moon Last Line: And bitter things will have happened; not worse things Subject(s): Finnish-russian War (1939-1940) FINNESBURH FRAGMENT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The gables are not burning Subject(s): War FIRE, by ALBERT-PAUL GRANIER Poem Source First Line: Down into the barn Last Line: As a tiger paces its cage... Subject(s): World War I FIRE OF THE SUN, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Passionate children of the sun Last Line: Ere it is on us; you and I! Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): World War I FIRE SALE (EVERYTHING MUST GO), by ERIC DARTON Poem Source First Line: Rider in the red field Subject(s): Nuclear War FIRE TO FIRE, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All smolder and oxblood Last Line: Which is why the corona’d seedhead flashes the finches down Subject(s): Fire; War FIRE TO FIRE, by MARK DOTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All smolder and oxblood Last Line: The corona'd seedhead flashes the finches down Subject(s): Fire; War FIRE, FAMINE AND SLAUGHTER. A WAR ECLOGUE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sisters! Sisters! Who sent you here? Last Line: Cling to him everlastingly. Subject(s): War FIRE-BRINGERS, by LAWRENCE LEE Poem Source First Line: Prometheus knew: %there was the chain Last Line: Prepares in night %bright mournings with new name Subject(s): World War Ii FIREBOMBING, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All families lie together, though some are burned alive Subject(s): War FIREBOMBING, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Homeowners unite Last Line: Absolution? Sentence? No matter %the thing itself is in that Subject(s): World War Ii FIRES, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: Fires break out and slowly die forever Last Line: Soldiers' ghosts fly to the bright meridians Subject(s): Fire; War FIRING RANGE, ATLACATL, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Beyond the boys, tin icons of the fmln, shot-gauge target practice Last Line: At journalists or poets who limp away from here towards home Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities 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 FIRST FRUITS IN 1812 [AUGUST 19, 1812], by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is that a-billowing there Last Line: Found a prize, a bully battle, and a breeze! Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): Constitution (ship); Guerriere (ship); Hull, Isaac (1773-1843); Navy - United States; Sea Battles; War Of 1812; American Navy; Naval Warfare FIRST LOVE, by EDWIN ROLFE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again I am summoned to the eternal field Alternate Author Name(s): Fishman, Solomon Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) FIRST LOVE, by EDWIN ROLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Again I am summoned to the eternal field Last Line: And always I think of my friend who amid the apparition of bombs %saw on the lyric lake the single p Alternate Author Name(s): Fishman, Solomon Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) FIRST SNOW IN ALSACE, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The snow came down last night like moths Subject(s): Alsace, France; World War Ii; Second World War FIRST SNOW IN ALSACE, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The snow came down last night like moths Last Line: He was the first to see the snow Subject(s): Alsace, France; World War Ii FIRST TIME IN, by IVOR GURNEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After the dread tales and red yarns of the line Last Line: Are sung - but never more beautiful than there under the guns' noise Subject(s): World War I FIRST WAR, by SAMUEL HA-NAGID Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: First war resembles Last Line: Whose callers are bitter %and grieve Subject(s): War FISH STORY, by DEAN H. HONMA Poem Source First Line: Yeah that time when we went kapoho Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans FISHER LAD, by J. A. NICKLIN Poem Source First Line: Farewell and goodbye to you, maiden of teifi Subject(s): World War I FISHERS OF MEN, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long, long ago he said Last Line: From calvary. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Hearts; Jesus Christ; Sea; Singing & Singers; War; Ocean 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 FLAG, by FELIX EMANUEL SCHELLING Poem Source First Line: O come sing tipperary Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I FLAG EVERLASTING, by A. G. RIDDOCH Poem Source First Line: Flag of our faith: lead on Subject(s): World War I FLAG OF THE FREE, by FRANCIS T. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Float thou majestically Subject(s): World War I FLAG OF TRUCE, by AMANDA THEODOSIA JONES Poem Source First Line: Let us bury our dead Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History FLAG SPEAKS, by WALTER E. PECK Poem Source First Line: Ribbons of white in the flag of our land Subject(s): World War I FLAGRANTE BELLO, by K. C. SPIERS Poem Source First Line: When little kings, by mighty crowds acclaimed Subject(s): World War I FLAGS, by PETER COYOTE Poem Source First Line: Flags are everywhere. %tied to cars, strapped Last Line: Woven to the glory %for allah Subject(s): Politics; War FLANDERS 1915, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The men go out to flanders Subject(s): World War I FLANDERS FIELDS, by ELIZABETH DARYUSH Poem Source First Line: Here the scented daisy glows Last Line: Poppies bright and rustling wheat %are a desert to love's feet Subject(s): Women; World War I FLANDERS NOW, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There, where before no master action struck Last Line: Of glory save the light in a friend's eye. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium; World War I; First World War FLARES CLIMB HIGH UP INTO THE SKY., by PETER BAUM Poem Source Last Line: Grey-green eyes keep these wild melodies awake Subject(s): World War I FLEETS, by M. G. MEUGENS Poem Source First Line: Are you out with the fleets through the long, dark night Subject(s): World War I FLEUR DE LYS, by RAYNER HEPPENSTALL Poem Source First Line: Men do not long endure the light Subject(s): War FLEURETTE (THE WOUNDED CANADIAN SPEAKS), by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My leg? It's off at the knee Last Line: God bless her, that little fleurette! Subject(s): Girls; World War I - Canada; World War I - Casualties FLICKERING LAMP, by DANIEL VAROUZAN Poem Source First Line: This is a night for feast and triumph Last Line: O...Snuff out, snuff out the lamp, o bride Subject(s): World War I FLIGHT, by BABETTE DEUTSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Everything is in flight now, trees and men Last Line: There is no turning back Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs. Subject(s): World War Ii FLIGHT, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We ran from a home %we never saw again Last Line: The soon is mute Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If on this verse of mine Last Line: Take thee to joy when hand and heart are still! Subject(s): Crimean War (1853-1856); Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910); Russia; Soviet Union; Russians FLOWER BEDS IN THE TUILERIES, by GRACE ELLERY CHANNING-STETSON Poem Text First Line: France is planting her gardens Last Line: That earth shall have her spring! Subject(s): Tuileries Gardens, Paris; World War I - France FLOWER OF YOUTH, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lest heaven be thronged with grey-beards hoary Last Line: "and say: ""thank god, he has enough!" Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): God; Heaven; World War I; Youth; Paradise; First World War FLY, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: Born between two panes of glass Last Line: God's grand design for us Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) FLY A CLEAN FLAG, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This I heard the old flag say Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I FOCH, by FREDERICK GEORGE SCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the last trench of all Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. G. Subject(s): Foch, Ferdinand (1851-1929); World War I FOLLIES OF THE DAY, A SATIRE, SELECTION, by F. O. SAYLES Poem Text First Line: Whoe'er surveys the conduct of mankind Last Line: Let satire paint them for the public scorn. Subject(s): American Civil War; Mankind; Nations; Truth; U.s. - History; Human Race FOR A FRIEND WHO WAS KILLED IN THE WAR, by MAZISI KUNENE Poem Source First Line: Single voice: in the sun-drenched cliffs of the evening Last Line: Single voice: how shall I report at the house of somhlalela? %how shall I? Subject(s): War FOR A MISSING IN ACTION, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hazed with heat and harvest dust Last Line: As the leaf-man rises and stumbles to them. Subject(s): Death; Peasantry; Vietnam; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War; Dead, The FOR A SCRAP OF PAPER', by PAUL HYACINTH LOYSON Poem Source First Line: Why bursts the cloud in thunder Subject(s): World War I FOR A SOLDIER'S BIRTHDAY, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The weather is war Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): War; Soldiers; Birthdays FOR A SURVIVOR OF THE MESOPOTAMIAN CAMPAIGN, by ELIZABETH DARYUSH Poem Source First Line: War's wasted era is a desert shore Last Line: Has wrecked for them for ever earth's small ways Subject(s): Women; World War I FOR A WAR MEMORIAL, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hucksters haggle in the mart Last Line: How many men of england died %to prove they were not dead Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): World War I FOR A YOUNG POET DEAD IN SPAIN, by JOHN MALCOLM BRINNIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Music has saluted you Last Line: In freedom's necessary crypt Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) FOR AN EX-FAR EAST PRISONER OF WAR, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am that man with helmet made of thorn Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles Subject(s): Prisoners Of War FOR DECORATION DAY: 1861-1865, by RUPERT HUGHES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But do we truly mourn our soldier dead Last Line: The peaceful barracks where their bodies sleep. Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day FOR DECORATION DAY: 1898-1899, by RUPERT HUGHES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And now the long, long lines of the nation's graves Last Line: In grand review swing past the throne of god. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Spanish-american War (1898); Declaration Day FOR FRANCE, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Source First Line: She had been stricken, sorely, ere this came Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I FOR FRANCES LEDWIDGE, by NORREYS JEPHSON O'CONOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You fell; and on a distant field, shell-shatter'd Last Line: For you each morning shall her fields be wet. Subject(s): Ledwidge, Francis (1891-1917); Poetry & Poets; World War I - Casualties FOR FREDA, by MARGERY SMITH Poem Source First Line: More than a year has reeled and clanmoured by Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii FOR FREEDOM, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thank god! 'tis the war-cry! They call us; we come; Last Line: O comrades, strike boldly! Our triumph is nigh! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Slavery; Soldiers; U.s. - History; Serfs FOR JOHNNY, by JOHN SLEIGH PUDNEY Poem Source First Line: Do not despair %for johnny-head-in-air Last Line: To keep your head %and see his children fed Subject(s): War FOR JUST ONE NIGHT, by GEZA ACHIM Poem Source First Line: Send them along for just one bloody night Last Line: Send them along for just one bloody night Subject(s): World War I FOR MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK, by AMANDA BENJAMIN HALL Poem Source First Line: Madame - o lady of the jeweled brain Last Line: Lest I affront you by this song I bring, %forgive me the discourtesy of praise Alternate Author Name(s): Brownell, John A., Mrs. Subject(s): Soong Mei-ling (1897-2003); World War Ii FOR MAJORCA, DURING THE CIVIL WAR, by BARTOMEU ROSSELLO-PORCEL Poem Source First Line: Those fields still turn green Last Line: Like flames at night to the darkness Subject(s): Civil War FOR MY 25TH BIRTHDAY IN 1941, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So sleep undoes itself and I arrive Subject(s): War FOR MY DEAD BROTHER (AARON LOPOFF, 1938), by ALVAH BESSIE Poem Source First Line: The moon was full that night in aragon Last Line: You may sleep - sleep, my brother, sleep Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) FOR MY MOTHER, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like an old windmill Last Line: In one of the wars Subject(s): Mothers; War FOR NEW YEAR'S DAY 1698, by NAHUM TATE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Music now thy charms display Last Line: Happy, happy, past expressing. Subject(s): Great Britain - Wars With France; Heroism; Holidays; New Year; Peace; Soldiers; War; Heroes; Heroines FOR OLIVER, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright summers fade, and all bright faces too Last Line: Among the deathless, whom they call the dead. Variant Title(s): At Parting Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); War; Dramatists FOR ONE SAKE', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One passed me like a flash of lightning by Last Line: Dream while I wake and dream on while I sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Dreams; War; Memory FOR POETS SLAIN IN WAR, by WALTER ADOLPHE ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy the poets who fell in magnificent ways! Last Line: Splendidly dead for the patria, splendidly dead! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; World War I; First World War FOR RICHARD SPENDER, by MARY DOREEN SPENDER Poem Text First Line: Gone in an instant Last Line: And what, beyond our sight, its secret orbit shows. Subject(s): Death; Generals; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War FOR ROBERT DESNOS, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the white of my thought Last Line: My secret my reason for being %and the world Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism; Desnos, Robert (1900-1945); World War Ii FOR SLEEPING NOW, by ALEXANDER COMFORT Poem Source First Line: Sleep in this land, this tomb Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii FOR STEVE, by EARL (EARLE) BIRNEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'll sit down again, steve, with your shy ghost Subject(s): War FOR THE BLINDED SOLDIERS, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We that look on, with god's goodwill Last Line: We that look on? Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Blindness; World War I; Visually Handicapped; First World War FOR THE COMMEMORATION SERVICES; MEMORIAL VERSES, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four summers coined their golden light in leaves Last Line: Living and dead alike forever dear! Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History FOR THE DARKLING THRUSH, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: This time we have to hope: green cockaigne and truck stops Last Line: Who snaps at flies but eats the sandfleas Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities FOR THE DEPRESSED WHO ARE ALSO DEFEATED, by JULIAN SYMONS Poem Source Subject(s): War FOR THE FALLEN, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the old graveyard behind Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) FOR THE FALLEN, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the old graveyard behind Last Line: And darkening hands Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) FOR THE FALLEN (SEPTEMBER 1914), by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children Last Line: To the end, to the end, they remain. Subject(s): Freedom; World War I - Casualties; Liberty FOR THE LAST SUMMER, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That summer with a thousand julys Subject(s): Music, Rock; Youth; Summer; War; Desire; Rock & Roll FOR THE MADRID ROAD, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stranger, the wages that we earned Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) FOR THE MADRID ROAD, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stranger, the wages that we earned Last Line: Are man's responsibilities Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) FOR THE MEN AT THE FRONT, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Lord god of hosts, whose mighty hand Last Line: Thy peace on earth till time shall end! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; War; Theology FOR THE ONE WHO WOULD TAKE MAN'S LIFE IN HIS HANDS, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tiger christ unsheathed his sword Subject(s): Murder; War FOR THE ONE WHO WOULD TAKE MAN'S LIFE IN HIS HANDS, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tiger christ unsheathed his sword Last Line: The infinite task of the human heart Subject(s): Murder; War FOR THE QUAKERS, by BIANCA BRADBURY Poem Source First Line: Theirs is the gentle finger on the pulse %of war's old woe Last Line: And touch, and hold Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; World War Ii FOR THE RED CROSS, by OWEN SEAMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ye that have gentle hearts and fain Subject(s): World War I FOR THE UNDEFEATED, by ELEANOR WELLS Poem Source First Line: Imperiled stands the day.Up the bright street Last Line: And of the harvesting of them, and of the dawn %that will dazzle the treetops when we wake Subject(s): World War Ii FOR THE UNION DEAD, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The old south boston aquarium stands Variant Title(s): Colonel Shaw And The Massachusetts 54 Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Boston; Duty; Heroism; Massachusetts; Monuments; Racism; Saint-gaudens, Augustus (1848-1907); Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; United States - History; Heroes; Heroines; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry FOR THE UNION DEAD, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old south boston aquarium stands Last Line: A savage servility %slides by on grease Variant Title(s): Colonel Shaw And The Massachusetts 5 Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Boston; Duty; Heroism; Massachusetts; Monuments; Racism; Saint-gaudens, Augustus (1848-1907); Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; U.s. - History FOR THEY ARE ENGLAND', by WALTER O'HEARN Poem Source First Line: These are the last men Last Line: Stood and saved england - and will save it now, %for they are england! Subject(s): World War Ii FOR THOSE AT SEA', by GEOFFREY FABER Poem Source First Line: Now all our english woodland sighs october Subject(s): World War I FOR VALOUR', by MAY HERSCHEL-CLARKE Poem Source First Line: Jest bronze - you wouldn't ever know Last Line: Jest bronze - gawd! What a price to pay! Subject(s): Women; World War I FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS, by GAVIN EWART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aircrews have had it and the war goes on Last Line: To cram a lifetime into seven days Subject(s): Mourning; War FORD O' KABUL RIVER, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kabul town's by kabul river Last Line: Cross the ford o' kabul river in the dark. Subject(s): Kabul, Afghanistan; War FOREBODING, by DIMCHO DEBELYANOV Poem Source First Line: Year follows year, how quickly now they run! Last Line: And screaming I am hurled into black night Subject(s): World War I FOREIGN GATE, SELS., by SIDNEY KEYES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The moon is a poor woman Last Line: The shrinking brain, sick of an inner war Subject(s): War FORESIGHT, by LINCOLN KIRSTEIN Poet's Biography First Line: Previsioning death in advance, our doom is delayed Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War FORESIGHT, by LINCOLN KIRSTEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Previsioning death in advance, our doom is delayed Last Line: And him, dear doubtless to someone, worth her dear tears Subject(s): World War Ii FOREST OF THE DEAD, by JAMES GRIFFYTH FAIRFAX Poem Source First Line: There are strange trees in that pale field Last Line: The spirit passes and is free: %dust to the dust; dust takes the clay Subject(s): World War I FORGET IT, SOLDIER!, by C. F. R. Poem Source First Line: Sometimes when I grow weary Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I FORGING A PASSPORT, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the north side where wind and water Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans FORGOTTEN, by BABETTE DEUTSCH Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I have forgotten pharoah and the caesars Last Line: Cruel, condign, the cancer men call war. Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs. Subject(s): War FORGOTTEN, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: France, you laugh too much, it seems. War will come to end your dreams Last Line: France! You laugh too much, it seems. War will come to end your dreams. Subject(s): Dreams; France; War; Nightmares FORGOTTEN, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forgotten! Can it be a few swift rounds Last Line: For the old time's return! Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History FORGOTTEN CAPTAIN, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have many shadows. I was walking home Last Line: That too is a game, made heavy %with what is to come Subject(s): Battleships; Boats; Bombs; Death; Sailors And Sailing; Sea; War FORGOTTEN DEAD, I SALUTE YOU, by MURIEL STUART Poem Source First Line: Dawn has flashed up the startled skies Last Line: For whom he died, remember him Subject(s): Women; World War I FORM FOURS', by FRANK SIDGWICK Poem Source First Line: If you're volunteer artist or athlete, or if you defend the home Subject(s): World War I FORMAL APPLICATION, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: I shall begin by learning to throw Last Line: Molotov cocktail,' and enola gay Subject(s): War FORMALITIES, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On september 2, 1945 Last Line: If only he were a civilian Subject(s): Macarthur, General Douglas (1880-1964); World War Ii FORMERLY A SLAVE' (AN IDEALIZED PORTRAIT, BY E. VEDDER), by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sufferance of her race is shown Last Line: Sibylline, yet benign. Subject(s): American Civil War; Paintings & Painters; Slavery; United States - History; Vedder, Elihu (1836-1923); Serfs FORT BOWYER, by CHARLES L. S. JONES Poem Text First Line: Where the wild wave, from ocean proudly Last Line: Awed us, nor conquer'd. Subject(s): Fort Bowyer, Battle Of (1814); War Of 1812 FORT ORD, CALIFORNIA, 1953: 1. CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR, by HENRY CARLILE Poem Source First Line: Through dust deepened by others Last Line: Protested to the dust. For what? %there will be other wars, he said Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; War FORT ORD, CALIFORNIA, 1953: 2. STELL, by HENRY CARLILE Poem Source First Line: We have learned how to march backward Last Line: How he played that longhair shit %on the dayroom piano? Drove me nuts Subject(s): Memory; War FORT SILL INTERNMENT CAMP, by MUIN OTOKICHI OZAKI Poem Source First Line: Komi ageru Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; World War Ii - Japanese-americans FORTINE, by CHRISTOPHER ROSS Poem Source First Line: Funny what's important %in the midst of a revolution Last Line: From the chest and the eyes are the forehead %and dreaming like you? Subject(s): Reason; Revolutions; War FORTITUDE OF THE NORTH UNDER THE DISASTER OF 2ND MANASSAS, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No shame they take for dark defeat Last Line: When the livid antarctic storm-clouds glow. Subject(s): American Civil War; Bull Run, Battles Of; U.s. - History; Manassas, Batlle Of FOUND IN THE FREE LIBRARY, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And we were made afraid, and being afraid Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Politics & Government; War FOUND IN THE FREE LIBRARY, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And we were made afraid, and being afraid Last Line: (but here the document is torn) Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Politics; War FOUND POEM, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The population center of the usa Subject(s): War FOUR, by GEOFFREY GRIGSON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: A blinded parson gingering down the new-gothic steps Subject(s): War FOUR SONNETS: 2, by FRANK DAVIS ASHBURN Poem Text First Line: They said that jimmy was the handsomest lad Last Line: She dimly understood that jim was killed. Subject(s): Death; War; Dead, The FOUR SONNETS: 3, by FRANK DAVIS ASHBURN Poem Text First Line: Poor lucy never laughed much after that Last Line: And then continue knitting, rather badly. Subject(s): Mourning; War; Bereavement FOURTEENTH OF AUGUST 1995, by FREDERIC WANDELERE Poem Source First Line: I know about the war through Last Line: Like two thieves in the corner of a wood Subject(s): War FOURTH ACT, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because you are simple people, kindly and romantic, and set your Subject(s): War FOURTH ACT, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because you are simple people, kindly and romantic, and set your Subject(s): War FOURTH OF AUGUST, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now in thy splendour go before us Subject(s): World War I FRAGMENT, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I strayed about the deck, an hour, tonight Last Line: To other ghosts - this one, or that, or I. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War FRAGMENTS, by GOTTFRIED BENN Poem Source First Line: Fragments, %refuse of the soul Last Line: Negro spirituals %or ave marias Subject(s): World War I FRAGMENTS FROM A CIVIL WAR: MINNESOTA 1863-64, by EVA HOOKER Poem Source First Line: The wind blows hard this winter, hard as god's mouth Last Line: Still now, like a thimble left at nightfall on the sill after sewing Subject(s): American Civil War; Civil War; Fights; Soldiers; U.s. - History FRAGMENTS OF THE FORGOTTEN WAR, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You whom I could not protect Last Line: I think of a carcass foaming with maggots, the bone black with hatching flies Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 FRAGRANCE OF LIFE, ODOR OF DEATH, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the while among Subject(s): War FRAGRANCE OF LIFE, ODOR OF DEATH, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the while among Last Line: I smell death Subject(s): War FRANCE, by CECIL CHESTERTON Poem Text First Line: Because for once the sword broke in her hand Last Line: Take hold upon the battlements of hell. Subject(s): World War I - France FRANCE, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Half artist and half anchorite Last Line: Jeanne d'arc! Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): France; Identity; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Nations; War FRANCE, by ARMENTIER OHANIAN Poem Source First Line: I was an exile from my own country & wandered Subject(s): World War I FRANCE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She triumphs, in the vivid green Last Line: Voices of victory and delight. Subject(s): France; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War FRANCE; JUNE, 1918 - JUNE, 1941, by CHARLES SCHIFF Poem Source First Line: The heat, and light, and glitter of the sun Last Line: I weep for france, and weep with europe's eyes Subject(s): World War Ii FRANCISCO, I'LL BRING YOU RED CARNATIONS, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in the great cemetery Last Line: Once was frail and flesh Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) FRANCOIS VILLON, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our good duke charles, you tell me, fain would know Last Line: A sorry vintage. Subject(s): Happiness; Love - Complaints; Sex; Villon, Francois (1431-1463); War; Joy; Delight FRANKFURT 1945, by JANOS PILINSZKY Poem Source First Line: In the river bank, an empty sandpit Last Line: First, only the bitterness in their mouths, %then their hearts tasted the full sadness Subject(s): Frankfurt, Germany; World War Ii FREDERICKSBURG, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The increasing moonlight drifts across my bed Last Line: Hark! -- the black squadrons wheeling down to death! Subject(s): American Civil War; Fredericksburg, Battle Of (1862); Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day FREDERICKSBURG, by JAMES ABRAHAM MARTLING Poem Source First Line: The rappahannock's swollen track Subject(s): American Civil War; Fredericksburg, Battle Of (1862); U.s. - History FREDERICKSBURG, by W. F. W. Poem Source First Line: Eighteen hundred and sixty-two Subject(s): American Civil War; Fredericksburg, Battle Of (1862); U.s. - History FREE TRADE AND SAILORS' RIGHTS!, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ho! All ye brave tars of columbia Last Line: Free trade is the right we content for, %this right we still will maintain Subject(s): Enterprise (ship); Free Trade; Navy - United States; Sailors And Sailing; War Of 1812 FREEBOURNE'S RIFLE, by BAKER BROWNELL Poem Source First Line: It's an old gun,' the major said Last Line: Its certainty and decision Subject(s): World War I FREEDOM FROM SPEECH, by TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: The erosion of voice is the build up of war Last Line: But lives inside the open mouths of the dead Subject(s): Politics; War FREEDOM'S RALLY, by J. A. NUNES Poem Text First Line: Wake, freedom, with thy trumpet tongue Last Line: For god and liberty! Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; Treason And Traitors; U.s. - History; Liberty FREEWAY POEM, by LAURIE KURIBAYASHI Poem Source First Line: He's right Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans FREEZING THE RAIN, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ice over ice, ice over snow Subject(s): War FRENCH IN THE TRENCHES, by WILLIAM J. ROBINSON Poem Source First Line: I have a conversation book Subject(s): World War I FRENCH MOTHER TO HER UNBORN CHILD, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: Beat quietly, hid heart Last Line: Hark to my whispered word - %beat quietly, hid heart Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I FRESCO: DEPARTURE FOR AN IMPERIALIST WAR, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They stand there weeping in the stained daylight Last Line: Weeping, their arms embrace the only country they love Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Death; Imperialism; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War; Anti-war Protests; Dead, The FRIEDRICH'S VOW, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dusked and gathered the folds of the night Last Line: By a lone far valley of fair lorraine. Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Battleships; Blood; Death; Fights; Franco-prussian War (1870-1871); Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement FROM A FLEMISH GRAVEYARD, by IOLE ANEURIN WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: A year hence may the grass that waves Subject(s): World War I FROM A FULL HEART, by ALAN ALEXANDER MILNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In days of peace my fellow-men Last Line: Say, starting on saturday week. Alternate Author Name(s): Milne, A. A. Subject(s): Hearts; Peace; War FROM A GERMAN WAR PRIMER, by BERTOLT BRECHT Poem Source First Line: It is considered low to talk about food Last Line: But he has one defect: %he can think Subject(s): Germany; World War Ii FROM A LETTER TO AMERICAN ON VISIT TO SUSSEX; SPRING 1942, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How simply violent things Last Line: His mud-brown tunic gently staining red, %while larks get on with their odl job of singing Subject(s): World War Ii FROM A SINGLE CENTER (21 DECEMBER 1941), by MARGARET FERGUSON GIBSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We tried to live. That's as it should be Last Line: Every woman knows it Alternate Author Name(s): Gibson, Margaret Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) FROM A STORY IN THE NEW YORK SUNDAY TIMES TRAVEL SECTION, by ALAN DUGAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the french monks stole the bones Last Line: They join our general incest of dust or fire Variant Title(s): On A Travel Story From Wormwood Valley Subject(s): New York Times (newspaper); Nuclear War; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb FROM A STORY IN THE NEW YORK SUNDAY TIMES TRAVEL SECTION, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the french monks stole the bones Variant Title(s): On A Travel Story From Wormwood Valle Subject(s): New York Times (newspaper); Nuclear War FROM A TRENCH, by MAUD ANNA BELL Poem Text First Line: Out here the dogs of war run loose Last Line: Because we're here in hell. Subject(s): Women & War; World War I; First World War FROM ALBERT TO BAPAUME, by ALEC WAUGH Poem Source First Line: Lonely and bare and desolate Subject(s): World War I FROM AMERICA, by ELIZABETH TOWNSEND SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Oh, england, at the smoking trenches dying Subject(s): World War I FROM BEYOND, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Text First Line: Pity us not Last Line: Oh, god, the shame that they should be so blind! Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; War; Declaration Day FROM BIRTH TO BATTLEFIELD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A child is born - it gasps and cries Last Line: End in a lump of lifeless clay Subject(s): History;soldiers;war;war - Home Front; Historians FROM BOSRAH, by BEATRICE ALLHUSEN Poem Source First Line: Who is this, in regal state, who cometh ... Afar Subject(s): World War I FROM CORNWALL TO THE HEBRIDES, by ALAN ROOK Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii FROM EIGHTEEN-SEVENTY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the centre of the poster, napoleon Subject(s): War FROM FRANCE, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spirit drank the cafe lights Last Line: And this is life in france. Subject(s): World War I - France FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long since the sorrows of the nightingales Subject(s): World War I FROM HOME, by EWART ALAN MACKINTOSH Poem Source First Line: The pale sun woke in the eastern sky Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I FROM LETTER TO THE FRONT, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Coming to spain on the first day of the fighting Last Line: Whose mouth is bread and wine, whose flesh is home Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) FROM MADDIE (AGE 9), by MADELEINE-THERESE HALPERT Poem Source First Line: Terror in their eyes Last Line: Innocent, like me Subject(s): Politics; War FROM MANY A MANGLED TRUTH A WAR IS WON., by CLIFFORD DYMENT Poem Source Last Line: Of lie and truth and war when the war is won? Subject(s): War FROM MEN WHO DIED DELUDED, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: This is the time to speak to those who will come after Last Line: Must be confronted by the living vision on our dead faces Subject(s): World War Ii FROM MY DIARY, JULY 1914, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leaves / murmuring by myriads in the shimmering trees Last Line: Expanding with the starr'd nocturnal flowers. Subject(s): Diaries; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War FROM SEA TO SEA BETWEEN US IS THE WAR, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: That now has felt the ax's frozen blade Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Love - Complaints; War FROM THE EARTH, A CRY, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O christ! And o christ! In thy name the law! Last Line: God purifies slowly by peace, but urgently by fire. Subject(s): French Revolution (1848); Hate; Jesus Christ; Social Protest; War; February Revolution FROM THE SOMME, by LESLIE COULSON Poem Source First Line: In other days I sang of simple things Last Line: Vast chants of tragedy too deep - too deep %for my poor lips to tell Subject(s): World War I FROM THE YOUTH OF ALL NATIONS, by H. C. HARWOOD Poem Text First Line: Think not, my elders, to rejoice Last Line: And swift usurping dynasties. Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War FROM VERY CLOSE, by OTTO ORBAN Poem Source First Line: I had been a battery commander and lived and slept with the Last Line: Filled with dry bread that I've wrapped in paper Subject(s): Exiles; War FRONT, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fog over the base: the beams ranging Last Line: All the air quivers, and the east sky glows Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii FRONT LINE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Standing on the fire-step Last Line: And peered into the black. Subject(s): World War I; First World War FRUITS OF WAR, SELS., by GEORGE GASCOIGNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A conference among ourselves we called Subject(s): War FUEHRER BUNKER: 1 APRIL 1945. CHORUS (8), by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old lady barkeep had a hitler Last Line: His name live on, renowned Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Subject(s): Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Legacies; World War Ii FUGUE FOR EYE AND VANISHING POINT, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Give me the clarity, the sharpness Last Line: Infinite engine trapped in skin Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 FULFILLMENT, by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was there love once? I have forgotten her Last Line: All, all my joy, my grief, my love, are thine. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War FULFILLMENT, by GRETCHEN OSGOOD WARREN Poem Text First Line: When wars are done Last Line: The flame of purged desire. Subject(s): War FULL CYCLE, by JOHN WHITE CHADWICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spain drew us proudly from the womb of night Last Line: And thrusts her deep in a dishonored grave. Subject(s): Spanish-american War (1898) FULL MOON AT TIERZ: BEFORE THE STORMING OF HUESCA, by JOHN CORNFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The past, a glacier, gripped the mountain wall Subject(s): War FULL MOON IN JANUARY, by NGUYEN SINH CUNG Poem Source First Line: Now comes the first full moon of the year Last Line: Yes, sell the compass, come on the boat of the full moon Subject(s): Indochinese War, 1946-1954 FUNERAL ORATION, by DRUMMOND ALLISON Poem Source First Line: For douglas whom the cloud and eddy rejected Last Line: A vigorous white worm for a cigarette %and girl friends having swords upon their snouts Subject(s): World War Ii FUNERAL SERMON, SOWETO, by WOLE SOYINKA Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: We wish to bury our dead. Now, a funeral Last Line: And now, we wish to bury our dead Subject(s): Funerals; Nigerian Civil War FUNK, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When your marrer bone seems 'oller Last Line: There ain't no bloomin' funk, funk, funk. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War FUROR BELLICUS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cobray m-11 and the tec-9 along with their relatives and clones Subject(s): Cold War; Crime & Criminals; Military; Prisons & Prisoners FUROR BELLICUS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cobray m-11 and the tec-9 along with their relatives and clones Last Line: Transmute furor bellicus to %mere flame or tear Subject(s): Cold War; Crime And Criminals; Military; Prisons And Prisoners FURY OF AERIAL BOMBARDMENT, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You would think the fury of aerial bombardment Last Line: Distinguished the belt feed lever from the belt holding palw Subject(s): Air Warfare; God; World War Ii FUTILITY, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Move him into the sun Last Line: To break earth's sleep at all? Subject(s): Death; Love; Mourning; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; Bereavement; First World War FUZZY-WUZZY' (SOUDAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE), by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We've fought with many men acrost the seas Last Line: You big black boundin' beggar -- for you broke a british square! Subject(s): Sudan; War G. A. R. TO A. E. F., by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hope and promise of the nation Last Line: You who fight to save the world! Subject(s): Army - United States; World War I; First World War G. I. JOE FROM KOKOMO, by WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE Poem Source First Line: Somehow he's become a friendly uncle: bachelor Last Line: Twenty-one again this june, he plans %to marry, study law, then run for office Subject(s): World War Ii 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 GALLANTRY, by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The colonel in a casual voice Last Line: Plunging their heads in steel and earth %(the air commented in a whisper) Subject(s): Courage; World War Ii GALLIPOLI, by DOROTHY MARGARET STUART Poem Source First Line: Ye unforgotten, that for a great dream died Subject(s): World War I GALOSHES, by ALFRED LICHTENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: The fat man thought Last Line: And all the hundredweights of my body dance Subject(s): World War I GAME OF DOMINOES, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: The first was katherine flynn, who was born with no Last Line: Hurt. Then it began in spokane Subject(s): War GAMECOCKS, by EDMOND ADAM Poem Source First Line: I come crawling out of my hole Last Line: Of unpardonable masters Subject(s): World War I GARCIA LORCA, by AARON KRAMER Poem Source First Line: He felt a wind upon his face never again to feel Last Line: They heard his poem rising up, and spreading over spain Subject(s): Garcia Lorca, Federico (1898-1936); Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) GARCIA LORCA AND THE ONE-LEGGED SCHOOLTEACHER, by JOHN BENSKO Poem Source First Line: The luck of an old priest Last Line: And brings it in a sack to school Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) GARDEN OF GOLD, by KAJETAN KOVIC Poem Source First Line: The chill and the damp under the pines Last Line: And as above them, blue as death, %ripens the isbella Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; War GARFIELD'S RIDE AT CHICKAMAUGA, by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again the summer-fevered skies Last Line: By chickamauga river. Subject(s): American Civil War; Chickamauga, Battle Of (1863); Garfield, James Abram (1831-1881); Thomas, George Henry (1816-1870); United States - History GARRISON TOWN, by EMANUEL LITVINOFF Poem Source First Line: Here ploughshares rot and farmers Subject(s): War GASSED, by ROWLAND THIRLMERE Poem Text First Line: He is blind and nevermore Last Line: Gifts that make him more than brave. Subject(s): World War I - Casualties GATE, by EUGENE CROMBIE Poem Source First Line: Musing alone beside my midnight fire Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I GATHA, by ROBERT AITKEN Poem Source First Line: When people talk about war Last Line: And speak of original peace Subject(s): Politics; War GATHERED AT THE RIVER; FOR BEATRICE HAWLEY AND JOHN JAGEL, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if the trees were not indifferent Last Line: No pollen. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Atomic Bomb - Victims; Hiroshima, Japan; Nagasaki, Japan; Nature; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb GATHERING SONG OF DONALD [OR, DONUI DHU] THE BLACK, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pibroch of donuil dhu Last Line: Knell for the onset! Variant Title(s): Pibroach Of Donuil Dhu Subject(s): Balloch, Donald (15th Century); Scotland; War GAUTIER VISITED SPAIN, by KERKER QUINN Poem Source First Line: A hundred years ago? Really that long Last Line: But soil's as sturdy as a spaniard's heart! Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) GAY PEOPLE, by ROLFE HUMPHRIES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Without a shadow of a shadow of pride Last Line: Do I hear singing somewhere over the mountains? Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) GEESES, OCTOBER 2002, by LUCY ADKINS Poem Source First Line: Night, %walking in and out of streetlight shadows Last Line: They call through the clattering leaves, the fog. %listen, %yes, listen! Subject(s): Politics; War GENERAL ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON, by MARY JERVEY Poem Source First Line: In thickest fight triumphantly he fell Subject(s): American Civil War; Johnston, Albert Sidney (1803-1862); U.s. - History GENERAL DABNEY H. MAURY, by ROSEWELL PAGE Poem Source First Line: He sleeps, the 'little general' sleeps Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History GENERAL GORDON, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Victorious through failure! Faithful lord Last Line: —farewell a while! We climb where thou hast clomb! Subject(s): Christianity; Generals; God; Gordon, Charles George (1833-1885); War GENERAL INSPECTING THE TRENCHES., by ALAN PATRICK HERBERT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: If somebody shot that shit shute Alternate Author Name(s): Patrick, A. P. Subject(s): Army Life; World War I GENERAL ROBERTS IN AFGHANISTAN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1878, and the winter had set in Last Line: He spread death and desolation all along. Subject(s): Death; Desolation; Great Britain - Norman Conquest; Grief; War; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness GENERAL WHEELER AT SANTIAGO, by JAMES LINDSAY GORDON Poem Text First Line: Into the thick of the fight he went, pallid and sick and wan Last Line: Old fighting joe! Subject(s): Patriotism; Santiago, Cuba; Spanish-american War (1898); Wheeler, Joseph (1836-1906) GENERATION, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once I was nothing: once we were one Last Line: Each question answered by the echo of my voice alone: I, I, I Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 GENTLEMEN OF OXFORD, by NORAH M. HOLLAND Poem Source First Line: The sunny streets of oxford Subject(s): World War I GEOMETRICAL PLACE, by GUNTHER EICH Poem Source First Line: We have sold our shadow Last Line: Precise %to the second Subject(s): World War Ii GEORGICS, SELS., by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): War GERMAN PRISONERS, by JOSEPH LEE Poem Text First Line: When first I saw you in the curious street Last Line: "and could have grasped your hand and cried, ""my brother!" Subject(s): Brotherhood; Prisoners Of War; Religion; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Theology; First World War GERMAN WAR PRIMER, SELS., by BERTOLT BRECHT Poem Source First Line: When the leaders speak of peace Last Line: The mobilisation order is already written out Subject(s): War GERVAIS (KILLED AT THE DARDANELLES), by MARGARET ADELAIDE WILSON Poem Text First Line: Bees hummed and rooks called hoarsely outside Last Line: That frowns with dying wonder up to hissarlik's sky! Subject(s): Women And War; World War I - Casualties GETHSEMANE 1914-1918, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The garden called gethsemane, %in picardy it was Last Line: I drank it when we met the gas %beyong gethsemane! Subject(s): World War I GETTYSBURG, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: Fields the color of sunlight Last Line: The winds blow [or, wind blows] full of dust Subject(s): War GETTYSBURG, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You wore the blue and I the gray Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); U.s. - History GETTYSBURG, by ERNEST WARBURTON SHURTLEFF Poem Source First Line: Twas the breaking of the tempest when rebellion broke the law Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); U.s. - History GETTYSBURG, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wave, wave your glorious battleflags Last Line: "our grand old army held the ridge, and won that glorious day!" Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); U.s. - History; Gettysburg, Battle Of GETTYSBURG ODE; DEDICATION OF THE NATIONAL MONUMENT, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the eyes that looked, the lips that spake Last Line: And, dying here for freedom, also died for thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Monuments; U.s. - History; Gettysburg, Battle Of GETTYSBURG [JULY 1-3, 1863], by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was no union in the land, / though wise men labored long Last Line: The sword of meade and lee! Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Patriotism; United States - History; Gettysburg, Battle Of GETTYSBURG; THE CHECK (JUNE, 1863), by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O pride of the days in prime of the months Last Line: Shall rest in honor there. Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); U.s. - History; Gettysburg, Battle Of GHELUVELT; EPITAPH ON THE WORCESTERS, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Askest thou of these graves? They'll tell thee Last Line: Battle. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Graves; Worcestershire, England; World War I; Tombs; Tombstones; First World War GHOST ARMIES, by MARGARET DELANEY Poem Text First Line: There's a tramping tramping, tramping Last Line: For all wars of ancient days and wars to be. Subject(s): Marching & Marches; Pain; Soldiers; War; Suffering; Misery GHOST-BEREFT; A SCENE FROM BOGLAND IN WAR-TIME, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thought by now for sure the sun was down Last Line: A shadowy form begins to move up the path from the river. Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Shadows; Soldiers; Supernatural; War; Dead, The GHOSTS (THREE YEARS AFTER THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN), by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night bomber pilot, just a fraction drunk Last Line: "they say, they say they do. ..." Subject(s): Air Warfare; Bombs; Death; Ghosts; Supernatural; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War GHOSTS OF CONQUEST, by ALBERT EDWARD CLEMENTS Poem Text First Line: We shall break the dry crust of this stale earth, batter it down to ... Despair Last Line: Glory on ghosts of conquest for a year and a day! Subject(s): Ghosts; Social Protest; Soldiers; Supernatural; War GHOSTS ON THE NORTHERN LAND OF UR; CIRCA 2100 C.E., by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: With bits of pale colored chalk Last Line: That is still being slaughtered in our childhood... Subject(s): Buddhism; Echoes; Sickness; Time; War; Buddha; Buddhists; Illness GHOSTS WALK UPON THEIR GRAVES, by NEAL GALLATIN Poem Text First Line: No longer does the war god beat Last Line: Ghosts sit upon their graves and wait. Subject(s): China; Ethiopia; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Mussolini, Benito (1883-1945); War GHOSTS, FIRE, WATER; ON THE HIROSHIMA PANELS, by JAMES KIRKUP Poem Source First Line: These are the ghosts of the unwilling dead Last Line: Forgive us, that we had to see your passion to remember %what we must never again deny: love one ano Subject(s): War GHOULS, by HELEN HAMILTON Poem Source First Line: You strange old ghouls Last Line: Those dreadful lists, %of young men dead Subject(s): Women; World War I GIFT, by H. REX PRESTON Poem Source First Line: His eyes are bright and eager, with the brightness of the sun Subject(s): World War I GIFT, by FRANCIS BRETT YOUNG Poem Source First Line: Marching on tanga, marching the parched plain Subject(s): World War I GIFT OUTRIGHT, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The land was ours before we were the land's Last Line: But still unstoried, artless, unenhanced, %such as she would become Subject(s): Inaugural Poem; United States; War GIFTS OF THE DEAD, by HABBERTON LULHAM Poem Source First Line: Ye who in sorrow's tents abide Subject(s): World War I GIRL TO SOLDIER ON LEAVE, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love you, titan lover Last Line: I let you -- I repine. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Women & War; World War I; First World War GIRL'S SONG, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The meuse and marne have little waves Last Line: I heap the stones to make his cairn %where many sleep as sound as he Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Women; World War I GIVE US THIS DAY, by JAMES NEUGASS Poem Source First Line: Deep in the olive groves at sunset Last Line: The volunteers sang never die from our throats Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) GLADSTONE, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: For peace, and all that follows in her path Last Line: Britannia's wisest, best, and bravest son. Subject(s): Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898); Peace; War GLADSTONE, by JULIAN SYMONS Poem Source First Line: The images break upon a sad day Subject(s): War GLASS DIALECTIC, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look in this mirror, tell me what you see Subject(s): War GLIMPSE, by WILLIAM NOEL HODGSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I saw you fooling often in the tents Last Line: And knew you brooded on immortal things Alternate Author Name(s): Melbourne, Edward Subject(s): World War I GLITTERING FRAGMENTS, by HARA TAMIKI Poem Source First Line: Glittering fragments %ashen embers Last Line: The smell of smouldering electric wires Subject(s): Nuclear War GLOBAL POSITIONING, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That the shoe fits for the inaugural demonstration should Subject(s): Politics & Government; War GLOBAL POSITIONING, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That the shoe fits for the inaugural demonstration should Last Line: Glass and its antecedents Subject(s): Politics; War GLORIOUS NAVAL VICTORY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come listen to my story the truth I will unfold Last Line: So may success attend these heroes of the constitution's crew Subject(s): Bainbridge, William (1774-1833); Constitution (ship); Navy - United States; Sea Battles; War Of 1812 GLORY, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The glory of the beauty of the morning Last Line: How dreary-swift, with naught to travel to %is time? I cannot bite the day to the core Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Happiness; War GLORY DAYS, by TANYA KERN Poem Source First Line: Daddy wanted a uniform Last Line: Drifts atlantic floor, hot guns on the kitchen table Subject(s): Army Life; Death; Fathers; World War Ii GLORY OF WOMEN, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: You love us when we're heroes, home on leave Last Line: His face is trodden deeper in the mud. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Women; World War I; First World War GO ASK THE DEAD, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The soldier, past full retreat, is marching out of the grave Last Line: You have climbed to the moon on a ladder of dead men's bones! Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War; Dead, The GOD AND MY COUNTRY, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He had the bluest eyes I ever saw Last Line: "to get some cigarettes and some shaving blades." Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Soldiers; World War I; First World War GOD OF WAR, by BERTOLT BRECHT Poem Source First Line: I saw the old god of war stand in a bog between chasm and rockface Last Line: And every five minutes he assured his public that he would take up very little of their time Subject(s): World War Ii GOD SAVE THE FLAG, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Washed in the blood of the brave and the blooming Last Line: Washed from its stains in the blood of the brave! Subject(s): American Civil War; Flags - United States; United States - History; American Flag GOD SAVE THE NATION!, by THEODORE TILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who ordainest, for the land's salvation Last Line: With peace elysian! Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History GOD SAVE THE WORLD; A MARCHING SONG OF THE WORLD WAR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now for the world we dare to fight Last Line: God save the world! Subject(s): World War I; First World War GOD SPEED OUR SOLDIERS, by GEORGE FREDERIC VIETT Poem Source First Line: They know not where the journey ends Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I GOD WHO WAITS, by LESLIE COULSON Poem Source First Line: The old men in the olden days Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I GOD'S CHALLENGERS; A SOLDIERS' HOSPITAL, by MARION PERHAM GALE Poem Text First Line: Today, I have seen / mute ghosts of men Last Line: What did we do it for? Subject(s): Death; God; Soldiers; Tragedy; War; War Injuries; World War I; Dead, The; First World War GOD'S GRANDEUR, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The world is charged with the grandeur of god Last Line: World broods with warm breast and with ah! Bright wings. Subject(s): Christianity; Earth; Environment; Faith; God; Labor & Laborers; Men; Nature; Redemption; Religion; War; World; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Belief; Creed; Work; Workers; Theology GOD'S HILLS, by WILLIAM NOEL HODGSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In our hill-country of the north Last Line: And we shall see the hills again. Alternate Author Name(s): Melbourne, Edward Subject(s): Homesickness; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War GODODDIN, SELS., by ANEIRIN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Man in might, youth in years Alternate Author Name(s): Aneurin; Neirin Subject(s): War GODS OF WAR, 1914, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Fate wafts us from the pygmies' shore Last Line: And crown thee then without a thorn. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; War; World War I; First World War GOETHE'S OAK, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: I stood in a fog before the pile of shoes in an exhibition hall Last Line: Could quiet the whey-crapped mouth of another dawn coming on Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities GOING HOME, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm goin' 'ome to blighty - ain't I glad to 'ave the chance! Last Line: Thank gawd for dear old blighty in the mawnin'. Subject(s): Army - Great Britain; England; War; World War I; English; First World War GOING TO THE FRONT, by HARDWICKE DRUMMOND RAWNSLEY Poem Text First Line: I had no heart to march for war Last Line: How sweet to live—how glad and good to die! Subject(s): World War I; First World War GOING TO WAR, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me not, evelyn, I fail Subject(s): War GOING UP THE LINE, by MARTIN DONISTHORPE ARMSTRONG Poem Source First Line: O consolation and refreshment breathed Subject(s): World War I GOING WEST, by ELEANOR JEWETT Poem Source First Line: West to the hills, the long, long trail Subject(s): World War I GOLD BRAID, SELS., by ALAN ALEXANDER MILNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Some old trenches, same old view Last Line: Same old bloody war Alternate Author Name(s): Milne, A. A. Subject(s): World War I GOLD STAR, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The star upon their service flag has changed Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): World War I GOLD STRIPES, by FLORENCE A. VICARS Poem Source First Line: My bert 'as just come 'ome again Subject(s): World War I GOLDENROD, by UNKNOWN+11 Poem Source First Line: Some day the fields of flanders shall bloom Subject(s): World War I GOLDSBORO NARRATIVE #4: MY FATHER'S VIET NAM TOUR NEAR OVER, by FORREST HAMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The young dead soldier was younger Last Line: And, afterwards, there's nothing left %to look forward to Subject(s): Army - United States; Death - Children; War GOLGOTHA, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through darkness curves a spume of falling flares Last Line: But the brown rats, the nimble scavengers. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War GOLGOTHA WITNESSED BY MARY, by CHARLES PEGUY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For three days she wandered about, she followed Last Line: If she had known Subject(s): World War I GOLIATH AND DAVID, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet once an earlier david took Last Line: Goliath straddles over him. Subject(s): World War I; First World War GOMMECOURT: 1, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: The wind, which heralded the blackening night Last Line: And turn the night's immensity to day; %or rockets whistle in their upward ride Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I GOMMECOURT: 2, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: The moment comes when thrice-embittered fire Last Line: To prove the unchartered honour of mankind, %to show how strong the silent passions are Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I GOMMECOURT: 3, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: The daylight broke and brought the awaited cheer Last Line: Were driven fighting in a forced retreat %across the land that gaped with shell-turned graves Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I GOMMECOURT: 4, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: The troubled day sped on in weariness Last Line: The common grass still breathed of paradise %and lvoe with silent lips was lord of earth Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I GONE FORWARD', by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, 'let the tent be struck': victorious morning Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History GONE IS THE SPRING, by ALAN ROOK Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii GOOD, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old man comes out on the hill Last Line: Cakes and tea and a dark smile. It is well Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): War GOOD FRIDAY -- 1917, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: The die is cast for war! Last Line: Amen! Amen! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Reconciliation; Religion; War; Theology GOOD KING WENCESLAS LOOK'D OUT, by OLGA KATZIN KATZIN Poem Source Last Line: No, your living shall be free %and your dead awaken! Subject(s): World War Ii GOOD MORNING WITH LIGHT; TO TOM AND HELEN FERRIL, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Civilian for a pause of hours Last Line: The starting spectrum of the dawn Subject(s): War GOOD MORNING WITH LIGHT; TO TOM AND HELEN FERRIL, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Civilian for a pause of hours Last Line: The starting spectrum of the dawn Subject(s): War GOOD-BYE, WENDOVER; GOOD-BYE, MOUNTAIN HOME, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wives on day-coaches traveling with a baby Subject(s): Absence; Army Life; World War Ii; Separation; Isolation; Drills & Minor Tactics; Second World War GOOD-BYE, WENDOVER; GOOD-BYE, MOUNTAIN HOME, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wives on day-coaches traveling with a baby Last Line: And you might as well get used to it, your ord's Subject(s): Absence; Army Life; World War Ii GOODBYE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: So we must say goodbye, my darling Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War Ii; Second World War GOODBYE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So we must say goodbye, my darling Last Line: On my old battledress tonight, my sweet Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War Ii GOOSE HANGS HIGH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In june of sixty-three, I suppose you all know Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History GOTTERDAMMERUNG, by ERNEST HARTSOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A god is dying, o bewildered ones Last Line: Where peace, the phoenix, lifts his golden wings! Subject(s): Peace; War GOUZEAUCOURT: THE DECEITFUL CALM, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How unpurposed, how inconsequential Last Line: That false mildness. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL, by PAUL DEHN Poem Source First Line: Lo, where he loometh, a hulk elephantine Subject(s): War GRACE OF ANGELS, by MICHELLE NOULLET Poem Source First Line: Who combs her long black hair Last Line: Stumpy wings fluttering from her side Subject(s): Politics; War GRAMOPHONE TUNES, by EVA DOBELL Poem Source First Line: Through the long ward the gramophone Last Line: Man that is master of his flesh, %and has the laugh of death and pain Subject(s): Women; World War I GRANADA, by MIKHAIL ARKADYEVICH SVETLOV Poem Source First Line: We charged at the enemy Last Line: You needn't despair, %'granada, granada, %granada, the fair' Subject(s): Granada, Spain; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) GRANADA, by MIKHAIL ARKADYEVICH SVETLOV Poem Source First Line: We rode at a trot Subject(s): Granada, Spain; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) GRANADA, by MIKHAIL ARKADYEVICH SVETLOV Poem Source First Line: We jogged along slowly Subject(s): Granada, Spain; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) GRANADA: THE ROSE, by AARON KRAMER Poem Source First Line: You leveled with me, granada Last Line: For whatever one rose is worth Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) GRAND ILLUSION, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not 1937 for long. A clump of ash trees and a walk Last Line: Their uncle still casting images of animals for them... Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Renoir, Jean (1894-19979); Violence; World War I; Movies; Cinema; First World War GRAND-PERE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And so when he reached my bed Last Line: Twas grand-pere joffre. Subject(s): War; World War I; First World War GRANDFATHER BRIDGEMAN, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heigh, boys!' cried grandfather bridgeman, 'it's time before dinner today' Last Line: The old man fails never to tell you: 'you've got the french general's there!' Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; War; Relatives; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRANDFATHER'S TALE, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: Start with what's in the blood. Old blood Last Line: Listening to that whisper Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii GRANDMOTHER AND THE WAR, by JULIET S. KONO Poem Source First Line: She memorized the pledge of allegiance Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans GRASS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pile the bodies high at austerlitz and waterloo Last Line: Let me work. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Grass; War; Graveyards; Dead, The GRAVE DETAILS, by ROBERT M. CHUTE Poem Source First Line: As raw recruits we quickly learned Last Line: One pile of dirt at a time Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Graves; War GRAVE OF ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON, by J. B. SYNNOTT Poem Source First Line: The lone star state secretes the clay Subject(s): American Civil War; Johnston, Albert Sidney (1803-1862); U.s. - History GRAVES OF GALLIPOLI, by L. L. Poem Source First Line: The herdman wandering by the lonely rills Subject(s): World War I GRAY GAUNTLET, by ELMINA ATKINSON Poem Source Subject(s): World War I GREAT ADVENTURE, by KENDALL BANNING Poem Source First Line: God, the master pilot Subject(s): World War I GREAT BELL ROLAND; SUGGESTED BY PRESIDENT'S CALL VOLUNTEERS, by THEODORE TILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Toll! Roland, toll! Last Line: Tool! Roland, toll! Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; United States - History GREAT COMPANY, by ALYS FANE TROTTER Poem Source First Line: Perpetua, felicitas %and all the ... Saints Subject(s): World War I GREAT DAYS, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Vanish, every idle thought! Last Line: Giant hearts shall rule these days. Subject(s): Death; Graves; World War I; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; First World War GREAT GUNS OF ENGLAND, by EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Dunsany, Lord; Dunsany, 18th Baron Subject(s): World War I GREAT LAND, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Things that are good and great my land has given Last Line: Stars in heaven no hurricane shall put out Subject(s): World War Ii GREAT WAR, by VERNON SCANNELL Poem Source First Line: Whenever war is spoken of Subject(s): War GREAT WAR DANCE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh lustrous! The king's army Last Line: Oh, shining in heaven %brilliant, he looks over it Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; War GREAT, STRONG, FREE, AND TRUE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great, my country, great in gold Last Line: Ever true to god and man. Subject(s): United States; World War I; America; First World War GREATER GRANDEUR, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Half a year after war's end, roosevelt and hitler dead, stalin tired Last Line: And not appropriate for events on this scale watched from this level; admiration is all Subject(s): World War Ii; Death; Statesmen; Second World War; Dead, The GREATER LOVE, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Red lips are not so red Last Line: Weep, you may weep, for you may touch them not. Subject(s): Love; Pain; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Suffering; Misery; First World War GREATER THAN VICTORY, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Quickly the war-smoke lessens-out through the clearing skies Last Line: "but the greatest thing of all is this: ""no more of our boys shall die!" Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; Victory; World War I; Dead, The; First World War GREECE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say: 'let there be no more war!' Last Line: Now prove it once again! Subject(s): Crete; Greco-turkish War (1897); Greece; Greeks GREECE; MAY 10, 1942, by ROBERT GILBERT VANSITTART Poem Source First Line: We fidgeted. The school-clock drawled in chimes Last Line: Ever while human blood is warm and red Subject(s): World War Ii GREEK WAR SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sons of the greeks, arise!" Last Line: "sons of greeks, etc" Subject(s): Freedom;war; Liberty GREEN MEMORY, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A wonderful time - the war Last Line: But blood %was far away %from here -- %money was near Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; War - Home Front GREEN PANTS AND A BAMBOO FLUTE, by BRENDA LYNN HILLMAN Poem Source First Line: Oaks tear up the storm floor Last Line: Solomon's sleep in the clock's %ring moist with air Subject(s): Politics; War GREEN, GREEN IS EL AGHIR, by NORMAN CAMERON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sprawled on the crates and sacks in the rear of the truck Variant Title(s): El Aghir Subject(s): Oases; Thirst; War GREEN, GREEN IS EL AGHIR, by NORMAN CAMERON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sprawled on the crates and sacks in the rear of the truck Last Line: Are added unto them that have plenty of water Variant Title(s): El Aghi Subject(s): Oases; Thirst; War GREENFIELD HILL: PART 4. THE DESTRUCTION OF THE PEQOUDS, by TIMOTHY DWIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah me, while up the long, long vale of time Last Line: Had charm'd the world's wide round, and trimuph'd over time Subject(s): Pequot War (1637) GREETING FROM ENGLAND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: America! Dear brother land! Last Line: The hour that brings us back to back / but harbingers the larger light Subject(s): Spanish-american War (1898) GREGORIOU, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: My cousin does a wheelie in a muddied mustang, radish red Last Line: And each of our ancient maids and ministers is blessing us Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities GRENADIER, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The queen she sent to look for me Last Line: Nor thirteen pence a day. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Army Life; War; Drills & Minor Tactics GREY KNITTING, by AMELIA BEERS WARNOCK GARVIN Poem Text First Line: Something sings gently through the din of battle Last Line: As they fall fast asleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Hale, Katherine Subject(s): Women & War; World War I; First World War GRIEF, KERCH, 1942, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: A snow-bound road, high above the world of winnowers Last Line: On foot quite accidentally, like you and me, %and makes of this world a camera obscura Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities GRIPE, by LINCOLN KIRSTEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who is a friend? Who is a foe? Last Line: Lavishly let lads up front %spend all their love, share all my fear Subject(s): World War Ii GRODECK, by GEORG TRAKL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the evening the autumn woods ring Last Line: Today the hot flame of the spirit is fed by a more violent pain - %the grandsons still unborn Subject(s): World War I GRODEK, by GEORG TRAKL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At nightfall the autumn woods cry out Last Line: The grandsons yet unborn Subject(s): World War I GRODEK, by GEORG TRAKL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At evening the autumn forests Last Line: The grandchildren unborn Subject(s): World War I GROUND ZERO, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: What's after or before Last Line: All turned to dust Subject(s): Politics & Government; War; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 GROUND ZERO, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's after or before Last Line: All the sad battles lost or won, %all turned to dust Subject(s): Politics; War; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) GUARD, by MICHAEL C. MARTIN Poem Source First Line: All is quiet and the desert moon Subject(s): War GUARD DUTY, by VINCE GOTERA Poem Source First Line: A young soldier squints into thick black night Last Line: Of breezes in trees, soft rain, sunshine. Never again Subject(s): Politics; War GUERILLAS, by S. TEACKLE WALLIS Poem Source First Line: Awake! And to horse my brothers Subject(s): War GUERNICA, by AARON KRAMER Poem Source First Line: Dead. Dead. Every child. Shriek out Last Line: Shriek out! Dead. Dead. Every child Subject(s): Guernica, Spain; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) GUERNICA PANTOUM, by PAULA TATARUNIS Poem Source First Line: Of the eighteen eyes in guernica, sixteen are open Subject(s): Politics; War GUERRILLA CAMP; KOREA, 1952, by KEITH WILSON Poem Source First Line: We arrived at sok to Last Line: Could farm %with a hand like that Subject(s): Korean War, 1950-1953 GUITA BRUNER, by PABLO GUEVARA Poem Source First Line: Above a rock %her troglodyte room Last Line: Foam and our love exploding Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Relationships; Tragedy; War GULF WAR AND CHILD: A CURSE, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: He is sleeping, his fingers curled Subject(s): Gulf War (1991); Operation Desert Storm (1991) GULF WAR FROM YAKIMA, by JIM BODEEN Poem Source First Line: Just suppose, doc Last Line: Wednesday you're going to ask me %about seizures. We'll talk%about the little explosions %going off Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) GUN-TEAMS (LOOS, SEPTEMBER 1915), by GILBERT FRANKAU Poem Source First Line: Their rugs are sodden, their heads are down, their tails Last Line: Know the worth of humble servants, foolish-faithful to their gun Subject(s): Animals; War GUNS, by SAADI YOUSSEF Poem Source First Line: The guns roar at dawn Last Line: The vase is shaking Alternate Author Name(s): Youssef, Saddi; Yusuf, Sa'di Subject(s): War GUNS OF VERDUN, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Guns of verdun point to metz Last Line: "gunners lay you east again!" Subject(s): Verdun, Battle Of (1916); World War I; First World War GUTS, by LINCOLN KIRSTEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In its seat 'twixt bowel and bladder Last Line: And exams in a peace that we pray for %make dunces of scholars at war Subject(s): World War Ii HAIG IS MOVING; AUGUST, 1918, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Haig is moving Last Line: Haig is moving! Subject(s): England; Haig, Douglas. 1st Earl Haig (1861-1928); World War I; English; First World War 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 HALE, Y.M.C.A. (WRITTEN ON RETURNING FROM CHRISTMAS LEAVE), by KENNETH NEAL Poem Source First Line: The piano vaguely strums old tunes Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii HALF A SCORE O' SAILORMEN, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): World War I HALIFAX STATION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: From halifax station a bully there came Last Line: "saying, 'we'll fight for our country, do all things that's right, / and let the world know, that gr Subject(s): "constitution (ship);guerriere (ship);hull, Isaac (1773-1843);sea Battles;war Of 1812;" Naval Warfare HALLOWED SCENES, by GEORGE PAULIN Poem Text First Line: They rise before me, robed in many hues Last Line: Start from their hollow'd bed -- the thistle-tufted urn. Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; War HALT, by EDWARD SHANKS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mark time in front! Rear fours cover! Subject(s): World War I HAMMERFEST, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For over forty years I'd paid it atlas homage Last Line: Bring that up now? My intrusion had not profaned it: %if innocence is holy, it was holy Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Norway; World War Ii HAND THAT SIGNED THE PAPER FELLED A CITY, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A hand rules pity as a hand rules heaven; %hands have no tears to flow Subject(s): War HANDFUL OF ASH, by ATOM EARCANIAN Poem Source First Line: Alas, you were a great and beautiful mansion Last Line: A handful of ash to scatter on my heart? Subject(s): World War I HANDS, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: The one-handed county agent, forgiven (as they said Last Line: Anger in the intervening poplars Subject(s): Enemies; Military Recruitment; Patriotism; Soldiers; War HANGING ON THE OLD BARBED WIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: If you want to find the colonel I know where he is Last Line: Hanging on the old barbed wire Subject(s): War HANJI: NOTES FOR A PAPERMAKER, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shaped like a slab of granite Last Line: My work, keep your mouth shut' Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 HAPPY ARE THOSE WHO HAVE DIED, by CHARLES PEGUY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Happy are those who die for the earth which also dies Subject(s): War HAPPY DREAMS BE THINE!, by GEORGE MURRAY (19TH CENTURY) Poem Text First Line: Ladye, from thy slumbers wake Last Line: And happy dreams be thine! Subject(s): Love; War HAPPY HOUR, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, on the way from source to sink Subject(s): War HAPPY NEW YEAR TO COMMODORE RODGERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Huzza for the seamen undaunted by fear Last Line: Columbia's bright name then with glory shall sound, %and the praise of her heroes be sung the year r Subject(s): Navy - United States; Rodgers, John (1773-1838); War Of 1812 HARBACH 1944, by JANOS PILINSZKY Poem Source First Line: At all times I see them Last Line: Its gates flung savagely back, %death gapes to its hinges Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii HARBOR MINE, by F. MCK. Poem Source First Line: Give the speedway to the cruiser Subject(s): Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898) HARBOR VIEW, by FRANCES TAYLOR PATTERSON Poem Source First Line: Here where the gulls and the pilots fly Last Line: There is more sky than land Subject(s): World War Ii HARD ROCK RETURNS TO PRISON FROM THE HOSPITAL FOR THE CRIMINAL INSANE, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Hard rock / was / 'known not to take no shit Subject(s): African Americans; Insanity; Korean War, 1950-1953; Prisons & Prisoners; Surgery; Negroes; American Blacks; Madness; Mental Illness; Convicts HARD ROCK RETURNS TO PRISON FROM THE HOSPITAL FOR THE CRIMINAL INSANE, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hard rock / was / 'known not to take no shit Last Line: Had cut deep bloody grooves %across our backs Subject(s): African Americans; Insanity; Korean War, 1950-1953; Prisons And Prisoners; Surgery HARLOT ROBED IN WAR, by LAURENCE GOLDSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Well spoken, castor. You point the moral Last Line: Lies something purer than the muses' spring Subject(s): Fights; Militarism; Soldiers; Tragedy; War HARMOSAN, by AUGUST PLATEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Persia's sassanids saw crumble into dust Alternate Author Name(s): Maximilian, Karl August Georg; Platten Hallermund, Graf Von Subject(s): Iran; War HARMOSAN, by RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the third and fatal conflict for the persian throne was done Last Line: "drink and live!" Subject(s): Iran; War; Persia HARP SONG OF THE DANE WOMEN, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: What is a woman that you forsake her Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; War; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HARP SONG OF THE DANE WOMEN, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is a woman that you forsake her Last Line: And the hearth-fire and the home-acre %to go with the old grey widow-maker? Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; War HARU ASAKI, by SOJIN TOKIJI TAKEI Poem Source Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; World War Ii - Japanese-americans HARVARD DECLARES WAR, by BRENT DOW ALLINSON Poem Text First Line: Hang out the flags!' the college president said Last Line: Thy hallowed ivied walls with strands of sable crepe! Subject(s): Death; Harvard University; Soldiers; War; World War I; World War Ii; Dead, The; First World War; Second World War HARVEST AND LIBERTY; BEFORE ELECTION, 1860, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The harvest moon is waning Last Line: Until the work be done! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): American Civil War; Farm Life; Freedom; Harvest; U.s. - History; Agriculture; Farmers; Liberty HARVEST IN FLANDERS, by LOUISE DRISCOLL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In flanders' fields the crosses stand Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I HARVEST MOON: 1914, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the twilight field Last Line: The harvest-moon. Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): Harvest; Moon; Women; World War I; First World War HARVEST MOON: 1916, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moon, slow rising, over the trembling sea-rim Last Line: Light, everlasting.) Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): Harvest; Moon; Women; World War I; First World War HARVEST OF HATE, by WOLE SOYINKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So now the sun moves to die at mid-morning Last Line: Alone of petals, for muted swell of wine-buds %in august rains, and singing in green spaces Subject(s): Hate; Nigerian Civil War HARVEST: JUNE 1938, by KENNETH WIGGINS PORTER Poem Source First Line: Half-waking in the day-coach east from denver Last Line: His tread is on the plains of aragon! Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) HATE, by HALA JEAN HAMMOND Poem Text First Line: Peace - will you buy it with blood and tears? Last Line: Black hatred. Subject(s): Death; Hate; Peace; War; Dead, The HATE NOT, FEAR NOT, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kill if you must, but never hate: %man is but grass and hate is blight Last Line: Through blazing fires of battle hurled, %hate not, strike, fear not, stare death out! Subject(s): World War I HATE', by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I was glad to get back to the trenches again Subject(s): World War I HAUNTED, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gulp down your wine, old friends of mine Last Line: Dead, long dead, I'm ashamed to greet %dead men down the morning street Subject(s): World War I HAUPTMANN, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jean christophe called to him out of the night Last Line: Fall crumbling on the beaconless world shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Racism; War; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry HAUTE POLITIQUE, by GRANVILLE TRACE Poem Text First Line: Driven to achievement by youth and love Last Line: Two bodies drift. Alternate Author Name(s): Chen Wei Lu Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Patriotism; Soldiers; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War HAWK, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: The hawk is medieval Last Line: There it rusts, %among the fallen nations Subject(s): War HAY FEVER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I do not wish the kaiser ill Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I HAYNIE, by WILLIAM MILLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My great-grandfather %is buried in an unmarked grave Last Line: New clothes, %glass for the windows Alternate Author Name(s): Laureate Of The Nursery Subject(s): American Civil War; Slavery; Suicide; U.s. - History; War HE DIED SMILING, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Patting goodbye, doubtless they told the lad Last Line: "and truthfully wrote the mother ""tim died smiling." Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; War HE FELL AMONG THIEVES, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Ye have robbed,' said he, 'ye have slaughter'd and made an end' Last Line: Faded, and the hill slept. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Heroism; Murder; War; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Heroes; Heroines HE PRAYED, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): World War I HE REMEMBERS SOMETHING FROM THE WAR, by JAMES WHITEHEAD Poem Source First Line: In kansas during the war Last Line: In my own father's m-4 tank %that was standing out in out alley Subject(s): World War Ii HE WENT FOR A SOLDIER, by RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He marched away with a blithe young score of him Last Line: Borne with the hell called war! Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Sanborn, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Loss; Soldiers; Women; World War I; Youth; Dead, The; First World War HEAD BOWED, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn is coming Last Line: As if sending messages to a planet eons away Subject(s): Arms And Armor; Military; Soldiers; War HEADQUARTERS, by GILBERT FRANKAU Poem Text First Line: A league and a league from the trenches - from the traversed maze of the lines Last Line: "the blaze of some woman's roses. ... ""bombardment orders, sir." Subject(s): World War I; First World War HEALTH OF CAPTAINS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The health of captains is the sex of war Last Line: The womb of woman is the kit of war Subject(s): War HEART OF ALL THE WORLD, by MARION COUTHOUY SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Heartstruck she stands - our lady of all sorrows Subject(s): World War I HEART OF LOUISIANA, by HARRIET STANTON Poem Source First Line: Oh! Let me weep, while o'er our land Last Line: And hope no more the wrong shall live Subject(s): American Civil War; Louisiana; Patriotism; U.s. - History; War - Casualties (statistics, Etc.) HEART OF THE WAR, by JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Peace in the clover-scented air Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History HEART'S WILD GEESE, by HENRY TREECE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Heart must always come again to home Last Line: As heart returns to home, year upon year Subject(s): Love; War HEARTBREAK HOTEL, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Here I sit, dumbfounded, at the old french jail in hanoi Last Line: To you and ask will you come? When will I be free? Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities HEATH COMBAT, by AUGUST STRAMM Poem Source First Line: Sunshine hillside stamping panting fear Last Line: Sunshine hillside budding bloomy death Subject(s): World War I HECUBA: CHORUS SINGS THE FALL OF TROY, by EURIPIDES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ilion, o my city Last Line: I hope she is wrecked and drowned. %she ruined me Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War; Troy HEDGEHOG IN AIR RAID, by CLIFFORD DYMENT Poem Source First Line: The sky was a terrific beach Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii HEIKE MONOGATARI, SELS., by UNKNOWN Subject(s): War HELL, by ANDREAS GRYPHIUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ah and woe! Last Line: Perish, mankind! Lest here you know perdition Subject(s): Hell; Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) HELL A LA MODE, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Zero hour! / advance! Last Line: The silence of wreckage and ruin and death! Subject(s): Death; Hell; Military; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; Dead, The HELL MURAL: PANEL 2, by RONALD W. WALLACE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Iri and toshi maruki are painting the bomb Last Line: In iri and toshi maruki's painting, the bomb %is hiroshima, nagasaki, belsen, dachau, and vietnam Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War HELL NO! I AIN'T GONNA GO!, by MATTHEW JONES Poem Source First Line: Up tight! That's right! Last Line: I ain't gonna go! Hell no! Subject(s): War HELLHOUNDS, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: After making love, you sit naked at my table Last Line: From the aged cage of my body Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) HELLO, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hello, drug addict, can you become a poem of perfect form? Last Line: Your napalmed brain and drug-addicted body Subject(s): Literary Prizes; Poetry & Poets; Social Commentaries; War; Drugs & Drug Abuse HELMETS, by TIBOR GYURKOVICS Poem Source First Line: I'm to be blamed for my impossible self Last Line: I reject my face Subject(s): History; Poetry And Poets; Soldiers; War HELPING, by P. B. Poem Source First Line: Half a score of gutter-snipes Subject(s): World War I HEMORRHAGE, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The people made a ring %around the man in the park Subject(s): War HENRI, by GEORGE STERLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight I drifted to the restaurant Last Line: I never asked you if you had a wife. Subject(s): World War I; First World War HER 'ALLOWANCE', by LILLIAN GARD Poem Source First Line: Er looked at me bunnet (I knows 'e aint noo!) Last Line: Be needin' a part - may my bill - who can say? - %of my 'llowance! Subject(s): Women; World War I HER LETTER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm taking pen in hand this night, and hard it is for me Last Line: "is just to see my boy again before I'm called away." Subject(s): Love; Soldiers; War HER PRAYER - FOR HIM, by EGBERT SANDFORD Poem Source First Line: I do not ask that he may never yield Subject(s): World War I HERE AND THERE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here the warm sunshine fills Last Line: Dear christ, soothe, save them there. Subject(s): Franco-prussian War (1870-1871) HERE AT VERDUN, by CHESTER M. WRIGHT Poem Source First Line: I stand on a peak at verdun Subject(s): World War I 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: 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 HERE THEY LIE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here they lie who once learned here Last Line: Dead, but by free will they died: %they were true men, they had pride Subject(s): World War I HERE: AND THERE, by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Soft benediction of september sun Subject(s): World War I HEREAFTER, by RONALD LEWIS CARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's autumn-time on salisbury plain Last Line: When fighting's over be there still! Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Fall; First World War HERITAGE, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And if that men should cease from war Last Line: When you were born. Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Death; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; War; Dead, The HERMANN AND THUSNELDA, by FRIEDRICH GOTTLIEB KLOPSTOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ha! There comes he, with sweat, with blood of romans Last Line: Follow, and mourn him no more! Subject(s): War HERO -- INTERNATIONAL BRIGADE, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bood, %or a flag, %or a flame Last Line: They're all the same Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) HERO'S DREAM, by DIMCHO DEBELYANOV Poem Source First Line: The enemy's retreated and the noise Last Line: A gallant hero to his final breath Subject(s): World War I HEROES, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: Last night I walked into sears roebuck Last Line: And spaghetti and vino at home Subject(s): War HEROES, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In rich virginian woods Last Line: Of knightly deeds and dreams. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History HEROES, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The winds that once the argo bore Last Line: And the world is a braver world to-day. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; Heroism; United States - History; Liberty; Heroes; Heroines HEROES, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed of war-heroes, of wounded war-heroes Last Line: And count the long night by the stroke of their hearts Subject(s): War HESITATING VETERAN, by AMBROSE BIERCE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young and full of faith Last Line: O, that I knew which side I fought for! Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History HESITATION, by AUGUST STRAMM Poem Source First Line: The heavens hanging %shadows catching clouds Last Line: Desisting %the %gory %grave Subject(s): World War I HEUREUX QUI COMME ULYSSE ...', by JOHN STREETER MANIFOLD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lucky like cook to travel and return Subject(s): War HEY! JOCK, ARE YE GLAD YE LISTED?, by NEIL MUNRO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): World War I HIALMAR'S HEART, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A clear night, icy wind, and blood-streams staining Last Line: "my seat where the high gods are in the sun." Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Ravens; War; Dead, The HIC JACET QUI IN HOC SAECULO FIDELITER MILITAVIT, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He that has left hereunder Last Line: His sword unto his son. Subject(s): World War I - Casualties HIERONYMUS BOSCH, WE CAN DO IT, by PAUL CURTIS COLTMAN Poem Source First Line: Now we can burn a gesture into stone Last Line: They were to last forever Subject(s): War HIGH BARBARY, by HOWARD STABLES Poem Source First Line: The distant mountains' jagged, cruel line Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I HIGH FLIGHT, by JOHN GILLESPIE MAGEE JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth Last Line: Put out my hand and touched the face of god. Subject(s): Air Warfare; Aviation & Aviators; Religion; World War Ii; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Theology; Second World War HIGH KNIGHT'S TALE, SELS., by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But in the dome of mighty mars the red Subject(s): War HIGH SUMMER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pinks and syringa in the garden closes Last Line: They die in flanders to keep these for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): World War I; First World War HIGH WOOD, by PHILIP JOHNSTONE Poem Source First Line: Ladies and gentlemen, this is high wood %called by french, bois des fourneaux Last Line: There are waste-paper baskets at the gate Subject(s): World War I HIGHLAND NIGHT; 1715-1815-1915, by ISABEL WESTCOTT HARPER Poem Text First Line: O turn ye homeward in the night-tide dusk! Last Line: Turn ye to me before the morning light. Subject(s): World War I - Scotland HIJACK, by LINCOLN KIRSTEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We drive all day from mildly picturesque coumbes-sur-seine Last Line: His adored grandson captured by the enemy; lost, maybe hurt Subject(s): World War Ii HILL-BORN, by ABBIE HUSTON EVANS Poem Text First Line: Back to this mould, this matrix whence I came Last Line: Packed in the star-like crevice of a rock. Subject(s): World War I; First World War HILL-BORN, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sometimes wonder if it's really true Last Line: On the green ridges of the windy gile. Subject(s): World War I; First World War HILLS, by JULIAN GRENFELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mussoorie and chakrata hill Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I HILLS OF HOME, by MALCOLM HEMPHREY Poem Text First Line: Oh! Yon hills are filled with sunlight Last Line: And my heart is throbbing wildly for those distant hills of home. Subject(s): Homesickness; Mountains; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Hills; Downs (great Britain); First World War HILLS SURROUND ME., by PARK MOK-WOL Poem Source Last Line: Life will soon wane like the moon Subject(s): War HIS FOOTSTEP, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boy will come no more Last Line: Like an old tune. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Feet; Footprints; Homecoming; Loss; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War HIS MAJESTY'S MINE-SWEEPERS, by R. O'D. ROSS-LEWIN Poem Source First Line: When this cruel war is over and history ... Told Subject(s): World War I HIS MOTHER SPEAKS!, by BLANCHE OLIN TWISS Poem Text First Line: He died in france! Last Line: Thank god -- he fought them all, and fighting died! Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War HIS ONLY WAY, by HABBERTON LULHAM Poem Source First Line: I stood today high on the downs Subject(s): World War I HISTORIC GROUND, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No song lends these calm vales a deathless name Last Line: This place obscure is true historic ground! Subject(s): Death; History; War; Dead, The; Historians HISTORIC OXFORD, by ROBERT E. STERLING Poem Source First Line: Oh! Time hath loaded thee with memories Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I HISTORY, by BABETTE DEUTSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Once it was packed like a box with the toys of childhood Last Line: Where it will lie like a box of toys, broken, %unpacked in vain Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs. Subject(s): World War Ii HISTORY, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A hundred flint arrowheads, chipped, rain Subject(s): Politics & Government; War HISTORY, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A hundred flint arrowheads, chipped, rain Last Line: Of fearlessness, the gift-bestowing gesture %of compassion Subject(s): Politics; War HISTORY LESSON, by MIROSLAV HOLUB Poem Source First Line: Kings %like golden gleams %made with a mirror on the wall Last Line: And did it hurt in those days too? Subject(s): War HITLER SPRING, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The white cloud of maddened moths swirls Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War HITLER SPRING, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dense, the white cloud of moths whirling Last Line: Of terror, on the burnt-out wadis of the south Subject(s): World War Ii HITLER YOUTH (PANZER DIVISION), by ADA JACKSON Poem Text First Line: I fell. Nobody picked me up Last Line: But yet I would have liked to live! Subject(s): Death; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Soldiers; War; Dead, The HO. JUST CAUSE I SPEAK PIDGIN NO MEAN I DUMB, by DIANE HINA KAHANU Poem Source First Line: Pidgin short Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans HOBSON AND HIS MEN, by EDWARD F. BURNS Poem Source First Line: On the girdling circuit Subject(s): Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898) HOBSON AND HIS MEN, by ROBERT LOVEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hobson went towards death and hell Last Line: Hobson and his men. Subject(s): Hobson, Richmond Pearson (1870-1937); Sea Battles; Spanish-american War (1898); Naval Warfare HOBSON'S CHOICE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Darkness and the midnight sea Last Line: "shall be ""hobson's choice." Subject(s): Spanish-american War (1898) HODGE, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Countryman hodge has gone to fight Last Line: And hodge will come to his own again.' Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Plowing & Plowmen; World War I; First World War HOHENLINDEN, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On linden, when the sun was low Last Line: Shall be a soldier's sepulchre. Variant Title(s): The Battle Of Hohenlinden Subject(s): Hohenlinden, Battle Of; Napoleon I (1769-1821); War HOLD THE FORT, by PHILIP PAUL BLISS Poem Source First Line: Ho, my comrades! See the signal waving in the sky Alternate Author Name(s): Bliss, P. P.; Bliss, Philipp Subject(s): Allatoona Pass, Georgia; American Civil War; Corse, John Murray (1835-1893); U.s. - History HOLES, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Your father's fighting world war ii %and you're in a brown foxhole you dug Last Line: And wail at the whole damn sky Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Children; Fathers; Play; Soldiers; World War Ii HOLY COMMUNION SERVICE, SULVA BAY, by WILLIAM LITTLEJOHN Poem Source First Line: Behold a table spread! Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I HOLY SPRING, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of a bed of love Subject(s): War HOLY SPRING, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of a bed of love Last Line: If only for a last time Subject(s): War HOLY WATER, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: You lie down on your back, bending both legs Last Line: Again, you have saved my life Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) HOME, by REGINALD WRIGHT KAUFFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My house that I so soon shall own Subject(s): World War I HOME, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A burst of sudden wings at dawn Last Line: That call across the world to me. Subject(s): Home; Ireland; Rainbows; Summer; World War I; Irish; First World War HOME COMING, by R. G. T. COVENTRY Poem Source First Line: Here, by god's kindly grace Subject(s): World War I HOME FRONT, by WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE Poem Source First Line: It must have been '45, a backyard spring Subject(s): World War Ii HOME THOUGHTS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The hot red rocks of aden Subject(s): World War I HOME THOUGHTS FROM FRANCE, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wan, fragile faces of joy Last Line: My heart with futile bounds. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War HOME THOUGHTS IN [OR, FROM] LAVENTIE, by EDWARD WYNDHAM TENNANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Green gardens in laventie Last Line: Home, what a perfect place! Subject(s): England; Homesickness; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; English; First World War HOME, SWEET HOME, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sharers of a common country Last Line: Be our watchwords evermore. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History HOMECOMING, by LEROY FOLGE Poem Source First Line: His regiment came home today Subject(s): World War I HOMECOMING, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: After we make love perhaps Last Line: Burying their dead Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) HOMECOMING, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lost in the vastness of the void pacific Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War HOMECOMING, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lost in the vastness of the void pacific Last Line: And liberate in that high burst of love %the imprisoned souls of soldiers and of me Subject(s): World War Ii HOMECOMING, by SOJIN TOKIJI TAKEI Poem Source First Line: Akibae no Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; World War Ii - Japanese-americans HOMERIC HYMN TO ARES, SELS., by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hear me Last Line: And the fate of a violent death Subject(s): Men; War HOMES, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lamplight's shaded rose Last Line: That were a home last night. Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Home; Women And War; World War I; First World War HOMES, AFTER THE WAR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the battles, the frenzy, the dread Last Line: As we welcome our heroes home. Subject(s): Homecoming; World War I; First World War HOMING BRAVES, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's music in the measured tread Last Line: Stand in the pathway of their dreams! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): World War I; First World War HOMING SONG, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The waves come racing to my boat Last Line: To kiss my love. Subject(s): Longing; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Navy - United States; Sailing & Sailors; War; Male-female Relations; American Navy HONEY' DRAWS THE LINE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I've beamed when you hollered 'oh, grilie!' Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I HONOR TO FRANCE!, by WILLIAM DUDLEY FOULKE Poem Source First Line: In peace we held thy worth in scant esteem Subject(s): World War I HONORABLE MANHOOD, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: You come to me at ten in the evening Last Line: Yelling in his burning blue eyes Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) HONORS OF WAR, by JOHN JAMES PIATT Poem Source First Line: Wails of slow music move along the street Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History HONOURABLE DISCHARGE, by ELAINE BANDER Poem Source First Line: Most of all I missed the uniform Last Line: To meet the train that brought my husband home Subject(s): Love - Marital; Military; Soldiers; Women And War; World War Ii HOOKER'S ACROSS, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Hooker's across! Hooker's across! Last Line: Hooker's across! Subject(s): American Civil War; Chancellorsville, Battle Of (1863); Hooker, Joseph (1814-1879); United States - History HOPE, by CHARLES PEGUY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am, says god, master of the three virtues Last Line: Hope is the shoot, and the bud of the bloom %of eternity it self Subject(s): World War I HOPES OF MAN, by JOSEPH O'CONNOR Poem Source First Line: Our past is bright and grand Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History 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 HORNET, OR VICTORY NUMBER FIVE, by SAMUEL WOODWORTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rejoice, rejoice, fredonia's sons rejoice Last Line: Our tars shall mars protect beneath our stars, %and fredonia's eagle hover o'er the sea Subject(s): Hornet (ship); Navy - United States; Sea Battles; War Of 1812 HORRIBLE TODAY, by MAX JACOB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was nothing more than a neapolitan christmas creche Last Line: Have you paid me for that? Subject(s): World War Ii HORROR, by CHRIS DUNN Poem Source First Line: Can you feel it? Last Line: For causes long ago forgotten %and always remembered Subject(s): War HORSE-BATHING PARADE, by W. KERSLEY HOLMES Poem Text First Line: A few clouds float across the grand blue sky Last Line: And hear the surf rush hissing up the sand. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War HORSES, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Barely a twelvemonth after Last Line: But that free servitude still can pierce our hearts %our life is changed; their coming our beginning Subject(s): Animals; Horses; War HOSPITAL HEROES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not in the glory of battles Last Line: Theirs be a lasting fame! Subject(s): Health; Heroism; Hospitals; World War I; Heroes; Heroines; First World War HOSPITAL OBSERVATION, by JULIAN SYMONS Poem Source First Line: Feeling the useless arm Subject(s): Hospitals; War HOSPITAL SHIP, by WILLIAM LITTLEJOHN Poem Source First Line: There is a green-lit hospital ship Subject(s): Hospital Ships; Soldiers; World War I HOSPITAL SOLILOQUY, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I swan! It's pleasant now we've beaten Last Line: They won't have time to change their mind! Subject(s): American Civil War; Hospitals; U.s. - History HOSPITAL VISITOR, by ALYS FANE TROTTER Poem Source First Line: When yesterday I went to see my friends Last Line: Who never brag of blows for england struck, %but only yearn to 'get about a bit' Subject(s): Women; World War I HOSTING, by BROOKE BYRNE Poem Source First Line: We did not believe. This anger is surprise Last Line: The rest are the enemy Subject(s): World War Ii HOTEL CONTINENTAL, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O I feel like the kinks in the paws of the sphinx! Last Line: On goes the phone with a tone all its own / p - lease! P – lease! P – lease! Subject(s): War HOTEL CONTINENTAL, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O I feel like the kinks in the paws of the sphinx! Last Line: On goes the phone with a tone all its own: %p--lease! P--lease! P--lease! Subject(s): War HOUSE, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two swede families live downstairs and an irish policeman upstairs Last Line: Could be a soldier. Subject(s): American Civil War; Home; U.s. - History HOUSE IN WAR TIME, by RICHARD THOMAS CHURCH Poem Source First Line: Look at this ancient house; it has survived Last Line: Nothing has changed, except that universe %I dared to raise,before I looked on fear Alternate Author Name(s): Eccles Subject(s): World War Ii HOUSE OF BUSH, by CAROL ANNE MUSKE Poem Source First Line: This is the house of madness Last Line: Sits alone in the all-white house of madness Subject(s): Politics; War HOUSE THAT FEAR BUILT: WARSAW, 1943, by JANE FLANDERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am the boy with his hands raised over his head %in warsaw Last Line: Over every street in this world %muttering %waht's this? What's this? Subject(s): Warsaw Ghetto; World War Ii HOW ARE YOU, SANITARY?', by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down the picket-guarded lane Last Line: "pass in, sanitary!" Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism; United States - History; Declaration Day HOW CAN MAN DIE BETTER, by TYRTAEUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Noble is he who falls in front of battle Last Line: Grip the ground astride, press teeth to lip. Alternate Author Name(s): Tyrtaios Subject(s): War HOW COULD WE, BEFOREHAND, LIVE IN QUIET, by NIKOLAI (NIKOLAY) STEPANOVICH GUMILEV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Gumilyov, Nikolay Subject(s): War HOW LONG, O LORD, HOW LONG, BEFORE THE FLOOD, by ROBERT PALMER Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I HOW LONG?, by FERNER R. NUHN Poem Text First Line: How long this vain, blind lust of power Last Line: Replace their country's battle song? Subject(s): Hate; Patriotism; Social Protest; War HOW MCCLELLAN TOOK MANASSAS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Heard ye how the bold mcclellan Last Line: Tell on shaft and storied brasses / how he took the famed man assas Subject(s): "american Civil War;bull Run, Battles Of;mcclellan, George Brinton (1826-1885);u.s. - History;" "manassas, Batlle Of; HOW MUCH FOR SPAIN?, by PAUL WILLIAM RYAN Poem Source First Line: The long collection speech is done Last Line: Some men put in their lives Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) HOW MUCH LONGER?, by ROBERT MEZEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Day after day after day it goes on Last Line: The rest of her, beached on the mud, was horribly burned Subject(s): World War Ii HOW RIFLEMAN BROWN CAME TO VALHALLA, by GILBERT FRANKAU Poem Source First Line: To the lower hall of valhalla, to the heroes of no renown Subject(s): World War I HOW SLEEP THE BRAVE, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, nay, sweet england, do not grieve Last Line: Only thy joy could share. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Death; World War I - Casualties; Dead, The HOW SOLEMN AS ONE BY ONE (WASHINGTON CITY, 1865), by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How solemn as one by one Last Line: Nor the bayonet stab o friend. Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History HOW SWEET THE NIGHT, by RACHAEL BATES Poem Source First Line: How sweet, how sweet will be the night Subject(s): War HOW THE CUMBERLAND WENT DOWN [MARCH 8, 1862], by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gray swept the angry waves Last Line: As the cumberland went down. Subject(s): American Civil War; Cumberland (ship); Hampton Roads, Virginia; Sea Battles; United States - History; Virginia (ship); Naval Warfare; Merrimac (ship) HOW TO DIE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark clouds are smouldering into red Last Line: With due regard for decent taste. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War HOW TO KILL, by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Under the parabola of a ball Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War HOW TO KILL, by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the parabola of a ball Last Line: When the mosquito death approaches Subject(s): World War Ii HOW TO SURVIVE NUCLEAR WAR; AFTER READING IBUSE'S 'BLACK RAIN', by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brought low in kyoto Last Line: The enemies of despair. Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Radiation & Radiation Sickness; Survival; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb HOW WE CAME THIS FAR, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: The rattle and sway of the train as it clattered across Last Line: Even my papa, back when he was young Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History HOW WE HEARD THE NAME, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The river brought down Subject(s): War; Alexander The Great (356-323 B.c.) HOW WE SEE THE PAST, by RICHARD JACKSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was enough to be standing Last Line: Or if the cry of the crows really was %calling us out beyond ourselves Subject(s): History; Past; War HOW WILL IT SEEM?, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How will it seem when peace comes back once more Last Line: For those who told this sad, glad world goodbye. Subject(s): Peace; War HUFFMAN'S PHOTOGRAPH OF THE GRAVES OF THE UNKNOWN AT LITTLE BIGHORN, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Taken a year after, in '77 Last Line: Turning silver in the wind. Subject(s): Death; Little Bighorn, Battle Of; War; Dead, The HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 4, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: These fought in any case Last Line: Laughter out of dead bellies. Subject(s): World War I; First World War HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 5, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: There died a myriad Last Line: For a few thousand battered books. Subject(s): World War I; First World War HULL'S VICTORY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ye true sons of freedom, give ear to my song Last Line: And now with three cheers ere we sail to the main, %we will greet our brave captain again and again Subject(s): Navy - United States; Sea Battles; War Of 1812 HUM BOM!, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Whom bomb? / we bomb them! Subject(s): Nuclear War; United States; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb; America HUM BOM!, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whom bomb? %we bomb them! Last Line: Whom bomb? %you bomb you! Subject(s): Nuclear War; United States HUMAN NATURE, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For months and years in a forgotten war Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War HUMAN NATURE, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For months and years in a forgotten war Last Line: I am homesick for war Subject(s): World War Ii HUMAN TYRANTS, by ALISON MURDOCH Poem Source First Line: Thomas hit and hit Last Line: They've done no wrong - %we're human tyrants Subject(s): War HUN WITH THE GUN, by WILL P. SNYDER Poem Source First Line: This is the thing you have made him Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I HUNDRED THOUSAND MILLION MITES., by CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Who sent us forth? Who brings us home again? Subject(s): Chaos; World War I HUNGER, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: The bay as smooth as aspic. Hulks Last Line: Gazing out through clean, cracked glass Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii HURRAH, GERMANIA!, by FERDINAND FREILIGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hurrah! Thou lady proud and fair Last Line: Hurrah! Germania! Alternate Author Name(s): Freiligrath, Hermann Ferdinand Subject(s): Franco-prussian War (1870-1871); Nationalism - Germany HUZZA FOR COMMODORE RODGERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Weighing the acnhor's the first thing I tell Last Line: With our iron pills, leaden pills, chain shot & powder. %oh!The land of columbia forever! Subject(s): Navy - United States; President (ship); Rodgers, John (1773-1838); War Of 1812 HUZZA FOR THE CONSTITUTION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Once more john bull may stamp and rave Last Line: And what she has been, be so still, %the boast and glory of our land Subject(s): Constitution (ship); Navy - United States; War Of 1812 HWAJON (FIRE-FIELD), by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is no need to keep Last Line: Hurls me, astonished and stinging, into the acid light Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 HYBRIDS OF WAR: A MORALITY POEM: 4. THE MORAL, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a world of face values, what Last Line: Into the marrow of your bones? Subject(s): Morality; War; Ethics HYMN FOR THE FAIR AT CHICAGO, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O god! In danger's darkest hour Last Line: And all the earth is thine. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History HYMN FOR THE SLAIN IN BATTLE, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, god of all in life and death Last Line: They make the greatest sacrifice. Subject(s): War HYMN FOR THOSE IN THE AIR; TO THE ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Eternal father, by whose might Last Line: Winged with immortal joy %into thy heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C. Subject(s): World War Ii HYMN OF HATE, by HARRY MCCLINTOCK Poem Source First Line: For the sailors that drown when your ill found ships go crashing on the Last Line: That we are the workers of the world and we have not spoken-yet Subject(s): World War I HYMN OF LOVE, by RICHARD HOPE Poem Source First Line: Britannia, mother, hear our joyous hymn Subject(s): World War I HYMN OF THE MOTHERS OF OUR VOLUNTEERS, by HORATIO NELSON POWERS Poem Source First Line: Home calls each loved familiar name Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History HYMN OF VICTORY: THYUTMOSE 3, by AMON-RE Poem Source First Line: Thou comest to me, thou exultest, seeing my beauty Subject(s): War HYMN SUNG AT CHRISTMAS BY SCHOLARS OF ST. HELENA'S ISLAND, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, none in all the world before Last Line: That sets the island free! Subject(s): American Civil War; Christmas; Freedom; St. Helena's Island, South Carolina; U.s. - History; Nativity, The; Liberty HYMN TO THE FALLEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: We hold our flat shields, we wear our jerkins of hide Subject(s): War HYMN TO THE SUN, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Light of the world, and ruler of the year Last Line: And touch thy lyre, and shoot thy beams no more. Subject(s): Heroism; Holidays; Light; New Year; Sun; Time; War; Heroes; Heroines HYMN TO THE VOLUNTEERS OF THE REPUBLIC, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Volunteer of spain, militiaman Last Line: The course of water rushing to see its limit before it burns Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1939-1939) HYMN WRITTEN FOR THE GREAT CENTRAL FAIR IN PHILADELPHIA, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father, send on earth again Last Line: Faithful to freedom and thee. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History HYMN: TWENTY-FIRST SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sound of war! In earth and air Last Line: "how was I then alone?" Subject(s): War HYMNIC CURSE, by HANS LEYBOLD Poem Source First Line: Ye fire-flowers, loudly come to blossom Last Line: Bearing columns splinter. Pylons bow down to earth, %bent Subject(s): World War I I AM GOYA, by ANDREI VOZNESENSKY Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And hammered stars into the unforgetting sky - like nails %iam goya Alternate Author Name(s): Voznesenskii, Andrei Subject(s): Goya Y Lucientes, Francisco Jose De; World War Ii I AM REVOLUTION, by COVINGTON HALL Poem Source Last Line: The omega and alpha of all evolution Alternate Author Name(s): Ami, Covington; Ami, Covami Subject(s): World War I I AM THE EYEBALL LOOKING AT YOU, by KAIPO Poem Source Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans I AM YOUR WAITER TONIGHT AND MY NAME IS DIMITRI, by ROBERT HASS Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Immigrants; War; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration I BURN FOR ENGLAND WITH A LIVING FLAME, by GERVASE STEWART Poem Source Subject(s): England; War I CAUGHT HIM ONCE, by WING TEK LUM Poem Source First Line: Gruff old fut Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans I CHING #7 THE ARMY, by KAREN ZEALAND Poem Source First Line: The wagon of remorse, %once the war is over Last Line: He sought one face among the missing: %the picture he took of his cousin Subject(s): War I CLIMB THAT WOODED HILL, FR. BOOK OF SONGS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Grant that he is being careful of himself %so that he may come back and not die Subject(s): War I DIDN'T RAISE MY BOY TO BE A SOLDIER, by ALFRED BRYAN Poem Source First Line: Ten million soldiers to the war have gone Last Line: Remember that my boy belongs to me! Subject(s): World War I I DO NOT WANT YOU, PETROLEUM, by MAJID NAFICY Poem Source Last Line: Now I see, you made me bleed Subject(s): Politics; War I DON'T WANT TO STARTLE YOU, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew the general only by name of course Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War I DON'T WANT TO STARTLE YOU, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew the general only by name of course Last Line: Her eyes were looking at me Subject(s): World War Ii I GIVE MY SOLDIER BOY A BLADE, by H. M. L. Poem Source Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History I GIVE MY SOLDIER BOY A BLADE!, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "remember by these heartfelt strains, / I give my soldier boy the blade!" Subject(s): American Civil War;confederate States Of America;patriotism;u.s. - History;women; Confederacy I GO INTO THE DARK, LIT FROM WITHIN; DOES DAY EXIST?, by MIGUEL HERNANDEZ Poem Source Last Line: Down to the naked life blossoming out of pure nothing Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) I HATE THE MOON, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hate the moon, though it makes most people glad Last Line: And I know one day it'll do me some dreadful thing. Subject(s): Moon; World War I; First World War I HAVE NEVER WANTED TO MARCH, by TESS GALLAGHER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Or to wear an epaulet. Once I did Subject(s): Politics & Government; War I HAVE NEVER WANTED TO MARCH, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Or to wear an epaulet. Once I did Last Line: To save its children from the burning house Subject(s): Politics; War I HAVE NO RING', by BERNARD GILBERT Poem Source First Line: I watch and listen with a dreadful fear Subject(s): World War I I JUST MISSED THE BUS AND I'LL BE LATE FOR WORK, by ARIEL DORFMAN Poem Source First Line: I'd have to piss through my eyes to cry for you Last Line: This war %to mourn for us Subject(s): War I LOOKED AT ENGLAND FROM A LITTLE HILL, by MABEL ESTHER ALLAN Poem Source Last Line: Broad, cool and shining in the quiet fields Subject(s): World War Ii I MET A MAN, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I met a man when night was nigh Last Line: Like moses' after sinai. Subject(s): War I PAY MY DEBT FOR LAFAYETTE AND ROCHAMBEAU', by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eagle, whose fearless Last Line: Love frees the world!... Subject(s): France; Freedom; Rockwell, Kiffin Yates (1892-1916); World War I; Liberty; First World War I REMEMBER, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was my bridal night I remember Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Love - Age Differences; Marriage; World War Ii; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Second World War I REMEMBER, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was my bridal night I remember Last Line: Oh my bride, my bride Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Love - Age Differences; Marriage; World War Ii I REMEMBER THE FIRST DAY, THE INFANTILE BRUTALITY, by MARINA IVANOVNA TZVETAYEVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A convict's passion and a cruel love Alternate Author Name(s): Tsvetayeva, Marina Ivanovna; Efron, Sergei, Mrs.; Tsvetaeva, Marina Ivanovna Subject(s): Love; War I SAW A BROKEN TOWN BESIDE THE GREY MARCH SEA, by MABEL ESTHER ALLAN Poem Source Last Line: About each fallen wall, each beam, leaving no livid, %achingplace alone Subject(s): War I SAW A FILM ONE SUNDAY., by JOHN KITCHING Poem Source Last Line: But he doesn't know what he fought for %and he just wouldn't say what he'd seen Subject(s): War I SAW THE VISION OF ARMIES, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): War I SHALL LAUGH PURELY, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Turn from that girl Last Line: All will be worse confounded soon Subject(s): War I SHALL LAUGH PURELY, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Turn from that girl Last Line: Thin snow falls on historical rocks Subject(s): War I SING OF BATTLE, by JOAN SALVAT-PAPASSEIT Poem Source First Line: Cavalier on his steed Last Line: Notre dame de la garde priez pour nous Subject(s): Cavaliers; War I SING THE BATTLE, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sing the song of the great clean guns that belch forth death at will Last Line: And wilt thou sing the shadowy hosts that never march again? Subject(s): Singing & Singers; War; Songs I SIT AND SEW, by ALICE RUTH MOORE DUNBAR-NELSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sit and sew - a useless task it seems Last Line: It stifles me -- god, must I sit and sew? Alternate Author Name(s): Nelson, Alice Dunbar (moore) Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Americans; Sewing; United States; War; America I STOOD WITH THE DEAD, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood with the dead, so forsaken and still Last Line: Fall in!' I shouted; 'fall in for your pay!' Subject(s): Army Life; World War I; Drills & Minor Tactics; First World War I TRACKED DOWN A DEAD MAN DOWN A TRENCH, by WALTER SCOTT STUART LYON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I saw then why he crouched so still, %and why his head hung down Subject(s): World War I I WANT TO DIE IN MY OWN BED, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night the army came up from gilgal Last Line: I want to die in my own bed Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War I WANT TO DIE IN MY OWN BED, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night the army came up from gilgal Last Line: But I want to die in my own bed Subject(s): World War Ii I WANT TO LIVE AS A MAGICIAN, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: It is not easy to move about on this earth with crumpled Last Line: From my pocket and perch them on blooming branches Subject(s): Blood; Buddhism; Memory; Pictures; War Injuries I WAS SLEEPLESS, AND I PASSED THE NIGHT KEEPING VIGIL, by TUMADIR BINT IBN AL-SHARID AL-KHANSA Poem Source Alternate Author Name(s): Tumardir Bint `amir Al-harith Ibn Ash-sharid; Al-khansa Subject(s): Brothers; Death; War I WILL NOT FIGHT, by ADA HILTON DAVIES Poem Text First Line: I will not bear my country's arms again Last Line: To conquer for these profit-lords more spoil. Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Anti-war Protests I WRITE THIS TO REPORT..., by LEONARD NOLT Poem Source First Line: I a now standing, with others, in Last Line: As the flame begins to rise Subject(s): Politics; War I'LL HAVE THE WINDOW SOUTHWARD., by KIM SANG-YONG Poem Source Last Line: When someone asks why I live %I just smile Subject(s): War I'M DYING, COMRADE, by MARY H. C. BOOTH Poem Text First Line: I think I'm dying, comrade Last Line: Is calling me from life. Subject(s): American Civil War; Martyrs; United States - History I'VE LOST MY RIFLE AND BAYONET., by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Since I've lost you Subject(s): Army Life; World War I IDEA OF ANCESTRY, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Taped to the wall of my cell are 47 pictures: 47 black Last Line: They are all of me, I am me, they are thee, and I have no children to float in the space between Subject(s): African Americans; Ancestors And Ancestry; Fathers; Korean War, 1950-1953; Men; Prayer; Prisons And Prisoners IF, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: If all the hells of every war-maimed soldier Last Line: That moment would bring peace ... Age-long ...World-wide. Subject(s): Peace; Soldiers; War IF ON ACCOUNT OF THE POLITICAL SITUATION, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): War IF WAR IS RIGHT, by ALICE (HENDERSON) CORBIN Poem Text First Line: If war is right, then god is might Last Line: He lies among the slain. Subject(s): War 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 IF WE RETURN, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HARVEY Poem Source Subject(s): World War I IF!, by BARTHOLOMEW GRIFFIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Suppose 'twere done! Last Line: Of lingering smile on satan's face! Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Death; Devil; Satire (as Poetic Genre); War; Weapons; Ammunition; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub IF. MOTHER TO HER DAUGHTER, by FLORENCE GUERTIN TUTTLE Poem Source First Line: If you can lose your head when all about you Last Line: And which is more-a thing of stone, my girl Subject(s): World War I IFF, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hate hitler? No, I spared him hardly a thought Subject(s): World War Ii IGNEOUS, by DANIELLE HANSON Poem Source First Line: Tonight the goddess of love and war Last Line: That it's the sharpest razor you cannot feel Subject(s): Politics; War II PETER II 22, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark, the new year succeeds the dead Last Line: The heights which crowned a deadlier year. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Time; World War I; First World War IKUMAN O, by SOJIN TOKIJI TAKEI Poem Source Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; World War Ii - Japanese-americans ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER Poet's Biography Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER Poet's Biography Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Full of hate %patroculus rushed against the trojans. Thrice Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER Poet's Biography Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER Poet's Biography Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER Poet's Biography Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER Poet's Biography Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER Poet's Biography Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER Poet's Biography Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER Poet's Biography Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER Poet's Biography Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now as he was pondering this in his heart and his spirit Last Line: Nesaie and speio and thoe, and ox-eyed halia Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: ACHILLES SETS OUT, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now I shall ask you to imagine how Last Line: Someone has left a spear in the sand Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: ACHILLES TO LYCAON, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thus spoke priam's shining son with words supplicating Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War; War ILIAD: ACHILLES TO THE DYING LYKAON, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Float with the fish, they'll clean your wounds, and lick Last Line: Killed by the wooden ships while I was gone Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: ACHILLES' SHIELD (PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF BOOK 8 IN 1598), by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bright-footed thetis did the sphere aspire Last Line: With vulcan's armes wrought for eternall day Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Shields; Trojan War ILIAD: ACHILLES' WRATH, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At her departure his disdain return'd Last Line: No gift shall bribe it, and no pray'r persuade Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: ANDROMACHE'S LAMENTATION, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O my lost husband! Let me ever mourn Last Line: Which night and day, I wou'd with tears repeat Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BATTLE, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As when 'gainst murmuring shores a western breese Last Line: So in the medley, clamour shewd, and flight Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 1, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sing, goddess, the anger of peleus' son achilleus Last Line: Going up to the bed he slept and hera of the gold throne beside him Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 1, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And when they came together in one place Last Line: Such the drear roar of battle when they mixt Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 1, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Apollo's priest to th' argive fleete doth bring Last Line: By him the golden-thron'd queene slept, the queene of deities Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 1 (TRANSLATION OF 1598), by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Apollo's priest to th' agrive fleete doth bring Last Line: Fair juno with the golden throne: and there their quarrel end Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 1, SELS., by HOMER Poet's Biography Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 1, SELS., by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sing, goddess, the wrath of achilles peleus' son Last Line: And beside him was hera of the golden throne Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 1. THE RAGE OF ACHILLES, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rage-goddess, sing the rage of peleus' son achilles Last Line: Lay hera the queen, the goddess of the golden throne Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 10, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Th' atrides watching, wake the other peeres Last Line: They offerd to the maiden queene that hath the azure eyne Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 10, SELS., by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thus kept the trojans watch; but the achaians were holden of heaven-sent panic Last Line: And there laid them to rest and took the boon of sleep Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 10. MARAUDING AT NIGHT, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So by the ships the other lords of achaea's armies Last Line: Honeyed, mellow wine to the great goddess athena Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 11, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Atrides and his other peeres of name Last Line: Were well, and, instantly allaid, the wound did bleed no more Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 11. AGAMEMNON'S DAY OF GLORY, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now dawn rose up from bed by her lordly mate tithonus Last Line: And the wound dried and the flowing blood stopped Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 12, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The troyans at the trench their powres engage Last Line: Askt all their rescue. Greece went downe: tumult was at his height Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 12, SELS., by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thus they thoroughout the city, scared like fawns, were cooling their sweat Last Line: Thus spake she wailing, and the women joined their moan Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 12. SARPEDON'S SPEECH, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As ye see, a mountaine lion fare Last Line: Glory to others, or make them resign the like to us Variant Title(s): Sarpedon Encourages Glaucu Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 12. SARPEDON'S SPEECH TO GLAUCUS, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thus to glaucus spake Last Line: A common sacrifice to honour fall Variant Title(s): Sarpedon Encourages Glaucu Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 12. SARPEDON'S SPEECH TO GLAUCUS IN THE 12TH OF HOMER, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Whence it is, glaucus, that in lycian land Last Line: Attend, which none may escape, then on, that we %may glory on others gain, or they on us Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 12. THE TROJANS STORM THE RAMPART, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And so under shelter now menoetius' fighting son Last Line: Back by the hollow hulls, the uproar rising, no way out, no end -- Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 13, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Neptune (in pittie of the greeks' hard plight) Last Line: They reacht the splendors stucke about the unreacht throne of jove Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 13. BATTLING FOR THE SHIPS, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But once zeus had driven hector and hector's trojans Last Line: Struck the high clear skies, the lightning world of zeus Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 14, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Atrides, to behold the skirmish, brings Last Line: Not one with swiftnesse of his feete could so enrich a chace Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 14. HERA OUTFLANKS ZEUS, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But the mounting cries of war could not escape old nestor Last Line: Once zeus whipped enemy ranks in blinding, panic rout Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 14. HERA PLANS A SEDUCTION, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Standing on high olympus' topmost peak Last Line: By sleep and loved subdued, th' immortal sire %clasp'd in h is arms his wife, repos'd in peace Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 15, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Jove waking, and behold troy in flight Last Line: Of which twelve men, his most resolv'd, lay dead before his sterne Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 15. THE ACHAEAN ARMIES AT BAY, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Back through jutting stakes and across the trench they fled Last Line: Twelve he impaled point-blank, struggling up the hulls Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 16, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Achilles, at patroclus' suite, doth yeeld Last Line: They gift to peleus from the gods, soone rap't him from his reach Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 16, SELS., by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Meanwhile patroclus stood beside his friend Last Line: May easily drive back upon their town %the weary trojans from our tents and fleet Subject(s): Achilles; Death; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 16. PATROCLEIA, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hornets occasionally build their nests near roads Last Line: Hector withdrew his spear and said 'perhaps' Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 16. PATROCLUS FIGHTS AND DIES, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So they fought to the death around that benched beaked ship Last Line: Gifts of the gods to peleus, shining immortal gifts Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 17, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A dreadfull fight about patroclus' corse Last Line: About and in the dike. Annd yet, the warre concludes not here Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 17. MENELAUS' FINEST HOUR, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But atreus' son the fighting menelaus marked it all Last Line: As the argives fled in fear, no halt in the fighting, not now -- Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 18, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Achilles mournes, told of patroclus' end Last Line: Stoopt from the steepe olympian hill, hid in eternall snow Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 18, SELS., by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And there illustrious vulcan also wrought %a dance Last Line: Two tumblers raised their song, and flung themselves %about among the band that trod the dance Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 18, SELS., by HOMER Poet's Biography Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 18. AJAX PRAYS FOR LIGHT, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O heaven! The veriest child might plainly see Last Line: The clouds he scatter'd, and the mist dispers'd %the sun sh one forth, and all the field was clear Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 18. THE ARMING OF ACHELLEUS, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So these fought on in the likeness of blazing fire. Meanwhile Last Line: And carried with her the shining armour, the gift of hephaistos Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 18. THE SHIELD OF ACHILLES, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So the men fought on like a mass of whirling fire Last Line: Bearing the brilliant gear, the god of fire's gift Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Shields; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 19, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thetis, presenting armour to her sonne Last Line: Gave dreadfull signall, and frothright made flie his one-hov'd steeds Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 19. ACHELLEUS RETURNS TO BATTLE, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now dawn the yellow-robed arose from the river of ocean Last Line: He spoke, and shouting held on in the foremost his single-foot horses Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 19. BREISEIS' GRIEF FOR PATROCLUS, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Briseis, fair as golden venus, saw %patroclus lying, pierced with mortal wound Last Line: Patroclus' death the pretext of their tears %but each in secret wept her private griefs Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 19. THE CHAMPION ARMS FOR BATTLE, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As dawn rose up in her golden robe from ocean's tides Last Line: And out in front ranks he drove his plunging stallions Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 2, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nor lingered paris in the lofty house Last Line: Of ilion, paris, sunlike all in arms %glittering Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 2, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Jove cals a vision up from somnus' den Last Line: From lycia and the gulfie flood of xanthus farre remov'd Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 2 (TRANSLATION OF 1598), by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Jove cals a vision up from somnus' den Last Line: The princes, therefore, of the fleete, and fleet it selfe, I cite Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 2. HECTOR AND ANDROMACHE, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hector would always call the boy scamandrius Last Line: Andromache pressed the child to her scented breast, %smiling through her tears Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 2. THE GREAT GATHERING OF THE ARMIES, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now the great array of gods and chariot-driving men Last Line: From lycia far south, from the xanthus' swirling rapids Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 20, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: By jove's permission, all the gods descend Last Line: His most inaccessible hands in humane blood he died Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 20. OLYMPIAN GODS IN ARMS, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So by the beaked ships the argives formed for battle Last Line: Splattering both strong arms, achilles' invincible arms -- Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 21, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In two parts troy's host parted; thetis' sonne Last Line: Most fortunate. Who ever scapt, his head might thanke his feete Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 21. ACHILLES FIGHTS THE RIVER, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But once they reached the ford where the river runs clear Last Line: Any fighter whose racing legs could save his life Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 21. AJAX DRIVES THE TROJANS TO XANTHUS, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But when now they came unto the ford of the fair-flowing river ... Xanthus Last Line: Their groaning went up ghastly as they were stricken bu the sword, and the water reddened with blood Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 22, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All troyans housd but hector, onely he Last Line: Her desetr state (fearing their owne), wept with her teare for teare Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 22. ANDROMACHE, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hector's wife had as yet heard nothing Last Line: Women joined in her lament Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 22. ATHENA TRICKS HECTOR, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No longer I avoid thee of late %o son of peleus Last Line: The evils thou hast done my countrymen %my friends whom tho u hast slaughtered in thy rage Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 22. HECTOR ADDRESSES THE INEVITABLE, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thus as he spoke, his sharp-edged sword he drew Last Line: Thus would they say, then stab the dead anew Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 22. NEWS OF HECTOR'S DEATH, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So she spoke in tears but the wife of hektor had not yet %heard Last Line: So she spoke, in tears, and the women joined in her mourning Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 22. THE DEATH OF HECTOR, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So all through troy the men who had fled like panicked fawns Last Line: Her voice rang out in tears and the women wailed in answer Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 22. THE DEATH OF HECTOR, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So all through troy the men who had fled like panicked fawns Last Line: Her voice rang out in tears and the women wailed in answer Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 22. THE DEATH OF HEKTOR, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So along the city the trojans, who had run like fawns, dried Last Line: So she spoke, in tears; and the women joined in her mourning Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 22. THE LAST FIGHT, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And achilles made at him, for his heart was filled Last Line: The other immortal gods are minded to accomplish it Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 23, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Achilles orders justs of exequies Last Line: But to renowm'd talthybius the goodly caldron gave Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 23. FUNERAL GAMES FOR PATROCLUS, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So they grieved at troy while achaea's troops pulled back Last Line: To his herald talthybius -- the king's burnished trophy Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 24, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Jove, entertaining care of hector's corse Last Line: And so horse-taming hector's rites gave up his soule to rest Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 24, SELS., by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Then the assembly was broken up, and the tribes were scattered Last Line: Thus held they funeral for hector tamer of horses Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 24. ACHILLES AND PRIAM, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The games were over now. The gathered armies scattered Last Line: And so the trojans buried hector breaker of horses Subject(s): Achilles; Funerals; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 24. ACHILLEUS AND PRIAM, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And the games broke up, and the people scattered to go away, each man Last Line: Such was their burial of hektor, breaker of horses Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 24. PRIAM APPEALS TO ACHILLES, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Then thou, achilles, reverence the gods Last Line: And grinding misery o'er the earth pursue: %by god and man alike despised he roams Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 24. PRIAM APPEALS TO ACHILLES, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Great priam came Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 24. PRIAM OBTAINS HECTOR'S BODY, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Urge not, divine achilles, me to sit %while hector lies unburied in the camp Last Line: Lifting it from the ground, and his two friends %together h eaved it to the royal wain Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 3, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Paris (betwixt the hoasts) to single fight Last Line: Our acts here may be memorisd. This all greeks else thought fit Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 3. HELEN REVIEWS THE CHAMPIONS, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now with the squadrons marshaled, captains leading each Last Line: So atrides demanded. His armies roared assent Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 3. THE BEAUTY OF HELEN, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And then came iris as a messenger %to helen of the white arms Last Line: For like in wondrous wise is she %to the immortal goddesses %in loveliness of countenance Subject(s): Achilles; Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 4, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The gods in counsell at the last decree Last Line: He could not comprehend the fight, so many strew'd the ground Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 4. THE TRUCE ERUPTS IN WAR, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now aloft by the side of zeus the gods sat in council Last Line: Sprawled there side-by-side, facedown in the dust Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 5, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: King diomed (by pallas' spirit inspir'd Last Line: Juno and pallas reascend the starrie court of jove Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 5, SELS., by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now when the goddessm white-armed helen Last Line: Eager to make defense for argive men Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 5. DIOMEDES FIGHTS THE GODS, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Then pallas athena granted tydeus' son diomedes Last Line: Had stopped the murderous ares' cutting men to pieces Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 6, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The gods now leaving an indifferent field Last Line: Wisht peace, and us free sacrifice to all the powers of heaven Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 6, SELS., by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So was the dead fray of trojans and achaians left to itself Last Line: When we have chased out of troy-land the well-greaved achaians Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 6. HECTOR RETURNS TO TROY, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So the clash of achaean and trojan troops was on its own Last Line: Once we drive these argives geared for battle out of troy Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 6. THE MEETING OF HEKTOR AND ANDROMACHE, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now as hektor had come to the skaian gates and the oak tree Last Line: After we have driven out of troy the strong-greaved achaians Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 7, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hector, by helenus' advice, doth seeke Last Line: And sodaine sleepe's refreshing gift securely they receiv'd Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 7, SELS., by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sun went down, and the work of the achaians was accomplished Last Line: Then laid they them to rest and took the boon of sleep Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 7. AJAX DUELS WITH HECTOR, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Vaunting, aflash in arms, hector swept through the gates Last Line: Then down they lay at last and took the gift of sleep Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 8, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When jove to all the gods had given command Last Line: And all did wishfully expect the silver-throned morne Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 8. THE EVE OF BATTLE (LINES 553-565), by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So with hearts made high these sat night-long by the outworks Last Line: And oats, the horses waited for the dawn to mount her high place Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 8. THE TIDE OF BATTLE TURNS, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now as the dawn flung out her golden robe across the earth Last Line: Stallions waited for dawn to mount her glowing throne Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 9, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To agamemnon (urging hopelesse flight) Last Line: Where all receiv'd the soveraigne gifts soft somnus did present Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 9, SELS., by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Most valiant and noble odysseus, seeing atrides Last Line: Home - that is, if you wish it. There's no compulsion about it Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 9. THE EMBASSY TO ACHILLES, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So the trojans held their watch that night but not the achaeans Last Line: There they spent the night and took the gift of sleep Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 9. THE EMBASSY TO ACHILLEUS, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So the trojans held their night watches. Meanwhile immortal Last Line: Where they went to their beds and took the blessing of slumber Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK VI, 146, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Frail as the leaves that quiver on the sprays Last Line: Like them man flourishes, like them decays Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: CLASH OF ARMS OF THE ACHAIANS AND TROJAN, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not the sea-wave so bellows abroad when it bursts upon shingle Last Line: Dread upshouting as one when together they clashed in conflict Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: HECTOR IGNORES APPEALS TO FLEE TROY, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thus, weeping bitterly, the aged pair %entreated their dear son Last Line: To combat, and the sooner learn to whom %olympian jove decrees the victory Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War; Troy ILIAD: HECTOR'S CHILD AND THE PLUME, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This said, he reacht to take his sonne, who (of his armes afraid Last Line: Let his renowne be cleare as mine, equall his strength in warre Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: HECTOR'S FLIGHT, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now close at hand Last Line: As all the gods looked on Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: HEKTOR TO ANDROMACHE, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All these things are in my mind also, lady; but I fear still Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War; War ILIAD: HELEN'S LAMENTATION, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O hector, thou wert rooted in my heart Last Line: And with a general sigh her grief approv'd Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: JOVE'S COLD-SHARPE JAVELINES, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And as in winter time when jove his cold-sharpe Last Line: To shew their sharpnesse Subject(s): Achilles; Metaphor; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: MEN LIKE LEAVES, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why dost thou so explore Last Line: Man's leavie issue Subject(s): Achilles; Metaphor; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: MENELAUS WOUNDED, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thee, menelaus, then the blessed gods Last Line: Thy legs, thy feet, stained with thy trickling blood Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: PARIS AND MENELAUS, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But ere sterne conflict mixt both strengths, faire paris stept Last Line: Shrunke in his beauties Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: PARIS AND THE COURSER, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And now was paris come Last Line: Of loftie pergamus came forth Subject(s): Achilles; Metaphor; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: PATROCLUS SPEARS THESTOR, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The son of enops, thestor next he smote Last Line: Prone on his face, where gasping he expir'd Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: PATROCLUS'S REQUEST TO ACHILLES FOR HIS ARMS, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When, gently, raising up his drooping head Last Line: Deceiv'd, they shall retreat, and think 'tis you Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: SARPEDON TO GLAUKOS, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Glaukos, why is it you and I are honored beyond all men Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War; War ILIAD: SIMILES: AS WHEN AN ARCHITECT, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As when an architect some palace wall Last Line: So wedg'd the helmets and boss'd bucklers stood Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: SIMILES: THE GREEKS LIKE FIRE, BIRDS, FLIES, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As when devouring flames some forest seize Last Line: Bright-arm'd, high-crested, and athirst for war Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: SIMILES: THE TWO AJAXES LIKE OXEN, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ajaz the swift swerv'd never from the side Last Line: So, side by side, they, persevering fought Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: THE GREEKS LIKE BEES, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As when of frequent bees Last Line: Troopt to these princes and the court along th'unmeasur'd shore Subject(s): Achilles; Metaphor; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: THE GREEKS LIKE CLOUDS, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Their ground they stil mde good Last Line: So firmely stood the greeks, nor fled for all the ilians' ayd Subject(s): Achilles; Metaphor; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: THE GREEKS LIKE THE SEA, THE TROJANS LIKE EWES, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And as when the west-wind's flawes the sea thrusts Last Line: But shew'd mixt tongs from many a land of men cald to their aid Subject(s): Achilles; Metaphor; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: THE KILLING OF LYKAON, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sing for me, muse, the mania of achilles Last Line: Killed by the running ships when I was gone Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: THE OLD TROJAN CHIEFS SEE HELEN, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All grave old men, and souldiers they had bene, but for age Last Line: Must passe the beautie Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: THE SACRIFICE TO APOLLO, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now when the solemn rites of pray'r were past Last Line: And snore secure on decks, till rosy morn Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: THE TROJANS OUTSIDE TROY, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Big with great purposes and proud, they sat Last Line: Aurora should restore the light of day Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War; Troy ILIAD: THE TWO AJAXES COMPARED TO OXEN, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oileus by his brother's side stood close and would not Last Line: So toughly stood these to their taske and made their worke %as even Subject(s): Achilles; Metaphor; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILL-POLITICAL, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Is wind across the kansas prairie. The babyface mashes stiff potato Last Line: And disappearances, the glop of spuds now greening on his plate Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities ILLEGITIMATE THINGS, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Water still flows Subject(s): War ILLUMINATION FOR VICTORIES IN MEXICO, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Light up thy homes, columbia Last Line: Light up, light up your homes! Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): United States - Mexican War (1846-1848) ILLUSIONS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trenches in the moonlight, in the lulling moonlight Last Line: For the moon's interpretation. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War ILLUSORY HORIZONS, V, by JEAN DE LA VILLE DE MIRMONT Poem Source First Line: Tall ships, our love of you is loss complete Last Line: For great adventures never tried Subject(s): World War I ILLUSORY HORIZONS, XI, by JEAN DE LA VILLE DE MIRMONT Poem Source First Line: Diana of bright metal, goddess-moon Last Line: Your flame of silence offered in the night Subject(s): World War I ILLUSORY HORIZONS, XIII, by JEAN DE LA VILLE DE MIRMONT Poem Source First Line: The sea is infinite and strange my dreams Last Line: Lost gulls will recognize them for their own Subject(s): World War I ILLUSORY HORIZONS, XIV, by JEAN DE LA VILLE DE MIRMONT Poem Source First Line: I've taken passage on a full-rigged ship Last Line: But will the savages think it worth the price? Subject(s): World War I IMAGINE, by JR. SIDNEY HALL Poem Source First Line: A word from a song Last Line: Crying as secretly as he can Subject(s): Politics; War IMPENDING WAR BETWEEN AUSTRIA AND SARDINIA, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! The impatient dogs of war Last Line: The thunder-cloud, the storm of war! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Austria; Europe; War IMPRESSION MADE IN THE GROUND AT BILLERICAY, BY..., by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Like susan rothenberg's horses, the image Last Line: Limbs the wings that take him farther, %farther than we ever want to go Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities IN A BRITISH CEMETERY OVERSEAS, MAY, 1940, by RICHARD ELWES Poem Source First Line: For you the lilac and the apple blossom Last Line: Sleeping you fan them as with angels' breath, %from the hard-won immunity of death Subject(s): World War Ii IN A CAFE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kiss the maid and pass her round Last Line: Their hearts at peace, their god above them. Subject(s): Restaurants; Soldiers; World War I; Cafes; Diners; First World War IN A RESTAURANT, 1917, by ELEANOUR TREHANE NORTON Poem Source First Line: Encircled by the traffic's roar Last Line: Now in our hearts an empty place %and far in france an unmarked grave Subject(s): Women; World War I IN A SLUM, by A. STODART WALKER Poem Source First Line: I never heard him speak a kindly word Subject(s): World War I IN A TIME OF WAR: 1. COUNTER OR CAMP. AUGUST 1914, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Counter or camp, which of the two rules worst? Last Line: And still explores the universe with awe. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): World War I; First World War IN A TIME OF WAR: 2. THE WOUNDED, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cancelled the fair-planned life Last Line: Who grasp the incalculable, being dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): World War I; First World War IN A TIME OF WAR: 3. THE DESECRATED DREAM, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With every mighty nation now at war Last Line: Still seeks worse ways to slay and to be slain. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): World War I; First World War IN A TIME OF WAR: 4. AFTER THE ARMISTICE (NOVEMBER 1918), by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Psyche has fouled both hands in blood and clay Last Line: Then turned to cleaner work, shall she rejoice. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): World War I; First World War IN A V.A.D. PANTRY, by ALBERTA VICKRIDGE Poem Source First Line: Pots in piles of blue and white Last Line: Shed a nimbus strange and pale %round about this humble grail Subject(s): Women; World War I IN AFRICA, by ROY FULLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Parabolas of grief, the hills are never Last Line: Involved, improbable; the endless plain %precisely as it seems Subject(s): World War Ii IN ALL THE ARGOSY OF YOUR BRIGHT HAIR, by DUNSTAN THOMPSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Whom I lay down for dead rises up in blood Subject(s): War IN ARLINGTON, by EDNA MEAD Poem Text First Line: Does he lie gladly in the earth of home Last Line: Of honor and its wearer yesterday. Subject(s): Arlington National Cemetery; Death; Military; Soldiers; War; Dead, The IN BARCELONA YOU TRIED TO SCREAM, by LESLIE ULLMAN Poem Source First Line: You had spent the day looking at paintings Last Line: Behind your eyes Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) IN BARRACKS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The barrack-square, washed clean with rain Last Line: Another night; another day.' Subject(s): Army Life; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Drills & Minor Tactics; First World War IN CALIFORNIA DURING THE GULF WAR, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the blight-killed eucalypts, among Subject(s): California; Gulf War (1991); Operation Desert Storm (1991) IN CALIFORNIA DURING THE GULF WAR, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the blight-killed eucalypts, among Last Line: Were not doves, there was no rainbow. And when it was claimed %the war had ended, it had not ended Subject(s): California; Gulf War (1991) IN CAMP, by WILLIAM HAINES LYTLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I gazed forth from my wintry tent Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History IN CANADA, by ETHEL NICHOLSON Poem Text First Line: You are dead Last Line: And you are dead. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Peace; World War I - Canada; Dead, The; Paradise IN DEATH'S FIELD, by TUMADIR BINT IBN AL-SHARID AL-KHANSA Poem Source First Line: In death's field, in morning distress Last Line: And every trive is a journey to ruin %and every treaty is erased by time Alternate Author Name(s): Tumardir Bint `amir Al-harith Ibn Ash-sharid; Al-khansa Subject(s): Brothers; Death; War IN DISTRUST OF MERITS, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strengthened to live, strengthened to die for Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; World War Ii; Anti-war Protests; Second World War IN DISTRUST OF MERITS, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strengthened to live, strengthened to die for Last Line: Beauty is everlasting %and dust is for a time Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; World War Ii IN ENGLAND, by MAY O'ROURKE Poem Source First Line: Today the lonely winds are loose Subject(s): World War I IN FESTUBERT, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now every thing that shadowy thought Last Line: And sear no more with second sight. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War IN FLANDERS, by JAMES NORMAN HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could you have seen them marching Last Line: To see ten thousand fighting men. Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium; Reality; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; World War I; First World War IN FLANDERS FIELD: AN ANSWER, by C. B. GALBREATH Poem Text First Line: In flanders fields the cannon boom Last Line: In flanders fields. Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium; World War I; First World War IN FLANDERS FIELDS, by JOHN MCCRAE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In flanders fields the poppies blow / between the crosses, row on row Last Line: In flanders fields. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Flanders, Belgium; Freedom; Patriotism; Soldiers; World War I; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Liberty; First World War IN FRANCE, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: We're done wid the thransport. Thank heaven we're here! Last Line: "oh, meester jeem newell, please do eet som' more!" Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I; First World War IN FRANCE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it well with henri and jean and paul? Last Line: "well with them all—they are all with god!" Subject(s): Death; Death - Children; France; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; Sons; War; Dead, The; Death - Babies IN GALLIPOLI, by EDEN PHILLPOTTS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a fold of lion-coloured earth Last Line: Beside her hero sons, beneath the field and foam. Subject(s): Gallipoli Campaign (1915); World War I; First World War IN HIDING, by DAVID WOJAHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From the attic's shutter crack I watch Last Line: You wait. You watch until it's gone Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) IN HIS BLANKET ON THE GROUND', by CAROLINE H. GERVAIS Poem Source First Line: Weary, weary lies the soldier Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History IN HOSPITAL: 21. ROMANCE, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Talk of pluck!' pursued the sailor Last Line: "and they meant it too, by thunder!" Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): American Civil War; Charleston, South Carolina; Hospitals; United States - History IN LAST YEAR'S CAMP, by MARY ADAIR-MACDONALD Poem Source First Line: They stole the gorse's glory Subject(s): World War I IN LIMBO, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: This past winter turkey buzzards, vultures Last Line: Have been told it meant, wary of anything like joy Subject(s): Snow; War; Winter IN LOUISIANA, by JOHN WILLIAM DE FOREST Poem Source First Line: Without a hillock stretched the plain Subject(s): War IN MANILA BAY, by CHARLES WADSWORTH Poem Source First Line: On the broad manila bay Subject(s): Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898) IN MEMORIAM (ABRAHAM LINCOLN), by DEXTER SMITH Poem Text First Line: Columbia weeps! Her cherished son Last Line: Our future is alone with god. Subject(s): American Civil War; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; U.s. - History IN MEMORIAM (DAVID J. RYAN, C. S. A.), by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art sleeping, brother, sleeping Last Line: Flashed above my brother's tomb. Subject(s): American Civil War; Brothers; Death; U.s. - History; Half-brothers; Dead, The IN MEMORIAM (EASTER 1915), by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood Last Line: Have gathered them and will do never again. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Soldiers; War; World War I; The Resurrection; First World War IN MEMORIAM (TO FIELD-MARSHAL LORD ROBERTS OF KANDAHAR), by EDWARD JOHN Poem Source First Line: Rest, though the clamorous surge of war Subject(s): World War I IN MEMORIAM, A.H., by MAURICE BARING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind had blown away the rain Last Line: Among the very brave, the very true. Variant Title(s): Udite, Si Dolgono Mesti Fringuelli Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Herbert, Auberon Thomas (1876-1916); Memory; Patriotism; World War I; Dead, The; Lucas, 8th Baron; Dingwall, 11th Baron; First World War IN MEMORIAM: P.W, by PETER BAKER Poem Source First Line: Just as the flower of life seemed set to bloom Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii IN MEMORIAM: PRIVATE D. SUTHERLAND, by ALAN MACKINTOSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So you were david's father Last Line: But I was your officer. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackintosh, Ewart Alan Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Fathers & Sons; Leadership; Military; Soldiers; Sons; War; Dead, The IN MEMORIAM: PRIVATE D. SUTHERLAND, by EWART ALAN MACKINTOSH Poem Source First Line: So you were david's father Last Line: For they were only your fathers %but I was your officer Subject(s): World War I IN MEMORIAM: TIMOTHY CORSELLIS, KILLED FLYING, by PATRICIA LEDWARD Poem Source First Line: You wished to a lark, and, as the lark, mount singing Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii IN MEMORY, by RICHARD REALF Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Old greece hath her thermopylae Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History IN MEMORY OF A SPANISH POET, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see you strangling Last Line: Silos creep away toward the west Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) IN MEMORY OF A SPANISH POET, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see you strangling Last Line: Silos creep away toward the west Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) IN MEMORY OF BASIL, MARQUESS OF DUFFERIN AND AVA, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On such a morning as this Subject(s): War IN MEMORY OF JAMES LAWRENCE, ESQUIRE, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To life his name to high renown Last Line: Here lawrence rests, his country's pride, %on valor's decks who fought and died! Subject(s): Chesapeake (ship); Lawrence, James (1781-1813); Navy - United States; War Of 1812 IN MEMORY OF MY BROTHER, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Young as the youngest who donned the gray Last Line: But -- his memory lives in the other. Variant Title(s): The Southern Soldier Boy Subject(s): American Civil War; Brothers; U.s. - History; Half-brothers IN MEMORY OF THE SPANISH POET FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA, by THOMAS JAMES MERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Where the white bridge rears up its stamping arches Last Line: What white sierra hid your murder in a rocky valley? Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) IN MY BODY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans IN NEXT YEAR'S SUMMER TIME, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: I'm home. Yes. And safe. I should give Last Line: And I want to go back to that place! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Friendship; Grief; Soldiers; World War I; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; First World War IN NO MAN'S LAND, by EWART ALAN MACKINTOSH Poem Source First Line: The hedge on the lieft and the trench on the right Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I IN OUR TIME, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: Under the desert is a bunker Last Line: After the first nuclear war Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) IN OUR TIME, by MICHAEL ROBERTS Poem Source First Line: Between the rough hills of gabbro and the cold sea Subject(s): War IN PARENTHESIS, SELS., by DAVID JONES Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Nature; World War I IN PARENTHESIS: PART 1. THE MANY MEN SO BEAUTIFUL, by DAVID JONES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Last Line: The rain increases with the light and the weight increases Subject(s): World War I; Army Life IN POSTURES THAT CALL, by OSCAR WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: The soldiers suddenly struck by love Subject(s): War IN PRAISE OF RIGHTEOUS WAR, by WALTER MALONE Poem Source First Line: I am coming not in a weakling's verse, with a Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I IN RETROSPECT, by ALICE E. MODES Poem Text First Line: Nature forgets war's hatred before long Last Line: The futile slaughter, bankrupt spoils of war. Subject(s): Hate; Nature; War IN SEARCH OF HISTORY, by RICHARD SHELTON Poem Source First Line: We go in search of history and find Last Line: Fill the air with the heartbreak of history Subject(s): History; Vietnam; War IN SEARCH OF THE TRAITOR, by MAX JACOB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The hotel again! My friend paul is a prisoner of the germans Last Line: Who is miss cypriani? Another spy Subject(s): World War Ii IN SEPTEMBER 1939, by BERNARD H. GUTTERIDGE Poem Source First Line: The last war was my favourite picture story Last Line: Or an unguessed disease unless death drops %quicker than the sirens or the traffic cops Subject(s): War IN SERVICE, by J. E. EVANS Poem Source First Line: Say, pa! What is a service flag? Variant Title(s): The Service Fla Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I IN STATE, by BYRON FORCEYTHE WILLSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O keeper of the sacred key Last Line: All the land and sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Willson, Forceythe Subject(s): Death; War; Dead, The IN THE AMBULANCE, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two rows of cabbages Last Line: "two of kidney-beans." Subject(s): World War I; First World War IN THE BEGINNING, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus freud deposed about our infant state Subject(s): War IN THE CITY SQUARE, by THOMAS ERNEST HULME Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the city square at night, the meeting of the torches Last Line: To where? Alternate Author Name(s): Hulme, T. E. Subject(s): World War I; First World War IN THE DESERT TODAY, by L. CHALLONER Poem Source First Line: What did I see in the desert today Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii IN THE DORDOGNE, by JOHN PEALE BISHOP Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We stood up before day Subject(s): World War I; First World War IN THE DORDOGNE, by JOHN PEALE BISHOP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We stood up before day Last Line: Over the clear and silent streams %delicately bordered by poplars Subject(s): World War I IN THE EAST, by GEORG TRAKL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dark wrath of people Last Line: Wild wolves have broken through the gates Subject(s): World War I IN THE FIRE, A TELEGRAPH POLE, by HARA TAMIKI Poem Source Last Line: A telegraph pole, like a stamen Subject(s): Nuclear War IN THE FIRE, A TELEGRAPH POLE, by HARA TAMIKI Poem Source Last Line: A telegraph pole, like a stamen Subject(s): War IN THE FOURTH YEAR; SEPTEMBER 3, 1939-42, by RONALD GORELL BARNES Poem Source First Line: Over this huge escarpment, valiant heart Last Line: Toil as your friend and freedom as your prize! Alternate Author Name(s): Gorell, 3d Baron Subject(s): World War Ii IN THE GALLERY WHERE THE FAT MEN GO, by LOUIS GOLDING Poem Source First Line: They are showing how we lie Last Line: Would the pictures still be hung %in the gallery where the fat men go? Subject(s): World War I IN THE HENRY JAMES COUNTRY, by WILLIAM ABRAHAMS Poem Source First Line: Spring, for julian, was amber in the hand Subject(s): War IN THE HILLS, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shadow crawls up canyon walls; the Last Line: Somewhere the loud streets thunder, and one time there was a war. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Canyons; Cowboys; Disasters; Hunger; Smoke; Soldiers; War IN THE LAND / WHERE TANKS HAD PLOWED THE SOIL, by LEONID NIKOLAYEVICH MARTYNOV Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): War IN THE LAND WHERE WE WERE DREAMING, by DANIEL BEDINGER LUCAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair were our visions! Oh, they were as grand Last Line: In the land where we were dreaming. Subject(s): American Civil War; Peace; United States - History IN THE LIGHT FROM BURNING SKULLS, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: Hating darkness, I turn on all the lights Last Line: Of the tank crews your husband is killing Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) IN THE MEANTIME, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lord of loaves and fishes Last Line: I am become death -- the destroyer of worlds Subject(s): Bible; Death; Nuclear War; Religion; Social Protest IN THE MEDITERRANEAN - GOING TO THE WAR, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lovely wings of gold and green Last Line: In my heart a newer song. Subject(s): Mediterranean Sea; World War I; First World War IN THE MIDST OF DEATH IS LIFE, by CLIVE SANSOM Poem Source First Line: Within the flower, the root Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii IN THE MORNING, by JOHN GRAHAM BOWER Poem Source First Line: Back from battle, torn and rent Subject(s): World War I IN THE MORNING (LOOS, 1915), by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The firefly haunts were lighted yet Last Line: In the town of loos in the morning. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War IN THE NORTHERN WOODS, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: The wind that stripped the birches by the lake Last Line: Whose small bones left no imprint on the earth Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History IN THE PINK', by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So davies wrote: 'this leaves me in the pink' Last Line: And still the war goes on -- he don't know why. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War IN THE PRISON PEN (1864), by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Listless he eyes the palisades Last Line: Dead in his meagreness. Subject(s): American Civil War; Prisons & Prisoners; U.s. - History IN THE SLEEP OF REASON, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The pilot, returned, sees the village Last Line: At 40,000 feet Subject(s): Air Force - United States; Film (photography); News; War IN THE THIRD YEAR OF THE WAR, by HENRY TREECE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I dream now of green places Subject(s): War IN THE TIME OF THE PERSECUTION, by LEONARD AARONSON Poem Source First Line: Down in the river the fishes are rising Last Line: For the sake of our morrow, of europe's to-morrow Subject(s): Jews; Religion; World War Ii IN THE TRENCHES, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not that we are weary Last Line: And crush the spring leaf with your armies! Subject(s): Military; Soldiers; War; World War I; First World War IN THE TRENCHES, by MAURICE HENRY HEWLETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I lay in the trenches Last Line: With heart as full as mine. Subject(s): World War I; First World War IN THE TRENCHES, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I snatched two poppies Last Line: Strewn. Smashed you lie. Subject(s): World War I; First World War IN THE TRENCHES II, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Impotent %how impotent is all this clamor Subject(s): World War I IN THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Ezekiel's bones, dried to dust beyond this cusp of hill Last Line: For the sun to rise upon another century Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities IN THE WAITING ROOM, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In worcester, massachusetts, %I went with aunt consuelo Last Line: And it was still the fifth %of february, 1918 Subject(s): Aunts; Children; Dentists; Imagination; Labor And Laborers; Pain; World War I IN THE YEARS OF SARSFIELD, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I wish I were over the curlew mountains Last Line: "^2^ macaulay's ""history of england,"" ch. Xvii." Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Ireland; Sarsfield, Patrick, Earl Of Lucan; War; Irish IN TIME OF 'THE BREAKING OF NATIONS', by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only a man harrowing clods / in a slow silent walk Last Line: Ere their story die. Subject(s): Bible; Country Life; Religion; World War I; Theology; First World War IN TIME OF SUSPENSE, by LAURENCE WHISTLER Poem Source First Line: Draw-to the curtains then, and let it rain Last Line: Blow out the candles - throw the curtains wide! Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii IN TIME OF WAR, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: As I go walking down the street Last Line: "the lads those lasses court are dead." Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): War IN TIME OF WAR, by LESBIA THANET Poem Source First Line: I dreamed (god pity babes at play) Last Line: Only god bring you back - god bring you back Subject(s): Women; World War I IN TIME OF WAR I SING, by ALLEN CRAFTON Poem Text First Line: I sing of song! Of spontaneity Last Line: I find my song within the world's soul -- crowned. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; World War I; Songs; First World War IN TIME OF WARS AND TUMULTS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would that I'd not drawn breath here!' some one said Last Line: By empery's insatiate lust of power. Subject(s): World War I; First World War IN TRANSIT, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An apple tree past bearing stands before Subject(s): War IN WAR, by IVAN ADAIR Poem Source First Line: Oh, christ, whose word in galilee Subject(s): World War I IN WAR, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fret the nonchalant noon Last Line: My brother, our hearts and years. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War IN WAR TIME, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now strikes the hour upon the clock Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): World War I IN WAR-TIME (AN AMERICAN HOMEWARD-BOUND), by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Text First Line: Further and further we leave the scene Last Line: Or hasten back? Subject(s): World War I; First World War IN WARTIME, by MARIANNA GRISWOLD VAN RENSSELAER Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Long years I longed for them, for the young Alternate Author Name(s): Van Rensselaer, Mrs. Schuyler Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me take this other glove off Subject(s): Westminster Abbey; World War Ii; Second World War IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me take this other glove off Last Line: And now, dear lord, I cannot wait %because I have a luncheon date Subject(s): Westminster Abbey; World War Ii IN WOODS NEAR THE FRONTLINE, by MIKHAIL ISAKOVSKY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Soundless and almost weightless Last Line: Accordion, turn from the dancing %and strike up a march-tuneinstead Subject(s): World War Ii INACCESSIBILITY IN THE BATTLEFIELD, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forgotten streams, yet wishful to be known Last Line: The rampart where the sleepless phantom strode. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War INCANDESCENT WAR POEM SONNET, by BERNADETTE MAYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even before I saw the chambered nautilus Subject(s): War INCIDENT, by MARY H. J. HENDERSON Poem Source First Line: He was just a boy, as I could see Last Line: Wounded to death for the mother land Subject(s): Women; World War I INCIDENT AT GUERNICA, by MORTON SEIF Poem Source First Line: The bomber stuck to the sky like a burr to the earth Last Line: As reality explodes into walpurgis Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) INCIDENT ON A FRONT NOT FAR FROM CASTEL DI SANGRO, by HARRY BROWN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There was a sound of hunting in the mountains Last Line: And dust that sifted toward the unseen, unmoved stars Subject(s): War INDIA TO ENGLAND, by NIZAMAT JUNG Poem Source First Line: O england! In thine hour of need Subject(s): India; World War I INDIAN ARMY, by ROBERT ERNEST VERNEDE Poem Source First Line: Into the west they are marching! Subject(s): World War I INFANTRY, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: In paris town, in paris town - 'twas 'neath an april sky Last Line: Flic flac, flic flac, to call upon a king. Subject(s): World War I - France INFANTRY, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By day these men ask nothing, and obey Last Line: They take their silent stations for the fight %rum's holy unction makes the dubious bold Subject(s): Army Life; Soldiers' Writings; World War Ii INFLATABLE GLOBE, by THEODORE SPENCER Poem Source First Line: When the allegorical man came calling Last Line: It seemed to us all a stupid trick Subject(s): War INGATHERING, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poets are going home now Last Line: The patient earth that is waiting to receive you. Subject(s): Homecoming; Poetry & Poets; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); War; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism INHERITANCE, by WANDA FUJIMOTO Poem Source First Line: My grandmother died Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans INITIALING FICTION FOR THE ARCHIVES, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: There are winged officers who cling to one another Last Line: On a thousand tiny pages of human light Subject(s): War INJUNCTION, by CHRISTOPHER BURSK Poem Source First Line: Brought to trial, she has agreed Subject(s): Nuclear War INN O' THE SWORD: A SONG OF YOUTH AND WAR, by ARTHUR LEWIS JENKINS Poem Source First Line: Roving along the king's highway Subject(s): World War I INNER BROTHER, by STEPHEN STEPANCHEV Poem Source First Line: Rain falls briskly on my worn shelter-half Subject(s): War INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I laid myself down as a woman Subject(s): War; Childhood Memories; Death; Dead, The INNOCENT, by GENE DERWOOD Poem Source First Line: Breautiful always the littoral line Subject(s): War INSCRIPTION FOR A CITY'S GATE OF WARRIORS, by HENRI FRANCOIS JOSEPH DE REGNIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fear not the shadow! Open, lofty gate Last Line: Stains of clear blood from sandals steeped in red. Subject(s): Cities; Death; Kisses; Lips; War; Urban Life; Dead, The INSCRIPTION FOR A WAR, by ALEC DERWENT HOPE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Linger not, stranger; shed no tear Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, A. D. Subject(s): War INSCRIPTION FOR A WAR, by ALEC DERWENT HOPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Linger not, stranger; shed no tear Last Line: We took their orders and are dead Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, A. D. Subject(s): War INSCRIPTION FOR A WELL IN MEMORY OF THE MARTYRS OF THE WAR, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fall, stream, from heaven to bless; return as well Last Line: So did our sons; heaven met them as they fell. Subject(s): American Civil War; Fountains; Martyrs; United States - History INSCRIPTION FOR AN OLD TOMB, by CLIVE SANSOM Poem Source First Line: And when lord death with all his gear Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii INSCRIPTION FOR THE GRAVES AT PEA RIDGE, ARKANSAS, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let none misgive we died amiss Last Line: But marched, and fell -- victorious! Subject(s): American Civil War; Graves; U.s. - History; Tombs; Tombstones INSCRIPTION FOR THE SLAIN AT FREDERICKSBURGH, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A glory lights an earnest end Last Line: Strown their vale of death with palms. Subject(s): American Civil War; Fredericksburg, Battle Of (1862); U.s. - History INSCRIPTION PROPOSED FOR THE VASE PRESENTED TO SIR WATKIN WILLIAMS WYN, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ask ye why around me twine Last Line: "to worthier chief the hirlas bore!" Subject(s): Homecoming; Victory; War INSCRIPTION, FOR MARYE'S HEIGHTS, FREDERICKSBURG, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To them who crossed the flood Last Line: Of more than victory the monument. Subject(s): American Civil War; Fredericksburg, Battle Of (1862); U.s. - History INSENSIBILITY, by DOUGLAS GIBSON Poem Source First Line: Death is not indying Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii INSENSIBILITY, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy are men who yet before they are killed Last Line: The eternal reciprocity of tears. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War INSIDE THE GREAT MYSTERY THAT IS, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: One at a time, through he same gate? %sincerely, %patricia hampl Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Politics; War INSOUCIANCE, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In and out of the dreary trenches Last Line: They fly away like white-winged doves Subject(s): World War I; First World War INSPECTION, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You! What d'you mean by this?' I rapped Last Line: "the race will bear field-marshal god's inspection." Subject(s): Army Life; Soldiers' Writings; War; Drills & Minor Tactics INSTEAD OF TEARS (IN MEMORIAM OF H.M.S. COSSACK), SELECTION, by MARIE CARMICHAEL STOPES Poem Text First Line: Our grief for you, poignant and personal Last Line: You stepped through matter, sweep our spirits on! Subject(s): Death; Warships; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War INTERESTING TIMES, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Everything’s happening on the cusp of tragedy, the tip of comedy, the pivot of event Last Line: Everyone in a minute will be somewhere else entirely. As the crow flies Subject(s): Life; Iraq War (2003-2011) INTERLUDE (IN WAR-TIME), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thought that war held all my mind Last Line: As lasting memory of the storm. Subject(s): World War I; First World War INTERNATIONAL BRIGADE ARRIVES AT MADRID, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The morning of a cold month Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) INTERNATIONAL BRIGADES, by NORMAN ROSTEN Poem Source First Line: Many of them wept for the first time Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) INTERPRETER, by LINCOLN KIRSTEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In her cold, unlighted piece Last Line: Idly wondering which of us %will scale her stairs again Subject(s): World War Ii INTERREGNUM, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Butcher the evil millionaire, peasant Last Line: Away from everything that moves with blood Subject(s): War; Social Commentary; Modern Life INTERROGATION, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We could have crossed the road but hesitated Last Line: Endurance almost done %and still the interrogation is going on Subject(s): World War Ii INTIMATIONS, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alan turing's imitation game Subject(s): War INTO BATTLE, by JULIAN GRENFELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The naked earth is warm with spring Last Line: And night shall fold him soft wings. Variant Title(s): He Is Dead Who Will Not Fight Subject(s): World War I; First World War INTO DARKNESS, IN GRANADA, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O if I were not so unhappy Last Line: In a dove boat Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) INTO DARKNESS, IN GRANADA, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O if I were not so unhappy Last Line: In a dove boat Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) INTO THE MIDST OF BATTLE, by CARLA LANYON LANYON Poem Text First Line: The mountains are at war; flash and flash again Last Line: That were before and shall endure beyond all wars. Subject(s): Mountains; War; Hills; Downs (great Britain) INTO THE SALIENT, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sallows like heads in polynesia Last Line: Into seven days of country where you come out any door. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War INTRODUCTION AND CONCLUSION OF A LONG POEM, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have gone sometimes by the gates of death Last Line: My resurrection, this my recompense! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War INVALIDED, by EDWARD SHILLITO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He limps along the city street Last Line: A life he cannot give. Subject(s): World War I - Casualties INVASION, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: We began with a thing we would never see again Last Line: See again, we fought our way out of it, and into the other Variant Title(s): Red Beach, Paestu Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii INVENTORY, by GUNTHER EICH Poem Source First Line: This is my cap Last Line: This is my thread Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; World War Ii INVITATION AU FESTIN, by AELFRIDA TILLYARD Poem Source First Line: Oh come and live with me, my love Last Line: And now good-night - your dreams eb bright! %(perhaps they will - who knows?) Subject(s): Women; World War I INVOCATION, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Breathe thro' me in music Last Line: Spirit of the time. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Austro-prussian War (1866) INVOCATION, by S. A. DETHALL Poem Text First Line: Christ with the crown of thorns Last Line: Send me your strength for a while. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Hate; Jesus Christ; Pain; Prayer; Social Protest; War; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Suffering; Misery INVOCATION, by GEORGE ROSTREVOR HAMILTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O thou, creator from original chaos Last Line: And man in man's free service thy new creature Alternate Author Name(s): Rostrevor, George Subject(s): Religion; World War Ii INVOCATION, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come down from heaven to meet me when my breath Last Line: And stillness from the pools of paradise. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War INVOCATION, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Listen, my lute, I would turn from your / militant measures Last Line: Stabbing and healing. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Military; War INWARD CLARION, by WALLACE B. NICHOLS Poem Source First Line: When I behold dear youth sent down to death Subject(s): World War I IRELAND, by G. A. J. C. Poem Source First Line: Outpost of europe, watcher of the seas Subject(s): World War I IRON, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Guns Last Line: The shovel is brother to the gun. Subject(s): World War I; First World War IRON GRAYS, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We twine the wreath of honor Last Line: And the war-torch burns no more Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Soldiers; War - Casualties (statistics, Etc.); World War Ii IS THERE AN OCULIST IN THE HOUSE?, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How often I would that I were one of those homely Last Line: But I keep wondering if this time we couldn't settle our differences before a war instead of after Subject(s): War ISAIAH, JEREMIAH, EXEKIEL, DANIEL, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is war Last Line: Fail of a hearing! Subject(s): War IT CANNOT BE, by F. E. MAITLAND Poem Source Subject(s): World War I IT COULD HAPPEN AGAIN, by JOHN HAINES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We met in provincetown two years ago Subject(s): Morley, Hilda (1916-1998); Friendship; War IT FEELS A SHAME TO BE ALIVE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Those unsustained - saviours - %present divinity Variant Title(s): Poem: 444; Poem: 52 Subject(s): War IT IS DANGEROUS TO READ NEWSPAPERS, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While I was building neat Last Line: Another village explodes Subject(s): Newspapers; War; Journalism; Journalists IT IS DANGEROUS TO READ NEWSPAPERS, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While I was building neat Subject(s): Newspapers; War IT IS MY DUTY (1), by F. JOHN HERBERT Poem Source First Line: And it is my duty to say yesterday Last Line: That is our rate of salt %that is our agreement of chrome and autumn Subject(s): Duty; Military; Presidents, United States; World War I - Naval Actions IT IS WELL WITH THE CHILD, by MARIANNA GRISWOLD VAN RENSSELAER Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The word has come - on the field of battle Alternate Author Name(s): Van Rensselaer, Mrs. Schuyler Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I IT OUT-HERODS HEROD. PRAY YOU, AVOID IT', by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight my children hunch Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War IT OUT-HERODS HEROD. PRAY YOU, AVOID IT', by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight my children hunch Last Line: Who could not, at one time, have saved them from the gas Subject(s): World War Ii IT SHALL NOT BE AGAIN, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: Who goes there, in the night Last Line: It shall not be again! Variant Title(s): Apparitions Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural; War IT WILL NOT LAST, by LAURENCE WHISTLER Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii IT'S A QUEER TIME, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's hard to know if you're alive or dead Last Line: It's a queer time. Subject(s): World War I; First World War IT'S ROSE-TIME HERE, by MURIEL STUART Poem Source Subject(s): World War I ITALIA REDENTA; ON HEARING ITALIAN FLAG FLYING OVER TRENT & TRIESTE, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Till yesterday 'twas 'italy unredeemed.' Last Line: "italia redenta." Subject(s): Italy; World War I; Italians; First World War ITALIAN SOLDIER SHOOK MY HAND, by ERIC ARTHUR BLAIR Poem Source Last Line: No bomb that ever burst %shatters the crystal spirit Subject(s): War ITALY - 1915, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tear from thy brow the olive wreath! Last Line: Of england's strumpet, italy! Subject(s): Italy; World War I; Italians; First World War ITALY IN ARMS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all my dreams by night and day Last Line: In this grim hour must wish thee well! Subject(s): World War I - Italy ITEM, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This, with a face Subject(s): War IVAN, by G. D. MARTINEAU Poem Source First Line: Brave work, ivan! Here's a new year greeting! Last Line: Victor of his own wide fields that hold the storied past! Subject(s): World War Ii JACK CREAMER [OCTOBER 25, 1812], by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boarding nettings are triced for fight Last Line: And the nation was close to its maker then. Variant Title(s): Jack Cramer Subject(s): Decatur, Stephen (1779-1820); Sea Battles; United States (ship); War Of 1812; Naval Warfare JACKSON AT NEW ORLEANS, by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hear through the morning drums and trumpets Last Line: Blest of jehovah. Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): Jackson, Andrew (1767-1845); New Orleans, Battle Of (1815); War Of 1812 JAMES BIRD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sons of pleasure, listen to me Subject(s): War Of 1812 JAMES BIRD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sons of freedom, listen to me Subject(s): War Of 1812 JAN, by G. D. MARTINEAU Poem Source First Line: Old jan smuts, who numbered with the foe Last Line: Spirit of south africa, and christendom's right hand Subject(s): World War Ii JAN-40, by ROY FULLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swift had pains in his head. %johnson dying in bed Last Line: But the appearance of choice %in their sad and fatal voice Subject(s): World War Ii JANUARY 2003; VERMONT, by JOAN ALESHIRE Poem Source First Line: Two to three feet%west of the greens Last Line: Weren't cracking. Breaking in two Subject(s): Politics; War JANUARY FULL MOON, YPRES, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vantaged snow on the gray pilasters Last Line: To someone crunching through the frozen snows. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War JAWS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seven nations stood with their hands on the jaws of Last Line: "o hell!" Subject(s): World War I; First World War JAZZ BIRD, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The jazz bird sings a barnyard song Last Line: He lights it with his eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): World War I JEAN DESPREZ, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, ye whose hearts are resonant, and ring to war's romance Last Line: Then jean desprez reached out and shot . . . The prussian major dead! Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War JEANNE D'ARC, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The land was broken in despair Last Line: And give a heart to france! Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): France; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); War JEFF HART, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jeff hart rode out of the gulch to war Last Line: Next morning the world came in. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Belgium; Cowboys; War JEFFERSON D., by HENRY SYLVESTER CORNWELL Poem Text First Line: You're a traitor convicted, you know very well Last Line: Jefferson d.! Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889); United States - History; Confederacy JEFFERSON DAVIS, by WALKER MERIWETHER BELL Poem Text First Line: Calm martyr of a noble cause Last Line: A relic and a shrine! Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889); United States - History; Confederacy JEFFERSON DAVIS, by HARRY THURSTON PECK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And now he slinks through dark oblivion's gate Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889); U.s. - History JEHU, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peace on new england, on the shingled white houses, on golden Last Line: Queen who tittered in the face of death, unable to imagine %the meaning of the flood-tide Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): War JEOPARDY, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: Last night on the tv news I watched Last Line: Resolute, and at peace with ourselves Subject(s): War JERUSALEM, by P. C. L. Poem Text First Line: Jerusalem! Jerus'lem! Thy glories have fled Last Line: In the faith of his word, and the might of his arm. Subject(s): Faith; Jerusalem; Jews; Nations; Praise; War; Zionism; Belief; Creed; Judaism JERUSALEM DELIVERED: A FACE-OFF IN THE CRUSADES, by TORQUATO TASSO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was a great, a strange, and wond'rous sight Last Line: And with their battles forth the footmen run Subject(s): War JERUSALEM; THE EMANATION OF THE GIANT ALBION, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a void, outside of existence, which if entered into Last Line: And I heard their emanations they are named jerusalem Subject(s): Bible; England; Mythology; Peace; War JERUSALEM; THE EMANATION OF THE GIANT ALBION: CHAPTER 1, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a void, outside of existence, which if entered into Last Line: Jesus. Subject(s): Bible; England; Mythology; Peace; War; English JERUSALEM; THE EMANATION OF THE GIANT ALBION: CHAPTER 2, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every ornament of perfection, and every labour of love Last Line: Is an arrow from the almighties bow! Subject(s): Bible; England; Mythology; Peace; War; English JERUSALEM; THE EMANATION OF THE GIANT ALBION: CHAPTER 3, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But los, who is the vehicular form of strong urthona Last Line: In englands green & pleasant bowers. Subject(s): Bible; England; Mythology; Peace; War; English JERUSALEM; THE EMANATION OF THE GIANT ALBION: CHAPTER 4, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spectres of albions twelve sons revolve mightily Last Line: And I heard the name of their emanations they are named jerusalem Subject(s): Bible; England; Mythology; Peace; War; English JEWEL, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forgetting I am alive, the tent comes over me Last Line: To the matched, priceless glow of the engines, %alone, in late night Subject(s): War JEZREEL; ON ITS SEIZURE BY THE ENGLISH UNDER ALLENBY, 1918, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did they catch as it were in a vision at shut of day Last Line: Yea, strange things and spectral may men have beheld in jezreel! Subject(s): Allenby, Edmund Henry Hynman (1861-1936); Jezreel, Israel; Soldiers; World War I; Allenby Of Megiddo, First Viscount; First World War 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 JIMMY DOANE, by ROWLAND THIRLMERE Poem Text First Line: Often I think of you, jimmy doane Last Line: Your vision upbuilt as a deathless fact. Subject(s): World War I; First World War JINGO-WOMAN, by HELEN HAMILTON Poem Source First Line: Jingo-woman %(how I dislike you) Last Line: To flout and goad men into doing, %what is not asked of you? Subject(s): Women; World War I JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 10, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus to the martyrs in their country's cause Last Line: Give to the arms of freedom such success. Variant Title(s): The Crowning Of The King Subject(s): Coronations; Creative Ability; England; Faith; France; Freedom; God; Heroism; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Victory; War; Inspiration; Creativity; English; Belief; Creed; Liberty; Heroes; Heroines JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 2, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And now, beneath the horizon westering slow Last Line: And they betook them to their homely rest. Subject(s): France; Heroism; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Travel; War; Heroes; Heroines; Journeys; Trips JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 4, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The feast was spread, the sparkling bowl went round Last Line: "we march to rescue orleans from the foe." Subject(s): Duty; France; Heroism; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Love; Man-woman Relationships; Missions & Missionaries; Obedience; War; Heroes; Heroines; Male-female Relations JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 5, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scarce had the earliest ray from chinon's towers Last Line: So saying, conrade from the tent went forth. Variant Title(s): The Maid Of Orleans Girding For Battle Subject(s): France; Heroism; History; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Orleans, France; War; Heroes; Heroines; Historians JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 6, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night was calm, and many a moving cloud Last Line: Renewing the remembrance of the storm. Subject(s): France; Heroism; History; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Orleans, France; Victory; War; Heroes; Heroines; Historians JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 7, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strong were the english forts, by daily toil Last Line: Betaking them, for now the night drew on. Subject(s): England; Faith; France; Heroism; History; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Religion; Victory; War; English; Belief; Creed; Heroes; Heroines; Historians; Theology JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 8, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now was the noon of night; and all was still Last Line: The shattered fragments of the midnight wreck. Subject(s): England; Faith; France; Heroism; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Religion; Victory; War; English; Belief; Creed; Heroes; Heroines; Theology JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 9, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far through the shadowy sky the ascending flames Last Line: "the thunder—she shall blast her despot foes." Subject(s): Death; England; Faith; France; Funerals; God; Heroism; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Victory; War; Dead, The; English; Belief; Creed; Burials; Heroes; Heroines JOAN OF FRANCE TO AN ENGLISH SISTER; I.M. EDITH CAVELL,NURSE, by J. H. S. Poem Source First Line: Pity had I for france my land Subject(s): World War I JOCK, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a soldier that's been doing of his share Last Line: Of the jocks! Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Boer War; Soldiers; South African War JOE LOUIS IN ITALY, 1944, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: In his mouth is a wad of regulation wonder bread Last Line: Until one war is over and another starts Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities JOHN BROWN'S BODY, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They came on to fish-hook gettysburg in this way, after this fashion Last Line: And the strange south moved against you, lean members lost in the corn Subject(s): Abolitionists; American Civil War; Brown, John (1800-1859); Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Slavery; United States - History; Anti-slavery; Gettysburg, Battle Of; Serfs JOHN BROWN'S BODY, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They came on to fish-hook gettysburg in this way, after this fashion Subject(s): Abolitionists; American Civil War; Brown, John (1800-1859); Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Slavery; U.s. - History JOHN BROWN'S BODY (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: John brown's body lies a-mould'ring in the grave Last Line: "now has come the glorious jubilee, / when all mankind are free" Subject(s): "abolitionists;brown, John (1800-1859);freedom;slavery;war;" Anti-slavery;liberty;serfs JOHN BROWN'S BODY (3), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: John brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave Last Line: For, the dawn of old john brown has brightened into day %and his soul is marching on Subject(s): Abolitionists; American Civil War; Brown, John (1800-1859); Slavery; U.s. - History JOHN BURNS OF GETTYSBURG, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have you heard the story that gossips tell Last Line: You'll show a hat that's white, or a feather. Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): American Civil War; Burns, John; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Patriotism; United States - History; Gettysburg, Battle Of JOHN CHRISTIAN, by WALTER HENDRICKS Poem Text First Line: John christian knew the bible page by page Last Line: By killing christ and spilling human blood. Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Hypocrisy; Religion; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; Theology JOHN DOE - BUCK PRIVATE, by ALLAN P. THOMSON Poem Source First Line: Who was it, picked from civil life Subject(s): World War I JOHN PEGRAM, by WILLIAM GORDON MCCABE Poem Source First Line: What shall we say, now, of our gentle knight Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History JOHN PELHAM, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just as the spring came laughing through the strife Last Line: Twining the victor's crown! Variant Title(s): The Dead Cannoneer Subject(s): American Civil War; Kelly's Ford, Virginia, Battle Of (1863); Pelham, John (1838-1863); United States - History JOHN SMITH (1923-1944) [OR, DELINQUENT ELEGY], by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: My friend john smith, a usual man Last Line: As smart as most, as brave as any Subject(s): War; World War Ii JOHN W. MORTON, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tinged with flame and sore beset Last Line: Morton and forrest were as one. Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Southern States; War; South (u.s.) 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 JOHNNY BULL'S BIG GUNS, AND BATTLE OF LAKE ERIE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sure, have you not heard of that pesky john bull Last Line: That he'll scarcely be able to get out of port, %with his big guns and rockets and pumpkin-shell bom Subject(s): Lake Erie, Battle Of; Navy - United States; War Of 1812 JOINED THE BLUES, by JOHN JEROME ROONEY Poem Text First Line: Says stonewall jackson to 'little phil' Last Line: "we're never north or south again -- he kissed the book for both!" Subject(s): American Civil War; Patriotism; U.s. - History JOINING THE COLOURS (WEST KENTS, DUBLIN, AUGUST 1914), by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There they go marching all in step so gay! Last Line: Out of the mist they stepped - into the mist %singing they pass Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Women; World War I JONQUILS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I look at you, beautiful jonquils Last Line: And my brother now 'biding there. Subject(s): Brothers And Sisters; Homecoming; Jonquils; Spanish-american War (1898) JORNADA DEL MUERTO, by SAM RASNAKE Poem Source First Line: The phyicists have known Last Line: A knowledge which they cannot lose Subject(s): Nuclear War; Oppenheimer, Julius Robert (1904-1967) JOURNAL ENTRIES WRITTEN BY LIGHT THROUGH A PRINCETON, by GERALDINE CLINTON LITTLE Poem Source First Line: Autumn, here, is always a tug at the gut Subject(s): Nuclear War JOURNEY HOME, by GRACE SCHULMAN Poem Source First Line: It never change: when bright arrows sang Last Line: More day to praise brick buildings and white %pines Subject(s): Politics; War JOURNEY TO MADRID, by NORMAN ROSTEN Poem Source First Line: At last, the museum and hieronymus bosch! Last Line: To the heart, to draw fresh blood Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) JOY-BELLS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ring your sweet bells; but let them be farewells Last Line: Shoulder to shoulder with the motor-bus. Subject(s): Bells; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War JOYS OF LIFE, I, by FRANTISEK GELLNER Poem Source First Line: I have to go, there's simply nothing for it Last Line: It's there my teenage vagrancy belongs Subject(s): World War I JOYS OF LIFE, XIV, by FRANTISEK GELLNER Poem Source First Line: Destiny drops us the crumbs from its table Last Line: And sorrow, frustration and pain Subject(s): World War I JUANA DOLORES: 1. THE MAZE, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: The man crosses the river again Last Line: A woman's breasts, a lieutenant's eyes Subject(s): War JUANA DOLORES: 2. GOLD, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: Poor juana dolores, the widow Last Line: The widow, young juana dolores Subject(s): War JUANA DOLORES: 3. THE HEADLIGHTS, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: When she kneels at the altar, juana Last Line: Juana dolores, nurses her child Subject(s): War JUBILO, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tail-spinning from the shelves of sky Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): War JUDGMENT, by LESLIE COULSON Poem Source First Line: So be it, god I take what thou dost give Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I JULIAN GRENFELL, by MAURICE BARING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because of you we will be glad and gay Subject(s): Grenfell, Julian (1888-1915); World War I JULY 18, 1936 - JULY 18, 1939, by MIGUEL HERNANDEZ Poem Source First Line: It is blood. It is not hail, battering my temples Last Line: Because my eyes, a thousand years old, have given it shelter Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) JULY 1ST, 1916, by AIMEE BYNG SCOTT Poem Source First Line: A soft grey mist %poppies flamed brilliant where the woodlands bent Last Line: Has passed; nature lies prostrate there %stunned by his tread Subject(s): Women; World War I JULY TROUBLES IN PETROGRAD, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Like an oscillating wave that gathers its roll Last Line: Which the thousands plot their coming Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities JUN-40, by WELDON KEES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is summer, and treachery blurs with the sounds of midnight Last Line: An idiot wind is blowing; the conscience dies Subject(s): World War Ii JUNE IN WILTSHIRE, by GEOFFREY GRIGSON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: In the green hedge tall and thick Subject(s): War JUNE, 1915, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who thinks of june's first rose to-day? Last Line: Of the small eager hand, the shining eyes, the rough bright head? Subject(s): Women; World War I JUNGLE NIGHT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The man with the green cigarette strolls down the path Last Line: Fireflies. %bell birds %shadows %japanese Subject(s): War JUNIOR GOT THE SNAKES, by MICHAEL MCPHERSON Poem Source First Line: One time Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans JUST BEFORE THE BATTLE, MOTHER, by GEORGE FREDERICK ROOT Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History JUST ONE SIGNAL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The war-path is true and straight Last Line: For the way to fight is to fight Subject(s): "manila, Philippines;patriotism;spanish-american War (1898); KAGERA FALLS, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Follow the white nile up seven cataracts, up the nyabarongo river Last Line: And picture to tie your shoe, as if it had nothing to do with you Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities KAISER AND COUNSELLOR, by STUART PRATT SHERMAN Poem Text First Line: Through what dark pass to what place in the sun Last Line: Still draws all hearts unto its wounded side. Subject(s): World War I; First World War KARACHI: COW IN A BOOKSHOP, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: The rough beast ambled in, bony and holy-eyed Last Line: Where they had splashed in whitewash: quit india Subject(s): War KARTUSHKIYA-BEROZA, by ALTER BRODY Poem Source First Line: It is twelve years since I have been there Subject(s): World War I KATHE KOLLWITZ, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Held between wars Last Line: Hand over the mouth forever %hand over one eye now %the other great eye %closed Subject(s): Kollwitz, Kathe (1867-1945); War; Women KAUNAS 1941, by JOHANNES BOBROWSKI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Town, %branches over the river Last Line: My dark is already come Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Prussia; World War Ii KEARNY AT SEVEN PINES [MAY 31, 1862], by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So that soldierly legend is still on its journey Last Line: Line. Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Kearny, Philip (1814-1862); Memorial Day; Patriotism; Seven Pines, Battle Of (1862); United States - History; Declaration Day; Fair Oaks, Battle Of (1862) KEARSARGE, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sunday in old england Last Line: Lords of the lonely deep. Subject(s): American Civil War; Kearsarge (ship); Sea Battles; U.s. - History; Naval Warfare KEARSARGE AND ALABAMA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "it was early sunday morning, in the year of sixty-four" Last Line: "hoist up the flag, and long may it waive, / god bless america, the home of the brave!" Subject(s): "alabama (ship);american Civil War;cherbourg, France;kearsarge (ship);sea Battles;u.s. - History;winslow, John Ancrum (1811-1873);" Naval Warfare KEATS, BEFORE ACTION, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: A little moment more - o, let me hear Last Line: Beauty is truth, truth beauty - that is all, %the very all in all Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry And Poets; Soldiers' Writings; World War I KEENAN'S CHARGE, by GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun had set Last Line: That saved the army at chancellorsville. Subject(s): American Civil War; Cavalry; Chancellorsville, Battle Of (1863); Holidays; Keenan, Peter (1834-1863); Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day KEEP THE FLAG WAVING, JACK!, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only a boy, but never you mind! Last Line: God bless our boys! Subject(s): Boys; Sea Battles; World War I; Naval Warfare; First World War KEEPING THEIR WORLD LARGE, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I should like to see that country's tiled bedrooms Subject(s): Men; War KEEPING THEIR WORLD LARGE, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I should like to see that country's tiled bedrooms Last Line: Shine, o shine %unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene Subject(s): Men; War KELLY OF THE LEGION, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now kelly was no fighter Last Line: Tis kelly leads the way. Subject(s): Paris, France; Soldiers; War KENSINGTON GARDENS (1915), by VIVIANE VERNE Poem Source First Line: Dappling shadows on the summer grass Last Line: While men war in false endurement %deeming this life's great achievement Subject(s): Women; World War I KENTISH LINES IN WAR, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A saddle cornfield burnished van gogh-bright Last Line: And rides the evening on a loosened rein. Subject(s): Army Life; Fights; Soldiers; War; Drills & Minor Tactics KENTUCKY BELLE, by CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Summer of 'sixty-three, sir, and conrad was gone away Last Line: Ah! We've had many horses since, but never a horse like her! Subject(s): American Civil War; Kentucky; Morgan, John Hunt (1825-1864); United States - History KID HAS GONE TO THE COLORS, by WILLIAM HERSCHELL Poem Source Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I KILLED AT FREDERICKSBURG, by CHAUNCEY HICKOX Poem Source First Line: Fred mason came beside my fire Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History KILLED AT THE FORD, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is dead, the beautiful youth Last Line: And the neighbors wondered that she should die. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History; War KILLED IN ACTION, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My father lived his three-score years, my son Last Line: Who shall declare which gift conveyed the greater heritage? Subject(s): Death; Military; Soldiers; War; Dead, The KILLED PIAVE-JULY 8-1918, by ERNEST HEMINGWAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Desire and / all the sweet pulsing aches Last Line: On my hot-swollen, throbbing soul Subject(s): World War I - Casualties KILLERS (1), by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am singing to you Last Line: Sixteen million men. Subject(s): World War I; First World War KILMENY (A SONG OF THE TRAWLERS), by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark, dark lay the drifters against the red west Last Line: And nobody knew where kilmeny had been. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; World War I; First World War KILROY WAS HERE, by PETER VIERECK Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Also ulysses once - that other war Subject(s): Graffiti; World War Ii KIM CHEE TEST, by JOSEPH STANTON Poem Source First Line: It wasn't because Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans KIMONO, by DON GORDON Poem Source First Line: Celebrate the season of the death of the city Last Line: Woman of hiroshima %be merciful to the merciless! Subject(s): War KIND OF SHADOW THAT CALLS OUT FATE, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Early in day reports said our planes Last Line: And thoughtfully, the queen watches Subject(s): Politics; War KING HENRY V AND THE HERMIT OF DREUX, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He past unquestioned through the camp Last Line: Upon his dying day. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Henry V, King Of England (1387-1422); Hermits; Punishment; Repentance; Sickness; Soldiers; War; English History; Penitence; Illness KING HENRY V, SELS., by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Agincourt, Battle Of (1415); Courage; Harfleur, France, Battle Of; History; War KING OF THE MAGICAL PUMP, by CHARLES W. WOOD Poem Source First Line: Oh, the loyalest gink with the royalest wink Last Line: In the kingdom of chumpetty-chump Subject(s): World War I KING PHILIP, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: On pokanoket's height / all life is hushed beneath the summer heat Last Line: And told his wrongs in words that still we see / recorded on the page of history Subject(s): "mount Hope, Rhode Island;philip, King (native American Chief);" Metacomet;king Philip's War (1675-76) KING PHILIP'S LAST STAND, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas captain church, bescarred and brown Last Line: Do battle for his own! Subject(s): Philip, King (native American Chief); Metacomet; King Philip's War (1675-76) 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) KING'S HIGHWAY, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When moonlight flecks the cruiser's decks Subject(s): World War I KING'S MESSENGERS, by RONALD ARTHUR HOPWOOD Poem Source First Line: There's a stir within the city Subject(s): World War I KINGDOM OF HANDS, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: As you reach into your pocket, suddenly you touch an alien hand Last Line: Like a speller, for words beginning with sounds no one has ever heard Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii KINGS, by HUGH J. HUGHES Poem Source First Line: The kings are dying! In blood and flame Subject(s): World War I KINGS, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The kings of the earth are men of might Last Line: Let them think of him to-day! Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War KINSHIP, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In summer time, with high imaginings Last Line: Oh would we not have paradise to-day? Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Soldiers; War; Dead, The KISMET, by ROSAMUND MARRIOTT WATSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Opal fires in the western sky Alternate Author Name(s): Tomson, Graham R. Subject(s): World War I KISS, by MILUTIN BOJIC Poem Source First Line: We were born to by happy, to love life fully Last Line: Youth is our god, and passion our strength Subject(s): World War I KITCHENER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: If death had questioned thee Subject(s): World War I KITCHENER OF KHARTOUM, by ROBERT J. C. STEAD Poem Source First Line: Weep, waves of england! Nobler clay Subject(s): World War I KITCHENER'S MARCH, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Not the muffled drums for him Last Line: Take the field again! Subject(s): Kitchener, Horatio, 1st Earl (1850-1916); World War I - Casualties KITE, by ALEXANDER (ALEKSANDR) ALEXANDROVICH BLOK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Over the empty fields a black kite hovers Last Line: Unchanged through all the ages. How long will %the mother grieve and the kite circle still? Subject(s): War KNELL SHALL SOUND ONCE MORE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I know that the knell shall sound once more Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History KNITTING SOCKS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Click, click! How the needles go Subject(s): Hosiery; Knitting; World War I KNOWN SOLDIER, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The balancing spaces are not disturbed Subject(s): War KONTRANIKI, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cave life in the hebron hills Last Line: From here to eternity Subject(s): War; Social Commentaries KOREAN COMMUNITY GARDEN IN QUEENS, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the vacant lot nobody else wanted to rebuild Last Line: Who stop at nothing, see life and paradise as one [or, life the one paradise they wanted] Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953; Queens, New York City KUAN YIN MINGLES WITH THE GHOSTS, NOW ON GUIDED TOUR, by KATHY PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: I kept my self-respect by loving every stone I carried Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans KUAN YIN TURNS HER PHOTO ALBUM TO A CERTAIN POINT, by KATHY PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: When pressed, kuan yin explains Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans KUNISHI RIDGE 2ND BN. FIRST MARINES, by JAMES LARKIN PEARSON Poem Source First Line: Hair in the trees %the voice of women Last Line: Praying for the children Subject(s): Politics; War KYNGE DAVID, HYS LAMENTE OVER THE BODYES OF KYNGE SAUL OF ISRAEL, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now lette us shede the brinie teare Last Line: How still the weapons of the war. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; David (d. 962 B.c.); Jews; War; Judaism L. BOND, RECRUITING SERGEANT, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are old? Your cash is young' Last Line: Says sergeant bond. Subject(s): War Bonds LA BASSEE ROAD, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Source First Line: You'll see from the la bassee road, on any Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I LA FEMME DE QUARANTE ANS, by EDWARD FAIRLY STUART GRAHAM CLOETE Poem Source First Line: I was born forty years ago Last Line: My men are dead Subject(s): World War Ii LA GUERRE: 1, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bigness of cannon Last Line: The night utter ripe unspeaking girls. Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): War LA QUINQUE RUE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O road in dizzy moonlight bleak and blue Last Line: To trim roofs and cropped fields; the error's mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War LA ROCHELLE, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lightly the land-locked waves slide in the harbor Last Line: Forgive us our treachery Subject(s): War; Forgiveness; Courage LA VALLETTE, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the bastion of castille Last Line: "must home and love forget." Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; War LACKAWANNA ELEGY, by IWAN GOLL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: America %the tongues of your rivers burn with thirst Last Line: In the rose-garden of your sick soul %the holocaust waits to begin Alternate Author Name(s): Goll, Yvan Subject(s): Exiles; United States; World War Ii LACRIMARE, LACRIMATUS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strum / a ton / a rung Subject(s): Crying; Latin Language; Poetry & Poets; Tears; Tongues; War; Women LACRIMARE, LACRIMATUS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strum %a ton %a rung Last Line: I wonder what dido understood Subject(s): Crying; Latin Language; Poetry And Poets; Tears; Tongues; War; Women LADY WITH THE LAMP (1820-1910), by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: The dead presided everywhere, colossi Last Line: Which you'll love, even as you choke on it Subject(s): Crimean War (1853-1856); Egypt; Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910); Nurses; Rats LAKOTA WARRIOR, by ARTHUR J. HARVEY Poem Source First Line: My lakota father Last Line: Only saluted, %at moment of death Subject(s): Fathers; Korean War, 1950-1953 LAMENT, by GEORGE SUTHERLAND FRASER Poem Source First Line: In a dismal air; a light of breaking summer Last Line: In a dismal air; a light of breaking summer %cold in the water the webs of the cold light lie Subject(s): World War Ii LAMENT, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We who are left, how shall we look again Last Line: Nor feel the heart-break in the heart of things? Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War LAMENT, by GEORGE MALCOLM Poem Source First Line: As I walked under the african moon Last Line: Yet certain I am he played that tune %for archie and johnnie and me Subject(s): World War Ii LAMENT, by EDOUARD RODITI Poem Source First Line: Lorca, who drank and drugged and loved Last Line: Send me to drink with lorca beyond day? Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) LAMENT, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me pick Last Line: Let me die in a war. Subject(s): Nature; War LAMENT, by GEORG TRAKL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep and death, the dark eagles Last Line: The silent face of the night Subject(s): Science Fiction; World War I LAMENT, by GEORG TRAKL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep and death, the dark eagles Last Line: The silent face of night Subject(s): World War I LAMENT FOR A SAILOR, by PAUL DEHN Poem Source First Line: Here, where the night is clear as sea-water Subject(s): War LAMENT FOR THE DEATH OF EOGHAN RUADH (OWEN ROE) O'NEIL, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Did they dare - did they dare to slay owen roe o'neil? Last Line: "but we're slaves, and we're orphans, eoghan!--why did you die?" Subject(s): O'neill, Owen Roe (1590-1649); War LAMENT FROM THE DEAD, by W. E. K. Poem Source First Line: Peace! Vex us not: we are dead Subject(s): World War I LAMENT OF A SOLDIER'S WIFE, by KAO CH'I Poem Source First Line: My husband never desired the official seal of a marquis Last Line: And turn them toward that place where we once parted Subject(s): War LAMENT OF THE DEMOBILISED, by VERA MARY BRITTAIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Four years,' some say consolingly. 'oh well' Last Line: And we're beginning to agree with them Alternate Author Name(s): Catlin, George E. G., Mrs. Subject(s): Women; World War I LAMENT OF THE FRONTIER GUARD, by LI PO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the north gate, the wind blows full of sand Last Line: And we guardsmen fed to the tigers. Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): War LAMENTATIONS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The scrub woman for the old bank and jailhouse Last Line: One is of welcome; the other, farewell. Subject(s): Farewell; Lament; Loss; Man-woman Relationships; World War Ii; Parting; Male-female Relations; Second World War LAMENTATIONS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I found him in the guard-room at the base Last Line: Such men have lost all patriotic feeling. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; War; World War I; First World War LAMPLIGHT, by MAY WEDDERBURN CANNAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We planned to shake the world together Last Line: There's a scarlet cross on my breast, my dear, %and a torn cross with your name Subject(s): Women; World War I LANCER, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I 'listed at home for a lancer Last Line: Oh who would not sleep with the brave? Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Army Life; War; Drills & Minor Tactics LAND OF LITTLE STICKS, 1945, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the wife is scouring the frying pan Last Line: Against his forearm, leaning up against the barn. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Atomic Bomb - Victims; Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb LAND WITHOUT GRIEF, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: Sundays they went skiing on the mountain Last Line: Probed by descending cars with lighted beams Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History LAND-MINE, by GEORGE MACBETH Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: It fell when I was sleeping. In my dream Last Line: If it shall come, will find me on my knees Subject(s): War LANDSCAPE, by SHIN SUK-JUNG Poem Source First Line: The ivy is green along the forest path Last Line: The river will flow for ten thousand %in this painted landscape Subject(s): War LANDSCAPE LIES WITHIN MY HEAD, by GERVASE STEWART Poem Source Subject(s): War LANDSCAPE OF THE HEART, by GEOFFREY GRIGSON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Who must be blamed for the young head Last Line: And the vile aimer's hand %and the whole heart of man Subject(s): War LANDSCAPE WITH SELF-PORTRAIT, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A shading porch, that's open to the west Subject(s): War LANDSCAPE WITH TANKS, by JIM HOVELL Poem Source First Line: The tanks speed through the still, grey afternoon Last Line: Boyce said and, remembering other battles, %ran the tip of his tongue over dry lips Subject(s): War LANDSCAPE WITHOUT FIGURES, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shape of the summer has not changed at all Last Line: Though the shape of the summer has not changed at all Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): World War Ii LANDSCAPE, WITH FOOD, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: The dump runs down a wide ravine Last Line: Hip deep in flames, they eat it all Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii LANGEMARCK AT YPRES, by WILLIAM WILFRED CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the ballad of langemarck Last Line: In the great, grim fight. Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, W. W. Subject(s): World War I - Canada; Ypres, Belgium LAOCOON, by DON GORDON Poem Source First Line: The first shot was fired to wagnerian music; drums bor it Subject(s): War LARABELLE, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Harp of the west! That long hath silent hung Last Line: The muse may add a laurel to the brave. Subject(s): Graves; Muses; Singing & Singers; War; Tombs; Tombstones; Songs LARABELLE: CANTO SECOND, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A smiling peace, revolving years had told Last Line: Is our young hero -- worthy johny green. Subject(s): Death; Nations; Peace; War; Dead, The LARABELLE; CANTO THIRD, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blow that lays the soldier on the plain Last Line: No trace is found of worthy johny green. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Grief; Soldiers; War; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness LARGO, by DUNSTAN THOMPSON Poet's Biography First Line: Of those whom I have known, the few and fatal friends Subject(s): War LARGO, by DUNSTAN THOMPSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of those whom I have known, the few and fatal friends Last Line: Whose coronet, crown crystal, qualifies a peer. My voice fails. %in your name poems begin Subject(s): War LARK ABOVE THE TRENCHES, by MURIEL ELSIE GRAHAM Poem Source First Line: All day the guns had worked their hellish will Last Line: That wounded hope arose %to greet that song Subject(s): Women; World War I LAS HORAS DE VERDAD (THE HOURS OF TRUTH), by JILL E. WIDNER Poem Source First Line: Would the hours of truth discourage her Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans LAST, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The unsigned architecture of loneliness Subject(s): Cold War; History; Relationships; Sons; Historians LAST CHARGE AT APPOMATTOX, by HENRY JEROME STOCKARD Poem Source First Line: Scarred on a hundred fields before Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History LAST DAY OF LEAVE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We five looked out over the moor Last Line: We were akk there, all five of us in love, %not one yet killed, widowed or broken-hearted Subject(s): War LAST DISNEYLAND, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: No one spoke for the small animals, the mole, the Last Line: Turned further away Subject(s): War LAST EVENING, by ELINOR JENKINS Poem Source First Line: Round a bright isle, set in a sea of gloom Subject(s): World War I LAST EVENING, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And night and distant travel; for the train Subject(s): War LAST EVENING, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night and the distant rumbling: for the train Last Line: Stood the black shako with the white death's - head Subject(s): War LAST KILOMETER, by WILLIAM LINDSAY GRESHAM Poem Source First Line: Since morning over a knotted road Last Line: We had met the war Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) LAST LEAVE (1918), by EILEEN NEWTON Poem Source First Line: Let us forget tomorrow! For tonight Last Line: When this dear night, with all it means to me, %is but a memory! Subject(s): Women; World War I LAST LINES, by ROBERT E. STERLING Poem Source First Line: Ah! Hate like this would freeze our human tears Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I LAST NIGHT, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Was it last summer, just last year Last Line: And the new year, love, the new year! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Homecoming; Memory; Past; Peace; Time; War LAST PICNIC, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The guests in their summer colors have fled Last Line: Remember that we once could say, %yesterday we had a world to lose Subject(s): World War Ii LAST POEM, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sorrow of true love is great sorrow Last Line: Removed eternally from the sun's law Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): World War I LAST POEMS: SONNET 1, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sidney, in whom the heyday of romance Last Line: To my three idols -- love and arms and song. Variant Title(s): Sonnet To Sidney Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War LAST POEMS: SONNET 10, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have sought happiness, but it has been Last Line: Amid the clash of arms I was at peace. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War LAST POEMS: SONNET 11. ON RETURNING TO THE FRONT AFTER LEAVE, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Apart sweet women (for whom heaven be blessed) Last Line: That world of cowards, hypocrites, and fools. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War LAST POEMS: SONNET 8, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, love of woman, you are known to be Last Line: Love only tells it what true torture is. Subject(s): Love; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War LAST RIVER, by IWAN GOLL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The last river leaves for desolation Last Line: They even leave behind their tombstones already paid for Alternate Author Name(s): Goll, Yvan Subject(s): World War Ii LAST STOP, by GEORGE SEFERIS Poem Source First Line: Few are the moonlit nights that I've cared for Last Line: Heroes move forward in the dark. %few are the moonlit nights that I care for Subject(s): Greek War Of Independence (1821-1832) LAST THRESHOLD, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I want to believe we still talk about Last Line: That shriek in the streets of jerusalem Subject(s): Politics; War LAST TURNINGS OF THE SEASON'S WHEEL, by DEBRA THOMAS Poem Source First Line: As the last turnings of the season's wheel Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans LATE SPRING IN THE NUCLEAR AGE; FOR CLARE ROSSINI, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fish hit water nymphs, breaking surface Last Line: That our deaths will not be the last. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Death; Nuclear War; Survival; Nuclear Freeze; Dead, The; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb LATE SPRING, AFTER THE GULF WAR, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Cesium drips from the horse chestnut trees Last Line: Is infected with republican lies Subject(s): Death; Graves; Gulf War (1991); Politics LAUREL AND CYPRESS, by J. NAPIER MILNE Poem Source First Line: I watched him swinging down the street Subject(s): World War I LAUS DEO!, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is done! / clang of bell and roar of gun Last Line: Who alone is lord and god! Subject(s): American Civil War; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; God; Patriotism; United States - History; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty LAVOIR, by JOHN CURTIS UNDERWOOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Two years ago ten women washed a town's stained linen on these stones Last Line: White to worship her Subject(s): World War I LE POILU DE CARCASSONNE', by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The poilus of france on the western front ... Subject(s): World War I LEAGH'S SUMMONS TO CUCHULAIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "rise, champion of ultonia's need" Last Line: "leap, champion prince, to front the fray" Subject(s): War LEAVE, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One winds through firs - their weeds are ferns Last Line: The mote dances in a nature full of squirrels Subject(s): Loss; World War Ii; Second World War LEAVE HER, JOHNNIE!', by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A hundred miles from the longship's light Subject(s): World War I LEAVE IN 1917, by LILIAN M. ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Moonlight and death were on the narrow seas Last Line: And sweet, sweet, sweet %the finches singing in the orchard dusk! Subject(s): Women; World War I LEAVE, O LEAVE THEM WHERE THEY FELL, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From their far hesperides Last Line: Leave, o leave them where they fell! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): France; Soldiers; United States; War; America LEAVES OF HYPNOS: 128, by RENE CHAR Poem Source First Line: The baker hadn't yet unfastened the iron shutters of his shop Last Line: I loved my kind wildly that day, well beyond sacrifice Subject(s): World War Ii LEAVES OF HYPNOS: 87, by RENE CHAR Poem Source First Line: Ls, I thank you for the durance 12 partisan depot Last Line: All goes well here. Affectionately. Hypnos Subject(s): French Resistance, World War Ii; Zyngerman ("saingermain"), Leon LEAVES OF HYPNOS: 89, by RENE CHAR Poem Source First Line: Francois exhausted by five nights of succesive alerts tells me Last Line: Francois is twenty Subject(s): French Resistance, World War Ii LEAVES OF HYPNOS: 94, by RENE CHAR Poem Source First Line: This morning, as I was observing a very small snake Last Line: Killed this past week, crops up superstitiously in the image Subject(s): French Resistance, World War Ii LEAVES OF HYPNOS: 95, by RENE CHAR Poem Source First Line: The drak depths of the word numb me and immunize me Last Line: With a stonelike sobriety I remain the mother of distant cradles Subject(s): French Resistance, World War Ii LEAVES OF HYPNOS: 99, by RENE CHAR Poem Source First Line: Like a dead partridge seemed to me that poor invalid that the militia murdered Last Line: The innocent man absorbed that hell and their laughter (we captured the girl) Subject(s): French Resistance, World War Ii LEAVING CHINATOWN, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Peeling a mango to share between us, your mother Last Line: Faces, even yours, she might have looked into with love Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Variant Title(s): On Pike Stree Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 LEAVING FOR THE FRONT, by ALFRED LICHTENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Before dying I must just make my poem Last Line: In thirteen days maybe I'll be dead Subject(s): World War I LEAVING FOR THE FRONT, by ALFRED LICHTENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Before I die I must just find this rhyme Last Line: In thirteen days I'll probably be dead Subject(s): War; World War I LEAVING POMEROY; MRS. GRESHAM, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: Running away is something children do Last Line: That suddenly I feared what I had chosen Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History LEBANON / GRENADA, by JUDITH SHEPARD Poem Source First Line: War is Subject(s): War LEDA AND THE SWAN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: A sudden blow [or, the great bird drops]; the great wings beating still Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): Leda Subject(s): Birds; Imagination; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Seduction; Swans; Trojan War; Villains In Literature; Vision; Zeus; Fancy LEDA AND THE SWAN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sudden blow [or, the great bird drops]; the great wings beating still Last Line: Before the indifferent beak could let her drop? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): Led Subject(s): Birds; Imagination; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Seduction; Swans; Trojan War; Villains In Literature; Vision; Zeus LEDGER, by MELINDA MUELLER Poem Source First Line: Suppose each star were named Last Line: With their no hands Subject(s): Politics; War LEE AT THE WILDERNESS, by MARY (MOLLIE) EVELYN MOORE DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Twas a terrible moment Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History LEE TO THE REAR [MAY 12, 1864], by JOHN REUBEN THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn of a pleasant morning in may Last Line: The gray-bearded man in the black slouched hat. Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, John Randolph Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870); Memorial Day; Patriotism; United States - History; Wilderness Campaign (1864); Declaration Day LEE'S PAROLE, by MARION MANVILLE Poem Text First Line: Well, general grant, have you heard the news? Last Line: Preserved the north in the south's parole. Alternate Author Name(s): Pope, Marion Manville, Mrs. Subject(s): American Civil War; Appomattox, Virginia; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870); U.s. - History LEFT ON THE BATTLE-FIELD, by SARAH TITTLE BOLTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What, was it a dream? Am I all alone Last Line: Heart folded to heart, and face to face. Subject(s): War LEFT ON THE BATTLE-FIELD, by LAURA C. REDDEN Poem Text First Line: Oh, my darling! My darling! Never to feel Last Line: Out of the hateful light. Subject(s): American Civil War; Grief; U.s. - History; Sorrow; Sadness LEG, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the iodoform, in twilight-sleep Last Line: That if thou take me angrily in hand %and hurl me to the shark, I shall not die! Subject(s): Amputees; Healing; War LEGACY, by FREDERICK EBRIGHT Poem Source First Line: Wars end, and men come back from them Last Line: Children with puzzled eyes, and oddly old, %confused at their own sad confusion Subject(s): World War Ii LEGEND, by JUDITH WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blacksmith's boy went out with a rifle Subject(s): War LEGEND, by JUDITH WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The blacksmith's boy went out with a rifle Last Line: With the swinging rainbow on his shoulder Subject(s): War LEGEND OF LILJA, by SARAH KIRSCH Poem Source First Line: If she was beautiful is uncertain the more Last Line: Will not get out of here we have %seen too much Subject(s): World War Ii LEGEND OF THE DEAD SOLDIER, by BERTOLT BRECHT Poem Source First Line: And as the war in its fifth spring Last Line: But the soldier, in accordance with instructions %goes to a hero's grave Subject(s): War LEGEND OF WOMAN, by MILUTIN BOJIC Poem Source First Line: Sleepy earth breathed its purple vapours Last Line: Down evergreen slopes came the woman Subject(s): World War I LEGEND OF YPRES, by ELINOR JENKINS Poem Source First Line: Before the throne the spirits of the slain Subject(s): World War I LEGION OF HONOR, by HENRY LYNDEN FLASH Poem Source First Line: Why are we forever speaking Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History LEIT-MOTIF: OH GREAT CITY OF LIMA, by MIRKO LAUER Poem Source First Line: Everything's interrelated: the weak Last Line: There lie the true predictions Subject(s): Bourgeoisie; Latin America - History; Peru; War LEMMINGS, by DONALD A. STAUFFER Poem Source First Line: Let readers say (description or abuse) Last Line: And should leave us, where we began, with the excellent notion %of the lemmings moving in unison tow Subject(s): Lemmings; War LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 1. THE MAGIC GLASS, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM Poem Text First Line: Twas fair and bright the first of may Last Line: When fate shall weave thy destiny. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 10. NORTHERN CHIEF, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM Poem Text First Line: Cold winter laid him down to rest Last Line: "I'll even say farewell to-night." Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 16. THE MAIDEN'S PRAYER, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM Poem Text First Line: It was a beauteous, heavenly night Last Line: When walter draws to win lenare. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 17. THE RESCUE, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM Poem Text First Line: At midnight's holy hour - a time Last Line: They thought on their unburied dead. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 18. THE NUPTIALS, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM Poem Text First Line: Twelve hours passed -- the grave had closed Last Line: But wind as one through time forever. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 2. THE PICKET, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM Poem Text First Line: Twas night; on old potomac's shore Last Line: And then resumed his weary pace. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 3. THE BATTLE, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM Poem Text First Line: The cannon's roar booms on the air Last Line: But deeper still in darkness go. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 5. RECOGNITION - APPEAL, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM Poem Text First Line: Whiling the summer hours away Last Line: But strength is given as we need. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The LENGTH OF DAYS (TO THE EARLY DEAD IN BATTLE), by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no length of days Last Line: There dwelt antiquity. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): World War I; First World War LENINGRAD (1941-1943), by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For some of us it began with wild dogs Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War LENINGRAD (1941-1943), by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For some of us it began with wild dogs Last Line: And scraped away the useless blue skin %and the dead flesh. Somehow we lived Subject(s): World War Ii LENINGRAD SYMPHONY, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: The theater's swollen and static with winter Last Line: How soon will the war end? Will it end %soon? Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; War; Winter LENINGRAD: 1943, by VERA INBER Poem Source First Line: From day to day Subject(s): Saint Petersburg, Russia; World War Ii LEONIDAS, by GEORGE CROLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shout for the mighty men Last Line: Greece shall be a new-born star! Subject(s): Leonidas, King Of Sparta (d. 480 B.c.); Trojan War LES CHATIMENTS: 1. TO PASSIVE OBEDIENCE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sons of the year two! Wars waking epic chords! Last Line: With finger towards the skies. Subject(s): France; French Revolution (1789); Patriotism; Soldiers; War LES FLEURS DU MAL, by ALLEN TUCKER Poem Source First Line: From the battlefield, %from the ground uptorn, overturned Last Line: That grows only from the heart of love Subject(s): World War I LES HALLES D'YPRES, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A tangle of iron rods and spluttered beams Last Line: And flicker in playful flight. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War LESSON, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It occurs to me now Last Line: At the memory of my uncle %charging a barricade %with a homemade bomb, %I burst out laughing Subject(s): World War Ii LESSON FOR TODAY, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If this uncertain age in which we dwell Last Line: I would have written of me on my stone: %I had a lover's quarrel with the world Subject(s): War LESSON FROM THE CORPS, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you find the body, it has cauliflower ears Last Line: Only the dead can tell you the distance from here to there Subject(s): Politics; War LESSONS OF THE WAR: 1. NAMING OF PARTS, by HENRY REED Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Today we have naming of parts. Yesterday Subject(s): Guns; Men; Soldiers; World War Ii; Second World War LESSONS OF THE WAR: 1. NAMING OF PARTS, by HENRY REED Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today we have naming of parts. Yesterday Last Line: Silent in all of the gardens and the bees going backwards and forwards, %for to-day we have naming o Subject(s): Guns; Men; Soldiers; World War Ii LESSONS OF THE WAR: 2. JUDGING DISTANCES, by HENRY REED Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Not only how far away, but the way that you say it Subject(s): War LESSONS OF THE WAR: 2. JUDGING DISTANCES, by HENRY REED Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not only how far away, but the way that you say it Last Line: At seven o'clock from the houses, is roughly a distance %of about one year and a half Subject(s): War LESSONS OF THE WAR: 3. UNARMED COMBAT, by HENRY REED Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In due course of course you will all be issued with Last Line: That battle-fit we lived, and though defeated, %not without glory fought Subject(s): War LEST WE FORGET, by ROBERT BRYAN FLANARY Poem Text First Line: I stood alone where sleep the dead Last Line: The curse of war. Let live who may! Subject(s): War LEST YOU FORGET, by EMANUEL LITVINOFF Poem Source First Line: When the toll is heavy Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii LET ME KISS HIM FOR HIS MOTHER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History LET THE WARM AIR CONDENSE ON THE WINDOW, by IVAN HARGRAVE Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii LET THERE BE LIGHT!, by RUTH WRIGHT KAUFFMAN Poem Source First Line: Black with the blackness of hell and despair Subject(s): World War I LET THERE BE NO NEED OF WAR, by CLARA JOHNSTON PIERCE Poem Text First Line: My son has gentle eyes, and hair blown back Last Line: My son, -- but let there be no need of war. Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Anti-war Protests LET US NOW PASSIONATELY REMEMBER, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My little darlings, let us now Last Line: To %no Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Social Protest; War LETTER FOR ALL-HALLOWS, by PETER KANE DUFAULT Poem Source First Line: I am still hurt, plin Last Line: Who, one way or another, were made ghosts %in all their country's wars Subject(s): World War Ii LETTER FROM AN ISLAND, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I gave our difference 10,000 miles Last Line: Stay hungry with my hunger, and we win Subject(s): War LETTER FROM ARAGON, by JOHN CORNFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is quiet sector of a quiet front Subject(s): War LETTER FROM BERLIN, by JON STALLWORTHY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My dear, today a letter from berlin Last Line: A turbulent crater; a trench, filled %not with snow only, east of buchenwald Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; War LETTER FROM EALING BROADWAY STATION, by AELFRIDA TILLYARD Poem Source First Line: Night fog. Tall through the murky gloom Last Line: Sister, good-night; the dawn is here Subject(s): Women; World War I LETTER FROM SPAIN, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear brother at home: %we captured a wounded moor today Last Line: And he didn't understand. %salud, %johnny Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) LETTER FROM WALES, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is a question of identity %which I can't answer. Abel, I'll presume Last Line: But a stage before that, 'how am I to put %the question that I'm asking you to answer? Subject(s): World War I LETTER TO AN AVIATOR IN FRANCE, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A slope of summer sprinkled over Last Line: And sunset roses are in bloom. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; World War I; Airplanes; Air Pilots; First World War LETTER TO HAYDEN, by BRIDGET MEEDS Poem Source First Line: Hayden, the artificial turf at this new stadium Last Line: But from where I sit right now, %it stinks Subject(s): Politics; War LETTER TO HITLER, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last winter we were Last Line: Out all over the room! Subject(s): Books; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); War LETTER TO JEAN-PAUL BAUDOT, AT CHRISTMAS, by LUCIEN STRYK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Friend, on this sunny day, snow sparkling Last Line: Yours in hope of peace, for all of us %before the coming of another snow Subject(s): World War Ii LETTER TO LOUIS UNTERMEYER, 1944, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear louis: %I'd rather there had been no war at all Last Line: I'd take a hand in it if you would let me Subject(s): Untermeyer, Louis (1885-1977); World War Ii LETTER TO MY WIFE, by KEIDRYCH RHYS Poem Source First Line: I eagerly await your miniature, wish the artist would hurry Subject(s): War LETTER TO NO ADDRESS, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: Another winter holds the town at bay Last Line: Its restoration under winter skies Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History LETTER TO PARIS, by GAIL N. HARADA Poem Source First Line: Old letters accumulate like dust on my desk Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans LETTER TO R, by WILLARD MAAS Poem Source First Line: It is the memory of the peacock and the muses Subject(s): War LETTER TO S.S. FROM BRYN-Y-PIN, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor fusilier aggrieved with fate %that lets you lag in france so late Last Line: Where lurk the bogeys of old fear %to think of you, to feel you near %by our old bond, poor fusilier Subject(s): World War I LETTER TO SAM HAMILL, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sam, I keep thinking it's not really fitting Last Line: Pfc corn here, reporting for peace watch Subject(s): Politics; War LETTER TO THE FRONT, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Women and poets see the truth arrive Last Line: As I now send you, for a beginning, praise Subject(s): War LETTER TO THE FRONT, 2, by BARBARA RAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When it is still, I listen for your voice. Subject(s): War - Home Front; Absence; Longing; Family Life; Letters; Separation; Isolation; Relatives LETTER TO THE FRONT: 10, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Surely it is time for the true grace of women Subject(s): Women & War LETTER TO THE FRONT: 2, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even during war, moments of delicate peace Subject(s): War; Death; Dead, The LETTER TO THE FRONT: 3, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They called us to a change of heart Subject(s): War LETTER TO THE FRONT: 6, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Home thoughts from home; we read you every day, Subject(s): War - Home Front LETTER TO THE FRONT: 8, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Evening bringing me out of the government building, Subject(s): War; Freedom; United States; Liberty; America LETTER TO THE FRONT: 9, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among all the waste there are the intense stories Subject(s): United States - Politics & Government; Women & War LETTER TO YOUKI, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love Last Line: I've got another science I can confuse him with Subject(s): France; Love; World War Ii; Second World War LETTER TO YOUKI, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love Last Line: The censor. A thousand kisses. And have you received the little hope %chest that I sent to the hotel Subject(s): France; Love; World War Ii LETTER: 1, by RANDALL SWINGLER Poem Source Poem Explanation First Line: The midnight streets as I walk back Subject(s): War LETTER: 8, by RANDALL SWINGLER Poem Source Poem Explanation First Line: On the first day of snow, my train Subject(s): War LETTERS FROM VICKSBURG: 1. APRIL THE 17/63, by GARY GILDNER Poem Source First Line: Dear woman I am well and hope you ar Last Line: The boys ar well and in good hart -- john blood Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History LETTERS FROM VICKSBURG: 10. MAY 30, 1963 CAMP NEAR VICKSBURG, by GARY GILDNER Poem Source First Line: Dear loved one well the last 2 days I spent Last Line: From them sins I am in my station Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History LETTERS FROM VICKSBURG: 11, by GARY GILDNER Poem Source First Line: Dear loved one did I mention general grants Last Line: I sent my love to you and all your folks Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History LETTERS FROM VICKSBURG: 12, by GARY GILDNER Poem Source First Line: Dear wife and bosom friend I hat seen hart Last Line: We leave our arms and some come cleare acrost Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History LETTERS FROM VICKSBURG: 13. JUNE 6/63 CAMP SE OF VICKSBURG, by GARY GILDNER Poem Source First Line: Dear cecelia well its shel and shel and Last Line: Or wether I dont get them in this plase Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History LETTERS FROM VICKSBURG: 14. JUNE 12/63 CAMP REAR VICKSBURG, by GARY GILDNER Poem Source First Line: Dear cecelia we hav hat some warm times Last Line: What I want -- nothing -- if it aint by vote Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History LETTERS FROM VICKSBURG: 15, by GARY GILDNER Poem Source First Line: Some boys ar playing cards but I dont feal Last Line: To bury aney stinking copy corps we shoot them Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History LETTERS FROM VICKSBURG: 16. JULY 24, 1863 MILLIKENS BEND LA., by GARY GILDNER Poem Source First Line: Dear and most loved wife it is with pleasure Last Line: Way I gess hes gone with grant to georgy Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History LETTERS FROM VICKSBURG: 17., by GARY GILDNER Poem Source First Line: Dear and mutch loved one with pleasure I take Last Line: A furlow and come home -- goodby -- john blood Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History LETTERS FROM VICKSBURG: 18. BERWICK LA. OCT 2ND 1863, by GARY GILDNER Poem Source First Line: Mrs. Blood. Dear madam, yours of sept. 13 Last Line: But o alas! In life we are in death Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Typhoid Fever; U.s. - History LETTERS FROM VICKSBURG: 2. MAY THE 7/63, by GARY GILDNER Poem Source First Line: Dear woman I was glat to hear from you Last Line: And I my cap for witch I thank the lord Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History LETTERS FROM VICKSBURG: 3, by GARY GILDNER Poem Source First Line: We left the river seven days ago Last Line: Helpt ourselfs to other things we wanted Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History LETTERS FROM VICKSBURG: 4. MAY THE 8/63, by GARY GILDNER Poem Source First Line: Dear woman I again take pen in hand Last Line: Road -- the male mule is here -- goodby -- john blood Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History LETTERS FROM VICKSBURG: 5. MAY THE 17/63, by GARY GILDNER Poem Source First Line: Dear woman I am sor a littel bit Last Line: The ground and wept as close as posable Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History LETTERS FROM VICKSBURG: 6, by GARY GILDNER Poem Source First Line: Dear wife I feal prety rested now Last Line: Of my own and ran - not knowing wher I went Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History LETTERS FROM VICKSBURG: 7, by GARY GILDNER Poem Source First Line: Dear wife and friend I dozed but now will try Last Line: And said our men wer going down like flys Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History LETTERS FROM VICKSBURG: 8, by GARY GILDNER Poem Source First Line: I went with general logans men an we Last Line: Steped over deat and wounded thick as sheep Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History LETTERS FROM VICKSBURG: 9. MAY THE 27/63 AT VICKSBURG, by GARY GILDNER Poem Source First Line: Dear wife and friend I hav not mutch to write Last Line: My love to you -- my sheat has no mor room Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History LETTRES D'UN SOLDAT (1914-1915), by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No introspective chaos -- I accept Subject(s): World War I; First World War LETTRES D'UN SOLDAT (1914-1915), by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No introspective chaos -- I accept Last Line: You know the phrase Subject(s): World War I LETTRES D'UN SOLDAT: 5, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The palais de justice of chambermaids Last Line: Make more awry our faulty human things Subject(s): World War I LETTRES D'UN SOLDAT: 6, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is another mother whom I love Last Line: And little will or wish, that day, for tears Subject(s): World War I LETTRES D'UN SOLDAT: 7, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hi! The creator too is blind Last Line: From that meticulous potter's thumb Subject(s): World War I LETTRES D'UN SOLDAT: 8, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John smith and his son, john smith Last Line: And-a-runny-tummy-tum Subject(s): World War I LETTRES D'UN SOLDAT: 9, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life contracts and death is expected Last Line: The clouds go, nevertheless, %in their direction Subject(s): World War I LEVEL MIND, by ALEXANDER COMFORT Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii LEVELLER, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Near martinpuisch that night of hell Last Line: His comrades of 'a' company %deeply regret his death :we shall all deeply miss so tru a pal' Subject(s): World War I LEVITATIONS, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today I saw my dead great-aunt levitating over the hudson in red Last Line: Except for the humans-faced masks they kept trying to tear off Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 LIBERTE, EGALITE, FRATERNITE, by FLORENCE CONVERSE Poem Source First Line: Let us not fear for the creative word Last Line: Let us not fear for the creative word Subject(s): France; Freedom; World War Ii LIBERTY OF MAN, by CHARLES PEGUY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Such is the difficulty, it is great Last Line: Does one love to be loved by slaves Subject(s): World War I LIBERTY TO ATHENS, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The flag of freedom floats once more Last Line: And freedom is their only lord. Subject(s): Freedom; Greek War Of Independence (1821-1832); Liberty LIBERTY TREE, by THOMAS PAINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a chariot of light from the regions of day Last Line: In defence of our liberty tree. Subject(s): American Revolution; Freedom; United States - Continental Congress; War; Liberty LIBERTY; NEW CASTLE, 1878, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For a hundred years the pulse of time Last Line: Lights up thy first abiding place. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Freedom; Hope; U.s. - Centennial Celebrations; War; Liberty; Optimism LIBYA, by L. CHALLONER Poem Source First Line: Where is the splendour alexander found Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii LIDICE, by CHARLES SCHIFF Poem Source First Line: Now let each common and heroic man Last Line: The european dead crying out for rest, %I rest in them, and take them to my breast Subject(s): Lidice, Czechoslovakia; World War Ii LIDICE, by UNKNOWN+174 Poem Source First Line: This village has no name. We wiped it out Last Line: Was seen in essence and in crime acquired %an endless habitation and a name Subject(s): World War Ii LIDICE; TO THE DESPOILERS, by MARY SINTON LEITCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From what dark wine, with what disastrous gall Last Line: Till you implore the mercy of the dust %as refuge from the name of lidice! Subject(s): World War Ii LIEBSTOD, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I who, conceived beneath another star Last Line: Our manhood faultless and our honor clean. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War LIFE AT WAR, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The disasters numb within us Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict (1961-1975); War Atrocities; Social Commentaries LIFE OF SAN MILLAN, by GONZALO DE BERCEO Poem Source First Line: And when the kings were in the field Last Line: Was the holy san millan of cogolla's neighborhood Subject(s): Emilian (aemilianus Cucullatus), Saint; War LIFE RETURNING; AFTER WAR-TIME, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O life, dear life, with sunbeam finger touching Last Line: His servant live, or his good soldier die. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): War LIFE'S FAVORITE, by ALFRED COCHRANE Poem Source First Line: Life she loved him - she seemed the slave Subject(s): World War I LIFE, DEATH, AND LOVE, by ALEXANDER GORDON COWIE Poem Source First Line: Life! Ah, life is a tangled webbe Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I LIGHT AFTER DARKNESS, by EDWARD WYNDHAM TENNANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the night, like some great dark drop-scene Last Line: The broken heralds of a doleful day. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War LIGHT ON THE PEWTER DISH, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Driving across the huge bridge Last Line: During the thirty years' war Subject(s): Navy - United States; War LIGHTS OUT, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have come to the borders of sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Life Change Events; Sleep; World War I; First World War LIGHTS OUT, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have come to the borders of sleep Last Line: That I may lose my way %and myself Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Life Change Events; Sleep; World War I LIKE A PARTY, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You throw a war and hope people will come Subject(s): War LIKE A SHOWER OF RAIN, FR. ANNALES, by QUINTUS ENNIUS Poem Source Subject(s): War LIKE A TREE, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: I saw a sturdy tree, wind crucified Last Line: He stood quite like the scarred and noble tree! Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Peace; Presidents, United States; Silence; War LIKE LOVE, by LAURIE KURIBAYASHI Poem Source First Line: What you will remember are his hands Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans LIKE MEN OF OLD, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: There was three of them trapped in an old chateau Last Line: Of the dead men three who had held them hard till the flag came over the hill! Subject(s): Native Americans; World War I; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; First World War LILACS AND THE ROSES, by LOUIS ARAGON Poem Source First Line: O months of blossoming, months of transfigurations Last Line: Life far-off conflagrations: roses of anjou Subject(s): Memory; War LIMBO, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After a week spent under raining skies, / in horror, mud and sleeplessness a wee Last Line: Draw the plough leisurely in quiet courses. Subject(s): World War I; First World War LINCOLN, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Manic-depressive lincoln, national hero! Subject(s): American Civil War; Capitalism; Social Commentaries; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) LINCOLN AT GETTYSBURG, by MARY MATHEWS ADAMS Poem Source First Line: A nation's voice, a nation's praise Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; U.s. - History LINCOLN, THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the norn mother saw the whirlwind hour Last Line: And leaves a lonesome place against the sky. Subject(s): American Civil War; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Patriotism; Presidents, United States; Religion; United States - History; Theology LINE AFTER LINE, by PETER BAKER Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii LINES, by SAMUEL ALFRED BEADLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How I love my country you have heard Last Line: And blind to your faults as to mine. Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Racism; Spanish-american War (1898); Racial Prejudice; Bigotry LINES, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the centers' naked files, the basic line Last Line: The longest of their lives, the men are free Subject(s): World War Ii LINES ADAPTED TO A FAVOURITE MILITARY AIR, by JAMES HAY BEATTIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark, hark! The drums afar Last Line: The hero's grave. Subject(s): War LINES AROUND PETERSBURG, by SAMUEL DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Oh, silence, silence! Now, when night is near Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History LINES FOR AN INTERMENT, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now it is fifteen years you have lain in the meadow Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Death; Social Protest; War; Dead, The LINES FOR AN INTERMENT, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now it is fifteen years you have lain in the meadow Last Line: Now you are dead Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Death; Social Protest; War LINES FOR THE HOUR, by HAMILTON FISH ARMSTRONG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If what we fought for seems not worth the fighting Last Line: Knowing the slow mutations of the soul. Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War LINES ON THE BACK OF A CONFEDERATE NOTE, by SAMUEL ALROY JONAS Poem Text First Line: Representing nothing on god's earth now Last Line: Like our hope of success it has passed. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Patriotism; United States - History; Confederacy LINES SUGGESTED BY THE WAR IN THE CRIMEA: 1854, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flapping fierce her gory pinions Last Line: They shall fall to rise no more! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Variant Title(s): The Horrors Of War; Verses Suggested By The War In The Crimea, 1854 Subject(s): Crimean War (1853-1856) LINES TO A DICTATOR, by MARY SINTON LEITCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: London shall perish - arch and tower and wall Last Line: And cry, amazed, 'the towers are overthrown, %the walls have crumbled - but the city stands!' Subject(s): London; World War Ii LINES TO A FRIEND VISITING AMERICA, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now farewell to you! You are Last Line: To england, and to me my friend. Subject(s): England; United States; War; English; America LINES UPON THE DEATH OF CHARLEY DU BIGNON, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The years of manhood had not tinged Last Line: The laurel wreath of fame. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Soldiers; United States - History; Dead, The LINES WRITTEN FOR THE OCCASION OF A SALE OF MANUSCRIPTS, by ROLFE HUMPHRIES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Think what went into these Last Line: For more than single use Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) LINES WRITTEN IN A FIRE-TRENCH, by WALTER SCOTT STUART LYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis midnight, and above the hollow trench Last Line: The tense, packed faces in the black redoubt. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War LINES WRITTEN IN CAPTIVITY, by F. J. PATMORE Poem Source First Line: In england the leaves are falling Subject(s): World War I LINES WRITTEN IN SURREY, 1917, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: A sudden swirl of song in the bright sky Last Line: Of english daisies dancing in english dells. Subject(s): England; World War I - Great Britain; English LISTEN, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): War LISTENING POST, by ROBERT ERNEST VERNEDE Poem Source First Line: The sun's a red ball in the oak Last Line: Out of our discords harmony %sweeter than a bird's song Subject(s): World War I LISTENING TO A BROADCAST, by JOHN STREETER MANIFOLD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is no siding for the brain Subject(s): War LISTENING TO THE WAR NEWS AT BASS RIVER, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: After sunset a strange life Last Line: The ants have begun the guerrilla war against men Subject(s): War LITANY, by ALLEBE GREGORY Poem Source First Line: Saint genevieve, whose sleepless watch Subject(s): World War I LITANY IN WAR TIME, by J. W. A. Poem Source First Line: Now that the heavens are opened Subject(s): World War I LITANY OF NATIONS, by WILLIAM GRIFFITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Aeons of old were wandering down the seas Last Line: What have we squandered? Subject(s): Ambition; Europe; God; History; Nations; Prophecy & Prophets; War; Historians LITTLE BELGIAN ORPHAN, by AMANDA MCKITTRICK ROS Poem Source First Line: Daddy was a belgian and so was mammy too Last Line: If nobody conquer him on earth the devil will in ---- Subject(s): World War I LITTLE CAR, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the 31st day of august in the year 1914 Last Line: We had nevertheless just been born Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): World War I LITTLE CAR, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The 31st day of august 1914 Last Line: We had just been born Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): World War I LITTLE FRIEND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Then I heard the bomber call me in Last Line: Let's go home Subject(s): Air Warfare;world War Ii; Second World War LITTLE GIFFEN, by FRANCIS ORRERY TICKNOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the focal and foremost fire Last Line: "for ""little giffen,"" of tennessee." Variant Title(s): Little Giffen Of Tennessee Subject(s): American Civil War; Giffen, Isaac Newton (1847-1865); Heroism; Murfreesboro, Battle Of (1862); Patriotism; United States - History; Giffen, Isaac; Heroes; Heroines LITTLE GREEN TENTS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little green tents where the soldiers sleep Last Line: When they went to the war away. Subject(s): Tents; War LITTLE GRIMY-FINGERED GIRL, by LEE WILSON DODD Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): World War I LITTLE HOME PAPER, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): World War I LITTLE INDIVIDUALIST, by GABRIEL-TRISTAN FRANCONI Poem Source First Line: She's lissom, with a quivering knife-blade mind Last Line: Have raised their delicate hands to kill Subject(s): World War I LITTLE INFINITE POEM, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: To take the wrong road Last Line: We will have to get down on all fours and eat the grasses of the cemeteries forever Subject(s): Men; Poetry And Poets; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) LITTLE MOTHER, by EVERARD JACK APPLETON Poem Source First Line: Little mother, little mother, with the shadows Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I LITTLE OLD ROAD, by GERTRUDE PALMER VAUGHAN Poem Source First Line: There's a breath of may in the breeze Subject(s): World War I LITTLE ONE-STAR FLAG, by ALFRED DAMON RUNYON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, I used to hear the family Alternate Author Name(s): Runyon, Damon Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I LITTLE PEOPLES, by B. PAUL NEUMAN Poem Source First Line: The pharoahs trampled on us in their day Subject(s): World War I LITTLE RESPONSORY FOR A REPUBLICAN HERO, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A book lay beside his dead belt Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) LITTLE SOLDIER, by JAMES LYMAN MOLLOY Poem Source First Line: When I'm big I'll be a soldier ...' Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History LITTLE SONG OF THE MUTILATED, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: Lend me your arm Last Line: And a wooden leg Variant Title(s): Little Song Of The Maime Subject(s): War LITTLE TOWN IN SENEGAL, by WILL THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: I hear the throbbing music down the lanes Subject(s): World War I LIVES OF THE VETERANS, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Byzantium was once a city on the bosporus Subject(s): War LIVING BY I-5, AUGUST 6, 1995, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: No, not the 100,000 year-old ice dam Last Line: Each car has an aura of blue flame Subject(s): Bombs; Death; Fire; Graves; Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War; Radiation And Radiation Sickness LIVING LINE, by HAROLD BEGBIE Poem Source First Line: As long as faith and freedom last Subject(s): World War I LOCHABER NO MORE, by NEIL MUNRO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell to lochaber, farewell to the glen Last Line: For thou wilt return to lochaber no more! Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I - Scotland 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 LOFTY LANE, by EDWIN GERARD Poem Text First Line: Buckle the spur and belt again Last Line: Before you halt at the lines again! Alternate Author Name(s): Gerardy Subject(s): Death; Grief; Scouting & Scouts; War; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness LOGAN AT PEACH TREE CREEK; A VETERAN'S STORY [JULY 20, 1864], by HAMLIN GARLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You know that day at peach tree creek Last Line: As on the day mcpherson died. Subject(s): American Civil War; Atlanta Campaign (1864); Logan, John Alexander (1826-1886); Mcpherson, James Birdseye (1828-1864); United States - History LOGIC, by WILLIAM REGINALD GIBBONS Poem Source First Line: A sioux woman, at Last Line: Did you not come all the way here to be killed?' Subject(s): Death; Native Americans; War LONDON IN WAR, by HELEN DIRCKS Poem Source First Line: White faces, %like helpless petals on the stream Last Line: Are wounded birds %that fall %for ever Subject(s): Women; World War I LONDON TROOPS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: While they endure the moaning fray Subject(s): World War I LONDON, 1940, by ALAN ROOK Poem Source First Line: Lonely now this unreal city of desperate hopes Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii LONDON, 1941, by MERVYN LAURENCE PEAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Half masonry, half pain; her head Last Line: O mother of wounds; half masonry, half pain Subject(s): World War Ii LONE HAND, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She took her tide and she passed the bar with the first o' the morning light Subject(s): World War I LONE WOMAN, by ROBERT A. CHRISTIE Poem Source First Line: They're gathering now at yon crossroads Subject(s): World War I LONELY EAGLES, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being black in america Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Aviation & Aviators; Air Warfare; World War Ii; African Americans - Military; Family Life; James, General Daniel 'chappie' (1920-78); Airplanes; Air Pilots; Second World War; Relatives LONG PAST MONCADA, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing was less than it seemed, my darling Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) LONG PAST MONCADA, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing was less than it seemed, my darling Last Line: Survive as a lifetime sound Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) LONG WAR, by LAURIE LEE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Less passionate the long war throws Last Line: Death's family likeness in each face %must show, at last, our brotherhood Subject(s): War LONG-TOU BALLAD, by ZHANG JI Poem Source First Line: The road to long-tou is cut off Last Line: To once again take liang-zhou %into the house of han? Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Frontier And Pioneer Life; War LOOK FOR ME ON ENGLAND, by HERBERT B. MALLALIEU Poem Source Subject(s): War LOOK TO THE END, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: The german empire is no more Last Line: O, god!—and we've been proud! Subject(s): Disasters; Germany; Lusitania (ship); Shipwrecks; United States; War; Germans; America LOOK TO THE FUTURE, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To you born into violence Subject(s): War; Future; Conduct Of Life LOOK WITHIN, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, let me not be silent while we fight Last Line: While worm-infested, rotten through within! Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Fascism & Fascists; Racism; United States; World War Ii; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; America; Second World War LOOK, THE SOLDIERS!, by FELIX V. RAMOS Poem Source First Line: Remember, mother, when I said right there Last Line: Look, the soldiers, singing, mother; the international Subject(s): Freedom; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) LOOK-OUT MOUNTAIN; THE NIGHT FIGHT (NOVEMBER, 1863), by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who inhabiteth the mountain Last Line: They are fortified in right. Subject(s): American Civil War; Lookout Mountain, Battle Of (1863); U.s. - History LOOKER-ON, by FRANK HERBERT SAMUEL KENDON Poem Source First Line: ...And ladders leaning against damson trees Last Line: And ladders leaning against damson trees Subject(s): War LOOKING AT A YI DYNASTY RICE BOWL, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Seeing this plain %white clay Last Line: I am finally ready %to have as they are Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 LOOM, by JAMES HARRY KNIGHT-ADKIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Riding back from caudebec through autumn Subject(s): World War I LORCA, by BOB KAUFMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Split ears of morning earth green now Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) LORCA, by BOB KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Split ears of morning earth green now Last Line: In lost spain's %darkened noon Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) LORCA, by BYRON VAZAKAS Poem Source First Line: Winter in the delicate cold days brittle with detachment Last Line: A literature crept in Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) LORD KITCHENER, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unflinching hero, watchful to foresee Last Line: By the lone orkneys, at the set of sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Kitchener, Horatio, 1st Earl (1850-1916); World War I - Casualties LORD, I OWE THEE A DEATH' (IN TIME OF WAR), by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man pays that debt with new munificence Last Line: But greatly and in gold Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): War LORENA, by HENRY CLINTON WEBSTER Poem Text First Line: The years creep slowly by, lorena Last Line: But there, up there, 'tis heart to heart. Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History 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 LOSSES, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was not dying: everybody died Subject(s): Death; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War LOSSES, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was not dying: everybody died Last Line: We are satisfied, if you are; but why did I die?' Subject(s): Death; World War Ii LOST ABOARD U.S.S. 'GROWLER'; IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM HICKEY, 1944, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black at that depth Variant Title(s): Pacific Lament Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea Battles; World War Ii; Naval Warfare; Second World War LOST ABOARD U.S.S. 'GROWLER'; IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM HICKEY, 1944, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black at that depth Last Line: Toss no morem sib %sleep Variant Title(s): Pacific Lamen Subject(s): Sailors And Sailing; Sea Battles; World War Ii LOST ARMY, by MARGERY LAWRENCE Poem Source First Line: Singing and shouting they swept to the treacherous forest Last Line: Darkness and silence and night is the end of their story Subject(s): Women; World War I LOST BRIGADE, by BRUCE GUERNSEY Poem Source First Line: My uncle donald always knew the weather Last Line: Though he knows the weather, the gathering clouds, %a squadron's thunder %so far away Subject(s): War LOST IN FRANCE - JO'S REQUIEM, by ERNEST RHYS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He had the plowman's strength Last Line: He had the plowman's strength %in the grasp of his hand Alternate Author Name(s): Rhys, Ernest Percival Subject(s): War LOST LAND: TO GERMANY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A childhood land of mountain ways Subject(s): World War I LOST PILOT, by JAMES TATE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your face did not rot Last Line: That placed you in that world %and me in this; or that misfortune %placed these worlds in us Subject(s): World War Ii LOST TRAVELLER'S DREAM, by EVA GORE-BOOTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Men say amid the hosts ... Hidden morrows hides Alternate Author Name(s): Selina Subject(s): World War I LOUD SHOUT THE FLAMING TONGUES OF WAR, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Loud shout the flaming tongues of war Last Line: Shall we unite in servitude. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Ireland; Nations; Patriotism; War; Irish LOUSE HUNTING, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nudes - stark and glistening Last Line: Blown from sleep's trumpet. Subject(s): Army Life; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Drills & Minor Tactics; First World War LOUVAIN, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was the very heart of peace that thrilled Subject(s): World War I LOVE AND WAR, by ARTHUR PATCHETT MARTIN Poem Text First Line: The chancellor mused as he nibbled his pen Last Line: "to march with the great german army." Subject(s): Army - Germany; Franco-prussian War (1870-1871) LOVE AND YOUTH AND WAR, by DERRICK NORMAN LEHMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love and youth to the war they sent Last Line: When love and youth to the war have gone? Subject(s): Hate; Love; Murder; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; World War I; Youth; First World War LOVE COMES, by ERNEST HOWARD CROSBY Poem Text First Line: And who will lead the way? Last Line: Let the people love and theirs is the power! Subject(s): Hate; Love; Revolutions; War LOVE FOR PATSY, by JR. JOHN THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: See the little maunderer Last Line: In all the world no two things match %but the green eyes of patsy Subject(s): War LOVE LETTER FROM AN IMPOSSIBLE LAND, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Combed by the cold seas, bering and pacific Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): War; Sailors & Sailing; Absence; Love; Travel; Letters; War; Separation; Isolation; Journeys; Trips LOVE LETTER FROM AN IMPOSSIBLE LAND, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Combed by the cold seas, bering and pacific Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): War LOVE LETTERS OF THE DEAD, by DOUGLAS STREET Poem Source First Line: Go through the pockets of the enemy wounded Last Line: What's special and sacred and secret %love letters of the dead? Subject(s): War LOVE OF LIFE, by JOHN W. STREETS Poem Source First Line: Reach out thy hands, thy spirit's hands, to me Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I LOVE WAS THE WORM, by JOHN+(3) HALL Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii LOVE, 1916, by MAY WEDDERBURN CANNAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One said to me, 'seek love, for he is joy' Last Line: And answer came, 'love now %is christened sacrifice' Subject(s): Women; World War I LOVELY ALBERT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The turkish war both near and far Last Line: The army and the navy Subject(s): Freedom;nations;war; Liberty LOW-LEVEL CROSS-COUNTRY, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A railroad and a river and a road Last Line: Of the railroad and the river and the road Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; War LOYAL FISHER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The wife in the cot is lonely Subject(s): War LUCIFER'S FEAST; A EUROPEAN NIGHTMARE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To celebrate the ascent of man, one gorgeous night Last Line: In friendship for a moment! ... Subject(s): Death; Devil; War; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub LUCIFER: PART SIX, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But not unscathed did those gay revellers pass Last Line: In pride yet haughtier, marched the milky way. Subject(s): Devil; Fate; Fools; Revolutions; Stars; Time; War; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Destiny; Idiots LUCK, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: You wake to armistice. No big guns thud Last Line: Singing on the day you looked for Subject(s): War LUCK, by DENNIS MCHARRIE Poem Source First Line: I suppose they'll say his last thoughts were of simple things Last Line: He died that's all. It was his unlucky night Subject(s): Luck; War LULLABY, by EDITH SITWELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though the world has slipped and gone Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War LULLABY, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though the world has slipped and gone Last Line: And with the ape thou art alone - %do, do Subject(s): World War Ii LULLABY OF THE ONION, by MIGUEL HERNANDEZ Poem Source First Line: An onion is frost Last Line: Stay ignorant of what's happening, %and what is going on Subject(s): Onions; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) LUNCHTIME LECTURE, by GILLIAN CLARKE Poem Source First Line: And this from the second or third millenium Last Line: Gulping the risen sea that booms in the shell Subject(s): Skulls; War LUTZOW'S WILD BAND, by KARL THEODORE KORNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What gleams through the woods in the morning sun? Last Line: That was lützow's wild and unconquered band! Alternate Author Name(s): Korner, Charles Theodore Subject(s): Nationalism - Germany; War LYON, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some hearts there are of deeper sort Last Line: Where prophets now and armies greet pale lyon. Subject(s): American Civil War; Springfield, Missouri, Battle Of (1861); U.s. - History LYSISTRATA, by ARISTOPHANES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If they'd summoned to worship the god of wine Last Line: Dweller in the brazen home, unconquered in the fight Subject(s): War LYSISTRATA: HOW THE WOMEN WILL STOP WAR, by ARISTOPHANES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You, I presume, could adroitly and gingerly Last Line: Then. Subject(s): War; Women M-DAY'S CHILD IS FAIR OF FACE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is blithe and and bonny and rotted away Subject(s): War M. E. MEDLEY, by J. BROOME Poem Source First Line: Everywhere %radios blare Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii M. O. R. C., by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: They didn't raise their boy to be a soldier Last Line: Till the guns commenced to shoot and war began Subject(s): World War I MACHINE, by JOHN CURTIS UNDERWOOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A british commissariat clerk looked out of a shattered window at Last Line: D'armee and conquering armies Subject(s): World War I MADE SAFE FOR DEMOCRACY, by FLORENCE MCLANDBURGH Poem Source First Line: Made safe for democracy' seems mighty fine Last Line: We're makin' it safe for the missus and kids Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Mclandburgh Subject(s): World War I MADEMOISELLE FROM ARMENTIERES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Madamoiselle from armentieres, parley voo Last Line: Hinky, dinky, parley voo Subject(s): World War I MADISON COUNTY: 1864, by RON RASH Poem Source First Line: No civil war could be fought Last Line: If you die, die like a dog, %your teeth in somebody's throat Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; U.s. - History MADISON'S VICTORY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come all ye madisonian's, ye have now gain'd your pitch Last Line: And for free commerce on the sea, %to columbia's sons Subject(s): Navy - United States; War Of 1812 MADRID, by MARGARET FERGUSON GIBSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the first days of madrid, when the city was the front Last Line: I am, said. Yes, I am Alternate Author Name(s): Gibson, Margaret Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) MADRID - 1937, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Put out the lights and stop the clocks Last Line: To break that no apart %will be to break the human heart Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) MADRID, MAY 1977, by MONA VAN DUYN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tooting down the gran via Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) MADRID, MAY 1977, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tooting down the gran via Last Line: And a share of responsibility for the world Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) MADRID: JULY 1978, by AARON KRAMER Poem Source First Line: All day I staggered about, unable to shake off those three Last Line: There risen and ready, time's new city %will not lie back and take it Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) MADRIGAL IN TIME OF WAR, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the rivers of the midnight town Subject(s): War; Love; Farewell; Parting MAGIC, by JUDITH HERZBERG Poem Source First Line: Before the war all that was different Last Line: Our own fault %as she often used to say Subject(s): War MAGNA CARTA, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Magna carta! Magna carta! Last Line: English brothers, we are waiting! Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Magna Carta; World War I; English History; First World War MAGNANIMITY BAFFLED, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sharp words we had before the fight Last Line: He snatched it -- it was dead. Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History MAGPIES IN PICARDY., by T. P. CAMERON WILSON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: But the great and flashing magpie %he flies as poets might Alternate Author Name(s): Tipuca; Wilson, Tony P. Cameron Subject(s): War MAHRATTA GHATS, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The valleys crack and burn, the exhausted plains Last Line: And did a thousand years go by in vain? %and does another thousand start again? Subject(s): India; Soldiers' Writings; Travel; World War Ii MAIL CALL, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The letters always just evade the hand Subject(s): Army Life; Postal Service; World War Ii; Drills & Minor Tactics; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen; Second World War MAIL CALL, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The letters always just evade the hand Last Line: The soldier simply wishes for his name Subject(s): Army Life; Postal Service; World War Ii MAKING CANNON IN BETHLEHEM, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was long ago in bethlehem town Last Line: The great word is love, the right plan is peace! Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Bethlehem, Palestine; Jesus Christ; Peace; Social Protest; Violence; War; Weapons; Ammunition MAKTOOB, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A shell surprised our post one day Last Line: And wisdom of the east. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War MALVERN HILL, by ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS WARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was there ever message sweeter Last Line: Wishing they'd been better men? Alternate Author Name(s): Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart; Phelps, Mary Gray Variant Title(s): A Message Subject(s): American Civil War; Malvern Hill, Battle Of (1862); U.s. - History MALVERN HILL [JULY 1, 1862], by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye elms that wave on malvern hill Last Line: Leaves must be green in spring. Subject(s): American Civil War; Malvern Hill, Battle Of (1862); United States - History MAN, by BULAT SHALVOVICH OKUDZHAVA Poem Source First Line: He breathes in the air, breathes in the early grass Last Line: And lovingly leafs through his brief life Subject(s): War MAN AND BEAST, by CLIFFORD DYMENT Poem Source Poem Explanation First Line: Hugging the ground by the lilac tree Last Line: Who is it sins now, those eyes say, %you the hunter, or I the prey? Subject(s): Birds; Soldiers; World War Ii MAN AND DOG, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twill take some getting.' 'sir, I think 'twill so' Last Line: Together in the twilight of the wood Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Animals; World War I MAN BEHIND, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The band is on the quarter-deck ... Subject(s): World War I MAN FLEES SUFFOCATIION, by RENE CHAR Poem Source Last Line: Deported from the yoke and from the nuptials, I strike the iron of invisible hinges Subject(s): World War Ii MAN FROM WASHINGTON, by JAMES WELCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The end came easy for most of us Last Line: A world of money, promise and disease Subject(s): Men; Native Americans; War MAN IN THAT AIRPLANE ONCE LAY IN THE WOMB, by OSCAR WILLIAMS Poem Source Subject(s): War MAN IN THE DEAD MACHINE, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High on a slope in new guinea Last Line: Upright, held %by the firm webbing Subject(s): World War Ii MAN IN THE TRENCH, by JAMES BERNARD FAGAN Poem Source First Line: Can you note hear me, young man in the street? Subject(s): World War I MAN OF MY TIME, by SALVATORE QUASIMODO Poem Source First Line: You are still the one with stone and sling Last Line: The black birds, the wind, cover over their hearts Subject(s): World War Ii MAN WHO CAN FIGHT AND SMILE, by NORMA BRIGHT CARSON Poem Source First Line: There is need in the world of men today Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I MAN WHO LOVED MUSIC (IN MEMORY OF JUNIUS SCALES, 1920-2002), by F. D. REEVE Poem Source First Line: The moon is down; dark clouds compound the sky Last Line: His ghost flares up as dawn comes on Subject(s): Politics; War MAN, NOT HIS ARMS, by SELDEN RODMAN Poem Source First Line: Manm not his arms, I sing: the heroic dead Subject(s): War MANASSAS [JULY 21, 1861], by CATHERINE ANNE WARFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They have met at last - as storm-clouds Last Line: At manassas. Alternate Author Name(s): Warfield, Catherine M. Subject(s): American Civil War; Bull Run, Battles Of; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Manassas, Batlle Of; Declaration Day MANHATTAN ARMING, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First o songs for a prelude Last Line: But now you smile with joy exulting old mannahatta. Variant Title(s): Drum-taps Subject(s): American Civil War; New York City - 19th Century; Soldiers; United States - History MANIFESTO OF THE SOLDIER WHO WENT BACK TO WAR, by ANGEL MIGUEL QUEREMEL Poem Source First Line: Know this Last Line: A secret! %know this Subject(s): Freedom; War MANILLA BAY, by ARTHUR HALE Poem Text First Line: From keel to fighting top, I love Last Line: With his head out of the port. Subject(s): Manila, Philippines; Spanish-american War (1898) MANKIND, by GEORG TRAKL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Round gorges deep with fire arrayed, mankind Last Line: Into the wound saint thomas dips his hand Subject(s): World War I MANTIS, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: Do not let me die, ever,' I whisper Last Line: Like that mantis devouring the face of a bee Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) MANUEL IS QUIET SOMETIMES, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: He was quiet again, / driving east on 113 Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; War; Latinos MANUEL IS QUIET SOMETIMES, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He was quiet again, %driving east on 113 Last Line: This is what he said: %'I never lied %to you, man' Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; War MANY, by AGUSTI BARTRA Poem Source First Line: Many %of those many who rose up Last Line: Many of those many who rose up Subject(s): Death; Graves; Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; War Injuries MANY FORMS OF PREDATOR THREATEN, MULTICELLULAR, SHELLS., by PETER BAUM Poem Source Last Line: On a white field the sweet red flower stands out beautifully Subject(s): World War I MANY SISTERS TO MANY BROTHERS, by EMILIE ROSE MACAULAY Poem Text First Line: When we fought campaigns (in the long christmas rains) Last Line: But for me . . . A war is poor fun. Alternate Author Name(s): Macaulay, Rose Subject(s): War - Home Front MAP REFERENCE T994724, by JOHN SLEIGH PUDNEY Poem Source First Line: Spare us this silence after the guns Subject(s): War MARATHON, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stern marathon! The mountains view thee yet Last Line: For those who perished there—but not in vain! Subject(s): Death; Greece; Marathon, Greece; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Greeks MARCH, by NORMAN ROSTEN Poem Source First Line: After the first mile snow fell: down the tall valley Last Line: Madrid-madrid-madrid! Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) MARCH, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With rushing winds and gloomy skies Last Line: "march!" Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): American Civil War; Seasons; U.s. - History MARCH IN WASHINGTON AGAINST THE VIETNAM WAR, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Looking down, I see feet moving calmly, gaily Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Vietnamese Conflict (1961-1975); Anti-war Protests MARCH OF THE DEATHLESS DEAD, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gather the sacred dust Last Line: Together still shall sleep. Variant Title(s): Lines Respectfully Inscribed To The Ladies Memorial As'n Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; U.s. - History; Confederacy MARCH TO CALUMNY, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Throckmorton's troops are already out of it -- even the segregated Last Line: So the chances of capturing her smile are next to nothing Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities MARCH TOWARD THE FRONT, by ODYSSEUS ALEPOUDELI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At daylight on st. John's day, the day after epiphany Last Line: And there in the distance, and along the horizon the first bright red flares Alternate Author Name(s): Elytis, Odysseus; Elytis, Odysseas; Alepudelis, Odisseus Subject(s): World War Ii MARCHING (AS SEEN FROM THE LEFT FILE), by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My eyes catch ruddy necks Last Line: On strong eyes. Subject(s): Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War MARCHING AWAY, by EMMA A. LENT Poem Source First Line: There is a shrill of bugles Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I MARCHING FORTH TO WAR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It was grand to be a soldier and go swinging Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I MARCHING ON TANGA, by FRANCIS BRETT YOUNG Poem Source Subject(s): World War I MARCHING SOLILOQUY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Left! %left! %had a good girl when I Subject(s): World War I MARCHING SONG, by DANA BURNET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When pershing's men go marching into picardy Last Line: And pershing's men are marching, marching into picardy. Subject(s): Army - United States; World War I; First World War MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA, by HENRY CLAY WORK Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Bring the good old bugle boys, we'll sing another song Last Line: While we were marching through georgia. Subject(s): American Civil War; Georgia (state); Holidays; Memorial Day; Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); United States - History; Declaration Day MARCO BOZZARIS, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At midnight, in his guarded tent Last Line: That were not born to die. Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Botsaris, Markos (1788-1823); Greek War Of Independence (1821-1832); Plataea, Greece; Bozzari, Marco; Botzaris, Markos; Laspi MARE LIBERUM, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You dare to say with perjured lips Last Line: Till liberty is safe on sea and shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Lusitania (ship); Patriotism; Submarines; World War I; Submarine Warfare; U-boats; First World War MARGARET GILL'S QUIET LIFE, by CHRISTOPHER WISEMAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a woman, dead at eighty-seven, who's left Last Line: Down at the bottom, called social studies Subject(s): World War Ii – Casualties; Women; Love – Loss Of; Conduct Of Life MARIA (18 NOVEMBER 1941), by MARGARET FERGUSON GIBSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In salvador and china, in spain and nicaragua Last Line: Great power. And as always with great power %we were tested Alternate Author Name(s): Gibson, Margaret Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) MARINES, by ADOLPHE E. SMYLIE Poem Source First Line: Pardon! He has no engleesh, heem' Subject(s): World War I MARIUS AT THE RUINS OF CARTHAGE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He turn'd him from the setting sun Last Line: And then went forth to war again! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Carthage; Marius, Gaius (157-86 B.c.); Roman Empire; War MARK ANDERSON, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the low table by the bed Last Line: But only gaze upon the glass %of water that he could not drink Subject(s): World War I MARK TWAIN AND JOAN OF ARC, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When yankee soldiers reach the barricade Last Line: At bloodshed caused by angels, saints, and men. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Twain, Mark (samuel Langhorne Clemens); World War I; First World War MARKERS, by JUDITH RACHEL PLATZ Poem Source First Line: The mystery is %that we are still here at all Last Line: Toward the light, always toward the light Subject(s): Politics; War MARKET AT PORTA CAPUANA, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: Comes out of the ground, comes out Last Line: Hair, and very pure, egg-noodle, stars Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii MARRIAGE OF EARTH AND SPRING, by IVAR CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: Now wedded earth puts on her splendid dress Subject(s): Earth; Soldiers; World War I MARRIAGE-A-LA-MODE: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, how reformed and quiet we are grown Last Line: T' oblige the town, the city, and the court. Subject(s): Marriage; Plays & Playwrights ; War; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dramatists MARSHAL SAXE AND HIS PHYSICIAN, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fever's a most audacious varlet Last Line: "pull up the glasses!" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Fear; Fever; Physicians; War; Doctors MARTAL DIPTYCH, by GLYN MAXWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By stock-still flags on the hottest day Subject(s): Presidents, United States; War MARTHY VIRGINIA'S HAND [SEPTEMBER 17, 1862], by GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There, on the left!' said the colonel; the battle had shuddered Last Line: See! There is lifted the hand of a baby -- marthy virginia's hand! Subject(s): American Civil War; Antietam, Battle Of (1862); United States - History MARTIAL ARDOUR IN AGE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And if ye marvel that mine eye doth glow Last Line: On morat late, or marathon of old! Subject(s): War MARTIAL CADENZA, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only this evening I saw again low in the sky Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War MARTIAL CADENZA, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only this evening I saw again low in the sky Last Line: Again, and lived and was again, and breathed again %and moved again and flashed again, time flashed Subject(s): World War Ii 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 MARTYRDOM OF THE FINAL SOLUTION, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: In the tower of private files I hear the whispers Last Line: And blaze up one by one into myths Subject(s): War MARTYRED NATION, by W. H. GADSDON Poem Source First Line: Out of the deafening boom and crash Subject(s): World War I MARY, by IRENE RUTHERFORD MCLEOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mary! I'm quite alone in all the world Alternate Author Name(s): De Selincourt, Aubrey, Mrs. Variant Title(s): One Mothe Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I MARY LESLIE; BEFORE VITTORIA, JUNE 20, 1813, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mary leslie, blithe and shrill Last Line: That clean cup to my mouth! Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Napoleonic Wars; Soldiers; Spain; Vittoria, Spain; War MARY TODD LINCOLN AT FORD'S THEATRE, by SUSAN TERRIS Poem Source First Line: So I said no, no more dramas like these with pieces of my flesh Last Line: Let me, too, be freed from myself and from this killing darkness Subject(s): American Civil War; Civil War; Death; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; U.s. - History; Violence MASSACHUSETTS LINE, by ROBERT TRAILL SPENCE LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still first, as long and long ago Subject(s): War MASSACRE, OCTOBER '66, by WOLE SOYINKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shards of sunlight touch me here Last Line: To stay the season of a mind Subject(s): Massacres; Nigerian Civil War MASSES, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the end of the battle Last Line: Embraced the first man; and began to walk Subject(s): War MASSES, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the battle was over Last Line: Put his arms around the first man; started to walks Subject(s): War MASSES, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the end of the battle Last Line: Embraced the first man; and began to walk Subject(s): Brotherhood; Courage; Hearts; Soldiers; War MASSIVE RETALIATION; SAIPAN 1944-1945; AERIAL OFFENSIVE AGAINST JAPAN, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I gaped, admitted, at some what we did Last Line: So far from home, almost beyond return Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Saipan (island); World War Ii MASTER AND PUPIL, by O. M. Poem Source First Line: Two years ago I taught him greek Subject(s): World War I MASTER OF CEREMONIES, by MICHAEL LONGLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My grandfather, a natural master of ceremonies Last Line: That was my nephew. His head got blown off in no man's land Subject(s): War MATER DOLOROSA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: What have I given thee Subject(s): World War I MATEY (CAMBRIN, MAY 1915), by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not comin' back tonight, matey Last Line: But gawd! It went through me 'eart. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Grief; Soldiers; War; World War I; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; First World War MATHEW BRADY ARRANGING THE BODIES, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a mountain flat with snow Subject(s): War; Corpses; Cadavers MATINS AT SAINT MARY'S, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Richard, the lion-hearted Last Line: And the gray monks pray for me!' Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Prayer; War MATURITY, by PATRICIA LEDWARD Poem Source First Line: Once the wind was a gray-eyed companion Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii MATURITY, by J. ELGAR OWEN Poem Source First Line: Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle Subject(s): War MAUNDING SOLDIER, by MARTIN PARKER Poem Source First Line: Good, your worship, cast your eyes Subject(s): War MAY JANET, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stand up, stand up, thou may janet Last Line: And a gold flag overhead. Subject(s): Marriage; Sea; War; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Ocean MAY, 1915, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us remember spring will come again Last Line: At one with love, at one with grief: blind to the scattered things and changing skies. Subject(s): Spring; Women; World War I; First World War MAY-JUNE, 1940, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Foreseen for so many years: these evils, this monstrous violence Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War MAY-JUNE, 1940, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Foreseen for so many years: these evils, this monstrous violence Last Line: It will not be in our time, alas, my dear, %it will not be in our time Subject(s): World War Ii MCILRATH OF MALATE, by JOHN JEROME ROONEY Poem Text First Line: Yes, yes, my boy, there's no mistake Last Line: And valor claimed her own! Subject(s): Manila, Philippines; Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898) MCMXIV [1914], by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those long uneven lines Subject(s): World War I; First World War MCMXIV [1914], by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those long uneven lines Last Line: The thousands of marriages %lasting a little while longer: %never such innocence again Subject(s): World War I ME AGAIN, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say I do not realize Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Morality; War; Anti-war Protests; Ethics ME AGAIN, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say I do not realize Last Line: Sitting at my typewriter Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Morality; War MEDAL, by DIMCHO DEBELYANOV Poem Source First Line: When bored or tired of dispensing Last Line: That it will turn into a medal of gold Subject(s): World War I MEDAL, by TAUFIQ RAFAT Poem Source First Line: When the telegram arrived Last Line: It is exactly what it looks like: %just another piece of bronze Subject(s): War MEDITATION, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If thou, lord god, willest to judge Last Line: Thee, the high judge, and their sin. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ; Prayer; War; World War I; First World War MEDITATION FOR THIS DAY, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Facing the palm of fire Last Line: River by river, mountain by mountain, sea by sea Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) MEDITATION IN JUNE, 1917, by EDWARD SHANKS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How can we reason still, how look afar Subject(s): World War I MEDITATION OF THE DYING GERMAN OFFICER, by HERBERT READ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ich sterbe ... Life ebbs with an easy flow Variant Title(s): The End Of The Wa Subject(s): War MEDITERRANEAN: 1, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the end of july, exile. We watched the gangplank go Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) MEDITERRANEAN: 1, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the end of july, exile. We watched the gangplank go Last Line: Through a garden of gunboats, margin of the port, %entered: mediterranean Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) MEDITERRANEAN: 2, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Frontier of europe, the tideless sea, a field of power Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) MEDITERRANEAN: 2, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Frontier of europe, the tideless sea, a field of power Last Line: The face on the dock that turned to find the war Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) MEDITERRANEAN: 3, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seething, and falling back, a sea of stars Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) MEDITERRANEAN: 3, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seething, and falling back, a sea of stars Last Line: The faces in those hills Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) MEDITERRANEAN: 4, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Near the end now, morning. Sleepers cover the decks Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) MEDITERRANEAN: 4, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Near the end now, morning. Sleepers cover the decks Last Line: Welcome the islands with a sense of loss Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) MEDITERRANEAN: 5, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wheel in the water, green, behind my head Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) MEDITERRANEAN: 5, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wheel in the water, green, behind my head Last Line: Before this war the age must win Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) MEDITERRANEAN: 7, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea produced that town: sete, which the boat turns to Last Line: Atlantis buried outside %to be won Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) MEETING BY THE GJULIKA MEADOW, by GEOFFREY GRIGSON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: He had in his hand a red plant Subject(s): War MEETINGS, by EUGENE GRINDEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet monster you hold death in your beak Last Line: Be careful of your paws %man has his feet in blood Alternate Author Name(s): Eluard, Paul Subject(s): World War Ii MELT THE BELLS, by F. V. ROCKETT Poem Source Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History MEMO TO LYN MACDONALD, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: Some books I can't read all the way through Last Line: On the uncut entanglements of history Subject(s): War MEMO TO NENEROV, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: We all tell our war stories, howie, old friend Last Line: The ascension that had proved our luck again Subject(s): War MEMOIR, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Papa joffre, the shoulders of him wide as the land of france Last Line: A lift of white sun on a stony beach. Subject(s): Joffre, Joseph Jacques (1852-1931); World War I; First World War MEMORIAL, by MARION LOUISE BLISS Poem Full Text First Line: Little you were and bright as a tulip-yellow Subject(s): War; Death; Children; Dead, The; Childhood MEMORIAL DAY, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: When on this holiday commemorating Last Line: Than towards the quaint mythology we crave Subject(s): War MEMORIAL DAY, by WILLIAM MARR Poem Source First Line: At arlington, someone Last Line: How do we bury %the thousands Subject(s): Politics; War MEMORIAL DAY, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After our march from the hudson to the top Last Line: Ticks on its chain. Subject(s): Holidays; Honor; Memorial Day; Veterans; War; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Noblest of martyrs in a glorious fight! Last Line: That they who fell with jackson rise with lee! Subject(s): Heroism; Holidays; Memorial Day; War; Heroes; Heroines; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by FRANCES FREEMAN TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: The blue and the gray and the olive-drab Last Line: The olive-drab, the blue and the gray. Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; U.s. - History; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, POST-WAR, by MARGUERITE MOOERS MARSHALL Poem Text First Line: For golden lads, a-faring Last Line: A memory—of rue! Subject(s): Hate; Holidays; Memorial Day; Social Protest; War; 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 MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR INVASION BEACH WHERE VACATION IN FLESH IS OVER, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see that there it is on the beach Last Line: And barely can not hear them calling, “here's one” Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR INVASION BEACH WHERE VACATION IN FLESH IS OVER, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see that there it is on the beach Last Line: And barely can not hear them calling, here's one Subject(s): World War Ii MEMORIAL SONNET (FOR TWO YOUNG SEAMEN LOST ...): 1, by GEORGE BARKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The seagull, spreadeagled, splayed on the wind Last Line: Saw I was standing in the stance of vague %horror; paralysed with mere pity's peace? Variant Title(s): Pacific Sonnets: Subject(s): Mourning; Sailors And Sailing; World War Ii MEMORIAL SONNET (FOR TWO YOUNG SEAMEN LOST ...): 2, by GEORGE BARKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From thorax of storms the voices of storms Last Line: Eternity in our cabins, pitches our pod %to the mouth of the death for which no one is ready Variant Title(s): Pacific Sonnets: Subject(s): Mourning; Sailors And Sailing; World War Ii MEMORIAL SONNET (FOR TWO YOUNG SEAMEN LOST ...): 3, by GEORGE BARKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At midday they looked up and saw their death Last Line: The funeral contribution and memorial, %the perfect and non-existent obsequies Variant Title(s): Pacific Sonnets: Subject(s): Mourning; Sailors And Sailing; World War Ii MEMORIAL TABLET (GREAT WAR, 1918), by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Squire nagged and bullied till I went to fight Last Line: What greater glory could a man desire? Subject(s): Mourning; World War I; Bereavement; First World War MEMORIAL TO THE GREAT BIG ... SELF-SACRIFICING ADVERTISERS, by FREDERICK EBRIGHT Poem Source First Line: Look, we don't give a hoot if zippo-fasteners have gone to war Subject(s): War MEMORIES, by EDWARD HILTON YOUNG Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Far up at glorian the wind is sighing Last Line: Nor pay the debt I owe. Alternate Author Name(s): Kennet Of The Dene, 1st Baron Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War MEMORIES IN HOSPITAL, by ALFRED HERMAN FRIEDRICH VAGTS Poem Text First Line: The beds are hutches, snow-frozen, where I lie, leaking away Last Line: That bends above my couch, again and yet again. Subject(s): Hospitals; World War I - Casualties MEMORIES OF A LOST WAR, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The guns know what is what, but underneath Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War MEMORIES OF A LOST WAR, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The guns know what is what, but underneath Last Line: They will be proud a while of something death %still needs to need Subject(s): World War Ii MEMORIES OF VERDUN, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The men laughed and baaed like sheep Last Line: They were afraid of less, its lieutenant Subject(s): World War I; Verdun, Battle Of (1916); First World War MEMORIES OF VERDUN, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The men laughed and baaed like sheep Last Line: I was afraid of nothing, a death; %they were afraid of less,its lieutenant Subject(s): World War I MEMORIES OF WEST STREET AND LEPKE, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only teaching on tuesdays, book-worming Variant Title(s): Life Studies: Memories Of West Street And Lepke Subject(s): Boston; Conscientious Objectors; Lepke, Louis (1897-1944); Prisons & Prisoners; World War Ii; Convicts; Second World War MEMORIES OF WEST STREET AND LEPKE, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only teaching on tuesdays, book-worming Last Line: Hanging like an oasis in his air %of lost connections Variant Title(s): Life Studies: Memories Of West Street And Lepk Subject(s): Boston; Conscientious Objectors; Lepke, Louis (1897-1944); Prisons And Prisoners; World War Ii MEMORIES: 2, by CLAIRE MORRIS GANNON Poem Text First Line: Whenever I hear a bluebird sing Last Line: Those glorious happy other days? Subject(s): Memory; Wellesley College; World War I; First World War MEMORIZING CHAUCER, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: October leaves were falling Last Line: I run for a corner, %shivering from head to foot Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities MEMORLAE POSITUM; R. G. S., by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the trees Last Line: And die as thine have done! Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History MEMORY, by ARTHUR NEWBERRY CHOYCE Poem Text First Line: I know a lone spot on the arras road Last Line: If I could bear to walk that road again. Alternate Author Name(s): Choyce, A. Newberry Subject(s): Death; Memory; Soldiers; War; Dead, The MEMORY, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There was no sound at all, no crying in the village Last Line: Who shall deliver us from the memory of these dead? Subject(s): Women; World War I MEMORY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young my heart and head were light Last Line: And silence; and the faces of my friends. Subject(s): Nature; World War I; First World War MEMORY OF ENGLAND, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am glad, I think, my happy mother died Last Line: And thoughts like these... %make me content that she, not I,%went first, went without knowing Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): World War Ii MEMORY OF THE WAR, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most what I know of war is what I learned Last Line: So that is what I did, and how I learned %about the war: I sat there till relieved Subject(s): World War Ii MEN, by MAURICE BELL Poem Source First Line: In the dusk of the forest shade Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History MEN OF GENIUS, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silent, the lord of the world Last Line: Back to his master again. Subject(s): God; War MEN OF THE NORTH, by JOHN NEAL Poem Text First Line: Men of the north, look up! Last Line: Upon our haughty foe! Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; U.s. - History; Declaration Day MEN OF VERDUN, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are five men in the moonlight Last Line: Is written on their flesh. Subject(s): Verdun, Battle Of (1916); World War I; First World War MEN OF WAKE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men betrayed, of that island a myth and a wonder Last Line: Theirs the light beyond death—the eternal debt of the living. Subject(s): Wake Island; World War Ii; Second World War MEN THAT ARE FALLING, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God and all angels sing the world to sleep Last Line: The night wind blows upon the dreamer, bent %over words that are life's voluble utterance Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) MEN WHO MAN, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The men who man our batteries Last Line: The men who man the world Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): World War I MEN WHO MARCH AWAY' (SONG OF THE SOLDIERS), by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What of the faith and fire within us Last Line: Men who march away. Variant Title(s): Song Of The Soldiers Subject(s): Freedom; World War I; Liberty; First World War MENELAUS AND HELEN, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hot through troy's ruin menelaus broke Last Line: And paris slept on by scamander side. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Soldiers' Writings; Trojan War; World War I; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; First World War MENTAL CASES, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Who are these? Why sit they here in twilight? Last Line: Pawing us who dealt them war and madness. Subject(s): Insanity; Soldiers' Writings; War Injuries; World War I; Madness; Mental Illness; First World War MERCHANTMEN, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All honour be to merchantmen Last Line: All honour be to merchantmen while sun and moon do shine! Subject(s): Merchants; World War I; First World War MERCY FOR ARMENIA, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stand back, ye messengers of mercy! Stand Last Line: To play the good samaritan for god. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Armenia; Europe; Torture; Turkey; War MERRY HEART GOES ALL THE DAY', by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I jogged along the footpath way Subject(s): World War I MESOPOTAMIA, by JAMES GRIFFYTH FAIRFAX Poem Source First Line: The clouds are gathered and the wind blows ... Subject(s): World War I MESOPOTAMIA, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They shall not return to us, the resolute, the young Last Line: Shall we leave it unabated in its place? Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I MESS DECK, by ALAN ROSS Poem Source First Line: The bulkhead sweating, and under naked bulbs Last Line: Marooned in it, stealthy as fishes, as may even be dead Subject(s): World War Ii MESS DECK CASUALTY, by ALAN ROSS Poem Source First Line: The orange air grows fetid with smoke Subject(s): War MESSIDOR, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Put in the sickles and reap Last Line: Put in the sickles and reap. Subject(s): Dawn; Harvest; War; Sunrise METACOM, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Red as the banner which enshrouds Last Line: Told when the hunter-monarch fell! Subject(s): Philip, King (native American Chief); Metacomet; King Philip's War (1675-76) METAMORPHOSES, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where I spat in the harbor the oranges were bobbing Last Line: The sky is all black where the carrier's burning, %and the blood of the transports is red on the tid Subject(s): War METAMORPHOSES: BOOK 13. THE SPEECHES OF AJAX AND ULYSSES, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The chiefs were set; the soldiers crown'd the field Last Line: But those express the grief, and these the name. Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Death; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Translating & Interpreting; Troy; War; Dead, The METROPOLIS, by JOHN+(3) HALL Poem Source First Line: I dreamt that suddenly the metropolitan sky Last Line: Louder and louder - the creed, curse, cry %of men in history Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii METROPOLITAN AREA, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: The base camp of the expedition Last Line: Of a child. We shot him Subject(s): War METRUM PARHEMIACUM TRAGICUM, by EUGENIUS VULGARIUS Poem Source First Line: O sorrowful and ancient days Subject(s): War MICAH 4: 1-14. NEITHER SHALL THEY LEARN WAR ANY MORE, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: But in the last days it shall come to pass Last Line: For the mouth of the lord of hosts hath spoken it Variant Title(s): The Last Day Subject(s): Religion; Time; War MICHAEL, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's something in your face, michael, I've seen it all the day Last Line: "then, then we'll end that stupid crime, that devil's madness -- war." Subject(s): Paris, France; War MIDDAY SWIM - MERSA MATRUH, by P. W. R. RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: It's twelve o'clock, and the yellow sun stands high Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii MIDDLE KINGDOM, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gruel, crumbs on a table Last Line: So as not to frighten her Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 MIDDLE OF A WAR, by ROY FULLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My photograph already looks historic Last Line: Only the trodden island and the dead %remain, and the once inestimable caskets Subject(s): World War Ii MIDNIGHT - THE 31ST OF DECEMBER, 1900, by STEPHEN PHILLIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Now on the midnight the soul of the century passing Last Line: "and victory followeth me." Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Night; War; Bedtime MIDNIGHT THOUGHTS AT THE CLOSE OF 1864, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark and lone, at midnight sitting Last Line: Of peace to all. Hail, infant year! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Civil War; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; War MIDNIGHT: 1917, by MARY CRAIG SINCLAIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I drink my blood in secret grief, I weep Last Line: When hate has loosed its hounds of hell and death! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinclair, Upton, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Hate; Social Protest; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; War; Sorrow; Sadness MIGRANTS, by DUDLEY G. DAVIES Poem Source First Line: Over the conquered countries Last Line: As they flash over, heedless %as moon and morning star Subject(s): Birds; World War Ii MIKE DILLON, DOUGHBOY, by JOHN PIERRE ROCHE Poem Source Subject(s): World War I MILAN, AUGUST 1943, by SALVATORE QUASIMODO Poem Source First Line: In vain, search in dust Last Line: Leave them on the earth of their own homes: %the city is dead, dead Subject(s): Milan, Italy; World War Ii MILITARISM, by DERRICK NORMAN LEHMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like molten lava down the mountain steep Last Line: With nineveh, with tyre and babylon. Subject(s): Army - United States; Army Life; Militarism; War; Drills & Minor Tactics MILITARY DRILL, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While the clouds float calm and free Last Line: Gouts of blood burn ghastly bright! Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Cruelty; Military; Murder; Social Protest; Soldiers; War MILITARY NECESSITY, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Iscariot, never more thy stricken name Last Line: "and they are blotted out." Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): World War I; First World War MILKING TIME, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a drip of honeysuckle in the deep green lane Last Line: "ow bill! A rottin' frenchy. Whew! 'e ain't 'arf prime." Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War MINE-SWEEPING TRAWLERS, by EDWARD HILTON YOUNG Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Not ours the fighter's glow Alternate Author Name(s): Kennet Of The Dene, 1st Baron Subject(s): World War I MINED COUNTRY, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have gone into the gray hills quilled with birches Last Line: Sure the whole world's wild Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War MINED COUNTRY, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have gone into the gray hills quilled with birches Last Line: Love in some manner restored; to be %sure the whole world's wild Subject(s): World War Ii MINERS, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a whispering in my hearth Last Line: Left in the ground. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War MINORITY: 1917, by MAY O'ROURKE Poem Source First Line: She curls her darkened lashes; manicures Last Line: Forgetting quite the thousand, thousand boys %who gave you their pierced hearts! Subject(s): Women; World War I MIRACLE IN BOSTON, by CHARLES ABRAHAM WAGNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On boston common their heart ash blows Last Line: O man's deliverance out of night! Subject(s): Boston; Mankind; Miracles; Spring; War; Human Race MIRANDA'S SUPPER (VIRGINIA, 1866), by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the solemn portico's Last Line: Nothing is lost! Nothing is lost! Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History MISCREANT, by FELIX EMANUEL SCHELLING Poem Source First Line: It was a slender belgian lad Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I MISERCORDIA, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He earned his bread by making wooden soldiers Subject(s): World War I; First World War MISERCORDIA, by AMY LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He earned his bread by making wooden soldiers Subject(s): World War I MISERERE: DE PROFUNDIS, by DAVID GASCOYNE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of these depths Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War MISERERE: DE PROFUNDIS, by DAVID GASCOYNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of these depths Last Line: And aid our unbelief Subject(s): World War Ii MISERERE: ECCE HOMO, by DAVID GASCOYNE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whose is this horrifying face Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Racism; World War Ii; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Second World War MISERERE: ECCE HOMO, by DAVID GASCOYNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whose is this horrifying face Last Line: That man's long journey through the night %may not have been in vain Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Racism; World War Ii MISGIVINGS (1860), by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When ocean-clouds over inland hills Last Line: The hemlock shakes in the rafter, the oak in the driving keel. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History MISNOMER, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They speak of the art of war Subject(s): War MISSING, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: They told me nothing more: I bow my head Last Line: Tell me he's rotting in a place abhorred - %not this, not this, o lord! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I MISSING, by BEATRICE WITTE RAVENEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, how can he be dead? Last Line: Lord, how can he be dead? Subject(s): Women And War; World War I - Casualties MISSING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In the cool, sweet hush of a wooded nook Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History MISSING, by UNKNOWN+50 Poem Source First Line: The soldier boys are marching ... Subject(s): World War I MISSING THE EASTERN REGION, by NGUYEN XUAN MIEN Poem Source First Line: How much I miss the eastern region Last Line: Now I leave to make friends with the tall grass of the lowlands Subject(s): Indochinese War, 1946-1954 MISSING', by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When the anxious hearts say, 'where?' Subject(s): World War I MISSING, PRESUMED KILLED, by PAMELA HOLMES Poem Source First Line: There is no cross to mark Last Line: Safe from that darkness whence he fell, %he comes to me Subject(s): War MISSION TO LINZ, by RICHARD HUGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If you look at the sky Last Line: Where concerts carry %fast in summer wind Subject(s): World War Ii MISSIONARY AND HOTTENTOT, by FRANK LEBBY STANTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A world at war, and the thunder-guns Last Line: As the souls of the slain went up to god! Subject(s): World War I MISSIS MORIARTY'S BOY, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Missis moriarty called last week, and says she to me, says she Last Line: Would I be missis moriarty, or missis moriarty me? Subject(s): War; World War I; First World War MITRAILLIATRICE, by ERNEST HEMINGWAY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mills of the gods grind slowly Last Line: Their mitrailliatrice Subject(s): War MIXTURE AS BEFORE, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer is icumen in Last Line: And the aromatic night %leans against the blackout curtain Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): World War Ii MIZPAH, by GERTRUDE STEWART Poem Source First Line: Oh, man o' mine in olive drab Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I MOAT, by OLIFFE RICHMOND Poem Source First Line: The little moat that fronts our fortress-wall Last Line: Confederate shores not ocean can divide Subject(s): English Channel; World War Ii MODELS, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boy of twelve, shaping a fuselage Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War MODELS, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boy of twelve, shaping a fuselage Last Line: Not worth their welcome, as unlike to last Subject(s): World War Ii MODERN ART, by ERNESTINE HARA Poem Text First Line: Arms awry Last Line: To a picnic? .... Subject(s): Soldiers; War MODERN ROMANCE, by SAM RASNAKE Poem Source First Line: We split %an atom Last Line: Our hearts %away again Subject(s): Nuclear War MOIRA'S KEENING, by NORREYS JEPHSON O'CONOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O mountains of erin Last Line: O boy of mine! Dead. Subject(s): Sons; World War I - Ireland MOLECULAR MODEL, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: As consecrated hands assemble rods Last Line: At the perilous equation of that monument Subject(s): War MOMENT OF BATTLE, by PUBLIUS PAPINIUS STATIUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The fatal hour arrives so rashly sought Last Line: Beauteous as yet the face of war appears Alternate Author Name(s): Statius Subject(s): War MOMENT OF WAR, by LAURIE LEE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is night like a red rag Last Line: And your breathing is the blast, the bullet %and the final sky Subject(s): War MONCONTOUR, by THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, weep for moncontour! O, weep for the hour Last Line: But, father, we kneel to no altar but thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Macaulay, 1st Baron Variant Title(s): The Battle Of Moncontour;a Song Of The Huguenots Subject(s): War MONDRIAN'S FOREST, by WENDY BATTIN Poem Source First Line: Every car drones a radio Last Line: When she hears a man burn Subject(s): Politics; War MONOLOGUE, by GOTTFRIED BENN Poem Source First Line: Their colons feds with mucus, brains with lies Last Line: Are gathering now and famished hawks are poised! Subject(s): World War I MONOLOGUE FOR AN ONION, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I do not mean to make you cry Last Line: A heart that will one day beat you to death Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953; Onions MONT DE CASSEL, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here on the sunnier scarp of the hill let us rest Last Line: The thunder-throated cannonade booms on. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War MONTAGE WITH NEON, BOK CHOI, GASOLINE, LOVERS & STRANGERS, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: None of the streets here has a name Last Line: May you never remember & may you never forget Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 MONTEREY [SEPTEMBER 23, 1846], by CHARLES FENNO HOFFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We were not many, we who stood Last Line: Than not have been at monterey? Subject(s): Monterey, Battle Of (1846); Patriotism; Taylor, Zachary (1784-1850); United States - Mexican War (1846-1848) MONUMENT, by FRANK JUDGE Poem Source First Line: This will be the final Last Line: To pilgrimages of ghosts Subject(s): Politics; War MONUMENTS OF HIROSHIMA, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The roughly estimated ones, who do not sort well Last Line: -who might have wished for something lasting, %like a wooden box Subject(s): War MOON AND THE NIGHT AND THE MEN, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the night of the belgian surrender the moon rose Last Line: Of none, nor of anyone, and the war %goes on, and the moon in the breast of man is cold Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Belgium; Leopold Iii, King Of The Belgians; World War Ii MOON AT THE FORTIFIED PASS, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The bright moon lifts form the mountain of heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): War MOON POEM, by MAX JACOB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sometime during the night there are three mushrooms Last Line: In my head a bee is speaking Subject(s): World War Ii MOONLIGHT, by ROBERT GILBERT VANSITTART Poem Source First Line: Time was when we were closer, moon and earth Last Line: Their feet have never soiled my asphodel Subject(s): Moon; World War Ii MOONLIGHT IN VALENCIA: CIVIL WAR, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moonlight in valencia Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Negroes; American Blacks MOONLIGHT IN VALENCIA: CIVIL WAR, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moonlight in valencia Last Line: Bombers over %valencia Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) MOONRISE OVER BATTLEFIELD, by EDGELL A. RICKWORD Poem Source First Line: After the fallen sun the wind was sad Last Line: Why does this damned entrancing bitch %seek lovers only among them that sleep? Alternate Author Name(s): Rickword, E. A. Subject(s): World War I MORE JOY IN HEAVEN, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This bird that a cat sprang loose in the house Subject(s): War MORE JOY IN HEAVEN, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This bird that a cat sprang loose in the house Last Line: Where once, in a legend of the golden age, %one ecosystem beat the other, once Subject(s): War MORE SONNETS AT CHRISTMAS (TEN YEARS LATER): 1, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again the native hour lets down the locks Last Line: This crucial day, whose decapitate joke %languidly winds into the inner ear Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): Christmas; War MORE SONNETS AT CHRISTMAS (TEN YEARS LATER): 2, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day's at end and there's nowhere to go Last Line: Well-milked chinese, negroes who cannot sing, %the huns gelded and feeding in a ring Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): Christmas; War MORE SONNETS AT CHRISTMAS (TEN YEARS LATER): 3, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me this day a faith not personal Last Line: Is of an enemy in remote oceans %unstalked by christ: these are the better notions Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): Christmas; War MORE SONNETS AT CHRISTMAS (TEN YEARS LATER): 4, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Citizen, myself, or personal friend Last Line: Mild-mannered, gifted in your masters' ease %while the sun squats upon the waveless seas Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): Christmas; War MORE THAN SUSPECT, by ANDRE BRETON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The oaks are stricken by a serious illness Last Line: A whole throngs of general's heads Subject(s): Dadaism; World War I; First World War MORE THAN SUSPECT, by ANDRE BRETON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The oaks are stricken by a serious illness Last Line: A whole throng of generals' heads Subject(s): Dadaism; World War I MORGAN'S MEN, by WILLIAM ASPENWALL BRADLEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: O you who ride so hot along the creek, who may you be? Subject(s): Morgan's Raid (1863); American Civil War; Morgan, John Hunt (1825-1864) MORITURI TE SALUTANT, by P. H. B. LYON Poem Source First Line: In this last hour, before the bugles blare Alternate Author Name(s): L., P. H. B. Subject(s): World War I MORNING, by ALFRED LICHTENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: ... And all the streets lie snug there, clean and regular Last Line: Dreams of a cerebral stroke, paralysis, bone-rot Subject(s): World War I MORNING AFTER THE BARRAGE AT EL ALAMEIN, by F. E. HUGHES Poem Source First Line: There's a devil in the dawn Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii MORNING HYMN, by FRANCIS HOPKINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Arise! And see the glorious sun Last Line: For wearied man to rest Subject(s): French And Indian Wars; Louisburg, Nova Scotia; Victory; War MORNING IDYLL, by VLADISLAV PETKOVIC-DIS Poem Source First Line: I too have had my happy moments Last Line: I too have had my happy moments Subject(s): World War I MORNING NEWS, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Spring wafts up the smell of bus exhaust, of bread Subject(s): Politics & Government; War MORNING NEWS, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring wafts up the smell of bus exhaust, of bread Last Line: Time lessons with the signs for house, book, bread? Subject(s): Politics; War MORTON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The warm pulse of the nation has grown chill Last Line: Its echoes will remain. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Freedom; Morton, Oliver Hazard Perry (1823-1877); Nations; Peace; War; Liberty MOSBY AT HAMILTON, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down loudon lanes, with swinging reins Last Line: She would not scorn to bury. Subject(s): American Civil War; Mosby, John Singleton (1833-1916); United States - History MOSQUITOES, by DAVID BAKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At first the hum through sagging leaves Subject(s): Nuclear War MOST BRILLIANT NAVAL VICTORY ON LAKE ERIE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: John bull in old times, thought each yankee a dunce Last Line: The huzza for yankees. They're brave and they're free. %huzza for columbia! 'sailors' rights' - libe Subject(s): Lake Erie, Battle Of; Navy - United States; Perry, Oliver Hazard (1785-1819); War Of 1812 MOTHER, by SUSAN FRANCES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the bitter, the sweet Alternate Author Name(s): Seranus; Frances, Susan Subject(s): World War I MOTHER AND CHILD (WAR VICTIMS), by EVELYN D. BANGAY Poem Text First Line: We made room for you, remembering Last Line: Of golden love, and innocence, and tears. Subject(s): Children; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women In The Bible; World War Ii; Childhood; Virgin Mary; Second World War MOTHER AND MATE, by GILBERT FRANKAU Poem Text First Line: Lightly she slept, that splendid mother mine Last Line: "that, leaving you, I left you not alone." Subject(s): Mothers; Women & War; World War I; First World War MOTHER OF NATIONS - WHY?, by ALBERT DURRANT WATSON Poem Source First Line: Does the mother of nations draw the sword Last Line: And marched to the goals of god Subject(s): World War I MOTHERHOOD'S CHANT, by FLORENCE MCLANDBURGH Poem Source First Line: French or russian, they matter not Last Line: To us, the makers of flesh and bone, %war? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Mclandburgh Subject(s): World War I MOTHERS OF GOD, ALL TENDERNESS AND TRUTH, by RONALD GORELL BARNES Poem Source Last Line: Their hearts unspoken, like a flock of doves, %beat with white wings about the throne of god Alternate Author Name(s): Gorell, 3d Baron Subject(s): World War Ii MOTHERS OF MEN, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: I hold no cause worth my son's life,' one said Last Line: Her son the dreamer's cross? Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; World War I; First World War MOTHERS WITH LITTLE SONS, by ANGELA MORGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O mothers with little sons Last Line: And the ravaged earth be right Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Social Protest; War MOTION WE CANNOT SEE, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: We found the path somewhat as it had been Last Line: Though it bears our blood almost forever Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History MOTLEY, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, death, I'd have a word with thee Last Line: Tis time thy prayers were said! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Variant Title(s): The Fool Rings His Bells Subject(s): World War I; First World War MOTLEY: PEACE, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night is o'er england, and the winds are still Last Line: These bright dews once were mixed with bloody sweat. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War MOUNT HOPE, by WILLIAM AUGUSTUS CROFFUT Poem Text First Line: I stroll through verdant fields to-day Last Line: O, that this blossom had a tongue to tell its woe! Alternate Author Name(s): Croffut, W. A. Subject(s): Mount Hope, Rhode Island; Philip, King (native American Chief); Metacomet; King Philip's War (1675-76) MOUTH-ORGANS AND DRUMS, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fighting god it shattered belts Last Line: All flags no one kingdom select Subject(s): Politics & Government; War MOUTH-ORGANS AND DRUMS, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fighting god it shattered belts Last Line: All flags no one kingdom select Subject(s): Politics; War MOVE ON THE COLUMNS! WHY DELAY?, by WILLIAM DAVIS GALLAGHER Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History MOVIES FOR THE TROOPS, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In hollywood the pale white stars Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Soldiers; War; Movies; Cinema MR. BRIGADIER GENERAL:, by RACHEL LEVINE Poem Source First Line: How can you call my rangy son Last Line: Intestines, blow off the fingers %and palms of other boys? Subject(s): Children; Mothers; War MR. BRYAN ENTERS ARLINGTON, by BRENT DOW ALLINSON Poem Source First Line: Long john abraham-lazy black bones! Last Line: But there is no amnesty, now, for the dead Subject(s): World War I MR. GETTHINGSDONE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Phil ossifize is a very big man Last Line: We need mr. Getthingsdone. Subject(s): Activity; World War I; Exercise; First World War MR. GIAI'S POEM, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The french ships shelled haiphong then took the port Last Line: All four as quiet as if carved in ivory. Subject(s): Indochinese War, 1946-1954; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MR. SYMONS AT RICHMOND, MR. POPE AT TWICKENHAM, by JULIAN SYMONS Poem Source First Line: At richmond the people walked along by the river Subject(s): War MRS. MCGRATH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh mrs. Mcgrath, the sergeant said Last Line: Than the king of france and his whole navee Subject(s): War MUDROS, AFTER THE EVACUATION, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: I laughed to see the gulls that dipped to cling Last Line: Seek solitude to dull the tragedy %and needless horror of the dardanelles Subject(s): Gallipoli Campaign (1915); World War I MULES, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I never would, 'ave done it if I'd known Subject(s): World War I MULTIPLE CHOICE, by JOHN FEKNER Poem Source First Line: Organized crime illegally dumps toxic waste Subject(s): Nuclear War MULVANEY AND ANOTHER, by JOHN A. MOROSO Poem Text First Line: Mary ann swabbed down the stairs Last Line: Of him who had loved mary ann. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; War; Dead, The MUMFORD: THE MARTYR OF NEW ORLEANS, by INA MARIE PORTER Poem Text First Line: Where murdered mumford lies Last Line: Our colors wave. Subject(s): American Civil War; Capital Punishment; Mumford, William B.; New Orleans, Battle Of (1862); U.s. - History; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty MUNICH ELEGY NO. 1, by GEORGE BARKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those occasions involving the veering of axles Last Line: Laugh, my comedians, who may not laugh again - soon, soon, %soon jeremiah job will be walking among Subject(s): Despair; War MUNITION WAGES, by MADELINE IDA BEDFORD Poem Source First Line: Earning high wages? Yus Last Line: I'll have repaid mi wages %in death - and pass by Subject(s): Women; World War I MURMURINGS IN A FIELD HOSPITAL, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come to me only with playthings now Last Line: And the world was all playthings. Subject(s): Hospitals; World War I; First World War MUSEUM, by WILLIAM ABRAHAMS Poem Source First Line: Who rose up like a goddess from the sea Subject(s): War MUSIC, by ALBERT-PAUL GRANIER Poem Source First Line: Snow was filling space with a dream of down... Last Line: Listening to stories on christmas eve Subject(s): World War I MUSIC IN CAMP, by JOHN REUBEN THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two armies covered hill and plain Last Line: Gave this one touch of nature. Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, John Randolph Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Patriotism; War MUSIC IN THE MIRABEL (SECOND VERSION), by GEORG TRAKL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A fountain sings. White, gentle clouds, aglow Last Line: At night the ear dwells on sonata sounds Subject(s): World War I MUSIC IN THE REC HUT, by HUBERT CREEKMORE Poem Source First Line: The pen stops in a phrase of a letter home Subject(s): War MUSIC OF COLOURS: WHITE BLOSSOM, by VERNON WATKINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White blossom, white, white shell; the nazarene Last Line: Transfiguring whiteness into shadows gone, %utterly secret. I know you, black swan Subject(s): War MY AUNT'S LITTLE NOTE, by EDWARD TEN BROECK PERINE Poem Source First Line: With loving memories of peter I. And jeanette ford ten broeck Last Line: For perhaps your socks may fit! Subject(s): World War I MY AUTUMN WALK, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On woodlands ruddy with autumn Last Line: Roslyn, october, 1'64. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History MY BAY'NIT, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first I left blighty they gave me a bay'nit Last Line: Part of me outfit every time. Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War MY COMPANY, by HERBERT READ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You became %in many acts and quiet observances Last Line: Bow my head %and share their doom Subject(s): World War I MY COMRADES, by BORIS ABRAMOVICH SLUTSKY Poem Source First Line: They were burnt in tanks, my comrades Last Line: Have long since become lines in poems Alternate Author Name(s): Slutzky, Boris Abramovich Subject(s): War MY COUNTRY WEEPS, by ANDREAS GRYPHIUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We are finished, yet still Last Line: That so much treasuer has been %plundered from our souls Subject(s): Germany; Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) MY FATHER AND I, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My father prayed as he drew a bead on the graycoats Last Line: What is the matter? Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; God; Murder; Prayer; War MY FATHER-IN-LAW REMEMBERS THE ARGONNE, by MARINE ROBERT WARDEN Poem Source First Line: It helps to be mad Subject(s): Argonne, Battle Of (1918); Fathers-in-law; World War I MY FOE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gurr! You cochon! Stand and fight! Last Line: Blood-guilty in sight of god. Subject(s): Clergy; Death; Murder; Religion; War; World War I; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The; Theology; First World War MY JOB, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've got a little job on 'and, the time is drawin' nigh Last Line: It's seven sharp. Good-bye, old pals! . . . A decent job in dyin'. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War MY LAI, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An embassy's tall gate off a dirt road Last Line: Of their lives by what death holds apart. Subject(s): Death; Massacres; Vietnam; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War; Dead, The 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 MY MARYLAND, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The despot's heel is on thy shore Last Line: Maryland, my maryland! Variant Title(s): Maryland! My Maryland;maryland Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; Maryland; Patriotism; State Rights; United States - History; Liberty; Secession MY MATE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've been sittin' starin,' starin' at 'is muddy pair of boots Last Line: To sorter be a farther to 'is kid. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War MY MEN GO WEARILY, by HERBERT READ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My men, my modern christs, %your bloody agony confronts the world Subject(s): World War I MY MOTHER WITH PURSE THE SUMMER THEY MURDERED THE SPANISH POET, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Has she looked out the window she would have seen a quiet street Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) MY MOTHER WITH PURSE THE SUMMER THEY MURDERED THE SPANISH POET, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Has she looked out the window she would have seen a quiet street Last Line: Above granada where all time stopped. Her purse snaps shut Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) MY MOTHER-LAND, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother-land! Thou wert the first to fling Last Line: A prelude and a prophecy combined! Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Fort Sumter, South Carolina; United States - History; Confederacy MY NIGHT WITH FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA, by JAIME MANRIQUE Poem Source First Line: It happened in paris Last Line: But it has lasted all my life Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) MY OWN LITTLE CIVIL WAR, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR. Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come from the only county in tennessee that did not secede Last Line: And half the weight and half-life %of a half-healed and hurting world Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles Subject(s): American Civil War; Civil War; Military Service, Compulsory; Soldiers' Writings; U.s. - History MY PORTION IS DEFEAT - TODAY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Who to have had it, would have been %contender - to die Variant Title(s): Poem: 639; Poem: 70 Subject(s): War MY PRISONER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We was in a crump-'ole, 'im and me Last Line: Wonders -- 'ow would 'e 'ave treated me? Subject(s): Prisoners Of War; War; World War I; First World War MY SAILOR BOY, by VIOLA BROTHERS SHORE Poem Source First Line: I did not ask for strength to let him go Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I MY SON, by JAMES D. HUGHES Poem Text First Line: God gave my son in trust to me Last Line: And cheer for him whose work is done. Subject(s): Grief; Patriotism; World War I; Sorrow; Sadness; First World War MY SON, by ADA TYRRELL Poem Text First Line: Here is his little cambric frock Last Line: My son, and bring him safely back to me! Subject(s): Fear; Military; Mothers & Sons; Reunions; Soldiers; World War I; First World War MY TRIUMPH LASTED TILL THE DRUMS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A bayonet's contrition %is nothing to the dead Variant Title(s): Poem: 1227; Poem: 121 Subject(s): War MY WARRIOR BOY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Thou hast gone forth, my darling one Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History MY WIFE AND CHILD, by HENRY R. JACKSON Poem Text First Line: The tattoo beats - the lights are gone Last Line: O god, protect my wife and child! Subject(s): Consolation; United States - Mexican War (1846-1848) MYSTIC NUMBERS: 3. THE DYKE-BUILDER, by HENRY TREECE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: On the seventh day the storm lay dead Last Line: And the green shark-candles with their swift %cruel fingers setting the ocean's curls Subject(s): War MYTH OF HIROSHIMA, by SAGA NOBUYUKI Poem Source First Line: What are they looking for Last Line: Who will free this shadow from the stone? Subject(s): War MYTH OF HIROSHIMA, by SAGA NOBUYUKI Poem Source First Line: What are they looking for Last Line: Who will free this shadow from the stone? Subject(s): War MYTHOLOGY, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: They didn't bother making you a soldier Last Line: Into view, at eta, the reckoning dead center Subject(s): War NAHANT, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bowed as an elm under the weight of its beauty, Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Nature; War NAMELESS MEN, by EDWARD SHILLITO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Around me when I wake or sleep Last Line: The men who watch and die for me. Subject(s): Death; Redemption; Soldiers; War; Dead, The NAMKWIN PUL, by BERNARD H. GUTTERIDGE Poem Source First Line: Each soldier as he passes looks at their breasts Subject(s): War NAP, by DAVID WYATT Poem Source First Line: Slammed door, gunshot, a sawing Subject(s): Nuclear War NAPOLEON, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD Poem Text First Line: For france and liberty he set apart Last Line: On a lone island 'mid the atlantic waves. Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); World War I - France NAPOLEON, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the world, o soldiers? Last Line: Is I.' Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); War NAPOLEON'S TOMB, by DANA BURNET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the great doors, where paris flowed. Last Line: Beneath the silent, cold, anonymous stars. Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); World War I - France NAPOLI AGAIN, by RICHARD HUGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Long before I hear it, naples bright Last Line: I only came %to see you living and the fountains run Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii NARCISSUS, by HANS LEYBOLD Poem Source First Line: A bright girl, dancing, points her knees Last Line: The devil shooting steeply from the ether Subject(s): World War I NATIONAL ANTHEM, by CHARLES W. WOOD Poem Source First Line: I love my country, yes I do Last Line: I guess I won't enlist Subject(s): World War I NATIONAL GAME, by BYRON BEARDSLEY Poem Source First Line: The 'huns' had not been challenged nor scheduled to appear Last Line: But soon every fan in this troubled old world will know the completed box %score Subject(s): World War I NATIONALITY, by MARY CAMERON GILMORE Poem Source First Line: I have grown past hate and bitterness Last Line: But this loaf in my hand, %this loaf is my son's bread Subject(s): Human Rights; War NATIONS' DAVID, by REGINALD WRIGHT KAUFFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Erect before hell's hurricane, between the germans and the sea Subject(s): World War I NATIVE AMERICAN BROADCASTING SYSTEM, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Five hundred years from now, archaeologists will discover Last Line: The grasses grow %the rivers flow Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Cherokee Indians; Greyhounds; Native Americans - History; Native Americans - Wars; Nuclear War; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Travel NATIVE VILLAGE, by NGUYEN SUNG Poem Source First Line: As a boy I went to school twice a day Last Line: Where the flesh and blood of my sister lie Subject(s): Indochinese War, 1946-1954 NATURAL HISTORY, by DOREN RICHARD ROBBINS Poem Source First Line: Tried to lift a swallowtail butterfly out Last Line: I held out my thumb knuckle Subject(s): Politics; War NATURALIZED ALIEN, by LURANA W. SHELDON Poem Source First Line: The land I claim claims me! Last Line: To call me back to loyalty Subject(s): World War I NATURE IN WAR-TIME, by S. GERTRUDE FORD Poem Source First Line: The banished thrush, the homeless rook Last Line: Winds sweep it now; a battle-ground %between two gun-swept hills Subject(s): Women; World War I NAVAL PHOTOGRAPH: 25 OCTOBER 1942: WHAT THE HAND, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reports of a japanese surface presence Last Line: Toward the camera, toward us, for all of the reasons anyone waves. Subject(s): Navy - United States; Photography & Photographers; Waves; World War Ii; American Navy; Second World War NAVAL RESERVE, by EVELYN UNDERHILL Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: From the undiscovered deep Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, Stuart, Mrs. Subject(s): World War I NAVAL SONG: RISE COLUMBIA, BRAVE AND FREE, by EDWIN C. HOLLAND Poem Source First Line: When freedom first the triumph sung Last Line: Shall rule the billows of the sea, %and bid defiance to the world Subject(s): Navy - United States; War Of 1812 NAVAL SONG: THE PILLAR OF GLORY, by EDWIN C. HOLLAND Poem Source First Line: Hail to the heroes whose triumphs have brighten'd Last Line: Albion is heartless - and stoops to his glance Subject(s): Navy - United States; War Of 1812 NAVAL VICTORY, BY THE UNITED STATES FIRGATE CONSTITUTION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come all ye hardy sailors, and join me in my song Last Line: And so to all our yankee crew, %who british seamen can subdue, %as true yankee boys Subject(s): Bainbridge, William (1774-1833); Constitution (ship); Navy - United States; Sea Battles; War Of 1812 NAVIGATOR, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: This lazy prince of tennis balls and lutes Last Line: This shall be done. This shall be better done in peace! Subject(s): World War Ii NAZARETH, by UNKNOWN+63 Poem Source First Line: Across the sands by mary's well Subject(s): World War I NEAR CATALONIA, by JOY DAVIDMAN Poem Source First Line: We have the sweet noise of the sea at our back Last Line: And putting these together we make a wall Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) NEARER, by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nearer and ever nearer Last Line: Receive this little breath. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War NEGLECTED GARDEN, by ELEANOR ALEXANDER Poem Source First Line: Barren the garden lies, undressed Subject(s): World War I NEGRO SOLDIERS OF AMERICA: WHAT WE ARE FIGHTING FOR, by LUCIAN B. WATKINS Poem Source First Line: We fight-and for democracy Last Line: Peace and its happiness at home! Subject(s): African Americans - Military; World War I NEIGHBORHOOD CLAIRVOYANT, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: Your body should respond to therapy Last Line: Remember to receive death with true hospitality Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii NERUDA, THE WINE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are the seas through whom the great fish passed Last Line: The poems of the wine Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) NEUTRAL, by WRENNE JARMAN Poem Source First Line: As I was walking in the park Subject(s): Blackbirds; Soldiers; World War Ii NEUTRAL?; TO THE HUMANITY OF AMERICA, by HAROLD BEGBIE Poem Source First Line: When men are told in years ahead Subject(s): World War I NEUTRALITY, by BARROWS DUNHAM Poem Source First Line: To guide the knife in seeking out the heart Last Line: Learn bondage then, unworthy to be free Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) NEVER OR NOW; AN APPEAL, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Listen, young heroes! Your country is calling! Last Line: Hear the last angel-trump, -- never or now! Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History NEW AENEID, by ALEXANDER ROBERTSON Poem Source First Line: These waters saw the gilded galleys come Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I NEW DIXIE, by MARIA LOUISA EVE Poem Source First Line: I wish I was in the land of cotton Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History NEW FEET, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Empty battlefields keep their phantoms Last Line: Reaching a blossom in rust of shrapnel. Subject(s): War NEW HAMPSHIRE, FEBRUARY 7, 2003, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's snowing again %all day, reruns Last Line: Collateral damage %and will again Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Politics; War NEW HEAVEN, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We have our hopes and fears that flout us Subject(s): World War I NEW HEAVEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Paradise now has many a knight Last Line: And the young knights' laughter pleaseth god. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Heaven; World War I - Casualties; Paradise NEW LEARNING, by IAN SERRAILLIER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With hatred now all lips and wings Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii NEW RAPTURE, by JAMES BERTOLINO Poem Source First Line: The saved will be those Last Line: The damned will be those %who survive Subject(s): Politics; War NEW SONG, by JAMES CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: Come all ye yankee heroes, come listen to my song Last Line: Come rouze ye yankee tars, firm united let us be, %resolv'd to fight and conquer for the rights of a Subject(s): Constitution (ship); Navy - United States; War Of 1812 NEW YEAR'S EVE, by F. A. BARTLESON Poem Source First Line: Tis twelve o'clock! Within my prison dreary Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History NEW YEAR'S EVE, by HERBERT B. MALLALIEU Poem Source First Line: Not that I have cause for celebration Subject(s): War NEW YEAR, 1916, by ADA MAY HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Those that go down in silence Last Line: The very dust is clamorous with their praise Subject(s): Women; World War I NEWARK: 1766, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: A flame thro' the whole great countryside Last Line: O little town of one hundred years! Subject(s): Newark, New Jersey; War NEWARK: 1866, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The dying roar of artillery Last Line: O city of two hundred years! Subject(s): History; New Jersey; Peace; War; Historians NEWARK: 1916, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Sheeted gas flaring down the hard-fought field Last Line: Thro' fifty and two hundred years! Subject(s): New Jersey; War NEWPORT NEWS, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The huge sea monster, the 'merrimac' Last Line: And that is the picture of newport news. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): American Civil War; Monitor (ship); Newport News, Virginia; Sea Battles; U.s. - History; Virginia (ship); Naval Warfare; Merrimac (ship) NEWS OF SUFFERING, by CLIFFORD DYMENT Poem Source First Line: Shouldering a way through crowds Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii NEWS OF THE WORLD: 3, by GEORGE BARKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let her lie naked here, my hand resting Last Line: Lie one night in my arms and give me peace. Subject(s): War NEWS REPORT, SEPTEMBER 1991 U.S. BURIED IRAQI SOLDIERS ALIVE IN GULF, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What you saw was a / bunch of trenches with Variant Title(s): News Report, Sept 1991 U.s. Buried Iraqi Soldiers Alive Subject(s): Gulf War (1991); Operation Desert Storm (1991) NEWS REPORT, SEPTEMBER 1991 U.S. BURIED IRAQI SOLDIERS ALIVE IN GULF, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What you saw was a %bunch of trenches with Last Line: Arms and things %sticking out.' %cost-effective Variant Title(s): News Report, Sept 1991 U.s. Buried Iraqi Soldiers Aliv Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) NEWS UPDATE; FOR ERHART, GITTLESON, FLYNN & STONE, HAPILY DEAD & GONE, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Well, here I am in the centre daily times Last Line: Oh, big sighs. Windy sighs. And ghostly laughter. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Death; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The NEXT MORNING, by E. ARMINE WODEHOUSE Poem Text First Line: Today the sun shines bright Last Line: There, with the setting of the sun! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War NEXT OF KIN, by HERBERT B. MALLALIEU Poem Source First Line: Where do you walk this moment that I fall? Subject(s): War NEXT WAR: TO SACHEVERELL (NOVEMBER 1918), by FRANCIS OSBERT SACHEVERELL SITWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The long war had ended Last Line: And the children %went Alternate Author Name(s): Sitwell, Sir Osbert; Sitwell, Osbert Subject(s): War NEXT YEAR, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Up and down the street I know Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I NIAGARA, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within the town of buffalo Last Line: The cataract niagara. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Buffalo (city), New York; Niagara Falls; Waterfalls; World War I; First World War NIETZSCHE, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some worshipped and some bantered, when Last Line: Be servile to the muse of war. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (1844-1900); Tyranny & Tyrants; War NIGHT, by TUMADIR BINT IBN AL-SHARID AL-KHANSA Poem Source First Line: My eye cried and woke me Last Line: The night was pain Alternate Author Name(s): Tumardir Bint `amir Al-harith Ibn Ash-sharid; Al-khansa Subject(s): Brothers; Death; War NIGHT, by RUDOLFO HINOSTROZA Poem Source First Line: These days we're advised Last Line: And our beautiful bottles sunk in the sand Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Drinks And Drinking; Liquorice; Women And War NIGHT, by CHARLES PEGUY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O night, o my daughter night, you who know how to hold Last Line: Bearing the white shroud Subject(s): World War I NIGHT AT GETTYSBURG, by DON. C. SEITZ Poem Source First Line: By day golgotha sleeps, but when night comes Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Holidays; U.s. - History NIGHT DUTY, by EVA DOBELL Poem Source First Line: The pain and laughter of the day are done Last Line: So near in body, yet in soul as far %as those bright worlds thick strewn on that vast depth of sky Subject(s): Women; World War I NIGHT IN WAR TIME, by WALTER LIGHTOWLER WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: Night and night's menace: death hath forged a dart Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I NIGHT LETTER, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The urgent letter that I try to write Last Line: The bloodied envelope addressed to you, %is history, that wide and moral pang Subject(s): Letters; World War Ii NIGHT MANCEUVRES, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through january night we climbed Last Line: I was not desolate before. Subject(s): Desolation; Night; Silence; Winter; World War Ii; Bedtime; Second World War NIGHT MARCH, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Evening: beneath tall poplar trees %we soldiers eat and smoke and sprawl Last Line: And the dark thought in every mind %to-night they'll march us on again Subject(s): World War I NIGHT OF APRIL, by OTTO GELSTED Poem Source First Line: At dawn the dark birds flew Last Line: That we had never loved her till that hour Subject(s): Freedom; World War Ii NIGHT OF BATTLE, by YVOR WINTERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Impersonal the aim Last Line: The dark blood of the folk. Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War NIGHT OF BATTLE, by YVOR WINTERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Impersonal the aim Last Line: The dark blood of the folk Subject(s): World War Ii NIGHT ON THE CONVOY, ALEXANDRIA - MARSEILLES, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out in the blustering darkness, on the deck Last Line: We are going home ... Victims ... Three thousand souls. Subject(s): Homecoming; Navy - Great Britain; World War I; English Navy; First World War NIGHT ON THE SHORE (NORTHUMBERLAND. AUGUST 6, 1914), by MARIE CARMICHAEL STOPES Poem Source First Line: A dusky owl in velvet moth-like flight Last Line: Perforce within god's presence, too Subject(s): Women; World War I NIGHT OPERATIONS, COASTAL COMMAND RAF, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remembering that war, I'd near believe Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii; Second World War NIGHT OPERATIONS, COASTAL COMMAND RAF, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remembering that war, I'd near believe Last Line: For all the time of training, you might take %the hundred steps in darkness, not the next Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii NIGHT PATROL, by ARTHUR GRAEME WEST Poem Source First Line: Over the top! The wire's thin here, unbarbed Last Line: Of the crusader and slid past his legs, %and through the wire and home, and got our rum Subject(s): World War I NIGHT PIECE, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His winter robe across an arm of the chair Subject(s): War NIGHT RAID, by DESMOND HAWKINS Poem Source First Line: The sleepers humped down on the benches Last Line: The night sky %throbbed under the cool bandage of the searchlights Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii NIGHT ROAD, by ROBERT A. DONALDSON Poem Text First Line: A pitch-black road, and rain Last Line: The noisy bumping of a camion train. Subject(s): Night; Roads; War; World War I; Bedtime; Paths; Trails; First World War NIGHT SCENE AT THE FALL OF SEBASTOPOL, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The toils, the flames, the thunders of the siege Last Line: A crumbling mass of ruin and decay. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Cities; Death; Freedom; Night; War; Urban Life; Dead, The; Liberty; Bedtime NIGHT SOWERS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, these are they that toil by night Last Line: The dews of peace perennial! Subject(s): Death; Night; Peace; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Bedtime NIGHT WATCHMAN OF PONT-AU-CHANGE, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the night watchman of rue de flandre Last Line: Even if hidden by clouds it will still be there %goodmorning, goodmorning, with all of my heart bonj Subject(s): France; Surrealism; Watchmen; World War Ii NIGHT WITHOUT SLEEP, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The world’s as the world is; the nations rearm and prepare to change; the age of tyrants returns Last Line: This is more beautiful....At night.... Subject(s): War; Social Commentary; Patriotism; Night; Bedtime NIGHT-PIECE, by ROBERT GREACEN Poem Source First Line: After the spools of talk are each unravelled Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii NIGHTHAWK, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: You tie me up with your husband's yellow ribbons Last Line: You squawked that you loved me Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) NIGHTINGALES, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: A gray and greasy smoke screen Last Line: Resounds - resounds - resounds - resounds Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii NIGHTPIECE, by JOHN STREETER MANIFOLD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Three men came talking up the road Last Line: I stood in the doorway and heard these things %as the three came pasy with the step of kings Subject(s): World War Ii NILOTIC ELEGY, by GEORGE SUTHERLAND FRASER Poem Source First Line: Sometimes I seem to see gliding the green Subject(s): War NINE BLACK POPPIES FOR CHAC, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The junta was jubilant around the mortised fountain Last Line: Irrigating pink in the eternal spring rains. Subject(s): Bodies; Faith; Murder; Poppies; War; Belief; Creed NINETEEN FORTY, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun just drops down through the poplars Last Line: Individual wild ducks scraped and screamed in along a marsh. Subject(s): England; Evening; Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941); World War Ii; Writing & Writers; English; Sunset; Twilight; Second World War NINETEEN THIRTY-EIGHT, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the frontiers of the helpless world Last Line: Criminal, to stand as warning Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) NINETEEN THIRTY-EIGHT, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the frontiers of the helpless world Last Line: Criminal, to stand as warning Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) NINETEEN THIRTY-EIGHT, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the frontiers of the helpless world Last Line: Criminal, to stand as warning Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) NINETEEN-FORTY FIVE, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our father's skin Last Line: A rare comb Subject(s): Hiroshima, Japan; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Nuclear War; World War Ii NINETEEN-SEVENTEEN, by SUSAN HOOKER WHITMAN Poem Source First Line: It is long since knighthood was in flower Subject(s): World War I NIRVANA, by VLADISLAV PETKOVIC-DIS Poem Source First Line: Last night the dead paid me a visit Last Line: The colour of the transience of things Subject(s): World War I NO, by JOY HARJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, that was me you saw shaking with bravery, with a government Subject(s): Politics & Government; War NO, by JOY HARJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, that was me you saw shaking with bravery, with a government Last Line: No. We had no quarrel with each other Subject(s): Politics; War NO CHOICE, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no choice Subject(s): Politics & Government; War NO CHOICE, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no choice Last Line: We must live %we must live Subject(s): Politics; War NO FURLOUGH, by STEPHEN STEPANCHEV Poem Source First Line: Furlough in heart and hand, the soldier at last walks Subject(s): War NO HOLY WARS FOR THEM, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: States strong enough to do good are but few, Last Line: Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl Subject(s): War NO LAND LIKE OURS, by J. R. BARRICK Poem Source First Line: Though other lands may boast of skies Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History NO LAWS, by BRIAN ALLWOOD Poem Source First Line: What there is once may not be twice Subject(s): War NO LETTER, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No letter!' poor mother! Oh, well may'st thou weep Last Line: Brings the longing to be with the dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Death; War; Dead, The NO MAN'S LAND, by JAMES HARRY KNIGHT-ADKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No man's land is an eerie sight Last Line: Is hunting for blood in no man's land. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; First World War 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 NOCTURNE, by ALBERT-PAUL GRANIER Poem Source First Line: The guns have fallen silent, gagged with fog Last Line: Beating shrouds in the thick water Subject(s): World War I NOCTURNE, by IVAN HARGRAVE Poem Source First Line: Clusters of spongy clouds quietly Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii NOCTURNE, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If these are not [or, because these are not] the nights of empty hands Last Line: When we'll feel [or, remember] the indifference of the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 NOCTURNE MILITAIRE, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine or remember how the road at last led us Last Line: As the night patrol of bombers climbs through the rain and is gone Subject(s): Miami Beach; World War Ii; Second World War NOISE OF BATTLE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And all hours long, the town Last Line: Roll hollow in the interim. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Variant Title(s): Apprehension Subject(s): War NON-COMBATANT, by CICELY HAMILTON Poem Source First Line: Before on drop of angry blood was shed Last Line: Let me endure it then - I give my pride %where others give a life Subject(s): Women; World War I NON-COMBATANTS, by EVELYN UNDERHILL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: Never of us be said Last Line: We murmur not. Of us, this word shall not be said. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, Stuart, Mrs. Subject(s): Women And War; World War I; First World War NONCOMBATANTS, by GENEVIEVE TAGGARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poet's face is white like the moon Last Line: He waits, and wishes to die Alternate Author Name(s): Wolf, Robert Leopold, Mrs. Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) NONE, A TANKA, by KARMA TENZING WANGCHUK Poem Source First Line: After the rain, %she finds puddles Last Line: Of the storms to come Subject(s): Politics; War NOON, by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is midday; the deep trenches glare Last Line: We bide the next shrewd move of fate %be it of life or death Subject(s): World War I NORMANDY BEACH, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The waves on the normandy coast jump heavily toward us Last Line: Lonely companion, %there's something I have to tell you but I don't know what Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944); Normandy, France; World War Ii NORTH AFRICA - ORAN - 1942, by SALVATORE GALIOTO Poem Source First Line: There was this place %called 'sloppy joe's' Last Line: But ... That was yesterday Subject(s): History; Oran, Algeria; War NORTH AFRICA: GLIMPSES, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: Only a glimpse, she standing alone Last Line: To be older, wiser, and at peace with my whole life Subject(s): War NORTH SEA, by JEFFERY DAY Poem Source First Line: Dawn on the drab north sea! Last Line: Tis a fight to the death; 'tis war %and the north sea is redly reeking Subject(s): Sea Battles; World War I NORTH SEA GROUND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, grimsby is a pleasant town as any man may find Subject(s): World War I NORTH: 1991, by JOHN DUFFRESNE Poem Source First Line: In the euphoria that followed Last Line: Of saws, the rise and fall, %a crackling in the hard wood Subject(s): Air Warfare; News; Nuclear War; United States NORTHWARD, by JOHN MILTON HAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the high unclouded sun Last Line: In dalliance deck the bridal bower. Subject(s): American Civil War; Key West, Florida; United States - History NOT A WAR SONG, by REBECCA ANN SEIFERLE Poem Source First Line: Why should I, searching the thesaurus Last Line: The commonality of war Subject(s): Politics; War NOT DEAD, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walking through trees to cool my heat and pain Last Line: Breaks his slow smile. Subject(s): Thomas, David; World War I; First World War NOT HOW THEY LIVED, BUT HOW THEY DIED, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Sweet is the sleep of those whose lives were hurled Last Line: "not how they lived—but only how they died!" Subject(s): Death; Sacrifices; Soldiers; World War I; Dead, The; First World War NOT PALACES, AN ERA'S CROWN, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Our program like this, yet opposite: %death to the killers, bringing light to life Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): War NOT REVENGE - BUT THESE, by EMANUEL LITVINOFF Poem Source First Line: Is my wrath splendid? Yet I become Last Line: God, only these Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii NOT THE PILOT, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not the pilot has charged himself to bring his ship to port Last Line: For a battle-call, rousing to arms if need be, years, centuries hence. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History NOT TO KEEP, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They sent him back to her. The letter came Last Line: They had given him back to her, but not to keep. Subject(s): World War I - Casualties NOT TOO OLD TO FIGHT, by THOMAS CHALMERS HARBAUGH Poem Source First Line: My name is danny bloomer and my age is 83 Subject(s): World War I NOT YET, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O country, marvel of the earth! Last Line: Writes, in men's sight, the answer, no! Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History NOTE SLID UNDER THE DOOR, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some people don't know this Subject(s): Nuclear War NOTES FOR AN ELEGY, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The alternative to flying is cowardice, Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Aviator & Aviators; War; Death; Heroism; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines NOTES TOWARD A SUPREME FICTION: CONCLUSION, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soldier, there is a war between the mind Last Line: If he must, or lives on the bread of faithful speech Variant Title(s): Another Kind Of War Subject(s): War; Mind, The NOTES TOWARD A SUPREME FICTION: CONCLUSION, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soldier, there is a war between the mind Last Line: How gladly with proper words the soldier dies, if he must, or lives on the bread of faithful speech Variant Title(s): Another Kind Of Wa Subject(s): War NOTHING, by FANNY BIXBY SPENCER Poem Text First Line: There is nothing ahead on the scarlet path Last Line: For the boon of an age-long dearth. Subject(s): War; Women NOTHING TO REPORT', by MAY HERSCHEL-CLARKE Poem Source First Line: One minute we was laughin', me an' ted Last Line: The next, he lay beside me grinnin' - dead. %'there's nothing to report,' the papers said Subject(s): Women; World War I NOV-36, by EUGENE GRINDEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Look the builders of ruins are working Last Line: And give reason roving wings Alternate Author Name(s): Eluard, Paul Subject(s): World War Ii NOVEMBER, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We saw leaves go to glory Last Line: The waste of nations warring Subject(s): November; War NOVEMBER, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We saw leaves go to glory Last Line: By denying and ignoring %the waste of nations warring Subject(s): November; War 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 11TH, 1942, by LAWRENCE TOYNBEE Poem Source First Line: Sin in the mist this morning Last Line: Which mist, like sorrow, %now blankets out of sight Subject(s): World War Ii NOVEMBER 7: ODE TO A DAY OF VICTORIES, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This double anniversary, this day, this night Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Russia; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) NOVEMBER EVENING, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: Bra unhooked from the front Last Line: A bombing run %on baghdad Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) NOVEMBER FINDINGS: 1862, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou frigid tyrant, dark and stern november! Last Line: With gratitude even thee, dark stern november. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): November; War NOVEMBER, 1806, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Another year! - another deadly blow / another mighty empire overthrown! Last Line: And honour which they do not understand. Subject(s): Freedom; War; Liberty NOVEMBER, 1941, by ROY FULLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The objects are disposed: the sky is suitable Last Line: My blood reside in human power and guilt, %whose fathers made both myth and progeny Subject(s): History; World War Ii NOW AS THEN, by ANNE RIDLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When under edward or henry the english armies Last Line: Like minot and the rest, groping we pray %'lord, turn us again, confer on us victory' Subject(s): Prayer; World War Ii NOW TO BE STILL AND REST, by P. H. B. LYON Poem Source Alternate Author Name(s): L., P. H. B. Subject(s): World War I NOW WE ARE SIX, by OLGA KATZIN KATZIN Poem Source First Line: My daddy's dressing up as father christmas Last Line: But sometimes she and I confess we wonder why %grown-ups can still believe in santa claus Subject(s): War NOX MORTIS, by PAUL BEWSHER Poem Source First Line: The afternoon %flutters and dies Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; World War I NUCLEAR MADNESS, by MICHAEL CASTRO Poem Source First Line: I live under %the shadow of the bomb Subject(s): Nuclear War NUCLEAR SUBMARINE, by TULI KUPFERBERG Poem Source First Line: In the land where a-bombs were born Subject(s): Nuclear War NUCLEAR UMBRELLA, by HEBERTO PADILLA Poem Source First Line: Travelers perhaps, %but I am not sure of finding Last Line: We have missed the only train that could escape the explosion Subject(s): Nuclear War NUNGESSER UND COLI SIND VERRECKT, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: They took off %and tricolor flags came out of their assholes Last Line: And the usual complete idiots found in every country Subject(s): Surrealism; World War Ii NURSE, by G. M. MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: Here in the long white ward I stand Subject(s): World War I NURSE EDITH CAVELL; TWO O'CLOCK, THE MORNING OF OCTOBER 12, 1915, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To her accustomed eyes Last Line: Announced that day she met the immortal dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Cavell, Edith (1865-1915); Death; Nurses; World War I; Dead, The; First World War NURSERY RHYME, by LEO HAMALIAN Poem Source First Line: I am the shell that awaits the word Last Line: I am the one behind the shell Subject(s): Guilt; War NURSERY RHYME 1984, by PAUL CURTIS COLTMAN Poem Source First Line: Shall we be there in time? Last Line: Any time now. %trust me,' he said Subject(s): War NUT'S BIRTHDAY, by JESSIE POPE Poem Source First Line: When gilbert's birthday came last spring Last Line: To celebrate his natal day %in hard-won flanders' ditches Subject(s): Women; World War I O ALIVE WHO ARE DEAD, by GAIL WRONSKY Poem Source First Line: They're fighting in deserts and caves Last Line: As inwardly doing nothing Subject(s): Politics; War O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN!, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: O captain! My captain! Our fearful trip is done Last Line: Fallen cold and dead. Variant Title(s): On The Death Of President Lincoln;my Captain;to Abraham Lincoln;on Lincoln Subject(s): American Civil War; Assassination; Freedom; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Loss; Patriotism; Presidents, United States; Sea; United States - History; Liberty; Ocean O FLODDEN FIELD' (IN MEMORY OF EDWIN MUIR), by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The learned king fought Last Line: Picks up from the heather / a whole sword Subject(s): Flodden Field, England; Muir, Edwin (1887-1959); War O FLODDEN FIELD' (IN MEMORY OF EDWIN MUIR), by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The learned king fought Last Line: Picks up from the heather %a whole sword Subject(s): Flodden Field, England; Muir, Edwin (1887-1959); War O GLORIOUS FRANCE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have become a forge of snow white fire Last Line: Grown weary cries enough! Subject(s): World War I - France O SAY CAN YOU SEE, YOU WHO GLORY IN WAR, by KATHERINE DEVEREUX BLAKE Poem Source Last Line: Shall give hope to the nations and peace to the world Subject(s): World War I O STRASSBURG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): War O WAE BE TO THE ORDERS THAT MARCHED MY LUVE AWA', by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: O they hae nae winsome luve like mine in the wars o' germanie! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): War; Germany; Soldiers; Farewell O WHAT CAN AIL THEE, KNIGHT AT ARMS?, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day the students were arrested Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Poetry & Poets; Love - Erotic; Anti-war Protests O, AGONY! KEEN AGONY, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tchassan ouglou is on! Last Line: Allah, il allah! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Turkey; War O, TEMPORA! O, MORES!, by JOHN DICKSON BURNS Poem Source First Line: Great pan is dead!' so cried an airy tongue Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History O, YOU HOOVER!, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My tuesdays are meatless Last Line: My! How I do hate the kaiser! Subject(s): World War I OAK LEAVES COME QUITE CHEAP, by A. A. IMBERMAN Poem Text First Line: Here lies giovanni Last Line: Sic transit gloria mundi. Subject(s): Death; Italy; Soldiers; Tyranny & Tyrants; War; Dead, The; Italians; Dictators OBSEQUIES OF STUART, by JOHN REUBEN THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We could not pause, while yet the noontide air Last Line: In victory careering! Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, John Randolph Subject(s): American Civil War; Cavalry; Stuart, James Ewell (jeb) (1833-1864); U.s. - History; Wilderness Campaign (1864) OBSERVATION POST, by KURT HEYNICKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hills march across my eyes Last Line: Drips into my thoughts. Subject(s): World War I; First World War OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 3, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Raving war, begot Last Line: Th' unknown multitude. Subject(s): War OCCASION, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The trenches are filled in, the houseless dead Last Line: Impetuous gust of wind blew in with a shout, %fluttering your poems. And the lamp went out Subject(s): World War I OCCIDENT (FOURTH VERSION), by GEORG TRAKL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Moon, as if a dead thing Last Line: Stars that are falling Subject(s): World War I OCCUPATION, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The soldiers are Last Line: There is room %for everyone Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 OCEAN OF EARTH, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have built a house in the middle of the ocean Last Line: The ocean that is never still Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): World War I OCT-42, by ROY FULLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shade, the light, the figures, the horizon as Subject(s): War OCTAVES: 18, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something as one with eyes that look below Last Line: Nor wavers; but the world shakes and we shriek. Subject(s): War OCTOBER CORN, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Rusty soldiers Last Line: You have won the battle. Subject(s): Soldiers; War OCTOBER POEM, by TAMURA RYUICHI Poem Source First Line: In crisis you may know me Last Line: My dead populace signs documents for those still dying Subject(s): World War Ii OCTOBER THOUGHTS: 1862, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A solemn, tender melancholy Last Line: Shall call him yet to guard her shrine. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Nature; October; War; Dead, The; Liberty OCTOBER, 1973, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I dreamed I ran through the streets of new york Last Line: Brother? Brother? Subject(s): Chile; Dreams; Social Problems; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Women; Women's Rights; Nightmares; Feminism 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 FOR DECORATION DAY, by HENRY PETERSON Poem Source First Line: Bring flowers, to strew again Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; U.s. - History ODE FOR THE AMERICAN DEAD IN ASIA, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: God love you now, if no one else will ever Variant Title(s): Ode For The American Dead In Korea Subject(s): Korean War, 1950-1953; Men; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War ODE IN MEMORY OF THE AMERICAN VOLUNTEERS FALLEN FOR FRANCE, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, it is fitting on this holiday Last Line: For you have died for france and vindicated us. Variant Title(s): America And France Subject(s): Americans In France; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War ODE OF THE SUN TO THE PEOPLE'S ARMY, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arms of the people! This way! Menace and siege Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) ODE ON PROCLAMATION OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With songs and crying and sound of acclamations Last Line: The cry thou gavest at heart was only of delight. Subject(s): France; Hope; Lament; Light; Nations; War; Optimism ODE ON THE INSURRECTION IN CANDIA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I laid my laurel-leaf Last Line: We call thee and we charge thee that all these be free. Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Grief; Revolutions; War; Dead, The; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness ODE TO OUR YOUNG PRO-CONSULS OF THE AIR, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the country calls Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): War ODE TO PEACE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Oh! Breathe upon this hapless world Last Line: "which erring made mankind rise, / to deeds of sin, to blood and wars" Subject(s): Peace;war Of 1812 ODE TO PEACE, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two dwellings, peace, are thine Last Line: On the deep bosom of the eternal will. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Peace; War ODE TO THE CONFEDERATE DEAD, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Row after row with strict impunity Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): American Civil War; Cemeteries; Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Graveyards; Confederacy ODE TO THE CONFEDERATE DEAD, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Row after row with strict impunity Last Line: Riots with his tongue through the hush- %sentinel of the grave who counts us all! Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): American Civil War; Cemeteries; Confederate States Of America; U.s. - History ODE TO THE DODGER DEAD, by LEIGH PALMER Poem Source First Line: Our clothesline parallels the union line Last Line: The lion's corpse becomes a honeycomb Subject(s): American Civil War; Civil War; Death; Graves; Soldiers; U.s. - History; War - Casualties (statistics, Etc.) ODE TO THE MAGUIRE, by EOCHADH O'HUSSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where is my chief, my master, this bleak night, mavrone! Last Line: In ashes, warms the hero's heart! Alternate Author Name(s): O'hussey, Eochy Subject(s): War ODE TO THE NOT-YET-DEAD: 1972, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: Cell meets cell upon this looted world, Last Line: To make such pretty noises when they die. Subject(s): Death; War ODE TO TONSILITIS, by WALLACE IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Since senatorial rules decree once more Last Line: Rejoice, ya nations! Now we'll get some action!' Alternate Author Name(s): Ginger; Hashimura Togo Subject(s): World War I ODE WRITTEN DURING THE WAR WITH AMERICA, SELS., by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): War Of 1812 ODE, SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF MRS. OSWALD, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dweller in yon dungeon dark Last Line: Expires in rags, unknown, and goes to heaven. Subject(s): War; Death; Religion ODE: OUR CITY BY THE SEA, by WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our city by the sea Last Line: To his temple let us throng -- %praise and pray Subject(s): American Civil War; Courage; Heroism; Soldiers; U.s. - History ODE: WRITTEN ON THE OPENING OF THE LAST CAMPAIGN, by AMELIA OPIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring! Thy impatient bloom restrain Last Line: And war his blood-stain'd throne resign! Alternate Author Name(s): Alderson, Amelia Subject(s): Spring; War ODE; SUNG BY THE CHILDREN OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, by W. T. ADAMS Poem Text First Line: No more the cannon peal Last Line: And deathless fame. Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Fame; Monuments; United States - History; Dead, The; Reputation ODES II, 7, SELS., by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): War ODES III, 2, SELS., by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): War ODIN'S RAVENS, by TOM RILEY Poem Source First Line: Odin's ravens speak no nevermore Last Line: With his lone eye what we %have denied - that we'll lose the last war Subject(s): Knowledge; Loss; War OF A FORGETFUL SEA, by KELLI RUSSELL AGODON Poem Source First Line: Sometimes, I forget the sun Last Line: Waves appearing endless Subject(s): Politics; War OF ALL WHO DIED IN SIELNCE FAR AWAY, by IRIS TREE Poem Source Last Line: The passion-red roses clustering his brow Subject(s): Women; World War I OF CONSTANCY AND MEASURE, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One sees again how it goes Last Line: With so much else believed to be fire and air Subject(s): Gurney, Ivor (1890-1937); World War I 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 SNOW, by NORMAN BRICK Poem Source First Line: This time the snow came fiercely down Subject(s): War OF THE WARS IN IRELAND, by JOHN HARRINGTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I praise the speech, but cannot now abide it Last Line: I shall forever love my home the better. Alternate Author Name(s): Harington, John Subject(s): Ireland; War; Irish OFF BRIGHTON PIER, by ALAN ROSS Poem Source First Line: I saw him a squat man with red hair Subject(s): War OFF DUTY, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Source First Line: The night is full of magic, and the moonlit dewdrops Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I OFF DUTY; FLEET AIR ARM, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Source First Line: Far had he hurled his bomber through the sky Last Line: Crumble and plunge, and wing the sky no more Subject(s): World War Ii OFF HELIGOLAND, by JESSIE EDGAR MIDDLETON Poem Text First Line: Ghostly ships in a ghostly sea Last Line: Stands the spirit, all silver-bright. Subject(s): Great Britain - Navy; World War I; First World War OFFENSIVE, SELS., by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stars dead heroes in the sky %may well approve the way you die Last Line: And man must spend his life to find %all our successes and failures are similar Subject(s): World War Ii OFFICERS' PRISON CAMP SEEN FROM A TROOP-TRAIN, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is some school, brick, green, a sleepy hill Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; World War Ii OFFSET FOR THE CHESAPEAKE; OR, THE CAPTURE OF FORT GEORGE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Bad news was the cry, on the second of june Last Line: For columbians their standard will never disgrace, %nor flinch when their duty the foe bids them fac Subject(s): Fort George, Battle Of (1813); Navy - United States; War Of 1812 OFTEN WHEN WARRING, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often when warring for he wist not what Last Line: And war's apology wholly stultified. Subject(s): World War I; First World War OGRES, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night waking to the sound Last Line: The bitter depths of my shame Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Politics; War OH, NO, HE'LL NOT NEED THEM AGAIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History OHIO ELEGY, by CHRISTOPHER BAKKEN Poem Source First Line: I drive too fast with cleveland Last Line: Exhausted from waiting so long to wail Subject(s): Politics; War OHIO MEN, by EDWIN CURRAN Poem Source First Line: Ohio of the grassland and the waving, bilowy Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I OLD BATTLE-FIELD, by JOSEPH TWADELL SHIPLEY Poem Text First Line: The way was footless up the steep Last Line: Our lady of tours. Subject(s): Fields; Soldiers; War; World War I; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; First World War OLD CLOTHES, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: A couple hundred weeks, a couple kilos more or less Last Line: You're warm, you're moving through the streets. It's dinner time Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii OLD EARTHWORKS, by THOMAS SWEENEY Poem Text First Line: Within that semi-circle formed by mounds Last Line: Which now ring with the call of whippoorwills. Subject(s): Rebirth; War OLD GANG ON THE CORNER, by WILLIAM HERSCHELL Poem Source Subject(s): World War I OLD GLORY, by GEORGE B. HYNSON Poem Source First Line: A group of stars on an azure field Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I OLD HOUSE, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: We called her ghost Last Line: Caught up in brambles underneath the boughs Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History OLD JIM, by NORMAN SHANNON HALL Poem Source First Line: Out in that vague, vast 'somewhere' of ... Line Subject(s): World War I OLD JOHN CLEVENGER ON BUCKEYES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old john clevenger lets on Last Line: "kin subsist whare buckeyes is!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Ohio; War OLD MAEONIDES, by E. D. YOUNG Poem Source First Line: Others have felt this beauty into speech Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii OLD NORWAY; A MOUNTAIN WAR-SONG, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arise! Old norway sends the word Last Line: Give burial to his dead! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Norway; War OLD OSAWATOMIE, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John brown's body under the morning stars Last Line: On a six-foot stage of dust. Subject(s): Abolitionists; American Civil War; Brown, John (1800-1859); Slavery; U.s. - History; Anti-slavery; Serfs OLD POSTCARDS, by GUNTHER EICH Poem Source First Line: Here's what I wanted to put the streetcars Last Line: We'll go to minsk %and pick up grandmother Subject(s): World War Ii OLD ROAD TO PARADISE, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ours is a dark eastertide, and a scarlet spring Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I OLD SERGEANT: PRELUDE, by BYRON FORCEYTHE WILLSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The carrier cannot sing to-day the ballads Last Line: And to-day a scarred and weather beaten veteran again he comes Alternate Author Name(s): Willson, Forceythe Subject(s): War OLD SOLDIER DEAD, by ANNETTE KOHN Poem Text First Line: In flanders fields, where poppies blow' Last Line: Their own beloved country's flag. Subject(s): World War I; First World War OLD SONGS TO OTHER TUNES, XIII, by GASTON DE RUYTER Poem Source First Line: I would have you come toward me Last Line: And for you I shall wait, sure of my trust %in you Subject(s): World War I OLD SONGS TO OTHER TUNES, XV, by GASTON DE RUYTER Poem Source First Line: Wearied of life, the wave has shed Last Line: Along the reaches of the shore Subject(s): World War I OLD TOP SERGEANT, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Twenty years of the army, of drawing ... Pay Subject(s): World War I OLD WAR, by ARTHUR LEONARD PHELPS Poem Text First Line: I see you sitting in the sungleams there Last Line: Old war and all its honour and high pride. Subject(s): World War I - Canada OLD WAR-DREAMS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In midnight sleep of many a face of anguish Last Line: I dream, I dream, I dream. Subject(s): American Civil War; Dreams; United States - History; Nightmares OLD WAY, by RONALD ARTHUR HOPWOOD Poem Source First Line: There's a sea that lies uncharted Subject(s): World War I OLD WOMEN, by JOHN GRAHAM BOWER Poem Source First Line: Faint against the twilight, dim ... The evening Subject(s): World War I OLIVE WOOD FIRE, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When fergus woke crying at night Last Line: Had burned low. In my arms lay fergus %fast asleep, left cheek glowing, god Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Politics; War ON A FORTIFICATION AT BOSTON BEGUN BY WOMEN, by BENJAMIN TOMPSON Poem Text First Line: A grand attempt some amazonian dames Last Line: But the beginners well deserve the praise. Subject(s): Boston; Philip, King (native American Chief); Women; Metacomet; King Philip's War (1675-76) ON A LINE FROM VALERY, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The whole green sky is dying. The last tree flares Last Line: The gulf war Variant Title(s): Gulf War Subject(s): Gulf War (1991); Literary Form; Valery, Paul (1871-1945); War; Women; Women's Rights; Operation Desert Storm (1991); Feminism ON A NATURAL MONUMENT IN A FIELD OF GEORGIA, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No trophy this - a stone unhewn Last Line: This healing sleep alone was sure. Subject(s): American Civil War; Cemeteries; U.s. - History; Graveyards ON A PHOTO OF SGT. CIARDI A YEAR LATER, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sgt. Stands so fluently in leather Last Line: The camera photographs the photographer; Subject(s): World War Ii; Photography & Photographers; Soldiers; Second World War ON A PHOTO OF SGT. CIARDI A YEAR LATER, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sgt. Stands so fluently in leather Last Line: The shadow under the shadow is never caught: %the camera photographs the cameraman Subject(s): World War Ii ON A PHOTOGRAPH OF A GERMAN SOLDIER DEAD IN POLAND, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grant him at the end his common humanity Subject(s): World War Ii - Casualties ON A PHOTOGRAPH OF A SEVERED HAND, by JAMES LEONARD SHUGRUE Poem Source First Line: What is the sound of one hand Last Line: And give me yours, while we %are still attached Subject(s): Politics; War ON A RETURN FROM EGYPT, by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To stand here in the wings of europe Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War ON A RETURN FROM EGYPT, by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To stand here in the wings of europe Last Line: I fear what I shall find Subject(s): World War Ii ON ACTIVE SERVICE, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Source First Line: For the bloke on active service, w'en 'e goes Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I ON ACTIVE SERVICE, by EDITH WHARTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He is dead that was alive Last Line: Recalling him, and spring Subject(s): World War I ON AN AMERICAN SOLDIER OF FORTUNE SLAIN IN FRANCE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You, who sought the great adventure Last Line: In the forest of argonne! Subject(s): Argonne, Battle Of (1918); Army - United States; World War I; First World War ON AN EAST WIND FROM THE WARS, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind came in for several thousand miles all night Subject(s): War ON AN EAST WIND FROM THE WARS, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind came in for several thousand miles all night Last Line: Your children's new names in the tombstone of thin air Subject(s): War ON AN OCCASION OF NATIONAL MOURNING, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is admittedly difficult for a whole Last Line: Remembering the shuttle, forgetting the loom Subject(s): War 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 BEING ASKED FOR A WAR POEM, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think it better that in times like these Last Line: Or an old man upon a winter's night. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): World War I; First World War ON BOARD THE CUMBERLAND, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stand to your guns, men!' morris cried Last Line: For those beneath the wave! Variant Title(s): Attack Of The Cumberland Subject(s): American Civil War; Cumberland (ship); Hampton Roads, Virginia; Morris, George Upham; Sea Battles; United States - History; Virginia (ship); Naval Warfare; Merrimac (ship) ON CROSSING THE RHINE BRIDGE AT COLOGNE BY NIGHT, by ERNST STADLER Poem Source First Line: The express train gropes and thrusts its way through Last Line: To self's undoing Subject(s): World War I ON FINDING MYSELF A SOLDIER, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My bud was backward to unclose Last Line: A heart more red than blood. Subject(s): World War I; First World War ON FORT SUMTER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: It was a noble roman Last Line: "who says with 'southern daring,' / 'I'll find a way, or make it!'" Subject(s): "american Civil War;confederate States Of America;fort Sumter, South Carolina;u.s. - History;" Confederacy ON GOING INTO ACTION, by HUGH REX FRESTON Poem Text First Line: Now the weak impulse and the blind desire Last Line: That even hell's own gates should not prevail. Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I; First World War ON GOING TO THE WARS, by EARL (EARLE) BIRNEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I do not go, my dear, to storm Last Line: In hope to pass the peaks terrific, %and win the wide sundrenched pacific Subject(s): World War Ii ON GUARD, by JOHN FRANCIS WALLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The hush of waves reminds me of my love Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii ON HEARING GEESE FLY OVER MANHATTAN, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Something close to chaos Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities ON HEARING THE NEWS OF THE JAPANESE SURRENDER, by LIU YA-TZU Poem Source First Line: Fireworks explode like thunderclaps all over chungking Last Line: People of the huai and the yangtze look to the recovery of their capital Subject(s): Fireworks; World War Ii ON HER BROTHE SAKHR, by TUMADIR BINT IBN AL-SHARID AL-KHANSA Poem Source First Line: No day was sad as the day sakhr Last Line: I say there was no one like him in the world Alternate Author Name(s): Tumardir Bint `amir Al-harith Ibn Ash-sharid; Al-khansa Subject(s): Brothers; Death; War ON HER BROTHER, by TUMADIR BINT IBN AL-SHARID AL-KHANSA Poem Source First Line: My brother was not a camel driver Last Line: When they overtook him they shouted %like shepherds at daybreak Alternate Author Name(s): Tumardir Bint `amir Al-harith Ibn Ash-sharid; Al-khansa Subject(s): Brothers; Death; War ON HIS MAJESTY'S CONQUESTS IN IRELAND, by THOMAS SHADWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How great a transport is a brave man in Last Line: And that shall crown your arms, and they your love. Subject(s): Army - Great Britain; Protestantism; Soldiers; Victory; War; William Iii, King Of England (1650-1702) ON HIS OWN, by ADOLPHE E. SMYLIE Poem Source First Line: You see that young kid lying there Subject(s): World War I ON HIS WAY TO KUWAIT, by ANNETTE ALLEN Poem Source First Line: One evening after work, standing around his desk Last Line: Breath it is never answered Subject(s): Politics; War ON LEAVING IRELAND, by THOMAS MICHAEL KETTLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the sun dried in blood, and hill and sea Last Line: And knew that even I shall fall on sleep. Subject(s): World War I; First World War ON LOOKING THROUGH A PHOTO ALBUM (OF VIET CONG PRISONERS), by REED WHITTEMORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These pictures show us a ragged, un-uniformed enemy Last Line: Swamp me with traitorous feeling. %don't I know that this is a war? That this is the enemy? Subject(s): Politics; War ON NORTH BROTHER ISLAND, HALF-CRAZED SURVIVORS OF THE WRECK, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Beaux-art bas-relief in tompkins park commemorates the burning Last Line: Here, then rise, to where they can try to find some peace Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities ON PARTING, by W. E. JONES Poem Source First Line: No, no, my love, e'en now the eloquent, lucid deep Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii ON PASSING THE NEW MENIN GATE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Who will remember, passing through this gate Last Line: Rise and deride this sepulchre of crime. Subject(s): World War I; First World War ON PATROL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: He went to sea on the long patrol Subject(s): World War I ON PATROL - 1797, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Our brothers of the landward side Subject(s): World War I ON READING A RECENT GREEK POET, by BERTOLT BRECHT Poem Source First Line: After the wailing had already begun Last Line: And began to get their nerve back and feel hopeful Subject(s): Trojan War ON READING KING LEAR AGAIN, 1984, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the many things it's been about Last Line: Before his wits give way and he forgives Subject(s): War ON READING OF ATROCITIES IN WAR, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mild is the air of april Last Line: In one eternal shame. Subject(s): War ON READING THAT THE REBUILDING OF YPRES APPROACHED COMPLETION, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear you now, I hear you, shy perpetual companion Last Line: "is the wind in the rampart trees." Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War ON RECEIVING [THE FIRST] NEWS OF THE WAR, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snow is a strange white word Last Line: Its pristine bloom. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War ON REVISITING THE SOMME, by JOHN E. STEWART Poem Source First Line: Silence befits me here, I am proudly dumb Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I ON SEEING A PHOTOGRAPH BY MATTHEW BRADY, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In 1863 whole towns %carried luches to hillsides Last Line: A war too far for us to say %which are kin. All could as well %be kin for all that we can tell Subject(s): American Civil War; Brady, Matthew (1823-1896); U.s. - History ON SEEING PROJECTED FIGURES FOR WAR DEAD IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No age was less assured a heaven waits Last Line: At freeing them from bondage to the bone Subject(s): War ON SHERMAN'S MEN; WHO FELL IN THE ASSAULT KENESAW MOUNTAIN, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They said that fame her clarion dropped Last Line: And gentler hearts are bared to deadlier war. Subject(s): American Civil War; Kenesaw Mountain, Battle Of; U.s. - History ON SICK LEAVE, 1916, by HAMILTON FISH ARMSTRONG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He limped beneath the arch, across the square Last Line: That smell which only is where war has been. Subject(s): Washington Square, New York City; World War I; First World War ON SPARROWS, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You are the song that lies beyond the ear Last Line: White-throated. Gold-crowned. Vesper. Song Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 ON SYRIAN HILLS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is said the bedouins cry, on the syrian hills, a clear Last Line: And the ages they hear him yet, and his voice do the nations know. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Nations; Peace; War ON TALK OF PEACE AT THIS TIME, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: France. France, I know not what is in my heart Last Line: Is made secure for us and hell is thwarted. Subject(s): France; Peace; World War I; First World War ON THE BATTLE OF SHERIFFMUIR, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O cam ye here the fight to shun Last Line: La, la, la, la, &c. Subject(s): War ON THE BELFRY TOWER; A SKETCH, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look down the road. You see that mound Last Line: Poor child! The last of all his race.' Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Great Britain - Civil War; English Civil War ON THE BELGIAN EXPATRIATION, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt that people from the land of chimes Last Line: Of ravaged roof, and smouldering gable-end. Subject(s): Belgium; World War I; First World War ON THE BORDERS OF HIROSHIMA I HEARD A RUMOR OF WAR: 1, by CRANSTON SEDRICK KNIGHT Poem Source First Line: The bomb Last Line: Spotlight pans their exodus and as the last person leaves, the stage blackens. %exit all Subject(s): Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War ON THE BORDERS OF HIROSHIMA I HEARD A RUMOR OF WAR: 2, by CRANSTON SEDRICK KNIGHT Poem Source First Line: Occidental %sailing out of the west Last Line: Others, there will be beauty in the name hirshima Subject(s): Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War ON THE BRAVE MARECHAL DE MONTLUC, AND COMMENTARIES WRIT BY OWN HAND, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Montluc how far I am unfit Last Line: Who fought and writ the best but thee. Subject(s): Monteluc, Marshal Blaize De (1501-1577); War ON THE BRIGANTINE PRIVATEER PRINCE DE NEUFCHATEL, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is wealth, that men will roam, %risque their all, and leave their home Last Line: Little lost, and much to save, %had the prince of neufchatel Subject(s): Navy - United States; Prince De Neuchatel (ship); Privateers; War Of 1812 ON THE BRITISH BLOCKADE, AND EXPECTED ATTACK ON NEW YORK - 1814, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old neversink, with bonnet blue Last Line: And cockburn miss a handsome plunder. Subject(s): Naval Blockades; Navy - United States; New York City - War Of 1812; War Of 1812; American Navy ON THE BRITISH INVASION, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From france, desponding and betray'd Last Line: On the shores of pensacola. Subject(s): War Of 1812 ON THE CAPTURE OF THE GUERRIERE, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long the tyrant of our coast Last Line: Dacre and the guerriere! Subject(s): Constitution (ship); Navy - Great Britain; Sea Battles; War Of 1812; English Navy; Naval Warfare ON THE CAPTURE OF THE UNITED STATES FRIGATE ESSEX, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From cruising near the southern pole Last Line: And though commanded by a lord %they'll have no cause to brag Subject(s): Essex (ship); Navy - United States; Porter, David (1780-1843); Valparaiso, Battle Of; War Of 1812 ON THE CONCLUSION OF PEACE BETWEEN RUSSIA AND JAPAN, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lyre, - 'tis written, - in ages long ago Last Line: So be she born again! Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Peace; Sino-japanese War (1894-95) ON THE CONFLAGRATIONS AT WASHINGTON, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, george the third rules not alone Last Line: That breaks her heart or breaks his neck, %and plants our standard on quebec Subject(s): War Of 1812 ON THE COUCH, by OSCAR WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: To see my cat hanging there limp as a scarecrow's Subject(s): War ON THE DANGER OF WAR, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Avert, high wisdom, never vainly wooed Last Line: To drums whose loudness is their emptiness. Subject(s): Nations; Social Protest; War ON THE DEATH OF AUGUSTINE C. LUDLOW, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Great spirit of the mighty dead Last Line: The foemen - are his brothers here, %and every hero - is his friend Subject(s): Navy - United States; Sailors And Sailing; War Of 1812 ON THE DEATH OF JACKSON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Not where the battle red Last Line: "and this your battle-cry, / 'jackson and victory'" Subject(s): "alexandria, Virginia;american Civil War;ellsworth, Elmer Ephraim (1837-18610;u.s. - History; ON THE DEATH OF YOUNG GUERILLAS, by MAZISI KUNENE Poem Source First Line: You called me, but I made no response in that night Last Line: Could it be you are blind in your destruction? Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement; War ON THE EASTERN FRONT, by GEORG TRAKL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The wild organ of the winter storm Last Line: Wild wolves broke through the gate Subject(s): World War I ON THE EVE OF THEIR MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The body would open its legs like a book Last Line: Though never in the wake of its flensing Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Variant Title(s): On The Eve Of Our Mutually Assured Destructio Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Bodies; Nuclear War; Sex ON THE EVE OF WAR, by DANSKE CAROLINA (BEDINGER) DANDRIDGE Poem Text First Line: O god of battles, who art still Last Line: Be with us still, -- be with us still! Subject(s): Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898) ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE BOER REPUBLICS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Whilst we debate upon their overthrow Last Line: But do thou justice first and last of all! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Boer War; Great Britain - Politics & Government; Patriotism; South African War ON THE FRONTIER, by NATHANIEL MICKLEM Poem Source First Line: Where is your home, sir?' such the question posed Last Line: Reft from thy pain, thy beauty and thy pride Subject(s): World War Ii ON THE GRAVE, OF A YOUNG CAVALRY OFFICER, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty and youth, with manners sweet, and friends Last Line: His happier fortune in this mound you see. Subject(s): American Civil War; Graves; U.s. - History; Tombs; Tombstones ON THE HEIGHTS OF MISSION RIDGE, by J. AUGUSTINE SIGNAIGO Poem Source First Line: When the foes in conflict heated Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History ON THE HOME FRONT - 1942, by EDWIN DENBY Poem Source First Line: Because jim insulted harry eight years previous Subject(s): World War Ii ON THE HOME GUARDS; WHO PERISHED ... LEXINGTON, MISSOURI, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The men who here in harness died Last Line: Hearts sore beset, which died at bay. Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; United States - History ON THE ITALIAN FRONT, MCMXVI, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will die cheering, if I needs must die Last Line: "my sons' love sanctifies my soil for aye!'" Subject(s): World War I - Italy ON THE LACEDAEMONIAN DEAD AT PLATAEA, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These set a crown of glory on their land Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos Subject(s): War ON THE LAKE EXPEDITIONS, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where niagara's awful roar Last Line: And, to extend the flames of war, %employs them both Subject(s): Navy - United States; War Of 1812 ON THE LEDGE, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can see the coast coming near Last Line: Watching an ant %climb a blade of grass and climb back down Subject(s): World War Ii ON THE LOSS OF THE PRIVATEER BRIGANTINE GENERAL ARMSTRONG, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The armstrong arrived in the port of fayal Last Line: May it ever be ready, the britons to maul, %as the armstrong behaved in the road of fayal Subject(s): Azores; General Armstrong (ship); Mountains; Navy - United States; Reid, Samuel Chester (1783-1861); War Of 1812 ON THE MEN OF MAINE KILLED IN VICTORY OF BATON ROUGE, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Afar they fell. It was the zone Last Line: The republic's earnest faith and courage high. Subject(s): American Civil War; Baton Rouge, Battle Of; U.s. - History ON THE MURDER OF LIEUTENANT JOSE DEL CASTILLO BY THE FALANGIST ..., by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the lieutenant of the guardia de asalto Subject(s): Assassination; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) ON THE MURDER OF LIEUTENANT JOSE DEL CASTILLO BY THE FALANGIST ..., by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the lieutenant of the guardia de asalto Last Line: He won't walk as a man ever again Subject(s): Assassination; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) ON THE NAVAL ATTACK NEAR BALTIMORE, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sons of the old ocean advanced from the bay Last Line: And the sight, we expect, will be not very new %when they meet us again, with our tow-row-dow Subject(s): Navy - United States; Sea Battles; War Of 1812 ON THE PEACE; MAY, 1856, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come in, wild hopes! That towards the dawning east Last Line: Awaiting fiercer strife and nobler meed. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Crimean War (1853-1856); Peace ON THE PHOTOGRAPH OF A CORPS COMMANDER, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, man is manly. Here you see Last Line: And feel the bonds that draw. Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History ON THE PIAVE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: We called 'em wop and dago, and often Last Line: And we'll know italians better in the long years yet to come! Subject(s): Immigrants; Italy; World War I; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Italians; First World War ON THE PILOTS WHO DESTROYED GERMANY IN THE SPRING OF 1945, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood on a roof top and they wove their cage Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Variant Title(s): Responsibility: The Pilots Who Destroyed German ... 194 Subject(s): Air Warfare; Germany; Troy; World War Ii ON THE PORCH, by MARJORIE POWER Poem Source First Line: The object of the game is to work all Last Line: Once she ended with three. There is no way %to improve her game. She plays %because the one pile is Subject(s): Women; World War I ON THE RAMPART, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On sumter's rampart, that sweet eve Last Line: In the long summer time of god! Subject(s): Ramparts; Southern States; War; South (u.s.) ON THE REEF, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today I have touched the earth and the earth's three quarters Subject(s): War ON THE REEF, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today I have touched the earth and the earth's three quarters Last Line: I was this day digested by his love. %the world was his word, the realm of his radiant mouth Subject(s): War ON THE RELATIVE MERIT OF A FRIEND AND FOE, BEING DEAD, by DONALD THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: Young skull which the wind scrapes, which the sand Subject(s): War ON THE ROAD, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: We halted, with the urgent spring behind Last Line: I saw new radiance in the land we passed, %and heard a sudden murmur in the wind Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I ON THE ROAD TO SANTIAGO, by STEPHEN CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, they got me,' said reuben mcnab Last Line: That was all Subject(s): Social Protest; Spanish-american War (1898) ON THE RUSSIAN WAR IN THE CRIMEA: 1854-55, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold with awe, and high adoring wonder Last Line: Britannia wars to loose, not bind the chain. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Crimean War (1853-1856); Europe; Russia; War; Soviet Union; Russians ON THE SHIP TO THE MAINLAND, by MUIN OTOKICHI OZAKI Poem Source First Line: Nobishi tsume Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; World War Ii - Japanese-americans ON THE SLAIN AT CHICKAMAUGA, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy are they and charmed in life Last Line: Make this memorial due. Subject(s): American Civil War; Chickamauga, Battle Of (1863); Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day ON THE SLAIN COLLEGIANS, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Youth is the time when hearts are large Last Line: And kill them in their flush of bloom. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History; Youth ON THE WALL OF A KZ-LAGER, by JANOS PILINSZKY Poem Source First Line: Where you have fallen, you stay Last Line: Speechless, speechless, you testify against us Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii ON THE WAY OF THE CROSS, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: On the way of the cross we were comrades Last Line: And your children forever be comrades? Subject(s): Moscow; World War I; First World War ON THE WESTERN FRONT, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I found a dreadful acre of the dead Last Line: If you fail now, we shall not see or hear. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Peace; Silence; War; Dead, The; World ON THE WINGS OF THE MORNING', by JEFFERY DAY Poem Source First Line: A sudden roar, a mighty rushing sound Subject(s): World War I ON THE WIRE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O god, take the sun from the sky! Last Line: Here on the wire . . . The wire. . . . Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War ON THIS DAY I COMPLETE MY THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis time this heart should be unmoved Last Line: And take thy rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Byron's Farewell;on Completing My Thirty-sixth Year;hail And Farewell;byron's Latest Verses Subject(s): Adversity; Missolonghi, Greece; War; Mesolonghi, Greece; Mesolongion, Greece ON THIS ISLAND, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look, stranger, on this island now Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): "in This Island;seascape;""look, Stranger, At This Island Now""; Subject(s): Harbors; Islands; Religion; War; Theology ON THIS ISLAND, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look, stranger, on this island now Last Line: That pass the harbour %and all the summer through the water saunter Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): In This Island; Seascape; "look, Stranger, At This Island Now Subject(s): Harbors; Islands; Religion; War ON THIS MY SICKBED BEATS THE WORLD, by JIRI WOLKER Poem Source Subject(s): War ON TO BERLIN!, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On to berlin! And what's in the way? Last Line: Over them, over them, on to berlin! Subject(s): World War I; First World War ON TO RICHMOND, by JOHN REUBEN THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Major general scott / an order had got Last Line: Was that pleasant excursion to richmond. Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, John Randolph Subject(s): American Civil War; Bull Run, Battles Of; Confederate States Of America; U.s. - History; Manassas, Batlle Of; Confederacy ON WAR, by CRYSTAL KILGORE Poem Source First Line: Wash your hands, war Last Line: Or even after that. You'll never - your effort's %wasted. War Subject(s): War ONCE WE MEAN IT, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We'll meet in madrid Last Line: For something to say Subject(s): Fascism & Fascists; World War Ii; Second World War ONE AT PLAY IN THE FIELDS OF, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One came home from forced labor to Last Line: The fields of where we all are one. Subject(s): Cambodia; Death; Graves; War; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ONE BETTY – FIVE SKULLS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The search lights caught your enemy and mine Last Line: Turned down a wheel of dials, and fell, and burned Subject(s): World War Ii; Saipan (island) ONE NIGHT, by MILLICENT SUTHERLAND Poem Source First Line: I walked into a moon of gold last night Last Line: Now pondering from the moon I turned again, %over the sands,back to our house of pain Subject(s): Women; World War I ONE NIGHT, WHEN I WAS SLEEPING, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: One night, when I was sleeping all alone Last Line: That war must cease and friendship come to men? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): War ONE O'CLOCK, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: Here are the brains here the hearts Last Line: But this ash on the lips %this taste of ash in the mouth %forever Subject(s): Dadaism; World War Ii ONLY A BOCHE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We brought him in from between the lines Last Line: Guerre. Subject(s): War; World War I; First World War ONLY A PRIVATE, by F. W. D. Poem Source First Line: Only a private! His jacket of gray Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History ONLY A PRIVATE, by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Only a private - and who will care Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History ONLY A VOLUNTEER, by BRIAN BROOKE Poem Source First Line: War is declared in britain, such is the news and true Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I ONLY A VOLUNTEER, by RICHARD D. IRWIN Poem Source First Line: Why didn't I wait to be drafted Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I ONLY ONE KILLED - IN COMPANY B, by JULIA L. KEYES Poem Source Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History ONWARD, by J. M. MANICOFF Poem Text First Line: Where are you going, soldiers Last Line: The lord will lead us through. Subject(s): Flags; Freedom; Jews; Palestine; War; Zionism; Liberty; Judaism ONWARD, CHRISTIAN SOLDIER, by FLOYD HARDIN Poem Text First Line: Help me, o christ, to hold thy sacred cross Last Line: (his head appears!—thank god!—I've popped my man!) Subject(s): Christianity; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Murder; Social Protest; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; War OPEN BOAT, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When this war is done,' says dan ... Subject(s): World War I OPEN THE DOOR AND FLY WITH ME, by MICHAEL SAVAGE Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii OPENING SCENE FOR MACBETH - 1934, by PHILIP JEROME CLEVELAND Poem Text First Line: The three spare witches meet again Last Line: "has wars and money, too!" Subject(s): Fights; Soldiers; War OPERATIONS: DESERT SHIELD, DESERT STORM, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who / are these two women, walking Last Line: America, welcome home. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Grief; Gulf War (1991); History; Sorrow; Sadness; Operation Desert Storm (1991); Historians OPTIMISM, by ALFRED VICTOR RATCLIFFE Poem Text First Line: At last there'll dawn the last of the long year Last Line: Your kind shall die, and sweeter days be born. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War OPTIMIST AND PESSIMIST, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The right will triumph,' jones declared Last Line: "it's what a fellow does." Subject(s): Hope; Pessimism; War Bonds; Optimism ORAL HISTORY: THE BATTLE OF STALLUPONEN, EASTERN FRONT, 1914, by EILEEN GARNETT Poem Source First Line: Nineteen fourteen, darling Last Line: The bright white glare of the sun, %the mocking sun Subject(s): History; War ORANGE ALTAR, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: With your yellow dress Last Line: For an evening %in our reeking flesh Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) ORANGE OF MIDSUMMER, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You came to me in the pale starting of spring Subject(s): World War I; First World War ORANGE OF MIDSUMMER, by AMY LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You came to me in the pale starting of spring Last Line: Does it? %but drink it, my beloved' Subject(s): World War I ORCA, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sea-lions loafed in the swinging tide in the inlet, long fluent creatures Last Line: Experiment, that has run wild, and ought to be stopped Subject(s): Cruelty; War; Sea; Ocean ORDER, by DENNIS KAWAHARADA Poem Source First Line: The fields seemed chaotic to him Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans 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 ORIENT TO OCCIDENT, 1906, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You thought me sunk in lethargy, too deeply drugged with sleep Last Line: For you the ship's machinery, for me the guiding helm! Subject(s): Asia; Explorers; Religion; Sailing & Sailors; Sleep; War; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Theology ORIENTAL BATH, by DANIEL VAROUZAN Poem Source First Line: The inner door of the green-domed bath opens slowly Last Line: That spring, the soul of spring is passing by Subject(s): World War I ORION'S' FIGUREHEAD AT WHITEHALL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: All wind and rain, the clouds fled fast Subject(s): World War I OTHELLO'S REPORT, by RUDOLFO HINOSTROZA Poem Source First Line: ...Once in aleppo %yes, it was in aleppo Last Line: And a passion for love %tense as a tattoo, signorina' Subject(s): Fights; Memory; Moors (people); War OTHER SIDE, by GILBERT FRANKAU Poem Source First Line: Just got your letter and the poems. Thanks Subject(s): World War I OTHERS, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The daybreak comes so pure and still Last Line: Some other country free. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Freedom; War; Liberty OTTERBURN, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lad who went to flanders Last Line: And never will return. Subject(s): Death; Flanders, Belgium; Military; Soldiers; War; Dead, The OUR ANNUAL', by JOHN GRAHAM BOWER Poem Source First Line: Up the well-remembered fairway Subject(s): World War I OUR BROTHER'S KEEPER, by W. H. ANDERSON Poem Text First Line: The patient world through all its cycled years Last Line: Shall head the vanguard of the hosts of peace! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Peace; War OUR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN WILL MARVEL, by ILYA GRIGORYEVICH EHRENBURG Poem Source Subject(s): War OUR CHRISTMAS HYMN, by JOHN DICKSON BRUNS Poem Source First Line: Good will and peace! Peace and good will!' Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History OUR CHURCH SPIRES, by JEAN-MARC BERNARD Poem Source First Line: Sharp bell-spires, you alone have power to give Last Line: Death of the soul Subject(s): World War I OUR CONFEDERATE DEAD, by MORTON BRYAN WHARTON Poem Source First Line: Unknown to me, brave boy, but still I wreathe Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History OUR COUNTRY'S CALL, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lay down the axe; fling by the spade Last Line: And glorious must their triumph be. Subject(s): American Civil War; Military Service, Voluntary; Patriotism; United States - History OUR COUNTRY'S DESTINY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My country! Dare we do it? Dare we be Last Line: And boldly equal to our destiny! Subject(s): United States; World War I; America; First World War OUR DEAD, by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They have not gone from us Last Line: They chant on every wind, and they return %in the long roll of any deep blue wave Variant Title(s): Sonne Subject(s): Faith; World War I OUR DEAD, by E. L. PETERSON JR. Poem Text First Line: We have forgotten them, thank god! They fell Last Line: Young men were made for war; god bless our boys! Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; War; Dead, The OUR DEAD HEROES, by MORTON BRYAN WHARTON Poem Source First Line: The angels above us hover Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889); Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870); U.s. - History OUR DEAD, OVERSEAS, by EDWARD ARCHIBALD MARKHAM Poem Text First Line: In italy, in belgium, in france Last Line: Something that swings the spirit to a star. Alternate Author Name(s): Markham, E. A. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; World War I - United States; Graveyards; Dead, The OUR DEPARTED COMRADES, by J. MARION SHIRER Poem Source First Line: I am sitting alone by a fire Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History OUR FALLEN BRAVE, by CORNELIA J. M. JORDAN Poem Text First Line: They fell! In freedom's cause they fell Last Line: Our fallen and our free. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Freedom; Love; United States - History; Confederacy; Dead, The; Liberty OUR FIGHTING MEN, by ELLA FULLER MAITLAND Poem Source First Line: The war is like the judgment day Subject(s): World War I OUR FLAG, SELS., by T. H. UNDERWOOD Poem Source First Line: I heard the furious stamping of a heel Last Line: As royally as lies the noblest clay Subject(s): American Civil War; Life; Pain; Slavery; U.s. - History OUR GIFT, by CAROLINE TICKNOR Poem Source First Line: Behold thy sons, o lord! Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I OUR HERO, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flowers, only flowers - bring me dainty posies Last Line: So we left him sleeping, still amid the flow'rs. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War OUR HOUSE, by MARCO MARTOS Poem Source First Line: In galleons, on war-horses, with their lances Last Line: Starving beggars, all claim us as their own Subject(s): Fights; Houses; Revolutions; War OUR LADS TO THE FRONT! EMBARKATION CANADIAN CONTINGENT SOUTH AFRICA, by AGNES MAULE MACHAR Poem Source First Line: Ring out the british cheer Last Line: To fight in britain's name! Subject(s): Boer War; Canada; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies OUR LADY PEACE, by MARK VAN DOREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How far is it to peace, the piper sighed Subject(s): War OUR LEFT', by FRANCIS ORRERY TICKNOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From dawn to dark they stood Last Line: "your all upon ""our left." Subject(s): American Civil War; Bull Run, Battles Of; United States - History; Manassas, Batlle Of OUR MARTYRS, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am sitting alone and weary Last Line: May rise to the calm of thine. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Confederacy OUR MEN, THEY ARE OUR STRONGHOLD, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): World War I OUR MODEST DOUGHBOYS, by CHARLTON ANDREWS Poem Text First Line: Said the captain: 'there was wire' Last Line: Said private mike mccann. Subject(s): World War I; First World War OUR MOTHER POCAHONTAS, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Powhatan was conqueror Last Line: Our mother, pocahontas. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Native Americans; Pocahontas (1595-1617); World War I; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; First World War OUR NEW HEROES, by SYDNEY REID Poem Text First Line: They've half inch thick of tan upon their faces Last Line: And twenty thousand stand of arms laid down. Subject(s): Heroism; Spanish-american War (1898); Heroes; Heroines OUR ORDERS, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weave no more silks, ye lyons looms Last Line: And god, and truth, and freedom die! Subject(s): Flags - United States; Freedom; War; American Flag; Liberty OUR OWN SPOON RIVER, SELS., by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poet's Biography Subject(s): World War I OUR PRISONERS OF WAR IN GERMANY, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prisoners to a foe inhuman, oh! But our hearts rebel Last Line: Follows perdition eternal ... And it has begun. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): World War I - Prisoners OUR PRIVILEGE, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not ours, where battle-smoke upcurls Last Line: With valor's clashing steel. Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History OUR SOLDIERS' SANTIAGO SONG, by DAVID GRAHAM ADEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Singing 'the star spangled banner' Last Line: Sang a song of praise to god. Subject(s): Heroism; National Songs; Rifles; Soldiers; War; Heroes; Heroines; National Anthems OUR TIME, by LEONARD BACON (1887-1954) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not in our time, america light-hearted Last Line: Win for our spirits and royalty %of death and life Subject(s): World War Ii OUR YOUTH, by ARTHUR HOBSON QUINN Poem Source First Line: Once more, once more into the fire they go Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I OURSELVES ALONE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: One morning, when dreaming in deep meditation Last Line: "standing together, ourselves — and alone." Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Grief; Soldiers; War; Sorrow; Sadness OUT AND FIGHT, by CHARLES GODFREY LELAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out and fight! The clouds are breaking Last Line: Be extinguished from the land. Alternate Author Name(s): Breitmann, Hans Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; United States - History OUT OF FLANDERS, by JAMES NORMAN HALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Three of us sat on the firing-bench Variant Title(s): Hat Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I OUT OF RANGE, by DANIEL RAY CAMPION Poem Source First Line: You wouldn't keep the books you'd packed for long Last Line: Beneath the vague and barren shade outside Subject(s): American Civil War; Army Life; Soldiers; U.s. - History; War OUT OF THE MORNING, by CLIVE SANSOM Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii OUT OF THIS WORLD, by RALPH J. SALISBURY Poem Source First Line: Many ways you could Subject(s): Nuclear War OUT OF WHITE LIPS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of white lips a question: shall seven million dead ask for their blood Subject(s): War OUT OF WHITE LIPS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of white lips a question: shall seven million dead ask for their blood Last Line: In the red trenches dug in the land? Subject(s): War OUTPOSTS, by F. W. BENDALL Poem Source First Line: Sentry, sentry, what did you see Last Line: I prayed the lord that I'd fire straight %if I saw the man that killed my mate Subject(s): World War I OUTSIDE CONNECTICUT HOSPICE WITH MY FATHER, by VIVIAN SHIPLEY Poem Source First Line: The silence between us has softened Last Line: My heart, you start it beating again Variant Title(s): With My Father Outside The West Wing Of Hospic Subject(s): American Civil War; Civil War; U.s. - History OUTSIDE THE GATES OF NORRISTOWN PRISON, by CHRISTOPHER BURSK Poem Source First Line: The police are watching Subject(s): Nuclear War OUTWARD BOUND, by NOWELL OXLAND Poem Text First Line: There's a waterfall I'm leaving Last Line: We shall go not forth again. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxland, Noel Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; World War I; First World War OVER THE BRAZIER, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What life to lead an where to go %after the war, after the war? Last Line: Mad war has now wrecked both, and what %better hopes has my little cottage got? Subject(s): World War I OVER THE PARAPET, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day long when the shells sail over Last Line: Over the parapet -- life, romance! Subject(s): War; World War I; First World War OVER THE RIVER, by JANE T. H. CROSS Poem Source First Line: We hail your 'stripes' and lessened 'stars,' Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History OVER THE TOP, by SYBIL BRISTOWE Poem Source First Line: Ten more minutes! - say yer prayers Last Line: Over the top - to kingdom come! Subject(s): Women; World War I OVER THE WALL: BERLIN, MAY 1975, by CHARLES HUBERT SISSON Poem Source First Line: He will go over and tell the king Last Line: Yet the afternoon sun falls upon faces %less tame than tigers Subject(s): Berlin Wall; Cold War; Travel OVERHEARD IN AN ASYLUM, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And here we have another case Subject(s): World War I OVERSEAS; IN MEMORY OF ALAN SEEGER, by ABBIE CARTER GOODLOE Poem Text First Line: Across the vexed, insuperable sea Last Line: The imperishable essence of his soul! Subject(s): Death; Memory; Seeger, Alan (1888-1916); Soldiers; War; Dead, The OVERTURES FROM RICHMOND, by FRANCIS JAMES CHILD Poem Source First Line: Well, uncle sam,' says jefferson d Subject(s): War OXFORD IN WAR-TIME, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What alters you, familiar lawn and tower Last Line: To mask the riches of her bleeding heart. Subject(s): Oxford, England; World War I - Great Britain OXFORD IN WAR-TIME, by WILBERT SNOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the tow-path past the barges Last Line: You who have fought and died. Alternate Author Name(s): Snow, Charles Wilber Subject(s): Oxford University; World War I; First World War OXFORD REVISITED IN WAR TIME, by TERTIUS VAN DYKE Poem Text First Line: Beneath fair magdalen's storied towers Last Line: And her heart is free and bold. Subject(s): Oxford University; World War I; First World War OXWICH BAY, GOWER, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night hung heavy, black and chill Last Line: Trailing like some winged bird. Subject(s): Battleships; Sea; Wales; War; Ocean; Welshmen; Welshwomen P.O.E., by LINCOLN KIRSTEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is it and so: so long Last Line: Up on your feet, our orders crack. %it's all aboard for this is it Subject(s): World War Ii PA-KE, by HERBERT CHUN Poem Source First Line: You speak of shadows Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans PADRE, by C. W. BLACKALL Poem Source First Line: E's a sportsman is our padre Subject(s): World War I PAID ON BOTH SIDES: A CHARADE, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trudy: you've only just heard Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Great Britain - Civil War PAINTING LESSON, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: You have not painted since high school Last Line: Just like you were f -- me Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) PALACE OF LISTS, by GARY FRANCIS MARGOLIS Poem Source First Line: Where are we %hiding our Last Line: Between us except %the unafraid air Subject(s): Politics; War PALACE OF PEARLS, SELS., by JANE MILLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Do you know how long it has been since a moral choice Last Line: Please call for several hundred thousand %physicians quickly Subject(s): Politics; War PALAMON AND ARCITE, OR THE KNIGHT'S TALE: BOOK 1, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In days of old there lived, of mighty fame Last Line: And theseus for his vertues held him dear. Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Fables; Mythology; Theseus; War; Allegories PALESTINE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: How strange if it should fall to you Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): World War I PALESTINE, 1192-1917, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gallant knights of christendom riding out together Last Line: For lion-heart hath come again to claim you for his own. Subject(s): Fights; Knights & Knighthood; Palestine; War PALLADIUM, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Set where the upper streams of simois flow Last Line: And while it lasts, we cannot wholly end. Subject(s): Trojan War PALMETTO PICTURES, SELS., by VOLNEY HICKOX Poem Source First Line: Beautiful land, where the bountiful sun Last Line: This is the land that his servants shall win -- %liberty's eden from slavery's rod Subject(s): American Civil War; Emancipation Movement And Proclamation; Southern States; U.s. - History PALMYRA: OCTOBER 18, 1862, by CAROLINE COLLINS Poem Source First Line: Missouri: dark wind in the trees Last Line: Renegade, unrepentant, unforgiving Subject(s): American Civil War; Capital Punishment; Crime And Criminals; Fights; Military Service, Voluntary; Soldiers; U.s. - History; Violence PANIC, by ROSAMOND DARGAN THOMSON Poem Source First Line: We are ill of a new wind Last Line: That glares upon us in our angry dreams Subject(s): World War Ii PAPER SOLDIER, by BULAT SHALVOVICH OKUDZHAVA Poem Source First Line: In our world there lived a soldier Last Line: And there he perished, nothing won - %for he was merely a paper soldier Subject(s): War PAPER SOLDIER, by BULAT OKUJAVA Poem Source First Line: There lived a soldier in the world Last Line: He was, you see, a paper soldier Subject(s): War PARABOLA, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For the acknowledged masters of the court Subject(s): War PARACHUTE DESCENT, by DAVID BOURNE Poem Source First Line: Snap back the canopy Subject(s): War PARADE, by MINNA IRVING Poem Source First Line: I watch the regiments swinging by Alternate Author Name(s): Michener, Harry, Mrs. Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I PARADE, by EDITH LOVELL Poem Text First Line: I don't know why Last Line: "and life to maim humanity." Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Parades; Women; Anti-war Protests PARADE, by ESTHER RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: Out of step,' they said, as we marched along Last Line: ... But how could they know that I marched with the dead? Subject(s): Death; Fear; Marching & Marches; Soldiers; War; Dead, The PARADOX, by BENJAMIN FRANCIS MUSSER Poem Text First Line: We are a regiment, whose martial cry Last Line: Your own slain march at our side. Subject(s): Contrariness; Military; Pacifism; Peace; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; Peace Movements PARDON, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pains the sharp sentence Last Line: Greatest, forgive! Subject(s): American Civil War; Assassination; Booth, John Wilkes (1838-1865); Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; United States - History PARENTHETICALLY SPEAKING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, carranza sent a cable Subject(s): World War I PARK SUICIDES, VIENNA, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: A clock has stopped at quarter to nine this morning Last Line: The shrill of a magpie by the river can be heard Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities PARODY PARODIZED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come, swallow your bumpers, ye tories Last Line: Who dreads not a fetter much more than %a sword Subject(s): American Revolution; Freedom; Heroism; Militarism; Soldiers; War PARSON'S JOB, by MADELINE IDA BEDFORD Poem Source First Line: What do you want %coming to this 'ere 'ell? Last Line: Teach me - ow - to pray Subject(s): Women; World War I PARTIES, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: During the martinis of 1944 Last Line: And walked back through the crowd %of the dead and the loving Subject(s): War PARTING HYMN; 'DUNDEE', by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father of mercies, heavenly friend Last Line: Rule thou our throneless land! Subject(s): American Civil War; Prayer; United States - History PARTING IN WARTIME, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How long ago hector took off his plume Last Line: And now we three in euston waiting-room Subject(s): Time; War PASSAGE, by WILLIAM JOSEPH MEISSNER Poem Source First Line: At dusk in the small midwestern towns Subject(s): Nuclear War PASSAGES 25. UP RISING, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now johnson would go up to join the great simulacra of men, Subject(s): War; Johnson, Lyndon Baines (1908-1973) PASSING OF THE ARMIES; JOSHUA LAWRENCE CHAMBERLAIN, 1865, by JOHN BURT Poem Source First Line: He was at falling waters in a dream Last Line: Ahead lay washington, half swamp, half shrine Subject(s): American Civil War; Appomattox, Virginia; Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence (1828-1914); U.s. - History PASSING THE BUCK, by NORMAN E. NYGAARD Poem Source First Line: The colonel has a job to do Subject(s): World War I PASSING-BELL, by WALTER SICHEL Poem Source First Line: That was the passing-bell Subject(s): World War I PASSION OF RAVENSBRUCK, by JANOS PILINSZKY Poem Source First Line: He steps out from the others Last Line: That he forgot to cry out %before he collapsed Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii PASSOVER, by VIOLET HELEN FRIEDLAENDER Poem Source First Line: The doors of life are two Subject(s): World War I PAST-LIVES THERAPY, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They explained to me the bloody bandages Subject(s): Farm Life; Birth; War; Agriculture; Farmers; Child Birth; Midwifery PASTORAL FOR POLAND, by CLARK MILLS Poem Source First Line: Now have the cries of bombed and drowned Last Line: And these are all, and these are all Subject(s): World War Ii PATCHWORK QUILT, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is this patchwork quilt I've made %of patterned silks and old brocade Last Line: That never decked white sheets before, %blame my dazed head,blame bloody war Subject(s): Quilts; World War I PATENT LEATHER SHOE, by ALFRED LICHTENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: The poet thought: %enough. I'm sick of the whole lot! Last Line: A pity, though, about my new silk sock Subject(s): World War I PATHETIC LINES/POBRES VERSOS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: What do we gain %writing Last Line: Their arms %covered with blood Subject(s): Politics; War PATRIOTISM, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: The day the president died we peered Last Line: And died in those days Subject(s): War PATRIOTISM, by RAYMOND JOSEPH KRESENSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's all you need to do Last Line: That's patriotism. Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; Patriotism; War PATROL, by AUGUST STRAMM Poem Source First Line: The stones threaten Last Line: Shrieking %death Subject(s): World War I PATROL: BUONAMARY, by BERNARD H. GUTTERIDGE Poem Source First Line: Beyond the white dust flushed by the carriers Subject(s): War PATRON SAINT (1), by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: Conquerors, I am alive in this relinquary! I am the owner of Last Line: I am the harbinger of what can never not be Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii PATRON SAINT (2), by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: Conquerors, you have heard my voice! You have shown me Last Line: Ahead, eternity. You will not be missed Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii PATTERNS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk down the garden paths Last Line: Christ! What are patterns for? Subject(s): Absence; Clothing & Dress; Fashion; Freedom; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Love - Loss Of; World War I; Separation; Isolation; Liberty; First World War PATTON, by LINCOLN KIRSTEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Skirting a scrub-pine forest there's a scent of snow in air Last Line: Rains cease. His tanks make peace Subject(s): World War Ii 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 PAX VENTURA, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our peace was but a honey-comb Subject(s): World War I PEACE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O land, of every land the best Last Line: They gained a better peace than ours. Subject(s): American Civil War; Peace; United States - History PEACE, by ELEANOR FARJEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am as awful as my brother war Last Line: Will first in peace dare shout the name of love? Subject(s): Women; World War I PEACE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When that glad day shall break to match Last Line: Better we all had died at first, %better that killed before our prime %we rotted deep in earthy slim Subject(s): World War I PEACE, by MAZISI KUNENE Poem Source First Line: Sing again the great song Last Line: Listening to the multiudes of the stars Subject(s): War PEACE, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O brother, lift a cry, a long world cry Last Line: To end it in the sacred name of man! Subject(s): Peace; Social Protest; War 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 R. G. RUSTE Poem Text First Line: How will it be when peace shall come Last Line: On the blissful day when the boys come home. Subject(s): Peace; Reunions; Soldiers; War PEACE, by MARGERY SMITH Poem Source First Line: All this shall pass Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii PEACE, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At peace'? The world has never been at peace Last Line: And peace no slothful, placid mockery. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Social Protest; War PEACE, by ADELINE DUTTON (TRAIN) WHITNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Daybreak upon the hills! Last Line: On the right hand and left! Subject(s): American Civil War; Peace; U.s. - History PEACE, by ANN YEARSLEY Poem Text First Line: What howlings wake me! - my fair olives die! Last Line: "all that is worthy man, is found with me and love." Alternate Author Name(s): Cromartie, Ann Subject(s): Peace; War 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 AND WAR, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Peace upon the wide-flung country-side Last Line: Wanted—men! Subject(s): Military Recruitment; War PEACE AND WAR, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sleek sea, gorged and sated, basking lies Last Line: Swear an eternity of halcyon sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Peace; War PEACE BELL, by R. J. MCCAFFERY Poem Source First Line: I stand bare-handed at the door of the bell Last Line: A scrabble of nails for the dead Subject(s): Politics; War PEACE CONFERENCE, by HANS MAGNUS ENZENSBERGER Poem Source First Line: An aircraft is landing with a hundred ... Subject(s): Nuclear War PEACE HATH HER BELGIUMS, by SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is a belgium in the bedrooms dark Last Line: Her homemade belgium of the unemployed Subject(s): World War I PEACE ON THE LAND WE LIVE ON, by WILDEN MCINTOSH-ROUND Poem Source First Line: Our earth was created for us to live in peace on Last Line: This is our planet %our earth Subject(s): Politics; War PEACE ON THE TREATY IN SOUTH AFRICA IN 1902, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peace: - as a dawn that flares Last Line: Let these, that speak not, be the loudest heard! Subject(s): Boer War; Peace; South African War PEACE SHALL LIVE, by MAX EHRMANN Poem Text First Line: The guns are still, the dead sleep on Last Line: "your answer, ""peace shall live!" Subject(s): Military; Peace; War PEACE WITH A SWORD, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Peace! How we love her and the good she brings Last Line: "help us, o lord!" Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I; First World War PEACE, GOD'S OWN PEACE, by IVAR CAMPBELL Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I PEACE, ORDER, STABILITY, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: Name? Date of birth? Political affiliation? Last Line: The river swells over the levee Subject(s): War PEACE: 1919, by MARY CRAIG SINCLAIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The jonquils bloom again upon the hill Last Line: And tears are gathering to drown the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Sinclair, Upton, Mrs. Subject(s): Peace; Soldiers; War; World War I; First World War PEACOCK STUNG BY THE HORNET, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When o'er the blue and trackless deep Last Line: For every true columbian tar, %will hail him hero of the wa r Subject(s): Hornet (ship); Navy - United States; Sea Battles; War Of 1812 PEARL HARBOR, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here are the fireworks. The men who conspired and labored Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War PEARL HARBOR, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here are the fireworks. The men who conspired and labored Last Line: Darkness and silence, the two eyes that see god; great staring eyes Subject(s): World War Ii PEASANTS, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dwarf barefooted, chanting Last Line: History staggers in their wake. %the peasants watch them die Subject(s): Peasantry; Soldiers' Writings; World War Ii PEDRO ROJAS, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He used to write in the air with his forefinger Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) PENELOPE, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the pathway of the sun Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses; War; Odysseus PENELOPE, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the pathway of the sun Last Line: Bleach the linen for my bed %they will call him brave Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses; War PENETRATION AND TRUST, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleek as a lizard at round of a stone Last Line: When it is no tyrant who leaves me lone! Subject(s): Love; Trust; War PERFORMANCE, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last time I saw donald armstrong Last Line: Beside his hacked, glittering grave, having done %all things in this life that he could Subject(s): World War Ii PERHAPS - (TO R.A.L. DIED OF WOUNDS IN FRANCE ... 1915), by VERA MARY BRITTAIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps some day the sun will shine again Last Line: Again, because my heart for loss of you %was broken, long ago Alternate Author Name(s): Catlin, George E. G., Mrs. Subject(s): Women; World War I PERMANENT FRAGILITY OF MEANING, by ELIZABETH AUSTEN Poem Source First Line: Why persist, scratching across the white field Last Line: I rise up and begin again Subject(s): Politics; War PERRY'S VICTORY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: We sailed to and fro in erie's broad lake Last Line: "so six sail (the whole fleet) was our fortune to take, / here's a health to brave perry, who govern Subject(s): "lake Erie, Battle Of;navy - United States;perry, Oliver Hazard (1785-1819);war Of 1812;" American Navy PERRY'S VICTORY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ye tars of columvia, give ear to my story Last Line: While britons drink cherry, columbians, perry, %we'll toast him about with full glass in hand Subject(s): Lake Erie, Battle Of; Navy - United States; Perry, Oliver Hazard (1785-1819); War Of 1812 PERRY'S VICTORY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ye tars of columbia, give ear to my story Last Line: Tho' the lords of the seas, we'll be lords of the lakes Subject(s): Lake Erie, Battle Of; Navy - United States; Perry, Oliver Hazard (1785-1819); War Of 1812 PERRY'S VICTORY - A SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "columbia, appear! - to thy mountains ascend" Last Line: And the flames of the battle were quenched in the spray Subject(s): "lake Erie, Battle Of;perry, Oliver Hazard (1785-1819);war Of 1812; PERSEUS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old medusa war, of grim array Last Line: This new medusa of the gorgon head! Subject(s): Medusa; Mythology - Classical; Perseus; War PERSHING AT THE TOMB OF LAFAYETTE, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: They knew they were fighting our war Last Line: "only this -- ah, but france understood! ""lafayette, we are here!" Subject(s): Lafayette, Marie Joseph, Marquis De; Pershing, John J. (1860-1948); World War I; First World War PERSONAE SEPARATE, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like the golden scale that emerges Last Line: Break, it's already almost night Subject(s): World War I; First World War PERSONAE SEPARATE, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like the golden scale that emerges Last Line: Light, today no longer, now that at day - %break, it's already almost night Subject(s): World War I PERSONAL PASSION, by JOHN+(3) HALL Poem Source First Line: Now that in history we've seen the shapes Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii PERSONAL VALOUR, by VICTORIA MARY SACKVILLE-WEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If once we feared that fear itself might come Last Line: Poising ourselves above our island spray %around the bastions of our lonely keep Alternate Author Name(s): Nicholson, Harold, Mrs.; Sackville-west, Vita Subject(s): World War Ii PERVANEH, by JOHN FRANCIS WALLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your arms, my dear, are safety's shield Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii PESCHIERA, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What voice did on my spirit fall Last Line: Than never to have fought at all.' Subject(s): Croatia; Italy; War; Italians PETER PAN, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And peter pan is dead? Not so! Last Line: And then go tiptoe down the stair. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Barrie, Sir James Matthew (1860-1937); World War I; First World War PETICION, by EDMOND ADAM Poem Source First Line: Whyle we enjoy tranquillitie Last Line: Tyl I have seen my love agayne! Subject(s): World War I PHAM HONG THAI, by NGUYEN KIM THANH Poem Source First Line: Live and die as you live and die Last Line: Die -- your death waltzes in a blue river Subject(s): Indochinese War, 1946-1954 PHANTOM HOST, by PERONNEAN D. HAY Poem Source First Line: My form was wrapped in the slumber Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History PHARSALIA: CAESAR CROSSES THE RUBICON, by LUCAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Caesar has crossed the alps, his mighty soul Last Line: The first dark morning of the civil war Alternate Author Name(s): Marcus Annaeus Lucanus Subject(s): War PHASES, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a little square in paris Last Line: To that short, triumphant sting? Subject(s): World War I PHILIPPINE CONQUEST, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the army of an empire not a republic Last Line: As the englishman is fighting for the banks of london Subject(s): Social Protest; Spanish-american War (1898) PHILOTHEOU, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: The singing rocks are ravished by the currents of the gulf Last Line: Through other storms like this one I come in from now Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities PHOENIX, by AUDREY ALEXANDRA BROWN Poem Source First Line: The phoenix said to me Last Line: And that to dare to die, for such as we %is evidence enough of immortality! Subject(s): Immortality; World War Ii PHOENIX, by EDWARD HARRY WILLIAM MEYERSTEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rise thyself, thou phoenix world Last Line: Renewed thy nest, re-win thy fame, %purged, cindered, and increased! Alternate Author Name(s): Meyerstein, E. H. W. Subject(s): World War Ii PHOENIX, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: I watch your face catch fire Last Line: Forged together %in blazing feathers Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) PHOOIE!, by ROBERT GARIOCH Poem Source First Line: With my girl, %watching an old movie Last Line: I just want to enjoy the movie,' %she says Subject(s): War PHOTOGRAPH, by TIBOR GYURKOVICS Poem Source First Line: We lost the picture Last Line: Even childhood is curable Subject(s): Bombs; Childhood Memories; Photography And Photographers; Pictures; War PHOTOGRAPHER PHOTOGRAPHING A DEAD HORSE, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: I do not share your faith in the moral power of exacting Last Line: So alas, he tries to rescue his brain %through irony, by pushing the camera's button Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities PICARDY, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the trees blossom again Last Line: Who died that we might live. Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): World War I; First World War PICCIOLA, by ROBERT HENRY NEWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a sergeant old and gray Last Line: That trembles first when earth is shaken. Alternate Author Name(s): Kerr, Orpheus Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History; War PICCIOLA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It was a sergeant old and gray Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History PICK A FERN, PICK A FERN, FERNS ARE HIGH, by CONFUCIUS Poem Source Last Line: (no one feels half of what we know) Alternate Author Name(s): Chung-ni; K'ung Ch'iu Subject(s): War PICKET, by MARY ALDEN HOPKINS Poem Source First Line: Men tell us women Last Line: I would rather have a vote than a war any day Subject(s): World War I 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 PICNIC; JULY 1917, by EMILIE ROSE MACAULAY Poem Source First Line: We lay and ate sweet hurt-berries Last Line: Lest, battered too long, our walls and we %should break - should break Alternate Author Name(s): Macaulay, Rose Subject(s): Women; World War I PICTURE FROM THE BLITZ, by LOIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: After all these years Last Line: A shock-frozen woman trailing khaki wool Subject(s): Bombs; War PICTURES OF THE WAR, by GILBERT FRANKAU Poem Source First Line: Not for themselves, o daughters, grandsons, sons Subject(s): World War I PIERROT AT WAR, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A year ago in carnival Last Line: And a snarl of angry drums. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): World War I; First World War PIERROT GOES, by CHARLOTTE BECKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Up among the chimneys tall Subject(s): World War I PIERROT GOES TO WAR, by GABRIELLE ELLIOT Poem Text First Line: In the sheltered garden, pale beneath the moon Last Line: Pierrot goes forward—but what of pierrette? Alternate Author Name(s): Forbush, Gabrielle E. Subject(s): Women & War; World War I; First World War PIFFLE, by GUSTAV SACK Poem Source First Line: Year after year, you gnaw your way Last Line: And so chalk up one last net gain Subject(s): World War I PILGRIMAGE, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, the mississippi carved Subject(s): Vicksburg, Mississippi; American Civil War PILGRIMS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For oh, when the war will be over Last Line: We point . . . To a name on a cross. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War PILLBOX, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just see what's happening, worley! - worley rose Last Line: To see this life so spirited away. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War PILOT FROM THE CARRIER, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strapped at the center of the blazing wheel Last Line: Shining as the fragile sun-marked plane %that grows to him, rubbed silver tipped with flame Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii PILOT'S PSALM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The be2c is my 'bus; therefore I shall want Last Line: Else I shall dwell in the house of %colney hatch forever Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War I PIN-UP GIRL, by LOUIS O. COXE Poem Source First Line: Flat on the grey steel bulkhead arch her curves Subject(s): Pin-ups; War PIPES IN ARRAS (APRIL, 1917), by NEIL MUNRO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the burgh town of arras Last Line: Roared the artillery. Subject(s): World War I - Scotland PLACARD, by UNKNOWN+29 Poem Source First Line: Enemy's terrible losses' - in letters of red on white Subject(s): World War I PLACE AND TIME, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night a man on the radio Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): War; Transience; Family Life; Impermanence; Relatives PLACE DE LA CONCORDE, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Text First Line: Near where the royal victims fell Last Line: And kissed her on both cheeks! Subject(s): Place De La Concorde, Paris; World War I - France PLACE IN THE SUN OF THE SON OF HENRY CLAY, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: This burnt plate is place in the sun of the son of henry clay Last Line: Rest in peace now, in the arms of an absent howling mother Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities PLACE PIGALLE, by RICHARD WILBUR Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now homing tradesmen scatter through the streets Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War PLACE PIGALLE, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now homing tradesmen scatter through the streets Last Line: Desperate soldier's hands which kill all things Subject(s): World War Ii PLACES I'M NOT ALLOWED, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: If only %I peed like them Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; War PLACIDE BOSSIER, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, friend! In the tender college time Last Line: The cross on the saint-heart shining! Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; Southern States; War; Dead, The; South (u.s.) PLANET OF SMOKE AND CLOUD, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earth could not keep Subject(s): Politics & Government; War PLANET OF SMOKE AND CLOUD, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earth could not keep Last Line: Locked in a radiant cinder Subject(s): Politics; War PLANKED WHITEFISH, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over an order of planked whitefish at a downtown club Last Line: "war is the game of a lot of god-damned fools." Subject(s): Pacifism; World War I; Peace Movements; First World War PLANTING OF THE GREEN, by ALICE (HENDERSON) CORBIN Poem Source First Line: Oh, woody dear, and did ye hear Last Line: We are answering the call! Subject(s): World War I PLATFORM GOODBYE, by HERBERT B. MALLALIEU Poem Source First Line: My hand waving form the window Subject(s): War PLATO'S CAVE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blood is red. They say napalm Last Line: In the fire a day before my eyes. Subject(s): Television; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War; Tv PLAYING THE MACHINE, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You open p-k4, it thinks, or blinks Subject(s): War PLEA, by JESSICA ROEDER Poem Source First Line: We ask of the birds only that they should bear us up Last Line: All we ask is that now, and again now, it should so begin Subject(s): Politics; War PLUCK, by EVA DOBELL Poem Source First Line: Crippled for life at seventeen Last Line: And smoke his woodbine cigarette Subject(s): Women; World War I PLUTONIAN ODE, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: What new element before us unborn in nature? Last Line: Space, so ah! Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb PLYMOUTH, by WILLIAM ASHTON Poem Full Text First Line: I've just been down to plymouth. Did you know Last Line: Were dancing on the hoe. Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Plymouth, England; War - Home Front; World War Ii; Second World War PLYMOUTH SOUND, by LEONARD NEILL COOK Poem Source First Line: Obedient to the echoed harbour gun Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I POCKET GUIDE FOR SERVICE MEN, by HUBERT CREEKMORE Poem Source First Line: Are not molesters of women' the book says Subject(s): War POEM, by PAUL KLEE Poem Source First Line: I stand in full armor Last Line: O glow with the dead Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets; World War I POEM, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lived in the first century of world wars. Subject(s): World War I; World War Ii; Conduct Of Life; War - Home Front; First World War; Second World War POEM, by GERVASE STEWART Poem Source First Line: I take four devils with me when I ride Subject(s): War POEM (FOR PRISCILLA), by NICHOLAS MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Here a hand lay. Here in a chair a body Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii POEM ABOUT THE FACT THAT WAR DEMORALIZES, by MIHALY LADANYI Poem Source First Line: The women were corrupted Last Line: In such places of disrepute Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; War POEM FOR A SOLDIER'S GIRL, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever your mirrors tell you, morning and evening Subject(s): War - Home Front POEM FOR AN IRAQI CHILD IN A FORGOTTEN NEWS CLIP, by PAMELA HALE Poem Source First Line: I'm sorry that your mom was killed Last Line: For the planes that circle still. %in my name Subject(s): Politics; War POEM FOR GEORGE HELM ALOHA WEEK 1980, by ERIC EDWARD CHOCK Poem Source First Line: I was in love with the word 'aloha' Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans POEM FOR JAMES WRIGHT, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I read your lines Last Line: Is still beautiful. Subject(s): Beauty; Creative Ability; Loss; Salvation; War; Wright, James (1927-1980); Inspiration; Creativity POEM FOR SOMEONE KILLED IN SPAIN, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though oars are breaking the breathless gaze Last Line: With the songs of the world where no one dies Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) POEM IN 1944, by GEORGE ROBERT ACWORTH CONQUEST Poem Source First Line: No, I cannot write the poem of war Last Line: In this poem scarcely made and already forgotten Subject(s): War POEM IN TIME OF WAR, by WILLIAM ABRAHAMS Poem Source First Line: So make your impassive passage to the act Subject(s): War POEM IN TIME OF WAR, by SHERMAN PEARL Poem Source First Line: Should wake the city shouting extra! Extra! Last Line: Our shoulders; might warm us on nights like this Subject(s): Politics; War POEM OF WAR, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old rancher of seventy-nine years Last Line: Choked on their won blood.' god says nothing Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Politics; War POEM OUT OF CHILDHOOD, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Breathe in experience, breathe out poetry Last Line: Ricochetting from thought to thought among %the childhood, the gestures, the rigid travellers Subject(s): Adolescence; Children; World War I POEM WITHOUT A HERO: EPILOGUE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the roof of the fountain house Last Line: Fled before me to the east Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): World War Ii POEM, READ THE SOLDIERS' WELCOME, FRANKLIN, NEW YORK, AUG. 5, 1865, by B. H. BARNES Poem Text First Line: The heroes of a hundred fields Last Line: For peace and liberty! Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Homecoming; Life; Soldiers; United States - History; Dead, The POEM: 1, by LAURENCE MINOT Poem Text First Line: Trew king, pat sittes in trone Last Line: In ingland help vs to haue þese. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Scotland; War; English POEM: 10, by LAURENCE MINOT Poem Text First Line: I wald noght spare for to speke, wist I to spede Last Line: For when þe stode in powre strenkith -- þe war all to stout. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Sailing & Sailors; Spain; War POEM: 11, by LAURENCE MINOT Poem Text First Line: War pis winter oway wele wald I wene Last Line: þat he may at his ending -- haue heuin till his mede. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Life; Nations; War POEM: 2, by LAURENCE MINOT Poem Text First Line: Skottes out of berwik and of abirdene Last Line: Skottes broght him þe kayes, bot get for þaire gile. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Scotland; War POEM: 3, by LAURENCE MINOT Poem Text First Line: God pat schope both se and sand Last Line: And blis it with his haly hand. Amen. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; God; Ships & Shipping; War; English POEM: 5, by LAURENCE MINOT Poem Text First Line: Minot with mowth had menid to make Last Line: God assoyle þaire sawls, sais all, amen. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; God; Grief; War; Sorrow; Sadness POEM: 6, by LAURENCE MINOT Poem Text First Line: Towrenay, pow has tight Last Line: And fro all sins vs saue. Amen. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; Sin; War POEM: 7, by LAURENCE MINOT Poem Text First Line: Men may rede in romance right Last Line: With his men bifor calays toune. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; Religion; War; Theology POEM: 8, by LAURENCE MINOT Poem Text First Line: Calays men, now mai ge care Last Line: Edward wan it at his will. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; War POEM: 9, by LAURENCE MINOT Poem Text First Line: Sir david pe bruse -- was at distance Last Line: Pus was dauid þe bruse -- into þe toure tane. Subject(s): England; Grief; War; English; Sorrow; Sadness POEMS FROM SAINT PELAGIA PRISON 1., by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: Wednesday on a barge Last Line: Monday and tuesday cold-blooded %four thursdays off from work Subject(s): Dadaism; Prisons And Prisoners; World War Ii POEMS FROM SAINT PELAGIA PRISON 2., by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: A thread unravels Last Line: A butterfly explodes %chrysalis or glow worm Subject(s): Dadaism; Prisons And Prisoners; World War Ii POEMS FROM SAINT PELAGIA PRISON 3., by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: Who mounts Last Line: And the three sleeping children %singular singular tale %tale of the setting sun Subject(s): Dadaism; Prisons And Prisoners; World War Ii POEMS OF EXILE, by P. A. A. THOMAS Poem Source First Line: Not as a vessel in some calm lagoon Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii POEMS TO CZECHOSLOVAKIA, SELS., by MARINA IVANOVNA TZVETAYEVA Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Tsvetayeva, Marina Ivanovna; Efron, Sergei, Mrs.; Tsvetaeva, Marina Ivanovna Subject(s): Czechoslovakia; Germany; World War Ii POET, by DIMCHO DEBELYANOV Poem Source First Line: From what the entire world is feting Last Line: But oh, that fame exacts a price! Subject(s): World War I POET AND THE BUTCHER, by CATHERINE DURNING WHETHAM Poem Source First Line: Milton, thou shouldest be living at this hour Last Line: And ask your leave to let the matter drop Subject(s): Women; World War I POET RECALLS THE LANDS OF SORIA, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Its lanky profile wading in the pool Last Line: Are you not cain again over the planet? Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Evil; War POETIC HISTORY OF THE 7TH IOWA REGIMENT: ARRIVED AT CAMP MONTGOMERY, by GEORGE S. RUTHERFORD Poem Text First Line: Arrived in good season at our journey's end Last Line: Whose tribe was assembled through this rebels advice. Subject(s): American Civil War; Army Life; U.s. - History; Drills & Minor Tactics POETIC HISTORY OF THE 7TH IOWA REGIMENT: BATTLE OF SHILOH, by GEORGE S. RUTHERFORD Poem Text First Line: Soon war-clouds o'ershadowed this place of delight Last Line: And the rattle of hailstones completed the blast. Subject(s): American Civil War; Shiloh, Battle Of (1862); U.s. - History POETIC HISTORY OF THE 7TH IOWA REGIMENT: MARCH TO CAMP MONTGOMERY, by GEORGE S. RUTHERFORD Poem Text First Line: Again we have orders, from high sources to march Last Line: We completed this journey of four or five miles. Subject(s): American Civil War; Camping; U.s. - History; Walking; Camps; Summer Camps POETIC HISTORY OF THE 7TH IOWA REGIMENT: SECOND DAY'S BATTLE, by GEORGE S. RUTHERFORD Poem Text First Line: The army of buell came forth with the light Last Line: A little good water while they might remain. Subject(s): American Civil War; Shiloh, Battle Of (1862); U.s. - History POETIC HISTORY OF THE 7TH IOWA REGIMENT: TRIP TO PITTSBURG LANDING, by GEORGE S. RUTHERFORD Poem Text First Line: Again our good regiment got under way Last Line: From sweet smelling blossoms the north has in june. Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History POETIC INJUSTICE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A scottish fighting man whose wife %turned false and tempted his best friend Last Line: While that false pain met a clean end %without remorse, how fares the scot? Subject(s): World War I POETIC JUSTICE, by FLORENCE MCLANDBURGH Poem Source First Line: If any man is found Last Line: Until his tongue is sprained Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Mclandburgh Subject(s): World War I POETRY & THE AMERICAN VOICE, by GEOFFREY BROCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My day was spent struggling to write Last Line: Reign there - and here - in lieu of law Alternate Author Name(s): Brock, Geoff Subject(s): Politics; War POETRY AND THE WAR, by JOHN KOETHE Poem Source First Line: The bombs bloom in the same green light Last Line: Done in my name. I feel ashamed and numb Subject(s): Bombs; Death; Poetry And Poets; War - Casualties (statistics, Etc.) POETRY AS INSURGENT ART, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I am signaling you through the flames. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; World War Ii; Second World War POETRY OF BODIES, by MICHAEL GOULD-WARTOFSKY Poem Source First Line: I see a poetry of bodies Last Line: And in the middle of winter, we've found the heat to %surround Subject(s): Politics; War POETRY OF WORLD WAR I' BY ROBERT GRAVES, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The war-poetry boom in world war I began with the death Last Line: I'd timed my death in action to the minute...'which I quote in the first edition of my goodbye to %a Subject(s): World War I POETS IN TIME OF WAR (IN MEMORY OF WILFRED OWEN), by BERTRAM WARR Poem Source First Line: Poets, who in time of war Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii POINT OF BATTLE, by JOHN+(3) HALL Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii POINT OF EMPTINESS, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But the point of emptiness is that it's always there Last Line: The point of emptiness is that it's always there %in all that matters, insubstantial as air Subject(s): Nuclear War POND, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: Downcast thermometers record one truth Last Line: The mind ghosting out in a shoal of stars Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History POOR AT WAR (BRITAIN, WINTER 1940), by N. K. CRUICKSHANK Poem Source First Line: O that one current steady across years! Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii POOR OLD SHIP!', by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She wasn't much to brag about Subject(s): World War I POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 4. LES PAPILLONS NOIRS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A black sedan draws along the woods stopping Last Line: "what to throw away." Subject(s): Bodies; Daffodils; Habits; War; Women POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 6. THE JOYOUS, THE LAKE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How two women can be the same, for instance, in poland Last Line: Drops down from a tree in the sun in marseille. Subject(s): Boats; Warsaw, Poland; Women; World War Ii; Second World War POPPIES, by J. EUGENE CHRISMAN Poem Source First Line: Poppies? %not for me, buddy! Last Line: Poppies- %hell! Subject(s): World War I POPPIES, by JOSEPH MILLS HANSON Poem Source First Line: Poppies in the wheat fields Subject(s): World War I PORT NAVALO, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rock bloomed lichen, orange-tawny Last Line: The headland by no passion haunted. Subject(s): Nature; Paris (mythology); Trojan War PORT OF EMBARKATION, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Freedom, farewell! Or so the soldiers say Last Line: The slow lives sank from being like a dream? Subject(s): Soldiers; Freedom; World War Ii; Liberty; Second World War PORTENTS, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By a cloud, by rings on the moon Last Line: Though there is no safety there %I think. Nor anywhere Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): World War Ii PORTRAIT FROM THE INFANTRY, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He smelled bad and was red-eyed with the miseries Last Line: Him back up. “isn't he awful?” she said Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii; Second World War PORTRAIT FROM THE INFANTRY, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He smelled bad and was red-eyed with the miseries Last Line: Isn't he awful?' she said Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii PORTRAIT OF A FRIEND, by FRANCIS KING Poem Source First Line: His was the cowards, not the hero's stance Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii PORTRAIT OF AN ITALIAN SOLDIER, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Giuseppe ugesi, prisoner at milowitz Last Line: For all of us who wait for him to speak Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities PORTSMOUTH BELLS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A lazy sea came washing in Subject(s): World War I POSSESSIONS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those possessions short-liv'd are Last Line: Into the which we come by warre. Subject(s): War POST CARD (SENT TO ANDRD ROUYERE, 20 AUGUST 1915), by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I write to you beneath this tent Last Line: Stud the pale blue firmament %and before existing fade Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): World War I POST-HUMAN AGE, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: Behind the church they had set up Last Line: In noise and color before their very eyes Subject(s): War POST-MODERNISM, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pinup of rita hayworth was taped Last Line: Do I know him? Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Bombs; Death; Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Actresses; Dead, The; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb; Students; Educators; Professors POST-WAR, by LIBBY HOUSTON Poem Source First Line: In 1943 %my father dropped bombs on the continent Last Line: Flying home %took a wrong turn Subject(s): War POSTCARD FROM SPAIN, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear folks at home Last Line: With a challenge %that appalls/ Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) POSTCARD: 1, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: From bulgaria the huge wild pulse of artillery Last Line: In the rotted heart of a tree Subject(s): World War Ii POSTCARD: 1, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: Here in bulgaria cannon shots echo savagely Last Line: In the tomb of a rotted tree Subject(s): Bulgaria; War POSTCARD: 4, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: I fell down beside him Last Line: Dries on my ears Subject(s): Blood; Death; War POSTSCRIPT TO A WAR, by EDWIN ROLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We must remember cleanly why we fought Last Line: The certainties men need, live for, die to build, %the certainties that make all living tolerable Alternate Author Name(s): Fishman, Solomon Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) POT OF TEA, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You make it in your mess-tin by the brazier's rosy gleam Last Line: To-night we'll all be tellin' of the boches that we slew %as we drink the giddy victory in tea Subject(s): Army Life; Food And Eating; Tea; World War I PRAEMATURI, by MARGARET ISABEL POSTGATE COLE Poem Source First Line: When men are old, and their friends die Last Line: But there are years and years in which we shall still be young Subject(s): Women; World War I PRAGUE SPRING, by TONY HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A silent scream? The madigral's top note Last Line: The last snow of this year's late snow thaw %dribbles as spring saliva down his jaw Subject(s): Cold War; Prague, Czech Republic; Travel PRAGUE, JANUARY 1964, by INGEBORG BACHMANN Poem Source First Line: Since that night Subject(s): Cold War; Prague, Czech Republic PRAIRIE, by FRANCIS PONGE Poem Source First Line: When nature, at our awakening, sometimes proposes to us Last Line: Tomorrow will be growing up on top Subject(s): World War Ii PRAY FOR PEACE, by ELLEN BASS Poem Source First Line: Pray to whomever you kneel down to Last Line: Your prayer through the streets Subject(s): Peace; Prayer; War PRAYER, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a garden of red tulips Last Line: Fold round and crush out life / forever Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; World War I PRAYER, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Source First Line: You say there's only evil in this war Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I PRAYER, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: Lord, keep him nar to me Last Line: Lord, let us pause again %in silent memory Subject(s): Gallipoli Campaign (1915); World War I PRAYER, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I do not pray for peace Last Line: Let me die fighting, lord! Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): God; Peace; Prayer; War PRAYER, by WILLIAM LITTLEJOHN Poem Source First Line: Lord, if it be thy will Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I PRAYER BEFORE BATTLE, by ALFRED LICHTENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: The men are singing fervently, every man thinking of himself Last Line: Who has a tale to tell Subject(s): World War I PRAYER BEFORE BIRTH, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not yet born; o hear me Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Birth; World War Ii; Child Birth; Midwifery; Second World War PRAYER BEFORE BIRTH, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not yet born; o hear me Last Line: Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me. %otherwise kill me Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Birth; World War Ii PRAYER BEFORE WAR, by W. G. HOLE Poem Source First Line: Lord god, ere yet our drums are rolled Subject(s): World War I PRAYER DURING BATTLE, by KARL THEODORE KORNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Father, I call to thee Last Line: Father, I call on thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Korner, Charles Theodore Subject(s): Prayer; War PRAYER FOR A WORLD HURT SORE, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord god, we lift to thee Last Line: Made whole again! Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Earth; Jesus Christ; Pain; Salvation; War; World; Suffering; Misery PRAYER FOR PEACE, by S. TEACKLE WALLIS Poem Source First Line: Peace! Peace! God of our fathers grant us peace Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History PRAYER FOR THE DOGS IN WAR, by MRS. E. WORTHING Poem Source First Line: Oh god, in your highest glory Subject(s): Animals; Dogs - War Use PRAYER FOR THOSE ON THE STAFF, by JULIAN GRENFELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fighting in mud we turn to thee Last Line: Please keep the extra a.D.C. %out of the sun and in the shade Subject(s): World War I PRAYER IN KHAKI, by ROBERT GARLAND Poem Source First Line: O lord, my god, accept my prayer of Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I PRAYER IN THE TRENCHES, by BRENT DOW ALLINSON Poem Text First Line: Lord god of hosts, be with us here! Last Line: Cometh the dawn! Subject(s): Prayer; World War I; First World War PRAYER IN TIME OF WAR, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Dear fields of my country, hedges Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Socialism; World War I PRAYER IN TIME OF WAR, by HENRY TREECE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: In whitest hour of pain the iron air Subject(s): War PRAYER OF A SOLDIER IN FRANCE, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My shoulders ache beneath my pack Last Line: This millionth of thy gift. Amen. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Prayer; Soldiers; World War I; First World War PRAYER RUG OF ISLAM, by AJAN SYRIAN Poem Source First Line: Men there are who live among flowers Last Line: My heart is a place of swords! Subject(s): World War I PRAYER SHAWL OF THIGHS, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: As one of your naked thighs presses Last Line: A prayer shawl %round my shoulders Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) PRAYER TO JEHANNE OF FRANCE, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O jehanne, with the trumpets in your name Subject(s): Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); World War Ii PREACHER SOUGHT TO FIND OUT ACCEPTABLE WORDS, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They drop with periodic regularity Subject(s): War PRELUDE, by EDMOND MCKENNA Poem Text First Line: Embracing the woman I love, I stood by the stream Last Line: Long grass. Subject(s): Christianity; Grief; Jesus Christ; Love; Morning; Nature - Religious Aspects; Night; Pain; War; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime; Suffering; Misery PRELUDE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By sunny market-place and street Last Line: I left my all to follow the drum. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Drums; Musical Instruments; War PRELUDE FOR GRAINS OF SAND, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the harbor with its tackle and roped masts Last Line: You sang me beyond song Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 PRELUDE TO WAR, by JEAN LOUISE LEIGHTON Poem Text First Line: The hardy gods are laughing again Last Line: I sit and wish we both were dead. Subject(s): War PRELUDE: 23, by STEFAN GEORGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We are those same children who amazed Subject(s): War PREMATURE REJOICING, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's that over there? Last Line: That's where the difficulty is, over there. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War PREPARATIONS FOR VICTORY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My soul, dread not the pestilence that hags Last Line: The black fiend leaps brick-red as life's last picture goes. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War 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 PREPAREDNESS, by M. P. BOYNTON Poem Text First Line: O god, eternal right, command us now Last Line: So earth shall reap eternal brotherhood. Subject(s): God; War PREPAREDNESS, by RALPH CHAPLIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For freedom die? But we were never free Last Line: Resist the foe? Subject(s): World War I PRESENCE OF JUSTICE, by PEGGY SAPPHIRE Poem Source First Line: The simplicity is this Last Line: Where peace is found Subject(s): Politics; War PRESENT BATTLEFIELD, by DAISY WRIGHT FIELD Poem Source First Line: The war is over, over there Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Wright Subject(s): World War I PRESENTATION TO AUTHORITIES BY PRIVATES, OF COLORS CAPTURED, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These flags of armies overthrown Last Line: To waiting homes with vindicated laws. Subject(s): American Civil War; Flags - Confederate States Of America; U.s. - History PRESENTED TO THE KING, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye careful angels, whom eternal fate Last Line: Averted darts of rage, and pointless arms of death. Subject(s): Angels; Courts & Courtiers; Fate; Night; Politics & Government; Tyranny & Tyrants; War; Destiny; Bedtime PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S BURIAL HYMN, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd Last Line: There in the fragrant pines and the cedars dusk and dim. Variant Title(s): When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloomed Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Flowers; Grief; Lilacs; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Loss; Mourning; Patriotism; Presidents, United States; United States - History; United States; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; America PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED 1915 - 1918, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the periscope %trench stinks of shallow buried dead Last Line: The weary circle's broken %and a bullet tears through the tired brain Subject(s): World War I PREWAR, by THOMAS BRASCH Poem Source First Line: Last night I dreamed Subject(s): Nuclear War PRIMAL DEATH, by AUGUST STRAMM Poem Source First Line: Space %time Last Line: Space %erring %nil Subject(s): World War I PRIMARY GRADES, by ARLENE MAASS Poem Source First Line: Born on the brink of the korean war Last Line: Of the sacred heart of jesus Subject(s): Children; Korean War, 1950-1953 PRINCETON, MAY, 1917, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now lamp-lit gardens in the blue dusk shine Last Line: And smile, from souls at peace. Subject(s): Princeton University; World War I; First World War PRINCIP, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look at him there, a lad of nineteen years Last Line: Princip, with nineteen years, can you not tell? Subject(s): Assassination; Fate; Guns; Nations; World War I; Destiny; First World War PRISONERS, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within the wires of the post, unloading the cans of garbage Subject(s): War PRISONERS, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within the wires of the post, unloading the cans of garbage Subject(s): War PRISONERS OF WAR, by THOMAS M. DISCH Poem Source First Line: Their language disappeared a year or so Last Line: And at ourselves, those still alive, who stand %before what might have been, a year ago, a door Subject(s): Prisoners Of War PRISONERS OF WAR, by JOHN D. C. ESTRELLA Poem Source First Line: The hope in the matter of prisoners, and prayer Subject(s): Prisoners Of War PRISONERS OF WAR, by CHARLES PERDU Poem Source First Line: It is braver to be killed Last Line: In life's prosaic mazes, %intuitively alive, %imponderably at peace? Subject(s): Prisoners Of War PRISONERS' RETURN, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To-night I saw the wounded come ashore Last Line: And humbly I shall listen to you then. Subject(s): Patriotism; Prisoners Of War; Soldiers; War PRIVATE, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This ploughman dead in battle slept out of doors Last Line: More sound in france - that, too, he secret keeps Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I PRIVATE BLAIR OF THE REGULARS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was private blair, of the regulars Last Line: And honor be from sea to sea to the deed of private blair! Subject(s): Santiago, Cuba; Soldiers; Spanish-american War (1898) PRIVATEERING AND PIRATEERING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come all ye noble warriors Last Line: And not like foolish children, %try each other's heads to break Subject(s): Navy - United States; Pirates; Privateers; War Of 1812 PRIZE FOR GOOD CONDUCT, by KENNETH ALLOTT Poem Source First Line: The worn-out voice of the clock breaks on the hour Subject(s): War PRO MEMORIA, by INA MARIE PORTER Poem Source First Line: Lo! The southland queen, emerging Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History PRO PATRIA, by OWEN SEAMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: England, in this great fight to which you go Last Line: Our fortunes we confide. Subject(s): World War I - Great Britain PRO-NUKE BLUES, by ALAN DUGAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bloom you flowers while you can Subject(s): Nuclear War; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb PRO-NUKE BLUES, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bloom you flowers while you can Subject(s): Nuclear War PROCESSIONAL, by THEODORE MAYNARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shall christ not have his chosen men Subject(s): World War I PRODIGY, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I grew up bent over Subject(s): Children; Games; World War Ii; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Second World War PRODIGY, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I grew up bent over Last Line: In chess, too, the professor told me, %the masters play blindfolded, %the great ones on several boar Subject(s): Children; Games; World War Ii PROGRAM, by KENNETH FEARING Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Act one, madrid-barcelona Last Line: Try the new golgotha for cocktails after the show Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) PROGRESS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In progress you have little faith, say you Last Line: And naming progress, both shall have the word. Subject(s): Progress; Social Protest; War PROGRESSION; OR, THE SOUTH DEFENDED: SLAVERY, by MARY SOPHIE SHAW HOMES Poem Text First Line: The book of books we confidently quote Last Line: Gainst wild fanaticism's fickle laws. Alternate Author Name(s): Mayfield, Millie Subject(s): American Civil War; Bible; Cruelty; Slavery; Southern States; United States - History; Serfs; South (u.s.) PROJECTS AND COMPANIES, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A nation's wealth that overflows Last Line: That close his fourth epistle. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Thames (river); War PROLOGUE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shine forth, ye planets, with distinguished light Last Line: Virtue was taught in verse, and athens' glory rose. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Life; Mythology; Planets; War PROLOGUE, by WALTER SNOW Poem Source First Line: To you, borne far too late Last Line: And so the international brigades were born Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) PROLOGUE TO THE ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Still raged the anger in achilles' heart Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War PROLONGED SONNET: WHEN THE TROOPS WERE RETURNING FROM MILAN, by NICCOLO DEGLI ALBIZZI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you could see, fair brother, how dead beat Last Line: And each as silent as a man being shaved. Subject(s): War PROMETHEUS VINCTUS, by FANNY DOWNING Poem Source First Line: Prometheus on the cold rock bound Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History PROMISES: 2. COURT-MARTIAL, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the cedar tree Subject(s): American Civil War; Lynching; Confederate States Of America; Soldiers; Veterans; Ancestors & Ancestry; Confederacy; Heritage; Heredity PROPHECY, by FRANCIS ALEXANDER DEWSON Poem Text First Line: There is coming, my friend, as surely as water drops Last Line: So will they change the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Dewson, F. A. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Change; Future; God; Love; Peace; War PROPHECY, by ALFRED LICHTENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Soon there'll come - the signs are fair Last Line: Buses, screeching, overturn Subject(s): World War I PROPHECY OF THE DEAD, by AMANDA THEODOSIA JONES Poem Source First Line: Is the groaning earth stabbed to its core? Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History PROSPECT, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: War will not always be Last Line: "but that was long ago." Subject(s): United States - History; War; World War I; First World War PROTEST SONG, by PETER GIZZI Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: This is not a declaration of love or a song of war Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Poetry & Poets; Iraq War (2003-2011); Anti-war Protests PSALM 5, by ERNESTO CARDENAL Poem Source First Line: Give ear to my words, o lord Last Line: As with armor-plated tanks Subject(s): Central America; Peace; Political Campaigns; Social Protest; War PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE THREAT OF NUCLEAR WAR, by JACKSON MACLOW Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Much more than they did the bombing what they ended Last Line: Teaching us how to break through the wall of denial above the heads of %all governments Alternate Author Name(s): Mac Low, Jackson Subject(s): Nuclear War; Psychology PUB, by JULIAN SYMONS Poem Source First Line: The glasses are raised, the voices drift into laughter Last Line: The clocks go faster and faster. And fast as confetti %the days are beginning to fall Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; War PUIGCERDA, by VINCENT SHEEAN Poem Source First Line: Let us find a suitable ditch, for the siren has sounded Last Line: Serene before the choice that death must make Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) PUNISHMENTS, by RAFAEL ALBERTI Poem Source First Line: It is when gulfs and bays of blood Last Line: And death's headlong stoops upon the skeleton of nothingness Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) PURE PRODUCTS OF AMERICA, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the middle of the southeast asian war Last Line: But I wish he'd quit Subject(s): Children; United States; War PUT IT THROUGH, by EDWARD EVERETT HALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, freeman of the land Last Line: Put it through! Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History QUANTRILL'S RAID; LAWRENCE, KANSAS, AUGUST 21, 1863, by JAMES IRVIN MAGORIAN Poem Source First Line: Nothing out of the ordinary Last Line: A cat befuddled by the approaching horsemen Subject(s): American Civil War; Fights; Soldiers; U.s. - History QUARREL, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The albacete knives, magnificent Last Line: Angels with long hair, %and hearts of olive oil Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) QUARTERMASTER, by JOHN GRAHAM BOWER Poem Source First Line: I mustn't look up from the compass-card Subject(s): World War I QUARTERMASTER CORPS, by WILLIAM C. PRYOR Poem Source Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I QUARTET IN F MAJOR, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great beethoven, you trouble me this watchful night Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): War; Music & Musicians; Freedom; Liberty QUEEN STREET WEST, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seeing the people, broke, pitted, awry Subject(s): War - Home Front QUEENSLANDERS, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lean brown lords of the brisbane beaches Last Line: These are the swords of thy soul's desire! Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): World War I - Australia QUESTION, by ALEXANDER MCKEE Poem Source First Line: Perhaps I killed a man to-day Last Line: And still I fired; and wonder why Subject(s): War QUESTIONS OF OUR TIME, by O. H. KWESI BREW Poem Source First Line: When we dream of what has gone before Last Line: And scanning the vast horizons %with out eager and weather-beaten eyes Subject(s): War QUI VIVE?, by GRACE ELLERY CHANNING-STETSON Poem Text First Line: Qui vive? Who passes by up there? Last Line: The flags of france. Subject(s): Flags - France; World War I - France QUIET EYES, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The boys come home, come home from war Last Line: Unharmed, unflawed, unhurt. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Eyes; Innocence; Soldiers; Soul; War; World War I; First World War QUO VADITIS?, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where do ye go Subject(s): World War I R.A.F. (1940), by SYLVIA DRYHURST LYND Poem Text First Line: I heard the squadron flying home Last Line: Call them the squadron flying home. Alternate Author Name(s): Lynd, Mrs. Robert Subject(s): Royal Air Force; World War Ii; Second World War R.O.T.C, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sons of the republic drill Last Line: The new goose-step fraternity! Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Army - United States; Reserve Officers Training Course; Soldiers; War; R.o.t.c. RACE OF VETERANS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Race of veterans - race of victors! Last Line: Race of passion and the storm. Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History RADIANT STONE, by LOUIS J. BOSCO Poem Source First Line: Now it is a city of bricks and seasons Subject(s): Nuclear War RAGNAROK: THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! Heimdal sounds the gjallar-horn Subject(s): World War I RAID, by WILLIAM EVERSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They came out of the sun undetected Last Line: Down at last for the low hover, %and the short quick quench of the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Antoninus, Brother Subject(s): World War Ii RAIDERS, by MARIAN ALLEN Poem Source First Line: In shadowy formation up they rise Last Line: Down the uncharted roadway of the skies Subject(s): Women; World War I RAILROAD STATION, by VICENTE HUIDOBRO Poem Source First Line: The troops get off Last Line: Flutters around my cigar Subject(s): Airships; Aviation And Aviators; Military; Soldiers; Veterans; War; War Injuries RAILWAY STATION, by JOHN MILTON HAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Goodbyes and griefs come here to join the world Subject(s): War RAIN, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rain, midnight rain, nothing but the wild rain Last Line: Cannot, the tempest tells me, disappoint. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Rain; Solitude; World War I; Loneliness; First World War RAIN QUIETUDE, by GARY RICHARD KISSICK Poem Source First Line: In sleep made of sleep and remembrance, a few raindrops Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans RAIN TO THE TRIBE, by TUMADIR BINT IBN AL-SHARID AL-KHANSA Poem Source First Line: O eye, weep for a rider Last Line: Who will rise from the desert? Who will save us %after my mother's son is buried Alternate Author Name(s): Tumardir Bint `amir Al-harith Ibn Ash-sharid; Al-khansa Subject(s): Brothers; Death; War RAINBOW AT NIGHT, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The train moves through the guadarrama Last Line: Day will see your face Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) RAMBLING SOLDIER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I am a soldier, blythe and gay Last Line: It's bill, the rambling soldier Subject(s): War RANDOLPH FIELD, 1938, by ROBERT SAMUEL GWYNN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Framed by the open window, a lone stearman Last Line: Before he sideslips into dreams of fire. Alternate Author Name(s): Gwynn, R. S. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Military; Sickness; World War Ii; Youth; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Illness; Second World War RANG'D ON THE LINE OPPOSED, ANTONIUS BRINGS, FR. AENEID, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): War RANGE IN THE DESERT, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the lizard ran to its little prey Last Line: The lizard's tongue licks angrily %the shattered membranes of the fly Subject(s): World War Ii RANGE-FINDING, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The battle rent a cobweb diamond-strung Last Line: But finding nothing, sullenly withdrew. Subject(s): Decay; Nostalgia; Soldiers; War; Rot; Decadence RANK, by LINCOLN KIRSTEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Differences between rich and poor, king and queen Last Line: Jack and I got see-double drunk Subject(s): World War Ii RANK AND FILE, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O undistinguished dead! Last Line: This is your fame! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Boer War; South African War RANT, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You cannot write a single line w/out a cosmology Last Line: Anything else Subject(s): Imagination; War; Fancy RANT, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You cannot write a single line w/out a cosmology Last Line: The polis is constellated around the sun %the fire is central Subject(s): Imagination; War RAOUL LUFBERY, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: His was the spirit that, in ages gone Last Line: A noble ending—and a deathless name! Subject(s): Death; France; Soldiers; World War I; Dead, The; First World War RAPISTS, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: Lying under me, the disneyland sweatshirt Last Line: His endless herds of bison thundering past him Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) RAPPAHANNOCK ARMY SONG, by JOHN C. MCLEMORE Poem Source First Line: The toil of the march is over Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History RAPTURE, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: I watch on the local news the falcons returning Last Line: His fingers great talons in your breasts Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) RAT HELL; LT. MITCHELL, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: The winter of 1863 and 4 Last Line: And carried back, still moaning in my dreams Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History RATION PARTY, by JOHN STREETER MANIFOLD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Across the mud the line drags on and on Subject(s): War RATTLIN' JOE'S PRAYER, by JOHN WALLACE CRAWFORD Poem Text First Line: Jist pile on some more o' them pine knots Last Line: So I guess I hed best turn in too. Alternate Author Name(s): Jack, Captain Subject(s): Bible; Coffins; Mass; Prayer; War READER OF MYSTERIES, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He reads to pass the time, and it seems to work Subject(s): War READING GIRALDUS CAMBRENSIS, by TERENCE HANBURY WHITE Poem Source First Line: Look at the peace of inanimate things Last Line: The probity of pasture fields, dead trees, %old hills, and patient bones Subject(s): World War Ii READING IN WAR TIME, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boswell by my bed Subject(s): Books; Boswell, James (1740-1795); War; Reading READING IN WAR TIME, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boswell by my bed Subject(s): Books; Boswell, James (1740-1795); War READING MY POEMS FROM WORLD WAR II, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ships in these verses course through a blue meadow Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; World War Ii; Navy - United States; Aviation & Aviators; Sailors & Sailing; Second World War; American Navy; Airplanes; Air Pilots READY, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loaded with gallant soldiers Last Line: Who was fitter to die than he! Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Sailing & Sailors; United States - History; Seamen; Sails READY FOR LOVE, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: I kiss you with the clearness dostoevsky mentioned Last Line: For their young men to return from cuba Subject(s): Gulf War (1991); Love READY FUEL, by JAMIE CAVANAGH Poem Source First Line: I walk the swollen ground Last Line: The goddamned giant engine Subject(s): War READY TO KILL, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ten minutes now I have been looking at this Last Line: Ready to run the red blood and slush the bowels of men all over the sweet new grass of the prairie. Subject(s): Statues; World War I; First World War REAL AND HALF REAL, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a time to find a new world: who was sent forth? Columbus, that is Last Line: What's done in earnest is done is done outside it Subject(s): War; Reality REALITY DEMANDS, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reality demands / that we also mention this Subject(s): Earth; War; World REALITY DEMANDS, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reality demands %that we also mention this Last Line: And we can't help %laughing at that Subject(s): Earth; War REALIZATION, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is one syllable that stirs me: war Last Line: God, let me apprehend this nearer strife! Subject(s): Death; England; France; War; World War I; Dead, The; English; First World War REAPERS, by FREDERIC PROKOSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: O still, still, still Last Line: The stony silence of the sons, and the wailing of the daughters Subject(s): World War Ii REAPERS, by LAUCHLAN MACLEAN WATT Poem Source First Line: Red are the hands of the reapers Subject(s): World War I REASONS FOR REFUSAL, by MARTIN BELL Poem Source First Line: Busy old lady, charitable tray Last Line: His name should burn right through that monument %no poppy, thank you Subject(s): War REBEL COLOR-BEARERS AT SHILOH, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The color-bearers facing death Last Line: And think how grant met lee. Subject(s): American Civil War; Shiloh, Battle Of (1862); United States - History REBEL SOLDIER KILLED IN THE TRENCHES BEFORE PETERSBURG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Killed in the trenches! How cold and bare Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History RECALLING WAR, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Entrance and exit wounds are silvered clean Subject(s): World War I; First World War RECALLING WAR, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Entrance and exit wounds are silvered clean Last Line: When learnedly the future we devote %to yet more boastful visions of despair Subject(s): World War I RECAPITULATIONS, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born downtown on a wintry day Subject(s): Birth; Family Life; Jews; World War Ii; Coming Of Age; Youth; Blacks; Divorce; Christianity; Conduct Of Life; Child Birth; Midwifery; Relatives; Judaism; Second World War RECESSIONAL, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even as I see, and share with you seeing Last Line: Look you, I will go pray! Subject(s): War RECOGNITION, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old friend, I know you line by line Last Line: But first we'll make this day, this godlike day our friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War RECOMPENSE, by AGNES ASTON HILL Poem Source First Line: Where lovely avon winds her rippling train Last Line: You shared the glory of her greatest hour %before your eyes were shuttered in long sleep Subject(s): World War Ii RECONCILIATION, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day beside the shattered tank he'd lain Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War RECONCILIATION, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day beside the shattered tank he'd lain Last Line: Appear the argent, swan-assembled reaches Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): World War Ii RECONCILIATION, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you are standing at your hero's grave Last Line: The mothers of the men who killed your son. Subject(s): Mothers; World War I; First World War RECONCILIATION, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Word over all, beautiful as the sky Last Line: Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History RECOVERY, by EMILIE ROSE MACAULAY Poem Text First Line: When this so bitter tide Last Line: We shall cry and laugh, as sailors and children do. Alternate Author Name(s): Macaulay, Rose Subject(s): Navy - United States; Peace; War; American Navy RECRUIT FROM THE SLUMS, by EMILY ORR Poem Source First Line: What has your country done for you Last Line: And when all is said, she's our mother old %and we creep to her breast at the end Subject(s): Women; World War I RECRUITING DRIVE, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the willow the willow Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles Subject(s): Military Service, Compulsory; Social Protest; War; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service RECRUITING DRIVE, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Under the willow the willow Last Line: And caught in the snare of the bleeding air %the butcher-bird sings, sings, sings Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles Subject(s): Military Service, Compulsory; Social Protest; War RECURRENT DESIGN, by YUSUF O. KASSAM Poem Source First Line: The sun set, night came, and everything was dark Last Line: Never woke again Subject(s): Nuclear War RED APPLES, by KARL E. MUNDT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He tries to sell red apples in the street Last Line: Cannot remember belleau wood. Subject(s): Apples; Belleau Wood, France; Fruit; Social Problems; Soldiers; Unemployment; War RED COFFINS, by JOHN CURTIS UNDERWOOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After the revolution in petrograd Last Line: But no man there could tell the truth of it Subject(s): World War I RED CROSS NURSES, by GERVASE STEWART Poem Source First Line: Theirs is a white and a green life, a smooth Subject(s): Hospitals; War RED FLAG, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY Poem Text First Line: This is no time for tears, no place for mournful poses Last Line: Our children shall win to freedom; theirs shall pay the score. Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Injustice; War; Dead, The; Liberty RED METAL CHAIR, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: We like it like this sometimes Last Line: Hate your husband Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) RED POPPIES IN THE CORN, by W. CAMPBELL GALBRAITH Poem Text First Line: I've seen them in the morning light Last Line: Red poppies in the corn. Subject(s): Poppies; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War RED RIGHT RETURNING, by LOUIS O. COXE Poem Source First Line: This red nun on my left had leans away Last Line: Known channels with a red nun on my right Subject(s): War RED-ROBED FRANCE, by CHARLES BUXTON GOING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Huns stripped off my own green gown Subject(s): World War I REDEDICATION, by EMANUEL LITVINOFF Poem Source First Line: We saw truth shining through the sabby compromise Subject(s): War REDEPLOYMENT, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say the war is over. But water still Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War REDEPLOYMENT, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say the war is over. But water still Last Line: I heard the dust falling between the walls Subject(s): World War Ii REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM BLUES, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the soldier he wants to be somewhere he once was Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Sailors & Sailing; Soldiers; War; Dreams; Nightmares REFLECTION BY A MAILBOX, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I stand in the center of that man's madness Subject(s): War REFLECTION FROM ROCHESTER, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From fear to fear, successively betrayed Last Line: For hunger or for love they bite and tear Subject(s): War; Wilmot, John (1647-1680) REFLECTIONS IN AN IRONWORKS, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would you resembled the metal you work with Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; War; Work; Workers REFLECTIONS IN AN IRONWORKS, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would you resembled the metal you work with Last Line: You fools who equip your otherwise helpless foes! Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; War REFLECTIONS IN BED, by JULIAN SYMONS Poem Source First Line: That time of revolution being come Last Line: A voice as warm and tender as a wound %unripe for revolution or for death Subject(s): War REFUGEE, by EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In england, on the downs Last Line: And over down and plain %all nature seemed to sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Dunsany, Lord; Dunsany, 18th Baron Subject(s): England; Refugees; World War Ii REFUGEE BLUES, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say this city has ten million souls Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): Ten Songs: 1 Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Refugees; Soldiers; World War Ii; Shoah; Judaism; Second World War REFUGEE BLUES, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say this city has ten million souls Last Line: Looking for you and me, my dear, looking for you and me Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): Ten Songs: Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Refugees; Soldiers; World War Ii REFUGEE IN NEW ENGLAND, by FRANCES MARY FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Across the snow the water-color blue Last Line: The young boy wept, his cheek against the cold ground Subject(s): World War Ii REFUGEES, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With prune-dark eyes, thick lips, jostling each other Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Refugees; War REFUGEES, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A crack ran through our hearthstone long ago Last Line: We must shape here a new philosophy Subject(s): Refugees; World War Ii REFUGEES, by WILLIAM G. SHAKESPEARE Poem Source First Line: Past the marching men, where the great road runs Alternate Author Name(s): S., W. G. Subject(s): World War I REFUSAL TO MOURN THE DEATH, BY FIRE, OF A CHILD IN LONDON, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never until the mankind making Last Line: After the first death, there is no other Subject(s): Air Warfare; Death - Children; Fire; Innocence; Mourning; World War Ii REFUSING, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Refusing the invitation Subject(s): Politics & Government; War REFUSING, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Refusing the invitation Last Line: For fear of war's imminence Subject(s): Politics; War 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 REGENSBURG, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: Bell and his crew blew up on the bomb-run. Black magic Last Line: Skeins of soot sifting down, season by season, from 21,000 feet Subject(s): War REID AT FAYAL, by JOHN WILLIAMSON PALMER Poem Text First Line: A cliff-locked port and a bluff sea wall Last Line: In tale and song. Subject(s): Azores; General Armstrong (ship); Mountains; Reid, Samuel Chester (1783-1861); War Of 1812; Hills; Downs (great Britain) REINCARNATION, by EDWARD WYNDHAM TENNANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I too remember distant golden days Last Line: Until perfection reach eternity. Subject(s): Immortality; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War REINFORCEMENTS, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The vestibule to experience is not to Last Line: The future of time is determined by the power of volition. Subject(s): World War I - United States REISE IN DIE VERGANGENHEIT, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Eyes agog in a gas mask, wrapped in burlap sacks Last Line: Of mortar, to find a flower still in bloom Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities REJECTED ODYSSEY, by JOHN PERRIN Poem Source First Line: Can you not now remember Last Line: Or the fountains of morning for you ecstasy? Subject(s): World War Ii REJOICE IN THE ABYSS (1), by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the foundations quaked and the pillars shook Last Line: Of every man prays that he may be spared %calamity that strikes each neighbouring face Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; World War Ii REJOICE IN THE ABYSS (2), by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The great pulsation passed. Glass lay around me Last Line: Of every house will be that it is spared %calamity that strikes its neighbour Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; World War Ii RELEASE, by WILLIAM NOEL HODGSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A leaping wind from england Last Line: We know that we have seen men broken, %we know man is divine Alternate Author Name(s): Melbourne, Edward Variant Title(s): Back To Res Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I RELEASE, by COLWYN PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: There is a healing magic in the night Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I RELIEVED (GUILLEMONT), by FREDERIC MANNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are weary and silent Last Line: Where light drowns. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War RELIEVING GUARD, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Came the relief. 'what, sentry, ho!' Last Line: "somewhere had just relieved a picket." Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History REMARKS ABOUT KINGS, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God said, 'I am tired of kings' Last Line: Smiled in the dark. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; God; Government; Mankind; Social Protest; War; Human Race 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 REMEMBER THEY SAY THE DEAD / WHO WILL RISE AGAIN, by LENRIE PETERS Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: For the future has a stronger memory %than the past Subject(s): War REMEMBER YOUR LOVERS, by SIDNEY KEYES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Young men walking the open streets Subject(s): War REMEMBERING, by NGUYEN DINH THI Poem Source First Line: Who does the star remember when it shines Last Line: We love each other, and we are proud to be human Subject(s): Indochinese War, 1946-1954 REMEMBERING THE WAY, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you get to where you're going after dark Last Line: To a new place and got them after dark Subject(s): War REMEMBRANCE DAY, by JOHN F. DEANE Poem Source First Line: Behind the statue of st. Teresa of the flowers Last Line: Were apple orchards blossoming Variant Title(s): Fal Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944); Memory; Soldiers; War REMEMBRANCE DAY IN THE DALES, by DOROTHY UNA RATCLIFFE Poem Source First Line: It's a fine kind thought! And yet - I know Last Line: But the years are long since the lads went west Subject(s): Women; World War I REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY: COOMBE CHURCH, 1940, by ALFRED LESLIE ROWSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Here we are on this afternoon of mid-november Last Line: As they pass slowly down the church %out of my dream, and day is done Subject(s): World War Ii REMORSE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lost in the swamp and welter of the pit Last Line: Of dying heroes and their deathless deeds.' Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War RENDEZVOUS, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I have a rendezvous with death Last Line: I shall not fail that rendezvous. Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Patriotism; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; First World War REPARATION OR WAR; WRITTEN DURING THE EMBARGO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "rejoice, rejoice, brave patriots,rejoice!" Last Line: Then none but slaves shall bend to tyranny Subject(s): War Of 1812 REPETITIONS OF A YOUNG CAPTAIN, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A tempest cracked on the theatre. Quickly Last Line: Walked toward him on the stage and they embraced Subject(s): War REPETITIONS OF A YOUNG CAPTAIN, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A tempest cracked on the theatre. Quickly Last Line: The precisions of fate, nothing fobbed off, nor changed %in a beau language without a drop of blood Subject(s): War REPLANTING THE PEACH ORCHARD, by RONALD E. MCFARLAND Poem Source First Line: The way blood flowed and flesh Last Line: Larry's pockets bulged with lead Subject(s): American Civil War; Civil War; Death; Fights; Military; U.s. - History; Violence; War - Casualties (statistics, Etc.) REPLY TO S.K., by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, barcelona in three thousand miles Last Line: Crossed wide with danger where the armed men run Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) REPLY TO S.K., by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, barcelona in three thousand miles Last Line: Crossed wide with danger where the armed men run Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) REPORT FOR ISOLDA, by JULIO ORTEGA Poem Source First Line: Last night, december 24th, 1966 Last Line: Like a new god on this earth Subject(s): Art And Artists; Christmas; Death; History; Paintings And Painters; War REPORT ON EXPERIENCE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been young, and now am not too old Last Line: Over there are faith, life, virtue in the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): God; Love; War REPORT TO THE VALLEY CAMP, by JENNY KING Poem Source First Line: We went to reconnoitre Last Line: I saw no strongholds - but the view! The view! Subject(s): War REPORTED MISSING, by JOHN CLIFFORD BAYLISS Poem Source First Line: With broken wing they limped across the sky Last Line: So two men waited, saw the third dead face %and wondered when the wind would let them die Subject(s): World War Ii REPORTED MISSING, by ANNA GORDON KEOWN Poem Source First Line: My thought shall never be that you are dead Last Line: Of these familiar things I have no dread %being so very sure you are not dead Subject(s): Women; World War I REPORTED MISSING', by AUDREY ALEXANDRA BROWN Poem Source First Line: When thesde the steely flocks of death returning Last Line: And death itself has made him free of death Subject(s): World War Ii REPORTS: 1. ACOUSTIC SHADOWS, by BRUCE BOND Poem Source First Line: As lee pushed north and the dead flew Last Line: Pinned them to their bodies Subject(s): Battleships; Soldiers; War REPORTS: 4. POSTCARD FROM COLD HARBOR, by BRUCE BOND Poem Source First Line: So kind of you to write, to send this autumn Last Line: The quiet surrounding these words like parks Subject(s): Battleships; War; Writing And Writers REPRESSION, by TIMOTHY CORSELLIS Poem Source First Line: Laughed at the old deliberate ways Subject(s): War REPRESSION OF WAR EXPERIENCE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now light the candles; one; two; there's a moth Last Line: I'm going stark, staring mad because of the guns. Subject(s): Science; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Scientists; First World War REPRISAL, by HERBERT CORBY Poem Source First Line: They worked all night with cardboard and with wood Last Line: And by each plane they dropped a wooden bomb Subject(s): War REPRISALS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some nineteen german planes, they say Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): World War I; First World War REPRISALS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some nineteen german planes, they say Last Line: Then close your ears with dust and lie %among the other cheated dead Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): World War I REPUBLIC TO REPUBLIC, 1776-1917, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: France! / it is I answering Last Line: O liberty, my love! Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): France; World War I; First World War REQUIEM, by DOROTHY COLLINS Poem Text First Line: Sleep, sleep, dear heart! Your orders all are taken Last Line: Your tasks are ended; mine are still undone. Subject(s): Death; War; Wellesley College; Dead, The REQUIEM (FOR GRANVILLE CRAIG), by NICHOLAS MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Calamity has befallen our house. One who is dear is dead Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii REQUIEM FOR A DEAD WARRIOR, by EDGAR MCINNIS Poem Text First Line: Sleep on, brave heart, thy broken sword beside thee! Last Line: O valiant heart, sleep on! Subject(s): War REQUIEM FOR ONE SLAIN IN BATTLE, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Breathe, trumpets, breathe Last Line: His life he gave! Subject(s): Patriotism; War REQUIEM FOR THE CROPPIES, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pockets of our greatcoats full of barley Subject(s): Guerrillas; War REQUIEM FOR THE CROPPIES, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pockets of our greatcoats full of barley Last Line: And in august the barley grew up out of the grave Subject(s): Guerrillas; War REQUIEM FOR THE SPANISH DEAD [OR, THE DEAD IN SPAIN], by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The great geometrical winter constellations Subject(s): Death; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Dead, The REQUIEM FOR THE SPANISH DEAD [OR, THE DEAD IN SPAIN], by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The great geometrical winter constellations Last Line: The great nebula glimmering in his loins Subject(s): Death; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) REQUIESCANT, by FREDERICK GEORGE SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In lonely watches night by night Last Line: O house them in the home of god! Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. G. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers' Writings; World War I - Casualties; Dead, The RESISTANCE, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Snuff out the collaborators, sense by sense Last Line: Summer wind sang through the corpse-forest Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 REST YOUR HEAD, by JOHN ATKINS Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii RESURRECTION, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not long did we lie on the torn, red field of pain Last Line: Wondering what god would look like when he came. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Military; Rebirth; Soldiers; World War I - Casualties; Dead, The RETINUE, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Archduke francis ferdinand, austrian heir-apparent Last Line: Of all the lords of shadow land most royally attended! Subject(s): World War I RETREAT, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Broken, bewildered by the long retreat Last Line: "all-heal and willowherb and meadowsweet." Subject(s): World War I; First World War RETREAT, by VIRGINIA GRAHAM Poem Source First Line: When there is peace again, soldier, what will you do? Last Line: So who in the wide world's going forward is what %I'd like to know Subject(s): World War Ii RETREAT, by ALAN ROOK Poem Source First Line: Faint now behind the secret eyes of these Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii RETREAT TO THE FUTURE, by MARGARET FERGUSON GIBSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As the republic's last cortes disbanded Last Line: I can follow that Alternate Author Name(s): Gibson, Margaret Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) RETRIBUTION, by IDA B. LUCKIE Poem Source First Line: Alas, my country! Thou wilt have no need Last Line: And all that makes humanity to mourn Subject(s): World War I RETROGRESSION, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We gave a solemn pledge, and called on heaven Last Line: And 'gainst her turn her own ensanguined steel! Subject(s): Spanish-american War (1898) RETROSPECT OF SONG, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've sung of spring, her buds and flowers Last Line: Of civil war! O lord, how long? Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Peace; Scotland; Social Protest; War RETROSPECT: THE JESTS OF THE CLOCK, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He had met hours of the clock he never guessed before Last Line: Ready once more to sweat with fear and brace for the shock, %to greet beneath a falling flare the je Subject(s): World War I RETURN, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: He parked the toyota at the curb Last Line: And passed through the portal Subject(s): War RETURN, by JR. THEODORE HOWARD BANKS Poem Source First Line: When I return, let us be very still Subject(s): World War I RETURN, by JOHN PEALE BISHOP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night and we heard heavy and cadenced hoofbeats Last Line: The sea unfurled and what was blue raced silver Subject(s): War RETURN, by DANA BURNET Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Home across the clover Last Line: Ah!' said the emperor, and smiled: %'more toys!' Subject(s): World War I RETURN, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the searchlights beckon from the night Last Line: Reel after reel of how a city burned Subject(s): World War Ii; Saipan (island); Second World War RETURN, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the searchlights beckon from the night Last Line: Reel after reel of how a city burned Subject(s): World War Ii RETURN OF OUR SOLDIER BOYS--1899, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They are coming home, they're coming Last Line: In their uniforms of blue. Subject(s): Homecoming; Soldiers; War RETURN OF THE GREEKS, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The veteran greeks came home Last Line: Hesitant, sure and slow: %she, alone in her tower Subject(s): Greece; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Penelope (mythology); Poetry And Poets; Trojan War RETURN OF THE NATIVE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About the ramparts, quiet as a mother Last Line: Incapable to stir a weed or moth. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War RETURN OF THE VILLAGE LAD, by ALFRED LICHTENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: When I was young the world was a little pond Last Line: Far off the fabulous iron serpent whistled Subject(s): World War I RETURN TO SEDGEMOOR, by PATRICIA BEER Poem Source First Line: Battle of sedgemoor. Come and bring your friends Last Line: Kings' men and rebels all hastened away %as if some moon came up to light them home Subject(s): War RETURN TO TUYEN, by NGO XUAN DIEU Poem Source First Line: Tonight I will come to stay at tuyen quang Last Line: And which is the infinite part of me? Subject(s): Indochinese War, 1946-1954 RETURNED BATTLE FLAGS, by MOSES OWEN Poem Source First Line: Nothing but flags, but simple flags Subject(s): American Civil War; Flags - United States; U.s. - History RETURNED FROM THE WAR, by HENRY ABBEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shrouded by his country's flag Last Line: He was all the world to her. Subject(s): American Civil War; Grief; Marriage; United States - History; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives RETURNED FROM THE WARS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My pa's a great rough rider Last Line: It never will be filled Subject(s): Spanish-american War (1898) RETURNED TO FRISCO, 1946, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We shouldered like pigs along the rail to try Last Line: The golden gate, fading away astern %stood like the closed gate of your own backyard Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Subject(s): World War Ii RETURNING, WE HEAR THE LARKS, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sombre the night is Last Line: Or her kisses where a serpent hides. Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Skylarks; First World War REUNION IN WAR, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The windmill in his smock of white Last Line: In dead men's envied bones. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War REVEILLE, by RONALD LEWIS CARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the place to which I go Last Line: Will god tell us who has won? Subject(s): World War I - Casualties REVEILLE, by EDEN PHILLPOTTS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ended the watches of the night; oh, hear the bugles blow Last Line: And their bugles blow reveillé at the golden gates of morn. Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War REVELATION 6: 1-8. THE FOUR HORSEMEN, by NEW TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: And I saw when the lamb opened one of the seals Last Line: And with death %and with the beasts of the earth Variant Title(s): Revelation: Subject(s): Time; War REVELATIONS; CIRCA 1948, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I made no sound, at all, like the wintering Last Line: I watched. And made no sound... Subject(s): Aliens; Jerusalem; Silence; World War Ii; Extraterrestrials; Second World War REVENGE FOR RHEIMS, by STEPHEN PHILLIPS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou permanence amid all things that pass! Subject(s): World War I REVERIE, by WILLIAM NOEL HODGSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At home they see on skiddaw Alternate Author Name(s): Melbourne, Edward Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I REVIEWING THE SCENE, by GARY TACHIYAMA Poem Source First Line: Eleanor, don't do it' Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans REVISION (FOR NOVEMBER 11TH), by EILEEN NEWTON Poem Source First Line: In those two silent moments, when we stand Last Line: Because your soul, long-risen from the dead, %is crowned by love's immortal constancy Subject(s): Women; World War I REVOLT OF ISLAM; A POEM IN 12 CANTOS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So now my summer-task is ended, mary Last Line: The charmed boat approached, and there its haven found Subject(s): War RHEIMS, by MARGARET STEELE ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was a people's church - stout, plain folk Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I RHEIMS, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O fortress of the spirit, and thyself Last Line: And, grieving, mingle pity with their blame. Subject(s): Rheims, France; World War I; First World War RHEIMS CATHEDRAL, by FLORENCE MCLANDBURGH Poem Source First Line: Long centuries ago a holy man Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Mclandburgh Subject(s): World War I 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 RHINE SONG OF THE GERMAN SOLDIERS AFTER VICTORY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the rhine! Our mountain vineyards Last Line: Lift up thy voice, o rhine! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Franco-prussian War (1870-1871); Rhine (river), Europe; Victory RHODE ISLAND TO THE SOUTH, by FREDERICK W. LANDER Poem Source First Line: Once, on new england's bloody heights Subject(s): War RHYME OF FRIENDS, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Listen now this time %shortly to my rhyme %that herewith starts Last Line: Of paper to throw %in their mimic show %'la guerre aux tranchees %that was a pretty play Subject(s): World War I RHYMES OF A RED CROSS MAN: FOREWORD, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've tinkered at my bits of rhymes Last Line: So take or leave them as you will. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Brothers; Death; War; World War I; Half-brothers; Dead, The; First World War RHYMES OF A RED CROSS MAN: L'ENVOI, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My job is done; my rhymes are ranked and ready Last Line: Love triumphs, freedom beacons, all is well. Subject(s): War; World War I; First World War RICE, OR SONG OF ORIENTALAMENTATIONS, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now. %I %see %you %completely Last Line: Fail %me, %thing Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 RICH HOUR, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: Starlings, those blue-black and shaggy birds whose feathers seem Last Line: On air, the blue door closing above me Subject(s): Death; Gulf War (1991) RICHARD II FORTY, by LOUIS ARAGON Poem Source First Line: My country now is like a barge Last Line: The light was pallis on the leaf %still am I king of all my grief Subject(s): France; Grief; Richard Ii, King Of England (1367-1400); World War Ii RICHMOND PARK, by ROWLAND THIRLMERE Poem Text First Line: The thorns were blooming red and white Last Line: And a yaffle laughed in richmond park. Subject(s): Richmond Park, England; World War I - Great Britain RIDDLE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Injured by iron -- I am a loner Last Line: By death-blows dealt -- day and night Subject(s): Riddles; Shields; War RIDDLES, R.F.C., by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was a boy of april beauty; one Last Line: Attempt to save a comrade. He was twenty years of age. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Ridley, Lt. Stewart G. (1896-1916); Sacrifices; World War I - Casualties; Airplanes; Air Pilots RIDE IN FRANCE, by UNKNOWN+93 Poem Source First Line: Trotting the roan horse Subject(s): World War I RIDE UP THE HILL A LITTLE, AND THEN TURN, by RICHARD THOMAS CHURCH Poem Source Last Line: Then look again, and tell me what you see Alternate Author Name(s): Eccles Subject(s): World War Ii RIDER VICTORY, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rider victory reins his horse Last Line: Uprear their motionless statuary. Subject(s): Horseback Riding; War RIDERS, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is a rumbling in the graves Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I RIDGE: 1919, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here on the ridge where the shrill north-easter trails Last Line: Till scourged and shriven I again may go %to dwell among my kind Subject(s): War RIDING THE NORTH POINT FERRY, by WING TEK LUM Poem Source First Line: Wrinkles: like Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans RIDING WITH KILPATRICK, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn peered through the pines as we dashed Last Line: Those who rode with kilpatrick can never forget! Subject(s): American Civil War; Cavalry; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Kilpatrick, Hugh Judson (1836-1881); U.s. - History; Gettysburg, Battle Of RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE ARMY, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where 'ave you been this week or more Last Line: Right in the front of the army! Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Army Life; War; Drills & Minor Tactics RINGING OUT, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jubilate! Peace has conquered! Last Line: Glory to the lord of hosts! Subject(s): Blood; Peace; War RIO BRAVO - A MEXICAN LAMENT, by DON JOSE DE SALTILLO Poem Text First Line: Rio bravo! Rio bravo! Last Line: Ye are names blent evermore. Subject(s): U.s. - Mexican War (1846-1848) RIPARTO D'ASSALTO, by ERNEST HEMINGWAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drummed their boots on the camion floor Last Line: As asalone, where the truck-load died Subject(s): War RIPENESS IS ALL, by PETER VIERECK Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Through nights of slanting rain Last Line: Pain's gaudy petals fly %white with red borders Subject(s): World War Ii RIPRENDE LA VITA, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: For all the world, this is a man indifferent to all I do Last Line: And help stray silent black sheep from the fold Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities RISE UP! RISE UP, CRUSADERS!, by EDWARD SIMS VAN ZILE Poem Source First Line: Never in all the scarlet past Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I RITUAL FOR SINGING BAT, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Must we believe that what ascends aspires? Last Line: Into a misty forest of a cloud Subject(s): Soldiers; Native Americans; World War Ii; Death RIVER STORIES, by DOROTHY COFFIN SUSSMAN Poem Source First Line: Weepy drunk, christmas eve, 1988, my father in his steamy kitchen Last Line: Hear the neckbones crack, the sound %scattering across the snow. I hear it all Subject(s): World War Ii RIVERS AND MOUNTAINS, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: On the secret map the assassins Subject(s): Separation; War; Cities; Urban Life RIVERS OF FRANCE, by H. J. M. Poem Source Subject(s): World War I RIVERSIDE GHAZAL, by PATRICIA CLARK Poem Source First Line: Most watery of all the trees, these willows Last Line: By the rivers of america, we wept these willows Subject(s): Politics; War ROAD TO BENEVENTO, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: The road to benevento seems to flow Last Line: Of ages more dark and cold, and longer night Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii ROAD TO SKYE, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Is paved with sheep shit, among other things Last Line: Who want and want and want, drive to no end Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953; Roads ROAD TO TARTARY, by BERNARD FREEMAN TROTTER Poem Source First Line: O arab! Much I fear thou at mecca's shrine wilt Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I ROBBED (LEAGUE OF NATIONS REPUDIATED BY U.S. SENATE), by ETHELEAN TYSON GAW Poem Text First Line: I rode at dawn a chevalier of god Last Line: But—so much cannon fodder left to rot. Subject(s): League Of Nations; United States - Congress - Senate; War ROBEMAKER, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You begin. In your arms, unreeling bolts Last Line: Here your hand has long since moved away Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 ROBERT BRUCE'S ADDRESS TO HIS ARMY BEFORE BANNOCKBURN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scots wha hae wi' wallace bled Last Line: Let us do, or die! Variant Title(s): Bannockburn;the Battle Of Bannockburn;bruce To His Men At Bannockburn;bruce's Address To His Army At Bannockburn;national Air: Scotland;scots Wha Hae;robert Bruce's March To Bannockburn Subject(s): Bannockburn, Battle Of (1314); Freedom; National Song - Scotland; Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Scotland; Wallace, Sir William (1270-1305); War; Liberty; Scottish National Anthem; Bruce, Robert; The Bruce ROBERT CLAYTON WESTMAN OF MASSACHUSETTS; DIED IN FRANCE, AUGUST 1919, by WILLARD WATTLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will make his name silver Last Line: Who have achieved indifference. Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War ROBERT E. LEE, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A gallant foeman in the fight Last Line: We honor thee, virginia's son. Subject(s): American Civil War; Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870); United States - History RODRIC, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lie down and rest, the fight is done Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Death; War; Dead, The ROMANCE, by NEIL MUNRO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old orchard crofts of picardy Last Line: "when we three march again!" Subject(s): World War I; First World War ROMANCE, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The troopers are riding, are riding by Subject(s): War ROMANCE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What wildly-beauteous form Last Line: Although by all unheard the melodies expire. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Knowledge; Love; Pain; Travel; War; Inspiration; Creativity; Suffering; Misery; Journeys; Trips ROMANCE TO NIGHT, by GEORG TRAKL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Under a tent of stars a lonely man Last Line: The one sleeping continues to whisper Subject(s): World War I ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: WHITHER NOW?, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whither now? My stupid foot Last Line: Have myself been wandering greatly. Subject(s): Exiles; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; War; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes ROMANCING POET, by HELEN HAMILTON Poem Source First Line: Granted that you write verse, %much better verse than I Last Line: We are not glory-snatchers! Subject(s): Women; World War I ROMMEL'S ASPARAGUS, by THOMAS LUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The glidermen died, their gliders riven and ripped Last Line: So he could turn his full face to the sea Subject(s): Death; Flight; War RONDEAU, by EDMOND ADAM Poem Source First Line: He who can tell better than I Last Line: He who can tell Subject(s): World War I ROOM UNDER BOMBARDMENT, by PHYLLIS SHAND ALLFREY Poem Source First Line: Quickly, before the walls split, while they stand Last Line: Of shape and feeling for the broken dark Subject(s): World War Ii ROOMS, by LUCIEN STRYK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The casket under the rose Last Line: Thorns became a poem heavy with %may-pops, fruit of the passion flower Subject(s): World War Ii ROOT, ABE, OR DIE (DERIVED FROM THE SONG ROOT HOG OR DIE), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The dutch came to missouri, as well you all do know Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History ROSES IN THE GARDEN, by ERNST STADLER Poem Source First Line: The roses in the garden are blossoming again... Last Line: That the passing summer carries on into the uncertain %ligh t of the fall Subject(s): World War I ROSTOV, by GEORGE SUTHERLAND FRASER Poem Source First Line: That year they fought in the snow Last Line: And stands staring with a terribly patient look %and says, 'why do you strike me, brother? I am man' Subject(s): Russia; World War Ii ROUEN, PLACE DE LA PUCELLE, by MARIA WHITE LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here blooms the legend, fed by time and chance Last Line: For each repentant soul. Variant Title(s): Rouen Subject(s): France; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Legends; War ROUEN; 26 APRIL - 25 MAY 1915, by MAY WEDDERBURN CANNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Early morning over rouen, hopeful, high, courageous morning Last Line: And the trains that go from rouen at the end of the day. Subject(s): Nurses; Rouen, France; Women; World War I; First World War ROUGE BOUQUET [MARCH 7, 1918], by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a wood they call the rouge bouquet Last Line: "farewell!" Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): France; Patriotism; World War I; First World War ROUMANIA, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another land has crashed into the deep Last Line: Rise, rise, roumania! Yet thy soul is whole! Subject(s): Romania; World War I; Rumania; Roumania; First World War ROUTE, by GEORGE OPPEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell the beads of the chromosomes like a rosary Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War ROUTE, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell the beads of the chromosomes like a rosary Last Line: That we confront Subject(s): World War Ii ROUTE MARCH, by CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the hills and vales along Last Line: So be merry, so be dead. Variant Title(s): Of War And Death Subject(s): World War I; First World War ROVING REBEL, by D. F. LEMARR Poem Source First Line: I left my home in virginia Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History ROYAL VISIT, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There will be fountains shaking aloft their plumes Subject(s): War RUFOUS: TOMALES, 1986, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: A rufous %mad about the fuschias Last Line: With blossoms of nuclear fire Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Nuclear War RUGBY FOOTBALL, by ERIC F. WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: You came by last night's mail Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I RUIN IN CATHAY: 2. 1938, by J. F. HARRIS Poem Text First Line: War lifts its iron head above the wall Last Line: Winged death glides low over china's plains. Subject(s): China; World War Ii; Second World War RUINS (YPRES, 1917), by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Ruins of trees whose woeful arms Last Line: Clay crumbling slow to clay again. Subject(s): World War I; Ypres, Belgium; First World War RUINS OF ITALICA, by RODRIGO CARO Poem Source First Line: Fabius, this region desolate and drear Last Line: Italica' from ruined tower and wall Subject(s): Italica, Spain; Memory; Ruins; War RUNDFUNK; I.M. HELMUT HEISSENBUTEL 1921-1996, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Follow blue fern to this eve's hostelry Last Line: Night's rollers turn with tender uneasy weight Subject(s): War RUNDOWN CHURCH, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I had a son and his name was john Last Line: His son! His son! His son! Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Men; World War I RUNNER, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the condemned man ate a hearty meal' Last Line: For the other to see him off. And set off %in what seemed to be the right direction Subject(s): Bulge, Battle Of The; World War Ii RUNNER MCGEE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You've heard a good deal of the telephone Last Line: Four of us died comin' out with the news. It %will help them to know that you know Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): World War I RUNNING THE BATTERIES, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A moonless night - a friendly one Last Line: So porter proves himself a brave man's son. Subject(s): American Civil War; Navy - United States; Patriotism; United States - History; Vicksburg Campaign (1862-63); American Navy RUNNING THE BLOCKADE, by WILL WALLACE HARNEY Poem Source First Line: Hove in the stays, she lay Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History RUPERT BROOKE, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your face was lifted to the golden sky Last Line: Tarry by that old garden of your delight. Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); Poetry & Poets; Soldiers' Writings; World War I - Casualties RUPERT BROOKE (IN MEMORIAM), by MORAY DALTON Poem Text First Line: I never knew you save as all men know Last Line: And god has laid his finger on your lips. Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); Poetry & Poets; Soldiers' Writings; World War I - Casualties RURAL ECONOMY (1917), by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was winter in those woods Last Line: Shot up a roaring harvest-home. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War RURAL ELECTRIC, by THEODORE H. GENOWAYS Poem Source First Line: The workcrew worked closer, standing poles into postholes Last Line: Waiting for the second the blast and flash would fill the %room Subject(s): Politics; War RURAL IDYLL, by MARGARET TOMS Poem Source First Line: A mild man, god-fearing Last Line: Sedate and polished &in pews on sundays Subject(s): War RUSIA EN 1931, by ROBERT HASS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The archbishop of san salvador is dead, murdered by no one knows Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) RUSIA EN 1931, by ROBERT HASS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The archbishop of san salvador is dead, murdered by no one knows Last Line: And vallejo: 'think of the unemployed. Think of the forty million %families of the hungry...' Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) RUSSIA, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What sudden voice peals to the caucasus Subject(s): World War - Russia RUSSIA - AMERICA, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wind in the world! The dark departs Last Line: With brightened wings, and smiles and beckons home! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): World War I - Russia; World War I - United States RUSSIA 1812, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The snow fell, and its power was multiplied Last Line: Before his butchered legions in the snow Subject(s): War RYE UNHARVESTED, by YULIA DRUNINA Poem Source First Line: The rye, unharvested, sways Last Line: To war go the girls these days %just as the lads go Subject(s): Women; World War Ii SACRAMENT, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Before the altar of the world in flower Last Line: This flesh (our flesh) crumbled away like bread, %this blood(our blood) poured out like wine, like w Subject(s): Women; World War I SACRIFICE, by ANNICE PARKER Poem Text First Line: A vicious thirsting beast is loose again Last Line: Of bleeding nations hung upon the cross. Subject(s): War SAD HISTORY OF FOUR MAIDS AND OUR VILLAGE MILL, by GASTON DE RUYTER Poem Source First Line: Tumbled mill, beloved mill Last Line: To the mill, their catacomb Subject(s): World War I SADDAM, by GREGG G. BROWN Poem Source First Line: The petty strut of a peacock without a tail Last Line: Surrender to god, whose white hand works through my %hand Subject(s): Gulf War (1991); Hussein, Saddam (b. 1937) SADDER THAN WAR, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A soldier, though way-worn and weary Last Line: While his own remained ragged and torn. Subject(s): Soldiers; War SADNESS, GLASS, THEORY, by ROY FULLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watch the curious hastened trait of twilight Subject(s): War SAID ATTILA THE HUN TO-, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was not here - it was not there Subject(s): Attila, King Of The Huns (434-453); World War I SAILOR, WHAT OF THE DEBT WE OWE YOU?, by ANDREW JOHN STUART Poem Source Subject(s): World War I SAILOR-MAN, by MARK ANTHONY DE WOLFE HOWE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I like the look of khaki and the cut of army Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I SAILORS, by PATRIC DICKINSON Poem Source First Line: From beaulieu down to brixham town Last Line: And take the tiller down the tide %and out again to sea? Subject(s): World War Ii SAINT COW, by KARL PATTEN Poem Source First Line: The hydrogen bomb they mistakenly Last Line: Who do and know not what they do. %feast day: may 22 %emblem: five full teats Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Nuclear War SAINT GEORGE OF ENGLAND, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Saint george he was a fighting man, as all the tales do tell Last Line: He'll come home to rest in england where the golden willows blow! Subject(s): George, Saint (3rd Century); World War I - Great Britain SAINT JEANNE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a little church in france today Last Line: Jeanne d'arc. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); World War I; First World War SAINT-LIEUX: BEFORE THE WAR: WHAT REMAINS, by CLAIRE MALROUX Poem Source First Line: The village square is the screen Last Line: Signals of a universe whose meaning %obsesses in its absence Alternate Author Name(s): Roux, Claire Sara Subject(s): War SAINTE JEANNE OF FRANCE, by MARION COUTHOUY SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sainte jeanne went harvesting in france Last Line: Had flowered to her name. Subject(s): France; Saints; World War I - France SAIPAN, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In times like lenses, magnified and calm Last Line: To be the following weathers of the dead Subject(s): Saipan (island); World War Ii SALL' (IN AID OF THE WOUNDED HORSES), by INEZ QUILTER Poem Source First Line: I'm none of yer london gentry Last Line: But I'm sall, plain sall, and sall goes 'ard! Subject(s): Women; World War I SALONIKA IN NOVEMBER, by BRIAN HILL Poem Source First Line: Up above the gray hills the wheeling birds Subject(s): World War I SALUD!, by KENNETH WIGGINS PORTER Poem Source First Line: O peasant-cids with sickles for your swords! Last Line: Only avails the scourge of dynamite! Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) SALUTATORY, by ANGELE MARAVAL-BERTHOIN Poem Source First Line: Our honor 'tis who stay behind Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I SALUTE TO GREECE, by WILLIAM ASHTON Poem Source First Line: What is greece to us now? Last Line: And wide the portal %opens upon that word! - 'enter, immortal!' Subject(s): Freedom; Greece; World War Ii SALUTE, CZECHOSLOVAKIA!, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Verily the new day, %for the new order Last Line: We mark the score. Silent, we mark the score Subject(s): Czechoslovakia; World War Ii SALVAGE, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Guns on the battle lines have pounded now a year Last Line: Guns on the battle lines have pounded a year now between brussels and paris. Subject(s): World War I; First World War SAM DAVIS, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me his name and you are free Last Line: Who dies to save an enemy! Subject(s): American Civil War; Davis, Samuel (1842-1863); Heroism; Loyalty; Soldiers; U.s. - History; Heroes; Heroines SANCTUARY UNDER A PALM FROND, by WINNIE WONG Poem Source First Line: Vincent graduated from high school at age 13 Last Line: The way her youngest brother lay dying in her arms Subject(s): Politics; War SANDHILL CRANES CIRCLING THEIR TARGETS, by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: Wang wei claimed they were far more impressive Last Line: Trade fighters and stealth bombers for cranes Subject(s): Politics; War SANTA FE INTERNMENT CAMP, by SOJIN TOKIJI TAKEI Poem Source First Line: Ashi no ue ni Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; World War Ii - Japanese-americans SANTIAGO, by THOMAS ALLIBONE JANVIER Poem Text First Line: In the stagnant pride of an outworn race Last Line: So the fight was won that our sampson planned! Subject(s): Santiago, Battle Of (1898); Santiago, Cuba; Sea Battles; Spanish-american War (1898); Naval Warfare SANTO DOMINGO, KILOMETRO OCHO, REPUBLICA DOMINICANA, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Off the butt of a standard-issue rifle: the rose-blue swollen eye Last Line: For rum and coke, rare bright birds, and cane to suck on Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities SANTOS: NEW MEXICO, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Return to the deep sources, nothing less Last Line: The torn mind to accept the whole of its duress %and, pierced with anguish, at last act for love Subject(s): Religion; World War Ii SARAJEVO, by FRANK ORMSBY Poem Source First Line: The shot was, first, an echo in the dinaric alps Last Line: In the annals of everything %love laughter carpets tobacco machine-tools the winter olympics Subject(s): Sarajevo, Bosnia; World War I SATURNALIA, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sweetest calm man e'er beheld Last Line: The union ever one! Subject(s): Peace; Planets; United States; War; America SAVAGE STORY OF CARDONETTE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To cardonette, to cardonette Last Line: He cut off their ears for souvenirs %at cardonette in the morning Subject(s): World War I SAVAGES, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The heathen hailed us from the beach Last Line: Who set thy temple on the hill. Subject(s): Murder; Native Americans; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; War; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America SAVANNAH, by ALETHEA S. BURROUGHS Poem Text First Line: Thou hast not drooped thy stately head Last Line: Savannah! O savannah! Subject(s): American Civil War; Savannah, Georgia; United States - History SAVING AMERICA, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: I was twelve, we were at war %in korea. I did my part, climbing Last Line: And in the birdsong dawn, flying away, my fear Subject(s): Arms And Armor; Bombs; Korean War, 1950-1953; Soldiers; United States SAVONAROLA BURNING, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And there are no more emperors in rome Last Line: Each time a monk believes in liberty! Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Grief; Peace; Rome, Italy; War; Sorrow; Sadness SAY THAT WE SAW SPAIN DIE, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say that we saw spain die. O splendid bull, how well you fought! Last Line: Toward that hot neck, for the delicate and final thrust, having dared trust forth his hand Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) SAYINGS OF PATSY, by BERNICE EVANS Poem Source First Line: Says patsy: %you can't pick up Last Line: Don't contain even %the cube root Subject(s): World War I SAYINGS OF PATSY, by BERNICE EVANS Poem Source First Line: Says patsy: %we're beginning Last Line: All that money, %too Subject(s): World War I SAYINGS OF PATSY, by BERNICE EVANS Poem Source First Line: Says patsy: %sometimes, %these days Last Line: Whom they would do %without us Subject(s): World War I SCENE IN A COUNTRY HOSPITAL, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, lonely, wounded and apart Last Line: Thank heaven! This -- all -- ends with me soon. Subject(s): American Civil War; Hospitals; United States - History SCENE OF WAR: THE HAPPY WARRIOR, by HERBERT READ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His wild heart beats with painful sobs Last Line: This is the happy warrior, %this is he Subject(s): War SCENES FROM THE BATTLE OF US, by CATE MARVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are like a war novel, entirely lacking Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; War; Male-female Relations SCENES FROM THE DOOR, SELS., by GERTRUDE STEIN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): World War Ii SCHOOL AMONG THE RUINS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Teaching the first lesson and the last Last Line: Some had forgotten how' Subject(s): Politics; War SCHWANENLIED, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: You take off your watch and the golden earrings Last Line: All life howling to a halt Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) SCORPIONS, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: Moving like the scorpion fight Last Line: In that officer's barracks in dhahran Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) SCOTT AND THE VETERAN, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An old and crippled veteran to the war department Last Line: "my soul would go to washington's, and not to arnold's place!" Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): American Civil War; Patriotism; Scott, Winfield (1786-1866); U.s. - History SCRAP OF PAPER, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Just for a 'scrap of paper' Subject(s): World War I SCRAP OF PAPER, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A mocking question! Britain's answer came Last Line: To keep our name upon that paper white Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): World War I SCREENS (IN A HOSPITAL), by WINIFRED MARY LETTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They put a screen around his bed Last Line: But - jove! - I'm sorry that he's dead Subject(s): Patriotism; Screens; Women; World War I SCULPTURES BY DIMITRI HADZI, by DAVID FERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This metal blooms in the dark of rome's / day light. Of how many deaths Last Line: Their brightness is dark with it Subject(s): Italy; Massacres; World War Ii - Atrocities; Italians SCULPTURES BY DIMITRI HADZI, by DAVID FERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This metal blooms in the dark of rome's %day light. Of how many deaths Last Line: Their brightness is dark with it Subject(s): Italy; Massacres; World War Ii - Atrocities SCYROS, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The doctor punched my vein Subject(s): War SCYROS, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The doctor punched my vein Last Line: And war began next wednesday on the danes Subject(s): War SCYTHIANS, by ALEXANDER (ALEKSANDR) ALEXANDROVICH BLOK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You are millions. But we sweep an endless flood Last Line: For the last time to joyous brotherhood %the barbarian lute invites Subject(s): Russian Revolution; War SEA AND LAND VICTORIES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: With half the western world at stake Last Line: "who witnesses havre's smoking plains, / and hampton's female cries" Subject(s): War Of 1812 SEA BURIAL, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the sea's crust of prisms looking up Last Line: And ran on grass as if it could not die Subject(s): Funerals - At Sea; World War Ii; Burials At Sea; Second World War SEA BURIAL, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the sea's crust of prisms looking up Last Line: The memory that kissed a mountain girl %and ran on grass as if it could not die Subject(s): Funerals - At Sea; World War Ii SEA, THE SKY, by SU MAN-SHU Poem Source Last Line: An emptiness as pure %as frost Subject(s): Heroism; Soldiers; War; Zen Buddhism SEA-WEEDS, by ANNIE CHAMBERS KETCHUM Poem Source First Line: Friend of the thoughtful mind and gentle heart Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History SEARCH AND DESTROY, by HELEN F. BLACKSHEAR Poem Source First Line: I thought how it must have been for you Last Line: Now he is just a name on a long black wall Subject(s): Politics; War SEARCH AND RESCUE, by JOSEPH ZACCARDI Poem Source First Line: In my journal I write: rescue Last Line: Everything until now is a lie Subject(s): Politics; War SEARCH FOR LORCA'S SHADOW, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've seen the hillside. A soft wind moved Last Line: Darkness we can say is his, federico's Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) SEARCH PATTERN, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: It's a wide, wide sea Last Line: Clear, simple, and true Subject(s): War SEARCHING FOR MY FATHER'S BODY, by IRENA KLEPFISZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: As he sleeps leaning against a tombstone %and dreams, never considering %where he himself will one d Alternate Author Name(s): Klepfitz, Irena Subject(s): Fathers; Warsaw Ghetto; World War Ii SEARCHLIGHTS, by PAUL BEWSHER Poem Text First Line: You who have seen across the star-decked skies Last Line: Which slowly moves across the shell-torn night? Subject(s): Air Warfare; Aviation & Aviators; World War I; Airplanes; Air Pilots; First World War SEBASTIAN IN DREAM, by GEORG TRAKL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mother bore this infant in the white moon Last Line: When the silver voice of the angel died down in sebastian's shadow Subject(s): World War I SECESSION, by T. A. R. NELSON Poem Text First Line: What pen can trace, with just impression Last Line: "be ""damned to everlasting fame!" Alternate Author Name(s): Nelson, Thomas A. R. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Fame; State Rights; U.s. - History; Confederacy; Reputation; Secession SECOND AIR FORCE, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far off, above the plain the summer dries Subject(s): Air Warfare; Army Life; Death; World War Ii; Drills & Minor Tactics; Dead, The; Second World War SECOND AIR FORCE, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far off, above the plain the summer dries Last Line: But for them the bombers answer everything Subject(s): Air Warfare; Army Life; Death; World War Ii SECOND LOVE: 41, by ELEANOR FARJEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now that you too must shortly go the way Last Line: But oh, let end what will, I hold you fast %by immortal love, which has no first or last Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917); Women; World War I SECOND MAN, by JULIAN SYMONS Poem Source First Line: Reading the headlines in the revolutionary Subject(s): War SECRET ASSIGNMENT, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: People are coming to scan my face Last Line: The reluctant martyr Subject(s): Battleships; Death; Hungary - Communist Regime; Martyrs; Soldiers; War SECRET DREAM, by DOUGLAS GIBSON Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii SECRET MUSIC, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I keep such music in my brain Last Line: And music dawned above despair. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War SEDAN, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, from a window where the meuse is wide Last Line: And round her terrible head the morning stars. Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): World War I - France SEE THE WASTED CITIES!, by EMANUEL LITVINOFF Poem Source First Line: O see the wasted cities by morning Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii SEED, by HAL SUMMERS Poem Source First Line: I am the small million Last Line: You will find after armageddon %after the deluge, me Subject(s): War SEED-MERCHANT'S SON, by AGNES GROZIER HERBERTSON Poem Source First Line: The seed-merchant had lost his son Last Line: As he had never before seen seed or sod: %I heard him murmur: 'thank god, thank god!' Subject(s): Women; World War I SEED-TIME, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woman of the field - by the sunset furrow Last Line: "they will be wanting bread." Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): Women And War; World War I; First World War SEEDS OF THE PEACE MARTYRS HAVE BORNE FRUIT, by SUSAN MCKEON-STEINMANN Poem Source First Line: We stand in the early nipping chill handling flyers to Last Line: The captain has gone mad Subject(s): Politics; War SEEN ON A WAR-SHRINE IN PENNSYLVANIA, by E. M. GREEVES-CARPENTER Poem Text First Line: Silent and unbetrayed, a carven rood Last Line: Whose crown of victory followed cross and thorns. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Death; Jesus Christ; Mothers & Sons; Pennsylvania; Shrines; Soldiers; War; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The SEICHEPREY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A handful came to seicheprey Last Line: "and left to shattered seicheprey / unending, sweet repose" Subject(s): World War I; First World War SELIMUS: SOLILOQUY OF SELIMUS, USURPER AND TYRANT, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, selimus, consider who thou art Last Line: Unless old bajazet do die the death. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Tyranny & Tyrants; War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dictators SEMINAR FOR BACKWARD PUPILS, by GUNTHER EICH Poem Source First Line: While the dead %cool off quickly Last Line: To take service %in the dungeons of justice Subject(s): World War Ii SENDING SPRING NORTH TO GLENN MCKEE IN MAINE, by DORY L. HUDSPETH Poem Source First Line: They say spring marches Last Line: Under a pearl-gray sky Subject(s): American Civil War; Military; Soldiers; U.s. - History SENTINEL, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: He stood enveloped in the darkening mist Last Line: But still above the indomitable sea %from his high cliff a sentry watched the night Subject(s): Gallipoli Campaign (1915); World War I SENTRY, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the dawn flushes the vast desert-sands Last Line: And what they would be thinking well he knew Subject(s): World War Ii SENTRY, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have begun to die Last Line: In the flower of futy, the folded poppy %night Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War Ii SEPTEMBER HOLIDAY, by CLIVE SANSOM Poem Source First Line: All nature's agents image war to me Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii SEPTEMBER SONG, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Undesirable you may have been, untouchable Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; War; Shoah; Judaism SEPTEMBER SONG, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Undesirable you may have been, untouchable Last Line: This is plenty. This is more than enough Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; War SEPTEMBER, 1918, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This afternoon was the colour of water falling through sunlight Last Line: Upon a broken world. Subject(s): World War I; First World War SEPTEMBER, 1939, by VERA MARY BRITTAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The purple asters lift their heads Last Line: The aching grief of england's war. Alternate Author Name(s): Catlin, George E. G., Mrs. Subject(s): London; World War Ii; Second World War SERBIA, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Text First Line: When the heroic deeds that mark our time Last Line: Is as a crown irradiating light! Subject(s): Serbia; World War I; Servia; First World War SERBIA TO THE HOHENZOLLERNS, by CECIL CHESTERTON Poem Source First Line: I am she whose ramparts, ringed with christian swords Subject(s): World War I SERBIAN EPITAPH, by V. STANIMIROVIC Poem Source First Line: Never a serbian flower shall bloom Subject(s): World War I SERGEANT-MAJOR MONEY, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It wasn't our battalion, but we lay alongside it Last Line: Or, least of all, blame money, an old stiff surviving %in a new (bloddy) army he couldn't understand Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I SERVITUDE, by IVOR GURNEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If it were not england, who would bear Last Line: Nor guns, nor sergeant-major's bluster and noise Subject(s): World War I SESTINA ON HER PORTRAIT, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thickness of paint or flesh cannot deface Subject(s): War SESTINA: ALTAFORTE, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Damn it all! All this our south stinks peace Last Line: "hell blot black for alway the thought ""peace!" Subject(s): Blood; Peace; War SET ON THE AUTUMN HEAD, by ALEXANDER COMFORT Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii SETTING OUT, by ERNST STADLER Poem Source First Line: There was a time before, when fanfares bloodily tore Last Line: Our eyes would see their fill of world and sun, and take it %in, glowing and drinking Subject(s): World War I SETTING OUT FROM THE PASSES, by FANG WEIYI Poem Source First Line: Left home for an outpost ten thousand miles away Last Line: When will we sing out victory! - and home Subject(s): War SEVASTOPOL, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the dead is a syrian sky Last Line: "and sighs above them, ""alas for glory!" Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Variant Title(s): The English Cemetery At Sevastopol Subject(s): Cemeteries; Crimean War (1853-1856); Russia; Sevastopol, Ukraine; Graveyards; Soviet Union; Russians SEVEN DAYS' LEAVE, by C. W. BLACKALL Poem Source First Line: Bravely acted, little lady Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I SEVEN LAMENTS FOR THE WAR-DEAD: 4, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I came upon an old zoology textbook, / brehm, volume ii, birds Last Line: Oh my friend / red-breasted Subject(s): Middle East – Conflicts; World War I; Death; Arab-israeli Conflict SEVEN SORROWS: 1, by WANG CAN Poem Source First Line: In chang-an the fighting was out of control Last Line: I gasped and felt the pain within Subject(s): Absence; China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Grief; War SEVENTEEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-ONE, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great things have pass'd the last ... Year Last Line: Lightning will fall -- full twenty-five percent Subject(s): Tyranny And Tyrants; War SEVENTH CIRCLE, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And after the fight the moment of awakening Subject(s): Boys; Fightng; War; Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) SEVENTH ECLOGUE, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: It's getting dark; the wild oak fence is is hemmed Last Line: I can not die, I can not live without you Subject(s): Guard Duty; Prisoners Of War; Writing And Writers SEVENTH HELL: OF SMOKE, WHERE FIRE-RAISERS TRY .. ESCAPE, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The houses of men are on fire Last Line: The mind of man is on fire %and where will his eye find rest Subject(s): Men; Nuclear War SHADOW, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There you are once more near me Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): War SHADOW, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here you are near me once more Last Line: Caisson of regrets %a god humbling himself Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): World War I SHADOW, by EMILIE ROSE MACAULAY Poem Source First Line: There was a shadow on the moon; I saw it poise and tilt, and go Last Line: Rim of the shadow of the hell %of the world's young men Alternate Author Name(s): Macaulay, Rose Subject(s): Women; World War I SHADOW SIDE, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The evening sunlight coming down the meadow Last Line: In the museum of wreckage and regret %left of life subjected to earth's shadow Subject(s): War SHADOWS, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: From the foothills, you can see traffic on nagasaki bay Last Line: Who linger offshore, waiting for us to brim the tide Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities SHADOWS AND LIGHTS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: What gods have met in battle to arouse Last Line: To see the beauty in each other's eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): World War I; First World War SHAKESPEARE, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: England, that gavest to the world so much Last Line: Nearest himself in universal power. Subject(s): Dramatists; England; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); World War I; English; Dramatists; First World War SHAKESPEARE, 1916, by RONALD ROSS Poem Source First Line: Now when the sinking sun reeketh with blood Subject(s): World War I SHALL WE BIND THE CHAIN, by LAURANCE J. NICOLSON Poem Text First Line: Help! Oh help! Shall freedom die?' Last Line: Never! Never! Never! Alternate Author Name(s): Bard Of Thule Subject(s): Freedom; War; Liberty SHALL WE FORGET?, by ESTELLE MAY HURLL Poem Text First Line: Shall we forget, now victory has come Last Line: Shall we forget to pray? Subject(s): Wellesley College; World War I; First World War SHANNON AND CHESAPEAKE; A BRITISH CELEBRATORY BALLAD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the chesapeake so bold, / out of boston, I've [or, we've] been told" Last Line: "the true british sailor / is the dandy, o!" Subject(s): Chesapeake (ship);sea Battles;shannon (ship);war Of 1812; Naval Warfare SHE, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: An odd shock of her every day Last Line: Of rum. Good legs crossing the boulevard Subject(s): War SHE SAID ..., by JONATHAN HENDERSON BROOKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She said, 'not only music; brave men marching' Last Line: "mary, it is the same with me,"" she said." Subject(s): African Americans - Military; World War Ii; Second World War SHEEP, by WALTER HENDRICKS Poem Text First Line: Think of the child who owns a sheep Last Line: Who sacrificed his life in vain! Subject(s): God; Sheep; War SHEEPHERDER COFFEE, by SAM HAMILL Poem Source First Line: I used to like sheepherder coffee Last Line: Thinking, waiting for whatever comes Subject(s): Politics; War SHELL, by H. SMALLEY SARSON Poem Source First Line: Shrieking its message the flying death Last Line: Destined to kill, yet the futile end %was a child's uprooted grave Subject(s): World War I SHELLS, by AUGUST STRAMM Poem Source First Line: The knowing stops %just sensing weaves and tricks Last Line: Stubborn worldens foolish space Subject(s): World War I SHENANDOAH, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the shenandoah valley, one rider grey and one rider blue, and Last Line: Heads of a rider blue and a rider gray in the shenandoah. Subject(s): American Civil War; Patriotism; U.s. - History SHERIDAN AT CEDAR CREEK, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shoe the steed with silver Last Line: Where the nameless followers sleep. Subject(s): American Civil War; Cedar Creek, Battle Of (1864); Sheridan, Philip Henry (1831-1888); United States - History SHERIDAN'S MARCH TO THE SEA, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: Oh, hour supreme, of, deed sublime Subject(s): American Civil War; Sheridan, Philip Henry (1831-1888); U.s. - History 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 SHERMAN'S IN SAVANNAH [DECEMBER 22, 1864], by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like the tribes of israel Last Line: As it crowns savannah! Subject(s): American Civil War; Savannah, Georgia; Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); United States - History SHERMAN'S MARCH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Their lips are still as the lips of the dead Subject(s): War SHERMAN'S MARCH TO THE SEA, by SAMUEL HAWKINS MARSHALL BYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our camp-fires shone bright on the mountain Last Line: When sherman marched down to the sea. Variant Title(s): Song Of Sherman's March To The Sea Subject(s): American Civil War; Georgia (state); Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); United States - History SHIELD OF WAR, by THOMAS SACKVILLE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Lastly, stood war, in glittering arms yclad Last Line: And from the soil great troy, neptunus' town Subject(s): War SHILLONG, by BERNARD H. GUTTERIDGE Poem Source First Line: I crowd all earth into a traveller's eye Last Line: White clouds towards the annihilating snows Subject(s): World War Ii SHILOH; A REQUIEM, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Skimming lightly, wheeling still Last Line: And all is hushed at shiloh. Subject(s): American Civil War; Patriotism; Shiloh, Battle Of (1862); United States - History SHINE, REPUBLIC, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The quality of these trees, green height; of the sky, shining; of water, a clear flow Last Line: The states of the next age will no doubt remember you, and edge their love of freedom with contempt Subject(s): War; Social Commentary; Patriotism SHIPMENT TO MAIDANEK, by EPHIM FOGEL Poem Source First Line: Arrived from scattered cities, several lands Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; War SHIPS THAT SAIL IN THE NIGHT, by DYSART MCMULLEN Poem Source First Line: Hail and farewell Subject(s): World War I SHOOTING OF WERFEL, by VERNON WATKINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Werfel dead? Hark. The forest is empty Subject(s): War SHOOTING SCRIPT. PART II 3-7/70: 9. NEWSREEL, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This would not be the war we fought in. See, the foliage is Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War SHOOTING SCRIPT. PART II 3-7/70: 9. NEWSREEL, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This would not be the war we fought in. See, the foliage is Last Line: This would not be the war I fought in Subject(s): World War Ii SHOP AND FREEDOM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Though with the north we sympathize Last Line: "free trade, or sable brothers free? / oh, will we choose the latter" Subject(s): American Civil War;free Trade;great Britain - Foreign Relations;u.s. - History SHOPPING LIST, by NINA ISRAEL ZUCKER Poem Source First Line: Ayat al-akhras, 18, walked up to this supermarket last Last Line: There there. Maybe in a season like this I would show her %what can be good Subject(s): Politics; War SHOPPING MALL, THE MORAL LAW, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mannequins, young visions of delight Subject(s): War SHORE, by HELEN+(2) FROST Poem Source First Line: It has not happened yet. We Last Line: Together back to land Subject(s): Politics; War SHORT PRAYER FOR A LOYALIST HERO, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A book remained at the edge of his dead waist Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Prayer; Toledo, Spain; War; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines SHORT PRAYER FOR A LOYALIST HERO, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A book remained at the edge of his dead waist Last Line: Abruptly sprouted from the corpse Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Prayer; Toledo, Spain; War SHORT RATIONS, by GEORGE PALMER GARRETT JR. Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Toomer porter (my kinsman) Last Line: Would have been pure luxury Alternate Author Name(s): Garrett, George Subject(s): American Civil War; Military; Soldiers; U.s. - History; War SHORTENING THE WAR, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: Recently, purely by chance Last Line: Or boston, perhaps, %where my granddaughter lives Subject(s): War SHOT DOWN, by JOEL T. ROGERS Poem Text First Line: Why did you send young larry out? Last Line: You are too old to waste her days. Subject(s): Soldiers; War SHOT DOWN THE NIGHT, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A boy I knew Subject(s): War; Death; Dead, The SHOT THROUGH THE HEART', by INA MARIE PORTER Poem Source First Line: Across the brown and wintry morn Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History SHOULD I EVER BE A SOLDIER, by JOE HILL Poem Source First Line: We're spending billions every year Last Line: You'll sing this song for ages Alternate Author Name(s): Hillstrom, Joesph; Hagglund, Joel Subject(s): World War I SICK I AM AND SORROWFUL, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Sick I am and sorrowful, how can I be well again Last Line: Here, where fear and sorrow are — my heart so far away? Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death; Sickness; War; Dead, The; Illness SICK LEAVE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I'm asleep, dreaming and lulled and warm Last Line: Are they not still your brothers through our blood?' Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War SIDEKICKS, by GERALD R. WHEELER Poem Source First Line: Tore bandannas for trail markers Last Line: Engraved %in black wall of stone Subject(s): Patriotism; Soldiers; War SIEGE OF PLATTSBURG, SUNG IN CHARACTER OF A BLACK SAILOR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Back side albany stan' lake champlain Last Line: For gen'ral mccomb, and massa 'donough-home, %when he notion for anudder tea-party Subject(s): Navy - United States; Plattsburg, Battle Of; War Of 1812 SIGHS OF THE GUNNER FROM DAKAR, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the log dugout hidden by osiers Last Line: Explode in the brilliant sky Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): World War I SIGNAL, by AUGUST STRAMM Poem Source First Line: The drumbeat plods Last Line: Goes %plods %goes Subject(s): World War I SIGNE WALLER: NOVEMBER 3, 1979, by ALAN BRILLIANT Poem Source First Line: Where there should be trees Subject(s): Nuclear War SILENCE, by VIRGINIA BIDDLE Poem Text First Line: The battle raged with hellish spite Last Line: Where men had fallen like summer rain. Subject(s): Silence; World War I; First World War SILENCE IN MALLORCA, by GENEVIEVE TAGGARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our stony island, spain's laconic child Last Line: Come with the wind of your wings. And save Alternate Author Name(s): Wolf, Robert Leopold, Mrs. Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) SILENT ARMY, by IAN ADANAC Poem Source First Line: No bugle is blown, no roll of drums Subject(s): World War I SILENT MARCH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History SILENT ONE, by IVOR GURNEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who died on the wires, and hung there, one of two Last Line: Again retreated - and a second time faced the screen Subject(s): Mourning; War SILENT WORLD IS OUR ONLY HOMELAND, by FRANCIS PONGE Poem Source First Line: Addressing the readers of a well-run newspaper Last Line: We make use of its possibilities according to the needs of the times Subject(s): World War Ii SILOS, by PAUL ZARZYSKI Poem Source First Line: Against augusta, montana: prairie dovetailed Last Line: No longer dark, no longer living %out of sight and range Subject(s): Nuclear War SIMONOPETRA, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Epiphany today. Three quarters moon over neponset bay Last Line: Waits for me; waves pull back and blink at the gathering black Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities SIMPLE COBLER OF AGGAWAM, SELS., by NATHANIEL WARD Poem Source First Line: When boots and shoes are torn up to the lefts Last Line: There is my last and all %and a shoem-akers Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Puritans; War SIMULTANEOUSLY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Simultaneously, five thousand miles apart Last Line: Sprouting leaves. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb SIN FLOWER LAVENDER; IN MEMORY OF WIFE LE DO NINH, by NGUYEN HU'U LOAN Poem Source First Line: She had three brothers in the resistance army Last Line: My mother is far away and my wife gone Subject(s): Indochinese War, 1946-1954; Marriage SINCE THEY HAVE DIED TO GIVE US A GENTLENESS, by MAY WEDDERBURN CANNAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And laughter come back to the earth again Subject(s): Women; World War I SINCE YOU WENT AWAY, by ALISON (ALLISON) BROWN Poem Source First Line: Since you went away, every gay sailor lad Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I SING A SONG OF WAR-TIME, by NINA MACDONALD Poem Source Last Line: All the world is topsy-turvy %since the war began Subject(s): Women; World War I SINVERGUENZA, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They snarl over spain like cur-dogs over a bone, then look at each other and Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) SINVERGUENZA, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They snarl over spain like cur-dogs over a bone, then look at each other and Last Line: The first drops of a forming rain-storm Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) SIOUX SONGS: HARVEST, by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY Poem Text First Line: Only the seasons and the years invade Last Line: The youth that bled beside these old stone walls. Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); United States - History; War; Gettysburg, Battle Of SIOUX SONGS: ROCKS, by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY Poem Text First Line: Among these jagged rocks, whose height commands Last Line: At bay among these rocks, or charged this wood? Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); United States - History; War; Gettysburg, Battle Of SIOUX SONGS: THE BATTLE, by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY Poem Text First Line: Three times the sun rose while the battle held Last Line: There lay the shadow of that agony. Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); United States - History; War; Gettysburg, Battle Of SIOUX SONGS: THE CEMETERY, by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY Poem Text First Line: Here lincoln stood, in strong simplicity Last Line: And gave himself, these graves, this land, to god. Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); United States - History; War; Gettysburg, Battle Of SIR PATRICK SPENS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: "the king sits in dunfermline town [or, dumferling toune]" Last Line: "and there lies gude [or, good, guid] sir patrick spens, / with the scots lords at his feit [or, fee Variant Title(s): Sir Patrick Spence Subject(s): Disasters;drowning;duty;sailing & Sailors;sea;shipwrecks;war; Ocean SIR STANLEY MAUDE, by JAMES GRIFFYTH FAIRFAX Poem Source First Line: Hail and farewell, across the clash of swords Subject(s): World War I SIRENS, by JOHN STREETER MANIFOLD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Odysseus heard the sirens; they were singing Last Line: In twenty minutes he forgot the sirens Subject(s): Sirens (mythology); World War Ii SISTER MARIE; A LEGEND OF TYROL, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I through the valley of klausen went Last Line: "ah! Pity me, dear lord,"" it sighed." Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Brooks; Death; Legends; Nuns; Prayer; War; Streams; Creeks; Dead, The SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA ADDRESSES THE V.F.W., by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The madness of the blood! Only blood Last Line: Every river running to the sea runs red Subject(s): Blood; War SIX POEMS OF LONELINESS: 3, by ENRIQUE LIHN Poem Source First Line: Everything's ready for war except me Last Line: Standing for poetry, standing for nothing Subject(s): Nothingness; Solitude; War SIX WINTERS, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the black hotel a child is asleep Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Memory; War; Graveyards; Dead, The SIX WINTERS, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the black hotel a child is asleep Last Line: On the way home. Bewitched avenue Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Memory; War SIX YOUNG MEN, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The celluloid of a photograph holds them well Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): War SIX YOUNG MEN, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The celluloid of a photograph holds them well Last Line: Smile from the single exposure and shoulder out %one's own body from its instant and heat Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): War SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY, by JACK LINDEMAN Poem Source First Line: I am walking as fast as I can Last Line: And the whole seething world on the brink Subject(s): U.s. - History; War SIXTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Dense clouds of dust on the virginia roads-- Last Line: Of appomattox—and the final scene! Subject(s): Appomattox, Virginia; Soldiers; Southern States; War; South (u.s.) SKINS, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pretend I can't see %the lady in pearls mistaking me Last Line: So I did sit and eat' Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 SKY SIGNS, by JOHN GRAHAM BOWER Poem Source First Line: When all the guns are sponged and cleaned Subject(s): World War I SLAIN, by THOMAS WILLIAM HODGSON CROSLAND Poem Source First Line: You who are still and white Alternate Author Name(s): Crosland, T. W. H. Subject(s): War SLED BURIAL, DREAM CEREMONY, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While the south rains, the north Subject(s): American Civil War; Funerals; United States - History; Burials SLED BURIAL, DREAM CEREMONY, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While the south rains, the north Last Line: On utter foreignness, before he fills and sails down Subject(s): American Civil War; Funerals; U.s. - History SLEEP-WALKERS, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Black congo and red amritsar Last Line: Somnambulists who wake in hell? Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Evil; Military; Social Protest; Soldiers; War SLEEPER OF THE VALLEY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through a green gorge the river like a fountain Subject(s): War SLEEPING NOW IN COVENTRY, by ARTHUR STANLEY BOURINOT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here rests a lad Last Line: Sleeping now %in coventry! Subject(s): Coventry, England; World War Ii SLEEPING OUT WITH MY FATHER, by GIBBONS RUARK Poem Source First Line: Sweet smell of earth and easy rain on Last Line: To sleep in sweat and wake to news of war Subject(s): World War Ii SLEEPLESS, by TUMADIR BINT IBN AL-SHARID AL-KHANSA Poem Source First Line: I was sleepless, I was awake all night Last Line: As your stomach burst, punctured above the nipples, %spurting the foam of your heart's blood Alternate Author Name(s): Tumardir Bint `amir Al-harith Ibn Ash-sharid; Al-khansa Subject(s): Brothers; Death; War SMALL AIRCRAFT, by BELLA AKHMADULINA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As if I didn't have enough Last Line: Looking from their eyes like sad dachshunds %as their long bodies flloat by Subject(s): War SMALL CRAFT, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When drake sailed out from devon to Last Line: All honour be to small craft, for oh! They've earned it well! Subject(s): Fights; Perseverance; Sea Battles; Ships & Shipping; World War I; Naval Warfare; First World War SMALL PARK IN EAST GERMANY: 1969, by GERDA MAYER Poem Source First Line: Crumbling and weathered, their features half-erased Subject(s): Cold War; Germany; Travel SMALL TOWN, by ERNST STADLER Poem Source First Line: The many narrow alleys that cut across Last Line: And the festive light of the fields Subject(s): Towns; World War I SMALL TOWN SPORT, by ALFRED DAMON RUNYON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Son o' ol' miz mcauliffe, the widder Alternate Author Name(s): Runyon, Damon Subject(s): World War I SMALL WAR, by GABRIEL FERRATER Poem Source First Line: They brought anti-tank mines, useless Last Line: All emblematic, immemorial Subject(s): Death - Children; Fights; Pyrenees (mountains), Europe; War SMART BOMBS, by CHARLES OWEN LAWSON Poem Source First Line: This one was stupid Last Line: And the oil wells would soon again flow free as blood Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) SMELL OF GASOLINE ASCENDS IN MY NOSE, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Upon us and upon all lovers in autumn Subject(s): War SMELL OF GASOLINE IN MY NOSE, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For us, and all those who love in the fall Subject(s): War SMILE, SMILE, SMILE, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Head to limp head, the sunk-eyed wounded scanned Last Line: Say: how they smile! They're happy now, poor things. Subject(s): World War I; First World War SMILES AND BLOOD, by JAMES RORTY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Smile at me again Last Line: And think how great the poem is: the spilt blood of the brave Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) SNIPER, by LUCIEN STRYK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An inch to the left Last Line: A weary kid %strayed in from trick-or-treat Subject(s): World War Ii SNOW IN MADRID, by JOY DAVIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Softly, so casual Last Line: Fall from the sky Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) SNOW STORM, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everywhere men speak in whispers Last Line: Force, and the night comes on. Subject(s): Army Life; Old Age; Snow; Soldiers; War; Drills & Minor Tactics SNOW WOMEN, by JANET MCCANN Poem Source First Line: The voice is cold %reading your poem Last Line: Flare an ashy arc, %a comet for old women Subject(s): Politics; War SNOW-SPELL, by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER Poem Text First Line: The world was wrapped in a robe of ravishing white Last Line: Lay white and beautiful beneath the snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, J. Corson Subject(s): Hate; Sleep; Snow; War SNOWSTORM, by WEN YI-TUO Poem Source First Line: During the night a snowstorm spread Last Line: Can't you see it's winter's flag of surrender!' Subject(s): Death; Peace; Soldiers; War SO MANY BLOOD-LAKES, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have now won two world-wars, neither of which concerned us, we were Last Line: So many blood-lakes: and we always fall in Subject(s): Patriotism; War; Blood SO MANY TIMES I'VE SEEN, by YULIA DRUNINA Poem Source First Line: So many times I've seen hand-to-hand combat Last Line: Knows nothing about war Subject(s): World War Ii SO WE LAY DOWN THE PEN, by GEOFFREY BACHE SMITH Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I SOCK SONG, by HELEN TOPPING MILLER Poem Source First Line: Will cosette or adelaide or jeanne with eyes of blue Last Line: Should drop another stitch, perchance, and spoil the toes of you! Subject(s): World War I SOCKS, by JESSIE POPE Poem Source First Line: Shining pins that dart and click Last Line: He'll come out on top, somehow - %slip 1, knit 2, purl 14 Subject(s): Women; World War I SOFT AND ETERNAL PEACE, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: At night when you turn tricks Last Line: And the babies %in their bellies Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) 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 SOISSONS: 1918, by GERALD V. STAMM Poem Text First Line: Now dreadful night unrolls, and dawn in gray Last Line: May come from poppies in the wheat. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Harvest; Soldiers; War; Wheat; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones SOJOURNERS; LT. MITCHELL, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: Someone told me that mankind always moves Last Line: His men were hungary too, quite a little Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History SOLDIER, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: In my dream floating between %walls Last Line: Waters %under the psalm of flame Subject(s): War SOLDIER, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is that fallen lance that lies as hurled Last Line: And tripped the body, shot the spirit on %further than target ever showed or shone Subject(s): Holidays; War SOLDIER, by AGNES GROZIER HERBERTSON Poem Source First Line: There was a man was son and lover Last Line: Lovely and fair the home-fields lie Subject(s): World War Ii SOLDIER, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He needs no tinsel on his coat Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I SOLDIER (T.P.), by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the runner's whistle lights the last miles of darkness Subject(s): Army Life; War; Drills & Minor Tactics SOLDIER (T.P.), by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the runner's whistle lights the last miles of darkness Last Line: As the leaf chars or is kindled; as the bough burns Subject(s): Army Life; War SOLDIER - HIS PRAYER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Stay with me, god. The night is dark Last Line: Be with me, god, and make me strong Subject(s): God; Soldiers; World War Ii SOLDIER ADDRESSES HIS BODY, by EDGELL A. RICKWORD Poem Source First Line: I shall be mad if you get smashed about Last Line: Let's have a drinkm and give the cards a run %and leave dull verse to the dull peaceful time Alternate Author Name(s): Rickword, E. A. Subject(s): World War I SOLDIER ASLEEP., by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Safe may the winds return you to the place %that, howsoever it was, was better than this Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): World War Ii SOLDIER IN THE RAIN, by JULIA L. KEYES Poem Source First Line: Ah me! The rain has a sadder sound Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History SOLDIER OF THE SOUTH, by GEORGE GREENLAND Poem Source First Line: Under the flag o' france for which he died Subject(s): World War I SOLDIER SONG (10), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Wash me in the water Last Line: And I shall be whiter %than the whitewash on the wall Subject(s): World War I SOLDIER SONG (11), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The bells of hell go ting-a-ling-a-ling Last Line: For you but not for me Subject(s): World War I SOLDIER SONG (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: We are fred karno's army Last Line: What a bloody fine lot %are the ragtime infantry Subject(s): World War I SOLDIER SONG (3), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "uncle sammy, he's got the infantry" Last Line: "good-bye, kaiser bill" Subject(s): Army - United States;world War I; First World War SOLDIER SONG (7), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sure, a little bit of shrapnel fell from out the sky one day Last Line: And he marked me down for duty and he sent me up the line Subject(s): World War I SOLDIER SONG (8), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I don't want to be a soldier Last Line: In merry, merry england, %and fuck my [bloody] life away Subject(s): World War I SOLDIER SONG (9), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I have no pain, dear mother, now Last Line: And leave me there to die Subject(s): World War I SOLDIER WALKS UNDER THE TREES OF THE UNIVERSITY, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The walls have been shaded for so many years Subject(s): War SOLDIER'S AMEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: As a couple of good soldiers were walking one day Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History SOLDIER'S DEATH, by KENNETH NEAL Poem Source First Line: He stopped - hit! The ground reeled and smacked his face Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii SOLDIER'S DOVE, by JAMES FORSYTH Poem Source First Line: The tension in the tendons of her wing Subject(s): War SOLDIER'S FOLKS AT HOME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: We often sit upon the porch on ... August nights Subject(s): World War I SOLDIER'S GAME, by GEORGE U. ROBINS Poem Source First Line: Here's a song of the game we play Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I SOLDIER'S LITANY, by RICHARD RALEIGH Poem Source First Line: When the foemen's hosts draw nigh Subject(s): World War I SOLDIER'S REST, by ROQUE DALTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead grow more intractable every day Last Line: They are the majority Subject(s): War SOLDIER'S REST, by ROQUE DALTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead grow more intractable every day Last Line: They are the majority! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Heroism; Soldiers; War - Casualties (statistics, Etc.) SOLDIER'S SOLILOQUIES, I, by MARC DE LARREGUY DE CIVRIEUX Poem Source First Line: After the charleroi affair Last Line: But never know the reason why Subject(s): World War I SOLDIER'S SOLILOQUIES, IV, by MARC DE LARREGUY DE CIVRIEUX Poem Source First Line: The civvy says: 'how dear is life!' Last Line: And in civilization's name!!! Subject(s): World War I SOLDIER'S SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I sing the praise of honored wars Last Line: O, this is music worth the ear of jove, %a sight for kings, and still the soldier's love Subject(s): War SOLDIER'S TESTAMENT, by ELIOT CRAWSHAY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: If I come to die Subject(s): World War I SOLDIER, SOLDIER, by MAURICE HENRY HEWLETT Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I SOLDIER-DEAD, by GILBERT" "EMERY [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: O beautiful young dead! Last Line: O beautiful young dead Alternate Author Name(s): "emery, Gilbert; Subject(s): Death;soldiers;war; "dead, The; SOLDIER: TWENTIETH CENTURY, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love you, great new titan! Last Line: Or a word in the brain's ways. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War SOLDIERS, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gay flags flying down the street Last Line: And the screaming fife exults! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Protest, Social; Soldiers; War SOLDIERS BATHING, by FRANK TEMPLETON PRINCE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea at evening moves across the sand Alternate Author Name(s): Prince, F. T. Subject(s): War SOLDIERS BATHING, by FRANK TEMPLETON PRINCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea at evening moves across the sand Last Line: I watch a streak of red that might have issued from christ's breast Alternate Author Name(s): Prince, F. T. Subject(s): War SOLDIERS HERE TO-DAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soldiers and saviors of the homes Last Line: And reap the harvest sure! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Freedom; Patriotism; Peace; Soldiers; War; Nightmares; Liberty SOLDIERS OF FREEDOM, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They veiled their souls with laughter Last Line: As lightly as a rose. Subject(s): Patriotism; Wellesley College; World War I; First World War SOLDIERS OF THE SOIL, by EVERARD JACK APPLETON Poem Source First Line: It's a high-falutin'title they have handed us Subject(s): World War I SOLDIERS TO PACIFISTS, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not ours to clamor shame on you Last Line: The flag of freedom, every soul %obedient to its vision Subject(s): World War I SOLDIERS, APPOMATTOX, by KEVIN MCFADDEN Poem Source First Line: They do a fine job at the court house, walking the line Last Line: Permission to drum and dutifully die. Granted. Fall in Subject(s): American Civil War; Civil War; Military Service, Compulsory; Soldiers; U.s. - History SOLILOQUY, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young I had a care Last Line: A little grave that has no name. Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I; First World War SOLILOQUY 2, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was wrong, quite wrong Last Line: Than angelo's hand could ever carve in stone Subject(s): World War I; First World War SOLILOQUY 2, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was wrong, quite wrong Last Line: And more austere and lovely in repose %than angelo's hand could ever carve in stone Subject(s): World War I SOLILOQUY IN AN AIR-RAID, by ROY FULLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The will dissolves, the heart becomes excited Last Line: Unfolds spantaneous as the human wish, %as autumn dancing, vermilion on rocks Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; World War Ii 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 INCIDENTS IN THE LATTER DAYS OF JOHN WHITELAW, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bridge was won, the foe had crossed Last Line: Another sadder moral teach. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; Scotland; War; Dead, The SOME YEARS AGO, by CAROLINE GARRETT Poem Source Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans SOMEBODY'S DARLING, by MARIE LA CONTE Poem Text First Line: Into a ward of the whitewashed halls Last Line: " somebody's darling slumbers here." Alternate Author Name(s): La Coste, Marie Subject(s): Adversity; Patriotism; War SOMEBODY'S FATHER, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas after the battle of gettysburg Last Line: "july 3, '63." Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Fathers; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); U.s. - History; Dead, The; Gettysburg, Battle Of SOMEDAY, BUT FOR NOW, by GARY TACHIYAMA Poem Source First Line: I take my place among you Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans SOMETHING, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: Wouldn't it be something if she'd married Last Line: To give her something, show her everything you were Subject(s): War SOMETHING PRIVATE, by RICHARD THOMAS CHURCH Poem Source First Line: Waking this morning to a glory Last Line: Then cast for all mankind to have it Alternate Author Name(s): Eccles Subject(s): World War Ii SOMETIMES THE WIDER WORLD CAN ONLY BE APPREHENDED OBLIQUELY, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Snakes are always all of a sudden, no matter where I Last Line: Instance, the thousands of reactions to my shadow Subject(s): Politics; War SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE, by MULFORD DOUGHTY Poem Text First Line: Song of a fair may morning Last Line: Only a mile from me. Subject(s): Death; France; Military; Soldiers; War; Dead, The SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE, by LE ROY C. HENDERSON Poem Source First Line: She stands alone beside the gate Subject(s): World War I SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE, 1918, by ALMON HENSLEY Poem Source First Line: Leave me alone here, proudly, with my dead Subject(s): World War I SOMME, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: From amiens to abbeville Last Line: And poppy-mantled meadows blow %in murdered picardy Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I SOMME FLOWER TALK, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: Said the cornflower to the pimpernel Last Line: Here in the clash of human kind %her marshal of the fields Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I SON, by LILIAN BOWES-LYON Poem Source First Line: A middle-aged farm-labourer lived here Last Line: The man looks bent; yet neither girds at god, %remembering it was beautiful while it lasted Subject(s): Farm Life; War SON, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He hurried away, young heart of joy, under our devon sky! Last Line: "so I'm finding the heart to smile and say: ""oh god, if it be thy will!" Subject(s): War; World War I; First World War SONG, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I walked out one evening Last Line: The clocks had ceased their chiming %and the deep river ran on Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Time; Transience; War SONG, by JAMES CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: Ye sons of columbia, o hail the great day Last Line: He is a man, and shall therefore be free Subject(s): Lawrence, James (1781-1813); Navy - United States; War Of 1812 SONG, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bells of sunday rang us down Last Line: And all seas were running late Subject(s): War SONG, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bells of sunday rang us down Subject(s): War SONG, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The song poured from 1939 Last Line: In nearly every loaf of bread Subject(s): Food And Eating; Singing And Singers; War SONG, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now the moon is climbing Last Line: And gone is the violet sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Spain; War SONG, by CHRISTIAN MILNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At eve, when dee's transparent stream Last Line: For him who far, far hence lies low! Alternate Author Name(s): Ross, Christian Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness SONG, by EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON O'BRIEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flesh unto flowers Last Line: To turn to my side. Subject(s): Women And War; World War I; First World War SONG, by MILES VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: If I am any hope Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii SONG AND CRY OF A SOLDIER IN THE LINES, by ALBERT EDWARD CLEMENTS Poem Text First Line: Sharpen the sky to flashes of flame Last Line: When a cross and dust mark where you fell? Subject(s): Death; Government; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War SONG AT HANALEI, by MARTHA WEBB Poem Source First Line: A gesture of the sea Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans SONG FOR A FAILURE, by JOCK CURLE Poem Source First Line: The lady weds for ground and grange Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii SONG FOR A FALLEN WARRIOR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o my son, farewell!" Last Line: "beyond the broad river. / mai-ram-bo, mai-ram-bo" Subject(s): Native Americans - Wars;war SONG FOR PELAGUIS, by NORMAN NICHOLSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the rain rains upward Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii SONG FOR THE NEAPOLITANS, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS Poem Text First Line: Too long we've borne what freemen ne'er Last Line: Or die and leave it so! Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur Subject(s): Freedom; Naples, Italy; Patriotism; War; Liberty SONG FROM AN EVIL WOOD: 1, by EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no wrath in the stars Last Line: Even in plug street wood! Alternate Author Name(s): Dunsany, Lord; Dunsany, 18th Baron Subject(s): World War I; First World War SONG FROM AN EVIL WOOD: 2, by EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere lost in the haze Last Line: On the wooden walls of his cage. Alternate Author Name(s): Dunsany, Lord; Dunsany, 18th Baron Subject(s): World War I; First World War SONG FROM AN EVIL WOOD: 3, by EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I met with death in his country Last Line: And he did not look at me. Alternate Author Name(s): Dunsany, Lord; Dunsany, 18th Baron Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War SONG IN THE BLOOD, by JACQUES PREVERT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There are great puddles of blood on the world Last Line: The earth that turns and turns and turns %with its great streams of blood Subject(s): World War Ii SONG OF A SEABOOT STOCKING, by O. I. WARD Poem Text First Line: Knit, knit, knit, in the watches of the night Last Line: While overhead the fire guard keep their watch o'er london town. Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Knitting; London; World War Ii; Second World War SONG OF AN EXILE, by WILLIAM HAMILTON Poem Source First Line: I have seen the cliffs of dover Subject(s): Exiles; Soldiers; World War I SONG OF BATTLE, by BERTRAN DE BORN Poem Source First Line: Well pleaseth me the sweet time of easter Alternate Author Name(s): Bertrand De Born; Bertrans De Born Subject(s): War SONG OF CH'U: TO THE SEA-WIND, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now I'm frightened. I see Last Line: To you already. I want %to be one Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 SONG OF DESOLATION, by JUST JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: All de chillens am growed up an gone an lef de place Last Line: Den what it cant take along, it will destroy. Subject(s): War SONG OF GLORY, by ERNST WILHELM LOTZ Poem Source First Line: In a coat of blue, red-collared, a handsome sight Last Line: The future looming before me star-silent still Subject(s): World War I SONG OF IRON, SELS., by KANE O'DONNEL Poem Source First Line: O'er flaming, roaring forges Last Line: Hurrah! The brand of freedom, %the iron arm of god! Subject(s): American Civil War; Industry; Singing And Singers; Slavery; U.s. - History SONG OF JUDAS MACCABEUS BEFORE THE BATTLE OF MASPHA, by REBEKAH GUMPERT HYNEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On, warriors and chiefs! Every step we have trod Last Line: We have conquered or died for the glory of god. Subject(s): God; Israel; Jews; Martyrs; War; Judaism SONG OF MARION'S MEN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our band is few, but true and tried Last Line: Forever from our shore. Subject(s): American Revolution; Marion, Francis (1737-1795); South Carolina; War SONG OF OUR GLORIOUS SOUTHLAND, by MARY WARE Poem Source First Line: Oh, sing of our glorious southland Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History SONG OF PEACE AND HONOR, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We, men of england, children of her might Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Socialism; World War I SONG OF ROLAND (COMPLETE), by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Charlemagne (742-814); Roland; War SONG OF ROLAND, SELS., by UNKNOWN Subject(s): Charlemagne (742-814); Roland; War SONG OF ROLAND, SELS., by UNKNOWN Subject(s): Charlemagne (742-814); Roland; War SONG OF ROLAND, SELS., by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In wrath and grief away the paynims fly Subject(s): Charlemagne (742-814); Roland; War SONG OF ROLAND, SELS., by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Charles the king, our emperor, the great Last Line: They bear count roland's soul to paradise Subject(s): Charlemagne (742-814); Roland; War SONG OF SLAVES, SELS., by KANE O'DONNEL Poem Source First Line: Hang thy sword upon the wall Last Line: As cowards on their father's graves, %and slaves, slaves all Subject(s): American Civil War; Slavery; U.s. - History SONG OF SPAIN, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come now, all you who are singers Last Line: A workers' world %is the song of spain Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) SONG OF THE AIR, by GORDON ALCHIN Poem Source First Line: This is the song of the plane Subject(s): World War I SONG OF THE BOMBARD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Our fathers rode to battle Subject(s): World War I SONG OF THE BULLET, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It whizzed and whistled along the blurred Last Line: Peace! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bullets; Hate; Patriotism; Peace; War SONG OF THE DEAD, by JOHN HENRY MACARTNEY ABBOTT Poem Source First Line: Oh, land of ours, hear the song we make Subject(s): World War I SONG OF THE DYING GUNNER AA1, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh mother my mouth is full of stars Last Line: And I shan't be home no more Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles Subject(s): World War Ii SONG OF THE EXILE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh! Here I am in the land of cotton Last Line: Fight away, fight away, fight away for %dixie's land Subject(s): American Civil War; Flags - United States; Independence; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Patriotism; Presidents, United States; U.s. - History SONG OF THE FEDERATION, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the nations sat together, grimly waiting Last Line: Kneel thee down, new-made sister -- let us pray!' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Nations; Roads; Singing & Singers; War; Paths; Trails SONG OF THE GREEKS, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again to the battle, achaians! Last Line: Shall have crimsoned the beaks of our ravens! Subject(s): Greek War Of Independence (1821-1832); War SONG OF THE GUNS, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hear the guns, hear the guns! Subject(s): World War I SONG OF THE OLD SOLDIER, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the sex war ended with the slaughter of the grandmothers Last Line: George, you old matador, %welcome back to the army Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): Soldier's Song, Sels Subject(s): War SONG OF THE POWERS, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: Mine, said the stone Last Line: They all end alone %as you will, you will Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History SONG OF THE RAIN, by HUGH RAYMOND MCCRAE Poem Source First Line: Night, %and the yellow pleasure of candle-light Last Line: Over and over the same sweet thing Subject(s): War SONG OF THE RED CROSS, by EDEN PHILLPOTTS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O gracious ones, we bless your name Last Line: The radiant cross of red. Subject(s): Red Cross; World War I; First World War SONG OF THE SAINTS AND ANGELS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gordon, the self-refusing Last Line: Die in a psalm of peace. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; God; Gordon, Charles George (1833-1885); Homecoming; Peace; War; Dead, The SONG OF THE SOLDIERS' WIVES AND SWEETHEARTS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At last! In sight of home again Last Line: But quicken it to prime! Subject(s): Boer War; Women; South African War SONG OF THE TEXAS RANGERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The morning star is paling Subject(s): American Civil War; Texas Rangers; U.s. - History SONG OF THE UPRISING, by JOEL OPPENHEIMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Joy wings his way Subject(s): War SONG OF THE VALKYRIES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Widely is flung, warning of slaughter Subject(s): War SONG OF THE WINDS, by MARY LANIER MACGRUDER Poem Source First Line: Song of the west wind whispering - listen Subject(s): World War I SONG OF THE ZEPPELIN, by VIOLET D. CHAPMAN Poem Source First Line: The night-wind is humming Subject(s): World War I SONG OF WAR, by KOFI AWOONOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I shall sleep in white calico Last Line: We shall die on the battlefield Alternate Author Name(s): Awoonor-williams, George Subject(s): War SONG ON THE END OF THE WORLD, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the day the world ends Last Line: There will be no other end of the world Subject(s): Judgment Day; World War Ii SONG TO HYMEN: 1942, by ANTHONY RICHARDSON Poem Source First Line: My friend's sweet love came into town Last Line: The key of a room that love had known Subject(s): World War Ii SONG TO THE SULIOTES, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up to battle! Sons of suli Last Line: Then away despite of thunder! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Greece; War SONG, WRITTEN AT SEA, IN THE FIRST DUTCH WAR, 1665 ..., by CHARLES SACKVILLE (1637-1706) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To all you [or, you fair] ladies now at land Last Line: With a fa, la, la, la, la! Alternate Author Name(s): Dorset, 6th Earl Of; Middlesex, 1st Earl Of Variant Title(s): A Ballad When At Sea Subject(s): Love; War SONG-BOOKS OF THE WAR, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In fifty years, when peace outshines Last Line: And lived in time to share the fun. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War SONG: ON SEEING DEAD BODIES FLOATING OFF THE CAPE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first month of his absence Subject(s): Absence; Soldiers' Writings; World War Ii; Separation; Isolation; Second World War SONG: ON SEEING DEAD BODIES FLOATING OFF THE CAPE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first month of his absence Last Line: The nearness that is waiting in my bed, %the gradual self-effacement of the dead Subject(s): Absence; Soldiers' Writings; World War Ii SONGS FROM THE ANCIENT AND MODERN, by JAN DAY FEHRMAN Poem Source First Line: The island is a flower closing Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans SONGS OF PASSION, by GASTON DE RUYTER Poem Source First Line: By evening's blue-grey threshold stirs a breeze Last Line: O women, cools our brows as you pass by! Subject(s): World War I SONGS OF SOULS THAT FAILED, by MARION COUTHOUY SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We come from the war-swept valleys Last Line: To cover our grief and rest. Subject(s): Cowardice; Fights; Riots; War; Weariness; Fatigue SONNET, by GAVIN EWART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The point where beauty and intelligence meet Subject(s): War SONNET, by WILLIAM SINKLER MANNING Poem Source First Line: Now I am free to do, and give, and pay Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I SONNET, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead men of 'ninety-two Subject(s): War SONNET, by GRACE E. TOLLEMACHE Poem Text First Line: As in cool-tempered airs of april-time Last Line: The fervours that must quench its first delight. Subject(s): World War I; First World War SONNET, by GRACE E. TOLLEMACHE Poem Source First Line: England! That thou was faint of heart we said Subject(s): World War I SONNET (3), by CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you see millions of the mouthless dead Last Line: Great death has made all his for evermore. Variant Title(s): The Dead Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War SONNET (FOR PRISCILLA), by NICHOLAS MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Walking alone in familiar places Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii SONNET SEQUENCE: 1. SENDING, by ARTHUR LEWIS JENKINS Poem Source First Line: When as of old the spartan mother sent Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I SONNET SEQUENCE: 2. REBELLION, by ARTHUR LEWIS JENKINS Poem Source First Line: Was it for this, dear god, that they were born Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I SONNET SEQUENCE: 3. PEACE, by ARTHUR LEWIS JENKINS Poem Source First Line: Surely the bitterness of death is past Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I SONNET WRITTEN IN THE FALL OF 1914: 1, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Awake, ye nations, slumbering supine Last Line: Man's broken word, and violated gods! Subject(s): World War I; First World War SONNET WRITTEN IN THE FALL OF 1914: 2, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far fall the day when england's realm shall see Last Line: Ere such a mighty work man rears on high! Subject(s): World War I; First World War SONNET WRITTEN IN THE FALL OF 1914: 3, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hearken, the feet of the destroyer tread Last Line: Ere yet thou close, o flower of christendom! Subject(s): World War I; First World War SONNET WRITTEN IN THE FALL OF 1914: 4, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As when the shadow of the sun's eclipse Last Line: Unapt for war, that gloom enshadow thee! Subject(s): World War I; First World War SONNET WRITTEN IN THE FALL OF 1914: 5, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I pray for peace; yet peace is but a prayer Last Line: Supreme when in all bosoms he be heard. Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War SONNET WRITTEN IN THE FALL OF 1914: 6, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is my faith, and my mind's heritage Last Line: That doth the greater births of time await! Subject(s): Faith; World War I; Belief; Creed; First World War SONNET WRITTEN IN THE FALL OF 1914: 7, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whence not unmoved I see the nations form Last Line: The hosts of thirty centuries have died. Subject(s): World War I; First World War SONNET: 1, by HENRY WILLIAM HUTCHINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see across the chasm of flying years Last Line: To wake again where helen and hector move. Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I; First World War SONNET: 1, by CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Saints have adored the lofty soul of you Last Line: I did not know and that I wished to know. Subject(s): World War I - Casualties SONNET: 18. ON THE LATE MASSACRE IN PIEDMONT, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Avenge, o lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Last Line: Early may fly the babylonian woe. Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 15 Subject(s): Heroism; Italy; Martyrs; War; Heroes; Heroines; Italians SONNET: 2, by HENRY WILLIAM HUTCHINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The falling rain is music overhead Last Line: "and sometimes, smiling, murmur, ""be it so!" Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War SONNET: 2, by CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Such, such is death: no triumph: no defeat Last Line: And blossoms and is you, when you are dead. Subject(s): Death; World War I - Casualties; Dead, The SONNET: 2. FEBRUARY AFTERNOON, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men heard this roar of parleying starlings, saw Last Line: That we have wrought him, stone-deaf and stone-blind. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Variant Title(s): February Afternoon Subject(s): Birds; Time; World War I; First World War SONNET: 25, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Let those who are in favour with their stars Last Line: Where I may not remove nor be removed. Subject(s): War SONNET: ELLIOTT IN FORT SUMTER, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And high amongst these chiefs of iron grain Last Line: Confer an antique immortality! Subject(s): American Civil War; Fort Sumter, South Carolina; United States - History SONNET: ON THE CHIVALRY OF THE PRESENT TIME, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Foolish souls and false! Who loudly cried Last Line: Who had not shunned earth's haughtiest chivalry. Subject(s): American Civil War; Chivalry; Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Confederacy SONNET: THE UNCERTAIN BATTLE, by DAVID GASCOYNE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Away the horde rode, in a storm of hail Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii; Second World War SONNET: THE UNCERTAIN BATTLE, by DAVID GASCOYNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Away the horde rode, in a storm of hail Last Line: Back down the hill, to say which side had lost Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii SONNET; OXFORD, 1916, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Darkling and groping, thin of blood, we wage Last Line: The old that erred and the young that died? Subject(s): World War I; First World War SONNETS FROM AN UNKNOWN IN WARTIME: 1, by BEATRICE WITTE RAVENEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They walk not softly, women who have known Last Line: This being the way of gods...Should I not know? Subject(s): War SONNETS FROM AN UNKNOWN IN WARTIME: 2, by BEATRICE WITTE RAVENEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night will be night, not this engulfing wave Last Line: Your new love holds you ... Would I let you go? Subject(s): War SONNETS FROM CHINA: 13, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far from a cultural centre he was used Last Line: Mountains and houses, may also be men Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): In Time Of War: 1 Subject(s): War SONS, by THOMAS WILLIAM HODGSON CROSLAND Poem Source First Line: We have sent them forth Alternate Author Name(s): Crosland, T. W. H. Subject(s): World War I SORLEY'S WEATHER, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When outside the icy rain / comes leaping helter-skelter Last Line: And the ghost of sorley. Subject(s): World War I; First World War SOSPAN FACH (THE LITTLE SAUCEPAN), by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four collier lads from ebbw vale %took shelter from a shower of hail Last Line: With what relief I watch them part %another note would break my heart! Subject(s): World War I SOUL OF A NATION', by OWEN SEAMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Little things of which we lately chattered Subject(s): World War I SOUTH OF GAZA, by EDWIN GERARD Poem Text First Line: Fared we afield in the gathering dusk from the lines in the rail-head camp Last Line: The swift hoofs sounded a roll of doom to the turkish arms that night! Alternate Author Name(s): Gerardy Subject(s): Cavalry; War SOUTH OF THE WALL WE FOUGHT, by WANG SHI-ZHEN+(1) Poem Source Last Line: And when dead, in his ancestral temple %he will eat his fill Subject(s): War SOUTH OF THE WALLS WE FOUGHT, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We fought last year at the sang-gan's source Last Line: The sage will use them only %when he cannot do otherwise Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): War SOUTH OF THE WALLS WE FOUGHT, by LI YE-SI Poem Source Last Line: Dawn's gaunt flesh will be evening's carrion, %and that will appease your hunger Subject(s): War SOUTH OF THE WALLS WE FOUGHT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: At dawn you went forth to battle, %and at evening did not return Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Death; War SOUTH PACIFIC, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Least enemy is the foe Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): World War Ii; Islands Of The Pacific; Second World War; Oceania SOUTHERN DEAD, by MORTON BRYAN WHARTON Poem Source First Line: Where are the men who at the call Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History SOUTHERN HOMES IN RUIN, by R. B. VANCE Poem Source First Line: Many a gray-haired sire has died Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History SOUTHERN REPUBLIC, by OLIVIA THOMAS Poem Source First Line: In the galaxy of nations Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; U.s. - History SOWJETUNION, 1941, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Close as we are, what can we suppose of the midnight sky Last Line: Ox-bow of a river, when the men %can't rise and return to their homes Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities SPAIN, by DON GORDON Poem Source First Line: Then we could not praise them; they were prone Last Line: The daughters they did not see. We inherit graves and guns Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) SPAIN - 1937, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday all the past. The language of size Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Class Struggle; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) SPAIN - 1937, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday all the past. The language of size Last Line: History to the defeated %may say alas but cannot help or pardon Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Class Struggle; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) SPAIN IN AMERICA, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When scarce the echoes of manila bay Last Line: "thou who wouldst teach us hope, with her who taught us prayer." Subject(s): Imperialism; Pelayo. First Christian King (d. 737); Santiago, Battle Of (1898); Spanish-american War (1898) 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 SPANISH CIVIL WAR, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thirty years ago tonight Last Line: Of the love of the world Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) SPANISH DESCENT, SELS., by DANIEL DEFOE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The word's gone out, and now they spread the main Subject(s): Spain - War Of Succession (1701-1714) SPANISH LIE, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This will be answered Last Line: There is time. %they can wait Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Variant Title(s): The Spanish Dea Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) SPANISH SEQUENCE, by NORMAN ROSTEN Poem Source First Line: He stands against the brick wall Last Line: Time will not forgive Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) SPANISH WAR, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, spain, already your tragic landscapes Last Line: And empty again - for a while. %for a little while Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) SPANISH WINGS: A LEAF FROM A LOG BOOK, by H. BABCOCK Poem Text First Line: Dropping down through tired skies Last Line: Our bodies gorged with the blood of legions. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Airplanes; Air Pilots SPANISH WINGS: SENOR, by H. BABCOCK Poem Text First Line: We slammed down 3000 feet Last Line: The rumble of the artillery paid no attention. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Airplanes; Air Pilots SPANISH WINGS: SENORITA, by H. BABCOCK Poem Text First Line: Spain has no need of you Last Line: -- I have such a short space to live. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Airplanes; Air Pilots SPEAK OUT, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And a vast paranoia sweeps across the land Last Line: Before they come for you! Subject(s): Politics & Government; War SPEAK OUT, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And a vast paranoia sweeps across the land Last Line: Before they come for you! Subject(s): Politics; War SPECIMEN DAYS: DEATH OF A WISCONSIN OFFICER, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another characteristic scene of that dark and bloody 1863, from notes Last Line: They yield the field Subject(s): Blood; Hospitals; Nurses; Physicians; Soldiers; War Injuries SPECIMEN DAYS: PATENT-OFFICE HOSPITAL, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: February 23. - I must not let the great hospital at the patent-office pass Last Line: From there, and it is now vacant again Subject(s): Amputees; Hospitals; Medicine; Military Service, Voluntary; Nurses; War Injuries SPECIMEN DAYS: THE REAL WAR WILL NEVER GET IN THE BOOKS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And so good-bye to the war. I know not how it may have been, or may Last Line: Military, has already been - buried in the grave, in eternal darkness Subject(s): Army - United States; Hospitals; Sickness; Soldiers; War Injuries SPIRIT WHOSE WORK IS DONE (WASHINGTON CITY, 1865), by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit whose work is done -- spirit of dreadful hours! Last Line: Let them identify you to the future in these songs. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History SPIT, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After this much time, it's still impossible. The ss man with his stiff hair Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii; Shoah; Judaism; Second World War SPIT, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After this much time, it's still impossible. The ss man with his stiff hair Last Line: Now therefore go,' he said, 'and I will be with thy mouth' Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii SPLENDIDLY DEAD; AFTER READING FOR POETS SLAIN IN WAR, by MARION DOYLE Poem Text First Line: Splendidly dead,' who dares such maudlin singing Last Line: But I hear the voice of lost song crying. Alternate Author Name(s): Doyle, Marion Stauffer Subject(s): Death; Peace; Poetry & Poets; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War SPOILS, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When all is over and you march for home Last Line: For fear they burn a hole through two-foot steel Variant Title(s): The Spoils Of Lov Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; War SPOILS OF WAR, by VERNON WATKINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world is weaned from this one dead by the thread of a shawl Subject(s): War SPOILS TO THE VICTORS, by ROSS CLARK Poem Source First Line: Always, when the conquerors come Last Line: In every conquered household Subject(s): Human Rights; Imperialism; War; Women SPOKEN FROM THE HEDGEROWS, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: To bring back a time and place. Subject(s): War SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: HARRY WILMANS, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was just turned twenty-one Last Line: A flag! A flag! Subject(s): Patriotism; Social Protest; Spanish-american War (1898) SPORTSMEN IN PARADISE, by T. P. CAMERON WILSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They left the fury of the fight Last Line: "and there's a cricket-field!" Alternate Author Name(s): Tipuca; Wilson, Tony P. Cameron Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I - Casualties SPREADING CROSS, by TAMBIMUTTU Poem Source First Line: Where, where shall we find us after wreck Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii SPRING, by F. M. H. D. Poem Source First Line: It's spring at home; I know the signs Subject(s): World War I SPRING, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: More powerful than the war-its terror and crime Last Line: Sounding your blooming rebec's harsh lament Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Pain; War SPRING 1942, by ROY FULLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once as we were sitting by Subject(s): Army Life; World War Ii; Drills & Minor Tactics; Second World War SPRING 1942, by ROY FULLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once as we were sitting by Last Line: O revolution in the whole %of human use of man and nature! Subject(s): Army Life; World War Ii SPRING 1943, by ROY FULLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The skies contain still groves of silver clouds Last Line: No, I will not believe that human art %can fail to make reality its heart Subject(s): World War Ii SPRING IN BELLEAU WOOD, by EVELYN NORCROSS SHERRILL Poem Text First Line: When spring returns to belleau wood Last Line: When spring returns to belleau wood. Subject(s): Belleau Wood, France; Spring; World War I; First World War SPRING IN THE TRENCHES, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: The racing clouds have borne her message down Last Line: Behold new life within the tomb of death %'importunate and vivid as before Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I SPRING IN WAR TIME, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I feel the spring far off, far off Last Line: Gray death? Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Spring; Women; World War I; First World War SPRING IN WAR-TIME, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now the sprinkled blackthorn snow Last Line: Not yet have the daisies grown %on your clay Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Women; World War I SPRING MCMXL, by DAVID GASCOYNE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: London bridge is falling down, rome's burnt, and babylon Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii; Second World War SPRING MCMXL, by DAVID GASCOYNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: London bridge is falling down, rome's burnt, and babylon Last Line: Of one they can still recognize, though scarcely understand Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii SPRING OFFENSIVE, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Halted against the shade of a last hill Last Line: Why speak they not of comrades that went under? Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War SPRING SNOW, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A spring snow coincides with plum blossoms Last Line: In memory people outline bodies on walls. Subject(s): Atomic Bomb - Victims; Nuclear War; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb SPRING [IN WAR-TIME], by HENRY TIMROD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring, with that nameless pathos in the air Last Line: "behold me! I am may!" Subject(s): American Civil War; Nature; South Carolina; Spring; United States - History SPRING, 1916, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slow, rigid, is this masquerade Last Line: Spring! God pity your mood! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War SPRING-SONG, 1939, by FRANK LAURENCE LUCAS Poem Source First Line: Once more the woodlands ring with birds - but not to the birds men harken Last Line: Heart, you have heard the spartan's word - 'we fight, then, in the shade' Subject(s): World War Ii SQUARING OURSELVES, by JAMES J. MONTAGUE Poem Source First Line: How many howled about josephus every time a Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I ST AUBIN D'AUBIGNE, by PAUL DEHN Poem Source First Line: It was only a small place and they had cheered us too much Subject(s): War ST. GEORGE'S DAY - YPRES, 1915, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To fill the gap, to bear the brunt Last Line: It is st. George's day. Subject(s): World War I - Great Britain ST. MIHIEL, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: They said the yankees wouldn't fight--that there was no living chance Last Line: That the yankees did come over—that the yanks are really there! Subject(s): Germany; United States; War; World War I; Germans; America; First World War ST. OUEN IN PICARDY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Gleams of english orchards dance Subject(s): World War I STALINGRAD, REVISITED, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Winterreise, storm and snow. U.S. Troops in bosnia tonight Last Line: By my bed and cried, wailing the city stalingrad, revisited Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities STALKING DRAGONFLIES ON MT. WASHUSETT, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: We hunt them Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities STAND ROUND, MY BRAVE BOYS!, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stand round, my brave boys! With heart and with Last Line: And chorus it, long live the king! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Soldiers; Victory; War STAND-TO, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn met me today as I walked over castle hill Last Line: But pinned to the heart of darkness a tattered fire-flag flies Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii STAND-TO: GOOD FRIDAY MORNING, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'd been on duty from two till four Last Line: And get my bloody old sins washed white! Subject(s): Army Life; Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Drills & Minor Tactics; First World War STANDING ON BRANT ROCK WITH A DEAD BROTHER, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: If someone had only jotted the date on the back Last Line: Nothing had happened, and everyone in the world was alive Subject(s): War STANZAS AGAINST FORGETTING, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You asked neither for glory nor tears Last Line: Twennty-three who called out la france as they fell Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): World War I STANZAS FOR 'EXAMINATION OF THE HERO IN TIME OF WAR', by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An immense drum rolls through a clamor of people Last Line: A challenge to a final solution Subject(s): War; Heroism STAR, by VICENTE HUIDOBRO Poem Source First Line: The book %and the door Last Line: Drinking the water of the mirror Subject(s): Airships; Memory; Stars; War STAR, by NICHOLAS MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I see heaven's high son on the lowly branch Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii STAR SPANGLED BANNER - WITH VARIATIONS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, say, can you sing from the start to the end Subject(s): National Song - United States; Patriotism; World War I STARLIGHT AT THE WINDOW, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: I squat in the attic Last Line: I wonder %whose son I ought to be Subject(s): War STARLING, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The starling in the ivy now Last Line: To show—his mother's eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Starlings; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War STARS, by AGNES MCCONNELL SLIGH Poem Source First Line: Can it be possible that these same stars Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I STARS GO OVER THE LONELY OCEAN, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unhappy about some far off things Last Line: Said the gamey black-maned wild boar %tusking the turf on mal paso mountain Subject(s): War STATE OF THE UNION: 14. THE PATRIARCHS AT THE RETURN TO CIVI, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They are at it again, the old soldiers Last Line: It out with baronial vehemence Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Variant Title(s): The Patriarchs At The Return To Civilian Rul Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; Victory; War STATE OF THE UNION: 23. CONCERNING MY COMMAND AND OTHER, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now all is being told Last Line: Not take over the market Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Nigerian Civil War; Soldiers STATE OF THE UNION: 4. RETURN OF THE HEROES, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They have all come back as if nothing Last Line: They were not among the countless dead Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Generals; Heroism; Homecoming; State Rights; War STATEMENT, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mr. Resident, %in the name of humanity and common decency, the poets Last Line: Yesterday we had a world to lose Subject(s): Politics; War STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE, by GEORGE BOWERING Poem Source First Line: Someone, please introduce the idea of god, if not christianity Last Line: Weapons of mass destruction on my world, americans! Subject(s): Politics; War STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE, by MARK DOTY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poetry has always been a voice fro those without voices, a Subject(s): Politics & Government; War STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE, by MARK DOTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poetry has always been a voice fro those without voices, a Last Line: Profiteering, to the careless destruction of life Subject(s): Politics; War STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE, by THEODORE H. GENOWAYS Poem Source First Line: In july 1917, siegfried sassoon composed his famous Last Line: Came before us by falling silent now Subject(s): Politics; War STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE, by PATRICIA HAMPL Poem Source First Line: Dear president bush: as a student during the vietnam war, I read walt Last Line: I offer them to you in the spirit of peace - may it prevail Subject(s): Politics; War STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE, by PETER LEVITT Poem Source First Line: Thank you so much for organizing this. In support of all Last Line: And there, we have not ben proven wrong Subject(s): Politics; War STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE, by MORTON JAY MARCUS Poem Source First Line: In recent years I've known that I was getting old because Last Line: Especially the administration's war-mongering, have sucked %the poetry out of me Subject(s): Politics; War STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It would not have been possible for me ever to trust Last Line: A greater danger to the united states than saddam %hussein Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Politics; War STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear mrs. Bush, / thank you for your invitation to the white house event Subject(s): Politics & Government; War STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear mr. Bush, %thank you for your invitation to the white house event Last Line: Wholeheartedly, together, at the white house. %sincerely, %robert pinsky Subject(s): Politics; War STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In recent days, as part of the attempt to sanitize and justify Subject(s): Politics & Government; War STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In recent days, as part of the attempt to sanitize and justify Last Line: There is still a sense of resistance and hope Subject(s): Politics; War STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE, by GRACE SCHULMAN Poem Source First Line: Who harms his brother harms himself. Who sets his family's Last Line: Innocent iraqi civilians. Honor their houses. Save them, our %spirit, our kin Subject(s): Politics; War STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE, by GARY SHORT Poem Source First Line: I've been living in guatemala for most of the past year Last Line: Political leaders to take care and urge restraint with our %use of american force Subject(s): Politics; War STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am in mexico and only now learned of the anti-war Last Line: Throw iraq's oil onto those brush fires? %every success to you, %w.D. Snodgrass Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Subject(s): Politics; War STATISTICS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Napoleon shifted Last Line: And the cool night stars. Subject(s): World War I; First World War STEPNEY GREEN, by JOHN SINGER Poem Source First Line: Where I was born, near stepney green Subject(s): War STILL FALLS THE RAIN; THE RAIDS, 1940. NIGHT AND DAWN, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Still falls the rain - / dark as the world of man, black as our loss Last Line: "still do I love, still shed my innocent light, my blood, for thee." Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Crucifixion; Religion; World War Ii; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology; Second World War STOIC: FOR LAURA VON COURTEN, by EDGAR BOWERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All winter long you listened for the boom Last Line: Becomes at last no meaning and no place Subject(s): World War Ii STOICS, by EDWIN JOHN PRATT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They were the oaks and beeches of our species Last Line: To those who flag us at the danger curves %along the quivering labyrinth of nerves? Alternate Author Name(s): Pratt, E. J. Subject(s): World War Ii STONE AND FLOWER, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in america, / by the other ocean Subject(s): England; Poetry & Poets; United States; War; English; America STONE AND FLOWER, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in america, %by the other ocean Last Line: Sky to the black water %and turns it all to ice Subject(s): England; Poetry And Poets; United States; War STONES AND BONES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is a country where old men Last Line: "their tongue is somebody else's child Subject(s): Politics & Government; War STONES AND BONES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is a country where old men Last Line: Red and white and blue Subject(s): Politics; War STONES OF GREECE, by STEPHEN LUCIUS GWYNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pure, cold beyond the dream of death or birth Last Line: Our place is with our maker, and our pride Subject(s): World War Ii STONEWALL JACKSON, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fashions and the forms of men decay Last Line: To know the long fruition of the just! Subject(s): American Civil War; Jackson, Thomas (stonewall) (1824-1863); United States - History STONEWALL JACKSON (ASCRIBED TO A VIRGINIAN), by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One man we claim of wrought renown Last Line: "and he fell in the south's great war." Subject(s): American Civil War; Jackson, Thomas (stonewall) (1824-1863); U.s. - History STONEWALL JACKSON'S WAY, by JOHN WILLIAMSON PALMER Poem Text First Line: Come, stack arms, men! Pile on the rails Last Line: That gets in stonewall's way. Subject(s): American Civil War; Chancellorsville, Battle Of (1863); Jackson, Thomas (stonewall) (1824-1863); Patriotism; United States - History STONEWALL JACKSON; MORTALLY WOUNDED AT CHANCELLORSVILLE, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man who fiercest charged in fight Last Line: Because no wreath we owe. Subject(s): American Civil War; Jackson, Thomas (stonewall) (1824-1863); United States - History STONEWALL'S REQUIEM, by M. DEEVES Poem Source First Line: The muffled drum is beating Subject(s): American Civil War; Jackson, Thomas (stonewall) (1824-1863); U.s. - History STONK, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: Your stonk is your amreican way of winning your war Last Line: Your stonk being your american way of doing war Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii STOP-LOSS, by HICOK. BOB Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Absolutely, I agree. It’s what we all Last Line: Without ropes, in a pink dress, laughing Subject(s): War STORM, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The storm splattering the tough magnolia Last Line: You waved to me - and stepped into darkness Subject(s): World War I STORM; PROVINCETOWN, by JENNIFER ROSE Poem Source First Line: Last night's rain fell as thick as gettysburg's volleys Last Line: How the bell and foghorn learn each other's language Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Heroism; Military; Soldiers; U.s. - History; War - Casualties (statistics, Etc.) STORMED EAGLE, by JOHN LEE HIGGINS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The victor's fifes are heard Last Line: And the small gaping beaks. Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Victory; War STORY I CAN'T TELL, by PETER HEARNS LIOTTA Poem Source First Line: Forty-three years ago today Subject(s): World War Ii STORY OF THE GREAT WAR, by RODNEY JONES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Far off and horrible. I hope it is not true Last Line: Almost fifty years ago they left him %suffering and alive, student of language Subject(s): War STOW-ON-THE-WOLD, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I met an old man at stow-on-the-wold Last Line: "and each was a tall and a lively lad." Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers & Sons; Soldiers; Sons; War; Death - Babies STRANDING, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What came wafting Subject(s): Lebanon; War STRANGE, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange that we two, who love all quiet things Last Line: Locked in the grim fatality of war. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): World War I; First World War STRANGE FEAST, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Went to war, returned, found peace Last Line: Likes to walk the streets now, and the desolate beach Subject(s): Love; Memory; Peace; Regret; Solitude; Walking; War STRANGE MEETING, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: It seemed that out of battle I escaped Last Line: "let us sleep now. . . ." Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Hell; Regret; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; Nightmares; First World War STRANGE SCENT, by TAMARA LAULANI WONG-MORRISON Poem Source First Line: Hear the beating of the pahu Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans STRANGE SCENTS, THAT MINGLE ON THE SULTRY AIR., by GASTON DE RUYTER Poem Source Last Line: My pale arms bloodied by your mouth's fierce bite Subject(s): World War I STRANGER, STRANGER, by JORGE MATEUS DE LIMA Poem Source First Line: And when the assyrians stopped waging war against the Last Line: Continues to bury the dead on this wayward planet Subject(s): Death; Humanity; United Nations; War STRATFORD UPON AVON, by IVOR JOHN CARNEGIE BROWN Poem Source First Line: No more the stream is gilded Last Line: Where the poet is the beacon %and every line a blaze Subject(s): World War Ii STRATIS THALASSINOS AMONG THE AGAPANTHI, by GEORGE SEFERIS Poem Source First Line: There are no asphodels, violets or hyacinths Last Line: On the blackened ridge of psara Subject(s): Greek War Of Independence (1821-1832) STREETS OF LAREDO, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O early one morning I walked out like agag Last Line: Lay down the red carpet - my dowry is death Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): War STRENGTH TO WAR, by STEPHEN STEPANCHEV Poem Source First Line: Dear stranger reading this small, true book Subject(s): War STRETCHER CASE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He woke; the clank and racket of the train Last Line: Lung tonic, mustard, liver pills and beer. Variant Title(s): Blighty Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War STRIKE THE BLOW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The four-way winds of the world have blown Last Line: Ye are king of the land and king of the foam. / strike the blow! Subject(s): Cuba;sea Battles;spanish-american War (1898); Naval Warfare STRIKE THE BLOW, by F. MCK. Poem Source First Line: The four-way winds of the world have blown Subject(s): Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898) STRUCTURE OF EMPIRICAL LAW, by SAM RASNAKE Poem Source First Line: Careful observation Last Line: It shouldn't be done again Subject(s): Bethe, Hans Albrecht (b. 1906); Nuclear War STRUGGLE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The worlds are at war Last Line: That I may be glad and strong. Subject(s): War STUART, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A cup of your potent 'mountain dew' Last Line: "ay, you and I shall be there." Subject(s): American Civil War; Stuart, James Ewell (jeb) (1833-1864); United States - History STUDY IN EVOLUTION: FROM MR. ASQUITH AND THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT, by A. B. CURTIS Poem Source First Line: And for your service and your sacrifice Last Line: We grant you votes Subject(s): World War I SUBALTERNS, by ELIZABETH DARYUSH Poem Source First Line: She said to one: how glows Last Line: Now, life's so deadly slow Subject(s): Women; World War I SUBALTERNS: A SONG OF OXFORD, by MILDRED HUXLEY Poem Text First Line: They had so much to lose; their radiant laughter Last Line: And find the grail ev'n in the fire of hell. Subject(s): Oxford University; World War I - Great Britain SUBMARINES, by JOHN GRAHAM BOWER Poem Source First Line: When the breaking wavelets pass ... To the sky Subject(s): Submarines; World War I SUDDENLY ONE DAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): World War I SUICIDE IN THE TRENCHES, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew a simple soldier boy Last Line: The hell where youth and laughter go. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War SUICIDE NOTE, by MARIO MILOSEVIC Poem Source First Line: The plaque on the pioneer spacecraft Last Line: Which just wanted everything to die Subject(s): Politics; War SUITE FOR HARRY GWYNN (1920-1944), by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: Under the ferns, eight bones. Enough Last Line: They never went a-roving anymore Subject(s): War SUMMARY OF THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE BOMBER AND THE OBJECTIVE, by WALTER BENTON Poem Source First Line: How slenderly Subject(s): War SUMMER IN ENGLAND, 1914, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On london fell a clearer light Last Line: The very kiss of christ. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Women; World War I; First World War SUMMER OF LOVE, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: I went to sea in the summer of love Last Line: And we would never lose Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History SUMTER, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So they will have it! Last Line: On with the cannon! Subject(s): American Civil War; Fort Sumter, South Carolina; Patriotism; United States - History SUMTER - A BALLAD OF 1861, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Twas on the twelfth of april Last Line: "our soil's redeemed from hateful yoke, / we'll keep it pure or die" Subject(s): "american Civil War;confederate States Of America;fort Sumter, South Carolina;u.s. - History;" Confederacy SUMTER [APRIL 12, 1861], by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Came the morning of that day / when the god to whom we pray Last Line: For the sin! Variant Title(s): The Twelfth Of April Subject(s): American Civil War; Fort Sumter, South Carolina; United States - History SUN AND MOON FLOWERS: PAUL KLEE, 1879-1940, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: First, there is the memory of the dead priest in norway Last Line: With its ice water, blue spikes of lupine, and morphine. Subject(s): Europe; Klee, Paul (1879-1940); Paintings & Painters; Sickness; World War Ii; Illness; Second World War SUN AS SPINNING TOP: 1, by FRANCIS PONGE Poem Source First Line: It is perfectly natural for the sun to shine initially Last Line: Every object finds its place between two rolls of the drum Subject(s): World War Ii SUNDAY PAPERS, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The butchery of the innocent Subject(s): War; Sabbath; Religion; Innocence; Sunday; Theology SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FROM CAPT. DANIEL MAYHEW, USAAF, RET., by WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE Poem Source First Line: Big voiced, g. I. Husky, he strained Last Line: The next sunday, miss branson read to us %of lot, god's grief, and the burning cities Subject(s): World War Ii SUNDAY, JULY 14TH: A FINE DAY AT THE BATHS, by JULIAN SYMONS Poem Source First Line: Examine the mirror closely, and your face Subject(s): War SUNDOWN IN VIRGINIA, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: This is a strange world. Onct, I wouldn't thank Last Line: Do me a favor, will you? Call me yank! Subject(s): Soldiers; Virginia (state); War; World War I; First World War SUNFLOWERS OF SULLIVAN BALLOU, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: I dream you come to me at four in the morning Last Line: Ballou dies believing everything is lost Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) SUNSET, by THOMAS WILLIAM HODGSON CROSLAND Poem Text First Line: Sickle moon and smouldering star Last Line: Beauty burning in the west. Alternate Author Name(s): Crosland, T. W. H. Subject(s): Death; Evening; War; Dead, The; Sunset; Twilight SUNSET ON GIBRALTAR, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis sweet upon a summer eve to stand Last Line: Far buena vista's lights allure my weary feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Gibraltar; Soldiers; Spain - History; War; Weariness; Fatigue SUPPOSE WAR IS COMING, by ALFRED LICHTENSTEIN Poem Source Last Line: Will rise and shells will explode overhead Subject(s): World War I SURELY THE DREAMS, by DOUGLAS GIBSON Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii SURVIVOR COMES HOME, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Despair and doubt in the blood: %autumn, a smell rotten-sweet Last Line: Safe home' safe? Twig and bough %drip, drip, drip with death Subject(s): World War I SURVIVORS, by ALAN ROSS Poem Source First Line: With the ship burning in their eyes Last Line: The confusion and the oily dead %nor yet the casual knack of living Subject(s): War SURVIVORS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No doubt they'll soon get well; the shock and strain Last Line: Children, with eyes that hate you, broken and mad. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War SWARMING, by A. A. HEDGE COKE Poem Source First Line: Swarming upward %hosts thicken air as hornets Last Line: In just one thoughtful breath %breathe, breathe deep Subject(s): Politics; War SWIFTNESS WITH WHICH THOSE CITIES FELL: 2. A SKIRMISH AT EL-NEJD, by DENNIS NURKSE Poem Source First Line: War to extinction against a country we've never seen Last Line: And the dazzling heat of el-nejd? Subject(s): Cities; War SWIFTNESS WITH WHICH THOSE CITIES FELL: 3. THE AIR BRIDGE, by DENNIS NURKSE Poem Source First Line: We bombed %until the enemy was immortal Last Line: Tripwired to return our fire? Subject(s): Bombs; War SWIFTNESS WITH WHICH THOSE CITIES FELL: 4. THE ABSOLUTE RULER, by DENNIS NURKSE Poem Source First Line: If we could rid the world %of the one face Last Line: And his gunships patrol the north Subject(s): War SWIFTNESS WITH WHICH THOSE CITIES FELL: 5. THE HUMAN SHIELD, by DENNIS NURKSE Poem Source First Line: Why did he put mothers and children Last Line: And the coming of the great winds Subject(s): Shields; War SWIFTNESS WITH WHICH THOSE CITIES FELL: 6. THE WILL TO RESIST...., by DENNIS NURKSE Poem Source First Line: My great-grandfather combs %in the dim mirror Last Line: Unconditional surrender. It is at hand Subject(s): Family Life; War SWIFTNESS WITH WHICH THOSE CITIES FELL: 7. THE WINDY SEASON ....., by DENNIS NURKSE Poem Source First Line: After the parachutists disguised as leaves Last Line: Faces that survive me Subject(s): Survival; War SWIFTNESS WITH WHICH THOSE CITIES FELL: 8. A PRAYER FOR NEWS, by DENNIS NURKSE Poem Source First Line: In the middle of a meal %we checked the dial Last Line: Why did we imagine it was the war? Subject(s): Food And Eating; Survival; War SWIFTS, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bing crosby died in spain Subject(s): Crosby, Bing (harry Lillis) (1904-1977); Franco, Francisco (1892-1975); Singing & Singers; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) SWORD SONG, by KARL THEODORE KORNER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thou sword at my left side Alternate Author Name(s): Korner, Charles Theodore Subject(s): Courage; War SWORD-BEARER, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Brave morris saw the day was lost Subject(s): War SYNTHESIS, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here you had taken me in summer, in peace Last Line: Your smile and piccadilly's blood-red walls. Subject(s): War SYRIA, 1997, by SARAH BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: At dawn the salt flats Last Line: Turning, going home Subject(s): Politics; War T'ANG FISHERMEN, by DANA NAONE HALL Poem Source First Line: I will recognize you Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans TAILLEFER THE MINSTREL, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Duke william the norman spake out one day Last Line: "shall ring in my ears for my whole life long!" Subject(s): War TAILLEFER THE TROUVERE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They sailed in their long gray galleys, they tossed on the narrow sea Last Line: On the verge of the fight at senlac with a song upon his lips! Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Sea Battles; War; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines; Naval Warfare TAKE A LETTER TO DMITRI SHOSTAKOVITCH, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All over america last sunday afternoon goes your symphony no. 7 Subject(s): Russia; World War Ii; Soviet Union; Russians; Second World War TAKE A LETTER TO DMITRI SHOSTAKOVITCH, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All over america last sunday afternoon goes your symphony no. 7 Last Line: Contribution to the meanings of human freedom and discipline Subject(s): Russia; World War Ii TAKE UP THE WINGS, by LAWRENCE LEE Poem Source First Line: Deliberately chime %the sounds that end a year Last Line: To signal in our flight %the flooding source of light Subject(s): World War Ii TAKING HER TO THE OPEN MARKET, by WING TEK LUM Poem Source First Line: Scales glisten Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans TAKING OFF, by ELIZABETH HARRISON Poem Source First Line: To die in spring, to join one's fleeting breath Last Line: While ardent still it pulses, to inspire %a spring eternal, young as the robin's phrases Subject(s): World War Ii TALE OF A DOORKNOB, by MORTON JAY MARCUS Poem Source First Line: A lieutenant salutes his major, nods to an enlisted man Last Line: For merciless vengeance in his own land Subject(s): Politics; War TALE OF TWO DECADES, by VERNON FRAZER Poem Source First Line: Anzio, d-day, the ...' Subject(s): World War Ii TALK, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So many were there talking that I heard Last Line: Her nobleness the indignity of defence. Subject(s): World War I - Great Britain TAMMUZ, by RAYNER HEPPENSTALL Poem Source First Line: At first I went apart Subject(s): War TANKA: DEATH AT THE CAMP, by KEIHO YASUTARO SOGA Poem Source First Line: The barren wasteland Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners; World War Ii - Japanese-americans TANKS, by OSCAR C. A. CHILD Poem Source First Line: Yes, back at home I used to drive a tram Subject(s): World War I TANSU I, by RAYNETTE TAKIZAWA Poem Source First Line: In old tansu drawers Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans TAP OF DRUM FOR DRILL AND DRESS PARADE, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: I picture you walking through the wrought iron gate Last Line: Desert storm sunglasses %purchased in k-mart Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) TAPS AT TWILIGHT, by ARTHUR JOHN ARBUTHNOTT STRINGER Poem Source First Line: Blow softly, bugles, for our honoured dead Last Line: The riddled flag of honour floats unfurled! Alternate Author Name(s): Arbuthnott, John Subject(s): World War Ii TARDY GEORGE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "what are you waiting for, george, I pray?" Last Line: "but to drill and cypher, and hammer and forge - / what are you waiting for, tardy george?" Subject(s): "american Civil War;mcclellan, George Brinton (1826-1885);u.s. - History; TARGET, by IVOR GURNEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I shot him, and it had to be Last Line: And god he takes no sort of heed. %this is a bloody mess indeed Subject(s): World War I TEARS, by TUMADIR BINT IBN AL-SHARID AL-KHANSA Poem Text First Line: Tears, ere thy death, for many a one I shed Last Line: (r. A. Nicholson) Alternate Author Name(s): Tumardir Bint `amir Al-harith Ibn Ash-sharid; Al-khansa Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Grief; Tears; War; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness TEARS AND WAILS: AN ODE TO THE SURVIVOR, by FINTAN L. DOOLEY Poem Source First Line: Tears of my sleepless fellow, I do remember Last Line: Sure, he said, I do remember. She did promise to wait for me Subject(s): Gulf War (1991); Militarism; Soldiers; Survival; War Injuries TECUMSEH AND THE EAGLES, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tecumseh of the shawnees Last Line: "ye will have lived in vain!" Variant Title(s): The War Cry Of The Eagles Subject(s): Freedom; World War I - Canada; Liberty TELL ME, STRANGER, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: Tell me, stranger, is it true Last Line: Are all the dappled fields of kew %bowing to their lord the spring? Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I TELLING THE BEES (AN OLD GLOUCESTERSHIRE SUPERSTITION), by G. E. REES Poem Text First Line: They dug no grave for our soldier lad, who fought and who died out there Last Line: And the tempest that bore his shouts before shall cry his message still. Subject(s): World War I - Casualties TELLING THEM OF TAMPA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "weary months I've spent in tampa, where the luscious hardtack grows" Last Line: Down at -- o! Confound old tampa. Sister! Won't you pass / the cake! Subject(s): Camping;war Bonds;weariness; Camps;summer Camps;fatigue TEMPERANCE WARFARE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Arouse ye! Arouse ye! The foe is at large Last Line: As a christian mother devoted to duty. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): England; Temperance; War; English; Prohibition TEN DAYS LEAVE, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He steps down from the dark train, blinking; stares Last Line: Their sleep and black them out. He wonders when %he'll grow into his sleep so sound again Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; World War Ii TEN THOUSAND TOMMY ATKINSES WENT FORTH INTO THE FRAY, by MORRIE RYSKIND Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Lord so-and-so is safe and sound-the others never mind! Subject(s): World War I 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 TENT CITY, HOMELESS SHELTER, HOOVERVILLES, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Corlears hook. Terns and cormorants stotter along the fuel dock Last Line: In starched white sheets on army cots and grope towards sleep Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities TENT-MATES, by LINCOLN KIRSTEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's no cinch to live together Last Line: Answers are articles of war: %men are seldom brothers Subject(s): Army Life; World War Ii TENTH ARMISTICE DAY, by S. GERTRUDE FORD Poem Source First Line: Lest we forget!' let us remember then Last Line: Build their memorial in the league of nations! Subject(s): Women; World War I TEREUS PROCNE AND PHILOMELA [OVID: METAMORPHOSES BOOK 6,11.424-647], by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tereus of thrace had raised that siege Last Line: With a huge beak in place of his long sword %the hoopoe which seems armed as though for war Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Holidays; Mythology - Classical; Victory; War TERMINAL COLLOQUY, by CHARLES MARTIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O where will you go when the blinding flash Last Line: Nothing, after the blinding flash. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb TERMONDE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In wrecked termonde, that 'mid the tramp / and bellow Last Line: Motherhood, scatheless, lived divinely on. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): War TERMS, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One-armed, one-legged, and one-headed Last Line: But he says softly: “I am a man” Subject(s): World War Ii - Casualties TERRA AUSTRALIS, by CHRIS WALLACE-CRABBE Poem Source First Line: Here, and here only in an age of iron Last Line: Far, far away, beyond some wicked wood Subject(s): War TERRAPIN WAR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "huzza for our liberty, boys" Last Line: "and drive them headlong in the waters. / oh, this is great terrapin war!" Subject(s): War Of 1812 TERRIFIC TORPEDOES; OR, SIR THOMAS HARDY'S SOLILOQUY, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then traitor come! As black revenge excites Last Line: Where you will have no beds to make, %nor I be doomed to lie awake Subject(s): Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928); Navy - United States; Poetry And Poets; War Of 1812 TERRITORIALS, by AGNES S. FALCONER Poem Source First Line: Where are the lads who went out to the war? Subject(s): World War I TERRITORY AHEAD, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: We lie lazily in bed Last Line: Thinking %of the territory ahead Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) TERROR, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not pinics nor pageants or the improbable Subject(s): Terror; War; Airplane Accidents; Air Crashes; Aeronautics - Accidents; Airplane Collisions TERROR, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not picnics or pageants or the improbable Last Line: Kisses the terror; for you see an empty chair Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; War TEST OF BATTLE, by OWEN SEAMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We are not good at shouting in the street Subject(s): World War I TESTIMONY, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was going to make something of it Subject(s): Nuclear War THANKSGIVING, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: Do you suppose the indians Last Line: Was left fortunately in doubt Subject(s): War THANKSGIVING, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Yes--we give thanks. Thanks that the fight is won Last Line: Waves in the forefront of a better world! Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving; United States; World War I; America; First World War THANKSGIVING, by EDWARD SHILLITO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Before the winter's haunted nights are o'er Subject(s): World War I THAT DAY, by MAREK BATEROWICZ Poem Source First Line: That day Last Line: If you were trying to close them Subject(s): Government; Military; Military Justice; Poland; War THAT DAY, by MARK VAN DOREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even if wars to come sleep warm and small Subject(s): War THAT EXPLOIT OF YOURS, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I meet two soldiers sometimes here in hell Last Line: Are saying the selfsame words at this very moment %concerning that exploit of yours Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): World War I THAT HAVE NO DOUBTS', by JOHN GRAHAM BOWER Poem Source First Line: The last resort of kings are we ... Subject(s): World War I THAT IS WHY OUR SONS ARE HEROES, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: I was awaiting something else, my hopes were of a different kind Last Line: That is why our sons are heroes! Subject(s): Heroism; Memory; Soldiers; War; Heroes; Heroines THAT OTHER WAR, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bird sings in the tree you planted Last Line: Handing out coupons and samples. Subject(s): Death; Heroism; War; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines THAT WOODEN CROSS, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That wooden cross beside the road Last Line: That wooden cross! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE 'CANNON FEVER', by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tide of things should flow less troubled, sure Last Line: And barren battle hath his hopes and fears! Subject(s): War THE 'VARUNA', by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who has not heard of the dauntless varuna Last Line: Oh! For the dead let us all kneel to pray! Subject(s): American Civil War; New Orleans, Battle Of (1862); United States - History; Varuna (ship) THE ABSENT BOY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They miss him in the orchard, where the fruit is sunning over Last Line: For somewhere in the thick of strife they know their boy is there Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Absence; Army - United States; Unknown Soldier; War; Separation; Isolation THE ACCUSING HANDS; A 1918 MEMORIAL DAY THOUGHT, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I had a vision of the nearer past Last Line: The clay that wore the khaki and the blue! Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Sacrifices; Soldiers; World War I; Declaration Day; First World War THE ADDED STARTER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: They're lining up at the starting point, they're Last Line: The yankee horse looks 'round and sees—the kaiser's mount fall dead. Subject(s): Germany; United States; War; World War I; Germans; America; First World War THE ADVANCE, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out the barred window sandbags Subject(s): Lebanon; War; Dolls; Death - Children; Death - Babies THE ADVANCE GUARD, by JOHN MILTON HAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the dream of the northern poets Last Line: And the battle of life be won. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History THE ADVENTURE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To-day I killed a tiger near my shack Last Line: With clotted blood. Subject(s): Animals; Tigers; World War I; First World War THE AISNE (1914-15), by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We first saw fire on the tragic slopes Last Line: We helped to hold the lines along the aisne. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE ALABAMA, by MAURICE BELL Poem Text First Line: She has gone to the bottom! The wrath of the tide Last Line: And the brave ship that bore him to glory! Subject(s): Alabama (ship); American Civil War; Sea Battles; United States - History; Naval Warfare THE ALARM, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Twas fairly done, mortalitie Last Line: Not by surprize, my life I'd loose. Subject(s): Fear; Mortality; War THE ANARCHONISM OF WAR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dead men, cripples, womens' tears Last Line: If such things can be on earth? Subject(s): War THE ANCIENT SACRIFICE, by MAHLON LEONARD FISHER Poem Text First Line: Ye dead and gone great armies of the world Last Line: About the blood-stained shrine of bygone wars! Subject(s): Death; History; Legacies; Military; Sacrifices; War; Dead, The; Historians THE ANCRE AT HAMEL: AFTERWARDS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where tongues were loud and hearts were light Last Line: And shared its wounded moan. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE ANGELS AT HAMBURG, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In caves emptied of their workers, turning Last Line: Rides over his city like a star Subject(s): Hamburg, Germany; Bombs; World War Ii - Germany THE ANGELS OF BUENA VISTA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Speak and tell us, our ximena, looking northward far away Last Line: And still thy white-winged angels hover dimly in our air! Subject(s): Buena Vista, Battle Of (1847); Taylor, Zachary (1784-1850); United States - Mexican War (1846-1848) THE ANNIVERSARY, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the night I come to my room Last Line: The flesh of his forehead, and old scar. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Fathers & Sons; Memory; Scars; World War Ii; Second World War THE ANSWER OF THE LORD, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How long, o lord, how long' Last Line: "that I have made you men." Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE ANVIL, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Burned from the ore's rejected dross Last Line: And shape us to the end we mean! Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE ANXIOUS DEAD, by JOHN MCCRAE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O guns, fall silent till the dead men hear Last Line: And in content may turn them to their sleep. Subject(s): World War I - Casualties THE ANZACS, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: No straws weighed they of the right or wrong Last Line: And shrines in her heart the dead. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Heaven; Soldiers; War; Graveyards; Dead, The; Paradise THE APHRODISIAC, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Power is my aphrodisiac Last Line: Before a grenade explodes. Subject(s): Conspiracy; Politics; Violence; War; Politicians; Political Poetry THE ARMIES OF THE WILDERNESS (1863-4), by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like snows the camps on southern hills Last Line: Of the funeral light. Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History; Wilderness Campaign (1864) THE ARMSTRONG AT FAYAL, by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the sun sets red, the moon shines white Last Line: Of the yankee privateer. Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): Azores; General Armstrong (ship); Mountains; Navy - United States; War Of 1812; Hills; Downs (great Britain); American Navy THE ARMY LAUNDRESS, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: Beside a somber sally port upon a bastioned isle Last Line: The bravest of the cavaliers of sheila shanahan. Subject(s): Laundry & Laundering; War THE ARMY OF THE DEAD, by BARRY PAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed that overhead Last Line: Salute! Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE ARMY OF THE LORD, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To fight the battle of the cross, christ's Last Line: "o grave, where is thy victory! O death, where is thy sting!" Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Religion; Sin; Soul; War; Dead, The; Theology THE ARSENAL AT SPRINGFIELD, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the arsenal. From floor to ceiling Last Line: The holy melodies of love arise. Subject(s): American Civil War; Peace; Springfield, Massachusetts; United States - History THE ART OF WAR: THE FEAST OF BLOOD, by JOSEPH FAWCETT Poem Text First Line: What mean these showy and these sounding signs Last Line: Light-footed trip,—the feast, the feast of blood! Subject(s): Blood; War THE ARTILLERYMAN'S VISION, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While my wife at my side lies slumbering, and the wars are over long Last Line: And bombs bursting in air, and at night the vari-color'd rockets. Subject(s): American Civil War; Army Life; United States - History; Drills & Minor Tactics THE ASHANTEE WAR: THE FALL OF COOMASSIE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1874, and on new year's day Last Line: And the reception they received was very grand. Subject(s): Enemies; Failure; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Great Britain - Foreign Relations; War; British Empire; England - Empire THE ASPIRATION, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two days he rode: the sun at morn Last Line: From sky to sky the same Subject(s): Ambition; Crusades; Death; War; Dead, The THE ASSAULT, by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The beating of the guns grows louder Last Line: Cool madness. Subject(s): Army Life; Fights; Military; Soldiers; War; Drills & Minor Tactics THE ASSAULT HEROIC, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down in the mud I lay Last Line: "attack! Stand to! Stand to!" Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE ATHEIST'S TRAGEDY, by CYRIL TOURNEUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw my nephew charlemont but now Last Line: [exeunt. Subject(s): Revenge; Tragedy; War THE ATHENIAN DEAD, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On dirphy's wrinkled side we fell Last Line: That darkened all our day. Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos Subject(s): War THE ATTACK, by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In hampton roads, the airs of march were bland Last Line: She sank, thank god! Unsoiled by foot of traitor! Subject(s): American Civil War; Cumberland (ship); Hampton Roads, Virginia; Morris, George Upham; Sea Battles; U.s. - History; Virginia (ship); Naval Warfare; Merrimac (ship) THE AUXILIARY CRUISER, by NOEL MARCUS FRANCIS CORBETT Poem Text First Line: The day closed in a wrath of cloud. The gale Last Line: "sir humphrey gilbert hailed them; ""be of cheer!" Subject(s): World War I - Naval Actions THE AVENUE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up the long colonnade I press, and strive Last Line: To seek and serve the beauty that must die. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE BALLAD OF CHICKAMAUGA [SEPTEMBER 19-20, 1863], by JAMES MAURICE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By chickamauga's crooked stream the martial trumpets blew Last Line: As one old soldier's ballad borne on breath of battle-song. Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, Maurice Subject(s): American Civil War; Chickamauga, Battle Of (1863); Thomas, George Henry (1816-1870); United States - History THE BALLAD OF ISHMAEL DAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: One summer morning a daring band Last Line: His fame shall be fresh and young alway - / honor be to old I shmael day! Subject(s): American Civil War;gettysburg Campaign (1863);u.s. - History; "gettysburg, Battle Of; THE BALLAD OF NEW ORLEANS, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just as the hour was darkest Last Line: Were resting the will and the power. Subject(s): American Civil War; Farragut, David Glascow (1801-1870); New Orleans, Battle Of (1862); United States - History THE BALLAD OF SOULFUL SAM, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You want me to tell you a story, a yarn of the firin' line Last Line: I'd only -- a deck of cards, boys, but . . . It seemed to do just the same. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE BALLAD OF ST. BARBARA, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the long gray lines came flooding upon paris in the plain Last Line: That opened like the eye of god on paris in the plain. Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): Barbara, Saint (200 A.d.); Marne, Battles Of, The (1914 & 1918); World War I; First World War THE BALLAD OF THE ARMY, by TU FU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chariots rumble and roar Last Line: "with darkened sky, and drenching rain,—a melancholy sound!" Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): Army - China; Soldiers; War THE BAND OF GIDEON, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: The band of gideon roam the sky Last Line: "the sword of the lord and gideon." Subject(s): Thunder; War THE BANKRUPT PEACE MAKER, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I opened the ink well and smoke filled the room Last Line: "will you bring your fine peace to the nations today?" Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War THE BARDS; TO THE SOLDIERS OF CARACTACUS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Valiant sons of freedom's land Last Line: Free as the light, the wave, the wind! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Bards; Caratacus (1st Century); Great Britain - Roman Conquest; Patriotism; War THE BATH: AUGUST 6, 1945, by KIMIKO HAHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bathing the summer night Last Line: And to take hold. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Atomic Bomb - Victims; Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War; Peace; Radiation & Radiation Sickness; Social Protest; Survival; War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb THE BATTLE, by CH'U YUAN Poem Text First Line: We grasp our battle spears: we don our breast-plates of Last Line: Captains among the ghosts, heroes among the dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); War THE BATTLE, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heavy and solemn / a cloudy column Last Line: There's another, in which we shall meet you once more! Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): War THE BATTLE, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Helmet and rifle, pack and overcoat Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War THE BATTLE AUTUMN OF 1862, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The flags of war like storm-birds fly Last Line: Ring peace and freedom in. Subject(s): American Civil War; Autumn; Seasons; United States - History; Fall THE BATTLE CRY OF THE SOUTH, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brothers! The thunder-cloud is black Last Line: And the god of the maccabees! Subject(s): Bible; Soldiers; Southern States; War; South (u.s.) THE BATTLE FIELD, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! There be some Subject(s): War THE BATTLE FIELD, by WILLIAM HERBERT (1778-1847) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slow struggling through the mist Last Line: Touch'd by no thought of sufferings. Subject(s): War THE BATTLE FOR THE BAY (AUGUST, 1864), by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mystery of noble hearts Last Line: Because of the tecumseh's glorious deed. Subject(s): American Civil War; Farragut, David Glascow (1801-1870); Mobile Bay, Battle Of (1864); U.s. - History THE BATTLE FOR THE MISSISSIPPI (APRIL, 1862), by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When israel camped by migdol hoar, Last Line: Who nobly yield their lives in this. Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History THE BATTLE IN THE CLOUDS, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the dews and the rains of heaven have their Last Line: Chanting solemn music for the souls that passed below. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): American Civil War; Lookout Mountain, Battle Of (1863); United States - History THE BATTLE OF ABU KLEA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye sons of mars, come join with me Last Line: Then the square was re-formed and the battle was o'er. Subject(s): Army - Great Britain; Praise; Soldiers; Victory; War 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 BATTLE OF ATBARA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye sons of great britain, pray list to me Last Line: And to annihilate barbarity, and to establish what is right. Subject(s): Death; Great Britain - History; Rifles; War; Dead, The; English History THE BATTLE OF BALTIMORE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "old ross, cockburn, and cochrane too" Last Line: That america may always boast / that we are brave virginians Subject(s): "baltimore, Maryland;war Of 1812; THE BATTLE OF BANNOCKBURN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sir robert the bruce at bannockburn Last Line: The day he came to bannockburn! Subject(s): Bannockburn, Battle Of (1314); Soldiers; Victory; War THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: It was a summer evening Last Line: "but 't was a famous victory." Variant Title(s): After Blenheim Subject(s): Blenheim, Battle Of; Churchill, John (1650-1722); Cynicism; Peace; Religion; Spain - War Of Succession (1701-1714); War; Marlborough, 1st Duke Of; Theology THE BATTLE OF BRIDGEWATER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O'er huron's wave the sun was low Last Line: "such dismal night, such heaps of slain, / foe mixed with foe promiscuously" Subject(s): "lundy's Lane, Battle Of;war Of 1812 - Canadian Campaign; THE BATTLE OF CHARLESTON HARBOR, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two hours, or more, beyond the prime of a blithe april day Last Line: And thou in clear-eyed faith hast seen god's angels near the guns! Subject(s): American Civil War; Charleston, South Carolina; Fort Sumter, South Carolina; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1808, and in the autumn of the year Last Line: By giving them an inch or two of cold steel. Subject(s): Death; Loss; Napoleonic Wars; Soldiers; War; Dead, The THE BATTLE OF CRESSY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the 26th of august, the sun was burning hot Last Line: And he thanked jack for capturing the bohemian standard during the fight. Subject(s): Blood; Cressy, Battle Of (1346); Great Britain - Foreign Relations; Victory; War THE BATTLE OF DUNDEE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "on the mountain-side the battle raged, there was no stop nor stay" Last Line: That ''twas the english fought the dutch' at the battle of dundee Subject(s): "dundee, Scotland;navy - Great Britain;war;" English Navy THE BATTLE OF EH ALMA: FOUGHT IN 1854, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the heights of alma the battle began Last Line: Which was responded to by hurrahs, loud and clear. Subject(s): Alma, Battle Of The (1854); Blood; Crimean War (1853-1856); Death; Fights; War; Dead, The THE BATTLE OF EL-TEB, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye sons of great britain, I think no shame Last Line: With his foolish and benighted rebel horde. Subject(s): Heroism; Soldiers; War; Heroes; Heroines THE BATTLE OF ERIE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "avast, honest jack! Now, before you get mellow" Last Line: "though they're lords of the sea, we'll be lords of the lakes" Subject(s): "lake Erie, Battle Of;navy - United States;perry, Oliver Hazard (1785-1819);war Of 1812;" American Navy THE BATTLE OF GLENCOE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the month of october, and in the year of 1899 Last Line: At home or abroad, wherever they go. Subject(s): Death; Enemies; Guns; Highlands Of Scotland; War; Dead, The THE BATTLE OF GUJRAY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1849, and on the 20th of february Last Line: Because india is annexed to the british dominions, and they must obey. Subject(s): British West Indies; Heroism; Soldiers; Victory; War; Heroes; Heroines THE BATTLE OF INKERMANN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1854, and on the 5th of november Last Line: Alas! Pitiful to relate, thousands of innocent men. Subject(s): Alma, Battle Of The (1854); Blood; Crimean War (1853-1856); Death; Victory; War; Dead, The THE BATTLE OF LAKE CHAMPLAIN, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Parading near saint peter's flood Last Line: Her armies for her own defence. Subject(s): Lake Champlain, Battle Of; Macdonough, Thomas (1783-1825); War Of 1812 THE BATTLE OF LANGSIDE, by JOHN BROWN (1810-1882) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Birds sit on leafy bowers in langside wood Last Line: Are felt on hill and grove near langside wood. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE BATTLE OF LIEGE, by DANA BURNET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now spake the emperor to all his shining battle forces Last Line: And the moon rode up behind the smoke and showed the king his dream. Subject(s): Liege, Battle Of (1914); William Ii, Kaiser Of Germany (1859-1941; World War I; First World War THE BATTLE OF LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN [NOVEMBER 24, 1863], by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me but two brigades,' said hooker, frowning at fortified lookout Last Line: Standing, like demigods, in light and triumph upon their own lookout! Subject(s): American Civil War; Hooker, Joseph (1814-1879); Lookout Mountain, Battle Of (1863); United States - History THE BATTLE OF MANILA; A FRAGMENT, by RICHARD HOVEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By cavite on the bay Last Line: Will keep and hold the sea! Subject(s): Manila, Philippines; Navy - United States; Spanish-american War (1898); War; American Navy THE BATTLE OF MORRIS' ISLAND; A CHEERFUL TRAGEDY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The morn was cloudy and dark and gray Last Line: Look our for the battle that's yet to come / down there on morris' island Subject(s): "american Civil War;anderson, Robert (1805-1871);fort Sumter, South Carolina;soldiers;u.s. - History; THE BATTLE OF MURFREESBORO, by KINAHAN CORNWALLIS Poem Text First Line: Ere murfreesboro's thunders rent the air Last Line: Who fought so grandly, to their country true. Subject(s): American Civil War; Murfreesboro, Battle Of (1862); United States - History THE BATTLE OF NASEBY, by THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Wherefore come ye forth, in triumph from the north Last Line: Houses and the word! Alternate Author Name(s): Macaulay, 1st Baron Variant Title(s): Naseby;songs Of The Civil War: 1 Subject(s): Naseby, Battle Of (1645); Scotland; War THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS [JANUARY 8, 1815], by THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, in my rude log cabin Last Line: Shone forth in glory there. Subject(s): Jackson, Andrew (1767-1845); New Orleans, Battle Of (1815); War Of 1812 THE BATTLE OF OMDURMAN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye sons of great britain! Come join with me Last Line: And to establish what's right wherever they go. Subject(s): Death; Fights; Great Britain - History; Military; Victory; War; Dead, The; English History THE BATTLE OF PLATTSBURG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sir george prevost, with all his host" Last Line: "he'll fight, they say, another day, / who saves himself by running" Subject(s): "plattsburg, Battle Of;prevost, Sir George (1767-1816);war Of 1812; THE BATTLE OF PLATTSBURG BAY [SEPTEMBER 11, 1814], by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Plattsburg bay! Plattsburg bay! Last Line: And humbled her pride who is queen of the main! Subject(s): Macdonough, Thomas (1783-1825); Plattsburg Bay, Battle Of; Sea Battles; War Of 1812; Naval Warfare THE BATTLE OF QUEENSTOWN, by WILLIAM BANKER JR. Poem Text First Line: When brave van rensselaer cross'd the stream Last Line: The doleful tale of wo. Subject(s): Van Rensselaer, Stephen (1764-1839); War Of 1812 - Canadian Campaign THE BATTLE OF SHERIFFMUIR: A HISTORICAL POEM, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year 1715, and on the 10th of november Last Line: And to allay all doubts about which party won, we must feel content. Subject(s): Death; History; Sheriffmuir, Battle Of (1715); Victory; War; Dead, The; Historians THE BATTLE OF SHINA, IN AFRICA, FOUGHT IN 1800, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: King shuac, the giant of mizra, war did declare Last Line: For to thee I owe my life, and nought but death will us sever. Subject(s): Soldiers; War THE BATTLE OF STONINGTON ON THE SEABOARD OF CONNECTICUT, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four gallant ships from england came Last Line: To have a dash at stonington. Subject(s): Stonington, Battle Of (1814); War Of 1812 THE BATTLE OF TEL-EL-KEBIR, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye sons of great britain, come join with me Last Line: Arabi and his rebel army at kebir hill. Subject(s): Heroism; Praise; Victory; War; Heroes; Heroines THE BATTLE OF THE BIGHT (NAVAL ACTION IN THE BIGHT OF HELIGOLAND), by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As rose the misty sun Last Line: Nor have they shamed their sire. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Helgoland Bight, Battle Of; Sea Battles; World War I; Naval Warfare; First World War THE BATTLE OF THE KEGS, by FRANCIS HOPKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gallants, attend and hear a friend Last Line: They'll make their boasts and brags, sir. Variant Title(s): British Valor Displayed Subject(s): American Revolution; Battleships; Great Britain - Civil War; Machinery & Machinists; Navy - United States; Patriotism; Soldiers; English Civil War; American Navy THE BATTLE OF THE KING'S MILL [SEPTEMBER 8, 1847], by THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said my landlord, white-headed gil gomez Last Line: "to conquer the country by trade." Subject(s): Mexico City, Battle Of (1847); United States - Mexican War (1846-1848) THE BATTLE OF THE MARNE, by WILHELM KLEMM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slowly the stones begin to rouse themselves and to talk Last Line: For days, for weeks. Subject(s): Marne, Battles Of, The (1914 & 1918); World War I; First World War THE BATTLE OF THE NILE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the 18th of august in the year of 1798 Last Line: That thanksgiving should be returned to god for the victory complete. Subject(s): Death; Guns; Nile (river); Sailing & Sailors; Victory; War; Dead, The THE BATTLE OF VALPARAISO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: From the laurel's fairest bough Last Line: "crying, 'sweetly may they sleep / 'neath the wave'" Subject(s): "navy - United States;porter, David (1780-1843);valparaiso, Battle Of;war Of 1812;" American Navy THE BATTLE ON THE FLOOR, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: My father was a soldier, so Last Line: A battle all her own. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Soldiers; War THE BATTLE-CRY OF FREEDOM, by GEORGE FREDERICK ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, we'll rally round the flag, boys, we'll rally once again Last Line: Shouting the battle-cry of freedom. Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; Patriotism; Soldiers; United States - History; Vicksburg Campaign (1862-63); Liberty THE BATTLE-SONG OF GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS, by MICHAEL ALTENBURG Poem Text First Line: Fear not, o little flock! The foe Last Line: World without end! Amen. Variant Title(s): Battle Hymn Subject(s): Gustavus Ii Adolphus, King (1595-1632); War; Gustavus Ii Adolphus, King Of Sweden THE BATTLEFIELD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I looked on the field where the battle was Last Line: A grave with its tenants unwept and forgot! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): War THE BATTLEFIELD, by SYDNEY OSWALD Poem Text First Line: Around no fire the soldiers sleep tonight Last Line: To guard from hurt his faithful sleeping friend. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE BATTLEFIELD: GETTYSBURG, by LLOYD MIFFLIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Those were the conquered, still too proud Last Line: Gorged in the darkness in a single night! Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); U.s. - History; Gettysburg, Battle Of THE BATTLEFIELDS, by MAX EASTMAN Poem Text First Line: You never saw the summer dance and sing Last Line: Slave to no thought softer than her own. Subject(s): Fields; War; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE BATTLEFIELDS OF THE FUTURE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though gone the ancient gear of war Last Line: Our bugles sound a charge. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Science; War; Scientists THE BATTUE OF BERLIN, by HARRY GRAHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a winter's morning / the kaiser's sport was done Last Line: That 'twas a famous morning's sport! Alternate Author Name(s): Streamer, Col. D. Subject(s): Berlin, Germany; Southey, Robert (1774-1843); War THE BAY FIGHT, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three days through sapphire seas we sailed Last Line: The green were one wide grave. Subject(s): American Civil War; Mobile Bay, Battle Of (1864); Patriotism; Tennessee (ship); United States - History THE BEACH ROAD BY THE WOOD, by GEOFFREY HOWARD Poem Text First Line: I know a beach road Last Line: And the face I never found. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE BELFRY OF MONS, by WILFRID CHARLES THORLEY Poem Text First Line: At mons there is a belfry tall Last Line: They hear the trumpet sound. Subject(s): Bells; Death; Peace; Soldiers; Spires; War; Dead, The; Steeples THE BELL, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The temple bell was out of tune Last Line: Is it well with the heart that had you and none other? Subject(s): Bells; Evil; Peace; Singing & Singers; War THE BELLS OF ATLANTA (AN INCIDENT OF THE CIVIL WAR), by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn sunset on atlanta painting banners / red of mars Last Line: And the notes of drums are drownèd in thy melodies of peace. Subject(s): American Civil War; Atlanta Campaign (1864); Soldiers; U.s. - History THE BELLS OF BRUGES, by LOUISE BURTON LAIDLAW Poem Text First Line: Back with the same question, major? Last Line: "come on corporal.—damn this war!" Alternate Author Name(s): Backus, L., Mrs. Subject(s): Bells; Bruges, Belgium; World War I; First World War THE BIER OF THE CHRISTIAN SOLDIER, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When first the blackthorn blossomed, thou wast brave Last Line: They longed to press each other, palm to palm. Subject(s): War THE BIG GAME--HERE AND OVER THERE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Stands are packed and bleachers crowded Last Line: "shall call ""safe"" ere evening falls!" Variant Title(s): The Big Game-here And Over There Subject(s): Baseball; Soldiers; Sports; War; World War I; First World War THE BIGLOW PAPERS. 2D SERIES: 2. JONATHAN TO JOHN, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It don't seem hardly right, john Last Line: "may larn, like you an' me!" Subject(s): American Civil War; Mason, James Murry (1798-1871); Patriotism; Slidell, John (1793-1871); United States - History; War THE BIGLOW PAPERS. 2D SERIES: 4. A MESSAGE OF JEFF DAVIS ..., by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sent you a messige, my friens, t' other day Last Line: Consists in triumphantly gittin' away. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889); United States - History; Confederacy 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 BIRD OF VERDUN, by SARA E. FERBER Poem Text First Line: Brave bird of verdun Last Line: To the babes of verdun. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE BIRDS OF STEEL, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: This apple-tree, that once was green Last Line: Up, nearer to god, they fly and sing. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War I; First World War THE BIVOUAC OF THE DEAD, by THEODORE O'HARA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The muffled drum's sad roll has beat Last Line: That gilds your deathless tomb. Subject(s): Buena Vista, Battle Of (1847); Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism; Peace; United States - Mexican War (1846-1848); Declaration Day THE BLACK DUDEEN, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Humping it here in the dug-out Last Line: That blighter that smashed me pipe. Subject(s): War; World War I; First World War THE BLACK REGIMENT, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Dark as the clouds of even Last Line: Scorn the black regiment! Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Patriotism; United States - History; War THE BLACK RIDERS: 14, by STEPHEN CRANE Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: There was crimson clash of war Last Line: That still the reason was not. Subject(s): War 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 BLIND MAN, by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR. Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: At nogent, on the river marne Last Line: "my little eleanor is dead." Alternate Author Name(s): Allen, Hervey Subject(s): Blindness; Death; Death - Children; Democracy; Fathers; Innocence; Schools; Social Protest; War; Visually Handicapped; Dead, The; Death - Babies; Students THE BLIND PEDLAR, by FRANCIS OSBERT SACHEVERELL SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stand alone through each long day Last Line: Are creased in purple laughter! Alternate Author Name(s): Sitwell, Sir Osbert; Sitwell, Osbert Subject(s): Blindness; Peddling & Peddlers; World War I; Visually Handicapped; First World War THE BLOOD-RED FOURRAGERE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What was the blackest sight to me Last Line: Our blood-red fourragere. Subject(s): Murder; Paris, France; Rape; War THE BLOSSOMS OF WAR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Earth never saw a tree more monstrous made Last Line: The rose of country-love. Subject(s): Patriotism; War THE BLUE AND THE GRAY, by FRANCIS MILES FINCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the flow of the inland river Last Line: Tears and love for the gray. Variant Title(s): Decoration Day;memorial Day Subject(s): American Civil War; Graves; Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism; Peace; Soldiers; United States - History; Tombs; Tombstones; Declaration Day THE BLUE AND THE GRAY (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Each thin hand resting on a grave Last Line: Why harry wore the gray Subject(s): American Civil War;holidays;memorial Day;u.s. - History; Declaration Day THE BOMB AND THE ORGAN; AN INCIDENT OF SEIGE OF STRASBURG, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the great church the holy organ stood Last Line: As though it were a fortress of the foe! Subject(s): Franco-prussian War (1870-1871); Organs (musical Instruments) THE BOMBING OF BAGDAD, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Began and did not terminate for 42 days Last Line: With the dead Subject(s): Gulf War (1991); Bagdad, Iraq; Air Raids; Custer, George Armstrong (1839-1876); Operation Desert Storm (1991) THE BONFIRE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, let's go up the hill and scare ourselves Last Line: "and have our fire and laugh and be afraid." Subject(s): Fire; War THE BONNIE BLUE FLAG, by ANNIE CHAMBERS KETCHUM Poem Text First Line: Come, brothers! Rally for the right! Last Line: That bears the cross and star! Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Flags - United States; Patriotism; United States - History; Confederacy; American Flag THE BONNIE BLUE FLAG, by HARRY MACARTHY Poem Text First Line: We are a band of brothers Last Line: Hurrah! For the bonnie blue flag has gain'd th' eleventh star! Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; U.s. - History; Confederacy THE BOOBY-TRAP, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm crawlin' out in the mangolds to bury wot's left o' joe Last Line: Night! Subject(s): Death; Paris, France; War; Dead, The THE BOUGH OF NONSENSE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back from the somme two fusiliers Last Line: A row of bright pink birds, flapping their wings. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE BOY IN ARMOR; HE SPEAKS TO THE GATHERED NATIONS, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tremble, o world! Bow down! Cringe! Be afraid! Last Line: For you shall think! And ghosts will drive you on! Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Lectures; Patriotism; Social Protest; Soldiers; Supernatural; Thought; War; Dead, The; Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking; Thinking THE BOY PATRIOT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want to be a soldier! Last Line: Or just a snare-drum, snarling in the middle of the band. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Patriotism; Soldiers; War THE BRAVE PAGE BOYS, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the late rebellion war Last Line: To grand rapids, their native place. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): War THE BRAVE VOLUNTEER, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the time of the rebellion Last Line: To let return their son. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Prisoners Of War THE BRAVEST BATTLE, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bravest battle that ever was fought! Last Line: Then, silent, unseen--goes down. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Variant Title(s): The Greatest Battle That Ever Was Fought Subject(s): Religion; War; Theology THE BRIDGE OF LODI, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When of tender mind and body Last Line: Guesses why and what I sing! Subject(s): Bridges; Napoleon I (1769-1821); War THE BRITISH COUNTRYSIDE IN PICTURES, by JAMES MCMICHAEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The frontispiece fixes as / british Subject(s): Great Britain; History; Landscape; World War Ii; Historians; Second World War THE BRITISH MUSEUM READING ROOM, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the hive-like dome the stooping haunted readers Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums; War; Art Gallerys THE BROKEN SOLDIER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The broken soldier sings and whistles day to dark Last Line: The bird caught in the cage whistles its joyous stave. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Soldiers; Soul; Strength; Women; World War I; First World War THE BRONZE STATUE OF NAPOLEON, by AUGUSTE BARBIER Poem Text First Line: The work is done! The spent flame burns no more Last Line: And bear upon their backs the stones! Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); Statues; War THE BROOKLYN AT SANTIAGO, by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twixt clouded heights spain hurls to doom Last Line: On such a ship! Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): Brooklyn (ship); Santiago, Cuba; Schley, Winfield Scott (1839-1909); Sea Battles; Spanish-american War (1898); Naval Warfare THE BUGLER, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HARVEY Poem Text First Line: God dreamed a man Last Line: Trumpeting men through beauty to god's side. Subject(s): Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE BUGLER; A CASE STUDY IN THE PSYCHOLOGY OF WAR, by LIN DAVIES Poem Text First Line: I can't blow taps no more Last Line: "and that squares me!" Subject(s): Bugles; Death; Music & Musicians; Psychology; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Psychologists THE BULL-FIGHT [OF GAZUL], by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "king almanzor of granada, he hath bid the trumpet sound" Last Line: "upon gazul of algava, that hath laid harpado low" Subject(s): "bullfights & Bullfighters;granada, Spain;spain - War Of Succession (1701-1714); THE BURIAL OF LATANE, by JOHN REUBEN THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The combat raged not long; but ours the day Last Line: Change cannot harm him now, nor fortune touch him more. Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, John Randolph Variant Title(s): Captain Latane Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History 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 BURIAL-MARCH OF THE DUNDEE, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sound the fife, and cry the slogan Last Line: Chieftain than our own dundee! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Death; Graham Of Calverhouse, John (1648-1689); Scotland; Scotland - Relations With England; War; Dead, The THE C. S. ARMY'S COMMISSARY, by EDWARD PORTER THOMPSON Poem Text First Line: Well, this is bad!' we sighing said Last Line: "but still press on, to do or die!" Subject(s): American Civil War; Southern States; U.s. - History; War; South (u.s.) THE CAGEING OF ARES, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How big of breast our mother gaea laughed Last Line: At loftier, clearer, sweeter, by their aid. Subject(s): Fables; Mythology; War; Allegories THE CALL, by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! 'tis the rush of the horses Last Line: And—losing such stakes—say, 't is well! Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE CALL, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under what spell are we debased Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; War; British Empire; England - Empire THE CALL (FRANCE, AUGUST FIRST, 1914), by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far and near, high and clear Last Line: War! War! War! Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE CALL TO ARMS, by CARL JOHN BOSTELMANN Poem Text First Line: Drums of doom are marching to the battle Last Line: God! Save young laughter from the lust of guns! Subject(s): Death; God; Military; Salvation; Soldiers; War; Dead, The THE CALL TO ARMS IN OUR STREET, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a woman sobs her heart out Last Line: God go with you where you go! Subject(s): Women & War; World War I; First World War THE CALL TO BATTLE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Then and there was hurrying to and fro Last Line: Was with them in that hour Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): War THE CALL TO FREEMAN, by MOSES OWEN Poem Text First Line: But for three hundred thousand of freeman true and brave Last Line: That freedom's fires shall brighter glow -- that men can yet be free. Subject(s): American Civil War; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Slavery; U.s. - History; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; Serfs THE CALL TO THE COLORS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are you ready, o virginia Last Line: With their daggers towards the foe! Subject(s): Flags - United States; Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898); American Flag THE CALL TO THE RESERVISTS, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This was the message under the sea Last Line: The swarthy reservist from over the sea. Subject(s): Army - Italy; World War I; First World War THE CAMEO BRACELET, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eva sits on the ottoman there Last Line: With the dagger in your hand! Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; War THE CAMP, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tents, marquees, and baggage waggons Last Line: Nothing clean—and nothing quiet. Subject(s): Soldiers; War THE CAMP OF WALLENSTEIN, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Father, I fear it will come to harm Last Line: (the curtain falls before the chorus has finished.) Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Religious Discrimination; Thirty Years' War (1618-1648); Wallenstein, Albrecht (1583-1634); Religious Conflict THE CAMP-FOLLOWER, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We spoke, the camp-follower and I Last Line: And I sat beside her and wondered. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE CANON OF AUGHRIM, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You ask me of english honour, whether your nation is just! Last Line: Ridge and furrow of grass, the graves of our women and men. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Great Britain - Politics & Government; Justice; Law & Lawyers; Nations; War; Attorneys THE CAPTAIN'S LADY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mount and go, mount and make you ready Last Line: O mount and go, &c. Subject(s): War; Love THE CAPTIVE SHIPS AT MANILA, by DOROTHY PAUL Poem Text First Line: Our keels are furred with tropic weed Last Line: Out again to the blue! Subject(s): Manila, Philippines; World War I; First World War THE CAPTURE OF LUCKNOW, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas near the begum kothie the battle began Last Line: "and enjoy yourselves, my heroes, while ye are here." Subject(s): Fights; Heroism; Honor; Military; Missions & Missionaries; War; Heroes; Heroines THE CARTRIDGES, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You sleep weightless on my palm, the revolver Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) THE CASTLE, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All through that summer at ease we lay Subject(s): War; Bribery; Treason THE CASUALTY CLEARING STATION, by GILBERT WATERHOUSE Poem Text First Line: A bowl of daffodils Last Line: Secure from war's alarms. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE CATHEDRAL, by WILLIAM G. SHAKESPEARE Poem Text First Line: Hope and mirth are gone. Beauty is departed Last Line: Forgiving, praying, singing, feeling sorry. Alternate Author Name(s): S., W. G. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE CAVALIER'S SONG, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A steed, a steed of matchless speed! Last Line: And hero-like to die! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Variant Title(s): Song Of The Cavalier Subject(s): Animals; Horses; War THE CELTS, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And evermore we sought the fight but still Last Line: By the chill breath of windy dreams at last. Subject(s): Celts; War THE CENTENARIAN'S STORY, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me your hand, old revolutionary Last Line: Stands forever the camp of that dead brigade. Subject(s): American Civil War; Brooklyn, New York; Old Age; United States - History; Veterans THE CHALLENGE OF THE GUNS, by ARTHUR NELSON FIELD Poem Text First Line: By day, by night, along the lines Last Line: All that we have and are we lay on england's shrine. Alternate Author Name(s): Nelson, A. N. Subject(s): England; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; English; First World War THE CHANCES, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I mind as 'ow the night afore that show Last Line: The ruddy lot all rolled in one. Jim's mad. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE CHANT OF THE VULTURES, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are circling, glad of the battle: we joy in the smell of the smoke Last Line: We tell all the winds of their glory: we publish their fame with a croak! Subject(s): Vultures; War 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 BY THE FORD, by THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eighty and nine with their captain Last Line: Give them the roll of the drum! Subject(s): American Civil War; Calvary; United States - History THE CHARGE OF OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE, by ANDREW MOTION Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We have to remember: when raglan and others Subject(s): Crimean War (1853-1856); Dogs THE CHARGE OF THE HEAVY BRIGADE AT BALACLAVA: PROLOGUE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our birches yellowing and from each Last Line: Paled, and the glory grew. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Crimean War (1853-1856); Hamley, Sir Edward Bruce (1824-1893); Soldiers 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 CHASM, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the dream vultures circle above my mother's cousin Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953; Soldiers THE CHERRY TREES, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cherry trees bend over and are Last Line: This early may morn when there is none to wed. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Cherry Trees; Environment; Trees; War; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE CHERUBS; SUGGESTED BY AN APOLOGUE IN THE WORKS OF FRANKLIN, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two spirits reached this world of ours Last Line: The devil himself astounded. Subject(s): Evil; Devil; War; Hypocrisy THE CHIEFTAIN'S SON, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, it is ours! - the field is won Last Line: And bear him homewards on his bloody shield. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): War THE CHILD ASLEEP, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's over england? A cloud. What's over france? A flame Subject(s): War; Night; Sleep; Bedtime THE CHILD DYING, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unfriendly friendly universe, / I pack your stars into my purse Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; World War Ii; Death - Babies; Bereavement; Second World War THE CHILD IN THE GREAT WOOD, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is all much worse than I dreamed Subject(s): Forests; Dreams; War; Woods; Nightmares THE CHILDREN, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was the first wednesday of a scarcity of candles Last Line: That evening in a coffin. Variant Title(s): Psalm 23 Subject(s): Animals; Bombs; Family Life; Horses; Sweden; World War Ii; Relatives; Second World War THE CHILDREN'S ELEGY, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I have seen their eyes. In peaceful gardens Subject(s): Children; War; Childhood THE CHIVALRY OF THE SEA, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the warring waters, beneath the wandering skies Last Line: The wide-warring water, under the starry skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Sea Battles; World War I; Naval Warfare; First World War THE CHOICE, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To the judge of right and wrong Last Line: And not the living soul! Subject(s): World War I - United States THE CHOICE, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The kings go by with jewelled crowns Last Line: Escape from prison. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Variant Title(s): Lollingdon Downs: 8 Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE CHORAL UNION, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He staggered in from night and frost and fog Last Line: He wondered when lord god would turn him out. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE CHRIST OF ARGENTINE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: O, blood-red races, lift your eyes Last Line: With christ of argentine! Subject(s): Argentina; Chile; Peace; Statues; War THE CIRCULATION OF NEWSPAPERS RISES GREATLY IN TIME OF WAR, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pure as the oyser's pure incest Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): War; Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists THE CITY IN WHICH I WAS BORN WAS DESTROYED BY CANNON, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: How long / will my memories survive? Subject(s): War; Life Change Events; Memor THE CITY OF LAISH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you read of the orient people of / laish in the olden time Last Line: Christ came and his presence declared it, so the dream may not utterly die. Subject(s): Asia; Cities; Death; Dreams; Jesus Christ; War; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Urban Life; Dead, The; Nightmares THE CLOISTER, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our eyes no longer sail the tidal streets Last Line: These he has gardened, for they please his eyes. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Women And War THE CLOSING SCENE, by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within the sober realm of leafless trees Last Line: Scene. Subject(s): War THE COALITION, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If among earth's kings lord gilgamesh should remain unreasonable Last Line: Of pharoah death, imperator death, shogun death, president death Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) THE COAT OF FADED GRAY, by GEORGE WASHINGTON HARRIS Poem Text First Line: A low hut rests in lookout's shade Last Line: Her soldier's coat of faded gray. Alternate Author Name(s): Harris, G. W. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History THE COLLEGE COLONEL, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He rides at their head Last Line: Ah heaven! -- what truth to him! Subject(s): American Civil War; Labor & Laborers; United States - History; War; Work; Workers THE COLONEL, by CAROLYN FORCHE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: What you have heard is true. I was in his house. His wife carried a tray Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn Subject(s): Men; Military; War THE COLONEL'S SOLILOQUY, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The quay recedes. Hurrah! Ahead we go! Last Line: Things may not be as then.' Subject(s): Boer War; War; South African War THE COLOR SERGEANT, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under a burning tropic sun Last Line: Yet true, in death, to his duty. Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Fights; Prejudice; San Juan Hill, Battle Of (1898); Soldiers; Spanish-american War (1898); Bias; Intolerance THE COLORED SOLDIERS, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: If the muse were mine to tempt it Last Line: Who fought for uncle sam! Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; United States - History THE COLORED SOLDIERS OF THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All honor to the colored soldiers Last Line: "they're made of the ""proper stuff." Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Spanish-american War (1898) THE COMBAT, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Love, though thou great & dreadfull art Last Line: Else can my hart no more be mine. Subject(s): Love; Prayer; War THE COMING OF PEACE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: It was the night when we expected news from france Last Line: I almost heard a cuckoo in trafalgar square! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): France; War THE COMING OF WAR: ACTAEON, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An image of lethe Last Line: The silent cortege. Subject(s): War THE COMING POET, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it far to the town?' said the poet Last Line: Fame at his crumbled head. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; World War I; First World War THE COMPLAINT OF THE SOLDIERS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: When they were come back from the wars their heads were seamed Last Line: Them! Subject(s): Homecoming; Soldiers; War THE CONFLICT, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Listen, listen to the blowing bugles! Last Line: Till you fall into an open grave. Subject(s): Perseverance; War; Youth THE CONFLICT OF CONVICTIONS, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On starry heights / a bugle wails the long recall Last Line: Wisdom is vain, and prophesy. Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Dreams; Hope; Past; United States - History; Wisdom; Dead, The; Nightmares; Optimism THE CONFLICT: 1. TO WILLIAM WATSON IN ENGLAND, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Singer of england's ire across the sea Last Line: He cannot tear our plighted souls apart. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): England; Singing & Singers; Watson, William (1858-1935); World War I; English; First World War THE CONFLICT: 2. AMERICAN NEUTRALITY, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall we keep an armed neutrality Last Line: Our souls cannot keep neutral and keep true. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Duty; England; Peace; United States; World War I; English; America; First World War THE CONFLICT: 3. PEACE, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peace! - but there is no peace. To hug the thought Last Line: Or would we crown with peace — caligula? Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Caligula (12 A.d.- 41 A.d.); England; Peace; United States; World War I; English; America; First World War THE CONFLICT: 4. WILSON, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Patience - but peace of heart we cannot choose Last Line: The wolf of europe has not triumphed yet. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Duty; Patience; United States; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924); World War I; America; First World War THE CONFLICT: 5. KRUPPISM, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crowned on the twilight battlefield, there bends Last Line: So long shall we serve krupp instead of christ. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Death; Germany; Jesus Christ; Krupp (industrial Conglomerate); Loss; Loyalty; World War I; Dead, The; Germans; First World War THE CONFLICT: 6. THE REAL GERMANY, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bismarck - or rapt beethoven with his dreams Last Line: Of buried guns gives birth to germany. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Ambition; Art & Artists; Bismark, Otto Von (1815-1898); Music & Musicians; Philosophy & Philosophers; World War I; First World War THE CONNAUGHT RANGERS, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the connaught rangers when they were passing by Last Line: And the green flags on their bayonets will flutter in the wind. Subject(s): World War I - Ireland THE CONQUERED BANNER, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Furl that banner, for 'tis weary Last Line: For its people's hoped are fled! Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Flags - United States; Patriotism; Peace; United States - History; Confederacy; American Flag THE CONQUEROR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He hears the whir of the battle Last Line: Into a tangle of endless wars. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Sea; Soldiers; War; Ocean THE CONQUERORS, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the conquerors riding by Last Line: Came christ, the swordless, on an ass! Subject(s): Conquistadors; History; War; Historians THE CONQUERORS, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It seems vainglorious and proud Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Mankind; War; Human Race THE CONSTITUTION AND THE GUERRIERE (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Britannia's gallant streamers Last Line: "while her cannon's fire is flashing fast, / and her yankee thunders roar" Variant Title(s): Yankee Thunders Subject(s): Constitution (ship);guerriere (ship);lumber & Lumbering;navy - United States;patriotism;war Of 1812; American Navy THE CONSTITUTION AND THE GUERRIERE (4), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I often have been told Last Line: "since we hooked you in the gill, / don't boast upon dacres the grandee o" Subject(s): "constitution (ship);guerriere (ship);hull, Isaac (1773-1843);sea Battles;war Of 1812;" Naval Warfare THE CONTEMPTIBLE NEUTRAL, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world was full of battle Last Line: While all the world's at war! Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Variant Title(s): The Looker-on Subject(s): Blood; Fights; Soldiers; War THE CONVALESCENT, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So I walked among the willows very quietly all night Last Line: But mother's sayin' nothin', and she clasps -- a silver cross. Subject(s): Brothers; Death; War; World War I; Half-brothers; Dead, The; First World War THE CONVENT IN '45, by MARIA LUISA SPAZIANI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time of white violets; and on the slopes Subject(s): Italy - World War Ii THE CORNUCOPIA OF RED AND GREEN COMFITS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Currants and honey! Last Line: In new ribbons sent from potsdam. Subject(s): Hunger; World War I; First World War THE COST, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of late we heard dark oracles proclaim Last Line: A nobler vision, happier fate be thine! Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE COUNTERSIGN (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Alas! The weary hours pass slow Last Line: "whether in pleasure or in pain, / I still may have the countersign" Subject(s): Holidays;memorial Day;war; Declaration Day THE COUNTERSIGNS, by MARK ANTHONY DE WOLFE HOWE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What said john paul jones on the brave bon homme Last Line: For such was the navy of long, long ago! Subject(s): Navy - United States; War; American Navy THE COWARD, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, weeping wide atg war, weep with me now Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Desertion, Military; Cowardice; War THE COWARD, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ave you seen bill's mug in the noos today? Last Line: Wot's the matter with bill! Subject(s): Army - Great Britain; Cowardice; War; World War I; First World War THE CRICKETERS OF FLANDERS, by JAMES NORMAN HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first to climb the parapet Last Line: "a sportsman and a soldier still!" Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE CRIME OF THE AGES; 1861, by AUGUSTA COOPER BRISTOL Poem Text First Line: Poet, write! / not of a purpose dark and dire Last Line: New life, new birth, or a nation's tomb? Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History THE CRIMEAN TARTARS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And still the tartar loves the shores Last Line: "allah requite us in paradise!" Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Variant Title(s): Yalta And The Crimean Tartars Subject(s): Crimean War (1853-1856); Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE CRIMINALITY OF WAR, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One to destroy is murder by the law Last Line: War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Fame; Injustice; Murder; Social Protest; War; Reputation THE CRISIS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the stony mountains, o'er the desert's drouth and sand Last Line: And mountain unto mountain call, praise god, for we are free! Subject(s): Slavery; United States - Mexican War (1846-1848); Serfs THE CROSS-TREE, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Doctor, doctor, a little of your love Subject(s): Soldiers; War; Army Life; Suicide; Drills & Minor Tactics THE CROSSING AT FREDERICKSBURG, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lay in my tent at mid-day Last Line: "and one more for michigan!" Subject(s): American Civil War; Fredericksburg, Battle Of (1862); United States - History THE CRUISE OF THE MONITOR [MARCH 9, 1862], by GEORGE M. BAKER Poem Text First Line: Out of a northern city's bay Last Line: Hurrah for the monitor's famous cruise! Subject(s): American Civil War; Hampton Roads, Virginia; Monitor (ship); Sea Battles; United States - History; Virginia (ship); Naval Warfare; Merrimac (ship) THE CRUSADE, by KARL GOTTFRIED VON LEITNER Poem Text First Line: A monk in lonely convent cell Last Line: "into the holy land." Subject(s): Crusades; Death; War; Dead, The THE CRY, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! From the trampled gardens once so fair Last Line: "mother!" Subject(s): Death - Mothers; War; Dead, The THE CUBAN CAUSE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What was it caused our nation Last Line: "till cuba's suffering ends." Subject(s): Cuba; Spanish-american War (1898) THE CUBAN IN VIETNAM, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He sits in the dark of trees, hunched Subject(s): Cuba; Vietnam; War THE CUMBERLAND, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some names there are of telling sound Last Line: Cumberland! Cumberland! Subject(s): American Civil War; Cumberland (ship); Hampton Roads, Virginia; Sea Battles; United States - History; Virginia (ship); Naval Warfare; Merrimac (ship) THE CUMBERLAND [MARCH 8, 1862], by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At anchor in hampton roads we lay Last Line: And without a seam! Subject(s): American Civil War; Cumberland (ship); Hampton Roads, Virginia; Patriotism; Sea Battles; United States - History; Virginia (ship); Naval Warfare; Merrimac (ship) THE CZAR'S LAST CHRISTMAS LETTER: A BARN IN THE URALS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: You were never told, mother, how old illya was drunk Last Line: And I am nicholas. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Letters; Mothers & Sons; Nicholas Ii, Czar Of Russia (1868-1918); Parents; World War I; Childhood; Nativity, The; Parenthood; First World War THE DANCE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Cornwallis led a country dance Last Line: "that while your hopes are danced away, / 'tis you must pay the piper?" Subject(s): "american Revolution;cornwallis, Charles (1738-1805);war;yorktown Campaign (1781); THE DANCERS (DURING A GREAT BATTLE, 1916), by EDITH SITWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The floors are slippery with blood Subject(s): Women; World War I; First World War THE DARK HILLS, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark hills at evening in the west Last Line: Were fading, and all wars were done. Subject(s): War THE DARKEST HOUR; OXFORD, 1917, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Smother thy flickering light, the vigil is o'er Last Line: A cold moon gilds the waves of acheron. Subject(s): World War I; First World War 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 DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who with the soldiers was stanch danger-sharer Last Line: Just one more cheer for her, kady brownell! Subject(s): American Civil War; Brownell, Kady; U.s. - History THE DAUGHTERS OF TROY, by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let him who puts his trust in kingly crown Last Line: The sea; the sails are set, the vessels move. Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical; Mythology - Greek; Tragedy; Trojan War THE DAWN PATROL, by PAUL BEWSHER Poem Text First Line: Sometimes I fly at dawn above the sea Last Line: In thanks to him who brings me safely home. Subject(s): Air Warfare; Holidays; Thanksgiving; World War I; First World War THE DAY OF THE DEAD SOLDIERS; MARY 30, 1869, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, thou gray and fragrant sabbath-day Last Line: So rich a page of thrilling histories. Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day THE DAY'S MARCH, by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The battery grides and jingles Last Line: I lift my head and smile. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War 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 DEAD, by A. E. MURRAY Poem Text First Line: The dead are with us everywhere Last Line: The splendour of their sacrifice for years to come. Subject(s): World War I - Casualties THE DEAD AND THE LIVING ONE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead woman lay in her first night's grave Last Line: There was a deeper gloom around. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE DEAD IN EUROPE, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the planes unloaded, we fell down Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War THE DEAD KINGS, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: All the dead kings came to me Last Line: I woke, 'twas day in picardy. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Ireland; World War I; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Irish; First World War THE DEAD WINGMAN, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seen on the sea, no sign; no sign, no sign Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii; Second World War THE DEAD-BEAT, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He dropped - more sullenly than wearily Last Line: "that scum you sent last night soon died. Hooray!" Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE DEAD: 1, by DAVID MORTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Think you the dead are lonely in that place? Last Line: Are ever by great beauty visited. Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE DEATH OF A SOLDIER, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life contracts and death is expected Last Line: In their direction Subject(s): Holidays; Soldiers; War THE DEATH OF AILILL, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When there was heard no more the war's loud sound, Last Line: And knew by the cold touch that he was dead. Subject(s): Death; Love; War; Dead, The THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN WARD, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas about the beginning of the past century Last Line: Where too many of our brave seamen silently sleep. Subject(s): Death; War; Dead, The THE DEATH OF GENERAL PIKE, by LAUGHTON OSBORN Poem Text First Line: Twas on the glorious day Last Line: And, thus pillowed, pike expired. Subject(s): Toronto, Canada; War Of 1812 - Canadian Campaign THE DEATH OF GRANT, by AMBROSE BIERCE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Father! Whose hard and cruel law / is part of thy compassion's plan Last Line: Thy servant's soul in paradise. Subject(s): American Civil War; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day THE DEATH OF LEONIDAS, by GEORGE CROLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was the wild midnight, a storm was in the sky Last Line: Bring forth the self-same men? Subject(s): Leonidas, King Of Sparta (d. 480 B.c.); Trojan War; War THE DEATH OF LYON, by HENRY PETERSON Poem Text First Line: Sing, bird, on green missouri's plain Last Line: And grave thy name immortal. Variant Title(s): Lyon Subject(s): American Civil War; Lyon, Nathaniel (1818-1861); United States - History; Wilson's Creek, Missouri, Battle Of THE DEATH OF ODIN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soul of my much-lov'd freya! Yes, I come Last Line: Then rush'd to seize the seat of endless rest. Subject(s): Death; Love; Mythology - Celtic; Rome, Italy; War; Dead, The THE DEATH OF PEACE, by RONALD ROSS Poem Text First Line: Now slowly sinks the day-long labouring sun Last Line: The direst deed e'er done, the most accursèd crime. Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War THE DEATH OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN, by NEAL" "NEFF [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: Of him who stood foremost in this mighty age Last Line: "that the soil be not curs'd by the blood of the slave, / now the land of the free and the home of t Alternate Author Name(s): "neff, Neal; Subject(s): "american Civil War;assassination;lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865);nations;presidents, United States;u.s. - History; THE DEATH OF SLAVERY, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou great wrong, that, through the slow-paced years Last Line: Dwell thou, a warning to the coming times. Subject(s): American Civil War; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; Declaration Day THE DEATH OF SUALTEM, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the brown bull passed from cooley's fields Last Line: And all about him waves the heavy gorse. Subject(s): Death; Family Life - Ireland; Love; War; Dead, The THE DEATH OF THE BALL TURRET GUNNER, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: From my mother's sleep I fell into the state Subject(s): Air Warfare; Aviation & Aviators; Death; World War Ii; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Dead, The; Second World War THE DEATH OF THE RACE CAR DRIVER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have not slept for a week. / it is matchless-this feeling Last Line: Sack for eternity. Subject(s): Automobile Racing; Dreams; Insomnia; Memory; Sports; War; Race Car Driving; Nightmares; Sleeplessness THE DEATH-BED, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: He drowsed and was aware of silence heaped Last Line: Then, far away, the thudding of the guns. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE DEBT, by EDWARD VERRALL LUCAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No more old england will they see Last Line: (although to live is almost shame). Subject(s): Death; World War I - Casualties; Dead, The THE DEBT UNPAYABLE, by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What have I given Last Line: (god grant!) all weeds in ours. Subject(s): Army - United States; Death; Honor; Navy - United States; Sacrifices; Soldiers; War - Home Front; World War I - Casualties; Dead, The; American Navy THE DECISION (APRIL 14, 1861), by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So there are five? Last Line: Call the troops! Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History THE DEFENDERS, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His wage of rest at nightfall still Last Line: The stranger from his cottage fire? Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE DESERTED PASTURE, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love the stony pasture Last Line: To pitch their tents therein. Subject(s): Fields; Nature - Religious Aspects; Perseverance; War; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE DESTROYER OF DESTROYERS, by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From santiago, spurning the morrow Last Line: Wainwright! The gloucester! Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): Gloucester (ship); Navy - United States; Santiago, Cuba; Sea Battles; Spanish-american War (1898); Troy; Wainwright, Richard (1817-1862); American Navy; Naval Warfare THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, Last Line: Hath melted like snow in the glance of the lord! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Sennacherib Subject(s): Assyria; Bible; Death; Jews; Religion; Sennacherib, King Of Assyria; War; Dead, The; Judaism; Theology THE DEVONSHIRE MOTHER, by MARJORIE WILSON Poem Text First Line: The king have called the devon lads and they be answering fine Last Line: With his tanned face, his eyes of blue, and he so strappin' tall. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Women And War; World War I; Childhood; First World War THE DISTANT WATER, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sour daylight cracks through my sleep-caked lids. Subject(s): War THE DOLLAR-A-YEAR MEN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now a hearty and vigorous cheer, men Last Line: The patriot dollar-a-year men! Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I; First World War THE DOME OF SUNDAY, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With focus sharp as flemish-painted face Subject(s): Bourgeoisie; War; Middle Class THE DOUGLAS TRAGEDY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "'rise up, rise up, now, lord douglas,' she says" Last Line: "for he pulled up the bonny brier, / and flang't in st. Mary's lough" Subject(s): Scotland;war THE DOWNFALL OF DELHI, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1857 and on the 14th of september Last Line: And will be handed down to posterity. Subject(s): Delhi, India; Failure; Loss; War THE DRAFT RIOT, by CHARLES DE KAY Poem Text First Line: Is it the wind, the many-tongued, the weird Last Line: And burns the town. Subject(s): American Civil War; New York Draft Riots (1863); United States - History THE DRAFTED MAN, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kissed me from the saddle, and I still can feel it burning Last Line: Coming up the canon from the smoke-blue plains! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Variant Title(s): The Smoke Blue Plains Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I; First World War THE DRAGON AND THE UNDYING, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night the flares go up; the dragon sings Last Line: To hail the burning heavens they left unsung. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE DRAGON OF THE SEAS, by THOMAS NELSON PAGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They say the spanish ships are out Last Line: Has waked to life again. Subject(s): Navy - Spain; Spanish-american War (1898); Spanish Navy THE DREAM, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moonlight and dew-drenched blossom, and the scent Last Line: To the foul beast of war that bludgeons life. Subject(s): Science; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Scientists; First World War THE DREAM & LIE OF GEORGE W. BUSH (AFTER PICASSO'S DREAM & LIE OF..., by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Owl fandango escabeche swords of octopus of evil omen Subject(s): Politics & Government; War THE DREAM OF WAKING, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something is there. And teacher here at home Last Line: His life and their death: oh morning, morning Subject(s): War; Death; Dreams; Dead, The; Nightmares THE DRUM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O the drum! Last Line: Thy palpitating syllables roll in upon the ear! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Drums; Freedom; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; War; Liberty THE DRUM, by FRIEDRICH RUCKERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the drum - it rattles so loud! Last Line: Oh, the drum -- it rattles so loud! Alternate Author Name(s): Raimar, Freidmund Subject(s): War THE DRUM, by JOHN SCOTT (1730-1783) Poem Text First Line: I hate that drum's discordant sound Last Line: To fill the catalogue of human woes. Variant Title(s): Ode On Hearing The Drum;report On The Foregoing Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Drums; Musical Instruments; Napoleon I (1769-1821); War; Anti-war Protests THE DRUM, by EDWARD FORRESTER SUTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a rhythm down the road where the elms overarch Last Line: "of the drum!" Alternate Author Name(s): Sutton, E. Subject(s): Christianity; Drums; Musical Instruments; Vengeance; War THE DUE OF THE DEAD, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sit beside my peaceful hearth Last Line: Knowing those cared for whom they love. Subject(s): War THE DUG-OUT, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why do you lie with your legs ungainly huddled Last Line: And when you sleep you remind me of the dead. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE DUSTY YOUNG MEN, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dusty young men move out with combat pack Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Soldiersl War; Death; Dead, The THE DYING SOLDIER, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here are houses, he moaned Last Line: He moaned and swooned to death. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE DYING WORDS OF STONEWALL JACKSON, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stars of night contain the glittering day Last Line: Solace hast thou for pain! Subject(s): American Civil War; Chancellorsville, Battle Of (1863); Jackson, Thomas (stonewall) (1824-1863); United States - History THE EAGLE AND THE VULTURE, by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In cherbourg roads the pirate lay Last Line: "and for heroes like winslow is shouting, ""thank god!" Subject(s): Alabama (ship); American Civil War; Cherbourg, France; Kearsarge (ship); Sea Battles; U.s. - History; Winslow, John Ancrum (1811-1873); Naval Warfare 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 EAGLE OF THE BLUE, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aloft he guards the starry folds Last Line: The eagle of the blue. Subject(s): American Civil War; Birds; Eagles; United States - History THE EFFECT, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He'd never seen so many dead before Last Line: Who'll buy my nice fresh corpses, two a penny?' Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE EFFIGIES, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Warrior! Whose image on thy tomb Last Line: In that lone path to heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): War; Women THE EMANCIPATORS, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you ground the lenses and the moons swam free Subject(s): War THE ENCLOSURE, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down the track of a philippine island Last Line: With intact and incredible love Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War THE END, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the blast of lightning from the east Last Line: "nor my titanic tears the seas be dried." Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Theology; First World War THE END AND THE BEGINNING, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After every war / someone has to tidy up Subject(s): War THE ENDLESS ARMY, by GRETCHEN OSGOOD WARREN Poem Text First Line: With folded hands beside the fire Last Line: Dim regiments of shades march by. Subject(s): Women And War; World War I; First World War THE ESTRANGEMENT, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dim through cloud vails the moonlight trembles down Last Line: Shrills malice at the soul grown strange in france. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): France; World War I; First World War THE EVE OF REVOLUTION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The trumpets of the four winds of the world Last Line: Hasten thine hour and halt not, till thy work be done. Subject(s): Freedom; Greece; Light; Revolutions; War; Liberty; Greeks THE EVERLASTING ARMS, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tides of death go swiftly home Last Line: Transfigured in his gaze. Subject(s): Death; Wales; World War I; Dead, The; Welshmen; Welshwomen; First World War THE EXTRA, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sheltered and safe we sit Last Line: I'll die sooner than have it so! Subject(s): Love; War THE EYE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The atlantic is a stormy moat, and the mediterranean Subject(s): Pacific Ocean; World War Ii; Second World War THE FACE (GUILLEMONT), by FREDERIC MANNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the smoke of men's wrath Last Line: Broken. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE FACELESS MAN, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm dead / officially I'm dead Last Line: As there alone I wait the last release. Subject(s): Death; Paris, France; War; Dead, The THE FALL OF RICHMOND [APRIL, 1865], by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What mean these peals from every tower Last Line: God's way adore. Subject(s): American Civil War; Richmond Campaign (1864); United States - History THE FALL OF TROY, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing now the heavy furniture of the fall, Subject(s): Trojan War THE FARMER REMEMBERS THE SOMME, by VANCE PALMER Poem Text First Line: Will they never fade or pass! Last Line: And the dark somme flowing. Subject(s): Memory; World War I; First World War THE FARMERS OUTLAW WEEDS, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The farmer lords of podunkville proclaimed a big conclave Last Line: For diplomats who resolute against the weed called war! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Diplomacy & Diplomats; Farm Life; Government; Law & Lawyers; Social Protest; War; Weeds; Agriculture; Farmers; Attorneys THE FATHER, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That was his sort Last Line: And cut him short. Subject(s): Fathers; World War I; First World War THE FATHER OF THE REGIMENT, by GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thick snow-wreaths weighed upon the furs Last Line: From russian sword and ball. Subject(s): Dnieper River, Russia; Russia; Russia - Napoleonic War; Dnept River, Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE FATHERS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snug at the club two fathers sat Last Line: These impotent old friends of mine. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE FAUN COMPLAINS, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They give me aeroplanes Last Line: Who mock my little horns and pointed ears Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE FEAR, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not fear to die Last Line: Lest I wake up dead. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE FECKLESS YEARS, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wounded took the stone-eyed girls Last Line: A crooner sang their dirge. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; War Injuries; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War THE FESTUBERT SHRINE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sycamore on either side Last Line: We are no less poor than they. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Prayer; Women In The Bible; World War I; Virgin Mary; First World War THE FIDDLER OF BERLIN, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night, and a black pall over the city Last Line: And broken women, and ghosts. Subject(s): Death; Fiddles; Loss; Military; Mourning; Musical Instruments; Soldiers; Truth; War; Dead, The; Bereavement THE FIGHT AT SUMTER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Twas a wonderful brave fight! Last Line: And a stern retribution / to the south Subject(s): "american Civil War;fort Sumter, South Carolina;u.s. - History; 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 FIGHTING SWING, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once again the regiments marching down the street Last Line: Blood, dust, grapple and thrust—back to the fighting swing! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Blood; Cowboys; Fights; Soldiers; War THE FINAL WAR, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Oh, east and west shall know not rest and the seas Last Line: Then over the world shall be unfurled the one white flag of peace. Subject(s): Blood; Nations; Patriotism; Peace; War THE FIREBOMBING, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Homeowners unite Last Line: The thing itself is in that Subject(s): War THE FIRST AIR-RAID WARNING, by EVELYN D. BANGAY Poem Text First Line: When the quiet acres I look upon were shaken Last Line: Not seed-time and harvest, but wars, shall pass away. Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; World War Ii; Second World War THE FIRST BATTLE OF YPRES, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grey field of flanders, grim old battle-plain Last Line: From bixschoote to baecelaere and down to the lys river. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): World War I; Ypres, Belgium; First World War THE FIRST FUNERAL, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The whole field was so smelly; / we smelt the poor dog first Last Line: And said: 'poor dog, amen!' Subject(s): Animals; Corpses; Dogs; World War I; Cadavers; First World War THE FIRST THREE [NOVEMBER 3, 1917], by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere in france,' upon a brown hillside Last Line: Upon their hillside graves our immortelles! Subject(s): Death; Enright, Thomas F.; Gresham, James D.; Hay, Merle D.; Soldiers; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE FISHER, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fisher is a warrior Last Line: Have glimmered, and flashed, and wheeled. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; War THE FLAG, by HENRY LYNDEN FLASH Poem Text First Line: Up with the banner of the free! Last Line: Beneath its steadfast stars. Subject(s): Flags - United States; Spanish-american War (1898); American Flag THE FLAG, by EDWARD A. HORTON Poem Text First Line: Why do I love our flag? Ask why Last Line: God give it leadership, and might! Subject(s): Flags - United States; World War I; American Flag; First World War THE FLAG OF GREEN'S BRIGADE, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O when I stood before the tatter'd flag of / green's brigade Last Line: To fight their country's battles 'round the flag of green's brigade. Subject(s): American Civil War; Flags; Patriotism; Soldiers; U.s. - History THE FLAG OF PEACE, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men long have fought for their flying flags Last Line: The rainbow flag of peace! Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Death; Earth; Nations; Peace; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; World THE FLAG WE LOVE SO WELL (MARCHING SONG), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: March along, march along, with a song Last Line: Chorus: on, on, by dark or dawn, etc. Subject(s): Flags - United States; World War I; American Flag; First World War THE FLEET, by CHESTER FIRKINS Poem Text First Line: Gaunt rocks of death that darkly lay Last Line: Went forth for peace, or war. Subject(s): Battleships; Heroism; New York City; War; Heroes; Heroines; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE FLEET AT SANTIAGO, by CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The heart leaps with the pride of their story Last Line: How we thrill with the joy of their fame! Subject(s): Navy - United States; Santiago, Battle Of (1898); Santiago, Cuba; Spanish-american War (1898); American Navy THE FLIGHT OF THE WAR-EAGLE, by OBADIAH CYRUS AURINGER Poem Text First Line: The eagle of the armies of the west Last Line: Far toward the hills of heaven unveiled and bright. Subject(s): War THE FOE AT THE GATES, by JOHN DICKSON BRUNS Poem Text First Line: Ring round her! Children of her glorious skies Last Line: The last grand holocaust of liberty. Subject(s): American Civil War; Charleston, South Carolina; United States - History THE FOOL, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But it isn't playing the game,' he said Last Line: In the last great game of all. Subject(s): Brothers; Death; War; World War I; Half-brothers; Dead, The; First World War THE FORGOTTEN CAPTAIN, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have many shadows. I was walking home Subject(s): Battleships; Boats; Bombs; Death; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; War; Dead, The; Ocean THE FOUR BROTHERS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Make war songs out of these Last Line: New sleepy-time songs. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE FOURE MONARCHIES: ASSYRIAN. SEMIRAMIS, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This great oppressing ninus dead, and gone Last Line: But by what means, we are not certifi'd. Subject(s): Children; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; War; Childhood; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness THE FOURTH OF JULY, 1776, by MAURICE HENRY HEWLETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When england's king put english to the horn Last Line: On england with more honour to her name. Subject(s): World War I - Great Britain; World War I - United States THE FRENCH ARMY IN RUSSIA, by GEORGE CROLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Magnificence of ruin! What has time Last Line: Must fly, toil, bleed for home; yet never see that home. Subject(s): Army - France; Russia; Russia - Napoleonic War; Soviet Union; Russians THE FRENCH ARMY IN RUSSIA (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Humanity, delighting to behold Last Line: A soundless waste, a trackless vacancy! Subject(s): Army - France; Russia; Russia - Napoleonic War; Soviet Union; Russians THE FRENZY IN THE WAKE; SHERMAN'S ADVANCE ... CAROLINAS, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So strong to suffer, shall we be Last Line: Shall never our hate rescind. Subject(s): American Civil War; Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); U.s. - History THE FRONTIER, by PHILIP GUEDALLA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Guns o' position is long and lean Last Line: Than a gunner with guns to lay. Subject(s): France; Oxford University; World War I; First World War THE FUNDAMENTAL PROJECT OF TECHNOLOGY, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under glass: glass dishes which changed Last Line: To look back and say, a flash, a white flash sparkled. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Atomic Bomb - Victims; Judgment Day; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb THE FURY OF AERIAL BOMBARDMENT, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You would think the fury of aerial bombardment Subject(s): Air Warfare; God; World War Ii; Second World War THE GALLANT FIGHTING 'JOE', by JAMES STEVENSON (19TH CENTURY) Poem Text First Line: From yorktown on the fourth of may Last Line: Wherever he does go. Subject(s): American Civil War; Hooker, Joseph (1814-1879); U.s. - History; Williamsburg, Virginia, Battle Of (1862) THE GALLOWS, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a weasel lived in the sun Last Line: On the dead oak tree bough. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Variant Title(s): Gallows 1916 Subject(s): Animals; Nature; World War I; First World War THE GARDEN, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were talking about poetry Last Line: Preparing to open the door. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Poetry & Poets; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb THE GARDEN SHUKKEI-EN, by CAROLYN FORCHE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By way of a vanished bridge we cross this river Last Line: It is the bell to awaken god that we've heard ringing Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb THE GATEKEEPER, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunlight falls on old quebec Last Line: Gatekeeper of a peace-filled land! Subject(s): Military; Peace; Quebec, Battle Of (1775); Soldiers; War THE GATHERING, by HERBERT B. SWETT Poem Text First Line: We are coming, cuba, - coming; our starry Last Line: Cuba shall be free. Subject(s): Cuba; Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898) THE GATHERING OF THE GRAND ARMY, by CHARLOTTE L. FORTEN GRIMKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through all the city's streets there poured a flood Last Line: And love and peace prevail from shore to shore. Subject(s): American Civil War; Army - United States; United States - History THE GENERAL, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good-morning: good-morning!' the general said Last Line: But he did for them both by his plan of attack. Subject(s): Generals; Hate; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE GENERAL ARMSTRONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "come, all you sons of liberty, that to the seas belong" Last Line: Then haul'd our wind and stood again for freedom's happy shore Subject(s): General Armstrong (ship);navy - United States;war Of 1812; American Navy THE GENERAL'S BRIEFING, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here is the infant formula plant Last Line: No salt for tears no sea for sewage -- Subject(s): Apathy; Military-industrial Complex; Popular Culture - United States; War; War - Home Front THE GENERAL'S DEATH, by JOSEPH O'CONNOR Poem Text First Line: The general dashed along the road Last Line: And beaten by the rain. Subject(s): War THE GERMAN AMERICAN TO HIS ADOPTED COUNTRY, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The great guns crashing angrily Last Line: Still guards the teuton's holy grail! Subject(s): German Americans; U.s. - Foreign Population; World War I; First World War THE GERMAN-FRENCH CAMPAIGN, 1870-1871, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All her corn-fields rippled in the sunshine Last Line: After france? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Franco-prussian War (1870-1871) THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS, by ABRAHAM LINCOLN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fourscore and seven years ago Last Line: Shall not perish from the earth. Variant Title(s): At Gettysburg Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Religion; United States - History; United States; Gettysburg, Battle Of; Theology; America THE GHOSTS OF OXFORD, by WILBERT SNOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I went walking up and down Last Line: The darkened streets of oxford town. Alternate Author Name(s): Snow, Charles Wilber Subject(s): Oxford, England; World War I - Great Britain THE GIANT WALKER, by SAMUEL FERGUSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Around the mound of sighs Last Line: The giant went, with stamp and clash, departing south away. Subject(s): War THE GIFT OF FIRE, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a time of damnation Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Self-immolation; Anti-war Protests THE GIFT OUTRIGHT, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The land was ours before we were the land's Last Line: Such as she was, such as she would become Subject(s): Inaugural Poem; United States; War; America THE GLEN OF ROSLIN, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! 'twas the trumpet rung! Last Line: As opal pure each morn! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Peace; Scotland; Scottish Translations; Victory; War THE GLORY OF 'THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN', by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Aye, take 'the white man's burden' Last Line: Nor liberty mere creed. Subject(s): Freedom; Imperialism; Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936); War; Liberty THE GOD OF WAR, by SOPHOCLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ares is blind, and with unseeing eyes Last Line: Set in a swine's face stirs up all to evil. Subject(s): War THE GOING OF THE BATTERY; WIVES' LAMENTS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O it was sad enough, weak enough, mad enough Last Line: Wait we, in trust, what time's fulness shall show. Subject(s): Boer War; South African War THE GOLD STAR, by NAOMI CLARKE Poem Text First Line: He was just a kid Last Line: And think it'll make me feel proud ... Subject(s): Death; War; Dead, The THE GOLDEN CROSS, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We hold in memory all the whiter moons Last Line: And lilies wet from no fair woodland's breast. Subject(s): Conscientious Objectors; World War I; First World War THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: EL HARITH, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lightly took she her leave of me, asma-u Last Line: Stoodst the day of hayáreyn. Our proof is proven! Subject(s): Arabia; Arabs - Women; Fights; Man-woman Relationships; Soldiers; War; Male-female Relations THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: LEBID, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone are they the lost camps, light flittings, long so Last Line: Woe be to all false friends! Woe to the envious! Subject(s): Arabia; Arabs - Women; Enemies; Fights; Friendship - False Friends; War; Fair Weather Friends THE GOOD COMRADE, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had a faithful comrade Last Line: My comrade good and true! Subject(s): Death; Friendship; War; Dead, The THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF 27 B.C., by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For sins ancestral, o thou guiltless roman Last Line: And gosh! Our kids are getting even worse! Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Soldiers; Tyranny & Tyrants; War; Dictators THE GOSPEL OF PEACE, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, let it rest! And give us peace Last Line: A prudent nation bore. Subject(s): Peace; Spanish-american War (1898) THE GRAND ADVANCE, by FRANK HARRISON GASSAWAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When war's wild clamor filled the land, when porter swept the sea Last Line: His lips still smiled—for victory had kissed them ere he died! Alternate Author Name(s): Derrick Dogg Subject(s): War THE GRAVE OF LINCOLN, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now must the storied potomac Last Line: Freedom's jerusalem thou! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Variant Title(s): Lincoln Subject(s): American Civil War; Graves; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; U.s. - History; Tombs; Tombstones 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 GREAT LOVER, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been so great a lover: filled my days Last Line: "praise you, ""all these were lovely""; say, ""he loved." Subject(s): Love; Soldiers' Writings; War THE GREAT SWAMP FIGHT, by CAROLINE HAZARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, rouse you, rouse you, men at arms Last Line: The land so hardly won! Subject(s): Narragansett, Battle Of (1675); Philip, King (native American Chief); Metacomet; King Philip's War (1675-76) THE GREEK STRUGGLE, by JAMES GORDON BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! A morning had dawned on the midnight which slept Subject(s): Greek War Of Independence (1821-1832) THE GREETING, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: They have waited, waited yonder Last Line: In the camp on the other side! Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; U.s. - History; Dead, The THE GUARDS CAME THROUGH, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men of the twenty-first Last Line: How the guards came through. Subject(s): England; Soldiers; World War I; English; First World War THE GUNS IN SUSSEX, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Light green of grass and richer green of bush Last Line: But still I hear the mutter of the guns. Subject(s): Desolation; England; Guns; Patriotism; Sussex, England; War; World War I; English; First World War THE GUNS IN THE GRASS [MAY 8, 1846], by THOMAS FROST Poem Text First Line: As hang two mighty thunderclouds Last Line: We battle -- and the field is won! Subject(s): Palo Alto, Battle Of (1846); Taylor, Zachary (1784-1850); United States - Mexican War (1846-1848) THE HAGGIS OF PRIVATE MCPHEE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hae ye heard whit ma auld mither's postit tae me? Last Line: For he thocht o' the haggis o' private mcphee. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE HALT BEFORE ROME, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it so, that the sword is broken Last Line: Proclaiming republican rome. Subject(s): Freedom; Nations; Rome, Italy; War; Liberty THE HAND AND TONGUE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two parts of us successively command Last Line: The tongue in peace; but then in warre the hand. Subject(s): Peace; War THE HAUNCH OF VENISON, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At number one dwelt captain drew Last Line: "when next you open aesop." Subject(s): Treason And Traitors; War THE HAWTHORN TREE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not much to me is yonder lane Last Line: Until I've heard he's dead. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War 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 HEALTH OF CAPTAINS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The health of captains is the sex of war Last Line: Sleep through the mornings where the captains rise Subject(s): War; Sex Role THE HEART-CRY, by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She turned the page of wounds and death Last Line: Rests to face life as fearlessly. Subject(s): Grief; Women & War; World War I - Casualties; Sorrow; Sadness THE HELL GATE OF SOISSONS, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My name is darino, the poet. You have heard? Last Line: By the valor of twelve english martyrs, the hell-gate of soissons is won! Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE HELL-GOD, by LOUISE MORGAN SILL Poem Text First Line: I am the hell-god, war! Last Line: I am the hell-god, war! Subject(s): Hell; Social Protest; War THE HERO, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jack fell as he'd have wished,' the mother said Last Line: Except that lonely woman with white hair. Subject(s): Mothers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE HERO OF BRIDGEWATER, by CHARLES L. S. JONES Poem Text First Line: Seize, o seize the sounding lyre Last Line: To shake your sea-girt isle! Subject(s): Lundy's Lane, Battle Of; Scott, Winfield (1786-1866); War Of 1812 THE HERO OF FORT WAGNER, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fort wagner! That is a place for us Last Line: "and you can scale the wall!" Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History THE HERO OF VIMY; AN INCIDENT OF THE GREAT WAR, by BRENT DOW ALLINSON Poem Text First Line: We charged at vimy, -- zero was at four Last Line: I cried to heaven,—and wondered if god laughed! Subject(s): Heroism; World War I; Heroes; Heroines; First World War THE HEROES, by M. FORREST Poem Text First Line: In that valhalla where the heroes go Last Line: "pass in, mon brave,"" said that wise sentinel." Subject(s): World War I - Belgium THE HEROES, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed of war-heroes, of wounded war-heroes Subject(s): War THE HEROIC RESISTANCE OF THE CITY OF BEAUVAIS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: It seemed that master tristan l'ermite was not deceived. Burgundy Last Line: And performers. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; France; Heroism; War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines THE HIGH TIDE AT GETTYSBURG [JULY 3, 1863], by WILL HENRY THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A cloud possessed the hollow field Last Line: Lamenting all her fallen sons! Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism; United States - History; War; Liberty; Gettysburg, Battle Of; Declaration Day THE HIVE AT GETTYSBURG, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the old hebrew myth the lion's frame Last Line: The old-time athlete drew! Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); U.s. - History; Gettysburg, Battle Of THE HOLY WAR, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A tinker out of bedford Last Line: And bunyan was his name! Subject(s): Bunyan, John (1628-1688); World War I; First World War THE HOMECOMING OF THE SHEEP, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sheep are coming home in greece Last Line: And the climbing moon grows small. Subject(s): Greece; Sheep; World War I; Greeks; First World War THE HORSE THAT DIED FOR ME, by EDWIN GERARD Poem Text First Line: They gave me a fiery horse to groom, and I rode him on parade Last Line: And the white sand surges down to hide the bones of a trooper's hack. Alternate Author Name(s): Gerardy Subject(s): Animals; Cavalry; Horses; Sacrifices; War THE HORSES, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What was our share in the sinning? Subject(s): World War I; Horses; Animals; First World War THE HORSES, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Barely a twelvemonth after Subject(s): Animals; Horses; War THE HOSTS, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Purged, with the life they left, of all Last Line: We played it through as the author planned. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE HOUR, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: This is the hour all history shall claim Last Line: And stand, and strike, and you must overcome. Subject(s): History; Oppression; War; Historians THE HOUSE OF BONDAGE, by AUGUSTINE JOSEPH HICKEY DUGANNE Poem Text First Line: From mossy woods and cypress bolls Last Line: O god! Break not mine oath for me! Subject(s): American Civil War; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; United States - History; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty THE HOUSE OF DEATH, by A. T. NANKIVELL Poem Text First Line: Surely the keeper of the house of death Last Line: And all his courts are gay with flowers of spring. Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE HOUSE THAT FEAR BUILT: WARSAW, 1943, by JANE FLANDERS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the boy with his hands raised over his head / in warsaw Subject(s): Warsaw Ghetto; World War Ii; Second World War THE HOUSEWIFE, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She must go back, she said Last Line: Into the night, shells falling thick and fast. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE HUNDRED DAYS' MEN; ILLINOIS, MAY, 1864, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis time the corn was planted, the latest wheat was sown Last Line: But joyfully, in busy may, gave up our thousands more! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): American Civil War; Government; Illinois; Indiana; Ohio; Soldiers; U.s. - History THE HUNTERS OF KENTUCKY (3), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Ye gentlemen and ladies fair Last Line: "oh! Kentucky, / the hunters of kentucky" Subject(s): "kentucky;new Orleans, Battle Of (1815);soldiers;war Of 1812; THE HURON'S ADDRESS TO THE DEAD, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brother, thou wert strong in youth Last Line: Rest in the bower of delight! Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Funerals; Iroquois Indians; Native Americans; U.s. - History; War; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Burials; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE HUTS ARE ESQUIMAUX; FOR DAVE SMITH, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our clothes are still wet from wading Last Line: To the very quick of his being. Subject(s): Death; War; Dead, The THE HYPOCRITE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text Last Line: "thou hypocrite!" Subject(s): Hypocrisy; War THE IDEA OF ANCESTRY, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Taped to the wall of my cell are 47 pictures: 47 black Subject(s): African Americans; Ancestors & Ancestry; Fathers; Korean War, 1950-1953; Men; Prayer; Prisons & Prisoners; Negroes; American Blacks; Heritage; Heredity; Convicts THE ILIAD: ACHILLES OVER THE TRENCH, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So saying, light-footed iris pass'd away Last Line: To war, but never welcomed his return. Variant Title(s): Achilles On The Rampart;achilles Defies The Trojans Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War; War THE ILIAD: AGAMENON IN THE FIGHT, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These, then, he left, and away where ranks were now clashing the thickest Last Line: Flat upon earth, far dearer to vultures than to their home-mates. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Soldiers; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 1, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wrath of peleus' son that evil wrath Last Line: And golden-throned here by his side. Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 1, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wrath of peleus son, o muse, resound Last Line: And juno lay unheeded by his side. Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 1. THE BEGINNING OF THE WRATH, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who of the gods set on those two to strife? Last Line: Of dead were burning thickly. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 1. THE CONTENTION OF ACHILLES AND AGAMEMNON, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Achilles' wrath, to greece the direful spring Last Line: And juno slumber'd on the golden bed. Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 10. THE NIGHT ADVENTURE OF DIOMED AND ULYSSES, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night the chiefs before their vessels lay Last Line: And the crown'd goblet foams with floods of wine. Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ILIAD: BOOK 11. THE RESISTANCE OF AJAX, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But the eternal father throned on high / with fear fill'd ajax Last Line: Their disappointed fury in the ground. Variant Title(s): Ajax In The Fight Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 11. THE THIRD BATTLE, AND THE ACTS OF AGAMEMNON, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The saffron morn, with early blushes spread Last Line: The wound to torture and the blood to flow. Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 12. SARPEDON AND GLAUCUS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not then / withal had doughty hektor and his men Last Line: Nor disregard. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 12. SARPEDON'S SPEECH, by HOMER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: As ye see, a mountaine lion fare Variant Title(s): Sarpedon Encourages Glaucus Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 12. THE BATTLE AT THE GRECIAN WALL, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While thus the hero's pious cares attend Last Line: The shore is heap'd with dead, and tumult rends the sky. Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 12. THE SNOW OF STONES, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus shouting onward these twain roused the achaian battle Last Line: Amid the tumult rising along the wall's whole length. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 12. THE WALL, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So was menoetius' valiant son employed Last Line: With limpid course, and pleasant as before. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 13. THE FOURTH BATTLE, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When now the thunderer on the sea-beat coast Last Line: Shook the fix'd splendours of the throne of jove. Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 14. JUNO DECEIVES JUPITER BY THE GIRDLE OF VENUS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But not the genial feast, nor flowing bowl Last Line: Skill'd in pursuit, and swiftest in the chase. Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 15. AJAX ON THE DECKS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nor yet did it please the spirit of high-hearted aias Last Line: Host along with him. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 15. APOLLO DESTROYS THE WALL, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He said: and on his horses' shoulder-point Last Line: Confounding, sentest panic through their souls. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War; Troy THE ILIAD: BOOK 15. THE FIFTH BATTLE, AT THE SHIPS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now in swift flight they pass the trench profound Last Line: Sent by great ajax to the shades of hell. Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 16. ACHILLES AND PATROCLUS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So round that sturdy ship the battle raged Last Line: Dark death and fate. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 16. ACHILLES LENDS PATROCLUS HIS ARMOR, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Achilles then within his tent withdrew Last Line: He granted; but denied his safe return. Variant Title(s): Achilles' Prayer Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 16. THE DEATH OF PATROCLUS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But hector, when he saw great-heart patroclus Last Line: The gods gave peleus as a glorious gift. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 16. THE SIXTH BATTLE, & THE ACTS & DEATH OF PATROCLUS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So warr'd both armies on th' ensanguined shore Last Line: Th' immortal coursers were the gift of jove. Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 17. PATROCULUS' BODY SAVED, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So they carried the dead man out of the fighting Last Line: Piece of gear -- and still no pause in the fighting. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 17. THE HORSES OF ACHILLES, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And thus they fought; the iron clangour pierced Last Line: Amid the greeks and trojans lightly bore. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 17. THE SEVENTH BATTLE, FOR THE BODY OF PATROCLUS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the cold earth divine patroclus spread Last Line: The work of death, and still the battle bleeds. Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 18. ACHILLES AND THETIS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Therewith she left the cave, and with her went Last Line: Wish to fulfil it.' Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 18. THE GRIEF OF ACHILLES, & NEW ARMOUR MADE BY VULCAN, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus, like the raging of the fire, the combat burns Last Line: And bears the blazing present through the skies. Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 18. THETIS AND HEPHAETUS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She called the famous smith hephaestus, saying Last Line: Have learned their duties. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 19. THE RECONCILIATION OF ACHILLES AND AGAMEMNON, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soon as aurora heaved her orient head Last Line: "now perish troy!"" -- he said, and rush'd to fight." Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 1; SELECTION IN HEXAMETERS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sing, o daughter of heaven, of peleus' son, of achilles Last Line: "grant that of yon proud walls not one stone rest on another." Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 2, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So all else - gods, and charioted chiefs Last Line: From lycia far, where whirls scamander's stream. Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 2. THE TRIAL OF THE ARMY AND CATALOGUE OF THE FORCES, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now pleasing sleep had sealed each mortal eye Last Line: Where gulfy xanthus foams along the fields. Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 2. THERSITES, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now all sat down / and kept their seats, save one, thersites Last Line: Else, son of atreus, that flout had been your last!' Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 20. THE BATTLE OF THE GODS, AND THE ACTS OF ACHILLES, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus round pelides, breathing war and blood Last Line: Such is the lust of never-dying fame! Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 21. ACHILLES AND LYCAON, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So did the son of priam, the princely, speak his word Last Line: When you fought by the light-sped ships and I turned not to fight again. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 21. ACHILLES AND THE SCAMANDER, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Round achilles rose / the boiling wave tremendous Last Line: Are forceful beyond men. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 21. THE BATTLE OF THE RIVER SCAMANDER, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And now to xanthus' gliding stream they drove Last Line: And nations breathe, deliver'd from their fate. Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 22. THE DEATH OF HECTOR, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus, to their bulwarks, smit with panic fear Last Line: Sigh back her sighs, and answer tear with tear. Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 22. THE PURSUIT AROUND THE WALLS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus pondering he stood; meantime approached Last Line: Of priam compass'd. All the gods looked on. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 23. FUNERAL GAMES IN HONOR OF PATROCLUS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus, humbled in the dust, the pensive train Last Line: The glittering charger to talthybius' hands. Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 23. THE GHOST OF PATROCLUS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The soul came to him of his hapless friend Last Line: His last requests, just image of himself.' Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 24. PRIAM AND ACHILLES, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With these words hermes sped away for lofty olympos Last Line: Lest I in anger offend mine own honour and sin against god.' Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 24. THE LAMENTATIONS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of their lament white-armed andromache Last Line: A cry. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 24. THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now from the finish'd games in the grecian band Last Line: And peaceful slept the mighty hector's shade. Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 3. HELEN, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So saying, the goddess into helen's soul Last Line: By nuptial ties a brother once to me.' Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 3. MENELAUS AND ODYSSEUS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Then answer thus antenor sage return'd Last Line: Found none, to wonder at his noble form.' Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ILIAD: BOOK 3. THE ADVANCE OF THE TROJANS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now marshall'd all beneath their several chiefs Last Line: Uprose the dust, for swift they cross the plain. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 3. THE DUEL OF MENELAUS AND PARIS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus, by their leader's care, each martial band Last Line: And long the shout rung echoing through the skies. Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 4. THE BREACH OF THE TRUCE, AND THE FIRST BATTLE, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And now olympus' shining gates unfold Last Line: And crowds on crowds triumphantly expired. Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 4. THE TWO HOSTS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As when the billow gathers fast Last Line: And men the more lament. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 5. THE ACTS OF DIOMED, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But pallas now tydides' soul inspires Last Line: Their task perform'd, and mix among the gods. Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 5. THE RALLY, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sarpedon's words bit deep in hector's heart Last Line: Joined, and the chariot-drivers swung them round. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 6. GLAUCCUS AND DIOMED & HECTOR AND ANDROMACHE, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now heaven forsakes the fight, th' immortals yield Last Line: "and greece indignant through her seas returns." Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 6. HEKTOR AND ANDROMACHE, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hektor turned / back from his house with speed Last Line: Went home, shedding hot tears. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 6. THE STORY OF BELLEROPHON, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And the glorious son of hippolochus answered him Last Line: Therein. Subject(s): Bellerophon; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 7. THE SINGLE COMBAT OF HOMER AND AJAX, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So spoke the guardian of the trojan state Last Line: Enjoy'd the balmy blessings of the night. Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 8, SELECTION, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As in the heights of heaven the moon gleams clear, and around her Last Line: Roused them, their good steeds stood, white oats and barley before them. Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 8. A PAUSE IN THE FIGHTING, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So hector spake; the trojans roared applause Last Line: Fixt by their cars, waited the golden dawn. Variant Title(s): Trojans Bivouac On The Plain;specimen Of A Translation Of The Iliad In Blank Verse;the Trojan Camp-fires Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War; War THE ILIAD: BOOK 8. THE SCALES OF ZEUS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Till sacred morn had brightened into noon Last Line: Astonish'd stood; fear whiten'd ev'ry cheek. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 8. THE SECOND BATTLE, AND THE DISTRESS OF THE GREEKS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn Last Line: And ardent warriors wait the rising morn. Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 9. ACHILLES' REPLY TO THE EMBASSY, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Then swift achilles answered him, saying Last Line: Whose men are high of heart.' Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 9. THE APPEAL OF PHOENIX, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Conquer the proud spirit in your breast, child, seeing it is not Last Line: Of the divine crondies: respect wins over the wisest.' Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: BOOK 9. THE EMBASSY TO ACHILLES, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus joyful troy maintain'd the watch of night Last Line: The grateful blessings of desired repose. Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: HYPNOS ON IDA, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They then to fountain-abundant ida, mother of wild beasts Last Line: Chalkis is named by the gods, but of mortals known as kymindis. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: MARSHALLING OF THE ACHAIANS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like as a terrible fire feeds fast on a forest enormous Last Line: He with the girdle of ares, he with the breast of poseidon. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Soldiers; Trojan War THE ILIAD: PARIS AND DIOMEDES, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forth of his ambush leapt, and he vaunted him, uttering thiswise Last Line: Rotting, round him the birds, more numerous they than the women.' Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Mythology - Classical; Soldiers; Trojan War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE ILIAD: THE EPISODE OF SARPEDON (2), by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When now the chief his valiant friends beheld Last Line: Where endless honours wait the sacred shade. Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: THE HORSES OF ACHILLES, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So now the horses of aiakides, off wide of the war-ground Last Line: Aught over earth's range found that is gifted with breath and has movement.' Subject(s): Achilles; Animals; Horses; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: THE INVECTIVE OF ACHILLES, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heigh me! Brazen of front, thou glutton for plunder, how cane one Last Line: Rage-wrung, thou, that in nought thou didst honour the flower of achaians.' Subject(s): Heroism; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War; Heroes; Heroines THE IMMORTALS, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I killed them, but they would not die Last Line: But now I call him dirty louse. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE IMPROVISATORE: LEOPOLD, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The battle is over; the dews of the fog Last Line: The storm was hushed. Men tell not where he went. Subject(s): Adoption; Betrayal; Blood; Clergy; Death; Despair; Evil; Loss; Love; Violence; War; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The THE INQUIRY, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you wear a web over your wasted worth? Last Line: You'll walk them – not just now, but soon Subject(s): War; Memory; Love THE INTERNATIONALISTS, by PHILIP M. HARDING Poem Text First Line: Freed from tradition's bloody racks Last Line: Worth one split-second of their lives! Subject(s): Cooperation; Nations; Soldiers; War THE INTERROGATION, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We could have crossed the road but hesitated Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War THE INVESTITURE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God with a roll of honour in his hand Last Line: You roam forlorn along the streets of gold. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE INVOLUNTARY SLACKER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Strong, young and healthy--so the whole world says Last Line: Was ever crucifixion such as mine? Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); War; World War I; Estrangement; Outcasts; First World War THE ISLAND OF SKYROS; SONNET, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, where we stood together, we three men Last Line: "war with this force, and breathe, and am its king." Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Skyros (island), Greece; World War I - Casualties THE JACKET OF GREY, by CAROLINE AUGUSTA BALL Poem Text First Line: Fold it up carefully, lay it aside Last Line: The jacket of grey our loved soldier boy wore! Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Confederacy THE JERSEY BLUES, by ISAAC RUSLING PENNYPACKER Poem Text First Line: Brave as the battle roll of drum Last Line: Its ocean-dashed abutment here. Subject(s): Death; Revolutions; War - Home Front; Dead, The THE JEWEL, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forgetting I am alive, the tent comes over me Last Line: Alone, in late night? Subject(s): War THE JEWISH CONSCRIPT; IN RUSSIA, by FLORENCE KIPER FRANK Poem Text First Line: They have dressed me up in a soldier's dress Last Line: He also died in vain. Subject(s): Jews; Russia - Army-military Life; World War I; Judaism; First World War THE JEWISH SOLDIER (1), by ALICE LUCAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother england, mother england, 'mid the / thousands Last Line: England say! Alternate Author Name(s): Montefiore, Julia Subject(s): Exiles; Great Britain - Civil War; Heroism; Jews; Right To Asylum; Soldiers; English Civil War; Heroes; Heroines; Judaism THE JEWS OF ENGLAND (1200-1902), by ISRAEL ZANGWILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An edward's england spat us out-a band Last Line: Her triumph o'er her own intolerance. Subject(s): Battleships; History; Jews; Right To Asylum; War; Historians; Judaism THE JOKE, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He'd even have his joke Last Line: And now god knows when I shall hear the rest! Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE JOURNEY, by GRACE FALLOW NORTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I went upon a journey Last Line: All my journey sung! Subject(s): Death; Nations; Soldiers; Women; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE KAISER AND BELGIUM, by STEPHEN PHILLIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He said: 'thou petty people, let me pass' Last Line: Then thy destruction slake thy madman's thirst. Subject(s): Liege, Battle Of (1914); William Ii, Kaiser Of Germany (1859-1941; World War I; First World War THE KAISER AND GOD, by BARRY PAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Led by wilhelm, as you tell Last Line: We, fighting to the end, commend our souls. Subject(s): William Ii, Kaiser Of Germany (1859-1941; World War I; First World War THE KIND OF SHADOW THAT CALLS OUT FATE, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Early in day reports said our planes Subject(s): Politics & Government; War THE KING'S SHIPS, by CAROLINE S. SPENCER Poem Text First Line: God hath so many ships upon the sea! Last Line: This deep is but the hollow of his hand. Subject(s): Boats; Courts & Courtiers; God; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; War THE KINGS, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man said unto his angel Last Line: "die, driven against the wall!" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE KINGS, by HENRY WILLIAM HOYNE Poem Text First Line: Three kings riding forth of old Last Line: You have wandered from your star! Subject(s): Christianity; Courts & Courtiers; Religion; Social Protest; War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Theology THE KISS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To these I turn, in these I trust Last Line: Quail from your downward darting kiss. Subject(s): Kisses; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE KNOWN SOLDIER, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The balancing spaces are not disturbed Subject(s): War THE LADLE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The sceptics think, 'twas long ago Last Line: Tis all a wish, and all a ladle. Subject(s): Fables; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; War; Youth; Allegories THE LADS OF LIEGE, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lads of liege, beyond our eyes Last Line: Fortissimi sunt belgæ! Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Courts & Courtiers; Liege, Battle Of (1914); War THE LADY OF THE BLACK TOWER, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Watch no more the twinkling stars Last Line: "to prove myself, sweet lady, thine." Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Soldiers; War THE LAMENT OF THE DEMOBILIZED, by VERA MARY BRITTAIN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Four years.' some say consolingly. 'oh well Alternate Author Name(s): Catlin, George E. G., Mrs. Subject(s): World War I; Veterans; First World War THE LAMENT OF THE VOICELESS, by LAURA BELL EVERETT Poem Text First Line: Wars are to be,' they say, they blindly say Last Line: They mourn for you, your sons who never were. Subject(s): Pacifism; Unborn; War; Peace Movements THE LAMENTABLE BALLAD OF BLOODY BROOK, by EDWARD EVERETT HALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come listen to the story of brave lathrop Last Line: From that dark and cruel day, -- cruel day! Subject(s): Deerfield, Battle Of (1675); Deerfield, Massachusetts; Lathrop, Thomas; New England; Philip, King (native American Chief); Metacomet; King Philip's War (1675-76) THE LARK, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A lull in the racket and brattle Last Line: Is drowned in the shattering brattle. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE LAST BERKSHIRE ELEVEN: THE HEROES OF MAIWAND, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas at the disastrous battle of maiwand, in afghanistan Last Line: Until the last man in the arms of death stiff and stark lay. Subject(s): Afghanistan; Berkshire, England; Great Britain - Foreign Relations; Heroism; Massacres; War; Heroes; Heroines THE LAST CHARGE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, men of the north! Will you join in the strife Last Line: His sceptre once broken, the world is our own! Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History THE LAST FULL MEASURE OF DEVOTION, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think the deed was richer than dying Last Line: Set up machine guns over the stale bellyaching of our books Subject(s): Death; War THE LAST HERO, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We laid him to rest with tenderness Last Line: How all the story of earth was told. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Earth; Heroism; World War I - Casualties; World; Heroes; Heroines THE LAST MEETING, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because the night was falling warm and still Last Line: And youth, that dying, touched my lips to song. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE LAST POST, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bugler sent a call of high romance Last Line: "jolly young fusiliers too good to die." Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE LAST RALLY, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the midnight, in the rain Last Line: And another laughs with flashing eyes, sitting bolt upright. Subject(s): Military Service, Compulsory; World War I; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service; First World War THE LAST REVIEW, by EMILY J. BUGBEE Poem Text First Line: Twenty-one miles of boys in blue Last Line: His spirit would thrill at a scene like this. Subject(s): American Civil War; Religion; United States - History; Theology THE LATE STAND-TO, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought of cottages nigh brooks Last Line: I gave stand-to! The east was red. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE LAUREL TREE, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the clear light that confuses everything Subject(s): Trees; Korean War, 1950-1953 THE LAY OF THE LEGION, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was in the legion Last Line: Like a regular poltroon! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Life; War; Wine THE LEADER, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the man they deemed of languid blood Last Line: His name becomes the whispered hope of men. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE LEG, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the iodoform, in twilight-sleep Subject(s): Amputees; Healing; War; Cures THE LEGEND OF WALBACH TOWER, by GEORGE WASHINGTON WRIGHT HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: More ill at ease was never man than walbach Last Line: And as he spake, -- all in a line, seaward the ships set sail. Subject(s): War Of 1812 THE LEGLESS FIGHTER PILOT, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He takes his calf in his hand, lifts the Subject(s): Air Warfare; Aviation & Aviators; Amputees; World War Ii; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Second World War THE LEGLESS MAN, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mind goes back to fumin wood, and how we stuck it out Last Line: Lo! How it's silver-lined. Subject(s): Legs; Paris, France; Physical Disabilities; War; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE LESSON, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It occurs to me now Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War THE LESSON FOR TODAY, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If this uncertain age in which we dwell Last Line: So science and religion really meet Subject(s): War THE LESSON OF THE WAR, 1855, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The feast is spread through england Last Line: Will not be shed in vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Crimean War (1853-1856); England; Peace; English THE LIARS, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: We were the castanet units Last Line: We are the liars from france. Subject(s): World War I; First World War 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 LILACS; TO A -- AND H --, ROYAL AIR FORCE, AUGUST 1925, by WILLIAM FAULKNER Poem Text First Line: We sit drinking tea Last Line: He's not dead, poor chap; he didn't die . . . Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs; War THE LILY OF FORT CUSTER, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And you want me to tell you the story, lad Last Line: The lily of fort custer—and she blooms in tennessee. Subject(s): Militarism; Soldiers; Tennessee; War Injuries THE LINES, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the centers' naked files, the basic line Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War THE LISTENING SWORD (WRITTEN ON THE EVE OF THE SPANISH WAR), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still on the hilt, o patience, keep thy hand! Last Line: Then, patience, not till then, loose the appointed sword. Subject(s): Spanish-american War (1898) THE LITTLE CART, by CH'EN TZU-LUNG Poem Text First Line: The little cart jolting and banging through the yellow haze of dusk Last Line: They stand hesitating in the lonely road and their tears fall like rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wo-tzu Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); War 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 LITTLE ODYSSEY OF JASON QUINT, OF SCIENCE, DOCTOR, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Betrayed by his five mechanic agents, falling Last Line: And confirmation of his loneliness. Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); History; Travel; U.s. - History; Gettysburg, Battle Of; Historians; Journeys; Trips THE LITTLE PEOPLE'S CALL, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: What is this? They say the irish fighting spirit Last Line: Strings—it's the little people calling, calling you to war! Subject(s): Ireland; War; World War I; Irish; First World War THE LITTLE PEOPLES, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little peoples of the troubled earth Last Line: The white world's burden must forever bear! Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE LITTLE PIOU-PIOU, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, some of us lolled in the chateau Last Line: Sonnez la charge, clairons! Subject(s): Soldiers; War; World War I; First World War THE LITTLE STONES; REMEMBERING A SIGHT OF ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETARY, by BARBARA YOUNG Poem Text First Line: I saw them shining in the sun Last Line: And no more stones in arlington. Subject(s): Arlington National Cemetery; Death; Social Protest; Soldiers; Unknown Soldier; War; Dead, The THE LITTLE WHITE GLOVE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The early springtime faintly flushed the earth Last Line: "but, god of heaven! I dreamed that stain was blood!" Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History THE LONE SENTRY, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas at the dying of the day Last Line: Who watched the camp that night. Subject(s): American Civil War; Jackson, Thomas (stonewall) (1824-1863); U.s. - History THE LONELINESS OF THE MILITARY HISTORIAN, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): War THE LONELY GARDEN, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder what the trees will say Last Line: When they find out he's marched away. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; World War I; First World War THE LONG VACATION, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the time the boys come home from school Last Line: The roads of the world run heavenward every one. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Classmates; Homecoming; Mothers; Sons; War; World War I; Schoolmates; First World War THE LONG WAR, by LI PO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They fought last year by the upper valley of son-kan Last Line: They have accomplished nothing! Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Army - China; Death; Soldiers; War; Dead, The THE LORD OF BUTRAGO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "your horse is faint, my king, my lord! Your gallant horse is sick" Last Line: "he died, god wot! But not before his sword had drunk its fill" Subject(s): "aljubarrota, Battle Of (1385);juan (john) I, King De Castile (& Leon);spain;war; THE LOS ALAMOS MUSEUM, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this museum is a replica of little boy and fat man. In Last Line: Speed of light, but you can see it here in slow motion. Subject(s): Hiroshima, Japan; Museums; Nagasaki, Japan; Nuclear War; Art Gallerys; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb THE LOSS OF THE CONCORD, OF NEWHAVEN, by PETER GARDINER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas morning, and the ruddy sunbeams fell Last Line: With mothers, wives, and babes, be found on thy right hand. Subject(s): Death; War; Dead, The THE LOST BATTLE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not over yet -- the fight Last Line: Courage, it is not over yet. Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Dreams; Names; Night; War; Dead, The; Nightmares; Bedtime THE LOST COLORS, by MARY A. BARR Poem Text First Line: Twas on the crimea's dreary plain Last Line: The humbled colors proudly float. Subject(s): Crimean War (1853-1856); Flags THE LOST FAITH, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We shrine our fathers as their wars recede Last Line: So true in passing, if it must be past. Subject(s): Fathers; War; Transience; Past; Death THE LOST LEGION, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Tough birds were some of our fighters, for the Last Line: But god won't give a crooked deal to men who died like men! Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE LOST ONES, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere is music from the linnets' bills Last Line: Crying about the dark for those who died. Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE LOST PILOT, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your face did not rot Subject(s): World War Ii; Fathers; Second World War THE LOST REGIMENT, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dying land cried; they heard her death call Last Line: Who silently died in the swamp that day. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History THE LOST WAR-SLOOP, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the pride of portsmouth water Last Line: Still a rover of the seas and glory's own! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Navy - United States; New Hampshire; War Of 1812; Wasp (ship); American Navy THE MADNESS OF WAR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two men in austria whispered the dread word Last Line: Or rends with anguish one poor woman's heart. Subject(s): War THE MAGPIES IN PICARDY, by T. P. CAMERON WILSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The magpies in picardy / are more than I can tell Last Line: He flies as poets might.) Alternate Author Name(s): Tipuca; Wilson, Tony P. Cameron Subject(s): Birds; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE MAHRATTA GHATS, by ALUN LEWIS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The valleys crack and burn, the exhausted plains Subject(s): India; Soldiers' Writings; Travel; World War Ii; Journeys; Trips; Second World War THE MAIDEN CITY, by CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH TONNA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where foyle his swelling waters Last Line: Yet the maiden on her throne, boys, shall be a maiden still. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Charlotte Elizabeth Subject(s): Londonderry, Northern Ireland; War THE MAIL HAS COME, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the bitter pangs of hope deferred Last Line: Each kind letter thence is thrice welcome to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): American Civil War; Postal Service; United States - History; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE MAN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Where is the man?' I heard one in despair Last Line: Lay on your country's altar. God is great. Subject(s): Freedom; Lyon, Nathaniel (1818-1861); War; Liberty THE MAN FROM ATHABASKA, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh the wife she tried to tell me that 'twas nothing but the thrumming Last Line: And I'll rest in athabaska, and I'll leave it nevermore. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE MAN FROM WASHINGTON, by JAMES WELCH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The end came easy for most of us Subject(s): Men; Native Americans; War; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE MAN HE KILLED, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had he and I but met Last Line: "or help to half-a-crown." Subject(s): Enemies; Murder; Soldiers; War THE MAN IN THE DEAD MACHINE, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High on a slope in new guinea Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War 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 MAN WHO COOKS THE GRUB, by SAMUEL ELLSWORTH KISER Poem Text First Line: We have read in song and story Last Line: Is the man who cooks the grub. Subject(s): Guns; Heroism; Men; Soldiers; War; Heroes; Heroines THE MAN WHO DOES THE CHEERING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: This war with spain reminds me o' the spring o' '61 Last Line: Come / back Subject(s): American Civil War;history;homecoming;u.s. - History; Historians THE MAN WITH THE BROKEN FINGERS', by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And death is a quiet step into a sweet clean midnight Subject(s): Torture; World War Ii; Norway; Nazis THE MAORI'S WOOL, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The maoris are a mighty race - the finest ever known Last Line: Is searching vainly for the chief from rooti-iti-au. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Trade; War THE MARCH INTO VIRGINIA, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did all the lets and bars appear Last Line: Thy after shock, manassas, share. Subject(s): American Civil War; Bull Run, Battles Of; United States - History; Manassas, Batlle Of THE MARCH OF THE DEAD, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cruel war was over - oh, the triumph was so sweet! Last Line: The graves they left behind, the bitter graves. Subject(s): War THE MARCH OF THE GHOSTS, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chattering, clattering, here they come! Last Line: "let peace prevail through eternity!" Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Soldiers; Supernatural; War; Dead, The THE MARCH OF THE REGIMENT, 1861, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here they come!-'tis the twelfth, you know Last Line: The lilies and palms of god. Subject(s): Marching & Marches; Militarism; New York City - 19th Century; Patriotism; Soldiers; War THE MARCH TO MOSCOW, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The emperor nap he would set off Last Line: As there was on the road from moscow. Subject(s): Moscow; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Russia; Russia - Napoleonic War; Soviet Union; Russians THE MARCH TO THE SEA (DECEMBER, 1864), by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not kenesaw high-arching Last Line: Marching to the sea. Subject(s): American Civil War; Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); U.s. - History THE MARINE (POITEVIN), by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bold marine comes back from war Last Line: All so kind. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Death; Remarriage; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Second Marriage THE MARNE, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down through dim centuries of shame Last Line: Unteach us love of man. Subject(s): Marne, Battles Of, The (1914 & 1918); World War I; First World War THE MARTYRS OF THE MAINE, by RUPERT HUGHES Poem Text First Line: And they have thrust our shattered dead away in Last Line: No! Bring them home! Subject(s): Maine (ship); Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898) THE MASACRE AT SCIO, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weep not for scio's children slain Last Line: Is shivered, to be worn no more. Subject(s): Greek War Of Independence (1821-1832); Chios (island), Greece; Massacres THE MASSACRE OF PERUGIA; FRAGMENT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A trumpet pealed thro' france. Then italy Last Line: Perugia on her fort-crowned hill Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Nations; Sea; War; Ocean THE MEADOW, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the road from where we nap Subject(s): War; Death; Cemeteries; Dead, The; Graveyards THE MEETING, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: She was a blossoming slip of english may Last Line: "he holds her fast -- ""my rose! My little rose...." Subject(s): Women - Employment; World War I; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers; First World War THE MEN BEHIND THE GUNS, by JOHN JEROME ROONEY Poem Text First Line: A cheer and salute for the admiral, and here's to the captain bold Last Line: Men behind the guns! Subject(s): Navy - United States; Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898); American Navy 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 MEN THAT ARE FALLING, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: God and all angels sing the world to sleep Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) THE MEN THAT FOUGHT AT MINDEN, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The men that fought at minden, they was rookies in their time Last Line: Ho! Run an' get the beer, johnny raw! Subject(s): Army - Great Britain; Minden, Germany; World War I; First World War THE MERCHANTMEN, by MORLEY ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: The skippers and the mates, they know! Last Line: As endless as some dog-watch song. Subject(s): World War I - Naval Actions THE MERCIFUL HAND, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your fine white hand is heaven's gift Last Line: The love-alliance of mankind. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Nurses; World War I; First World War THE MESSAGE OF VICTORY, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: News to the king, good news for all!' Last Line: And the dying lie with the dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Variant Title(s): Song (4) Subject(s): History; Victory; War; Historians THE MESSAGES, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot quite remember - there were five Last Line: "whispered their dying messages to me...." Subject(s): World War I - Casualties THE MESSENGER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She rose up in the early dawn Last Line: "the fight itself was not so hard." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Mothers; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE MESSINES ROAD, by JOHN E. STEWART Poem Text First Line: The road that runs up to messines Last Line: And give the highway back its state. Subject(s): Roads; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Paths; Trails; First World War THE METAL CHECKS, by LOUISE DRISCOLL Poem Text First Line: The bearer / here is a sack, a gunny sack Last Line: One—two—three—four— Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE METAMORPHOSES, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where I spat in the harbor the oranges were bobbing Subject(s): War THE MIDGET DANCE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I scan the storied pages Last Line: Finds life . . . A midget dance! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Life; Love; Nations; War; Youth 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 MILITIAMAN, by ELMO SCOTT WATSON Poem Text First Line: O, we didn't join for glory Last Line: Fightin' like hell for the red, white and blue! Subject(s): Militarism; Soldiers; World War I; First World War THE MINE-SWEEPERS, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn off the foreland -- the young flood making Last Line: "sent back unity, claribel, assyrian, stormcock, and golden gain." Subject(s): Mine-sweepers; Ships & Shipping; World War I; First World War THE MINSTREL AT LINCLUDEN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I stood by yon roofless tower Last Line: I winna venture't in my rhymes. Subject(s): Freedom; War; Death; Supernatural; Grief; Liberty; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE MINUTE GUNS, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood within the little cove Last Line: I only heard the minute guns. Subject(s): Coves; Guns; Sea; War; Ocean THE MISSISSIPPI; JULY, 1863, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down the silent mississippi, with his saintly soul aflame Last Line: Far to eastward, far to westward, touch the shining ocean sands. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): American Civil War; Mississippi; Mississippi River; Rivers; Sailing & Sailors; U.s. - History THE MOALLAKAH OF HARETH, SELECTION, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And asma! Lovely sojourner! Wilt thou forsake our land Last Line: And horses neigh'd, and camels scream'd, and man cried out on man! Subject(s): War THE MOBILIZATION IN BRITTANY, by GRACE FALLOW NORTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was silent in the street Last Line: So this is the way of war ... Subject(s): Brittany, France; World War I; First World War THE MOON AND THE NIGHT AND THE MEN, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the night of the belgian surrender the moon rose Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Belgium; Leopold Iii, King Of The Belgians; World War Ii; Second World War THE MORNING BEFORE THE BATTLE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To-day, the fight: my end is very soon Last Line: That dead men blossomed in the garden-close. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE MORNING PAPER, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Carnage! / humanity disgraced! Subject(s): World War I - Casualties THE MOTHER (2), by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her boys are not shut out. They come Last Line: And not go out again. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Mothers; Women And War; World War I; First World War THE MOTHER ON THE SIDEWALK, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mother on the sidewalk as the troops are marching by Last Line: Is a lasting holy tribute to all mothers' love of right. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Mothers; Patriotism; World War I; First World War THE MOUND BY THE LAKE, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The grass shall never forget this grave Last Line: Who like a mother comforted. Subject(s): American Civil War; Graves; Mothers; U.s. - History; Tombs; Tombstones THE MOUNTAIN OF SKELETONS, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mountain strikes into a clouded sky Last Line: In what forgotten war. Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Korean War, 1950-1953; Mountains; Skeletons; Soldiers; World War I; Hills; Downs (great Britain); First World War THE MOUNTAIN OF SKULLS, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All guns are silent - 'I have won,' he saith Last Line: Go quietly, all our days. Subject(s): Skulls; Soldiers; War; World War I; First World War THE MOURNERS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I look into the aching womb of night Last Line: How happy are the dead! Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE MUSTER; SUGGESTED BY TWO DAYS' REVIEW AT WASHINGTON, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The abrahamic river - / patriarch of floods Last Line: By rills from kansas lone. Subject(s): American Civil War; Army - United States; U.s. - History THE MUTINY YEAR, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: In the lumber-room I rummaged for some papers out of place Last Line: His aunt jane had scored with butter at the local county show. Subject(s): Numismatics; War; Coins, Commemorative; Medals, Historical THE NAME OF FRANCE, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give us a name to fill the mind Last Line: I give you france! Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): World War I - France THE NATION'S COURAGE (WRITTEN IN THE WORLD WAR), by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As thou hast kept our nation, lord Last Line: Lead thou the armies of the right! Subject(s): Prayer; United States; World War I; America; First World War THE NATION'S PRAYER, by CRAMMOND KENNEDY Poem Text First Line: Before thy throne we bow Last Line: The jubilee! Subject(s): American Civil War; Patriotism; United States - History THE NEGRO BOATMAN'S SONG, by ANONYMOUS - AFRICAN AMERICAN Poem Text First Line: "oh, praise and tanks! De lord he come" Last Line: Or death-rune of our doom! Subject(s): African Americans;american Civil War;freedom;slavery;u.s. - History; Negroes;american Blacks;liberty;serfs THE NEUTRAL, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who canst stop this slaughter if thou wilt Last Line: The mute accusing army of the dead? Subject(s): German Americans; World War I; First World War THE NEW ALLY, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Their great gray ships go plunging forth Last Line: Their pact with freedom while we slept! Subject(s): World War I - United States THE NEW CRUSADE, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life is a trifle Last Line: Who war against war. Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I - United States THE NEW DAY, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From a vision red with war Last Line: Man's land. Subject(s): Freedom; World War I; Liberty; First World War THE NEW JERUSALEM, by ALLAN M. LAING Poem Text First Line: And did these feet, in pre-war days Last Line: In england's blind and shuttered land! Subject(s): Jerusalem; World War Ii; Second World War THE NEW MARS, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Text First Line: I war against the folly that is war Last Line: For peace on earth,—a lasting peace, and just! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Peace; Social Protest; War THE NEW MEMORIAL DAY, by ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the roses we plucked for the blue Last Line: Slumber our heroes to-day. Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; U.s. - History; Declaration Day THE NEW SCHOOL, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The halls that were loud with the merry tread of young and careless feet Last Line: A flame that they took with strong young hands from the altar-fires of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War 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 SLAVERY (GERMAN EXPATRIATION OF CIVIL POPULATIONS OF BELGIUM), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men of freedom, for whose ease Last Line: December 15, 1916. Subject(s): Belgium; World War I; First World War THE NEW WORLD, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, let us make a new world,' said the proud Last Line: But justice, queened by pity, rules the new. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE NEW WORLD; TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now is the time of the splendour of youth Last Line: Hail to the sunrise! Hail to the pioneers! Subject(s): World War I - United States THE NEW ZEALANDER, by BEN KENDIM Poem Text First Line: Samothrace and imbros lie Last Line: Tom, his brother, envied him. Subject(s): New Zealand; World War I; First World War THE NEXT WAR, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You young friskies who to-day / jump and fight in father's hay Last Line: Playing at royal welch fusiliers. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE NEXT WAR, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out there, we walked quite friendly up to death Last Line: He fights for death, for lives; not men, for flags. Subject(s): Death; Patriotism; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE NIGHT BEFORE AND THE NIGHT AFTER THE CHARGE, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On sword and gun the shadows reel and riot Last Line: To mark the dug-out where my comrades sleep. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; War; Dead, The THE NIGHT PATROL; SEPTEMBER, 1918, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behind me on the darkened pier Last Line: And silent duty on the sea. Subject(s): England; Night; Ships & Shipping; Soldiers; War; World War I; English; Bedtime; First World War THE NINETEENTH OF APRIL, 1861, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This year, till late in april, the snow fell thick and light Last Line: Our blood may seal the victory, but god will shield the right! Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day THE NOBLER ARMY, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The men who fight in europe - they fight to maim and kill Subject(s): Coal Mines & Miners; World War I; First World War THE NORTH SEA GROUND, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, grimsby is a pleasant town as any man may find Last Line: Oh, the dead lying quiet on the north sea ground! Subject(s): North Sea; World War I - Naval Actions THE NUPTIALS OF ATTILA, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flat as to an eagle's eye Last Line: Make the bed for attila! Subject(s): Attila, King Of The Huns (434-453); Love; Rome, Italy; War THE OCEAN-FIGHT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The sun had sunk beneath the west Last Line: "full many a bard shall chant his lays, / their requiem" Subject(s): Avon (ship);sea Battles;war Of 1812;wasp (ship); Naval Warfare THE ODYSSEY OF 'ERBERT 'IGGINS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Me and ed and a stretcher Last Line: "we'll 'owl in their fyces: 'no-o-o!'" Subject(s): Army Life; World War I; Drills & Minor Tactics; First World War THE OLD CHICKASAH TO HIS GRANDSON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now go to the battle, my boy Last Line: Till the steps of thy coming I see. Subject(s): Duty; Grandchildren; Grandparents; Native Americans; War; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE OLD COVE, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As vonce I valked by a dismal swamp Last Line: "all that I axed vos, let me alone." Variant Title(s): Let Us Alone;all We Ask Is To Be Let Alone Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889); State Rights; United States - History; Confederacy; Secession THE OLD KINGS, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All of the old kings Last Line: Lie the shattered world! Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; War THE OLD MAN AND JIM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old man never had much to say Last Line: "take keer of yourse'f!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Soldiers; War; Dead, The 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 OLIVE WOOD FIRE, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When fergus woke crying at night Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Politics & Government; War THE ONE-LEGGED MAN, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Propped up on a stick he viewed the august weald Last Line: And thought: 'thank god they had to amputate!' Subject(s): Amputees; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE OTHERS, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They slept and ate like us. Subject(s): War; Social Commentaries THE OWL, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Downhill I came, hungry, and yet not starved Last Line: Soldiers and poor, unable to rejoice. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Birds; Owls; World War I; First World War THE PACT, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have no pact to sign - our peaceful dead Last Line: Our dead will rise again. Subject(s): Death; Religion; War; Dead, The; Theology THE PARABLE OF THE OLD MAN AND THE YOUNG, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: So abram rose, and clave the wood, and went Last Line: And half the seed of europe, one by one. Subject(s): Abraham; Bible; Isaac (bible); Religion; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Theology; First World War THE PARLOUS THING, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The villainous tract he knew Last Line: . . . Say on, sword, say on! Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; War THE PARTING, by LEE WILSON DODD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Muse, we have rhymed of liberty Last Line: To labor, not to sing, in hell. Subject(s): Muses; War - Home Front THE PASSENGERS OF A RETARDED SUBMERSIBLE, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The american people: / what was it kept you so long, brave german submersible? Last Line: Shall be ever the home for us this land can never be. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Germany; Lusitania (ship); World War I; Germans; First World War THE PASSING OF LLWELYN AP GRUFFYDD, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The winds athwart the mountains moaned and wept Last Line: Of bondage, through a yoke of crimson spears. Subject(s): Llyewelyn Ap Gruffud (d. 1282); Wales; War; Welshmen; Welshwomen THE PASSING OF THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by VILDA SAUVAGE OWENS Poem Text First Line: They are bearing him home through the old virginia valley Last Line: Offer a prayer—a tear! Subject(s): Heroism; Honor; Military Service, Compulsory; Military Service, Voluntary; Unknown Soldier; War; Heroes; Heroines; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service THE PATER OF THE CANNON, by SHANE LESLIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Father of the thunder Last Line: Give for daily bread! Subject(s): War THE PATH OF SAFETY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Two jolly german barons lived in castles by the rhine Last Line: "the noble lord von donnerblitz, the graf von schlagenstein" Subject(s): Arms & Armor;brotherhood;germany;peace;war; Germans THE PATRIOT MOTHER, by JOHN SAVAGE Poem Text First Line: When o'er the land the battle brand Last Line: "but never come a coward." Subject(s): American Civil War; Mothers; Patriotism; U.s. - History THE PEACE PEAL (AFTER FOUR YEARS OF SILENCE), by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said a wistful daw in saint peter's tower Last Line: Or lower, of pens and politics. Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War THE PEACEFUL WARRIOR, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have [or, there is] no joy in strife Last Line: Unless the world is free? Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE PEASANTS, by ALUN LEWIS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dwarf barefooted, chanting Subject(s): Peasantry; Soldiers' Writings; World War Ii; Second World War THE PEOPLE'S SONG OF PEACE, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The grass is green on bunker hill Last Line: And janus rests with rusted door. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Peace; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines THE PERFORMANCE, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last time I saw donald armstrong Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War THE PERIL OF JAPAN, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Arise! Thou little second greece Last Line: For which your race was born! Subject(s): War THE PHILIPPINE CONQUEST, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the army of an empire not a republic Subject(s): Social Protest; Spanish-american War (1898) THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S ANNUAL, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We are returning to new england for two weeks! My sister Last Line: Throughout the afternoon. Subject(s): Aging; Love - Erotic; Jews; Marriage; Mayas; Mexico; Morality; Photography & Photographers; Poetry & Poets; Vermont; World War Ii; Judaism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Ethics; Second World War THE PICKET-GUARD [NOVEMBER, 1861], by ETHEL LYNN BEERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All quiet along the potomac,' they say Last Line: The picket's off duty forever. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, Ethelinda; Lynn, Ethel Variant Title(s): All Quiet Along The Potomac Subject(s): American Civil War; Patriotism; Potomac River; Rivers; United States - History THE PIED PIPER, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The huge pied piper, in a giant dance Last Line: And the millions perished in a jigging rigadoon. Subject(s): Death; Military; Military Service, Voluntary; Patriotism; Pipers; Soldiers; War; Dead, The THE PIOUS PAINTER; THE STORY AS RELATED IN FABLIAUX OF LE GRAND, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There once was a painter in catholic days Last Line: And I must give the devil his due. Subject(s): Catholic Church - Liturgy; Devil; Paintings And Painters; Prisoners Of War; Temptation; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub THE PIPES OF THE NORTH, by EDWARD FORRESTER SUTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do ye hear 'em sternly soundin' through the noises of the street Last Line: Ye're sure the wings of gaelic souls as far as blood is true! Alternate Author Name(s): Sutton, E. Subject(s): Bagpipes; Ireland; Musical Instruments; Patriotism; Scotland; War; Irish THE PITEOUS BATTLE OF MONT-L'HERY, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: After many a round-about they encountered man to man Last Line: Beads beguiled he blessed the holy name, most happy and most mild. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; Nations; War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE PITY OF IT, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walked in loamy wessex lanes afar Last Line: And their brood perish everlastingly.' Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE PLAYERS, by FRANCIS LAWRENCE BICKLEY Poem Text First Line: We challenged death. He threw with weighted dice Last Line: With that nor death nor time can take away. Subject(s): Death; World War I - Casualties; Dead, The THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 88, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ten thousand miles from home Last Line: The trick is don't be greedy Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Swords; War THE POET, by THOMAS ERNEST HULME Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over a large table, smooth, he leaned in ecstasies Last Line: On the smooth table. Alternate Author Name(s): Hulme, T. E. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; World War I; First World War THE POET OF THE PRISON ISLE: RITSOS AGAINST THE COLONELS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So there you are Last Line: Just over the border Subject(s): Prisoners Of War; War; Writing & Writers THE POPLARS, by BERNARD FREEMAN TROTTER Poem Text First Line: O, a lush green english meadow - it's there I that would lie Last Line: For a row of wind-blown poplars against an english sky. Subject(s): Poplar Trees; Soldiers; World War I; First World War THE POPPY FIELDS OF SERGEY, by KATE SLAUGHTER MCKINNEY Poem Text First Line: Oh! The poppy fields of sergey Last Line: Where the blood-red poppies grow. Subject(s): Blood; Death; Fields; Poppies; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE PORTENT, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hanging from the beam Last Line: The meteor of the war. Subject(s): Abolitionists; American Civil War; Brown, John (1800-1859); Slavery; Social Protest; United States - History; Anti-slavery; Serfs THE PRICE OF HONOR (THE COLOMBIAN INDEMNITY), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How much is a country's honor worth? Last Line: Give us our measureless honor again. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE PRICE WE PAY, by J. H. STEVENS Poem Text First Line: Yes, he was the only one killed Last Line: But that life was all that I had. Subject(s): Assassination; Death; Heroism; War - Home Front; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines THE PRISONER'S RELEASE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, in the east the wan moon climbs Last Line: Now I come — I come to thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; Inquisition; Prisoners Of War; Venice, Italy; Youth; Dead, The THE PROGRAM, by KENNETH FEARING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Act one, madrid-barcelona Last Line: Try the new golgotha for cocktails after the show Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) THE PROPHET, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a country Last Line: This sometime seer, crass but cassandra-like. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE PURE PRODUCTS OF AMERICA, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the middle of the southeast asian war Last Line: But I wish he'd quit Subject(s): Children; United States; War; Childhood; America THE PYRES, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pyres in the night, in the night! Last Line: The glory of war! Subject(s): Army Life; War; Drills & Minor Tactics THE QUAKER MEETING-HOUSE, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the corn-rows from our barracks stood Last Line: With windows burning like the fires of home. Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Houses; Religion; War; World War I; Quakers; Theology; First World War THE QUESTION, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder if the old cow died or not Last Line: Till doomsday if the old cow died or not. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE RACE OF ODIN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loud was the hostile clang of arms Last Line: "she falls—and lo, the world again is free!" Subject(s): Freedom; Mythology - Celtic; War; Liberty THE RACE OF THE OREGON, by JOHN JAMES MEEHAN Poem Text First Line: Lights out! And a prow turned toward the Last Line: The matchless race of the oregon. Subject(s): Oregon (ship); Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898) THE RAGGED STONE, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I was walking with my dear, my dear come back at last Last Line: I'll not be walking with my dear next year, nor yet alone. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Legends; Love; Stones; War; World War I; Dead, The; Granite; Rocks; First World War THE RAID, by WILLIAM EVERSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They came out of the sun undetected Alternate Author Name(s): Antoninus, Brother Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War THE RAID, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It chanced that as rua sat in the valley of silent falls Last Line: It shone on the smoke of feasting in the country of the vais. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Death; War; Dead, The THE RANGE IN THE DESERT, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the lizard ran to its little prey Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War THE RANKER, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: There was only one first sergeant Last Line: Who ever went to france. Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I; First World War THE READER OF THE SENTENCES, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dead soldiers rise and walk into the trees Last Line: There is the day's work to be done. Subject(s): Books; Children; Eckehart, Johannes (meister) (1260-1327); Jesus Christ; Martyrs; Memory; Resurrection, The; World War Ii; Reading; Childhood; Eckhart, Meister; Second World War THE REAR-GUARD, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Groping along the tunnel, step by step Last Line: Unloading hell behind him step by step. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE REASONS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They sat before a dugout Last Line: "what?" Subject(s): Fights; Military; Patriotism; Soldiers; War THE REAWAKENING, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Green in light are the hills, and a calm wind flowing Last Line: Springs, like a child from the womb, when the lonely one calls. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE REBEL, by INNES RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, I'm a good old rebel, that's what I am Last Line: I won't be reconstructed and I don't give a damn. Variant Title(s): Unreconstructed Subject(s): American Civil War; Hate; United States - History THE REBEL SOLDIER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "one morning, one morning, one morning in may" Last Line: I am a rebel soldier and far from my home Subject(s): American Civil War;u.s. - History THE REBEL SURPRISE NEAR TAMAI, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the 22nd of march, in the year 1885 Last Line: Just equally the same as in a foreign land. Subject(s): Fights; Pity; Revolutions; Sea Battles; War; Naval Warfare THE RECRUIT, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His mother bids him go without a tear Last Line: To look upon itself and live—or die! Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; World War I; First World War THE RECRUITING SERGEANT; A MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT: AIR, by ISAAC BICKERSTAFFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What a charming thing's a battle! Last Line: What a charming thing's a battle! Subject(s): Guns; Soldiers; Trumpets; War THE RED CHRISTMAS, by WILLIAM H. DRAPER Poem Text First Line: O take away the mistletoe Last Line: Twined with the holly berry. Alternate Author Name(s): Draper, W. H. Subject(s): Christmas; World War I; Nativity, The; First World War THE RED COUNTRY, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the red country Last Line: With your secret eyes, and sow for us, that we must reap again? Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE RED CROSS NURSE, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One summer day, gleaming in memory Subject(s): World War I; Red Cross; Nurses; First World War THE RED CROSS NURSE, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The battle-smoke still fouled the day Last Line: A crimson cross is on her breast! Subject(s): Nurses; World War I - Casualties THE RED CROSS NURSES, by THOMAS LANSING MASSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out where the line of battle cleaves Last Line: The red cross nurses stand. Alternate Author Name(s): Masson, Tom Subject(s): Nurses; Red Cross; World War I; First World War THE RED CROSS OF ENGLAND: ENTRY OF THE MARINES, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old england! Thy name shall yet warrant thy fame Last Line: Neath the red cross of england—the flag of the brave. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Marines - Great Britain; Sailing & Sailors; War; Waterloo; English History; Seamen; Sails; Battle Of Waterloo THE RED CROSS SPIRIT SPEAKS, by JOHN FINLEY (1874-) Poem Text First Line: Wherever war with its red woes Last Line: Of war's red line. Subject(s): Red Cross; World War I; First World War THE RED RETREAT, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tramp, tramp, the grim road, the road from mons to wipers Last Line: The graves of me mateys there, the grim, sour graves. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE REDDENED ROAD, by H. M. TICKENER Poem Text First Line: What of the empires that are built on beds of dead men's bones Last Line: These be the things of truest worth in this old world of ours. Subject(s): War THE REDEEMER, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Darkness: the rain sluiced down; the mire was deep Last Line: Mumbling: 'o christ almighty, now I'm stuck!' Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE REFUGEES, by EDWIN MUIR Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A crack ran through our hearthstone long ago Subject(s): Refugees; World War Ii; Second World War THE REGAL DREAM, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the day that bosworth field was won Last Line: Eternally to mourn a matchless queen. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dreams; Grief; Mourning; Prophecy & Prophets; Story-telling; War; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement THE RELEASED REBEL PRISONER (JUNE, 1865), by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Armies he's seen - the herds of war Last Line: Who see him listless go. Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History THE RELIEF OF LUCKNOW (SEPTEMBER 25, 1857), by ROBERT TRAILL SPENCE LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, that last day in lucknow fort! Last Line: As the pipes played auld lang syne Subject(s): Lucknow, India; War THE RETREAT FROM MOSCOW, by GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The yellow snow-fog curdled thick Last Line: The carriage disappeared. Subject(s): Russia; Russia - Napoleonic War; Warsaw, Poland; Soviet Union; Russians THE RETURN, by JOHN PEALE BISHOP Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night and we heard heavy and cadenced hoofbeats Subject(s): War THE RETURN, by ELEANOR ROGERS COX Poem Text First Line: Golden through the golden morning Last Line: From the soul's despair. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE RETURN, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the rumbling guns. I saw the smoke Last Line: And I heard beauty singing up the hill. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE RETURN OF AUGUST, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Darkly a mortal age has come and gone Last Line: The summer wanes: the ploughman comes with spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE RETURN OF THE BIRDS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear, from many a little throat Last Line: "and freedom to the slave!" Subject(s): American Civil War; Birds; Holidays; Trees; United States - History THE RETURN OF THE GREEKS, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The veteran greeks came home Subject(s): Greece; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Penelope (mythology); Poetry & Poets; Trojan War; Greeks; Iliad; Odyssey THE RETURN OF THE GUARDS; JULY 9, 1856, by FRANCIS HASTINGS CHARLES DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, they return - but who return? Last Line: Which shakes the euxine shore. Subject(s): Crimean War (1853-1856); Homecoming; Soldiers THE RETURNED VOLUNTEER TO HIS RIFLE, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over this hearth - my father's seat Last Line: Long rest! With belt, and bayonet, and canteen. Subject(s): American Civil War; Consolation; U.s. - History; Veterans THE REVEILLE, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! I hear the tramp of thousands Last Line: "lord, we come!" Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Variant Title(s): What The Drums Say Subject(s): American Civil War; Patriotism; United States - History THE REVELATION, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The same old sprint in the morning, boys, to the same old din and smut Last Line: But all of us wonder what we'll do when we have to go back again. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE REVOLUTION, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not yet had history's aetna smoked the skies Last Line: That she had been in travail of a man. Subject(s): France; Revolutions; War THE RIFLE, by COVINGTON HALL Poem Text First Line: Tis made of hard, death-tempered steel Last Line: The message men to tyrants speak! Alternate Author Name(s): Ami, Covington; Ami, Covami Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Assassination; Death; Militarism; Murder; Rifles; Social Protest; War; Weapons; Ammunition; Dead, The THE RIVAL SCHOOLS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Trained in the ways of blood and iron Last Line: "urged on by ""high-born"" power?" Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I; First World War THE RIVER, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The silent stream flows on and in its glass Subject(s): War; Rivers THE RIVER FIGHT; APRIL 18, 1862, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you know of the dreary land Last Line: And the traitor flags come down. Subject(s): American Civil War; Farragut, David Glascow (1801-1870); Navy - United States; New Orleans, Battle Of (1862); Patriotism; Slavery; United States - History; American Navy; Serfs THE ROAD, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The road is thronged with women: soldiers pass Last Line: The road would serve you well enough for bed. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE ROAD TO DIEPPE, by JOHN FINLEY (1874-) Poem Text First Line: Before I knew, the dawn was on the road Last Line: Forget long hates in one consummate faith. Subject(s): Dieppe, France; World War I; First World War THE ROAD TO FRANCE, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: Thank god, our liberating lance Last Line: See, with what proud hearts we advance to france! Subject(s): France; Patriotism; World War I; First World War THE ROOM, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through that window—all else being extinct Last Line: I will praise darkness now, but then the leaf Subject(s): War; Trees; Creation THE ROSE OF BATTLE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rose of all roses, rose of all the world! Last Line: Of our sad hearts, that may not live nor die. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): They Went Forth To The Battle Subject(s): War THE ROSE OF WAR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Its leaves are bright with the cannon-shine Last Line: For the breath of the tomb is there. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; War THE RUBAIYAT OF BATTLE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Wake--for the dawn has come, and o'er the top Last Line: And seek repose amid the hostile dead! Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE RUN FROM MANASSAS JUNCTION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Yankee doodle went to war Last Line: "moreover, when you've turned your tail / won't hesitate to follow" Subject(s): "american Civil War;bull Run, Battles Of;u.s. - History;" "manassas, Batlle Of; THE RUNNER, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the condemned man ate a hearty meal' Subject(s): Bulge, Battle Of The; World War Ii; Second World War THE RUSH OF THE OREGON, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They held her south to magellan's mouth Last Line: For the chance of a bitter fight! Subject(s): Oregon (ship); Santiago, Cuba; Spanish-american War (1898) THE RUSSIAN ARMY GOES INTO BAKU, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the ethnic riots start, and the civilized west Last Line: With an unhappy man Subject(s): Russia – Army; War; Freedom; Cold War THE SAILING OF THE FLEET, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Two fleets have sailed from spain. The one would seek Last Line: For sons of drake are lords of colon's world Subject(s): Navy - Spain;spanish-american War (1898); Spanish Navy THE SALUTE OF THE 'IMMORTALITE', by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: The coming dawn flung out her pennants grey Last Line: Till anglo-saxon peace shall lead the world. Subject(s): Battleships; Manila, Philippines; Navy - Great Britain; Soldiers; Spanish-american War (1898); English Navy THE SCHEIK OF SINAI IN 1830, by FERDINAND FREILIGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lift me without the tent, I say Last Line: That which I thought to see.' Alternate Author Name(s): Freiligrath, Hermann Ferdinand Subject(s): Moors (people); Tents; War THE SCOTT MONUMENT, PRINCE'S STREET, EDINBURGH, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here sits he throned, where men and gods behold Last Line: While yon grey ramparts kindle to the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Hate; Life; Love; Monuments; Past; War THE SCOUT TOWARD ALDIE, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cavalry-camp lies on the slope Last Line: To mosby-land the dirges cling. Subject(s): American Civil War; Mosby, John Singleton (1833-1916); U.s. - History THE SCYTHIANS, by ALEXANDER (ALEKSANDR) ALEXANDROVICH BLOK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: You are the millions, we are multitude Subject(s): Russian Revolution; War THE SEA FIGHT; IN MEMORIAM CAPTAIN PROWSE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down went the grand 'queen mary' Last Line: With his comrades all around. Subject(s): Sea Battles; World War I; Naval Warfare; First World War THE SEARCH FOR LORCA'S SHADOW, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've seen the hillside. A soft wind moved Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) THE SEARCHLIGHTS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shadow by shadow, stripped for fight Last Line: She moves to the eternal goal. Subject(s): Morality; World War I; Ethics; First World War THE SECOND ADVICE TO A PAINTER FOR DRAWING HISTORY .. NAVAL BUSYNESSE, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nay painter, if thou dar'st design that fight Last Line: Kings are in war but cards: they're gods in peace. Subject(s): Great Britain - Dutch War (1664-1667); Paintings And Painters; Sea Battles; Waller, Edmund (1606-1687); Naval Warfare THE SECOND COMING, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Turning and turning in the widening gyre Last Line: Slouches towards bethlehem to be born? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Chaos; Easter; History; Holidays; Imagination; Judgment Day; Men; Millenium; Religion; Vision; War; The Resurrection; Historians; Fancy; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology THE SECULAR MASQUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An hundred times the rowling sun Last Line: Dance of huntsmen, nymphs, warriours, and lovers. Subject(s): Earth; Goddesses & Gods; Mankind; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Plays & Playwrights ; War; World; Human Race; Dramatists THE SEND-OFF, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down the close darkening lanes they sang their way Last Line: Up half-known roads. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; War; World War I; First World War THE SENTRY, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We'd found an old boche dug-out, and he knew Last Line: "I see your lights!"" but ours had long died out." Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE SENTRY'S MISTAKE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The chapel at the crossways bore no scar Last Line: "made him once more ""the terror of the hun." Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE SERVICE STAR, by KENNETH WIGGINS PORTER Poem Text First Line: She saw in the window a single star Last Line: "he is in fort leavenworth." Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Pride; Soldiers; Sons; War; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE SEVEN AGAINST THEBES: NEWS OF WAR, by AESCHYLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: King of this people, good lord eteocles Last Line: Do get most honour, which most prospereth. Subject(s): War THE SEVENTH HELL: OF SMOKE, WHERE FIRE-RAISERS TRY .. ESCAPE, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The houses of men are on fire Subject(s): Men; Nuclear War; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb THE SEVENTH VIAL, by WILLARD WATTLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These are the days when men draw pens for swords Last Line: Tho this is war, there is another war! Subject(s): Democracy; United States; War; America THE SHADOW OF DEATH, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's an end to my art! / I must die and I know it Last Line: I may father no longer! Subject(s): World War I; First World War 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 SHIP OF LIBERTY; LINES ON THE LAUNCHING OF THE 'NEWBURGH', by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O ship of liberty! Last Line: Our hearts go forth with thee. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; World War I; First World War THE SHIPS OF GRIEF, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On seas where every pilot fails Last Line: There is a sun will strike the sea. Subject(s): Grief; Ships & Shipping; World War I; Sorrow; Sadness; First World War THE SHIPS THAT NEVER FOUGHT, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The great gray ships come slowly in, and range Last Line: And yet no stain or shame is theirs—the ships that never fought! Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; War; World War I; First World War THE SHORT ROAD TO HEAVEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a short road to heaven, but you must take it young Last Line: The night darkens on them—and there's god at the door. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Heaven; Mothers; Roads; War; World War I; Youth; Paradise; Paths; Trails; First World War THE SHOW, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My soul looked down from a vague height with death Last Line: And the fresh-severed head of it, my head. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE SICK BATTLE-GOD, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In days when men found joy in war Last Line: The battle-god is god no more. Subject(s): Boer War; South African War THE SICK NOUGHT, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do the wife and baby travelling to see Last Line: This was our peace, this was our war Subject(s): World War Ii - Casualties THE SIEGE OF CHAPULTEPEC, by WILLIAM HAINES LYTLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wide o'er the valley the pennons are fluttering Last Line: Of her proud state at the siege of chapultepec. Subject(s): Chapultepec, Mexico; Mexico City, Battle Of (1847); U.s. - Mexican War (1846-1848) THE SIEGE OF DJKXPRWBZ, by EUGENE FITCH WARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before a turkish town Last Line: Consonant they had. Alternate Author Name(s): Ironquill Subject(s): Russia; Turkey; War; Soviet Union; Russians THE SIGN, by FREDERIC MANNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are here in a wood of little beeches Last Line: Across the moon. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE SILENT ONE, by IVOR GURNEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who died on the wires, and hung there, one of two Subject(s): Mourning; War; Bereavement THE SILENT TOAST, by FREDERICK GEORGE SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They stand with reverent faces Last Line: Are lit with a light divine. Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. G. Subject(s): Toasts; World War I - Casualties THE SILENT WARRIORS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The sun shone in at the window Last Line: Whose mandates the world shall obey Subject(s): Justice;truth;war THE SILVER STRIPES, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we've honored the heroes returning from france Last Line: Though they've only the silver to show. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE SIN OF DAVID, by STEPHEN PHILLIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, sirs, that we have sought the lord in prayer Last Line: [exeunt slowly, with bowed heads. Subject(s): Great Britain - Civil War; English Civil War THE SINKING OF THE MERRIMAC [MAY 10, 1862], by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Gone down in the flood, and gone out in the flame! Last Line: Then sink them together, -- the ship and the name! Subject(s): American Civil War; Sea Battles; United States - History; Virginia (ship); Naval Warfare; Merrimac (ship) THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 13, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Ah, little wot he of the war and strife Last Line: Thrice vain from those fell hands to expect reprieve! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Evil; War THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 21, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The fire which smoulder'd in those aged eyes Last Line: So courted he the conflict from afar. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): War; Youth THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 24, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Hard put was eliduc to hold in check Last Line: His voice rang out above the battle's roar. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; War THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 95, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The mists disperse, and lo! Before their eyes Last Line: Proclaim another day of task and strife. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; War THE SKEIN OF GRIEVOUS WAR, by LAURA BELL EVERETT Poem Text First Line: War calls and drowns the kind command Last Line: To weave the web of woeful war. Subject(s): Military; War THE SKY-SENT DEATH, by WALTER JAMES REDFERN TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting on a stone a shepherd Last Line: Free, in no man's keeping. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE SLAIN (IN THE BOER WAR), by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Partners in silence, mates in noteless doom Last Line: And cold adjudication of the dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Boer War; Death; South African War; Dead, The THE SLAVE-MONGERS' CONVENTION: CANTO 2, SELECTION, by J. P. RANDOLPH Poem Text First Line: My brethren, most beloved and dear Last Line: Your whips -- Subject(s): American Civil War; Bible; Clergy; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Slavery; U.s. - History; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs THE SLEEPING SOLDIER, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: On the wild battlefield where the bullets were flying Last Line: Overwept by the night, overwatched by the stars. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; War Injuries; Dead, The THE SMELL OF GASOLINE IN MY NOSE, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Upon us and upon all lovers in autumn Subject(s): Farewell; War; Love – Loss Of THE SOLDIER, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes. Why do we all, seeing of a soldier, bless him? Bless Last Line: Were I come o'er again' cries christ 'it should be this'. Subject(s): War THE SOLDIER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The soldier! - meek the title, yet Last Line: The captain's high command. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Freedom; Monuments; Soldiers; War; Liberty THE SOLDIER, by WILLIAM SMYTH Poem Text First Line: What dreaming drone was ever blest Last Line: Thy country and thy duty. Subject(s): Honor; Soldiers; War THE SOLDIER BOY'S DREAM, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A soldier boy lay dreaming Last Line: Of liberty, new found. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): American Civil War; Dreams; Freedom; Soldiers; United States - History; Nightmares; Liberty THE SOLDIER GOING TO THE FIELD, by WILLIAM DAVENANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Preserve thy sighs, unthrifty girl Last Line: Accompanied with thine. Alternate Author Name(s): D'avenant, William Subject(s): War THE SOLDIER SPEAKS, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If courage thrives on reeking slaughter Last Line: We have gone down to fight! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I; First World War THE SOLDIER WALKS UNDER THE TREES OF THE UNIVERSITY, by RANDALL JARRELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The walls have been shaded for so many years Last Line: And the blood is black upon the unturned leaves Subject(s): War THE SOLDIER'S DEATH, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Trail all your pikes, dispirit every drum Last Line: To your mistaken shrine, to your false idol honour. Subject(s): Death; War; Dead, The THE SOLDIER'S DREAM, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our bugles sang truce, - for the night-cloud had lowered Last Line: And the voice in my dreaming ear melted away. Subject(s): Dreams; Home; Soldiers; War; Nightmares THE SOLDIER'S FIRESIDE, AFTER A BATTLE, by M. T. C. Poem Text First Line: They sat by the dying embers Last Line: And hope for their country too. Subject(s): American Civil War; Anxiety; Chancellorsville, Battle Of (1863); United States - History THE SOLDIER'S GRAVE, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas long ago, in the summer time Last Line: To the chair in the old house-place! Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Graves; War; Tombs; Tombstones 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 SOLDIER'S SEA CHANGE, by DANIEL HUGH VERDER Poem Text First Line: What do you carry, slow moving ship Last Line: Crimsons the dismal flowing flood. Subject(s): Death; Patriotism; Soldiers; War - Casualties (statistics, Etc.); World War I; Youth; Dead, The; First World War THE SOLDIER'S SONG, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard a soldier sing some trifle Last Line: Out in the veldt, alone? Subject(s): Boer War; Soldiers; South African War THE SOLDIER'S WIFE, by ELLIOTT FLOWER Poem Text First Line: He offered himself for the land he loved Last Line: All honor we owe to her. Subject(s): War - Home Front THE SOLDIERS OF THE DUSK, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Black men holding up the earth Last Line: Victims of the war god's lust. Subject(s): African Americans - Military; World War I; First World War THE SONG OF DAVYDD THE BARD, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My prince has fled to ireland Last Line: Who swing from the gallows-tree. Subject(s): Wales; War; Welshmen; Welshwomen THE SONG OF HIAWATHA: HIAWATHA AND THE PEARL-FEATHER, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the shores of gitche gumee Last Line: Shared it equally among them. Subject(s): War THE SONG OF JUDITH, PARAPHAS'D FROM THE APOCRYPHA, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Begin the song! To god the timbrels strike Last Line: Roll'd in a deluge of sulphureous flame! Subject(s): Bible; Death; Duty; God; Grief; Israel; Judith (bible); Revenge; Seduction; War; Women In The Bible; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE SONG OF SHERMAN'S ARMY, by CHARLES GRAHAM HALPINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pillar of fire by night Last Line: For sherman and grant, hurrah! Alternate Author Name(s): O'reilly, Miles Subject(s): American Civil War; Georgia (state); Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); United States - History THE SONG OF THE CAMP, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Give us a song!' the soldiers cried Last Line: The loving are the daring. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Variant Title(s): The Song In Camp Subject(s): Crimean War (1853-1856); Love; Sevastopol, Ukraine THE SONG OF THE GUNS AT SEA, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh hear! Oh hear! Last Line: Come! ... Come! ... The time is come! Subject(s): World War I - Naval Actions THE SONG OF THE LENAPE WARRIORS GOING AGAINST THE ENEMY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O poor me! Last Line: Take pity on me and preserve my life / and I will make to thee a sacrifice Subject(s): War THE SONG OF THE PACIFIST, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What do they matter, our headlong hates, when we take the toll Last Line: In the name of the dead the banner of peace . . . That will be victory. Subject(s): Pacifism; War; World War I; Peace Movements; First World War THE SONG OF THE SOLDIER-BORN, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me the scorn of the stars and a peak defiant Last Line: Death in my boots may-be, but fighting, fighting. Subject(s): Soldiers; War; World War I; First World War THE SONG OF THE SPANISH MAIN, by JOHN BENNETT (1865-1956) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out in the south, when the day is done Last Line: Then, hush, forevermore. Subject(s): National Songs; Singing & Singers; Southern Hemisphere; Spain; War; National Anthems; Songs THE SONG OF THE SWORD OF CARROLL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "bright battle-joy of the gael, war's great woof sharply" Last Line: "'proudest prize of the gael!' shall glorious naas repute thee, / finn of the feasts shall salute th Subject(s): War THE SONG OF WAR, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The song of war shall echo through our mountains Last Line: Resounding through her sunny mountains. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Singing & Singers; War THE SONG THAT SHALL ATONE, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars Last Line: That war is building is the throne of peace. Subject(s): Peace; War THE SOUL OF BRITAIN, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Thro' the dark of the night we have trodden Last Line: Must sink again to the prison, of party and place and creed. Subject(s): Death; Great Britain - Civil War; Heaven; Peace; Soul; Dead, The; English Civil War; Paradise THE SOUL OF JEANNE D'ARC, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She came not into the presence Last Line: "my captain! Oh, my captain, let me go back!"" she said." Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); World War I - France THE SOULS OF THE SLAIN, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The thick lids of night closed upon me Last Line: Sea-mutterings and me. Subject(s): Boer War; South African War THE SOUTH CAROLINA HYMN OF INDEPENDENCE, by CLAUDIAN BIRD NORTHROP Poem Text First Line: South carolinians! Proudly see Last Line: The drum has beat th' alarm. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; South Carolina; U.s. - History; Confederacy THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thirty years ago tonight Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 1, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis the warm south, where europe spreads her lands Last Line: (exeunt.) Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Christianity; Gypsies; Jews; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (people); Plays & Playwrights ; Spain - History; Travel; War; Gipsies; Judaism; Male-female Relations; Dramatists; Journeys; Trips THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 3, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quit now the town, and with a journeying dream Last Line: Where we have found each other, my fedalma. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Christianity; Family Life; Inquisition; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (land); Moors (people); Spain; War; Relatives; Male-female Relations THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 4, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now twice the day had sunk from off the hills Last Line: Their ignorant misery and their trust in her Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Christianity; Gypsies; Inquisition; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (land); Religion; Spain; War; Gipsies; Male-female Relations; Theology THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 5, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The eastward rocks of almeria's bay Last Line: On aught but blackness overhung by stars.] Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Christianity; Farewell; Inquisition; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (people); Spain; War; Parting; Male-female Relations THE SPANISH LIE, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This will be answered Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Variant Title(s): The Spanish Dead Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) THE SPANISH WAR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Come all young men and maidens of high and low degree Last Line: Their precious lives to venture all for the queen of spain Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;grief;spanish-american War (1898); Sorrow;sadness THE SPARROW HARK IN THE RAIN (ALEXANDER STEPHENS HEARS NEWS), by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That's done! And well, I'd rather not have gone Last Line: And I arose and left. Subject(s): American Civil War; Stephens, Alexander Hamilton (1812-1883); United States - History THE SPECTRAL ARMY, by GRETCHEN OSGOOD WARREN Poem Text First Line: I dream that on far heaven's steep Last Line: They left the reckoning to god. Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE SPIRES OF OXFORD, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the spires of oxford Last Line: Than even oxford town. Subject(s): Oxford University; World War I; First World War THE SPIRIT OF THE MAINE, by TUDOR JENKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In battle-line of sombre gray Last Line: The spirit of the maine! Subject(s): Cuba; Maine (ship); Naval Blockades; Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898) THE SPOILS OF WAR, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What does our soldier bring from war? Last Line: Could knightly soldier bring from war? Subject(s): Army - United States; World War I; First World War THE SPRING IN IRELAND: 1916, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do not forget my charge I beg of you Last Line: We sail away -- be with us mananan! Subject(s): Ireland; Spring; World War I; Irish; First World War THE STALKING OF THE SEA WOLVES, by CHARLES WEST THOMPSON Poem Text First Line: They had come from out of the east Last Line: "they'll never get home!" Subject(s): Flags; Spain; Victory; War; Wolves THE STAND-TO, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn met me today as I walked over castle hill Last Line: The apples drawn too early and shatters the sutyumn rose Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii; Second World War THE STAR, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a dreamer, I saw a poet Last Line: "there it sung loud and sweet ""come, follow me." Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death; Pearse, Patrick Henry (1879-1916); Stars; War; Dead, The THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER, by FRANCIS SCOTT KEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light Last Line: Brave. Variant Title(s): Final Curtain;defence Of Fort Mchenry Subject(s): Flags - United States; Fort Mchenry, Battle Of (1814); Fourth Of July; Freedom; Napoleon I (1769-1821); National Song - United States; Patriotism; United States; War Of 1812; American Flag; Independence Day; Liberty; American National Anthem; America THE STARRED MOTHER, by ROBERT WHITAKER Poem Text First Line: Is there a madness underneath the sun Last Line: For tinselled star, their flesh and blood to hell! Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Sons; War THE STARS GO OVER THE LONELY OCEAN, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unhappy about some far off things Last Line: Tusking the turf on mal paso mountain Subject(s): War THE STARS IN THEIR COURSES, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And now, while the dark vast earth shakes Last Line: On these disastrous wars! Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE STARS' ACCUSAL, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: How can the makers of unrighteous wars Last Line: Through these our sufferings we learn thy will. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): God; Social Protest; Stars; War THE STEEPLE, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: There's mist in the hollows Last Line: For birds and for bells! Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE STILL HOUR, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As in the silent darkening room I lay Last Line: Whence one deep moaning, one deep moaning came. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE STOIC: FOR LAURA VON COURTEN, by EDGAR BOWERS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: All winter long you listened for the boom Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War THE STONE AXE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Iron rusts, and bronze has its green sickness; while flint, the hard stones, flint and chalcedony Last Line: Look, dear, there comes the sun. My baby be born as quiet as that Subject(s): War; Social Commentary THE STONE FLEET; AN OLD SAILOR'S LAMENT (DECEMBER, 1861), by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a feeling for those ships Last Line: Was your old stone fleet. Subject(s): American Civil War; Ships & Shipping; U.s. - History THE STORM, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The storm that trickles its long march Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE STORM OF WAR, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O! Once was felt the storm of war! Last Line: Above the rolling deep. Subject(s): War THE STORMING OF DARGAI HEIGHTS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the 20th of november, and in the year of 1897 Last Line: And give them always strength to put their enemies to flight. Subject(s): Death; Fights; Tragedy; War; Dead, The THE STREETS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Marlboro' and waterloo and trafalgar Last Line: Caught by sharp roofs in a narrow net of sky. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Children; War; Childhood THE STRETCHER-BEARER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My stretcher is one scarlet stain Last Line: O prince of peace! 'ow long, 'ow long? Subject(s): Army Life; War; World War I; Drills & Minor Tactics; First World War THE STRIPES AND THE STARS; APRIL, 1861, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O star-spangled banner! The flag of our pride! Last Line: One country — one banner — the stripes and the stars! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): American Civil War; Flags - United States; Freedom; Patriotism; U.s. - History; American Flag; Liberty THE SUBSTITUTE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How say'st thou? Die to-morrow? Last Line: Knelt by the corse -- alone. Subject(s): American Civil War; Capital Punishment; Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Confederacy THE SUDBURY FIGHT, by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye sons of massachusetts, all who love Last Line: That, fearing god's wrath only, firm may stand the state they made. Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): Philip, King (native American Chief); Sudbury, Battle Of (1676); Metacomet; King Philip's War (1675-76) THE SUPERMAN, by ROBERT GRANT (1852-1940) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Horror-haunted belgian plains riven by shot and shell Last Line: Let chaos come, let moloch rule, and christ give place to baal. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE SURRENDER AT APPOMATTOX [APRIL 9, 1865], by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As billows upon billows roll Last Line: Lee. Subject(s): American Civil War; Appomattox, Virginia; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870); United States - History THE SURRENDER OF NEW ORLEANS, by MARION MANVILLE Poem Text First Line: All day long the guns at the forts Last Line: A glory for one is another's lost cause. Alternate Author Name(s): Pope, Marion Manville, Mrs. Subject(s): American Civil War; New Orleans, Battle Of (1862); U.s. - History THE SURRENDER OF SPAIN, by JOHN MILTON HAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Land of unconquered pelayo! Land of the cid campeador Last Line: King over men who have learned all that it costs to be free. Subject(s): Pelayo. First Christian King (d. 737); Spanish-american War (1898) THE SURVIVAL OF THE UNFIT, by HEINRICH LEHR Poem Text First Line: A trillion trillion years ago Last Line: And grow into the sons of god. Subject(s): Army - United States; Military; Soldiers; Survival; World War I; First World War THE SURVIVOR AMONG GRAVES, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are fields beyond. The world there obeys Last Line: That we are waiting; that we are waiting Subject(s): Survival; War; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE SUTTEE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sat upon the pile by her dead lord Last Line: That burning mother's scream. Subject(s): Mothers; Nature; Soul; War THE SUTTLER'S (FROM THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR), by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The brave hussars I dearly love Last Line: From a fresh-open'd barrel daily. Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Soldiers; War; Songs THE SWAMP ANGEL, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a coal-black angel Last Line: Christ, the forgiver, convert his mind. Subject(s): American Civil War; Charleston, South Carolina; Guns; United States - History THE SWEET LITTLE MAN; DEDICATED TO THE STAY-AT-HOME RANGERS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, while our soldiers are fighting our battles Last Line: Take your white-feather plume, sweet little man! Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History THE SWORD DEMANDS, by EDWIN BARLOW EVANS Poem Text First Line: The strident shout and surge of marching hosts Last Line: Will force its frightful holocaust of dead. Subject(s): Swords; War THE SWORD OF LAFAYETTE (INSCRIBED TO RAYMOND POINCARE), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was the time of our despair Last Line: The sacred sword of lafayette. Subject(s): Lafayette, Marie Joseph, Marquis De; World War I; First World War THE SWORD SONG, by KARL THEODORE KORNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sword, on my left side gleaming Last Line: Hurrah! Alternate Author Name(s): Korner, Charles Theodore Subject(s): Swords; War THE TALE OF TROY, by GEORGE PEELE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In that world's wounded part, whose waves yet swell Last Line: I cannot tell, but may imagine so. Subject(s): Trojan War THE TARTAR SWEPT, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The tartar swept across the plain Subject(s): War; Tatars; Tartars THE TEARS OF SCOTLAND, by TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mourn, hapless caledonia, mourn / thy banished peace, thy laurels torn! Last Line: Thy banished peace, thy laurels torn.' Subject(s): Mourning; Scotland; Soldiers; Tears; War; Bereavement THE TEMERAIRE, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gloomy hulls, in armor grim Last Line: O, the temeraire no more! Subject(s): American Civil War; Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Sea Battles; Turner, Joseph Mallord W. (1775-1851); United States - History; Naval Warfare 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 THINNING RANKS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: The bugles sound, the rolling drums Last Line: To honor noble dead. Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Honor; Memorial Day; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Declaration Day THE THIRD ADVICE TO A PAINTER, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sandwich in spain now, and the duke in love Last Line: To woods and groves what once she painted sings. Subject(s): Great Britain - Dutch War (1664-1667); Paintings And Painters; Politics & Government; Sea Battles; Naval Warfare THE THISTLE; A LEGENDARY BALLAD, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Twas midnight! Darkness, like the gloom of some funereal pall Last Line: Hath scotland's honour tarnished been—god grant it ne'er may be! Subject(s): France; Night; Scotland; Thistles; War; Bedtime THE THORN OF PRESTON, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reviving with the genial airs Last Line: Sad relics of the fight! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Blood; Mourning; Soldiers; Solitude; War; Bereavement; Loneliness THE THREE COUNSELLORS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: It was the fairy of the place Last Line: "in which the wars of time shall cease." Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Peace; War; Wisdom THE THREE SCARS, by GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This I got on the day that goring Last Line: And carried it off in my foraging bag. Subject(s): Great Britain - Civil War; War; English Civil War THE THREE TOMMIES, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That barret, the painter of pictures, what feeling for colour he had Last Line: To three grim and gory tommies, down, down on your bended knees! Subject(s): Paris, France; War THE TIMES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "ye brave sons of freedom, come join in the chorus" Last Line: "but 'union forever,' / shall be our last word" Subject(s): War Of 1812 THE TOAST OF MARS, by MARY E. OAKES Poem Text First Line: My ghastly cry I raise on high Last Line: I give you the toast of mars! Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Soldiers; World War I; First World War THE TOMB OF ETERNAL LIFE, by KATHRYN WHITE RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From a port-hole his boy-face gazed back Last Line: Crowds heave eternal life on him. Subject(s): Future Life; Graves; Soldiers; War; Youth; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Tombs; Tombstones THE TOMB OF LIEUTENANT JOHN LEARMONTH, A. I. F., by JOHN STREETER MANIFOLD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is not sorrow, this is work: I build Subject(s): Crete; World War Ii; Second World War THE TOMBSTONE-MAKER, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He primmed his loose red mouth and leaned his head Last Line: O sir, that christian souls should come to that!' Subject(s): Graves; Mourning; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement; First World War THE TOO-LATE BORN, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We too, we too, descending once again Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Variant Title(s): Toward A Romantic Revival;the Silent Slain Subject(s): Roland; War THE TOWER OF SKULLS, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He knows his dust is fire and seed Last Line: He knows his dust is fire and seed. Subject(s): World War I – Casualties THE TOY BAND (A SONG OF THE GREAT RETREAT), by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dreary lay the long road, dreary lay the town Last Line: Fall in! Fall in! Follow the fife and drum! Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE TRAITORS OF CAPORETTO; A LEGEND OF TODAY, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whose feet are these that plod all day Last Line: Shall perish as they fall. Subject(s): Army - Italy; Caporetto, Battle Of (1917); Italy; Treason & Traitors; World War I; Italians; First World War THE TREASURE BOX, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Ah! Here's the box! And there's his baby shoe Last Line: His glory home! O little star of gold! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Death - Children; War; Death - Babies THE TRENCHES, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scratches in the dirt? / no, that sounds much too nice Last Line: Squash! And he needs no twice. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE TRENCHES, by FREDERIC MANNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Endless lanes sunken in the clay Last Line: Night for menace with weary eyes. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE TROOP SHIP, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grotesque and queerly huddled Last Line: Ale on your face. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE TROOPER'S DEATH, by GEORG HERWEGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The weary night is o'er at last! Last Line: Such dying! Subject(s): Germany; War; Germans THE TROOPS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dim, gradual thinning of the shapeless gloom Last Line: The legions who have suffered and are dust. Variant Title(s): Prelude: The Troops Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE TROPHY, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wise king crowned with blessings on his throne Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War THE TROUBLED SPIRIT, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said god, go, spirit, thou hast served me well Last Line: Some weariness, while time smiles to himself. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE TRULY GREAT, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I think continually of those who were truly great Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Freedom; Greatness; Heroism; Life Change Events; Men; War; Liberty; Heroes; Heroines THE TRUMPET OF GRAVELOTTE, by FERDINAND FREILIGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Death and destruction they belched forth in vain Last Line: And we thought of the dead and the dying! Alternate Author Name(s): Freiligrath, Hermann Ferdinand Subject(s): Franco-prussian War (1870-1871) THE TUFT OF FLOWERS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went to turn the grass once after one Last Line: Whether they work together or apart.' Subject(s): Mowing & Mowers; War; Lawn Mowers THE TURTLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "caesar, afloat with his fortunes!" Last Line: Of the old sea-hoss / and a regular terror-pin Subject(s): American Civil War;sea Battles;u.s. - History;virginia (ship); Naval Warfare;merrimac (ship) THE TWINS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were two brothers, john and james Last Line: And john? Well, search the potter's field. Subject(s): Brothers; War; World War I; Half-brothers; First World War THE TWO WIVES, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The colonel rode by his picket-line Last Line: Alone could make his with life. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): War THE U-BOAT CREWS, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, alas for those blond boys who stalk Subject(s): Navy - Germany; Submarines; World War I; Submarine Warfare; U-boats; First World War THE U. S. SAILOR WITH THE JAPANESE SKULL, by WINFIELD TOWNLEY SCOTT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bald-bare, bone-bare, and ivory yellow: skull Subject(s): Skulls; World War Ii; Second World War THE UNCHANGEABLE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though I within these last two years of grace Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; Human Behavior; First World War; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE UNCONQUERED BANNER, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sad priest-singer, in his dread despair Last Line: And wed to deathless liberty again. Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Flags - Confederate States Of America; War; Confederacy THE UNDEFEATED FLAG, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Aye, set that banner in the sky--let every towering crag Last Line: Show out old glory in the sun—the undefeated flag! Subject(s): Flags - United States; World War I; American Flag; First World War THE UNDERGRADUATE KILLED IN BATTLE; OXFORD, 1915, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet as the lawn beneanth his sandalled tread Last Line: And in unwitting lordship saw the blue. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE UNDYING, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In thin clear light unshadowed shapes go by Last Line: Ripe berries on neglected boughs that wasted. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Death; Grief; World War I; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; First World War THE UNITED STATES AND MACEDONIAN (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: How glows each yankee patriot bosom that boasts yankee heart Last Line: "who 'fore they'd strike, will nobly sink / our yankee boys" Subject(s): Macedonian (ship);sea Battles;united States (ship);war Of 1812; Naval Warfare THE UNITED STATES AND MACEDONIAN (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The banner of freedom high floated unfurled Last Line: "shall ne'er be known to yield - be known to yield or fly, / her motto is 'glory! We can conquer or Subject(s): Macedonian (ship);sea Battles;united States (ship);war Of 1812; Naval Warfare THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the new city of marble andd bright stone Last Line: Who is unknown to himself Subject(s): War THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And then I felt a fever in my veins Last Line: Was that a whisper in the evening breeze? Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Death; Social Protest; Unknown Soldier; War; Dead, The THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by ANGELA MORGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He is known to the sun-white majesties Last Line: They are known in the courts of god! Subject(s): Honor; Soldiers; Unknown Soldier; War THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by ARTHUR B. RHINOW Poem Text First Line: I - they look so solemn and fine. Who are they? Last Line: Myself—ah, the music. Subject(s): Honor; Social Protest; Unknown Soldier; War THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by MARGARET STINEBACK Poem Text First Line: His dreams have all grown lovely with the years Last Line: Along the path of peace—god's path—instead! Subject(s): Courage; Graves; Peace; Social Protest; Soldiers; Unknown Soldier; War; Valor; Bravery; Tombs; Tombstones THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by CHARLES ABRAHAM WAGNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One man's shoulder, another man's thigh Last Line: To call each colored weed a flower. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; Unknown Soldier; War; Dead, The THE UNPARDONABLE SIN, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the sin against the holy ghost Last Line: To set the face and make the heart a stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Sin; War; Theology THE UNRETURNING, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For us, the dead, though young Last Line: That we have died in vain! Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE UNSUNG HEROES, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A song for the unsung heroes who rose in the country's need Last Line: Who fought their way from night to day and struggled up to god. Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; United States - History; Liberty 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 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 VALLEY OF THE BLACK PIG, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dews drop slowly and dreams gather: unknown spears Last Line: Master of the still stars and of the flaming door. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): War THE VALLEY OF THE BLUE SHROUDS, by JOHN FINLEY (1874-) Poem Text First Line: O shards of walls that once held precious life Last Line: But rises as thy soul, immortal france! Subject(s): World War I - France THE VALLEY OF THE FALLEN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My new friend, maisie, who works where I work Last Line: Fodor's spain, 1984 Subject(s): Franco, Francisco (1892-1975); Spain; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Women; Women's Rights; Feminism THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were faces to remember in the valley of the shadow Last Line: Maimed. Subject(s): Death; Life; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE VANQUISHED KNIGHT, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have left all upon the shameful field Last Line: O keep the promise, lord, and take the life. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Dishonor; Honor; War THE VETERAN TAR, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mariner, whom fate compell'd Last Line: The man of war expired. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Battleships; Heroism; Veterans; War; Heroes; Heroines THE VETERAN; MAY, 1916, by MARGARET ISABEL POSTGATE COLE Poem Text First Line: We came upon him sitting in the sun Last Line: "nineteen, the third of may." Subject(s): Veterans; Women; World War I; Youth; First World War THE VICTOR AT ANTIETAM [SEPTEMBER 17, 1862], by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When tempest winnowed grain from bran Last Line: And great antietam's cheers renew. Subject(s): American Civil War; Antietam, Battle Of (1862); Mcclellan, George Brinton (1826-1885); United States - History THE VICTOR OF THE MARNE (INSCRIBED TO JOSEPH JACQUES CESAIRE JOFFRE), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, may, thou darling of the year Last Line: In spite of frontiers and of flags the world shall be as one. Subject(s): Joffre, Joseph Jacques (1852-1931); World War I; First World War THE VICTORS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dead men to the living call Last Line: With dreams to keep; with dreams to keep! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Variant Title(s): The Unemployed Subject(s): Death; Victory; War; Dead, The THE VICTORY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! How the church-bells' thundering harmony Last Line: Who art the widow's friend, her comforter! Subject(s): Comfort; Death; England; Sacrifices; War; Widows & Widowers; Dead, The; English THE VICTORY OF PERRY, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lift up the years! Lift up the years Last Line: As well as on the land. Subject(s): Lake Erie, Battle Of; Perry, Oliver Hazard (1785-1819); War Of 1812 THE VICTORY-WRECK, by WILLIAM MCKENDREE CARLETON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O stealthily-creeping merrimac Last Line: "and even our foemen cheer!" Alternate Author Name(s): Carleton, Will Subject(s): Hobson, Richmond Pearson (1870-1937); Sea Battles; Spanish-american War (1898); Naval Warfare THE VIGIL, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: England! Where the sacred flame Last Line: Forth! And god defend the right! Subject(s): World War I - Great Britain THE VINDICTIVE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How should we praise those lads of the old vindictive Last Line: In those red gates of hell? Subject(s): Death; Desire; England; Fear; Hearts; Ships & Shipping; Soul; World War I; Dead, The; English; First World War THE VIRGIN OF ALBERT (NOTRE DAME DE BREBIERES), by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Shyly expectant, gazing up at her Last Line: "and comfort them, and hearken all their prayers!" Subject(s): Notre Dame De Brebieres (basilica); Prayer; World War I; First World War THE VIRGINIA SCAFFOLD; JOHN BROWN, DECEMBER 2, 1859, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rear on high the scaffold-altar! All the world will turn to see Last Line: And his sowing find its reaping in the birthday of the free! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Abolitionists; American Civil War; Brown, John (1800-1859); Slavery; Social Protest; U.s. - History; Anti-slavery; Serfs THE VIRGINIANS OF THE VALLEY, by FRANCIS ORRERY TICKNOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The knightliest of the knightly race Last Line: But not a knight asleep. Subject(s): American Civil War; Patriotism; United States - History; Virginia (state) THE VISION OF GETTYSBURG (1863-1913), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What if, that day, when on those tawny slopes Last Line: The squandered blood of gettysburgs to come. Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); United States - History; Gettysburg, Battle Of THE VISION OF SPRING, 1916, by HENRY HOWARTH BASHFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night in a cottage far Last Line: Lo, the dawn out-topped the night. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE VOICE OF THE GUNS, by GILBERT FRANKAU Poem Text First Line: We are the guns, and your masters! Saw ye our flashes? Last Line: Loose them, and shatter, and spare not! We are the guns! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE VOICE OF WAR, by CHARLES HENRY MACKINTOSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the voice of war Last Line: The screaming died away before I knew. Subject(s): War THE VOICE OF WEBSTER, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silence was envious of the only voice Last Line: Long shall its echoes rouse the patriot's heart. Subject(s): American Civil War; Democracy; United States - Congress - Senate; United States - History; United States - Reconstruction (1865-1877); Webster, Daniel (1782-1852) THE VOICES, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: O waves, that break at my feet Last Line: And flings the portal wide for peace. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Peace; War; Dead, The; Paradise THE VOLUNTEER, by HERBERT HENRY ASQUITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies a clerk who half his life had spent Last Line: Who goes to join the men of agincourt. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxford And Asquith, 1st Earl Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE VOLUNTEER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sez I: my country calls? Well, let it call Last Line: I've gotta go, bill, gotta go. Subject(s): War; World War I; First World War THE VOLUNTEER (1914-1919), by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dreams are passed and gone, old man Last Line: Carry on, old sport, carry on! Subject(s): England; Military Recruitment; Soldiers; World War I; English; First World War THE VOLUNTEERS, by WILLIAM HAINES LYTLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The volunteers! The volunteers / I dream, as in the by-gone years Last Line: Shall spring the volunteers once more. Subject(s): Army - United States; Heroism; U.s. - Mexican War (1846-1848); Heroes; Heroines THE VOW, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tread softly, softly Last Line: Since lives are lived with living men. Subject(s): Charleston, South Carolina; War THE WAKENED GOD, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The war-god wakened drowsily Last Line: And scourged the crouching lands again. Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Variant Title(s): The Awakened War God Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE WALLS DO NOT FALL: 1, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An incident here and there Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; 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 WAR BRIDE, by LUCILLE KAHN Poem Text First Line: Child whose smile has drifted through my / dream Last Line: Chalicing the life that is to be. Subject(s): War THE WAR FILMS, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O living pictures of the dead Last Line: To take their death for mine. Subject(s): Death; Religion; World War I; Dead, The; Theology; First World War THE WAR HORSE, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This dry night, nothing unusual Subject(s): War THE WAR IN EUROPE: 1915; ABDALLAH OF CAIRO SPEAKS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the prophet! If these be christians, where shall / we find the heathen? Last Line: I will repeat the fátiha and leave them to their doom! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Muslims; Prayer; Religion; World War I; Moslems; Theology; First World War THE WAR IN THE AIR, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For a saving grace, we didn't see our dead Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii; Second World War THE WAR SPIRIT, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: War-spirit! War-spirit! How gorgeous thy path Last Line: And yield the torn world to the angel of peace. Subject(s): War THE WAR WIDOW, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black-veiled, black-gowned, she rides in bus and train Last Line: No truth, no life, but leads through christmas day. Subject(s): Hope; Life; Love; War; Widows & Widowers; Optimism THE WAR-SONG OF GAMELBAR, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bowmen, shout for gamelbar! Last Line: Gamelbar! Subject(s): War THE WAR-SONG OF THE VIKINGS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let loose the hounds of war Last Line: Swords of valhalla! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Swords; Vikings; War THE WARS OF THE ROSES, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ho, white, white brother, tossing in the garden! Last Line: So we whisper, so we shake, so we dream o' nights Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses; War Of The Roses THE WARS, AND THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by CONRAD AIKEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dry leaves, soldier, dry leaves, dead leaves Subject(s): War THE WASHER OF THE FORD, by SAMUEL FERGUSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: And now, at dawn, to cross the fords, hard by the royal Last Line: Of all but running water. Subject(s): War THE WASHERS OF THE SHROUD; OCTOBER, 1861, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along a river-side, I know not where Last Line: While waking I recalled my wandering brain. Subject(s): American Civil War; Potomac River; Rivers; United States - History THE WASP'S FROLIC, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Twas on board the sloop-of-war wasp boys Last Line: "but fate on our laurels was frowning, / we were taken by a seventy-four" Subject(s): Frolic (ship);sea Battles;war Of 1812;wasp (ship); Naval Warfare THE WASTE OF WAR, by VIOLA PERRY WANGER Poem Text First Line: We are the songs that were never sung Last Line: Between a sun and a sun. Subject(s): War THE WATCHER AT THE GATE, by SAMUEL HAWKINS MARSHALL BYERS Poem Text First Line: Hark - from yonder east there come Last Line: Love alone can save the world. Subject(s): Love; Nations; Salvation; Social Protest; War THE WATCHERS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the challenge 'who goes there?' Last Line: When I at last am seen and known. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE WATCHERS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beside a stricken field I stood Last Line: "but all is possible with god!" Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History THE WELCOME, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He'd scarcely come from leave and london Last Line: While any of those who were there have tongues. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE WEST FRONT, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No country know I so well Last Line: Nor lorn jerusalem. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Masefield, John (1878-1967); Somme, Battle Of The (1916); World War I; First World War THE WESTERN SPIRIT, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: No language can define it Last Line: For it's going, and it's never coming back. Subject(s): Patriotism; Seattle, Washington; War THE WHISTLE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sing of a whistle, a whistle of worth Last Line: "the field thou hast won, by yon bright god of day!" Subject(s): Whistles & Whistling; War; Patriotism THE WHISTLE OF SANDY MCGRAW, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You may talk o' your lutes and your dulcimers fine Last Line: You wee penny whistle o' sandy mcgraw. Subject(s): Death; Music & Musicians; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE WHITE CHRISTS, by GUY FITCH PHELPS Poem Text First Line: The white christs come from the east Last Line: Till the black christs shall be born. Subject(s): African Americans; Jesus Christ; War; Negroes; American Blacks THE WHITE COMRADE (AFTER W.H. LEATHAM'S 'THE COMRADE IN WHIRE'), by ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under our curtain of fire Last Line: "but of late they have troubled me." Subject(s): Jesus Christ; World War I - Casualties THE WHITE PORCH, by CATHY SONG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wrap the blue towel Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans THE WHITE SHIPS AND THE RED, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With drooping sail and pennant Last Line: But one -- shall be like blood. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Ghost Ships; Lusitania (ship); Submarines; World War I; Submarine Warfare; U-boats; First World War THE WHITE SLAVES; 1860, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The household of a roman, in rome's luxurious time Last Line: Let every soul cry, 'liberty!' and 'liberty for all!' Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; Household Employees; Rome, Italy; Slavery; U.s. - History; Liberty; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Serfs THE WIDOW OF THE BEAST OF INGOLSTADT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A fork in the garden, the widow digging Last Line: Her husband's watch had just stopped in his grave. Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Marriage; Widows & Widowers; World War Ii; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Second World War THE WIDOW'S PARTY, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where have you been this while away, / johnnie, johnie? Last Line: (bugle: ta--rara--ra-ra-rara!) Subject(s): War; Widows & Widowers THE WIFE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell annie I'll be home in time Last Line: "o god! Thy world is glorified." Subject(s): Death; Paris, France; War; Dead, The THE WIFE OF FLANDERS, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Low and brown barns, thatched and repatched and tattered Last Line: Ride on and prosper. You have lost your spurs. Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): World War I - Belgium THE WIFE OF LLEW, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And gwydion said to math, when it was spring Last Line: And bore away his wife of birds and flowers. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE WILD HUNSTMAN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy rest was deep at the slumberer's hour Last Line: For the huntsman hath gone by! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Hunting; Legends, German; War; Hunters THE WILLIAM P. FRYE [FEBRUARY 28, 1915], by JEANNE ROBERT FOSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw her first abreast the boston light Last Line: To make the harbor glad because she's come. Subject(s): Submarines; William P. Frye (ship); World War I - United States; Submarine Warfare; U-boats THE WIND AND THE WHIRLWIND, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a thing to say. But how to say it? Last Line: I had a thing to say. And it is said. Subject(s): Egypt; Freedom; Nations; Patriotism; Peace; Politics & Government; War; Liberty THE WINDS OF GOD, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the azure spaces Last Line: The winds of god go by? Subject(s): God; Peace; War; Wind THE WINE OF NIGHT, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come,drink the mystic wine of night Last Line: With faith and fire! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Despair; Drinks & Drinking; War; Wine THE WINE PRESS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A murdered man, ten miles away Last Line: Thro' a red volcanic sky ... Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Murder; Soldiers; World War I; Dead, The; Wine; First World War THE WINGLESS VICTORY, by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR. Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Nike of samothrace Last Line: Into stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Allen, Hervey Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Hope; Mythology; Victory; War; Optimism THE WORD OF THE LORD FROM HAVANNA, by RICHARD HOVEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus spake the lord Last Line: Remember the maine! Subject(s): Maine (ship); Spanish-american War (1898) THE WORD OF THE WIND, by LOUISE DRISCOLL Poem Text First Line: Wind that carries the sound of bells Last Line: And one white word for peace! Subject(s): Freedom; Grief; Peace; War; Wind; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness THE WORLD IN ARMOUR: 1, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under this shade of crimson wings abhorred Last Line: War that sits smiling, with the eyes of cain. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): War THE WORLD IN ARMOUR: 2, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When london's plague, that day by day enrolled Last Line: Yet woe to him that idly lights the fuel! Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Plague; War THE WORLD IN ARMOUR: 3, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A moment's fantasy, the vision came Last Line: Piling the fagots, hour by doomful hour. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): War THE WORLD WAR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This -- after nineteen centuries of christ! Last Line: And let this worst of warfare be the last! Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE WORLD'S A BUBBLE, by POSEIDIPPUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world's a bubble, and the life of man Last Line: Not to be borne, or being borne to dye. Alternate Author Name(s): Posidippus; Poseidippos Subject(s): Human Behavior; Life; Marriage; Mortality; Peace; War; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WOUND-DRESSER, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: An old man bending I come among new faces Last Line: Many a soldier's kiss dwells on these bearded lips.) Variant Title(s): The Dresser Subject(s): American Civil War; Nurses; Travel; United States - History; War; Journeys; Trips THE WRAITHS, by EDYTHE C. TONER Poem Text First Line: Hosts of the martyred dead! Last Line: "thus die ... Thus die?" Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Social Protest; Soldiers; Supernatural; War; Youth; Dead, The THE YEAR 1812, by ADAM MICKIEWICZ Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Year well remembered! Happy who beheld thee! Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); War THE YEAR OF JUBILEE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "say, darkeys, hab you seen de massa" Last Line: "it mus' be now de kingdum cumin', / an' de yar ob jubilo" Subject(s): African Americans - Military;american Civil War;u.s. - History;war THE YEAR OF JUBILEE, by HENRY CLAY WORK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Say, darkeys, hab you seen de massa Last Line: An' de yar ob jubilo. Variant Title(s): Year Of Jubilo;kingdom Coming Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Richmond Campaign (1864); United States - History THE YOUNG DEAD SOLDIERS, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The young dead soldiers do not speak Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War THE YOUNG MOTHER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In dreadful times of death and war Last Line: With frankincense and myrrh. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Comfort; Mothers; War; World War I; First World War THE ZONNEBEKE ROAD, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Morning, if this late withered light can claim Last Line: And freeze you back with that one hope, disdain. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War THEATER OF THE ABSURD, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange is the show enacted in the cave Subject(s): War THEIR BARRICADE AGAINST THE SKY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But holidays of war Variant Title(s): Poem: 1471; Poem: 150 Subject(s): War THEIR NURSES, by W. H. O. Poem Source First Line: We rocked their blue-lined cradles Subject(s): World War I THEIR VERY MEMORY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear, o hear / they were as the welling waters Last Line: Tears of joy and music's rally. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War THEN AND NOW, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When battles were fought Last Line: Stab first.' Subject(s): World War I; First World War THEN GIVE US WINGS, by ANTHONY EUWER Poem Source First Line: If wings will help our men to see Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I THERE IS BUT ONE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I have sung of blood and battle Last Line: Have I made my lesson plain? Subject(s): Clergy; Good; Religion; World War I; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Theology; First World War THERE IS STILL SPLENDOUR, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O when will life taste clean again? For the air Last Line: Which flames against that treason to mankind Subject(s): World War Ii THERE IS YET TIME, by ARVEL STEECH Poem Source First Line: This first year Subject(s): Nuclear War THERE WAS A WAR GOING ON, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: They hung on to high school, warm Last Line: Sweet, and slight, and young %they melted like candy on the tongue Subject(s): High School Students; War; Youth THERE WAS THE RICHNESS OF OUR FORMER LIVING, by E. Y. BARNARD Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii THERE WILL BE DREAMS AGAIN, by MABEL HILLYER EASTMAN Poem Source Subject(s): World War I THERE WILL BE MUSIC, by IVAN HARGRAVE Poem Source First Line: After the band has gone Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS', by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: There will come soft rain and the smell of the ground Last Line: Would scarcely know that we were gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Spring; War - Home Front; Women; World War I; First World War THERE'S ANOTHER BLESSED HORSE FELL DOWN, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you're lying in your hammock, sleeping soft and / sleeping sound Last Line: It's another blessed horse fell down.' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Sleep; War THERE'S LIFE IN THE OLD LAND YET, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By blue patapsco's billowy dash Last Line: There's life in the old land yet! Subject(s): Life; Maryland; War THERMOPYLAE, by EMMA E. GRIMES Poem Text First Line: Behold how greece, the ancient, stood Last Line: When time's fleet course is run! Subject(s): Greece; Thermopylae, Battle Of; War; Greeks THERMOPYLAE ODE, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For those who fell at thermopylae Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos Subject(s): War THEY ALSO SERVE ...', by OLIFFE RICHMOND Poem Source First Line: Imagination flies out on the airman's wings Last Line: Death in her name, that truth has trusted me to hold %humbly, in turn, at her good hour, her torch o Subject(s): World War Ii THEY ALSO SERVE', by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, father! Hear us when we plead Subject(s): World War I THEY CAME FROM AFAR, by ALYS FANE TROTTER Poem Source First Line: With rainbow gifts life filled her ... Hands Subject(s): World War I THEY DARED HIM, by KEVIN MYHILL Poem Source First Line: Tommy has dropped his atom bomb Last Line: It takes an ordinary gun %to make a decent war Subject(s): War THEY HAVE TAKEN IT FROM ME, by TIMOTHY CORSELLIS Poem Source Subject(s): War THEY HELD THEIR GROUND, by PHILIP BYARD CLAYTON Poem Source First Line: Grey broke the light of that sabbath dawn Subject(s): World War I THEY HELD UP A STONE., by AMIR GILBOA Poem Source Last Line: They shed a man's blood. %I said, 'blood.' %smiling they said, 'paint' Subject(s): War THEY LIVE, by RANDALL SWINGLER Poem Source Poem Explanation First Line: In your hesitant moments, remember cornford and fox Subject(s): War THEY MARCHED OVER THE FIELD OF WATERLOO, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: They sailed with the free salt upon their lips %to sunlight from the tomb Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): World War Ii THEY SAY THIS MYSTERY SHALL NEVER CEASE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; War THEY SHALL NOT PASS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above me, the sky is all atlantic Last Line: Into the motionless sea Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) THEY', by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bishop tells us: 'when the boys come back' Last Line: And the bishop said: 'the ways of god are strange!' Subject(s): Religion; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Theology; First World War THINGS THAT WERE YOURS, by DYNELEY HUSSEY Poem Source First Line: These things were yours, these little simple things Subject(s): World War I THINGS WE DREAMT WE DIED FOR, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flags of all sorts Last Line: By the many who have not one. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Literature; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Nightmares THINK AT THIS TIME OF THE PATIENT INFANTRY, by G. O. PHYSICK Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii THIRD STATE, by HANS LEYBOLD Poem Source First Line: Crushed beings that fight their way through shadows Last Line: Of the sea of time. There, our future treasures grow Subject(s): World War I THIRD YPRES, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Triumph! How strange, how strong had triumph come Last Line: The dead men from that chaos, or my soul? Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War THIS GENERATION, by FRANCIS OSBERT SACHEVERELL SITWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their youth was fevered - passionate Alternate Author Name(s): Sitwell, Sir Osbert; Sitwell, Osbert Subject(s): World War I THIS IS NO CASE OF PETTY RIGHT OR WRONG, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And as we love ourselves we hate our foe Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): England; Soldiers; World War I THIS IS YOUR GIFT, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: Who is the lover sleeping beside you? Last Line: Breathe with the body beside you and know Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History THIS LONELINESS FOR YOU IS LIKE THE WOUND, by DUNSTAN THOMPSON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Yet now, when death is not a metaphor, %who dares to say that love is like the war? Subject(s): War THIS ONE RHYMES, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I often find that I forot Last Line: And I must be a man and go Subject(s): War THIS WAR, SELS, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O, brothers of the lyre and reed Last Line: Till stars that watch have sign to sing %a sister's flowering Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): World War I THIS WILL FLOAT, by F. JOHN HERBERT Poem Source First Line: This will float for a long time then be removed Last Line: You eat the colder. %they are the outcasts. %help is coming Subject(s): Heroism; Military; Soldiers; World War I - Naval Actions THISTLE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thistle at meadow's edge Last Line: The snow grows heavier, falls on their stooping shoulders Subject(s): Politics & Government; War THISTLE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thistle at meadow's edge Last Line: We stay away from them Subject(s): Politics; War 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 THOMAS OF THE LIGHT HEART, by OWEN SEAMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Facing the guns, he jokes as well Last Line: Nor play what isn't cricket. There's his creed. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The regiment has waited long Last Line: Who would hold the colonel? Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Higginson, Thomas Wentworth (1823-1911); U.s. - History THOROUGHBREDS (AN INCIDENT OF THE FIGHT AROUND ATLANTA), by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Straight at the breastworks, flanked with / fire Last Line: Will be—the sons of the thoroughbred! Subject(s): American Civil War; Camp-meetings; Fights; Militarism; Soldiers; U.s. - History; U.s. - Military Academy THOSE OTHERS, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where are those others? - the men who stood Last Line: As the hallowed host goes by! Subject(s): Death; England; Patriotism; Praise; Soldiers; War; World War I; Dead, The; English; First World War THOSE WHOM WE DO NOT KNOW, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because our country has entered Last Line: Think they know us now. Subject(s): Peace; War THOUGHTS INSPIRED BY A WAR-TIME BILLBOARD, by WALLACE IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I stand by a fence on a peaceable street Last Line: Of the fighters that trooped from the studio door Alternate Author Name(s): Ginger; Hashimura Togo Subject(s): World War I THOUGHTS ON THE EVE, by EMANUEL LITVINOFF Poem Source First Line: We could love life the more Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii THOUGHTS ON THE LATE WAR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was for union - you, ag'in it Last Line: Durin' the army. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Army - United States; Peace; War THOUGHTS ON THE RUN: 1, by HANS MAGNUS ENZENSBERGER Poem Source First Line: As if just beyond helsinki Last Line: This war's not %over yet, either Subject(s): War THOUSAND AND THIRTY-SEVEN, by CHARLES GRAHAM HALPINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Three years ago today Alternate Author Name(s): O'reilly, Miles Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History THOUSAND KILLED, by BERNARD SPENCER Poem Source First Line: I read of a thousand killed Subject(s): War THOUSANDTH AND SECOND NIGHT, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: Your husband is on his way Last Line: And -- the girls %they left behind Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) THREE CHARACTERS FROM A LOST HOME; CEDAR, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: Though they drill and count my rings Last Line: I grow unmoving till I die Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History THREE CHARACTERS FROM A LOST HOME; WATER, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: No one can record my travels Last Line: And wait for my unravelling Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History THREE CHARACTERS FROM A LOST HOME; WOODSMOKE, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: I'll make your eyes tear up Last Line: Into the woods alone Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History THREE EGGS UP, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three sunset eggs on a white plate Subject(s): Eggs; War THREE EGGS UP, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three sunset eyes on a white plate Last Line: The protein of eternity Subject(s): War THREE HILLS, by EDWARD CHARLES EVERARD OWEN Poem Text First Line: There is a hill in england Last Line: To souls in jeopardy. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Death; Mountains; Soldiers; War; World War I; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain); First World War THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND MORE, by ROBERT MORRIS Poem Text Recitation First Line: We are coming, father abraham, three hundred thousand more Last Line: We are coming, father abraham, three hundred thousand more! Alternate Author Name(s): Gibbons, James Sloane Subject(s): American Civil War; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Patriotism; Presidents, United States; United States - History THREE LADS, by ELIZABETH CHANDLER FORMAN Poem Source First Line: Down the road rides a german lad Last Line: For I'm off to the war and away Subject(s): Women; World War I THREE MEN OF TRURO: 1. E.W.B. ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The church's outpost on a neck of land Last Line: Look down, behold how bravely goes the war! Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Benson, Edward White (1829-1896); Leadership; Soldiers; War THREE MILE ISLAND SUITE, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Two in the diner Subject(s): Nuclear Accidents; Nuclear War THREE PIKE STREET, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: End of century, february thaw, horse stalls of a delancey cul-de-sac Last Line: Rose grunts and pees in sawdust, turns to her curds and whey Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities THREE PLEAS, by HENRY TREECE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Stand by me, death, lest these dark days Last Line: Put to some use your handsome hand %and show me the face behind your mask Subject(s): World War Ii THREE STARS, by DAVID GASCOYNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night was time: %the phases of the mooon Last Line: Where from the womb of nothing shall be born a son Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii THREE TESTIMONIES OF AYACUCHO, by ANTONIO CISNEROS Poem Source First Line: From a soldier %after the battle Last Line: Of war, hunger, and the horses Subject(s): Animals; Death; Heroism; Horses; Soldiers; War THREE THOUSAND YEARS AFTER, by EDITH M. TUTTLE Poem Source First Line: That time great hector stayed and comforted Last Line: And hector's laugh that stilled his infant's fears %is deathless song to bridge three thousand years Subject(s): World War Ii THROUGH BALTIMORE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on friday morn: the train grew near Last Line: O baltimore! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): American Civil War; Baltimore, Maryland; U.s. - History THROUGH FIRE IN MOBILE BAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I'd weave a wreath for those who fought Last Line: He waits to greet the gallant tars / who fought in mobile bay Subject(s): "american Civil War;farragut, David Glascow (1801-1870);mobile Bay, Battle Of (1864);u.s. - History; THROUGH FIRE IN MOBILE BAY, by DAVID GLASGOW FARRAGUT Poem Source First Line: I'd weave a wreath for those who fought Last Line: He waits to greet the gallant tars %who fought in mobile bay Subject(s): American Civil War; Farragut, David Glascow (1801-1870); Mobile Bay, Battle Of (1864); U.s. - History THROUGH THE MEUSE-ARGONNE TODAY, by ROBERT CARY Poem Text First Line: Not fraught with death and havoc the campaign Last Line: As through the meuse-argonne they lead the way. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THRUSH, by TIMOTHY CORSELLIS Poem Source First Line: I plucked a throstle from the throat of god Last Line: Lord, much loved you her full-throated song; %lord, pray forgive me - I did wrong Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes; War THRUSHES, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tossed on the glittering air they soar and skim Last Line: And storms the gate of nothingness for proof. Subject(s): Birds; Soldiers' Writings; Thrushes; World War I; First World War THUNDERSTORM THE DAY THE WAR ENDED, by JUDY LONGLEY Poem Source First Line: Leaden heat explodes into quicksilver Last Line: Scud overhead like returning ships Subject(s): War; Weather THY WILL BE DONE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We see not, know not; all our way Last Line: Thy will be done! Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History TIDE, by ALAN PATRICK HERBERT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is a last year's map Alternate Author Name(s): Patrick, A. P. Subject(s): World War I TILL I HAVE CONQUERED MYSELF WHAT CAUSES WAR, by CYNTHIA HOGUE Poem Source First Line: In raising the ashes Last Line: Bear your ashen blame Subject(s): War TIME, by GEORGE SUTHERLAND FRASER Poem Source First Line: The time demands a rolling eye Subject(s): War TIME, by PAUL SCOTT Poem Source First Line: She said 'one day you will awake and find' Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii TIME AND THE PERFUME RIVER, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Small buddhas smile above their blooms Last Line: Along the curves of the perfume. Subject(s): Death; Vietnam; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War; Dead, The TIME OF THE MISSILE, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Nuclear War; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb TIME ZONES FOR FORTY-FOUR, by DONALD A. STAUFFER Poem Source First Line: Twelve thirty love: follow the track of the sun Subject(s): War TIMES, by CHARLES MADGE Poem Source First Line: Time wasted and time spent Last Line: For war is eating now Subject(s): War TIMOSHENKO, by SIDNEY KEYES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hour ten he rose, ten-sworded, every finger Subject(s): War TIMOUR'S COUNCILS, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Emirs and khans in long array Last Line: "on wild chabanga's frozen plain!" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Middle East; Tyranny & Tyrants; War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Near East; Levant; Dictators TIPPERARY DAYS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, weren't they the fine boys! You never saw the beat of them Last Line: ('r! Ain't war just 'ell?) Subject(s): Army Life; Death; War; World War I; Drills & Minor Tactics; Dead, The; First World War TO 'HIM THAT'S AWA', by MRS. J. O. ARNOLD Poem Source First Line: If I have ever dimmed with tears Subject(s): World War I TO A BLACK SOLDIER FALLEN IN THE WAR, by MARY BURRILL Poem Source First Line: O earth, lie light upon him Last Line: Why, for freedom, die?' Subject(s): World War I TO A BULL-DOG, by JOHN COLLINGS SQUIRE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We shan't see willie [or, willy] any more, mamie Last Line: And he won't be coming here any more. Alternate Author Name(s): Eagle, Solomon; Squire, J. C. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; World War I; First World War TO A CANADIAN AVIATOR WHO DIED FOR HIS COUNTRY IN FRANCE, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tossed like a falcon from the hunter's wrist Last Line: Mounting in circles, faithful beyond death. Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; World War I; First World War TO A CANADIAN LAD KILLED IN THE WAR, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O noble youth that held our honour in keeping Last Line: Thy valour stainless in our heart of hearts. Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C. Subject(s): World War I - Casualties TO A CERTAIN CIVILIAN, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did you ask dulcet rhymes from me? Last Line: For I lull nobody, and you will never understand me. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History TO A CERTAIN VERY UGLY BUILDING: THE ARMORY, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Minotaur of madness, you certainly belong there Last Line: O slumtown symbol of war's grim insanity! Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Army - Ireland; Buildings & Builders; Death; Pacifism; Social Protest; War; Weapons; Ammunition; Dead, The; Peace Movements TO A CONSCRIPT OF 1940, by HERBERT READ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A soldier passed me in the freshly fallen snow Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War TO A CONSCRIPT OF 1940, by HERBERT READ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A soldier passed me in the freshly fallen snow Last Line: As he stood against the fretted hedge, which was like white lace Subject(s): World War Ii TO A DEJECTED FRIEND, by MORTON BRYAN WHARTON Poem Source First Line: What though thy way is often dark Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History TO A DOG, by JOHN JAY CHAPMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Past happiness dissolves. It fades away Last Line: If but his footstep sounded on the stair! Variant Title(s): His Vanished Master Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; World War I - Casualties TO A FRENCH POET AND REFUGEE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The time is past - that time of little cheer Last Line: Bemoan the sorrows and defeats of france. Subject(s): Franco-prussian War (1870-1871); Hugo, Victor (1802-1885); Refugees TO A FRIEND IMPRISONED IN GERMANY, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The young man's heart labours with many a birth Last Line: Is sweet, and sweet the friendship of the dead. Subject(s): Prisoners Of War; Friendship; Youth TO A FRIEND WANTING WAR, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I trust that when the bugles blow Last Line: To think on death's monotony. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Death; Murder; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War TO A HAPPY WARRIOR, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glory to god who made a man like this! Last Line: Who sleeps in paradise. Subject(s): Heroism; Poetry & Poets; Victory; War; Wyndham, George. 3d Earl Of Egremont; Heroes; Heroines TO A HERO, by OSCAR C. A. CHILD Poem Text First Line: We may not know how fared your soul before Last Line: The kindled spirit burned the body up. Subject(s): World War I - Casualties TO A HOME-TOWN CONSCRIPT POSTED OVERSEAS, by PETER BLAND Poem Source First Line: Just the right age to take an interest in the job Last Line: Would uncrease last week's mail, or tick away %the calendar that should have brought them home Subject(s): War TO A LETTER, by F. O. WATKINS Poem Source First Line: Your inky lines, your inky words Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii TO A MILITARY RIFLE, 1942, by YVOR WINTERS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The times come round again Last Line: True shape of death and power Subject(s): War TO A MILITARY RIFLE, 1942, by YVOR WINTERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The times come round again Subject(s): War TO A MOTHER, by A. I. AMBLER Poem Text First Line: Oh mother, when with thy sorrow alone Last Line: Thou wilt call the lost once more thine own. Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Grief; Love; Mothers; United States - History; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness TO A MOTHER, by EDEN PHILLPOTTS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Robbed mother of the stricken motherland Last Line: Eden phillpotts Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; World War I; First World War TO A NINE-INCH GUN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Whether your shell hits the target or not Last Line: Seek bread to fill their mouths again Subject(s): Arms & Armor;guns;krupp (industrial Conglomerate);murder;war TO A SCHOOLMATE-KILLED IN ACTION, by HAROLD TROWBRIDGE PULSIFER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gordan rand, we saw you last Last Line: We salute you, -- gordan rand! Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War TO A SCOTTISH FRIEND, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around your northern home, where never cease Last Line: Valour undrooped, and manhood undecayed. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Scotland; War TO A SKYLARK BEHIND OUR TRENCHES, by EDWARD DE STEIN Poem Text First Line: Thou little voice! Thou happy sprite Last Line: We live. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War TO A SOLDIER IN HOSPITAL, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Courage came to you with your boyhood's grace Last Line: God's good indeed. Subject(s): World War I - Casualties TO A SON OF WALES, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since first I saw your mountains long ago Last Line: Lest freedom's self reel to a blood-red grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Wales; War; Welshmen; Welshwomen TO A WAR POET, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You sang the battle Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): World War I; First World War TO A WAR POET, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You sang the battle Last Line: Why should you stay here to gurgle and stammer %of war? Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): World War I TO A WOULD-BE KING, by P. A. A. THOMAS Poem Source First Line: There have been others before thee, conqueror Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii TO A YOUNG AMERICAN THE DAY AFTER THE FALL OF BARCELONA, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boy with honor in your heart Last Line: And leave your world to be undone Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Innocence; Evil TO A YOUNG AMERICAN THE DAY AFTER THE FALL OF BARCELONA, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boy with honor in your heart Last Line: And leave your world to be undone Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) TO A YOUNG FRIEND, by ROBERT NATHAN Poem Source First Line: You asked me: %cannot youth save the world? Last Line: I do not know why I did not remember them Subject(s): World War Ii TO A YOUNG GIRL, by CLIVE SANSOM Poem Source First Line: Were you ever young Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by JOHN JAMES PIATT Poem Text First Line: Stern be the pilot in the dreadful hour Last Line: Made by god's providence the anointed one. Variant Title(s): Sonnet In 1862 Subject(s): American Civil War; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; U.s. - History TO ALEXANDER THE GREAT, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: No more he walks across the field Last Line: When he comes home again! Subject(s): Alexander, Grover Cleveland (1887-1950); Athletes; Baseball; Soldiers; Sports; World War I; First World War TO ALL OUR DEAD, by LUCY LYTTLETON Poem Source First Line: Between the heart and the lips we stay ... Words Subject(s): World War I TO AMERICA, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How would you have us, as we are? Last Line: Or tightening chains about your feet? Subject(s): Justice; World War I; First World War TO AMERICA, by CHARLES LANGBRIDGE MORGAN Poem Text First Line: When the fire sinks in the grate Last Line: The fruits of hope, and love shall be awake. Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Charles Subject(s): World War I - United States TO AMERICA, by MORLEY ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Whatever penman wrote or orator Last Line: And hear your armies thundering prophecy. Subject(s): World War I - United States TO AMERICA IN WAR TIME, by OSCAR W. FIRKINS Poem Text First Line: Grave hour and solemn choice - bare is the sword Last Line: Love that we dreamt not, dared not—soar to thee! Subject(s): World War I - United States TO AMERICA'S UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by KARL E. MUNDT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When from your silent sleep in france you came Last Line: —the classmate Subject(s): Death; Graves; Soldiers; United States; Unknown Soldier; War; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; America TO AMERICA, ON HER FIRST SONS FALLEN IN THE GREAT WAR, by E. M. WALKER Poem Text First Line: Now you are one with us, you know our tears Last Line: "to those who hear far heaven cry, ""well done!" Subject(s): Death; Enright, Thomas F.; Gresham, James D.; Hay, Merle D.; Soldiers; World War I; Dead, The; First World War 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 AN OLD LADY SEEN AT A GUEST-HOUSE FOR SOLDIERS, by ALEXANDER ROBERTSON Poem Text First Line: Quiet thou didst stand at thine appointed place Last Line: The radiance of thy benignity. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War TO AN OXFORD FRIEND KILLED IN ACTION; AFTER READING POEM BY W.M. LETTS, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: I saw you last beside the stream Last Line: Or counts her gain in trade.) Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Letts, Winifred Mary (1882-1971); Soldiers; World War I - Casualties; Dead, The TO ANY DEAD OFFICER, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, how are things in heaven? I wish you'd say Last Line: I wish they'd killed you in a decent show. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War TO ARMS, by PARK BENJAMIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Awake! Arise, ye men of might! Last Line: Are sure to win the day! Subject(s): United States - Mexican War (1846-1848) TO ARMS!, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now let the cry, 'to arms! To arms Last Line: And her ironclads the sea! Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Humility; Trafalgar, Battle Of; War; Waterloo; Weapons; Ammunition; British Empire; England - Empire; Battle Of Waterloo TO AUTUMN, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness Last Line: And gathering swallows twitter in the skies. Variant Title(s): Ode To Autumn Subject(s): Autumn; Men; Nature; Seasons; War; Fall TO BELGIUM, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For right, not might, you fought. The foe Last Line: For right, not might. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Belgium; World War I; First World War TO BELGIUM, by EDEN PHILLPOTTS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Champion of human honour, let us lave Last Line: Little no more, but infinitely great. Subject(s): World War I - France TO BELGIUM IN EXILE, by OWEN SEAMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Land of the desolate, mother of tears Last Line: And come with honour to your own again. Subject(s): World War I - Belgium TO BELGIUM; CROWNED WITH THORNS, by HELEN GRAY CONE Poem Text First Line: Thou that a brave brief space didst keep Last Line: The awful honor of the crown of christ? Alternate Author Name(s): Green, Coroebus Subject(s): World War I - Belgium TO BUDDY, ON THE EDGE, by DEAN H. HONMA Poem Source First Line: Buddy calls the other day Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans TO C -, by P. A. A. THOMAS Poem Source First Line: The mystery and glamour of the east Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii TO C.H.V, by ROBERT ERNEST VERNEDE Poem Source First Line: What shall I bring to you, wife of mine Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I TO CANAAN; A PURITAN WAR-SONG, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are you going, soldiers Last Line: A whirlwind from the north! Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History TO CERTAIN POETS, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now is the rhymer's honest trade Last Line: And leave the poet's craft to men! Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Soldiers; World War I; First World War TO CHAMBERLAIN; 'OUR CHIEF OF MEN', by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Thou warwick of our age! Whose puissant arm Last Line: Thou standest forth the champion of our race. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Chamberlain, Joseph (1836-1914); Victory; War TO COLONEL CHARLES, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An english heart, my commandant Last Line: Where chlum drove deep in smoky jets. Subject(s): Austria; Social Protest; War TO DANTE, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To write an epic with an all-star cast Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); War TO DEATH, by GERRIT ENGELKE Poem Source First Line: But spare me, death Last Line: Then carry me off, death Subject(s): World War I TO E. T.: 1917, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You sleep too well - too far away Last Line: Had wept for you, my dear. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917); World War I; First World War TO EDWARD THOMAS, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the way up from sheet I met some children Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Thomas, Edward (1878-1917); World War Ii; Second World War TO EDWARD THOMAS, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the way up from sheet I met some children Last Line: Till suddenly, at arras, you possessed that hinted land Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Thomas, Edward (1878-1917); World War Ii TO ENGLAND, by FRANCIS BURDETT MONEY-COUTTS Poem Source First Line: When the agony is done and you are free Subject(s): England; World War I TO ENGLAND (2), by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stand, thou great bulwark of man's liberty Last Line: Through force or fraud, look westward to your child! Subject(s): England; War; English TO ENGLAND, OUR MOTHER, by JAMES A. MACKERETH Poem Source First Line: We are your children, o mother Subject(s): World War I TO ENGLISHMEN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You flung your taunt across the wave Last Line: The pirate's skull-bone blazon! Subject(s): American Civil War; England; Slavery; U.s. - History; English; Serfs TO EUGENE J. LOVEMAN, by ALEXANDER F. BERGMAN Poem Source First Line: On the sea fringe Last Line: That flicker on the margins of he world Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) TO FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA, by SOL FUNAROFF Poem Source First Line: Guitarist, singer of folk-songs Last Line: The song is on the lips of the people! Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) TO FRANCE, by HERBERT JONES Poem Text First Line: Those who have stood for thy cause when the dark was around thee Last Line: And all who have loved thee, they rise and salute and revere thee! Subject(s): World War I - France TO FRANCE, by FREDERICK GEORGE SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is the gift we have given thee, sister? Last Line: Hail thee as sister and queen evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. G. Subject(s): World War I - France TO FRANCE!, by EDWIN CURRAN Poem Source First Line: To france! To france! The magic music Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I TO FRIENDS UNKNOWN, UNSEEN, by SYLVIA READ Poem Source First Line: Passing worlds and the space between cities and cities Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii TO GALLANT FRANCE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lord himself died on the cross Last Line: Shall rise in victory! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): France; World War Ii; Second World War TO GERMANY, by CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are blind like us. Your hurt no man designed Last Line: The darkness and the thunder and the rain. Subject(s): Germany; World War I; Germans; First World War TO GORDON, LEAVING KHARTOUM, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The silence of traitorous feet! Last Line: Where the thames and the clyde are flowing! Subject(s): Farewell; Friendship; God; Gordon, Charles George (1833-1885); Nile (river); War; Parting TO GREAT BRITAIN, by HARDWICKE DRUMMOND RAWNSLEY Poem Source First Line: Britain! You with a heart of flame Subject(s): World War I TO HAPPIER DAYS, by MABEL MCELLIOTT Poem Source First Line: Against the shabby house I pass each day Subject(s): World War I TO HAYDN, by THOMAS HOLCROFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who is the mighty master that can trace / the eternal lineaments of nature's fac Last Line: And consonance sublime amid confusion hears. Subject(s): Fights; Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809); Judgment Day; Thunder; War; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man TO HER OF WHOM THEY DREAM, by EUGENE GRINDEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nine hundred thousand prisoners of war Last Line: For having been able to believe in shame %even to stifle it Alternate Author Name(s): Eluard, Paul Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; World War Ii TO HIM WHOM THE CAP FITS, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That is the sword of england. Arthur drew Subject(s): World War I TO HIS DEAD BODY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When roaring gloom surged inward and you cried Last Line: Dear, red-faced father god who lit your mind. Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; Bereavement; First World War TO HIS EXCELLENCY, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One of all our brave commanders Last Line: In the streets of proud berlin.' Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): World War I; First World War TO HIS LOVE, by IVOR GURNEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: He's gone, and all our plans Subject(s): World War I; First World War TO HIS LOVE, by IVOR GURNEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He's gone, and all our plans Last Line: Hide that red wet %thing I must somehow forget Subject(s): World War I TO HIS LOVE, by IVOR GURNEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He's gone, and all our plans Last Line: Thing I must somehow forget Subject(s): Mourning; War TO ITALY, by MORAY DALTON Poem Text First Line: Thou art the world's desired, the golden fleece Last Line: Whose hearts are thine, belovèd italy. Subject(s): World War I - Italy TO ITALY, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of noble minds! How shall we pay Last Line: Whose forward spirit debtors every race! Subject(s): Army - Italy; World War I; First World War TO JANE ADDAMS AT THE HAGUE: 1. SPEAK NOW FOR PEACE, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady of light, and our best woman, and queen Last Line: Back of the smoke is the promise of kindness again. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Addams, Jane (1860-1935); Lusitania (ship); Peace; Reform & Reformers; World War I; First World War TO JANE ADDAMS AT THE HAGUE: 1. TOLSTOI IS PLOWING YET, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tolstoi is plowing yet. When the smoke clouds break Last Line: Forward, across the field, his horses go. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Tolstoy, Leo (1828-1910); World War I; First World War TO JOHN, by GERALD WILSON GRENFELL Poem Source First Line: O heart-and-soul and careless played Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I TO JOY OUR STUDENT, BIDDING ADIEU, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your friends, dear woman whom I never knew Subject(s): War TO KEEP THE PEACE, by DANIEL GARNETT BICKERS Poem Text First Line: Rejoicing, celebrant and wild with joy we were Last Line: Of peace shall be impossible. For vision in this work we ask! Alternate Author Name(s): Bickers, D. G. Subject(s): Earth; Peace; War; World TO LEONIDE MASSINE IN 'CLEOPATRA', by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O beauty doomed and perfect for an hour Last Line: Be still; you have drained the cup; you have played your part. Subject(s): Ballet; Dancing & Dancers; Massine, Leonide (1896-1979); World War I; First World War TO LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR ROWLAND HILL, K.B., by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hill! Whose high daring with renew'd success Last Line: Gild with delight thy father's latter days! Subject(s): England; War; English TO LUCASTA ON GOING TO THE WARS FOR THE FOURTH TIME, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It doesn't matter what's the cause Last Line: And his pride keeps him here. Subject(s): World War I; First World War TO LUCASTA, ABOUT THAT WAR, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A long winter from home the gulls blew Subject(s): War; World War Ii; Second World War TO LUCASTA, ABOUT THAT WAR, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A long winter from home the gulls blew Last Line: Which is called (as noted) war. And it stinks Subject(s): World War Ii TO LUCASTA, [ON] GOING TO THE WARS, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind Last Line: Loved I not honour more. Variant Title(s): Going To The Wars;song Subject(s): Absence; Desire; Duty; Heroism; Honor; Love; Soldiers; War; Separation; Isolation; Heroes; Heroines TO MARGOT HEINEMANN, by JOHN CORNFORD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heart of the heartless world Variant Title(s): Huesca Subject(s): Desire; Love; World War Ii; Second World War TO MARGOT HEINEMANN, by JOHN CORNFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Heart of the heartless world Last Line: Don't forget my love Variant Title(s): Huesc Subject(s): Desire; Love; World War Ii TO MAUDE, by GARETH MARSH STANTON Poem Source First Line: Prim puritan, whose every glance belies Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I TO MILITARY PROGRESS, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You use your mind Last Line: Red. Variant Title(s): To The Soul Of 'progress' Subject(s): World War I; First World War TO MOTHER EARTH, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O earth, earth, earth! Where wilt thou hide thy slain? Last Line: The wrath of man but works his will, earth's sovereign judge is he. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Earth; Social Protest; War; World TO MR. ADDISON, OCCASIONED BY RETURN FROM HANOVER WITH LORD HALIFAX, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O for a muse of fire and lofty style Last Line: But language fails to give th'ideas birth. Subject(s): Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government; Praise; War TO MRS. MANLEY, by CATHARINE TROTTER Poem Text First Line: Th' attempt was brave, how happy your success Last Line: Where they have lost their hearts, the lawrel yield. Subject(s): Manley, Delaiviere (1670-1724); War; Women TO MY BROTHER, by MILES JEFFREY GAME DAY Poem Text First Line: This will I do when we have peace again Last Line: Proving your presence near, in spite of death. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War TO MY BROTHER, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me your hand, my brother, search my face Last Line: And through your victory I shall win the light. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War TO MY BROTHER (IN MEMORY OF JULY 1, 1916), by VERA MARY BRITTAIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your battle-wounds are scars upon my heart Last Line: As once in france %two years ago Alternate Author Name(s): Catlin, George E. G., Mrs. Subject(s): Women; World War I TO MY BROTHER; KILLED: CHAUMONT WOOD, OCTOBER, 1918, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O you so long dead Last Line: The language as long as the language survives Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): World War I; Brothers; Death; Time; First World War TO MY BROTHER; KILLED: CHAUMONT WOOD, OCTOBER, 1918, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O you so long dead Last Line: I can tell you, and not lie - %save of peace alone Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): World War I TO MY COUNTRY, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One told me he had heard it whispered: 'lo!' Last Line: Suffer and bleed, and tell the world good-by! Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I; First World War TO MY COUNTRYMEN, by BERTOLT BRECHT Poem Source First Line: You who survive in cities that have died Last Line: You mothers, choose to let your children live Subject(s): War TO MY DAUGHTER BETTY, THE GIFT OF GOD (ELIZABETH DOROTHY), by THOMAS MICHAEL KETTLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In wiser days, my darling rosebud, blown Last Line: And for the secret scripture of the poor. Subject(s): World War I; First World War TO MY GODSON, by MILDRED HUXLEY Poem Text First Line: They shall come back through heaven's bars Last Line: Calling you from the starlit skies. Subject(s): World War I - Casualties TO MY MOTHER, by GEORGE BARKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most near, most dear, most loved and most far, Last Line: That she will move from mourning into morning. Variant Title(s): Sonnet To My Mother Subject(s): Love; Mothers; World War Ii; Second World War TO MY PUPILS, GONE BEFORE THEIR DAY, by GUY KENDALL Poem Text First Line: You seemed so young, to know Last Line: Eternity awaits us to correct. Subject(s): World War I; First World War TO MY SOLDIER BROTHER, by SALLIE M. BALLARD Poem Source First Line: When softly gathering shades of ev'n Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History TO MY SON, by BABETTE DEUTSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Now the blackout of frontiers Last Line: Or alter the face you will meet there, %leave you these words with my love Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs. Subject(s): World War Ii TO MY SONS, by JERZY ZULAWSKI Poem Source First Line: I went to the battle, dear sons of mine Last Line: To fight for a poland that's ours, that is free Subject(s): World War I TO MY TRULY VALIANT, LEARNED FRIEND .. ART GLADIATORY INTO MATHEMATIC, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark, reader! Wilt be learn'd I' th' wars? Last Line: And she writes with his sword. Subject(s): War; Writing & Writers TO MY WIFE, by JAMES FORSYTH Poem Source First Line: You're in my mind Subject(s): War TO MY WIFE IN TIME OF WAR, by MICHAEL DENNIS BROWNE Poem Source First Line: First, taking one of the branch Subject(s): Nuclear War TO MY YOUNGER BROTHER ... AFTER THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though dark are the prospects and heavy the hours Last Line: And beam through the cloud of despair! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Brothers; Corunna, Spain; Homecoming; War; Half-brothers TO NAPLES, by HERBERT B. MALLALIEU Poem Source First Line: All day the coast of africa was seen Subject(s): Naples, Italy; War TO OUR DEAD, by WILLIAM LEONARD COURTNEY Poem Text First Line: Sleep well, heroic souls, in silence sleep Last Line: Shall shine like beacon-stars of sacrifice. Subject(s): World War I - Casualties TO OUR FALLEN, by ROBERT ERNEST VERNEDE Poem Text First Line: Ye sleepers, who will sing you? Last Line: Oh, brothers, sleep in peace! Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; World War I - Casualties; Dead, The TO OUR GIRLS, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Our country gives the sons that she has treasured Last Line: Give them a womanhood worth dying for! Subject(s): War - Home Front; Women - Heroes TO OUR PRESIDENT, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hope of the nations, lift thy stricken heart Subject(s): World War I; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924); First World War TO P.L., 1916-1937; A SOLDIER OF THE REPUBLIC, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gray earth peeping through snow Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) TO P.L., 1916-1937; A SOLDIER OF THE REPUBLIC, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gray earth peeping through snow Last Line: And shaking the stunted pines you hid among Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) TO PADEREWSKI, PATRIOT, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Son of a martyred race, that long Last Line: Shall plead for thy distracted land. Subject(s): Composers; Music & Musicians; Paderewski, Ignacy Jan (1860-1941); World War I; First World War TO PEACE, by W. W. M. Poem Text First Line: We are the dead Last Line: Make green thy fields for us, and bring us tears and laughter? Subject(s): Death; Military; Peace; Social Protest; War; Women; Dead, The TO PETER RAVEN ON HIS FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On iris'd feather of a mallard's wing Subject(s): War TO POETS AND AIRMEN, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thinkers and airmen - all such Last Line: And all of time shut down in one shot %of night, by a gun uttered Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; World War Ii TO PRESIDENT BUSH AT THE START OF THE GULF WAR, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This thin-lipped king with his helmeted head Last Line: Waves to them, gestures to the young to die Subject(s): Bush, George; Iraq War (2003) TO PRESIDENT BUSH AT THE START OF THE GULF WAR, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This thin-lipped king with his helmeted head Last Line: Waves to them, gestures to the young to die Subject(s): Men; War TO ROBERT NICHOLS, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here by a snowbound river Last Line: And singing birds are mute. Subject(s): World War I; First World War TO RUPERT BROOKE, by EDEN PHILLPOTTS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though we, a happy few Last Line: Hail, singer, and farewell! Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); Poetry & Poets; Soldiers' Writings; World War I - Casualties TO RUSSIA NEW AND FREE (INSCRIBED TO MADAME BRESHKOVSKAYA), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Land of the martyrs - of the martyred dead Last Line: And hear thy chanted hymns of hope for russia new and free. Subject(s): Russian Revolution; World War I - Russia TO SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI; OCTOBER 4, 1943, by MARY WINTER WERE Poem Text First Line: You walked the fields of italy Last Line: Your own incomparable land. Subject(s): Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); Italy - World War Ii; Saints TO SAMUEL E. SEWALL AND HARRIET W. SEWALL OF MELROSE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Olor iscanus queries: 'why should we' Last Line: The eyes that smile no more, the unreturning feet! Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History TO SERVE IS TO GAIN, by CHARLES HENRY MACKINTOSH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He profits most who serves us best!' Subject(s): World War I TO SHAKESPEARE, 1916, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With what white wrath must turn thy bones Subject(s): World War I TO SOME WHO HAVE FALLEN, by MORAY DALTON Poem Text First Line: Spring is god's season;may you see his spring Last Line: To the bare beauty of our sussex downs. Subject(s): World War I - Casualties TO SOMEBODY, by HAROLD SETON Poem Source First Line: They've put us through our paces Subject(s): World War I TO SPAIN, by OLGA CABRAL Poem Source First Line: Jarama, teruel, gaudalajara Last Line: We shall all come home! Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) TO SPAIN - A LAST WORD, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Iberian! Palter no more! By thine hands Last Line: Debt be paid! Subject(s): Maine (ship); Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898) TO STATECRAFT EMBALMED, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is nothing to be said for you. Guard Last Line: Foe. Subject(s): Thoth (egyptian God); World War I; First World War TO STEPHEN SPENDER, by TIMOTHY CORSELLIS Poem Source First Line: I had expected Subject(s): War TO THE 'REFUGEES' OF THE BOSTON AUTHORS CLUB, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Right welcome, adventurers all! Last Line: We are glad you are home again! Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; World War I; First World War TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That late, in half-despair, I said Last Line: For freedom's flag and freedom's land! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History TO THE BELGIANS, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O race that caesar knew Last Line: Nameless, immortal dead. Subject(s): Damien, Father (1840-1889); World War I - Belgium TO THE BELOVED OF ONE DEAD, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sunlight shall not easily seem fair Last Line: His wild white body and his thirsting eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne Subject(s): World War I TO THE BOY ELIS, by GEORG TRAKL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Elis, when the ouzel calls in the black wood Last Line: The last gold of perished stars Subject(s): World War I TO THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, by RONALD GORELL BARNES Poem Source First Line: British soldiers, once again Alternate Author Name(s): Gorell, 3d Baron Subject(s): World War I TO THE DEAD, by GERALD CALDWELL SIORDET Poem Source First Line: Since in the days that many not come again Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I TO THE DEFENDERS OF NEW ORLEANS, by JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail sons of generous valor Last Line: And beauty weeps the brave. Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): New Orleans, Battle Of (1815); War Of 1812 TO THE FALLEN, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the flame-scarred night one came to me Last Line: Till heaven is sunk in hell—thou art not dead. Subject(s): World War I - Casualties TO THE FARMER, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the wars came and you still practised Last Line: Of nature over the brief violence %of man. You will not do so again Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): War TO THE FIFTEENTH OF PIZZALE LORETTO, by SALVATORE QUASIMODO Poem Source First Line: Esposito, fiorani, fogagnolo Last Line: Death that is life can cast no shadow Subject(s): Italy; World War Ii TO THE FIRST GUN, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Speak, silent, patient gun! Last Line: Of all thy comrades, best. Subject(s): World War I; First World War TO THE FORTY-THIRD PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, by WILLIAM O'DALY Poem Source First Line: Mr. President, our history speaks to us, the history of chile Last Line: Is the greased machinery of destruction Subject(s): Politics; War TO THE GIRL WHO HELPED IN THE WAR, by JOSEPHINE DODGE DASKAM BACON Poem Text First Line: Before the flag had floated free Last Line: But it made a woman of you! Subject(s): War - Home Front; Women; World War I; First World War TO THE GLORY OF THE NEEDLE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Never before have they plied so well Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I TO THE HAWKS, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell is the bell Last Line: Grows round with the sound Subject(s): Antiwar Movement; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Mcnamara, Robert S.; Rusk, Dean (1909-1994); Bindy, Mcgeorge (1919-1996); War Hawks TO THE HORSE BLACK EAGLE WHICH I RODE AT THE BATTLE ZAMORNA, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swart steed of night, thou hast charged thy last Last Line: And call thee to thy grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): War; Horses TO THE INTERNATIONAL BRIGADE, by RAFAEL ALBERTI Poem Source First Line: You have come from very far, but what is distance Last Line: At your names madrid glows, is illuminated in the night Subject(s): Freedom; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) TO THE IRISH DEAD', by ESSEX EVANS Poem Source First Line: Tis a green isle set in a silver water Subject(s): World War I TO THE LAKE SQUADRONS, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The brilliant task to you assign'd Last Line: Till, foundering in ontario's lake, %you swamp them all! Subject(s): Navy - United States; War Of 1812 TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR EDWARD HYDE, EARL OF CLARENDON, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While flattering crowds officiously appear Last Line: Because the centre of it is above. Subject(s): Holidays; Hyde, Edward. 1st Earl Of Clarendon; Nations; Nature; New Year; Politics & Government; War TO THE MASTERS OF 1917, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The task is done. The student look Last Line: By the touch of the master sanctified. Subject(s): Blood; Death; Pain; War; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery TO THE MEMORY OF CAPTAIN ARTHUR WATKIN WILLIAMS WYNN, WHO FELL AT ALMA, by FRANCIS HASTINGS CHARLES DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When from grim alma's blood-stained height Last Line: "among the free born dead -- they found him." Subject(s): Alma, Battle Of The (1854); Crimean War (1853-1856); Soldiers TO THE MEMORY OF FIELD-MARSHAL EARL KITCHENER, by OWEN SEAMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soldier of england, you who served her well Last Line: But might not live to see. Subject(s): Kitchener, Horatio, 1st Earl (1850-1916); World War I - Casualties TO THE MEMORY OF FIELD-MARSHAL EARL ROBERTS, by OWEN SEAMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He died, as soldiers die, amid the strife Subject(s): World War I TO THE MEN OF KENT, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Vanguard of liberty, ye men of kent Last Line: Ye men of kent, 'tis victory or death! Subject(s): England; War; English TO THE MEN WHO HAVE DIED FOR ENGLAND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: All ye who fought since england was a name Subject(s): England; World War I TO THE METROPOLIS OF GREAT BRITAIN, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As perhaps I am the first who ever presented a work of this nature to the Last Line: Men, so is by none more passionately desired than by %the greatest of your admirers, %and most humbl Subject(s): Cities; Great Britain; Nations; Praise; War TO THE NECROPHILE, by WALTER CONRAD ARENSBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With love are you gone mad, o lover of france Last Line: "not yours the human vow: ""till death us part!" Subject(s): Disdain; France; Marriage; World War I; Scorn; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; First World War TO THE OTHERS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This was the gleam then that lured from far Last Line: With the banner of christ over them—our knights new-made. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Women; World War I; First World War TO THE OXFORD MEN IN THE WAR, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often, on afternoons gray and sombre Last Line: Even the enemy has his share. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Oxford University; World War I - Great Britain TO THE PATRIOTIC LADY ACROSS THE WAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: She wore a liberty loan button Last Line: To make the world safe for democracy Subject(s): World War I TO THE PEACE PALACE AT THE HAGUE, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Builded of love and joy and faith and hope Last Line: Thou shalt be capitol of all the earth. Subject(s): Hague, Netherlands; Peace; World War I; First World War 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 TO THE RETURNING BRAVE, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Victorious knights without reproach or fear Last Line: That liberty may greet you all, her shields of land and wave. Subject(s): Homecoming; Soldiers; World War I; First World War TO THE RIGHT GRATIOUS PRINCE, LODWICK, DUKE OF RICHMOND, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all those three-brave-brothers, faln I' th' warre Last Line: This, three; which three, you make up foure brave prince. Subject(s): War TO THE SACRED BATTALION, by ANDREAS CALVOS Poem Source First Line: May rain clouds never burst Subject(s): Greek War Of Independence (1821-1832) TO THE SEAMEN, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You seamen, I have eaten your hard bread Last Line: And ships will dip their colours in salute %to you, henceforth, when passing zuydecoote Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Dunkirk, France; World War Ii TO THE SOLDIERS OF THE GREAT WAR, by GERRIT ENGELKE Poem Source First Line: Rise up! Out of the trenches, muddy holes, concrete bunkers Last Line: Of thousandfold love ring out around the earth! Subject(s): World War I TO THE SPIRIT OF LUTHER, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Luther, come back to thy degenerate land Last Line: Brutes breed them bodies: who shall breed them souls? Subject(s): Germany; Luther, Martin (1483-1546); World War I; Germans; First World War TO THE STORMY PETREL, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ever perilous and precious, like an ember from the fire Last Line: In peace and tempest it has ever shone. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Love - Marital; War; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TO THE TENTH LEGION, NEW YORK STATE VOLUNTEERS, 1862, by RUTH NATALIE CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Marching along!-marching to the war Last Line: "for god and their country, they were marching along." Subject(s): American Civil War; Marching & Marches; Military Service, Voluntary; New York City - 19th Century; Patriotism; United States - History TO THE THAMES, by MARK HOLLOWAY Poem Source First Line: Wind slowly down the hills Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii TO THE UNFORGOTTEN DEAD, by E. D. YOUNG Poem Source First Line: Bury them deeper, deeper. The shallow earth Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii TO THE UNITED STATES, by ROBERT ERNEST VERNEDE Poem Source First Line: Traitors have carried the word about Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brothers in blood! They who this wrong began Last Line: Freedom and honor and sweet loving-kindness. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I - United States TO THE UTTERMOST FARTHING, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: He too! He too!' the veteran paused, the sound Last Line: Not a man spoke - yet clamorous voices cried: %stumbling, he walked outside Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I TO THE VANGUARD, by BEATRIX BRICE Poem Source First Line: Oh little mighty force that stood for england Subject(s): World War I TO THE VERMONT CADETS, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Pass on! For the bright torch of glory is beaming Last Line: Be blest if victorious -- and cursed, if you fly! Subject(s): Cadets; War TO THE VETERANS OF THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRIGADE, by GENEVIEVE TAGGARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say of them they knew no spanish Alternate Author Name(s): Wolf, Robert Leopold, Mrs. Subject(s): Freedom; Holidays; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Liberty TO THE VETERANS OF THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRIGADE, by GENEVIEVE TAGGARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say of them they knew no spanish Last Line: And what they dared, they dare Alternate Author Name(s): Wolf, Robert Leopold, Mrs. Subject(s): Freedom; Holidays; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) TO THE WINGLESS VICTORY; A PRAYER, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wingless victory, whose shrine Last Line: O wingless victory! Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War I; First World War TO THE WOMAN IN BOND STREET STATION, by EDWARD WEISMILLER Poem Source First Line: Madam, you are night; the fight was a great pity Subject(s): War TO THE WOMEN OF ENGLAND, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: While you weep Last Line: Yet-%pinned a feather on a boy and killed him Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): World War I TO THE WRITER OF CHRIST IN FLANDERS, by E. M. V. Poem Source First Line: On the battlefields of flanders men have Subject(s): World War I TO THEE, MY COUNTRY, by LOUISE BURTON LAIDLAW Poem Text First Line: America, unbend that troubled brow! Last Line: Shall false and foolish fears hold thee in thrall? Alternate Author Name(s): Backus, L., Mrs. Subject(s): League Of Nations; Nations; Peace; United States; War; America TO THOSE BORN LATER, by BERTOLT BRECHT Poem Source First Line: Truly, I live in dark times! Last Line: Which you have escaped Subject(s): World War Ii TO THOSE WHO DREAD WAR, by BRUCE BERLIND Poem Source First Line: What is the one Last Line: We'd be gone %- a dieux Subject(s): War TO TONY - AGED THREE (IN MEMORY T.P.C.W.), by MARJORIE WILSON Poem Text First Line: Gemmed with white daisies was the great green world Last Line: To win that heritage of peace you have. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Wilson, T.p. Cameron (1889-1918); Women And War; World War I - Casualties TO VICTORY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Return to greet me, colours that were my joy Last Line: When the blithe wind laughs on the hills with uplifted voice. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War TO W. W. IN HASTE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have given you our money, we have given you our boys Last Line: Get excited! Go the limit! And -- then -- more! Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924); World War I; First World War TO WAR, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: O demon war! Thou hast been absent long Last Line: While thy fierce thunder mounts unto the stars. Subject(s): War TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN (TELL ME LIES ABOUT VIETNAM), by ADRIAN MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: I was run over by the truth one day Last Line: Tell me lies about vietnam Subject(s): War TO YOU WHO WAIT, by JOHN SLEIGH PUDNEY Poem Source Subject(s): War TO YOU WHO WENT, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Out on the quest, o you who went Last Line: So fine the quest, we who are sent! Subject(s): Heroism; Soldiers; Victory; War; Heroes; Heroines TODAY'S MEDITATION, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The fiery palm tree in front of me Last Line: I think of spain, all of it sold out, %river by river, mountain by mountain, sea to sea Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Nature; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) TODAY'S MEDITATION, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In front the palm tree of fire Last Line: From river to river, mountain to mountain, sea to sea Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): War TODAY, LIKE EVERY OTHER DAY, WE WAKE UP EMPTY, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Let the beauty we love be what we do. %there are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Night; Politics; War TOGETHER, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Splashing along the boggy woods all day Last Line: But at the stable-door he'll say good-night. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War TOLL-PAYERS, by ALISON LINDSAY Poem Source First Line: Children, today made fatherless Subject(s): World War I TOLQUHON CASTLE, by MARGARET TOMS Poem Source First Line: Old, the curator wields his heavy Last Line: Of dead loves, old wars; %and the boy - %of engines Subject(s): Castles; War TOM TAYLOR, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On pay-day nights, neck-full with beer Last Line: While tome, five fingers to his nose, %skips off....And the last bugle blows Subject(s): World War I TOMB OF LIEUTENANT JOHN LEARMONTH, A. I. F., by JOHN STREETER MANIFOLD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is not sorrow, this is work: I build Last Line: And look on death as equals, I am filled %with queer affection for the human race Subject(s): Crete; World War Ii TOMB OF THE IMAGINATION, by MIGUEL HERNANDEZ Poem Source First Line: A stonemason wanted - he dared to want Last Line: He and the wind were driven headlong Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) TOMBE DES ANGLAIS, by HAGAR PAUL Poem Text First Line: Sleep, in this forest plot Last Line: This side of heaven. Subject(s): Death; France; Sacrifices; Soldiers; War; Dead, The TOMKO UEMURA IS BATHED BY HER MOTHER, by LEONORE WILSON Poem Source First Line: The small shoulders of tomoko sprout hands Last Line: That I still see in your blinded eyes Subject(s): Politics; War TOMMIES IN THE TRAIN, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The the sun shines, %the coltsfoot flowers along the railway banks Last Line: Endlessly, in one motion depart %from each other Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): World War I TOMMY ATKINS' WAY, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was battle-scarred and ugly with the marks of shot and shell Last Line: "saying: ""nothing, nothing really, that's worth mentioning at h'all." Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): War TOMORROW'S SEED, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Proud banner of death Last Line: For freedom's birth Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) TOO-LATE BORN, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We too, we too, descending once again Last Line: The dead against the dead and on the silent ground %the silent slain Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Variant Title(s): Toward A Romantic Revival; The Silent Slai Subject(s): Roland; War TORSO, by IWAN GOLL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Europe, you shuddering torso! Last Line: Europe, you crumbling torso, you rump of the world! Alternate Author Name(s): Goll, Yvan Subject(s): Europe; World War I; First World War TOWARD LILLERS, by IVOR GURNEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In october marching, taking the sweet air Last Line: As the heroes of marathon their renown we know Subject(s): Lillers, France; World War I TOWARD THE JURASSIC AGE, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone brought them to palma Last Line: Impossible to bury them Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs. Subject(s): Central America; Social Protest; Tyranny & Tyrants; War; Dictators TOWARD THE JURASSIC AGE, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone brought them to palma Last Line: Impossible to bury them Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs. Subject(s): Central America; Social Protest; Tyranny And Tyrants; War TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE DEAD COMRADE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There among the woods, after the battle returning Last Line: And faint in death the lips I love so well. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Love; Mourning; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Bereavement TOWARDS MORNING, by ERNST STADLER Poem Source First Line: Day wants to rise. Night no more opposes light Last Line: Might burst open, and a light crown us, as if from the %hai r of our beloved women Subject(s): World War I TOY FACTORY, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother works here Subject(s): Toys; World War Ii; Second World War TOY FACTORY, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother works [or, is] here Last Line: Their spades are heavy, %their spades are much too heavy. %perhaps that's how %it's supposed to be? Subject(s): Toys; World War Ii TRAFALGAR DAY, 1940, by WILLIAM ASHTON Poem Source First Line: They have dropped a bomb on st. Paul's Last Line: And no one had warned them, 'they' did not know, none said %how dangerous it is to wake our dead Subject(s): England; World War Ii TRAFALGAR SQUARE, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fool that I was! My heart was sore Last Line: Sailing the sky with one arm and one eye. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Nelson, Horatio, Viscount (1758-1805); Trafalgar Square, London; World War I - Casualties TRAFFIC WARNING, by RICHARD WARNER BORST Poem Text First Line: I saw the wreck a little after it happened Last Line: Drive carefully—for perilous is the highway! Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Soldiers; War; Dead, The TRAIL, by EDWARD WEISMILLER Poem Source First Line: We who have come all ways into the city Subject(s): War TRAINS, by JOHN PIERRE ROCHE Poem Source First Line: Over thousands of miles Subject(s): World War I TRAITOR, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He hangs out a flag from his home and his office Last Line: The traitor who holds up a nation for gain! Subject(s): World War I TRAKL, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In reality the barn wasn't clean, ninety men Last Line: The large sunken eyes of horticulture. Subject(s): Memory; Trakl, Georg (1887-1914); War; Writing & Writers TRAMP, TRAMP, TRAMP, by GEORGE FREDERICK ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the prison cell I sit Last Line: Of freedom in our own beloved home. Subject(s): Adversity; Freedom; Holidays; Memorial Day; Prisons & Prisoners; War; Liberty; Declaration Day; Convicts TRANQUIL LIBERTY, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peace is no peace when all its dream is war Last Line: That is not also tranquil liberty. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Peace; War TRANSCONTINENTAL BUS, by DANIEL SMYTHE Poem Source First Line: On a strange land we have the light now Last Line: And thoughts in the darl wind that cools our words Subject(s): World War Ii TRANSFORMATION, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In many homes / one sees old shrapnel cases Last Line: Let me work. Subject(s): Change; Death; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War TRANSIENT BARRACKS, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer. Sunset. Someone is playing Last Line: And the thing about it is, it's real Subject(s): Army Life; Homecoming; World War Ii; Drills & Minor Tactics; Second World War TRANSIENT BARRACKS, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer. Sunset. Someone is playing Last Line: And the thing about it is, it's real Subject(s): Army Life; Homecoming; World War Ii TRANSIT CAR, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thunder of wheels on tracks. Hidden pistons punch Last Line: Only clarity remains and it is not enough Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 TRANSLATIONS FROM THE MOTHER TONGUE: 1. KHIMJAHNG, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It held you once. Chora of hands splashing water Last Line: Steep them in the element that destroys and saves Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 TRANSLATIONS FROM THE MOTHER TONGUE: 2. P'ANSORI, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You are singing of bamboo flutes and barrel drums Last Line: The part of you that first began to sing Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 TRANSPORT, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now seven days from land the gulls still wheel Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): War TRANSPORT, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now seven days from land the gulls still wheel Last Line: Catastrophe. But we shall prosper yet Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): War TRANSPORT (COURCELLES), by FREDERIC MANNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon swims in milkiness Last Line: Then again the limbers and grotesque mules. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War TRANSPORT OF WOUNDED IN MESOPOTAMIA, 1917, by MARGERY LAWRENCE Poem Source First Line: You who sat safe at home Last Line: And let us die! Subject(s): Women; World War I TRANSPORT UP AT YPRES, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The thoroughfares that seem so dead to daylight passers-by Last Line: While overhead with fleering light stare down those withered suns. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War TRAVELLING AMERICA, I AM ENGLAND-HAUNTED, by JOYCE ANSTRUTHER PLACZEK Poem Source Last Line: I shall stay here long. Strangeness, at last, brings peace Subject(s): World War Ii TRAWLERS, by HILTON BROWN Poem Source First Line: Dawn squall raking the harbour, an east wind's whistle Last Line: But - who looks landward? Who forsakes the fishing? %nobody.Not one man Subject(s): World War Ii TREASON, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man that was following me looked like a government Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Anti-war Protests TREASON OF GANELON, by ELISE AYLEN Poem Source First Line: The ageing king, the warrior Last Line: The fight is ended Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, Duncan Cambpell, Mrs. Subject(s): World War Ii TREE OF KNOWLEDGE, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Go back, you'll never see it again Last Line: Lie to me. Say you forgive me for being born Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 TREE OF UNKNOWING, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Uncertainty, take me into the forest %leaf by leaf Last Line: I wonder who you were: I wonder %because you were Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 TREE, THE SERPENT, AND THE STAR, by A. P. GRAY Poem Source First Line: From the silver sands of a gleaming shore Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History TREES, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Text First Line: We marvel how the elms can grow Last Line: When dawn breaks cool and still. Subject(s): Elm Trees; Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities; Second World War 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 TREES ON THE CALAIS ROAD, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like mourners filing into church at a funeral Last Line: Of that dead army driving by. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Trees; World War I; First World War TREMBLING, by JILL E. WIDNER Poem Source First Line: The butterfly was caught Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans TRENCH DUTY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shaken from sleep, and numbed and scarce awake Last Line: Blank stars. I'm wide-awake; and some chap's dead. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War TRENCH IDYLL, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sat together in the trench Last Line: It's rather cold here, sir; suppose we move? Subject(s): World War I; First World War TRENCH IDYLL, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sat together in the trench Subject(s): World War I TRENCH INCIDENT, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: We waited, as the thundering curtain swept Last Line: Before he entered like a wondering child %the heritage of kings Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I TRENCH LIFE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fear never dies, much as we laugh at fear Last Line: Blossoms from mud, and under the rain's whips, %flagellant-like we writhe with laughing lips Subject(s): World War I TRENCH NOMENCLATURE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Genius named them, as I live! What but genius could compress Last Line: From the fabled vase the genie in his shattering horror came. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War TRENCH RAID NEAR HOOGE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At an hour before the rosy-fingered Last Line: Lit earth and heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War TRENCHES: ST. ELOI, by THOMAS ERNEST HULME Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the flat slope of st. Eloi Last Line: Nothing suggests itself. There is nothing to do but keep on. Alternate Author Name(s): Hulme, T. E. Subject(s): World War I; First World War TRI-COLOUR, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poppies, you try to tell me, glowing there in the wheat Last Line: God's accolade! Lift me up, friends. I'm going to win -- my cross. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War TRIBE, by CATHY SONG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was born Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF CHARLES VINE DE PUY, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep on, brave boy! In quiet sleep Last Line: As from the kingdom of the blest. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Sleep; War; Dead, The TRIFLES, I, by JEAN DE LA VILLE DE MIRMONT Poem Source First Line: O windmills, windjammers with mast and sail Last Line: O windmills, windjammers with mast and sail? Subject(s): World War I TRIFLES, IV, by JEAN DE LA VILLE DE MIRMONT Poem Source First Line: Twas from the isles of spice you hailed Last Line: A private in salvation army ranks Subject(s): World War I TRIFLES, VII, by JEAN DE LA VILLE DE MIRMONT Poem Source First Line: In volume 3 of my memoirs you may read Last Line: The only lover whom you did not eat? Subject(s): World War I TRILOGY: XVI, by PENTTI SAARIKOSKI Poem Source First Line: Not to forget childhood, the war reparations Last Line: An echo rolls through the sky Subject(s): War TRIUMPHAL MARCH, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stone, bronze, stone, steel, stone, oakleaves, horses' heels Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; War TRIVIAL DETAIL, by VIOLET HELEN FRIEDLAENDER Poem Text First Line: Floating on the water in the a.R.P. Bucket Last Line: Extraordinarily happy. Subject(s): Insects; Ladybirds; Life; War; Bugs; Ladybugs TROJAN HORSE, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A horse I am, whom bit Last Line: Could not do free, I captive raz'd a town Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William Subject(s): Sculpture And Sculptors; Trojan War TROJAN WOMEN, SELS., by EURIPIDES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This town, now, yes mothe %is happier than the greeks Last Line: Oh, fly from the war if you are wise. But if war comes, %to die well is to win the victor's crown Subject(s): War TROLL'S COURTSHIP (WRITTEN AFTER AN AIR RAID, APRIL 1941), by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the misty night humming to themselves like morons Last Line: To be - for all their kudos - %wrong, wrong in the end Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; World War Ii TROOP TRAIN, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It stops the town we come through. Workers raise Subject(s): Army Life; World War Ii; Drills & Minor Tactics; Second World War TROOP TRAIN, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It stops the town we come through. Workers raise Last Line: The place of life found after trains and death - %nightfall of nations brilliant after war Subject(s): Army Life; World War Ii TROOPIN', by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Troopin', troopin', troopin' to the sea Last Line: As a time-expired man. Subject(s): Army - Great Britain; War TROOPSHIP IN THE TROPICS, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Five thousand souls are here, and all are bounded Last Line: Time hardens. But the ruthless now grows kind Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; War TROPHY, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wise king crowned with blessings on his throne Last Line: Or father and son, co-princes of one mind, %irreconcilables,their treaty signed Subject(s): World War Ii TROPHY, W.W.I, by JANET LEWIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A cross, %I had it from a friend, a russian woman Last Line: In itself it says: %verdun %and the death of a man Alternate Author Name(s): Winters, Janet Lewis; Winters, Yvor, Mrs. Subject(s): World War I TROUBLE IN MIND, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A murdered body's shallow grave Subject(s): Memory; War TROUBLE IN MIND, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A murdered body's shallow grave Subject(s): War TROUBLE IN MIND, by ALICE FULTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A murdered body's shallow grave Last Line: A jungle of nothing. A forgetting Subject(s): War TROY, by PAUL CURTIS COLTMAN Poem Source First Line: I keep the gate. Others ride out Last Line: Before the walls fall. I should welcome %some sign from the gods: a gift Subject(s): Troy; War TROY, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He all that time among the sewers of troy Last Line: Asking: “where is the treasure?” till he died Subject(s): Trojan War; Troy TROY, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He all that time among the sewers of troy Last Line: Asking: 'where is the treasure?' till he died Subject(s): Trojan War; Troy TRUCE AND THE PEACE (NOVEMBER, 1918), by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peace now for every fury has her day Last Line: We never knew till then that he was there Subject(s): Peace; World War I TRUCE LINE, by PARK PONG'U Poem Source First Line: Mountains face each other. Distrusting eyes glare Last Line: Should we remain here helpless as flowers? Subject(s): Korean War, 1950-1953 TRULY GREAT, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think continually of those who were truly great Last Line: And left the vivid air signed with their honour Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Freedom; Greatness; Heroism; Life Change Events; Men; War TRUMMERFRAUEN, by DIANE THIEL Poem Source First Line: When the sirens began, we went underground Last Line: Like a place where the heart had been Subject(s): Germany; World War Ii TRUMPET, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thy trumpet lies in the dust Subject(s): Trumpets; World War I TRUMPET, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rise up, rise up %and, as the trumpet blowing Last Line: To the old wars; %arise, arise! Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Trumpets; World War I TRUMPET CALL, by CAROLINE TICKNOR Poem Source First Line: I dreamed last night of the trumpet-call Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I TRUMPETS, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: Without demille it's hard to picture Last Line: And, besides, those innocents are dead Subject(s): War TRUMPETS, by GEORG TRAKL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Under pollarded willows, where brown children are playing Last Line: Scarlet banners, laughter, blood, madness and %trumpet-call Subject(s): World War I TRUST, by CYRIL ARGENTINE ALINGTON Poem Source First Line: They trusted god - unslumbering and unsleeping Subject(s): World War I TRUTH AS I SEE IT...CIRCA 2003, by KAYE MOON WINTERS Poem Source First Line: We're all too fat and we're all too rich Last Line: Under one god...And of all other Subject(s): Politics; War TRYING TO WRITE A POEM AGAINST THE WAR, by KATHA POLLITT Poem Source First Line: My daughter, who's as beautiful as the day Last Line: And does not care much for poetry, either Subject(s): Politics; War TRYST, by EDITH WHARTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I said to the woman: whence do you come Last Line: When the king rides by, she said Subject(s): World War I TU'M, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tum' %tomb %pro %prodromus Last Line: Penance for an age feminine: %plastique Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Memory; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War TULE LAKE LAVA BEDS, THE MODOC WARS, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Time is motion, energy, stress, and speed, divided by the sun's Last Line: As the desert music wavers, unmetered and unspoke Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities TURKISH TRENCH DOG, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: Night held me as I crawled and scrambled near Last Line: And sniffing at my prostrate form unnerved %he licked my face! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Soldiers' Writings; World War I TURN O LIBERTAD, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Turn o libertad, for the war is over Last Line: Is swiftly, surely preparing for you. Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; United States - History; Liberty TURNING ASIDE FROM BATTLES, by SEXTUS PROPERTIUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thus much the fates have alloted me, and if, maecenas Subject(s): War TUTU ON THE CURB, by ERIC EDWARD CHOCK Poem Source First Line: Tutu standing on the corner Subject(s): Loss; World War Ii - Japanese-americans TV NEWS: DETOX CLOSED, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: No comment, just image after image Last Line: Now tell me you wouldn't go Subject(s): News; Story-telling; Television; War Correspondents TWA WEELUMS, by VIOLET JACOB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm sairgint weelum henderson frae pairth Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy Erskine, Violet Subject(s): World War I TWAS YOU WHO RAISED YOUR BOY TO BE A SOLDIER, by GERALD G. LIVELY Poem Source First Line: O! Mothers of the world I hear you weeping Last Line: And mothers, you are paying for your sin Subject(s): World War I TWELVE MONTHS AFTER, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hullo! Here's my platoon, the lot I had last year Last Line: That's where they are to-day, knocked over to a man. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War TWELVE O'CLOCK, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At seventeen I've come to read a poem Last Line: And everything, forever, everything is changed. Subject(s): Einstein, Albert (1879-1955); Heisenberg, Werner Karl (1901-1976); Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; World War Ii; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb; Parenthood; Feminism; Second World War TWELVE SONGS: 11, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the heather the wet wind blows Last Line: I shall do nothing but look at the sky Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): Roman Wall Blue Subject(s): Great Britain - Roman Conquest; Hadrian's Wall (great Britain); War TWELVE SONGS: 12, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some say that love's a little boy Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love; War TWELVE SONGS: 12, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some say that love's a little boy Last Line: O tell me the truth about love Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love; War TWENTY MILLION, FROM LOST YOUTH: THE LAST WAR, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In nineteenfourteen Last Line: Than there are stars in heaven Subject(s): Social Protest; War TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, by KEVIN HART Poem Source First Line: When we arrive there Last Line: Across the fields of sadness, walking towards the horizon Subject(s): Human Rights; Modern Man; Twentieth Century; War TWENTY-ONE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: I, that am twenty-one--a man-- Last Line: I, that am twenty-one—a man! Variant Title(s): Twenty-one: The Youth Subject(s): Soldiers; War; World War I; Youth; First World War TWENTY-ONE: THE OLDER MAN, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Could I be twenty-one again- Last Line: Could I be twenty-one again! Subject(s): Longing; Soldiers; World War I; Youth; First World War TWENTY-TWO, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): World War I TWILIGHT, by ALFRED LICHTENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: A flabby boy is playing with a pond Last Line: A pram begins to yell and dogs to curse Subject(s): World War I TWILIGHT, by ERNST STADLER Poem Source First Line: Heavily on to the streets of the town fell the evening twilight Last Line: Over towers and roofs, the night rages Subject(s): World War I TWILIGHT ON SUMTER, by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still and dark along the sea Last Line: Hell shall rise in grim derision and make room! Subject(s): American Civil War; Fort Sumter, South Carolina; U.s. - History TWO APPEALS TO JOHN HARRALSON: 1, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: John harralson, john harralson, you are a wretched creature Last Line: That when a lady lifts her shift she's killing off a yankee Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History TWO APPEALS TO JOHN HARRALSON: 2. A YANKEE VIEW, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: John harralson, john harralson, we've read in song and story Last Line: No soldier could sniff it without having an erection Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History TWO ARMIES, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in the winter plain, two armies Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Soldiers; War TWO ARMIES, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in the winter plain, two armies Last Line: She regards death and time thrown up %the furious words and minerals which destroy Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Soldiers; War TWO ARMIES STAND ENROLLED BENEATH, by HENRY TIMROD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History TWO CHRISTMAS CARDS: 1, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The seas netted with ambushes Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War TWO CHRISTMAS CARDS: 1, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The seas netted with ambushes Last Line: Of the veils under veils of the vanished englands Subject(s): World War Ii TWO CHRISTMAS CARDS: 2, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For an hour on christmas eve Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War TWO CHRISTMAS CARDS: 2, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For an hour on christmas eve Last Line: And the ox knelt down at midnight Subject(s): World War Ii TWO EPITAPHS: 1. CHRISTOPHER OKIBO, by DAVID RUBADIRI Poem Source First Line: Heavensgate %and limits Last Line: Have departed Subject(s): Martyrs; Nigerian Civil War TWO FLAGS UPON WESTMINSTER TOWERS, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This day is holy' - so sweet spenser wrote Last Line: From these free flags -- if you can see for tears! Subject(s): World War I; First World War TWO FURROWS, by CHARLES HENRY WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The spring-time came, but not with mirth Alternate Author Name(s): Paul, John Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History TWO FUSILIERS, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And have we done with war at last? / well, we've been lucky devils both Last Line: In dead men breath. Subject(s): World War I; First World War TWO HISTORIES, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Two histories there are in england's isle Last Line: Forbidding civil war to imp its wings. Subject(s): Butterfield, Herbert (1900-1979); Great Britain - Civil War; History; English Civil War; Historians TWO HUNDRED YEARS AFTER, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trudging by corbie ridge one winter's night Last Line: Who came to fight in france and got their fill.' Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War TWO IMPRESSIONS, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The colorless morning glides upward Last Line: Brushed amorously backward! Subject(s): World War I; First World War TWO JULYS, by CHARLES JOHN BEECH MASEFIELD Poem Source First Line: I was so vague in 1914 Subject(s): July; Soldiers; World War I TWO LESSONS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I hate;-- Last Line: My love! Subject(s): Hate; Love; War TWO PERSON; ZERO-SUM, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The serious boy playing himself at chess Subject(s): War TWO PICTURES (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: And the dewy plain Subject(s): World War I TWO POEMS FROM THE WAR: 1, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, not the loss of the accomplished thing! Last Line: All-possible irradiance of dawn. Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): World War I; First World War TWO POEMS FROM THE WAR: 2, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like moon-dark, like brown water you escape Last Line: All beauty has become your dwelling place. Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): World War I; First World War TWO SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF BLONDEL, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twere no hard task, perchance, to win Last Line: And blondel were royal himself, if he knew it! Subject(s): American Civil War; Blondel De Nesle; United States - History TWO SONGS OF PEACE: 2, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love was not in the war Last Line: Whose borders we shall never cross Subject(s): Peace; War; Middle Age TWO SONGS: 1, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've heard them lilting at loom and belting Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): World War I; First World War TWO SONGS: 1, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've heard them lilting at loom and belting Last Line: The flowers of the town are all turned away Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): World War I TWO TRENCH POEMS: 1 THE STORM NIGHT, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: Peal after peal of splitting thunder rolls Last Line: Shell-fodder yea - but spare our human souls %from fury-shaken skies! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I TWO TRENCH POEMS: 2 RESURRECTION, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: Five million men are dead. How can the worth Last Line: Even the poppy on the parapet %shall blossom as before when summer blows again Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I TWO VIEWPOINTS, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Source First Line: He was a french boy scout - a little lad Subject(s): World War I TWO VOICES, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's something in the air, he said Last Line: "and still ""we're going south, man,"" deadly near." Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War TWO VOICES, by DAVID WESCOTT BROWN Poem Source First Line: The roads are all torn,' 'but the sun's in the sky,' Last Line: The bullets are near us;' 'not nearer than god' Subject(s): World War I TWO: 10, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My sweet old etcetera Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Variant Title(s): Two Xi Subject(s): War TWO: 10, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My sweet old etcetera Last Line: Eyes knees and of your etcetera Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Variant Title(s): Two X Subject(s): War TWO: 3, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Next to of course god america I Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Americans; Freedom; Hypocrisy; Patriotism; Politics & Government; United States; World War I; Liberty; America; First World War TWO: 3, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Next to of course god america I Last Line: He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Americans; Freedom; Hypocrisy; Patriotism; Politics; United States; World War I TYRONE (2), by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spirit of the buffalo soldiers Last Line: We turning each other on %in this damn war Subject(s): Military; Soldiers; War TYWATER, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death of sir nihil, book the nth Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Violence; World War Ii; Theology; Second World War TYWATER, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death of sir nihil, book the nth Last Line: And what to say of him, god knows %such violence. And such repose Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Violence; World War Ii U-24 ANCHORS OFF NEW ORLEANS: 1938, by TURNER CASSITY Poem Source First Line: The only major city, one would hope Last Line: For symbolism there will be torpedo Variant Title(s): U-24 Anchors Off New Orleans (1938 Subject(s): New Orleans; Submarines; World War Ii U. S. SAILOR WITH THE JAPANESE SKULL, by WINFIELD TOWNLEY SCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bald-bare, bone-bare, and ivory yellow: skull Last Line: Sailor boy who thinks of home, voyages laden, will %not say, 'alas! I did not know him at all' Subject(s): Skulls; World War Ii UCCELLO ON THE HEATH, by GEOFFREY GRIGSON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Watch, please, this painted ballet of the fed Subject(s): War 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 ULTIMA RATIO REAGAN, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The reason we do not learn from history is Last Line: And history will not blame us if once again %the light at the end of the tunnel is the train Subject(s): History; Reagan, Ronald Wilson (b. 1911); Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War ULTIMA RATIO REGUM, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The guns spell money's ultimate reason Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War ULTIMA RATIO REGUM, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The guns spell money's ultimate reason Last Line: On the death of one so young, and so silly %lying under the olive trees, o world, o death? Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): World War Ii ULTIMATE HELL, by FRANKLIN HENRY GIDDINGS Poem Source First Line: Satan? I am Subject(s): World War I UMOJA: EACH ONE OF US COUNTS, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One went the way of water Last Line: We walk on water, we write on air Subject(s): Politics & Government; War UMOJA: EACH ONE OF US COUNTS, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One went the way of water Last Line: Remember! %their whispers fill the arena Subject(s): Politics; War UN BEL DI VEDREMO, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hello nbc, this is london speaking' Subject(s): Italy; War; World War I; World War Ii; Italians; First World War; Second World War UN BEL DI VEDREMO, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hello nbc, this is london speaking' Last Line: The second as evil farce' Subject(s): Italy; War; World War I; World War Ii 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 UNCLE DOESN'T SLEEP TONIGHT, by NGUYEN DUC THAI Poem Source First Line: The soldier wakes. %it's very, very late Last Line: For one simple reason: %uncle is ho chi minh Subject(s): Indochinese War, 1946-1954 UNCONQUERED HOPE, by GILBERT OLIVER THOMAS Poem Source First Line: From sea to sea, from shore to shore Subject(s): World War I UNDER THE CLIFF, by GEOFFREY GRIGSON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: This is where the scarlet lords-and-ladies Subject(s): War UNDER THE CLOUD AND THROUGH THE SEA, by ADELINE DUTTON (TRAIN) WHITNEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History UNDER THE SHADE OF THE TREES [MAY 10, 1863], by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What are the thoughts that are stirring his breast? Last Line: Under the shade of the trees! Subject(s): American Civil War; Chancellorsville, Battle Of (1863); Jackson, Thomas (stonewall) (1824-1863); United States - History; War UNDER WHICH KING...?, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fight I loved-the good old fight Last Line: With blood alike on both their hands. Subject(s): War UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 33. THE COUNTRY OF THE CAMISARDS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We travelled in the print of olden wars Last Line: Along the battle-field! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Soldiers; War UNEMPLOYED SOLDIER, by JOHN E. NORDQUIST Poem Source First Line: Now the great world war is over and the fighting is all done Last Line: Then there will be jobs for us. %(chorus) Subject(s): World War I UNFURLING OF THE FLAG, by CLARA ENDICOTT SEARS Poem Source First Line: There's a streak across the sky line Subject(s): Flags - United States; Patriotism; World War I UNION AND LIBERTY, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flag of the heroes who left us their glory Last Line: Union and liberty! One evermore! Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History UNKNOWN, by ARTHUR CHAPMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have come back to my mother's land Last Line: That I have returned unknown? Subject(s): Soldiers; Unknown Soldier; War UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the new city of marble andd bright stone Subject(s): War UNKNOWN SOLDIER ARMISTICE DAY AT ARLINGTON, by GRANTLAND RICE Poem Source First Line: The wind today is full of ghosts ... Subject(s): Arlington National Cemetery; Unknown Soldier; World War I UNKNOWN WARRIOR, by ELIZABETH DARYUSH Poem Source First Line: Not that broad path chose he, which whoso wills Last Line: Yea, who dares thus die, haply he may see, %suddenly, unsought immortality Subject(s): Women; World War I UNKNOWN WARRIOR SPEAKS, by MARGERY SMITH Poem Source First Line: You who softly wane into a shadow Subject(s): Soldiers; Unknown Soldier; World War Ii UNMENTIONED IN DISPATCHES, by HELEN HESTER COLVILL Poem Source First Line: The lowliest combatants are we Subject(s): World War I UNREAL PRECISION OF THE HOUSES AT FIRST LIGHT, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Memory; Women; Fathers; War UNRHYMED PEACE SONNET, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who are the good guys now? Who are the bad? Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Politics & Government; War UNRHYMED PEACE SONNET, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who are the good guys now? Who are the bad? Last Line: For pete's sake, send an angel! Burn a bush! Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Politics; War UNSEEN FIRE, by RALPH NIXON CURREY Poem Source First Line: This is a damned inhuman sort of war Last Line: Inhumanly from nearly five miles height %meets our bouquet of death - and turns sharp right Subject(s): World War Ii UNSER GOTT, by KARLE WILSON BAKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They held a great prayer-service in berlin Last Line: And there shall fall a million murdered men! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Charlotte Subject(s): World War I UNTITLED, by JESUS AGUADO Poem Source First Line: Like the one who kills then skins a child Last Line: Puzzle the child back together again. %vikram babu asks Subject(s): Politics; War UNTITLED, by PETER LEVITT Poem Source First Line: Fill the air with poems Last Line: Can't fall through Subject(s): Politics; War UNTITLED, by ALEXANDRA INDIRA SANYAL Poem Source First Line: Snow so fluffy and soft Last Line: So snow come today Subject(s): Politics; War UNTITLED, by DON STANLEY Poem Source First Line: Weep not, oh world, for these, your valiant slain Last Line: Weep, weep, oh world...Oh weep for these Subject(s): Politics; War UNTITLED AMHERST SPECTER, by PETER GIZZI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A sound of open ground having been taken Subject(s): War UNTO THE END, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Heroic words, like a trumpet's blast Last Line: Endure unto the end. Subject(s): Nicholas Ii, Czar Of Russia (1868-1918); Russia; Soldiers; World War I; Soviet Union; Russians; First World War UNVEILING THE MONUMENT, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The veil remove. Now let the curtain rise Last Line: And guard his own in future rolling years. Subject(s): Life; Monuments; Peace; War UNWED SOLDIER, by ETHEL A. FRAME Poem Text First Line: Posterity for him is unsought naught Last Line: Within him dead his unborn children lie. Subject(s): Death; Mankind; War; Dead, The; Human Race UPON DRINKING IN A BOWL, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Vulcan contrive me such a cup Last Line: And then to love again. Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Variant Title(s): Upon His Drinking A Bowl Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drinks & Drinking; Dutch War, Third (1672-1674); Maastricht, Netherlands; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Wine UPON THE HILL BEFORE CENTREVILLE, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll tell you what I heard that day Last Line: Strike for the crown of victory! Subject(s): American Civil War; Bull Run, Battles Of; United States - History; Manassas, Batlle Of UPON THE WINDS OF SPRING, by MARY CRAIG SINCLAIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I feel the terror in the world tonight Last Line: Pain stabs my heart and binds the wound with fear! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinclair, Upton, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Social Protest; Soldiers; Spring; World War I; Dead, The; First World War USE ME, ENGLAND, by ELIZABETH BRIDGES Poem Source Subject(s): World War I V-DAY, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Savor the hour as it comes. Preserve it in amber Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War V-DAY, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Savor the hour as it comes. Preserve it in amber Last Line: With a promise kept, with the dangers of battle ended %and the fearful perils of peace not yet begun Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): World War Ii V-J DAY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the tallest day in time the dead came back Last Line: Wheels jammed and flaming on a metal sea Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War V-J DAY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the tallest day in time the dead came back Last Line: On the tallest day in time we saw them coming %wheels jammed and flaming on a metal sea Subject(s): World War Ii V-LETTER, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love you first because your face is fair Variant Title(s): Love Letter (by V-mail From Australia) Subject(s): Love; War V-LETTER, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love you first because your face is fair Last Line: Whether I live or fail Variant Title(s): Love Letter (by V-mail From Australia Subject(s): Love; War V-LETTER TO KARL SHAPIRO IN AUSTRALIA, by SELDEN RODMAN Poem Source Poem Explanation First Line: Karl, from your beachhead on that hollow island Subject(s): War V.A.D. SCULLERY-MAID'S SONG, by M. WINIFRED WEDGWOOD Poem Source First Line: Washing up the dishes Last Line: Which everybody hates Subject(s): Women; World War I V.A.D.', by MARY ADAIR-MACDONALD Poem Source First Line: We in the busy ward Subject(s): World War I VACANT CHAIR, by GEORGE FREDERICK ROOT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We shall meet, but we shall miss him Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History VALE FROM CARTHAGE (SPRING, 1944), by PETER VIERECK Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I, now at carthage. He, shot dead at rome Last Line: Roman, you'll see your forum square no more %what's left but this to say of any war? Subject(s): World War Ii VALE OF SHADOWS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is a vale in the flemish land Subject(s): World War I VALEDICTORY; THE SCHOLAR TO THE ASHES OF HIS LIBRARY, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Gone the books of many names Last Line: Be the man that they should make. Subject(s): Death; Fire; Librarians & Libraries; World War Ii; Dead, The; Library; Librarians; Second World War VALLEY OF THE SHADOW, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God, I am travelling out to death's sea Last Line: Peace o'er the valleys and cold hills for ever! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Religion; World War I - Casualties; Theology VALMONDOIS: FROM A SUITE FOR FRANCE, by CLARK MILLS Poem Source First Line: After the coffee and the cognac Last Line: This was the place the bombers in formation choose Subject(s): World War Ii VALSE DE FLEURS, by DENIS HUDSON Poem Source First Line: The house is in disorder Last Line: Fingering sadly the broken semblance of a violin Subject(s): World War Ii VANDAL'S DEATH, by GABRIEL-TRISTAN FRANCONI Poem Source First Line: A shell has burst a t the abandoned altar Last Line: But the steeple cock still proudly crows above Subject(s): World War I VAPOR TRAIL REFLECTED IN THE FROG POND, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old watch: their Last Line: Seeing the drifting sun that gives us our lives. Subject(s): Social Problems; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War VAPOR TRAILS, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twin streaks twice higher than cumulus Last Line: —spotting that design. Subject(s): Air Force - United States; Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb VENI, SANCTE SPIRITUS!, by JEAN-PIERRE CALLOC'H Poem Source First Line: Now in the one thousand nine hundred and Last Line: New day the earth shall not remember its sorrow Subject(s): World War I VERDUN, by EDEN PHILLPOTTS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three hundred thousand men, but not enough Last Line: Thou star upon the crown of liberty! Subject(s): Verdun, Battle Of (1916); World War I; First World War VERGISSMEINNICHT, by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Three weeks gone and the combatants gone Variant Title(s): Elegy For An 88 Gunner Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War VERGISSMEINNICHT, by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three weeks gone and the combatants gone Last Line: Has done the lover mortal hurt Variant Title(s): Elegy For An 88 Gunne Subject(s): World War Ii VERMONT WILL DO HER PART, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who would be free himself must strike Last Line: Will do her glorious part. Subject(s): Freedom; Vermont; World War I; Liberty; First World War VERSES -FOR AN UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These verses I have made for you Last Line: This pair of socks-my heart-warm gift! Subject(s): World War I VERSES INSCRIBED TO THE OFFICERS OF THE 35TH REGIMENT, by FRANCIS HOPKINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now warmer suns, once more bid nature smile Last Line: Back to our wishing arms a glorious conqueror come Subject(s): French And Indian Wars; Heroism; Louisburg, Nova Scotia; Military; Tyranny And Tyrants; War VERSES TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUCHESS OF YORK, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Madam, when for our sakes your hero you resigned Last Line: And round him the pleas'd audience clap their wings. Subject(s): Great Britain - Dutch War (1664-1667); Hyde, Anne. Duchess Of York (1637-1671); James Ii, King Of Scotland (1430-1460) VERTICAL OR HOW HALVED GOURDS GLAZED WITH RAIN WATER REFLECT ATOMIC..., by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's one of those blistering desert days Subject(s): Nuclear War; Soldiers; War; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb VET, by LINCOLN KIRSTEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A tired new trooper scans the beach Last Line: Tomorrow he'll be down the line %waiting one more chance to die Subject(s): World War Ii VETERAN, by ANDREW MOTION Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Across the field, the wood Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944); Veterans; World War Ii; Normandy (france), Invasion Of; Second World War VETERAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Where are my comrades who joined in the first Subject(s): World War I VETERANS DAY, by TWYLA HANSEN Poem Source First Line: By the time I came along the war was legend Last Line: In the empty maneuvers of his unspoken grief Subject(s): Politics; War VICARIOUS ATONEMENT, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is an old and very cruel god Last Line: This bitter cup from us. Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Military; Mythology; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; Dead, The VICHY, by DUDLEY G. DAVIES Poem Source First Line: These men lost heart and hope, let faith grow cold Last Line: Then that false brood shall creep and crawl from sight, %like jackals at the first return of light Subject(s): France; World War Ii VICKSBURG, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For sixty days and upwards Last Line: To the music in their hearts. Variant Title(s): The Bombardment Of Vicksburg Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Vicksburg Campaign (1862-63); Declaration Day VICTOR GALBRAITH, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the walls of monterey Last Line: "of victor galbraith!" Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Galbraith, Victor; Military Justice; Monterey, Mexico; United States - Mexican War (1846-1848); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Courts Martial VICTOR JOFFRE!, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: The summer's night was falling o'er the / marne Last Line: In chaos. There calm and stern, stood—victor joffre. Subject(s): Anxiety; Blood; Death; Fights; Patriotism; Soldiers; War; Dead, The VICTORIA REGINA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: The earth is full of tears. 'the queen is dead!' Last Line: Received into the presence of the king. Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); War; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines VICTORIOUS MARCH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In the early part of may Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History VICTORY, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: You lie on your back on my orange couch and I lift Last Line: In perfect formation through screams of rapture Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) VICTORY, by MARION PATTON WALDRON Poem Source First Line: Many and many are weeping for their lovers Last Line: While I-I have my lover back again! Subject(s): World War I VICTORY AND FAILURE, by ALAN MACKINTOSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not for the day of victory Last Line: To die along with you! Alternate Author Name(s): Mackintosh, Ewart Alan Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Failure; Honor; Soldiers; Victory; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War 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 GARDENS, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We planted our garden small Last Line: Those witnesses and quiet conquerors Subject(s): Politics; War VICTORY MUST BE A SUMPREMELY GLORIOUS EXPERIENCE SAID A WOMAN TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 2:22 am too hot to sleep Last Line: A defeat he replied Subject(s): War; Hate; Fear; Defeat; Victory; Wellington, Duke Of VICTORY STUFF, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What d'ye think, lad, what d'ye think Last Line: Me that's wheeled in a chair. Subject(s): Loss; Paris, France; Physical Disabilities; Survival; Victory; War; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples VICTORY WITHOUT PEACE, by CLEMENT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The slaughter-bugles screamed once more Last Line: Which leaves no peace on earth—but death. Subject(s): Death; Peace; Victory; War; Dead, The VICTORY!, by S. J. DUNCAN-CLARK Poem Source First Line: Out of the night it leaped the seas Subject(s): World War I VICTRIX, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How was it then with england? Last Line: And all is well with england. Subject(s): England; Patriotism; Victory; War; English VIENNA AND 'IN MEMORIAM', by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Roused by the war-note, in review I passed Last Line: And leaves her calm, though weeping silently! Subject(s): Austria; Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Prussian-austrian War (1866) VIETNAM, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was just back Subject(s): United States; War; America VIETNAM, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was just back Last Line: & everybody %is just killing %& killing %like crazy Subject(s): United States; War VIEW FROM CORTONA, by RICHARD HUGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Land breaks yellow south below, pale squares Last Line: Fat and silly from behind, curving out of sight %into a past weak as the future of stone Subject(s): World War Ii VIEW-POINTS, by IRA SOUTH Poem Source First Line: All polished brass and varnished steel Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I VIKING SHIP; BYGDO, NORWAY, by NORREYS JEPHSON O'CONOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our boat thrusts steadily through the blue water Last Line: And we at last about to be counfounded Subject(s): Bygdo, Norway; World War Ii VIKINGS, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Overran my boyhood dreams: fierce Last Line: Into the cruel winter of third grade Subject(s): Heroism; Vikings; War VILLAFRANCA DE CORDOBA, by PEDRO GARFIAS Poem Source First Line: Siesta in andalusia! Last Line: The militiamen have come! Subject(s): Freedom; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) VILLAGE: 1. LITTLE SISTER, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: The smoke of the burning thatch arches Last Line: The road is vacant; you do not come Subject(s): War VILLAGE: 2. GRANDFATHER, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: Splinters litter the road and a wall Last Line: Stand like a feathered lancer at his post Subject(s): War VILLAGE: 4. JUAN, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: You run towards the village; the green earth Last Line: Drawn from the arteries of fathers Subject(s): War VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 4: SATIRE: 3, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Vvhat boots it pontice, tho thou could'st discourse Last Line: More than his life, or lands, or golden line. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Life; Nature; War; Heritage; Heredity VIRGINIA - THE WEST, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The noble sire fallen on evil days Last Line: For you provided me washington -- and now these also. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Virginia (state); Confederacy VIRGINIA CAPTA, by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unconquer'd captive! - close thine eye Last Line: Thy chains, -- virginia victrix still! Subject(s): American Civil War; Richmond Campaign (1864); U.s. - History VIRGINIA'S DEAD, by CORNELIA J. M. JORDAN Poem Text First Line: Proud mother of a race that reared Last Line: There sleep virginia's dead. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Virginia (state); Confederacy VISIBILITY ZERO, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day with mist against the hurdling wind Last Line: We need not waken what we need not see Subject(s): Army Life; World War Ii; Drills & Minor Tactics; Second World War VISIBILITY ZERO, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day with mist against the hurdling wind Last Line: We need not waken and we need not see Subject(s): Army Life; World War Ii VISION, by DOROTHY PAUL Poem Source First Line: Above the broken walls the apple boughs Subject(s): World War I VISION, by FRANK SIDGWICK Poem Source First Line: Is it because that lad is dead Subject(s): World War I VISION OF HIROSHIMA, by OSCAR HAHN Poem Source First Line: Launched over the triple city a unique projectile Last Line: And what shall we do with all the ashes? Subject(s): Death; Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War VISION OF THE CIVIL WAR, by BYRON FORCEYTHE WILLSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I see the champion sword-strokes flash Last Line: Till the dead nation rise transformed by truth to triumph over all!' Alternate Author Name(s): Willson, Forceythe Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History VISION OF WAR, by LINCOLN COLCORD Poem Source First Line: I went out into the night of quiet stars Subject(s): World War I VISION OF WAR: 14, by LINCOLN COLCORD Poem Source First Line: Tell me, was belgium heroically true in times of peace? Last Line: Our country calls! Our country, and our king! Subject(s): World War I VISION OF WAR: 15, by LINCOLN COLCORD Poem Source First Line: Ah, england, england, england! Last Line: But no more talk of wrong of conquest, thou born arch-conqueror!) Subject(s): World War I VISIONS OF ITALY (AFTER CAPORETTO), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a black and baneful day Last Line: As lover to his bride. Subject(s): Caporetto, Battle Of (1917); Italy; World War I; Italians; First World War VISIT TO GETTYSBURG, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will %touch stone Last Line: And touch stone %for this touchstone Subject(s): American Civil War; Blood; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); U.s. - History; War VISITING THE WALL, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sweet gum %hover in the granite Last Line: A child so hopefully, %so violently born Subject(s): Landmarks; Memory; War; Washington, D.c. VITAI LAMPADA, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a breathless hush in the close tonight Last Line: "play up! Play up! And play the game!" Variant Title(s): The Torch Of Life;play The Game Subject(s): Cricket (game); England; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Patriotism; Sports; War; English; British Empire; England - Empire VIVE LA FRANCE!, by CHARLOTTE HOLMES CRAWFORD Poem Text First Line: Franceline rose in the dawning gray Last Line: "vive la france!" Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I - France VJ-DAY, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: Some of them are still alive out there Last Line: Did you bring any whiskey? Subject(s): War VLAMERTINGHE: PASSING THE CHATEAU, JULY 1917, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And all her silken flanks with garlands drest Last Line: Is scarcely right; this red should have been much duller. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Belgium; World War I; First World War VOICE OF RACHEL WEEPING, by BEATRICE CREGAN Poem Source First Line: Beloved, little beloved, where shall I find. Subject(s): World War I VOICE OF THE UNKNOWN DEAD, by HERBERT STOTESBURY Poem Text First Line: Oh, my people! Do ye wonder Last Line: Be the symbols of his peace. Subject(s): Death; Military; Peace; Soldiers; Unknown Soldier; War; Dead, The VOICES, by ARUNA NAIR Poem Source First Line: The blank-solemn newsreader fades Last Line: That voice to paper that vote to blood Subject(s): Politics; War VOICES OF HELLAS, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time, that has crumbled to impotent nothingness Last Line: Knowing that beside her stand the immortals Subject(s): World War Ii VOICES OF THE GUNS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Within a green and shadowy wood Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History VOLLEYBALL, MANZANAR, SIERRAS, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Here's a still life set in apple orchards on the plains of uz Last Line: The earth to overlap a reeling and burgeoned moon Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities VOLUNTARY MUTILATION, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: Rather than have to serve %in the emperor's armies Last Line: That what they saw was the blood %of soldiers Subject(s): Blood; Soldiers; War Injuries VOLUNTEER, by HELEN PARRY EDEN Poem Source First Line: He had no heart for war, its ways and means Last Line: Should look 'you did not shield us!' as they wended across his window when the war was ended Subject(s): Women; World War I VOW, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will haunt these states Last Line: Over puerto rican agony lawyers' screams in slums Subject(s): United States; War VOYAGE, by S. ABEL Poem Source First Line: This, then, is parting - dry-eyed loneliness Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii VOYAGE OF THE GOOD SHIP UNION, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis midnight: through my troubled dream Last Line: One nation, evermore! Subject(s): American Civil War; Classmates; United States - History; Schoolmates W (VIVA): 30, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sing of olaf glad and big Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Social Protest; World War I; First World War W (VIVA): 30, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sing of olaf glad and big Last Line: More brave than me:more blond than you Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Social Protest; World War I W' BEACH, SELS., by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: The isle of imbros, set in turquoise blue Last Line: Chanting wild songs of how eternal fate %withstood that fierce invasion long ago Subject(s): Gallipoli Campaign (1915); Soldiers' Writings; World War I WAGE-SLAVES TO WAR-MAKERS, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY Poem Text First Line: We have no land for which to fight Last Line: It will be you, it will be you! Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Russian Revolution; Social Protest; War; Work; Workers WAHSAH, by JOSEPH BRUCHAC Poem Text First Line: Then old man spoke to the people Last Line: We must answer: no!!!! Variant Title(s): Wahsah Zeh (war Dance) - As Long As The Grass Subject(s): Nuclear War; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb WAIT FOR THE WAGON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A hundred thousand northmen Last Line: "if red-tape so wills it, / wait till judgment-day" Subject(s): American Civil War;u.s. - History WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS, by WILLIS BARNSTONE Poem Source First Line: The emperor has no brains. His ministers, mentors Last Line: There is a terrible melancholy in our land Subject(s): Politics; War WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS, by CONSTANTINE P. CAVAFY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: What are we waiting for, gathered in the market-place [or, assembled in forum]? Alternate Author Name(s): Kavafis, Konstantinos; Cavafy, C. P. Subject(s): Civilization; War WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS, by CONSTANTINE P. CAVAFY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What are we waiting for, gathered in the market-place [or, assembled in forum]? Last Line: They were, those people, a kind of solution Alternate Author Name(s): Kavafis, Konstantinos; Cavafy, C. P. Subject(s): Civilization; War WAITING MY TURN IN THE PIT, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: After we make love, I get my life back Last Line: Out my turn in the pit Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) WAKE ISLAND, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Proof of america! A fire on the sea, Subject(s): Wake Island; World War Ii; Second World War WAKING, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hasten toward immense and earthly joy, the eyelids blinking as they dance Last Line: Await you on the mineral hill of the incandescence of living Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism; World War Ii WALKING AT NIGHT, by HENRY TREECE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Thus I would walk abroad when gentle night Subject(s): War WALKING AT WHITSUN, by DAVID GASCOYNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then let the cloth across my back grow warm Last Line: How sharply their invading steel must shine Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii WALKING SONG, by IVOR GURNEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The miles go sliding by Last Line: Scattering the forward dust %from dawn to late of eve Subject(s): World War I WALKING TO WESTMINSTER, by JOHN+(3) HALL Poem Source First Line: In autumn london's aloud with wind, and I Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii WALKING WOUNDED, by VERNON SCANNELL Poem Source First Line: A mammoth morning moved grey flanks and groaned Subject(s): War WALLS DO NOT FALL: 1, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An incident here and there Last Line: We passed the flame: we wonder %what saved us? What for? Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; War WALT, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Going up for the assault that morning Last Line: Hugger-mugger anyhow %inside my shirt Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Old Age; Sea Voyages; World War I WALT WHITMAN IN THE CIVIL WAR HOSPITALS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prescient, my hands soothing Last Line: To death which I have praised Subject(s): American Civil War; Hospitals; Poetry & Poets; United States - History; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WALT WHITMAN IN THE CIVIL WAR HOSPITALS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prescient, my hands soothing Last Line: To death which I have praised Subject(s): American Civil War; Hospitals; Poetry And Poets; U.s. - History; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WALTZ POEM OF THOSE IN LOVE AND INSEPARABLY FOREVER, by MIGUEL HERNANDEZ Poem Source First Line: They never left Last Line: But they each have each other's arms forever Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) WANTED - A MAN, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back from the trebly crimsoned field Last Line: "abraham lincoln, give us a man!" Subject(s): American Civil War; Mcclellan, George Brinton (1826-1885); Men; U.s. - History WAR, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Main artery of fighting Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): War WAR, by WARREN ARIAIL Poem Text First Line: We faced each other, he and I Last Line: I wear -- my souvenir of war. Subject(s): World War I; First World War WAR, by ANDRE BRETON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watch the beast as it licks itself Last Line: The beast licks its sex I said nothing Subject(s): World War I; First World War WAR, by ANDRE BRETON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watch the beast as it licks itself Last Line: The beast licks its sex I've said nothing Subject(s): World War I WAR, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fools, fools, fools Last Line: Which was your enemy. Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Fools; War; Idiots WAR, by TOM CHANDLER Poem Source First Line: The sand and crumbled rock Last Line: Fingers at the whole idea Subject(s): Politics; War WAR, by GRACE ELLERY CHANNING-STETSON Poem Text First Line: The great republic goes to war Last Line: The great republic comes from war! Subject(s): War WAR, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Source First Line: The serpent-horror writhing in her hair Subject(s): World War I WAR, by REBA CRAWFORD-HAYES Poem Source First Line: Wet bodies of those who have fallen Last Line: The children, crying mommy, mommy! Subject(s): Politics; War WAR, by JOCK CURLE Poem Source First Line: Because the world is falling and there comes no answer Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii WAR, by PATRIC DICKINSON Poem Source First Line: Cold are the stones Last Line: Helen turns in bed Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii WAR, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The victories of mind Last Line: The slayer liveth still Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer Subject(s): War WAR, by EDWIN M. ERICKSON Poem Text First Line: Even as I laugh now, so you will laugh then Last Line: And we forget the wound that crawls, and burns, and festers in the sun. Subject(s): War WAR, by EDITH MEDBERY FITCH Poem Text First Line: Relentless mars, indulging insane wrath Last Line: Unleashed the lusts of men, and called it—war! Subject(s): Child Molesting; Cruelty; Death; Insanity; War; Women Immigrants - United States; Child Abuse; Dead, The; Madness; Mental Illness WAR, by MARY ELIZABETH FULLERTON Poem Source First Line: The vast occasion of our time Subject(s): War WAR, by MIGUEL HERNANDEZ Poem Source First Line: Old age in the towns Last Line: In the coffins Subject(s): Men; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); War WAR, by GEORG HEYM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Risen is the sleeper from the vaulted past Last Line: Night itself dries up beneath his farflung fire; %sodom has collapsed upon its funeral pyre Subject(s): War WAR, by MAX JACOB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At night the suburban boulevards are full of snow Last Line: Dim streetlamps cast the light of my death in the snow Subject(s): World War Ii WAR, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There set out, slowly, for a different world Last Line: You can't break eggs without making an omelette %that's what they tell the eggs Subject(s): World War Ii WAR, by C HIEF JOSEPH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hear me, my warriors; my heart is sick and sad Last Line: From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever! Subject(s): Native Americans - Wars; War WAR, by JOSEPH LANGLAND Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When my young brother was killed Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War WAR, by JOSEPH LANGLAND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When my young brother was killed Last Line: And let the murmuring waters %wash over their blood-hot feet with a springing crown %of tears Subject(s): World War Ii WAR, by CARL N. LISCHKA Poem Text First Line: As a hurricane bellowing thunder Last Line: For the dawn of thy smile—and peace! Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; War - Casualties (statistics, Etc.); Dead, The WAR, by ETHEL GODFREY LOUD Poem Text First Line: We changed our route to visit it again Last Line: That's war! Subject(s): Guests; Seashore; War; Visiting; Beach; Coast; Shore WAR, by MARY WHITE OVINGTON Poem Source First Line: Said the lord of hosts Last Line: Let it go on, %he said Subject(s): World War I WAR, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These are not the hours Last Line: Not worth it! -- of one torn and martyred one! Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Hope; Love; Pain; Tears; War; Optimism; Suffering; Misery WAR, by ELOISE ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: I laugh to see them pray Last Line: There was no milk for him. Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; War; Dead, The WAR, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Did the rose-bush or the oak Last Line: Was most amazing commonsense! Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): War WAR, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: First, ice. Then pine woods Last Line: A bucket in the desert? Like throwing snow to the hens Subject(s): War WAR, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ambition, power, and avarice, now have hurled Last Line: Which tears from earth peace, innocence and love. Subject(s): War WAR, by EDNA E. SMITH Poem Text First Line: You say I'm hell turned loose on earth Last Line: I serve you well; you curse my name. Subject(s): War WAR, by GEORGE STERLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night was on the world, and in my sleep Last Line: Men rose and made a second sacrifice. Subject(s): Dreams; Military; War; Nightmares WAR, by ARTHUR JOHN ARBUTHNOTT STRINGER Poem Text First Line: From hill to hill he harried me Last Line: Who'd wronged not mine nor me! Alternate Author Name(s): Arbuthnott, John Subject(s): Injustice; Murder; Social Protest; Soldiers; War WAR, by WILLIAM LIGHTFOOT VISSCHER Poem Source First Line: By blazing homes, through forests torn Subject(s): World War I WAR, by ANDREI VOZNESENSKY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With the open eyes of their dead fathers Last Line: Children who, wide-eyed, become %periscopes of the buried dead Alternate Author Name(s): Voznesenskii, Andrei Subject(s): War WAR, by EDGAR WALLACE Poem Source First Line: A tent that is pitched at the base Subject(s): War WAR, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I keep rereading an article I found recently about how Last Line: These fearful burdens to be borne, complicity, contri %tion, grief Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Politics; War WAR, by REX WILLS Poem Text First Line: Out in the bleak, cold forests of the north Last Line: Of god and man, of righteousness and reason. Subject(s): Soldiers; War Injuries; World War I; First World War WAR, by DONALD BYRON WILSON Poem Text First Line: Screaming shells, whining lead Last Line: More is lost than can ever be won. Subject(s): Death; Trumpets; War; Dead, The WAR (ON THE GERMAN INVASION OF BELGIUM), by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: They who take the sword Last Line: With the sword they shall be slain. Subject(s): Fights; Swords; Victory; World War I - Belgium WAR AFTER WAR, by JOHN S. MBITI Poem Source First Line: We are tired of waiting for another war Last Line: And the war trumpet is blown Subject(s): War WAR AND HELL, by ERNEST HOWARD CROSBY Poem Text First Line: The old, old dream of empire - the dream of alexander and caesar ... Last Line: Away with your brutal disorder, and clear the field for the tournament of man. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Hell; Nations; Peace; War WAR AND PEACE, 1808, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, bright futurity, whose prospect beams Last Line: One hallowed zone -- to circle all mankind. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Corunna, Spain; Moore, Sir John (1761-1809); Peace; War WAR AND REVOLUTION, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I raise my head; the day goes out Last Line: Stab, stab the world and watch it die Subject(s): Revolutions; War WAR AUTOBIOGRAPHY; WRITTEN IN ILLNESS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven is clouded, mists of rain Last Line: That twice has passed before my sight. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War WAR BABY, by WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE Poem Source First Line: When I was born Last Line: The wolf, he finds only mountains %of spectacles, hair, and winter coats Subject(s): World War Ii WAR BALLAD, by ANDREI VOZNESENSKY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The piano has crawled into the quarry. Hauled Last Line: I'll be a song for russia, I'll be %an etude, warmth and bread for everybody Alternate Author Name(s): Voznesenskii, Andrei Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos; Religion; War WAR BETWEEN TWO RACES OF ANTS, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was - a war between two races of ants Last Line: The battle which I witnessed %took place in the presidency of polk Subject(s): Polk, James Knox (1795-1849); Social Protest; U.s. - Mexican War (1846-1848) WAR BIRD SPEAKS, by WANDA ORTON Poem Text First Line: Hawk of death, I spill a rain of hell Last Line: My blood would water earth and be its kin. Subject(s): War WAR BLINDED, by DOUGLAS DUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For more than sixty years he has been blind Last Line: Remembering that day when his right hand %gripped on the shoulder of the man in front Subject(s): War WAR BREAKS OUT AGAIN, by PENELOPE WILKINSON AUSTIN Poem Source First Line: All this way up the mountain and after all Last Line: The color of steel - I may as well believe Subject(s): Politics; War WAR CANARY, by ETHEL A. FRAME Poem Text First Line: Caged fragileness of golden song Last Line: Your muted song has told of the approach of yellow mist. Subject(s): Birds; Death; War; Dead, The WAR CLOUD, by HARRY WATNIK Poem Source First Line: Ten cackled, %fear overtook futures fuming Last Line: To own our sacred longings Subject(s): War WAR COMMUNIQUE, by MAHDY Y. KHAIYAT Poem Source First Line: The cruise missile Last Line: There was minimal %collateral damage Subject(s): Missiles; War WAR CORRESPONDENTS, by KARL KRAUS Poem Source First Line: What? There's a war? We learn it from the likes Subject(s): War Correspondents WAR DEAD, by PATRICK JOHN MCALISTER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Always the dead seem unsuccessful Last Line: Of those in whom we might have been justified. Subject(s): Death; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; Dead, The WAR DEAD, by HELEN BRYAN Poem Text First Line: When all our wars are done, and laid away Last Line: When wars are done -- when weary wars are done. Subject(s): War WAR DISPLAY, by EDMUND VANCE COOKE Poem Text First Line: This is the song of the thousand who are multipled by twelve Last Line: For oh, we are proud that we flaunt this flesh in the markets of dismal death! Subject(s): Death; Military Service, Compulsory; Military Service, Voluntary; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; Youth; Dead, The; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service WAR DOG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: He was only a dog, but he went to war Subject(s): Animals; Dogs - War Use WAR ECONOMY, by JOHN GILGUN Poem Source First Line: There's a corner of the universe Last Line: Because gas is rationed Subject(s): Death; Depressions, Economic; Soldiers; War WAR FILM, by TERESA HOOLEY Poem Source First Line: I saw, %with a catch of the breath and the heart's uplifting Last Line: He thought it was a game %and laughed, and laughed Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Women; World War I WAR FOR SLAVERY WAS WAGED FOR BASEST ENDS, by WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: How can I ppray to heaven for thy success? Subject(s): Social Protest; U.s. - Mexican War (1846-1848) WAR GIRLS, by JESSIE POPE Poem Source First Line: There's the girl who clips your ticket for the train Last Line: Till the khaki soldier boys come marching back Subject(s): Women; World War I WAR GOD, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why cannot the one good Last Line: Love's need does not cease Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): World War Ii WAR GRAVE, by AUGUST STRAMM Poem Source First Line: Sticks imploring crossing arms Last Line: Flickers %tear %glare %oblivion Subject(s): World War I WAR GRAVE, by AUGUST STRAMM Poem Source First Line: Stakes implore crossed arms Last Line: In tears %luster %oblivion Subject(s): World War I WAR GUILT, by EDWIN ROLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Men dying in battle speak after speech has failed Last Line: A man walks calmlier toward night %who carries many midnights in his heart Alternate Author Name(s): Fishman, Solomon Subject(s): Soldiers; War WAR HAIKU, by RANDOLPH NESBITT Poem Source First Line: Tanks charred, black, and silent Last Line: Lizard flicks its tongue Subject(s): Politics; War WAR HAS BEEN GIVEN A BAD NAME, by BERTOLT BRECHT Poem Source First Line: I am told that the best people have begun saying Last Line: Discredited for some time to come Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; War WAR HORSE, by L. FLEMING Poem Source First Line: When the shells are bursting round Subject(s): World War I WAR IN BOSNIA, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Under darkness of stars our son flies Last Line: Apache gunships will be out tonight Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Bosnia; Night; Soldiers; War WAR IN HEAVEN: RAPHAEL TELLS OF SATAN'S ARTILLERY, by JOHN MILTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So scoffing in ambiguous words he scarce Last Line: By thousands, angel on archangel rolled Subject(s): War WAR IN THE AIR, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For a saving grace, we didn't see our dead Last Line: With the help of the losers we left out there %in the air, in the empty air Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii WAR IN THE DARK, by ROLFE HUMPHRIES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This fighting grows more hideous hour by hour Last Line: Who knows what light or music, clear to all, %waits beyond sleep, the other side of cold? Subject(s): World War Ii WAR IS KIND: 1, by STEPHEN CRANE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind Last Line: War is kind. Subject(s): American Civil War; Americans; Men; Social Protest; United States - History; United States; America WAR IS KIND: 11, by STEPHEN CRANE Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: On the desert / a silence from the moon's deepest valley Last Line: Is in the dance of the whispering snakes. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dreams; Snakes; War; Dead, The; Nightmares; Serpents; Vipers WAR IS KIND: 21, by STEPHEN CRANE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man said to the universe: / 'sir, I exist!' Last Line: "a sense of obligation." Variant Title(s): The Man Subject(s): Universe; War WAR IS KIND: 23, by STEPHEN CRANE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a land where lived no violets Last Line: "there are no violets here." Variant Title(s): The Violets Subject(s): Flowers; Violets; War WAR MEMORIES, by XENOPHANES Poem Source First Line: In winter, sprawled on soft cushions Last Line: Had you yet reached man's estate, when the persians came? Subject(s): War WAR MUSIC, by LOUISA SHORE Poem Source First Line: The merest soldier is to-day Last Line: As never yet apollo's lyre %felt trembling in its strings Subject(s): Crimean War (1853-1856); Soldiers WAR NOTES: 1. 'EXTRAS', by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The crocuses in the square Last Line: With heaven's own patience are calm and sweet. Subject(s): Faces; May (month); Nations; Sea; War; Ocean WAR NOTES: 2. PRO PATRIA MORI, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As a gold and scarlet sunset Last Line: Have naught to do with the years! Subject(s): Patriotism; War WAR NOTES: 3. TWO PARADES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The uniforms gleam bright, and as of yore Last Line: The bronzed and battered veterans limp by. Subject(s): Parades; Veterans; War WAR NOTES: 4. DECORATION DAY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The uses of adversity are sweet Last Line: The rose, the lily, and the violet. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; War; Declaration Day WAR OF THE WORLDS, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: After my shift at the foundling hospital, the moon is down Last Line: Shards of evil caught in the blinking retinas of every single child Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities WAR PASTORAL, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: When they came, they came like honey from a jar Last Line: Like shadows in the flaring, bloody sun Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii WAR POEMS 1, by KU SANG Poem Source First Line: Out of the patched-glass window of boarded shacks Last Line: I become jolly as if drunk; %shadow overtakes me with a smile Subject(s): Korean War, 1950-1953 WAR POEMS 2, by KU SANG Poem Source First Line: Perhaps anyone could have been flung into fits of Last Line: Transformed into the black and white image of a father with his child in his arms Subject(s): Korean War, 1950-1953 WAR POEMS 3, by KU SANG Poem Source First Line: Across the tundra of my heart Last Line: How nausea chokes me! %who is responsible for this? Subject(s): Korean War, 1950-1953 WAR POEMS 7. THE GRAVEYARD FOR THE ENEMY, by KU SANG Poem Source First Line: O rows and rows of mounds for the dead! Last Line: I wail over the graveyard %of love and hate Subject(s): Korean War, 1950-1953 WAR POET, by DONALD BAIN Poem Source First Line: We in our haste can only see the small components of the scene Last Line: We do not wish to moralize, only to ease our dusty throats Subject(s): War WAR POET, by SIDNEY KEYES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the man who looked for peace and found Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; War; World War Ii; Second World War WAR POET, by SIDNEY KEYES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am the man who looked for peace and found Last Line: Though my face is a burnt book %and a wasted town Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; War; World War Ii WAR PROFITS, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The horns of the moon are tipped Subject(s): Profiteering; World War I; First World War WAR QUARTET, by OSCAR WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: One morning the world woke up and there was no news Last Line: One morning the world woke up and there was no news Subject(s): World War Ii WAR RELIEF, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Can you spare a threepenny bit' Last Line: "to relieve the poor church mice." Subject(s): Poverty; War WAR RISKS, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let go aft' ... And out she slides Subject(s): World War I WAR ROSARY, by NELLIE HURST Poem Source First Line: I knit, I knit, I pray, I pray Subject(s): World War I WAR SEQUENCE: ARMIES WITH MASKS, by RENA CAREY SHEFFIELD Poem Text First Line: No longer does the mighty god of war Last Line: These are your sons betrayed, not swine of mars! Subject(s): War WAR SEQUENCE: WAR ALTARS, by RENA CAREY SHEFFIELD Poem Text First Line: Within the green jade temple of chapei Last Line: The silent buddha sits and meditates. Subject(s): China; World War Ii; Second World War WAR SONG, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, thou fair day, thou green earth, and ye skies Last Line: O! Who would not die with the brave! Variant Title(s): Song Of Death Subject(s): War WAR SONG, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In anguish we uplift / a new unhallowed song Last Line: The battle to the strong. Subject(s): Army Life; Machinery & Machinists; Sacrifices; Soldiers; War; Drills & Minor Tactics WAR SONG, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well pleaseth me the sweet time of easter Subject(s): War WAR SONNET: THOUGHTS OF A BRITON IN THE FOURTH YEAR OF WAR, by EDWARD HARRY WILLIAM MEYERSTEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How far away the nights when I could sleep Last Line: And peace, that gleamed a virtue, looms a crime Alternate Author Name(s): Meyerstein, E. H. W. Subject(s): World War Ii WAR SONNET: THUS ANSWERED, by EDWARD HARRY WILLIAM MEYERSTEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is no comfort that a million share Last Line: Wherewith the nights, till succour come, are fraught Alternate Author Name(s): Meyerstein, E. H. W. Subject(s): World War Ii WAR SPIRIT, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is the dark immortal's hour Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): World War I WAR STORY, by ROGER VINCENT SMALL Poem Source First Line: The story usually goes like this Last Line: With her finger on the telephone %ready to ring the undertaker Subject(s): War WAR STORY, by JON STALLWORTHY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of one who grew up at gallipoli Last Line: He tripped, as it seemed to him over his scabbard, %and stubbed his fingers on a dead man's face Subject(s): Gallipoli Campaign (1915); World War I WAR SUITE: 1, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wars: we're drawn to them Last Line: With the blood still red and wet on them. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Mythology; War; Dead, The WAR SWAGGERS PAST THE WINDOW, by EMANUEL LITVINOFF Poem Source Subject(s): War WAR TIME, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the sun doesn't rise one day Subject(s): War - Home Front; Morning WAR VERSE, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something there is that sure must love a plane Subject(s): War WAR VERSE, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something there is that sure must love a plane Subject(s): War WAR VERSE (1914), by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O two-penny poets, be still-- Last Line: From leman and brialmont. Subject(s): World War I; First World War WAR VOYEURS, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't understand why men make war Last Line: And gaze at the calibrated murder as lovers of beauty? Subject(s): War; Social Commentary WAR WIDOW, by BERTRAM WARR Poem Source First Line: I can have no speech with them Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii WAR WITH CHILE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: War with chile? Just as soon Last Line: Let the godlike way be hers! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Chile; South America; War WAR WITH SPAIN, by BERTRAND SHADWELL Poem Source First Line: Where fever does its deadly work Last Line: And raise the despot's flag of the grim old world Subject(s): Social Protest; Spanish-american War (1898) WAR YAWP, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: America! / england's cheeky kid brother Subject(s): World War I; First World War WAR YAWP, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: America! %england's cheeky kid brother Subject(s): World War I WAR!, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "war - a dirty, loathesome, servile murder-job" Last Line: Because he made them in his image Subject(s): Death;injustice;military;social Protest;soldiers;war; "dead, The; WAR'S PEOPLE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the tender amaranthine domes Last Line: Strange stars, and dream-like sounds, changed speech and law are ours. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War WAR, THE DESTROYER, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is war, / the destroyer / but an appurtenance Last Line: Beside the face Subject(s): War; Dancing & Dancers WAR-SONGS: 1, SELECTION, by TYRTAEUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If, fighting for his dear paternal soil Last Line: His silver temples, and breathe out his soul! Alternate Author Name(s): Tyrtaios Subject(s): War WAR-SONGS: 3, by TYRTAEUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would not value, or transmit the fame Last Line: Press, press to glory; nor remit the war! Alternate Author Name(s): Tyrtaios Subject(s): War WAR-SONGS: 4, by TYRTAEUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rouse, rouse, my youths! The chain of torpor break Last Line: The deeds of many a hero meet in one! Alternate Author Name(s): Tyrtaios Subject(s): War WAR-TIME CRADLE SONG, by FEDERICO SCHARMEL IRIS Poem Source First Line: The king sent out your father to war Last Line: And bring me the king's head for reward Subject(s): World War I WAR-TIME IN THE MOUNTAINS, by ANN COBB Poem Text First Line: Dulcimer over the fireboard, hanging sence allusago Last Line: Beat and beget sons and daughters to sing the old songs at his feet. Subject(s): Dulcimers; Kentucky; Mountains; Music & Musicians; Wellesley College; World War I; Hills; Downs (great Britain); First World War WARDEN'S WATCH: 2 A.M., by ROBERT W. CUMBERLAND Poem Source First Line: The night is still: the quarter moon slips down Last Line: Yet stand and wait means but to sit and hear Subject(s): World War Ii WARLIKE ANGELS, by RAFAEL ALBERTI Poem Source First Line: Wind at war with wind Last Line: Wind and wind that fight it out Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) WARMEST AND COLDEST DAY EVER, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'll never %forget how Last Line: And the papers we caught %turned to snow Subject(s): Social Protest; War WARNING, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Nature without a plan? Last Line: Simply dislodgement. Subject(s): Nature; World War Ii; Second World War WARRE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If kings and kingdomes, once distracted be Last Line: The sword of war must trie the soveraignty. Subject(s): War WARREN'S ADDRESS [TO THE AMERICANS] [AT BUNKER HILL] [JUNE 17, 1775], by JOHN PIERPONT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stand! The ground's your own, my braves! Last Line: Of his deeds to tell? Variant Title(s): Warren's Address To The American Soldiers Subject(s): American Revolution; Bunker Hill, Battle Of; Fourth Of July; Freedom; History; Patriotism; United States - History; War; Warren, Joseph (1741-1775); Independence Day; Liberty; Historians WARRIOR, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Today almost took home Last Line: &wants me to %make my move Subject(s): War WARRIOR MOTHERS, by FANNY BIXBY SPENCER Poem Text First Line: You wait as I for the fatal word Last Line: Will your son kill mine or will mine kill yours? Subject(s): Fear; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; Sons; War WARS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the old wars drum of hoofs and the beat of shod feet Last Line: Dreamed out in the heads of men. Subject(s): World War I; First World War WARS, AND THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dry leaves, soldier, dry leaves, dead leaves Subject(s): War WARSAW, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was in warsaw when the first bomb fell Last Line: Or -- would you curse and spit into my face? Subject(s): Bombs; Warsaw, Poland; World War Ii WARSAW, 17 SEPTEMBER, 1939, by LEO MINSTER Poem Source First Line: Space long was ours, factories to frame our guns Last Line: Poland, you gave us time - and victory! Subject(s): World War Ii WARTIME LOVE-SONG, by PETER BAKER Poem Source First Line: The wind sings for you Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii WARTIME RADIO, by STEPHEN KUUSISTO Poem Source First Line: Winter has my neighbors Last Line: The sky %leans %without mercy Subject(s): Politics; War WAS, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: War is it, o grave heads! That ye Last Line: Give in, and own the battle lost. Subject(s): War WAS IT YOU?, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hullo, young jones! With your tie so gay Last Line: "which is the me and the you?" Subject(s): Paris, France; War WASP STINGING FROLICK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A fine little sloop down the delaware came Last Line: Then fill up your glasses, let's laugh, drink and sing, %andtoast the brave wasp, which the british Subject(s): Frolic (ship); Sea Battles; War Of 1812; Wasp (ship) WATCHIN' OUT FOR SUBS, by U. A. L. Poem Source First Line: Bosun's shistle piping, 'starboard watch is on' Subject(s): World War I WATCHING POST, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A hill flank overlooking the axe valley Last Line: A farmer and a poet, are keeping watch Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): War WATCHING POST, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A hill flank overlooking the axe valley Last Line: A farmer and a poet, are keeping watch Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): War WATCHING THE BOMBER PASS OVER, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can we speak of eyes and seasons Last Line: Not one of us escapes some little happiness! Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Bombs; War; Airplanes; Air Pilots WATCHING WAR MOVIES, by LUCIEN STRYK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Always the same: watching Last Line: The war goes on and on Subject(s): World War Ii WATCHMEN OF THE NIGHT, by CECIL EDRIC MORNINGTON ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lords of the seas' great wilderness Last Line: For sons who guard thee night and day! Subject(s): Great Britain - Navy; World War I; First World War WATER, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: This could be samothrace, 1440 b.C.E. This could be thebes Last Line: I sacrifice the origin of all ideals on earth to give this girl a drink Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities WATER BORN, by NORMAN HINDLEY Poem Source First Line: Moomomi beach, narrow and hooked like a horseshoe Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans WATER OF TEARS, by FRANCIS PONGE Poem Source First Line: To cry or see one cry is rather embarrassing to see Last Line: Laboratory comrades, please verify Subject(s): World War Ii WATERLOO, by PATRICIA BEER Poem Source First Line: Oh man, don't make a noise' the officer %said... Last Line: Almost too late to show a lost and glorious %summer day, the sun about to set Subject(s): War WATERLOO, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Overlooking the battlefield, on that grassy Last Line: At him. Perhaps he wasn't there. But he was. Subject(s): Sadism; Social Protest; War; Waterloo; Battle Of Waterloo WAYSIDE CALVARY, by OWEN SEAMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now with the full year memory holds her tryst Subject(s): World War I WAYSIDE IN FRANCE, by ADOLPHE E. SMYLIE Poem Source First Line: Come shake hands, my little peach blossom Subject(s): World War I WE, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We ought to drop the bomb at once before Subject(s): Cold War; United States; Social Classes; Social Commentaries; America; Caste WE ARE GOING, FATHER ABRAHAM, by MARCUS P. WHEELER Poem Source First Line: We are coming, father abraham, 600, more' Last Line: But, we're going, father abraham, we soon are going home! Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History WE ARE OF ONE BLOOD', by C. L. MCIRVINE Poem Source First Line: Two nations, but one people, in our color, race Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I WE ARE THOSE PEOPLE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have abhorred the wars and despised the liars, laughed at the frightened Last Line: Our women uncover themselves to the grinning victors for bits of chocolate Subject(s): War; Future; Defeat WE ARE WAITING FOR PEACE TO BREAK OUT, by CARLOS REYES Poem Source Last Line: In spite of any of man's evil actions Subject(s): Politics; War WE ARE WITH FRANCE, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are with france-not by the ties Last Line: And leave our grown-up cares behind. Subject(s): France; World War I; First World War WE FACE THE FUTURE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hour is big with sooth and sign, with errant men at war Last Line: Shod with a faith that springtime keeps, and all the stars opine. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Future; World War I; First World War WE GUIDE, WE FOLLOW, by ELIZABETH SCANLON Poem Source First Line: Like the blind for their seeing-eyes Last Line: If not for your own good %then for mine Subject(s): Politics; War WE HOPE TO WIN, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We hope to win?' by god's help - 'yes' Last Line: We hope to win. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): World War I; First World War WE MARCH - CRUSADERS ALL!, by F. Z. SMITH Poem Source First Line: They're coming from the highlands Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii WE MEAN TO THRASH THESE PRUSSIAN PUPS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: We'll drown the whole lot in the rhine Subject(s): World War I WE MOTHERS KNOW, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peace,' they have said Last Line: It shall be so. Subject(s): Mothers; World War I; First World War WE SAW THREE DIFFERENT STORE-LADIES, by SHERI MAE AKAMINE Poem Source Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans WE SHOW YOU THAT DEATH AS A DANCER, by HAMISH HENDERSON Poem Source First Line: Death the dancer poked his skull Last Line: When we lie stickit in the sand %he'll dance into his promised land Subject(s): World War Ii WE THAT ARE OLD HAVE LITTLE WILL, by STEPHEN LUCIUS GWYNN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Death's honour - or, at last, delight %in victory Subject(s): World War Ii WE WILLED IT NOT, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We willed it not. We have not lived in hate Last Line: Not lightly shall the treason be atoned. Subject(s): World War I; First World War WE WORRIED WOODY-WOOD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Don't quote the president, as ye stand Subject(s): World War I WEAPON, by JUDITH WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The will to power destroys the power to will Last Line: In the one stroke we win the world and lose it. %the will to power destroys the power to will Subject(s): Arms And Armor; Assassination; Human Rights; War WEATHER IN HERAT, by LYNELL MAJOR EDWARD Poem Source First Line: Int he west again it will be sunny Last Line: Clattering like teeth, bared behind the veil Subject(s): Politics; War WEE GEORDIE WI' HIS DAY-DREAMS, by THOMAS RUSSELL (1822-) Poem Text First Line: Wee geordie wi' his day-dreams, haith, he's unco soon began Last Line: "there's wiser men wi' wooden heads than mony wha ha'e brain." Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; War; English Navy WELCOME HOME, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up the vast harbor, goal of millions of dreamers Last Line: A brotherhood complete. Subject(s): Homecoming; World War I; First World War WELCOME TO HIROSHIMA, by MARY JO SALTER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is what you first see, stepping off the train Last Line: Worked its filthy way out like a tongue. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Hiroshima, Japan; Literary Form; World War Ii; Nuclear Freeze; Second World War WELCOMING PARTY, by JOHN MONTAGUE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That final newsreel of the war Last Line: To kick a football through the air Subject(s): War WESTERN ADVANCE, by BUI DINH DAU Poem Source First Line: Far from the ma river our western advance troop march Last Line: Set their mind toward sam nua, far from home Subject(s): Indochinese War, 1946-1954 WESTERN ORIENTAL, by N. A. BROWN Poem Source First Line: Flat-roofed sky-scraper, gleaming white in the sun Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii WHAT A FALLEN SOLDIER SAYS?, by MO YUNSUK Poem Source First Line: I chanced on a fallen soldier while wandering the hills and valleys Last Line: I lean over him to lament his youthful death %and listen to what he has last to say Subject(s): Korean War, 1950-1953 WHAT CAN WE DO?, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At last, after patient years, we have grit and grace Last Line: They shall have right to look god in the face. Subject(s): World War I; First World War WHAT FOR?, by JOHN KENDRICK Poem Source First Line: Now the simple folks are praying Last Line: Shall be uttered %nevermore Subject(s): World War I WHAT GETS IN, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In daylight %houses expand Last Line: Even the moon at the window Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Nuclear War WHAT GOES WITHIN AND THERE CAN BE CONTAINED., by FRANZ JANOWITZ Poem Source Last Line: Approaches the word on which the whole world turns Subject(s): World War I WHAT GREW IN JOAN'S GARDEN?, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text First Line: What grew in joan's garden? Last Line: God and france and victory Subject(s): World War I WHAT I NEVER SAW, by TIMOTHY CORSELLIS Poem Source First Line: I was ready for death Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii WHAT IS LOST, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: When she came across the border Last Line: Into a piece that will hold Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians; Politics; War WHAT IS TERRIBLE, by ROY FULLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life at last I know is terrible Last Line: Horror is ever to be flushed and real %it must be for them and changed by them all Subject(s): World War Ii WHAT MY GRANDFATHER DID IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR, by PETER CONSTANTINE Poem Source First Line: My grandfather was given a medal Last Line: His best friend ate all nine at once and died Subject(s): Grandparents; World War Ii WHAT MY GRANDMOTHER DID IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR, by PETER CONSTANTINE Poem Source First Line: The day after we lost the war Last Line: The soft rattling words of our tongue Subject(s): Grandparents; World War Ii WHAT REWARD?, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You gave your life, boy Last Line: O god, for such a sacrifice %say, what reward for him? Subject(s): Insanity; Women; World War I WHAT SONGS THE SOLDIERS SANG, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those with few images, lyrics Last Line: And that there were no words for others. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Soldiers; War; Songs WHAT THE BIRDS SAID, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The birds against the april wind Last Line: And in the evening there was light. Subject(s): American Civil War; Birds; United States - History WHAT THE OLD WOMEN SAY, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out there in the fighting Last Line: Laughing, come home Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): War WHAT THE OLD WOMEN SAY, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out there in the fighting Last Line: Off in the evening, somewhere, %laughing, come home Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): War WHAT THE VILLAGE BELL SAID, by JOHN C. MCLEMORE Poem Source First Line: Full many a year in the village church Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History WHAT THINK YE?', by W. A. BRISCOE Poem Source First Line: What are we fighting for, men of my race Subject(s): World War I WHAT TO COUNT, by ALISE ALOUSI Poem Source First Line: What does it mean to hold your mouth to another's ear Last Line: You, bending at the knees Subject(s): Politics; War WHAT WAS LOST, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sing what was lost and dread what was won Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): War WHAT WAS LOST, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sing what was lost and dread what was won Last Line: They always beat on the same small stone Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): War WHAT WERE THEY LIKE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did the people of vietnam use lanterns or stones Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Anti-war Protests WHATEVER YOU SAY SAY NOTHING, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm writing just after an encounter Last Line: We hug our little destiny again Subject(s): War WHEATFIELD IN WARTIME, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: O blond and sunny mother wheat Last Line: When the mower passes. Subject(s): War WHEEL, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: Outside, night. You can barely breathe Last Line: Don't want to dance. You want to know! Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii WHEELER'S BRIGADE AT SANTIAGO, by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the blistering tropical sun Last Line: "kept time to the tune of ""dixie." Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): Santiago, Battle Of (1898); Santiago, Cuba; Spanish-american War (1898); Wheeler, Joseph (1836-1906) WHEN, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder now only when it will happen Last Line: It will look so beautiful. Subject(s): Amputees; Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb WHEN A BEAU GOES IN, by GAVIN EWART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But it isn't original sin - %it's just a beau going in Subject(s): War WHEN BOMBS ON BARCELONA BURST, by LOUIS GINSBERG Poem Source Subject(s): Barcelona, Spain; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) WHEN DEY 'LISTED COLORED SOLDIERS, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dey was talkin' in de cabin, dey was talkin' in de hall Last Line: W'en dey 'listed colo'ed sojers an' my 'lias went to wah. Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; United States - History WHEN EVIL-DOING COMES LIKE FALLING RAIN, by BERTOLT BRECHT Poem Source First Line: Like one who brings an important letter to the counter after office hours Last Line: Unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer Subject(s): World War Ii WHEN I WAS SMALL, A WOMAN DIED, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In yonder maryland Subject(s): Death – Mothers; Death – Children; American Civil War WHEN I'M KILLED, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I'm killed, don't think of me Last Line: Your playfellow from the grave. Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War WHEN IT IS FINISHED, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When it is finished, father, and we set Last Line: That we might live. Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME, by PATRICK SARSFIELD GILMORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When johnny comes marching home again hurrah! Last Line: When johnny comes marching home. Alternate Author Name(s): Lambert, Louis Subject(s): American Civil War; Patriotism; Peace; United States - History; United States; America WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME (WITH MUSIC), by PATRICK SARSFIELD GILMORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When johnny comes marching home again hurrah! Last Line: And we'll drink stone wine %when johnny comes marching home Alternate Author Name(s): Lambert, Louis Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History WHEN LOVE HAS SAID FAREWELL, by JOCK CURLE Poem Source Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii WHEN PRINCES AND PRELATES, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When princes and prelates / and het-headed zealots Last Line: And lang may they tak a gude mowe. Subject(s): Brunswick, Charles. Duke (1735-1810); War WHEN THE CANNON BOOMS, by WILLIAM HERBERT CARRUTH Poet's Biography Subject(s): War WHEN THE COCK CROWS; TO THE MEMORY OF FRANK LITTLE, by ARTURO GIOVANNITTI Poem Source First Line: Six men drove up to hsi house at midnight and woke the poor woman who kept it Last Line: Even then, even then, I shall not deny him Subject(s): Labor Unions; Social Protest; Strikes; World War I WHEN THE FRENCH BAND PLAYS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There's a military band that plays Subject(s): World War I WHEN THE GREAT GRAY SHIPS COME IN [AUGUST 20, 1898], by GUY WETMORE CARRYL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To eastward ringing, to westward winging, o'er mapless miles of sea Last Line: Gray ships come in! Subject(s): Navy - United States; New York Harbor; Spanish-american War (1898); American Navy WHEN THE VACATION IS OVER FOR GOOD, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It will be strange Last Line: We are dying. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Vacation; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb WHEN THE WAR GODS FEAST, by WILLIS KNAPP JONES Poem Text First Line: Moles-digging, clawing moles Last Line: How thirsty the war gods are! Subject(s): Soldiers; War WHEN THE WAR'S AT AN END, by ERIC POWELL DAWSON Poem Text First Line: At length when the war's at an end Last Line: How to lay our lives at love's feet. Subject(s): Peace; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; War WHEN THERE IS PEACE, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When there is peace, our land no more Last Line: When there is peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War WHEN THEY HAVE MADE AN END, by GERALD H. CROW Poem Source Subject(s): World War I WHEN THIS CRUEL WAR IS OVER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "dearest love, do you remember" Last Line: "when this cruel war is over, / praying that we meet again" Subject(s): War WHEN THIS CRUEL WAR IS OVER, by CHARLES CARROLL SAWYER Poem Source First Line: Dearest love, do you remember Subject(s): Patriotism; War WHEN THIS CRUEL WAR IS OVER, by HENRY TUCKER Poem Source Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History WHEN WILL YOU RETURN?, by HOANG TRUNG THONG Poem Source First Line: A long time since you all left Last Line: When will we hear news of victory from you? Subject(s): Indochinese War, 1946-1954 WHEN WITH PALE CHEEK AND SUNKEN EYE I SANG, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Dreaming of peace when all around was war Subject(s): U.s. - Mexican War (1846-1848) WHERE ARE THE MEN, by JOHN JONES (1810-1869) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where are the men who went forth in the morning Last Line: Silent and deep is their watery grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Talhaiarn Subject(s): War WHERE ARE THE WAR POETS, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They who in folly or mere greed Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; War WHERE ARE THE WAR POETS?, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They who in folly or mere greed Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; War WHERE ARE THE WAR POETS?, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They who in folly or mere greed Last Line: That we who lived by honest dreams %defend the bad against the worse Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; War WHERE DID LOVE GO?, by STEPHEN SARTARELLI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One notable casualty of the Subject(s): Diplomacy & Diplomats: Iraq War (2003); United States; France; America WHERE IS OUR FLAG'S HOME?, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Where is our flag's home? Where, soldier bfrave? Last Line: "it's our flag — it's god's flag — boys, keep it Subject(s): War; Flags WHERE IS THE SWEETEST MUSIC?, by GEORGE SIGERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Noble news of song and valour Last Line: "this to me is harp and song." Subject(s): War WHERE KITCHENER SLEEPS, by WILLIAM WILFRED CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O grim and iron-bastioned Last Line: Thunder at bursay's feet? Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, W. W. Subject(s): Kitchener, Horatio, 1st Earl (1850-1916); Sea; World War I; Ocean; First World War WHERE LITTLE POND MEETS THE OCEAN, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Out early, in search of the last light Last Line: In smiling, her way to say %oh yes, this is where I want to be Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities WHERE MORNING GLORIES GLEAM, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: When the springtime mists are gray above the Last Line: Where the morning glories gleam red, white, and blue above our dead! Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; World War I; Dead, The; First World War WHERE THE FOUR WINDS MEET, by GEOFFREY DALRYMPLE NASH Poem Source First Line: There are songs of the north and ... The south Subject(s): World War I WHERE THE SMOKE COMES FROM, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mangoes in moscow-and a biplane circling Last Line: And silence all the angels from ardennes, %who sing like wolves, like men: truth... I love much. Subject(s): Byzantine Empire; Cavalry; Cossacks; Fights; Revolutions; Russia - Army-military Life; Tyranny And Tyrants; War WHERE WE ARE, by LUCIEN STRYK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I sit beneath the linden's Last Line: Cat leaps from the shade, %into the moment, where we are Subject(s): Nuclear War WHERE WE CRASHED, by RICHARD HUGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was calling airspeed Last Line: And in this grass %I didn't die Subject(s): World War Ii WHERE WOLVES RAN THROUGH THE BRIGHT NIGHT SNOW., by PETER BAUM Poem Source Last Line: Raging towards us with deafening explosions Subject(s): World War I WHERE YOU SLEEP, by DEBRA THOMAS Poem Source First Line: The moon nears our zenith Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans WHERE'ER YOU ARE, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: When the pale stars glimmer o'er the battlefield Last Line: And bring you safely home. Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Navy - United States; War; Parting; American Navy WHILE SPAIN SMOLDERS, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ Poem Text First Line: Vessels that dream at anchor in a bay Last Line: Ghoulishly whistles toward our own calm vale. Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) WHILE SUMMERS PASS, by ALINE MIACAELIS Poem Source First Line: Summer comes and summer goes Subject(s): World War I WHILE THE WAR GOES ON, by GEORGE PARKS HITCHCOCK Poem Source First Line: The weather which died yesterday arises Last Line: Its destination undeclared %its passengrrs wrapped in decimals Variant Title(s): The War Goes O Subject(s): War WHITE CLIFFS, by D. SETON-SMITH Poem Source First Line: Thou art a gem; and, set within a sea Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii WHITE COWS, by PHILIP WELCH Poem Source First Line: (white cows moving over winter fields) Last Line: So sooner or later everywhere was slaughter Subject(s): War WHITE CROSS, by REED WHITTEMORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blatz was drafted, act of god and neighbors Last Line: Reading his name, poor blatz, and possibly %dreaming of heroes Subject(s): World War Ii WHITE FEATHER, by PHILIP M. HARDING Poem Text First Line: Strike on, great nations, wage new armaments Last Line: To watch your bodies rotting clean again. Subject(s): Evil; Nations; Social Protest; War WHITE HOUSE HAS DISINVITED THE POETS, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Not only peace but poetry on earth Subject(s): Politics; War WHITE MASS, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: While the first snow melts Last Line: A wafer of liquid in our mouths Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) WHITE PORCH, by CATHY SONG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wrap the blue towel Last Line: Cloth, hair and hands %smuggling you in Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans WHITE ROSE, by JOSEPH O'CONNOR Poem Source First Line: It is a withered rose Subject(s): War WHITE THROAT OF YOUR LOVE WHO WEARS, by DAVID WYATT Poem Source Subject(s): Nuclear War WHO MADE THE LAW THAT MEN SHOULD DIE IN MEADOWS?, by LESLIE COULSON Poem Source Last Line: He who made the law shall walk alone with death, %who made the law? Subject(s): World War I WHO MADE WAR?, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: God, who made the shining stars Last Line: Who made war? Subject(s): Creation; God; War WHO PAYS?, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Who pays? I see a gallows set Last Line: Who pays? Who pays? Subject(s): Death; Pain; War; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery WHO SLEEPS?, by ELEANOR ALEXANDER Poem Source First Line: Midnight and england; in the curtained room Subject(s): World War I WHO WOULD BE FREE, THEMSELVES MUST STRIKE THE BLOW, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cow could not stand up. The deadly river Subject(s): Nuclear War; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb WHO WOULD BE FREE, THEMSELVES MUST STRIKE THE BLOW, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cow could not stand up. The deadly river Subject(s): Nuclear War WHO'S READY?; JULY, 1862, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God help us! Who's ready? There's danger before! Last Line: All forward! We're ready, and conquer we will!' Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): American Civil War; Enemies; Freedom; Soldiers; U.s. - History; Liberty WHOSE WONDERLAND IS THIS?, by MICHELLE NOLDER Poem Source First Line: I want another cup of tea Last Line: Than they have any right to be Subject(s): Politics; War WHY THE BRITISH GIRLS GIVE IN SO EASILY, by NICHOLAS MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: It is not the foreignness per se of heroes Subject(s): War WHY THEY WAGED WAR, by JOHN PEALE BISHOP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's clear, trojan cried out to greek Last Line: And worse, in his palace sighed priam, %to be gilded and yet grow old Subject(s): Trojan War WHY?, by MARY WOOD DALEY Poem Text First Line: Pity him not, the soldier dead Last Line: The challenge of your why. Subject(s): War; Wellesley College WHY? (THE SPIRIT OF CIVILIZATION TO THE GOD OF WAR), by BERNICE SMITH HAGMAN Poem Text First Line: Why have I builded me cities fair Last Line: Am left, and ever asking -- why? Subject(s): Civilization; Progress; War WIDOW, by DONALD W. BAKER Poem Source First Line: After forty years and another death Last Line: A widow, sipping her coffee Subject(s): War WIDOW, by C. M. MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: My heart is numb with sorrow Subject(s): World War I WIDOW-MOTHER, by ADA JACKSON Poem Text First Line: Soldier boy, soldier boy Last Line: Presently I'll know. Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Mothers & Sons; War; Widows & Widowers; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War WIDOW; 2ND NEW JERSEY BRIGADE, LATE AUTUMN, 1862, by LISA RUSS Poem Source First Line: I call still question god-how now forsake me? Last Line: Borrow its blue forever from your cloud-crossed stare? Subject(s): Absence; American Civil War; Military; Soldiers; U.s. - History; Women And War WIEDERSEHEN, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When open trucks with german prisoners in them Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War WIEDERSEHEN, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When open trucks with german prisoners in them Last Line: Your grandchildren, german, do they believe the story, %the boy in arkansas, blonder than you? Subject(s): World War Ii 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 WILD WITH ALL REGRETS; ANOTHER VERSION OF 'A TERRE', by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My arms have mutinied against me -- brutes! Last Line: To do without what blood remained me from my wound. Subject(s): World War I; First World War WILDERNESS, by SIDNEY KEYES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The red rock wilderness Last Line: Flesh is fire in this wilderness of fire %which is our dwelling Subject(s): World War Ii WILLIAM AND ANNIE; OR, A TALE OF LOVE AND WAR, SELS., by CHARLES T. DANIELS Poem Source First Line: Most glorious southern land, of thee I sing Last Line: To gain the heaven of one warm embrace? Subject(s): American Civil War; Southern States; U.s. - History WILLIAM II PRINCE OF PEACE, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O prince of peace, o lord of war Last Line: For if thou fail, a world shall fall! Subject(s): William Ii, Kaiser Of Germany (1859-1941; World War I; First World War WILLIAMS DREAMLAND THEATER, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: I passed through harlem sundays only as a child Last Line: With all the news from akron, memphis, and thermopylae Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities WILLIE B (2), by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why I would bring a wagon into battle Last Line: And I'm gone get her that tv %out of old steinhart's store Subject(s): Soldiers; War WIND IN THE TREES, by S. DONALD COX Poem Source First Line: Wind! Wind! What do you bring Subject(s): World War I WIND ON THE DOWNS, by MARIAN ALLEN Poem Source First Line: I like to think of you as brown and tall Last Line: And when I leave the meadow, almosty wait %that you should open first the wooden gate Subject(s): Women; World War I WIND ON THE HEATH, by HENRY LIONEL FIELD Poem Source First Line: The wind blows cold today, my lass Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I WINDWARD OF HILO, by JOHN N. MILLER Poem Source First Line: When I was eight years old the war broke out Last Line: As we stole our way home, pledged to silence %knowing we owed our taste to the dead soldiers Subject(s): Pearl Harbor; World War Ii WINE FOR THE KING, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is the word of the wind? The word of the wind is war! Last Line: Naught, for there must be wine—red, red wine for the king! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Government; Social Protest; War WINGS IN THE NIGHT, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now in the soft spring midnight Last Line: Over the wild grey water. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Comfort; Mothers; Soul; War; World War I; First World War WINTER, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: With your yellow dress Last Line: Shut against my tall loft windows Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) WINTER DUSK, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watch the great clear twilight Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): War; Mothers WINTER THEY BOMBED PEARL HARBOR., by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: But I can't bring my brother back Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): World War Ii WINTER WARFARE, by EDGELL A. RICKWORD Poem Full Text First Line: Colonel cold strode up the line Alternate Author Name(s): Rickword, E. A. Subject(s): World War I; First World War WINTER WARFARE, by EDGELL A. RICKWORD Poem Source First Line: Colonel cold strode up the line Last Line: Stabbing those who lingered there %torn by screaming steel Alternate Author Name(s): Rickword, E. A. Subject(s): World War I WINTER, BEFORE THE WAR, by WACLAW POTOCKI Poem Source First Line: The forst bit deep. When heavy guns were dragged Last Line: And winter fell from heaven to this hard floor Subject(s): War; Winter WIRELESS, by PATRICK REGINALD CHAMBERS Poem Source First Line: There sits a little demon Subject(s): World War I WIRELESS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now to those who search the deep Last Line: And a little child may lead them. Subject(s): Death; Night; Sea; Ships & Shipping; World War I; Dead, The; Bedtime; Ocean; First World War WIRERS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pass it along, the wiring party's going out Last Line: But we can say the front-line wire's been safely mended. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War WISDOM, by IRA SOUTH Poem Source First Line: I had a friend, and sometimes we would talk Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I WISTERIA, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: As he went to sleep it seemed to hug the wall and windows all the closer Last Line: In a fine warm sweet-smelling midnight summer rain Subject(s): Naples, Italy; Wisteria; World War Ii WITH APOLOGIES TO WORDSWORTH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There was a day when desert wind and seared Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii WITH CORSE AT ALLATOONA, by SAMUEL HAWKINS MARSHALL BYERS Poem Text First Line: It was less than two thousand we numbered Last Line: "this morning up there on the hill." Subject(s): Allatoona Pass, Georgia; American Civil War; Atlanta Campaign (1864); Corse, John Murray (1835-1893); United States - History WITH FRENCH TO KIMBERLEY, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The boers were down on kimberley with siege and maxim gun Last Line: We went with french to kimberley to drive the boers away Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Boer War WITH THE MOST SUSCEPTIBLE ELEMENT, THE MIND ... TOXIC ACTION, by WALTER BENTON Poem Source First Line: The irresistible bacilli are at work Subject(s): War WITH THE SAME PRIDE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One star for all she had Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): World War I WITH THE TASTE OF BLACKBERRIES IN HIS MOUTH, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: As the column left the shade of woods Last Line: The next day orders came for the march to bull run Subject(s): Gulf War (1991) WITH THE WORLD, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would like to finish Last Line: Thinking he's off-camera. Subject(s): Gulf War (1991); Love; Quarrels; War; War - Home Front; Operation Desert Storm (1991); Arguments; Disagreements WITHDRAWAL FROM CRETE, by AUDREY ALEXANDRA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Doggedly, %inch by bitter inch brought dear with blood Last Line: When we'll remember anguisg passed away %as a dream and the dark shadow of a dream Subject(s): Crete; World War Ii WITHOUT COMPLAINT, by MILUTIN BOJIC Poem Source First Line: Nothing more for us is new or strange Last Line: With which he left that morning for the mountain Subject(s): World War I WITHOUT FEAR -- WITHOUT REPROACH, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Smitten?' said christ; 'then turn the other cheek Last Line: "the pure white armor of your chivalry!" Subject(s): Spanish-american War (1898) WITHOUT TEARS, by PARK IN-HWAN Poem Source First Line: In the field bristling Last Line: In the field bristling with weeds %no one comes Subject(s): Korean War, 1950-1953 WIZZERDE WYNKIN'S DETHE; AN ANCIENT BALLAD, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wizzerde's een grewe derke and dimme Last Line: Gramercye on his soulle! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Spain - History; War WOES OF A ROOKIE, by WILLIAM L. COLESTOCK Poem Source First Line: I enlisted in the infantry last summer Subject(s): World War I WOMAN OF BAGDAD, by PATRICIA MONAGHAN Poem Source First Line: She rises in the glow of a red sun Last Line: Are the last breaths she will take Subject(s): Politics; War WOMAN OF THE WAR, by ROSSITER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Through the sombre arch of that gateway tower Subject(s): War WOMAN'S CRY, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Red!' cried the women by the neva's tide Last Line: Red!' cried the women. Let them cry no more Subject(s): World War I WOMAN'S GAME, by VICTOR PEROWNE Poem Source First Line: Was there ever a game we did not share Subject(s): World War I WOMAN'S TOLL, by RUTH DUFFIN Poem Source First Line: O mother, mourning for the son who keeps Subject(s): World War I WOMAN'S WAR MISSION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Fold away all your bright-tinted dresses Subject(s): War WOMEN AT MUNITION MAKING, by MARY GABRIELLE COLLINS Poem Source First Line: Their hands should minister unto the flame of life Last Line: Must it anew be sacrificed on earth? Subject(s): Women; World War I WOMEN OF SPAIN, by MARTHA MILLET Poem Source First Line: Have you seen on the barricades the women of spain? Last Line: The women of spain are on the barricades Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) WOMEN OF SULI, by THEONI DRACOPOULU Poem Source First Line: Ah! You who wakened in my child's soul Last Line: But on the peak there blooms a single lily to honor %the last suli woman, foam of your fragrance Subject(s): Greek War Of Independence (1821-1832); Women WOMEN OF WAR, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Text First Line: Women, who lust for blood and harbor hate Last Line: Pity the fruit of your unhallowed seed! Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; War; Women; Dead, The WOMEN TO MEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: God bless you, lads! Subject(s): Women; World War I WOMEN WILL SOON KNIT AGAIN', by ROGER BURLINGAME Poem Source First Line: On the steps, in the corners Last Line: You cannot tell it then from the bursts of the mitrailleuse! Subject(s): World War Ii WOMEN'S WAR THOUGHTS, by MARY HUNTER AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wake, o woman! Last Line: Made this war, I wonder! Subject(s): Mothers; War; Women WONDER, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If god is thrilled by a battle cry Last Line: Merciless god, good-bye! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Religion; War; Theology WOODROW WILSON - 1856-1924, by MARGUERITE MOOERS MARSHALL Poem Text First Line: The chill of no man's land had touched his lips Last Line: "one conqueror's work""—said harden—""wilson's thought." Subject(s): Pacifism; Peace; Praise; Presidents, United States; War; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924); Peace Movements WORD IS TWILIGHT, by JAMES NEUGASS Poem Source First Line: Also in valencia there was an hour Last Line: To shuttered windows, waited and shot Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) WORD OF MOUTH: I / THE RETURN, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Westward from sete Last Line: They wake Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) WORD OF MOUTH: I / THE RETURN, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Westward from sete Last Line: Amor, pena, desig Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) WORD WITH THE WEST, by JOHN REUBEN THOMPSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once more to the breach for the land of the west! Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, John Randolph Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History WORDS, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know you: %you are light as dreams Last Line: As the earth which you prove %that we love Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): War WORDS FOR MY DAUGHTER, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: About eight of us were nailing up forts Last Line: To call me back into our helpless tribe. Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Daughters; Men; Parents; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War; Childhood; Parenthood WORDS FROM CONFINEMENT, by CESARE PAVESE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bright and early we went down to the fishmarket Last Line: We were drunk on the news: we were going home! Subject(s): World War Ii WORKERS, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We laid the keel of the ship that sails the waters Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I WORKING CLASS, by BERTRAM WARR Poem Source First Line: We have heard no nightingales singing Last Line: And on bleached bones, when the sun shines, %we shall begin to build Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Soldiers; World War Ii WORLD LINES; A WAR STORY, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And there I was, is how these things begin Last Line: His buttons and bones are somewhere out there still Subject(s): World War Ii WORLD SERIES OPENED - BATTER UP!, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The outfield is a-creepin' in to catch ... Subject(s): World War I WORLD TAKE GOOD NOTICE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: World take good notice, silver stars fading Last Line: Now and henceforth flaunt from these shores. Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History WORLD WAR, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flutesong willow winding weather Subject(s): War WORLD WAR II, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was over target berlin the flak shot up our plane Last Line: Destroying the germans and their cities Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): World War Ii; Air Raids; Aviation & Aviators; Rescues WORLD WAR II, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was over target berlin the flak shot up our plane Last Line: And went on hauling bombs over the continent of europe %destroying the germans and their cities Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Homosexuality; World War Ii WORLD WITHOUT END, by PATRIC DICKINSON Poem Source First Line: A world is breaking. Midnight's bell rings down Last Line: Building anew each towering-tumbling world %from dust, from fallen star Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii WORLD'S ONE HOPE, by BERTOLT BRECHT Poem Source First Line: Is oppression as old at the moss around ponds? Last Line: It is the world's one hope Subject(s): World War Ii WORLD-WINTER, by LAURA BELL EVERETT Poem Text First Line: Wandering on yestereen Last Line: Of lasting peace? Subject(s): Peace; Social Protest; War WORRIED, by NGUYEN BINH KHIEM Poem Source First Line: I hate war. I'm worried, of course Last Line: Not all of us can choose fame Subject(s): War WOULDST THOU HAVE ME LOVE THEE, DEAREST, by ALEXANDER BEAUFORT MEEK Poem Source Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History WOUNDED, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it not strange? A year ago today Last Line: Lead on! I'll live to fight another day. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War WOUNDED, by JOHN WHITAKER WATSON Poem Text First Line: Steady, boys, steady! Last Line: And float the old flag o'er a prosperous land! Variant Title(s): The Wounded Soldier;the Dying Soldier;wounded To Death Subject(s): War WOUNDED SOLDIER IN THE CONVENT, by FRANCOIS COPPEE Poem Source First Line: What it that clanging noise I hear Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I WRIST WATCH MAN, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His is marching dusty highways and he's riding Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I WRITING MY DIARY WITH WATER, by KAREN MARGALIT Poem Source Last Line: An epitaph for me alone Subject(s): Politics; War WRITTEN IN PENCIL IN THE SEALED RAILWAY-CAR, by DAN PAGIS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here in this carload Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; War; Judaism WRITTEN IN PENCIL IN THE SEALED RAILWAY-CAR, by DAN PAGIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here in this carload Last Line: Cain son of man %tell him that I Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; War WRITTEN ON SERVICE IN EGYPT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Behind us in vermilion state Subject(s): World War I WRITTEN ON THE DEATH OF OUR BELOVED GENERAL STONEWALL JACKSON, by CAROLINE AUGUSTA BALL Poem Text First Line: There's a wail of woe on the summer breeze Last Line: His last victory gained, his rest has won. Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Heroism; Jackson, Thomas (stonewall) (1824-1863); United States - History; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines WRITTEN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY, 1864, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more, despite the noise of war Last Line: For only such can save us now. Subject(s): American Civil War; Fourth Of July; United States - History; Independence Day WRY SMILE, by ROY FULLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mess is all asleep, my candle burns Subject(s): War WYKHAMIST, by NORA GRIFFITHS Poem Source First Line: In the wake of the yellow sunset one pale star Last Line: Pass with the others down the twilit street Subject(s): Women; World War I XAIPE: 65, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thank you god for most this amazing Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving; Time; War XAIPE: 65, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thank you god for most this amazing Last Line: Now the eyes of my eyes are opened Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving; Time; War Y.M.C.A., by C. A. L. T. Poem Source First Line: Oh monday night's the night for me! Last Line: Oh tommy atkins! Brave and true - %I humbly thank god for you Subject(s): Women; World War I YAEL, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She must be an angel, waiting outside Last Line: She knows what she has to do Subject(s): Angels; Arabs; Death; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; War YANKEE CHRONOLOFY: OR, HUZZA FOR THE AMERICAN NAVY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I need not now tell what it was drove our sires Last Line: Then huzza for the sons of columbia so free: %they are lords of the soil - they'll be lords of the s Subject(s): Navy - United States; War Of 1812 YANKEE CLIPPER, by LEONARD BACON (1887-1954) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We're making sail on the yankee clipper Last Line: And we'll eat our chowder in nwe bedford town. %blow! Blow! Blow the man down! Subject(s): World War Ii YANKEE FROLICS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: No more of your blathering nonsense Last Line: For our seamen will never disgrace thee, %they're getting soused to the job Subject(s): Navy - United States; War Of 1812 YANKEE PRIVATEERING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ye yankee privateersmen, %of courage stout and bold Last Line: Have found that e'en a whale-boat, %a match for them can be Subject(s): Navy - United States; Privateers; War Of 1812 YANKEE TARS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When nature, kind goddess, first form'd this big ball Last Line: And a navy and commerce our country shall grace. %down, down, down, down, derry down Subject(s): Navy - United States; Sailors And Sailing; War Of 1812 YARDS OF SARAJEVO, by RICHARD HUGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Time of day: a dim dream, probably Last Line: The station loud. All rebuilt %and modern. Only the lighting bad Subject(s): Sarajevo, Bosnia; World War Ii YE PARLIAMENT OF ENGLAND (AMERICAN TEXT) (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "ye parliament of england, / you lords and commons too" Last Line: That yankee ships in time of peace / to any sport may trade Subject(s): Navy - United States;sailing & Sailors;war Of 1812; American Navy YEAR 1812, by ADAM MICKIEWICZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Year well remembered! Happy who beheld thee! Last Line: That promised corn but ripened into men Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); War YONSEI, by JULIET S. KONO Poem Source First Line: I hear the music Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans YOU AT WASHINGTON, by ERNEST HOWARD CROSBY Poem Source First Line: There is 'great rejoicing at the nation's capital.' so says the morning's paper Last Line: May wait long for victory, but never waits in vain Subject(s): Social Protest; Spanish-american War (1898); War YOU GO ON WITH YOUR DYING (AFTER MARK STRAND), by JANE TOBY Poem Source First Line: Nothing can stop you Last Line: You go on with your dying Subject(s): Politics; War YOU REMEMBER, ALYOSHA, THE ROADS OF SMOLENSK PROVINCE, by KONSTANTIN SIMENOV Poem Source Last Line: And proud that russian women farewelled us rpudly %with threefold kisses, in the russian way Subject(s): Russia; Women; World War Ii YOU SAY, by CONNIE WANEK Poem Source First Line: You say it's so women in iraq can vote Last Line: The prayer written in oil- %written, and set afire Subject(s): Politics; War YOU SAY YOU SAID, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Few words are best' Last Line: "me against subterfuge." Subject(s): World War I - United States YOU WERE SO WHITE, SO SOFT, by JOHN PIERRE ROCHE Poem Source First Line: I knew your gentle touch Last Line: The luxury of sheets! Subject(s): World War I YOU WHO SLEEP, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: In the west you're still asleep Last Line: And you who suffer more %each day %who no longer hope %but are still watching Subject(s): Dadaism; World War Ii YOU, WHO HAVE SONS TO SPARE!, by L. ALLEN BECK Poem Text First Line: You casual mothers, who no longer care Last Line: You, who have sons to spare! Subject(s): Mothers; War YOU. LOVE POEMS, SELS., by AUGUST STRAMM Subject(s): World War I YOUNG AND OLD, by HENRY ALLSOPP Poem Source First Line: What makes the dale so strange, my dear? Subject(s): World War I YOUNG DEAD SOLDIERS, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The young dead soldiers do not speak Last Line: We were young, they say. We have died. Remember us Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; World War Ii YOUNG FELLOW MY LAD, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are you going, young fellow my lad Last Line: "we will owe to our lads like you." Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War YOUNG HENRY, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young henry was as faithful boy Last Line: They laid him low at fredericksburg. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): War YOUNG SAMMY'S FIRST WILD OATS, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mid uncle sam's expanded acres Last Line: "on ""young sammy's first wild oats." Subject(s): Elections; Spanish-american War (1898); United States; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; America YOUNG TREE, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are so few trees here, so few young trees Subject(s): World War I YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE, by PETER PORTER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The polar dew has just warned that a nuclear rocket strike Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Nuclear War; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE, by PETER PORTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The polar dew has just warned that a nuclear rocket strike Last Line: Now go quickly to your shelters Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Nuclear War YOUR LAD, AND MY LAD, by RANDALL PARRISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down toward the deep-blue water, marching to throb of Last Line: As your dear lad, and my dear lad, go on their way to france. Subject(s): Army - United States; World War I; First World War YOUR SERVANT, by RAMON PINYOL Poem Source First Line: It pounds in my head: cunts, fucking pigs! Last Line: They spit sterile fire through the fields! Subject(s): Civil War; Tyranny And Tyrants YOUR SLEEP, by IWAN GOLL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your sleep is a closed almond Last Line: Alas, when you open them, %what color will they be? Alternate Author Name(s): Goll, Yvan Subject(s): World War Ii YOUTH IN ARMS, by HAROLD MONRO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy boy, happy boy Last Line: David of a thousand slings. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; War; Youth; Dead, The YOUTH IN ARMS, by ERON O. ROWLAND Poem Text First Line: O youth who erstwhile stood before thy elders Last Line: Armed cap a pie? Subject(s): World War I; Youth; First World War YOUTH'S OWN, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the fields I see them pass Last Line: And leaves this calvary? Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): War YPRES, by RONALD GORELL BARNES Poem Text First Line: City of stark desolation Last Line: Built in the heart of man. Alternate Author Name(s): Gorell, 3d Baron Subject(s): World War I; Ypres, Belgium; First World War YPRES 1919, by EDWIN BARLOW EVANS Poem Text First Line: These fields of bleak white crosses sear my eyes Last Line: And man, like gulliver, still eats the ground. Subject(s): Death; Sonnet (as Literary Form); War; Dead, The YPRES TOWER, RYE, by EDWARD CHARLES EVERARD OWEN Poem Text First Line: Tower of ypres that watchest, gravely smiling Last Line: Live your dreaming fens, your bastioned hill. Subject(s): World War I; First World War YPRES; SEPTEMBER, 1915, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Push on, my lord of wurtemberg, across the flemish fen! Last Line: Come, try your luck, whatever fate befalls you. Subject(s): England; Errors; Failure; Germany; Regret; Soldiers; War; World War I; Ypres, Belgium; English; Mistakes; Fallacies; Germans; First World War YULE AT THENGELFOR, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was yule at thengelfor Last Line: At the sharp white tide of yule! Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas; Pacifism; War; Nativity, The; Peace Movements ZAGONYI, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bold captain of the body-guard Last Line: To death or victory! Subject(s): American Civil War; Cavalry; Springfield, Missouri, Battle Of (1861); United States - History; Zagonyi, Charles ZEGRI'S BRIDE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Of all the blood of zegri,the chief is lisaro Last Line: Fought well that day, yet in the fray the zegri won his spouse Subject(s): Civil War; Granada, Spain; Horseback Riding; Knights And Knighthood ZENITH, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: It was part of her parlour's darkness Subject(s): Grandparents; World War Ii; Radio; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Second World War ZEPP DAYS, by P. H. B. LYON Poem Source First Line: In london town the lights are low Alternate Author Name(s): L., P. H. B. Subject(s): World War I ZEPPELINS, by NANCY CUNARD Poem Source First Line: I saw the people climbing up the street Last Line: But in the morning men began again %to mock death following in bitter pain Subject(s): Women; World War I ZERO, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O rosy red, o torrent splendour Last Line: It's plain we were born for this, naught else. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War ZILLEBEKE BROOK, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This conduit stream that's tangled here and there Last Line: On my way up to sanctuary wood. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Brooks; World War I; Streams; Creeks; First World War ZNAMENSKAYA SQUARE, LENINGRAD, 1941, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The older girl pulls the child's Subject(s): Saint Oetersburg, Russia; World War Ii; Children - Death; Second World War ZOLLICOFFER, by HENRY LYNDEN FLASH Poem Text First Line: First in the fight, and first in the arms Last Line: Dead on the field of glory! Subject(s): American Civil War; Somerset, Kentucky, Battle Of (1862); United States - History; Zollicoffer, Felix Kirk (1812-1862) ZONE, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the end you are weary of this ancient world Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Paris, France; World War I; First World War ZONE, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: After all you are weary of this oldtime world Last Line: Sun cut throat Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Paris, France; World War I; First World War ZONE, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You're tired of this old world at last Last Line: Sun throat cut Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Paris, France; World War I ZONE, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At last you're tired of this elderly world Last Line: Situated in paris between the rue aumont-thieville and the avenue des ternes Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Paris, France; World War I ZONE, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You have grown weary of a world effete Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Paris, France; World War I ZONE, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now the time comes when you are bored with antiquity Last Line: Neck of the sun cut Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Paris, France; World War I ZONE, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the end you are weary of this ancient world Last Line: The lowly christs of dim expectancies %adieu adieu %sun corseless head Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Paris, France; World War I [LULLABY OF THE ONION], by MIGUEL HERNANDEZ Poem Source First Line: An onion is frost Last Line: Never mind what happens %or what's to come Subject(s): Onions; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) ‘AND THEIR WINTER AND NIGHT IN DISGUISE’, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea and a crescent strip of beach Subject(s): War |
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