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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WAR - HOME FRONT Matches Found: 25 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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 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 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: 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 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 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 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: 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 |
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