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Subject: WAR INJURIES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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


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


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


CASUALTIES: 27. THE CASUALTIES, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem 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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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 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 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


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


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