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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` (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


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


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


1914-1918: 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


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


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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 PRIVATE, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.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.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


ABI, VIATOR -, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: If thou hast seen the standard dim
Subject(s): World War I


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


ACELDAMA, by GEORGE F. BUTLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Still breaks the holy morn,to soothe the care
Subject(s): World War I


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


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


ADMONITION: TO BETSEY, by HELEN PARRY EDEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Remember, on your knees
Subject(s): World War I


AEROPLANES, by WALTER JAMES REDFERN TURNER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Iron birds floating in the sky
Subject(s): World War I


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 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 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 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 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 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-DAYS, by ERIC CHILMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the last gun has long withheld
Subject(s): World War I


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 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 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 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


AIRMAN, by GREGG GODDARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wild wind, and drear, beneath the pale stars blowing
Subject(s): World War I


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


ALAN SEEGER, by WASHINGTON VAN DUSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: No beauty could escape his loving eyes
Subject(s): World War I


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


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


AMAZONS, by RICHARD A. CROUCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: They fill the fields in mighty throng
Subject(s): World War I


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 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 CREED, by EVERARD JACK APPLETON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Straight thinking %straight talking
Subject(s): World War I


AMERICAN VOLUNTEERS, by MARIE VAN VORST    Poem Source                    
First Line: Neutral! America, you cannot give
Subject(s): World War I


AMERICANS COME!, by ELIZABETH A. WILBUR    Poem Source                    
First Line: What is the cheering, my little one?
Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I


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


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 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 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 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 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 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


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 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 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


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


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 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


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


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-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


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 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


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


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


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


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


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


ARMED LINER, by H. SMALLEY SARSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dull gray paint of war
Subject(s): World War I


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 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 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


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


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


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


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 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 LAST POST, by WALTER LIGHTOWLER WILKINSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come home! - come home!
Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I


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 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 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 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 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 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 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


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


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


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


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 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 ENGLAND, by COLIN MITCHELL    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Autumn; England; Seasons; Soldiers; World War I


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


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


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 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 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 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


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


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


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


BARRAGE, by RICHARD ALDINGTON    Poem 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 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 DONALD GOOLD JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lord god of battle and of pain
Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I


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 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 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 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 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: 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 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 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


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, 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


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


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 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


BEGINNING WITH 1914, by LISEL MUELLER    Poem 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


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


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


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


BETTER FAR TO PASS AWAY, by RICHARD MOLESWORTH DENNYS    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I


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


BIG WORDS, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've whined of coming death, but now, no more!
Last Line: He cursed, prayed, sweated, wished the proud words back.
Subject(s): Courage; World War I; Valor; Bravery; First World War


BILL 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'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


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


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


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 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


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


BLOOD DROP POEMS FROM THE WAR, SELS., by AUGUST STRAMM                       
Subject(s): World War I


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


BOAT RACE, 1915, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: No sweatered men in scanty shorts
Subject(s): World War I


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


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


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


BOY NEXT DOOR, by SAMUEL ELLSWORTH KISER    Poem Source                    
First Line: There used to be a boy next door
Subject(s): World War I


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


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


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


BROKEN ROSE, by ANNIE VIVANTI CHARTRES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Shy, youthful, silent - and misunderstood
Subject(s): World War I


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


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


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


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


BURIAL OF SOPHOCLES, by GEOFFREY BACHE SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gather great store of roses, crimson-red
Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I


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 THE NORTH SEA, by WILLIAM LEONARD COURTNEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Death and sorrow and sleep
Subject(s): World War I


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 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


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


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


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


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


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 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


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


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


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


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


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 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'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


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


CHALK AND FLINT, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come there now a mighty rally
Subject(s): World War I


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


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 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


CHEMIN DES DAMES, by CROSBIE GARSTIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In silks and satins the ladies went
Subject(s): World War I


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


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 THE WAR, by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shrunken little bodies, pallid baby faces
Subject(s): World War I; Children; First World War; Childhood


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


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 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 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 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 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


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


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 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


CLOSE YOUR RANKS, by ISAAC GREGORY SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yes! Draw them close and closer still
Subject(s): World War I


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


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


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


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: 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 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


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 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


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 BOOK, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I 'ave a conversation book: I brought it out
Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I


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


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


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


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, 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


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


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


CRIMSON CROSS, by ELIZABETH BROWN DU BRIDGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Outside the ancient city's gate
Subject(s): World War I


CROCUSES AT NOTTINGHAM, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out here the dogs of war run loose
Subject(s): World War I


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


CROWN, by HELEN COMBES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Write us yur verse, oh, soldier
Subject(s): World War I


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


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


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


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


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


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


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 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 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 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 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 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


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-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


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


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


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


DEMONSTRATION FOR INTERVENTION IN THE WAR, by CARLO CARRA    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Futurism (art); Paintings And Painters; World War I


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


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


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


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 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


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


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


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 VICTOR PEROWNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thou art no longer here
Subject(s): World War I


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


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


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


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


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


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 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


DRUM, by JOSEPH JOHNSTON LEE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come! %says the drum
Subject(s): World War I


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


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


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?, 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


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 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


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


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


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


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 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


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


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 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 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 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


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


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


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: INTERCESSION, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the muttering gun-fire dies
Subject(s): World War I


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 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 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


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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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


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


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


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


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


EUTHANASY, by R. H. LAW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Prince azrael, wan azrael
Subject(s): World War I


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


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


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


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


EYES OF WAR, by CHART PITT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like a gauzy speck in the pearling dawn
Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I


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


FALL IN, by FRANK S. BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh! We are a ragged, motley crew
Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I


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


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


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


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


FAREWELL, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mother, with unbowed head
Subject(s): World War I


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


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


FAUN COMPLAINS, by RICHARD ALDINGTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They give me aeroplanes
Subject(s): World War I


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


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 MANOEUVRES, by RICHARD ALDINGTON    Poem 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


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


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 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 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


FILE THREE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: File three stood motionless and pale
Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I


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


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


FISHER LAD, by J. A. NICKLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Farewell and goodbye to you, maiden of teifi
Subject(s): World War I


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 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


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


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


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 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


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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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


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


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


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


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


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 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


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


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


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 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 BOSRAH, by BEATRICE ALLHUSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who is this, in regal state, who cometh ... Afar
Subject(s): World War I


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 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 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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


GENTLEMEN OF OXFORD, by NORAH M. HOLLAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sunny streets of oxford
Subject(s): World War I


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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 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 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


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


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 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


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


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


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


GRAND ILLUSION, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem 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


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 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, 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 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


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


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


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


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


HALF A SCORE O' SAILORMEN, by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): World War I


HALT, by EDWARD SHANKS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mark time in front! Rear fours cover!
Subject(s): World War I


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


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 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


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


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


HAY FEVER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I do not wish the kaiser ill
Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I


HE PRAYED, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): World War I


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


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


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


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


HELPING, by P. B.    Poem Source                    
First Line: Half a score of gutter-snipes
Subject(s): World War I


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 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 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: 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


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


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


HEY! JOCK, ARE YE GLAD YE LISTED?, by NEIL MUNRO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): World War I


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


HIGH BARBARY, by HOWARD STABLES    Poem Source                    
First Line: The distant mountains' jagged, cruel line
Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I


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


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


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 OXFORD, by ROBERT E. STERLING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh! Time hath loaded thee with memories
Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I


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


HOLY COMMUNION SERVICE, SULVA BAY, by WILLIAM LITTLEJOHN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Behold a table spread!
Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I


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 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


HOMECOMING, by LEROY FOLGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: His regiment came home today
Subject(s): World War I


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


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


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


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


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 SHIP, by WILLIAM LITTLEJOHN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a green-lit hospital ship
Subject(s): Hospital Ships; Soldiers; World War I


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


HOW LONG, O LORD, HOW LONG, BEFORE THE FLOOD, by ROBERT PALMER    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I


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 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


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


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


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


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 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 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 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 NO RING', by BERNARD GILBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I watch and listen with a dreadful fear
Subject(s): World War I


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 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'VE LOST MY RIFLE AND BAYONET., by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Since I've lost you
Subject(s): Army Life; World War I


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. 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


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


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


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 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 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 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 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 LAST YEAR'S CAMP, by MARY ADAIR-MACDONALD    Poem Source                    
First Line: They stole the gorse's glory
Subject(s): World War I


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: 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 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 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 Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: The rain increases with the light and the weight increases
Subject(s): World War I; Army Life


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 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 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 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 DORDOGNE, by JOHN PEALE BISHOP    Poem 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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


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


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


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


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


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


INSOUCIANCE, by RICHARD ALDINGTON    Poem 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


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


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 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


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 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


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


IT CANNOT BE, by F. E. MAITLAND    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): World War I


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'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


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


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


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


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 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


JOHN DOE - BUCK PRIVATE, by ALLAN P. THOMSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who was it, picked from civil life
Subject(s): World War I


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


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


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 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


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


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


KARTUSHKIYA-BEROZA, by ALTER BRODY    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is twelve years since I have been there
Subject(s): World War I


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


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


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


KID HAS GONE TO THE COLORS, by WILLIAM HERSCHELL    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I


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


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'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


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


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


KNITTING SOCKS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Click, click! How the needles go
Subject(s): Hosiery; Knitting; World War I


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 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


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 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 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 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


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


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


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


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 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 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


LAUREL AND CYPRESS, by J. NAPIER MILNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I watched him swinging down the street
Subject(s): World War I


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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 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 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


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


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


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


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'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


LIGHTS OUT, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem 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 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


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


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 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


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


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


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 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 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 TOWN IN SENEGAL, by WILL THOMPSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I hear the throbbing music down the lanes
Subject(s): World War I


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


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


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


LOOM, by JAMES HARRY KNIGHT-ADKIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Riding back from caudebec through autumn
Subject(s): World War I


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


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


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 LAND: TO GERMANY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A childhood land of mountain ways
Subject(s): World War I


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


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 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 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, 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


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


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


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


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 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 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


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


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


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


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


MARINES, by ADOLPHE E. SMYLIE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pardon! He has no engleesh, heem'
Subject(s): World War I


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


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


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


MASTER AND PUPIL, by O. M.    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two years ago I taught him greek
Subject(s): World War I


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


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


MCMXIV [1914], by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem 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


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


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 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


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 RAIN, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem 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 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


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 VERDUN, by ALAN DUGAN    Poem 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: 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


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


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 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


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


MIKE DILLON, DOUGHBOY, by JOHN PIERRE ROCHE    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): World War I


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


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


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


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+50    Poem Source                    
First Line: The soldier boys are marching ...
Subject(s): World War I


MISSING', by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the anxious hearts say, 'where?'
Subject(s): World War I


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


MIZPAH, by GERTRUDE STEWART    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, man o' mine in olive drab
Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I


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


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


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


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 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


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 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


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 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 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


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


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


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


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


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 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


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 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 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 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 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


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'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


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


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


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 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


NAZARETH, by UNKNOWN+63    Poem Source                    
First Line: Across the sands by mary's well
Subject(s): World War I


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


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


NEW AENEID, by ALEXANDER ROBERTSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: These waters saw the gilded galleys come
Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I


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 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


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 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


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 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 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 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 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 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


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 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


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


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


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


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


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 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


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


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


NOX MORTIS, by PAUL BEWSHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The afternoon %flutters and dies
Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; World War I


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


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 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, 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


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


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


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


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 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


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 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


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 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


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


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 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 JIM, by NORMAN SHANNON HALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out in that vague, vast 'somewhere' of ... Line
Subject(s): World War I


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 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 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


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 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 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 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 HIS OWN, by ADOLPHE E. SMYLIE    Poem Source                    
First Line: You see that young kid lying there
Subject(s): World War I


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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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


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


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 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


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


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


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


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


OTHER SIDE, by GILBERT FRANKAU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Just got your letter and the poems. Thanks
Subject(s): World War I


OUR ANNUAL', by JOHN GRAHAM BOWER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Up the well-remembered fairway
Subject(s): World War I


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 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, 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 FIGHTING MEN, by ELLA FULLER MAITLAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: The war is like the judgment day
Subject(s): World War I


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 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 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 YOUTH, by ARTHUR HOBSON QUINN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once more, once more into the fire they go
Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I


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


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


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 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


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


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


PADRE, by C. W. BLACKALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: E's a sportsman is our padre
Subject(s): World War I


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


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


PARENTHETICALLY SPEAKING, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, carranza sent a cable
Subject(s): World War I


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


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


PASSOVER, by VIOLET HELEN FRIEDLAENDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The doors of life are two
Subject(s): World War I


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


PATROL, by AUGUST STRAMM    Poem Source                    
First Line: The stones threaten
Last Line: Shrieking %death
Subject(s): World War I


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


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 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 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 (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 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 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: 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


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


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 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


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


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


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


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


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


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'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


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 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


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


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


PLYMOUTH SOUND, by LEONARD NEILL COOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Obedient to the echoed harbour gun
Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I


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 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 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


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


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 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


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


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


PORTSMOUTH BELLS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A lazy sea came washing in
Subject(s): World War I


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


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


PRAYER, by RICHARD ALDINGTON    Poem 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 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 WAR, by W. G. HOLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lord god, ere yet our drums are rolled
Subject(s): World War I


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 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


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


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


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


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


PRIMAL DEATH, by AUGUST STRAMM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Space %time
Last Line: Space %erring %nil
Subject(s): World War I


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


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


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


PROCESSIONAL, by THEODORE MAYNARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall christ not have his chosen men
Subject(s): World War I


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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 LAUCHLAN MACLEAN WATT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Red are the hands of the reapers
Subject(s): World War I


RECALLING WAR, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem 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


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


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


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


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 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-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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


REPRISALS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem 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


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


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


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


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 JR. THEODORE HOWARD BANKS    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I return, let us be very still
Subject(s): World War I


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 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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


RIDERS, by HERMANN HAGEDORN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a rumbling in the graves
Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I


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


RIVERS OF FRANCE, by H. J. M.    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): World War I


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


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


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 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


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


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


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


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 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


RUGBY FOOTBALL, by ERIC F. WILKINSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: You came by last night's mail
Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I


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


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 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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


SALUTATORY, by ANGELE MARAVAL-BERTHOIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our honor 'tis who stay behind
Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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 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


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


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 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


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


SHIPS THAT SAIL IN THE NIGHT, by DYSART MCMULLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hail and farewell
Subject(s): World War I


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 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


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


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


SILENT ARMY, by IAN ADANAC    Poem Source                    
First Line: No bugle is blown, no roll of drums
Subject(s): World War I


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


SIR STANLEY MAUDE, by JAMES GRIFFYTH FAIRFAX    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hail and farewell, across the clash of swords
Subject(s): World War I


SKY SIGNS, by JOHN GRAHAM BOWER    Poem Source                    
First Line: When all the guns are sponged and cleaned
Subject(s): World War I


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 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


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


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


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 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 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'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 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 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: 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 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


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 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; 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


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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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-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


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


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 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 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: 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; 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


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


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


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


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 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 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, 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


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. 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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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 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 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


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


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


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


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


SUPPOSE WAR IS COMING, by ALFRED LICHTENSTEIN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Will rise and shells will explode overhead
Subject(s): World War I


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 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


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


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


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


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


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


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


TERRITORIALS, by AGNES S. FALCONER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where are the lads who went out to the war?
Subject(s): World War I


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


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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 (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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 CZAR'S LAST CHRISTMAS LETTER: A BARN IN THE URALS, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem 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 DANCERS (DURING A GREAT BATTLE, 1916), by EDITH SITWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The floors are slippery with blood
Subject(s): Women; World War I; First World 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 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'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 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 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-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 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-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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 HORSES, by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 LAMENT OF THE DEMOBILIZED, by VERA MARY BRITTAIN    Poem 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 NOBLER ARMY, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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'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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 STORM, by EUGENIO MONTALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The storm that trickles its long march
Subject(s): World War I; First World War


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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 U-BOAT CREWS, by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem 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 UNCHANGEABLE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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


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 WILL BE DREAMS AGAIN, by MABEL HILLYER EASTMAN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): World War I


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


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 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', 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


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 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


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


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


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


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 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


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


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


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


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 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 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 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 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 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 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 WAR POET, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem 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 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, 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 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 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 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 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 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 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, OUR MOTHER, by JAMES A. MACKERETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are your children, o mother
Subject(s): World War I


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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 PRESIDENT, by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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 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


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


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


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


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 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


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


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


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


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


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 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 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 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 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 SONGS: 1, by CECIL DAY LEWIS    Poem 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: 3, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS    Poem 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


ULTIMATE HELL, by FRANKLIN HENRY GIDDINGS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Satan? I am
Subject(s): World War I


UN BEL DI VEDREMO, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem 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


UNCONQUERED HOPE, by GILBERT OLIVER THOMAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: From sea to sea, from shore to shore
Subject(s): World War I


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


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


UNMENTIONED IN DISPATCHES, by HELEN HESTER COLVILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The lowliest combatants are we
Subject(s): World War I


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


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


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.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


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


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


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


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


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


VETERAN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where are my comrades who joined in the first
Subject(s): World War I


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!, by S. J. DUNCAN-CLARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out of the night it leaped the seas
Subject(s): World War I


VIEW-POINTS, by IRA SOUTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: All polished brass and varnished steel
Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I


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 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


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


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


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


W (VIVA): 30, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS    Poem 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


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


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


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 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 FLORENCE EARLE COATES    Poem Source                    
First Line: The serpent-horror writhing in her hair
Subject(s): World War I


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 WILLIAM LIGHTFOOT VISSCHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: By blazing homes, through forests torn
Subject(s): World War I


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 (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 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 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 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 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 HORSE, by L. FLEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the shells are bursting round
Subject(s): World War I


WAR PROFITS, by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem 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 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 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 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 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 YAWP, by RICHARD ALDINGTON    Poem 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'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-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


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


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


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


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 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 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 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 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 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


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


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 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 Text                    
First Line: What grew in joan's garden?
Last Line: God and france and victory
Subject(s): World War I


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 THINK YE?', by W. A. BRISCOE    Poem Source                    
First Line: What are we fighting for, men of my race
Subject(s): World War I


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 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 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


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 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 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


WHILE SUMMERS PASS, by ALINE MIACAELIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Summer comes and summer goes
Subject(s): World War I


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 SLEEPS?, by ELEANOR ALEXANDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Midnight and england; in the curtained room
Subject(s): World War I


WIDOW, by C. M. MITCHELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: My heart is numb with sorrow
Subject(s): World War I


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


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


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


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 WARFARE, by EDGELL A. RICKWORD    Poem 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


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


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


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


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'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


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 TO MEN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: God bless you, lads!
Subject(s): Women; World War I


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


WORLD SERIES OPENED - BATTER UP!, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The outfield is a-creepin' in to catch ...
Subject(s): World War I


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 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


WRITTEN ON SERVICE IN EGYPT, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Behind us in vermilion state
Subject(s): World War I


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


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


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. 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 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 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 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


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


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 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


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


ZONE, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE    Poem 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