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Subject: WORLD WAR I - BELGIUM
Matches Found: 8

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


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


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 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


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 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


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