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Subject: WORLD WAR I - CANADA
Matches Found: 7

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


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


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


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


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


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


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