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Subject: YPRES, BELGIUM
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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


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


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


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


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; 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