How To Not Settle It (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
I LIKE, at times, to hear the steeples' chimesWith sober thoughts impressively that mingle;But sometimes, too, I rather like--don't you?--To ...
Poems about ballot (21 Poems)
South Carolina To The States Of The North (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I LIFT these hands with iron fetters banded:Beneath the scornful sunlight and cold starsI rear my once imperial forehead brandedBy ...
The Negro Ballot (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)
Can America be reckoned as the country of the free?In the light of recent actions 'tis a truth that's hard ...
A Neglected “Woman’s Right” (Madge Morris Wagner Poems)
I have listened to this cry of "Woman's Rights," this clamoringfor the ballot, for redress for woman's wrongs, and I ...
Prejudice (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)
How strangely blind is prejudice, the Negro's greatest foe!It never fails to see the wrong but naught of good can ...
Get Off The Track (J Hutchinson Jr Poems)
Ho! the car EmancipationRides majestic thro' our nation,Bearing on its train the story,Liberty! a nation's glory.Roll it along, thro' the ...
Our Politics (Jared Barhite Poems)
"Purification of politics Is an iridescent dream," Is the Ingalls way of saying that Corruption's power's supreme. Have the people lost their honesty, Has the ...
Amours De Voyage, Canto II (Arthur Hugh Clough Poems)
Is it illusion? or does there a spirit from perfecter ages, Here, even yet, amid loss, change, and corruption abide? ...
John Smith (Eugene Field Poems)
To-day I strayed in Charing Cross as wretched as could be With thinking of my home and friends across the ...
Women Do Not Want It (Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman Poems)
When the woman suffrage argument first stood upon its legs, They answered it with cabbages, they answered it with eggs, ...
Our Black Brudder (C J Dennis Poems)
O, fellow Australians, listen, attend: We must cease our contemptuous swearingAnd cursing and sneering at Bull's colored friend, For our ...
What I Have Seen #5 (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
I saw a Christian, a temperance man,Casting his ballot one day at the polls:One who believes he does what he ...
Another Star (Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman Poems)
There are five a-light before us, In the flag flying o'er us, There'll be six on next election- ...
The Mature Laurel (Cyprian Kamil Norwid Poems)
Only through solitary wars Are future readers won;You will neither dwell in halls In the Temple of your choice, Nor ...
Howl (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
For Carl Solomon I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves ...
Voting (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Putting on my suit, my tie, remembering the sacrifice, the will the honor of those who penned the words of ...
Soul, Wilt thou toss again? (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Soul, Wilt thou toss again? By just such a hazard Hundreds have lost indeed -- But tens have won an ...
Millennium (Ellis Parker Butler Poem)
The great millennium is at hand. Redder apples grow on the tree. A saxophone is in ev'ry band. Brandy no ...
Daisies (Connie Wanek Poems)
In the democracy of daisies every blossom has one vote. The question on the ballot is Does he love me? ...
The Boss of the Admiral Lynch (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Did you ever hear tell of Chili? I was readin' the other day Of President Balmaceda and of how he ...
To the United States Senate (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
And must the Senator from Illinois Be this squat thing, with blinking, half-closed eyes? This brazen gutter idol, reared to ...