On The Abolition Of The African Slave-Trade (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
WHAT blest design in Albion's Council moves,Which earth with pleasure views, and heav'n approves?'Tis a design humanely just and kind,Worthy ...
Poems about free-born (21 Poems)
Do You Hear The Women Praying? (Frances Fuller Victor Poems)
Do you hear the women praying, oh my brothers? Do you hear what words they say? These, ...
Patriotic Song (Ernst Moritz Arndt Poems)
God, who gave iron, purposed ne'er That man should be a slave: Therefore the sabre, sword, ...
Night-Riders (Cale Young Rice Poems)
(This clan of tobacco outlaws in Kentucky during 1907-1908 cast such disgrace on her good name as years will ...
Sachem’s Hill (Eliza Lee Follen Poems)
Here, from this little hillock, in days long since gone by,Glanced over hill and valley the Sachem's eagle eye;His were ...
The Griefs of Ancient Gosh (C J Dennis Poems)
I happened in Gosh on an ancient day,In the land of Glugs far, far away Where the skies are green ...
The Mississippi (Fannie Isabelle Sherrick Poems)
Where is the bard, O river grand and old, That has thy praises sung, thy beauties told, In measures lofty ...
The Mouse’s Petition (Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld Poems)
OH ! hear a pensive captive's prayer,For liberty that sighs;And never let thine heart be shutAgainst the prisoner's cries.For here ...
The Morning Before He Goes to the Gallows (Edward W Williams Poems)
My race of life is almost run, Rings even now the last sad knell,When I must from this whole world ...
Our Cheer (Ernest Jones Poems)
My countrymen! why languish Like outcasts of the earth,And drown in tears of anguish The glory of your ...
The Bondman (Anonymous Americas Poems)
Feebly the bondman toiled,Sadly he wept—Then to his wretched cotMournfully crept;How doth his free-born soulPine 'neath his chain!Slavery! Slavery!Dark is ...
The Delibash (Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin Poems)
With the hostile camp in skirmish Our men once were changing shot,Pranced the Delibash his charger 'Fore our ranks ...
AN ODE OF THE BIRTH OF OUR SAVIOUR (Robert Herrick Poem)
In numbers, and but these few, I sing thy birth, oh JESU! Thou pretty Baby, born here, With sup'rabundant scorn ...
HIS RETURN TO LONDON (Robert Herrick Poem)
From the dull confines of the drooping west, To see the day spring from the pregnant east, Ravish'd in spirit, ...
A NEW YEAR’S GIFT,SENT TO SIR SIMEON STEWARD (Robert Herrick Poems)
No news of navies burnt at seas; No noise of late spawn'd tittyries; No closet plot or open vent, That ...
TO A GOLDEN HEART THAT HE WORE ROUND HIS NECK. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
[Addressed, during the Swiss tour already mentioned, to a present Lily had given him, during the time of their happy ...
The Medal (John Dryden Poem)
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
327. On Glenriddell’s Fox breaking his chain: A Fragment (Robert Burns Poems)
THOU, Liberty, thou art my theme; Not such as idle poets dream, Who trick thee up a heathen goddess That ...
The Lay Of The Bell (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Fast, in its prison-walls of earth, Awaits the mould of baked clay. Up, comrades, up, and aid the birth The ...
Goblin Market (Christina Rossetti Poems)
MORNING and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: "Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy: Apples and quinces, ...
To Christina, Queen of Sweden (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Verses to accompany a portrait of Cromwell Bright Martial Maid, Queen of the frozen zone, The northern pole supports thy ...