How Long (James Monroe Whitfield Poems)
How long, oh gracious God! how long Shall power lord it over right?The feeble, trampled by the strong, Remain in slavery's gloomy ...
Poems about sanctioned (21 Poems)
The New Year (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
THE wave is breaking on the shore,The echo fading from the chime;Again the shadow moveth o'erThe dial-plate of time!O seer-seen ...
To The South (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
ON ITS NEW SLAVERY Heart of the Southland, heed me pleading now, Who bearest, unashamed, upon my brow The long kiss of the ...
The Dream Ring Of The Desert (J Milton Hayes Poems)
THE MERCHANT Abu Khan shunned the customs of his race,And sought the cultured wisdom of the West.His daughter fair Leola ...
A Meditation (Herman Melville Poems)
How often in the years that close, When truce had stilled the sieging gun,The soldiers, mounting on their works, With mutual curious ...
At Nineveh (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Written for my friend Walter S. Mathews. There was a princess once, who loved the slave Of an Assyrian king, her father; ...
Early Rising (John Godfrey Saxe Poems)
"GOD bless the man who first invented sleep!" So Sancho Panza said, and so say I:And bless him, also, that he ...
I. W. W. Prison Song (Ralph Chaplin Poems)
(Tune: "The Red Flag") The pale and dismal daylight falls Through iron bars on prison walls. In chains we came from far and ...
Thy Kingdom Come (John Bowring Poems)
Come Thy kingdom! of all blessings, Of all prayers the first is this;All heaven's hopes,—all earth's possessings, Grace and glory, peace and ...
Israel In Egypt. Book Twentieth. (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
Like a strong youth who, from refreshing sleep After hard travel, rises light of heart, Active of limb, flushed with ...
The Dance To Death. Act II (Emma Lazarus Poems)
ACT II.--At Eisenach.SCENE I. A Room in the LANDGRAVE'S Palace. FREDERICK THE GRAVE and HENRY SCHNETZEN.LANDGRAVE.Who tells thee of my ...
The Revolution (George Meredith Poems)
INot yet had History's Aetna smoked the skies,And low the Gallic Giantess lay enchained,While overhead in ordered set and riseHer ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson (Christopher Pearse Cranch Poems)
OUT of the cloud that dimmed his sunset light,Into the unknown firmament withdrawnBeyond the mists and shadows of the night,We ...
Wellington (Charles Harpur Poems)
Great captain if you will! great Duke! great Slave!Great minion of the crown! - but a great manHe was not! ...
John Heki (Charles Harpur Poems)
Should Switzerland's rude rocks be held the throne Of freedom (sanctioned there by God to quellAll proud ...
from imperfect Eden (Rg Gregory Poem)
(1) and off to scott's (the dockers' restaurant) burly men packed in round solid tables but what the helle (drowned ...
The Opposite Way (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
So sure, anointed for that purpose sanctioned and bless to route them out He was a zealot, crusader to stamp ...
In the Cool of History (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
That day, those days after in the cool of history visible now moments of unity, of resolve frittered away, lost ...
A Day of Prayer (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A national day of prayer, duly designated, sanctioned to pray for our country, our blessings for our leaders, in these ...
Barbs on the Heart (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A monument, long in coming of some open scar tissue a stain on our lives chapter of evil when we ...
The Break Away (Anne Sexton Poems)
Your daisies have come on the day of my divorce: the courtroom a cement box, a gas chamber for the ...