Poems about syria (21 Poems)
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Harps Hung Up in Babylon (Arthur Colton Poems)
“THE HARPS hung up in Babylon, Their loosened strings rang on, sang on, And cast their murmurs forth upon The roll and roar of Babylon: “”Forget me, Lord, if I forget Jerusalem for Babylon, If I … Continue reading
Ali Baba Moorshead (Anonymous British Poems)
Jerry had us on the run, the news was far from hot,He had his feet in Egypt and the Sphinx was on the spot,So Auchinleck despondent sent signals out in sheavesTo Ali Baba Moorshead and his twenty thousand thieves.So Leslie … Continue reading
The Jaffa And Jerusalem Railway (Eugene Field Poems)
A tortuous double iron track; a station here, a station there;A locomotive, tender, tanks; a coach with stiff reclining chair;Some postal cars, and baggage, too; a vestibule of patent make;With buffers, duffers, switches, and the soughing automatic brake—This is the … Continue reading
The Twelve (Allen Tate Poems)
There by some wrinkled stones round a leafless treeWith beards askew, their eyes dull and wildTwelve ragged men, the council of charityWandering the face of the earth a fatherless child,Kneel, at their infidelity aghast,For where was it, somewhere in SyriaOr … Continue reading
Yet With What Art (Archbishop William Alexander Poems)
Yet with what art, thro’ what enormous space,With what innumerous threads how deftly plann’d,Silverly separate in the subtle hand,He winds the stories to their central place!Nothing so false as may such art disgrace;But colours here deliberately wann’d,There as of fabled … Continue reading
Handing Over The Gun (Edward Powys Mathers Poems)
Song of Syria. Kill me if you will not love me. Here are flints;Ram down the heavy bullet, little leopard, On the black powder. Only you must not shoot me through the head, Nor touch my heart;Because my head is … Continue reading
The People Shall be Free (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The time may be uncertain but the tide has already turned the peoples of those nations that whole region of the world The people shall be free no matter how soon the world shifting below them freedom on the march … Continue reading
Honest with Our Friends (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Not just attacking, judging our enemies honest with our friends standing with all people Basic freedoms, justice for all speaking out to power straight with them all Ours to share to spread freedoms using our persuasion before we resort to … Continue reading
If We had not been Silent (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
For year upon year for many ages, our leaders presidents of both parties all of them, failing to speak If we had not been silent the world’s superpower would the people have had to rise up would they have had … Continue reading
When They Cried for Freedom (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Too much credit we need to be more humble recognizing the delay how slow we were to act to give them aid to give them comfort holding onto old allegiances not seeing tomorrow When they cried for freedom we should … Continue reading
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