A Christian Lament (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A pastor asked me to think about, write about ponder the decision the change in course inexorably to the edge ...
Poems about torture (31 Poems)
Not Who We Are (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
I listen with disbelief at the grim facts our government's choices to abandon justice for a false belief in security ...
Torture (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
WE don't torture, once a clear mantra, creed truth about our nation what we would never do No more, no ...
The Fruits of Torture (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
We are reaping the whirlwind, the fruits of torture, acts committed in our names A loss of identity, our place ...
We Have Become What we Abhor (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Murderous madmen, willing to abuse, to torture, to inflict pain, indiscriminate heartless, oft calculated Unlike us, held up for ridicule, ...
Hey Baby (Maggie Estep Poem)
Liner Notes - (from No More Mister Nice Girl) I was having a foul day. Some geezer harrassed me on ...
Mac Flecknoe (John Dryden Poem)
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
No Rack can torture me (Emily Dickinson Poem)
No Rack can torture me -- My Soul -- at Liberty -- Behind this mortal Bone There knits a bolder ...
The Ladder (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)
"I will arise and go unto my father" MALKUTH Dark, dark all dark! I cower, I cringe. ...
The Ladder (Aleister Crowley Poem)
"I will arise and go unto my father" MALKUTH Dark, dark all dark! I cower, I cringe. ...
The Future (Leonard Cohen Poem)
Give me back my broken night my mirrored room, my secret life it's lonely here, there's no one left to ...
Dejection: An Ode (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
Late, late yestreen I saw the new Moon, With the old Moon in her arms ; And I fear, I ...
Introduction To Poetry (Billy Collins Poem)
I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press ...
Excerpts from “Poetry” (Michael Burch Poem)
Poetry, I found you where at last they chained and bound you; with devices all around you to torture and ...
A poem on divine revelation (Hugh Henry Brackenridge Poem)
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
Frances (Charlotte Bronte Poem)
SHE will not sleep, for fear of dreams, But, rising, quits her restless bed, And walks where some beclouded beams ...
Prisoner, The – (A Fragment) (Emily Bronte Poem)
In the dungeon-crypts, idly did I stray, Reckless of the lives wasting there away; "Draw the ponderous bars! open, Warder ...
The Prisoner (Emily Bronte Poem)
Still let my tyrants know, I am not doomed to wear Year after year in gloom and desolate despair; A ...
The Four Ages of Man (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
1.1 Lo now! four other acts upon the stage, 1.2 Childhood, and Youth, the Manly, and Old-age. 1.3 The first: ...
The Quality of Courage (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
Black trees against an orange sky, Trees that the wind shook terribly, Like a harsh spume along the road, Quavering ...
The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
"Oh yes, I went over to Edmonstoun the other day and saw Johnny, mooning around as usual! He will never ...
The Evenlode (Hilaire Belloc Poem)
Torture will give a dozen pence or more To keep a drab from bawling at his door. The public taste ...
On Torture: A Public Singer (Hilaire Belloc Poem)
Torture will give a dozen pence or more To keep a drab from bawling at his door. The public taste ...
Prometheus (Lord Byron Poem)
Titan! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality, Seen in their sad reality, Were not as things that gods ...
Benediction (Charles Baudelaire Poem)
When, by decree of the supreme power, The Poet appears in this annoyed world, His mother, blasphemous out of horror ...
Before (Robert Browning Poem)
I. Let them fight it out, friend! things have gone too far. God must judge the couple: leave them as ...
Saul (Robert Browning Poem)
I. Said Abner, ``At last thou art come! Ere I tell, ere thou speak, ``Kiss my cheek, wish me well!'' ...
Holy-Cross Day (Robert Browning Poem)
ON WHICH THE JEWS WERE FORCED TO ATTEND AN ANNUAL CHRISTIAN SERMON IN ROME. [``Now was come about Holy-Cross Day, ...
I Don’t Know If You’re Alive Or Dead (Anna Akhmatova Poems)
I don't know if you're alive or dead. Can you on earth be sought, Or only when the sunsets fade ...
89. The Ordination (Robert Burns Poems)
KILMARNOCK wabsters, fidge an' claw, An' pour your creeshie nations; An' ye wha leather rax an' draw, Of a' denominations; ...