Contraband (Denise Levertov Poem)
The tree of knowledge was the tree of reason. That's why the taste of it drove us from Eden. That ...
Poems about tyranny (30 Poems)
The Fight at Eureka Stockade (Henry Lawson Poem)
"Was I at Eureka?" His figure was drawn to a youthful height, And a flood of proud recollections made the ...
Wide Lies Australia (Henry Lawson Poem)
Wide lies Australia! The seas that surround her Flow for her unity - all states in one. Never has Custom ...
Endymion: Book II (John Keats Poem)
O Sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm! All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm, And shadowy, through ...
confessions of a fool (Rg Gregory Poem)
(i) i believed in flower-power (the triumph of the meek) the thought that what a wind could bend was not ...
In a More Perfect World – 2 (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
If only we could look forward into time if we had hindsight to guide us to see how the things ...
We Call Them Here (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
"Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning." We call them here hope in these words of welcome, ...
A Christian Manifesto (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
If viewed through the lens of history, of power England as Rome we are the people the oppressed under their ...
The Yoke of Rome (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The independence from Rome through off the yoke of Caesar the king of England would oppress us no more Declaring ...
Challenging Our Understanding (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Even today, as we celebrate the independence of our nation our people separated freed of the oppression tyranny of another ...
That We Would Be (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In the words we share trying to be what we profess wishing the nobler aspects of our creed, our hope ...
Liberty (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Liberty, from tyranny from oppression, for a sovereign across the sea So we began, so we claimed our right in ...
Give us your tired, your poor (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The hope of America, in the words of liberty the hope of a new life, in freedom "Give us your ...
On The Hurricane (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
You have obey'd, you WINDS, that must fulfill The Great Disposer's righteous Will; Throughout the Land, unlimited you flew, Nor ...
Dæmonic Love (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Man was made of social earth, Child and brother from his birth; Tethered by a liquid cord Of blood through ...
Francis Makemie (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
(Presbyter of Christ in Americas 1683-1708) To thee, plain hero of a rugged race, We bring the meed of praise ...
Love’s Deity (John Donne Poems)
I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the God of Love was born: I cannot ...
Tell as a Marksman — were forgotten (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Tell as a Marksman -- were forgotten Tell -- this Day endures Ruddy as that coeval Apple The Tradition bears ...
Abraham to kill him — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Abraham to kill him -- Was distinctly told -- Isaac was an Urchin -- Abraham was old -- Not a ...
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 ...
A poem, on the rising glory of America (Hugh Henry Brackenridge Poem)
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
Prometheus (Lord Byron Poem)
Titan! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality, Seen in their sad reality, Were not as things that gods ...
On Chillon (Lord Byron Poem)
Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty, thou art; For there thy habitation is the heart- The ...
189. Verses on Castle Gordon (Robert Burns Poem)
STREAMS that glide in orient plains, Never bound by Winter's chains; Glowing here on golden sands, There immix'd with foulest ...
390. Song-A Health to them that’s awa (Robert Burns Poems)
HERE'S a health to them that's awa, Here's a health to them that's awa; And wha winna wish gude luck ...
408. Commemoration of Rodney’s Victory (Robert Burns Poems)
INSTEAD of a Song, boy's, I'll give you a Toast; Here's to the memory of those on the twelfth that ...
El Mahdi to the Australian Troops (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
And wherefore have they come, this warlike band, That o'er the ocean many a weary day Have tossed; and now ...
There Are Sounds of Mirth (Thomas Moore Poems)
There are sounds of mirth in the night-air ringing, And lamps from every casement shown; While voices blithe within are ...
Forget Not the Field (Thomas Moore Poems)
Forget not the field where they perish'd, The truest, the last of the brave, All gone -- and the bright ...
Virgin Youth (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
Now and again All my body springs alive, And the life that is polarised in my eyes, That quivers between ...