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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ANTI-SLAVERY Matches Found: 75 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN APPEAL TO WOMEN, by SARAH LOUISA FORTEN Poem Text First Line: Oh, woman, woman, in thy brightest hour Last Line: Upon the altar of immortal fame. Alternate Author Name(s): Ada Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Women; Anti-slavery; Serfs BROWN OF OSSAWATOMIE [DECEMBER 2, 1859], by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John brown of ossawatomie spake on his dying day Last Line: To love! Subject(s): Abolitionists; American Civil War; Brown, John (1800-1859); Capital Punishment; Freedom; Slavery; United States - History; Anti-slavery; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Liberty; Serfs DANIEL NEALL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend of the slave, and yet the friend of all Last Line: And feel how true a man has walked with us on earth. Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs DEATH OF CHARLES FOLLEN, by JOHN PIERPONT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, not for thee weep; we weep Last Line: But thy pure spirit is in bliss. Subject(s): Abolitionists; Follen, Charles (1796-1840); Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs EPISTLE TO WILLIAM WILBERFORCE, ESQ. .. BILL ABOLISHING SLAVE TRADE, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cease, wilberforce, to urge thy generous aim! Last Line: Tells how you strove, and that you strove in vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Wilberforce, William (1759-1833); Anti-slavery; Serfs EXPOSTULATION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our fellow-countrymen in chains! Last Line: Shall call an answer down from heaven! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Follen, Charles (1796-1840); Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs FOLLEN: ON READING HIS ESSAY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend of my soul! As with moist eye Last Line: On him whose dearest name is love! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Follen, Charles (1796-1840); Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS' SAKE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The age is dull and mean. Men creep Last Line: The safe appeal of truth to time! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs GEORGE L. STEARNS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He has done the work of a true man Last Line: "good and faithful, enter in!" Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Stearns, George Luther (1809-1867); Anti-slavery; Serfs GOOD-BYE! OFF FOR KANSAS, by JOHN WILLIS MENARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good-bye ye bloody scenes of long ago Last Line: I'll sing and give the good lord thanks! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Kansas; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs HOW MARY GREW, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With wisdom far beyond her years Last Line: Is just to grow -- as mary grew! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Women; Anti-slavery; Serfs HYMN FOR THE AFRICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY, by JOHN PIERPONT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With thy pure dews and rains Last Line: The lord of lords! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs HYMN FOR THE FIRST OF AUGUST, by JOHN PIERPONT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where britannia's emerald isles Last Line: Shout for slavery's overthrow! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs HYMN WRITTEN FOR THE MEETING OF THE ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou, whose presence went before Last Line: The glorious freedom of the just! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs I WOULD NOT LIVE ALWAYS, by JOHN PIERPONT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would not live always; I ask not to stay Last Line: And, free from his master, the slave be at peace. Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs IN BONDS, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While shines the sun, the storm even then Last Line: Grows pitiful, and snaps the chain. Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs IN REMEMBRANCE OF JOSEPH STURGE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the fair land o'er watched by ischia's mountains Last Line: Transfigured into love! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Sturge, Joseph (1793-1859); Anti-slavery; Serfs JOHN BROWN, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men silenced on his faithful lips Last Line: Settled forever on his head! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs JOHN BROWN, by HARRY LYMAN KOOPMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea-bound landsman looking back to shore Last Line: Our tossing bark of progress sunward steers. Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs JOHN BROWN, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: John brown died on the scaffold for the slave Last Line: Freedom reigns to-day! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Variant Title(s): The President's Proclamation Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Capital Punishment; Freedom; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Liberty; Serfs JOHN BROWN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Writ in between the lines of his life-deed Last Line: God! How the merest man loves one like that! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs JOHN BROWN, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though for your sake I would not have you now Last Line: I shall have more to say when I am dead. Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs JOHN BROWN OF OSAWATOMIE [OCTOBER 16, 1859], by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John brown in kansas settled, like a steadfast yankee farmer Last Line: May trouble you more than ever, when you've nailed his coffin down! Variant Title(s): How John Brown Took Harper's Ferry;john Brown At Harper's Ferry;how Old John Brown Took Harper's Ferry Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Harpers Ferry, West Virginia; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; Serfs JOHN BROWN'S BODY, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They came on to fish-hook gettysburg in this way, after this fashion Last Line: And the strange south moved against you, lean members lost in the corn Subject(s): Abolitionists; American Civil War; Brown, John (1800-1859); Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Slavery; United States - History; Anti-slavery; Gettysburg, Battle Of; Serfs JOHN BROWN'S BODY, by CHARLES SPRAGUE HALL Poem Text First Line: John brown's body lies a-mould-ring in the grave Last Line: Hip, hip, hip, hip, hurrah! Variant Title(s): Glory Hallelujah! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Freedom; Patriotism; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Liberty; Serfs JOHN BROWN'S BODY (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: John brown's body lies a-mould'ring in the grave Last Line: "now has come the glorious jubilee, / when all mankind are free" Subject(s): "abolitionists;brown, John (1800-1859);freedom;slavery;war;" Anti-slavery;liberty;serfs JOHN BROWN: A PARADOX, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Compassionate eyes had our brave john brown Last Line: In the old broken heart of our hanged john brown! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs JOHN BROWN; MEMORIAL TO BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've been to palestine Last Line: Old john brown. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Abolitionists; African Americans; Brown, John (1800-1859); Consolation; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Negroes; American Blacks; Serfs KANSAS, by GLEN BAKER Poem Text First Line: This land of undulating prairies Last Line: To roll across the national sky. Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Kansas; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs LEGGETT'S MONUMENT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, pile the marble o'er him! It is well Last Line: Of the brave heart beneath, but of the builders' shame! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Leggett, William (1801-1839); Monuments; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs LETTER FROM A MISSIONARY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last week - the lord be praised for all his mercies Last Line: Amen: so mote it be. So prays your friend. Subject(s): Abolitionists; Kansas; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs LINES FROM A LETTER TO A YOUNG CLERICAL FRIEND, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A strength thy service cannot tire Last Line: Shall, childlike, claim the love of thee! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs LINES ON THE DEATH OF S. OLIVER TORREY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone before us, o our brother Last Line: And thy spirit ours! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Torrey, S. Oliver; Anti-slavery; Serfs LINES WRITTEN AFTER THE DEPARTURE OF JOSEPH STURGE, by ELIZABETH H. WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair islands of the sunny sea! Midst all rejoicing things Last Line: Who here walked with the multitude, and sat at meat with all! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Sturge, Joseph (1793-1859); Anti-slavery; Serfs MASSACHUSETTS (2), by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And have they spurned thy word Last Line: Its lightest whisper shall be heard. Subject(s): Abolitionists; Massachusetts; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs ODE, BY THE CONSTITUENTS OF JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, by JOHN PIERPONT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not from the bloody field Last Line: New life to give. Subject(s): Abolitionists; Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848); Presidents, United States; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs OLD OSAWATOMIE, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John brown's body under the morning stars Last Line: On a six-foot stage of dust. Subject(s): Abolitionists; American Civil War; Brown, John (1800-1859); Slavery; U.s. - History; Anti-slavery; Serfs PENNSYLVANIA HALL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not with the splendors of the days of old Last Line: Its consecration unto freedom's god! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Arson; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs PLYMOUTH ROCK, by JOHN PIERPONT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Escaped from all the perils of the sea Last Line: Ne'er let them wear, o god, or forge a bondman's chains! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs POEMS ON THE SLAVE TRADE: 1, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hold your mad hands! For ever on your plain Last Line: And calls, to share the prey, his kindred demon war. Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs POEMS ON THE SLAVE TRADE: 2, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why dost thou beat thy breast and rend thine hair Last Line: And bless with liberty and death the slave! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs POEMS ON THE SLAVE TRADE: 3, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh he is worn with toil! The big drops run Last Line: A sable brother writhes in silent woe. Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs POEMS ON THE SLAVE TRADE: 4, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis night the mercenary tyrants sleep Last Line: And weeps for him who will return no more. Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs POEMS ON THE SLAVE TRADE: 5, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did then the bold slave rear at last the sword Last Line: But sweetens with revenge, the draught of death. Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs POEMS ON THE SLAVE TRADE: 6, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High in the air exposed the slave is hung Last Line: "against the deep damnation of your deed." Variant Title(s): "high In The Air Exposed The Slave Is Hung""; Subject(s): Abolitionists; Freedom; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Liberty; Serfs PRAYER FOR THE SLAVE, by JOHN PIERPONT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Almighty god! Thou giver Last Line: A vast, a ransomed host! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs PRAYER OF THE ABOLITIONIST, by JOHN PIERPONT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We ask not that the slave should lie Last Line: That the wrong-doer may repent. Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs RANTOUL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day, along the electric wire Last Line: "by following where he led the way!" Subject(s): Abolitionists; Rantoul, Robert (1805-1852); Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs RITNER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank god for the token! One lip is still free Last Line: "our country and liberty! God for the right!" Subject(s): Abolitionists; Pennsylvania; Ritner, Joseph (1780-1869); Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs SANSON AGONISTES; DECEMBER 2, 1859, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You bound and made your sport of him, philistia! Last Line: Hark! How the rafters bend and swerve and shake! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs STANZAS FOR THE TIMES, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is this the land our fathers loved Last Line: One voice shall thunder, we are free! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs SUMNER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mother state! The winds of march Last Line: Shall longest pause at sumner's name! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Sumner, Charles (1811-1874); Anti-slavery; Serfs THE BATTLE OF CHARLESTOWN, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fresh palms for the old dominion! Last Line: There's an end of old john brown! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Capital Punishment; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Serfs THE CHAIN, by JOHN PIERPONT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it his daily toil that wrings Last Line: His chain. Subject(s): Abolitionists; Freedom; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Liberty; Serfs THE CROSS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cross, if rightly borne, shall be Last Line: Shall rise with bloom and fruit at last. Subject(s): Abolitionists; Friends, Religious Society Of; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Quakers; Serfs THE DAY AFTER THE WAR, by JAMES MADISON BELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twelve score of years were long to wait Last Line: A part, and help in the distress? Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs THE FUGITIVE SLAVE'S APOSTROPHE TO THE NORTH STAR, by JOHN PIERPONT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Star of the north! Though night winds drift Last Line: Nor heed the eagle screaming o'er it! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs THE GAG, by JOHN PIERPONT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! Children of the granite hills Last Line: Nor can ye cry for help, -- ye're gagged! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Atherton, Charles G.; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs THE LIBERTY BELL, by JOHN PIERPONT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The liberty bell - the liberty bell Last Line: To both tyrant and slave, in that day of the lord! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Liberty Bell; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs THE LOST STATESMAN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As they who, tossing midst the storm at night Last Line: Till bound, dumb millions there shall see them and rejoice. Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Wright, Silas (1795-1847); Anti-slavery; Serfs THE PORTENT, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hanging from the beam Last Line: The meteor of the war. Subject(s): Abolitionists; American Civil War; Brown, John (1800-1859); Slavery; Social Protest; United States - History; Anti-slavery; Serfs THE REPEAL OF THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE CONSIDERED, SELECTION, by ELYMAS PAYSON ROGERS Poem Text First Line: The covetous nebraskaites Last Line: For god's predictions must prevail. Subject(s): Abolitionists; Kansas; Legislation; Missouri; Nebraska; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs THE TOSCIN, by JOHN PIERPONT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wake! Children of the men who said Last Line: God of the free, let me go with her! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs THE VIRGINIA SCAFFOLD; JOHN BROWN, DECEMBER 2, 1859, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rear on high the scaffold-altar! All the world will turn to see Last Line: And his sowing find its reaping in the birthday of the free! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Abolitionists; American Civil War; Brown, John (1800-1859); Slavery; Social Protest; U.s. - History; Anti-slavery; Serfs THE YANKEE GIRL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sings by her wheel at that low cottage-door Last Line: "in fetters with them, than in freedom with thee!" Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs TO ABOLITIONISTS, by JOHN PIERPONT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Servants of god most high Last Line: The proud shall envy, and the good shall cherish. Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs TO CONGRESS, by JOHN PIERPONT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What! Our petitions spurned! Last Line: Look to your move! Your stake! -- ye're warned. Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs TO JOHN BROWN, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We lift a song to you across the day Last Line: Until the judgment! Sentinel his rest! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs TO THE MEMORY OF CHARLES B. STORRS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast fallen in thine armor Last Line: And the anthem of the free. Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Storrs, Charles B.; Anti-slavery; Serfs TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS SHIPLEY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone to thy heavenly father's rest! Last Line: The spirit to its worship going! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs TO WILLIAM H. SEWARD, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Statesman, I thank thee! And, if yet dissent Last Line: And the peacemaker be forever blest! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Seward, William Henry (1801-1872); Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs UNCHAIN THE LABORER, by JOHN PIERPONT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strike from that laborer's limbs his chain! Last Line: And wait, in hope, the judgement day. Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs WHAT STATE STREET SAID TO SOUTH CAROLINA ..., by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Muttering 'fine upland staple,' 'prime sea island finer,' Last Line: "blind in that pestilent anakim, sumner!" Subject(s): Abolitionists; Boston; Slavery; South Carolina; Sumner, Charles (1811-1874); Anti-slavery; Serfs WILLIAM FORSTER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The years are many since his hand Last Line: Who touched the prophet's grave! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Forster, William (d. 1854); Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs WORDS FOR THE 'HALLELUJAH CHORUS', by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: John brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave Last Line: His soul is marching on. Variant Title(s): John Brown's Body Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Freedom; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Liberty; Serfs |
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