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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LETTER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis over, moses! All is lost!
Last Line: "than laborers in new hampshire""!"
Subject(s): Elections; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Hale, John Parker (1806-1896); New Hampshire; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Antislavery Movement - United States


A SONG FOR THE TIME, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up, laggards of freedom! - our free flag is cast
Last Line: For earth wearies of them and god's over all!
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Fremont, John Charles (1813-1890); Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; Serfs


A SONG: INSCRIBED TO THE FREMONT CLUBS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath thy skies, november!
Last Line: What may not four years do?
Subject(s): Elections; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Fremont, John Charles (1813-1890); Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Antislavery Movement - United States


AMERICA, by JAMES MONROE WHITFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: America, it is to thee
Last Line: The wrongs we bear shall be redressed.
Subject(s): Americans; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; United States; Antislavery Movement - United States; America


ASTRAEA AT THE CAPITOL; ABOLITION SLAVERY, DISTRICT COLUMBIA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When first I saw our banner wave
Last Line: Of judgment fringed with mercy's light!
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Washington, D.c.; Antislavery Movement - United States


BARTOW BLACK, by TIMOTHY THOMAS FORTUNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas when the proclamation came
Last Line: There was no need to stay!
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Racism; Antislavery Movement - United States; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


BOSTON HYMN; READ IN MUSIC HALL, JANUARY 1, 1863, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The word of the lord by night
Last Line: His way home to the mark.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Americans; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Patriotism; Pilgrim Fathers; United States - History; United States; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; America


BURIAL OF BARBER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bear him, comrades, to his grave
Last Line: Of the freedom of the west!
Subject(s): Barber, Thomas; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Funerals; Kansas; Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Burials; Serfs


CHIVALRY AND SLAVERY, SELECTION, by JOHN BURKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: It chanced that in a southern state
Last Line: * * *
Subject(s): American Civil War; Cruelty; Death; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Slavery; United States - History; Dead, The; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs


EMANCIPATION, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Fling out your banners, your honors be bringing
Last Line: Onward to honor, to glory and fame.
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States


EMANCIPATION, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis a time for much rejoicing
Last Line: God is with us now, forever.
Subject(s): African Americans; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Negroes; American Blacks; Antislavery Movement - United States


EMANCIPATION IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, APRIL 16, 1862, by JAMES MADISON BELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Unfurl your banners to the breeze!
Last Line: Hath lighter grown by marching on.
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Washington, D.c.; Antislavery Movement - United States


FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath the burden of our joy
Last Line: Turned out the war-cloud's light to thee.
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States


FREEDOM AT MCNEALY'S, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All around old chattanooga
Last Line: As you would a faithful horse.
Subject(s): African Americans; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Negroes; American Blacks; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty


FREEDOM OF THE MIND, by WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: High walls and huge the body may confine
Last Line: And in its watches wearies every star.
Variant Title(s): The Free Mind;freedom For The Mind;sonnet Written In Prison;liberty
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty


GARRISON, by AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Freedom's first champion in our fettered land
Last Line: Survived, -- its ruin and our peace to see.
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Garrison, William Lloyd (1805-1879); Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty


GARRISON, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The storm and peril overpast
Last Line: A hand to set the captive free!
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Garrison, William Lloyd (1805-1879); Antislavery Movement - United States


HENRY WARD BEECHER, by CHARLES HENRY PHELPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: His tongue was touched with sacred fire
Last Line: Wherever men lay bound he clave.
Subject(s): Beecher, Henry Ward (1813-1887); Clergy; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Politics & Government; Writing & Writers; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Antislavery Movement - United States


HOW LONG?, by JAMES MONROE WHITFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How long, o gracious god! How long
Last Line: Exult in glorious liberty.
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States


HOWARD AT ATLANTA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Right in the track where sherman
Last Line: A joy and blessing!
Subject(s): Atlanta, Georgia; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Howard, Oliver Otis (1830-1909); Antislavery Movement - United States


HYMN .. CELEBRATION OF 3RD ANNIVERSARY BRITISH EMANCIPATION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O holy father! Just and true
Last Line: Be praise and glory evermore.
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States


HYMN AFTER THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Giver of all that crowns our days
Last Line: With peace on earth, good-will to men!
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States


HYMN FOR THE CELEBRATION OF EMANCIPATION AT NEWBURYPORT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not unto us who did but seek
Last Line: To whom be glory, first and last!
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Newburyport, Massachusetts; Antislavery Movement - United States


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 CHARLES FREMONT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy error, fremont, simply was to act
Last Line: But the full time to harden into things.
Variant Title(s): To John C. Fremont
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Fremont, John Charles (1813-1890); Missouri; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty


LAUS DEO!, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is done! / clang of bell and roar of gun
Last Line: Who alone is lord and god!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; God; Patriotism; United States - History; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty


LE MARAIS DU CYNGE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A blush as of roses
Last Line: The march of the day.
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Marais Du Cygne (river), Kansas; Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs


LECOMPTON'S BLACK BRIGADE, by CHARLES GRAHAM HALPINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Single-handed, and surrounded by lecompton's
Last Line: Through all the coming years.
Alternate Author Name(s): O'reilly, Miles
Subject(s): Democratic Party (u.s.); Douglas, Stephen A. (1813-1861); Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Political Conventions; Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs


LINES ADDRESSED TO MRS. H.B. STOWE ON HER VISIT TO GLASGOW, 1853, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lady, to thee, to fortune, and to fame
Last Line: Shall meet thee—not on earth; our goal's the sky.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896); Temperance; Antislavery Movement - United States; Prohibition


LINES TO MARY ELLIOT FLANERY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As your eager eyes peruse
Last Line: Live long your principles to prove.
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States


MOLOCH IN STATE STREET, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon has set: while yet the dawn
Last Line: God of the free!
Subject(s): Boston; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Pilgrim Fathers; Antislavery Movement - United States


NEW HAMPSHIRE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: God bless new hampshire! From her granite peaks
Last Line: What one brave state hath done, can ye not also do?
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; New Hampshire; Antislavery Movement - United States


O SOUTHLAND!, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O southland! O southland!
Last Line: The faint one at his side.
Subject(s): African Americans; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Southern States; Negroes; American Blacks; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; South (u.s.)


ON THE DEATH OF CHARLES T. TORREY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Woe worth the hour when it is crime
Last Line: His mercy to the oppressor's heart.
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Torrey, Charles Turner (1813-1846); Antislavery Movement - United States


PAEAN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, joy and thanks forevermore!
Last Line: The signal-call that freedom makes!
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States


POEM COMPOSED FOR .. THE VIGILANT COMMITTEE OF PHILADELPHIA, by DANIEL ALEXANDER PAYNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rise, god of freedom! From thy throne of light
Last Line: "be free! Be free! Ye ransomed lands, be free!"
Subject(s): African Americans; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Slavery; United States; Negroes; American Blacks; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs; America


PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S PROCLAMATION OF FREEDOM, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It shall flash through coming ages
Last Line: Break the refulgent on the sight.
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States


SONNET: 23. WENDELL PHILLIPS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He stood upon the world's broad threshold; wide
Last Line: Through all the wide-spread veins of endless good.
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Phillips, Wendell (1811-1884); Antislavery Movement - United States


SONNET: 26. TO J. R. GIDDINGS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Giddings, far rougher names than thine have grown
Last Line: With a base dread that clings to them forever.
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Giddings, Joshua Reed (1795-1864); Antislavery Movement - United States


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


THE BIGLOW PAPERS: 5. THE DEBATE IN THE SENNIT, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here we stan' on the constitution, by thunder!
Last Line: Thet slavery's airth s grettest boon,' sez he.
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; United States - Congress - Senate; Antislavery Movement - United States


THE BLACK SAMPSON, by JOSEPHINE DEPHINE HENDERSON HEARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's a sampson lying, sleeping in the land
Last Line: By his mighty arm his rights shall be obtained!
Subject(s): African Americans; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Slavery; Negroes; American Blacks; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; Serfs


THE CALL TO FREEMAN, by MOSES OWEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: But for three hundred thousand of freeman true and brave
Last Line: That freedom's fires shall brighter glow -- that men can yet be free.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Slavery; U.s. - History; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; 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 DEATH OF SLAVERY, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O thou great wrong, that, through the slow-paced years
Last Line: Dwell thou, a warning to the coming times.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; Declaration Day


THE DEFENSE OF LAWRENCE [SEPTEMBER 14, 1856], by RICHARD REALF    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: All night upon the guarded hill
Last Line: The pulses of the grass.
Variant Title(s): The Defence Of Lawrence
Subject(s): Courage; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Kansas; Slavery; Valor; Bravery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs


THE EMANCIPATION GROUP, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Amidst thy sacred effigies
Last Line: And righteousness than wrong.
Subject(s): Boston; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Antislavery Movement - United States


THE FIGHT OVER THE BODY OF KEITT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "sing, o goddess, the wrath, the ontamable dander of keitt"
Last Line: "like to heralds of old, stepped the sergeant-at-arms and the speaker"
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation;kansas;slavery;u.s. - Congress; Antislavery Movement - United States;serfs


THE FREED ISLANDS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A few brief years have passed away
Last Line: "to new-world tyrants, old-world kings!"
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; West Indies; Antislavery Movement - United States; British Empire; England - Empire; Caribbean Islands


THE HOUSE OF BONDAGE, by AUGUSTINE JOSEPH HICKEY DUGANNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: From mossy woods and cypress bolls
Last Line: O god! Break not mine oath for me!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; United States - History; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty


THE HUSBAND'S RETURN, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The proud, majestic southern sun
Last Line: And lit with joy his way.
Subject(s): African Americans; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Negroes; American Blacks; Antislavery Movement - United States


THE JUBILEE SINGERS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Voice of a people suffering long
Last Line: And slavery's every wrong undone!
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States


THE KANSAS EMIGRANTS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We cross the prairie as of old
Last Line: The homestead of the free!
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Homesteaders; Kansas; Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs


THE LITTLE CLOUD, by JOHN HOWARD BRYANT    Poem Text                    
First Line: As when, on carmel's sterile steep
Last Line: The blessed liberty of god.
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Missouri Compromise; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty


THE MAUL, by MARY E. NEALY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I saw a boy in a black-jack wood
Last Line: Write half of its toil and glory.
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Antislavery Movement - United States


THE MORAL WARFARE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When freedom, on her natal day
Last Line: The light, and truth, and love of heaven.
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty


THE NEW YEAR; ADDRESSED TO PATRONS OF PENNSYLAVNIA FREEMAN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wave is breaking on the shore
Last Line: A new and happy year.
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Holidays; New Year; Antislavery Movement - United States


THE PANORAMA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the long hall the shuttered windows shed
Last Line: And shame his poor word with your nobler deed.
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; Serfs


THE PASTORAL LETTER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So, this is all, - the utmost reach
Last Line: Shall deeper joy be felt in heaven!
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States


THE PINE TREE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lift again the stately emblem on the bay state's rusted shield
Last Line: And to plant again the pine-tree in her banner's tattered field!
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Massachusetts; Pine Trees; Trees; Antislavery Movement - United States


THE PROCLAMATION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Saint patrick, slave to milcho of the herds
Last Line: And heal with freedom what your slavery cursed.
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Patrick, Saint (5th Century); Presidents, United States; Antislavery Movement - United States


THE RELIC, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Token of friendship, true and tried
Last Line: And turn the spoiler from his prey.
Subject(s): Arson; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Antislavery Movement - United States


THE SLAVE-MONGERS' CONVENTION: CANTO 2, SELECTION, by J. P. RANDOLPH    Poem Text                    
First Line: My brethren, most beloved and dear
Last Line: Your whips --
Subject(s): American Civil War; Bible; Clergy; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Slavery; U.s. - History; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs


THE SPIRIT VOICE; OR, LIBERTY CALL TO THE DISENFRANCHISED, by CHARLES L. REASON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come! Rouse ye brothers, rouse! A peal now breaks
Last Line: From partial bondage to a life indeed.
Subject(s): African Americans; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Toussaint L'ouverture (1743-1803); Negroes; American Blacks; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty


THE TWILIGHT HOUR, by JOSHUA MCCARTER SIMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As I sat one evening in sweet meditation
Last Line: The captive from bondage, will shortly release.
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States


THE WORLD'S CONVENTION OF FRIENDS OF EMANCIPATION IN LONDON, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, let them gather! Summon forth
Last Line: The fire shall fall from heaven!
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States


TO DELAWARE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thrice welcome to thy sisters of the east
Last Line: Glory and praise to god! Another state is free!
Subject(s): Delaware; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States


TO FANEUIL HALL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Men! If manhood still ye claim
Last Line: Up, to faneuil hall!
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Faneuil Hall, Boston; Antislavery Movement - United States


TO MASSACHUSETTS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What though around thee blazes
Last Line: Was sleeping, but not dead!
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Massachusetts; Antislavery Movement - United States


TO PENNSYLVANIA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O state prayer-founded! Never hung
Last Line: And thy triumphal song.
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Pennsylvania; Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs


TO THE FIRST OF AUGUST, by ANN PLATO    Poem Text                    
First Line: Britannia's isles proclaim
Last Line: That they may not depart.
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; British Empire; England - Empire; Serfs


TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS DAVIS, by JOHN FISHER MURRAY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: When on the field where freedom bled
Last Line: For slaves and cowards living on.
Subject(s): Davis, Thomas Osborne (1814-1845); Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs


TO WILLIAM E. CHANNING, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The pages of thy book I read
Last Line: This dread apocalypse!
Subject(s): Channing, William Ellery (1780-1842); Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States


TO WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Champion of those who groan beneath
Last Line: And god alone be lord!
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Garrison, William Lloyd (1805-1879); Antislavery Movement - United States


TREASON'S LAST DEVICE, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sons of new engaland in the fray
Last Line: But you -- do you hear it, yankee boys?
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States


WENDELL PHILLIPS, by AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: People's attorney, servant of the right
Last Line: Impartial history dare not leave thee out.
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Phillips, Wendell (1811-1884); Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty


WENDELL PHILLIPS, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What shall we mourn? For the prostrate tree that sheltered the
Last Line: Union was traitor to right!
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Phillips, Wendell (1811-1884); Antislavery Movement - United States


WHAT OF THE DAY?, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A sound of tumult troubles all the air
Last Line: Flailed by the thunder, heaped with chaffless grain!
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States


WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a small chamber, friendless and unseen
Last Line: Ye earn the crown, and wear it not in vain.
Variant Title(s): To William Lloyd Garrison
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Garrison, William Lloyd (1805-1879); Politics & Government; Antislavery Movement - United States