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Subject: COLONIALISM
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` COLONIAL SET, by ALFRED GOLDSWORTHY BAILEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: That wolf, shivering by the palisade
Last Line: Attain a brittle silence.
Subject(s): Colonialism; French & Indian Wars; Longing


EMIGRANT'S SON, by LUIS ANDRADE SILVA    Poem Source                    
First Line: That thin little boy %bundled up to protect himself
Last Line: Can survive %winter %racism %and other miseries!...
Subject(s): Colonialism


EPACTS, by AIME CESAIRE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With a limp gesture the hill sprinkled with dust over
Last Line: I've always rejected the pact of this lagoonal calendar
Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Colonialism


FROM THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies a most elegant captain of colonials
Subject(s): Colonialism


INNER HISTORY (APRIL 19, 1775), by LENA HALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: I know a mother wise as solomon
Last Line: And wise heart linked to heart, we understand.
Subject(s): Colonialism; Great Britain; Revolutions; United States; America


ISLAND AND EUROPE, by LUIS ANDRADE SILVA    Poem Source                    
First Line: From the island to europe %we have journeyed chasing dreams of freedom
Last Line: That entire mob that suck dry our motherland.
Subject(s): Colonialism


MOLASSES REEF WRECK, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: No telling %how many ships
Last Line: Face banishment from these our sovereign %blest shores
Subject(s): Artifacts; Colonialism; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Coral; Disasters; Diving And Divers; Explorers; Seaweed; Shipwrecks; Slavery; Spain; West Indies


OLD LIBERIA IS NOT THE PLACE FOR ME, by JOSHUA MCCARTER SIMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come all ye colonizationists
Last Line: In old america!
Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Colonialism; Liberia; Negroes; American Blacks


SONGS OF NEW SWEDEN: 1.THE COMING OF PRINTZ, by ARTHUR PETERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What flag is that? What ships are they
Last Line: Where printz's hall is built.
Subject(s): Colonialism; Sweden


SONGS OF NEW SWEDEN: 2. PRINTZ'S HALL, by ARTHUR PETERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My heart goes back to rhyme / upon that olden time!
Last Line: Nor rival fears nor knows!
Subject(s): Colonialism; Sweden


SONGS OF NEW SWEDEN: 3. THE SETTLEMENT, by ARTHUR PETERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Give, o ye muses of song, a sketch of old days in / new-sweden
Last Line: When o'er the delaware floated, unchallenged, the flag of christina.
Subject(s): Colonialism; Past; Sweden


ST GEORGE'S DAY, by JOHN DAVIDSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Herbert: I hear the lark and linnet sing
Last Line: Of england and the english spring!
Subject(s): Colonialism; England; Rites & Ceremonies; Spring; English


THE CHAM TOWERS AT DA NANG, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God-faces that once glared at the sun
Last Line: Their great-grandparents could not recollect.
Subject(s): Colonialism; Sculpture & Sculptors; Vietnam


TO HER MAJESTY CAROLINE ON HER ACCESSION TO THE THRONE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An english muse shall close the solemn scene
Last Line: And rocks, and clouds, and trees, in little landskips rise.
Subject(s): Colonialism; Courts & Courtiers; Creative Ability; Great Britain; Love; Praise; Inspiration; Creativity


TO HORROR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dark horror, hear my call!
Last Line: I will behold and smile by mercy's side.
Subject(s): Colonialism; England; Injustice; Missions & Missionaries; Racism; Slavery; Terror; Vengeance; English; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Serfs


WHIP TAIL OF THE ONE-EYED CHIEF, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This motley quilt in oils
Last Line: Stare of lady field hand
Subject(s): Animals; Colonialism; History; Paintings And Painters; Slavery; West Indies; Whips