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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: COLONIALISM Matches Found: 16 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 |
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