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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: EQUALITY Matches Found: 39 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ATLANTA EXPOSITION ODE, by MARY WESTON FORDHAM Poem Text First Line: Cast down your bucket where you are Last Line: For all one flag, one flag for all. Subject(s): African Americans - History; Exhibitions; Racial Equality; Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915); Black Heritage; World's Fairs; Expositions BANNEKER, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What did he do except lie / under a pear tree Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Banneker, Benjamin (1731-1806); Mathematics; Racial Equality BIT DIFFERENT, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Things are a bit different in Last Line: Black as a negro baby can be Subject(s): Racial Equality BOY'S RIGHTS, by CARRIE L. MAY Poem Text First Line: I wonder now if any one Last Line: Wrongs will be righted then. Subject(s): Boys; Children; Equality; Prejudice; Childhood; Bias; Intolerance CREDO, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I believe in the ultimate justice of fate Last Line: Is guidance enough for the conduct of men. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Justice; Racial Equality CROATAN, by CHAPMAN JAMES MILLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Addressed as mister; neither white nor red Last Line: That day the man from hartsville called him nigger. Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; Racial Equality EQUALITY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You declare you see me dimly Last Line: Equality, and I will be free Subject(s): Racial Equality EQUALITY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You declare you see me dimly Last Line: Equality, and I will be free Subject(s): Racial Equality EQUALITY, by EVA CAMINSKY Poem Text First Line: The sun that shines in other lands Last Line: Shall do the same for me. Subject(s): Equality; God EQUALITY, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most favored lady in the land Last Line: "I love you,"" I have known it all!" Subject(s): Women; Equality; Love – Nature Of EQUALITY, by RICARDO PAU-LLOSA Poem Source First Line: Piazza, the republic of embrace, free Last Line: Shadow tracing search and loss upon the square Subject(s): Equality FENCE, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once upon a time is what the fence dividing up a mountain range announces, Last Line: Rivers and rock walls the fence crosses and climbs is one stark fact: whether the world ends in fire Subject(s): Equality; Justice; Poetry And Poets FOR A' THAT AND A' THAT; SONG, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is there, for honest poverty Last Line: Shall brothers be for a' that! Variant Title(s): A Man's A Man For A' That;honest Poverty Subject(s): Brotherhood; Class Struggle; Equality; Freedom; Mankind; Poverty; Liberty; Human Race HIDDEN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY, by ROBERT MICHAEL O'HEARN Poem Source First Line: Hidden equal opportunity questionaire Last Line: Ge too big.. Wink! Oink! Wink! Subject(s): Business; Equality HUMAN WISDOM, by WASHINGTON DELGADO Poem Source First Line: When someone talks of the spirit Last Line: And that in some part of heaven %we're all equal Subject(s): Equality; Wisdom MARRIAGE OF BLACK AND WHITE: 4, by TABAN LO LIYONG Poem Source First Line: Marry me Last Line: A world betterworsened by %I-it Subject(s): Racial Equality MATERNAL DESPOTISM; OR, THE RIGHTS OF INFANTS, by RICHARD GRAVES Poem Text First Line: Unhand me nurse! Thou saucy quean! Last Line: Enjoy complete equality. Subject(s): Boys; Children's Rights; Equality; Godwin, Mary Wollenstonecraft (1759-79); Paine, Thomas (1737-1809); Wollenstone, Mary (1759-79) NOT ANY HIGHER STANDS THE GRAVE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A summer's afternoon Subject(s): Equality PARADISE LIGHTNING DAZZLE: 8. EQUIVALENTS, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's `bride' and `bridge,' Last Line: The crashing cataract spews. Subject(s): Equality; Heaven; Language; Paradise; Words; Vocabulary POEM TO NEGRO AND WHITES, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The elevator rises, negro men Last Line: The mutual rescues, quiet, understood. Subject(s): African Americans; Racial Equality; Stock Exchange; Negroes; American Blacks POINT OF ORIGIN, by MAHDY Y. KHAIYAT Poem Source First Line: How could there be Last Line: Of the basement Subject(s): Equality PROLOGUE FOR MR. WOODS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When by a generous public's kind acclaim Last Line: Till fate the curtain drop on worlds to be no more. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Equality; Patriotism RUNES FOR A ROUND TABLE: LIBRA, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One man confronting two Last Line: But the wheel is equal Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Astrology And Astrologers; Equality THE CHANGE, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The season turned like the page of a glossy fashion magazine. Last Line: And we were changed Subject(s): Tennis; Race Relations; Racial Equality THE MAN TO BE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ride a-tilt because Last Line: Your son! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Racial Equality THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 50, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Show me the person who doesn't die Last Line: The pine wind slays with grief Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Death; Equality; Dead, The THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 97, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Steam some sand for your dinner Last Line: Give up this useless struggle Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Equality; Buddha; Buddhists THE RETURN (2), by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The laws of changeless justice bind Last Line: We march to god—abreast. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Equality THE WRECKAGE ON THE WALL OF EGGS, by THYLIAS MOSS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cried over humpty-dumpty Last Line: I think of mynas Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Children; Eggs; Racial Equality; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THEY ARE THE SAME, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God's blessings all are uniform Last Line: A soul, is gathered home. Subject(s): Racial Equality THOUGHT (4), by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of equality - as if harm'd me Last Line: Indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same. Subject(s): Equality TO A LITTLE COLORED BOY, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, pure and sportive little child Last Line: In me you have a friend. Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Racial Equality TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. AMONG THE FERNS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lay among the ferns Last Line: Death shall change as the light 'twixt moonset and dawn. Subject(s): Equality; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Nature TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. WHO YOU ARE I KNOW NOT, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who you are I know not, but I have it before me that you shall know Last Line: Voyaging—and then haply some time we shall meet. Subject(s): Democracy; Equality TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE LAW OF EQUALITY, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You cannot violate the law of equality for long Last Line: And the life which is eternal. Subject(s): Equality TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THESE POPULATIONS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These populations Last Line: The true the human society! Subject(s): Democracy; Equality; Human Rights; Public Opinion TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. UNDERNEATH AND AFTER ALL, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no peace except where I am, saith the lord Last Line: Experience emancipated. Subject(s): Equality; Love WHAT IF OUR NUMBERS BARELY COULD DEFY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of a just god for liberty and right. Subject(s): Power; Justice; Equality WHAT WE WANT, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All hail the dawn of a new day breaking Last Line: We want just dividing of labour and gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Equality; Labor & Laborers; Nations; Work; Workers |
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