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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: INJUSTICE Matches Found: 40 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 22-AUG-39, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you want to distract your mother from the Last Line: Writers and readers of the liberal weeklies? Subject(s): Injustice; Sacco-vanzetti Case (1921); Speculation A HUN, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He was just a prisoner Last Line: Would never know how bravely a son had died. Subject(s): Courage; Death; Germany; Injustice; Prisoners Of War; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Germans; First World War A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 48, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle Last Line: Oh why did I awake? When shall I sleep again? Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Variant Title(s): Injustice Subject(s): Injustice ABRAHAM LINCOLN WALKS AT MIDNIGHT, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is portentous, and a thing of state Last Line: That he may sleep upon his hill again? Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Injustice; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Patriotism; Peace; Presidents, United States; Social Protest; World War I - United States AN ELEGY ON SIR CHARLES LUCAS AND SIR GEORGE LISLE, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In measures solemn as the groans that fall Last Line: The monuments of their base cruelty. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Great Britain - Civil War; Injustice; Lisle, Sir George (d. 1648); Lucas, Sir Charles; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; English Civil War ANSWER WORLD!, by ANGELA MORGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I believe in armies Last Line: "here am I! Here am I!" Subject(s): Army - United States; Injustice; Justice; Nations; Problems; Social Protest; War AT LAKE DESOLATION, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is about to come up and the regiments lie Subject(s): Death; Injustice; Dead, The AT LAKE DESOLATION, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is about to come up and the regiments lie Last Line: Full of dead strangers Subject(s): Death; Injustice AWAKE!, by WALTHER VON DER VOGELWEIDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Awake! The day is coming now Last Line: Arise! We slept, nor of the peril recked. Subject(s): Injustice DOMINION, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Patrician overthrown Last Line: Except the lyric seers. Subject(s): Earth; Government; Injustice; Order; World ELEGY: THE LITTLE GHOST WHO DIED FOR LOVE; FOR ALLANAH HARPER, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fear not, o maidens, shivering Last Line: "but this old world, is sick and soon must die!" Subject(s): Churchill, Deborah (1678-1708); Ghosts; Injustice; Love; Supernatural FRAGMENT, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hand of fate cannot be stayed Last Line: God is not love, no, god is law. Subject(s): African Americans; Injustice; Slavery; Negroes; American Blacks; Serfs FREEDOM, by JIRINA FUCHSOVA Poem Source First Line: Yes %I am burning Last Line: And burn on I shall %forever Subject(s): Freedom; Injustice GROTESQUE, by RUTH GUTHRIE HARDING Poem Text First Line: With the first light on the skyline came the rapping of the sickles Last Line: "and the fields with harvest teeming have forgot them all too soon!" Alternate Author Name(s): Burton, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Fields; Injustice; Labor & Laborers; Memory; Slavery; United States - Race Relations; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers; Serfs I'LL STAND LAME BEFORE DEAF JUDGES, by NOVICA TADIC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: With the mark of the circular saw on my hand Subject(s): Injustice INSCRIPTION FOR A MONUMENT AT TAUNTON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They perish'd here whom jefferies doom'd to death Last Line: La hogue, the purple ocean dash'd the dead! Subject(s): Death; Injustice; Innocence; Jeffries, Richard (1848-1887); Persecution; Revolutions; Dead, The JERICHO ROAD, by EDWIN MCNEILL POTEAT JR. Poem Source First Line: I know the road to jericho Subject(s): Injustice; Jesus Christ LITOST, by DEBORAH O'HARRA Poem Source First Line: The woman has no eyebrows Last Line: Of a lost nation, keening of an ageless orphan Subject(s): Czechoslovakia; Eyes; Injustice; Nations LOVE DIVINE, by ISABELLE NOYES Poem Text First Line: God of our fathers, see the strife Last Line: So shall his dream of love be mine! Subject(s): Forgetfulness; God; Injustice ON SIR HOME POPHAM'S SENTENCE - 1807, by JANE AUSTEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of a ministry pitiful, angry, mean Last Line: They cannot so suffer, who never do right Subject(s): Injustice RAPINE BRINGS RUINE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's got by justice is establisht sure Last Line: No kingdomes got by rapine long endure. Subject(s): Injustice RED FLAG, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY Poem Text First Line: This is no time for tears, no place for mournful poses Last Line: Our children shall win to freedom; theirs shall pay the score. Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Injustice; War; Dead, The; Liberty ROADSIDE SLAVES TO A NAZI HIGH COURT, by C. J. RONER Poem Source First Line: It's been a nuremburg spring Last Line: While pondering why we're flocking to militias Subject(s): Injustice; Justice SONNET: 66, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Tired with all these, for restful death I cry Last Line: Save that, to die, I leave my love alone. Variant Title(s): The World's Way Subject(s): Death; Injustice; Love; Suicide; Dead, The SOUTHERN JUSTICE, by ED LEE Poem Source First Line: For I have been bitten by more than Subject(s): Injustice STRINGS TO PULL, by LUIS W. RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: You look down upon us now Last Line: "and said in scorn, ""but who are they?" Subject(s): Injustice SUMMER NIGHT-BROADWAY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night is the city's disease Last Line: Looking for children to sing to. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Cities; Injustice; Urban Life SUPERFLUOUS, by JACK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: No, you shall not be hurt Last Line: And why you, except as its wearer, are superfluous Subject(s): Injustice THAT GOD MADE, by WILL HERFORD Poem Source First Line: This is the earth that god made Subject(s): Injustice; Religion THE ANARCHIST, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The district attorney snaps his jaws Last Line: No, not more graft. Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Injustice; Law & Lawyers; Attorneys THE CORN HUSKER, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Hard by the indian lodges, where the bush Last Line: Like the dead husks that rustle through her hands. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Corn; Injustice; Labor & Laborers; Metaphor; Native Americans; Weariness; Work; Workers; Similes; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Fatigue THE CRIMINALITY OF WAR, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One to destroy is murder by the law Last Line: War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Fame; Injustice; Murder; Social Protest; War; Reputation THE RADICAL, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stand for the man Last Line: I can at least suffer a little on their account. Subject(s): Injustice THE SNOW STORM, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nature unfettered by man's civic need Last Line: Great god! Is this the world for which christ bled? Subject(s): Class Struggle; Injustice; Snow THREE CROSSES, by EVA WARNER Poem Text First Line: Three ancient crosses on a hill Last Line: Their victims (dust now) challenge still. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crucifixion; Injustice; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion 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 WAR, by ARTHUR JOHN ARBUTHNOTT STRINGER Poem Text First Line: From hill to hill he harried me Last Line: Who'd wronged not mine nor me! Alternate Author Name(s): Arbuthnott, John Subject(s): Injustice; Murder; Social Protest; Soldiers; War WAR!, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "war - a dirty, loathesome, servile murder-job" Last Line: Because he made them in his image Subject(s): Death;injustice;military;social Protest;soldiers;war; "dead, The; WHOLE WHEAT, DECAF BLACK, A MORBID CURIOSITY (VERSION 1), by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We study the paper, fingers darkening Last Line: What was she wearing Subject(s): Christianity; Injustice WHOLE WHEAT, DECAF BLACK, A MORBID CURIOSITY (VERSION 2), by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We study the paper, fingers Last Line: And then what happened Subject(s): Christianity; Injustice |
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