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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: JUSTICE Matches Found: 278 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHAINE OF PEARLE: THE SIXTH PEARLE. JUSTICE, by DIANA PRIMROSE Poem Text First Line: Her justice next appears, which did support Last Line: Are the maine pillers of romes hierarchy. Subject(s): Catholics; Fables; Justice; Pearls; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Allegories A MAIDEN'S DREAM, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Methought, in slumber as I lay and dreamt Last Line: That I awoke and start out of my dream. Subject(s): Fortitude; Hospitality; Justice; Prudence; Religion; Temperance; Wealth; Caution; Theology; Prohibition; Riches; Fortunes A MARCHING SONG, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We mix from many lands Last Line: Live, for the truth is living; wake, for night is dead. Subject(s): England; Justice; Marching & Marches; English A PASSOVER HYMN FROM THE HAGGADA, by J. F. Poem Text First Line: O! Speed'ly build thy temple shrine Last Line: All humankind entwine. Subject(s): Jews; Justice; Passover; Judaism A PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: God of justice save the people Last Line: In the bonds of brotherhood. Subject(s): Faith; Freedom; Justice; Prayer; Belief; Creed; Liberty A PROLEGOMENON TO A THEODICY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This the mortared stone Subject(s): Evil; Justice A ROUGH RHYME ON A ROUGH MATTER; THE ENGLISH GAME LAWS, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The merry brown hares came leaping Last Line: On the side of the white chalk hill. Variant Title(s): The Bad Squire Subject(s): Adversity; Hunting; Justice; Hunters AD ASTRA: 82, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: We judge from our own standpoint-that of sin! Last Line: Nor weigh the mind, its motive or its bent. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Justice AD ASTRA: 90, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: His covenant had never been withdrawn Last Line: The covenant of the promise was reveal'd. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Justice AFTER COURT MARTIAL, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mind is not my mind, therefore Last Line: Not I the king of babylon. Subject(s): Babylon; Military Justice; World War I; Courts Martial; First World War AGAIN THEY SURROUND THEE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of olden time, when it came to pass Last Line: And still iscariot plies his trade Subject(s): Justice; Social Protest ALCATRAZ, by ROBERTA BALFOUR Poem Text First Line: Ceaseless the searchlight scans the restless seas Last Line: Or stem the rips small boats still dread to ride? Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Justice; Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts ALTON LOCKE'S SONG, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep, weep, weep and weep / for pauper, dolt and slave! Last Line: Who shall stay it? Variant Title(s): People's Song;'my Last Words' Subject(s): Chartism; Freedom; Justice; Liberty AMORETTI: 12, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day I sought with her heart-thrilling eyes Last Line: Against your eies that justice I may gaine. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Justice ANDRE'S LAST REQUEST [OR, REQUEST TO WASHINGTON] [OCTOBER 1, 1780], by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not the fear of death Last Line: By a soldier's death! Subject(s): American Revolution; Andre, John (1750-1780); Capital Punishment; History; Military Justice; Presidents, United States; Soldiers; Washington, George (1732-1799); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Historians; Courts Martial ANOTHER, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me say this finally Last Line: My dear. Subject(s): Justice; Poetry & Poets 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 ANTIGONE: THE HIGHER COMMAND, by SOPHOCLES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Knew'st thou the edicts which forbade these things? Last Line: When first they sprang to being Subject(s): Justice ARSENIC EATER, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: I was the needlewoman bound to him Last Line: The white granules %in his stomach could not argue Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Innocence; Justice; Law And Lawyers; Trials ART, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give to barrows, trays and pans Last Line: Of human sense doth overfill. Variant Title(s): Make Tomorrow A New Morn! Subject(s): Justice AS A STRONG BIRD ON PINIONS FREE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful world of new, suberber birth, that rises to my eyes Subject(s): Freedom; Justice AT THE WORKERS' BENCHES, by RAYMOND JOSEPH KRESENSKY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The great machines go whirling around Subject(s): Justice BALLADE OF MISERY AND IRON, by GEORGE+(1) CARTER Poem Source First Line: Haggard faces and trembling knees Subject(s): Justice BECAUSE HE WAS A MAN, by JOHN PIERPONT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why has that friend of man and god Last Line: Or he'll have risen Subject(s): Justice; Social Protest BEFORE, by MARY SINTON LEITCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before I brand a brother Last Line: "the road I go." Subject(s): Justice BEFORE SENTENCE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To-night, though every kind of poison sap Last Line: And thine enslaving amour with the slav! Subject(s): Courage; France; Honor; Justice; Trials; Waiting; Weariness; Valor; Bravery; Fatigue BEGGAR IN PARADISE, by VERNE BRIGHT Poem Source First Line: My soul was beggar at the thron of god Subject(s): Justice BEING WALKERS WITH THE DAWN, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Being walkers with the sun and morning Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Variant Title(s): Walkers With The Daw Subject(s): Justice BEYOND THE BREAKERS, SELS., by GEORGE STERLING Poet's Biography Subject(s): Justice BLACK MEN, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Text First Line: Swift gusts of hollow night wind clatter by Last Line: A bitter scorn for those who hung them there. Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): African Americans; Justice; Lynching; Negroes; American Blacks BOOK OF SELF', SELS., by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poet's Biography Subject(s): Justice BREAD AND ROSES, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As we come marching, marching, in the Last Line: But a sharing of life's glories: bread and roses, bread and roses! Subject(s): Justice; Labor Unions; Social Protest; Strikes; Labor Disputes; Lockouts BREAD LINE, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Well, here they are-they stand and stamp Subject(s): Justice BREAKING THE MOLDS, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Source First Line: We are breaking up the molds Subject(s): Justice BUILDERS, by ROBERT WHITAKER Poem Source First Line: Not in the dream of yesterday is found Subject(s): Justice BUSINESS, by CHARLES GRANVILLE HAMILTON Poem Source First Line: All of the boxes and cartons of glass Subject(s): Justice CAROL [SONG] OF OCCUPATIONS', SELS., by WALT WHITMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Justice CHALLENGE OF THE TILLERS, by RICHARD WARNER BORST Poem Source First Line: Ye say to us, 'tis we who feed the world Subject(s): Justice CHANT SUNG IN DARKNESS, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though the fool - the old gainsayer Last Line: To raise them is for you. Subject(s): God; Justice; Questions CHINA TOWN, SAN FRANCISCO, by DON MAITLAND BUSHBY Poem Source First Line: Here are the faces of women %young women Subject(s): Justice CHRIST'S COMING, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: The peoples long have waited Last Line: Exalt his holy name! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Judgment Day; Justice; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man CID: PART 3, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Justice, king! Last Line: Than utter words Subject(s): Cid, El (1043-1099); Ferdinand `the Catholic,' King Of Spain; Justice CITY COMRADESHIP, by ANNA LOUISE STRONG Poem Source First Line: Face on face in the city, and when will Alternate Author Name(s): Anise Subject(s): Justice CITY OF THE LIGHT (1), by FELIX ADLER Poem Source First Line: Hail the glorious golden city %pictured by the seers of old! Last Line: It will merge into the splendors %of the city of thr light Variant Title(s): The City Of Our Hop Subject(s): Cities; Future Life; Justice; Religion CITY OF THE LIGHT (2), by FELIX ADLER Poem Source First Line: Have you heard the golden city %mentioned in the legends old? Last Line: It will merge into the splendors %of the city of the light Subject(s): Cities; Future Life; Justice; Religion COLLECTION, by ERNEST HOWARD CROSBY Poem Source First Line: I passed the plate in church Last Line: Tables of the money-changers, waiting to be overturned Subject(s): Justice; Poverty; Social Protest CONCERNING USURY, by KORAN Poem Source First Line: To him who is of kin to thee give his due Alternate Author Name(s): Quran Subject(s): Justice CONSCRIPTS OF THE DREAM, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give thanks, o heart, for the high souls Subject(s): Justice CONSCRIPTS OF THE DREAM, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give thanks, o heart, for the high souls Subject(s): Justice COURTLY CLERIHEWS, by NEIL LOMBARDI Poem Source First Line: Mr. Justice scalia Last Line: We brook no investigations of this court.' Subject(s): Justice; Law And Lawyers 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 DANNY DEEVER, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: What are the bugles blowin' for?' said files-on-parade Last Line: After hangin' danny deever in the mornin'. Variant Title(s): Files-on-parade Subject(s): Army Life; Bugles; Capital Punishment; Military Justice; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Soldiers; War; Drills & Minor Tactics; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Courts Martial DAWN AFTER CHRISTMAS, by ELIAS LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Hag-haunted men who stare too long at rivers Subject(s): Justice DIALOGUE BETWEEN GHOST AND PRIEST, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the rectory garden on his evening walk Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Ghosts; Justice DIALOGUE OF LIBERALS (1940), by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: Violence like a blank sure-footed beast Last Line: Lest we forget our subtler strengths as men Subject(s): Fights; Justice; Libertarianism DOMESDAY BOOK: THE JURY DELIBERATES, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The jurymen are seated here and there Last Line: Your names, and I'll return it to the clerk. Subject(s): Death; Justice; Life; United States; Dead, The; America DOMESDAY BOOK: THE VERDICT, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An inquisition taken for the people Last Line: To look on arielle, who had written him. Subject(s): Death; Justice; Dead, The DREYFUS, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man stood stained! France was one alp of hate Last Line: And shrug the shoulder for reply to god. Subject(s): Dreyfus, Alfred (1859-1935); Jews; Justice; Judaism EARTHLY COURSE OF JUSTICE, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: We learned it in this way Last Line: Da vinci dissecting a womb Subject(s): Books; Justice; Knowledge; Lucretius (99-55 B.c.); Wisdom EASTER CHILDREN, by ELSA BARKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Christ the lord is risen!' Subject(s): Justice ECCLESIASTES: THE TEARS OF THE OPPRESSED, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Then I returned and saw all oppressions Last Line: But they had no comforter Subject(s): Justice ENGLAND, ARISE! THE LONG, LONG NIGHT IS OVER, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Silent now so long: %england is risen! - and the day is here Subject(s): Freedom; Justice ENGLAND: AN ODE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sea and strand, and a lordlier land than sea-tides rolling and rising sun Last Line: Sea. Subject(s): England; Justice; Sea; English; Ocean EQUAL JUSTICE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the mantuan law, the old chronicle faith Last Line: Our host had been hung when he sold his bordeaux. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Hospitality; Jokes; Justice; Wine EQUITY--?, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The meanest man I ever saw Last Line: The blame' gran'-jury's sent over the road. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Cruelty; Justice FACES, by CYPRUS R. MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: Each morning, faces, faces, faces Subject(s): Justice FAILURES, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Source First Line: Salute, if you will, pioneers of the air Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Justice FALL GUYS, by WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE Poem Source First Line: It's been hell all day Last Line: Rich, why ain't they smart? Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Justice 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 FIFTH AVENUE, 1915, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The motor cars go up and down Subject(s): Justice FLEET STREET ECLOGUES, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, too, for light the world explore Subject(s): Justice FOR MUMIA ABU-JAMAL: ON PENNSYLVANIA'S DEATH ROW, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Panting underneath the rhododendrons Last Line: Are jamming the lines in mumia's behalf Subject(s): Freedom; Justice; Poetry And Poets FRATERNITY, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day, I saw an unknown woman stand Last Line: You think me pity ... Justice is my name. Subject(s): Angels; Justice; Mankind; Women & Religion; Worship; Human Race FULFILLING, by MACKNIGHT BLACK Poem Source First Line: Life will finish the work you are doing Subject(s): Justice GIRL STRIKE-LEADER, by FLORENCE KIPER FRANK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A white-faced, stubborn little thing Subject(s): Justice GOD IS A COWBOY WHO RIDES A LAME HORSE, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: Burroughs fondled me in the store's back room Last Line: Recuperate my straggling hair, my breached life Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Insanity; Jealousy; Justice; Murder; Trials; Unfaithfulness GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: A DIALOGUE BETWEEN JUSTICE AND MERCY, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Offended justice comes in fiery rage Last Line: If thou in mercies mercy put thy trust. Subject(s): Justice; Mercy; Puritans In Literature GREAT IS JUSTICE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Justice GROANS OF WOUNDED SOULS, by MOSHARREF OD-DIN IBN MOSLEH OD-DIN SADI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Take heed that he weep not; for the throne Alternate Author Name(s): Saadi Subject(s): Justice GUARDIANS OF A HOLY TRUST, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Justice HAMMER AND NAILS, by KENNETH WIGGINS PORTER Poem Source First Line: O carpenter of nazareth Subject(s): Justice HEARSAY, by ALLEN BRADEN Poem Source First Line: So few are left that know your story Last Line: And propped up by the pot-bellied stove? %a dozen take the credit Subject(s): Justice; Memory HO-HO OF THE GOLDEN BELT, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A beautiful maiden was little min-ne Last Line: With wicked ho-ho of the golden belt! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crime & Criminals; Justice; Murder HONOUR'S APPEAL TO JUSTICE, by OLIVA WARD BUSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unjust, untrue, is he who dares Last Line: For right and right alone we plead. Alternate Author Name(s): Bush-banks, Oliva Ward Subject(s): African Americans; Justice; Slavery; Negroes; American Blacks; Serfs HOPE, by MARTHA J. HADLEY Poem Text First Line: When the dark shadows fall Last Line: As heretofore. Subject(s): Hope; Justice; Truth; Optimism HOW FAR, O RICH, DO YOU EXTEND, by AMBROSE Poem Source Subject(s): Justice HOW LONG, O LORD!, by THOMAS HENRY HALL CAINE Poem Source First Line: Look down, o lord, look down. Are the Subject(s): Justice HOW?, by LEE SPENCER Poem Source First Line: How do they live who never see the sky Subject(s): Justice HYMN FOR EQUAL SUFFRAGE, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They have strewn the burning hearths of man with / darkness and with mire Last Line: When mothers of men are free. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Elections; Human Rights; Justice; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Feminism HYMN OF HALSTED STREET, by BRENT DOW ALLINSON Poem Source First Line: When the young moon faints over halsted Subject(s): Justice I AM THE IMMIGRANT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Since the dawn of creation my restless Subject(s): Justice IF YOUR HANDS BE FULL OF BLOOD, by PETER FOLGER Poem Source First Line: Of later time there had been some Last Line: All this will never do Subject(s): Justice; Social Protest IMMEDIATES, by CHARLES TORY BRUCE Poem Text First Line: Immediates? Let us take for text Last Line: "to tell us what immediates are." Subject(s): Justice IMMIGRANT MADONNA, by HELEN DWIGHT FISHER Poem Source First Line: This christmastide, america, I bring to Subject(s): Justice IN A TWO MILLION DOLLAR CHAPEL, by RICHARD M. STEINER Poem Source First Line: Brave bastion of a faith outworn Subject(s): Justice IN DEAR VENDOME, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My des autels, whose true Last Line: Your friend, ronsard. Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Justice; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Wind; World; Paradise INCANTATION, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Human reason is beautiful and invincible Last Line: Their enemies have delivered themselves to destruction Subject(s): Justice; Reason; Truth INCENTIVE, by SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a sickly cellar plant Subject(s): Justice INNOCENT ONES WHO COME AFTER, by WALTER RAUSCHENBUSCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O god, we pray thee for those who come Subject(s): Justice INSCRIPTION, by EDWARD WHARTON Poem Source First Line: I got two friends to help me set is up in the night Last Line: For vengeance cry Subject(s): Justice; Social Protest INTERNATIONALE, by EUGENE POTTIER Poem Source First Line: Arise, ye prisoners of starvation! Subject(s): Justice INVINCIBLE VANQUISHED, by KATHRYN WRIGHT Poem Source First Line: Though written vanquished, they will Subject(s): Justice INVOCATION, by DAVID GEORGE PLOTKIN Poem Source First Line: Lord, give us strength! Subject(s): Justice ISAIAH: 'GOOD TIDINGS UNTO THE MEEK', by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: The lord hath anointed me to preach good ... Last Line: And they shall repair the waste cities Subject(s): Justice ISAIAH: 'YOUR HANDS ARE FULL OF BLOOD', by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Hear the word of the lord, ye rulers of Last Line: Your hands are full of blood Subject(s): Justice ISAIAH: LEGISLATORS, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Woe unto them that decree unrighteous Last Line: Where will ye leave your glory? Subject(s): Justice; Legislation ISAIAH: PALACES, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Woe unto you who despise the humble Subject(s): Justice JAMES: EPISTLE, by NEW TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Go to now, ye rich me, weep and howl Last Line: For the coming of the lord draweth nigh Subject(s): Justice JOB: PROSPERITY, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Thou hast taken pledges of thy brother for Last Line: And the arms of the fatherless have been broken Subject(s): Justice JUDGE NOT, by JOHN FRANCIS GLYNN Poem Source First Line: A wreck? Who gave you right to judge? Oh ... Subject(s): Justice JURY DUTY, CRIMINAL COURT, by MARTHA MODENA VERTREACE Poem Source First Line: In the holding pen, one hundred of us %wear paper badges, white letters on red Last Line: The congealed yolk hardly over-easy. %one dozen minus one, and counting Subject(s): Boredom; Justice JUSTICE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Enthroned upon the mighty truth Last Line: Would be oppression in disguise. Subject(s): Justice JUSTICE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All around the house huge elms and oaks Subject(s): Cicadas; Elm Trees; Justice; Oak Trees JUSTICE, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, what is justice? Say, Last Line: "nothing is mine!'" Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Justice JUSTICE, by W. R. RODRIGUEZ Poem Source First Line: A youth grabbed an old woman's purse fat with tissues and aspirin and Last Line: Plants she would get a ticket for littering I suppose Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Justice; Police JUSTICE (2), by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O dreadfull justice, what a fright and terrour Last Line: Against me there is none, but for me much. Subject(s): Justice JUSTICE (UNCIVILISED AND CIVILISED), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ling-tso ah sin; on murderer's flat Last Line: For thee, though not for us, ah sin! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Australia; Justice; Murder; Sin JUSTICE FOR WOMANKIND, by WILLIAM DUDLEY FOULKE Poem Source First Line: Slowly the gates of opportunity Subject(s): Justice L'HOMME MACHINE, by HELEN SEAMAN Poem Source First Line: Stoking, stoking, stoking Subject(s): Justice LAUGHTER, by MARY CRAIG SINCLAIR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The autumn sun is shining, round and gay Alternate Author Name(s): Sinclair, Upton, Mrs. Subject(s): Justice LEAN GRAY RATS OF HUNGER, by SKIPWITH CANNELL Poem Source Subject(s): Justice LEGAL MURDER, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Away with legal murder! Must the man Last Line: This legal murder — crime of crimes to-day! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; Justice; Murder; Dead, The LES MISERABLES, SELS., by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Friends, the hour in which we live, and in Subject(s): Justice LET MAN SERVE LAW FOR MAN, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Justice LIFE IS A FEAST, THEY SAY, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source Subject(s): Justice LIKE PATTERN, LIKE PEOPLE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the height of justice, that to doe Last Line: Or to the good, or evill action. Subject(s): Justice LINES WRITTEN IN A LADY'S POCKET-BOOK, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grant me, indulgent heaven, that I may live Last Line: Till slave and despot be but things that were. Subject(s): Justice LOST JOY, SELS., by RUTH LE PRADE Poem Source First Line: We toil in the dark coal mines underground Subject(s): Justice MAKE OF MAN THE STATUE, THE PRICELESS PIECE OF ART, by ANGELA MORGAN Poem Source Subject(s): Justice MAN THE SOCIAL CREATOR', SELS., by HENRY DEMAREST LLOYD Subject(s): Justice MAN UNDER THE STONE, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I see a workingman with mouths to feed Subject(s): Justice MAN, THE IMAGE OF GOD, by PENINA MOISE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Exult, my soul, in consciousness proud Last Line: Like these, by singing e'er his praise. Subject(s): God; Jews; Justice; Mankind; Praise; Judaism; Human Race MARTYRS OF HUMANITY, by WALTER RAUSCHENBUSCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We praise thee, almighty god, for thine Subject(s): Justice MASSES, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the mountains I wandered and saw blue haze and red crag and was amazed Last Line: Humble ruins of nations. Variant Title(s): The Poor Subject(s): Justice MAY DAY REFLECTIONS, by JOHN CONSTANTINE MASTOR Poem Source First Line: The crescendoing cry Last Line: The question remains: %when? Subject(s): Justice MEDITATIONS FOR EVERY DAY IN PASSION WEEK: WEDNESDAY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Justice demandeth satisfaction' - yes Last Line: Itself restor'd,—not any thing in lieu. Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Justice; Religion; Theology MENAGERIE, by UPTON BEALL SINCLAIR Poem Source First Line: Oh come, ye lords and ladies of the realm Subject(s): Justice MILL CHILDREN, by JOHN CURTIS UNDERWOOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We have forgotten how to sing: our Subject(s): Justice MINE SONG, by E. FALKOWSKI Poem Source First Line: I am the dreamless dark of the mines Subject(s): Justice MY COUNTRY, by JULIO ORTEGA Poem Source First Line: The young men of the nineteen hundreds Last Line: And you who will move the stones Subject(s): Bourgeoisie; Guerrillas; Justice; Peru MY RELIGION, by LEO (LEV) NIKOLAYEVICH TOLSTOY Poem Source First Line: What is the law of nature? Is it to know Subject(s): Justice; Religion MY TOWN IS A CATHEDRAL, by EDGAR FRANK Poem Source First Line: The walks are its aisles Subject(s): Justice NEW ENGLAND LAMENTED, SELS., by JOHN SAFFIN Poem Source First Line: Some of thy judges in superior courts Last Line: In evil times the prudent hold their peace Subject(s): Justice; Social Protest NEW ROME, by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand starve, a few are fed Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas Subject(s): Justice NINEVEH, SELS., by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O nineveh, thy ream is set Subject(s): Justice NO PAROLE TODAY, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: A shadow of smoke passed Last Line: A thousand men uncapped themselves behind barbed wire and smoke Subject(s): California; Justice; Native Americans; Prisons And Prisoners; Racism; Riots NO RESTING PLACE, by TAI CHI TAO Poem Source First Line: The pastor says: 'happiness of the flesh' Subject(s): Justice NOBLER ORDER, SELS., by STANTON COIT Poem Source First Line: For still the new transcends the old Subject(s): Justice O HEART, by MAURICE ROWNTREE Poem Text First Line: O heart, that beats with every human heart Last Line: And thus, through thee, unite with all mankind. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Justice OFFICER BRADY; THE MODERN RECRUIT, by ROBERT WILLIAM CHAMBERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sez alderman grady Last Line: "like a loonytick goat! Whurroo!'" Subject(s): Justice; Police ON SEEING A PICTURE OF CHRIST IN A JUNK SHOP, by MARION W. WILDMAN Poem Source First Line: I walked today, along a city street Subject(s): Justice ON THE WAY TO WORK, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA Poem Source First Line: Since when did angels start taking showers Last Line: Her grazie. There is no law greater than kindness Subject(s): Justice ON, SONS OF TOIL, WITH BRAIN AND BRAWN, by THORNTON OAKLEY Poem Source Subject(s): Justice OUR DAILY BREAD, by RITA BENTON Poem Source First Line: Give us this day our daily bread Subject(s): Justice OUR TRADE, by ROBERT GATES Poem Source First Line: We have given our days to iron and steel Subject(s): Justice OUT OF THE COALFIELDS [MINING PLACES], SELS., by FREDERICK C. BODEN Poem Source First Line: Beauty never visits mining places Subject(s): England; Justice OUTSIDE THE COURTROOM, by NINA E. CROWLEY Poem Source First Line: Let me see him, %we talk Last Line: They have more rights than I do. %it was a good sprinkler Subject(s): Death; Justice PLOWMEN, by HOWARD MCKINLEY CORNING Poem Source First Line: God made a race of plowmen Subject(s): Justice POEMS OF WEST HAM, SELS., by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: From a high place I saw the city Subject(s): Justice POVERTY, by ALCAEUS OF MYTILENE Poem Source First Line: The worst of ills, and hardest to endure Alternate Author Name(s): Alkaios Subject(s): Justice PRAYER FOR SPRING, by SYLVIA HILL Poem Source First Line: Let the spring sun creep close to those Subject(s): Justice PRAYER FOR THE TIMES, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Redeemer of nations, burster of prison gates Subject(s): Justice PRAYER OF THE POOR, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: For the joy of cool, green places Subject(s): Justice PRICE OF SUGAR, by FRANCES B. WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: A summer under open skies Subject(s): Justice; Sugar PRIDE, by HENRY HARRISON Poem Source First Line: We are proud of death,' sacco said Subject(s): Justice; Pride; Sacco-vanzetti Case (1921) PRIDE IN POETRY, by CONFUCIUS Poem Source First Line: Riches and honor are what men desire Alternate Author Name(s): Chung-ni; K'ung Ch'iu Subject(s): Justice PRIEST AND LEVITE, by EDWARD SHILLITO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They were a pattern to their age Subject(s): Justice PRISON, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Source First Line: The prison stands upon a hill Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Justice PROFIT OR LOSS, by WILLIAM B. GILBERT Poem Source First Line: In massive gothic majesty it stands Subject(s): Justice PROLEGOMENON TO A THEODICY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This the mortared stone Last Line: The sapphire snow %hryca hryca nazaza Subject(s): Evil; Justice PROP, by FRANCES B. WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: This twig- %all bent and broken Subject(s): Justice PROVINCIALISM, by AUBERT EDGAR BRUCE Poem Source First Line: I judge all the dagoes by tony cattini Subject(s): Justice PSALM 58 (VERSION 2), by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: You that in judgment sitt Last Line: As each mans good or ill deserves. Subject(s): Flattery; Justice PUBLIC SERVANT OF THE GODS, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am primarily engaged to myself Subject(s): Justice REALIZATION, by BETH CHENEY-NICHOLS Poem Source First Line: Into the woods I wandered Subject(s): Justice REDEMPTION, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: Loving man, I have wearied of the ways of man Subject(s): Justice RENUNCIATION, by FANNY BIXBY SPENCER Poem Source First Line: Give me the crown of thorns; let fair and Subject(s): Justice REVOLUTION, by RICHARD WAGNER (1813-1883) Poem Source First Line: Unhappy man! Uplift thine eyes, look up to Subject(s): Justice ROADBLOCK, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Justice has been rerouted Last Line: It's forgotten common sense Subject(s): Justice 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 RULERS, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The world is led by men whom it has slain Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): Justice RUSSIAN IMMIGRANT GRANDMOTHER, by FANNY BIXBY SPENCER Poem Source First Line: As wrinkled as the windswept firth Subject(s): Justice SAD SIGHT OF THE HUNGRY, by LI HUNG CHANG Poem Source First Line: Twould please me, gods, if you would spare Subject(s): Justice SEEDLINGS, by MARY CRAIG SINCLAIR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My mother was a sweat-shop slave, her breast Alternate Author Name(s): Sinclair, Upton, Mrs. Subject(s): Justice SEEKING CAUSES, by PLATO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Neither drugs nor charms nor burnings will Subject(s): Justice SHE WHO IS TO COME, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman-in so far as she beholdeth Last Line: Is she who is to come! Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Justice; Women's Rights; Feminism SISTERS BENEATH THE CONCRETE, by CARLOS CORTEZ KOYOKUIKATL Poem Source First Line: I have never been on the streets of prague Last Line: To the follies and hopes %of our kind! Subject(s): Freedom; Justice; Social Problems; Tyranny And Tyrants SISTERS IN PERPETUAL MOTION, by ROBIN BECKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Urban wanderers Last Line: The cops broke down the door of an empty house to find her Subject(s): Justice SMILE WHEN YOU SAY THAT, by EDMUND CONTI Poem Source First Line: Any jury of peers %would quickly convict us Last Line: You with your sneers, %me with my rictus Subject(s): Justice SMOKE AND STEEL, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Smoke of the fields in spring is one Subject(s): Courage; Justice; Steel; Valor; Bravery SMOKE AND STEEL, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Smoke of the fields in spring is one Subject(s): Courage; Justice; Steel SNOW-WHITE DOVE: HAPLESS, HELPLESS, AND FORLORN, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: I prepared a tasty coffee for you Last Line: Darling, not in north carolina Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Innocence; Justice; Murder; Poisons And Poisoning; Trials SOCIAL JUSTICE, by ERNEST BRADLEY Poem Text First Line: There is a voice within each citizen Last Line: A world with more of love and less of gold. Subject(s): Justice; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SOCIETY, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I looked and saw a splendid pageantry Last Line: The revellers above them thronged and prest. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Justice SOCIETY OF MEN, by RAYMOND JOSEPH KRESENSKY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I found the holy spirit in the noise of Subject(s): Justice SOMEWHERE ADOWN THE YEARS THERE WAITS A MAN, by ROBERT WHITAKER Poem Source Subject(s): Justice SONG OF LABOR, by WILL MAJOR MAUPIN Poem Source First Line: I have builded your towns and cities Subject(s): Justice SONNETS FROM 'AMERICA AND ENGLAND IN DANGER OF WAR: 5, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: First of mankind bid we our eagles pause Last Line: Shall warm thy hearthstone from their million homes. Subject(s): England; Justice; English SPIRIT OF BROTHERHOOD, by GIUSEPPE MAZZINI Poem Source First Line: The law of god is one, as god is one ... Subject(s): Justice STANZAS TO AN ALIEN, SELS., by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought you wrong to come so far Last Line: You'll see them to the devil drive Subject(s): Justice; Social Protest STRANGE JUSTICE, by HARRY WATNIK Poem Source First Line: Our freedom each day is sliced Last Line: Off to arrest a boy for tagging Subject(s): Justice STREET WINDOW, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pawn-shop man knows hunger Last Line: They tell stories. Subject(s): Justice STREETS OF GOLD, by EARL BIGELOW BROWN Poem Source First Line: I hope that the streets of heaven Subject(s): Justice SULTAN'S JUSTICE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mistress of the brothel can neither read nor Last Line: Us and we are helpless against its poison Subject(s): Justice; Prostitution SURF OF THE SLUMS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: From the ominous vast of the city's deep Subject(s): Justice THAT DAY, by MAREK BATEROWICZ Poem Source First Line: That day Last Line: If you were trying to close them Subject(s): Government; Military; Military Justice; Poland; War THE ANGEL OF TRUTH, by LEOPOLD STEIN Poem Text First Line: Once th' omnipotent maker of world without end Last Line: And his sovereign law all his creatures obey. Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Jews; Justice; Paradise; Judaism THE CANON OF AUGHRIM, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You ask me of english honour, whether your nation is just! Last Line: Ridge and furrow of grass, the graves of our women and men. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Great Britain - Politics & Government; Justice; Law & Lawyers; Nations; War; Attorneys THE CONFERENCE, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Grace said in form, which sceptics must agree Last Line: Who lives to reason, and who dies a man. Subject(s): Conscience; England; Justice; Politics & Government; Reason; Virtue; English; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE CRY OF THE AGE, by HAMLIN GARLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What shall I do to be just? Last Line: My heart is aflame to be right. Subject(s): Justice; Prayer; Religion; Theology THE DAY; NOVEMBER 11, 1918, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not as they planned it or will plan again Last Line: Who still are blind awhile, facing the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Freedom; Justice; Navy - United States; Veterans Day; War; Liberty; American Navy THE DEATH OF HALLIGAN, by ALEXANDER FORBES Poem Text First Line: Ho, men pile up the firewood Last Line: Such deeds of blood and shame. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Hunting; Justice; Murder; Punishment; Dead, The; Hunters THE DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS, by CHARLES T. HICKEY Poem Text First Line: A king came out of his palace Last Line: The monarch who rose from the clay. Subject(s): Justice THE EIGHTH ODE OF THE SECOND BOOK OF HORACE IMITATED, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If ever justice with her iron hand Last Line: Debauch'd, like danäe, with a golden show'r? Subject(s): Deception; Great Britain; Horace (65-8 B.c.); Justice; Plagiarism; Poetry & Poets; Revenge THE FIRES OF GOD, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time gathers to my name Last Line: And stormed the secret beauty of the world. Subject(s): Justice THE HALL OF JUSTICE, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take, take away thy barbarous hand Last Line: And say, 'my saviour, I repent!' Subject(s): Justice THE LASS OF ISLINGTON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There was a lass of islington Last Line: About his pipe of wine Subject(s): Alcohol & Alcoholics;justice THE LAWGIVER'S BOAST, by SOLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I gave the commons their sufficient meed Last Line: And gave to neither unjust victory. Subject(s): Justice THE LAWYER AND JUSTICE, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love! Thou divinest good below Last Line: Till hardwicke sooth'd her into grace. Subject(s): Fables; Justice; Law & Lawyers; Men; Women; Allegories THE MAN UNDER THE STONE, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I see a workingman with mouths to feed Subject(s): Justice THE MARSEILLAISE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A band a-playing a few sooty rods Last Line: Not france alone, but man! Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; France; French Revolution (1789); Hope; Justice; National Songs; Optimism; National Anthems THE MILLENNIUM, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ask for no mild millennium Last Line: Stagnation and sin shall be there as surely as they are deep in our hearts. Subject(s): Justice THE MOUNTAIN IS STRIPPED, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I no longer have to declare myself Last Line: The mountain is stripped Subject(s): Justice; Self-control; God THE NEW MILLENNIUM; A VISION IN THE STRAND, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The jaded light of late july Last Line: The new, the true millennium! Subject(s): Justice; Law & Lawyers; Millenium; Socialism; Attorneys THE ORDEAL, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the golden city and the sea Last Line: Across the sounding threshold of the sea. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Family Life; Justice; Longing; Love; Marriage; Rites & Ceremonies; Torture; Tragedy; Unfaithfulness; Violence; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE PACK, by J. A. PETERSON Poem Text First Line: Have you shuddered to think Last Line: For their law is of tooth and of fang. Subject(s): Justice; Law & Lawyers THE PEASANT AND THE SHEEP, by IVAN ANDREEVICH KRILOFF Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A peasant haled a sheep to court Last Line: The carcase comes to me, and he will get the skin.' Subject(s): Justice THE PLEASANT TETE-A-TETE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The isle of saint eustatia, which the dutch Last Line: Of anguish, rage, oaths, bullying, and bluster. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Islands; Justice THE POTTER AND HIS CLAY, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold the potter and the clay Last Line: The glory of his righteousness. Subject(s): Evil; Justice; Pottery And Potters THE PRESENT CRISIS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a deed is done for freedom, through the broad earth's aching breast Last Line: Blood-rusted key. Subject(s): Freedom; Justice; Religion; United States; Liberty; Theology; America THE REED, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As when the poet, muttering low Last Line: "come,"" said she, ""sing thy reed-song through the world." Subject(s): Civilization; Criticism & Critics; Justice; Music & Musicians; Nations; Poetry & Poets; United States; America THE RIOT, OR HALF A LOAF IS BETTER THAN NO BREAD, by HANNAH MORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come neighbors, no longer be patient and quiet Last Line: So he threw down his pitchfork and went to his work. Subject(s): Justice; Riots THE SENTENCE OF JOHN L. BROWN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! Thou who seekest late and long Last Line: The smile of god is victory. Subject(s): Justice; Love - Cultural Differences; Slavery; Southern States; Serfs; South (u.s.) THE SILENT WARRIORS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The sun shone in at the window Last Line: Whose mandates the world shall obey Subject(s): Justice;truth;war THE THREE LAWS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love is the golden law Last Line: Joining for aye! Subject(s): Anger; Justice; Love THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD: GOD'S JUSTICE, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning there were days set aside for various tasks Last Line: Its black wings vibrated in and out Subject(s): God; Justice THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: They stand like sentries at a country's gates Last Line: While men have no appeal except to him. Subject(s): Judges; Justice; Law & Lawyers; Trials; United States - Supreme Court; Attorneys THE VIGILANTES, by MARGARET ELIZA ASHMUN Poem Text First Line: We are the whirlwinds that winnow the west Last Line: We are justice, and right, and the law! Subject(s): Cowboys; Justice; Ranch Life; Vigilantes; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE VILLAGE, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The village life, and every care that reigns Last Line: Still it flows on, and shall for ever flow. Subject(s): Country Life; Freedom; Justice; Liberty THE YOUNG WARRIOR, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, shed no mournful tears Last Line: Unsheathed against the wrong. Subject(s): Fights; Justice; Soldiers THOUGHT (3), by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of justice - as if justice could be anything but the same ample law Last Line: As if it might be this thing or that thing, according to decisions. Subject(s): Justice TITAN, SELS., by ANGELA MORGAN Poem Source First Line: Loose him and let him go! Subject(s): Justice TO A RICH YOUNG MAN, by MARY CRAIG SINCLAIR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You wear a silken undervest and hose Alternate Author Name(s): Sinclair, Upton, Mrs. Subject(s): Justice TO AMERICA, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How would you have us, as we are? Last Line: Or tightening chains about your feet? Subject(s): Justice; World War I; First World War TO HORACE BUMSTEAD, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have you been sore discouraged in the fight Last Line: You shall not, no, you shall not, fight alone. Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Bumstead, Horace (1841-1919); Human Rights; Justice TO THE FREE CHILDREN, by LOLA RIDGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We of our generation %who touched liberty Alternate Author Name(s): Lawson, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Justice TOMORROW, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have tomorrow %bright before us Last Line: Broad arch above the road we came. %we march! Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Variant Title(s): Yout Subject(s): African Americans; Justice TONIGHT, by CARLOS WUPPERMAN Poem Source First Line: Tonight the beautiful, chaste moon Subject(s): Justice TRASH, by ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Three weeks I trekked the woods without a Subject(s): Justice TREAD OF THE POOR, by LEE SPENCER Poem Source First Line: Always the poor are with us Subject(s): Justice TWO MEN I HONOR, by THOMAS CARLYLE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Justice UNDER THE TAN, by LEWIS WORTHINGTON SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Italians, magyars, aliens all Subject(s): Justice UNFETTERED, by JOHN FRANCIS GLYNN Poem Source First Line: They placed him in a prison cell and put Subject(s): Justice VALUES, by JOAN PAYNE KINCAID Poem Source First Line: There is money to be made Last Line: And victims under klieg lights Subject(s): Justice VERBATIM FROM BOILEAU, by NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPREAUX Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Once (says an author; where, I need not say) Last Line: Twas a fat oyster -- live in peace -- adieu. Alternate Author Name(s): Boileau, Nicolas Subject(s): Justice; Politics & Government VICTOR GALBRAITH, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the walls of monterey Last Line: "of victor galbraith!" Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Galbraith, Victor; Military Justice; Monterey, Mexico; United States - Mexican War (1846-1848); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Courts Martial VISION, by ANNE CLEVELAND CHENEY Poem Source First Line: As in a vision %I beheld the long, long trail Subject(s): Justice VISION, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: The flames of god are in the streets Subject(s): Justice VISTAS OF LABOR: 3. IN A SWEATSHOP, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pent in, and sickening for one wholesome draught Last Line: That on the morrow they must meet again. Subject(s): God; Home; Justice; Sin; Soul; Sweatshops; Sweating System VOICE, by ZONA GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You in whose veins runs the fire of loving Last Line: Runs in your veins? Subject(s): Justice VOICE UNTO PHARAOH, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pharaoh, pharaoh, let my people go! Subject(s): Justice VOICES, VOICES, THEY CALL TO ME, by RAYMOND JOSEPH KRESENSKY Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Justice WALL STREET, 600 B.C, by HABAKKUK Poem Source First Line: They take up all of them with the angle Subject(s): Justice WE ARE THE BURDEN-BEARERS!, by WILLIAM LEROY STIDGER Poem Source Subject(s): Justice; Labor And Laborers WE MAKE IRON IN BIRMINGHAM, by KARL C. HARRISON Poem Source Subject(s): Justice 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 WHEN I WAS AN EGGSHELL, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: The garden earth too hard to dig Last Line: And watched me eat from a bowl on the floor Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Justice; Murder; Prisons And Prisoners; Trials; Women - Captives WHITE WOMAN SPEAKS, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Source First Line: So the law's agents left you to the throng Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Justice WHOEVER READS ME, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source Last Line: Of your %historical %experience Subject(s): Guilt; Justice WOLF AT THE DOOR, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a haunting horror near us Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Justice WOMAN, by ZONA GALE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They looked from farmhouse windows Subject(s): Justice WOMAN PLOWING, by ROBERT LIDDELL LOWE Poem Source First Line: She, being married to the soil Subject(s): Justice WOMEN AT FORTY, by KATHLEEN BOGAN Poem Source First Line: Women at forty %have learned to open Last Line: Raising no hope %of a miraculous return Subject(s): Justice, Donald (b. 1925); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights WORK GANGS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Box cars run a mile long Subject(s): Americans; Justice; Labor & Laborers; United States; Work; Workers; America WORK GANGS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Box cars run a mile long Last Line: There is no song mouth; these are my people Subject(s): Americans; Justice; Labor And Laborers; United States WORKING CHILDREN TO THE STORY TELLER, by LAURA BENET Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tell us a story to make us see Subject(s): Justice XIMENA DEMANDS VENGEANCE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Within the court at burgos a clamor doth arise Last Line: But not a man durst follow; slow rode he through the crowd Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Grief; Justice; Knights And Knighthood; Vengeance YOU CANNOT KILL THE TROUBADOURS, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY Poem Source First Line: Though starved throughout your every city Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph Subject(s): Justice |
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