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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LIBERTY Matches Found: 832 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "BEDLAM: A POEM ON HIS MAJESTY'S HAPPY ESCAPE, SELS.", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: What mean these loud aerial cracks I hear? Last Line: "to see thy towering temple shine so fair / through the night-flaming, elemental air" Subject(s): Escapes;freedom;guard Duty; Fugitives;liberty "EVACUATION OF NEW YORK BY THE BRITISH, 1783", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: They come!-they come!-the heroes come Last Line: "and bless, oh! Bless america!" Subject(s): American Revolution;freedom;new York City - Revolutionary Period;peace;victory; Liberty "HEAR, O ISRAEL!: 1", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "hear, o israel! And plead my cause against the ungodly nation" Last Line: Wakened 'midst the struggle of death Subject(s): Freedom;israel; Liberty "HEAR, O ISRAEL!: 2", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "hear, o israel! My people - to thy godly tents do I return with unstained hands" Last Line: "deem thee from slavery, o my nation! And lead thee back to god" Subject(s): Freedom;israel; Liberty "HEAR, O ISRAEL!: 3", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "brothers mine, fling out your white banners over this red sea of wrath" Last Line: Press on - press on Subject(s): Freedom;israel;red Sea; Liberty "HEAR, O ISRAEL!: 4", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "ye, who are kings, princes, priests, and prophets. Ye" Last Line: The god of jacob is our shield Subject(s): Freedom;israel; Liberty "INDEPENDENCE BELL - JULY 4, 1776", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There was a tumult in the city Last Line: "which, please god, shall never die!" Subject(s): American Revolution;fourth Of July;liberty Bell;patriotism; Independence Day 1811, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here pause: the poet claims at least this praise Last Line: O wretched man, the throne of tyranny! Subject(s): Freedom; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Liberty 1914: 2. SAFETY, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear! Of all happy in the hour, most blest Last Line: And if these poor limbs die, safest of all. Subject(s): Freedom; Love; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Liberty; First World War 1914: 3. THE DEAD, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blow out, you bugles, over the rich dead! Last Line: And we have come into our heritage. Variant Title(s): Gifts Of The Dead Subject(s): Freedom; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I - Casualties; Liberty A BALLAD OF FREEDOM, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The frenchman sailed in freedom's name to smite the algerine Last Line: Hurrah for human freedom! Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty A BALLAD OF THE BOSTON TEA-PARTY [DECEMBER 16, 1773], by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No! Never such a draught was poured Last Line: And cheer the wakening nations! Subject(s): Boston Tea Party; Freedom; Patriotism; United States - Colonial Period; Liberty A CALL TO ISRAEL, by CORA WILBURN Poem Text First Line: Where is the modern judah maccabee? Last Line: Arise! Arm! Strike! Do freedom's holy will! Subject(s): Freedom; Israel; Jews; Oppression; Russia; Liberty; Judaism; Soviet Union; Russians A CAPTIVE DEER, by IDA M. FOLSOM Poem Text First Line: A spirit cowed, that once has faced Last Line: A spirit cowed? Subject(s): Courage; Death; Deer; Freedom; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Liberty A CONSECRATION, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not of the princes and prelates with periwigged charioteers Last Line: Amen. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Social Classes; Dead, The; Liberty; Caste A COURT LADY, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her hair was tawny with gold, her eyes with purple were dark Last Line: "of the king." Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty A CRY FROM AN INDIAN WIFE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: My forest brave, my red-skin love, farewell Last Line: Perhaps the white man's god has willed it so. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Marriage; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; War; Worry; Valor; Bravery; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America A FOREIGN RULER, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He says, my reign is peace, so slays Last Line: Invades, and drowns them all in tears. Subject(s): Freedom; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Soldiers; Liberty A HERO OF CARACAS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Caracas! When I think of thee Last Line: Defender of his native land. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Caracas, Venezuela; Freedom; Heroism; Spain; Liberty; Heroes; Heroines A HOBO VOLUNTARY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the hobo's life is a roving life Last Line: For the life of a hobo, never to return. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Freedom; Life; Railroads; Wandering & Wanderers; Liberty; Railways; Trains A HOLY NATION, by RICHARD REALF Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let liberty run onward with the years Last Line: The base infections our low greeds have bred. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty A HYMN OF ZION, by JOEL BLAU Poem Text First Line: Zion, we love thee well Last Line: O'er zion's hill! Subject(s): Faith; Freedom; Israel; Jerusalem; Jews; Zionism; Belief; Creed; Liberty; Judaism A LETTER FROM ITALY, by JOSEPH ADDISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While you, my lord, the rural shades admire Last Line: And lines like virgil's or like yours, should praise Subject(s): England; Freedom; Italy; Montagu, Charles. 1st Earl Of Halifax; Travel; English; Liberty; Italians; Journeys; Trips A LOYAL WOMAN'S NO, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No! Is my answer from this cold Last Line: Take my life's silence for your answer: no! Subject(s): Evil; Freedom; Loyalty; Marriage; Women's Rights; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism A NATION ONCE AGAIN, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When boyhood's fire was in my blood Last Line: A nation once again. Subject(s): Freedom; Nationalism - Ireland; Liberty A NOTE OF HUMILITY, by ARNA BONTEMPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When all our hopes are sown on stony ground Last Line: An hour or two, but it will not be soon Subject(s): African Americans; Liberty; Time; Negroes; American Blacks A PARABLE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: With limbs at rest on the earth's green breast Last Line: The liberty they love. Subject(s): Freedom; Human Behavior; Nature; Liberty; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature 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 PRESIDENT, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, whom the slave-lords with contemptuous feet Last Line: Which gave us treason, war, and lastly -- thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Freedom; Leadership; Treason And Traitors; War; Liberty A PROTEST IN THE SIXTH YEAR OF CH'IEN FU (A.D. 879), by TS'AO SUNG Poem Text First Line: The hills and rivers of the lowland country Last Line: Is made out of ten thousand corpses. Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Freedom; Protest, Social; Liberty A REMONSTRANCE; ADDRESSED TO D. FLORENCE M'CARTHY, M.R.I.A., by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stand on the heights, o poet! Nor come down Last Line: This is the poet's mission, therefore -- thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Freedom; Mccarthy, Denis Florence (1817-82); Poetry & Poets; Liberty A ROUNDHEAD'S RALLYING SONG, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How beautiful is the battle Last Line: We whose armour is the armour of the lord! Variant Title(s): The Rally Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain - Civil War; Liberty; English Civil War A SALON SCENE, by ANTON ALEXANDER VON AUERSPERG Poem Text First Line: Evening: in the festive halls the light of many candles gleam Last Line: "see, they're pleading: ""may we ask you for the freedom to be free?" Alternate Author Name(s): Grun, Anastasius Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty A SLAVE GIRL, by DAMASCIUS Poem Text First Line: O zozima, your soul was ever free Last Line: And now your body too hath liberty. Subject(s): Freedom; Slavery; Liberty; Serfs A SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "come, cheer up, my lads, like a true british band" Last Line: "hearts of oak, etc" Subject(s): Freedom;u.s. - Colonial Period; Liberty A SONG FOR THE IRISH MILITIA, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tribune's tongue and poet's pen Last Line: A soldier's death, so ireland's free! Subject(s): Freedom; Ireland - Rebellions; Liberty A SONG FOR THE TIME, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up, laggards of freedom! - our free flag is cast Last Line: For earth wearies of them and god's over all! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Fremont, John Charles (1813-1890); Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; Serfs A SONG OF AMERICAN FREEDOM (THE LIBERTY SONG), by JOHN DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come join hand in hand, brave americans all Last Line: Not as slaves, but as freemen our money we'll give. Alternate Author Name(s): Penman Of The Revolution Subject(s): Freedom; United States - Colonial Period; Liberty A SONG OF FREEDOM, by ALICE MILLIGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In cavan of little lakes Last Line: There is no fetter for the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Olkyrn, Iris Subject(s): Freedom; Nationalism - Ireland; Liberty A SONG OF ITALY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a windy night of stars that fell Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Freedom; Italy; Love; Nations; Dead, The; Liberty; Italians A SONG OF THE WELSH, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a race in an island place which rose in the morning gleam Last Line: In a home that is ever the harp of song and legend and fairy tale. Subject(s): Fights; Freedom; Tyranny & Tyrants; Wales; Waterloo; Liberty; Welshmen; Welshwomen; Battle Of Waterloo A SWEETHEART: THOMPSON STREET, by SAMUEL DUFF MCCOY Poem Text First Line: Queen of all streets, fifth avenue Last Line: I am called liberty! Subject(s): Freedom; New York City - Streets; Liberty A THOUGHT, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: A thought that tired of liberty Last Line: In that great sky that's over thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Freedom; Thought; Liberty; Thinking A WOMAN SPEAKS, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You held me as the harbor holds the tide Last Line: But no man's body binds a woman's soul. Subject(s): Freedom; Women; Liberty AD ASTRA: 22, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O beauteous world of wonder and romance! Last Line: Doubt and despair fall from her as she flies. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty AD ASTRA: 69, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O give us love-strong, steadfast, undefiled! Last Line: Grant us to know thy greater heart of love! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Freedom; Hearts; Love; Liberty ADDRESS TO BEELZEBUB, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long life, my lord, an' health be yours Last Line: An' till ye come -- your humble servant, Subject(s): Freedom; Scotland - Relations With England; Liberty ADDRESS TO MY SOUL, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My soul, be not disturbed / by planetary war Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty ADDRESS TO THE UNCO GUID, OR THE RIGIDLY RIGHTEOUS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O ye wha are sae guid yoursel Last Line: But know not what's resisted. Variant Title(s): To The Unco Guid Subject(s): Freedom; Hypocrisy; Liberty AFRICA, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: A thousand years of darkness in her face Last Line: Of mankind's need and afric's gloried part. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty AFTER ELECTION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day's sharp strife is ended now Last Line: The weary heart of freedom rest! Subject(s): Elections; Freedom; Peace; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Liberty AFTER TENNYSON, by AMBROSE BIERCE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: You ask me why, though ill at ease Subject(s): Modern Life; Freedom; Politics & Government; United States; Liberty; America ALL IN ALL, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When all the night is horrible with clamour Last Line: Of all the days to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Freedom; Socialism; Liberty 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 AMERICA, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: And this was once the realm of nature, where Last Line: And charm the ear with numbers half divine. Subject(s): Change; Freedom; Nature; United States; Liberty; America AMERICA, by MURRAY KETCHAM KIRK Poem Text Last Line: And usher in sweet brotherhood. Subject(s): Flags; Freedom; National Song - United States; Patriotism; Statue Of Liberty; United States; Liberty; American National Anthem; America AMERICA, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Although she feeds me bread of bitterness Last Line: Like priceless treasures sinking in the sand. Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): African Americans; Freedom; United States; Negroes; American Blacks; Liberty; America AMERICA, by SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My country, 'tis of thee Last Line: Great god our king. Variant Title(s): National Hymn Subject(s): Americans; Fourth Of July; Freedom; Patriotism; United States; Independence Day; Liberty; America AMERICA (1), by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mother of a mighty race Last Line: Upon their lips the taunt shall die. Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Freedom; Patriotism; United States; Independence Day; Liberty; America AMERICA WAS PROMISES, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is the voyager in these leaves Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty AMERICANS, by W. CEPHAS CUNNINGHAM Poem Text First Line: To the loftiest height the eagle soars Last Line: While living in harmonious relations has reached the crest. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty AN ADDRESS TO THE PLEBIANS, SELECTION, by JOHN LEARMONT Poem Text First Line: Poor crawlin' bodies, sair neglectit Last Line: An' safest shield. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Freedom; Graves; War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Liberty; Tombs; Tombstones AN ANTE-BELLUM SERMON, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: We is gathered hyeah, my brothahs Last Line: Huh uh! Chillun, let us pray! Subject(s): African Americans; American Civil War; Freedom; United States - History; Negroes; American Blacks; Liberty AN APOSTROPHE TO FRANCE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I cannot speak thy tongue, o, france Last Line: La marseilles. Subject(s): France; Freedom; Liberty AN APPEAL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Art thou indeed among these Last Line: 11/20/67 Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Freedom; Slavery; English; Liberty; Serfs AN APPOINTMENT, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being out of heart with government Last Line: No government appointed him. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty AN EPISTLE TO CURIO, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thrice has the spring beheld thy faded fame Last Line: And teach her slaves that vice was born to fear. Subject(s): Freedom; Roman Empire; Slavery; Tyranny & Tyrants; Liberty; Serfs; Dictators AN INVOCATION, by ISIDORE G. ASCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, harp of judah! Wake again! Last Line: And lend its sweetness to my dreams! Subject(s): Freedom; Jews; Judah (bible); Liberty; Judaism AN IRISH AIRMAN FORESEES HIS DEATH, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I know that I shall meet my fate Last Line: In balance with this life, this death. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Air Warfare; Aviation & Aviators; Death; Freedom; Soldiers; War; World War I; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Dead, The; Liberty; First World War AN ODE IN IMITATION OF ALCAEUS, by WILLIAM JONES Poem Text First Line: What constitutes a state? Last Line: And steal inglorious to the silent grave. Variant Title(s): A [or The] State;what Constitutes A State? Subject(s): England; Freedom; Patriotism; English; Liberty AN ODE TO HIMSELF, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where dost thou careless lie Last Line: Safe from the wolf's black jaw, and the dull ass's hoof. Subject(s): Freedom; Love; Liberty AN ODE WRITTEN BEFORE THE SPANIARDS HAD RECOVERED LIBERTY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arise, arise, arise / there is blood on the earth that denies ye bread Last Line: Ye were injured, and that means memory. Variant Title(s): An Ode To The Assertors Of Liberty Subject(s): Freedom; Spain - History; Liberty ANTI-APIS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Praisest law, friend? We, too, love it Last Line: Lo! The skulking wild fox scratches in a little heap of dust. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty ANTIQUITY OF FREEDOM, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here are old trees, tall oaks and gnarled pines Last Line: Beheld thy glorious childhood, and rejoiced. Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Freedom; Trees; Independence Day; Liberty APOLOGIA PRO POEMATE MEO, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, too, saw god through mud Last Line: Your tears: you are not worth their merriment. Subject(s): Freedom; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Liberty; First World War ARISEN AT LAST, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I said I stood upon thy grave Last Line: In freedom's holy pentecost. Subject(s): Freedom; Massachusetts; Slavery; Liberty; Serfs ARMISTICE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: And this was germany--this puff of dust Last Line: This worn gray shoddy, and this iron rust! Subject(s): Freedom; Germany; United States; World War I; Liberty; Germans; America; First World War ARNOLD [VON] WINKELRIED, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Make way for liberty!' - he cried Last Line: Thus death made way for liberty. Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Variant Title(s): The Patriot's Password Subject(s): Freedom; Sempach, Battle Of (1386); Switzerland - Wars; Winkelried, Arnold Von (d. 1386); Liberty; Sempach, Switzerland ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 47, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What, have I thus betrayed my liberty? Last Line: Doth make my heart give to my tongue the lie! Variant Title(s): "what, Have I Thus Betrayed My Libertie?""; Subject(s): Desire; Freedom; Liberty AT LAST, by GEORGE E. BOWEN Poem Text First Line: Gaze through the opal mist across the main Last Line: Spain's castles crumble into desert sands. Subject(s): Freedom; Honor; Mist; Spain; War; Liberty AT RICHMOND, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At richmond, in the month of may Last Line: Or hurl your heroes to the dust! Subject(s): Freedom; Patriotism; Richmond, Virginia; Virginia (state); Liberty AT THE END OF THE ROAD, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: This is the truth as I see it, my dear Last Line: Out in the wind and the rain. Subject(s): Aging; Freedom; Life; Marriage; Pleasure; Travel; Truth; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips ATTENDITE POPULE, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! That I stood upon some lofty tower Last Line: The very stones cry out, should ye be mute! Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty AUGURIES OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To see a world in a grain of sand Last Line: To those who dwell in realms of day Variant Title(s): Blake's Testament;what A Wonderful World Subject(s): Animals; Bible; Freedom; Imagination; Innocence; Mythology; Religion; Vision; Liberty; Fancy; Theology AUSTRALIA IN LONDON, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between the battle over Last Line: We fought, as you, to be free. Subject(s): Australia; Freedom; Kisses; London; Youth; Liberty AUSTRALIA TO ENGLAND, by ARCHIBALD THOMAS STRONG Poem Text First Line: By all the deeds to thy dear glory done Last Line: Thy sons may stand beside thee strong and free. Subject(s): England; Freedom; World War I - Australia; English; Liberty AUSTRALIA; JANUARY 1, 1901. MAY 9, 1901, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She rose amid the nations, tall and fair Last Line: Circled the great world round. Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Australia; Freedom; Liberty BALLADE AGAINST THE ENEMIES OF FRANCE, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: May he fall in with beasts that scatter fire Last Line: Who could wish evil to the state of france! Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): France; Freedom; Liberty BALLADE: 12, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like as the bird in the cage enclosed Last Line: By loss of life liberty, or life by prison? Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Birdcages; Freedom; Liberty BARCAROLE: DE VIGNY, by E. G. B. Poem Text First Line: Come with me, lady fair Last Line: "here art thou free!" Subject(s): Freedom; Landfall; Sea; Liberty; Ocean BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord Last Line: While god is marching on. Subject(s): American Civil War; Americans; Freedom; Patriotism; Religion; United States - History; United States; War; Liberty; Theology; America BEING PROPERTY ONCE MYSELF, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Same thing for men Subject(s): Slavery; Liberty BLOOD RHYTHMS - BLOOD CURRENTS - BLACK N' BLUE STYLIN, by NTOZAKE SHANGE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fragrant breezes in the south Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, Paulette Subject(s): African Americans; Freedom; Conduct Of Life; Negroes; American Blacks; Liberty BLUE HOURS: 1. CLOUD-HORSE, by RICK BAROT Poem Text First Line: Knowing exactly what it needs Subject(s): Animals; Freedom; Horses; Liberty BONDUCA, by FRANCIS BEAUMONT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hardy romans -- oh, ye gods of britain Last Line: The virtues of great caratach be sung! [exeunt. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty BOSTON HYMN; READ IN MUSIC HALL, JANUARY 1, 1863, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The word of the lord by night Last Line: His way home to the mark. Subject(s): American Civil War; Americans; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Patriotism; Pilgrim Fathers; United States - History; United States; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; America BOUGHT WITH A PRICE, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, a price! What price! Ye saved ones of these later ages Last Line: And make the sweet planet a home of humanity -- free. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty BOUND AND FREE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come to me, love! Come on the wings of the wind! Last Line: That you must be bound, love, and I must be free. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Fate; Freedom; Life; Love; Wind; Youth; Destiny; Liberty BROWN OF OSSAWATOMIE [DECEMBER 2, 1859], by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John brown of ossawatomie spake on his dying day Last Line: To love! Subject(s): Abolitionists; American Civil War; Brown, John (1800-1859); Capital Punishment; Freedom; Slavery; United States - History; Anti-slavery; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Liberty; Serfs BRUCE: IN PRAISE OF FREEDOM, by JOHN BARBOUR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! That folk who once were free Last Line: The sore condition of a thrall! Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty BURY ME IN A FREE LAND, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Make me a grave where'er you will Last Line: Is bury me not in a land of slaves. Subject(s): Freedom; Slavery; Liberty; Serfs BY THE SEA, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O friend, we meet and feel as free Last Line: Take wing, float seaward like the birds. Subject(s): Freedom; Love; Liberty CAGED BIRD, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A free bird leaps Last Line: Sings of freedom Subject(s): Birdcages; Freedom; Liberty CALEDONIA, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair caledonia! Honoured name Last Line: And freedom bless and crown our isle! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Europe; Freedom; Islands; Scotland; Victory; Liberty CALEDONIA, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy name, caledonia! Queen of the north! Last Line: Tis the spirit of evil incarnate in drink. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Europe; Freedom; Islands; Scotland; Victory; Liberty CALLS ON THE HEART, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Free heart, that singest to-day Last Line: Broken hearts triumph so.' Subject(s): Hearts; Freedom; Independence; Liberty CANADA, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O child of nations, giant-limbed Last Line: Bursts the uprising sun! Subject(s): Canada; Freedom; Patriotism; Canadians; Liberty CANADA, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear native land! Thy wand'ring child Last Line: The banner of the free! Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Canada; Freedom; National Songs; Canadians; Liberty; National Anthems CANADA TO ENGLAND, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great names of thy great captains gobe before Last Line: Of all past greatnesses about thee stand. Subject(s): England; Freedom; World War I - Canada; English; Liberty CARPE DIEM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Hey nonny no! / men are fools that wish to die! Last Line: Hey nonny no! Subject(s): Carpe Diem;freedom; Liberty CASSANDRA, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard one who said: verily Last Line: Moved on. None heeded, and few heard. Subject(s): Cassandra (mythology); Freedom; Social Protest; Liberty CASTING THE FIRST VOTE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From mountain homes engirdled Last Line: And truth's brave deeds are wrought. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Freedom; Marching & Marches; Patriotism; War; Youth; Liberty CHANUKAH LIGHTS, by PHILIP MAX RASKIN Poem Text First Line: I kindled my eight little candles Last Line: A heavenly-glorious light. Alternate Author Name(s): Raskin, P. M. Subject(s): Courage; Fasts & Feasts; Freedom; Hanukkah; Jews; Light; Valor; Bravery; Liberty; Judaism CHIPPEWA MUSIC: SOUND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The sound is fading away Last Line: It is of five sounds Subject(s): Freedom;sound; Liberty CHRISTMAS, 1917, by BRENT DOW ALLINSON Poem Text First Line: Is it a mocking jest that christmas bells Last Line: Let nations pass so man himself be free. Subject(s): Christmas; Freedom; Hate; Humanity; Social Protest; War; Nativity, The; Liberty CITY HALL PARK, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ere cabot's prow was westward turned Last Line: Unroofed beneath the sky. Subject(s): Freedom; New York City - Colonial Period; Liberty COMPROMISE; INSCRIBED TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1861, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Compromise! Who dares to speak it Last Line: We will never, never yield!' Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; Government; U.s. - History; United States; Liberty; America COMRADE JESUS, by SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thanks to st. Matthew, who had been Last Line: Comrade jesus hath his red card. Subject(s): Freedom; Jesus Christ; Liberty CONCORD HYMN; SUNG AT COMPLETION OF CONCORD MONUMENT, 1836, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the rude bridge that arched the flood Last Line: The shaft we raise to them and thee. Variant Title(s): The Concord Fight;hymn: Sung At The Completion Of The Concord Mounument Subject(s): American Revolution; Americans; Concord, Massachusetts; Fourth Of July; Freedom; Massachusetts; Monuments; Mourning; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Patriotism; Soldiers; United States; War; Independence Day; Liberty; Bereavement; America COR CORDIUM, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O heart of hearts, the chalice of love's fire Last Line: The nursing earth as the sepulchral sea. Subject(s): Freedom; Love; Singing & Singers; Liberty; Songs CORN LAW RHYMES, SELECTION, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When wilt thou save the people? Last Line: God, save the people! Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer Subject(s): Freedom; Religion; Liberty; Theology CORRUPTION; AN EPISTLE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Boast on, my friend -- though stripp'd of all beside Last Line: O england! Sinking england! Boast no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Freedom; Great Britain - Revolution, 1688; Liberty; English Revolution, 1688 CORSICA, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail generous corsica! Unconquer'd isle! Last Line: Worthy of gods: the freedom of the mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Corsica; Freedom; Paoli, General Pasquale (1725-1807); Liberty COUNTRY OF FREEDOM, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Country of freedom, be free in thy heart Last Line: Country of freedom, be free for the earth! Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty CROSS THAT LINE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Paul robseon stood Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty CRY OF THE PEOPLE, by JOHN GNEISENAU NEIHARDT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tremble before your chattels Last Line: And the scabbard is thrown away! Subject(s): Freedom; Peace; Liberty DANIEL BOONE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Daniel boone at twenty-one Subject(s): Boone, Daniel (1734-1820); Freedom; Patriotism; Liberty DANIEL WEBSTER, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Honor the home that reared him! - the hills, the wood, the stream Last Line: Union, now and forever!' Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Freedom; New Hampshire; Praise; Webster, Daniel (1782-1852); Liberty DARK ROSALEEN, by TOMAS COSTELLO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O my dark rosaleen Last Line: My dark rosaleen! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Freedom; Hearts; Ireland; Love - Loss Of; O'donnell, Hugh Roe (1572-1602); Patriotism; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Liberty; Irish; Red Hugh, Lord Of Tyrconnel DAUGHTER OF ZION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: The oppressor is vanquished and zion is free! Subject(s): Freedom;jews;zionism; Liberty;judaism DAYBREAK, by GEORGE MARION MCCLELLAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Awake! Arise! Oh, men of my race Last Line: Our day breaks everywhere. Subject(s): Freedom; Morning; Liberty DEFIANCE, by JOHN W. BOLDYREFF Poem Text First Line: I am free, I've broken the halter Last Line: But I am in heaven to-day! Subject(s): Freedom; Sin; Liberty DELIVERANCE, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Great and apparent dangers' are the words Last Line: This is the lesson of this fought-for hour. Subject(s): Deliberation; Freedom; World War Ii; Liberty; Second World War DEMOCRACY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bearer of freedom's holy light Last Line: The homage of his generous youth. Subject(s): Democracy; Freedom; Liberty DESCRIPTIVE SKETCHES, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Were there, below, a spot of holy ground Last Line: The first whose footsteps print the mountain dew. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty DESTINY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not to be thought of that the flood Last Line: Of earth's first blood, have titles manifold. Variant Title(s): British Freedom;the British Heritage;england, 1802 Subject(s): Courage; England; Freedom; Valor; Bravery; English; Liberty DINNER, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now this is very serious, and should be understood Last Line: "file off, to that inspiring tune -- ""we've got no work to do." Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty DIXIE, by DANIEL DECATUR EMMETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wish I was in de land ob cotton Last Line: Chorus. Variant Title(s): Dixie's Land Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; Patriotism; United States - History; Liberty DOWNFALL OF POLAND [FALL OF WARSAW, 1794], by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O sacred truth! Thy triumph ceased awhile Last Line: And freedom shrieked -- as kosciusko fell! Subject(s): Freedom; Kosciuszko, Thaddeus (1746-1817); Poland; Liberty DRUM, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The war ends. The lines of women push Subject(s): War; Man-woman Relationships; Freedom; Male-female Relations; Liberty DUMBNESS, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sure man was born to meditate on things Last Line: And penetrate the heart, if not the ear. Subject(s): Babies; Freedom; Language; Infants; Liberty; Words; Vocabulary ECLOGUE: 1, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While you, o tityrus, beneath the shade Last Line: And from the hills the lengthening shadows spread. Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Freedom; Hope; Love; Wandering & Wanderers; Liberty; Optimism EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND ELEVEN, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still the loud death drum, thundering from afar Last Line: And swears -- thy world, columbus, shall be free. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Liberty; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men EL COMETA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is said, when the star of rumi burns azul Last Line: All our eyes will explode all the eyes – in praise Subject(s): Mexico; Liberty; Mexican Americans ELEGIAC SONNET: 76. TO A YOUNG MAN ENTERING THE WORLD, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go now, ingenuous youth! - the trying hour Last Line: May'st die, as hampden or as sydney died! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Freedom; Youth; Liberty ELEGY FOR ARNOLD, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone in my living room, I let waves of the music Last Line: Of a love come into its own. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Death; Liberty Bell; Loss; Dead, The ELEUTHERIA, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was named eleutheria Subject(s): Child Molesting; Fathers & Sons; Freedom; Marriage; Relationships; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Child Abuse; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism EMANCIPATION, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Corncob constellation, / oyster shell, drawstring pouch, dry bones Last Line: We're free Subject(s): Freedom; Slavery; Liberty; Serfs EMANCIPATION OF THE SERFS, by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again, sweet bells of the russias Last Line: Than throned as the conquering tzar! Subject(s): Freedom; Russia; Slavery; Liberty; Soviet Union; Russians; Serfs EN-SOF, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I number up my jewels, spread them all before your / gaze Last Line: God alone gives understanding—his love alone is light. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Freedom; God; Religion; Wisdom; Liberty; Theology ENGLAND, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: England, thy foes make boast of thy decline Last Line: And justice is a goddess still unbought. Subject(s): England; Freedom; English; Liberty ENGLAND AND AMERICA IN 1782, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou, that sendest out the man Last Line: Will vibrate to the doom. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): American Revolution; Freedom; Great Britain; Patriotism; Liberty ENTANGLED, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stood as one enchanted Last Line: Fled down the mossy way. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Forests; Birds; Voices; Fear; Escapes; Freedom; Woods; Fugitives; Liberty EPIGRAM, by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Born to be slaves, our fathers freedom sought Last Line: And, born to freedom, for our chains we vote. Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty EPIGRAM: 30, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lucks, my fair falcon, and your fellows all Last Line: Ye be my friends, and so be but few else. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Lux, My Fair Falcon;of Such As Had Forsaken Him;lucks, My Fair Falcon Subject(s): Bells; Birds; Freedom; Liberty EPIGRAM: 31, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within my breast I never thought it gain Last Line: That list to blow retreat to every train. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Freedom; Pain; Truth; Liberty; Suffering; Misery EPIGRAM: 39, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In wilful riches I have found poverty Last Line: In a paradise I suffered all this pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Freedom; Happiness; Pain; Liberty; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery EPIGRAM: 5, 20. AD MARTIALEM, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God knows, my martial, if we two could be Last Line: "another gone: o when will ye arise?" Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Freedom; Life; Liberty ESCAPE, by JOSEPHINE INGRAM Poem Text First Line: I was born to wildness, free and light of wing Last Line: Hush! In the distance, hear the wild-bird sing ... Subject(s): Birds; Cages; Freedom; Liberty EXHORTATION TO THE GREEKS, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arouse thee, o greece! And remember the day Last Line: As the war-song of freedom that calls on the brave. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Freedom; Greece; Liberty; Greeks EZLN, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Note this / a range of which Subject(s): Clubs (associations); Freedom; Human Rights; Labor Unions; Mexico; Military; Poverty; Strikes; Liberty; Labor Disputes; Lockouts F. HOPKINSON SMITH, by JOHN HUSTON FINLEY Poem Text First Line: Hop' smith, who built the lighthouse on race rock Last Line: And told a tale as only he could tell. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Art & Artists; Buildings & Builders; Smith, Francis Hopkinson (1838-1915); Statue Of Liberty FAIREST OF FREEDOM'S DAUGHTERS, by JEREMIAH EAMES RANKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night's diadem around thy head Last Line: Flash it across the waters! Subject(s): Statue Of Liberty FAUST, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye wavering shapes, again ye do me enfold Last Line: Ground.) Subject(s): Devil; Evil; Faust; Freedom; Religion; Tragedy; Villains In Literature; Witchcraft & Witches; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Liberty; Theology FAUST, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun his ancient music makes Last Line: Curtain. Subject(s): Devil; Evil; Faust; Freedom; Religion; Tragedy; Villains In Literature; Witchcraft & Witches; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Liberty; Theology FEAR AND LOVE, by EGMONT HEGEL ARENS Poem Text First Line: Fearing my father Last Line: Perhaps wisely. Subject(s): Freedom; Obedience; Liberty FEELINGS OF THE TYROLESE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The land we from our fathers had in trust Last Line: Our virtue, and to vindicate mankind. Subject(s): Freedom; Hofer, Andreas (1767-1810); Tyrol, Austria; Liberty FEMALE EDUCATION; ADDRESSED TO A SOUTH AMERICAN POET, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, of the living lyre Last Line: That mocks the blight of time. Subject(s): De La Cruz, Juana Ines (1648-1695); Freedom; Nature; Wisdom; Women's Rights; Liberty; Feminism FERNS IN A WINDOW, by PEARL HOBSON Poem Text First Line: Primitive children of the woods Last Line: Dreams only are lifted the bars. Subject(s): Freedom; Prisons & Prisoners; Windows; Liberty; Convicts FETTERS, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh who shall say that we are free Last Line: Ay, nothing more. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty FETTERS, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In too much seeking love I found but grief Last Line: Rends from my heart itself a part of me. Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme Subject(s): Freedom; Love - Complaints; Liberty FIGHT; THE TALE OF A GUNNER AT PLATTSBURGH, 1814, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jock bit his mittens off and blew his thumbs Last Line: The world made free. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Variant Title(s): Fight Subject(s): Drums; Freedom; Musical Instruments; Patriotism; Plattsburg, Battle Of; Selflessness; War Of 1812; Liberty FONTENOY, 1745: 1. BEFORE THE BATTLE: NIGHT, by EMILY LAWLESS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, bad the march, the weary march, beneath these alien skies Last Line: For faith, and fame, and honour, and the ruined hearthes of clare. Subject(s): Fontenoy, Battle Of (1745); Freedom; Ireland - Rebellions; Liberty FONTENOY, 1745: 2. AFTER THE BATTLE, EARLY DAWN, CLARE COAST, by EMILY LAWLESS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mary mother, shield us! Say, what men are ye Last Line: "home to corca bascinn, in the morning light." Subject(s): Fontenoy, Battle Of (1745); Freedom; Ireland - Rebellions; Liberty 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 FOR LIFE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shut in by self, as by a brazen wall Last Line: The captive breaks her thrall! Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty FOR MY PEOPLE, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: For my people everywhere singing their slave songs repeatedly Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): African Americans; Freedom; Negroes; American Blacks; Liberty FOR NORGE', by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "for norway, freedom's fatherland" Last Line: Pledge all that marks the snowy line / where norsemen guard their freedom Subject(s): Freedom;sweden; Liberty FOR THE FALLEN (SEPTEMBER 1914), by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children Last Line: To the end, to the end, they remain. Subject(s): Freedom; World War I - Casualties; Liberty FOR THE FEAST OF GIORDANO BRUNO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Son of the lightning and the light that glows Last Line: And mix with yours a third incorporate name. Subject(s): Bruno, Giordano (1548-1600); Freedom; Light; Soul; Liberty FOR YOU O DEMOCRACY, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, I will make the continent indissoluble Last Line: For you, for you I am trilling these songs. Subject(s): Democracy; Freedom; Patriotism; Liberty FORCE AND FREEDOM, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, doubtless ye can trample and enchain Last Line: Invincibly on, with might no might can bind. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty FORWARD!, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What though freedom's hosts are parted Last Line: And the crown of fame immortal shall be yours throughout all time. Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty FOURTH OF JULY IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When july fourth was getting near Last Line: And tell the rest another year. Subject(s): Brooks; Country Life; Fourth Of July; Freedom; Vermont; Streams; Creeks; Independence Day; Liberty FRANCE: AN ODE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye clouds! That far above me float and pause Last Line: O liberty! My spirit felt thee there. Subject(s): France - Invasion Of Switzerland (1798); Freedom; French Revolution (1789); Liberty FRANCE; THE 18TH YEAR OF THESE STATES, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A great year and place Last Line: I will yet sing a song for you ma femme. Subject(s): France; Freedom; Liberty FREDERICK DOUGLASS, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When it is finally ours, this freedom, this liberty, this beautiful Subject(s): African Americans; Douglass, Frederick (1817-1895); Freedom; Negroes; American Blacks; Liberty FREE, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I bear a joy, a lofty joy Last Line: The street of highest beauty. Subject(s): Freedom; Thought; Liberty; Thinking FREE AMERICA, by JOSEPH WARREN Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: That seat of science, athens Last Line: Of brave america. Subject(s): American Revolution; Freedom; Liberty FREE AT LAST, by ANONYMOUS - AFRICAN AMERICAN Poem Text First Line: "free at last, free at last; / I thank god I'm free at last" Last Line: O free at last Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music;black Songs;freedom;slavery; Negro Spirituals;liberty;serfs FREE!, by ETHEL LOUISE HALSTEAD Poem Text First Line: My heart is singing a song today Last Line: For now I'm free . . . I can do as I please. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty FREED, by LALIA MITCHELL THORNTON Poem Text First Line: I have supped with fear and choked Last Line: I have paid, and freed the pawn. Subject(s): Fear; Freedom; Soul; Liberty FREEDOM, by ELSA BARKER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Call no man free nor count his bondage done Subject(s): Liberty FREEDOM, by K. VON K. BRUNS Poem Text First Line: Will you miss me / when I am gone, my sweet' Last Line: And the lord who would come no more. Subject(s): Absence; Freedom; Separation; Isolation; Liberty FREEDOM, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I wished I might rehearse / freedom's paean in my verse Last Line: Right thou feelest, rush to do.' Subject(s): Freedom; Science; Liberty; Scientists FREEDOM, by VIRGINIA CLAY HAMILTON Poem Text First Line: The clean dawn wind and the hard white beach Last Line: For freedom's a lonely thing. Subject(s): Freedom; Wellesley College; Liberty FREEDOM, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The truth shall make you free!' Last Line: Sing to the listening ear of morn. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty FREEDOM, by PALLADAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm done with hope and chance. O never again Last Line: And wealth that mocks the poor man I disdain. Alternate Author Name(s): Pallades Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty FREEDOM, by CHARLES L. REASON Poem Text First Line: O freedom! Freedom! O! How oft Last Line: Of britain, blew thy trumpet blast. Subject(s): Clarkson, Thomas (1760-1846); Freedom; Switzerland - Wars; Tell, William; Liberty FREEDOM, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I will not follow you, my bird Last Line: Are love and freedom too. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Freedom; Love; Liberty FREEDOM, by MAXIMILIAN GOTTFRIED SCHENKENDORF Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Freedom that I love Last Line: Was to thee most dear. Subject(s): Freedom; Nationalism - Germany; Liberty FREEDOM, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou so fair in summers gone Last Line: Brass mouths and iron lungs! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty FREEDOM (1), by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are we, then, wholly fallen? Can it be Last Line: To europe, entering her blood-red eclipse. Subject(s): Freedom; Patriotism; Liberty FREEDOM (2), by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men! Whose boast it is that ye Last Line: In the right with two or three. Variant Title(s): Sung At The Anti-slavery Picnic In Dedham;stanzas On Freedom Subject(s): Freedom; Slavery; Liberty; Serfs FREEDOM AND DISCIPLINE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saint harmony, many / years I have stript Subject(s): Discipline; Freedom; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Liberty FREEDOM AND TRUTH, by SARAH MARGARET FULLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shrine is vowed to freedom, but, my friend Last Line: Comprising means and end in truth's great name. Alternate Author Name(s): Fuller, Margaret; Ossoli, Marchioness; Ossoli, Margaret Fuller Subject(s): Freedom; Truth; Liberty FREEDOM AT MCNEALY'S, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All around old chattanooga Last Line: As you would a faithful horse. Subject(s): African Americans; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Negroes; American Blacks; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty FREEDOM FOR ITALY: 1867, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He is the freeman whom the truth makes free Last Line: Perhaps not now, but when and how he will! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Freedom; Garibaldi, Giuseppe (1807-1882); Italy; Patriotism; Popes; Social Protest; Liberty; Italians; Papacy FREEDOM IN BRAZIL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With clearer light, cross of the south Last Line: Go out and leave thee free. Subject(s): Brazil; Freedom; Slavery; Brazilians; Liberty; Serfs FREEDOM IN MAH SOUL, by DAVID WADSWORTH CANNON JR. Poem Text First Line: Fo'ty acres jes' fo' me! Last Line: Freedom in mah soul. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty FREEDOM IS IN PERIL, by OLGA KATZIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the last newspaper is printed and the ink is faded Last Line: And no one will then remember the sort of people we are. Alternate Author Name(s): Sagittarius Subject(s): Freedom; Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936); Liberty FREEDOM OF THE MIND, by WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High walls and huge the body may confine Last Line: And in its watches wearies every star. Variant Title(s): The Free Mind;freedom For The Mind;sonnet Written In Prison;liberty Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty FREEDOM'S RALLY, by J. A. NUNES Poem Text First Line: Wake, freedom, with thy trumpet tongue Last Line: For god and liberty! Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; Treason And Traitors; U.s. - History; Liberty FREEDOM, OUR QUEEN, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Land where the banners wave last in the sun Last Line: She shall reign over us, world without end! Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Freedom; Independence Day; Liberty FREEDOMS, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ten new freedoms Subject(s): Freedom; Old Age; Liberty FROM LIFE WITHOUT FREEDOM, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From life without freedom, oh! Who would not fly? Last Line: Despair not -- at least we shall find her in heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty FROM PERUGIA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tall, sallow guardsmen their horsetails have spread Last Line: For the sin unforgiven is freedom for man Subject(s): Freedom; Perugia, Italy; Pius Ix, Pope (1792-1878); Liberty GARRISON, by AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Freedom's first champion in our fettered land Last Line: Survived, -- its ruin and our peace to see. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Garrison, William Lloyd (1805-1879); Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 1, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the mournful month of november 'twas Last Line: And the contact new vigour produces. Subject(s): Freedom; Germany; Singing & Singers; Liberty; Germans; Songs GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 11, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold the wood of teutoburg Last Line: And towards it I gave a few dollars. Subject(s): Freedom; Germany; Jahn, Frederick Ludwig (1778-1852); Neander, Johann August (1789-1850); Liberty; Germans; Mendel, David GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 12, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the wood in the dark the postchaise bump'd on Last Line: It appear'd, though with much mutilation. Subject(s): Censorship; Freedom; Germany; Liberty; Germans GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 18, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The town of minden's a fortress strong Last Line: As by my feelings knew I. Subject(s): Freedom; Germany; Liberty; Germans GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 25, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some tea the goddess quickly made Last Line: And in my works as a poet. Subject(s): Freedom; Germany; Poetry & Poets; Liberty; Germans GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 3, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the old cathedral at aix-la-chapelle Last Line: "long life to the king,"" shouting loudly." Subject(s): Aachen, Germany; Charlemagne (742-814); Freedom; Aix-la-chapelle; Liberty GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 8, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From cologne to hagen it costs to post Last Line: "of ""vive l'empereur!"" repeated." Subject(s): Freedom; Germany; Tears; Liberty; Germans GLOUCESTER MOORS, by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mile behind is gloucester town Last Line: And nothing to say or do? Subject(s): Freedom; Gloucester, Massachusetts; Religion; Liberty; Theology GOD AND THE STRONG ONES, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have made them fools and weak!' said the strong ones Last Line: "reap what ye have sown!"" saith god." Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Freedom; God; Labor & Laborers; Liberty; Work; Workers GOMEZ TO BLANCO, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Can honor for gold be bartered? Are treason and truth at one? Last Line: God bless her dauntless heroes! That day we soon shall see. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Cuba - Rebellions Against Spanish Rule; Freedom; South America; Wealth; Liberty; Riches; Fortunes GOTHAM, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: Far off (no matter whether east or west) Last Line: I know it duty, and I feel it fame. Subject(s): Duty; Freedom; Gold; Great Britain - Rulers; Liberty GRANT, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Hail, honored hero of the east and west! Last Line: Simple in speech, sublime in common-sense. Subject(s): Freedom; Heroism; Honor; Patriotism; Soldiers; Liberty; Heroes; Heroines GREEK SONG: 2. THE BOWL OF LIBERTY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before the fiery sun Last Line: -- when shall we crown the bowl of liberty? Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Freedom; Greece; Liberty; Greeks GREEK WAR SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sons of the greeks, arise!" Last Line: "sons of greeks, etc" Subject(s): Freedom;war; Liberty GYPSY-HEART, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: My grandsire was a vagabond Last Line: A wanderer to the last. Subject(s): Freedom; Wandering & Wanderers; Liberty; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes HALLOWED GROUND, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's hallowed ground? Has earth a clod Last Line: All hallowed ground. Subject(s): Freedom; Religion; Liberty; Theology HANDS ALL ROUND (1ST VERSION), by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First drink a health, this solemn night Last Line: And the great cause of freedom, round and round. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): England; Freedom; Patriotism; English; Liberty HANDS OF LIBERTY, by M. COLLEEN OWEN Poem Source First Line: They came in a manner uniquely their own Last Line: As her arms gave way in the darkness Subject(s): Social Protest; Statue Of Liberty; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration HARVEST AND LIBERTY; BEFORE ELECTION, 1860, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The harvest moon is waning Last Line: Until the work be done! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): American Civil War; Farm Life; Freedom; Harvest; U.s. - History; Agriculture; Farmers; Liberty HEART AND WILL, by WILLIAM JAMES LINTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our england's heart is sound as oak Last Line: And first among the free. Alternate Author Name(s): Spartacus Subject(s): England; Freedom; English; Liberty HELLAS; A LYRICAL DRAMA, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the day when all the sons of god Last Line: Oh, might it die or rest at last! Subject(s): Freedom; Greece; Liberty; Greeks HERD-GIRL, by WINIFRED WELLES Poem Text First Line: You are the herd-girl who has lost her herd Last Line: Close on your own full breast, for you are free. Alternate Author Name(s): Shearer, Harold H., Mrs. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty HERE AND THERE, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah me, how hot and weary here in town Last Line: Here, and not there, is fought and won our fight! Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Freedom; Socialism; Liberty HERMANN AND DOROTHEA, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Truly, I never have seen the market and street so deserted Last Line: "might against might, and peace should revisit us all with its gladness." Subject(s): Exiles; Freedom; Germany; Liberty; Germans HEROES, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The winds that once the argo bore Last Line: And the world is a braver world to-day. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; Heroism; United States - History; Liberty; Heroes; Heroines HEROIC STANZAS, CONSECRATED TO MEMORY OF OLIVER [CROMWELL], by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And now 'tis time; for their officious haste Last Line: Where piety and valour jointly go. Variant Title(s): Heroic Stanzas Consecrated To The Glorious Memory Of His Most Serene Subject(s): Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658); Death; England; Freedom; Politics & Government; Praise; Dead, The; English; Liberty HIS CAVALIER, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me that man, that dares bestride Last Line: I! And a world of pikes passe through. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty HIS LAND MAY BURST THE GALLING CHAIN, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty HIS PEOPLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: He set us free Last Line: Thy yoke we hear / for thy name's sake! Subject(s): Freedom;god;israel;jacob (bible);jews; Liberty;judaism HOFER, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of mortal parents is the hero born Last Line: The tyrant, and confound his cruelty. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty HOLY SONNET: 10, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Last Line: And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die. Variant Title(s): "sonnet On Death;elegie;death Rebuked;""death Be Not Proud, Though Some Have Called Thee""; Subject(s): Catholics; Death; Freedom; Immortality; Religion; Social Protest; Victory; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Dead, The; Liberty; Theology HOLY SONNET: 14, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Batter my heart, three-personed god; for, you Last Line: Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me. Variant Title(s): "holy Sonnet: 171;to E. Of D. With Six Holy Sonnets: 10;the Soul To Her Rescuer;""batter My Heart, Three-personed God; For, You""; Subject(s): Catholics; Christianity; Freedom; Salvation; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Liberty HOLYHEAD, SEPTEMBER 25, 1727, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo here I sit at holyhead Last Line: Than rule yon isle and be a slave. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty HORATIUS [AT THE BRIDGE], FR. LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME, by THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lars porsena of clusium Last Line: In the brave days of old. Alternate Author Name(s): Macaulay, 1st Baron Variant Title(s): Ponte Sublico;horatius; A Lay Made About The Year Of The City Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Horatius; Rome, Italy; War; Valor; Bravery; Liberty HUDIBRAS: PART 1, by SAMUEL BUTLER (1612-1680) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sir hudibras his passing worth Last Line: Already tir'd with other toil. Subject(s): Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658); Freedom; Great Britain - History; Presbyterianism; Liberty; English History HUMAN DEBASEMENT; A FRAGMENT, by EDWARD RUSHTON Poem Text First Line: In early days / if kings were made by men Last Line: All, all these works are thine! Subject(s): Freedom; Humanity; Men; Religion; Tyranny & Tyrants; Liberty; Theology HYMN, by MARTIN LUTHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mighty fortress is our god Last Line: And he must win the battle. Subject(s): Freedom; God; Liberty HYMN FOR THE HEALING OF STRIFE, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heroes of hampden's race, and ye Last Line: And bind the bonds of brotherhood! Subject(s): Africa; Fights; Freedom; Peace; Liberty HYMN OF EMPIRE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Britons! Salute the rising sun Last Line: Save for the freedom of the world! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Liberty; British Empire; England - Empire HYMN SUNG AT CHRISTMAS BY SCHOLARS OF ST. HELENA'S ISLAND, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, none in all the world before Last Line: That sets the island free! Subject(s): American Civil War; Christmas; Freedom; St. Helena's Island, South Carolina; U.s. - History; Nativity, The; Liberty HYMN TO THE VOLUNTEERS OF THE REPUBLIC, SELECTION, by CESAR VALLEJO Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Battles? No! Agonies! And before the agonies Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty I DREAM OF ALL THINGS FREE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dream of all things free Last Line: And I dream of all things free! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty I PAINT WHAT I SEE (A BALLAD OF ARTISTIC INTEGRITY), by ELWYN BROOKS WHITE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: What do you paint, when you paint on a wall? Alternate Author Name(s): White, E. B. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Freedom; Paintings & Painters; Rivera, Diego (1886-1957); Rockefeller, Nelson (1908-1979); Liberty I PAY MY DEBT FOR LAFAYETTE AND ROCHAMBEAU', by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eagle, whose fearless Last Line: Love frees the world!... Subject(s): France; Freedom; Rockwell, Kiffin Yates (1892-1916); World War I; Liberty; First World War IDEOGRAM, by ALFRED GOLDSWORTHY BAILEY Poem Text First Line: Spacialesque trumpets corrode Last Line: On a spoke of the sick wheel Subject(s): Freedom; Reason; Liberty; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals IF THE WORLD WERE RIGHT, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Oh! The delight of beholding delight! Last Line: Shall yield to the natural order of life! Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty IMPLORA PACE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds that stoop from yonder sky Last Line: But freedom for our task divine. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dreams; Freedom; Love; Nightmares; Liberty IMPROMPTU LINES ON JULY FOURTH, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold from the brow of the mountain advancing Last Line: Here's to the fourth and our country forever. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Freedom; Independence; Independence Day; Liberty IN AFTER DAYS, by GEORGE FREDERICK CAMERON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will accomplish that and this Last Line: Are dead and coffined with her foes. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty IN FLANDERS FIELDS, by JOHN MCCRAE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In flanders fields the poppies blow / between the crosses, row on row Last Line: In flanders fields. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Flanders, Belgium; Freedom; Patriotism; Soldiers; World War I; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Liberty; First World War IN THE LISTS, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could I choose the age and fortunate season Last Line: To thank me because I defied! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Fortune; Freedom; Life; Liberty IN THE PLACE OF A PASSAGE 22, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That freedom and the law are identical Subject(s): Liberty INDEPENDENCE, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lie in wait that I may steal a view Last Line: And I shall break them off at their dividing. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty INDEPENDENCE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My life more civil is and free / than any civil polity Last Line: Wears its emblazonry. Subject(s): Freedom; Independence; Liberty INDIANA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our land - our home! The common Last Line: "the land elysian, marveling ""this is ours!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Freedom; Indiana; Peace; Liberty INDIVIDUALISM, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Oh, do you know a man who dares Last Line: And seek no mask. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty INSTANS TYRANNUS, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of the million or two, more or less Last Line: -- so, I was afraid! Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty INSTRUCTIONS, SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN IN PARIS, FOR THE MOB IN ENGLAND, by MARY (CUMBERLAND) ALCOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of liberty, reforms and rights I sing Last Line: Adieu, contentment, safety, peace and quiet! Subject(s): Class Struggle; Freedom; Revolutions; Liberty IRELAND (1847), by DENIS FLORENCE MCCARTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They are dying! They are dying! Where the golden corn is growing Last Line: Health is blowing! Alternate Author Name(s): Maccarthy, Denis Florence Subject(s): Freedom; Ireland - Famine; Patriotism; Liberty IRON LANDSCAPES (AND THE STATUE OF LIBERTY), by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No trellisses, no vines a fire escape Last Line: Lorn, bold, as if saluting with her fist Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Statue Of Liberty; Travel ITALY, by VINCENZO DA FILICAJA Poem Text First Line: Italia, o italia, upon whom Last Line: Victress or vanquished, doomed to slavery! Alternate Author Name(s): Filicaia, Vincenzo Da Subject(s): Freedom; Italy; Liberty; Italians ITALY, by VINCENZO DA FILICAJA Poem Text First Line: Italia! Oh italia! Thou who hast Last Line: Victor or vanquished, thou the slave of friend or foe. Alternate Author Name(s): Filicaia, Vincenzo Da Subject(s): Freedom; Italy; Liberty; Italians ITALY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the sea I heard the groans Last Line: And sow its ghastly fields with flowers! Subject(s): Freedom; Italy; Liberty; Italians JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 10, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus to the martyrs in their country's cause Last Line: Give to the arms of freedom such success. Variant Title(s): The Crowning Of The King Subject(s): Coronations; Creative Ability; England; Faith; France; Freedom; God; Heroism; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Victory; War; Inspiration; Creativity; English; Belief; Creed; Liberty; Heroes; Heroines JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead? This peerless man of men Last Line: Loosed in endless liberty. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Grief; Patriotism; Dead, The; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness JOHN BROWN, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: John brown died on the scaffold for the slave Last Line: Freedom reigns to-day! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Variant Title(s): The President's Proclamation Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Capital Punishment; Freedom; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Liberty; Serfs JOHN BROWN OF OSAWATOMIE [OCTOBER 16, 1859], by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John brown in kansas settled, like a steadfast yankee farmer Last Line: May trouble you more than ever, when you've nailed his coffin down! Variant Title(s): How John Brown Took Harper's Ferry;john Brown At Harper's Ferry;how Old John Brown Took Harper's Ferry Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Harpers Ferry, West Virginia; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; Serfs JOHN BROWN'S BODY, by CHARLES SPRAGUE HALL Poem Text First Line: John brown's body lies a-mould-ring in the grave Last Line: Hip, hip, hip, hip, hurrah! Variant Title(s): Glory Hallelujah! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Freedom; Patriotism; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Liberty; Serfs JOHN BROWN'S BODY (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: John brown's body lies a-mould'ring in the grave Last Line: "now has come the glorious jubilee, / when all mankind are free" Subject(s): "abolitionists;brown, John (1800-1859);freedom;slavery;war;" Anti-slavery;liberty;serfs JOHN CHARLES FREMONT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy error, fremont, simply was to act Last Line: But the full time to harden into things. Variant Title(s): To John C. Fremont Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Fremont, John Charles (1813-1890); Missouri; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty JULY FOURTH; 1867, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Awake, anew, columbia's anthems! Last Line: Let distant ages swell the strain. Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Freedom; Nations; Independence Day; Liberty JUNE'S FLAG, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: June flung her flag out Last Line: And wave on so forever, bright flag of the free! Subject(s): Flags - United States; Freedom; Summer; American Flag; Liberty KARENGE YA MARENGE, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wherein are words sublime or noble? What Subject(s): Patriotism; India; Liberty KING EDWARD THE THIRD, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou, to whose fury the nations are Last Line: "fair albion's shore, and all her families." Subject(s): Bible; Edward Iii, King Of England (1312-1377); Freedom; Great Britain - Wars With France; Mythology; Liberty KINGS AND TYRANTS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known Last Line: Kings seek their subjects good: tyrants their owne. Subject(s): Freedom; Tyranny & Tyrants; Liberty; Dictators KIRKLAND LAKE, by JAMES WREFORD WATSON Poem Text First Line: Under the dark industrial sky Last Line: They die for freedom that are free. Alternate Author Name(s): Wreford, James Subject(s): Freedom; Social Classes; Social Protest; Liberty; Caste LAMENT FOR [THE DEATH OF] THOMAS DAVIS, by SAMUEL FERGUSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I walked through ballinderry in the spring-time Last Line: Let the greater praise belong. Subject(s): Davis, Thomas Osborne (1814-1845); Freedom; Liberty LATIMER AND RIDLEY, BURNED AT THE STAKE IN OXFORD, 1555, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis good to sing of champions old Last Line: The word of god, be ours! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death; Freedom; Heresy; Religious Discrimination; Singing & Singers; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The; Liberty; Heretics; Religious Conflict; Songs LAUS DEO!, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is done! / clang of bell and roar of gun Last Line: Who alone is lord and god! Subject(s): American Civil War; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; God; Patriotism; United States - History; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty LES MISERABLES DE LUXE, by ERNEST HYETT Poem Text First Line: Beneath a democratic flag Last Line: Soft-pedal me your liberty. Subject(s): Freedom; Labor & Laborers; Liberty; Work; Workers LETTER TO THE FRONT: 7, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To be a jew in the twentieth century Subject(s): Jews; Freedom; Judaism; Liberty LETTER TO THE FRONT: 8, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Evening bringing me out of the government building, Subject(s): War; Freedom; United States; Liberty; America LETTING THE DOVES OUT, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The imaginary lover, form in the mind Last Line: And draws more iridescent scarves from his sleeve Subject(s): Doves; Freedom; Liberty LEXINGTON, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where is the little town of lexington? Last Line: "let lexington be still our revolution-cry!" Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): American Revolution; Freedom; Lexington, Battle Of (1775); Revolutions; Liberty; Concord, Battle Of LEXINGTON DAY, 1905, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: On the hundred and thirtieth lexington day Last Line: To our sons may he be their buckler and shield! Subject(s): American Revolution; Battleships; Freedom; Heroism; Lexington, Battle Of (1775); Patriotism; Liberty; Heroes; Heroines; Concord, Battle Of LIBERTATIS SACRA FAMES, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Albeit nurtured in democracy Last Line: Or murder with his silent bloody feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Freedom; Russia; Terrorism; Liberty; Soviet Union; Russians LIBERTY, by JENNIE SCOTT GRIFFITHS Poem Text First Line: Sworn to no creed am I / fearless of what Last Line: The laws of liberty. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty LIBERTY, by JOHN MILTON HAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What man is there so bold that he should say Last Line: And though thou slay us, we will trust in thee! Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty LIBERTY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the bold rock majestic towers on high Last Line: Liberty delights to rove. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty LIBERTY, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those ills that mortall men endure Last Line: Shakes the whole roofe, or ruines all. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty LIBERTY, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When liberty is headlong girl Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty LIBERTY, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Liberty, fiery goddess, dangerous saint! Last Line: The scions of thine aye-unvanquished line! Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty LIBERTY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fiery mountains answer each other Last Line: In the van of the morning light. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty LIBERTY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Free -- free -- who are the free? Last Line: Free -- free -- these are the free. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty LIBERTY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those breathing tokens of your kind regard Last Line: Shall with a thankful tear bedrop its latest page. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty LIBERTY, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tangled was I in love's snare Last Line: For I am now at liberty. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): A Lover Rejoiceth;song: 52 Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty LIBERTY AND PEACE, A POEM, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Freedom comes. The prescient muse foretold Last Line: And heavenly freedom spread her golden ray. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Freedom; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Liberty LIBERTY BELL, by ELBRIDGE STREETER BROOKS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Squarely prim and stoutly built Subject(s): Liberty Bell LIBERTY BELL, by DOYLE HENNESSY Poem Source First Line: No; let it be. The scar is wears Subject(s): Liberty Bell LIBERTY ENLIGHTENING THE WORLD, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Warden at ocean's gate Last Line: Let there be light! Subject(s): Statue Of Liberty LIBERTY ENLIGHTENING THE WORLD', by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou warden of the western gate Last Line: And all the peoples lift their heads in liberty and peace Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Liberty LIBERTY ENLIGHTENING THE WORLD: THE STATUE HAS HER SAY, by SUSAN ELIZABETH HOWE Poem Source First Line: Men are always doing it -- conceiving Last Line: Always going numb Subject(s): Statue Of Liberty LIBERTY TO ATHENS, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The flag of freedom floats once more Last Line: And freedom is their only lord. Subject(s): Freedom; Greek War Of Independence (1821-1832); Liberty LIBERTY TREE, by THOMAS PAINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a chariot of light from the regions of day Last Line: In defence of our liberty tree. Subject(s): American Revolution; Freedom; United States - Continental Congress; War; Liberty LIBERTY: PART 1. ANCIENT AND MODERN ITALY COMPARED, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O my lamented talbot! While with thee Last Line: Aspiring, thy commands to britons bear. Subject(s): Freedom; Italy; Roman Empire; Liberty; Italians LIBERTY: PART 2. GREECE, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus spoke the goddess of the fearless eye Last Line: "till the whole state unnerved in slavery sinks." Subject(s): Freedom; Greece; Liberty; Greeks LIBERTY: PART 3. ROME, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here melting mix'd with air the ideal forms Last Line: "disclosing, dazzle and dissolve his mind." Subject(s): Freedom; Roman Empire; Liberty LIBERTY: PART 4. BRITAIN, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Struck with the rising scene, thus I amazed Last Line: "and lay the toil of ages in the dust." Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain - History; Liberty; English History LIBERTY: PART 5. THE PROSPECT, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here interposing, as the goddess paused Last Line: Rush'd the still ruins of dejected rome. Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain; Liberty LIBERTY; NEW CASTLE, 1878, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For a hundred years the pulse of time Last Line: Lights up thy first abiding place. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Freedom; Hope; U.s. - Centennial Celebrations; War; Liberty; Optimism LIFE AND DEATH: 2, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Or endless sleep 'twill be, - and that is rest Last Line: Into the unknown, air on golden wing. Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Future Life; Dead, The; Liberty; Retribution; Eternity; After Life LINES WRITTEN DURING THE CASTLEREAGH ADMINISTRATION, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Corpses are cold in the tomb Last Line: To the bed of the bride! Subject(s): England; Freedom; Stewart, Robert. 2d Marquis Londonderry; English; Liberty; Castlereagh, Viscount LITANY FOR DICTATORSHIPS, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For all those beaten, for the borken heads Last Line: Our children know and suffer the armed men Subject(s): Freedom; Tyranny & Tyrants; Liberty; Dictators LOCKSLEY HALL, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Comrades, leave me here a little, while as yet 'tis early morn Last Line: For the mighty wind arises, roaring seaward, and I go. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Disappointment; Freedom; Grief; Holidays; Love; Religion; Veterans Day; War; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology LONDON, 1802 (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Milton! Thou shouldst be living at this hour Last Line: The lowliest duties on herself did lay. Variant Title(s): Ideal;to Milton;london, 1802 Subject(s): Freedom; Milton, John (1608-1674); Liberty LONE FREEDOM, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How lonely is vast freedom! I may go Last Line: "how lone is freedom!"" at her gate he cried." Subject(s): Freedom; Solitude; Liberty; Loneliness LOOKING DOWNWARDS, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the sacred generations Last Line: And the spirit waxes fast. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty LOST CHILD - ENFANT PERDU, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In freedom's war, of 'thirty years' and more Last Line: With sword unbroken, and with broken heart. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty LOST FREEDOM OF SWITZERLAND, by JAMES SHERIDAN KNOWLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! With what pride I used / to walk these hill Last Line: Blow on! This is the land of liberty! Variant Title(s): Tell On His Native Hills Subject(s): Freedom; Switzerland; Liberty; Swiss LOVE AND LIBERTY, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In briery dell or thicket brown Last Line: Our song be love and liberty. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty LOVE THE WILD SWAN, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hate my verses, every line, every word Last Line: Hear the music, the thunder of the wings. Love the wild swan Subject(s): Relationships; Swans; Poetry & Poets; Freedom; Hate; Liberty LOVELY ALBERT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The turkish war both near and far Last Line: The army and the navy Subject(s): Freedom;nations;war; Liberty LOYALISTS, by MELVILLE KRESS Poem Text First Line: Out of the dismal unprogressive night Last Line: To strike you back the inquisition's way! Subject(s): Freedom; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Liberty LYCIDAS, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Yet once more, o ye laurels, and once more Last Line: Tomorrow to fresh woods, and pastures new. Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Drowning; Freedom; Grief; Hate; King, Edward (1612-1637); Mourning; Religion; Dead, The; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Theology MACGREGOR'S GATHERING, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon's on the lake, and the mist's on the brae Last Line: Gather, gather, gather, &c. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty MARMION: CANTO 6. THE BATTLE, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While great events were on the gale Last Line: And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. Subject(s): Courage; Douglas, Alexander. 5th Earl Of Angus; Flodden, Battle Of (1513); Freedom; History; Valor; Bravery; Liberty; Historians MASSACHUSETTS SONG OF LIBERTY, by MERCY OTIS WARREN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come swallow your bumpers, ye tories, & roar Last Line: In freedom we're born, etc. Subject(s): American Revolution; Freedom; Massachusetts; Liberty MCFEETERS' FOURTH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was needless to say 'twas a glorious day Last Line: Of this most patriotic republic on earth? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Freedom; Nations; Patriotism; Independence Day; Liberty MEMORY OF THE IRISH DEAD, by JOHN KELLS INGRAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Who fears to speak of ninety-eight? Last Line: Like those of ninety-eight! Variant Title(s): The Men Of 'ninety-eight;the Memory Of The Dead Subject(s): Freedom; Ireland; Ireland - Rebellions; Patriotism; Liberty; Irish MEN WHO MARCH AWAY' (SONG OF THE SOLDIERS), by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What of the faith and fire within us Last Line: Men who march away. Variant Title(s): Song Of The Soldiers Subject(s): Freedom; World War I; Liberty; First World War MENDED WINGS, by JEAN R. MILLER Poem Text First Line: I found you wounded, feathered mite Last Line: To freedom ... Fly! Subject(s): Birds; Freedom; Liberty MESSAGE TO SIBERIA, by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deep down in the siberian mine Last Line: Brothers give you your swords again. Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich Subject(s): Freedom; Mines And Miners; Liberty METRICAL LETTER; WRITTEN FROM LONDON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Margaret! My cousin, -- nay you must not smile Last Line: To find in heaven the things I loved on earth. Subject(s): Courtship; Cousins; Desire; Freedom; Hope; Letters; Liberty; Optimism MIDDLE AGE, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Left alone with the cows to-day Last Line: All this is the burthen of middle age. Subject(s): Freedom; Future; Middle Age; Past; Liberty MILTON AT CRIPPLEGATE, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Me milton fain by cripplegate behold Last Line: Quick in quotation on free lips I live. Subject(s): Freedom; Milton, John (1608-1674); Statues; Liberty MODERN MOSES, OR 'MY POLICY' MAN, by JAMES MADISON BELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a tide in men's affairs Last Line: And the wonderful star of a wonderful age! Subject(s): Freedom; Johnson, Andrew (1808-1875); United States - Reconstruction (1865-1877); Liberty MORTON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The warm pulse of the nation has grown chill Last Line: Its echoes will remain. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Freedom; Morton, Oliver Hazard Perry (1823-1877); Nations; Peace; War; Liberty MY MARYLAND, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The despot's heel is on thy shore Last Line: Maryland, my maryland! Variant Title(s): Maryland! My Maryland;maryland Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; Maryland; Patriotism; State Rights; United States - History; Liberty; Secession MY POLITICAL FAITH, by GEORGE FREDERICK CAMERON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am not of those fierce, wild wills Last Line: And freedom to each lovely land. Subject(s): Freedom; Politics & Government; Liberty NATHAN HALE [SEPTEMBER 22, 1776], by FRANCIS MILES FINCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To drum-beat and heart-beat Last Line: The name of hale shall burn! Subject(s): American Revolution; Freedom; Hale, Nathan (1755-1776); New York City; Patriotism; Liberty; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple NATIONAL MONUMENTS, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Count not the cost of honour to the dead! Last Line: Immortal hosts to guard our native land. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Freedom; Patriotism; Veterans; Liberty NEUTRALITY LOATHSOME, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God will have all, or none; serve him, or fall Last Line: Abhor, and spew out all neutralities. Variant Title(s): Ye Cannot Serve God And Mannon' Subject(s): Freedom; Worship; Liberty NEW ENGLAND'S DEAD!, by ISAAC MCLELLAN JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: New england's dead! New england's dead! Last Line: For they have passed away. Subject(s): American Revolution; Freedom; Liberty NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 6. A CANADIAN VOICE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God, god, how well they meant Last Line: Give them, o god, not heroes' hearts, but brains! Subject(s): Freedom; God; Mythology - Classical; Nations; Sea; Liberty; Ocean NIGHT SCENE AT THE FALL OF SEBASTOPOL, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The toils, the flames, the thunders of the siege Last Line: A crumbling mass of ruin and decay. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Cities; Death; Freedom; Night; War; Urban Life; Dead, The; Liberty; Bedtime NO MASTER, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Indeed this is sweet life! My hand Last Line: A working slave with no days free. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty NO RACK CAN TORTURE ME, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: So's liberty Subject(s): Liberty NO SURRENDER, by CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH TONNA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold the crimson banners float Last Line: Their patriot -- 'no surrender!' Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Charlotte Elizabeth Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty NOT WHOLLY CHAINED, by FLORENCE BURRILL JACOBS Poem Text First Line: Beloved, if you love me, leave me free Last Line: Of this small one we founded upon love. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty NOTES OF AN INTERVIEW, by WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is but little that remaineth Last Line: To the splendour breaking from you, though you veil it. Subject(s): Freedom; Lament; Liberty NOVEMBER, 1806, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Another year! - another deadly blow / another mighty empire overthrown! Last Line: And honour which they do not understand. Subject(s): Freedom; War; Liberty O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN!, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: O captain! My captain! Our fearful trip is done Last Line: Fallen cold and dead. Variant Title(s): On The Death Of President Lincoln;my Captain;to Abraham Lincoln;on Lincoln Subject(s): American Civil War; Assassination; Freedom; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Loss; Patriotism; Presidents, United States; Sea; United States - History; Liberty; Ocean O SOUTHLAND!, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O southland! O southland! Last Line: The faint one at his side. Subject(s): African Americans; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Southern States; Negroes; American Blacks; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; South (u.s.) OBEDIENCE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The power of princes rests in the consent Last Line: Low, and of thrones the ancient majesty. Subject(s): Freedom; Obedience; Liberty OCTOBER THOUGHTS: 1862, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A solemn, tender melancholy Last Line: Shall call him yet to guard her shrine. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Nature; October; War; Dead, The; Liberty ODE, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God save the rights of man Last Line: Her hearts of oak! Subject(s): Freedom; French Revolution (1789); Genet, Edmond Charles (1763-1834); Soldiers; Liberty ODE, by ELIZABETH TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: Ah poor olinda never boast Last Line: He, like a god, is e'ry where! Subject(s): Freedom; Hearts; Liberty ODE (MUSIC-MAKERS), by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are the music makers, / and we are the dreamers of dreams Last Line: Or one that is coming to birth. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Variant Title(s): The Music-makers;ode Subject(s): Freedom; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Liberty; Theology ODE ON THE DEATH OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bury the great duke / with an empire's lamentation Last Line: God accept him, christ receive him! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Let Us Bury The Great Duke Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Great Britain - History; Valor; Bravery; Liberty; English History ODE ON THE INSURRECTION IN CANDIA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I laid my laurel-leaf Last Line: We call thee and we charge thee that all these be free. Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Grief; Revolutions; War; Dead, The; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness ODE ON VENICE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh venice! Venice! When thy marble walls Last Line: One freeman more, america, to thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): The Race With Death Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Venice, Italy; Valor; Bravery; Liberty ODE SUNG IN THE TOWN HALL, CONCORD, JULY 4, 1857, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O tenderly the haughty day Last Line: Ere freedom out of man. Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Freedom; Patriotism; Independence Day; Liberty ODE TO FREEDOM, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit of the days of old Last Line: Till the world shall hear its knell. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty ODE TO LIBERTY, by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who shall awake the spartan fife Last Line: Thou, lady, thou shalt rule the west! Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty ODE TO LIBERTY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A glorious people vibrated again Last Line: When they love but live no more. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty ODE TO THE GERMANS, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spirit of britannia Last Line: And be free! -- and be free! Subject(s): Freedom; Germany; Liberty; Germans ODE WRITTEN IN [THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR] 1746, by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sleep the brave, who sink to rest Last Line: To dwell a weeping hermit there! Variant Title(s): The Sleep Of The Brave;how Sleep The Brave Subject(s): England; Freedom; Heroism; Holidays; Memorial Day; Peace; Soldiers; English; Liberty; Heroes; Heroines; Declaration Day ODE: 2, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart rebels against my generation Last Line: What is eternal. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty OLD AGE, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What mean the days and years that pass Last Line: Upon the silver wings of peace. Subject(s): Aging; Freedom; Grief; Memory; Past; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness OMAR KHAYYAM, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Reading in omar till the thoughts that burned Last Line: That casts its light stain on the asian page. Subject(s): Freedom; Life; Omar Khayyam (1048-1122); Poetry & Poets; Liberty ON A CELEBRATED EVENT IN ANCIENT HISTORY (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A roman master stands on grecian ground Last Line: By all the blended powers of earth and heaven. Subject(s): Corinth, Greece; Flaminius, Titus Quinctius (227-174 B.c.; Freedom; Greek Independence (196 B.c.); Liberty ON A CELEBRATED EVENT IN ANCIENT HISTORY (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When, far and wide, swift as the beams of morn Last Line: "which, at jove's will, descends on pelion's top." Subject(s): Corinth, Greece; Flaminius, Titus Quinctius (227-174 B.c.; Freedom; Greek Independence (196 B.c.); Liberty ON A MOURNER, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nature, so far as in her lies Last Line: The falsehood of extremes! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Freedom; Mourning; Liberty; Bereavement ON A STATUE OF LIBERTY, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Proud thing of fame, how strange at last thy Last Line: Liberty's image, left to guard her tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Statue Of Liberty ON AN EMPTY CAGE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lilacs in the court were sweet Last Line: Say, was it better to be free? Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty ON BEHALF OF SOME IRISHMEN NOT FOLLOWERS OF TRADITION, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: They call us aliens, we are told Last Line: The golden heresy of truth. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Freedom; Ireland; Liberty; Irish ON FREEDOM, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a dream I'm no longer in love Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Dead, The; Liberty ON GLENRIDDEL'S FOX BREAKING HIS CHAIN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, liberty, thou art my theme Last Line: Since we to scoundrels owe our freedom. Subject(s): Foxes; Freedom; Liberty ON LIBERTY AND SLAVERY, by GEORGE MOSES HORTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! And am I born for this Last Line: With songs of liberty! Variant Title(s): Liberty And Slavery Subject(s): Americans; Freedom; Slavery; United States; Liberty; Serfs; America ON LIVING, FROM LIFE IS A DREAM, by PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We live, while we see the sun Last Line: And that dreams themselves are a dream. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty ON PROPOSED PRESENTATION OF GUNS TO KING OF SARDINIA, ITALIAN LIBERTY, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No gold - no jewels bright Last Line: Be god to aid thee nigh! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): England; Europe; Freedom; Italy; Nations; English; Liberty; Italians ON READING THE WAR DIARY OF A DEFUNCT AMBASSADOR, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So that's your diary - that's your private mind Last Line: That once kept europe safe for perpetuity. Subject(s): Diaries; Diplomacy And Diplomats; Freedom; Peace; Veterans Day; Liberty ON THE CAPTURE OF CERTAIN FUGITIVE SLAVES NEAR WASHINGTON, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look on who will in apathy, and stifle they who can Last Line: Erelong the great avenger takes the work from out his hands. Subject(s): Freedom; Slavery; Liberty; Serfs ON THE DEATH OF DR. SWIFT, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: As rochfoucault [or rochfoucauld] his maxims drew Last Line: "I wish it soon may have a better." Variant Title(s): Verses On The Death Of Dr. Swift Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Gay, John (1685-1732); Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Rochefoucauld, Francois De La (1613-80); Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Dead, The; Liberty ON THE EMBANKMENT, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down on the sunlit ebb, with the wind in her sails, and free Last Line: My heart is a hopeless lad in gaol. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once did she hold the gorgeous east in fee Last Line: Of that which once was great, is passed away. Variant Title(s): Venice Subject(s): Freedom; Venice, Italy; Liberty ON THE NEW FORCES OF CONSCIENCE UNDER THE LONG PARLIAMENT, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because you have thrown off your prelate lord Last Line: New presbyter is but old priest writ large. Variant Title(s): On The New Forcers Of Conscience Under The Long Parliament Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain - Parliament; Presbyterianism; Liberty ON THE PICTURE OF LUCRETIA STABBING HERSELF, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lucrece inflam'd with anger, grief and shame Last Line: They made me slave, but thus myself I free. Subject(s): Freedom; Suicide; Liberty ON THE WATCHMAN'S ARRIVAL IN PARIS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good, watchman with face so sad and despairing Last Line: The censorship will of itself disappear. Subject(s): France; Freedom; Germany; Liberty; Germans ON!, by GEORGE BENEDICT Poem Text First Line: When israel marched from egypt land Last Line: And let us on, on, on! Subject(s): Freedom; Israel; Jews; Zionism; Liberty; Judaism ONWARD, by J. M. MANICOFF Poem Text First Line: Where are you going, soldiers Last Line: The lord will lead us through. Subject(s): Flags; Freedom; Jews; Palestine; War; Zionism; Liberty; Judaism ORANGUTAN REHAB, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A circle of unbarbered redheads round Last Line: Limb toward a cultivated taste for freedom. Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Freedom; Indonesia; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Liberty; Dutch East Indies OTHERS, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The daybreak comes so pure and still Last Line: Some other country free. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Freedom; War; Liberty OUR CAUSE, by WILLIAM JAMES LINTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So, freedom, thy great quarrel may we Last Line: Of falsehood echo truth, and own thee fair. Alternate Author Name(s): Spartacus Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty OUR COUNTRY, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our country! Whose eagle exults as he flies Last Line: As free as thy winds and as firm as thy hills! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Freedom; Patriotism; United States; Liberty; America OUR FALLEN BRAVE, by CORNELIA J. M. JORDAN Poem Text First Line: They fell! In freedom's cause they fell Last Line: Our fallen and our free. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Freedom; Love; United States - History; Confederacy; Dead, The; Liberty OUR MARCH, by VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH MAYAKOVSKY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tramp squares with rebellious treading! Last Line: Our breasts are brass cymbals drumming. Alternate Author Name(s): Mayacovsky, Vladimir Vladimirovich Subject(s): Freedom; Modern Man; Progress; Liberty OUR ORDERS, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weave no more silks, ye lyons looms Last Line: And god, and truth, and freedom die! Subject(s): Flags - United States; Freedom; War; American Flag; Liberty OUT OF BABYLON, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I stole out of babylon beyond the stolid warders Last Line: Dreaming of earth's loveliness, happy to be free! Subject(s): Babylon; Escapes; Faith; Freedom; Morality; Music & Musicians; Fugitives; Belief; Creed; Liberty; Ethics PAEONIA 'SOUVENIR DE MAXIME CORNU', INCIDENTALLY, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ground wants rain. Crouched here Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Gardens & Gardening; Hands; Rain; Freedom; Liberty PARAGRAPHS: 15, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a fanatic lover of liberty, considering it Last Line: An idea which leads inevitably to the reduction Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty PARAGRAPHS: 16, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of the rights of each to zero. No. I mean the only Last Line: Thus, living light cast back from a burnt-out star Subject(s): Freedom; Numbers; Liberty PASSOVER, by ABRAM SAMUEL ISAACS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From egypt once, 'mid storm and flame Last Line: Abram s. Isaacs. Subject(s): Freedom; Holidays; Jews; Passover; Liberty; Judaism PASSOVER (THE FIRST DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE), by DEBORAH KLEINERT JANOWITZ Poem Text First Line: The sullen ice has crept from sunny fields Last Line: "our god is one—humanity is one!" Subject(s): Freedom; Independence; Jews; Passover; Liberty; Judaism PATIENCE, by WILLIAM JAMES LINTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be patient, o be patient! Put your ear against the earth Last Line: Freedom's harvest day Alternate Author Name(s): Spartacus Subject(s): Freedom; Patience; Liberty PATRIOTISM AND FREEDOM, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Insensible to high heroic deeds Last Line: Can bear the humbling thought -- the quickening, maddening smart? Variant Title(s): William Wallace Subject(s): Freedom; Patriotism; Liberty PATRIOTS OF MANKIND, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are we not all of race divine Last Line: And let's be patriots of mankind. Subject(s): Freedom; Mankind; Liberty; Human Race PATTERNS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk down the garden paths Last Line: Christ! What are patterns for? Subject(s): Absence; Clothing & Dress; Fashion; Freedom; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Love - Loss Of; World War I; Separation; Isolation; Liberty; First World War PERINDE AC CADAVER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a vision liberty stood Last Line: "ashes, and iron, and gold." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658); England; Freedom; Milton, John (1608-1674); English; Liberty POEMS ON THE SLAVE TRADE: 6, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High in the air exposed the slave is hung Last Line: "against the deep damnation of your deed." Variant Title(s): "high In The Air Exposed The Slave Is Hung""; Subject(s): Abolitionists; Freedom; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Liberty; Serfs POETICAL INSCRIPTION FOR AN ALTAR OF INDEPENDENCE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou of an independent mind Last Line: Approach this shrine, and worship here. Variant Title(s): For An Altar To Independence;inscription For An Altar To Independence Subject(s): Freedom; Independence; Politics & Government; Liberty POLAND, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit of freedom, shadow of the god Last Line: Fling wide the portal to the peerless queen! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Nations; Poland; Soldiers; Dead, The; Liberty PORT OF EMBARKATION, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Freedom, farewell! Or so the soldiers say Last Line: The slow lives sank from being like a dream? Subject(s): Soldiers; Freedom; World War Ii; Liberty; Second World War PORTO RICO, by GEORGE E. BOWEN Poem Text First Line: Oh, the soft blue waves of the southern sea Last Line: That is what it seems to be. Subject(s): Freedom; Islands; Puerto Ricans - New York City; South Sea Islands; Liberty POWER AND GENTLENESS, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've thought at gentle and ungentle hour Last Line: Which tells a tale of peace beyond whate'er was spoken. Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty PRAY FOR POLAND, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, not unwept, unsung thy wrongs have been Last Line: Who reigns, and rules, and lives for evermore! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Europe; Freedom; Poland; Russia; Liberty; Soviet Union; Russians PRAYER, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over a dock railing, I watch the minnows, thousands, swirl Subject(s): Freedom; Transience; Liberty; Impermanence PRAYER, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: God, though this life is but a wraith Last Line: God, keep me still unsatisfied. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty PRECIOUS WORDS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He ate and drank the precious words Last Line: A loosened spirit brings! Subject(s): Books; Freedom; Reading; Liberty PRELUDE, by JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still south I went and west and south again Last Line: In converse with the mountains, moors, and fens. Alternate Author Name(s): Synge, J. M. Variant Title(s): The Wanderer Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty PRIVILEGE, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Careless of death, the gay unborn! Last Line: Of that unvexed security. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty PROMETHEUS UNBOUND; A LYRICAL DRAMA IN FOUR ACTS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Monarch of gods and daemons, and all spirits Last Line: This is alone life; joy, empire, and victory! Subject(s): Courage; Faith; Freedom; Supernatural; Valor; Bravery; Belief; Creed; Liberty PROMISES LIKE A PIE-CRUST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Promise me no promises, / so I will not promise you Last Line: Who would perish of excess. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Freedom; Friendship; Liberty PSALM 136, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: Let us with a gladsome mind Last Line: Ever faithful, ever sure. Subject(s): Freedom; Religion; Liberty; Theology PURPLE BERRIES, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: My bird flew yester morn from its cage Last Line: That priests would have me fear. Subject(s): Birds; Freedom; Purple (color); Liberty PUTTING A BURDEN DOWN, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Putting a burden down feels so empty Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty QUANTRAINS: CHOICE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No fate compels the soul of man Last Line: But that of man's free choice. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty QUARTET IN F MAJOR, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great beethoven, you trouble me this watchful night Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): War; Music & Musicians; Freedom; Liberty R.W.E., by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Doors hast thou opened for us, thinker, seer! Last Line: A sense of widening worlds and ampler air. Subject(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Freedom; Life; Nature; Soul; Liberty RALLYING SONG, by JESSIE E. SAMPTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My people, my people! Arise, o bleeding east Last Line: To consecrate her name. Subject(s): Freedom; Israel; Jews; Zionism; Liberty; Judaism RECOLLECTIONS FROM KRAHWINKEL'S DAYS OF TERROR, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We, mayor and senate of the town Last Line: And hold your tongues, or more's the pity. Subject(s): Freedom; Germany; Terror; Liberty; Germans 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 RELEASING A MIGRANT YEN, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At nine rivers, in the tenth year, in winter, - heavy snow Last Line: They will pluck from your body those long feathers and make them into arrow-wings! Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Freedom; Geese; Liberty REMINDER, by SYDNEY KING RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: Cages are made for wise men who Last Line: With eyes upon the stars. Subject(s): Cages; Fools; Freedom; Wisdom; Idiots; Liberty RENO, SYMBOL OF THE WEST, by JOSEPHINE EATHER Poem Text First Line: There is a gateway to our western land Last Line: Symbolic of the spirit of the west. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty RETURNING TO THE FIELDS, by T'AO CH'IEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young, I was out of tune with the herd Last Line: Now I have turned again to nature and freedom. Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian Variant Title(s): Returning To The Village Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Freedom; Liberty REVOLUTIONARY LETTER: 49, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Free julian beck Subject(s): Liberty RIEL, THE REBEL, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He died at dawn in the land of snows Last Line: And its thousand banners flying! Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Canada; Freedom; Riel, Louis (1844-1885); Canadians; Liberty ROBERT BRUCE'S ADDRESS TO HIS ARMY BEFORE BANNOCKBURN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scots wha hae wi' wallace bled Last Line: Let us do, or die! Variant Title(s): Bannockburn;the Battle Of Bannockburn;bruce To His Men At Bannockburn;bruce's Address To His Army At Bannockburn;national Air: Scotland;scots Wha Hae;robert Bruce's March To Bannockburn Subject(s): Bannockburn, Battle Of (1314); Freedom; National Song - Scotland; Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Scotland; Wallace, Sir William (1270-1305); War; Liberty; Scottish National Anthem; Bruce, Robert; The Bruce ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: THE SILESIAN WEAVERS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No tears from their gloomy eyes are flowing Last Line: "we're weaving, we're weaving!" Subject(s): Freedom; Weaving & Weavers; Liberty ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 16. IN OCTOBER 1849, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The weather now is calm and mild Last Line: Seeing thou'rt ill, to say no more about it. Subject(s): Freedom; Germany; Hungary; Liberty; Germans ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 20. ENFANT PERDU, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forlorn posts leading, thirty long years fought I Last Line: My arms break not, my heart alone doth break. Subject(s): Blood; Fear; Freedom; Singing & Singers; Liberty; Songs ROMERO, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When freedom, from the land of spain Last Line: Shall rise, as from the beaten shore the thunders of the sea. Subject(s): Spain; Freedom; Liberty SAMSON AGONISTES, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little onward lend thy guiding hand Last Line: And calm of mind all passion spent. Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Religion; Samson; Valor; Bravery; Liberty; Theology SAY NOT, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say not the struggle nought availeth Last Line: But westward, look, the land is bright. Variant Title(s): Courage;despondency Rebuked;the Incoming Tide;keeping On;hope Subject(s): Consolation; Courage; Freedom; Hope; Perseverance; Religion; Valor; Bravery; Liberty; Optimism; Theology SAY PARDON TO A BUM, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And follow your own will / in the open spaces ahead Subject(s): Liberty; Identity; Begging & Beggars SCHILLER, by CALVIN THOMAS Poem Text First Line: He kept the faith. The ardent poet-soul Last Line: Where truth and beauty chime with blended ray. Subject(s): Freedom; Schiller, Johann Von (1759-1805); Liberty; Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich Von SCHOOL BOYS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are lads who count the days Last Line: Opening out on every side. Subject(s): Children; Death; Freedom; Hearts; Life; Schools; Childhood; Dead, The; Liberty; Students SCUM O' THE EARTH', by ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the gate of the west I stand Last Line: In the wealth of the richest bloods of earth. Subject(s): Freedom; New York City; Patriotism; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Liberty; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SEDER-NIGHT, by ISRAEL ZANGWILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Prosaic miles of streets stretch all around Last Line: Its god shall be the god of all the earth. Subject(s): Freedom; Jews; Poetry & Poets; Liberty; Judaism SET FREE, by SSU-K'UNG T'U Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I revel in flowers without let Last Line: And I bathe my feet in fusang. Alternate Author Name(s): Piao-sheng Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty SHACKLED, by AIMEE PAUL THOMAS Poem Text First Line: A captor and a captive Last Line: God help them both to keep human! Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Freedom; Prisons & Prisoners; Liberty SHALL WE BIND THE CHAIN, by LAURANCE J. NICOLSON Poem Text First Line: Help! Oh help! Shall freedom die?' Last Line: Never! Never! Never! Alternate Author Name(s): Bard Of Thule Subject(s): Freedom; War; Liberty SILHOUETTE, by MARY GILCHRIST POWELL Poem Text First Line: To see a thing clear-cut against all space Last Line: And the two on the crest of it, free as the wind, yet still. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty SIMPLE GIFTS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "'tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free" Last Line: "to turn, turn will be our delight" Subject(s): Freedom;shaker Hymn;simplicity; Liberty SOLDIERS HERE TO-DAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soldiers and saviors of the homes Last Line: And reap the harvest sure! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Freedom; Patriotism; Peace; Soldiers; War; Nightmares; Liberty SONG, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Child, is thy father dead? Last Line: Yes, ye have one! Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty SONG, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Donought would have everything Last Line: Hey, for cattle cook'd and cut! Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty SONG, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When working blackguards come to blows Last Line: Nap perished at saint helena. Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty SONG, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take back the sigh, thy lips of art Last Line: As sweetly as they've ruin'd mine! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty SONG FOR THE LUDDITES, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the liberty lads o'er the sea Last Line: Of liberty, planted by ludd! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Freedom; Luddites; Liberty SONG FOR THE NEAPOLITANS, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS Poem Text First Line: Too long we've borne what freemen ne'er Last Line: Or die and leave it so! Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur Subject(s): Freedom; Naples, Italy; Patriotism; War; Liberty SONG OF OUR LAND, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Mountainland, fountainland, / shoreland and sea Last Line: My country forever, great land of the free! Subject(s): Children; Freedom; January; Patriotism; U.s. - Declaration Of Independence; Childhood; Liberty SONG OF THE CORNISH MEN, by ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A good sword and a trusty hand! Last Line: "will know the reason why." Alternate Author Name(s): Hawker Of Morwenstow; Hawker, R. S. Variant Title(s): And Shall Trelawny Die?;the Song Of The Western Men;trelawny Subject(s): Cornwall, England; Courage; Freedom; Trelawney, Sir Jonathan (1650-1721); Valor; Bravery; Liberty SONG OF THE EXPOSITION, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah little recks the laborer Last Line: Our freedom all in thee! Our very lives in thee! Subject(s): Freedom; United States; Liberty; America SONG OF THE FUTURE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis strange that in a land so strong Last Line: Shall sing, indeed, a wondrous song. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Freedom; Future; God; Sea; Singing & Singers; Liberty; Ocean SONG OF THE GALLEY-SLAVES, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We pulled for you when the winds was against us and the sails Subject(s): Freedom; Galley Slaves; Liberty SONG OF THE SUPERMAN, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: I am the one whose blood has run through all the / races' veins Last Line: From senseless clod I rise to god, I am the races' soul. Subject(s): Freedom; Heroism; Mankind; Liberty; Heroes; Heroines; Human Race SONG TO THE ITALIAN PATRIOTS, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS Poem Text First Line: Sons of those whose glorious name Last Line: Then on to victory! Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur Subject(s): Freedom; Italy; Patriotism; Victory; Liberty; Italians SONG TO THE MEN OF ENGLAND, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men of england! Who inherit Last Line: For their birthrights -- so will we! Subject(s): England; Freedom; English; Liberty SONG TO THE MEN OF ENGLAND, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men of england, wherefore plough Last Line: England be your sepulchre. Variant Title(s): True Freedom Subject(s): Freedom; Labor & Laborers; Manchester, England; Massacres; Liberty; Work; Workers SONG: 68, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, my heart, ah, what aileth thee Last Line: Ah! My heart, ah! What aileth thee? Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): To His Heart Subject(s): Freedom; Grief; Hearts; Love; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness SONG: 98, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sith I myself displease thee Last Line: It were a wilful rage. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Freedom; Love; Pain; Singing & Singers; Liberty; Suffering; Misery SONGS IN SPRING, by MATTHEW KAMM Poem Text First Line: In spring I sought to live in peace Last Line: Is freed from its prison. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty SONGS OF CAPTIVITY: THE SONG OF HOPE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Droop not, my brothers! I hear a glad strain Last Line: Droop not, my brothers! We yet shall be free! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Freedom; Hope; Liberty; Optimism SONGS OF TRAVEL: 26. IF THIS WERE FAITH, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God, if this were enough Last Line: Lord, if that were enough? Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty SONGS TO A.H.R.: 1. FREE, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O were your heart not wide, dear Last Line: Below me or above. Subject(s): Freedom; Hearts; Love; Soul; Liberty SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 15, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once I was unconfined and free Last Line: When both must quit the field. Subject(s): Cupid; Freedom; Hearts; Soul; Eros; Liberty SONNET ON HEARING OF THE OUTBREAK OF THE POLISH INSURRECTION, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blow ye trumpet, gather from afar Last Line: Boleslas drove the pomeranian. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Freedom; Poland; Liberty SONNET ON THE SUBMISSION OF THE NEAPOLITANS, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS Poem Text First Line: Dastardly slaves! And is it - can it be Last Line: And weep that thou producest things like these. Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur Subject(s): Freedom; Naples, Italy; Tyranny & Tyrants; Liberty; Dictators SONNET TO LIBERTY, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Not that I love thy children, whose dull eyes Last Line: God knows it I am with them, in some things. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty SONNET: 107, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Not [or nor] mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Last Line: When tyrants' crests and tombs of brass are spent. Variant Title(s): I'll Live In This Poor Rime Subject(s): Freedom; Poetry & Poets; Liberty SONNET: 12. ON THE DETRACTION FOLLOWED MY WRITING TREATISES (2), by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs Last Line: For all this waste of wealth, and loss of blood. Variant Title(s): Second Sonnet On Tetrachordon Subject(s): Divorce; Freedom; Liberty SONNET: 7, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like an enfranchised bird, who wildly springs Last Line: My heart still feels the weight of that remembered chain. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Subject(s): Freedom; Love - Loss Of; Liberty SONNET: FOR FREEDOM'S SAKE, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For freedom's sake, farewell. I would not fret you Last Line: "one kiss? -- our last. Goodbye, -- ""for freedom's sake." Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Freedom; Love - Loss Of; Liberty SONNET: POLAND, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How long, o god, shall men be ridden down Last Line: A matter to be wept with tears of blood! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Freedom; Poland; Liberty SONNET: WRITTEN ON THE DAY THAT MR. LEIGH HUNT LEFT PRISON, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What though, for showing truth to flatter'd state Last Line: When thou art dead, and all thy wretched crew? Subject(s): Freedom; Hunt, Leigh (1784-1859); Liberty SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 7, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man, said the chief of sophists, is born free Last Line: Lady! Is gathered up and sheaved in you. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Beauty; Freedom; Soul; Liberty SONNETS WRITTEN IN AN IRISH PRISON: HER NAME LIBERTY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought to do a deed of chivalry Last Line: "yet was she fair, and her name ""liberty." Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty SPIRIT OF FREEDOM, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit of freedom! Who thy home hast made Last Line: Dearest of earth, for there my soul is free. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty SPRING, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spring is here!' the primrose says Last Line: Though tyranny endures so long! Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Freedom; Socialism; Spring; Liberty ST GOVAN, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: St govan he built him a cell Last Line: As his cell by that sounding sea? Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Soul; Wales; Dead, The; Liberty; Welshmen; Welshwomen ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S DAY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night is come, no fears disturb Last Line: And ye had joy in heaven. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Despair; France; Freedom; Future Life; Guilt; Saints; Dead, The; Liberty; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ST. FRANCIS EINSTEIN OF THE DAFFODILS (FIRST VERSION), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In march's black boat / einstein and april Last Line: Shaking the flowers! Subject(s): Mathematics; Statue Of Liberty ST. MICHAEL'S CHAIR, AND WHO SAT THERE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Merrily, merrily rung the bells Last Line: "in compliment to me." Subject(s): Bells; Churches; Death; Freedom; Marriage; Cathedrals; Dead, The; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives STANZAS ON THE BATTLE OF NAVARINO, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hearts of oak that have bravely delivered the brave Last Line: "shall be ""glory to codrington's name." Subject(s): Codrington, Sir Edward (1770-1851); Freedom; Navarino, Battle Of (1827); Liberty STATUE OF LIBERTY, by SHEILA JANE CROOKE Poem Source First Line: We steamed into new york harbor the other day Subject(s): Patriotism; Statue Of Liberty STATUE OF LIBERTY, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This bronze to liberty is loftier Subject(s): Statue Of Liberty STUPIDITY STREET, by RALPH HODGSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw with open eyes Subject(s): Animals; Freedom; Liberty SUPER FLUMINA BABYLONIS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the waters of babylon we sat down and wept Last Line: And men see light. Subject(s): Babylon; Freedom; Italy; Rivers; Liberty; Italians SUPPLICES, SELECTION, by EURIPIDES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is true liberty when freeborn men Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty SWITZERLAND, by JAMES SHERIDAN KNOWLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once switzerland was free! With what a pride Last Line: And think -- I had no master save his own! Variant Title(s): Tell On Switzerland;william Tell On Switzerland Subject(s): Freedom; Switzerland; Liberty; Swiss SYMPATHY (2), by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I know what the caged bird feels, alas! Last Line: I know why the caged bird sings! Subject(s): African Americans; Birdcages; Freedom; Sympathy; Negroes; American Blacks; Liberty; Empathy TABLE TALK, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You told me, I remember, glory, built Last Line: And should, no doubt, if they were all forgot. Subject(s): Freedom; Poetry & Poets; Liberty TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN: THE FIRST DAY: PAUL REVERE'S RIDE [APRIL 1775], by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Listen, my children, and you shall hear Last Line: And the midnight message of paul revere. Variant Title(s): The Landlord's Tale Subject(s): American Revolution; Americans; Fourth Of July; Freedom; Massachusetts; Revere, Paul (1735-1818); United States; Independence Day; Liberty; America TECUMSEH AND THE EAGLES, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tecumseh of the shawnees Last Line: "ye will have lived in vain!" Variant Title(s): The War Cry Of The Eagles Subject(s): Freedom; World War I - Canada; Liberty TENNESSEE; A CENTENNIAL POEM, 1897, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sun-shimmer'd fields of dreaming green Last Line: Love of thee. Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Freedom; Military; Soldiers; Tennessee; Confederacy; Liberty THAT GOLDEN TIME, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When will it come, that golden time Last Line: Makes every man a king. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Freedom; Labor & Laborers; Liberty; Work; Workers THE AGING COLOSSUS, by JULIAN MOSES DRACHMAN Poem Text First Line: Liberty, they are polishing your crown Last Line: Shut not their gate of hope, o liberty! Subject(s): Lazarus, Emma (1849-1887); Statue Of Liberty THE AMERICAN BLACK (A STUDY IN RACE CONSCIOUSNESS), by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Night! Night! / and of the dawn no promise. Wrong is right Last Line: And dream of freedom that is not a name. Subject(s): African Americans; Freedom; Pain; Slavery; United States - Race Relations; Negroes; American Blacks; Liberty; Suffering; Misery; Serfs THE AMERICAN ENSIGN, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One morn, when orient beams were bright Last Line: And only sink in freedom's grave! Subject(s): Flags - United States; Freedom; United States; American Flag; Liberty; America THE AMERICAN FLAG, by JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When freedom, from her mountain height Last Line: And freedom's banner streaming o'er us! Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Variant Title(s): Flag Of The Free Subject(s): American Revolution; Flags - United States; Freedom; Patriotism; American Flag; Liberty THE AMERICAN HERO (A SAPPHIC ODE), by NATHANIEL NILES Poem Text First Line: Why should vain mortals tremble at the sight of death and destruction Last Line: Life is redoubled. Subject(s): American Revolution; Bunker Hill, Battle Of; Freedom; Liberty THE ARMY OF REFORM, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, ye are few, - and they were few Last Line: The free tide of the mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Freedom; Reform & Reformers; United States; Liberty; America THE ATTACK ON THE PRESIDENT, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A land of freedom! Who is free? Last Line: And law alone -- on manly men. Subject(s): Freedom; Mckinley, William (1843-1901); Liberty THE AVENUE OF THE ALLIES (1917), by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the song of the wind as it came Last Line: Rides the proud night-wind and tyrannies die. Subject(s): Flags; Freedom; God; Singing & Singers; Wind; Liberty THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He did not wear his scarlet coat Last Line: The brave man with a sword! Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Freedom; Love; Murder; Prisons & Prisoners; Religion; Sleep; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Liberty; Convicts; Theology THE BALLAD OF SPLENDID SILENCE; IN MEMORIAM FERENCZ RENYL, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the story of renyi and whence you have heard it through Last Line: For the freedom we live for to-day! Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Freedom; Hungary; Socialism; Liberty THE BARONS BOLD, by WILLIAM JOHNSON FOX Poem Text First Line: The barons bold on runnymede Last Line: Our wrongs shall all be righted. Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain - History; Magna Carta; Liberty; English History THE BARTHOLDI STATUE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The land, that, from the rule of kings Last Line: Who shields his license with thy name! Subject(s): Art & Artists; Freedom; Patriotism; Statue Of Liberty; Liberty THE BATTLE-CRY OF FREEDOM, by GEORGE FREDERICK ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, we'll rally round the flag, boys, we'll rally once again Last Line: Shouting the battle-cry of freedom. Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; Patriotism; Soldiers; United States - History; Vicksburg Campaign (1862-63); Liberty THE BEACON, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair shines the beacon from its lonely rock Last Line: Living or dying, freedom wears a crown. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty THE BIRD AND THE TREE, by FREDERICK RIDGELY TORRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blackbird, blackbird in the cage Last Line: Blackbird. Subject(s): Freedom; Lynching; Liberty THE BLACK SAMPSON, by JOSEPHINE DEPHINE HENDERSON HEARD Poem Text First Line: There's a sampson lying, sleeping in the land Last Line: By his mighty arm his rights shall be obtained! Subject(s): African Americans; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Slavery; Negroes; American Blacks; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; Serfs THE BLACK SLAVE TRADE; A POEM, by HANNAH MORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If heaven has into being deign'd to call Last Line: And with thy wide salvation make them free! Variant Title(s): The Slave Trade Subject(s): Freedom; Oppression; Slavery; Liberty; Serfs THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: JUANITA TINSLEY, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even after the letters, there is work, Subject(s): Hope; Freedom; Optimism; Liberty THE BRAND NEW STATUE OF LIBERTY; TO LEE IACOCCA (ANOTHER MICHIGAN BOY), by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was commissioned in a dream by imanja Last Line: So that she'll drop the torch to fondle the jewels. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Dreams; Statue Of Liberty; Nightmares THE BRANDED HAND, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome home again, brave seaman! Last Line: In the van of freedom's onset, the coming of that hand? Subject(s): Freedom; Punishment; Sailing & Sailors; Slavery; Liberty; Serfs THE BRAVE, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For whom are your gyves? For the cowardly one Last Line: But never, in mercy, place chains on the brave! Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Presidents, United States; Wallace, Sir William (1270-1305); Washington, George (1732-1799); Valor; Bravery; Liberty THE BRIDGE: PROEM. TO BROOKLYN BRIDGE, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many dawns, chill from his rippling rest Last Line: And of the curveship lend a myth to god. Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Americans; Bible; Bridges; Brooklyn Bridge; Freedom; Imagination; Religion; United States; Vision; Liberty; Fancy; Theology; America THE BRITON, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From heremon we claim descent Last Line: The freedom-loving briton! Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Freedom; Hearts; Love - Cultural Differences; Liberty THE BROKEN CHAIN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am free! I have burst through my galling chain Last Line: Dreamer! Fond dreamer! Oh, who is free? Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty THE BUILDING OF THE SHIP, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Build me straight, o worthy master! Last Line: Are all with thee,--are all with thee! Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Freedom; Sea; United States; Independence Day; Liberty; Ocean; America THE BURDEN OF THE DAY, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who shall rise and cast away Last Line: Lose the burden of the day! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Fortune; Freedom; Labor & Laborers; Liberty; Work; Workers THE CALL OF THE COAST, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Let the roar go up from the city! Last Line: Shall strew the earth with flowers. Subject(s): Cities; Freedom; Urban Life; Liberty THE CALL TO FREEMAN, by MOSES OWEN Poem Text First Line: But for three hundred thousand of freeman true and brave Last Line: That freedom's fires shall brighter glow -- that men can yet be free. Subject(s): American Civil War; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Slavery; U.s. - History; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; Serfs THE CAPTIVE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I opened the cage of my pet canary Last Line: The captive sings on its perch to-day. Subject(s): Cages; Canaries; Freedom; Mirrors; Liberty THE CENTENNIAL YEAR, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A hundred years - and she had sat, a queen Last Line: No pledge less true for her centennial year. Subject(s): Bells; Freedom; Peace; Storms; United States - Centennial Celebrations; Liberty THE CHAIN, by JOHN PIERPONT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it his daily toil that wrings Last Line: His chain. Subject(s): Abolitionists; Freedom; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Liberty; Serfs THE CHANGE OF FLAGS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A flurried scud of sunlit sails Last Line: "that wrought the battle-blade!" Subject(s): England; Flags; Freedom; Spain; English; Liberty THE CHARACTER OF A HAPPY LIFE, by HENRY WOTTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How happy is he born and taught Last Line: And, having nothing, yet hath all. Variant Title(s): The Happy Life;a Good Man;lord Of Himself;of A Happy Life Subject(s): Freedom; Happiness; Life; Religion; Liberty; Joy; Delight; Theology THE COMMONWEAL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eight hundred years and twenty-one Last Line: Acclaims this jubilee. Subject(s): Freedom; Nature; Spring; Liberty THE COMPLAINT OF POETIE, FOR THE DEATH OF LIBERALITE, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weepe heavens now, for you have lost your light Last Line: For fame shall live, when all the world shall dye. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Liberty THE CONSPIRACY OF CHARLES, DUKE OF BYRON, by GEORGE CHAPMAN (1559-1634) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the uncivil civil wars of france Last Line: With all his counsel, all conspiracy. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty THE CROPPY BOY (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "it was early, early in the spring" Last Line: "just drop (or, o spare) a tear for the croppy boy" Subject(s): Deception;freedom; Liberty THE CRY OF THE CHILDREN, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do ye hear the children weeping, o my brothers Last Line: Than the strong man in his wrath.' Variant Title(s): The Bitter Cry Of The Children Subject(s): Child Labor; Coal Mines & Miners; Freedom; Social Protest; Liberty THE CURSE OF THE CHARTER-BREAKERS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In westminster's royal halls Last Line: Rests the city of our god! Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain; Great Britain - History; Magna Carta; Westminster Abbey; Liberty; English History 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 DEAD TO THE LIVING, by FERDINAND FREILIGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bullet in the marble breast, the gash upon the brow Last Line: "they once were free—they fell—and now, forever they are slaves!" Alternate Author Name(s): Freiligrath, Hermann Ferdinand Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Germany - Revolution - 1848-1849; Dead, The; Liberty THE DEAR OLD FLAG, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! We love that dear old flag Last Line: May god protect our flag and nation. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty THE DEATH OF SLAVERY, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou great wrong, that, through the slow-paced years Last Line: Dwell thou, a warning to the coming times. Subject(s): American Civil War; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; Declaration Day THE DECAY OF VENICE, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The glowing pageant of my story lies Last Line: When died for many a year man's noblest hopes. Subject(s): Freedom; Italy; Venice, Italy; Liberty; Italians THE DECEIVED LOVER SUETH ONLY FOR LIBERTY, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If chance assigned / were to my mind Last Line: My death, or life with liberty. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Song: 33 Subject(s): Cruelty; Death; Fate; Freedom; Life; Dead, The; Destiny; Liberty THE DESERTED VILLAGE, by OLIVER GOLDSMITH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet auburn! Loveliest village of the plain Last Line: As rocks resist the billows and the sky. Subject(s): Country Life; Freedom; Lishoy, Ireland; Mothers; Religion; Social Protest; Villages; Liberty; Theology THE DRUM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O the drum! Last Line: Thy palpitating syllables roll in upon the ear! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Drums; Freedom; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; War; Liberty THE DUCHESS OF MALFI, by JOHN WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are welcome to your country, dear antonio Last Line: [exeunt. Subject(s): Death; Despair; Freedom; Love; Religion; Tragedy; Dead, The; Liberty; Theology THE DUELLIST, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The clock struck twelve; o'er half the globe Last Line: The happy choice their dam had made. Subject(s): England; Freedom; Loyalty; Martin, Samuel; Patriotism; Sin; Warburton, William (1698-1779); English; Liberty THE DYCKMAN HOUSE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Plain as the brass of an old sword-hilt Last Line: "shall look the world in the face again." Subject(s): Faith; Freedom; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Belief; Creed; Liberty THE EAGLE OF FREEDOM, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: O, land of our glory, our boast, and our pride! Last Line: Hurrah for the eagle, the bird of the free! Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Freedom; Wings; Liberty THE EAGLE THAT IS FORGOTTEN, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep softly - eagle forgotten - under the stone Last Line: To live in mankind, far, far more...Than to live in a name. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Altgeld, John Peter (1847-1902); Freedom; Reform & Reformers; Liberty THE EVE OF REVOLUTION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The trumpets of the four winds of the world Last Line: Hasten thine hour and halt not, till thy work be done. Subject(s): Freedom; Greece; Light; Revolutions; War; Liberty; Greeks THE FALLEN ELM, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old elm that murmured in our chimney top Last Line: & freedoms birthright from the weak devours Subject(s): Elm Trees; Environment; Freedom; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Liberty THE FALLING OF THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS, by ROQUE DALTON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead are more unmanageable every day Subject(s): Death; Liberty; Dead, The THE FAMINE YEAR, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weary men, what reap ye? Golden corn for the stranger Last Line: And arraign ye as our murderers, the spoilers of our land. Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Freedom; Ireland - Famine; Vengeance; Liberty THE FARMER'S WIFE, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My husband is a good, hardworking man Last Line: "and john's come in. ""yes, I'll have supper soon!" Subject(s): Family Life; Freedom; Love - Marital; Marriage; Relatives; Liberty; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FEAST OF FREEDOM, by PHILIP MAX RASKIN Poem Text First Line: I remember in my childhood Last Line: "of a spring of long ago. ..." Alternate Author Name(s): Raskin, P. M. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Feasts; Freedom; Jews; Passover; Liberty; Judaism THE FINAL FREEDOM, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the grim end, no prison for me Last Line: "one with the wind and sky and sea." Subject(s): Fate; Freedom; Love; Sea; Destiny; Liberty; Ocean THE FLIGHT OF THE CROWS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The autumn afternoon is dying o'er Last Line: Yon band of black, belated crows still frets the evening air. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Flight; Freedom; Sea; Travel; Flying; Liberty; Ocean; Journeys; Trips THE FREE, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wild streams leap with headlong sweep Last Line: For I'd leave a throne for the hut of the free. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty THE FREE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They bathed in the fire-flooded fountains Last Line: Time will not remember again. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Dead, The; Liberty THE FREED BIRD, by AMELIA B. WELBY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy cage is open'd, bird! Too well I love thee Last Line: Since this heart held a wish, and this frail form a soul! Alternate Author Name(s): Coppuck, Amelia B. Subject(s): Birds; Freedom; Liberty THE FREEDMAN, by MURRAY KETCHAM KIRK Poem Text First Line: Upon his brow god burned his mark, and seared Last Line: The torch of freedom in his dusky hands? Subject(s): Freedom; Poetry Society Of America; Liberty THE FREEING OF CRETE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At length! At last! At last! Last Line: In the great peace and concord that shall be! Subject(s): Crete; Freedom; Liberty THE FUNERAL OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His headstone said / free at last, free at last Last Line: And preached non-violence Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Subject(s): African Americans; Freedom; King, Martin Luther, Jr. (1929-1968); Negroes; American Blacks; Liberty THE GLORY OF 'THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN', by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Aye, take 'the white man's burden' Last Line: Nor liberty mere creed. Subject(s): Freedom; Imperialism; Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936); War; Liberty THE GOLDEN AGE, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Money abundant, at an easy rate! Last Line: That gold alone can make no golden age. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): England; Freedom; Materialism; Muses; Wealth; Youth; English; Liberty; Riches; Fortunes THE GREEK EMIGRANTS SONG, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now launch the boat upon the wave Last Line: And free the man, and free the mind. Subject(s): Freedom; Greece; Immigrants; Liberty; Greeks; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE GREEK PARTISAN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our free flag is dancing Last Line: Like autumn sheaves are lying. Subject(s): Freedom; Greece; Liberty; Greeks THE GREEN ABOVE THE RED, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Full often, when our fathers saw the red above the green Last Line: Once and for ever more to raise the green above the red! Subject(s): Freedom; Nationalism - Ireland; Liberty THE GRUMBLING HIVE; OR, KNAVES TURN'D HONEST, by BERNARD MANDEVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A spacious hive well stocked with bees Last Line: For acorns as for honesty. Subject(s): Bees; Freedom; Insects; Beekeeping; Liberty; Bugs THE GUERRILLA, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though friends are false, and leaders fail Last Line: Here all their fragrance shed. Subject(s): Freedom; Guerrillas; Liberty THE GULLS, by ANNA LEE TOMKINS Poem Text First Line: Their world is quite as large as mine Last Line: Emblems of joyous liberty. Subject(s): Birds; Freedom; Gulls; Liberty; Seagulls THE HALT BEFORE ROME, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it so, that the sword is broken Last Line: Proclaiming republican rome. Subject(s): Freedom; Nations; Rome, Italy; War; Liberty THE HARP, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The harp that once through tara's halls Last Line: To show that still she lives. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Variant Title(s): Tara;freedom Sleeps Subject(s): Freedom; Tara, Ireland; Liberty THE HIGH TIDE AT GETTYSBURG [JULY 3, 1863], by WILL HENRY THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A cloud possessed the hollow field Last Line: Lamenting all her fallen sons! Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism; United States - History; War; Liberty; Gettysburg, Battle Of; Declaration Day THE HILLS WERE MADE FOR FREEDOM, by WILLIAM GOLDSMITH BROWN Poem Text First Line: When freedom from her home was driven Last Line: Hills bow to none but god! Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty THE HOUSE OF BONDAGE, by AUGUSTINE JOSEPH HICKEY DUGANNE Poem Text First Line: From mossy woods and cypress bolls Last Line: O god! Break not mine oath for me! Subject(s): American Civil War; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; United States - History; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty THE INVALID, by VIRGINIA FOLEY Poem Text First Line: Old ships are tired sailing into port Last Line: I dream the vagabondage they have known! Subject(s): Boats; Freedom; Japan; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Sicily; Liberty; Japanese; Seamen; Sails THE IRISH PEASANT TO HIS MISTRESS, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through grief and through danger thy smile hath cheer'd my way Last Line: Where shineth thy spirit, there liberty shineth too! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Variant Title(s): Grief And Danger Subject(s): Fidelity; Freedom; Irish Catholic Church; Faithfulness; Constancy; Liberty THE IRISH RAPPAREES; A PEASANT BALLAD OF 1691, by CHARLES GAVAN DUFFY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Righ shemus he has gone to france, and left his crown behind Last Line: The men that rode at sarsfield's side, the roving rapparees! Subject(s): Freedom; Ireland - Rebellions; Liberty THE IRISH REAPER'S HARVEST HYMN, by JOHN KEEGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All hail! Holy mary, our hope and our joy! Last Line: Light liberty's flame in the hut of the slave! Subject(s): Freedom; Harvest; Liberty THE JEW, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moses, from whose loins I sprung Last Line: Then why do they sneer at me? Subject(s): Bible; Freedom; Jews; Religion; Soldiers' Writings; Liberty; Judaism; Theology THE LANDING OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS IN NEW ENGLAND [NOVEMBER 19, 1620], by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The breaking waves dashed high / on a stern and rock-bound coast Last Line: Freedom to worship god. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Variant Title(s): The Landing Of The Pilgrim Fathers;the Pilgrim Fathers Subject(s): Freedom; Holidays; Patriotism; Pilgrim Fathers; Plymouth, Massachusetts; Thanksgiving Day; United States; Women; Liberty; America THE LAW OF LIBERTY, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This extent hath freedom's ground Last Line: I upon myself, advance. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty THE LEADER, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Down the hollow, up the hill Last Line: Where the flag goes—there go I! Subject(s): Flags - United States; Freedom; Patriotism; Summer; American Flag; Liberty THE LEAGUE OF THE ALPS; OR THE MEETING ON THE FIELD OF GRUTLI, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas night upon the alps -- the senn's wild horn Last Line: For now the strife was closed, the glorious alps were free! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Freedom; Switzerland - Wars; Liberty THE LIBERTY, by SARAH FYGE EGERTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I be one, of those obsequious fools Last Line: With what reluctance they indure restraints. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Edward, Mrs.; Fyge, Sarah Subject(s): Freedom; Life; Pride; Women; Liberty; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE LIBERTY BELL, by JOHN PIERPONT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The liberty bell - the liberty bell Last Line: To both tyrant and slave, in that day of the lord! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Liberty Bell; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs THE LIBERTY MOTOR, by HENRY W. KING Poem Text First Line: Silent, she rests before the sweeping wing Last Line: He knows she was half born of women's tears. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty THE LIBERTY POLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "come listen, good neighbors of every degree" Last Line: "derry down, down, hey derry down" Subject(s): Freedom;u.s. - Colonial Period; Liberty THE LIBERTY SONG (WITH MUSIC), by JOHN DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come join hand in hand, brave americans all Last Line: Not as slaves, but as freemen our money we'll give. Alternate Author Name(s): Penman Of The Revolution Subject(s): Freedom; United States - Colonial Period; Liberty THE LIE, by WALTER RALEIGH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Go, soul, the body's guest Last Line: No stab the soule can kill. Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter Variant Title(s): The Soul's Errand;the Lye Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Lies; Social Protest; Soul; Truth; Valor; Bravery; Liberty THE LINNET'S PETITION, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As stella sat the other day Last Line: As when she set him free. Subject(s): Birds; Freedom; Linnets; Liberty THE LITTLE BIRD'S COMPLAINT TO HIS MISTRESS, by JANE TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here in this wiry prison, where I sing Last Line: And sing sweet songs to freedom and to thee. Subject(s): Birds; Freedom; Pets; Liberty THE LITTLE BLACK BOY, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother bore me in the southern wild Last Line: And be like him, and he will then love me. Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Bible; Brotherhood; Freedom; Mothers; Mythology; Racism; Liberty; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry THE LITTLE CLOUD, by JOHN HOWARD BRYANT Poem Text First Line: As when, on carmel's sterile steep Last Line: The blessed liberty of god. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Missouri Compromise; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty THE LIVING DEAD, by RALPH CHAPLIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie Last Line: And dare not speak! Subject(s): Freedom; Industrial Workers Of The World (i.w.w.); Labor Unions; Liberty THE LORDS' MASQUE: CHORUS (1), by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Live with thy bridegroom happy, sacred bride Last Line: How blest is he that is for love envied! Subject(s): Envy; Freedom; Love; Marriage; Rites & Ceremonies; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE LOST LEADER, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just for a handful of silver he left us Last Line: Pardoned in heaven, the first by the throne! Subject(s): Freedom; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Writing & Writers; Liberty THE MAGNETIC MOUNTAIN: 24, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tempt me no more; for I Last Line: Easing a saviour's birth Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty THE MAID OF ORLEANS, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At thee the mocker sneers in cold derision Last Line: Of nobleness alone a noble mind is proud. Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Freedom; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Liberty THE MAN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Where is the man?' I heard one in despair Last Line: Lay on your country's altar. God is great. Subject(s): Freedom; Lyon, Nathaniel (1818-1861); War; Liberty THE MAN WHO LED THE VAN OF IRISH VOLUNTEERS, by EDWARD LYSAGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gen'rous sons of erin, in manly virtue bold Last Line: The gallant man, who led the van of irish volunteers. Variant Title(s): In Praise Of Grattan Subject(s): Freedom; Grattan, Henry (1746-1820); Irish Unification Question; Liberty THE MAN WITH THE HOE, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Last Line: After the silence of the centuries? Subject(s): Art & Artists; Farm Life; Freedom; Labor & Laborers; Mankind; Millet, Jean Francois (1814-1875); Oppression; Paintings & Painters; Religion; Social Protest; Soldiers; Agriculture; Farmers; Liberty; Work; Workers; Human Race; Theology THE MANTLE OF ST. JOHN DE MATHA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A strong and mighty angel Last Line: The good ship bravely in! Subject(s): Freedom; Jean De Matha, Saint (1160-1213); Liberty THE MARINE, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: In assorted shades of green Last Line: "will be there!" Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Freedom; Marines - United States; Liberty THE MARSEILLAISE, by CLAUDE JOSEPH ROUGET DE LISLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye sons of freedom, wake to glory! Last Line: To arms! To arms! Ye brave, etc. Subject(s): France; Freedom; Liberty THE MARTYR; INDICATIVE OF PASSION OF PEOPLES APRIL 15, 1865, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good friday was the day Last Line: When they bare the iron hand. Subject(s): Assassination; Freedom; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Liberty THE MINSTREL AT LINCLUDEN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I stood by yon roofless tower Last Line: I winna venture't in my rhymes. Subject(s): Freedom; War; Death; Supernatural; Grief; Liberty; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE MINSTREL BOY, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The minstrel boy to the war is gone Last Line: "they shall never sound in slavery." Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Freedom; Minstrels; Liberty THE MISTRESS'S REPLY TO HER LITTLE BIRD, by JANE TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear little bird, don't make this piteous cry Last Line: But now 'twould kill thee soon, to let thee fly. Subject(s): Animal Rights; Freedom; Pets; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Liberty THE MORAL WARFARE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When freedom, on her natal day Last Line: The light, and truth, and love of heaven. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty THE MORNING DREAM (2), by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the glad season of spring Last Line: Resolves to have none of her own. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty THE MOTHERLAND, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I have borne in memory what has tamed Last Line: Felt for thee as a lover or a child! Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Valor; Bravery; Liberty THE NEGRO BOATMAN'S SONG, by ANONYMOUS - AFRICAN AMERICAN Poem Text First Line: "oh, praise and tanks! De lord he come" Last Line: Or death-rune of our doom! Subject(s): African Americans;american Civil War;freedom;slavery;u.s. - History; Negroes;american Blacks;liberty;serfs THE NEW COLOSSUS, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not like the brazen giant of greek fame Last Line: "I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" Subject(s): Americans; Art & Artists; Freedom; Immigrants; Religion; Statue Of Liberty; United States; Liberty; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Theology; America THE NEW DAY, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From a vision red with war Last Line: Man's land. Subject(s): Freedom; World War I; Liberty; First World War THE NEW IDEA, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last fall I heard a candidate stand on a Last Line: With broken backs. Subject(s): Democratic Party (u.s.); Elections; Freedom; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Liberty THE NIGHT OF THE LION, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their day was at twelve of the night Last Line: His freedom shall not end. Subject(s): Admirals; Animals; Eyes; Freedom; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Lions; Night; Liberty; British Empire; England - Empire; Bedtime THE OLD 'CONSTITUTION', by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before the wind that greets the sun Last Line: A hundred years ago. Subject(s): Constitution (ship); Freedom; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Sailing & Sailors; Liberty; Seamen; Sails THE OLD CHARTIST, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whate'er I be, old england is my dam! Last Line: I'll preach you to the british nation. Subject(s): Chartism; England; Freedom; English; Liberty THE OLD STOIC, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Riches I hold in light esteem Last Line: With courage to endure. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Immortality; Stoicism; Dead, The; Liberty THE OPEN DOOR, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See, little bird, I open wide Last Line: Awaits my song Subject(s): Air; Birds; Freedom; Wings; Liberty THE ORACLES, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis mute, the word they went to hear on high dodona mountain Last Line: Their hair. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty THE OUTLAW'S SONG, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The chough and crow to roost are gone Last Line: And use it as ye may. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty THE PANORAMA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the long hall the shuttered windows shed Last Line: And shame his poor word with your nobler deed. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; Serfs THE PATH OF GOLD, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Dawn on the world's new shores. The path Last Line: O path of gold to human destiny! Subject(s): Freedom; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Liberty; Seamen; Sails; Beach; Coast; Shore THE PEOPLE'S PETITION, by WATHEN MARK WILKS CALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O lords! O rulers of the nation! Last Line: Give us our daily bread! Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain - History; Liberty; English History THE PEOPLE, YES: 86, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The people, yes, the people Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty THE PHILOSOPHIC FLIGHT, by GIORDANO BRUNO Poem Text First Line: Now that these wings to speed my wish ascend Last Line: If death so glorious be our doom at all! Alternate Author Name(s): Il Nolano Subject(s): Freedom; Italian Renaissance; Liberty THE PIONEER, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What man would live coffined with brick Last Line: But widens still the irretrievable space. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty THE PLACE WHERE MAN SHOULD DIE, by MICHAEL JOSEPH BARRY Poem Text First Line: How little recks it where men lie Last Line: Is where he dies for man! Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty THE PLEASURES OF HOPE: 1, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At summer eve, when heaven's ethereal bow Last Line: "love! -- mercy -- wisdom! -- rule for evermore!" Variant Title(s): Hope;the Distant In Experience Subject(s): Beauty; Freedom; Hope; Landscape; Nature; Politics & Government; Liberty; Optimism THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 207, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tientai mountains are my home Last Line: The joys of roaming free are wonderful indeed Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Climbing; Freedom; Happiness; Mountains; Liberty; Joy; Delight; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 259, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love the joys of the mountains Last Line: Looks like a lone-flying crane Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Freedom; Mountains; Quiet Life; Liberty; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 10, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: People who leave home want to be free Last Line: I can't laugh at you Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Disappointment; Freedom; Home; Monks; Liberty THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 7, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wine of wisdom is so cold Last Line: Free of shame and glory Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Drinks & Drinking; Freedom; Wisdom; Wine; Liberty THE POET, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poet in a golden clime was born Last Line: She shook the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Freedom; Hate; Poetry & Poets; Liberty THE POWER OF RUSSIA, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So all this gallant blood has gushe'd in vain Last Line: Our setting star is your misfortunes' rising morn.' Subject(s): Freedom; Russia; Liberty; Soviet Union; Russians THE PRAYER OF THE ROMANS, by JOHN MILTON HAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not done, but near its ending Last Line: One republic in italy free! Subject(s): Freedom; Italy; Liberty; Italians 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 PRESS, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A worthy parson, once upon a time Last Line: On freedom's shores a weak and venal press. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Books; Freedom; History; Libraries & Librarians; Literature; Newspapers; Poetry & Poets; Reading; Liberty; Historians; Journalism; Journalists THE PRINCE AND THE CZAR, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The prince and the czar ride into the streets Last Line: Let the wild wars cease and the nations rest!' Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Alexander Ii, Czar Of Russia (1818-1881); Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Edward Vii, King Of England (1841-1910); Freedom; History; Leadership; London; Liberty; Historians THE PRISONER, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tartars led in chains Last Line: "a han heart and a han tongue set in the body of a turk." Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Freedom; Prisons & Prisoners; Soldiers; Tatars; Liberty; Tartars THE PRISONER, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day I lie beneath the great pine tree Last Line: Ah, freedom is but death. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Dead, The; Liberty THE PRISONERS OF NAPLES, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been thinking of the victims bound Last Line: In love which is of thee, and which indeed thou art! Subject(s): Freedom; Naples, Italy; Liberty THE PROMISE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You no more shall barefoot crawl Last Line: And the worthy burgomaster. Subject(s): Freedom; Germany; Liberty; Germans THE RACE OF ODIN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loud was the hostile clang of arms Last Line: "she falls—and lo, the world again is free!" Subject(s): Freedom; Mythology - Celtic; War; Liberty THE REBEL, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a wall of which the stones Last Line: Should break his hands, as I have done Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty THE REFORMER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All grim and soiled and brown with tan Last Line: With morning light! Subject(s): Freedom; Reform & Reformers; Liberty THE RENDITION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the train's shrill whistle call Last Line: I stood upon her grave! Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty THE RETURN FROM THE CAPTIVITY, by MARION MOSS Poem Text First Line: Arise! Sons of israel, arise! Last Line: Raise the hymn of thanksgiving,—thou'rt free. Subject(s): Freedom; Israel; Jews; Slavery; Liberty; Judaism; Serfs THE RIGHT OF ASYLUM, by STEPHEN PHILLIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Easy the cry, while vengeance now is wrought Last Line: This old sea-haven to world-misery? Subject(s): Freedom; Jews; Right To Asylum; Liberty; Judaism THE RIVALS, by ROBERT WHITAKER Poem Text First Line: Freedom and faith went wooing for a soul Last Line: "upon the track that runs from goal to goal." Subject(s): Faith; Freedom; Religion; Belief; Creed; Liberty; Theology THE ROAD NOT TAKEN, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood Last Line: And that has made all the difference. Subject(s): Fate; Freedom; Life; Life Change Events; Roads; Time; Destiny; Liberty; Paths; Trails THE ROCK OF LIBERTY; A PILGRIM ODE, 1620-1920: 3. ACHIEVEMENT, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have felled the forest and pierced the hill Last Line: Amen. Subject(s): Freedom; Patriotism; Pilgrim Fathers; Religion; Success; Liberty; Theology THE ROCK OF LIBERTY; A PILGRIM ODE, 1629-1920: 1. VISION, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord god of hosts, defender of the weak Last Line: Should through the ages ring! Subject(s): Freedom; Mayflower (ship); Pilgrim Fathers; Prayer; Religion; Liberty; Theology THE ROSE TREE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: O words are lightly spoken Last Line: "can make a right rose tree." Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Connolly, James (1868-1916); Flowers; Freedom; Pearse, Patrick Henry (1879-1916); Roses; Liberty THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 15, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And those who husbanded the golden grain Last Line: As, buried once, men want dug up again. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Freedom; Time; Liberty THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 16, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The worldly hope men set their hearts upon Last Line: Lighting a little hour or two -- is gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Freedom; Religion; Time; Liberty; Theology THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 17, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Think, in this battered caravanserai Last Line: Abode his destined hour, and went his way. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Freedom; Time; Liberty THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 18, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They say the lion and the lizard keep Last Line: Stamps o'er his head, but cannot break his sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Freedom; Time; Liberty THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 48, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A moment's halt - a momentary taste Last Line: The nothing it set out from -- oh, make haste! Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Freedom; Time; Liberty THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 49, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Would you that spangle of existence spend Last Line: And upon what, prithee, may life depend? Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Freedom; Time; Liberty THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 50, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A hair perhaps divides the false and true Last Line: And peradventure to the master too; Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Freedom; Time; Liberty THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 51, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whose secret presence, through creation's veins Last Line: They change and perish all--but he remains: Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Freedom; Time; Liberty THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 52, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A moment guessed - then back behind the fold Last Line: He doth himself contrive, enact, behold. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Freedom; Time; Liberty THE SHAN VAN VOCHT (THE POOR OLD WOMAN) (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: Oh! The french are on the sea Last Line: Then hurra for liberty! / says the shan van vocht Subject(s): Freedom;ireland;navy - France; Liberty;irish;french Navy THE SHAN VAN VOCHT (THE POOR OLD WOMAN) (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Oh boney's on the sea Last Line: Says the shan van vocht Subject(s): Freedom;ireland;navy - France; Liberty;irish;french Navy THE SHEPHERD-POET OF THE ALPS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Singing of the free blue sky Last Line: Sister! Thy brother is won by thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Freedom; Poetry & Poets; Liberty THE SILVER HERONS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within a home for captive beasts Last Line: Is not to lose one's life, but save. Subject(s): Freedom; Herons; Mercy; Liberty THE SLAVE, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They set the slave free, striking off his chains Last Line: Free men set themselves free. Subject(s): Freedom; Religion; Slavery; Liberty; Theology; Serfs THE SOLDIER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The soldier! - meek the title, yet Last Line: The captain's high command. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Freedom; Monuments; Soldiers; War; Liberty THE SOLDIER BOY'S DREAM, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A soldier boy lay dreaming Last Line: Of liberty, new found. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): American Civil War; Dreams; Freedom; Soldiers; United States - History; Nightmares; Liberty THE SONG OF 1876, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Waken, voice of the land's devotion! Last Line: As pure as of old for a thousand years! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Freedom; Honor; Nations; Singing & Singers; Liberty THE SONG OF THE FOREIGN-BORN, by ROBERT EMMET CARROLL Poem Text First Line: We came, and you bade us welcome Last Line: The stars and stripes unfurled. Subject(s): Freedom; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Liberty THE SONG OF THE SHIRT, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With fingers weary and worn Last Line: "she sang this ""song of the shirt!" Subject(s): Adversity; Freedom; Labor & Laborers; Religion; Social Protest; Liberty; Work; Workers; Theology THE SPANISH REVOLUTION, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blow loud the silver trumpets, blow Last Line: Let spain improve her golden hour. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Freedom; Government; Revolutions; Spain; Liberty THE SPIRIT VOICE; OR, LIBERTY CALL TO THE DISENFRANCHISED, by CHARLES L. REASON Poem Text First Line: Come! Rouse ye brothers, rouse! A peal now breaks Last Line: From partial bondage to a life indeed. Subject(s): African Americans; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Toussaint L'ouverture (1743-1803); Negroes; American Blacks; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty THE STAMP ACT IN NEW YORK, 1765, by GEORGE LANSING RAYMOND Poem Text First Line: The night before the stamp-act Last Line: The stamp act was repeal'd. Subject(s): Freedom; New York City - Colonial Period; Stamp Act (1765); Liberty THE STAR OF LIBERTY, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: There shone a gem on england's crown Last Line: On thy calm breast, america! Subject(s): Freedom; United States; Liberty; America THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER, by FRANCIS SCOTT KEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light Last Line: Brave. Variant Title(s): Final Curtain;defence Of Fort Mchenry Subject(s): Flags - United States; Fort Mchenry, Battle Of (1814); Fourth Of July; Freedom; Napoleon I (1769-1821); National Song - United States; Patriotism; United States; War Of 1812; American Flag; Independence Day; Liberty; American National Anthem; America THE STATUE OF LIBERTY, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This bronze to liberty is loftier Subject(s): Statue Of Liberty THE STATUE OF LIBERTY (NEW YORK HARBOUR, A.D. 2900), by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here once, the records show, a land whose pride Last Line: A shattered torch held in a mighty hand. Subject(s): Statue Of Liberty THE STRIPES AND THE STARS; APRIL, 1861, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O star-spangled banner! The flag of our pride! Last Line: One country — one banner — the stripes and the stars! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): American Civil War; Flags - United States; Freedom; Patriotism; U.s. - History; American Flag; Liberty THE STUDENT'S SERENADE, by ANNE BRONTE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have slept upon my couch Last Line: Though that bliss be shared with me. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Acton Subject(s): Students; Winter; Freedom; Togetherness; Liberty THE SUMMONS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My ear is full of summer sounds Last Line: And has no answer but god-speed! Subject(s): Freedom; Summer; Liberty THE SUN RISING, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Busy old fool, unruly sun Last Line: This bed thy center is, these walls, thy sphere. Subject(s): Dawn; Love - Erotic; Freedom; Love; Sun; Sunrise; Liberty THE SYMPHONY, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O trade! O trade! Would thou wert dead! Last Line: Baltimore, 1875. Subject(s): Capitalism; Freedom; Liberty THE TENDENCY, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: German bard! Extol our glorious Last Line: To the common public's level. Subject(s): Freedom; Germany; Liberty; Germans THE THIRD OF FEBRUARY, 1852, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My lords, we heard you speak; you told us all Last Line: And hold against the world this honor of the land. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): France; Freedom; Napoleon Iii (1808-1873); Liberty THE TOMB OF DE BRUCE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And liest thou, great monarch, this pavement below? Last Line: By the chisel of fame on the tablet of time. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Freedom; Graves; Honor; Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Liberty; Tombs; Tombstones; Bruce, Robert; The Bruce THE TRAGIC CONDITION OF THE STATUE OF LIBERTY, by BERNADETTE MAYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me your tired, your poor Subject(s): Statue Of Liberty; Social Commentaries; Popular Culture - United States THE TRULY GREAT, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I think continually of those who were truly great Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Freedom; Greatness; Heroism; Life Change Events; Men; War; Liberty; Heroes; Heroines THE TRUMPET OF LIBERTY, by JOHN TAYLOR (1750-1826) Poem Text First Line: The trumpet of liberty sounds through the world Last Line: Fall, tyrants, fall! Etc. Subject(s): Freedom; Mankind; Trumpets; Tyranny & Tyrants; Liberty; Human Race THE UNFINISHED WORK, by JOSEPH FULFORD FOLSOM Poem Text First Line: The crowd was gone, and to the side Last Line: And sank beside him on the bench. Subject(s): Freedom; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Statues; Liberty THE UNION, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You that have gathered together the sons of all races Last Line: One singing star of the world. Subject(s): Dreams; Flags; Freedom; Mankind; Nations; Tears; Nightmares; Liberty; Human Race THE UNITED STATES TO THE FILIPINOS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We come to give you liberty Last Line: If you venture to refuse. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Freedom; Philistines; Liberty THE UNSUNG HEROES, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A song for the unsung heroes who rose in the country's need Last Line: Who fought their way from night to day and struggled up to god. Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; United States - History; Liberty THE VALLEY OF REMORSE, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There goes a wandering soul in desert places Last Line: And broad the dawn-light widens o'er the lea. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Love; Freedom; Liberty 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 VOICE OF PEACE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though now forever still Last Line: Of love and liberty! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Independence; Liberty Bell; Peace THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: PROGRESS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When liberty lives loud on every lip Last Line: Even to thyself? Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): France; Freedom; Travel; Liberty; Journeys; Trips THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you seen, by potomac, that shaft in the skies Last Line: The noble, the peerless, the many in one! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Freedom; Potomac River; Rivers; Washington Monument; Washington, D.c.; Liberty THE WASTE PLACES, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As a naked man I go Last Line: The lion out to lick my hand! Variant Title(s): In Waste Places Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty THE WAVERING LOVER WILLETH AND DREADETH, TO MOVE HIS DESIRE, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such vain thought as wonted to mislead me Last Line: But such it is I not how to begin. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 26 Subject(s): Fear; Freedom; Hearts; Hope; Liberty; Optimism THE WAY, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By wisdom that cometh at night and by stealth Last Line: To live in the unconfined. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Freedom; Greed; Liberty; Avarice; Cupidity THE WEARIN' O' THE GREEN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o paddy dear, an' did ye hear the news that's goin' round?" Last Line: "and where, please god, I'll stick to wearin' o' the green" Subject(s): Freedom;ireland;patriotism;st. Patrick's Day; Liberty;irish THE WHITE SLAVES; 1860, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The household of a roman, in rome's luxurious time Last Line: Let every soul cry, 'liberty!' and 'liberty for all!' Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; Household Employees; Rome, Italy; Slavery; U.s. - History; Liberty; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Serfs THE WIND AND THE WHIRLWIND, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a thing to say. But how to say it? Last Line: I had a thing to say. And it is said. Subject(s): Egypt; Freedom; Nations; Patriotism; Peace; Politics & Government; War; Liberty THE WINGED VICTORY, by LORAINE S. BRADFORD Poem Text First Line: Headless, the nike dominates the hall Last Line: Her vital body's there to claim our trust! Subject(s): Freedom; Strength; Victory; Liberty THE WOLF AND THE DOG, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A prowling wolf, whose shaggy skin Last Line: So ran sir wolf, and runneth yet. Subject(s): Fables; Freedom; Allegories; Liberty THE WORD OF THE WIND, by LOUISE DRISCOLL Poem Text First Line: Wind that carries the sound of bells Last Line: And one white word for peace! Subject(s): Freedom; Grief; Peace; War; Wind; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness THE WORLD (1), by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw eternity the other night Last Line: But for his bride. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Variant Title(s): A Vision Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Earth; Freedom; Future Life; Mankind; Religion; World; Liberty; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Human Race; Theology THINKING, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am caught in the body of a fish Last Line: Caught in the body of a fish Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Freedom; Anglers; Liberty THIRTY BOB A WEEK, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I couldn't touch a stop and turn a screw Last Line: And we fall, face forward, fighting, on the deck. Subject(s): Class Struggle; Freedom; Office Employees; Liberty; Clerks THOMAS AND NANCY LINCOLN, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fit us for humblest service,' prayed Last Line: Will hallow their repose. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Freedom; Indiana; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Lincoln, Nancy Hanks (1784-1818); Lincoln, Thomas (1778-1851); Parents; Presidents, United States; Liberty; Parenthood THOUGHT OF A BRITON ON THE SUBJUGATION OF SWITZERLAND, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two voices are there; one is of the sea Last Line: And neither awful voice be heard by thee! Variant Title(s): Switzerland;on The Subjugation Of Switzerland;england And Switzerland, 1802 Subject(s): England; Freedom; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Switzerland; English; Liberty; Swiss THREE SONNETS WRITTEN IN MID-CHANNEL: 2, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And wherefore feels he thus? Because its shore Last Line: And fling the foam defiant in his face. Subject(s): England; Liberty; English THREE SONNETS WRITTEN IN MID-CHANNEL: 3, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And can it be, - when heaven this deep moat made Last Line: And perish smothered in a grave of gold! Subject(s): England; Liberty; English TO A CATERPILLAR, by ERMA KENYON RAEBURN Poem Text First Line: Oh, tiny crawling thing upon the vine Last Line: Be mine the transformation so divine. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty TO A FOIL'D EUROPEAN REVOLUTIONAIRE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Courage yet, my brother or my sister! Last Line: And that death and dismay are great. Subject(s): Europe; Freedom; Revolutions; Liberty TO A FRENCH GIRL IN AMERICA, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: I cannot tell just where the difference lies Last Line: —mabel kingsley richardson Subject(s): Freedom; History; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; United States; Liberty; Historians; America TO A REPUBLICAN FRIEND, 1848, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God knows it, I am with you. If to prize Last Line: Then am I yours, and what you feel, I share. Subject(s): Clough, Arthur Hugh (1819-1861); Freedom; Liberty TO A YOUNG LADY DESIRED A VERSE ... SERVANT ONE DAY, MISTRESS ANOTHER, by ELIZABETH TIPPER Poem Text First Line: More than a king's my word does rule to day Last Line: When all the world's a riddle, why not I? Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Freedom; Riddles; Liberty TO ALTHEA, FROM PRISON, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When love with unconfined wings Last Line: Enjoy such liberty. Subject(s): Freedom; Love; Prisons & Prisoners; Liberty; Convicts TO DELIA: 25, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reign in my thoughts, fair hand, sweet eye, rare voice Last Line: And serve all three, and yet they spoil me too. Subject(s): Freedom; Love; Liberty TO EDWARD JOHN TRELAWNY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sea-mew on a sea-king's wrist alighting Last Line: Once, ere the flame received him from the sea.}/it Subject(s): Freedom; Life; Sea; Singing & Singers; Liberty; Ocean TO FRIENDS BEHIND A FRONTIER, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wrote so meagerly to you. But what I couldn't write Subject(s): Freedom; Letters; Liberty TO KOSCIUSKO, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good kosciusko! Thy great name alone Last Line: To where the great god lives for evermore. Subject(s): Freedom; Kosciuszko, Thaddeus (1746-1817); Liberty TO LIBERTY, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bird, my bird, unwearied flying Last Line: God that is not, yet shall be! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Birds; Freedom; Liberty TO LUCASTA, FROM PRISON, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long in thy shackles, liberty Last Line: How to serve you, and you trust me! Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty TO MR IOSUAH SYLUESTER, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dare confesse; of muses, more then nine Last Line: One bartas speaks in tongues, in nations, twayn. Subject(s): Confessions; Freedom; Muses; Nations; Singing & Singers; Liberty; Songs TO PERCY SHELLEY, ON THE DEGRADING NOTIONS OF DEITY, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What wonder, percy, that with jealous rage Last Line: Which his own lanthorn throws up from himself. Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Freedom; God; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Liberty TO PERSCEUTED FOREIGNERS, by PENINA MOISE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fly from the soil whose desolating creed Last Line: Come to the homes and bosoms of the free. Subject(s): Anti-semitism; Freedom; Immigrants; United States; Liberty; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; America TO SILVIO PELLICO, ON READING HIS 'PRIGIONE', by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are who climb the mountain's heathery side Last Line: There throned in peace divine is liberty! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Freedom; Pellico, Sivio (1789-1854); Prisons & Prisoners; Liberty; Convicts TO SILVIO PELLICO, RELEASED, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How flows thy being now? Last Line: Of love to man, and quenchless trust in god! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Freedom; Pellico, Sivio (1789-1854); Liberty TO SOAR IN FREEDOM AND IN FULNESS OF POWER, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have not so much emulated the birds that musically sing Last Line: Power, joy, volition. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty TO THE BARTHOLDI STATUE, by AMBROSE BIERCE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O liberty, god-gifted Last Line: And marry henry george. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Freedom; Statue Of Liberty; Liberty TO THE BEAUTIFUL ELIZA J - N, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How, liberty! Girl, can it be by thee named Last Line: And over their hearts a proud despot so reignest. Subject(s): Freedom; Women's Rights; Liberty; Feminism TO THE FIRST OF AUGUST, by ANN PLATO Poem Text First Line: Britannia's isles proclaim Last Line: That they may not depart. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; British Empire; England - Empire; Serfs TO THE GODDESS OF LIBERTY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: For many years I have had a dream Last Line: Your mask will find profound inscription: %yours will be the very stuff of remembrance Subject(s): Statue Of Liberty; Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 TO THE GODDESS OF LIBERTY (NEW YORK HARBOR), by GEORGE STERLING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Is it bale-fire in thy brazen hand Last Line: The shadow of the sceptre and the sword Subject(s): Freedom; Statue Of Liberty TO THE PUPPET, WIND, by GORDON JOWERS Poem Text First Line: Blow, blow, I defy you, wind Last Line: From going where my fancy wishes. Subject(s): Bodies; Freedom; Puppets; Wind; Liberty; Marionettes TO THE QUEEN OF BOHEMIAH, by ELIZA [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "long since, it was by me desir'd" Last Line: And with bright angels compasy round Alternate Author Name(s): Eliza+1 Subject(s): "courts & Courtiers;earth;elizabeth, Queen Of Bohemia;freedom;heaven;" World;liberty;paradise TO THE RIGHT HON! WILLIAM EARL OF DARTMOUTH, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Hail! Happy day! When smiling like the morn Last Line: Where, like the prophet, thou shalt find thy god. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Americans; Freedom; Legge, William. 2d Earl Of Dartmouth; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; United States; Liberty; America TO THE SAME (PERCY SHELLEY, ON THE DEGRADING NOTIONS OF DEITY), by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet, percy, not for this, should he whose eye Last Line: Be still with thine own task in unison. Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Freedom; God; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Liberty TO THE UNKNOWN EROS: BOOK 1: 13. 1867, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the year of the great crime Last Line: To the gray secret lingering in the east. Subject(s): Disraeli, Benjamin (1804-1881); Freedom; Great Britain - Parliament; Liberty TO THE VETERANS OF THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRIGADE, by GENEVIEVE TAGGARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say of them they knew no spanish Alternate Author Name(s): Wolf, Robert Leopold, Mrs. Subject(s): Freedom; Holidays; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Liberty TO THE VICTOR, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Man's mind is larger than his brow of tears Last Line: And sun and moon and all that made me strong. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty TO THE VIRGINIAN VOYAGE [1611], by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You brave heroic [heroique] minds Last Line: To after-times thy wit. Variant Title(s): Ode: 11 Subject(s): Freedom; Patriotism; Virginia (state); Liberty TO WALT WHITMAN IN AMERICA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Send but a song oversea for us Last Line: Lives, and that only is god Subject(s): Freedom; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Liberty TO YOUNG ISRAEL, by MAX OSIAS Poem Text First Line: How cloudy is the sky! Last Line: "the world's gem." Subject(s): Freedom; Israel; Jews; Liberty; Judaism TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 1, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Freedom at last! Last Line: Written—and of this book. Subject(s): Democracy; Expressionism - Poets; Freedom; Life; Nations; Politics & Government; Self-consciousness; Liberty TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. BY LAKE WACHUSETT, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night-breeze murmurs odorous through the wild Last Line: Souls winged and equipped for freedom. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Freedom; Wachusett (mountain), Massachusetts; Anglers; Liberty TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. LO! I OPEN A DOOR, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! I open a door Last Line: Who shall not pass by me into joy eternal? Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. O MIGHTY MOTHER, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O mighty mother - in silence receive thy child Last Line: The earth, and thou shalt learn me to fly through heaven. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. WINGS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wings, wings Last Line: And I understood the meaning of the wings. Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Freedom; Speech; Wings; Liberty; Oratory; Orators TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. AS IT HAPPENED, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cross-legged in a low tailor's den, gasping for breath Last Line: Sings all day to its friend whether present or absent. Subject(s): Freedom; Love - Complaints; Liberty TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. ELDER SOLDIER IN BROTHERHOOD TO THE YOUNGER, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear comrade, at whose feet thus now I kneel Last Line: All that I have said I confirm. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Freedom; Heroism; Love; Liberty; Heroes; Heroines TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not by running out of yourself after it comes the love Last Line: Two voices added to the eternal choir. Subject(s): Freedom; Man-woman Relationships; Liberty; Male-female Relations TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. WHO WILL LEARN FREEDOM?, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who will learn freedom? Last Line: You were my christ to me. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty TRAMP, TRAMP, TRAMP, by GEORGE FREDERICK ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the prison cell I sit Last Line: Of freedom in our own beloved home. Subject(s): Adversity; Freedom; Holidays; Memorial Day; Prisons & Prisoners; War; Liberty; Declaration Day; Convicts TRANSLATION, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy counsel sage, maria fair Last Line: I bid adieu to thee! Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty TRESSPASS! MURDER!, by JUDITH L. C. GARNETT Poem Text First Line: O trespass in the air - world Last Line: Lift your guns from me! Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty TURN O LIBERTAD, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Turn o libertad, for the war is over Last Line: Is swiftly, surely preparing for you. Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; United States - History; Liberty TURNING, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Turning into my own Last Line: Only here. Only now Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty TWO MOUNTAINS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Monadnock looms against the pale blue dome Last Line: Like emerson midst shifts of humankind. Subject(s): Earth; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Freedom; Mountains; New England; Sky; World; Liberty; Hills; Downs (great Britain) TWO VOICES, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet are the lanes and the hedges, the fields made red with the clover Last Line: And the sun of freedom shall shine across our graves to the ages!' Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Freedom; Socialism; Urban Life; Liberty TWO: 3, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Next to of course god america I Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Americans; Freedom; Hypocrisy; Patriotism; Politics & Government; United States; World War I; Liberty; America; First World War TYRANNICIDE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Danger is not in action, but in sloth Last Line: And majesty and praise! Subject(s): Freedom; Tyrannicide; Liberty UNITA ITALIA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "'twas rich, red wine that our fathers quaffed" Last Line: "'to italy, / union, love and liberty!'" Subject(s): Freedom;national Song - Italy;patriotism; Liberty;italian National Anthem UNMANIFEST DESTINY, by RICHARD HOVEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To what new fates, my country, far Last Line: July, 1'98. Subject(s): Freedom; Patriotism; Religion; Liberty; Theology UNREST, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A fierce unrest seethes at the core Last Line: That leaps from star to star! Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don Subject(s): Freedom; Religion; Liberty; Theology UPON KINGS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kings must be dauntless; subjects will condemn Last Line: Those, who want hearts, and weare a diadem. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty UPON THE DEATH OF THE VISCOUNT OF DUNDEE, by ARCHIBALD PITCAIRN Poem Text First Line: Oh last and best of scots! Who did'st maintain Last Line: And coud'st not fall but with thy country's fate. Alternate Author Name(s): Pitcairne, Archibald Subject(s): Freedom; Graham Of Calverhouse, John (1648-1689); Scotland; Liberty UPSTREAM, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The strong men keep coming on Last Line: The strong men keep coming on. Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Men; Dead, The; Liberty VAGRANT, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come and go Last Line: I lie alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Freedom; Independence; Liberty VAIN FREEDOM, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So I am free whom love held thrall so long! Last Line: With the old dreams, old tortures, for love's sake. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Freedom; Love - Loss Of; Liberty VERMONT WILL DO HER PART, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who would be free himself must strike Last Line: Will do her glorious part. Subject(s): Freedom; Vermont; World War I; Liberty; First World War VERSES WRITTEN BY MRS. HUTCHINSON, by LUCY HUTCHINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All sorts of men through various labours presse Last Line: Or where is man soe uncontroul'd a lord? Subject(s): Dreams; Freedom; Grief; Life; Nightmares; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness VITTORIA'S LAST SONG IN THE OPERA OF CAMILLA, MILAN, 1847, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot count the years Last Line: Italia, italia shall be free! Subject(s): Faith; Freedom; Italy; Belief; Creed; Liberty; Italians VOLUNTARIES, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Low and mournful be the strain Last Line: All are ghosts beside. Subject(s): Freedom; Religion; Liberty; Theology WAKE, MASSACHUSETTS, by MARION PERHAM GALE Poem Text First Line: This place has known a sturdy growth of men Last Line: Set the glance backward! To our grandsires, hail! Subject(s): Army - United States; Freedom; Gratitude; Statesmen; Liberty WALLACE STEVENS' LETTERS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wallace stevens comes hurrying down from the mountain Last Line: Hurries in, stiff and stern and almost like a hero. Subject(s): Doubt; Freedom; Immortality; Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955); Skepticism; Liberty WARREN'S ADDRESS [TO THE AMERICANS] [AT BUNKER HILL] [JUNE 17, 1775], by JOHN PIERPONT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stand! The ground's your own, my braves! Last Line: Of his deeds to tell? Variant Title(s): Warren's Address To The American Soldiers Subject(s): American Revolution; Bunker Hill, Battle Of; Fourth Of July; Freedom; History; Patriotism; United States - History; War; Warren, Joseph (1741-1775); Independence Day; Liberty; Historians WASHINGTON'S HEADQUARTERS, by HENRY NEHEMIAH DODGE Poem Text First Line: These halls, so venerable grown Last Line: And this is freedom's land. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty WENDELL PHILLIPS, by AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: People's attorney, servant of the right Last Line: Impartial history dare not leave thee out. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Phillips, Wendell (1811-1884); Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty WEST LONDON, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crouched on the pavement, close by belgrave square Last Line: And points us to a better time than ours. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Freedom; London; Liberty WHEN FREEDOM FAILS, by NINA WILLIS WALTER Poem Text First Line: The wild wind raging in the pepper trees Last Line: And dies a thousand deaths when freedom fails. Subject(s): Freedom; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Liberty WHO, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD Poem Full Text First Line: The long and melancholy wind Subject(s): Freedom; Sea; Liberty; Ocean WHO IS FREE?, by PHILEMON Poem Text First Line: I serve my master: you and countless others Last Line: By nature's law made subject to the greater. Alternate Author Name(s): Philemon (athenian Comic Poet B.c. 330 Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty WHO'S READY?; JULY, 1862, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God help us! Who's ready? There's danger before! Last Line: All forward! We're ready, and conquer we will!' Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): American Civil War; Enemies; Freedom; Soldiers; U.s. - History; Liberty WHY I AM A LIBERAL, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why?' because all I haply can and do Last Line: "a brother's right to freedom. That I ""why." Variant Title(s): An Answer Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty WILLIAM MORRIS, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep, eyes that beauty brightens! Last Line: In chaucer's heir. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; Freedom; Life; Love; Muses; Soul; Dead, The; Liberty WILLIAM TELL, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The smile-dimpled lake woo'd to bathe in its deep Last Line: [music, and the curtain falls.] Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Alps; Freedom; Mountains; Switzerland; Tell, William; Liberty; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Swiss WINDSOR FOREST, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Thy forests, windsor! And thy green retreats Last Line: First in these fields I sung the sylvan strains. Subject(s): Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667); Denham, Sir John (1615-1669); Freedom; Great Britain - History; Howard, Henry, Earl Of Surrey (1517-47); Landscape; Windsor Forest, England; Liberty; English History WITH A GOLDEN NECKLACE, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Accept, dear maid, this little token Last Line: For there are chains will not unbind. Subject(s): Freedom; Jewelry & Jewelers; Liberty; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces WOMAN; A FRAGMENT, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within a frame, more glorious than the gem Last Line: Why let the docile darling have -- her way! Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet Subject(s): Freedom; Love; Memory; Truth; Women; Liberty WOMENS' SUFFRAGE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fellow men! Why should the lords try to despise Last Line: And ye will gain the parliamentary franchise before very long. Subject(s): Elections; Freedom; Wages; Women - Employment; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Liberty; Salaries; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers; Feminism WORDS FOR THE 'HALLELUJAH CHORUS', by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: John brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave Last Line: His soul is marching on. Variant Title(s): John Brown's Body Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Freedom; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Liberty; Serfs WRITTEN AT AN INN AT HENLEY, by WILLIAM SHENSTONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To thee, fair freedom! I retire / from flattery, cards, and dice, and din Last Line: The warmest welcome at an inn. Subject(s): Freedom; Hotels; Liberty; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses YEARNING, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: My soul has a sigh to be free Last Line: In the happiest moments of yearning. Subject(s): Freedom; Soul; Spirituality; Liberty YOUNG HORSES, by E. R MURRAY Poem Text First Line: Over the river by gravel and gum Last Line: On hearts that will never know freedom again. Subject(s): Animals; Freedom; Horses; Liberty |
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