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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: REVOLUTIONS Matches Found: 145 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DAUGHTER OF THE REVOLUTION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Arising slowly in his place Last Line: "'please, sir, to let you in'" Subject(s): Daughters;guests;household Employees;revolutions; Visiting;servants;domestics;maids A REBEL, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tie a bandage over his eyes Last Line: We would have no more power left to look on that dead face. Subject(s): Death; Revolutions; Dead, The A SEMI-REVOLUTION, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I advocate a semi-revolution Last Line: But they're the one thing that should be done by halves Subject(s): Revolutions A SONG FOR REVOLUTION, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tho' the red-litten cities are shameless and the rulers are guilty with gold Last Line: "for man's world is a fashion and only man's body and soul are of price!" Subject(s): Revolutions A SONG IN TIME OF REVOLUTION, 1860, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The heart of the rulers is sick, and the Last Line: Is felt in the bones of the dead, Variant Title(s): A Song In Time Of Revolution: 1860 Subject(s): Revolutions; Soldiers; War A TALE OF VILLAFRANCA; TOLD IN TUSCANY, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My little son, my florentine Last Line: What matter if we live? Subject(s): Italy - Revolutions AD OLUM, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Call me not rebel though in what I sing Last Line: Set free thy slave; thou settest free thyself. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Revolutions; Slavery; Tyranny & Tyrants; Serfs AGESILAO MILANO; NAPLES, 1856, by HARRIET ELEANOR HAMILTON (BAILLE) KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For the glory and the passion of this midnight Last Line: The passion of this hour, for evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton-king, Harriet Eleanor Subject(s): Italy - Revolutions; Milano, Agesilao; Regicide AGUINALDO (PATRIOT AND EMPIRE), by BERTRAND SHADWELL Poem Text First Line: When arms and numbers both have failed Last Line: And cry against thee unto god. Subject(s): Aguinaldo, Emilio (1869-1964); Philippines; Revolutions AN AUGUST VOICE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You'll take back your grand-duke? Last Line: Bah! -- call back the grand-duke!! Subject(s): Italy - Revolutions AT BOLONGA, IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE LATE INSURRECTION, 1837: 1, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah why deceive ourselves! By no mere fit Last Line: The light of knowledge, and the warmth of love. Subject(s): Bologna, Italy; Revolutions AT BOLONGA, IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE LATE INSURRECTION, 1837: 2, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hard task! Exclaim the undisciplined, to lean Last Line: She scans the future with the eye of gods. Subject(s): Bologna, Italy; Revolutions AT BOLONGA, IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE LATE INSURRECTION, 1837: 3, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As leaves are to the tree whereon they grow Last Line: Tossed on the bosom of a stormy sea. Subject(s): Bologna, Italy; Revolutions BARON GIOVANNI NICOTERA; SALERNO, 1858, by HARRIET ELEANOR HAMILTON (BAILLE) KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Salerno waits amid the heat Last Line: I behold god in heaven, and strive. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton-king, Harriet Eleanor Subject(s): Courage; Italy - Revolutions; Nicotera, Baron Giovanni (1828-1894); Valor; Bravery BATTLE HYMN OF THE SPANISH REBELLION, by LOUIS ALEXANDER MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The church's one foundation Last Line: The bombing-planes of jove. Alternate Author Name(s): Smalacombe, John; Mackay, L. A. Subject(s): Muslims; Revolutions; Spain; War; Moslems BERNARDINE DU BORN, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: King henry sat upon his throne Last Line: "go forth -- unscathed and free." Subject(s): Bertran De Born (1202-1215); Henry Ii, King Of England (1133-1189); Revolutions BLACKBERRIES, SELS., by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friend, so much admired, so oft desired Last Line: His fame was rescued by a single plank Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Debates; Desire; Fame; Friendship; Revolutions BREAD WORD GIVER, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: John, founder of towns--dweller in none Last Line: Wielders' hearts.' Subject(s): Revolutions CAIN; A MYSTERY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God, the eternal! Infinite! Last Line: But with me! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Revolutions CARLOS FONSECA, 3-19-67, by SESSHU FOSTER Poem Source First Line: For how long has the rain fallen Last Line: When it touches you, having %fallen so long? Subject(s): Capitalists And Financiers; Child Molesting; Nicaragua; Revolutions CASA GUIDI WINDOWS, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard last night a little child go singing Last Line: The vail, lean inward to the mercy-seat. Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Italy - Revolutions; Savonarola, Girolamo (1452-1498) CASUALTIES: 28. NIGHT SONG, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The night for me is filled with faces Last Line: Into the forests of night Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Military; Revolutions; Soldiers; War CEMETERY, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: When we were smaller, silk ladies Last Line: Like granite sunk into the untended %green grass of their eyes Subject(s): Cemeteries; Grandparents; Graves; Revolutions; Youth CITIES OF GOLD, by MICHAEL BOWDEN Poem Source First Line: At an edge of sleep the sentences in a reporter's head begin to fracture Last Line: Fuck you at the stars and her old man over and over Subject(s): Cities; Retrospection; Revolutions CITIES: 2. BERLIN, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall the great destroyer save herself Last Line: Of shame, misery, revolution, despair. Subject(s): Berlin, Germany; Despair; Revolutions; Shame CONJECTURAL POEM, by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Doctor francisco laprida, set upon and killed the Last Line: And across my throat the intimate knife Subject(s): Assassination; Independence; Military Service, Compulsory; Poetry And Poets; Revolutions COOL JERKS, by KEITH ANTAR MASON Poem Source First Line: You be made a man the same way jesus was made a savior Last Line: They are praying for a sign %amen Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Prayer; Revolutions DEMONSTRATION: WOMEN'S HOUSE OF DETENTION, 1965, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Blood-inked political leaflets pelted village streets Last Line: Women's house of d Subject(s): Booksellers; Exhibitions; History; Macdougal Street, New York City; Prisons And Prisoners; Revolutions; Tourists DOWNTOWN, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: We are out late without Last Line: Back laughing and the street %is a frenzy of white uniforms Subject(s): Revolutions; Theater And Theaters; Youth DREAM AND LIE OF GENERAL FRANCO, by PABLO PICASSO Poem Source First Line: Owl fandango escabeehe swords of octopus of evil omen furry dishrag Last Line: Imbedded in the rock Subject(s): Franco, Francisco (1892-1975); Generals; Lies; Omens; Revolutions DURING THE REVOLUTION, by SAMRAT UPADHYAY Poem Source First Line: The blood-soaked man sang songs Last Line: As they hurried home, but when they turned %no one was there Subject(s): Life; Revolutions EXECUTION, by ELEMER (GEORGE) HORVATH Poem Source First Line: Look, I take every revolution to heart Last Line: As you when you first kissed me Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Martyrs; Revolutions EXECUTION OF FELICE ORSINI, MARCH 13TH, 1858, by HARRIET ELEANOR HAMILTON (BAILLE) KING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A day to be remembered Last Line: The red rose crown is thine %for evermore Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton-king, Harriet Eleanor Subject(s): Assassination; Capital Punishment; Italy - Revolutions; Napoleon Iii (1808-1873); Orsini, Felice (1819-1858) EYES, by JUAN GELMAN Poem Source First Line: I don't know who I am or was I know only my chaos Last Line: At the end of so short a road Subject(s): Revolutions FIRST NEWS FROM VILLAFRANCA, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peace, peace, peace, do you say? Last Line: And god's face -- waiting, after all! Subject(s): Italy - Revolutions; Peace FORTINE, by CHRISTOPHER ROSS Poem Source First Line: Funny what's important %in the midst of a revolution Last Line: From the chest and the eyes are the forehead %and dreaming like you? Subject(s): Reason; Revolutions; War FREEDOM, by LUCILE ENLOW Poem Text First Line: Observe the son stampede Last Line: Until he dies. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Revolutions FROM THE PARIS COMMUNE TO THE KRONSTADT REBELLION, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember now there were others before this Subject(s): Death; Paris, France; Revolutions; Social Protest; Dead, The FROM THE PARIS COMMUNE TO THE KRONSTADT REBELLION, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember now there were others before this Last Line: And people remembering in the future Subject(s): Death; Paris, France; Revolutions; Social Protest GREAT DAY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! Last Line: The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Revolutions GUERILLA PROMISE, by MVULA YA NANGOLO Poem Source First Line: I'll rush upon you Last Line: Waiting in my sheath %only for your death Subject(s): Revolutions GWIN, KING OF NORWAY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, kings and listen to my song Last Line: The pleasant south country. Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Revolutions HATCHING; FOR DAW AUNG SAN SUU KYI, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On university avenue in rangoon Last Line: To crack its walls with wings. Subject(s): Burma; Revolutions; Silence; Solitude; Loneliness IN POETS' DEFENCE, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rebel poets, who've given vicar aid Last Line: Compact from bones and gold, of quirinus and mars. Subject(s): Brooks, Van Wyck (1886-1963); Poetry & Poets; Revolutions INNER HISTORY (APRIL 19, 1775), by LENA HALL Poem Text First Line: I know a mother wise as solomon Last Line: And wise heart linked to heart, we understand. Subject(s): Colonialism; Great Britain; Revolutions; United States; America INSCRIPTION FOR A MONUMENT AT TAUNTON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They perish'd here whom jefferies doom'd to death Last Line: La hogue, the purple ocean dash'd the dead! Subject(s): Death; Injustice; Innocence; Jeffries, Richard (1848-1887); Persecution; Revolutions; Dead, The 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 JACOPO RUFFINI; GENOA, 1833, by HARRIET ELEANOR HAMILTON (BAILLE) KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are betrayed and lost; and I am bound Last Line: God hid his face, but held him by the hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton-king, Harriet Eleanor Subject(s): Italy - Revolutions; Ruffini, Jacobo (1805-1833) KING NASTY, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let me sketch it out for you Last Line: How do you like your bourbon? Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Courts And Courtiers; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Prisons And Prisoners; Revolutions; Suicide L,ENVOI: IN OUR TIME, by ERNEST HEMINGWAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The king was working in the garden. He seemed very glad to see me Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Revolutions; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens L,ENVOI: IN OUR TIME, by ERNEST HEMINGWAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The king was working in the garden. He seemed very glad to see me Last Line: To go to america Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Revolutions LETTER TO THE ACADEMY, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gentlemen who have got to be classics and are now old Last Line: We want to know what in the hell you'd say? Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Revolutions 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 LIGHTS, by ERNESTO CARDENAL Poem Source First Line: That top-secret flight at night Last Line: Of all that was about to come Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Central America; Fights; Nicaragua; Revolutions LITTLE PRAYER FOR A LOYALIST HERO, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A book lay beside his dead belt Subject(s): Heroism; Death; Revolutions LOSING CUBA, by KATHLEEN KIRK Poem Source First Line: You scrape the trowel against Last Line: A soft white lichenous frosting %spreading itself across the basement floor Subject(s): Revolutions; Water LOST ETC., by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The expatriates of the Last Line: Than the eighteenth amendment Subject(s): History; Poetry & Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972); Revolutions; U.s. - Constitution; U.s. - History; Historians LOST ETC., by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The expatriates of the Last Line: Than the eighteenth amendment Subject(s): History; Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972); Revolutions; U.s. - Constitution; U.s. - History LOVE COMES, by ERNEST HOWARD CROSBY Poem Text First Line: And who will lead the way? Last Line: Let the people love and theirs is the power! Subject(s): Hate; Love; Revolutions; War LUCIFER: PART SIX, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But not unscathed did those gay revellers pass Last Line: In pride yet haughtier, marched the milky way. Subject(s): Devil; Fate; Fools; Revolutions; Stars; Time; War; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Destiny; Idiots MADAME TALLEYRAND AND THE TRAVELLER, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The famous talleyrand, who knew Last Line: Robinson crusoe by mistake! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Napoleon Iii (1808-1873); Revolutions; Robinson Crusoe MONOLOGUE FROM A MATTRESS, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can that be you, la mouche? Wait till I lift Last Line: Mouche -- mathilde! . . . Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Death; Love; Regret; Religion; Revolutions; Sickness; Poetry & Poets; German Literature; Heine, Heinrich (1797-1856); Dead, The; Theology; Illness NIGGER ISLAND, by GARY FINCKE Poem Source First Line: At noon, near the river, the guide Last Line: The hypnosis of names sending %us upland to our painless homes Subject(s): African Americans; Revolutions; Slavery NUDES FOR THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, by ROSA ALCALA Poem Source First Line: This is my shop where the black wheel turns with greasy knob and heavy glove Last Line: Lying face to face, irrepressible and shameless along these great fall of %patterson Subject(s): Change; Love; Nudity; Revolutions 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 TO SPAIN - AFTER THE REVOLUTION OF MARCH, by MANUEL JOSE QUINTANA Poem Source First Line: What nation, tell me, in the older day Last Line: With golden sceptre and device divine! Subject(s): Patriotism; Revolutions; Spain - History ON A SOLDIER FALLEN IN THE PHILIPPINES, by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Streets of the roaring town Last Line: And sinned in the dark. Subject(s): Patriotism; Philippines; Revolutions ON THE SLAUGHTER OF BROTHERS BANDIERI, BETRAYED TO THE KING OF NAPLES, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Borne on white horses, which the god of thrace Last Line: Till the same sands their viler blood imbue. Subject(s): Bandiera, Attilio (1810-1844); Bandiera, Emilio (1819-1844); Italy - Revolutions ON WISHES, by MAHMOUD DARWISH Poem Source First Line: Don't say to me Last Line: Each dawn has a date with a rebel Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts; Revolutions OTHO THE GREAT, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So, I am safe emerged from these broils Last Line: I will to bed!--to-morrow-- [dies. Subject(s): Hungary; Otto The Great, King Of Germany (912-73); Revolutions; Otho The Great; Ottol The Great OUR BIRTH-CORD, by KOFI ANYIDOHO Poem Text First Line: A piece of meat lost in cabbage stew Last Line: The maimed panther is no playmate for antelopes Variant Title(s): Soul In Birthwaters (suite For The Revolution) 1. Our Birth-cord Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Revolutions; British Empire; England - Empire OUR HOUSE, by MARCO MARTOS Poem Source First Line: In galleons, on war-horses, with their lances Last Line: Starving beggars, all claim us as their own Subject(s): Fights; Houses; Revolutions; War PETTY BOURGEOISIE, by ROQUE DALTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those who %in most cases Last Line: Nature %and future Subject(s): History; Humanitarianism; Revolutions POEM, by JORGE REBELO Poem Source First Line: Come, brother, and tell me your life Last Line: Bullets are beginning to flower Subject(s): Revolutions POEM FOR A MILITANT, by JORGE REBELO Poem Source First Line: Mother %I have an iron rifle Last Line: To dry the tears %of your eyes Subject(s): Revolutions POETRY, BLOOD AND CYANIDE, by CYRUS MAHAN Poem Source First Line: I will fight you Last Line: Graces together and wish to be married during the new year Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts; Poetry And Poets; Revolutions PORTRAIT OF MY FATHER, MILITANT COMMUNIST, by JORGE TEILLIER Poem Source First Line: On winter afternoons %when a mistaken sun gropes Last Line: In towns that look like pebbles or flushed quail Subject(s): Communism; Heroism; Memory; Military; Revolutions PUBLIC BUTCHERY, by JAGIT SINGH Poem Source First Line: Some people fear death Last Line: Hanging in the air Subject(s): Revolutions READING RESPONSIVELY, by SHARON CHMIELARZ Poem Source First Line: I sat in church. I heard Last Line: I wear a hat against a light %hot and strong as irons Subject(s): Public Worship; Religion; Revolutions; Unfaithfulness REBELLION, by JOSEPHINE WINSLOW JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am tired of being patient, I am tired of resignation Last Line: Let us once, o soul, taste fullness, though that fullness should destroy! Subject(s): Revolutions REBELLION, FROM EDWARD II, by CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look for rebellion, look to the depos'd Last Line: With a rombelow? Subject(s): Freedom; Revolutions REBELS, by FRANK ERNEST HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We two shall disagree... His time-fogged eyes Last Line: The hill and I exult with turbulent growth! Subject(s): Quarrels; Revolutions; Arguments; Disagreements REVOLT, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Accept, and the world moves with you Last Line: That cower in the fold. Subject(s): Fate; Revolutions; Destiny REVOLUTION, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, yes! You must meet it, and brave it Last Line: The world's revolution! Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Revolutions REVOLUTION, by ENRIQUE LIHN Poem Source First Line: I don't blow the trumpet or step up to the speaker's Last Line: And its famous smile Subject(s): Evil; Revolutions REVOLUTION, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Spooky summer on the horizon I'm gazing at Last Line: And never waste a minute Subject(s): Revolutions REVOLUTION IS THE POD, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Test if it be dead Variant Title(s): Poem: 1082; Poem: 104 Subject(s): Revolutions REVOLUTIONS, by IDELLA PURNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know now why the revolutions are Last Line: And in wildest battle is one perfect hour! Subject(s): Revolutions RICHARD HOFTSTADTER & MICHAEL WALLACE ... AMERICAN VIOLENCE, by JIM ROSENBERG Poem Source First Line: Numbers of employees them Last Line: Entered the hospital some additional corpses discovered Subject(s): Revolutions RUSSIA: 1918, by MARY CRAIG SINCLAIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, hear them! Hear their voices rise at last! Last Line: A world is born, the kingly creeds are dead! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinclair, Upton, Mrs. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Revolutions; Russia; Russian Revolution; Work; Workers; Soviet Union; Russians SEMI-REVOLUTION, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I advocate a semi-revolution Last Line: Yes, revolutions are the only salves, %but they're one thing that should be done by halves Subject(s): Revolutions SERF, by IGNATIUS ROYSTON DUNNACHIE CAMPBELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: His naked skin clothed in the torrid mist Last Line: And ploughs down palaces, and thrones, and towers Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, Roy Subject(s): Revolutions; Slavery SERMON TO THE REBELS AT BLACKHEARTH, by JOHN BALL Poem Source First Line: I johon schep, som tyme seynte marie prest of Last Line: Who was thanne a gentil man? Subject(s): Ball, John (d. 1381); Blackhearth, London; Clergy; Freedom; Revolutions SEXUAL REVOLUTION, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In that time of great freedom to touch Last Line: It was impossibly green %and stretched endlessly ahead of us Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Revolutions SONG OF THE GENERAL STRIKE, by MARIO BRAVO Poem Source First Line: The crowd advances like a sounding sea Last Line: And life itself stands still and waits in hope Subject(s): Protest, Social; Revolutions; Riots SOUL IN BIRTHWATERS (SUITE FOR THE REVOLUTION): 6. GHOSTS, by KOFI ANYIDOHO Poem Source First Line: A thousand ghosts haunt our soul in birthwaters Last Line: Do not put me to sleep my people Subject(s): Revolutions ST. AMBROSE'S, by GIUSEPPE GIUSTI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your excellency, though you snarl and growl Last Line: Who rooted there firm as a fence-post stood %twirling his swagger-stick of hazel wood Subject(s): Italy - Revolutions; Landscape; Patriotism STILL THOUGH THE ONE I SING, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I leave in him revolt, (o latent right of insurrection! O quenchless, indispensable fire!) Subject(s): Revolutions SWEAT, by MAURICE KENNY Poem Source First Line: Bathtub %might well Last Line: The knife clatters to the floor Subject(s): Native Americans - Wars; Oklahoma; Revolutions TABLEAUX VIVANTS; NAPLES, 1790, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Emma hart looks out into the glare Last Line: They must prepare for an era of disaster. Subject(s): Hamilton, Lady Emma (1765-1815); Nelson, Horatio, Viscount (1758-1805); Revolutions TESTAMENT FOR MY STUDENTS, 1968 - 1969, by KAY BOYLE Poem Text First Line: Each year you came jogging or loping down that hall Last Line: Their young arms cradling your bones. Subject(s): Literature; Oppression; Revolutions; Schools; Social Problems; Students THE BALLAD OF PACO TOWN, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In paco town and in paco tower Last Line: Ever and ever the victory! Subject(s): Courage; Philippines; Revolutions; Valor; Bravery THE BORDERERS; A TRAGEDY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The troop will be impatient; let us hie Last Line: In heaven, and mercy gives me leave to die. Subject(s): Gothic Drama; Revolutions THE BOSS OF THE ADMIRAL LYNCH, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Did you ever hear tell of chili? I was readin' the other day Last Line: Was the man who attacked the army with the gunboat admiral lynch. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Revolutions THE CLOUDS OF MAGELLAN (APHORISMS OF MR. CANON ASPIRIN), by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I once dreamt that cezanne lectured on the circumnavigation of a pear Last Line: And peace. Subject(s): Creative Ability; God; Knowledge; Metaphor; Philosophy & Philosophers; Poetry & Poets; Revolutions; Truth; Inspiration; Creativity; Similes THE COLLAR, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I struck the board and cried, no more Last Line: And I replied, my lord. Subject(s): Anger; Christianity; Despair; Faith; God; Revolutions; Belief; Creed THE DEED OF LIEUTENANT MILES [FEBRUARY 5, 1899], by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you speak of dauntless deeds Last Line: And his valiant volunteers! Variant Title(s): Ballad Of Lieutenant Miles Subject(s): Heroism; Miles, W. G.; Philippines; Revolutions; Heroes; Heroines 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 EXILE'S REVERIES, SELECTION, by JAMES KENNEDY Poem Text First Line: Chased from my calling to this hackneyed trade Last Line: Patriots drag the felon's chain. Subject(s): Books; Exiles; Melancholy; Poetry & Poets; Revolutions; Sailing & Sailors; Soldiers; Reading; Dejection; Seamen; Sails THE FIGHT AT DAJO, by ALFRED E. WOOD Poem Text First Line: There are twenty dead who'er sleeping near Last Line: Army's fame. Subject(s): Philippines; Revolutions THE GREAT DAY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Revolutions THE JERSEY BLUES, by ISAAC RUSLING PENNYPACKER Poem Text First Line: Brave as the battle roll of drum Last Line: Its ocean-dashed abutment here. Subject(s): Death; Revolutions; War - Home Front; Dead, The THE MAGNETIC MOUNTAIN: 32, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You that love england, who have an ear for her music Last Line: Wielders of power and welders of a new world. Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): England; Revolutions; English THE MARSEILLAISE, by JOHN TODHUNTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What means this mighty chant, wherein its wail Last Line: Sworn to dethrone the gods unjust from heaven. Subject(s): Revolutions THE MODERN PATRIOT, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rebellion is my theme all day Last Line: Then farewell british freedom. Subject(s): Great Britain; Revolutions THE NEW HUDIBRAS, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: When prints grew bluer than the sky Last Line: Call for his cudgel and his beaver. Subject(s): Economics; Hudibras (butler); Revolutions; Utopia THE OLD JEW, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No fawn-tinged hospital pajamas Last Line: They dwindled while he soared. Subject(s): Jews; Revolutions; Judaism THE PEACE CONVENTION AT BRUSSELS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still in thy streets, o paris! Doth the stain Last Line: And the tired world breathe free through a long sabbath day. Subject(s): Brussels; Peace; Revolutions THE PETTY BOURGEOISIE, by ROQUE DALTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those who / in most cases Last Line: Nature / and future Subject(s): History; Humanitarianism; Revolutions; Historians THE REBEL, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A riot-maker! Can the fruit Last Line: The laughter of her greater sons. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Chaos; Life; Revolutions THE REBEL, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I must look to see where I can run Last Line: You are free. Subject(s): Escapes; Prisons & Prisoners; Revolutions; Fugitives; Convicts THE REBEL SURPRISE NEAR TAMAI, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the 22nd of march, in the year 1885 Last Line: Just equally the same as in a foreign land. Subject(s): Fights; Pity; Revolutions; Sea Battles; War; Naval Warfare THE REVOLUTION, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not yet had history's aetna smoked the skies Last Line: That she had been in travail of a man. Subject(s): France; Revolutions; War THE RISING OF THE NORTH, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark - to the sound! Last Line: Man's puny life! Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Revolutions THE SERF, by IGNATIUS ROYSTON DUNNACHIE CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His naked skin clothed in the torrid mist Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, Roy Subject(s): Revolutions; Slavery; Serfs THE SLATE, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: World empires are to god but school-boys set a task Last Line: And revolution summons a new class. Subject(s): Revolutions 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 WHOLE DAY THRO', IN CONTEMPT AND PITY, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The whole day thro', in contempt and pity Last Line: For all men are heroes already! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Revolutions THE YEAR OF REVOLUTIONS, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lift up your pale faces, ye children of sorrow Last Line: Then patriots, heroes, strike! God for our land! Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Europe; Ireland - Rebellions; Revolutions THEY, by MICHAEL LIND Poem Source First Line: They are always at their stations among us. Elevated above the rush ... Last Line: They have grown into what they opposed Subject(s): Revolutions 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 FRANCIS HARE; BURIED AT PALERMO, ON INSURRECTION OF SICILY & NAPLES, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hare! Thou art sleeping where the sun strikes hot Last Line: Nor higher than the living stand the dead. Subject(s): Italy - Revolutions TO THE GENIUS OF AFRICA, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou who from the mountain's height Last Line: There, genius, thou hast breathed the gales of death. Subject(s): Africa; Genius; Revolutions; Slavery; U.s. - Race Relations; Serfs TO THE PUBLIC, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This age is so fertile of mighty events Last Line: That the world shall approve -- and his %news shall be true Subject(s): Newspapers; Revolutions TOM MOONEY, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tom mooney sits behind a grating Last Line: In more than ten big cities, left and right. Subject(s): Labor Unions; Mooney, Thomas Joseph (1882-1942); Revolutions TOM THE PORTER, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As tom the porter went up ludgate hill Last Line: Took up his load and trudged into the city. Subject(s): Fights; Indifference; London; Pity; Revolutions TOTAL REVOLUTION (AN ANSWER FOR ROBERT FROST), by OSCAR WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: I advocate a total revolution Last Line: P.S. And need I add by way of a conclusion %I wouldn't dream to a ask a rosicrucian Subject(s): Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Poetry And Poets; Revolutions TWENTY YEARS, by DO TAN XUAN Poem Source First Line: The girl grew up to become a woman Last Line: The spring hangs its head and sighs Subject(s): Death - Children; Revolutions UGO BASSI, by HARRIET ELEANOR HAMILTON (BAILLE) KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fra ugo bassi, servant of our lord Last Line: That when I meet him, I may meet thee too! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton-king, Harriet Eleanor Subject(s): Bassi, Ugo (1801-1849); Biography; Catholic Church - Clergy; Firing Squads; Garibaldi, Giuseppe (1807-1882); Italy - Revolutions; Rome, Siege Of (1849); Biographers; Catholic Priests WAR AND REVOLUTION, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I raise my head; the day goes out Last Line: Stab, stab the world and watch it die Subject(s): Revolutions; War WE WHO WERE EXECUTED, by FAIZ AHMED FAIZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I longed for your lips, dreamed of their roses Last Line: We who were murdered in the darkest lanes Alternate Author Name(s): Faiz, Faiz Ahmad Subject(s): Longing; Revolutions WE WHO WERE EXECUTED, by FAIZ AHMED FAIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I longed for your lips, dreamed of their roses Last Line: It's because of them that we went out to make the world our own, %we who were murdered in the darkes Alternate Author Name(s): Faiz, Faiz Ahmad Subject(s): Longing; Revolutions WHERE THE SMOKE COMES FROM, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mangoes in moscow-and a biplane circling Last Line: And silence all the angels from ardennes, %who sing like wolves, like men: truth... I love much. Subject(s): Byzantine Empire; Cavalry; Cossacks; Fights; Revolutions; Russia - Army-military Life; Tyranny And Tyrants; War WORDS, by MAHMOUD DARWISH Poem Source First Line: When my words were wheat Last Line: Flies covered my lips Subject(s): Language; Revolutions YOUR TEARS STILL BURN AT MY HANDCUFFS, by JACK A. MAPANJE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After that millet beer you brewed, mother Last Line: Glare at your tears burning at my handcuffs Subject(s): Mothers; Prisons And Prisoners; Revolutions |
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