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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