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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DEMOCRACY Matches Found: 100 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A POEM FOR THE CRUEL MAJORITY, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cruel majority emerges! Subject(s): Social Commentaries; Social Classes; Democracy; Caste ACCOMPLICES, by ZHAO ZHENKAI Poem Source First Line: After all those years Last Line: Into subterranean pools %to contemplate darkness again Subject(s): China - Democracy AFTER THE NEWSCAST, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Past tribal heart's rusty twists Last Line: It's time Subject(s): Cities; Democracy; News; Urban Life AFTER THE NIGHT, by JIANG SHIWEI Poem Source First Line: Softly, you open your door Last Line: Like two fish after mating, %each swimming its own way Subject(s): China - Democracy ALL, by ZHAO ZHENKAI Poem Source First Line: All is fated %all cloudly Last Line: Every explosion heralds an instant of stillness, %every death reverberates forever Subject(s): China - Democracy ALSO ALL; IN ANSWER TO BEI DAO'S 'ALL', by GONG PEIYU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not all trees are felled by storms Last Line: Though we might stumble under the load Alternate Author Name(s): Shu Ting; Shu Ding Subject(s): China - Democracy ANSWER, by ZHAO ZHENKAI Poem Source First Line: The scoundrel carries his baseness around like an id card Last Line: Can you see it there? That ancient ideogram - %the eye of the future, gazing back Subject(s): China - Democracy ARK, by GU CHENG Poem Source First Line: The ship you've boarded Last Line: Till cool flames float up %from every cabin Subject(s): China - Democracy ASSEMBLY LINE, by GONG PEIYU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In time's assembly line Last Line: For my own manufactured fate Alternate Author Name(s): Shu Ting; Shu Ding Subject(s): China - Democracy AUGUST SLEEPWALKER, by ZHAO ZHENKAI Poem Source First Line: The stone bell tolls on the seabed Last Line: The august sleepwalker %has seen the sun in the night Subject(s): China - Democracy AUGUST SLEEPWALKER, by ZHAO ZHENKAI Poem Source First Line: On the sea-floor a stone bell, tolling Last Line: The august sleepwalker has seen %the midnight sun Subject(s): China - Democracy AUTUMN, by GU CHENG Poem Source First Line: Autumn's a blue country Last Line: The destination sign will fall %from the side of my railroad car Subject(s): China - Democracy BEI TAI-HE BEACH, by GONG PEIYU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I felt like a child of eight that night Last Line: The anchorage of the heart Alternate Author Name(s): Shu Ting; Shu Ding Subject(s): China - Democracy; Longing BITS OF REMINISCENCE, by GONG PEIYU Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A toppled wine-cup Last Line: A dream, half-illumined, half-obscure. Alternate Author Name(s): Shu Ting; Shu Ding Subject(s): China - Democracy; Chinese Literature; Memory BLACK-AND-WHITE SKETCHES, by GU CHENG Poem Source First Line: My world is burning like my palms Last Line: The lilacs tremble in the gathering dark Subject(s): China - Democracy BLOOD OF ONE ENTIRE CLASS HAS ALREADY BEEN SHED, by LI SHIZHENG Poem Source Last Line: Again the red terror begins %its savage hammering Subject(s): China - Democracy BY BLUE ONTARIO'S SHORE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By blue ontario's shore, / as I mused of these warlike days & of peace return'd Last Line: You by my charm I invoke. Variant Title(s): As I Sat Alone By Blue Ontario's Shore Subject(s): Democracy; Poetry & Poets; United States; America CAPITAL 'I', by GU CHENG Poem Source First Line: I stare into the sun, at the bright dawn Last Line: The east is merely a myth no loner! Subject(s): China - Democracy CARNAGE: 6. DESTINY, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are what we imagine, and our deeds Last Line: And dream from that despair — democracy. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Democracy; Fate; World War I; Destiny; First World War CHASING THE SUN, by YU YOUZE Poem Source First Line: The day kau-fu set out he was already old Last Line: When he raised his eyes he'd see peaches rolling all round him over hills and valleys Subject(s): China - Democracy CRACK, by GU CHENG Poem Source First Line: Hidden among boards and stones Last Line: A centipede dangles like a spring, %then vanishes Subject(s): China - Democracy CROSSTOWN, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back in new york I grab a taxi at port authority Last Line: X-rays, so it’s cancer Subject(s): New York City; City Traffic; Taxis; Buses; Democracy; War; Politics & Politicians; African Americans; Racism; Nightmares DEAR MR. PRESIDENT, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: President roosevelt, you Last Line: I await your reply Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Democracy DEMOCRACY, by DERICK BURLESON Poem Source First Line: Here it's the rainy season, but it still hasn't rained Last Line: Something was bound to happen soon Subject(s): Democracy; Rwanda DEMOCRACY, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Democracy, those men have done thee wrong Last Line: See freedom widen in the people's care. Subject(s): Democracy 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 DEMOCRACY AT HAND, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He is coming, brothers, coming Last Line: Hail, all hail, democracy! Subject(s): Democracy DEMOS, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All you that are enamored of my name Last Line: Still to be wrangling in a noisy grave. Subject(s): Democracy DIVIDING THE SKY, by YU YOUZE Poem Source First Line: Pan-gu crouched up there Last Line: Pan-gu drifted to sleep while the moon foretold a heavenly spring Subject(s): China - Democracy DREAM GARDEN, by GU CHENG Poem Source First Line: We slip into a dream Last Line: Cold blood gleaming %from its mouth Subject(s): China - Democracy ELEGY, by ZHAO ZHENKAI Poem Source First Line: A widow offers her broken tears to an ideal Last Line: Our bed adrift on morning's river Subject(s): China - Democracy FAIRY TALES; FOR GU CHENG, by GONG PEIYU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You believed in your own story Last Line: The world may be tiny %but the heart's enormous Alternate Author Name(s): Shu Ting; Shu Ding Subject(s): China - Democracy FALLEN LEAVES, by GONG PEIYU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The moon sets, a sliver of ice Last Line: For the start of a new green dream %to begin the cycle again Alternate Author Name(s): Shu Ting; Shu Ding Subject(s): China - Democracy FALLEN TREE, by JIANG SHIWEI Poem Source First Line: On the branches of a fallen tress Last Line: I can see its skelton on the ground Subject(s): China - Democracy FEAR II, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Fear was no longer that continuous presence that took pleasure Last Line: A time of %lies and idleness Subject(s): Death; Democracy; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Fear; Human Rights - Argentina 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 FROM DEATH'S POINT OF VIEW, by LI SHIZHENG Poem Source First Line: Looking from death's point of view Last Line: Those screams that freeze your spine Subject(s): China - Democracy GALLERY, by LI SHIZHENG Poem Source First Line: The fog creeps blindly onward, pulling out of the station Last Line: Like a sleigh %across a wound Subject(s): China - Democracy GIFTS, by GONG PEIYU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My dream is the dream of a pond Last Line: Because all that I am %has been a gift from earth Alternate Author Name(s): Shu Ting; Shu Ding Subject(s): China - Democracy HEADSTRONG BOY, by GU CHENG Poem Source First Line: I guess my mother spoiled me Last Line: And let them drift away, %hunting for butterflies Subject(s): China - Democracy; Drawing HYMN TO DEMOCRACY, by PAUL ELIOT GREEN Poem Source First Line: Out of the rich and deep-bosomed earth Subject(s): Democracy I HAVE NEVER PROMISED ANYTHING, by F. JOHN HERBERT Poem Source Last Line: Let hearten a beaten chance. Let me have a fever. %vive la france Subject(s): Democracy; Promises ILL GOVERNMENT, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Preposterous is that government, (and rude) Last Line: When kings obey the wilder multitude. Subject(s): Democracy IMAGE, by GU CHENG Poem Source First Line: The sky is grey Last Line: And one light green Subject(s): China - Democracy LET'S GO, by ZHAO ZHENKAI Poem Source Last Line: Down the road, strolling through drifts %of scarlet poppies Subject(s): China - Democracy LOVE STORY, by ZHAO ZHENKAI Poem Source First Line: After all, there's only one world for us Last Line: And there are other people Subject(s): China - Democracy MANY YEARS, by ZHAO ZHENKAI Poem Source First Line: It's you, it's you Last Line: Which blossomed and bore fruit %for many years Subject(s): China - Democracy MAPLE LEAF, by GONG PEIYU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here is a heart-shaped leaf Last Line: As you quiver on your twig Alternate Author Name(s): Shu Ting; Shu Ding Subject(s): China - Democracy; Leaves; Maple Trees MEDIUMS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They shall arise in the states Last Line: Death, the future, the invisible faith, shall all be convey'd. Subject(s): Democracy MEMORY, by ZHAO ZHENKAI Poem Source First Line: Candlelight flickered %on every face Last Line: Whispering together %on quiet water Subject(s): China - Democracy MISSING YOU, by GONG PEIYU Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A multicolored chart without a boundary Last Line: Only this. Alternate Author Name(s): Shu Ting; Shu Ding Subject(s): Absence; China - Democracy; Chinese Literature; Grief; Tears; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness NIGHT, by LI SHIZHENG Poem Source First Line: In the night, awash with symbols Last Line: Moonlight, oh, sharp intimation of exile Subject(s): China - Democracy NOTES ON THE CITY OF THE SUN, by ZHAO ZHENKAI Poem Source First Line: Life %it rises, like the sun Subject(s): China - Democracy NUO-RI-LANG (IN TIBET, THE GOD OF VIRILITY), by YANG LIAN Poem Source First Line: The mountain is a tiger burning fiercely beside the sea of chaos Last Line: Heaven and earth have been created. The birds are twittering. All %this is merely a revelation Subject(s): China - Democracy ODE TO DEMOCRACY, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: Whither bound and how goeth? Last Line: On freedom's holy land. Subject(s): Democracy OLD AGE, by JIANG SHIWEI Poem Source First Line: The wall grows suddenly wrinkled Last Line: He seems to be listening for something. %what can he possibly have heard? Subject(s): China - Democracy ON A GREAT ELECTION, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The accursed power which stands on privilege Last Line: Which goes with bridge, and women and champagne Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Democracy; Wit & Humor ORANGES ARE RIPE, by ZHAO ZHENKAI Poem Source Subject(s): China - Democracy PARTING, by GU CHENG Poem Source First Line: Now, as we cross this ancient threshold Last Line: And our windy sighs to its sails Subject(s): China - Democracy PRESIDENT, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: All dressed in white Last Line: This summer in the country of the dead Subject(s): Democracy; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Fascism And Fascists; Government; Human Rights - Argentina REBEL CAMP IN THE HINDU KUSH, by GU CHENG Poem Source First Line: The mountains lie quietly together Last Line: On the horizon %not one single light Subject(s): China - Democracy SAYING GOOD-BYE, by LI SHIZHENG Poem Source First Line: The green field stretches out like a mind at ease Last Line: Just guarding the darkness Subject(s): China - Democracy SNOW LINE, by ZHAO ZHENKAI Poem Source First Line: Forget what I said Last Line: Meltwater streams %through the lush marsh grass Subject(s): China - Democracy SONG: PROMOTING WOMEN'S RIGHTS, by CH'IU CHIN Poem Source First Line: Our generation yearns to be free Last Line: Never to fail or disappoint, out citizen heroines! Subject(s): China - Democracy; Women's Rights SORROWS, by JIANG SHIWEI Poem Source First Line: Grey earth. %I gaze at you a long time Last Line: Again, this darkest moment of the year Subject(s): China - Democracy SUMMER, by LI SHIZHENG Poem Source First Line: The flowers are blooming still, those hypocrites Last Line: Among the woebegone sunflowers Subject(s): China - Democracy TESTAMENT, by ZHAO ZHENKAI Poem Source First Line: Perhaps the time has come Last Line: From starry bullet-holes %the blood-red dawn will flow Subject(s): China - Democracy THE BLIND MAN, by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR. Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: At nogent, on the river marne Last Line: "my little eleanor is dead." Alternate Author Name(s): Allen, Hervey Subject(s): Blindness; Death; Death - Children; Democracy; Fathers; Innocence; Schools; Social Protest; War; Visually Handicapped; Dead, The; Death - Babies; Students THE COMMONPLACE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The commonplace I sing Last Line: The democratic wisdom underneath, like solid ground for all. Subject(s): Democracy THE DEMOCRATIC BARBER; OR, COUNTRY GENTLEMAN'S SURPRISE, by JOHN PARRISH Poem Text First Line: Good gad! Who's this? What's this, my son? Last Line: Unto the world I will the deed proclaim. Subject(s): Democracy; Human Rights; Men; Paine, Thomas (1737-1809) THE SEVENTH VIAL, by WILLARD WATTLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These are the days when men draw pens for swords Last Line: Tho this is war, there is another war! Subject(s): Democracy; United States; War; America THE SINGING FLOWER, by GONG PEIYU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am already a singing flower Last Line: Your singing flower. Alternate Author Name(s): Shu Ting; Shu Ding Subject(s): China - Democracy; Chinese Literature; Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Water; Nightmares; Ocean THE VOICE OF WEBSTER, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silence was envious of the only voice Last Line: Long shall its echoes rouse the patriot's heart. Subject(s): American Civil War; Democracy; United States - Congress - Senate; United States - History; United States - Reconstruction (1865-1877); Webster, Daniel (1782-1852) THESE DAYS ARE ABJECT AND CRAVEN, by JIANG SHIWEI Poem Source Last Line: But it could knock you over with one blow Subject(s): China - Democracy TICKET, by ZHAO ZHENKAI Poem Source First Line: He hasn't got a ticket Subject(s): China - Democracy; Longing TOWARDS DEMOCRACY, SELS., by EDWARD CARPENTER Poet's Biography Subject(s): Democracy; Freedom; Peace 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. AS A WOMAN OF A MAN, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Democracy! Last Line: I will conceive by thee, democracy. Subject(s): Bodies; Democracy; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. I HEARD A VOICE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard a voice say unto me Last Line: And that shall suffice for thy life. Subject(s): Democracy; Life TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. I HEARD THE VOICE OF THE WOODS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the voice of the woods and of the grass Last Line: Walk: and leave all to me. Subject(s): Democracy; Speech; Voices; Oratory; Orators TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. IN A MANUFACTURING TOWN, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I walked restless and despondent through the gloomy city Last Line: Little child. Subject(s): Capitalism; Democracy; Depressions, Economic; Environment; Factories; Labor & Laborers; Poverty; Smoke; Recessions; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Work; Workers TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. WHO YOU ARE I KNOW NOT, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who you are I know not, but I have it before me that you shall know Last Line: Voyaging—and then haply some time we shall meet. Subject(s): Democracy; Equality TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. YORK MINISTER, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Solid and ghostly in the pale winter morning Last Line: To sit and sing—for pure joy simply to sit and sing! Subject(s): Christianity; Churches; Democracy; God; Humanity; Nations; Cathedrals TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. AFTER CIVILISATION (2), by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the first soft winds of spring, while snow yet lay on the ground Last Line: Looking out over the earth, on which he was once a mortal. Subject(s): Democracy; Life Change Events; Modern Man TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. ANDROMETA, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now over the mediterranean shore, fronting the sun Last Line: Dragon guards its prey. Subject(s): Andromeda (mythology); Civilization; Democracy; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE WORD DEMOCRACY, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Underneath all now comes this word, turning Last Line: Himself over the earth and launch forth to sail through heaven. Subject(s): Democracy; Nations; Politics & Government TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THESE POPULATIONS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These populations Last Line: The true the human society! Subject(s): Democracy; Equality; Human Rights; Public Opinion TRANSPARENT GRIEF, by ZHAO ZHENKAI Poem Source First Line: My transparent grief %was filled with you Last Line: Bathing the road in light Subject(s): China - Democracy UNFAMILIAR SHORE, by ZHAO ZHENKAI Poem Source First Line: These sails are slack Last Line: A gull swoops down, but will not light %on your outstretched hand Subject(s): China - Democracy; Shadows UNFINISHED POEM, by YU YOUZE Poem Source First Line: I stood nailed to a prison wall Last Line: The corner of my jacket flutters gently %like a rising flag Subject(s): China - Democracy WEEKEND EVENING, by GONG PEIYU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The wind has lost its mind Last Line: Cling to the world, or let it go Alternate Author Name(s): Shu Ting; Shu Ding Subject(s): China - Democracy WHEN HOPE COMES BACK; FOR SHU TING, by GU CHENG Poem Source First Line: There's nothing left Last Line: Hope's back. %what more can I ask? Subject(s): China - Democracy WHEN I BLINK, by GU CHENG Poem Source First Line: I'm convinced Last Line: I try to stare at it without blinking Subject(s): China - Democracy WHEN PEOPLE RISE FROM CHEESE, STATEMENT #1, by LI SHIZHENG Poem Source First Line: Songs, but the bloody revolution goes unnoticed Last Line: From far away there comes marching a troop %of smoking people Subject(s): China - Democracy WHEN THE PEOPLE AROSE FROM CHEESE, by LI SHIZHENG Poem Source First Line: The songs ignored the blood of revolution Last Line: In the distance, another legion approaches Subject(s): China - Democracy WINDOW IN THE CLIFF, by ZHAO ZHENKAI Poem Source First Line: The wasp arouses the flower with terrible thrusts Last Line: In the market, women are buying spring Subject(s): China - Democracy WINTER LONGING, by GU CHENG Poem Source First Line: In the naked tree an enromous crow Last Line: Are there no tadpoles anywhere %wriggling, searching for green coral? Subject(s): China - Democracy; Longing WITH A BURNING THIRST, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: In the back alley at daybreak Last Line: Long live democracy! Subject(s): Democracy; Freedom; Human Rights; Police; Politics; Prisons And Prisoners YESTERDAY, by GU CHENG Poem Source First Line: Yesterday %coils in the corner Last Line: To circumvent %the second coming Subject(s): China - Democracy; Violence YOUNG DEMOCRACY, by BERNARD O'DOWD Poem Source First Line: Hark! Young democracy from sleep Subject(s): Democracy |
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