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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LYNCHING Matches Found: 41 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LITANY OF ATLANTA, by WILLIAM EDWARD BURGHARDT DU BOIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O silent god, thou whose voice in mist and mystery hath left our ears Last Line: Selah! Alternate Author Name(s): Du Bois, W. E. B. Subject(s): African Americans; Lynching; Racism; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry AGAINST [OR, AGANIS] THE THIEVES OF LIDDESDALE, by RICHARD MAITLAND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: Of liddesdale the common thiefis [thieves] Last Line: Hing on a tree whill they be deid. Alternate Author Name(s): Lethington, Lord Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Lynching; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME, by RICHARD WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: And one morning while in the woods I stumbled suddenly upon the thing Subject(s): Lynching; Social Protest BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME, by RICHARD WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And one morning while in the woods I stumbled suddenly upon the thing Last Line: Now I am dry bones and my face a stony skull staring in yellow surprise at the sun Subject(s): Lynching; Social Protest BITTER RIVER, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a bitter river Last Line: I'm tired of the bitter river! %tired of the bars! Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Lynching BLACK MEN, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Text First Line: Swift gusts of hollow night wind clatter by Last Line: A bitter scorn for those who hung them there. Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): African Americans; Justice; Lynching; Negroes; American Blacks BROTHERS, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See! There he stands; not brave, but with an air Last Line: "brothers in spirit, brothers in deed are we?" Subject(s): Lynching; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry EMMETT TILL, by JAMES ANDREW EMANUEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I hear a whistling Last Line: River boy %who swims forever, %deep in treasures, %necklacedin %a coral toy Subject(s): Lynching; Racism; Till, Emmett (1941-1955) EMMETT TILL (AUGUST 1955), by SAM CORNISH Poem Source First Line: If the south was a woman he would whip it into shape Last Line: But %enever emmett till Subject(s): Lynching; Racism; Till, Emmett (1941-1955) EPITAPH, by DENNIS SCOTT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: They hanged him on a clement morning, swung Last Line: Till they pass away. Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Lynching; British Empire; England - Empire HOMESTEAD CLAIM NO. 2003, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: I was just another cattle rustler, hell Last Line: Is finally tossed. %we're all driven %to the railhead for shipment Subject(s): Cattle; Lynching LANDSCAPE WITH FIGURE, by NORMAN ROSTEN Poem Source First Line: Black boy, the night hides you Last Line: Come on down, it's time Subject(s): Lynching; Social Protest LAST QUATRAIN OF THE BALLAD OF EMMETT TILL, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the murder, %after the burial Last Line: Chaos in windy grays %through a red prairie Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Lynching; Till, Emmett (1941-1955) LYNCH SONG, by LORRAINE HANSBERRY Poem Source First Line: Laurel %name sweet like the breath of peace Subject(s): Lynching LYNCH-LAW, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The deed he had done was a terrible one Last Line: At eve, and cut it down. Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Country Life; Death; Lynching; Violence; Mobs; Crowds; Dead, The LYNCHED, by FRANK ANKENBRAND JR. Poem Text First Line: The flames that licked his bronzed Last Line: But, american-like, does not act. Subject(s): Lynching LYNCHERS, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the moon's down-going, let it be Last Line: On the quarry hill with its one gnarled tree. Subject(s): Lynching; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry LYNCHING, by SOLOMON BLOOMGARDEN Poem Source First Line: Father of my soul Last Line: On the tree Alternate Author Name(s): Yehoash Subject(s): Lynching; Social Protest LYNCHING, by BERISH WEINSTEIN Poem Source First Line: White wild hands snare you with a stray rope Last Line: In wedding, in leopoldstadt and in carolina Subject(s): Jews - Persecution; Lynching; Racism LYNCHING AND BURNING, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men lean toward the wood Last Line: People lived there. Now we live there... Subject(s): Children; Ku Klux Klan; Lynching; Parents; Slavery; Childhood; Parenthood; Serfs LYNCHING UNDER THE SOUTHERN CROSS, by JOHN KINSELLA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A few years back there was an attempted Last Line: Pacing about the empties, %eyeing him suspiciously Subject(s): Lynching NEGROES LYNCHED IN MISSISSIPPI, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So always, justice drowsy and hate rising Last Line: Proffering his blood to pleasure antichrist. Subject(s): African Americans; Capital Punishment; Jesus Christ; Lynching; Mississippi; Murder; Negroes; American Blacks; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty NICE DAY FOR A LYNCHING, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bllodhounds look like sad old judges Subject(s): Lynching; Social Protest NICE DAY FOR A LYNCHING, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bllodhounds look like sad old judges Last Line: I shall be forever killing; and be killed Subject(s): Lynching; Social Protest ON DEMOCRACY, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the bugles blowing Last Line: And left him on a tree Subject(s): Lynching ON THE PHOTOGRAPH OF A LYNCHING, by WENDELL PHILLIPS STAFFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is the fruit of that forbidden tree Last Line: Bind on resplendent brows thy down-slipped crown of law Subject(s): Freedom; Lynching PHOTOGRAPH: THE LYNCHING, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it the cut glass Last Line: Required to view it together %under a gathering [or, the all recording] sky? Subject(s): Lynching; Photography And Photographers PORTRAIT IN GEORGIA, by JEAN TOOMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hair--braided chestnut, Subject(s): Lynching; Racism; Georgia (state) African Americans - Women; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry PROMISES: 2. COURT-MARTIAL, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the cedar tree Subject(s): American Civil War; Lynching; Confederate States Of America; Soldiers; Veterans; Ancestors & Ancestry; Confederacy; Heritage; Heredity SO QUIETLY, by LESLIE PINCKNEY HILL Poem Source First Line: So quietly they stole upon their prey Last Line: Of day, now in the dark-and when it comes, %stern truth will never write, 'by hands unknown' Subject(s): Lynching SONG FOR A DARK GIRL, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Way down south in dixie Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Love; Lynching; Southern States; Negroes; American Blacks; South (u.s.) SONG FOR A DARK GIRL, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Way down south in dixie Last Line: Love is a naked shadow %on a gnarled and naked tree Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Love; Lynching; Southern States STRANGE FRUIT, by JOY HARJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was out in the early evening, taking a walk in the fields to think about this Subject(s): African Americans; Jazz; Lynching; Music & Musicians; Racism; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry STRANGE FRUIT, by JOY HARJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was out in the early evening, taking a walk in the fields to think about this Last Line: My feet betray me, dance anyway from this killing tree Subject(s): African Americans; Jazz; Lynching; Music And Musicians; Racism THE BIRD AND THE TREE, by FREDERICK RIDGELY TORRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blackbird, blackbird in the cage Last Line: Blackbird. Subject(s): Freedom; Lynching; Liberty THE HAUNTED OAK, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Pray why are you so bare, so bare Last Line: On the trunk of a haunted tree. Subject(s): Lynching; Oak Trees THE LAST QUATRAIN OF THE BALLAD OF EMMETT TILL, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the murder, / after the burial Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Lynching; Till, Emmett (1941-1955) THE LYNCHING, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His spirit in smoke ascended to high heaven Last Line: Danced round the dreadful thing in fiendish glee. Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Lynching THE PHOTOGRAPH: THE LYNCHING, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it the cut glass Subject(s): Lynching; Photography & Photographers THE SONG OF THE HEMP, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stubbled hemp-field called the wind Last Line: "beneath the moon's white tide." Subject(s): Lynching TWO MEXICANOS LYNCHED IN SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA MAY 3, 1877, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: More than the moment when forty gringos vigilantes Last Line: From the shade of bowler hats, but all %crowding into the photograph Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Lynching; Vigilantes |
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