Poetry Explorer

Search Classic and Contemporary Poetry

Search Results

Back to search

Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!


Searching...
Subject: OPPRESSION
Matches Found: 21

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CALL TO ISRAEL, by CORA WILBURN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where is the modern judah maccabee?
Last Line: Arise! Arm! Strike! Do freedom's holy will!
Subject(s): Freedom; Israel; Jews; Oppression; Russia; Liberty; Judaism; Soviet Union; Russians


A HYMN FOR THE RELIEF OF ISRAEL, by CANON JENKINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When israel's sons in egypt groaned
Last Line: And set thy chosen people free!
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Jews - Exodus From Egypt; Oppression; Judaism


CINDERELLA, by OLGA BROUMAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Apart from my sisters, estranged
Last Line: For her joyful heart.
Subject(s): Cinderella; Fairy Tales; Mythology - Classical; Oppression; Sexton, Anne (1928-1974); Solitude; Women's Rights; Loneliness; Feminism


GUERRILLA'S GOODBYE, by JAVIER HERAUD    Poem Source                    
First Line: One afternoon he said to his girl
Last Line: Alongside the guerrillas
Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Fights; Guerrillas; Oppression


LINES WRITTEN IN THE DOG-DAYS; HOW HOT IT IS!, by WILLIAM WOTY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sun now darts his fervid rays
Last Line: How charming now, and cool it is!
Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; Oppression; Sun; Thirst; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers


NIGHT OF STARS, by LUIS DE LEON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I behold the sky
Last Line: Deep valleys with a thousand blessings dight
Alternate Author Name(s): Fray Luis
Subject(s): Blessings; Grief; Mortality; Oppression; Tears


NOT REGULAR DAYS, by SUSAN GRIMM    Poem Source                    
First Line: He stands with a fish
Last Line: Is this oppression
Subject(s): Oppression


OUTSIDER, by WILLIAM WOODRUFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: Leave me alone, damn you. And spare
Last Line: My life as best I can, without oppression %from you. Let me be
Subject(s): Oppression


PIRANHAS, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Piranhas / in a wine-dark river
Last Line: River.
Subject(s): Oppression


RESIGNATION; AN ODE TO THE JOURNEYMEN SHOEMAKERS, SELECTION, by JOHN WOLCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sons of saint crispin, 'tis in vain! / indeed 'tis fruitless to complain
Last Line: A truth that grandeur wishes not to know.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Labor Unions; Oppression; Shoes; Strikes; Wages; Work; Workers; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers; Labor Disputes; Lockouts; Salaries


SLAVES, by JAMES GRAINGER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yet, planter, let humanity prevail.- / perhaps the negro, in his native land
Last Line: The blacks should cultivate the cane-land isles.
Subject(s): African Americans; Oppression; Plantation Life; Slavery; Negroes; American Blacks; Serfs


SOMEWHERE, by ES'KIA MPHAHLELE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Somewhere a mother sobs
Last Line: Somewhere a mother will rejoice
Subject(s): Human Rights; Oppression; Single Parents


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 BLACK SLAVE TRADE; A POEM, by HANNAH MORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If heaven has into being deign'd to call
Last Line: And with thy wide salvation make them free!
Variant Title(s): The Slave Trade
Subject(s): Freedom; Oppression; Slavery; Liberty; Serfs


THE HOUR, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: This is the hour all history shall claim
Last Line: And stand, and strike, and you must overcome.
Subject(s): History; Oppression; War; Historians


THE INTRUDER, by PHILIP MAX RASKIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Once in my secluded chamber
Last Line: "stay""—and I awoke. ..."
Alternate Author Name(s): Raskin, P. M.
Variant Title(s): ...whom You Are To Blame'
Subject(s): Exiles; Hebrew Literature; Israel; Jews - Exodus From Egypt; Oppression


THE JEWS OF BUCHAREST, by EDWARD SYDNEY TYBEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Take heed; the stairs are worn and damp!'
Last Line: Our coming lord hath deigned to wear.
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Oppression; Judaism


THE MAN WITH THE HOE, by EDWIN MARKHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans
Last Line: After the silence of the centuries?
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Farm Life; Freedom; Labor & Laborers; Mankind; Millet, Jean Francois (1814-1875); Oppression; Paintings & Painters; Religion; Social Protest; Soldiers; Agriculture; Farmers; Liberty; Work; Workers; Human Race; Theology


THE SIGHTSEERS, by PAUL MULDOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My father and mother, my brother and sister
Subject(s): Oppression; Ireland; Irish


THE SLAUGHTER OF THE JEWS, by ALFRED JAMES WATERHOUSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fools who kill for the lust of blood, fiends of the / slaughter pen
Last Line: All that the world holds dearest is slaughtered in him—the jew.
Subject(s): Cruelty; Jews; Oppression; Judaism


WRITTEN WHEN THE MIND WAS OPPRESSED, by ANNE BATTEN CRISTALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wandering amid the horrors of the night
Last Line: And every human bosom starts from death.
Subject(s): Death; Oppression; Dead, The