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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 himthe 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 |
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