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| Searching... Subject: PERSECUTION Matches Found: 28 A CRY FROM RUSSIA, by HERMINE SCHWED Poem Text First Line: Brothers, my brothers-you that are free Last Line: The days are long and bitter for me. Subject(s): Jews; Jews - Persecution; Russia; Judaism; Soviet Union; Russians A REAL INCIDENT OF THE PERSECUTING TIMES IN SCOTLAND, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She lay within that lonely cot Last Line: He rose, and scotland left for aye. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; God; Persecution; Religion; Scotland; Dead, The; Theology AND WHO WILL LOOK UPON OUR TESTIMONY, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On an unsuspecting wednesday in october 1347 Subject(s): Aids (disease); Persecution; Plague; Sickness; Illness AND WHO WILL LOOK UPON OUR TESTIMONY, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On an unsuspecting wednesday in october 1347 Last Line: Who will die in its own time %with its own wondering tales of woe Subject(s): Aids (disease); Persecution; Plague; Sickness AUGUST THE FIRST: THE WATCHMAN SPEAKS, by MARJORIE OLUDHE MACGOYE Poem Source First Line: A life's spent guarding. What there is to guard Last Line: Light from its oil and reverence for its blood Subject(s): Persecution BLOOD V. BULLION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "well then, it now appears you need my help" Last Line: Hath a dog money?'' blood's response is-'nay!' Subject(s): Jews;jews - Persecution;russia;tyranny & Tyrants; Judaism;soviet Union;russians FLOWERS OF AMSTERDAM, by JEAN JANZEN Poem Source First Line: For the sake of the gospel Last Line: Glistening petals, opening a secret passage %in the deep and watery place Subject(s): Amsterdam, Netherlands; Flowers; Persecution; Religion GOOD NIGHT, WORLD, by JACOB GLATSTEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: It cries in me, the joy of coming Alternate Author Name(s): Glatshteyn, Yankev; Gladstone, Jacob Subject(s): Jews - Persecution IN LIGHT HALF NIGHTMARE AND HALF VISION, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From the corpse woodpiles, from the ashes and staring pits Last Line: Is in his eyes; his suffering transilluminates %the suffering of an age Subject(s): African Americans; Persecution INSCRIPTION FOR A MONUMENT AT TAUNTON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text 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 ISRAEL IN RUSSIA, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art but one! O god to whom we bow Last Line: "father! Forgive them!" Subject(s): Jews; Jews - Persecution; Right To Asylum; Russia; Judaism; Soviet Union; Russians KALICH, INHERITOR OF TRAGEDY, by RIPLEY DUNLAP SAUNDERS Poem Text First Line: Kalich, thou of the dark and brooding face Last Line: Concentrate, makes the genius-gift we know! Subject(s): Jews; Jews - Persecution; Tragedy; Judaism 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 ON THE CHINESE ABDUCTION OF TIBET'S CHILD PANCHEN LAMA, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The commandant, black chen, has walked Last Line: From somewhere they believe they've never been. Subject(s): China; Lamas; Persecution; Tibet ON THE PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS IN RUSSIA, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What murmurs are these that so wofully rise Last Line: Who rules -- heaven help them! Those realms of the czar! Subject(s): Jews - Persecution; Russia - Pogroms ON THE RUSSIAN PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O son of man, by lying tongues adored Last Line: In death's worst hour the works of christian men? Variant Title(s): On The Russian Persecution Of Jews Subject(s): Jews; Persecution; Russia; Judaism; Soviet Union; Russians OUTSIDER, by SYL CHENEY-COKER Poem Source First Line: Armed with his crutches, the thief, wolf-like Last Line: Deliver from your cross your brother barabbas! Subject(s): Persecution ROBBEN ISLAND SEQUENCE, by DENNIS BRUTUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Neonbright orange %vermilion Last Line: But what a bruised and broken motley lot we were! Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John Subject(s): Persecution; Violence RUSSIA AND THE JEWS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o muscovite, blind is your wrath, with" Last Line: Yet the hebrew abides and is strong Subject(s): Jews;persecution;russia; Judaism;soviet Union;russians SHIBBOLETH, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Together with my stones Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Persecution SONG OF THE YELLOW PATCH, by H. LEYVIK Poem Source First Line: How does it look, the yellow patch Last Line: Lies the land, the forbidden land Subject(s): Jews - Persecution THE GHETTO-JEW, by ISRAEL GOLDBERG Poem Text First Line: I marked in the midst of the glittering throng Last Line: A jeer be the last of its pages? Alternate Author Name(s): Learsi, Rufus Subject(s): History; Jews; Jews - Persecution; Memory; Old Age; Historians; Judaism THE JEWISH SOLDIER (2), by ALICE LUCAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hard by the walls of plevna, not fifty yards away Last Line: And on gatschina's palace forevermore they lie. Alternate Author Name(s): Montefiore, Julia Subject(s): Exiles; Jews; Jews - Persecution; Russia; Judaism; Soviet Union; Russians THE JEWS IN RUSSIA, by EDWARD DOYLE Poem Text First Line: From town and village to a wood, stript bare Last Line: "till they draw lightning from jehovah's eyes." Subject(s): Jews; Persecution; Right To Asylum; Russia; Judaism; Soviet Union; Russians THE MAGIC WORDS, by MELVIN G. WINSTOCK Poem Text First Line: The scene of conflict was a level plain Last Line: And wept. The soldier now, alas! Was dead. Subject(s): Hebrew Literature; Jews; Jews - Persecution; Right To Asylum; Judaism THE MASSACRE OF THE JEWS AT YORK, by MARION MOSS Poem Text First Line: There is an old and stately hall Last Line: The self-devoted victims sung—halleluyah! Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Jews - Persecution; Massacres; Judaism THE PERSECUTED JEW, by STEPHEN TAYLOR DEKINS Poem Text First Line: When strife is rampant in the world Last Line: And lead them to the golden gate. Subject(s): Jews; Jews - Persecution; Judaism THE VISION OF HIS PEOPLE, by LEON GORDON Poem Text First Line: Ere yet the morn in glory rose Last Line: I saw my people—horrid sight! Subject(s): Dreams; Jews; Jews - Persecution; Nightmares; Judaism |
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