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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: RIOTS Matches Found: 16 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ANIMAL AND INSECT ACT, by CECIL RAJENDRA Poem Source First Line: Finally, in order to ensure Last Line: There was now total security Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Discipline; Human Rights; Law And Lawyers; Riots ENDANGERED SPECIES, by FLORENCE ANTHONY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The color of violence is black Last Line: Of a nation %that delivered rhetoric %in exchange for its promises Alternate Author Name(s): Ai Subject(s): African Americans; Riots MEMORY OF DUST AND LIGHT, by JULIO ORTEGA Poem Source First Line: The sun comes up: a day in june. Time sinks Last Line: In the scorching sun %one day in june Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Labor Unions; Markets; Memory; Riots; Strikes NO PAROLE TODAY, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: A shadow of smoke passed Last Line: A thousand men uncapped themselves behind barbed wire and smoke Subject(s): California; Justice; Native Americans; Prisons And Prisoners; Racism; Riots ODE FOR THE NEW YEAR, by JONATHAN ODELL Poem Source First Line: When rival nations first descried Last Line: And ruin all intruding slaves Subject(s): Great Britain - Gordon Riots (1780); Tyranny And Tyrants ON THE BURNING OF LORD MANSFIELD'S LIBRARY (1), by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So then - the vandals of our isle Last Line: The burning of his own. Subject(s): Books; Great Britain - Gordon Riots (1780); Murray, William. 1st Earl Of Mansfield; Vandalism; Reading ON THE BURNING OF LORD MANSFIELD'S LIBRARY (2), by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When wit and genius meet their doom Last Line: The honey on his tongue. Subject(s): Books; Great Britain - Gordon Riots (1780); Murray, William. 1st Earl Of Mansfield; Vandalism; Reading RIOT ACT, APRIL 29, 1992, by FLORENCE ANTHONY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm going out and get something Last Line: The day the wealth finally trickled down %to the rest of us Alternate Author Name(s): Ai Subject(s): African Americans; Riots RIOTS NOT DONE, by CHARLES EVERET Poem Source First Line: The fires still burning Last Line: What's left will be ours Subject(s): Riots SONG OF THE GENERAL STRIKE, by MARIO BRAVO Poem Source First Line: The crowd advances like a sounding sea Last Line: And life itself stands still and waits in hope Subject(s): Protest, Social; Revolutions; Riots SONGS OF SOULS THAT FAILED, by MARION COUTHOUY SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We come from the war-swept valleys Last Line: To cover our grief and rest. Subject(s): Cowardice; Fights; Riots; War; Weariness; Fatigue THE DRAFT RIOT, by CHARLES DE KAY Poem Text First Line: Is it the wind, the many-tongued, the weird Last Line: And burns the town. Subject(s): American Civil War; New York Draft Riots (1863); United States - History THE HIDING PLACE, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last time I saw it was 1968 Last Line: No -- tell them no -- Subject(s): Labor Unions; Paris, France; Riots; Strikes; Labor Disputes; Lockouts THE HOUSE-TOP; A NIGHT PIECE, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No sleep. The sultriness pervades the air Last Line: And -- more -- is nature's roman, never to be scourged. Subject(s): New York Draft Riots (1863); Social Protest THE RIOT, OR HALF A LOAF IS BETTER THAN NO BREAD, by HANNAH MORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come neighbors, no longer be patient and quiet Last Line: So he threw down his pitchfork and went to his work. Subject(s): Justice; Riots TO A FRIEND IN LOVE DURING THE RIOTS, by WILLIAM PARSONS Poem Text First Line: In times like these, when widows, orphans weep Last Line: Glow at a smile and sicken at a frown! Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Fire; Riots; Tyranny & Tyrants; Mobs; Crowds |
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