Politics poems

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The Emigrants: Book I

© Charlotte Turner Smith

Scene, on the Cliffs to the Eastward of the Town of

Brighthelmstone in Sussex. Time, a Morning in November, 1792.

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Untitled 2

© Tupac Shakur

With all this extra stressing the question I wonder is after death


After my last breath

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Of Politics and Art

© Norman Dubie

Today I listened to a woman say
That Melville might
Be taught in the next decade. Another woman asked, "And why not?"
The first responded, "Because there are
No women in his one novel."

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Aunt Chloe

© Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

1.1I remember, well remember,1.2 That dark and dreadful day,1.3When they whispered to me, "Chloe,1.4 Your children's sold away!"

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The Wind Our Enemy

© Marriott Anne

Windflattening its gaunt furious self againstthe naked siding, knifing in the woundsof time, pausing to tear aside the lastold scab of paint.

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London: A Poem, in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal

© Samuel Johnson

Though grief and fondness in my breast rebel,

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Shopping

© Christakos Margaret

She goes from store to storewanting to spend money on herselfto forget him, his belligerent asshole idiot self.

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An Inventory of the Furniture in Dr. Priestley's Study

© Anna Lætitia Barbauld

A map of every country known,With not a foot to call his own

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God Save The King

© Anonymous

God save great George our king Long live our noble king, God save the king.Send him victorious,Happy and glorious,Long to reign over us, God save the king.

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An Epistle To William Hogarth

© Charles Churchill

Amongst the sons of men how few are known

Who dare be just to merit not their own!

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Politics

© Ambrose Bierce

That land full surely hastens to its end

Where public sycophants in homage bend

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Vision Of Columbus - Book 8

© Joel Barlow

And now the Angel, from the trembling sight,

Veil'd the wide world–when sudden shades of night

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In A Time Of Dearth

© Amy Lowell

Before me,

On either side of me,

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The Logicians Refuted

© Oliver Goldsmith

IN IMITATION OF DEAN SWIFT

LOGICIANS have but ill defin'd

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Latest Views Of Mr. Biglow

© James Russell Lowell

Ef I a song or two could make

  Like rockets druv by their own burnin',

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Tale V

© George Crabbe

these,
All that on idle, ardent spirits seize;
Robbers at land and pirates on the main,
Enchanters foil'd, spells broken, giants slain;
Legends of love, with tales of halls and bowers,
Choice of rare songs, and garlands of choice

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The Captains

© Henry Lawson

The Captains sailed in rotten ships, with often rotten crews,
Because their lands were ignorant and meaner than the ooze;
With money furnished them by Greed, or by ambition mean,
When they had crawled to some pig-faced, pig-hearted king or queen.

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The Task: Book V. -- The Winter Morning Walk

© William Cowper

‘Tis morning; and the sun, with ruddy orb

Ascending, fires the horizon; while the clouds,

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Fragments Of An Unfinished Poem

© James Russell Lowell

I am a man of forty, sirs, a native of East Haddam,

And have some reason to surmise that I descend from Adam;