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Poems about Society

• In Memory Of Col. Charles Young

  Along the shore the tall thin grass,
  That fringes that dark river,

  by Countee Cullen 19 lines
• Old Lem

  They got the judges
  They go the lawyers

  by Sterling A Brown 70 lines, 2 comments
• Renyard the Fox - Part 1

  It's shot all day and poached all night.
  We shall draw blank and lose the light,

  by John Masefield 1373 lines
• Poem For Beverly

  1.
  i sit down next to her

  by D A Levy 41 lines, 1 comment
• The Three Voices

  His heart stood still, aghast with fear;
  A wordless voice, nor far nor near,

  by Lewis Carroll 328 lines
• O Lord, Our Father

  O Lord, our father,
  Our young patriots, idols of our hearts,

  by Mark Twain 37 lines, 2 comments
• Childhood

  I also lived in low cotton country
  where moonlight hovered over ripe haystacks,

  by Margaret Walker 14 lines
• Los heraldos negros

  Hay golpes en la vida tan fuertes . . . ¡Yo no se!
  Golpes como del odio de Dios; como si ante ellos;

  by Cesar Vallejo 21 lines, 2 comments
• The Song Of Smoke

  I am the Smoke King!
  I am Black!

  by W E B Du Bois 34 lines
• A Light in the Moon

  A LIGHT in the moon the only light is on Sunday. What was the sensible decision. The sensible decision was that notwithstanding many declarations and more music

  by Gertrude Stein 1 lines
• Good-Bye My Fancy!

  Good-bye my Fancy!
  Farewell dear mate,dear love!

  by Walt Whitman 20 lines, 1 comment
• New Morality

  From mental mists to purge a nation's eyes;
  To animate the weak, unite the wise;

  by George Canning 465 lines
• 3rd Chorus Mexico City Blues

  Describe fires in riverbottom
  sand, and the cooking;

  by Jack Kerouac 23 lines
• White Things

  Most things are colorful things-
  -the sky, earth, and sea.

  by Anne Spencer 37 lines
• Heroes

  There are different kinds of heroes, there are some you hear about.
  They get their pictures printed, and their names the newsboys shout;

  by Edgar Albert Guest 24 lines
• 4th Chorus Mexico City Blues

  Roosevelt was worth 6, 7 million dollars
  He was Tight

  by Jack Kerouac 25 lines
• The Professor

  Remember me? I am Professor Sheth.
  Once I taught you geography. Now

  by Nissim Ezekiel 36 lines
• Factory Girl

  Why are your eyes like dry brown flower-pods,
  Still, gripped by the memory of lost petals?

  by Maxwell Bodenheim 11 lines
• Emancipation

  Fling out your banners, your honors be bringing,
  Raise to the ether your paeans of praise.

  by Paul Laurence Dunbar 28 lines
• Red Shift

  Here I am at 8:08 p.m. indefinable ample rhythmic frame
  The air is biting, February, fierce arabesques

  by Ted Berrigan 42 lines
• I Dream A World

  I dream a world where man
  No other man will scorn,

  by Langston Hughes 22 lines
• A Frightful Release

  A BAG which was left and not only taken but turned away was not found. The place was shown to be very like the last time. A piece was not exchanged, not a bit o

  by Gertrude Stein 0 lines
• What Sayest Thou, Traveller

  What sayst thou, traveller, of all thou saw'st afar?
  On every tree hangs boredom, ripening to its fall,

  by Paul Verlaine 68 lines
• Lyrics for Lillian Hellman’s Candide

  Reason, Magic, Skill and Love,
  Frankly, I think poorly of.

  by James Agee 19 lines
• Houses Chapter IX

  A mason came forth and said, \

  by Khalil Gibran 29 lines
• Oriflamme

  I think I see her sitting bowed and black,
  Stricken and seared with slavery's mortal scars,

  by Jesse Redmond Fauset 8 lines
• Beauty And Toil (With English Translation)

  Husn aur Mazdoori
  

  by Josh Malihabadi 57 lines
• Excerpt From The Human Clay

  Are my tears vinegar and yours honey? Is my weeping humiliation, your
  moaning dominion?

  by Ilya Abu Madi 8 lines, 2 comments
• Men Of Australia

  Men of all the lands Australian from the Gulf to Derwent River,
  From the Heads of Sydney Harbour to the waters of the West,

  by Edward Dyson 40 lines, 1 comment
• On the birth of his son

  Families, when a child is born
  Want it to be intelligent.

  by Su Tung-po 8 lines

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