Famous Civil Rights Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Civil Rights poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous civil rights poems. These examples illustrate what a famous civil rights poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...al baseness lived in sleeker times
With smoother men: the old leaven leavened all:
Millions of throats would bawl for civil rights,
No woman named: therefore I set my face
Against all men, and lived but for mine own.
Far off from men I built a fold for them:
I stored it full of rich memorial:
I fenced it round with gallant institutes,
And biting laws to scare the beasts of prey
And prospered; till a rout of saucy boys
Brake on us at our books, and marred our peace, ...Read more of this...
by
Tennyson, Alfred Lord
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