Famous Enslavement Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Enslavement poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous enslavement poems. These examples illustrate what a famous enslavement poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...y and cowardice, incredible
baseness, incredible courage, loyalties, insanities.
The sword: weeping and despair, mass-enslavement,
mass-tourture, frustration of all hopes
That starred man's forhead. Tyranny for freedom, horror for
happiness, famine for bread, carrion for children.
Reason will not decide at last, the sword will decide.
Dear God, who are the whole splendor of things and the sacred
stars, but also the cruelty and greed, the treacheries
And vileness, ins...Read more of this...
by
Jeffers, Robinson
...can you wonder my love sought you out?
Why need I stress that I'm true,
when every one of your features
betokens my enslavement?
Turn your eyes toward yourself
and you'll find in yourself and in them
not only occasion for love
but compulsion to surrender.
Meanwhile my tender care
bears witness I only live
to gaze at you spellbound and sigh,
to prove that for you I die.
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My Divine Lysis
Divina Lysi mía:
perdona si me atrevo
a lla...Read more of this...
by
Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sor
...escent of moon on my finger
To appease my sorrow.
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The siege will last in order to convince us we must choose an enslavement that does no harm, in fullest liberty!
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Resisting means assuring oneself of the heart’s health,
The health of the testicles and of your tenacious disease:
The disease of hope.
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And in what remains of the dawn, I walk toward my exterior
And in what remains of the night, I hear the sound of footsteps inside me.
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Greetings to th...Read more of this...
by
Darwish, Mahmoud
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