Famous Republicans Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Republicans poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous republicans poems. These examples illustrate what a famous republicans poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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Elegy: Walking the Line

by Edgar Bowers
 Every month or so, Sundays, we walked the line,
The limit and the boundary. Past the sweet gum
Superb above the cabin, along the wall—
Stones gathered from the level field nearby
When first we cleared it. (Angry bumblebees
Stung the two mules. They kicked. Thirteen, I ran.)
And then the field: thread-leaf maple, deciduous
Magnolia, hybrid broom, and, further down,
In light shade, one Franklinia Alatamaha
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Jefferson Howard

by Edgar Lee Masters
 My valiant fight! For I call it valiant,
With my father's beliefs from old Virginia:
Hating slavery, but no less war.
I, full of spirit, audacity, courage
Thrown into life here in Spoon River,
With its dominant forces drawn from New England,
Republicans, Calvinists, merchants, bankers,
Hating me, yet fearing my arm.
With wife and children heavy to carry --
Yet fruits of my very zest of life.
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The Refugee's Haven

by Victor Hugo
 ("Vous voilà dans la froide Angleterre.") 
 
 {Bk. III. xlvii., Jersey, Sept. 19, 1854.} 


 You may doubt I find comfort in England 
 But, there, 'tis a refuge from dangers! 
 Where a Cromwell dictated to Milton, 
 Republicans ne'er can be strangers! 


 




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