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Wilberforce Poems - Poems about Wilberforce


The Bow That Bridges Heaven
...He wrangled with his world, found a way to cross the seas on merchant boats brimful of slaves, bound for British shores. Innumerable are the things that we shall never know; amazing, those things ......

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Categories: wilberforce, 11th grade, boat, slavery,
Form: Rhyme
The Plaque
...1908 Last day at school for me Some thirteen years Ive had And Im going to be a farm hand Just like me dear old Dad Here now its Mr Peters A silence falls over the class 'Registration' he sa......

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Categories: wilberforce, war,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Elegy For My Father
...Godwin Adizue Ibeh (1937-2017) Mr. Godwin Adizue Ibeh Aged 79 years Was and is  My beloved, doting father “Is” because he remains Spiritually present  Present  In my mem......

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Categories: wilberforce, death, eulogy, father, how
Form: Elegy
Hull, City of Culture 2017
...Hull is the great and unique city where I was born Sitting on the Humber estuary...proud and all alone Known for keeping Charles I and his army out through courage and bravery Also the birthplace ......

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Categories: wilberforce, birth, city, culture, fishing,
Form: Rhyme
What Can I Do
...I am only one person in a world of many What can I do to stop the violence of the world I can refuse to be violent I can refuse to fight If I refuse to be violent, thats one person less We are......

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Categories: wilberforce, encouraging, faith, tribute,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Force For Good
...A righteous man and force for good was England’s William Wilberforce. For those without a voice he stood, a righteous man and force for good! No other man of his time could have fought so wel......

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Categories: wilberforce, history, people,
Form: Triolet
Text To a Friend
...I will send you a note tonight if I can catch the firefly in bed somewhere in an old worn out basin down by the river is left an empty seashell if I can coil over its rusty fence and say......

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Categories: wilberforce, education, on work and
Form: Blank verse
Does Change Change?
...DOES CHANGE CHANGE? For history is wont to repeat itself Ever reneging, constant turning on the hinges For the old in nature’s obeisance Enter oblivious existence That the present may succeed t......

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Categories: wilberforce, philosophy, social, visionaryold, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Vignette-Man's Inhumanity To Man
...A chronicle of amazing grace To change the human race- Just William they called him, Persistence helped him win This triumph over sin. William Wilberforce (1759-1833)-of abolishing slave tra......

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Categories: wilberforce, faith, people, social,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things