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They Fight for Peace, Shaker Aamer; O Prison Darkness, Abdulaziz; I Shall Not Complain, Abdulaziz; To My Father, Abdullah Thani Faris al Anazi; Lions in the Cage, Ustad Badruzzaman Badr; Homeward Bound, Moazzam Begg; Death Poem, Jumah al Dossari; They Cannot Help, Shakih Abdurraheem Muslim Dost; Cup Poem 1, Shakih Abdurraheem Muslim Dost
"Do not go gentle into that good night" is a poem in the form of a villanelle by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914–1953), and is one of his best-known works. [1] Though first published in the journal Botteghe Oscure in 1951, [ 2 ] Thomas wrote the poem in 1947 while visiting Florence with his family.
"Bread and Roses" is a political slogan as well as the name of an associated poem and song. It originated in a speech given by American women's suffrage activist Helen Todd; a line in that speech about "bread for all, and roses too" [1] inspired the title of the poem Bread and Roses by James Oppenheim. [2]
"If We Must Die" is a poem by Jamaican-American writer Claude McKay (1890–1948) published in the July 1919 issue of The Liberator magazine. McKay wrote the poem in response to mob attacks by white Americans upon African-American communities during the Red Summer. The poem does not specifically reference any group of people, and has been used ...
The guillotine on Peers shall wait; And Knights shall hang in garters. Those Despots long have trode us down, And Judges are their engines: Such wretched minions of a Crown Demand the people's vengeance! To-day 'tis theirs. To-morrow we Shall don the Cap of Libertie! The Golden Age we'll then revive: Each man will be a brother; In harmony we ...
"A Brave and Startling Truth" is a poem by Maya Angelou.Critic Richard Long called it her "second 'public' poem". [1] Angelou delivered it in June 1995, at the 50th anniversary commemoration of the United Nations, two years after she read "On the Pulse of Morning" at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton, which made her the first poet to make an inaugural recitation since Robert Frost at ...
Which again you shall see, when the time it shall be, That the King enjoys his own again. 4. Full forty years the royal crown Hath been his father's and his own; And is there any one but he That in the same should sharer be? For who better may the sceptre sway Than he that hath such right to reign? Then let's hope for a peace, for the wars will ...
"Old Ironsides" is a poem written by American writer Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. on September 16, 1830, as a tribute to the 18th-century USS Constitution. The poem was one reason that the frigate was saved from being decommissioned, and it is now the oldest commissioned ship in the world that is still afloat.