Cruelty
23 poems
Tormentors, victims, a pitiless world: poems about cruelty, to look it in the face. Read them on Loëly.
A Cruel Mistress
Thomas Carew
A Divine Image
William Blake
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
A little Boy Lost
William Blake
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Among the Rice Fields
Adela Florence Nicolson
Beware
Dora Sigerson Shorter
Black Day
William Soutar
Book IX - When we got to the land, which was not far
Homère
L'Odyssée
Cassius Hueffer
Edgar Lee Masters
Spoon River Anthology
Danny
John Millington Synge
Fancy
Adela Florence Nicolson
Lilian
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Limits
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love Armed
Aphra Behn
Murdering Beauty
Thomas Carew
On A Travelling Speculator
Philip Freneau
Sonnet 6 - O strive not still to heap disdain on me
Mary Wroth
Pamphilia to Amphilanthus
The Combe
Edward Thomas
The Curse
John Millington Synge
The Hyaenas
Rudyard Kipling
The Lynching
Claude McKay
The Suicide
James Weldon Johnson
War
Khalil Gibran
War Song
John Davidson