Defiance
29 poems
Defying fate, the gods, the powerful: poems of defiance that refuse to bow their heads. Read them on Loëly.
A new National Anthem
Percy Bysshe Shelley
A Scot to Jeanne D’Arc
Andrew Lang
Book I - Forbear! the progeny of Jove replies
Homère
L'iliade
Book IX - But the Cyclops, groaning and in an agony of pain
Homère
L'Odyssée
Book XVI - Lie there, Patroclus
Homère
L'iliade
Book XXI - He strung it as easily as a skilled bard strings a new peg of his lyre
Homère
L'Odyssée
Comrades
Beatrice Hastings
Death and Life
Sarojini Naidu
The Bird of Time
Failure
Rupert Brooke
Gwalia Deserta XV
Idris Davies
He Cries Out Against Love
Isabella Augusta Gregory
High Summer On The Mountains
Idris Davies
I Am the Woman
William Vaughn Moody
Know, Celia, Since Thou Art So Proud
Thomas Carew
No Master
William Henry Davies
The Collected Poems of William H. Davies
One Way Of Love
Robert Browning
Passion
Charlotte Brontë
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
Shut Not Your Doors
Walt Whitman
Sonnet - Written on the day that Mr. Leigh Hunt left Prison
John Keats
Stanzas
Anne Brontë
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
The Curse
John Millington Synge
The Outlaws
Rudyard Kipling
THE POET TO DEATH
Sarojini Naidu
The golden threshold
The Suicide
James Weldon Johnson
The War
Alfred Lord Tennyson
To a young Lady who sent me a Laurel Crown
John Keats
Ulysses
Alfred Lord Tennyson
War Song
John Davidson
When the dark comes
Dora Sigerson Shorter