Power
53 poems
Kings, tyrants, the mighty and the rebels: poems about power, those who wield it and those who endure it.
A Model for the Laureate
William B. Yeats
New Poems
A Thousand Martyrs
Aphra Behn
Accurs'D Be He That First Invented War
Christopher Marlowe
Africa
Claude McKay
Against Love
Katherine Philips
Book I - Who rolls the thunder o'er the vaulted skies
Homère
L'iliade
Book II - Fly hence, deluding Dream
Homère
L'iliade
Book V - But Pallas now Tydides' soul inspires
Homère
L'iliade
Book XXIV - The sacred sire of gods and mortal man
Homère
L'iliade
Canto I - And none did love him!
George Gordon Byron
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Canto IV - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean—roll!
George Gordon Byron
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Daughter
Gertrude Stein
Death's Epitaph
Philip Freneau
Dupont’s Round Fight
Herman Melville
Emancipation from British Dependence
Philip Freneau
Exclusion (The soul selects her own society)
Emily Dickinson
Fate
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I Am the Woman
William Vaughn Moody
I Must Have Wanton Poets
Christopher Marlowe
Imagination
John Davidson
Know, Celia, Since Thou Art So Proud
Thomas Carew
My Last Duchess
Robert Browning
My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun
Emily Dickinson
On Gold
Jonathan Swift
On ink
Jonathan Swift
On the desert
Stephen Crane
On The Use Of Poetry
Mark Akenside
Our Conquering Swords
Christopher Marlowe
Ozymandias
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poetry Is a Destructive Force
Wallace Stevens
She Walketh Veiled And Sleeping
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Sonnet 17 : To Sir Henry Vane the younger
John Milton
Sonnet 34 - Take heed mine eyes
Mary Wroth
Sonnet 4 - Venus unto the Gods a suit did move
Mary Wroth
Pamphilia to Amphilanthus
Sonnet 7 - Love leave to urge
Mary Wroth
Pamphilia to Amphilanthus
Sonnet 8 : When the Assault was intented to the city
John Milton
Sonnet 94
William Shakespeare
Sonnets
Sonnet LIV
Anna Seward
The Divine Right Of Kings
Edgar Allan Poe
The Eagle
Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Hand That Signed The Paper
Dylan Thomas
The Power of Music
William Henry Davies
The Collected Poems of William H. Davies
The Progress of Poesy: A Pindaric Ode
Thomas Gray
The Republican Genius Of Europe
Philip Freneau
The Rights of Women
Anna Laetitia Barbauld
The Taming of the Falcon
Emma Lazarus
The Wise King
Khalil Gibran
To A New England Poet
Philip Freneau
War
Khalil Gibran
War Song
John Davidson
Witchcraft: New Style
Lascelles Abercrombie
Witchwork
Harriet Prescott Spofford
XVI - And yet, because thou overcomest so
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese