Social Engagement
91 poems
Injustice, struggle, rights: socially engaged poems that take a stand to change the world. Read them on Loëly.
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Emma Lazarus
A description of the Morning
Jonathan Swift
A Double Standard
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
A Little Girl Lost
William Blake
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
A Man's a Man for A' That
Robert Burns
A new National Anthem
Percy Bysshe Shelley
A Plantation Bacchanal
James Weldon Johnson
Accountability
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Ambition
Khalil Gibran
An Explanation
James Weldon Johnson
An Ode
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Anacreontic by a Footman
Thomas Hood
Answer to Prayer
James Weldon Johnson
Bible Defense of Slavery
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Book 1, Ode VIII: Lydia, dic per omnes
Quintus Horace
Odes - Livre I
Boys Will Be Boys
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Brothers
James Weldon Johnson
Canto I - ‘Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart
George Gordon Byron
Don Juan
Canto I - And none did love him!
George Gordon Byron
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Carmina VI - Flavius, if it were not that your mistress
Gaius Catulle
Christ the Man
William Henry Davies
The Collected Poems of William H. Davies
Emancipation
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Father, Father Abraham
James Weldon Johnson
Females
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
For Fear
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Freedom
Helen Hunt Jackson
Gwalia Deserta VIII
Idris Davies
Gwalia Deserta XV
Idris Davies
Harry Carey Goodhue
Edgar Lee Masters
Spoon River Anthology
Heritage
Claude McKay
Holy Thursday
William Blake
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Emily Dickinson
Incident
Countee Cullen
Lazy
James Weldon Johnson
Learning to Read
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing
James Weldon Johnson
Lines
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Lines Written during the Castlereagh administration
Percy Bysshe Shelley
London
William Blake
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Mrs. Evans fach, you want butter again
Idris Davies
Not they who soar
Paul Laurence Dunbar
O Southland!
James Weldon Johnson
On a Soldier Fallen in the Philippines
William Vaughn Moody
On Being Brought from Africa to America
Phillis Wheatley
On Buying and Selling
Khalil Gibran
The Prophet
Phantoms All
Harriet Prescott Spofford
Poem 18
Idris Davies
She Walketh Veiled And Sleeping
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
She Who Is To Come
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Song For Equal Suffrage
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Song to the men of England
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Songs for the People
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Sonnet – The Peasant
Mary Robinson
Sonnet : England in 1819
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sonnet XIII
John Keats
Sympathy
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Tableau
Countee Cullen
The Ballad of Father O'Hart
William B. Yeats
The Ballad of Moll Magee
William B. Yeats
The Blind Boxer
William Henry Davies
The Collected Poems of William H. Davies