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Subject - Protest

Poetry is a fitting medium for words of protest. Strong emotions are stripped to their barest expression.

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. - Carl Sandburg

The Rights of Woman by Anna Letitia Barbauld
Lines on Revisiting a Scottish River by Thomas Campbell
The Golf Links by Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn
protesting child labor practices
Is It Because I Am Black?" by Joseph Seamans Cotter, Jr.
Sport by Hamlin Garland
The Last Reservation by Walter Learned
a heart wrenching picture of the treatment of Native Americans
The Present Crisis by James Russell Lowell
The Man with the Hoe by Edwin Markham
If We Must Die by Claude McKay
London Churches by Richard Monckton Milnes
God's house holds no poor sinners
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont by John Milton
On the New Forcers of Conscience Under the Long Parliament by John Milton
The Mayor of Gary by Carl Sandburg
Song to the Men of England by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sonnet: England in 1819 by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Indian's Welcome to the Pilgrim Fathers by Lydia H. Sigourney
Castle and Cabin by Marshall Putnam Thompson
Stanzas for the Times by John Greenleaf Whittier
against slavery and restrictions on free speech
What We Want by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
a vote for temperance
Unseen Spirits by Nathaniel Parker Willis
London, 1802 by William Wordsworth
on the state of England in the early 19th century