INFERIORITY POEMS

Fashion Notes: Past And Present

1880-Anti-suffrage arguments are being worn long, calm and flowing this
year, with the dominant note that of woman's intellectual inferiority.

1890-Violence is very evident in this season's modes, and our more
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Alice Duer Miller

Let It Enfold You

Either peace or happiness,
let it enfold you

when I was a young man
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Charles Bukowski

English Writers On America - Prose

Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation, rousting herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her endazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam.
- MILTON ON THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS.


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Washington Irving

The Country Church - Prose

A gentleman!
What o' the woolpack? or the sugar-chest?
Or lists of velvet? which is 't, pound, or yard,
You vend your gentry by?
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Washington Irving

Traits Of Indian Character - Prose

"I appeal to any white man if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not to eat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not."
- Speech of an Indian Chief.


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Washington Irving

Variations At Home And Abroad

It takes a lot of a person's life
To be French, or English, or American
Or Italian. And to be at any age. To live at any certain time.
The Polish-born resident of Manhattan is not merely a representative of
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Kenneth Koch

Hidden Light

Embedded within us are myriads of potentials
Struggling to be free
Lost amidst fear and inferiority complex
A plethora of greatness lies in us
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Albert Anangfio

Impulse

The intoxicating action not absorbed,
inferiority by attention adored.
The deed that leads to realization,
sweetest toil like a choir’s pitch sensation.
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Robert Rittel

Save The Depressed

Save the depressed

I'm faced with war internally
Burning into ashes from within
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Oyishose Sule

To The Ideal Wife

God fearing woman..with an overflowing kernel of love.
The kind of love that needs not spoken of or to; but so toxic that the beam of her eyes on mine I get the message.

Love so pure that never will a man be inwant or ever in doubt.
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Abdullah Ahmed

Just Because I Am A Poet

I now made secret enemies
With the way I look at the world
In my rare view
And there are some who couldn't help
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Tim Justin