REGIME POEMS

I Want To Be Sane Again

I am a condemned
untamed wacky aberrant lunatic
I went berserk
I took leave of reasoning
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Michael Aete

Neocolonialism

When skeptically he bellied on back to the arid sea
To escape the spirited insurgency from disgruntled land owners
The alligator did not shut out his rule
It knew it lived by the bereavement of other creatures
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Michael Aete

That Bright Chimeric Beast

That bright chimeric beast
Conceived yet never born,
Save in the poet's breast,
The white-flanked unicorn,
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Countee Cullen

The Habitants Jubilee Ode

I read on de paper mos' ev'ry day, all about Jubilee
An' grande procession movin' along, an' passin' across de sea,
Dat's chil'ren of Queen Victoriaw comin' from far away
For tole Madame w'at dey t'ink of her, an' wishin' her bonne santé.
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William Henry Drummond

The Laboratory

ANCIEN REGIME

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Robert Browning

A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet Xix

Alas, that words like these should be but folly!
Behold, the Boulevard mocks, and I mock too.
Let us away and purge our melancholy
With the last laughter at the Ambigu!
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Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

Phil-o-rum Juneau

A STORY OF THE "CHASSE GALLERIE."


In the days of the "Old Regime" in Canada, the free life of the
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William Henry Drummond

Japan,'old And New

The son of a Japanese lord am I,-
A Prince of the olden time;
My hair is white, though black as night
In my youth and early prime;
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John L. Stoddard

The White Peacock

(France -- Ancient Regime.)

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Stephen Vincent Benét

L'ancien Regime

Who has a thing to bring
For a gift to our lord the king,
Our king all kings above?
A young girl brought him love;
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James Thomson

In Praise Of Dawn

You can keep afternoon and its dwindling mysteries,
twilight with its seedy hauteur. You can have night
with its phony neon and rented motel rooms.
I prefer morning when the air is so quiet the rub
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Geraldine Connolly

In Praise Of Dawn

You can keep afternoon and its dwindling mysteries,
twilight with its seedy hauteur. You can have night
with its phony neon and rented motel rooms.
I prefer morning when the air is so quiet the rub
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Geraldine Connolly

Madeleine Vercheres

I've told you many a tale, my child, of the
old heroic days
Of Indian wars and massacre, of villages ablaze
With savage torch, from Ville Marie to the
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William Henry Drummond

The Road Home

Over the hills, as the pewee flies,
Under the blue of the Southern skies;
Over the hills, where the red-bird wings
Like a scarlet blossom, or sits and sings:
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Madison Julius Cawein

L'ancien Régime; Or The Good Old Rule

Who has a thing to bring
For a gift to our lord the king,
Our king all kings above?
A young girl brought him love;
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James Thomson - (bysshe Vanolis)

The Road Home.

Over the hills, as the pewee flies,
Under the blue of the Southern skies;
Over the hills, where the red-bird wings
Like a scarlet blossom, or sits and sings:
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Madison Julius Cawein

Laboratory, The

ANCIEN REGIME.

I.

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Robert Browning

Anton Sosnowski

Anton Sosnowski, from the Shakspeare School
Where he assists the janitor, sweeps and dusts,
The day now done, sits by a smeared up table
Munching coarse bread and drinking beer; before him
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Edgar Lee Masters

Dark Prison

Once upon a time
The life was full of regime.

Everyone I met with
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Azanum Bhat

A Tragic Dance

Our nation is dancing to the grave
A tragic dance I saw sorrowfully started
In the previous regime now intensified
With impunity; the dance we drummers
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Sughnen Kwaghkar

'50 Year Celebration'

I shall unsparingly criticise your prestigious “50 Year Celebration.”
Let me ask a few thought-provoking questions:
How did you finance such a costly event?
Did the money come from the pockets of the tax payers?
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Marlon Pitter