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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

1. The Rights of Woman by Anna Letitia Barbauld
2. Lines on Revisiting a Scottish River by Thomas Campbell
3. The Golf Links by Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn

   protesting child labor practices

4. Is It Because I Am Black?" by Joseph Seamans Cotter, Jr.
5. Sport by Hamlin Garland
6. The Last Reservation by Walter Learned

   a heart wrenching picture of the treatment of Native Americans

7. The Present Crisis by James Russell Lowell
8. The Man with the Hoe by Edwin Markham
9. If We Must Die by Claude McKay
10. London Churches by Richard Monckton Milnes

    God's house holds no poor sinners
    

11. On the Late Massacre in Piedmont by John Milton
12. On the New Forcers of Conscience Under the Long Parliament by John Milton
13. The Mayor of Gary by Carl Sandburg
14. Song to the Men of England by Percy Bysshe Shelley
15. Sonnet: England in 1819 by Percy Bysshe Shelley
16. The Indian's Welcome to the Pilgrim Fathers by Lydia H. Sigourney
17. Castle and Cabin by Marshall Putnam Thompson
18. Stanzas for the Times by John Greenleaf Whittier

    against slavery and restrictions on free speech

19. What We Want by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

    a vote for temperance

20. Unseen Spirits by Nathaniel Parker Willis
21. London, 1802 by William Wordsworth

    on the state of England in the early 19th century