Poems
Selected poems connected with this theme.
Where the Mind Is Without Fear
Tagore · 1912
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where t …
The Long war
Bai Li
They fought last year by the upper valley of Son-Kan, This year by the high ranges of the Leek Mountains,
They are still fighting ... fighting! ...
They wash their swords and armor
in the cold waves of the Tiao-Chih S …
Hellas
Shelley Percy · 1822
(Final Chorus)
The world's great age begins anew,
The golden years return,
The earth doth like a snake renew
Her winter weeds outworn:
Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam,
Like wrecks of a dissolving drea …
Bangladesh II
Faiz Ahmad · 1971
This is how my sorrow became visible:
the dust that had gathered in my heart for years
finally reached my eyes.
The bitterness was now so clear
that I had to listen when my friends
told me to wash my eyes with blo …