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“freedom” across the centuries

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pre-1500 1 / 30 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 0 / 10 1550s 0 / 91 1600s 1 / 177 1650s 0 / 60 1700s 2 / 35 1750s 2 / 164 1800s 10 / 687 1850s 17 / 947 1900s 14 / 1124 1950s 2 / 15

Poems in 1800s · 10 with this theme Show all eras

A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea
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A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea

by Allan Cunningham · English

Allan Cunningham portrait

7 December 1784 - 30 October 1842 (~58)

Freedom, Our Queen
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Freedom, Our Queen

by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. · English

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. portrait

29 August 1809 - 7 October 1894 (~85)

Milton!
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Milton!

by William Wordsworth · English

William Wordsworth portrait

7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850 (~80)

Musketaquid
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Musketaquid

by Ralph Waldo Emerson · English

Ralph Waldo Emerson portrait

25 May 1803 - 27 April 1882 (~79)

Nuns fret not
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Nuns fret not

by William Wordsworth · English

William Wordsworth portrait

7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850 (~80)

Ode to Duty
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Ode to Duty

by William Wordsworth · English

William Wordsworth portrait

7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850 (~80)

Song of the Sea
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Song of the Sea

by Barry Cornwall · English

Barry Cornwall portrait

21 November 1787 - 5 October 1874 (~87)

Weep Not Too Much, My Darling
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Weep Not Too Much, My Darling

by Anne Brontë · English

Anne Brontë portrait

17 January 1820 - 28 May 1849 (~29)

William Tell
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William Tell

by William Cullen Bryant · English

William Cullen Bryant portrait

3 November 1794 - 12 June 1878 (~84)

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