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“freedom” across the centuries

Bar length = percentage of poems in that cohort whose critique surfaced this theme. Click an era to focus the poem list below (click again to show samples from all eras).

pre-1500 1 / 30 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 0 / 10 1550s 0 / 90 1600s 1 / 176 1650s 0 / 59 1700s 2 / 34 1750s 2 / 163 1800s 10 / 685 1850s 17 / 944 1900s 14 / 1120 1950s 2 / 15

Poems in 1850s · 17 with this theme Show all eras

A Butterfly in Church

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A Butterfly in Church

by George Marion McClellan · English

29 September 1860 - 17 May 1934 (~74)

A Creole Slave-Song

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A Creole Slave-Song

by Maurice Thompson · English

9 September 1844 - 15 February 1901 (~57)

Brave as a falcon and as merciless

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Brave as a falcon and as merciless

by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt · English

17 August 1840 - 10 September 1922 (~82)

Caged Skylark

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Caged Skylark

by Gerard Manley Hopkins · English

28 July 1844 - 8 June 1889 (~45)

Could I but ride indefinite

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Could I but ride indefinite

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

Cuba

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Cuba

by John Townsend Trowbridge · English

18 September 1827 - 12 February 1916 (~89)

From all the jails the boys and girls

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From all the jails the boys and girls

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

Life

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Life

by T. E. Brown · English

5 May 1830 - 29 October 1897 (~67)

Nike

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Nike

by Bliss Carman · English

15 April 1861 - 8 June 1929 (~68)

Song of the Red Republican

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Song of the Red Republican

by Gerald Massey · English

29 May 1828 - 29 October 1907 (~79)

Storm Song

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Storm Song

by Bayard Taylor · English

11 January 1825 - 19 December 1878 (~53)

Superiority to fate

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Superiority to fate

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

The Little Builders

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The Little Builders

by Frances E. W. Harper · English

24 September 1825 - 22 February 1911 (~86)

The Sailor

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The Sailor

by Rabindranath Tagore · English

7 May 1861 - 7 August 1941 (~80)

The Vagabond

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The Vagabond

by Robert Louis Stevenson · English

13 November 1850 - 3 December 1894 (~44)

To the Birds

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To the Birds

by William Philpot · English

16 April 1823 - 16 April 1889 (~66)

Waltzing Matilda

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Waltzing Matilda

by Banjo Paterson · English

17 February 1864 - 5 February 1941 (~77)

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