Poem of the Day » liberty http://www.shortpoems.org/poem Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:19:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 Sonnet to Liberty – Oscar Wilde http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/sonnet-to-liberty-oscar-wilde/ http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/sonnet-to-liberty-oscar-wilde/#comments Sat, 08 Mar 2008 23:06:05 +0000 tejvan http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/2008/03/08/sonnet-to-liberty-oscar-wilde/ Not that I love thy children, whose dull eyes
See nothing save their own unlovely woe,
Whose minds know nothing, nothing care to know, -
But that the roar of thy Democracies,
Thy reigns of Terror, thy great Anarchies,
Mirror my wildest passions like the sea
And give my rage a brother -! Liberty!
For this sake only do thy dissonant cries
Delight my discreet soul, else might all kings
By bloody knout or treacherous cannonades
Rob nations of their rights inviolate
And I remain unmoved – and yet, and yet,
These Christs that die upon the barricades,
God knows it I am with them, in some things.

- Oscar Wilde

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