Quote/poem Help!!!!!!!!!!

[dantesdisciple]

ok i need help here does anybody have a poem or quote that has to do with rebellion or corrupt government or sumthing like that (pleaase nothing from the movie v for vendetta)......

[Charles Darnay]

Percy Shelley's The Mask of Anarchy

[mir]

George Orwell's 1984 probably has a lot of stuff

[Grumbleguts]

WB Yeats - Easter 1916, September 1913, No Second Troy - among others. Yeats wrote a large body of work regarding Irish nationalism - sounds like exactly what you're after.

[Jarndyce]

Dulce Et Decorum Est ["It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. Sweet! and decorous!" (From Horace, Odes, III. ii. 13) ] written in 1918 by Wilfred Owen

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned out backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame, all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.

Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!--An ecstasy of fumbling
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime.--
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams before my helpless sight
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin,
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs
Bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,--
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.

[mir]

oh my god . . . that poem made me cry the first time i heard it . . . it's really sad . . and much worse, really true.