Category: Occasional Poems


Posted on January 31st, 2010 Occasional Poems: The Rise and Fall of Nations

Some thoughts on yesterday’s discussion of Livy, Zinn and the relationship of morality and power in human history.  The author is Jones Very, a minor but interesting nineteenth-century American poet and commentator.  The poem is taken from his collect of sonnets on Reconstruction; it was written in 1868.
Reflections on the History of Nations
When I consider [...]




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