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J. William Lloyd, “A Grandeur and a Dreaming” (1901)

July 20, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

HUMAN Life seems but a seeming, A phantasm & a dreaming, Of a grandeur & a gleaming That no one life may possess. ‘Tis a downward, dark ward groping, Upward soaring, high and hoping Search […]

John Henry Mackay, “Anarchy” (1888)

August 29, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

Ever reviled, accursed, ne’er understood, Thou art the grisly terror of our age. “Wreck of all order,” cry the multitude, “Art thou, and war and murder’s endless rage.” O, let them cry. To them that […]

Walter Everette Hawkins, “Credo” (1920)

August 29, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

CREDO I am an Iconoclast. I break the limbs of idols And smash the traditions of men. I am an Anarchist. I believe in war and destruction Not in the killing of men, But the […]

Joseph Verey, “Vera Sassulitch” (1880)

August 5, 2016 A Beautiful Nihilist

VERA SASSULITCH. Joseph Verey If any asked the student, which He thought the prettiest among A score of Moscow school-girls, “Young And gentle Vera Sassulitch,” He answered with a ready tongue. Netchaieff was the student […]

Louise Michel, “Memories of Caledonia” (1887)

July 4, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

[A Final Thought] [one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] MEMORIES OF CALEDONIA (SONG OF THE CAPTIVES) Here the winter has no hold, Here the woods are always green; From the Ocean, the fresh breeze Blows over […]

Joaquin Miller, “Sophia Perovskaya” (1881)

June 26, 2016 A Beautiful Nihilist

Sophie Perovskaya, LIBERTY’S MARTYRED HEROINE. Hanged April 15, 1881, For Helping to Rid the World of a Tyrant. Down from her high estate she stept, A maiden, gently born And by the icy Volga […]

George Barlow, “Sophia Perovskaia” (1895)

June 26, 2016 A Beautiful Nihilist

SOPHIA PEROVSKAIA. Blue-eyed, fair-haired, a girl in outward seeming, With lips, men held, that only cared to sing, When thy foot passed along the meadows dreaming Soft dreams and tender of the gold-haired Spring— When […]

Sir Henry Parkes, “The Beauteous Terrorist” (Sophie Perovskaya, 1885)

June 22, 2016 A Beautiful Nihilist

“She was beautiful. It was not the beauty which dazzles at first sight, but that which fascinates the more, the more it is regarded. “A blonde, with a pair of blue eyes, serious and penetrating, […]

Hubert Church, “Vera Figner” (1908)

June 22, 2016 A Beautiful Nihilist

[Vera Figner, Russian Revolutionary; a woman of great charm and radiant beauty. She was condemned to imprisonment for life, and for twenty years was immured in the living rave of the Schlusselburg Fortress. When these […]

Walt Whitman, “A Woman Waits for Me” (“Poem of Procreation”)

May 15, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

[Among the references in Emma Goldman’s writings on sex, Walt Whitman is undoubtedly key. His poem, “A Woman Waits for Me,” is referenced at the end of “The Element of Sex in Life.”] A woman […]