Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems on Time (12 Poems)

The Eutawville Lynching (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)

(July, 1904) In the State of “Old Palmetto,” from the town of Eutawville,Comes a voice of pain and anguish that refuses to be still.‘Tis a voice that cries for vengeance for the wrongs it has received,Yea, it asks a nation’s … Continue reading →

Lynching (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)

Have you ever heard of lynching in the great United States?‘Tis an awful, awful story that the Negro man relates,How the mobs the laws have trampled, both the human and divine,In their killing helpless people as their cruel hearts incline. … Continue reading →

Immorality (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)

Have you heard, my friend, the slander that the Negro has to face?Immorality, the grossest, has been charged up to his race.Listen, listen to my story, as I now proceed to tellOf conditions in the Southland, where the mass of … Continue reading →

The Peonage System (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)

The religious wars of Europe have been numbered with the past,But a worse thing, bright America with clouds has overcast,‘Tis the heinous contract system that plantation life contains,Worse than slavery’s conditions in a land where freedom reigns. Negroes forced in … Continue reading →

The Crum Appointment (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)

You, no doubt, have heard the story told of Charleston by the sea,How they persecute a Negro when a man he tries to be,‘Tis of national importance and the world enjoys the sport,Caused by William Crum’s appointment as collector of … Continue reading →

The Southern Press (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)

When a Negro comes in question you may watch the Southern press,See how bias its opinions, how his ills are given stress,Prominence is given headlines, when accused he is of crime,Emphasizes all the evils of the Negro ev’ry time. If … Continue reading →

Retribution (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)

When Egypt said, “ExterminateThe males among the Jews,Fair Goshen’s land make desolateAnd bid them glad adieus:” The darkest hour then was broughtUpon their slavery,But God came down, with Egypt fought,And made the bondsmen free. No means of peace within the … Continue reading →

Birthday Wishes to a Physician (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)

Birthday greetings From a friend, All thy meetings Peace attend. Time extended Be thy store, Bliss appended Evermore. Did the flowers Born of May, From their bowers Choose a day? Music ringing, On the air, Flowers springing Everywhere. Chanting gayly, Five and eight, Make the day we Celebrate. Where’s the doctor? Can you tell, How she make her Patients well? Soul of beauty, Day by day, To her duty Hies away. With the sickest, Day and night, In the thickest Of the fight. Heaven’s treasure Be thine end, Is the measure Of a friend. (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer)

Misunderstood (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)

The ills of all the human race,The woes of earth that bring disgraceWould banish, if we only could,Escape the fiend, Misunderstood. When Eve and Adam pure and good,The law divine misunderstood,A downward course was then begun,A race that all the … Continue reading →

The Voice of the Negro (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)

All ye nations, pause a moment! listen to the Negro’s voice,Coming up from all vocations where his life has made a choice!Listen to each rank or station, as you cross the sea of time,It is heard in ev’ry nation, any … Continue reading →