Revenge (Marcus Mosiah Garvey Poems)
Not yesterday, but centuries long,The Romans hated all of Negro blood,For Hannibal did slay the crew,As Carthage marched to martial ...
Not yesterday, but centuries long,The Romans hated all of Negro blood,For Hannibal did slay the crew,As Carthage marched to martial ...
By yonder fountain in the grove,Where the green grass e'en from aboveDown to the water's pebbly bedIts verdant covering hath ...
Say! Africa for the Africans,Like America for the Americans:This the rallying cry for a nation,Be it in peace or revolution.Blacks ...
There's something in a noble boy,a brave, free-hearted, careless one,with his unchecked, unbidden joy,his dread of books and love of ...
I walked into a moon of gold last nightAcross grey sands she seemed to shine so bright.Wide, wide the sands ...
World of sorrow, care, and change, Even to myself I seem,As adown thy vale I range, Wandering in a dream:All things are ...
Lie down -- lie down! -- my noble hound,That joyful bark give o'er;It wakes the lonely echoes round,But rouses me ...
Though other lands may boast of skies Far deeper in their blue,Where flowers, in Eden's pristine dyes, Bloom with a richer hue;And ...
O places, and faces, and things that are past,O changes on changes that followed so fast,O life, full of care, ...
WHERE are the tamers of the deep,The gallant and the brave?Heaven's angry whirlwinds o'er them sweep,Cold ocean is their grave.Was ...
Under the high unclouded sunThat makes the ship and shadow one, I sail away as from the fortBooms sullenly the noonday ...
COME join hand in hand brave Americans all,And rouse your bold hearts at fair Liberty's call;No tyrannous acts shall suppress ...
Dawn:Sky, the soft blue of grasshopper's belly.Guava and custard apple trees all around, green as parrot feathers.A single star lingers ...
Still beyond the wild AtlanticWeeping Peace, dishevelled, frantic,Shrieking, flies from shore to shore,Hearing still the cannons roar—Seeing through the skies ...
At Wibsey Slack lived modest Jack, No daat yo knew him weel;His cheeks wor red, his een wor black, His limbs wor ...
AUSTRALIANS all let us rejoice,For we are young and free;We've golden soil and wealth for toil,Our home is girt by ...
At anchor in Hampton Roads we lay,On board of the Cumberland, sloop-of-war;And at times from the fortress across the bayThe ...
Death and Destruction they belched forth in vain, We grimly defied their thunder; Two columns of foot and batteries twain, We rode and ...
CAN it be that the glory of manhood has passed,That its purpose, its passion, its might,Have all paled with the ...
When the palefaces came in their whitewing'd canoes,Long ago, from the sun-rising seaWhen they ask'd for a lodge, and we ...
A BATTLE-SHOUT for HungaryOnce more shall wake the day, -A joyful summons to the brave,To rally for the fray;To gird ...
All my life's short years had been stern and sterile — I stood like one whom the blasts blow back —As ...
FRIENDS of St. Andrew and the Thistle,Accept, I pray, this short epistle,In answer to your invitationTo the Grand Ball and ...
Day in, day out, or sun or rain,Or sallow leaf, or summer grain,Beneath a wintry morning moonOr through red smouldering ...
AT THE REVERE HOUSE,SEPTEMBER 25,1861THE land of sunshine and of song!Her name your hearts divine;To her the banquet's vows belongWhose ...
This is a litany of lost things,a canon of possessions dispossessed,a photograph, an old address, a key.It is a list ...
CALMLY beside her tropic strand,An empress, brave and loyal,I see the watchful city stand,With aspect sternly royal;She knows her mortal ...
Dust to dust:Fall and perish love and lust: Life is one brief autumn day; Sin and sorrow haunt the way To the narrow ...
On the birth-day of Time, the young monarch of lightWith his beams waked from slumber the virgin creation;—So, dispelling the ...
He was just a boy, as I could see, For he sat in the tent there close by me. I held the ...
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