The Brave Page Boys (Julia A Moore Poems)
Air — "The Fierce Discharge"In the late rebellion war, Grand Rapids did send outAs brave and noble volunteers As ever went down ...
Poems about alabama (21 Poems)
Tobogganing (Hattie Howard Poems)
Oh, the rare exhilaration, Oh, the novel delectation Of a ride down the slide! Packed like ice in zero weather, Pleasure-seekers close together, On a ...
To See Ol’ Booker T. (Maggie Pogue Johnson Poems)
Way down Souf whar de lillies grow,Is the lan' I wants to see,En to dat lan' I specs to go,Jis ...
John Pelham (James Ryder Randall Poems)
Just as the spring came laughing through the strife With all its gorgeous cheer;In the bright April of historic life Fell the ...
Oh! Susanna (Stephen C. Foster Poems)
1 I came from Alabama2 wid my ban jo on my knee,3 I'm g'wan to Louisiana,4 My true love for ...
Uncle Rufus (Melvin B Tolson Poems)
The Harlem Advocate fell between his legs.The story was incredible!Taking off his glasses,Uncle Rufus rubbed the lenses and thought.though.Yes, his ...
Of De Witt Williams On His Way To Lincoln Cemetery (Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks Poems)
He was born in Alabama.He was bred in Illinois.He was nothing but aPlain black boy.Swing low swing low sweet sweet ...
For Selma (Langston Hughes Poems)
In places likeSelma, Alabama,Kids say, In places like Chicago and New York...In places likeChicago and New YorkKids say, In places like London and Paris...In ...
The Party (Edwin Ford Piper Poems)
"I - The GatheringFather and Mother Lawrence, the boy Joe, Lottie and Elsie, all were full of life, And fond ...
The Hiram Brown (Edwin James Brady Poems)
POWER o' ploughs and clothes-pegs in her, pork and beans for ev'ry sinner, Pork and beans for captain's dinner --Pass ...
Virginia’s Dead (Cornelia Jane Matthews Jordan Poems)
Proud mother of a race that reared The brave and good of ours,Lo! on thy bleeding bosom lie Thy pale ...
Kelly Ingram (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
His name was Kelly Ingram; he was Alabama's son,And he whistled "Yankee Doodle," as he stood beside his gun;There was ...
Daybreak In Alabama (Langston Hughes Poem)
When I get to be a composer I'm gonna write me some music about Daybreak in Alabama And I'm gonna ...
Alabama Song (Bertolt Brecht Poem)
Show me the way to the next whisky bar Oh, don't ask why, oh, don't ask why Show me the ...
American Feuillage. (Walt Whitman Poems)
AMERICA always! Always our own feuillage! Always Florida's green peninsula! Always the priceless delta of Louisiana! Always the cotton-fields of ...
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 OUT of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking-bird's throat, the musical shuttle, Out of the Ninth-month midnight, ...
Starting from Paumanok. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 STARTING from fish-shape Paumanok, where I was born, Well-begotten, and rais'd by a perfect mother; After roaming many lands-lover ...
The White Cliffs (Alice Duer Miller Poems)
I I have loved England, dearly and deeply, Since that first morning, shining and pure, The white cliffs of Dover ...
An Ode in Time of Hesitation (William Vaughn Moody Poems)
After seeing at Boston the statue of Robert Gould Shaw, killed while storming Fort Wagner, July 18, 1863, at the ...
Street Cries (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Oft seems the Time a market-town Where many merchant-spirits meet Who up and down and up and down Cry out ...
The Power Of Prayer (Sidney Lanier Poems)
or, The First Steamboat up the Alabama. You, Dinah! Come and set me whar de ribber-roads does meet. De Lord, ...