The Idea of Ancestry (Etheridge Knight Poem)
Taped to the wall of my cell are 47 pictures: 47 black faces: my father, mother, grandmothers (1 dead), grand- ...
Taped to the wall of my cell are 47 pictures: 47 black faces: my father, mother, grandmothers (1 dead), grand- ...
Oh ye who hold the written clue To all save all unwritten things, And, half a league behind, pursue The ...
1898 Being a translation of the song that was made by a Mohammedanschoolmaster of Bengal Infantry (some time on service ...
1895 I the Neolithic Age savage warfare did I wage For food and fame and woolly horses' pelt. I was ...
Help for a patriot distressed, a spotless spirit hurt, Help for an honourable clan sore trampled in the dirt! From ...
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently ...
MOTHER of Hermes! and still youthful Maia! May I sing to thee As thou wast hymned on the shores of ...
to a friend No! those days are gone away And their hours are old and gray, And their minutes buried ...
(a) they seek to celebrate the word not to bring their knives out on a poem dissecting it to find ...
Part One The power of charity sows deep in my heart, and I reap and gather the wheat in bundles ...
Just west of the round-a-bout where the beach and the mountain meet just west on the state highway heading for ...
Dying with our savior falling into the waters his blood washing us clean of our sin Rising with him clothed ...
They told me once that Pan was dead, And so, in sooth, I thought him; For vainly where the streamlets ...
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
Good-by, proud world, I'm going home, Thou'rt not my friend, and I'm not thine; Long through thy weary crowds I ...
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
Then call me traitor if you must, Shout reason and default! Say I betray a sacred trust Aching beyond this ...
Away, ye gay landscapes, ye garden of roses! In you let the minions of luxury rove; Restore me to the ...
In slack times visit I the violent dead and pick their awful brains. Most seem to feel nothing is secret ...
AULD NEIBOUR,I'm three times doubly o'er your debtor, For your auld-farrant, frien'ly letter; Tho' I maun say't I doubt ye ...
OH I am come to the low Countrie, Ochon, Ochon, Ochrie! Without a penny in my purse, To buy a ...
'TWAS in the seventeen hunder year O' grace, and ninety-five, That year I was the wae'est man Of ony man ...
HERE'S a health to them that's awa, Here's a health to them that's awa; And wha winna wish gude luck ...
I SING of a Whistle, a Whistle of worth, I sing of a Whistle, the pride of the North. Was ...
AE day, as Death, that gruesome carl, Was driving to the tither warl' A mixtie-maxtie motley squad, And mony a ...
RecitativoWHEN lyart leaves bestrow the yird, Or wavering like the bauckie-bird, Bedim cauld Boreas' blast; When hailstanes drive wi' bitter ...
To Jena Woodhouse This way of minutes miserably mixed With their own blinks misunderstood By birds and trees, this eye-born ...
'Twas in the year of 1746, and in April the 14th day, That Prince Charles Stuart and his army marched ...
Are these your presences, my clan from Heaven? Are these your hands upon my wounded soul? Mine own, mine own, ...
I The arts are old, old as the stones From which man carved the sphinx austere. Deep are the days ...
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