The Old Sheperd’s Recollections (Matilda Betham Poems)
Low, heavy clouds are hanging on the hills, And half-impatient of the sun's approach, Shake sullenly their cold and languid wings! Oh! it ...
Low, heavy clouds are hanging on the hills, And half-impatient of the sun's approach, Shake sullenly their cold and languid wings! Oh! it ...
O Candle! I am also an afflicted person in the world assemblyConstant complaint is my lot in the manner of ...
Whites alone upon the jury in a number of the states,Thus they crush a helpless Negro with their prejudicial hates;Legal ...
The bright sun is hidden, the night shows its faceThe night's hair is spread on shoulders of the earthThis black ...
Can America be reckoned as the country of the free?In the light of recent actions 'tis a truth that's hard ...
Far from the ignoble strife of Man's tavern you areThe wine-cup adorning the sky's assemblage you areThe jewel which should ...
In the courts of truth tread softly, Though your tread be firm and bold;Your steps may awaken echoes, Resounding through years untold.The ...
The morning sun rose bright and fair Upon a lovely village where Prosperity abounded, And ceaseless hum of industry In lines of friendly rivalry From ...
Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses,Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces.(Divorce is nearly obsolete in England.)No ...
Be pleased, O Lord, to take a people's thanksThat Thine avenging sword has spared our ranks-That Thou hast parted from ...
Green Spring receivethThe vacant earth;The white sun shineth;Spring wind provokethTo burst and burgeonEach sprout and flower.In those dark caves where ...
Twenty-eight naked young women bathed by the shoreOr near the bank of a woodland lakeTwenty-eight girls and all of them ...
Are we complicit when we stand in silence pernicious discrimination devaluing our neighbor Excluding them from inclusion blind to the ...
Peter's dream, by this dream he learned, became to understand, in time, what is important to the Lord not the ...
If only we had a different vision of inclusion; where exclusion remains, testing, barring others from their call. Wouldn't we ...
Twenty-eight naked young women bathed by the shore Or near the bank of a woodland lake Twenty-eight girls and all ...
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