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 ...
Have you ever heard of lynching in the great United States?'Tis an awful, awful story that the Negro man relates,How ...
Oh yes, there's fire in the heart of man-A beast is he when'er it pleases him:He frowns upon the members ...
When Egypt said, "ExterminateThe males among the Jews,Fair Goshen's land make desolateAnd bid them glad adieus:"The darkest hour then was ...
High up in the sky there, now, you know,In this May twilight, our cottage is asleep,Tenantless, and no creature there ...
(Mutilated and murdered at Centralia, Washington,November 11th, 1919, by a mob of "respectable"businessmen.) Torn and defiant as a wind-lashed reed, Wounded he ...
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
This star spangled banner country, Is styled as the "Land of Free;" And yet our race here suffers wrong, Mixed ...
Phyllis, if you will not agree To give me back my liberty, In spite of you I must regain My ...
You'll take my tale with a little salt;But it needs none, nevertheless!I was foiled completely - fair at fault -Disheartened, ...
515 Madison Avenuedoor to heaven? portalstopped realities and eternal licentiousnessor at least the jungle of impossible eagernessyour marble is bronze ...
Blackbird, blackbird in the cage, There's something wrong to-night. Far off the sheriff's footfall dies, The minutes ...
The thoughts of the future doth puzzle my mind, And O'how I shudder at flitting of time; It seems that ...
Look 'ere. I'll bet a 'arf-a-crown To anythink you like to name (said Bushy Bill),If country fellers went to town,An' ...
I know not if thy noble worth My country's annals claim,For in her brief, bright history I have not read ...
I fought I was hep to the whole string o' fairiesNot one o' the bunch could put me to the ...
The enthusiast brooding in his cell apart O'er the sad image of the Crucified, — The drooping head, closed lips ...
I met a lady from the South who said (You won't believe she said it, but she said it): "None ...
(To Paul Sykes, author of 'Sweet Agony') He demolished five doors at a sitting And topped it off with an ...
Did you ever hear tell of Chili? I was readin' the other day Of President Balmaceda and of how he ...
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
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