Aechdeacon Barbour (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
THROUGH the long hall the shuttered windows shedA dubious light on every upturned head;On locks like those of Absalom the ...
THROUGH the long hall the shuttered windows shedA dubious light on every upturned head;On locks like those of Absalom the ...
Snakeskin jacketIndian eyesBrilliant hairHe moves in disturbedNile insectAir~~~You parade thru the soft summerWe watch your eager rifle decayYour wildernessYour teeming ...
IIn a nation of one hundred fine, mob-hearted, lynching, relenting, repenting millions,There are plenty of sweeping, swinging, stinging, gorgeous things ...
(July, 1904)In the State of "Old Palmetto," from the town of Eutawville,Comes a voice of pain and anguish that refuses ...
Have you ever heard of lynching in the great United States?'Tis an awful, awful story that the Negro man relates,How ...
Have you heard, my friend, the slander that the Negro has to face?Immorality, the grossest, has been charged up to ...
For my people everywhere singing their slave songsrepeatedly: their dirges and their ditties and their bluesand jubilees, praying their prayers ...
In the last civil war,The white folks, they began it,But before it could close,The Negro had to be in it.At ...
When a Negro comes in question you may watch the Southern press,See how bias its opinions, how his ills are ...
THE folks, that on the first of MayWore winter coats and hose,Began to say, the first of June,"Good Lord! how ...
My country, noble spectre of the past; Along thy rivers, and within thy vales, There breathes a deep-toned voice, that ...
This star spangled banner country, Is styled as the "Land of Free;" And yet our race here suffers wrong, Mixed ...
Take down your old gun, Uncle Sammy, All your pockets with cartridges cram; The war fogs that ...
Oh Country, 'tis to thee,Land of the lynching bee,To thee we wail.How long shall these base wrongsPollute, thy freedom's songs?To ...
Would that I were an artist And while I stand in time I could show our youths eternity, While they ...
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