How Long (James Monroe Whitfield Poems)
How long, oh gracious God! how long Shall power lord it over right?The feeble, trampled by the strong, Remain in slavery's gloomy ...
How long, oh gracious God! how long Shall power lord it over right?The feeble, trampled by the strong, Remain in slavery's gloomy ...
'MID the august and never-dying lightOf constellated spirits, who have gain'dA throne in heaven, by power of heavenly acts,And leave ...
His host surged through the palmy land.He wound his locks with a purple band;He hung on his shoulders a lionskin;The ...
Let the Nile cloak his head in the clouds, and defy The researches of science and time;Let the Niger escape the ...
OH sweet forgetfulnessOf earth-born care and woe,Did ever Lethe's silent streamIn earthly channels flow,Soon would I taste of thee,And from ...
Alone where the stretching desert's way Lay wild and hard in the shimmering heat; Where the jagged rocks in the scorching ray Pressed ...
With thy pure dews and rains,Wash out, O God, the stains,From Afric's shore;And, while her palm trees bud,Let not her ...
ABOUT TO EXPLORE THE NIGER. Ritchie! to whom it shall be given to view And trace (none worthier) that strange river's swell, The ...
There was a young lady of NigerWho smiled as she rode on a tiger;They returned from the rideWith the lady ...
Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light Indulge, dread Chaos, and eternal Night!Of darkness visible so much be ...
Long, Dodington, in debt, I long have sought To ease the burden of my graceful thought: And now a ...
515 Madison Avenuedoor to heaven? portalstopped realities and eternal licentiousnessor at least the jungle of impossible eagernessyour marble is bronze ...
Beside the ungathered rice he lay, His sickle in his hand; His breast was bare, his matted hair Was buried ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
Far from the Rappahannock, the silent Danube moves along toward the sea. The brown and green Nile rolls slowly Like ...
1 O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds! Such join'd unended links, each hook'd ...
'Tis night; the mercenary tyrants sleep As undisturb'd as Justice! but no more The wretched Slave, as on his native ...
Hold your mad hands! for ever on your plain Must the gorged vulture clog his beak with blood? For ever ...
Republic of Niger Nomads are said to know their way by an exact spot in the sky, the touch of ...
A monosyllabic European called Sax Invents a horn, walla whirledy wah, a kind of twisted Brazen clarinet, but with its ...
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
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