Men (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Man is a creature of a thousand whims;The slave of hope and fear and circumstance.Through toil and martyrdom a million ...
Man is a creature of a thousand whims;The slave of hope and fear and circumstance.Through toil and martyrdom a million ...
Half awake and half dozing,Struck by a drear reality, but still lostIn an inner sea fog of Danaidean dreamsI stand ...
IWail! for the Law has scattered into flightThose Drinks that were our sometime dear Delight;And still the Morals-tinkers plot and ...
IOne for her Club and her own Latch-key fights,Another wastes in Study her good Nights.Ah, take the Clothes and let ...
High in the midst, surrounded by his peers,MAGNUS his ample front sublime up rears:Placed on his chair of state, he ...
Whites alone upon the jury in a number of the states,Thus they crush a helpless Negro with their prejudicial hates;Legal ...
Why do people sit in darkness as regards the Negro race?Why so ignorant are nations of conditions in the case?'Tis ...
Old Father Abe has issued his "Call"For Three Hundred Thousand more!By Jupiter, boys, he is after you all--Lamed and ...
Beside a frugal table, though spotless clean and white,A loving couple they did sit and all seemed pleasant, quite;They did ...
Trees in groves, Kine in droves, In ocean sport the scaly herds, Wedge-like cleave the air the birds, To northern ...
My Reward for Being, was This. My premium -- My Bliss -- An Admiralty, less -- A Sceptre -- penniless ...
I did not reach Thee But my feet slip nearer every day Three Rivers and a Hill to cross One ...
My Heart ran so to thee It would not wait for me And I affronted grew And drew away For ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
The Ghost of Miltiades came at night, And he stood by the bed of the Benthamite, And he said, in ...
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