A Test Of Love (James Ephraim McGirt Poems)
The land of Avia, lovely is the scene,Clothed every evening in a silvery sheen;The rippling brook and birds make music ...
The land of Avia, lovely is the scene,Clothed every evening in a silvery sheen;The rippling brook and birds make music ...
One cold wet winter eveningI was hurrying to my home,I passed a drunkard lying in the mire;The sleet was falling ...
De people call me er kunger,Jes kase I du sum tricks;Jes, kase I'se got dis lucky black bone.Kan't gedder rutes ...
An old man living near his master,Ever since he was made free;He saw in him an evil spirit,A spirit that ...
'Tis a colored captain's story'Twas told to Uncle Sam,He was mustered out because the war was o'er;He'd borne his honor ...
Of'en w'en de race I'm runnin',Chil' my feet gits blistered so'Dat I hav' a notion fallin''Pears I jus' can' run ...
Tell me, oh star, art thou a jewelShining in the sky so bright?Or art thou a little lanternHung from heaven ...
Since I got 'ligionTryin' to do what's rightDevil, jus' to temp' me,Keep ol' sin in sight.Farmers plant th'ir melonsJam up ...
Why scorn the wrong our fathers did?Of their mistakes so much is said;To scorn these men is no way to ...
Hail happy youths, now in your prime,Be up, awake, waste not your time;For fast is coming on the day,You'll wish ...
I shall succeed, although Fate rules to-day,And heaps up thorns and thistles in my way.I bear the yoke and tread ...
In reading books from Adam's time,And studying lives we call sublime,I see so many stained with sin-Virtue alone can make ...
A colored, gray-haired, feeble man,Came tottering down the street,Was tackled by some happy youthsThat he by chance did meet.His hands ...
The world is a race-course;Man is a charioteer;In him there is a soul;Ambition is the steedBy which he is drawn,Over ...
So oft I've read what poets sang of love,To feel their joy far years in vain I sought;At last love ...
God bless our home, land of the free,And those who rule, who e'er they be;Protect the flag, and let it ...
The world's divided in many classes,And all deny being of the masses.Complex is life, whom to believeWhen all the world ...
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