A Poem (James Monroe Whitfield Poems)
Written for the Celebration of the Fourth Anniversary of President Lincoln's Emancipation ProclamationTo P. A. BELL, Esq., A PIONEER IN ...
Written for the Celebration of the Fourth Anniversary of President Lincoln's Emancipation ProclamationTo P. A. BELL, Esq., A PIONEER IN ...
How long, oh gracious God! how long Shall power lord it over right?The feeble, trampled by the strong, Remain in slavery's gloomy ...
In vain thou bid'st me strike the lyre, And sing a song of mirth and glee,Or, kindling with poetic fire, Attempt some ...
America, it is to thee,Thou boasted land of liberty, —It is to thee I raise my song,Thou land of blood, ...
I love the man whose lofty mind On God and its own strength relies;Who seeks the welfare of his kind, And dare ...
Written For The Dedication Of The Michigan Street Baptist Church, BuffaloAlmighty God! in this thy house, For the first time thy ...
The great, the good, the just, the true, Has yielded up his latest breath;The noblest man our country knew, Bows to the ...
Yes! strike again that sounding string, And let the wildest numbers roll;Thy song of fiercest passion sing — It breathes responsive to ...
Oh! had I that poetic lore Bestowed upon the favored few,To ope' Dame Nature's bounteous store, And hold her treasures up to ...
As with thy Album in my hand, Upon this picture late I gazed,With tuneful harp held in its hand, And eyes of ...
Another year, another year, Unfolds its page of hope and fear!Where, at its close, shall we appear Who now are congregated here.Perhaps, ...
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