Nobody’s Lookin’ But De Owl An’ De Moon (James Weldon Johnson Poems)
(A Negro Serenade)De river is a-glistenin' in de moonlight,De owl is set'n high up in de tree;De little stars am ...
(A Negro Serenade)De river is a-glistenin' in de moonlight,De owl is set'n high up in de tree;De little stars am ...
Have you been sore discouraged in the fight, And even sometimes weighted by the thought That those with whom and those for ...
O mighty, powerful, dark-dispelling sun,Now thou art risen, and thy day begun.How shrink the shrouding mists before thy face,As up ...
Enough of love! Let break its every hold! Ended my youthful folly! for I know That, like the dazzling, glister-shedding snow, Celia, thou ...
(On an Incident at the Battle of San Juan Hill)Under a burning tropic sun,With comrades around him lying,A trooper of ...
I love to sit alone, and dream,And dream, and dream;In fancy's boat to softly glideAlong some streamWhere fairy palaces of ...
For fifty years,Cruel, insatiable Old World.You have punched me over the heartTill you made me cough blood.The few paltry things ...
O whitened head entwined in turban gay,O kind black face, O crude, but tender hand,O foster-mother in whose arms there ...
W'en de banjos wuz a-ringin',An' de darkies wuz a-singin',Oh, wuzen dem de good times sho!All de ole folks would be ...
I'm back down in ole Georgy w'ere de sun is shinin' hot,W'ere de cawn it is a-tasslin', gittin' ready fu' ...
When morning shows her first faint flush,I think of the tender blushThat crept so gently to your cheekWhen first my ...
My heart be brave, and do not falter so,Nor utter more that deep, despairing wail.Thy way is very dark and ...
Mother, shed no mournful tears,But gird me on my sword;And give no utterance to thy fears,But bless me with thy ...
I dreamed that I was a roseThat grew beside a lonely way,Close by a path none ever chose,And there I ...
Are you bowed down in heart?Do you but hear the clashing discords and the din of life?Then come away, come ...
Seems lak to me de stars don't shine so bright,Seems lak to me de sun done loss his light,Seems lak ...
Skin as black an' jes as sof' as a velvet dress,Teeth as white as ivory -well dey is I guess.Eyes ...
O Sleep, thou kindest minister to man,Silent distiller of the balm of rest,How wonderful thy power, when naught else can,To ...
W'en de leaves begin to fall,An' de fros' is on de ground,An' de 'simmons is a-ripenin' on de tree;W'en I ...
(On the Anniversary of Lincoln's Birth)Father, Father Abraham,Today look on us from above;On us, the offspring of thy faith,The children ...
'Twas at early morning,The dawn was blushing in her purple bed,When in a sweet, embowered gardenShe, the fairest of the ...
Eternities before the first-born day,Or ere the first sun fledged his wings of flame,Calm Night, the everlasting and the same,A ...
I knew not who had wrought with skill so fineWhat I beheld; nor by what laws of artHe had created ...
Girl of fifteen,I see you each morning from my windowAs you pass on your way to school.I do more than ...
When buffeted and beaten by life's storms,When by the bitter cares of life oppressed,I want no surer haven than your ...
The glory of the day was in her face,The beauty of the night was in her eyes.And over all her ...
Sometimes the mist overhangs my path,And blackening clouds about me cling;But, oh, I have a magic wayTo turn the gloom ...
I hear the stars still singing To the beautiful, silent night, As they speed with noiseless winging Their ever westward flight. I hear the ...
Her eyes, twin pools of mystic light,The blend of star-sheen and black night;O'er which, to sound their glamouring haze,A man ...
How would you have us, as we are?Or sinking 'neath the load we bear?Our eyes fixed forward on a star?Or ...
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