The Jubilee Singers (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
VOICE of a people suffering long,The pathos of their mournful song,The sorrow of their night of wrong!Their cry like that ...
VOICE of a people suffering long,The pathos of their mournful song,The sorrow of their night of wrong!Their cry like that ...
We live by Faith; but Faith is not the slaveOf text and legend. Reason's voice and God's,Nature's and Duty's, never ...
From purest wells of English undefiledNone deeper drank than he, the New World's child,Who in the language of their farm-fields ...
Is this the land our fathers loved, The freedom which they toiled to win? Is this the soil whereon they ...
Of A Virginia Slave Mother To Her Daughters Sold Into Southern Bondage Gone, gone, -- sold and gone To the ...
The birds against the April wind Flew northward, singing as they flew; They sang, "The land we leave behind Has ...
The blast from Freedom's Northern hills, upon its Southern way, Bears greeting to Virginia from Massachusetts Bay: No word of ...
O Mother Earth! upon thy lap Thy weary ones receiving, And o'er them, silent as a dream, Thy grassy mantle ...
To the Memory of the Household It Describes This Poem is Dedicated by the Author "As the Spirit of Darkness ...
Before my drift-wood fire I sit, And see, with every waif I burn, Old dreams and fancies coloring it, And ...
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