The Tragedy of White Injustice (Marcus Mosiah Garvey Poems)
(1)Lying and stealing is the white man's game;For rights of God nor man he has no shame(A practice of his ...
(1)Lying and stealing is the white man's game;For rights of God nor man he has no shame(A practice of his ...
I stood at attention to see there was an angry thunderclap!A natural manifestation of the ugly clouds above!Proud man was ...
Black queen of beauty, thou hast given color to the world!Among other women thou art royal and the fairest!Like the ...
Africa's sun is shining above the horizon clear,The day for us is rising, for black men far and near;Our God ...
The way we flitter through our span,And break the laws of loveliness,Does show an open Hell for manOn earth, with ...
As I lay asleep at midnight,A thought came stealing over me:A shadow of a great disaster,The passing of my Love ...
(For the Benefit of Haile Selassie and Benito Mussolini.)The man who holds a slave and laughs at easeIs devil with ...
0, thou profound, eternal blue,God's mystic arch of heaven-land!Art thou not veiling spirit hue,And hiding the angelic band?Jehovah! so move ...
Adam, Eve and all the rest of menThrew away the chart of holy life,And becoming Satan's cruel children,Waste the world ...
Where can I find love that never changesSmiles that are true and always just the same,Caring not how the fierce ...
We are the bearers of the world's bright torchTo light our civilization as we go:No one should fall or lodge ...
Three ancient Negroes gathered at the old Cross Roads,An African, West Indian and American;They talked of separation days of slavery,And ...
1. When Afric's sun was setting fastThe Prophets told the tale,But Psalmists said she'd win at lastAnd pass beyond the ...
Glory to Thy ways 0 Lord!We praise Thy Holy Name:Sacred is the precious wordThat tells the Christian's claim.Children of the ...
Oh, traveler, disconsolate!Thine heart may yet in solace be,So brood ye not as if from FateIgnoble thou canst not be ...
Good-bye, my friend, in death we part,To meet in realms more glorious:A void I feel deep in my heart,For much ...
(Dedicated to Mrs. Amy Jacques Garvey)I wandered far in life's stern wayTo seek the good of every day;But fell among ...
We sing to Him triumphant,The God who reigns o'er men,We tell of crimes defiant,Against commandments ten.Our race's travail of the ...
The Bread of life is gift of God to man,The blood of Christ is solace grand:To eat the food of ...
I've waited patiently for you,And now you come to make me glad;I shall be ever good and true,And be the ...
Oh, with the Spirit as of old,I chant a prayer to my God;The Being, precious, more than goldThat Croesus has ...
Death is no terror, friend!It's a sublime sleepThat lulls the weary homeTo rest-not to weep:It is the solace of God-A ...
There's a plot for you and one for me,Out in God's acre, that's lying by;You needn't think I cannot also ...
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