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 ...
The white man stands with murd'rous gaze,And looks with envy at all wealth;For gold he has a burning crazeThat crowns ...
When summer days have gayly passed away,And winter months have darkly come again,And when sweet spring does bring the laughing ...
When God did make the world and allHe laid a righteous plan of things:He never meant to harbour sinAmong mankind ...
Hail! United States of Africa-free!Hail! Motherland most bright, divinely fair!State in perfect sisterhood united,Born of truth; mighty thou shalt ever ...
Oh yes, there's fire in the heart of man-A beast is he when'er it pleases him:He frowns upon the members ...
Not yesterday, but centuries long,The Romans hated all of Negro blood,For Hannibal did slay the crew,As Carthage marched to martial ...
Say! Africa for the Africans,Like America for the Americans:This the rallying cry for a nation,Be it in peace or revolution.Blacks ...
A king has fallen on the field-The field of war, but not by shot,Nor even through a broken shield:He died ...
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 ...
You may not know, and that is allThat causes you to fail in life;All men should know, and thus not ...
The Beast of Rome sent forth his might'Gainst Ethiopia's silent hosts,And in battle went the menWho haunt the hills and ...
The rise of nations and of menRecord tire struggles passed and won,But none may tell just where and whenThe urge ...
(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 ...
I'm not as educated, sir, as thee,But God Almighty's sun I see,And you may treat me very hard for this,But ...
Adam, Eve and all the rest of menThrew away the chart of holy life,And becoming Satan's cruel children,Waste the world ...
1. Behold the day, a cent'ry old,When fathers' cares were lifted off:No more, as chattels to be sold,On block on ...
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 ...
Today I made myself in life anew,By going to that royal fount of truth,And searching for the secret of the ...
The little minds that're in the world you knowAre makers of most troubles that you see;So small in vision they ...
Three ancient Negroes gathered at the old Cross Roads,An African, West Indian and American;They talked of separation days of slavery,And ...
Suns have set and suns will riseUpon many gloomy lives;Those who sit around and say:"Nothing good comes down our way."Some ...
There's a dividing line, call it what you may,It separates the whites from the blacks each day.Nature made no passing, ...
The Eternal hills are green in tropic lands,And snowy white in temperate zones;At seasons of the year, when nature speaks,Most ...
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