A Recitative Song! (For Julius Winston Garvey) (Marcus Mosiah Garvey Poems)
1. I am a little soldier, fighting hard for life,I came upon the scene of cruel human strife,My father taught ...
1. I am a little soldier, fighting hard for life,I came upon the scene of cruel human strife,My father taught ...
Broken hearts are flung to Hell's outpost,Death and desolation tease the land;This is due to Fascists' wildest boastThat has plagued ...
1. When Afric's sun was setting fastThe Prophets told the tale,But Psalmists said she'd win at lastAnd pass beyond the ...
Send Thy peace to all this world,Lord of nations and of man-Where blood banners are unfurled.In their wicked sinful den.Sin ...
Oh glorious race of mighty men,The homeland calls to you;Our fathers wrought with faith divine,So let us march in line. ...
All men have troubles of their own,And burdens great to bear each day,So keep your tales of woe, and frownAt ...
A hundred years have passed and gone,And we are toiling still abroad;But we are not dismayed, forlorn,Nor hopeless of redeeming ...
Glory to Thy ways 0 Lord!We praise Thy Holy Name:Sacred is the precious wordThat tells the Christian's claim.Children of the ...
When time shall cease, in moving hour,And Nature's laws revert to plan,The beasts and insects, with the flower,Shall pass in ...
Oh, traveler, disconsolate!Thine heart may yet in solace be,So brood ye not as if from FateIgnoble thou canst not be ...
1. Jubilee has come to-day,Praise to God the only King;Centuries have passed away,And good freedom's rights begin.2. Chains and blocks ...
Good-bye, my friend, in death we part,To meet in realms more glorious:A void I feel deep in my heart,For much ...
Yes, man to man is so unjustUntil we know not whom to trust;For we have made of life a lie,In ...
Today I start my life for good;I am determined now to findThe value of my real manhood;And not to travel ...
When we think of all the careThat made life's burden great,We long for the passing yearTo close our sad book ...
(Dedicated to Mrs. Amy Jacques Garvey)I wandered far in life's stern wayTo seek the good of every day;But fell among ...
The Church of God on Earth to-dayIs scandal of the King;It teaches men to sing and prayFor golden wealth to ...
0 weary son of sorrow great!How apt art thou to bow and grieve,And count all things thy solemn fate,As if ...
There's music in my soul today,A joy of heart not there before:This state of conscience I relayTo rich and proud ...
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 ...
My God! the world is going wrongFrail man has made a mess of things:And now the Devil seems on top,Confusing ...
1. Oh God of ages past, and age that ne'er shall endBless Thou our fervent hope,And to our President Thy ...
The toil of life is never ending;It passes from one stage to others;We live beneath its sombre bending,And ape the ...
The Bread of life is gift of God to man,The blood of Christ is solace grand:To eat the food of ...
A Negro who got rich did strayTo claim he was not of the race,But all the world could only sayHe ...
I've waited patiently for you,And now you come to make me glad;I shall be ever good and true,And be the ...
I look at man in grim dismay;He tried my virtue all to steal:My heart is full of joy today,No sin ...
Oh, with the Spirit as of old,I chant a prayer to my God;The Being, precious, more than goldThat Croesus has ...
I've come to learn the storyOf Jesus in His bright glory;That home for sinners set so freeBy love for you ...
The white man held the blacks as slaves,And bled their souls in living death;Bishops and priests, and kings themselves,Preached that ...
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