The Eutawville Lynching (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)
(July, 1904)In the State of "Old Palmetto," from the town of Eutawville,Comes a voice of pain and anguish that refuses ...
(July, 1904)In the State of "Old Palmetto," from the town of Eutawville,Comes a voice of pain and anguish that refuses ...
Lowliness befits thee, violence suits thee not; a, naked man frantic in a bee-house is out of place. Leave aside ...
Reader, I am a fool;And have adventuredTo play the fool this once for Christ,The more his fame to spread.If this ...
ITEMPESTWrapped round of the night, as a monster is wrapped of the ocean,Down, down through vast storeys of darkness, behold, ...
Forget this rotten world, and unto thee Let thine own times as an old story be. Be not concern'd; study not why, ...
Thou Shepherd that dost Israel keepGive ear in time of need,Who leadest like a flock of sheepThy loved Josephs seed,That ...
Here on the edge of the forest I pitched camp.All night long in pleasant southern breezesBy the moon's lightI listen ...
Hearken to the reed-flute, how it complains,Lamenting its banishment from its home:'Ever since they tore me from my osier bed,My ...
Hush! She is dead! Tread gently as the light Foots dim the weary room. Thou shalt behold. Look:--In death's ermine pomp of ...
Dear to my soul! ah, early lost!Affection's arm was weak to save:Now friendship's pride, and virtue's boast,Have come to an ...
With anxious eyes and dry, expectant lips,Within the sculptured stoa by the sea,All day she waited while, like ghostly ships,Long ...
Oh, Life, I have taken you for my Lover, I rent your veils and I found you fair ;If a fault ...
(O mata fukitsunoru ame kaze.)O another deluge of wind and rain.Collar turned up, getting drenched in this splashing rain,and looking ...
DARK Angel, with thine aching lust To rid the world of penitence: Malicious Angel, who still dost My soul such subtile violence! Because of ...
Thou guardian of the weak, thou poor man's friend!Hear from thy glorious throne, Almighty God!That dost thine aid to fearful ...
I need not ask thee, for my sake,To read a book which well may makeIts way by native force of ...
An Indian Prince now Resident in England.Of late I listened to a wondrous tale From lips revered. 'Twas not of war ...
Upon The Words Of Chush The Benjamite Against Him.Lord my God to thee I flieSave me and secure me underThy ...
There are times whenI think only of killingThe voracious animalwho is my perpetual shame,The violent oneWhose raging demandsBreak down peace ...
This Earth the king saidLooking at the ground;This England. But we driveA Sunday paradiseOf parkway, trees flow into trees and ...
OH how comely it is and how revivingTo the Spirits of just men long opprest!When God into the hands of ...
Rabbi Ben Levi, on the Sabbath, readA volume of the Law, in which it said,"No man shall look upon my ...
I heard a king, who had changed night into day by pleasures, saying in his drunkenness:'We have in the world ...
It is narrated that one of the kings of Persia had stretched forthhis tyrannical hand to the possessions of his ...
You used to say, "June?Honey when you come down here yousupposed to stay with me. Whereelse?"Meanin homeagainst the beer the ...
'. . . our language, forged in the dark bycenturies of violentpressure, underground,out of the stuff of dead life.'Thirsty and ...
This comes in last, because he comes behindethose whom he wrongs, though in his doing sothe diuell cannot him in ...
When summer days have gayly passed away,And winter months have darkly come again,And when sweet spring does bring the laughing ...
"O Heaven, he cried, my bleeding country save;Is there no hand on high to shield the brave?"——CampbellSpeak not thus in ...
SACH KAH Don AYE BRAHMAN! GAR TU BURAA NA MAANEYTEREY SANAM-KADOn KE BUT HO GAYE PURAANEYAPNOn SE BAIR RAKHNAA TU ...
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