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Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr

I lived from 1895-1919. I was from the United States.

I was influenced by poet Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr.

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  • Is It Because I Am Black?
    WHY do men smile when I speak,
    And call my speech
    10 lines
  • The Mulatto to His Critics
    Ashamedof my race?
    And of what race an I?
    9 lines
  • Rain Music
    ON the dusty earth-drum
      Beats the falling rain;
    18 lines
  • And What Shall You Say?
    BROTHER, come!
    And let us go unto our God.
    12 lines
  • I'm A-waiting and A-watching
    I'm a-waiting and a-watching for the day that has no end,
    For the sun that's ever shining, for its rays that ever blend;
    13 lines
  • Sonnet to Negro Soldiers
    THEY shall go down unto Life's Borderland,
        Walk unafraid within that Living Hell,
    13 lines
  • A Prayer
    As I lie in bed,
    Flat on my back;
    10 lines
  • Supplication
    I AM so tired and weary,
      So tired of the endless fight,
    8 lines
  • The Band of Gideon
    The band of Gideon roam the sky,
    The howling wind is their war-cry,
    48 lines
  • An April Day
    On such a day as this I think, on such a day as this,
    When earth and sky and nature's whole are clad in April's bliss;
    4 lines
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