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Raymond Garfield Dandridge's Poetry, by first line

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  • Roosevelt
    "Put out the light!"
    He had no need of man-made glow
    26 lines
  • Supplication
    (Dedicated to Cincinnati Branch, N. A. A. C. P., and sung to the air, "America")
    Dear Lord we come to Thee,
    32 lines
  • Between Lines
    (In a little book P. P.)
    Learned Sages,
    14 lines
  • Decreed
    (Matthew—2:15)
    Indirectly, out of Africa you came
    10 lines
  • Frenship
    (To G. B. P.)
    I have filched a mite ob time
    18 lines
  • Zalka Peetruza
    (_Who Was Christened Lucy Jane_)
    She danced, near nude, to tom-tom beat,
    20 lines, 1 comment
  • Arise
    Arise! ye humble undertrodden wight,
    Behold, at edge of yonder east,
    8 lines
  • Time To Die
    Black brother, think you life so sweet
    That you would live at any price?
    13 lines
  • To An Unhanged Judas
    Cannibalistic vulture,
    Grown fat upon your brother's blood,
    23 lines
  • 'Ittle Touzle Head
    Cum, listen w'ile yore Unkel sings
    Erbout how low sweet chariot swings,
    33 lines
  • Sprin' Fevah
    Dar's a lazy, sortah hazy
    Feelin' grips me, thoo an' thoo;
    14 lines
  • Singin’ And Prayin’
    De hardes' ob hard rows we hoes
    Fo' little pay, de goo' Lawd knows.
    7 lines
  • In Ole Kintucky
    Dey greets you wid a nod an' smile,
    Way down in Ole Kintucky,
    34 lines
  • Purcaution
    Dey think I is "set" an' "fo'gee,"
    An' dey lub to sneer an' laff,
    25 lines
  • Toil Created
    Dutiful, underpaid bearer of burden
    (Although as oxen your past roles were cast,
    8 lines
  • Old Glory
    God's placid heavens mother you,
    His sunsets blend your bars,
    8 lines
  • Kassel B’Ildin’
    Hab you evah laid 'wake dreamin'
    B'ildin' kassels in de air,
    16 lines
  • Mah Depen’ Able Fren’
    He doan care how po' I am,
    Or dat folks calls me "Luckless Sam,"
    33 lines
  • De Drum Majah
    He's struttin' sho ernuff,
    Wearin' a lady's muff
    38 lines
  • Everywhere
    How dare you question Him, or doubt,
    With proof conclusive all about?
    13 lines
  • De Innah Part
    I 'fess Ise ugly, big, an' ruff,
    Mah voice is husky, mannah's gruff;
    26 lines
  • Memories
    I am as fond of fun and jokes
    As other real red-blooded folks.
    19 lines
  • Red Rose
    I plucked a rose, a red rose rare,
    I placed her on a throne
    18 lines
  • One Word
    If I had mighty wings to fly,
    I d soar aloft in youder sky,
    8 lines
  • Love
    Invisible, saccharined,
    Intoxicating stimulant,
    10 lines
  • Weddah
    It wuz cole, de snow dun drifted
    Hi' roun' 'bout de ole barn do';
    43 lines
  • Sandy
    Its bin ni ontoe three years
    Since mah Goo' Man, Sandy,
    16 lines
  • A Resolution
    Mah ruddah's brokin, an' mah sail
    Wen' ovah bode, in las' night's gale;
    18 lines
  • Censored
    My Harvah rit me week fo' las',
    Dat is, dat's w'en I got it;
    25 lines
  • Tracin’ Tales
    No doubt dat you lak to know jes whut wuz ailin' us,
    Why me and Maffew Pleasen'view had dat tremandus fuss;
    18 lines
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