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  • The Narcissus
    Seemingly dead, bent, brown and dried,
    Unnoticed on yon shelf, she lay;
    18 lines
  • Pretty Flower
    Truly thou lovest pretty flowers,
    For pretty flower, thyself, thou art.
    10 lines
  • My Grievance
    Yes, I admit a grievance.
    I also boldly challenge you—
    28 lines
  • A Recalled Prayer
    Sis Hannah May Liza, so Emphraim sayed,
    Stole out 'neaf a sycamo' tree an' prayed
    48 lines
  • Songs And Smiles
    Well-meaning friends often ask,
    Am I not weary of my task,
    15 lines
  • True Fren
    You sez dat ole frens am de best.
    I begs yore pawden, deed I do,
    3 lines
  • Retribution
    Rent and bleeding,
    Upon her knees
    8 lines
  • Roosevelt
    "Put out the light!"
    He had no need of man-made glow
    26 lines
  • Decreed
    (Matthew—2:15)
    Indirectly, out of Africa you came
    10 lines
  • Toil Created
    Dutiful, underpaid bearer of burden
    (Although as oxen your past roles were cast,
    8 lines
  • TO —
    Though many are the dreams I dream,
    They're born within a single theme.
    9 lines
  • Frenship
    (To G. B. P.)
    I have filched a mite ob time
    18 lines
  • Opportunity
    The shackles rend, your hands are free,
    You need no longer humb'ly bow
    8 lines
  • Weddah
    It wuz cole, de snow dun drifted
    Hi' roun' 'bout de ole barn do';
    43 lines
  • Ease
    Oh! foolish one in quest of ease,
    Do you not know that ease on earth, for men,
    7 lines
  • A. L. Imes
    Some men go beyond their way
    To advertise, in bold display,
    5 lines
  • Censored
    My Harvah rit me week fo' las',
    Dat is, dat's w'en I got it;
    25 lines
  • Color Blind
    True I am black not by my will;
    I had no choice of hue,
    13 lines
  • Arise
    Arise! ye humble undertrodden wight,
    Behold, at edge of yonder east,
    8 lines
  • Between Lines
    (In a little book P. P.)
    Learned Sages,
    14 lines
  • De Innah Part
    I 'fess Ise ugly, big, an' ruff,
    Mah voice is husky, mannah's gruff;
    26 lines
  • At The Bier Of Hope
    The night winds drone, in mournful lay,
    A solemn requiem o'er the dead.
    13 lines
  • Love
    Invisible, saccharined,
    Intoxicating stimulant,
    10 lines
  • Judge Ye Not
    Remember, friend,
    Each harsh word spoken
    25 lines
  • The Heritage
    Row on row the crosses stand;
    The breeze blown poppies nod
    14 lines
  • In Ole Kintucky
    Dey greets you wid a nod an' smile,
    Way down in Ole Kintucky,
    34 lines
  • Facts
    Triumphant Sable Heroes homeward turning,
    Arrayed in medals, bright, and half-healed scars,
    13 lines
  • Eternity
    Vast realm beyond the gate of death,
    Where craven scavengers and kings,
    8 lines
  • In Stripes
    Two rail pert sma't ellicks, fresh frum Smif's Normal School,
    Figgahed dey maik sport ob me, played me fo' a fool;
    13 lines
  • Gone West
    O.W. D.
    I often wonder, Oscar,
    15 lines
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