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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: DAVIS, FRANK MARSHALL Matches Found: 31 Davis, Frank Marshall Poet's Biography 31 poems available by this author ARTHUR RIDGEWOOD, M.D. First Line: He debated whether Last Line: And final notices from the finance company BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME First Line: And one morning while in the woods I stumbled suddenly Last Line: Now I am dry bones and my face a stony skull staring in yellow %surprise at the sun Subject(s): African Americans CHICAGO'S CONGO Poem Text First Line: Chicago is an overgrown woman Subject(s): Chicago; African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks CHRIST IS A DIXIE NIGGER First Line: You tell me christ was born nearly twenty centuries ago in a Last Line: I've got a dozen christs in dixie all bloody and black DANCING GIRL Poem Text First Line: Black and tan - yeah, black and tan Last Line: Is this what your belly craves? Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Dancing & Dancers DANCING GIRL First Line: Black and tan - yeah, black and tan Last Line: Drenched in the jazz of a swingtime band %is this what your belly craves? Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Dancing And Dancers DUKE ELLINGTON First Line: Comes now %taste of firecrackers Last Line: Gentlemen %I am gassed! FLOWERS OF DARKNESS Poem Text First Line: Slowly the night blooms, unfurling Subject(s): African Americans; Flowers; Negroes; American Blacks FLOWERS OF DARKNESS First Line: Slowly the night blooms, unfurling Last Line: With you and the blossomig night %for what flower, plucked, %lingers long? Subject(s): African Americans; Flowers FOR ANY UNBORN NEGRO Poem Text First Line: Brush / his lips lightly, life! Last Line: But death Subject(s): Africna Americans; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; America FOUR GLIMPSES OF NIGHT Poem Text First Line: Eagerly Subject(s): African Americans; Alphabet Verse; Night; Negroes; American Blacks; Bedtime FOUR GLIMPSES OF NIGHT First Line: Eagerly Last Line: Shatters into a billion fragments %of quiet shadows %at the blaring jazz %of a morning sun Subject(s): African Americans; Alphabet Verse; Night GILES JOHNSON, PH.D Poem Text First Line: Giles johnson Last Line: And he couldn't porter Subject(s): Scholarship & Scholars GILES JOHNSON, PH.D First Line: Giles johnson Last Line: He died of starvation %because he wouldn't teach %and he couldn't porter Subject(s): Scholarship And Scholars I SING NO NEW SONGS First Line: Once I cried for a new songs to sing...A black rose...A brown sky...The Last Line: Clothes, teach a more graceful step...But the dreams of homer neither %grow nor wilt Subject(s): African Americans JAZZ BAND Poem Text First Line: Play the thing, you jazz mad fools! Last Line: Play the thing, you jazz mad fools! Subject(s): Bands; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Orchestras JAZZ BAND First Line: Play the thing, you jazz mad fools! Last Line: Play that thing, you jazz mad fools! Subject(s): Bands; Jazz; Music And Musicians LITTLE AND BIG First Line: Little people often make big heroes Last Line: Cannot magnify %fizz into boom LOVE NOTES AT NIGHT Poem Text MID-SUMMER MORN Poem Text First Line: A tom-tom sun awakens day's jungle MISS SAMANTHA WILSON First Line: In her sixtieth year ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS' Poem Text First Line: The religion of sweet jesus Last Line: By a christian gun Subject(s): Christianity; Missionaries & Missions; Slavery; Serfs ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS' First Line: The religion of sweet jesus Last Line: Tis holier to die %by a christian gun Subject(s): Christianity; Missionaries And Missions; Slavery PEACE IS A FRAGILE CUP First Line: I sing for the silent slain ROBERT WHITMORE Poem Text First Line: Having attained success in business Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks ROBERT WHITMORE First Line: Having attained success in business Last Line: Died of apoplexy %when a stranger from georgia %mistook him %for a former macon waiter Subject(s): African Americans SAM JACKSON First Line: The moon was a thick slab of yellow cheese between thin Last Line: Trying to break into the rear of the dew drop inn SELF PORTRAIT Poem Text First Line: I would be Subject(s): Self; African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks SNAPSHOTS OF THE COTTON SOUTH Poem Text First Line: Listen, you drawing men Last Line: Portrait of the cotton south Subject(s): Southern States; South (u.s.) SNAPSHOTS OF THE COTTON SOUTH First Line: Listen, you drawing men Last Line: Or will you mold this section %so its portrait will fit %in the sunlit hall %of ideal america? Subject(s): Southern States TO THOSE WHO SING AMERICA First Line: Well, gentlemen, %your flag wavers Last Line: The other verses %anyway Subject(s): Patriotism; Racism; United States |
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