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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: JOHNSON, GEORGIA DOUGLAS Matches Found: 265 Johnson, Georgia Douglas Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John 265 poems available by this author A BIT OF SKY Poem Text First Line: We search Last Line: Before we die ... Subject(s): Life A DIM DOORWAY Poem Text First Line: Forty years rolled back the curtain Last Line: Laughter I had lost so long. Subject(s): Time A FANTASY Poem Text First Line: I breathe the lyric of my love Last Line: One answering song to mine. A PARADOX Poem Text First Line: I know you love me better cold Last Line: Unyieldingly? Subject(s): Love A SONG OF COURAGE Poem Text First Line: Brave as a lion I must be Last Line: I sense it tho my sight is dim. Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery AFTERGLOW Poem Text First Line: Through you, I entered heaven and hell Last Line: To live it all again! Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Memory ALIENS (TO YOU - EVERYWHERE! DEDICATED) Poem Text First Line: They seem to smile as others smile, the masquerader's art Last Line: While peace shall spread a rainbow o'er the earth from pole to pole. Subject(s): Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry AMOUR Poem Text First Line: Kiss me Last Line: To die! Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Love ARMAGEDDON Poem Text First Line: In the silence and the dark Last Line: Even now the dawn appears! Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Negroes; American Blacks ARMOR Poem Text First Line: You cannot hurt me any more Last Line: Oh, god, I love the old way best! Subject(s): Love - Nature Of ATTAR Poem Text First Line: Fire - tears Last Line: Of the heart. AUTUMN Poem Text First Line: Believe me - when I say Last Line: Into a blinding sunlight! Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall BENEDICTION Poem Text First Line: Go forth, my son Last Line: Thy star-ways must be won! Subject(s): African Americans - Children BLACK RECRUIT First Line: At home, I must be humble, meek BLACK WOMAN Poem Text Recitation Last Line: I must not give you birth! Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry BONDAGE Poem Text First Line: Many cages round me Last Line: My garden walks lie inwardly! Subject(s): Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry BREAK, BREAK MY HEART Poem Text Last Line: Hide my scars! Subject(s): Love – Loss Of BREAK, BREAK MY HEART BROTHERHOOD Poem Text First Line: Come, brothers all! Last Line: That stumble down life's checkered street. Subject(s): Brotherhood BUT NOW Poem Text First Line: I shall be lonely in my grave Last Line: And leave destiny to chance. Subject(s): Carpe Diem CALLING DREAMS Poem Text First Line: The right to make my dreams come true Last Line: And stride into the morning-break! Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Dreams; Negroes; American Blacks; Nightmares CELIBACY Poem Text First Line: Where is the love that might have been Last Line: Biding time! COMMON DUST Poem Text Recitation First Line: And who shall separate the dust Last Line: The same as from the start? Subject(s): African Americans; Mankind; Negroes; American Blacks; Human Race COMPANIONS Poem Text First Line: No, never quite alone am I. Last Line: I know there will be sorrow. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CONCORD Poem Text First Line: Nor shall I in sorrow repine Last Line: To break the eternal amen! CONQUEST First Line: My pathway lies through worse than death CONTEMPLATION Poem Text First Line: We stand mute Last Line: We stand mute! COSMOPOLITE Poem Text First Line: Not wholly this or that Last Line: Contains me. Subject(s): African Americans - Women CREDO Poem Text First Line: I believe in the ultimate justice of fate Last Line: Is guidance enough for the conduct of men. Subject(s): Justice; Racial Equality CRYPTIC Poem Text First Line: In your deep autumnal eyes Last Line: And bow my head. CURTAIN Poem Text First Line: When one has lived Last Line: And struggle, struggle—to the end! Subject(s): Life DAILY GRIND First Line: If nature says to you DAWN Poem Text First Line: Trailing night's sand-sifted stars Last Line: Bathe humanity—new-born! Subject(s): Birth; Dawn; Child Birth; Midwifery; Sunrise DEAD DAYS Poem Text First Line: Dead days of rapture and despair Last Line: Their rigors and perfume. DEAD LEAVES Poem Text First Line: The breaking dead leaves 'neath my feet Last Line: To break of dead leaves in the heart? Subject(s): Disappointment; Leaves DELUGE Poem Text First Line: A whisper at twilight, a sigh through the night Last Line: To surges of rapture, or rivers of tears. DELUSION Poem Text First Line: You gave me your hand Last Line: That I had been blind! Subject(s): Disillusion DESIRE Poem Text First Line: Ope! Ye everlasting doors, unto my soul's demand Last Line: And I must stand within the halls resplendent, of my dreams. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DESPAIR Poem Text First Line: The curtains of twilight are drawn in the west Last Line: Good-bye to love's ship that ne'er sailed. Subject(s): Despair DESTINY Poem Text First Line: I know my love is seeking me Last Line: His footsteps, coming, coming near! Subject(s): Love DEVASTATION Poem Text First Line: O love, you have shorn me, and rifled my heart Last Line: That breaks as the plaint of a sorrowing child. Subject(s): Love - Complaints DISPOSSESSED First Line: Day by day Subject(s): Aging DISPOSSESSED First Line: Day by day Last Line: And twilight kindliness Subject(s): Aging DIVIDE Poem Text First Line: Your lightest breath may fan my cheek Last Line: Today. Subject(s): Love DREAM LIFE Poem Text First Line: Always the world has ever been Last Line: That gossamer my breast. Subject(s): Life ECLIPSE Poem Text First Line: Aflounder the uncompassed darkness of doubt Last Line: Unanswered, unsuccored, alone! ECSTASY Poem Text First Line: Not less than this, beloved Last Line: Abloom for me and you. Subject(s): Love ELEVATION Poem Text First Line: There are highways in the soul Last Line: There are highways in the soul! EMBLEMS Poem Text First Line: A wordless kiss, a stifled sigh Last Line: The cruse has failed, the lamp must die! ENVOYS Poem Text First Line: Love calls me tonight Last Line: Through the bare window pane. Subject(s): Love ESCAPE Poem Text First Line: Shadows, shadows Last Line: Profound. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Shadows ESTRANGEMENT Poem Text First Line: Some day I shall be dead, and pride Last Line: Above—where daisies nod? Subject(s): Death; Love - Complaints; Dead, The EVENTIDE Poem Text First Line: The silence of the brooding night Last Line: That I may falter to thy arms. Subject(s): Contentment; God FAITH Poem Text First Line: The faint lose faith Last Line: And yet— Subject(s): Faith; Racism; Belief; Creed; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry FALLING GODS Poem Text First Line: Confusion, desuetude and gloom Last Line: A shrine to deity! FICTION Poem Text First Line: Ah! Love! Last Line: Ere dark. Subject(s): Love - Complaints FINALITY Poem Text First Line: When love's triumphant day is done Last Line: And leave the emptiness to me. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of FINIS Poem Text First Line: I looked death calmly in the face Last Line: Heart! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The FOOTSTEPS Poem Text First Line: Passing ever, early, late Last Line: And for them I listen low! FOREDOM Poem Text First Line: Her life was dwarfed, and wed to blight Last Line: Her soul, a bud,—that never bloomed. FOREDOOM Poem Text First Line: Her life was dwarfed, and wed to blight Last Line: Her soul, a bud,—that never bloomed Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry FUSION Poem Text First Line: How deftly does the gardener blend Last Line: With new-born forces! GETHSEMANE Poem Text First Line: Into the garden of sorrow Last Line: In the hour that sorrow calls! Subject(s): Gethsemane; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness GIFT OF YEARS First Line: The mellow years have brought to me Last Line: And a heart that is young again Subject(s): Aging GILEAD Poem Text First Line: Walk within thy own heart's temple, child, and rest Last Line: Walk within thy own heart's temple, child, and rest. GLAMOUR Poem Text First Line: O come while youth's bright rosy veil Last Line: For soon, too soon, we see! Subject(s): Carpe Diem GLOAMTIDE Poem Text First Line: The shades of the gloaming around me are stealing Last Line: Afar—where my uttermost longings abide. GOAL Poem Text First Line: I travel! My pilgrimage hither-ward lies Last Line: My forehead to god, my feet in the dust. Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims GOOD-BYE Poem Text First Line: Let's say 'good-bye' Last Line: Within the heart! Subject(s): Farewell; Parting GOSSAMER Poem Text First Line: The peerless boon of innocence Last Line: Frail cobwebs—of the dawn. Subject(s): Innocence GUARDIANSHIP Poem Text First Line: That dusky child upon your knee Last Line: That wields the locks of destiny! Subject(s): African Americans - Children HEGIRA Poem Text First Line: Oh, black man, why do you northward roam, and leave all the farm lands bare? Last Line: Combat ajar! Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks HOMING BRAVES Poem Text First Line: There's music in the measured tread Last Line: Stand in the pathway of their dreams! Subject(s): World War I; First World War HOPE (1) Poem Text First Line: Frail children of sorrow, dethroned by a hue Last Line: And each has his hour—to dwell in the sun! Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPE (2) First Line: Something for each of us HOW MY HEART SINKS Poem Text First Line: How my heart sinks when I behold the sad reflection of my face Last Line: That I may gather strength to fuse from agony, a smile! Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness HUSKS Poem Text First Line: Forever and forevermore Last Line: An empty mocking, husk! I CLOSED MY SHUTTERS FAST LAST NIGHT Poem Text I CLOSED MY SHUTTERS FAST LAST NIGHT I GAZE INTO THE SUN I SING OF LOVE Poem Text First Line: I sing of love who have no love Last Line: To lull my heart to sleep. Subject(s): Love I WANT TO DIE WHILE YOU LOVE ME Poem Text Recitation Last Line: Grow dim or cease to be! Subject(s): Love; Death; Dead, The I WANT TO DIE WHILE YOU LOVE ME I WANT TO LIVE Poem Text First Line: I shall be all too still some day Last Line: My bit of ashes to the dust. Subject(s): Carpe Diem I WONDER I'VE LEARNED TO SING A SONG OF HOPE ILLUSIONS Poem Text First Line: Who hath not built his castles in the free and open air? Last Line: Who bears his dream unshattered, from the dream-land where they're found? Subject(s): Hallucinations & Illusions IMPELLED Poem Text First Line: Athwart the sky the great sun sails Last Line: Revolving man to god again. Subject(s): God IN LOVE Poem Text First Line: I lived in hell the other day Last Line: With tears upon my pillows yet. Subject(s): Love IN QUEST Poem Text First Line: With the first blush of morning, my soul is awing Last Line: And slumber at night-fall, refreshed by my tears. Subject(s): Love INEVITABLY (1) Poem Text First Line: There's nothing in the world that clings Last Line: Like shadows in a looking-glass. Subject(s): Memory INEVITABLY (2) Poem Text First Line: Inevitably we must share our bread Last Line: Or be forever undone. Subject(s): Brotherhood INTERIM Poem Text First Line: The days lie dark between our jeweled meetings Last Line: And live! INTERRACIAL Poem Text First Line: Let's build bridges here and there Last Line: And span the gulf of challenge there. Subject(s): Brotherhood ISOLATION Poem Text First Line: Alone! Yes, evermore alone -- isolated each his way' Last Line: We tread in solitude remote, the trail of destiny! Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness IVY Poem Text First Line: I am a woman Last Line: I am a woman. Subject(s): Women JOY (1) Poem Text First Line: There's a soft rosy glow o'er the whole world to-day Last Line: O soul of me, drink, ere night falleth again! Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight JOY (2) Poem Text First Line: There's nothing certain, nothing sure Last Line: Some moments rare and rapture-kist Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight LAOCOON Poem Text First Line: This spirit-choking atmosphere Last Line: This death-grip from my soul! LE SOIR Poem Text First Line: Mute-lipped Last Line: O'er the edge of day! LET ME NOT HATE Poem Text First Line: There's nothing certain, nothing sure Last Line: On down the world's grim night! Subject(s): Hate LET ME NOT LOSES MY DREAM Poem Text First Line: Let me not lose my dream, e'en though I scan the veil with eyes unseeing ... Last Line: Hold me, and guard, lest anguish tear my dreams away! Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares LETHE Poem Text First Line: I do not ask for love, ah! No, Last Line: To sink in quiet seas. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LITTLE KING Poem Text First Line: From worshipping I now arise Last Line: Will love you well, nor love you long. LITTLE SON Poem Text First Line: The very acme of my woe Last Line: In turmoil and delight. Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Mothers LOST ILLUSIONS Poem Text First Line: Oh, for the veils of my far away youth Last Line: [or, shielding my heart from the blaze of truth!] Variant Title(s): Illusion Subject(s): Aging; Hallucinations & Illusions; Innocence LOVE COME AND GONE Poem Text First Line: Consider me a memory, a dream that passed away; Last Line: Within, without the vassal heart—its reasoning, who knows? Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVE IS SO SMALL A THING, YOU SAY LOVE'S MIRACLE Poem Text First Line: So like a boundless, soundless sea Last Line: I'll live and live and live—today! Subject(s): Love LOVE'S TENDRILS Poem Text First Line: Sweeter far than lyric rune Last Line: Sounds her heart-beat in my soul. Subject(s): Babies; Infants LOVELIGHT Poem Text First Line: Strange atoms we unto ourselves Last Line: And love the light between. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of MAGDALEN Poem Text First Line: On the day that the world shall end my dear Last Line: And forfeited heaven for him. Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Sacrifices; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene MATE (1) Poem Text First Line: Our separate winding ways we trod Last Line: Whose souls were welded with the stars. Subject(s): Worship MATE (2) Poem Text First Line: Out of the countless teeming throng Last Line: A haunting memory. Subject(s): Love; Memory; Women MATERNITY Poem Text First Line: Proud? Last Line: I view this babe of sorrow! Subject(s): African Americans; Babies; Negroes; American Blacks; Infants MEMORY Poem Text First Line: Love's roses I gathered, all dewy, in may Last Line: I hear not the tempest, I'm dreaming of spring. Subject(s): Spring MIRRORED Poem Text First Line: When lone and solitaire within your chamber Last Line: The tidal thoughts, like limpid waters, flow. MODULATIONS Poem Text First Line: The petals of the faded rose Last Line: Or breathes in love sublime. Subject(s): Transience; Impermanence MOODS Poem Text First Line: My heart is pregnant with a great despair Last Line: In frowning fortune smiling destiny! MOTHERHOOD Poem Text First Line: Don't knock on my door, little child Last Line: I cannot give you birth. Variant Title(s): Black Woman Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Despair; Mothers; Pregnancy MY BOY Poem Text First Line: I hear you singing happily Last Line: Before it melts in tears! Subject(s): African Americans - Children MY HAPPINESS Poem Text First Line: I hear you singing happily Last Line: Like the falling of a leaf. Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight MY LITTLE DREAMS Poem Text First Line: I'm folding up my little dreams Last Line: Tonight, within my heart. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Dreams; Nightmares OFFERING Poem Text First Line: I seek no token of you dear Last Line: Love's flower on your breast. Subject(s): Love OH NIGHT OF LOVE, YOUR RAPT ECSTATIC HOURS Poem Text Last Line: Unmindfully along life's misty ways Subject(s): Love OH NIGHT OF LOVE, YOUR RAPT ECSTATIC HOURS OLD BLACK MEN Poem Text First Line: They have dreamed as young black men dream Last Line: As though they did not care. Subject(s): Old Age; African Americans; Dreams; Disappointment; African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks; Nightmares; Negroes; American Blacks OLD BLACK MEN Poem Text First Line: They have dreamed as young men dream Last Line: As though they did not care. Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks OLD LOVE LETTERS OMEGA Poem Text First Line: The fragile fabric of our dream Last Line: God grant that I remember not! OMNIPRESENCE Poem Text First Line: Whether I travel by land or by sea Last Line: For ever his image looms large in my heart! Subject(s): Love ONE DAY Poem Text First Line: Good-bye dear day of sunshine, rain Last Line: Which nothing can destroy. ONE LIVES TOO LONG ONE OF THE LEAST OF THESE, MY LITTLE ONE' Poem Text First Line: The infant eyes look out amazed upon the frowning earth Last Line: That loves a world all loveless, and smiles on calvary! Subject(s): Babies; Infants PAGES FROM LIFE Poem Text First Line: Not for your tender eyes that shine Last Line: A woman passes solitaire! PARODY Poem Text First Line: You came Last Line: Had come to me—in you! PEACE (1) Poem Text First Line: I rest me deep within the wood Last Line: Forgetting, and—forgot! Subject(s): Peace PEACE (2) Poem Text First Line: Peace on a thousand hills and dales Last Line: In brotherhood forever. Subject(s): Peace PENDULUM Poem Text First Line: I have swung to the uttermost reaches of pain Last Line: On the rapturous swing of an infinite kiss. Subject(s): Kisses; Pain; Suffering; Misery PENT Poem Text First Line: The rain is falling steadily Last Line: And flood it as the sea!! Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery PERSPECTIVE Poem Text First Line: Some day Last Line: That wound me! Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks PLEDGE Poem Text First Line: With kisses I'll awake you love Last Line: I'll kiss your eyes good-night. Subject(s): Love POETRY Poem Text First Line: Behold! The living thrilling lines Last Line: Entwines the fragments of a heart. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POSTHUMOUS Poem Text First Line: Of what avail the tardy showers Last Line: Pulses quivering, to die. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The PREJUDICE Poem Text First Line: These fell miasmic rings of mist, with ghoulish menace bound Last Line: The fire of whose furnaces may sleep—but never dies! Subject(s): Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry PRIDE Poem Text First Line: To pride, upon its altar, what priceless offerings we bring Last Line: We strive to still the heart's low cries. Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect PROMISE Poem Text First Line: Through the moil and the gloom they have issued Last Line: The gleam of a bright morning star! Subject(s): Hope; Optimism PROVING Poem Text First Line: Were you a leper bathed in wounds Last Line: Its impetus and goal! Subject(s): Love QUERY Poem Text First Line: Is she the sage who will not sip Last Line: And turns with smiling face—to die? QUEST Poem Text First Line: The phantom happiness I sought Last Line: Descend—my search is o'er. Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight QUESTION Poem Text First Line: Where are the brave men, where are the strong me? Last Line: Of prejudice. Subject(s): Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry READIED Poem Text First Line: I cannot see beyond the rim Last Line: Before the sands have run. RECALL Poem Text First Line: Winter -- aback sweeps the inward eye Last Line: ('tis winter, the falling rain). RECESSIONAL (1) Poem Text First Line: Consider me a memory, a dream that passed away! Last Line: Within, without, the vassal heart -- its reasoning who knows? Subject(s): Love - Nature Of RECESSIONAL (2) First Line: My life flares up like a dying torch Subject(s): Death; Dead, The RECESSIONAL (2) First Line: My life flares up like a dying torch Last Line: That I leave in the upturned ground Subject(s): Death RECOMPENSE Poem Text First Line: Roses after rain Last Line: In the heart's twilight! Subject(s): Consolation REMEMBER Poem Text First Line: When love's brief dream is done Last Line: Remember through the night. REPULSE Poem Text First Line: Nobody cares when I am glad Last Line: Nobody cares when I am sad. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Estrangement; Outcasts REQUIEM Poem Text First Line: I weep these tears upon my bier Last Line: Who knows that I am dead Subject(s): Death; Dead, The RESOLUTION Poem Text First Line: With but one life full certified Last Line: And swear to make my dreams come true! RETROSPECT Poem Text First Line: Love's kisses spurned so long ago Last Line: Would I might give—for memories. Subject(s): Memory RETROSPECTION Poem Text First Line: After all Last Line: For I can never know regret. Subject(s): Memory RETURN (1) Poem Text First Line: Now, / like the pines intoning Last Line: May sup. Subject(s): Love RETURN (2) Poem Text First Line: I'm sending out a thousand ships upon the world-wide sea Last Line: But they will all come sailing back again, to me, sometime! REVIEW Poem Text First Line: I fear my power impotent Last Line: I mark love's fleeting hours pass. Subject(s): Transience; Impermanence RHYTHM Poem Text First Line: Oh, my fancy teems with a world of dreams Last Line: On the breath of my soul-strung lyre. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares ROMANCE Poem Text First Line: When I was young Last Line: He has been dead the while! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Romance SAVORING THE PAST Poem Text First Line: I am savoring the past Last Line: As it breaks my heart again. Subject(s): Grief; Memory; Past; Sorrow; Sadness SEPARATION Poem Text First Line: Within your pulsing day Last Line: Pray god you never know! Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation SEPULCHRE Poem Text First Line: I have mounded the corpse of my sorrow Last Line: May know what lies buried there. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SERVICE Poem Text Recitation First Line: When we count out our gold at the end of the day Last Line: Save the love we have shown to the children of men. Variant Title(s): Measure;treasure (2) Subject(s): Love; Materialism SHALL I SAY Poem Text First Line: Shall I say, 'my son, you're branded in this country's pageantry Last Line: With a faith that shall not falter, in your heart and on your tongue! Subject(s): African Americans - Children SHARE MY WORLD Poem Text First Line: I shall rebuild my world today Last Line: To share my world with me. SMOTHERED FIRES Poem Text First Line: A woman with a burning flame Last Line: She breathed a soft—good-night! Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Passion SOLDIER Poem Text First Line: Though I should weep until the judgment Last Line: Though I should weep until the judgment ... Subject(s): Soldiers SOMEBODY LOVED ME Poem Text First Line: Somebody loved me with all of his heart Last Line: Somebody loved me with all of his heart. Subject(s): Love; Memory SONG OF A SPINSTER First Line: Ah me, life is so short Subject(s): Mortality; Spinsters; Old Maids SONG OF A SPINSTER First Line: Ah me, life is so short Last Line: While I ... Subject(s): Mortality; Spinsters SONG OF THE SINNER Poem Text First Line: Just a bit of ashes Last Line: Pray, sweet virgin, pray! Subject(s): Sin SONNET TO THOSE WHO SEE BUT DARKLY Poem Text First Line: Their gaze uplifting from shoals of despair Last Line: Charging the ultimate, rending the veil. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism SORROW SINGERS Poem Text First Line: Hear their viol-voices ringing Last Line: Through a mist of falling tears! Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SOUVENIR Poem Text First Line: A little hour of sunshine Last Line: Which lives all vibrant still. Subject(s): Memory SPRINGTIDE Poem Text First Line: All deep there stirs the throb of spring Last Line: And breaks—unanswered, and alone. Subject(s): Solitude; Spring; Loneliness SPRINGTIME Poem Text First Line: Again it is the vibrant may Last Line: Find incomplete the day, and long. Subject(s): Spring SUNSET Poem Text First Line: And now Last Line: Who lifts no futile plea for sun, but asks for clouds less grey. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight SUPREME Poem Text First Line: The fairest lips are those we kiss Last Line: When life is just an afterglow. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SYMPATHY Poem Text First Line: My joy leaps with your ecstasy Last Line: In my heart like bitter rain. Subject(s): Sympathy; Empathy TAPS Poem Text First Line: They are embosomed in the sod Last Line: With manifold fond measures. Subject(s): Army - United States TEARS AND KISSES Poem Text First Line: There are tears sweet, refreshing like dewdrops that rise Last Line: There are kisses that live in the hearts of the dead. Subject(s): Kisses; Tears THE AUDACIOUS Poem Text First Line: Only the audacious fly Last Line: To make their dreams come true. Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery THE BLACK RUNNER Poem Text First Line: I'm awake, I'm away! Last Line: My feet in the dust. Subject(s): Track Athletics; Running Races; Pole Vaulting; Discus Throwing; Shot Putting; Running Hurdles THE BUBBLE Poem Text First Line: I catch the bubble of life's joy Last Line: A fallacy impassioned. Variant Title(s): Searcher THE CROSS Poem Text First Line: All day the world's mad mocking strife Last Line: A crucifixion in my dreams! Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion THE DREAMS OF THE DREAMER Poem Text Last Line: Till it ceases to beat Subject(s): Dreams THE DREAMS OF THE DREAMER THE GIFT OF YEARS First Line: The mellow years have brought to me Subject(s): Aging THE HEART OF A WOMAN Poem Text Recitation First Line: The heart of a woman goes forth with the dawn Last Line: While it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Women THE INITIATE Poem Text First Line: The woes of flesh are naught Last Line: To one who knows! THE MAN TO BE Poem Text First Line: I ride a-tilt because Last Line: Your son! Subject(s): Racial Equality THE MEASURE Poem Text Last Line: Men, by their glances, are masters or slaves. Subject(s): Social Commentary; Relationships THE MOTHER Poem Text First Line: The mother soothes her mantled child Last Line: The wordless measure of her woe. Subject(s): Mothers THE OCTOROON Poem Text First Line: One drop of midnight in the dawn of life's pulsating stream Last Line: Whose every breath is kindliness, whose hearts are purest gold. Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks THE PASSING OF THE EX-SLAVE Poem Text First Line: Swift melting into yesterday Last Line: These uncrowned pilgrims of the night! Subject(s): Slavery; Serfs THE POET SPEAKS Poem Text First Line: How much living have you done? Last Line: And loving only giving. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of THE RETURN (1) Poem Text Last Line: To hide my anguish, in the night. Subject(s): Disappointment THE RETURN (2) Poem Text First Line: The laws of changeless justice bind Last Line: We march to god—abreast. Subject(s): Equality THE RIDDLE Poem Text First Line: White men's children spread over the earth Last Line: White men's children in black men's skin. THE SUPPLIANT Poem Text First Line: Long have I beat with timid hands upon life's leaden door Last Line: The strong demand, contend, prevail; the beggar is a fool! Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Negroes; American Blacks THE TRUE AMERICAN First Line: America, here is your son, born of your iron heel Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Negroes; American Blacks THE VANISHED ROAD Poem Text First Line: We're wending the trail of the vanishing road Last Line: That lies at the end of the vanishing road. THE WATCHER Poem Text First Line: The long, grim years with iron tread Last Line: Praying the light to break! THE WILLOW Poem Text First Line: When life is young, without a care Last Line: Commingled with a tear. Subject(s): Aging; Consolation THRALL Poem Text First Line: Fragile, tiny, just a sprite Last Line: Be the gateway unto death. THRALLDOM Poem Text First Line: Your voice keeps ringing down the day Last Line: Like cherished chains of gold. TIRED Poem Text First Line: I'm tired, days and nights to me Last Line: For I am tired—I would rest. Subject(s): Weariness; Fatigue TO A YOUNG WIFE Poem Text First Line: I was a fool to dream that you Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Negroes; American Blacks TO A YOUNG WIFE First Line: I was a fool to dream that you Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN Poem Text First Line: Within the temple of our heart Last Line: Beats in one mighty tide—for you! Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States TO ATLANTA UNIVERSITY - ITS FOUNDERS AND TEACHERS Poem Text First Line: Pass down the aisle of buried years to-night Last Line: Their memories are deathless in our souls. Subject(s): Atlanta University TO EMILIE BIGELOW HAPGOOD - PHILANTHROPIST Poem Text First Line: Far from the seried ranks you sway Last Line: And lift to hope a token! Subject(s): Charity; Hapgood, Emilie Bigelow; Philanthropy TO GALLANT FRANCE Poem Text First Line: The lord himself died on the cross Last Line: Shall rise in victory! Subject(s): France; World War Ii; Second World War TO HENRY LINCOLN JOHNSON - LAWYER Poem Text First Line: Quite firmly did you stand, and unafraid Last Line: To rally in the tents of those you led. Subject(s): Johnson, Henry Lincoln TO JOHN BROWN Poem Text First Line: We lift a song to you across the day Last Line: Until the judgment! Sentinel his rest! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs TO KEEP MY HEART FROM BREAKING Last Line: When all my string gives out Subject(s): Memory TO MARY CHURCH TERRELL - LECTURER Poem Text First Line: A pioneer, she blazed a trail of light Last Line: And life's fruition is its vital dream! Subject(s): Terrell, Mary Church (1863-1954) TO MAY HOWARD JACKSON - SCULPTOR Poem Text First Line: You saw the vision in the face of clay Last Line: Robed in a queenly majesty, resigned. Subject(s): Jackson, May Howard (1877-1931); Sculpture & Sculptors TO RICHARD R. WRIGHT - INSTRUCTOR Poem Text First Line: Son of a race, whose dusky visage shows Last Line: A man is fashioned for the years to be! Subject(s): Wright, Richard (1908-1960) TO RIDGELY TORRENCE - PLAYWRIGHT Poem Text First Line: All hail! Fair vistas break upon the view Last Line: Of him who wrought so mightily and well! Subject(s): Torrence, Frederic Ridgely (1875-1950) TO SAMUEL COLERIDGE UPON HEARING HIS 'SOME I FEEL LIKE A MOTHERLESS..' Poem Text First Line: Strange to a sensing motherhood Last Line: Seeking the breast of an unknown face. Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Mothers; Poetry & Poets TO THE MANTLED Poem Text First Line: And they shall rise and cast their mantles by Last Line: Wearing the bays of victory complete! TO THE MARTYRED Poem Text First Line: O sacrificial throng whose live Last Line: Upon your bier are laid. Subject(s): Martyrs TO THE MEMORY OF INEZ MILHOLLAND Poem Text First Line: Folded in silent veils of sleep Last Line: On that great day! Subject(s): Milholland, Inez (1886-1916); Boissevain, Inez Milholland TO TIME Poem Text First Line: Day by day the threads of white Last Line: Break not your arrow in my breast! Subject(s): Time TO W.E.B. DUBOIS - SCHOLAR Poem Text First Line: Grandly isolate as the god of day Last Line: Light of our impotence! Joy of our tongue! Subject(s): Du Bois, William Edward B. (1868-1963); Reform & Reformers; Writing & Writers TO WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text First Line: When time has rocked the present age to sleep Last Line: Shall permeate the heavens at your feet! Subject(s): Braithwaite, William Stanley (1878-1962) TRANSPOSITIONS Poem Text First Line: Smiles do not always echo cheer Last Line: And joy in tears, relief. Subject(s): Facades; Appearances TREASURE (1) Poem Text First Line: What matters though love's dream shall pass Last Line: Encircled by love's afterglow? TRIFLE Poem Text First Line: Against the day of sorrow Last Line: And a heart that is young again. Subject(s): Memory TRUE AMERICAN First Line: America, here is your son, born of your iron heel Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women UNFORGETTABLE Poem Text First Line: A triumph sweet Last Line: Will be wherever you may sleep. UPON PASSING AN OLD GRAVEYARD First Line: Grey slabs, awry or fallen Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards UPON PASSING AN OLD GRAVEYARD First Line: Grey slabs, awry or fallen Last Line: Are sleeping too, somewhere Subject(s): Cemeteries UTOPIA Poem Text First Line: God grant you wider vision, clearer skies, my son Last Line: Unto a waiting sunset! Subject(s): African Americans - Children VALUES Poem Text First Line: All the pretty baubles spread Last Line: And sears the nights that sum my life. WE FACE THE FUTURE Poem Text First Line: The hour is big with sooth and sign, with errant men at war Last Line: Shod with a faith that springtime keeps, and all the stars opine. Subject(s): Future; World War I; First World War WELT Poem Text First Line: Would I mend the fabric of my youth Last Line: Ere time has brushed cold fingers through my hair. Subject(s): Time WHAT NEED HAVE I FOR MEMORY? Poem Text Last Line: Winding the trail regret? Subject(s): Memory WHAT NEED HAVE I FOR MEMORY? WHEN I AM DEAD Poem Text First Line: When I am dead, withhold, I pray, your blooming legacy Last Line: O, it would grieve me utterly, to find them on my bier! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WHEN I RISE UP Poem Text First Line: When I rise above the earth Last Line: And look down upon the things that fetter me. Subject(s): Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry WHENE'ER I LIFT MY EYES TO BLISS WHERE? Poem Text First Line: I called you through the silent night Last Line: Your bones recumbent lie. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WHITHER? Poem Text First Line: Minutes swiftly throb and pass Last Line: From the hushed and silent tomb. WHY Poem Text First Line: The verdure sleeps in winter Last Line: Only god can answer why! WISHES Poem Text First Line: I'm tired of pacing the petty round of the ring of the thing Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Wishes; Negroes; American Blacks WISHES First Line: I'm tired of pacing the petty round of the ring of the thing Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Wishes WOMAN Poem Text First Line: Unselfish, silent potently Last Line: Into another's entity! Subject(s): Women YOU First Line: I do not want a jeweled crown Subject(s): Love YOU First Line: I do not want a jeweled crown Last Line: I loved you all the time Subject(s): Love YOUR EYES Poem Text Last Line: And all my hopes Subject(s): Eyes YOUR EYES YOUR WORLD Poem Text First Line: Your world is as big as you make it Last Line: With rapture, with power, with ease! Subject(s): African Americans - Women YOUTH Poem Text Recitation First Line: The dew is on the grasses, dear Last Line: But nevermore the may! Subject(s): Youth YOUTH'S PROGENY Poem Text First Line: Oh the sad little dreams of the dim yesteryear Last Line: Just to bid them good-night at the close of the day. Subject(s): Memory; Youth |
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