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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: cotter, joseph Matches Found: 73 Cotter Jr., Joseph Seamon 62 poems available by this author A PRAYER Poem Text First Line: As I lie in bed, / flat on my back Last Line: O god, give me words to make my dream-children live. Subject(s): Prayer; Religion; Theology A WOMAN AT HER HUSBAND'S GRAVE Poem Text First Line: Peace to his ashes! Last Line: But never a lover. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love AFRICA Poem Text First Line: A thousand years of darkness in her face Last Line: Of mankind's need and afric's gloried part. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty AN APRIL DAY Poem Text First Line: On such a day as this I think Last Line: On such a day as this. Subject(s): April; Kisses; Love AND WHAT SHALL YOU SAY? Poem Text First Line: Brother, come! / and let us go unto our god Last Line: And, brother, what shall you say? Subject(s): African Americans; Brotherhood; God; Religion; Social Protest; Negroes; American Blacks; Theology COMPENSATION Poem Text First Line: I plucked a rose from out a bower fair Last Line: The song was made. Subject(s): Pain; Thorns; Suffering; Misery DOWN FROM THE GOLDEN STRINGS OF MY HEART'S LYRE EGO Poem Text First Line: Day passeth day in sunshine or shadow Last Line: Life but the urge, death but the balm. Subject(s): Self FULL WELL HE KNEW THE GALL OF BROKEN SPIRIT I SHALL NOT DIE Poem Text First Line: Never shall I die Last Line: And faith-embraced my soul shall lie. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism I'M A-WAITING AND A-WATCHING Poem Text First Line: I'm a-waiting and a-watching for the day that has no end Last Line: For the glory that shall greet me, for the life that knows no death. Subject(s): Life IMMORTALITY Poem Text First Line: From your life's blood to coin a trenchant word Last Line: That sounds within the changing hearts of men. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life INCONSTANCY Poem Text First Line: Blue eyes, gray eyes Last Line: Or is it love I love? Subject(s): Love - Beginnings IS IT BECAUSE I AM BLACK? Poem Text First Line: Why do men smile when I speak Last Line: Is it because I am black? Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks IS THIS THE PRICE OF LOVE? Poem Text First Line: Never again the sight of her? Last Line: Tell me, is this the price of love? Subject(s): Love LOOKING AT A PORTRAIT Poem Text First Line: O why are there eyes like these Last Line: O why are there arms like these? Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Portraits LOVE'S DEMESNE Poem Text First Line: Old memories come trooping down Last Line: In love's demesne. Subject(s): Memory MOLOCH Poem Text First Line: Old moloch walks the way tonight Last Line: It shames the hearts of men. Subject(s): Old Age MY LYRE IS STRUNG WITH GOLDEN THREADS OF LOVE NIGHT WINDS Poem Text First Line: The slender moon in its silvery sheen Last Line: For what should the night winds sigh? Subject(s): Moon; Night; Sleep; Summer; Bedtime NOVEMBER Poem Text First Line: Old november, sere and brown Last Line: With hope, faith and love alway. Subject(s): Autumn; Holidays; November; Seasons; Thanksgiving; Fall O LITTLE DAVID, PLAY ON YOUR HARP ODE TO DEMOCRACY Poem Text First Line: Whither bound and how goeth? Last Line: On freedom's holy land. Subject(s): Democracy ON HEARING HELEN HAGAN PLAY Poem Text First Line: It seemed to me a little rivulet Last Line: Its benediction sweet. Subject(s): Music & Musicians OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 1 Poem Text First Line: The starlight crowns thee when thou standest there Last Line: Tender thy smile and tender be thy heart. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 10 Poem Text First Line: Purpled to softness comes the twilight hour Last Line: Better it is than wield the conqueror's sword. Subject(s): Passion OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 11 Poem Text First Line: Silent I love thee. When thou deignst to speak Last Line: Morsels of heavenly fare, joys of my dreaming. Subject(s): Love OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 12 Poem Text First Line: Gray veils of dusk bestrewed with purple threads Last Line: When twilight visions crowd my happy way? Subject(s): Love OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 13 Poem Text First Line: O love, my love, thou'rt in the passing crowd Last Line: Thy blood-warm spirit to hearts bitter cold. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Solitude; Loneliness OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 14 Poem Text First Line: Life is a dream in the eternal sleep Last Line: Heaven denied, mid depths of hell unknown. Subject(s): Love; Sleep OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 15 Poem Text First Line: Beyond the lifted clouds the dark sweeps by Last Line: Dawn's breath of glory for a moment's fare? Subject(s): Love; Youth OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 16 Poem Text First Line: God knows the burdened soul's dark sorrowing Last Line: To wake the murmurs of th' immortal soul? Subject(s): God; Love OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 17 Poem Text First Line: It is not life's bright hope or hell's dark terrors Last Line: Only that going I shall leave thee lone. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 18 Poem Text First Line: Remembered is your every trick of speech Last Line: The splendored joy of love in faith enshrined. Subject(s): Hope; Love; Optimism OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 19 Poem Text First Line: It was a child that walked my dreams last night Last Line: That never was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. Subject(s): Children - Lost OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 2 Poem Text First Line: Had I but known when first I saw thee there Last Line: Thou dark-eyed child unto a woman grown? Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 3 Poem Text First Line: What of the old love?' cries my heart to me Last Line: Found in love's bounty of the good and true? Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 4 Poem Text First Line: Why should I sing when every living voice Last Line: Deep from the treasure of my heart to thee. Subject(s): Love OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 5 Poem Text First Line: There is no rest where weary mortals dwell Last Line: A fleeting moment from an hour of pain. Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love; Passion OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 6 Poem Text First Line: These are the little things that stir the heart Last Line: I have the vision and it shall not fade. Subject(s): Grief; Memory; Sorrow; Sadness OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 7 Poem Text First Line: When you sit there the shadows come and go Last Line: There gleams the starlight of a thousand skies. Subject(s): Love OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 8 Poem Text First Line: When this gay earth whelmed with a mad desire Last Line: Clad in the glory that is one with thee. Subject(s): Desire OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 9 Poem Text First Line: Passion of fire that sears my hungry heart Last Line: Letters of gold on god's eternal page. Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; Love RAIN MUSIC Poem Text First Line: On the dusty earth-drum Last Line: Calling life anew. Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Rain REMEMBRANCE Poem Text First Line: Forget? / ah, never! Last Line: That fate does hold for me. Subject(s): Memory REWARD Poem Text First Line: Out of the silence / I come to you Last Line: A light in your eye. Subject(s): Love SONNET Poem Text First Line: And thou art one -- one with th' eternal hills Last Line: "god in our creeds doth dwell and not in these?" SONNET Poem Text First Line: I would not tarry if I could be gone Last Line: And guide his footsteps toward the larger life. SONNET Poem Text First Line: I sometimes wonder if the mighty god Last Line: And god must heed, yea surely, god must care. SONNET TO NEGRO SOLDIERS Poem Text First Line: They shall go down unto life's borderland Last Line: There breaks this day their dawn of liberty. Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Soldiers' Writings SUPPLICATION Poem Text First Line: I am so tired and weary Last Line: That I must journey on. Subject(s): Rest THE BAND OF GIDEON Poem Text First Line: The band of gideon roam the sky Last Line: "the sword of the lord and gideon." Subject(s): Thunder; War THE DESERTER Poem Text First Line: I know not why or whence he came Last Line: The house where faith is dead. Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation THE DOLLAR SPEAKS TO THE YOUNG NEGRO (TO EDITOR I. WILLIS COLE) Poem Text First Line: Sable brother, are you clinging Last Line: Wedding may-time to the years. Subject(s): African Americans; Brotherhood; Negroes; American Blacks THE GOAL Poem Text First Line: I have found joy Last Line: I have found thee. Subject(s): Love THE MULATTO TO HIS CRITICS Poem Text First Line: Ashamed of my race? Last Line: And puts sweet music into my soul. Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks THE TRAGEDY OF PETE Poem Text First Line: There was a man Last Line: From his head to his feet. THEODORE ROOSEVELT Poem Text First Line: Now with the dust that bore him he is one Last Line: He stands anointed at jehovah's throne. Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919) TO FLORENCE Poem Text First Line: Sister, when at the grassy mound I stand Last Line: In god's own time, I lay me down to rest. Subject(s): Memory TO---- Poem Text First Line: Sunless days and starless nights Last Line: And the starlight of your eyes. Subject(s): Absence; Pain; Separation; Isolation; Suffering; Misery WAY-SIDE WELL First Line: A fancy halts my feet at the way-side well Last Line: Fancies clog the way to heaven, and saints miss %their crown WHY? Poem Text First Line: The little child across the street Last Line: But what am I to her? Subject(s): Peace Cotter Sr., Joseph Seamon 11 poems available by this author ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text First Line: All earth is a poet Last Line: Of the munificent ear. Subject(s): Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909) ANSWER TO DUNBAR'S 'AFTER A VISIT' Poem Text First Line: So, you be'n to ole kentucky Last Line: Of her hospitality. Subject(s): Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906); Kentucky DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON TO THE NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE Poem Text First Line: Tis strange indeed to hear us plead Last Line: When money clinks its story. Subject(s): African Americans - History; Business; Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915); Black Heritage; Businessmen; Businesswomen FREDERICK DOUGLASS Poem Text First Line: O eloquent and cuastic sage Last Line: They'll turn and underrate thee. Subject(s): Douglass, Frederick (1817-1895) NED'S PSALM OF LIFE FOR THE NEGRO Poem Text First Line: Dis is ned dat am er-speakin' Last Line: Wid er wukin' brain an' heart. ON HEARING JAMES W. RILEY READ; FROM A KENTUCKY STANDPOINT Poem Text First Line: To tell the truth, each piece he read Last Line: But just come out and tell him so. Subject(s): Riley, James Whitcomb (1849-1916) THE BOOK'S CREED Poem Text First Line: Reader, listen ere we go Last Line: You will live this simple creed. Subject(s): Books; Reading THE DON'T-CARE NEGRO Poem Text First Line: Neber min' what's in your cran'um Last Line: So you's six foot under groun'. THE TRAGEDY OF PETE Poem Text First Line: There was a man Last Line: From his head to his feet. THE WAY-SIDE WELL Poem Text First Line: A fancy halts my feet at the way-side well Last Line: Fancies clog the way to heaven, and saints miss their crowns. Subject(s): Wells WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON Poem Text First Line: His country seared its conscience through its gain Last Line: "must train their liberty and make it free." Subject(s): Garrison, William Lloyd (1805-1879) |
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