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Subject: AFRICAN AMERICANS - HISTORY Matches Found: 49 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FAR CRY FROM AFRICA, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A wind is ruffling the tawny pelt Subject(s): Africa; African Americans - History; Ancestors & Ancestry; Black Heritage; Heritage; Heredity AFRICA, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Thus she had lain Last Line: Although she has lain Subject(s): African Americans - History; Black Heritage AFRICA, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus she had lain Last Line: Although she had lain Subject(s): African Americans - History AFRICAN VILLAGE, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In our beginnings our blackness was not thought so Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): African Americans - History AFRICLAND, by OLIVER LAGRONE Poem Source First Line: From breasts %of africland Last Line: To drink a new worlds %breaking light Subject(s): African Americans - History ALABAMA EARTH (AT BOOKER WASHINGTON'S GRAVE), by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in alabama earth Last Line: Love -- and chains are broken Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - History; Alabama; Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915) AT HOME IN DAKAR, by MARGARET DANNER Poem Source First Line: When the african arts Last Line: Feeling neither too ill nor too old Subject(s): Africa; African Americans - History; Art And Artists ATLANTA EXPOSITION ODE, by MARY WESTON FORDHAM Poem Text First Line: Cast down your bucket where you are Last Line: For all one flag, one flag for all. Subject(s): African Americans - History; Exhibitions; Racial Equality; Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915); Black Heritage; World's Fairs; Expositions ATLAS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am used to the heft of it Last Line: To carry everything. Subject(s): African Americans - History; Forests; Labor & Laborers; Strength; Black Heritage; Woods; Work; Workers AUNT AGNES HATCHER TELLS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the war when rationing was over Last Line: Slide out babies like payday from that %billion dollar behind Subject(s): African Americans - History; Death; Family Life; Hunger; Slavery; War BLACK CHURCHES BURNING, by SALVATORE GALIOTO Poem Source First Line: Patriotic, family oriented %religious, angry white men Last Line: Hey mom, pass me the bottle %and the gasoline Subject(s): African Americans - History; Churches; Fire BLUE ISLAND, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: The snow blew Last Line: Yards of blue island Subject(s): African Americans - History; Culture Conflict; Ku Klux Klan; Racism; U.s. - Race Relations BOOKER T. AND W.E.B., by DUDLEY RANDALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It seems to me,' said booker t Last Line: I don't agree,' %said w.E.B. Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - History; Du Bois, William Edward B. (1868-1963); Reform And Reformers; Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915); Writing And Writers BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The word is writ that he who runs may read Last Line: Like the keen prow of some on-forging ship. Subject(s): African Americans - History; Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915); Black Heritage BOOKER T. WASHINGTON'S METAPHOR ABOUT SPRING, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: The house will clear out and the sun will flood over Subject(s): African Americans - History; Spring; Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915) BUSHMAN, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: It is a long night, I have Last Line: Black, %triple %vision %never leaves Subject(s): African Americans - History; Basquiat, Jean-michel (1960-1988); Freedom; Paintings And Painters; Puerto Rico; Slavery CALLING, by FORREST HAMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: 1. Text: a slave ship sinks in the atlantic, 1749 Last Line: Because his own body sometimes bends, %voices beckoning Subject(s): African Americans - History CHARLIE PARKER, 1989, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Art is labor; art is rage Last Line: Scoot your butts in the dirt Subject(s): African Americans - History; Blacks; Labor And Laborers CHEIK ANTA DIOP: POEM FOR THE LIVING, by MWATABU OKANTAH Poem Source First Line: To who do I say Last Line: For the living. Africa Subject(s): Africa; African Americans - History; Ancestors And Ancestry DEJA VU, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: It happens sometimes when walking down the street, standing on a Last Line: Speak other tongues, worship different spirits and save whatever we can, as we move on Subject(s): African Americans - History; Memory; Past; Slavery DOWN TO THE NINES, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Oh owner of wind %keeper of river mists Last Line: We are down to the nines Subject(s): African Americans - History; Memory; Slavery; Women DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON TO THE NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER SR. 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 ENSLAVED, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh when I think of my long-suffering race Last Line: To liberate my people from its yoke! Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): African Americans - History; Slavery; Black Heritage; Serfs FAR CRY FROM AFRICA, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A wind is ruffling the tawny pelt Last Line: How can I face such slaughter and be cool? %how can I turn from africa and live Subject(s): Africa; African Americans - History; Ancestors And Ancestry FAR MEMORY: 1. CONVENT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My knees recall the pockets Last Line: And certainly attended. Subject(s): African Americans - History; Convents; Memory; Sisters; Women & Religion; Black Heritage FAR MEMORY: 4. TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THIS LIFE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who did I fail, who Last Line: Of rescue, rescue. Subject(s): African Americans - History; Life; Sisters; Women & Religion; Black Heritage FIFTY YEARS (1863-1913), by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O brothers mine, today we stand Last Line: God cannot let it come to naught. Subject(s): Abolitionists; African Americans; African Americans - History; Attucks, Crispus (1723-1770); Boston Massacre; Brown, John (1800-1859); Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Garrison, William Lloyd (1805-1879); Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Lovej FOR THE CONFEDERATE DEAD, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These are the last days Subject(s): African Americans - History; Black Heritage FURY; FOR MAMA, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember this Last Line: For this woman's sake. Subject(s): African Americans - History; Obedience; Women - Abused; Black Heritage; Wife Beating HERITAGE, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is africa to me Subject(s): Africa; African Americans - History; Black Heritage HERITAGE, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is africa to me Last Line: Lest the grave restore its dead. %not yet has my heart or head %in the least way realized %they and Subject(s): Africa; African Americans - History I AM A COWBOY IN THE BOAT OF RA, by ISHMAEL REED Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Party pooper o hater of dance %vampire outlaw of the milky way Subject(s): African Americans - History JES' TAKE MY ADVICE, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jes' a little sunshine, jes' a little rain Last Line: Jes' sech little tings as dat got dis coon in jail. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): African Americans - History; Black Heritage LEDA: 1, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is nothing luminous Last Line: Fucking god fucking me. Subject(s): African Americans - History; Curses; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Black Heritage LITANY OF BLACK HISTORY FOR BLACK PEOPLE, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For all our noble heritage Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): African Americans - History MEDICINE MEN, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Slavers stole them out of akebulan Last Line: Furious movement of african life %claiming its own Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - History; Malcolm X (malcolm Little) (1925-1965); Movement; Protest, Social; Slavery MONUMENTS FOR A FRIENDLY GIRL AT A TENTH GRADE PARTY, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The only relics left are those long Subject(s): African Americans - History; Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915) OTTAWA, MN, CEMETERY-1992, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: A million years ago Last Line: Seem to squawk at the thought of it Subject(s): African Americans - History; Racism; Slavery; U.s. - History PURIFICATION OF THE TRIBE, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Used to be, %we threw our different ones Last Line: A purification of the tribe Subject(s): African Americans - History; Poetry And Poets; Slavery REWARD, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Run away from this sub- / scriber for the second time Subject(s): African Americans - History; Slavery; Escapes; Black Heritage; Serfs; Fugitives RUNNING ACROSS TO THE LOT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Our fathers were dead and %our brothers were dying Subject(s): African Americans - History; Despair; Ethnic Identity; Slavery SOMETHING LIKE A SONNET FOR PHILLIS MIRACLE WHEATLEY, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Girl from the realm of birds florid and fleet Subject(s): African Americans - History; Wheatley, Phillis (1753-1784); Black Heritage SOMETHING LIKE A SONNET FOR PHILLIS MIRACLE WHEATLEY, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Girl from the realm of birds florid and fleet Last Line: Your early verse sweetens the fame of our race Subject(s): African Americans - History; Wheatley, Phillis (1753-1784) SOUTH SONG, by ROY ADDISON HELTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm for the south, - for the black-eyed south Last Line: From beauty's warm lips on the bride-bed of june. Subject(s): African Americans - History; Southern States; Black Heritage; South (u.s.) STILL, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And our points %sharpening good as anybody's Subject(s): African Americans - History; Ethnic Groups - United States THE LIVING, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After independence day / all our toys began to tear Subject(s): Cotton; Farm Life; African Americans - History; Agriculture; Farmers; Black Heritage THE NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've known rivers Last Line: My soul has grown deep like the rivers. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans - History; Holidays; New Year; Racism; Rivers; Time; Black Heritage; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry THE TRAVELLER AT THE SOURCE OF THE NILE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In sunset's light, o'er afric thrown Last Line: Thine own sweet paths in search of thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Africa; African Americans - History; Nile (river); Travel; Black Heritage; Journeys; Trips TO BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside our way the streams are dried Last Line: And lead us to the promised land! Subject(s): African Americans - History; Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915); Black Heritage |
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