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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BLACK HERITAGE Matches Found: 21 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.) 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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