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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO MARY CHURCH TERRELL - LECTURER, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poet's Biography
First Line: A pioneer, she blazed a trail of light
Last Line: And life's fruition is its vital dream!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Terrell, Mary Church (1863-1954)
First Line: A pioneer, she blazed a trail of light
Last Line: And life's fruition is its vital dream!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Terrell, Mary Church (1863-1954)
A pioneer, she blazed a trail of light
Through murky shadows, with a lithesome tread
Unto those forums, where Hope's beams are shed:
Straight through the mighty cordon of the night,
Rapt with a vision, soul-born, clear and bright,
Leaving the South of frigid wrong, she sped
Into the North, where hearts glow warm instead,
A people's tragedy to there recite.
Hope's liquid pipings lift their tender lay,
Morning is waking, flushed with rosy gleam,
Night with its shadow winds with yesterday
Adown the world-way as an inky stream,
Seed time and harvest deftly interplay,
And Life's fruition is its vital dream!
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TO MARY CHURCH TERRELL by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR
OLD BLACK MEN by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON
SONG OF THE SINNER by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON
THE MEASURE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON
THE RETURN (1) by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON
WELT by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON
ONE OF THE LEAST OF THESE, MY LITTLE ONE' by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON
A BIT OF SKY by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON
A DIM DOORWAY by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON
A PARADOX by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON