Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HYMN FOR THE AFRICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY, by JOHN PIERPONT Poet's Biography First Line: With thy pure dews and rains Last Line: The lord of lords! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs | ||||||||
WITH thy pure dews and rains, Wash out, O God, the stains, From Afric's shore; And, while her palm trees bud, Let not her children's blood, With her broad Niger's flood, Be mingled more! Quench, righteous God, the thirst, That Congo's sons hath cursed -- The thirst for gold! Shall not thy thunders speak, Where Mammon's altars reek, Where maids and matrons shriek, Bound, bleeding, sold? Hear'st thou, O God, those chains, Clanking on Freedom's plains, By Christians wrought? Them, who those chains have worn, Christians from home have torn, Christians have hither borne, Christians have bought! Cast down, great God, the fanes That, to unhallowed gains, Round us have risen -- Temples, whose priesthood pore Moses and Jesus o'er, Then bolt the black man's door, The poor man's prison! Wilt thou not, Lord, at last, From thine own image, cast Away all cords, But that of love, which brings Man, from his wanderings, Back to the King of kings, The Lord of lords! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...JOY IN THE WOODS by CLAUDE MCKAY ELIZABETH KECKLEY: 30 YEARS A SLAVE AND 4 YEARS IN THE WHITE HOUSE by E. ETHELBERT MILLER EMANCIPATION by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER JOHN BROWN'S BODY by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET ON LAYING THE CORNER-STONE OF THE BUNKER HILL MOMUMENT by JOHN PIERPONT |
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