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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DOUGLASS, FREDERICK (1817-1895) Matches Found: 12 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DOUGLAS, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He came when tyranny was ripe, a torch Last Line: Should heed his mighty voice, lest we should fail. Subject(s): Douglass, Frederick (1817-1895) DOUGLASS, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, douglass, we have fall'n on evil days Last Line: To give us comfort through the lonely dark. Subject(s): African Americans; Douglass, Frederick (1817-1895); Negroes; American Blacks FIVE BLACK MEN, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Douglass, du bois, garvey, king, and malcolm x Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Douglass, Frederick (1817-1895); Du Bois, William Edward B. (1868-1963); Garvey, Marcus (1887-1940); King, Martin Luther, Jr. (1929-1968); Malcolm X (malcolm Little) (1925-1965); Reform And Reformers; Writing And Wri FREDERICK DOUGLASS, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER SR. Poem Text First Line: O eloquent and cuastic sage Last Line: They'll turn and underrate thee. Subject(s): Douglass, Frederick (1817-1895) FREDERICK DOUGLASS, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A hush is over all the teeming lists Last Line: She stretches out her bleeding hands to god! Subject(s): Douglass, Frederick (1817-1895) FREDERICK DOUGLASS, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When it is finally ours, this freedom, this liberty, this beautiful Subject(s): African Americans; Douglass, Frederick (1817-1895); Freedom; Negroes; American Blacks; Liberty FREDERICK DOUGLASS, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When it is finally ours, this freedom, this liberty, this beautiful Last Line: Fleshing his dream of the beautiful, needful thing Subject(s): African Americans; Douglass, Frederick (1817-1895); Freedom FREDERICK DOUGLASS (1), by SAM CORNISH Poem Source First Line: My mother twice in her life on worn feet Last Line: And evenings when shadows were tired across %the fields and dresses grey with dust Subject(s): Douglass, Frederick (1817-1895) FREDERICK DOUGLASS (2), by SAM CORNISH Poem Source First Line: The slave %is a book Last Line: In his fist the negro sings a %new heaven Subject(s): Douglass, Frederick (1817-1895) FREDERICK DOUGLASS: 1817-1895, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Douglass was someone who Last Line: He died in 1895. %he is not dead Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Douglass, Frederick (1817-1895); United States IN MEMORIAM, by HENRIETTA CORDELIA RAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One whose majestic presence ever here Last Line: To our great chieftain's memory, reverence! Alternate Author Name(s): Ray, Cordelia Subject(s): Douglass, Frederick (1817-1895) NORTH [NORTHERN] STAR, by JAMES MONROE WHITFIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Star of the north! Whose steadfast ray Last Line: The guard of truth and liberty Subject(s): Douglass, Frederick (1817-1895) |
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