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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MOVEMENT Matches Found: 1049 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ... MY ISLAND IS A GHETTO, by EDOUARD J. MAUNICK Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Here I am at the gate %from a past to the present %%head filled with farewells Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) 1960, by SAM CORNISH Poem Source First Line: Stokely said the war was declared by lbj sending tanks into Last Line: Until his people were free. This is war but somebody forgot to tell %the people Subject(s): Carmichael, Stokely; Civil Rights Movement A FREEDOM IN PASSAGE, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The jolly roger flapping in the ever barbary wind Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) A LETTER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis over, moses! All is lost! Last Line: "than laborers in new hampshire""!" Subject(s): Elections; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Hale, John Parker (1806-1896); New Hampshire; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Antislavery Movement - United States A MOUSTACE DRAWN ON CAPTAIN PATTERSON, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There ain't nothin special about me. Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Antiwar Movement; Vietan; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 A REGGERLER WRIGGLER, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you was as little as me, did you care Last Line: I'm a reggerler wriggler, that's what I am! Subject(s): Children; Movement; Childhood A SONG FOR THE TIME, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up, laggards of freedom! - our free flag is cast Last Line: For earth wearies of them and god's over all! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Fremont, John Charles (1813-1890); Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; Serfs A SONG: INSCRIBED TO THE FREMONT CLUBS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath thy skies, november! Last Line: What may not four years do? Subject(s): Elections; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Fremont, John Charles (1813-1890); Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Antislavery Movement - United States ABAFAZI (WOMEN), by DENNIS BRUTUS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the shining tyumie river Last Line: And give their lives: %the struggle continues Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918); South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement ABOUT GRAFFITI, by CHRISTOPHER VAN WYK Poem Source First Line: Graffiti is the writing on the wall Last Line: Soon garffiti will wade into jo'burg %unhampered by the tourniquet of influx control Subject(s): Graffiti; South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement ABSENT WOMAN (1), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Young girls with your fresh voices, sing no more of your Last Line: Were never worth engraving in stone. %I say only this: I am the troubador Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ABSENT WOMAN (2), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Young girls with your long reedy throats, sing of the absent Last Line: Every beautiful thing in its splendor %my glory is to sing of the absent woman's beauty Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ABSENT WOMAN (3), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was a freezing winter night outside Last Line: But oh! How the absent woman's absence still weighs on %my heart Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ABSENT WOMAN (4), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Young girls with protruding breasts, sing of the sap Last Line: The green-gold colors of the absent woman, the sap %rising to the nape of the neck as it erupts Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ABSENT WOMAN (5), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Her coming was foretold for the time when palavers turned Last Line: Her fine smiling presence wrapped in green and in mist %and wearing a five-pointed star Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ABSENT WOMAN (6), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The smiling woman received greetings and praise from the Last Line: I become the serpent-dove benumbed with the delight of her %bite Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ABSENT WOMAN (7), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let nothing distract the pearly white eyes Last Line: But the poem is heavy with milk, and the poet's heart %burnsa dustless fire Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ABUDANCE, by MAZISI KUNENE Poem Source First Line: I possess a thousand thundering voices Last Line: But again and again the branches shoot forth with new seasons Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement ABYSS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He pondered the logic of the swamp's teeth Last Line: An isolate of sea slugs coiffed with venom helmets %thus %all nostalgia %rolls %into the abyss Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ADVICE FROM THE SHOULDER, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Put down the dust rag Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment ADVICE TO A PROPHET, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When you come, as you soon must, to the streets of our city Last Line: When the bronze annals of the oak-tree close. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Christianity; Environment; Judgment Day; Messiah; Nuclear War; Religion; Sea Monsters; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb; Theology; S AFRICA, by ILVA MACKAY Poem Source First Line: Africa %mother of children Last Line: The sound of warriors answering the call for freedom Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement AFRICA ARISE!, SELS., by BERNARD DADIE Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) AFRICA, MY AFRICA, FR. POUNDING, by DAVID DIOP Poem Source Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) AFRICAN DANCER, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: Your beauty is deep and comforting Last Line: Like the sand in your quicksand beds Subject(s): Beauty; Love - Nature Of; Negritude (literary Movement) AFRICAN IMAGE IS NOT AN IMAGE BY EQUATION ..., by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Supposes and manifests the hierarchized universe of life-forces Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) AFRICAN PROMETHEUS, by DAVID+(2) EVANS Poem Source First Line: High %upon the krantz Last Line: Prometheus %endures Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement AFTER FISH, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Between gills %I stabbed the knife Last Line: The cats come from nowhere Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment AFTERMATH, by MAZISI KUNENE Poem Source First Line: The rains will be levelling the mounds we have dedicated to liberty Last Line: Which will be coming so long as we advance, brother, advance Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement AGAOU, by RENE DEPESTRE Poem Source First Line: I am agaou native of guniea Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) AGASSOU, by RENE DEPESTRE Poem Source First Line: I am agassou Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) AGOUE-TAROYO, by RENE DEPESTRE Poem Source First Line: I am agoue-taroyo Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) AGRARIAN REFORM, by CHRISTOPHER VAN WYK Poem Source First Line: I saw a black man Last Line: There is still time Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement AJAX' CONCLUSION, by FRANK BARBOUR COFFIN Poem Text First Line: My friends, our race is ostracised Last Line: The future's on our shoulders staid. Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry ALCHEMISTS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: By day Last Line: And live forever, %all base metals %in cermonial fire Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment ALGAE, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The resurgence takes place here Last Line: Takes place / laminarium alga Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ALGAE, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The resurgence takes place here Last Line: Even more than through afflux %the resurgence %takes place %laminarian alga Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ALL DAY LONG ..., by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All day long on the long and narrow rails Last Line: Here I am trying to forget europe in the heartland of the %sine Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ALL DAY LONG ALONG THE LONG STRAIGHT RAILS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I come seeking to forget about europe in the pastoral heart of sine Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ALL WENT MAGNIFICENT IN '21, by UNKNOWN+289 Poem Source First Line: We address our people's cause Last Line: The clapping of our guns %curtain-calls the fisted years Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement ALL WILL BE OURS AGAIN, by UNKNOWN+289 Poem Source First Line: To us the progeny Last Line: It will come back %all will be ours again Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement ALL WINTER, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In winter I remember Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Native Americans; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America ALL WINTER, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In winter I remember Last Line: The things we might forget Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Native Americans AMERICA, by JAMES MONROE WHITFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: America, it is to thee Last Line: The wrongs we bear shall be redressed. Subject(s): Americans; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; United States; Antislavery Movement - United States; America AND DENIS GOLDBERG, by DAVID+(2) EVANS Poem Source First Line: Many those %who saw Last Line: We value it no less Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement AND I WATCH IT IN MANDELA, by JOHN MATSHIKZAI Poem Source First Line: It is not to wait until the sky is blue Last Line: And I watch it in mandela Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement AND SWEET SMELL OF DUST DEFEATED, by UNKNOWN+289 Poem Source First Line: Clouds are contrasts to the sky Last Line: And sweet smell of dust defeated Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement AND THE SUN, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And the sun like a ball of the fire slopes to the bright red sea Last Line: In my joy and pain. When I think and do not think, %my dear,I'm always thinking of you! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) AND THE SUN, A BALL OF FIRE, DOWN SLOPING ... DARK RED SEA, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: My dear I think of you Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) AND WORTHY SONS OF THE LAND, by UNKNOWN+288 Poem Source First Line: Distended stomachs %of our children Last Line: Their beings %torn asunder Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement ANIMALS WITHIN, SELS, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: That horse is inside me, that old Last Line: Away in a rainy outback of soul Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ANNEALED MICROPOLIS, by COSMO PIETERSE Poem Source First Line: Our karroo now has midwinter as its heart Last Line: Annulling and healing cold drought, in november Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement ANNONCIADES, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The good news will have been brought to me through the Last Line: An irreducible memory Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ANNONCIADES, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The good news will have been brought to me through the Last Line: And at the crest of the world %captivates %an irreducible memory Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ANOTHER DAY (FOR BRAM FISCHER), by HUGH LEWIN Poem Source First Line: It was like any other day Last Line: Like any other day Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement ANTHEM FOR A NEW DAY, by CHRISTOPHER VAN WYK Poem Source First Line: I've been woken mornings Last Line: If I'd ask you to write the symphony Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement ARROWHEAD, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the soft breath Last Line: In the breeze %are the sounds of this man %chipping stone, %his old knees bent %and birds %falling % Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment AS FAR AS YORUBA LAND, SELS., by EDOUARD J. MAUNICK Poet's Biography Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) AS I WAS WALKING BY, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As I was walking by fontaine street Last Line: And the aroma, richer in promise, %of ripe harvests from the rice fields Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ASSASSINATIONS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There they lie stretched out by the captive roads along the Last Line: O black martyrs, immortal race, let me say the words %that forgive Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ASSEVERATIONS, by ARTHUR NORTJE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The fire will not ask me to make its bed Last Line: There is never work without resistance Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement ASTRAEA AT THE CAPITOL; ABOLITION SLAVERY, DISTRICT COLUMBIA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first I saw our banner wave Last Line: Of judgment fringed with mercy's light! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Washington, D.c.; Antislavery Movement - United States ASYLUM, by BREYTEN BREYTENBACH Poem Source First Line: At first those closest to you shot holes in you Last Line: Only with love as the body for your death Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement AT A FUNERAL, by DENNIS BRUTUS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black, green and gold at sunset; pageantry Last Line: Better that we should die, than that we should lie down Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement AT LANSDOWNE BRIDGE, by ARTHUR NORTJE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After the whoosh of doors slid shut Last Line: Cornering, holds it in spidery light Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement AT THE BOMB TESTING SITE, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At noon in the desert a panting lizard Last Line: The hands gripped hard on the desert. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Atomic Bomb - Testing; Desserts; Nuclear Freeze AT THE DAWN I SAW AFRICA, by JOHN MATSHIKZAI Poem Source Last Line: Today I have died Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement AT THE END OF MY TELESCOPE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At the end of my telescope, fisherrmen and the net Last Line: In the transparent beauty of our musky hearts, %our bodies of amber and bronze Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Telescopes And Binoculars AT THE LINCOLN MONUMENT IN WASHINGTON, AUGUST 28, 1963, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There they stand together, like moses standing with aaron Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.c. ATTIBON LEGBA, by RENE DEPESTRE Poem Source First Line: I am attibon legba Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) AUTOPSY, by ARTHUR NORTJE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My teachers are dead men. I was too young Last Line: Has infinite possibilities no longer Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement AVALANCHE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Just last month Last Line: Coming soon with its wildflowers Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Women AZAKA-MEDE, by RENE DEPESTRE Poem Source First Line: I am azaka-mede Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BAD BLOOD, by TCHICAYA U TAM'SI Poem Source First Line: Tomorrow we'll be good Last Line: Let us pour our ciboriums %and our one night flower Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BALLAD OF A LITTLE LAMP, by RENE DEPESTRE Poem Source First Line: There is no salvation for mankind Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BALLAD OF BIRMINGHAM, by DUDLEY RANDALL Poem Full Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Mother dear, may I go downtown Subject(s): Birmingham, Alabama; Bombs; Church Burnings; Civil Rights Movement; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry BALLAD OF BIRMINGHAM, by DUDLEY RANDALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mother dear, may I go downtown Last Line: But baby, where are you? Subject(s): Birmingham, Alabama; Bombs; Church Burnings; Civil Rights Movement; Racism BANAL, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only the laboror's sledge of torpor or maneuver Last Line: And always this misdeal to negotiate step by step %stuck as I am with inventing each water hole Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BAREFOOT BLACKMAN, by UNKNOWN+286 Poem Source First Line: Man of humble origin Last Line: Of empire %crumble Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement BARON SAMEDI, by RENE DEPESTRE Poem Source First Line: I am the great baron samedi Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BARON-LA-CROIX, by RENE DEPESTRE Poem Source First Line: I am baron-la-croix Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BARTOW BLACK, by TIMOTHY THOMAS FORTUNE Poem Text First Line: Twas when the proclamation came Last Line: There was no need to stay! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Racism; Antislavery Movement - United States; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry BE NOT AMAZED, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Be not amazed beloved, if sometimes my song grows dark Last Line: And you will weep in the twilight for the glowing voice that song %your black beauty Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BEES IN TRANSIT: OSAGE COUNTY, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like a hundred white bedroom chests Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment BEFORE INTERROGATION, by UNKNOWN+286 Poem Source First Line: Their triumph when landing him Last Line: They are taught to jump out %before interrogation Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement BEFORE NIGHT COMES, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Before night comes I think of you and for you before I fall Last Line: Goldn skin, melodious bearing, and those huge eyes %like fortresses against death Subject(s): Memory; Negritude (literary Movement) BEHEADED SUN, SELS., by AIME CESAIRE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BEHIND A BARRED WINDOW, by HUGH LEWIN Poem Source Last Line: High %very high Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement BEIRUT, LEBANON, by EDOUARD J. MAUNICK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: ... In beirut cracks Last Line: Suddenly is nothing but smoke %%in beirut gaping wide %%the birds are hiding %%the sea is forgotten Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BETRAYAL, by LEON LALEAU Poem Source First Line: This haunted heart that doesn't fit Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BEYOND, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the bottom of the furious piling up of appalling dreams Last Line: The hand of a woman assassinating the day Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BEYOND EROS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I shall recite them, these hands shielding my heart's gaze Last Line: To lay it at your feet, %with the great riches of the spirit and of new lands Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BEYOND EROS (DEPARTURE), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I search the depths of your troubled eyes Last Line: We parted without goodbye, parted one day without color, %without sound Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BEYOND EROS (IT IS TIME FOR ME TO GO), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is time for me to go. Let me sink no further Last Line: And we recaptured the primal rhythm, %then you left. It is time for me to go! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BEYOND EROS (SHADOW SONG), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The white eagle of the seas, the eagle of time Last Line: I sing to you this shadow song in a new voice, %the ancient voice of all the world's youth Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BEYOND EROS (VACATION), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This long absence from my heart Last Line: Athlete %who thinks himself a god Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BEYOND EROS (VISIT), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I dream in the narrow penumbra of afternoon Last Line: Who have scores to settle with the departed. %now my own dead women appear Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BIDING TIME, by UNKNOWN+288 Poem Source Last Line: Building a certain future Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement BIRMINGHAM, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With the last whippoorwill call of evening Last Line: Carved out of rock with shooting stars to fire %the forge of bitter hate Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): Birmingham, Alabama; Civil Rights Movement BLACK DANCE, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: Black wood and bamboo. %bamboo and black wood Last Line: The she-muckamuck sings: toe-co-toe Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BLACK HOST, SELS., by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poet's Biography Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BLACK ISLAND, by CHARLES PRESSOIR Poem Source First Line: Women of my country, black and barefoot girls Last Line: What is this island but a part %severed from the continentalhomeland? Subject(s): Haiti; Negritude (literary Movement) BLACK MAJESTY, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: Down the dance-hot caribbean street Last Line: Shakes tembandumba of the quimbamba Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BLACK MAN'S SON, by OSWALD DURAND Poem Source First Line: At twenty, I loved lise. She was frail and white Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BLACK MASK, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She sleeps and reclines on the whitest of sand Last Line: To sir my flesh. %o beauty, I adore you with my one-stringedeye Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BLACK ORE, by RENE DEPESTRE Poem Source First Line: When indian sweat was suddenly soaked dry by the sun Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BLACK SMOKE, by EDOUARD GLISSANT Poem Source First Line: Mad, mad are her eyes without bread Last Line: Like an enamel engraved street %in the vertiginous cataract of the totems Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BLACK TOWN, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: Tonight I keep seeing far-off %a vision of a black town Last Line: Whose natural curve secretes %the prolific harmony of sex Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BLACK WOMAN, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Naked woman, black woman Last Line: Before jealous fate reduces you to ashes to nourish the roots %of life Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BLESSING, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Blessed / are the injured animals Last Line: When no one is left to speak. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation BLESSING THE CHILDREN, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Blue curves of our ears %are filled with a bird Last Line: All the places are holy. %everything blesses us Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment BLUES, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The spring has swept the ice from all my frozen rivers Last Line: Just play me your 'solitude,' duke, till I cry myself to sleep Subject(s): Ellington, Edward Kennedy ("duke"); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Negritude (literary Movement) BLUES, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am surrounded by fog Last Line: And let yourself descend to the bottom. %yes, drop anchor! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BOMBO, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: The bomba says: 'timbuktu!' Last Line: Bombo of the congo is now pleased Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BOOK OF MEMORIES, SELS., by RENE MARAN Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BOSTON HYMN; READ IN MUSIC HALL, JANUARY 1, 1863, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The word of the lord by night Last Line: His way home to the mark. Subject(s): American Civil War; Americans; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Patriotism; Pilgrim Fathers; United States - History; United States; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; America BOY ON A SWING, by MBUYISENI OSWALD JOSEPH MTSHALI Poem Source First Line: Slowly he moves Last Line: Why was my father jailed? Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement BREAKING, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the forest was seed Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment BREAKING OPEN, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come into the room. The room stands waiting Last Line: "to discover the country of our waking Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Prisons & Prisoners; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Shoah; Judaism BREAKING OPEN, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come into the room. The room stands waiting Last Line: To discover the country our waking %breaking open Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Prisons And Prisoners; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BRIDGE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In straw Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment BRIGHT WINGS, DAYBREAK, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Small fires, the wings %red as morning Last Line: And let wings rise, %weightless fire, above the body's ruins Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment BRUSH FIRE, by TCHICAYA U TAM'SI Poem Source First Line: The fire the river that is to say Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BRUSH FIRE, by TCHICAYA U TAM'SI Poem Source First Line: The fire the river that's to say Last Line: The taste of bronze drunk hot Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BUCCANEER WINDS, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: Give the buccaneer boucan meat, %his long, black-powder musket Last Line: And his scalding, peppered rum punch Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BUCOLIC, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then very gently the earth grows a mane Last Line: Cities into the sea. Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BUCOLIC, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then very gently the earth grows a mane Last Line: Bamboo pushes a tall herd of shivering temples and cities into the sea Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BUILDING A FUTURE, by UNKNOWN+288 Poem Source First Line: There is no lament Last Line: On the hard rock %of time Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement BURIAL OF BARBER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bear him, comrades, to his grave Last Line: Of the freedom of the west! Subject(s): Barber, Thomas; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Funerals; Kansas; Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Burials; Serfs CALL, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: They're calling me from out there Last Line: Grant me, your inexorable power, %one hour, one more minute of her! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) CALLING MYSELF HOME, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There were old women Last Line: To the shells locked together %on his back, %gold atoms dancing underground Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment CAMEROON! CAMEROON!, SELS., by ELOLONGUE EPANYA YONDO Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) CAMP 1940 (1), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Guelowar! %we have listened to you, we have heard you Last Line: In the equality of fraternal people. %and we answer, 'present, o guelowar!' Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) CAMP 1940 (2), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A sudden evening storm has pillaged the garden of fiances Last Line: The women have left for the breeze-swept islands %and the rivers of the south Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) CANDOMBE, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: Black men dance, dance, dance %round the roaring flames Last Line: Turn-cutum, tum-cutum, %round the roaring flames Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) CANNIBAL, by LEON LALEAU Poem Source First Line: This savage wish on certain days Subject(s): Cannibals; Negritude (literary Movement) CAPTAIN ZOMBI, by RENE DEPESTRE Poem Source First Line: I am captain zombi Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) CAROUSELS OF THE SEA, SELS., by EDOUARD J. MAUNICK Poet's Biography Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) CELEBRATION: BIRTH OF A COLT, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When we reach the field Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Native Americans; Ranch Life; Women Writers; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America CELEBRATION: BIRTH OF A COLT, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When we reach the field Last Line: With pollen blowing off the corn, %land that will always ownus, %everywhere it is red Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Native Americans; Ranch Life; Women - Writers CHANGING WEATHER, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There's something in the blood's stomach Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment CHICAGO DEFENDER SENDS A MAN TO LITTLE ROCK, FALL, 1957, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In little rock the people bear %babes, and comb and part their hair Last Line: The loveliest lynchee was our lord Variant Title(s): The Chicago Defender Sends A Man To Little Roc Subject(s): African Americans; Civil Rights Movement CHILD OF ISANDHLWANA (FOR SOLOMON MAHLANGU), by UNKNOWN+286 Poem Source First Line: In scaffold's chill shadow Last Line: By arm as resolute as mandela's Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement CHILD OF THE CRISIS, by KEORAPETSE KGOSITSILE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To know our sorrow %is to know our joy Alternate Author Name(s): Kgositsile, Keropatse Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement CHIVALRY AND SLAVERY, SELECTION, by JOHN BURKE Poem Text First Line: It chanced that in a southern state Last Line: * * * Subject(s): American Civil War; Cruelty; Death; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Slavery; United States - History; Dead, The; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs CITY JOHANNESBURG, by MONGANE WALLY SEROTE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: This way I salute you: Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement CITY JOHANNESBURG, by MONGANE WALLY SEROTE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This way I salute you: Last Line: Jo'burg city, johannesburg, jo'burg city. Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement CITY OF LONDON PROFIT MAN, by UNKNOWN+286 Poem Source First Line: City gent %money gent Last Line: To greed - %pop! Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA - EXPOSTULATION, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No darker record on the roll of time Last Line: Nor heaven nor earth will bid your cause god-speed Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): American Civil War; Emancipation Movement And Proclamation; Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896); U.s. - History CLAIRE DE LUNE, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: In the moonlight, in this night Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) COME IN, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Another morning walks in this canyon Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment COMMUNION: 2, by TCHICAYA U TAM'SI Poem Source First Line: When man becomes more faithful to man Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) COMRADE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Right down to your heart, down to your sensitive %entrails Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) CONGO, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oho! Congo oho! To sound your mighty name upon the Last Line: But the pirogue is reborn in the water lilies of spume %the gentle bamboos floating in the world's c Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) CONSPIRACY, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For them the stones were without marrow a snail-prison Last Line: All the solar heaters rolled and weaver birds Subject(s): Conspiracy; Negritude (literary Movement) CONSPIRACY, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For them the stones were without marrow a snail-prison Last Line: It will not be the first time that a jet of living water %topples the head of the beast Subject(s): Conspiracy; Negritude (literary Movement) CONVERSATION WITH MONICA WILSON, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You sayer %what is there to say Last Line: Let the grotesque sylph of this selva %stake out settlements in the upper network of death Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) CORRESPONDENCE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is the hour of a friendly vigil night Last Line: Will I ever again see the bleeding city %where rises the endless lament of minarets? Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) COSMOS IN LONDON, by ARTHUR NORTJE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Leaning over the wall at trafalgar square Last Line: The rat-toothed sea eats rock, and who escapes %a lover's quarrel will never rest his roots Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement COUNTERPOINT OF MARCHING FEET, by BARRY FEINBERG Poem Source First Line: We will %remember durban Last Line: When the sun ignites %above that town Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement COUNTRY GRAVEYARD, by CHARLES PRESSOIR Poem Source First Line: In the high, high grass of guinea Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) COUSIN ZAKA, by RENE DEPESTRE Poem Source First Line: I am cousin zaka Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) COYOTE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Steel jaws are tense to clamp shut Last Line: The blackest sweat %of [or, the] morning on the ground Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Native Americans CRAB-BOIL, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why do I remember the sky Last Line: We're kicked out now. I'm ready (emphasis mine) Subject(s): Racism; Civil Rights Movement CRACKS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rthe dark spelling establishes his law Last Line: Crevasse I have tried Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) CRADLED ON THE BEACH, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cradled on the beach by sand and the wondrous sea and Last Line: Fur. %like a plainsong, no, like a malinke lullaby Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) CRAYFISH, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The warm hands %the soft hands of kind men Last Line: Fear gripped inside the soft hands, the warm hands Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment CREVASSES, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saturnine spelling establishes its law: uras usury! Bar- Last Line: I who used to dream of writing dazzling with rage! %crevassei will have attempted Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) CROWS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hear them speak like men Last Line: They are quiet, %so still %I wait for a breath %to escape the warm feathers Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment DAMBALLAH-WEDO, by RENE DEPESTRE Poem Source First Line: Here I am damballah-wedo Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) DANCE TO THE AMULETS, by TCHICAYA U TAM'SI Poem Source First Line: Come over here Last Line: My mother promised me to light Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) DANCING TO ELLINGTON, by JAN SELVING Poem Source First Line: I found him downstairs Last Line: To the place I could watch %my father dance Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Dancing And Dancers; Ellington, Edward Kennedy ("duke"); Fathers; Jazz; Music And Musicians DARKNESS AND THE WIND, SELS., by FLAVIEN RANAIVO Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) DAUGHTERS SLEEPING, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday the younger one slept in my arms Last Line: And blew about their home %a warm snow Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment DAY, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To amuse myself Last Line: That hangs, facetiously, like a flag end, %from that muzzle of an oblivious volcano Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) DAY BEFORE SPRING, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In my hand Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment DAYBREAK, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: How soft %you disappear confused %daughter %daughters %I love you Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment DAYBREAK, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Daybreak. %my daughter sitting at the table Last Line: You disappear confused %daughter %daughters %I love you Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment DEAR HUSBAND, by YAMBA OULOGUEM Poem Source First Line: Once you name was bimbircokak Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) DEATH OF A MILITANT (FOR JOSEPH 'MKHUTHUZI' MDLULI), by UNKNOWN+286 Poem Source First Line: He was a broad, powerfully-made man Last Line: He shall be avenged! Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement DEATH OF THE PRINCESS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Voice of the tom-tom, gandun tom-tom, gambia tom-tom Last Line: But light slowly extends upon my evening eyes. %rest, belborg, oh rest in your splendid dress Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) DEATH ON A GOLD MINE, by LINDIWE MABUZA Poem Source First Line: After centuries of dead examples Last Line: In our continuous stream %of ripe blood Subject(s): Mines And Miners; South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement DEATH, ETC., by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Senorita, he said, come dance with me Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment DEBRIS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thoughts debris of shelters Last Line: With a little bit of dubious resentment Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Ancestors & Ancestry DEBRIS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thoughts debris of shelters Last Line: Which from time to time breaks the torpor of the compitalia %with a little bit of dubious resentment Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) DELIVERANCE, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Master only left old mistus Last Line: For them ro fool away their votes %for profit or for pleasure Subject(s): Emancipation Movement And Proclamation DEPARTURE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've gone away %by the paths bordered with dew Last Line: With no plans to return. %sell off all my jewelry Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) DESERT, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is the earth Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment DESTROYER OF DRUMS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sinister man, %beak of steel Last Line: Destroyer of drums, %killer of life Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Troy DIFFERENT HORIZON, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night forked stigmata Last Line: The purple muscle of the monkshodd of our sun prepares to spring Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) DIRECTIONS FOR CARRYING EXPLOSIVE NUCLEAR WASTES THROUGH ..., by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enter the long island expressway at brookhaven Last Line: And look out for the crazies. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Driving & Drivers; New York City; Nuclear Waste; Trucks & Trucking; Nuclear Freeze; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Teamsters; Truckers; Freight DISAPPEARANCES, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever love or hate we hold Last Line: And loving every small thing %every step we take on earth Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment DISCOURSE ON IMPERIALISM, SELS., by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How did you come to develop the concept of negritude? Last Line: But it is not the only thing Subject(s): Imperialism; Negritude (literary Movement) DJERBAN WOMENHOMPSON, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Inspire me, tanit the tender woman, tanit the tunisian Last Line: And the rolling rhythms of their graceful quivering flight. %and hosannas rise into the blue, starry Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) DON'T BE TAKEN IN, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That sap does not stray onto the wrong trails Last Line: Of a man's day Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) DON'T BE TAKEN IN, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That sap does not stray onto the wrong trails Last Line: The strength of my sun worries about the capacity %of a man's day Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) DRIVING AT NIGHT, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The world is full of these roads Last Line: Asleep at night %dreaming all the dark roads %out of the world Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment DUSK, by VICTOR MOTAPANYANE Poem Source First Line: Dusk goads my mind Last Line: The everlasting spring of struggle - %patience, perserverance and success Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement EARTH AND SKY, by JOSEPH MIEZAN BOGNINI Poem Source First Line: Earth and sky are infinites Last Line: But to love you always Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) EARTH, SELS., by EDOUARD GLISSANT Poem Source First Line: The poet's desire is not to abstract himself from his being Last Line: I see only this trace of our feet Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Poetry And Poets EBONY WOOD, SELS., by JACQUES ROUMAIN Poem Source First Line: Negro peddler of revolt Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) EBONY WOOD, SELS., by JACQUES ROUMAIN Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ECLIPSE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: While you were looking at the mountain Last Line: A fireline %above the mountain's blue smoke Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment ECLISPE: 2, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The earth shows her face to the moon Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment ELDRIDGE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nobody mentioned war Last Line: Break, or / be broken Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; African Americans; Cleaver, Eldridge (1935-1998) ELEGIES (ELEGY FOR AYNINA FALL 1), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What formidable calm beneath the sky! And not a single Last Line: Peoples. %aynina fall is dead. Aynina fall lives again among us Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGIES (ELEGY FOR AYNINA FALL 2), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nina! Nina! Nina! Wai niina! Last Line: Nina! Nina! Nina! Wai niina! %fall! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGIES (ELEGY OF SAUDADES), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I listen from my heart to the shadowy song of saudades Last Line: I listen from the deepest part of me to the shadowy moan of %saudades Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGIES (ELEGY OF THE CIRCUMCISED), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Childhood night, blue night, gold night, o moon! Last Line: It soars like the phoenix! It sings with wings spread %over the slaughter of words Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGIES (ELEGY OF THE WATERS), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You, summer, and again summer, summer childhood Last Line: On thatch roofs and on wooly heads. %and life is reborn in all its colors Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR GEORGES POMPIDOU (1), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And I said no! I will not celebrate caesar Last Line: Of the tatchai brigade. Then the spring wind blew %terribly and made all the red flags flap and flut Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR GEORGES POMPIDOU (2), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Friend, if I sing of you beyond racial hatret and walls of Last Line: I pretended not to know, and we played our loser-takes-all %friendship Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR GEORGES POMPIDOU (3), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Georges, friend, you whose face already wore the white Last Line: You departed calmly, toward your blue joy, toward the door %of paradise Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR GEORGES POMPIDOU (4), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now that you are gone - you had promised me, we Last Line: Two pure metals melted down and mixed together? %it's been said that they will be forgiven much Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR GEORGES POMPIDOU (5), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Just as those who loved their land, their people and all Last Line: And I offered many times my sadness and my dead %to your rebel people, your painful and generous peo Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR GEORGES POMPIDOU (6), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I chose a weekday, an afternoon when the light Last Line: But it is so sad to die on a spring day when the light %is white-gold and your legs come alive in da Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR GEORGES POMPIDOU (7), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the ramil night, I think of you, my beloved brother Last Line: Listen as the blue-black chant ascends in the dravidian %night Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR JEAN-MARIE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For twelve and one moons we all have cried for him Last Line: Strike this chief who is greying and dry like a stack of hay. %I want your will and that your will b Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR MARTIN LUTHER KING: 1, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who said I was stable in my mastery, black under scarlet Last Line: And you speak of happiness when I am mourning martin %lutherking! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR MARTIN LUTHER KING: 2, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This night, this clear insomnia, I remember yesterday and Last Line: And senegal harder than africa in nineteen hundred and %sixty-eight! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR MARTIN LUTHER KING: 3, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is the third year, the third wound, as it was in our mother Last Line: Lord let the voice of martin luther king %fall on nigeria and on nigritia Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR MARTIN LUTHER KING: 4, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was the fourth of april, nineteen hundred and sixty-eight Last Line: Bones %exult in the resurrection! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR MARTIN LUTHER KING: 5, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As the reverend's heart evaporated like incense and his soul Last Line: In his living hand, I sing of transparent america where light %is a polyphony of colors, I sing of a Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR PHILIPPE-MAGUILEN SENGHOR (1), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The days marched by in gloomy boubous, and night-days Last Line: Singing, steal away to jesus? %when the telephone rings like a gunshot to the heart Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR PHILIPPE-MAGUILEN SENGHOR (2), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was the seventh of june, at pentecost Last Line: Five norman women did everything they could %to make him a happy child Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR PHILIPPE-MAGUILEN SENGHOR (3), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And I said 'no!' to the doctor. My son isn't dead. He Last Line: Our child %rise in the dawning sun, in the transfiguration of his beauty! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR PHILIPPE-MAGUILEN SENGHOR (4), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He was bathed for the celestial wedding, scented with fresh Last Line: Oh prince of kindness, we will always be thirsty for your %smile Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR PHILIPPE-MAGUILEN SENGHOR (5), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You who have loved so much will be forgiven much Last Line: The neck and you will let loose the faint cry of pain and joy, %the same cry of paradise, which is h Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR PHILIPPE-MAGUILEN SENGHOR (6), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O may september return and its tenderness you loved so Last Line: When I hear rising toward heaven: steal away, steal away, %steal away to jesus! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR THE QUEEN OF SHEBA: 1, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, she kissed me, banakh! With a kiss from her mouth Last Line: And in the east, a diamond dawn rises from a new era, %for you are black and you are comely Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR THE QUEEN OF SHEBA: 2, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O memory, memory burning in the dark blue night Last Line: O my sage, o my poet, %making your fingers dance on the strings of your kora Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR THE QUEEN OF SHEBA: 3, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The promised day, the festive dawn exuding the fresh-smelling Last Line: Beating the land in the time when - your lips barely %opened-- %our arms swim in the torrent like vi Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR THE QUEEN OF SHEBA: 4, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The boubou falls. At the dry beat of the music Last Line: In your open angle and melodious thighs the song %of golden pollen in the joy of our death-rebirth Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR THE QUEEN OF SHEBA: 5, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Still we waited nine nights and nine days to enter Last Line: Yes! She has kissed me a kiss from her mouth, %my black and comely one among the daughters of %jerus Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY OF CARTHAGE (1), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is still you, my love, who comes to visit, inhabit, and Last Line: Thunderbolt %in the heart and the twin palms go up in flames Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY OF CARTHAGE (2), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is here in this africa that courage and audacity met long Last Line: Yet this evening, I cry over you. You, dido, my great %desolation Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY OF CARTHAGE (3), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And over you, hannibal, who inherited her resentment and Last Line: In gold letters on marble. I beat the rhythm of your passion%with the eyes of a lynx Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY OF CARTHAGE (4), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Jugurtha, jugurtha, my hero, mine at last, and my numidian Last Line: On one seamless land. And like a satisfied child %you sleep in the arms of death Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY OF CARTHAGE (5), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In your moorish palace in carthage, I invoked you, supreme Last Line: Of your two clasped hands, I greet your greeting of peace, %you, the last fighter Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY OF MIDNIGHT, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poet's Biography First Line: Summer, splendid summer feedng the poet on the milk of your Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Surrealism ELEGY OF MIDNIGHT, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Summer, splendid summer feedng the poet on the milk of your Last Line: My green and gold-eyed doll with a voice so marvellous, %it is the very tongue of poetry Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Surrealism ELEGY OF THE DUKE OF MARMALADE, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: O my fine, my honeycoloured duke of marmalade Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY OF THE TRADE WINDS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This july five years of silence have passed since we heard Last Line: Of the trade winds, my spirit open like a sail %and as mobile as a palm Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY ON THE DUKE OF MARMALADE, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: Oh my fine, my honey-colored duke of marmalade! Last Line: Oh my fine, my honey-colored duke of marmalade? Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELK SONG, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We give thanks Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Elk; Environment EMANCIPATION, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Fling out your banners, your honors be bringing Last Line: Onward to honor, to glory and fame. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States EMANCIPATION, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a time for much rejoicing Last Line: God is with us now, forever. Subject(s): African Americans; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Negroes; American Blacks; Antislavery Movement - United States EMANCIPATION IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, APRIL 16, 1862, by JAMES MADISON BELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unfurl your banners to the breeze! Last Line: Hath lighter grown by marching on. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Washington, D.c.; Antislavery Movement - United States EMBERS OF SOWETO, by UNKNOWN+286 Poem Source First Line: Out of the crucible %warrior army of new age Last Line: The cry vrystaat! Dries on assassin's lips Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement EMBRACING EXILE, by LINDIWE MABUZA Poem Source First Line: Yes %we drift Last Line: High on its sunlit crest %of awesome beauty Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement ENDURANCE: 5, by DENNIS BRUTUS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we shook hands in the athenian dusk Last Line: And the dark enclosure of wire %whose barbs are buried in my brain Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement ENLISTED MAN'S DESPAIR, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For two weeks he has been there, turning around Last Line: The brutal fall, sweet dizziness! %o weak, too weak child, such a loyal traitor to your genius! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ENTRANCE TO TIME IN THREE VOICES, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: ...From the background of a dream, the fleeing Last Line: Faithful, fleeting, abolished fili-mele Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) EPACTS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With a limp gesture the hill sprinkled with dust over Last Line: I've always rejected the pact of this lagoonal calendar Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Colonialism EPACTS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With a limp gesture the hill sprinkled with dust over Last Line: Let it be clear to all that calculating the epacts %I've always rejected the pact of this lagoonal c Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) EPITAPH, by TCHICAYA U TAM'SI Poem Source First Line: We are this union Last Line: We have still to ford Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) EPITAPH OF LOVE (IN MEMORY OF SOLOMON MAHLANGU), by LINDIWE MABUZA Poem Source First Line: Where does the brave steel go Last Line: To the unbroken rhythm %of surging dancing spears Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement ESANZO: SONGS FOR MY COUNTRY, SELS., by ANTOINE-ROGER BOLAMBA Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ETHIOPIA AT THE CALL OF THE RACE OF SHEBA (1), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bless you, mother! %I hear your voice as I surrender to the Last Line: The wells and mirages on the tann salt flats %and your chin trembled under swollen, twisted lips Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ETHIOPIA AT THE CALL OF THE RACE OF SHEBA (2), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bless you, mother! %I remember the days of my fathers, the Last Line: While from the distance, surging hot and smelly, %comes the classic lowing of a hundred herds Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ETHIOPIA AT THE CALL OF THE RACE OF SHEBA (3), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bless you, mother! %I do not blow upon these pious images Last Line: Salty blood of the fatted bull in the prime of life %may spurt upon me and my carnal lips Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ETHIOPIA AT THE CALL OF THE RACE OF SHEBA (4), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bless you, mother! %haven't these colonial days bled our dawn Last Line: At a young man's funeral, %rises from the mines out there, in the far south Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ETHIOPIA AT THE CALL OF THE RACE OF SHEBA (5), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bless you, mother! %I have seen - in the light sleep of what Last Line: Their pink and white villas far from town, %far from the misery in the native quarters Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ETHIOPIA AT THE CALL OF THE RACE OF SHEBA (6), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bless you, mother! %recognize your son among his friends as Last Line: The jew driven out of germany, and dupont and dupuis %and all the guys from saint-denis Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ETHIOPIA AT THE CALL OF THE RACE OF SHEBA (7), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bless you, mother! %recognize your son from his authentic Last Line: And, in the red evening of your old age, greet %the clear dawn of a new day Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ETHIOPICS, SELS., by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poet's Biography Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) EVERY ATOM OF HIS SUBSTANCE (A TRIBUTE TO JACK HODGSON), by BARRY FEINBERG Poem Source First Line: Jack is here with us Last Line: As the moon pilots the night %towards the teeth of the sun Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement EVOLUTION IN LIGHT AND WATER, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Above the gold dragons of rivers Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment FACES OF COMMITMENT, by LINDIWE MABUZA Poem Source First Line: It's been long now Last Line: It also defines precisely %to bind us closer Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement FEAR OF THE DARK, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After ten years Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment FESTIVE SONG TO BE WEPT, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: Cuba-nanigos and good times Last Line: Puerto rico-a hodgepodge Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) FIDELITY, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No, I did not crack my golden vase Last Line: And in my drunkenness, I offer my sacrifice %after ablutions in the clear fountain Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the burden of our joy Last Line: Turned out the war-cloud's light to thee. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States 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 FINDING BEADS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: White beads Last Line: Our hands like the dry reeds %knotted together %could sweep all this away, %break the clear thread Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment FIRE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fire breaks through rivers Last Line: Seamless, burning alive morning's double embers %the salamander passes through Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment FIREWING, by BREYTEN BREYTENBACH Poem Source First Line: When you think of your country Last Line: Or we'll teach the pigs to climb trees Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement FIRST DAY AFTER THE WAR, by MAZISI KUNENE Poem Source First Line: We heard the songs of a wedding party Last Line: We saw our ancestors travelling tall on the horizon Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement FIRST LIGHT, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I early morning Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment FIRST LIGHT, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In early morning %I forget I'm in this world Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment FIRST SONG OF DEPARTURE, SELS., by MARTIAL SINDA Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) FISHERMAN, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sun, yellow spider Last Line: Sunlight and air %pulled in on a line Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment FISHING, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Stones go nowhere Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment FISTFUL OF NEWS, by ANTOINE-ROGER BOLAMBA Poem Source First Line: The hills hunch their backs Last Line: Can do anything against it Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) FLIGHT OF THE SPEAR, by UNKNOWN+286 Poem Source First Line: Let all behold Last Line: You are as great as the mountains %of your country! Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement FLINT WARRIOR THROUGH ALL WORDS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Disorder organizes itself into an appraiser of hills Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) FLINT WARRIOR THROUGH ALL WORDS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Disorder organizes itself into an appraiser of hills Last Line: Flint warrior %vomited %through the mangrove swamp serpent's snout Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) FOG, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The fog frightens me! Last Line: While the weak moan of my dying dreams %answers their voices Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) FOLKSONG, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The men are in assembly Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment FOR A DEAD AFRICAN, by DENNIS BRUTUS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have no heroes and no wars Last Line: The warriors who secured the final prize Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement FOR A WOUNDED BLACK FIGHTER, F. F. I., by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So black the f. F. I. In the blue sky! So heavy Last Line: Sleep, for you have given the richness of your heart - %now may peace cradle your sleep! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) FOR ANDY GOODMAN, MICHAEL SCHWERNER, AND JAMES CHANEY, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three faces Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Murder FOR BRAM FISCHER, by DAVID+(2) EVANS Poem Source First Line: This time has known no peace, not yet Last Line: Men have honoured you %we too Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement FOR CHIEF, by DENNIS BRUTUS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So the old leonine heart is stilled Last Line: And how shall I express my gratitude and love? Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John Subject(s): Luthuli, Albert John (1898-1967); South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement FOR DON M. - BANNED, by MONGANE WALLY SEROTE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is a dry white season Last Line: But seasons come to pass Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement FOR ETHEL ROSENBERG, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Europe 1953: / throughout my random sleepwalk Last Line: With secrets she has never sold Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Capital Punishment; Communism; Mccarthyism; Rosenberg Case; Nuclear Freeze; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Rosenberg, Ethel; Rosenberg, Julius FOR HAITI, by RENE DEPESTRE Poem Source First Line: Haiti %for hundreds of years Last Line: On my unending thirst %on my unending pain Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) FOR MEDGAR EVERS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They're afraid of me Last Line: And above them a tree shall grow / for shade Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Evers, Medgar (1925-1963) FOR MEDGAR EVERS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They're afraid of me Last Line: And above them a tree will grow %for shade Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Evers, Medgar (1925-1963) FORGET NOT OUR MOTHERS, by ILVA MACKAY Poem Source Last Line: Africa shall be free! %we shall free her! Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement FORGETFULNESS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've forgotten the routine of schoolwork Last Line: All my pagan desires %far from the rancor of yestrday's books Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) FORWARD EVER!, by LINDIWE MABUZA Poem Source First Line: Like the bouncing sounds of seasons Last Line: In the future's pounding shores Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement FOUR SONGS FOR SIGNARE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Long, long between your hands you held the warrior's black face Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) FRAGIL, SELS., by TCHICAYA U TAM'SI Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) FRANCIE-THE-POSSESSED, by OSWALD DURAND Poem Source First Line: See her there, francie-the-mad Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) FREEDOM AT MCNEALY'S, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All around old chattanooga Last Line: As you would a faithful horse. Subject(s): African Americans; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Negroes; American Blacks; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty FREEDOM DAY SONG, by UNKNOWN+289 Poem Source First Line: Each freedom day vorster Last Line: Is your nightmare now Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement FREEDOM IN PASSAGE, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The jolly roger flapping in the ever barbary wind Last Line: To correct the erinyes' blunders and the stiff wine of moray%eels Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) FREEDOM OF THE MIND, by WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High walls and huge the body may confine Last Line: And in its watches wearies every star. Variant Title(s): The Free Mind;freedom For The Mind;sonnet Written In Prison;liberty Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty FREEDOM RIDE, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: As if, after high street Last Line: Or a mosque adrift on a milk-fed pond Subject(s): Buses; Parks, Rosa (1913-2005); Civil Rights Movement FRENCH GARDEN, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Calm garden %grave garden Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) FRIDAY NIGHT, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I see a light in her kitchen Last Line: Peppermint is every bit as good as the ambulance. %and I said, yes. It is home grown Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment FULANI BEAUTY, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, who will give back to me Last Line: Her inviting figure %and the fine opulence of her hips? Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) FUNERAL OF ANOTHER VICTIM, by UNKNOWN+287 Poem Source First Line: Doornkop %black brawn thet we carry Last Line: Yet like a sea %it never reaches Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement GAMBLE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Those men with dollars on the mind Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment GAMECOCK, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: A foil-thrust of light, %yellow light, red light Last Line: Plumed rum to quench %the sweltering island defiant! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) GARDEN OF FRANCE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Calm garden, %serious garden Last Line: Throbbing %passionately? Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) GARRISON, by AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Freedom's first champion in our fettered land Last Line: Survived, -- its ruin and our peace to see. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Garrison, William Lloyd (1805-1879); Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty GARRISON, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The storm and peril overpast Last Line: A hand to set the captive free! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Garrison, William Lloyd (1805-1879); Antislavery Movement - United States GATHERED AT THE RIVER; FOR BEATRICE HAWLEY AND JOHN JAGEL, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if the trees were not indifferent Last Line: No pollen. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Atomic Bomb - Victims; Hiroshima, Japan; Nagasaki, Japan; Nature; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb GENESIS FOR WIFREDO, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No more alburnam %only a dawn of pure bones Last Line: As for blood there's only a sinuous thread %in the median of a parturient verb Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) GEODES, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We open Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment GERANIUMS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Life is burning Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment GERMINAL, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Downstairs, things are growing Last Line: And all things saved and growing Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment GET UP, GO AWOL!, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The soldiers on bivouac Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment GHOST WALK, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The neighbors who never Last Line: And a last glass of wine Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural; Rosa Parkes (1913-2005); Civil Rights Movement GIRL HELD WITHOUT BAIL, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like it here just fine Last Line: I like it fine in jail %and I don't want no bail Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement GLEAMS AND GLIMMERS, SELS., by BIRAGO DIOP Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) GOING TO TOWN, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wake up early while you sleep Last Line: Close your eyes & it comes, %the music of old roads %we still travel together, so far %the sound is Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment GOING TO WORK, by MBUYISENI OSWALD JOSEPH MTSHALI Poem Source First Line: I go to work Last Line: Rolling under mr. De wiel's oxwagon Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement GOLDEN BULLETS, SELS., by GUY TIROLIEN Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) GOLDEN MORNINGS IN POPENGUINE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I will take you back to the tabor islands you know: %I will be the flute of my shepherdess Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) GOVERNOR EBOUE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The white eagle shrieked over the sea and over the islands Last Line: Africa, become white steel, africa, become black host %so the hope of man can live Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) GRASSHOPPERS AND OLD MEN, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Grasshoppers the colors of old suitcases Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment GRAVEL IN MY THROAT, by UNKNOWN+288 Poem Source Last Line: I'll be damned if I talk Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement GREAT LAWS AND LIGHT, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Have faith Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment GROUP PHOTO FROM PRETORIA LOCAL .. FOURTH ANNIVERSARY, by JEREMY CRONIN Poem Source First Line: An uprooted tree leaves Last Line: Mostly in short pants, %some of us barefoot Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement GROWING, by MONGANE WALLY SEROTE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No! %this is not dying when the trees Last Line: I'm teaching about the growing of things Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement GUARDING A CHILD'S SLEEP, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Her body sweats in sleep Last Line: Who lost their red horses %as if tethered to fire Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment GUEDE-NIBO, by RENE DEPESTRE Poem Source First Line: I am guede-nibo Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) GUERILLA, by COSMO PIETERSE Poem Source First Line: I sometimes feel a cold love burning Last Line: Even and all our death must lead Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement GUERILLAS, by DENNIS BRUTUS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And I lie with my body curved to the light clay Last Line: And a fierce will to smash an evil cruel thing Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement GUINEA, by JACQUES ROUMAIN Poem Source First Line: It's the long road to guinea Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) HACKBERRY TREES, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We walk small Last Line: The insects walk over our warm skin. %they think we are the earth Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment HALF-LIFE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Things of the past remain, %the dancing horse Last Line: Into tomorrow a power %looking simply like lace %and light Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment HANDCUFFS, by MBUYISENI OSWALD JOSEPH MTSHALI Poem Source First Line: Handcuffs %have steel fangs Last Line: Have hope, brother, %despair is for the defeated Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement HANDS, by BERNARD DADIE Poem Source First Line: Free hands %living hands Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) HANDS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The poor hands, overworked and dry Last Line: Assert themselves through the skin Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Hands; Women HANG, by HUGH LEWIN Poem Source First Line: I once met a man Last Line: Finish and klaar %a corpse Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement HARLEM RIOT, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And I awakened one morning Last Line: I need shocks and shouts and blood %and deaths! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) HAVE NO MERCY, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Smoke swamp / the rupestral images of the unknown Last Line: Like a viper born from the blond force of respendrnce Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Swamps HAVE NO MERCY, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Smoke swamp %the rupestral images of the unknown Last Line: Like a viper born from the blonde force of resplendence Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) HEADLINE TO SUMMARIZE A PASSION, by TCHICAYA U TAM'SI Poem Source First Line: I lend a deck of cards to someone passing by Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) HEARTH, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Memory honoring the landscape Last Line: In the palms of an autumn Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Memory HEARTH, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Memory honoring the landscape Last Line: A recollection of very soft skin is not out of the question %in the palms of an autumn Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) HEARTLAND, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There are few moments of silence Last Line: Breathes the heart of soil upward, the voice of our gods beneath concrete. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment HELL MURAL: PANEL 2, by RONALD W. WALLACE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Iri and toshi maruki are painting the bomb Last Line: In iri and toshi maruki's painting, the bomb %is hiroshima, nagasaki, belsen, dachau, and vietnam Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War HELL, WELL, HEAVEN, by MONGANE WALLY SEROTE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I do not know where I have been Last Line: Was that thoko's voice? %hell, well, heavens! Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement HENRY WARD BEECHER, by CHARLES HENRY PHELPS Poem Text First Line: His tongue was touched with sacred fire Last Line: Wherever men lay bound he clave. Subject(s): Beecher, Henry Ward (1813-1887); Clergy; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Politics & Government; Writing & Writers; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Antislavery Movement - United States HERITAGE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: From my mother, the antique mirror Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; United States - Race Relations; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indian HERITAGE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From my mother, the antique mirror Last Line: Of never having a home Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; U.s. - Race Relations HERITAGE OF LIBERATION, by MAZISI KUNENE Poem Source First Line: Since it was you who in all these thin seasons Last Line: We bequeath to you the rays of morning Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement HISTORY OF FIRE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My mother is a fire beneath stone Last Line: Fanning the flame Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Fire; Smoke HOMECOOKED SUN-DRIED, by UNKNOWN+289 Poem Source First Line: Beasts are preying in our land Last Line: Monomanic %misanthropes Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement HOMEWARD BOUND, by ES'KIA MPHAHLELE Poem Source First Line: The mountains that I like Last Line: You need not look just the way I want Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement HOPE, by VICTOR MOTAPANYANE Poem Source First Line: Night embers are burning Last Line: Envelops our miserable lives Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement HORSE; FOR PIERRE LOEB, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My horse falters against skulls Last Line: The chlorophyllous dough of t horses;he vast ravens of the future Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Horses HORSE; FOR PIERRE LOEB, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My horse falters against skulls Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) HOUSE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment HOW LONG?, by JAMES MONROE WHITFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How long, o gracious god! How long Last Line: Exult in glorious liberty. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States HOW TO SURVIVE NUCLEAR WAR; AFTER READING IBUSE'S 'BLACK RAIN', by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brought low in kyoto Last Line: The enemies of despair. Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Radiation & Radiation Sickness; Survival; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb HOW WE DID IT, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We all traveled into that big room, Last Line: Waiting for morning Subject(s): Antiwar Movement; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 HOWARD AT ATLANTA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Right in the track where sherman Last Line: A joy and blessing! Subject(s): Atlanta, Georgia; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Howard, Oliver Otis (1830-1909); Antislavery Movement - United States HURRICANE, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: When the hurricane unfolds Last Line: With the scattered branches, of the palm Subject(s): Hurricanes; Negritude (literary Movement) HURRICANE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The hurricane uproots everything around me Last Line: Blow upon the strings of my kora %so my song can rise as pure as the gold galam Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) HYMN .. CELEBRATION OF 3RD ANNIVERSARY BRITISH EMANCIPATION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O holy father! Just and true Last Line: Be praise and glory evermore. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States HYMN AFTER THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Giver of all that crowns our days Last Line: With peace on earth, good-will to men! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States HYMN FOR THE CELEBRATION OF EMANCIPATION AT NEWBURYPORT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not unto us who did but seek Last Line: To whom be glory, first and last! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Newburyport, Massachusetts; Antislavery Movement - United States I AM ALONE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am alone in the plains Last Line: Along deserted %roads Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Solitude I AM THE EXILE, by DENNIS BRUTUS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I hear the cries and sirens Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement I AM TIRED NOW, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am tired now. From behind goree the steamship's siren Last Line: And I am tired, not weary, alas, just tired of going nowhere%when the urge to leave tears me apart Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) I AWOKE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I awoke this evening beneath the warm rain Last Line: Feretia apodanthera %watered by my tears at night Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) I GUIDED THE LONG TRANSHUMANCE OF THE HERD, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To walk across the slumbers of cyclones that carry Last Line: The flambe belly of receding fair weather Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Walking I GUIDED THE LONG TRANSHUMANCE OF THE HERD, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To walk across the slumbers of cyclones that carry Last Line: The most plutonic part of a nugget that is none other than %the flambe belly of receding fair weathe Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) I KNOW NOT WHEN IT WAS, FR. ETHIOPICS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) I LOOK OVER YOUR LETTER, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I look over your letter under the parasol shading the blue Last Line: The sea is beautiful and the air is mild, %just as it was on the banks of the great lakes Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) I LOVE YOUR LETTER, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I love your letter, your words of blue dream Last Line: I love your blue letter, sweeter than hyssop. %its tenderness tells me you are my love Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) I REMEMBER SHARPEVILLE, by SIPHO SYDNEY SEPAMLA Poem Source First Line: On the 21st of march 1960 Last Line: Africa's priceless heritage to mankind Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement I SHALL COME, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I shall come, my tall lord Last Line: But joined to my self, %and merged from now on with the blood of my veins Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) I THANK YOU, LORD, FR. DANCE OF THE DAYS, by BERNARD DADIE Poem Source Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) I WANT TO SAY YOUR NAME, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I want to say your name, naett! I want to make you an incantation, nzaett! Last Line: Princess of elissa exiled from fouta on a catastrophic day Subject(s): Love; Negritude (literary Movement) I WILL PRONOUNCE YOUR NAME, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I will pronounce your name, naett, I will declaim you, naett! Last Line: Princess of elissa, banished from futa on the fateful day Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) I WILL WAIT, by MONGANE WALLY SEROTE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have tasted, ever so often Last Line: Having been so flooded and so dry, %I wait Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement I'M READING MIRRORS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm reading mirrors, a novel, a poem, a play, I don't know Last Line: My heart, %the primordial identity of the same death rebirth Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) I'VE GONE ON RETREAT, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've gone on retreat to popenguine-the-serer Last Line: But already you have met the september tides, %the strong surge of fragrances beside the wild mint Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) I, A FREEDOM FIGHTER, by UNKNOWN+288 Poem Source First Line: I am the guttural sounds of your fear Last Line: Nay, to throw it in an endless pit Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement I. A PLACE FOR THE EAGLE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Across a field of snow %where the coyote's track ends Last Line: Inhabiting skin and hair %like silence around itself Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment IBIS-ANUBIS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A few traces of erosion Last Line: Under the incomprehensible alphabets of ther moment Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Memory IBIS-ANUBIS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A few traces of erosion Last Line: Eagle owl word you will plane this cry from its %anubis snout Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) IDAHO FALLS, 1961, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dark fields, dark sky. %wires carry light to children Last Line: Blazing through narrow wires %birds touch and leave Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment IF POETS MUST HAVE FLAGS, by DAVID+(2) EVANS Poem Source First Line: They %ask for graceful poetry Last Line: If we must have flags - %let them be always red Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement II. STONE DWELLERS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ants, living in the mountians Last Line: Touch the people %the country %and things we try to forget Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment III. HOUSES, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My father and I driving Last Line: Birds %that remind us we are in this life, %we are this world Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment IMAGININGS, OR DREAMING OF YOUNG GIRL, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I imagine that you are here Last Line: With the sun spotting my naked skin, %with big petals of butterfly wings %and every kind of crawling Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) IMPRESSIONIST SKETCHES, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: Let's climb, modern acrobats, %onto the metaphor trapeze Last Line: And drops into the water, %like an anchor, %its first star Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) IN DETENTION, by CHRISTOPHER VAN WYK Poem Source First Line: He fell from the ninth floor Last Line: He hung from a piece of soap while washing Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement IN LABOUR PRISONS CONJURED, by UNKNOWN+288 Poem Source First Line: In the ripe-banana coloured sun Last Line: I shall count aloud our blessings %in sacrifice Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement IN MAN LIES ALL HIS REVOLUTION, by COSMO PIETERSE Poem Source First Line: February %each young man dead Last Line: We swear %lie %basil Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement IN MEMORIAM, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today is sunday Last Line: And descend to the streets, joining my brothers %who have blue eyes and hard hands Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) IN MEMORIAM, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today is sunday, %I fear the crowd of my fellows with such Last Line: And descend to the streets, joining my brothers %who have blue eyes and hard hands Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) IN MEMORIAM, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is sunday Last Line: With her hands Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) IN MEMORIAN, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sunday, %the crowding stony faces of my fellows make me afraid Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) IN MEMORY OF A BLACK UNION LEADER, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let no tempest subside no rock stagger Last Line: To the eyes of the comrades, varnished light vaguely tinged with blood Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) IN ORDER TO SPEAK, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In order to revitalize the roaring of phosphenes Last Line: To the point of firevomiting / its mouth Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Speech; Anger IN ORDER TO SPEAK, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In order to revitalize the roaring of phosphenes Last Line: To the point of firevomiting %its mouth Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) IN SILENCE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In silence the world grows Last Line: Listneing for wind %that doesn't come tonight Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment IN SO MANY DARK ROOMS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is impossible to close a door on dust Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment INCANTATIONS OF THE SEA: MOANDO COAST, by MUKULA KADIMA-NZUJI Poem Source First Line: Shocks of dizziness Last Line: And the rough backwash of my being Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) INCONGRUOUS BUILDERS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too bad if the forests wilts into pereskia stalks Last Line: Around a few ghosts more real than they appear / incongruous builders Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Environmental Abuse; Buildings & Builders INCONGRUOUS BUILDERS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too bad if the forests wilts into pereskia stalks Last Line: Around a few ghosts more real than they appear %inconruous builders Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) INDIES: 49, by EDOUARD GLISSANT Poem Source First Line: They fastened a people to merchant ships Last Line: Supported on the bleeding of the great and mysterious indies Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) INDIES: 50, by EDOUARD GLISSANT Poem Source First Line: One of them, taking advantage of the crew's momentary carelessness Last Line: But surely every sailor knows it since that time Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) INDIES: 51, by EDOUARD GLISSANT Poem Source First Line: The child climbs to the island's highest point Last Line: We are descended from those who survived Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) INDIES: 52, by EDOUARD GLISSANT Poem Source First Line: O sun! O age-old labor mutely mixed with ocean Last Line: May the song of death where darkness reigned be forever ended Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) INITIATIONS, SELS., by PAUL NIGER Poem Source First Line: What? %a rhythm %a wave in the night through the forests Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) INJUSTICE, by CHRISTOPHER VAN WYK Poem Source First Line: Me, I cry easily if you're hurt Last Line: I'll never get used to nightmares %but often in dream of freedom Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement INSIDE OF THINGS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Such lovely voices, the angels Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment INSIDE THE CHICAGO ZOO, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The black snakes are there Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment INTERIOR, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We bathe in an african presence Last Line: Softens my obsession with this presence so %black, brown, and rd, oh! Red as african soil Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) INTERNUNCIO, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Off and on I lose it for weeks Last Line: And of my own blood a firefly among fireflies Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Language INTERNUNCIO, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Off and on I lose it for weeks Last Line: Spectral and spasmodic %and of my own blood a firefly among fireflies Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) INVENTORY OF REEFS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So comely / so comely / caribbees Last Line: Adieu aviary / cagelings adieu Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Birds INVENTORY OF REEFS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So comely %so comely %caribbees Last Line: Chanson of the cage %adieu aviary %cagelings adieu Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ISANDHLWANDA, by ZINJIVA NKONDO Poem Source First Line: Isandhlwanda %mayihlome! The war-cry Last Line: Let the spear sing Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement IT IS THE NECESSARY PASSAGE, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the necessary passage that from here I decline Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) IT MUST BE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am an old woman Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment IT RAINED, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It rained all night Last Line: Sparks %of sulphur, like you, no? Like night in the hivernage Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) IT'S FIVE O'CLOCK, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's five o'clock. You'd say teatime. The seventeenth hour Last Line: And there to the north and left is the estrees fort, %colored with the caked blood of anguish Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) IV. WILL NOT HOLD, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Between the mountain and the ant Last Line: Fly off the page %and enter the air %like that small ounce the soul weighs Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment J.B. MARKS: AN EPITAPH, by BARRY FEINBERG Poem Source First Line: He was a mountain of a man Last Line: Let's look (as he once did) %to others among us! Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement JACKSON STATE, MAY 15, 1970, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is my black-eyed-susan school Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Jackson State University JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: City of tense and stricken faces Last Line: The graves of the dead, %and the birthing stools of grannies long since fled Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Jackson, Mississippi JOAL, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Joal! %I remember. %I remember the regal signare women under Last Line: Where sometimes an orphan jazz comes sobbing, sobbing, %sobbing Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) JOHN BROWN OF OSAWATOMIE [OCTOBER 16, 1859], by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John brown in kansas settled, like a steadfast yankee farmer Last Line: May trouble you more than ever, when you've nailed his coffin down! Variant Title(s): How John Brown Took Harper's Ferry;john Brown At Harper's Ferry;how Old John Brown Took Harper's Ferry Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Harpers Ferry, West Virginia; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; Serfs JOHN CHARLES FREMONT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy error, fremont, simply was to act Last Line: But the full time to harden into things. Variant Title(s): To John C. Fremont Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Fremont, John Charles (1813-1890); Missouri; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty JOURNEY, by BREYTEN BREYTENBACH Poem Source First Line: Ringing out from our blue heavens Last Line: Such is death this blood in our veins: %freedom or death Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement JUST LIKE THE LEGEND, by LEON GONTRAN DAMAS Poem Source First Line: Hair that I gloss down Last Line: Of the monkey-man Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) JUSTICE LISTENS AT THE GATES OF BEAUTY, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A flight / pauses in the tree ferns Last Line: Indeed above everything Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Courts & Courtiers; Disasters; Beauty JUSTICE LISTENS AT THE GATES OF BEAUTY, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A flight %pauses in the tree ferns Last Line: That the feast be restored %that justice beam %indeed above everything Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) KALAHARI, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: Why now the word kalahari? Last Line: Kalahari! Kalahari! Kalahari! %why now the word kalahari? Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) KAYA-MAGAN, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Kaya-magan am I! The first person Last Line: Now sleep, fawns of my womb, sleep under my crescent %moon Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) KILLER PURSUIT (INCONCLUSIVE POEM), by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: I killed you, fili-mele: so buoyant Last Line: For only while you fling my song whirls on! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) KNIFE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This knife was used to sever the cord Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment KNOWLEDGE OF MORNES, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mornes are not a convulsion of giant birds Last Line: Your ax planted clearly %in the dry heart of slumbers and the poor stupor of sands Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LAGOONAL CALENDAR, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I inhabit a sacred wound Last Line: Even if it changes with beauty my words Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LAGOONAL CALENDAR, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I inhabit a sacred wound Last Line: Even if it makes certain words of mine sumptuous %immeasurably increases my plight Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LAMBA, SELS., by JACQUES RABEMANANJARA Poem Source First Line: In hermetic enclosure %cool clitoris of the corolla Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LAMENT, by JACQUES RABEMANANJARA Poem Source First Line: Blue, so blue that eye of sky Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LAND OF EXILE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So far from home. %it has been flying out of me Last Line: Always flying %from the dark hollow of my chest Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment LAND OF LITTLE STICKS, 1945, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the wife is scouring the frying pan Last Line: Against his forearm, leaning up against the barn. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Atomic Bomb - Victims; Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb LAND SURVEY, SELS., by AIME CESAIRE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LANDING, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At the lake %a hunter loses himself Last Line: Across what is awake %the light %inside ribs %in the dark Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment LANDSCAPE OF ANIMALS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The bodies of animals %against the earth Last Line: Are they birds %whose voices fill the air around me? Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment LATE SPRING IN THE NUCLEAR AGE; FOR CLARE ROSSINI, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fish hit water nymphs, breaking surface Last Line: That our deaths will not be the last. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Death; Nuclear War; Survival; Nuclear Freeze; Dead, The; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb LAUS DEO!, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is done! / clang of bell and roar of gun Last Line: Who alone is lord and god! Subject(s): American Civil War; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; God; Patriotism; United States - History; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty LAW OF THE CORAL REEFS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We the rag men of hope Last Line: Wandering with great tenacity %toward the barbarous rocks of the future Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LE MARAIS DU CYNGE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A blush as of roses Last Line: The march of the day. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Marais Du Cygne (river), Kansas; Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs LEAVING, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Good-bye, divisions of people Last Line: They say I've burned all my brown sticks %for telling time %and still it passes away Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment LECOMPTON'S BLACK BRIGADE, by CHARLES GRAHAM HALPINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Single-handed, and surrounded by lecompton's Last Line: Through all the coming years. Alternate Author Name(s): O'reilly, Miles Subject(s): Democratic Party (u.s.); Douglas, Stephen A. (1813-1861); Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Political Conventions; Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs LEFT HAND CANYON, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the air %which moves the grass Last Line: From their secret houses %of air Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ranch Life; Women - Writers LEFT HAND CANYON, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the air Last Line: When all the old animals %come back %from their secret houses %of air Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment LEGACIES, by LEON LALEAU Poem Source First Line: On certain nights I hear within the screeching of the horn Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LEGACY, by TCHICAYA U TAM'SI Poem Source First Line: The singing violin %has not burnt the wind Last Line: I leave you the fire and the song Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LEGAL SYSTEM, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One body, like a jury Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment LEON G. DAMAS FEU SOMBRE TOUJOURS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Des promesses qui eclatent en petites fusees Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LEON G. DAMAS SOMBER FIRE ALWAYS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Promises that burst into tiny missiles Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Damas, Leon G. (1912-1978) LEON G. DAMAS SOMBER FIRE ALWAYS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Promises that burst into tiny missiles Last Line: On the horizon of my salute %brother %somber fire always Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LET AMERICA BE AMERICA AGAIN, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: All, all the stretch of these great green states - %and make america again! Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Civil Rights Movement; Freedom LET IT SMOKE, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Torus %taurus %of the big game Last Line: Doing shrinks %let the volcano smoke Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LET US OFFER ITS HEART TO THE SUN, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The beast must have surrendered on the path of your last Last Line: To the gourd of seeds %in the dawn of a hand begging for ghosts Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LETTER FROM PRETORIA CENTRAL PRISON, by ARTHUR NORTJE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The bell wakes me at 6 in the pale spring dawn Last Line: Sorry there's no more space. But date your reply Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement LETTER TO A POET, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To my brother aime, beloved friend, my bluntly amiable greetings! Last Line: And athletes, befitting your arrival, %parade their youthfulness, adorned like the beloved Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LETTER TO A PRISONER, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ngom! Champion of tyane! Last Line: I shall receive it piously like the morning ablution, %like the dew of dawn Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LETTER TO ELLEN CONROY KENNEDY, by EDOUARD J. MAUNICK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is the weight of the word Last Line: A weapon like a tree %it will live it will grow it will last Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Translating And Interpreting LETTERS TO THE PRINCESS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Belborg, belborg! Belborg, belborg! So murmured my Last Line: Remember these words, we will be the heavens and the %earth Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LIBERATION, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The torrents of my blood whistled along the banks of my cell Last Line: Now freed from my prison, I miss already %the whole-grain bread and the weary sleepless nights Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LIGHTS, by JOHN MATSHIKZAI Poem Source First Line: No looking back, no turning around, we've said Last Line: Hard lights are flashing on Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement LILIAN NGOYI, by UNKNOWN+286 Poem Source First Line: Lilian %I hear you are fifty-nine Last Line: Should be beautiful %like you Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement LIMINARY POEM, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You senegalese soldiers, my black brothers with warm Last Line: You, senegalese soldiers, my brothers with warm hands, %lying under ice and death? Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LINDEN TREE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rich yellow blossoms Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment LINES ADDRESSED TO MRS. H.B. STOWE ON HER VISIT TO GLASGOW, 1853, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lady, to thee, to fortune, and to fame Last Line: Shall meet thee—not on earth; our goal's the sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896); Temperance; Antislavery Movement - United States; Prohibition LINES TO MARY ELLIOT FLANERY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As your eager eyes peruse Last Line: Live long your principles to prove. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States LINK OF THE CHAIN GANG, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With bits of string Last Line: To build thee Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LINK OF THE CHAIN GANG, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With bits of string Last Line: By whirlwinds %and waterspouts %to build thee Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LISTEN, COMRADES OF THE FLAMING CENTURIES, FR. POUNDING, by DAVID DIOP Poem Source Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LOCUST, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This one didn't break %the walls of the body Last Line: It lived in the shelter of leaves, %a temple with green walls Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment LOKO, by RENE DEPESTRE Poem Source First Line: I am loko and I come from far away Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LONG DROP, by UNKNOWN+286 Poem Source First Line: Look down %from a headlong-height Last Line: The murderers stand %above the abyss Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement LOOK OUT FOR THE SNAKE!, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: The little count of lemonade Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LORD'S PRAYER, by MASSILLON COICOU Poem Source First Line: The mother said: come now, say your prayers Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LOST GIRLS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I don't remember when Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment LOST TRAIN, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A train in distress in the night Last Line: And the sharks of the deep jealously keep watch Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LOVE EXILE LAND, by COSMO PIETERSE Poem Source First Line: I shall not be sad Last Line: And become one, and grow on forever Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement LOVE IN THE PLURAL, by MUKULA KADIMA-NZUJI Poem Source First Line: Neither this sobbing ocean Last Line: The reverse side of mirrors Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LOVEPOEM FROM PRISON, by DAVID+(2) EVANS Poem Source First Line: It takes the dark to make me see Last Line: I can absolve - if you will absolve in turn Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement LUTA CONTINUA (FOR DUMA NOKWE), by KEORAPETSE KGOSITSILE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If in the ritual delirium we felt Last Line: His name is spear of the nation. Mayibuye! Alternate Author Name(s): Kgositsile, Keropatse Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement LUXEMBOURG 1939, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This morning at the luxembourg, this autumn at the luxembourg Last Line: Europe is burying the yeast of nations and the hope of newer races Subject(s): Luxembourg; Negritude (literary Movement) LUXEMBOURG 1939, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This luxembourg morning, this luxembourg autumn Last Line: Europe is burying the nations' leaven %and the hope of new races Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LVOV, UKRAINE, by EDOUARD J. MAUNICK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: ... In ivan frakno park Last Line: I was reading from memory %%one tree-filled morning in the ukraine %%I lost my solitude Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MACUMBA WORD, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The word is the father of the saints Last Line: Sometimes I even sneak a swim on the back of a dolphin %word Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MAGPIE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven is south. %turn the darkening membrane of one eye Last Line: Discovered on an old crone %who buys herself %out on bond Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment MAIDEN NAME, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: In seventy six or seven Last Line: Hung you back around %my daddy's neck Subject(s): Movement; Names; Women's Rights MAILLON DE LA CADENE, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Avec des bouts de ficelle Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MAN AND BEAST, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I name you evening, o ambiguous evening, you fluttering Last Line: And the lake blooms with water lilies, dawn of divine %laughter Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MAN CALLING DEER, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With the song of his voice and a bell Last Line: There's a bell in dark stone, %a single bird %walking Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment MAN IN THE MOON, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He's the man who climbs his barn Last Line: I am like you %putting on a new white shirt %to drive away on the fine roads Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment MANDELA'S SERMON, by KEORAPETSE KGOSITSILE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Blessed are the dehumanized Alternate Author Name(s): Kgositsile, Keropatse Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918); South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement MANGROVE SWAMP, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not always a good idea to splash about in just any Last Line: \spews dirt and water aplenty %april his breastplate %stempost %stallion Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MANGROVE SWAMP SYNDROME, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Despair has no name Last Line: The look is that of forests. %the lulling %that of the swaying of tides Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MANIFESTO, by KEORAPETSE KGOSITSILE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This then is our choice and task Last Line: Change is going to come Alternate Author Name(s): Kgositsile, Keropatse Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement MASOCHISM, by ZINJIVA NKONDO Poem Source First Line: Words - %powerful and rhetoric Last Line: Enjoying painful excitement %masochism Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement MAT TO WEAVE, by TCHICAYA U TAM'SI Poem Source First Line: He had just surrendered the secret of the sun Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MAT TO WEAVE, by TCHICAYA U TAM'SI Poem Source First Line: He came to deliver the secret of the sun Last Line: It is the purest of cups Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MAYIBUYE IAFRICA, by KEORAPETSE KGOSITSILE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like the memories %of fatherless black children Last Line: Translated memory rides %past and future alike Alternate Author Name(s): Kgositsile, Keropatse Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement ME AND THE RAIN, by CHRISTOPHER VAN WYK Poem Source First Line: Tonight it rains Last Line: The rain inspires me. %pula! Pula! Pula! Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement ME, CROW, FISH, AND THE MAGI, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rooster %the smaller he is Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment MEASURE FOR MEASURE, by SIPHO SYDNEY SEPAMLA Poem Source First Line: Go measure the distance from cape town to pretoria Last Line: Let me tell you this %you'll never know how far I stand from you Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement MEDGAR EVERS, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man whose height his fear improved he Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Evers, Medgar (1925-1963) MEDGAR EVERS, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man whose height his fear improved he Last Line: He was holding clean globes in his hands Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Evers, Medgar (1925-1963) MEDGAR EVERS, 1925-1963, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So they laid him down in a beautiful place Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Evers, Medgar (1925-1963) 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 MEDITERRANEAN, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And again I say your name: dyallo! Last Line: And again I say your name: dyallo! %and again you say my name: senghor! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MEN IN CHAINS, by MBUYISENI OSWALD JOSEPH MTSHALI Poem Source First Line: The train stopped %at a country station Last Line: The train went on its way to nowhere Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement MENU, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: My roadside restaurant is open %for you, pasture-seeking pilgrim Last Line: The gods of the grape and our daily bread Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MESSAGE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They sent me a swift courier Last Line: Herald of the good news, such was his ivory message Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MESSAGE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They sent me their swiftest messenger Last Line: I heard the words of the prince, %herald of good news, here is his ivory scepter Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MESSAGES, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He sent me a river horse under the mauve palaver tree Last Line: This is my response and my two-headed scepter: %mouth of thelion, smile of the sage Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) METAMORPHOSIS, by CHRISTOPHER VAN WYK Poem Source First Line: Hardly out of a napkin Last Line: Now I understand Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement MIDNIGHT ELEGY, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Summer, splendid summer, nourishing the poet on the milk of your light Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MIDSUMMER SLEEP AND ZIMBABWE BATTLEFIELD, by COSMO PIETERSE Poem Source First Line: Listening grey with seed-spill Last Line: When morning its lustrousness on the pearl shell %now pour it Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement MILAN IN LOMBARDY, by EDOUARD J. MAUNICK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: ... In milan the lombard Last Line: Delhi%kutub minar %%but as always %death %arrives to thwart heaven Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MIRACULOUS WEAPONS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The great machete blow of red pleasure right in the face there was blood Last Line: A dungeon the frail water without a femur the serous peritoneum of springhead evenings Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MIRACULOUS WEAPONS, SELS., by AIME CESAIRE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MIRRORS STILL, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mirrors still. Then negritude and antiquity. Prodigious Last Line: - but she has chosen to burn. May her ashes %fertilize the fevers of our lives! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MISSING, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Last night the crickets were gone Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment MISSING THE ANIMALS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So many have escaped %space disappears Last Line: Fired down the edge of the world %have missed them Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment MISSISSIPPI TREES, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Some memory, underground pulse Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment MOLOCH IN STATE STREET, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon has set: while yet the dawn Last Line: God of the free! Subject(s): Boston; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Pilgrim Fathers; Antislavery Movement - United States MONSTERS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I recognize them %the smell the breath a mere nothing Last Line: It is my heart torn from the hands of the earthquake- %the cipher Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MONTGOMERY, by SAM CORNISH Poem Source First Line: White woman have you heard %she is too tired to sit in the back Last Line: Seats will ride through twon %I walk for my children %my feet two hundred years old Subject(s): African Americans; Civil Rights Movement; Parks, Rosa (b. 1913); Poetry And Poets MOONLIGHT, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: In full-moon night, in this night's %brightly polished moon Last Line: On a star's flight among the stars! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MORNING WITH BROKEN WINDOW, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the morning Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment MORNING'S DANCE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Quiet. %time to sleep, %time when trees move earth Last Line: Carbon %red ochre %we rise %burning %out of soil Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment MORNING: THE WORLD IN THE LAKE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath each black duck Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment MOSQUITOES, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To keep them from you Last Line: I will be still as a stone %at the edge of water %watching my blood carried into air Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Native Americans MOTHO KE MOTHO KA BATHO BABANG (A PERSON IS A PERSON BECAUSE OF OTHER, by JEREMY CRONIN Poem Source First Line: By holding my mirror out of the window I see Last Line: In my mirror, %a black fist Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement MOTIVATED TO DEATH, by MONGANE WALLY SEROTE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We knew each other well Last Line: Shall so die. %even in alex? Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement MULATTA-ANTILLE, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: In you, mulatta, I now embrace %the lukewarm sea of the antilles Last Line: Liberty in song in my antilles! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MY BROTHERS IN THE STREETS, by MONGANE WALLY SEROTE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh you black boys Last Line: It's black women who are crying Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement MY DAYS OVERGROWN, by JOSEPH MIEZAN BOGNINI Poem Source First Line: My days overgrown with coffee blossoms Last Line: And we spent happy days Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MY GREETING, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My greeting is like a clear wing Last Line: The golden sun on the white dew, my tender lawn. %guess why I don't know why Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NAACP, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see by the papers Last Line: To break old jim crow's course Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Civil Rights Movement NAACP URGING REVIEW BY CIVILIANS OF POLICS ACTS, by MBEMBE MILTON SMITH Poem Source First Line: The basketball game is over Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement NANIGO TO HEAVEN, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NANIGO TO HEAVEN, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: The nanigo climbs to heaven. %heaven is festooned Last Line: A soul has entered heaven, %and that is the soul of the nanigo! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NATIVE'S LETTER, by ARTHUR NORTJE Poet's Biography First Line: Habitable planets are unknown or too Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement NATIVE'S LETTER, by ARTHUR NORTJE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Habitable planets are unknown or too Last Line: For some of us must storm the castles %some define the happening Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement NATIVITY, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Old women Last Line: Bread. %the smell %comes from stone Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment NDESSE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, they write me that you are turning pale as the bush Last Line: Eat. %tell me about my fathers' pride! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NDESSE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, they have written you are turning white, as the bush turns whote Last Line: Tell me the pride of my fathers Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NDESSE OR BLUES, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Spring rained its icy water on all my unleashed desires Last Line: On the monotonous leaves! %just play me 'solitude,' duke, so I can cry myself to sleep Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NEAR DAWN, SELS., by JEAN-JOSEPH RABEARIVELO Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NEIGHBORS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In this country Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Neighbors NEW AGE, by KEORAPETSE KGOSITSILE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The questions which have always been here Last Line: Are a worker's song of fidelity %to the land that mothered you Alternate Author Name(s): Kgositsile, Keropatse Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement NEW APARTMENT: MINNEAPOLIS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The floorboards creak Last Line: And deer walking quietly on the soft red earth Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ethnic Groups - United States; Memory; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; U.s. - Race Relations NEW HAMPSHIRE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God bless new hampshire! From her granite peaks Last Line: What one brave state hath done, can ye not also do? Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; New Hampshire; Antislavery Movement - United States NEW KINDNESS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To deliver the world to assassins of dawn is out of the Last Line: A new kindness is ceaselessly growing on the horizon Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NEW KINDNESS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To deliver the world to assassins of dawn is out of the Last Line: And sweet calabashes in the hollows of offering hands %a new kindness is ceaselessly growing on the Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NEW NEGRO SERMON, by JACQUES ROUMAIN Poem Source First Line: In his face they spit their icy scorn Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NEW SUN GREETS ME, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The new sun greets me on my bed Last Line: Of the gulf, god! May I find again your voice %and your fragrance of vibrating light Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NEW YORK (FOR JAZZ ORCHESTRA: TRUMPET SOLO), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: New york! At first I was confused by your beauty Last Line: And the seventh day he slept the great sleep of the negro Subject(s): Harlem (new York City); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Negritude (literary Movement) NIGHT AND DAY, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At night, alone Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Night NIGHT DANCE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Everything wants to open itself Last Line: Night soil %like dancers too shy for the grace of light Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment NIGHT IN SINE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Woman, place your soothing hands upon my brow Last Line: Before plunging deeper than the diver %into the great depths of sleep Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NIGHT OF SINE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Woman, rest on my brow your balsam hands, your hands gentler than fur Last Line: To live before I sink, deeper than the diver, into the lofty depth of sleep Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NIGHT WATCH, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bent men go home. %they leave empty clothes Last Line: White as numbers %on the night watches of men Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment NIGHT WIND, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Come in, I'll hold you Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment NIGHT, SELS., by JEAN-JOSEPH RABEARIVELO Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NIGHTS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The nights over here are not worth writing home about Last Line: That the temeritous day annouces its own birth Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Night NIGHTS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The nights over here are not worth writing home about Last Line: It is not always from the management cell of the catastrophe%that the temeritous day announces its o Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NO CAUSE FOR ALARM, by BARRY FEINBERG Poem Source First Line: A warning %in confidence Last Line: For the sake of us all, %and your farm Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement NO MORE STRANGERS, by MONGANE WALLY SEROTE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It were us, it is us Last Line: We will tell freedom %we are no more strangers now Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement NO SLAVE BENEATH THE FLAG, by GEORGE LANSING TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: No slave beneath that starry flag Subject(s): Emancipation Movement And Proclamation NOCTURNE, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: The view is blurry under aquatic moonlight Last Line: The hour, somewhere distant, falls Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NOSTALGIA, by REBECCA MATLOU Poem Source First Line: Nostalgia you are not repellent Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement NOSTALGIA, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: White droplets, %slow droplets Last Line: The first lights of my childhood %never found again Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NOT THIS, NOT THAT, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: You are, my green island, %sketched in pirate and black Last Line: Half of you spanish, %the other african Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NOTEBOOK OF A RETURN TO THE NATIVE LAND, SELECTION, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would rediscover the secret of great communications Last Line: Understand me would not understand the roaring of the tiger either Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NOTEBOOK OF A RETURN TO THE NATIVE LAND, SELECTION, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the end of daybreak Subject(s): Family Life; Negritude (literary Movement); Relatives NOTEBOOK OF A RETURN TO THE NATIVE LAND, SELS., by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Islands scar of the water Last Line: Will now fish the malevolent tongue of the night in its motionless veerition! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NOTES ON A RETURN TO THE NATIVE LAND, SELS., by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death traces a shining circle Last Line: Not burst mute earth %with its upright cries? Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918); Negritude (literary Movement) NOVEMBER, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sun climbs down Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment NOZIZWE, by MAZISI KUNENE Poem Source First Line: You were to be the centre of our dream Last Line: By their sunken eyes your body was cursed %the moving river shall swallow it! Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement; Treason And Traitors NUMEN, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: African jungle-temandumba Last Line: Haitian thicket-macandal Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NURSE EMMA PAYELLEVILE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Emma payelleville %your very name smashes the dusty statues Last Line: Guarded jealously by the faithful shadows of their black %memory Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) O SOUTHLAND!, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O southland! O southland! Last Line: The faint one at his side. Subject(s): African Americans; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Southern States; Negroes; American Blacks; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; South (u.s.) OBLIVION, by MASSILLON COICOU Poem Text First Line: I hope when I am dead that I shall lie Last Line: Oblivion -- the shroud and envelope of happiness. Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ODE TO AFRICA, by BERNARD DADIE Poem Source First Line: I shall tune my lute to sing your litanies as the quiet hours pass Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) OFFERING, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today the golden koi Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment OFFERING, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I come to offer you the offering of my Last Line: I come to offer you the offering of my love %on my knees Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) OGOU-BADAGRIS, by RENE DEPESTRE Poem Source First Line: I am ogou-badagris Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) OGOU-FERRAILLE, by RENE DEPESTRE Poem Source First Line: I am ogou-ferraille Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) OIL, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Men smile like they know everything Last Line: With blue flame that never sleeps %and spreads its wings around us Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment OLD SONGS OF INERINA LAND, SELS., by JEAN-JOSEPH RABEARIVELO Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ON NOT BEING MILTON, by TONY HARRISON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Read and committed to the flames, I call Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Negritude (literary Movement) ON NOT BEING MILTON, by TONY HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Read and committed to the flames, I call Last Line: Sir, I ham a very bad hand at righting Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Negritude (literary Movement) ON THE CIRCUMFERENCE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Birds are flying juniper blue feathers Last Line: Smell of blood %singing %against earth's bounds Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment ON THE COMING VICTORY, by DENNIS BRUTUS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behind the dark hills Last Line: The long night lumbers grudingly %into the past Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement ON THE DEATH OF CHARLES T. TORREY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woe worth the hour when it is crime Last Line: His mercy to the oppressor's heart. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Torrey, Charles Turner (1813-1846); Antislavery Movement - United States ON THE DEATH OF YOUNG GUERILLAS, by MAZISI KUNENE Poem Source First Line: You called me, but I made no response in that night Last Line: Could it be you are blind in your destruction? Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement; War ON THE EVE OF THEIR MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The body would open its legs like a book Last Line: Though never in the wake of its flensing Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Variant Title(s): On The Eve Of Our Mutually Assured Destructio Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Bodies; Nuclear War; Sex ON THE ISLANDS OF ALL WINDS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lands which leap very high Last Line: That finally exulting in the wounded kine of the stars Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Islands ON THE ISLANDS OF ALL WINDS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lands which leap very high Last Line: The carnal and kinky black head of the sun Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) OPEN LETTER, by KEORAPETSE KGOSITSILE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We say what is lost Last Line: Another way of defining relationships Alternate Author Name(s): Kgositsile, Keropatse Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement OPENING DAY, by DAVID MCKAIN Poem Source First Line: Gusts of wind cruise like fish Last Line: Else gets up, the seagulls yammering upriver. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; History; Pacifism; Social Protest; Nuclear Freeze; Historians; Peace Movements OTHER SIDE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At sunset %the white horse has disappeared Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment OTHER SONGS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond which stormy night have you hiden your face for Last Line: And stitches a wail never heard before. %and this was in the time before the world Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) OTHER VOICES, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There are things we do not tell Last Line: And I hear them %and I don't %and even police can't stop earth telling Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ranch Life; Women - Writers OUR HOME-COMING, by UNKNOWN+287 Poem Source First Line: Feet flat against the streets Last Line: The blood that we shall have shed Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement OUR HOUSES, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When we enter the unknown Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment OX HOOVES TROD HEAVILY, by UNKNOWN+286 Poem Source Last Line: The oval shape %of the globe Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement PAEAN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, joy and thanks forevermore! Last Line: The signal-call that freedom makes! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States PALMETTO PICTURES, SELS., by VOLNEY HICKOX Poem Source First Line: Beautiful land, where the bountiful sun Last Line: This is the land that his servants shall win -- %liberty's eden from slavery's rod Subject(s): American Civil War; Emancipation Movement And Proclamation; Southern States; U.s. - History PARIS IN THE SNOW, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, you visited paris on the day of your birth Last Line: Also because of the hands of dew that lie on my burning cheeks at night Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PAROLE 47, by EDOUARD J. MAUNICK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: ... Countless as the hairs on my head Last Line: I say no mor pleas %I say no more thanky massa %I confess an apocalypse %recanting denial: I am Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PASSAGES, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: (the necessity of inspection %acceptable only in that Last Line: The halt of a lively termitarium %is already emerging from the muddle Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PATH, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us take up again Last Line: Depending on the stubbornness to ripen Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Slavery PATH, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us take up again Last Line: To speak is to go with the seed %all the way to the black secret of numbers Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PEARLS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: White pearls, %slow droplets Last Line: The first lights of my childhood %never found again Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PEASANT DECLARES HIS LOVE, by EMILE ROUMER Poem Source First Line: High-yellow of my heart, with breasts like tangerines Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PERDITION, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We will strike the new air with our armor-plated heads Last Line: In the tolling canna of rich twilights Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PIGMENTS, SELS., by LEON GONTRAN DAMAS Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PILLAGE, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One must know how to cross the entire expanse of blood Last Line: A sun thoughtlessly distributed to glowworms %while burning an incredulous expectation in pure blood Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PILLOW, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There are nights with feathers underhead Last Line: And bootblack shoes Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment PIRATE, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His share of the sun? Last Line: Pirate ambush of remorse %the sun is not here as an intruder Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PLANTING A CEDAR, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From beneath a stone Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment PLUTONIAN ODE, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: What new element before us unborn in nature? Last Line: Space, so ah! Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb POEM, by ES'KIA MPHAHLELE Poem Source First Line: What is there that we can do or say Last Line: Do pain will bleed and let the islands in Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement POEM ABOUT HOPPING, by DAVID YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rabbits in alabama hop Last Line: But, down sir, down sir, down? Subject(s): Animals; Movement POEM COMPOSED FOR .. THE VIGILANT COMMITTEE OF PHILADELPHIA, by DANIEL ALEXANDER PAYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rise, god of freedom! From thy throne of light Last Line: "be free! Be free! Ye ransomed lands, be free!" Subject(s): African Americans; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Slavery; United States; Negroes; American Blacks; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs; America POEM FOR SOUTH AFRICAN WOMEN, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our own shadows disappear at the feet of thousands Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement; Women POEM FOR SOUTH AFRICAN WOMEN, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our own shadows disappear at the feet of thousands Last Line: We are the ones we have been waiting for Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement; Women POEM OF VENGEANCE, by UNKNOWN+286 Poem Source First Line: Min, %big strong smiling mini Last Line: As the precious gasps %escape into the pretoria air Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement POEM TO THRILL THE NAACP OR A BLACK FAMILY MOVES ..., by MBEMBE MILTON SMITH Poem Source First Line: He was black, yes Subject(s): African Americans; Civil Rights Movement POEM, SMALL AND DELIBLE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have been picketing woolworth's Last Line: Picketing woolworth's. Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (1869-1948); India; Social Protest; Racism; Women; Women's Rights; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Feminism POEM: 1, by JOSEPH MIEZAN BOGNINI Poem Source First Line: Suddenly an old man on the threshold of the age Last Line: Superb hand the leaf of spontaneity Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) POEM: 1, by TCHICAYA U TAM'SI Poem Source First Line: I myself will be the stage for my salvation Last Line: But with tornadoes in my belly Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) POEM: 2, by JOSEPH MIEZAN BOGNINI Poem Source First Line: We are men of the new world a tree prompts us to harmony Last Line: Lands of unutterable representation Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) POEM: 2, by TCHICAYA U TAM'SI Poem Source First Line: What do I want with a thousand stars in broad daylight Last Line: Squatting beside my own conscience? Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) POEM: 3, by TCHICAYA U TAM'SI Poem Source First Line: You must be from my country Last Line: For my beardless conscience %ravage us alone Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) POEM: 4, by TCHICAYA U TAM'SI Poem Source First Line: I was naked for the first kiss of my mother Last Line: The freshness of a patch of violent water Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) POEM: 5, by TCHICAYA U TAM'SI Poem Source First Line: I tear at my belly Last Line: As of the charnel-house Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) POEMS ABOUT PRISON, SELS., by DENNIS BRUTUS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement POEMS FROM BLACK AFRICA, SELS., by FILY-DABO SISSOKO Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) POET AND GUERILLA, by DAVID+(2) EVANS Poem Source First Line: In amsterdam the exiles meet Last Line: Waits for the bullets and the song Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement POET'S DEATH IN OXFORD, by DAVID+(2) EVANS Poem Source First Line: Die skolly boy digter is dood Last Line: And you lie forever at the tip of the root Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement POETIQUE, by EDOUARD GLISSANT Poem Source First Line: To understand time warmth Last Line: Vowel after vowel %made concrete Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) POLITICAL PRISONER, by MAZISI KUNENE Poem Source First Line: I desired to talk Last Line: Priding herself only in the shadows of yesterdays Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement POND, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment PORCUPINE ON THE ROAD TO THE RIVER, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The porcupine walked Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment PORTE DOREE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have chosen to live near the rebuilt walls of my memory Last Line: Bush: %'good morning, miss ... How do you do?' Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PORTRAIT, by ANTOINE-ROGER BOLAMBA Poem Source First Line: I have my gri-gri Last Line: My tongue flutter like a banner Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PORTRAIT, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now the european spring approaches me Last Line: And the wild hill of your hair %rustling in the wind! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PORTRAIT, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: See how the european spring Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) POSTSCRIPT TO DEATH, ETC., by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In north america Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment POTATOES, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is the month of warm days Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment POTHOLES, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The streets we live by fall away. Last Line: Take care, a hundred suns look out of earth %beneath circling tires. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment POUNDING, SELS., by DAVID DIOP Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) POWERED TYPHOONS UNWIND SLOWLY, by UNKNOWN+289 Poem Source First Line: Leaving a day stunned with sun Last Line: First a bite at white battalions %then on to breach the dam wall door Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement PRAYER FOR PEACE (1), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lord jesus, at the end of this book, which I offer you Last Line: And still breathing %let me recite to you, lord, her prayer of peace and pardon Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PRAYER FOR PEACE (2), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lord god, forgive white europe! Last Line: And now the serpent of hatred rears its head in my heart, %the serpent I thought was dead Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PRAYER FOR PEACE (3), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Kill it, lord, for I must continue on my journey Last Line: That has turned my mesopotamia and my congo %into a vast cemetery under the white sun Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PRAYER FOR PEACE (4), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, lord, take from my memory france that is not france Last Line: Weapons of violence and traded in banker's gold %but traitors and fools have always existed Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PRAYER FOR PEACE (5), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O bless this nation, lord, who seeks her own face Last Line: A band of brotherly hands so they can embrace the land %under the rainbow of your peace Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PRAYER OF THE SENEGALESE SOLDIERS (1), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, if I speak to you, you who are the unknown presence Last Line: Who offered their godlike bodies, the glory of stadiums, %fothe universal honor of mankind Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PRAYER OF THE SENEGALESE SOLDIERS (2), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Landed on this european soil, disarmd of weapons Last Line: Oh, you who know if we will ever breathe the harvest, %if we will ever dance again the dance of rebo Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PRAYER OF THE SENEGALESE SOLDIERS (3), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Between the harsh freshness of spring and the promised Last Line: In the harvest for whose just cause we had fought. %if they were only going to use us! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PRAYER OF THE SENEGALESE SOLDIERS (4), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, listen to the offering of our militant faith Last Line: As terrifying to their enemies as the union of lightning and%thunder Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PRAYER OF THE SENEGALESE SOLDIERS (5), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For you are the god of armies, the god of strong men Last Line: Bliss.' %listen to their voices, lord! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PRAYER TO MASKS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Black mask, red mask, you black and white masks Last Line: But we are the men of the dance whose feet only gain power when they beat the hard soil Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PRAYER TO MASKS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Masks! Masks! %black mask red mask, you white-and-black masks Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PRAYER TO THE MASKS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Masks! O masks! %black mask, red mask, you white-and-black Last Line: But we are men of dance, whose feet get stronger %as we pound upon firm ground Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PREBEND GARDENS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Prebend gardens %you touched my shoulder Last Line: To the harsh, forbidding plains, immobile over there, %in senegambia Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PRELUDE IN BORICUA, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: Tomtom of kinky hair and black things Last Line: Scant actually lived, %and much concoction and fable Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PRELUDE IN PUERTO RICAN, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: A knock-knock of knots, nappy hair, %and other sassy drumbeats Last Line: Little that's truly been lived, %and much of pure story and fib Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S PROCLAMATION OF FREEDOM, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It shall flash through coming ages Last Line: Break the refulgent on the sight. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States PRIMER FOR THE NUCLEAR AGE, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the edge of the mariner's Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear Freeze PROMENADE, by TCHICAYA U TAM'SI Poem Source First Line: Here I am in europe Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PROPHECY, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There where adventure stays clear-sighted Last Line: Where the agile wonder leanes no stone or fire unturned Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PROPHECY, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There where adventure stays clear-sighted Last Line: My revolt my name %prophetically bathe Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PURE WHITE, ONLY WHITE, by UNKNOWN+289 Poem Source First Line: Immigrant workers at capetown's door Last Line: Are grey faced or green Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS, by ARTHUR NORTJE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The underbelly of the shark Last Line: Uncouth will be the interrogations and bloodly the reprisals Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement RACE RELATIONS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sang in the sun Last Line: Of the breakers of stone Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Race Awareness; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism RADIATION, by MARGARET FERGUSON GIBSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stand in the sun long enough to remember Last Line: Our one original name. Alternate Author Name(s): Gibson, Margaret Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Radiation & Radiation Sickness; Nuclear Freeze RAIN, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When it rains fish Last Line: Sun that brings fish, %children and even the rain %back home again Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment RAIN, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rain's story Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment RAINY SEASON, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The women are walking to town Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment RED CLAY, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Turtle, old as earth Last Line: We are here, the red earth %passes like light into us %and stays Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment RED OUR COLOUR, by UNKNOWN+286 Poem Source First Line: Let's have poems %blood-red in colour Last Line: Eats the decade Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement REFERENCES, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He sought no alibi Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) REGENERATION, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Under the summer sky's smooth pagne Last Line: Cradled by the morning flute of tender lawns, %as I await some great bloody rebirth! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) REGRETS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The gazelle's gracefulness %melted away in the twilight Last Line: I would have given you so much, %you, more beautiful than twilight Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) REMEMBER ME, by VICTOR MOTAPANYANE Poem Source Last Line: Draw me closer to the dawn of freedom Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement REMEMBERING THE LIGHTNING, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In that flash of light Last Line: The sky crackles like a gun %and shadows of thin trees %falldown to the ground Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON (1), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And my heart once again on the threshold of stone under the Last Line: Of a thousand passions in my head %my heart is still pure as the east wind in march Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON (2), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I challenge my blood in this head empty of ideas, in this Last Line: He needs no paper, only the troubador's musical page %and the red-gold stylus of his tongue Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON (3), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How vast, how void is the courtyard smelling of Last Line: Or is it now a district struck by four-engined eagles %and by lions of bombs with such powerful leap Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON (4), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And my heart once again on the steps of the high house Last Line: Soles on the still mats. %peace, peace, peace, my fathers, on the prodigal son's head Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON (5), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You among them all, elephant of mbissel, shower your Last Line: Ocean plain %and on the waves of dead warriors Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON (6), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Elephant of mbissel, through your ears invisible to our eyes Last Line: And those without work, that I dreamt of a world of sun %in fraternity with my blue-eyed brothers Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON (7), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Elephant of mbissel, I applaud the emptiness of shops Last Line: Bells. %I bring back to life all my earthly virtues! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON (8), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Elephant of mbissel, hear my reverent prayer Last Line: Make me your master linguist; no, no, %appoint me his ambassador Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON (9), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: May you be blessed, my fathers, who bless the prodigal Last Line: Embassy, %already homesick for my black land Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) RETURN TO THE FOLD, SELS., by FLAVIEN RANAIVO Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) RETURNING FROM POPENGUINE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Returning from popenguine in this languorous beauty of Last Line: On the bright red-gold sea where the houses on goree %light up fom the sun like your eyes when we re Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) RIBBON, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come across my skeleton Last Line: Oh to still be available toward a delay of extinguished islands and volcanoes dozing Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) RIOT, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John cabot, out of wilma, once a wycliffe Subject(s): African Americans; Civil Rights Movement; Negroes; American Blacks RISE OF THE ANGRY GENERATION, by MAZISI KUNENE Poem Source First Line: The great eagle lifts it wings from the dream Last Line: They are the abiding anger of the ancestral fathers Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement RIVER CALLS THEM, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tadpoles in a jar Last Line: Stiff frogs are dropped into earth %damp and waiting Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment RIVERS ARE NOT IMPASSIVE, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Same brawl / this big scar on my belly Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Blood; Rivers RIVERS ARE NOT IMPASSIVE, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Same brawl %this big scar on my belly Last Line: Sole haggard grippers of %the mangroves' base Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ROADGANG'S CRY, by MBUYISENI OSWALD JOSEPH MTSHALI Poem Source First Line: Pneumatic drills %roar like guns in a battle field Last Line: Abelungu ngo'dam - whites are damned %basibiza ngo jim - they call is jim Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement ROME, PIAZZA NAVONA, by EDOUARD J. MAUNICK Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Far from his creole shores %dreams his island closer shores %dreams his island closer Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) RONDO FOR THE POET'S CHILDREN, by JEAN-JOSEPH RABEARIVELO Poem Source First Line: What will our father bring to us Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) RUINS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The children's voices %I thought I heard Last Line: The sounds called back to themselves, %the ears ringing, %the sheep Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment S.O.S., by LEON GONTRAN DAMAS Poem Source First Line: Only then and not before Last Line: To make them into candles for their churches Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SACRIFICE, by LEON LALEAU Poem Source First Line: Beneath the sky, the cone-shaped drum is rumbling Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SACRIFICE, by UNKNOWN+287 Poem Source First Line: We need money %to buy our birth Last Line: Like cheap pants %in the wind Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement SADNESS IN MAY, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sweet melting of clear evening Last Line: No book to ease the evening's solitude, %not even a book! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SAND ROSES, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They lie down in the fields Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment SAVING, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My good clothes Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment SCIENTIFIC-TECHNOLOGICAL PARADIGM, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: After the first a-bomb test,' Last Line: After a shit and a coffee break Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Bombs; Missiles; Nuclear Accidents; Science SCORNER, by TCHICAYA U TAM'SI Poem Source First Line: I drink to your glory my god Last Line: I will waltz to the tune of your slow sadness Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SCORNER, by TCHICAYA U TAM'SI Poem Source First Line: I drink to your glory, god Last Line: For you have tempted me %by making me so sad Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SCORPION, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the old days %she was a god Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment SEA NOCTURNE, by TCHICAYA U TAM'SI Poem Source First Line: The sea returns as I advance Last Line: Of too lascivious waves %at night in summer Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SEA SONG, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: Give me that sponge and I'll have the sea Last Line: Wrestles to escape its basin, %its outstretched arms pushing shores Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SECOND ADVENTIVITY, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In those days time was the sunshade of a very beautiful Last Line: Time was not a gangly gringo %I mean a second adventivity man %a man came %a man Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SEEING THROUGH THE SUN, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How dishonest the sun Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment SELMA, by IRA SADOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the sanitary woolworth's luncheonette Last Line: I bask in it. The bloodbath, a steamy pot above the meal Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Selma, Alabama SENTENCE, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And why not the hedge of geysers the obelisk of hours Last Line: Appearance salavated from my mug of sphinx muzzle unmuzzled since nothingness Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SENTENCE, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And why not the hedge of geysers the obelisk of hours Last Line: Assassin clad in rich and calm muslins like a chant of hard wine Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SENTIMENTS AND RESENTMENTS OF WORDS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are arcangels of great time Last Line: Sapid and insipid evil %the dreadful resentment of saliva reswallowed by the surf Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SERPENT SUN EYE BEWITCHING MY EYE, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The sugar in the word brazil deep in the marsh Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SEVEN SIDES AND SEVEN SYLLABLES; FOR AIMEE CESAIRE AND PIERRE EMMANUEL, by EDOUARD J. MAUNICK Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happen you come on your own Last Line: With this, my derisive voice. Subject(s): Exiles; Identity; Negritude (literary Movement); Poetry & Poets SHACKLES, SELS., by AIME CESAIRE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SHADOW, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What do I know of you, no wrinkles on your face Last Line: My hand on yours, %I wish you long life Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment SHAKA (SONG 1), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shaka, there you lie like the panther or the foulmouthed Last Line: And white flour had to be ground from tender black hearts. %those who have suffered much will be for Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SHAKA (SONG 2), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Night is coming, my find, beautiful night Last Line: Look there, the sun has risen over all peoples of the earth.%bayete baba! Bayete o bayete! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SHAKE IT PLENA, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: Rumors between wind and water... %on the sea Last Line: Shake it, shake it, %fanning the rage of uncle sam! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SHANGO, by RENE DEPESTRE Poem Source First Line: I am sahango exhaler of lightning Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SHAPE OF THINGS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She lets go of my hand Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment SHARPEVILLE, by UNKNOWN+287 Poem Source First Line: Sharp-evilled are these lanky seasons Last Line: A rest from our own fears Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement SHOULDERS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man crosses the street in rain Last Line: The rain will never stop falling. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Fathers & Sons; Peace; Nuclear Freeze SIMULTANEOUSLY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Simultaneously, five thousand miles apart Last Line: Sprouting leaves. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb SIRENS, KNUCKLES, BOOTS, by DENNIS BRUTUS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sounds begin anew Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John Subject(s): Police States; South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement SIT-INS, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were our first brave ones to defy their dissonance of hate Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement SKIN SHIELD OUR PRIDE, by UNKNOWN+288 Poem Source First Line: We, in umkhonto we sizwe Last Line: To touch fingers with soviet workers Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement SLAVE MAN, by ZINJIVA NKONDO Poem Source First Line: The man slave %the shout of silence the rhythm of the hammer Last Line: Well wait for the partisanship %of dilettantes Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement SLAVE TROT, by ZINJIVA NKONDO Poem Source First Line: Trotting on the broken step Last Line: If there is a shrug of a shoulder %who shall fail Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement SLAVE'S LAMENT, by MASSILLON COICOU Poem Source First Line: Why am I a negro? Oh, why am I black? Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SLEEPLESS NIGHT, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Night comes, %shouts and angers Last Line: Beneath the caresses and sea breeze %of morning's serenity Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SLOWNESS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hyperactivating of the lands Last Line: And blows from time to time %through the debris Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SMALL ANIMALS AT NIGHT, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Surprised in sleeping flesh %they wake up Last Line: The voices here in grace %in the hollows of this body Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment SMALL LIFE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I surrender to them all %the arcana of insects Last Line: Which means we are safe %we are never alone Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment SMELL, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But the smell came Last Line: The smell is not hollow. %the smell has no folds Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SNOW IN PARIS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, you have visited paris on this day of your birth Last Line: Because of these hands of dew, in the evening, %upon my burning cheeks Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SNOW UPON PARIS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, you have visited paris on this day of your birth Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SOLDIER AT WAR, by REBECCA MATLOU Poem Source First Line: A soldier alone in reality I live Last Line: We are the children of the spear Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement SOLOMON MAHLANGU ADDRESSES HIS GAOLERS, by REBECCA MATLOU Poem Source First Line: Don't be puzzled that I smile Last Line: I touch this darkness and give %meaning Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement SOLVITUR, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Without this anger it is clear Last Line: No. / solvitur Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Anger SOLVITUR, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Without this anger it is clear Last Line: Afterglow of a remanence %igitur %no. %solvitur Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SONG (WE SING), by COSMO PIETERSE Poem Source First Line: We sing our sons who have died red Last Line: And the birth from the dust that is green we sing Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement SONG FOR ILVA MACKAY AND MONGANE, by KEORAPETSE KGOSITSILE Poet's Biography First Line: Hear now a sound of floods Alternate Author Name(s): Kgositsile, Keropatse Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement SONG FOR ILVA MACKAY AND MONGANE, by KEORAPETSE KGOSITSILE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hear now a sound of floods Last Line: We shall know each other by our bloodstains Alternate Author Name(s): Kgositsile, Keropatse Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement SONG FOR JACKIE THOMPSON, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I chose the stadium, far from the merchants' stalls Last Line: I sing of you, jackie thompson, at the slope of day %and my song turns crimson on the blue atlantic Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SONG FOR MY NAME, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Before sunrise Last Line: It's the name that goes with me %back to earth %no one else can touch Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment SONG OF A COMMON LOVER, by FLAVIEN RANAIVO Poem Source First Line: Don't love me, my dear Last Line: In pieces, bridges for my guitar Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SONG OF A YOUNG GIRL, by FLAVIEN RANAIVO Poem Source First Line: Oaf %the young man who lives down there Last Line: Here are your victuals and three water-lily flowers %for the way is long Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Negritude (literary Movement) SONG OF THE INITIATE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She flees, she flees through flat white lands, as patiently I take my aim Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SONG OF THE INITIATE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pilgrimage along the migratory roads, a voyage to ancestral Last Line: Throat %where a quick blow kills the striped fawn of my dream Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SONG OF THE SEA HORSE, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tiny horse escaped from time Last Line: Unerring in the wind the salt and the wrack Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Sea Horses SONG OF THE SEA HORSE, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tiny horse escaped from time Last Line: And away you'll gallop tiny horse %fearless %unerring in the wind the salt and the wrack Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SONG, SELS., by JACQUES RABEMANANJARA Poem Source First Line: Isle! %island of they syllables of flame! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SONGS FOR SIGNARE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A hand of light caressed my dark eyelids and your smile rose Last Line: Paradise for me will be empty and your absence the lover's damnation Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SONGS OF DARKNESS, SELS., by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poet's Biography Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SONNET AGAINST NUCLEAR WEAPONS, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The human sigh commuted to life imprisonment Last Line: The suppression of rights. A snake. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear Freeze SONNET: 23. WENDELL PHILLIPS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He stood upon the world's broad threshold; wide Last Line: Through all the wide-spread veins of endless good. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Phillips, Wendell (1811-1884); Antislavery Movement - United States SONNET: 26. TO J. R. GIDDINGS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Giddings, far rougher names than thine have grown Last Line: With a base dread that clings to them forever. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Giddings, Joshua Reed (1795-1864); Antislavery Movement - United States SOUL MAKE A PATH THROUGH SHOUTING, by CYRUS CURTIS CASSELLS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thick at the schoolgate are the ones Last Line: I'm just going to school. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Civil Rights Movement; Dissenters; Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Little Rock, Arkansas; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; Schools; United States - Race Relations; Estrangement; Outcasts; SOUTH AFRICA SALUTES UZBEKISTAN, by KEORAPETSE KGOSITSILE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We shall dream yes Last Line: This fruit this love. %mayibuye! Alternate Author Name(s): Kgositsile, Keropatse Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement SPEARS AND PLOUGHS!, by LINDIWE MABUZA Poem Source First Line: We once asked steel Last Line: Man's real friend Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement SPEECH AND IMAGE: AN AFRICAN TRADITION OF THE SURREAL, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Speech seems to use the main instrument of thought Last Line: African surrealist analogy presupposes and manifests the hierarchized universe of life forces Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SPIRIT OF BAMBATHA, by UNKNOWN+286 Poem Source First Line: We will meet Last Line: When the nation is free Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement SPLEEN, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I want to ease your distress, my love Last Line: A slow, lazy %blues Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Between railroad cars Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment SPRING, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Clouds stretch out and away Last Line: And my love thrusting forth in the silence %of spring Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SPRING SONG (1), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Birdsongs rise washed in the primitive sky Last Line: Blood! %I hear the april sap singing in your veins Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SPRING SONG (2), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You told me: %my love, listen to the early rumble of the Last Line: Joy %when I must stuff my nose and eyes? Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SPRING SONG (3), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I told you: %listen to the silence under the flaming colors Last Line: Hear the message, my dark love with pink heels. %I hear your amber heart sprout in silence and in sp Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) STANDING ARMED ON OUR OWN GROUND, by BARRY FEINBERG Poem Source First Line: Remember the agony years Last Line: And cost the sacred path %from casualty to liberty Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement STANZAS FOR THE TIMES, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is this the land our fathers loved Last Line: One voice shall thunder, we are free! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs STATE OF THE UNION, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gentlemen, %the situation is tragic Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) STATUE TREATMENT, by BARRY FEINBERG Poem Source Last Line: The hate is held %an idea with fury kept Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement STOLEN TREES, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sound we make sleeping Last Line: Trees whose wood flash %light. Trees, beautiful trees %who can kill a man %like the fallen wings of Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment STONE, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall we finally see him endorse his own strength Last Line: The water soaking with green leaves %there rained the approach of an equinox Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) STORM WITHIN, by REBECCA MATLOU Poem Source First Line: The storm within you mother Last Line: With the swoop of your backside Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hiss and flashing lights of a jet Last Line: Belongs to the twentieth century and its wars. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Strategic Air Command; Nuclear Freeze STREET DEMONSTRATION, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're hopping to be arrested Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement STRENGTH TO FACE TOMORROW, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The kisses of meteorites Last Line: Exhausted by a resurgent doubt %the srength to face tomorrow Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) STUDIOUS HIGH-SCHOOL BOY HE LOOKED, by DENNIS BRUTUS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In a maniac world he was safe Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement SUCH WEATHER, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The hands of wind are busy Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment SUDDENLY STARTLED, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly startled at the fresh sound, the stabbing dagger Last Line: Of eternal summer. %and I await you with the expectation of reviving the dead Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SUMMER AGAIN, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What does he think about Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT FULHAM PALACE, by ELIZABETH SPIRES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sunday afternoon in late september, one of the last Last Line: And ask, once more, to enter that innocent first world. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; London; Nuclear Freeze SUPREME MASK, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fibers feather smooth wood Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SURPRISINGLY SINGING, by BARRY FEINBERG Poem Source First Line: While whites %on sabbath greens Last Line: Surprisingly %singing Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement SWARMS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In tight battalions %swarms of winged brown medallions Last Line: Trumpeting to rivers overflowing %from an hivernage intoxicating Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SWEET ROSE OF ZION, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: It could have been 1929 Last Line: Oh, sweet rose of zion, %fly free, %fly free Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Freedom; Movement TAGA FOR MBAYE DYOB, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mbaye dyob! I want to say your name and your honor Last Line: To the music of kora strings! To the music of wind and wave %dyob! I say your name and your honor Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TAGA FOR MBAYE DYOH (FOR A TAMA), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mbaye dyob! I will speak your name and your honour Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TAR, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first morning of three mile island: those first disquieting Last Line: Scribbled with obscenities and hearts. Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear Accidents; Nuclear Freeze; Chernobyl; Three Mile Island TEDDUNGAL, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sall! I call you name sall! From futa-damga to cape verde Last Line: Honor to redeemed futa! Honor to the childhood %kingdom! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TEN LINES, by EMILE ROUMER Poem Source First Line: To me you are infinitely distant Last Line: The love of this black prince with her derision Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TEN TARGETS REEL UNDER RAGE OF VISION, by BARRY FEINBERG Poem Source First Line: After years of bruising loads Last Line: His eyes blaze down dead-still barrel, %ten targets reel under rage of vision Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement TENDING HATE, by UNKNOWN+288 Poem Source First Line: Look at me Last Line: And the child-soldiers are not avenged Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement TERMINAL COLLOQUY, by CHARLES MARTIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O where will you go when the blinding flash Last Line: Nothing, after the blinding flash. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb TERRITORY OF NIGHT, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Do you hear Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment TEST, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Les chercheurs de silex Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TESTING, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The flint hunters / the obsidian assayers Last Line: And most ignominiously Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Language TESTING, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The flint hunters %the obsidian assayers Last Line: Were given notice ages ago %and most ignominiously Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) THANKSGIVING, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Turkey, blue head on the ground Last Line: Noisy, breaking the glass sky %grey %they are grey %and their wings are weightless Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THAT, THE HOLLOW, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That is unfurnishable it is hollow Last Line: Birdlime %in most cases that is crawlable Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) THE BATH: AUGUST 6, 1945, by KIMIKO HAHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bathing the summer night Last Line: And to take hold. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Atomic Bomb - Victims; Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War; Peace; Radiation & Radiation Sickness; Social Protest; Survival; War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb THE BIGLOW PAPERS: 5. THE DEBATE IN THE SENNIT, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here we stan' on the constitution, by thunder! Last Line: Thet slavery's airth s grettest boon,' sez he. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; United States - Congress - Senate; Antislavery Movement - United States THE BLACK SAMPSON, by JOSEPHINE DEPHINE HENDERSON HEARD Poem Text First Line: There's a sampson lying, sleeping in the land Last Line: By his mighty arm his rights shall be obtained! Subject(s): African Americans; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Slavery; Negroes; American Blacks; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; Serfs THE CALL TO FREEMAN, by MOSES OWEN Poem Text First Line: But for three hundred thousand of freeman true and brave Last Line: That freedom's fires shall brighter glow -- that men can yet be free. Subject(s): American Civil War; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Slavery; U.s. - History; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; Serfs THE CHICAGO DEFENDER SENDS A MAN TO LITTLE ROCK, FALL, 1957, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In little rock the people bear / babes, and comb and part their hair Variant Title(s): The Chicago Defender Sends A Man To Little Rock Subject(s): African Americans; Civil Rights Movement; Negroes; American Blacks THE DAY AFTER THE WAR, by JAMES MADISON BELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twelve score of years were long to wait Last Line: A part, and help in the distress? Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs THE DEATH OF SLAVERY, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou great wrong, that, through the slow-paced years Last Line: Dwell thou, a warning to the coming times. Subject(s): American Civil War; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; Declaration Day THE DEFENSE OF LAWRENCE [SEPTEMBER 14, 1856], by RICHARD REALF Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: All night upon the guarded hill Last Line: The pulses of the grass. Variant Title(s): The Defence Of Lawrence Subject(s): Courage; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Kansas; Slavery; Valor; Bravery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs THE DEMONSTRATION, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They bob above us all afternoon Last Line: Their spells had summoned up. Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Conventions; Democratic Party (u.s.); Elections; Protest, Social; Racism; Assemblies; Meetings; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry THE DREAM AND LIE OF GENERAL FRANCO, 15-18 JUNE 1937, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Owl fandango escabeche swords of octopus of evil omen Subject(s): Franco, Francisco (1892-1975); Antiwar Movement THE EMANCIPATION GROUP, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amidst thy sacred effigies Last Line: And righteousness than wrong. Subject(s): Boston; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Antislavery Movement - United States THE FIGHT OVER THE BODY OF KEITT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sing, o goddess, the wrath, the ontamable dander of keitt" Last Line: "like to heralds of old, stepped the sergeant-at-arms and the speaker" Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation;kansas;slavery;u.s. - Congress; Antislavery Movement - United States;serfs THE FREED ISLANDS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A few brief years have passed away Last Line: "to new-world tyrants, old-world kings!" Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; West Indies; Antislavery Movement - United States; British Empire; England - Empire; Caribbean Islands THE FUNDAMENTAL PROJECT OF TECHNOLOGY, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under glass: glass dishes which changed Last Line: To look back and say, a flash, a white flash sparkled. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Atomic Bomb - Victims; Judgment Day; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb THE GARDEN, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were talking about poetry Last Line: Preparing to open the door. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Poetry & Poets; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb THE GARDEN SHUKKEI-EN, by CAROLYN FORCHE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By way of a vanished bridge we cross this river Last Line: It is the bell to awaken god that we've heard ringing Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb THE HORSE, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They spoke of the horse alive Last Line: Their bones in one mad dance. Subject(s): Animals; Antinuclear Movement; Atomic Bomb - Victims; Hiroshima, Japan; Horses; Nuclear Freeze THE HOUSE OF BONDAGE, by AUGUSTINE JOSEPH HICKEY DUGANNE Poem Text First Line: From mossy woods and cypress bolls Last Line: O god! Break not mine oath for me! Subject(s): American Civil War; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; United States - History; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty THE HUSBAND'S RETURN, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The proud, majestic southern sun Last Line: And lit with joy his way. Subject(s): African Americans; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Negroes; American Blacks; Antislavery Movement - United States THE JUBILEE SINGERS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Voice of a people suffering long Last Line: And slavery's every wrong undone! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States THE KANSAS EMIGRANTS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We cross the prairie as of old Last Line: The homestead of the free! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Homesteaders; Kansas; Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs THE LITTLE CLOUD, by JOHN HOWARD BRYANT Poem Text First Line: As when, on carmel's sterile steep Last Line: The blessed liberty of god. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Missouri Compromise; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty THE MAUL, by MARY E. NEALY Poem Text First Line: I saw a boy in a black-jack wood Last Line: Write half of its toil and glory. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Antislavery Movement - United States THE MEETING AFTER THE SAVIOR GONE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What we decided is Last Line: Where you headed Subject(s): Survival; Civil Rights Movement THE MORAL WARFARE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When freedom, on her natal day Last Line: The light, and truth, and love of heaven. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty THE MYSTIC RIVER, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I cross Last Line: Bit of secret, lighted flesh, open up the earth? Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Southern States; Racism; South (u.s.); Racial Prejudice; Bigotry THE NEW APARTMENT: MINNEAPOLIS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The floorboards creak Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ethnic Groups - United States; Memory; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; United States - Race Relations; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians THE NEW YEAR; ADDRESSED TO PATRONS OF PENNSYLAVNIA FREEMAN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wave is breaking on the shore Last Line: A new and happy year. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Holidays; New Year; Antislavery Movement - United States THE ORIGINS OF CORN, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the female corn. / this is the male Last Line: Will find it green and alive. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Love; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE PANORAMA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the long hall the shuttered windows shed Last Line: And shame his poor word with your nobler deed. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; Serfs THE PASTORAL LETTER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So, this is all, - the utmost reach Last Line: Shall deeper joy be felt in heaven! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States THE PINE TREE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lift again the stately emblem on the bay state's rusted shield Last Line: And to plant again the pine-tree in her banner's tattered field! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Massachusetts; Pine Trees; Trees; Antislavery Movement - United States THE PLANET KRYPTON, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Outside the window the mcgill smelter Last Line: We could have anything we wanted. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Baby Boom Generation; Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Women; Nuclear Freeze THE PROCLAMATION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saint patrick, slave to milcho of the herds Last Line: And heal with freedom what your slavery cursed. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Patrick, Saint (5th Century); Presidents, United States; Antislavery Movement - United States THE RELIC, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Token of friendship, true and tried Last Line: And turn the spoiler from his prey. Subject(s): Arson; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Antislavery Movement - United States THE ROAD TO SELMA, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In her birthplace, she's a tourist in the shrine to martyrs Last Line: Prisoners of starvation, their hungry mouths chew the bloody word, / arise Subject(s): Selma, Alabama; Civil Rights Movement THE SLAVE-MONGERS' CONVENTION: CANTO 2, SELECTION, by J. P. RANDOLPH Poem Text First Line: My brethren, most beloved and dear Last Line: Your whips -- Subject(s): American Civil War; Bible; Clergy; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Slavery; U.s. - History; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs THE SPIRIT VOICE; OR, LIBERTY CALL TO THE DISENFRANCHISED, by CHARLES L. REASON Poem Text First Line: Come! Rouse ye brothers, rouse! A peal now breaks Last Line: From partial bondage to a life indeed. Subject(s): African Americans; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Toussaint L'ouverture (1743-1803); Negroes; American Blacks; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty THE STRENGTH TO FACE TOMORROW, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The kisses of meteorites Last Line: The strength to face tomorrow Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) THE TRUTH IS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In my left pocket a chickasaw hand Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; United States - Race Relations; Women; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians; THE TWILIGHT HOUR, by JOSHUA MCCARTER SIMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I sat one evening in sweet meditation Last Line: The captive from bondage, will shortly release. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States THE WORLD'S CONVENTION OF FRIENDS OF EMANCIPATION IN LONDON, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, let them gather! Summon forth Last Line: The fire shall fall from heaven! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States THERE IS A PIG, by UNKNOWN+287 Poem Source Last Line: Where no fish enjoys a bath Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement THERE WAS A GIRL, by DENNIS BRUTUS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A girl in a print dress, once, they say Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement THIAROYE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Black prisoners, I should say french prisoners, is it true Last Line: Sleep now, o dead! Let my voice rock you to sleep, %my voice of rage cradling hope Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) THIS APPEAL-PROHIBITED BLOOD, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always, less lively than beautiful, the air , save for this breath Last Line: Earth, self-conscious, clipped, reduced, in breach of fauna Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) THIS APPEAL-PROHIBITED BLOOD, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always, less lively than beautiful, the air , save for this breath Last Line: These unseizable seasons this eyelash-denied sky and this %appeal-prohibited food Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) THIS DAY, by MAZISI KUNENE Poem Source First Line: Like any other day I came home Last Line: Sang the hymn, our hymn, the song of liberty Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement THIS IS JOHNNY, by UNKNOWN+289 Poem Source First Line: Of an amber hue Last Line: From shifting sands, south, %three thousand miles Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement THIS MORNING, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This morning the sky was washed with rain, the green trees Last Line: As you dream among the indigo channels of southern %rivers Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) THIS PATH, by REBECCA MATLOU Poem Source First Line: Child of the soil Last Line: And bid the sod to seed freedom Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement THIS STRANGE CALCULATION OF ROOTS, by EDOUARD J. MAUNICK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Just as fear never kills Last Line: I know that someone will turn over the hourglass Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) THOSE WHO THUNDER, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And this is how walls have fallen in other cities Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Thunder THOUGHT, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The tree is all alone Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment THOUGHT ON JUNE 26, by MAZISI KUNENE Poem Source First Line: Was I wrong when I thought Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement THROUGH THE FOG, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fog closes the world Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment TI-JEAN SANDOR, by RENE DEPESTRE Poem Source First Line: I am ti-jean sandor Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TIME, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is the end of time Last Line: Towards the serene lights in the untouchable sky. %ah! Let us drown in the stagnant pool Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TIVA'S TAPESTRY: LA LLORONA, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: White-haired woman of winter Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment TO A BLACK WOMAN WITH BLOND HAIR, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And then you came at sweet dawn Last Line: Of your shoulder, %my love, my love, o my love! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TO A CARIBBEAN WOMAN, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your princely hands beneath the chains Last Line: Open like a shadowy palace, I saw %rising up the triumphant pride of the old guelwars Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TO A DARK GIRL, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You let the friendship of moonlight Last Line: Of the splendors of mali %buried beneath the sands Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TO BE DEDUCTED, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Apings %those who with their gazestone assassinate Last Line: Its ornament of fire %its dolman of blood %its flag of renewal Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TO CLEMENTS' FERRY, by JOSEPHINE DEPHINE HENDERSON HEARD Poem Source First Line: One lovely summer afternoon when balmy breezes blew Last Line: Instead of 'clements' ferry,' it is now 'sunset retreat' Subject(s): Emancipation Movement And Proclamation TO DEATH, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You assailed me once again that night Last Line: Either %of us one luminous winter day in ille-de-france Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TO DELAWARE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thrice welcome to thy sisters of the east Last Line: Glory and praise to god! Another state is free! Subject(s): Delaware; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States TO FANEUIL HALL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men! If manhood still ye claim Last Line: Up, to faneuil hall! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Faneuil Hall, Boston; Antislavery Movement - United States TO HAVE RESPITE - AFTER THE FIGHT, by UNKNOWN+288 Poem Source First Line: I wish someone kind can shout: 'coward' Last Line: To have respite Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement TO KNOW, HE SAYS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hey connoisseur of knowing Last Line: As do the ardent hooves of the wind-horse %along the trails of night Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TO LIGHT, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At the spring Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment TO MASSACHUSETTS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What though around thee blazes Last Line: Was sleeping, but not dead! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Massachusetts; Antislavery Movement - United States TO NEW YORK, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: New york! I had first been confused by Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); New York City TO NEW YORK: 1, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: New york! At first I was bewildered by your beauty Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple TO NEW YORK: 1, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: New york! At first I was bewildered by your beauty Last Line: And murky streams carry away hygenic loving %like rivers overflowing with the corpses of babies Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); New York City TO NEW YORK: 2, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now is the time for signs and reckoning, new york! Now is Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple TO NEW YORK: 2, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now is the time for signs and reckoning, new york! Now is Last Line: Listen to the distant beating of your nocturnal heart, %the tom-tom's rhythm and blood, tom-tom bloo Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); New York City TO NEW YORK: 3, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: New york! I say new york, let black blood flow into your Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple TO NEW YORK: 3, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: New york! I say new york, let black blood flow into your Last Line: Created heaven and earth in six days, %and on the seventh slept a deep negro sleep Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); New York City TO PENNSYLVANIA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O state prayer-founded! Never hung Last Line: And thy triumphal song. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Pennsylvania; Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs TO THE AMERICAN NEGRO SOLDIERS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I did not recognize you in your prison of sad-coloured uniforms Last Line: I greet you as the messengers of peace Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TO THE BANQUET OF THE EARTH, FR. FIRST SONG OF DEPARTURE, by MARTIAL SINDA Poem Source Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TO THE BLACK AMERICAN TROOPS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I did not recognize you in your prison of sad-colored uniforms Last Line: Oh, the delight of life after winter. I hail you %as messengers of peace Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Negritude (literary Movement) TO THE FIRST OF AUGUST, by ANN PLATO Poem Text First Line: Britannia's isles proclaim Last Line: That they may not depart. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; British Empire; England - Empire; Serfs TO THE HAWKS, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell is the bell Last Line: Grows round with the sound Subject(s): Antiwar Movement; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Mcnamara, Robert S.; Rusk, Dean (1909-1994); Bindy, Mcgeorge (1919-1996); War Hawks TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS DAVIS, by JOHN FISHER MURRAY Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: When on the field where freedom bled Last Line: For slaves and cowards living on. Subject(s): Davis, Thomas Osborne (1814-1845); Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs TO THE MILLONS HUNGRY, by UNKNOWN+288 Poem Source Last Line: As the hawk the sky %thou the land Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement TO THE MUSIC OF KORAS AND BALAPHON (1), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A river by the bend in the road, blue in the cool september Last Line: Were my sisters tening-ndare and tyagoum-ndyare, %brighter than copper from acrosss the sea Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TO THE MUSIC OF KORAS AND BALAPHON (2), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Later, the springs in the narrow shade of latin muses Last Line: Like our stiff-necked ancestor to the rhythm of our clapping%hands: 'ndyaga-bass! Ndyaga-riti!' Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TO THE MUSIC OF KORAS AND BALAPHON (3), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She called me 'lord!' Last Line: Till the soil. %o to be your trumpet! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TO THE MUSIC OF KORAS AND BALAPHON (4), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My lambs, my delightful ones who will not see me grow old Last Line: And the king's griots sang to me in the kora's high tones %the true legend of my race Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TO THE MUSIC OF KORAS AND BALAPHON (5), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What months? What year was it? Last Line: Shadow of dusk %would sound the khalams in lament Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TO THE MUSIC OF KORAS AND BALAPHON (6), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I myself was the grandfather of my grandfather Last Line: Founder of kingdoms, who will be the salt of the serers, %who wll be the salt of the salt people Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TO THE MUSIC OF KORAS AND BALAPHON (7), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ele-yaye! Once again I sing a noble subject Last Line: Let me hear the vermilion mixed-blood voices! %let me hear the song of future africa! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TO THE MUSIC OF KORAS AND BALAPHON (8), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How uplifted am I by the hope of one day running before Last Line: Force, %to the love that rouses the singing worlds Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TO THE MUSIC OF KORAS AND BALAPHON (9), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the hope of that day - now that the rivers of the somme Last Line: I bring back from europe only this child friend, %the light of her eyes in the breton mists Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TO THE SENEGALESE SOLDIERS WHO DIED FOR FRANCE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here comes the sun Last Line: Senegalese soldiers %who died for the republic! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TO THOSE WHO PERSUADE US, by DENNIS BRUTUS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Our sincerity %in action Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement TO WHITE SOUTH AFRICA, by COSMO PIETERSE Poem Source First Line: If, when your walk around the cape's flat sands Last Line: You're blind to, ten miles from your eyes, stark misery Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement TO WILLIAM E. CHANNING, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pages of thy book I read Last Line: This dread apocalypse! Subject(s): Channing, William Ellery (1780-1842); Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States TO WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Champion of those who groan beneath Last Line: And god alone be lord! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Garrison, William Lloyd (1805-1879); Antislavery Movement - United States TODAY IN PRISON, by DENNIS BRUTUS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And those who will do the much %that still needs to be done Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement TONGUE FASHION, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Keystone / hieroglyphs / forget the abolished constellation Last Line: The sacred territory reluctantly conceded by the leaves Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TONGUE FASHION, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Keystone %hieroglyphs %forget the abolished constellation Last Line: Reclaimed from wild beasts %the sacred territory reluctantly conceded by the leaves Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TOPOGRAPHY, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: This is the barren, stepmother land %where cactus blooms Last Line: Puffing among spongy corpses %of useless, stillborn desires Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TORNADO, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That time when %the senator noticed that Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Tornadoes TORPOR OF HISTORY, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between two puffs of familiar birds Last Line: Ah! That road halfway up and its solid surplus %I'm awaiting%awaiting %the wind Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TOTEM, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I must hide in the intimate depths of my veins Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TOTEM, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I must hide him down in my deepest veins Last Line: Protecting my naked pride against myself %and the arrogance of fortunate races ... Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TOUCH, by HUGH LEWIN Poem Source First Line: When I get out Last Line: Here I am %please touch me Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement TOURAINE SPRINGTIME, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But I, %I know you, touraine springtime Last Line: Let me sleep. %you'd better not trifle with the black man Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TOWN, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: Pity, lord, pity on my poor town Last Line: Where my poor people will likely die of nothing Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TOWNSHIP TERROR, by UNKNOWN+287 Poem Source First Line: The nightly fear Last Line: Sad tears of marijuana %onto the earth Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement TRAIN'S PASSAGE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A siren black whistle %tunnels through dark clouds Last Line: Their song goes on %rushing %light %to fill the distance Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment TRANSMISSION, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The surplus %I had shed it into the rutsof the roads Last Line: Meanwhile time was hacking at me harshly %down to my intact root Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TREASON'S LAST DEVICE, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sons of new engaland in the fray Last Line: But you -- do you hear it, yankee boys? Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States TRIBUTE FOR STEVE BIKO, by DENNIS BRUTUS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dusty roads Last Line: Even if they robbed him of his life Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John Subject(s): Biko, Steve (1946-1977); South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement TRUMPETS OF THE CROWNED CRANES, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Trumpets of the crowned cranes? Or is it your dreamy face Last Line: Is the metallic vibrating cry of blackbirds %consoling and comforting me Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TRUTH IS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In my left pocket a chickasaw hand Last Line: The left shoe %and the right one with its white foot Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; U.s. - Race Relations; Women TRUTH OF THE MATTER, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The face of daylight has been removed Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment TRYING TO TALK WITH A MAN, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out in this desert we are testing bombs Last Line: As if we were testing anything else. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Atomic Bomb - Testing; Men; Nuclear Freeze TURNING, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The fevers of winter have flown away Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment TURTLE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm dreaming the old turtle back Last Line: We are amber, %the small animals %are gold inside us Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Native Americans TWO OF HEARTS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I dream my fingers are knives Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment TWO WINDS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The cold north wind Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment TYPICAL, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Incidents along the way Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Danger; Insects; Travel TYPICAL, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Incidents along the way Last Line: In any case %it is not recommended to indulge in breaks Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) U.S. 1946 KING'S X, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Having invented a new holocaust Last Line: King's x – no fairs to use it any more! Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear Freeze U.S. 1946 KING'S X, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Having invented a new holocaust Last Line: King's x -- no fairs to use it anymore! Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement UNBROKEN NIGGER CREST LINE, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are volcanoes that are dying Last Line: There are volcanoes whose openings are in exact %scale with the ancient rip Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) UNFINISHED ADVENTURE', by MAZISI KUNENE Poem Source First Line: Not by the same route, our return Last Line: Certain, by such magic our triumph is assured Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement UNKNOWN SORROW, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: All today I thought of the distant sorrow Last Line: Whose useless voice is lost in the wind Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) V. WHO WILL SPEAK?, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If all the animals came from the hills Last Line: I do not want the words to fall away. %I do not want to break this spell Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment VAPOR CAVE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Daughter of stones Last Line: The sun is bright. %the sky is clear. %each tip of the grass is shining Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment VAPOR TRAILS, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twin streaks twice higher than cumulus Last Line: —spotting that design. Subject(s): Air Force - United States; Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb VENGEANCE, by MAZISI KUNENE Poem Source First Line: How would it be is I came in the night Last Line: Witnessing the explosions of our revenge Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement; Vengeance VENOM VERSION, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The most varied combinations always bring us back Last Line: And with the impress of ashes %the breakdown of debris takes forever Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) VERTIGO, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The sweet black earth, and the sorrow of your own %absence Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) VIATICUM, by TCHICAYA U TAM'SI Poem Source First Line: You are from my country Last Line: May the lines of my hand %open all the ways to me of this long river Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) VIRTUOUS SIN, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: Slender and fine, a lyric and tenuous Last Line: The chargers of dawn begin to neigh Subject(s): Love Affairs; Negritude (literary Movement) VISIT, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I dream in the intimate semi-darkness of an afternoon Last Line: And suddenly my dead draw near to me Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) VOODOO, by LEON LALEAU Poem Source First Line: Time has wrinkled your face Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) WAIT NOT TILL SLAVES PRONOUNCE THE WORD, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And farewewll slavery Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Slavery WALL SONGS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The southern jungle is a green wall Last Line: Showing again, again %that boundaries are all lies Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Native Americans WARM RAIN, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Birds fly into the window and turn Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment WATCH ME, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: White cows in the lightning Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment WATER RISING, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We rose up from the rocks %like the night a mineral spring Last Line: And let us dance away %forever from the dark body Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment WAYS HOME, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Last summer %spiders came down from trees Last Line: Leaving, dancing home %a strand of light Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment WE FOUND COMMON SONG, by BARRY FEINBERG Poem Source First Line: Testing solidarity %in tashkent Last Line: And our victories %soon to be celebrated! Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement WE SHALL OVERCOME': A SMILE FOR THE 1960'S, by JAMES ANDREW EMANUEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To us, it was a lovely song Last Line: Like the uncut pages of a book of dreams - %the best of the century - %pushed aside Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement WEDDING, by HUGH LEWIN Poem Source First Line: Solly nathee %stood alone Last Line: Stood on the koppie overlooking his home %alone Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement WELCOME TO HIROSHIMA, by MARY JO SALTER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is what you first see, stepping off the train Last Line: Worked its filthy way out like a tongue. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Hiroshima, Japan; Literary Form; World War Ii; Nuclear Freeze; Second World War WELL, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: My soul is like a well of dead, deep water Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) WELL, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: My soul is like a well of deaf, deep water Last Line: And it brims with a faint sense of eternity Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) WENDELL PHILLIPS, by AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: People's attorney, servant of the right Last Line: Impartial history dare not leave thee out. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Phillips, Wendell (1811-1884); Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty WENDELL PHILLIPS, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What shall we mourn? For the prostrate tree that sheltered the Last Line: Union was traitor to right! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Phillips, Wendell (1811-1884); Antislavery Movement - United States WHAT AND HOW, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What andhow do you live and think, and of whom? Last Line: And at night, the sweet laughter among the palms. %of whom not of what, I think you and live the liv Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) WHAT ARE YOU DOING?, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What are you doing? What are you thinking about? And of Last Line: Rhythmically - %except of you, like the wild black duck with the white belly Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) WHAT DARK TEMPESTUOUS NIGHT, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What dark tempestuous night has been hiding your face? Last Line: Give me propitious words Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO AMERICA, by RAYMOND RICHARD PATTERSON Poem Source First Line: What ever happened to %those crazy white Last Line: They had lots of friends Alternate Author Name(s): Patterson, Ray Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Social Protest WHAT GETS IN, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In daylight %houses expand Last Line: Even the moon at the window Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Nuclear War WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THESE WORKING HANDS?, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They opened the ground and closed it around seeds Last Line: They drummed the old burial songs Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment WHAT I THINK, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is peaceful to cut celery Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment WHAT OF THE DAY?, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sound of tumult troubles all the air Last Line: Flailed by the thunder, heaped with chaffless grain! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States WHAT THE END IS FOR (GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA), by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A boy just like you took me out to see them Last Line: Until the sound of the open ocean grows and the voice. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Strategic Air Command; Nuclear Freeze WHAT THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT REALLY WANTS, by JAMIE REY Poem Source First Line: Abortion foes rally %from the new york times Last Line: Single drop of blood %on a hopeful fingertip Subject(s): Abortion; Religious Right (political Movement) WHAT'S IN THIS BLACK 'SHIT', by MONGANE WALLY SEROTE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is not the steaming little rot Last Line: That's what's in this black 'shit' Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement WHAT'S LIVING, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The amphibious bedlam of mothers Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment WHEN, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder now only when it will happen Last Line: It will look so beautiful. Subject(s): Amputees; Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb WHEN LIGHTS GO OUT (FOR SOME WHO ARE IN SOUTH AFRICAN JAILS), by MONGANE WALLY SEROTE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is with the shadows of night Last Line: Can you hear the footsteps Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement WHEN MIGUEL ANGEL ASTURIAS DISAPPEARED, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Skillful flint striker %grandly flinging golden grain into the thick mane Last Line: And settled, an ever green mountain, %on the horizon of all men Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) WHEN THE TOM-TOM BEATS, by JACQUES ROUMAIN Poem Source First Line: Your heart trembles in the shadows, like a face Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) WHEN THE VACATION IS OVER FOR GOOD, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It will be strange Last Line: We are dying. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Vacation; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb WHERE NO SEED BORE FRUIT BEFORE, by BARRY FEINBERG Poem Source First Line: In an authorized ghetto Last Line: And seeds take root %where no seed bore fruit before Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement WHITE MAN'S INTERLUDES: DRUMS, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: Night is a nursery of drums %whose hoarse, hide throats Last Line: Will course your veins forever Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) WHITE MAN'S INTERLUDES: ISLANDS, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: Lands of patois and papiamento Last Line: Drunk after too many islands %under the iron fist of rum Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) WHITNEY YOUNG, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whitney, you were a candid structure hulking in event Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Fortitude; Young, Whitney Moore, Jr. (1921-1971) WHITNEY YOUNG, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whitney, you were a candid structure hulking in event Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Fortitude; Young, Whitney Moore, Jr. (1921-1971) WHY, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why fight off the memory Last Line: Calm, %beneath the warm, sisterly affection of the sun Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) WIFREDO LAM, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To report: nothing less than Last Line: And the law of your name Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) WIFREDO LAM, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To report: nothing less than Last Line: The vertigo of your blood %and the law of your name Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a small chamber, friendless and unseen Last Line: Ye earn the crown, and wear it not in vain. Variant Title(s): To William Lloyd Garrison Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Garrison, William Lloyd (1805-1879); Politics & Government; Antislavery Movement - United States WINDOW IN STONE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A child sleeps Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment WOMAN CHOPPING WOOD, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I like the smell of pine Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment WOMEN ARE GRIEVING, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Light %lumine %our salvation Last Line: Death is stealing from me %death is dancing me ragged Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment WOMEN OF FRANCE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Women of france, and you, daughters of france Last Line: For them you were mothers, for them you were sisters. %flames of france, flowers of france, bless yo Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) WOMEN SPEAKING, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And the russian women in blue towns %are speaking Last Line: Over the wise distances %on perfect feet. %daughters, I love you Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment WOMEN'S DAY SONG, by UNKNOWN+289 Poem Source First Line: Celebrate our women in campaigns Last Line: To celebrate freedom %and to honour women's day Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement; Women WOODGATHERING IN OCTOBER, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dark trees built tall by the sun Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment WORKDAY, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I go to work Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment WORKING, by UNKNOWN+288 Poem Source First Line: Working %to drink full Last Line: To know %dignity Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement WORLD TO COME, by BERNARD DADIE Poem Source First Line: Stars in profusion %pure Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) WREATH FOR AFRICA, by BERNARD DADIE Poem Source First Line: I shall weave you a wreath Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) WRECKAGE, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone's impotent utterance or else very real horses Last Line: Winging it and %cunning %the silentious open air of the split Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) X-RAY OF MY DAUGHTER, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath growing breasts Last Line: Passing through the black and white %revelations of bone Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; X-rays YOU AGAIN, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I sense a presence in the darkness Last Line: Accompany them with your tamas! %accompany them with your tornado voices! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) YOU ARE BORED, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You are bored with dakar, with its sky and sand and sea Last Line: Beneath the iridescent dew, you will be a filao under icy %snow Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) YOU HELD THE BLACK FACE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You held the black face of the warrior between your hands Last Line: I shall mourn anew my home, and the rain of your eyes over the %thirsty savannah Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) YOU SPEAK, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You speak about your age and your silky white strands Last Line: What incredible music, dearest, sweet as a %dream! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) YOUNG BOYS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's springtime and young boys Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment YOUNG HEROES - I, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is very busy with his looking Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement YOUR LETTER, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your letter, precious one, flowering with september roses Last Line: Flute? %from the distance a watery flute responds Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) YOUR LETTER ON THE BED, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your letter on the bed and under the fragrant lamp Last Line: Without your letter, life would not be life, %your lips, my salt and sun, my fresh air and my snow Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) YOUR LETTER ON THE SHEET, BENEATH THE SWEET-SMELLING LAMP, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Your lips my salt my sun, my fresh air and my snow Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) YOUR NIGHT, MY NIGHT, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your night, my night at the close of an afternoon. Your tea Last Line: What the signare mistress said to her her departing ensign: bad %match Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) YOUR TREMORING LETTER, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your tremoring letter, and fever Last Line: I would not exist. %no promises: I am your joy as you are my being Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ZAFFER SUN, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the foot of stammering volcanoes Last Line: Parakinesized by lofty bitter kingdoms %I %zaffer sun Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) |
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