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Subject: TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE (1743-1803)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` HISTORIC EPISODES, by PETER WELLINGTON CLARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Toussaint %sticking out his tongue
Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906); Jesus Christ; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Slavery; Toussaint L'ouverture (1743-1803)


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


TO ANDREW CROSSE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Altho' with earth and heaven you deal
Last Line: Philosophers can envy too.
Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); Poetry & Poets; Toussaint L'ouverture (1743-1803); Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


TO TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Toussaint, the most unhappy man of men
Last Line: And love, and man's unconquerable mind.
Variant Title(s): To Toussaint L'ouverture, Leader Of African Slaves
Subject(s): Religion; Toussaint L'ouverture (1743-1803); Theology


TOUSAINT L'OUVERTURE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas night. The tranquil moonlight smile
Last Line: Acceptable to god.
Subject(s): Slavery; Toussaint L'ouverture (1743-1803); Serfs


TOUSSAINT, by LYNNE MCMAHON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In france, it begins in the atlantic
Subject(s): Toussaint L'ouverture (1743-1803)


TOUSSAINT, by RICHARD O'CONNELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Haitian man %so black he bright
Last Line: Guest run %a thousand mile
Subject(s): Toussaint L'ouverture (1743-1803)


TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE, by HENRIETTA CORDELIA RAY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To those fair isles where crimson sunsets burn
Last Line: And noble patriot! Guard with love thy name
Alternate Author Name(s): Ray, Cordelia
Subject(s): Toussaint L'ouverture (1743-1803)


TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Am I alone - or is it you, my friend?
Last Line: You are still there. And I know who is here.
Subject(s): Toussaint L'ouverture (1743-1803)


TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Am I alone - or is it you, my friend?
Last Line: You are still there. And I know who is here
Subject(s): Toussaint L'ouverture (1743-1803)


TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE (A REVERIE), by JAN CAREW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who is slave and who is free
Subject(s): Toussaint L'ouverture (1743-1803)


TOUSSAINT L'OVERTURE: HIS ANCESTRY, by GEORGE CLINTON ROWE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A tribe surnamed the arradas
Last Line: And made his grave.
Subject(s): Africa; Toussaint L'ouverture (1743-1803)


TOUSSAINT L'OVERTURE: HIS BOYHOOD, by GEORGE CLINTON ROWE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: His eldest son, arradas' heir
Last Line: His high estate.
Subject(s): Toussaint L'ouverture (1743-1803)


TOUSSAINT L'OVERTURE: HIS MANHOOD, by GEORGE CLINTON ROWE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus, up to manhood he arose
Last Line: "and conquer here."
Subject(s): Toussaint L'ouverture (1743-1803)


TOUSSAINT L'OVERTURE: HIS PRIME, by GEORGE CLINTON ROWE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The years pass on, and overhead
Last Line: A nobler man!
Subject(s): Toussaint L'ouverture (1743-1803)