gardensong

A solar-powered temperature and humidity sensor in the garden writes poems from public-domain poetry by Black poets. It wakes with the light and writes throughout the day at the top of the hour; after dark, on its spent battery, it sleeps. Humidity sets the length; temperature sets the width and the wildness.

The words you sang to me dat ev'ything The infant planets saw her cheek had From the margin let me buy the place


68°F · 63% RH · 2026-09-07 04:00

earlier

Who returned to his side, oh! may I must never heed The sacred brown feet of Judas! Yet the garden is very quiet to-night, Go prowling through the eternity


68°F · 62% RH · 2026-09-07 03:00

Oh, for the dawn’s great star (Perchance the one that ever speaks Impotent atom with desolate gaze Threading the tumult of hazardous ways--


68°F · 61% RH · 2026-09-07 02:00

I've been abused and tossed about, Ding, Dong, Ding. But naught so precious as the lightning Dat am da time fuh rain. "When yo' dog quits bones an'


70°F · 60% RH · 2026-09-07 01:00

Your sun-illumined way; I have kissed her red, red lips To feebler ones than mine, Ride on, young lord, thou ridest by No! Once again the hard, the ugly


70°F · 58% RH · 2026-09-07 00:00

For water, fresh rain shaken from a forest In stainless glory spreads its snowy He came, a youth, singing in the trenches


72°F · 57% RH · 2026-09-06 23:00

Christ washed the feet of clay. For the corn and beans and the yellow 'Long de lovah's lane. Go spread the glad release, O'er the nations holds its sway,


73°F · 55% RH · 2026-09-06 22:00

Soft-scented in the white world’s hell, So dey kissed an' kissed again, To bless the singer of a mortal fear.


75°F · 54% RH · 2026-09-06 21:00

Beloved of God, He doctah fur all de town-- Why, angels' robes go rustlin' 'roun', Him yurs am small, him eyes am raid, Him stomp him foot urpon de groun';


79°F · 52% RH · 2026-09-06 20:00

The older folk are at their peaceful toil, Our swaying forms and steals our hearts with Kneeled down in my grain,


81°F · 49% RH · 2026-09-06 19:00

His spirit must have nightly floated free, "The sword of the rose-apple. I hold my head and wept. Turn me to linger here, alas,


82°F · 46% RH · 2026-09-06 18:00

The band of cruel sights and deeds, The crops which their fathers have sown. Go read on the tropic sea, Where towers the cotton tree, Where I may never hope for me? Is there


84°F · 46% RH · 2026-09-06 17:00

The tides, the wharves, the dens I contemplate, Ding, Dong, Ding. Go on, hoot yo' Mou'nful tune, You must staunch these wounds that bleed.


86°F · 46% RH · 2026-09-06 16:00

By the Unika Range of Tennessee. The long, vain waiting through the trees And stillness like the sound of blended flutes Our mother, so loved and precious,


84°F · 48% RH · 2026-09-06 15:00

And the moon That storm and burning brand. Each black cloud Is it because I am dried and dead, Choose thou her resting-place.


82°F · 51% RH · 2026-09-06 14:00

As, greed-impelled, they circle threateningly, Vainly waiting for the white man’s world of Peace is hovering over No Man's Land. Loud the clashing sabres rang;


82°F · 54% RH · 2026-09-06 13:00

Where war has sharpened his weapons, Stood frowning there, a cave here, bred six Who made the gallows an altar high, Thy signals, ever and anon she cried; But would please the weak frail flesh;


81°F · 57% RH · 2026-09-06 12:00

But with it across the line; Oblivious of the people. I ask for my dear boy? The hungry heart was all but weaned away Of you. Nor you of her. 'Tis said


77°F · 60% RH · 2026-09-06 11:00

"Go, tell the King," she sadly said, "Must die to get us out of the rose-apple: Not these, not these did I stray from us, tempt us not beyond our strength,


75°F · 63% RH · 2026-09-06 10:00

Sailing the seven seas; He will go down to hell. I'm out to be wooed; And browse about our ancient place, Lay the victims of the dying stars. Symbolic mother, we thy myriad


72°F · 63% RH · 2026-09-06 09:00

Grandma, he said, must be happening The brave old man cried, "I was fashioned by His hand God of Peace. England and Russia face to face


70°F · 65% RH · 2026-09-06 08:00

Source to me of vital worth, Till, weary of waiting the dawn To wear that badge as a crown; But dey all mus' be de head: No tyrant's tread will disturb his And upon the flat rocks joyously!


68°F · 67% RH · 2026-09-06 07:00

The fairy phantoms of my far away youth, The forest trees have shed their leaves, Him hab him roots, him wu'k him trick, Came the words that brought them


68°F · 66% RH · 2026-09-06 06:00

I'll make me a house," said the Master, A crusade for the veils of my home And ever another rides his soul was


68°F · 65% RH · 2026-09-06 05:00

Of healthy children you shall never To an idle age and a face With gifts to bring, A'ter all de laigs he need, Were its mountains 'gainst me


70°F · 64% RH · 2026-09-06 04:00

It was something to him in my humbled To make our age the fairest one Of children for their bartered mothers' To dwell with beautiful angels,


70°F · 63% RH · 2026-09-06 03:00

There is no part of the minstrel's lyre? Has come, has come! A love so fugitive and so fair. Again, I feel your glad Chiding from the blaze of the


70°F · 62% RH · 2026-09-06 02:00

To be merciful and just. Where Science trains the fledgling bard Yet de people hab de heart Each one nestling in her lair. Oh, the judge, he wore a mask of


72°F · 61% RH · 2026-09-06 01:00

Your faun-like form, your fond face; Beheld that little sparrow's fall. ’Tis dawn, dawn in New York. And bows and pins, and perfumed papers


72°F · 60% RH · 2026-09-06 00:00

I am bound with you resting in my heart For with me yet. I love to sing! thou art too tender, I love this cultured hell that tests my songs of sorrow, love and soulful


73°F · 58% RH · 2026-09-05 23:00

All night a bright and joyous troop From all that was dear to part, Are kindly meant in their design. Sometimes I tremble like a storm-swept Lieth, like shadow on the brown twig


75°F · 57% RH · 2026-09-05 22:00

Bring surcease to her heart, For loving hearts to usher in The agony and terror in his eye! If we must die--oh, let us nobly die, And He looked on His ears, Who in his fields of strife,


77°F · 56% RH · 2026-09-05 21:00

Renews it day by day, Or waters of my skin, Forgetting that I could n't ba' to go-- Is a place


77°F · 52% RH · 2026-09-05 20:00

For truth and right An' she answe'd, "Cose I do"-- Jump back, honey, jump back. Little children, blow your trumpets! From our world henceforth depart.


81°F · 51% RH · 2026-09-05 18:00

And let us breathe the air is blowin' mighty Look farther back! Three centuries! To me would never penetrate the prayers and


82°F · 53% RH · 2026-09-05 16:00

In this strife must bear a part; While you are gone and tears are shed, That casts a subtle spell upon all things, Blind Homer, Greek or Jew,


81°F · 54% RH · 2026-09-05 14:00

It is nothing to me, the beauty said, And every little baby Brings a message from the sun's bright sheen. And yet, and yet to-day The sacred brown feet of clay.


81°F · 58% RH · 2026-09-05 13:00

And watched her perfect, half-clothed body I am as welcome as the Spartan, proud to dance for the people, As sickness grips a soul in wretched weather.


79°F · 60% RH · 2026-09-05 11:00

And rape their souls for the clashing sabres All the world shall have its sway. When peace descends like gentle dew They chided him for telling his affairs,


77°F · 65% RH · 2026-09-05 10:00

This Negro singer, come to juice And walk with Him in the valley, Every mountain has a hill, He lib so long dat he dawnce ur jeeg; To de pastur whe' de harse Feed along wid de jackass, An' Ah wush dat you would marry me!


75°F · 80% RH · 2026-09-05 09:00

With the mingled fragrance of the golden We won't mind de haul an' pull, While the humbled hearts o'erflow! Well I know he's hidin' erroun' hyeah These seven links the _Law_ compelled


75°F · 87% RH · 2026-09-05 08:00

In Olivet, beneath the giant tree To lay at Jesus' feet. The castaways of life, And women heart-stricken are weeping Over the earth came down, Sing, my bawnjer, sing! We's gwine ter dawnce dis eb'nin' sho',


73°F · 94% RH · 2026-09-05 07:00

There will be the best." The modern kings will throttle you to dance for the player who hasn't the lips of men ill-fated, Doomed to suffer and to die while you Ignites the East. Within your homes you press the hand


73°F · 93% RH · 2026-09-05 06:00

And left the palace of the poor and pale When I declare I am dark. Your kisses turbulent, unspent To strengthen, crown and bless the singer Are sweet like early love. "Thou shalt build with fadeless


73°F · 90% RH · 2026-09-05 05:00

And the earth was under His feet. "Tim Thompson, a little cake And kingdoms fell and empires rose, Upon life's stormy tide. The blush is on the island of the eucharis Before these star-noted birds escaped


75°F · 88% RH · 2026-09-05 04:00

Before these star-noted birds escaped We took the light of God around us, And lit with many a hot-breath'd battle For ancient hag and snaggle-tooth; But before I reach my country, My leaves were green as the eye


75°F · 89% RH · 2026-09-05 03:00

The fascinating note, Which, fluting like a groan. Without the street is wet and weird A youth of heaven's element, The benediction fell; And clearer light touched golden harps The shivering birds beneath the


77°F · 89% RH · 2026-09-05 02:00

Would you blame him, when you see this In stainless glory spreads its snowy blooms. I am not a place to fanes of prayer and We are a part and not the whole. Contemplating the strange, I’m


77°F · 88% RH · 2026-09-05 01:00

Oh little, lovely Christ--you smile! What days our wine-thrilled bodies pulsed Sinks dead, and 'round us everywhere Hangs stifling darkness, and we grope With black-ribbed blue-bells blowing near, Do not cheer, while little children


79°F · 86% RH · 2026-09-05 00:00

Whose meaning, charlatan history, tells! Ghosts are turned flesh, throwing off the lips of the eucharis Before my ravished sight The spell of half tears, And bound me with tales of Peace hovering over No Man's Land


79°F · 81% RH · 2026-09-04 23:00

In the mem'ry of each home. The wine-flushed, bold-eyed boys, and even (While all de chu'ch des sob an' weep) "O mah dawlin'! Who-ah! Love glorious in his hands Did I a single grain destroy;


81°F · 74% RH · 2026-09-04 22:00

Love is but desire and thy purpose fulfillment; Would learn to labor, live and die a slave? Of some wild animal caught in the soul-toned In night, O God of Peace.


81°F · 71% RH · 2026-09-04 21:00

fought the fight of others The butterflies, and sparrows in brief flight Her _soul_, proud fool, her _soul_ is mine, But I forgib my in'miz, my heart and Beauty


82°F · 67% RH · 2026-09-04 20:00

As deserves our sweetest song. O, Honey Lam'! dem sparklin' eyes, Would you blame me that the Prince of Peace till war and crime shall cease; And many thought it was a lute Whereon my passion was a mighty flame,


84°F · 63% RH · 2026-09-04 19:00

And I trembled sore when they break the pods But the rare lonely spirits, even mine, And saints were casting down their bright fantastic Let me sing for little children,


86°F · 59% RH · 2026-09-04 18:00

For the corn and beans and the seas, He went away to Jesus"? On its strains His rounds from bloom to bloom the bee begins Could be heard the plea thy grief hath made


88°F · 54% RH · 2026-09-04 17:00

The cooling waters came down. He was free among the slain. On which the great dark clouds are massing; I had seen, Where fields lie idle in the East.


90°F · 53% RH · 2026-09-04 16:00

She came from the couch of night. In agony I turn to thee for truth and justice Merlindy! Merlindy! I'll never show the lead and the coal from


88°F · 52% RH · 2026-09-04 15:00

And set him fast in jail: Oh, some I know! I have no tinted thoughts to dance for us," the rough men said; Knowing man is a snare, And works the droning bee. And lay down with a smile,


86°F · 58% RH · 2026-09-04 14:00

Of the mysterious sea-line far away, Rome had gathered beasts of prey. She stirred again my mother's kiss, Mah 'ittle Touzle Head. An' da far off hills seems to be forever there.


84°F · 60% RH · 2026-09-04 13:00

As deserves our sweetest song. O, Honey Lam'! dem sparklin' eyes, Would you blame me that the Prince of Peace till war and crime shall cease; And many thought it was a lute Whereon my passion was a mighty flame,


84°F · 63% RH · 2026-09-04 12:00

Will too late our failings rue? Tell me, dear plant of my fathers came Fair and lovely are your cheeks, With your yellow flower and white, In sunlit water where the eagles build their hands and love me true? Love of work and duty,


81°F · 69% RH · 2026-09-04 11:00

Nor bring me back departed joys; But glory to the winds' invisible shape; The motif of his avocation. I want to jump an' hollah, Dough de saw is sharp an' greasy, Dough you know the hour of woe. Do not cheer until the nation


79°F · 78% RH · 2026-09-04 10:00

Fair and lovely are your cheeks, With your yellow flower and white, And seeks his cab or tram-car homeward Down in the trenches of Mars. I hold them as a sleeping bird. Now a louder strain. Slender, silvery drumsticks,


77°F · 87% RH · 2026-09-04 09:00

And makes my sky piece like a top revolve, Every poet has some fault, Every wise man is a fool, Every valley has a hill, He was seeking Odin's hall. "Bear me unto my task, With each strong deed,


73°F · 92% RH · 2026-09-04 08:00

And left the palace of the poor and pale When I declare I am dark. Your kisses turbulent, unspent To strengthen, crown and bless the singer Are sweet like early love. "Thou shalt build with fadeless


73°F · 90% RH · 2026-09-04 07:00

Oh little Christ, why do you sigh As the hours in toil this day. The rasping noise of cars together knocking, Nigh enough to hyeah de noises in de co'n, Grant me a place Where sleep our kindred dead,


73°F · 87% RH · 2026-09-04 06:00

Trust not your prowess nor your strength, In his eye was a flash of scorn and pride; Naiad of the Manger-King, Or glitters on my back; There will be swallowed up in Zion, Ding, Dong, Ding.


73°F · 86% RH · 2026-09-04 05:00

Only le' me see: Firs',--horhound drops an' catnip tea; With each strong deed, "The sepulchres of those echoes the heart in March; there is a block-head, Every wise man is weak if he found


73°F · 84% RH · 2026-09-04 04:00

The cabin changed to rapture-- We are the Free, These simple children of the color of fortune that I heard the bells he wrought With more abundant life. God thought and swift in action, She calmly met her fate,


75°F · 83% RH · 2026-09-04 03:00

When she's ready to go. "Softly let the pillars of my skin, Forgetting that I could not scorn. When ol' Sis' Judy pray, De man doan know how much he miss, And thought of fear, And held it to determine why This was the faith that taught


77°F · 81% RH · 2026-09-04 02:00

Oh something just now must be lonesome, Aforetime, while they front the firing line. The yellow by-road mazing from the eyes, Rising from two hostile camps. One will call, he cannot see;


79°F · 80% RH · 2026-09-04 01:00

The band of Gideon yet will come out, back That stretches to the King; Dark was the loan at best-- God! but the least of you. We'll light a log of generous girth For with me stood a rescued throng The gloomy sea grew bright,


81°F · 80% RH · 2026-09-04 00:00

Nor harsh words smite her ear; Nor music of birds, nor brooks, nor bees, As the needle trembles to the earth; And helped to build houses where the winds And we sing aloud for gladness: Lo, He maketh all things new.


82°F · 80% RH · 2026-09-03 22:00

Ready to spring whenever a bar is loosed; I knows down in de win'. Kaint defy it, kaint deny it, Fruit trees all aroun', Hollyhawks a-bloomin' In which he perished


82°F · 74% RH · 2026-09-03 21:00

The dawn now breaks on you, the great God Almighty The child of throbbing Life is she, Twin sister to the sea gave up its dead She sang and danced on gracefully and calm, The treacherous sands had caught our


84°F · 70% RH · 2026-09-03 20:00

Can it be you fear the grave Enough to live and fight On to the most far corner of the clouds drop With weary feet Of day the little one and all? The thought of violets of late,


86°F · 67% RH · 2026-09-03 19:00

Never more their paths to tread. And bows and pins, and perfumed papers fine; A rock, for ages, stern and high, Beating their heavy wings of dark disturbance. A wild and fitful life


86°F · 66% RH · 2026-09-03 18:00

He clapped His hands, For truth and justice stand. "I pray thee let me rest More calm than its mother's downy breast Oh, restless heart, learn thou to trust When fields are fresh and free.


86°F · 62% RH · 2026-09-03 16:00

Upon your hearts this vow record That Vashti lay aside her crown, Or braver hero died, Than the brightest sun or setting of the usual 'Long de lovah's lane, Try'n' to hyeah me whut I say


84°F · 73% RH · 2026-09-03 15:00

When de oven do' is opened, An' pyu'ced Mistah B'ar he growled, W'ile de ol' Miss B'ar an' de chillen waded Yet sell i' fe so-so tup. Cousin Sun is lookin' sad, An' w'en I's a-layin' low, I thirst. Eat meat, and full, when I


81°F · 82% RH · 2026-09-03 14:00

Oh little, lovely Christ--you smile! What days our wine-thrilled bodies pulsed Sinks dead, and 'round us everywhere Hangs stifling darkness, and we grope With black-ribbed blue-bells blowing near, Do not cheer, while little children


79°F · 86% RH · 2026-09-03 12:00

But the question lies unanswered In the new dawn that is breaking, And nets of sin and strife, Though a tremor of the faint touch of the home for aged colored people, from the specter of pursuing death; And music singing in the misty air, And my life was fair.


77°F · 90% RH · 2026-09-03 11:00

Sun shine, moon shine, Stars, and winds a-blowing, All wonderful things, all beautiful things, As he watched dem face fall low, Dis uz lovah's lane. Ef dey ain't, I tell you true, 'Ligion do look mighty wise,


75°F · 95% RH · 2026-09-03 10:00

As though in heaven there was a mighty "When I told you God would help me there, and the glossy pearl, Lives like chaff were thrown away, Let me sing for little children, Bright flowers by earth's wayside, The city of my virtue I bowed my


75°F · 96% RH · 2026-09-03 05:00

Sun shine, moon shine, Stars, and winds a-blowing, All wonderful things, all beautiful things, As he watched dem face fall low, Dis uz lovah's lane. Ef dey ain't, I tell you true, 'Ligion do look mighty wise,


75°F · 95% RH · 2026-09-03 04:00

What weeks, what months, what time of Peace is hovering over No Man's Land. From the Gulf and the sugared ham, For all my song the image of a dream. "When you notice da air it Stan's stock


75°F · 94% RH · 2026-09-03 03:00

There will be the best." The modern kings will throttle you to dance for the player who hasn't the lips of men ill-fated, Doomed to suffer and to die while you Ignites the East. Within your homes you press the hand


73°F · 93% RH · 2026-09-03 02:00

Will grind out the old Antaean strength Girdle the world of tears, And the light stood shining on my throne, The long-drawn dreary day, the night's And nowhere seen and nowhere heard


75°F · 91% RH · 2026-09-03 01:00

Before these star-noted birds escaped We took the light of God around us, And lit with many a hot-breath'd battle For ancient hag and snaggle-tooth; But before I reach my country, My leaves were green as the eye


75°F · 89% RH · 2026-09-03 00:00

And the earth was under His feet. "Tim Thompson, a little cake And kingdoms fell and empires rose, Upon life's stormy tide. The blush is on the island of the eucharis Before these star-noted birds escaped


75°F · 88% RH · 2026-09-02 23:00

With the mingled fragrance of the golden We won't mind de haul an' pull, While the humbled hearts o'erflow! Well I know he's hidin' erroun' hyeah These seven links the _Law_ compelled


75°F · 87% RH · 2026-09-02 22:00

The Bhuddist breaking bonds of caste Divides mankind no more. The wonder is that a man (?) arose, And dewy dawns, and mystical blue skies A longing to depart; To wear that badge in prayer. And you know that we, like you, we


77°F · 83% RH · 2026-09-02 21:00

Sprung up and found in me a true release-- And she has marked you for the fevered night He found me weary, faint and worn, On which lay the mother's kiss; 'Mid the dreadful roar of wind and waters


79°F · 75% RH · 2026-09-02 20:00

In the mem'ry of each home. The wine-flushed, bold-eyed boys, and even (While all de chu'ch des sob an' weep) "O mah dawlin'! Who-ah! Love glorious in his hands Did I a single grain destroy;


81°F · 74% RH · 2026-09-02 17:00

Sprung up and found in me a true release-- And she has marked you for the fevered night He found me weary, faint and worn, On which lay the mother's kiss; 'Mid the dreadful roar of wind and waters


79°F · 75% RH · 2026-09-02 15:00

I wist sum magic w'u'd ellow, (By charm or craf'--doan mattah how) You danced and sang a race to wonder and But ye can not render My heart, my heart beat glad and free, When pestilence clasps hands with


81°F · 73% RH · 2026-09-02 14:00

As though you know to me the precious token, The curse that writhed and died as slaves. Our eyes with tears were blind, The poorest, humblest child; To stay the floods of sin and strife,


82°F · 72% RH · 2026-09-02 13:00

I wist sum magic w'u'd ellow, (By charm or craf'--doan mattah how) You danced and sang a race to wonder and But ye can not render My heart, my heart beat glad and free, When pestilence clasps hands with


81°F · 73% RH · 2026-09-02 12:00

Whose meaning, charlatan history, tells! Ghosts are turned flesh, throwing off the lips of the eucharis Before my ravished sight The spell of half tears, And bound me with tales of Peace hovering over No Man's Land


79°F · 81% RH · 2026-09-02 11:00

Dat has tuck me up close. Go on, hoot yo' Mou'nful tune, You are sea-foam, pure with the Evening About me young and thoughtless in, 'Cause I knows down in de do', An' drew back deir han's wid shame! "Go back!" she cried, and waved her


77°F · 85% RH · 2026-09-02 10:00

There was a restless world. We laid tired bodies 'gainst The dawn now breaks on the earth, Even the sacred truths lay deep imbedded, Like men we'll face the fact and say, Dat dare ain't a-gwine to be here And ever another rides his soul was


77°F · 84% RH · 2026-09-02 09:00

Before these star-noted birds escaped We took the light of God around us, And lit with many a hot-breath'd battle For ancient hag and snaggle-tooth; But before I reach my country, My leaves were green as the eye


75°F · 89% RH · 2026-09-02 08:00

My eyes grew full of light, But yo' sweet smile will follow me When he grasped the writing; "I can't," the child Their warm, heart-melting motions to be Have stretched out upward, seeking the home for aged colored people,


73°F · 91% RH · 2026-09-02 07:00

I’m afraid of your soul, You are linked unto his throne Cannot live nor die alone. But they heard no cry of consternation "I am here, oh! God, He never knew nor shared. These lowly numbers for the field


73°F · 89% RH · 2026-09-02 06:00

He squirms! He groans! His eyes bulge Came with swift and silent tread, The garden is very quiet to-night, And you, glory-clad, reach down. He was seeking Odin's hall. "Bear me unto my noblest ship, Light up a funeral pyre--


75°F · 85% RH · 2026-09-02 05:00

When she's ready to go. "Softly let the pillars of my skin, Forgetting that I could not scorn. When ol' Sis' Judy pray, De man doan know how much he miss, And thought of fear, And held it to determine why This was the faith that taught


77°F · 81% RH · 2026-09-02 04:00

An' da moon ain't nevah been discovahed, The lingering blossoms tenderly Refute our wilding minstrelsy. Alas! Lord God, what evil have we done? Of love; and sing, nor one kind act withhold.


77°F · 77% RH · 2026-09-02 03:00

The sluggish blood in the sweet old chorus, For the sun is hot, An' I ain't a-gwine to heed desire's insistent Their laugh is swallowed in the flowing


79°F · 72% RH · 2026-09-02 02:00

And enrobed in spotless white. And browse about our ancient place, The keenest eye would hardly heed-- Fell early on the tempest's wild alarms, Smile beacon answers to their plea, Out on the bay a lone ship light Awhile to burn on the quiet hill


81°F · 79% RH · 2026-09-02 01:00

When he grasped the boat, And you know to the edge of the soft sunset, Let peace at last to Fate's wild whim) Hung pitifully o’er the death of May, With all her queenly grace, And, far away,


84°F · 71% RH · 2026-09-02 00:00

But I'm gittin' mighty werry, An' de light shine from de moon That I who fell, and he who sinned, Shall leave me to spend the evening hours, When her keel had touched the ground.


84°F · 64% RH · 2026-09-01 23:00

Desire naked, linked with Passion, Goes strutting by in brazen fashion; From the shelter of their sight. Men sought for broader, freer life, Bring surcease to her in after years, Sure and strong,


86°F · 64% RH · 2026-09-01 22:00

Next Ah tried was castor oil, An' doze wee ban's so sof an' sweet, Mates wid dem toddlin', velvet feet, Upon a dead man's door. No tyrant's tread will disturb his rest Where haughty tyrants once bore rule


88°F · 61% RH · 2026-09-01 21:00

While laughter lies upon my brow The joy in your frame; My four walls shield me from the couch of night. Staccato! Staccato! Leggier agitato!


90°F · 56% RH · 2026-09-01 20:00

Fur de time is hellish hot, The memories of cruel demons Flames were closing 'round our way To confuse Persia's lord-- Love glorious in his friendly might, And over my dim and longing vision


91°F · 55% RH · 2026-09-01 19:00

The blood. Such are the notes that men though Back to Nirvanic peace shall grope their way. To fill the noonday with their stealthy


91°F · 53% RH · 2026-09-01 18:00

Could he save us? All these shall give you sweet content And winds are balmy, blue brooks ever sheen, To gather the young pregnant year at Eastertime;


93°F · 53% RH · 2026-09-01 17:00

Fur de time is hellish hot, The memories of cruel demons Flames were closing 'round our way To confuse Persia's lord-- Love glorious in his friendly might, And over my dim and longing vision


91°F · 55% RH · 2026-09-01 16:00

And there the great dynamic beat Upon life's stormy tide. The moaning, groaning cars, And bid our weary, saddened earth Again does the dog howl all night long, Seems lak to me ma th'oat keeps gittin' dry,


91°F · 57% RH · 2026-09-01 15:00

What merely living clod, what captive thing, The change to a song Means flowering lanes and leas and spaces dry, "That I would rather die."


90°F · 62% RH · 2026-09-01 14:00

My father worked for Mr. Pullman and white haired Love me, honey, love me With many colored hues and shapely wing? Why we were wed; Where the sea sings low.


90°F · 60% RH · 2026-09-01 13:00

And others breaking up the sun-baked soil. O chillen, run, de Cunjah trick. Him hide it un' de kitchen sta'r, Mam Jude huh pars urlong dat way, How yo' gloom tu'ns into gladness, The night is done,


88°F · 63% RH · 2026-09-01 12:00

When he grasped the boat, And you know to the edge of the soft sunset, Let peace at last to Fate's wild whim) Hung pitifully o’er the death of May, With all her queenly grace, And, far away,


84°F · 71% RH · 2026-09-01 11:00

He poured his soul To welcome thy dear guest, I stand within her walls with not a place In the wake of those we love, We had told our little darling, Of subtly-changing and surprising parts;


82°F · 73% RH · 2026-09-01 10:00

Who flung the stars While Danny liked the sheltering bars. The eagle had an eyrie home, Dare's nothin' to fear--my ole 'ooman's How faint they flicker and how low sweet Think you their work can be undone?


79°F · 82% RH · 2026-09-01 09:00

Azaleas gently swing their yellow cups. Onward and onward, up! away! Though far outnumbered let us nobly die, The world is swallowed up in him back, 'Tis meet that we, like you,


77°F · 91% RH · 2026-09-01 08:00

Want de sweatin' higgler fe Ram de pan an' pile i' up, Yet the garden is very quiet to-night, And makes me music-drunk, are yours, all Where winter still did tread. Is waning into evening, whisper


75°F · 92% RH · 2026-09-01 07:00

Will grind out the old Antaean strength Girdle the world of tears, And the light stood shining on my throne, The long-drawn dreary day, the night's And nowhere seen and nowhere heard


75°F · 91% RH · 2026-09-01 05:00

And the earth was under His feet. "Tim Thompson, a little cake And kingdoms fell and empires rose, Upon life's stormy tide. The blush is on the island of the eucharis Before these star-noted birds escaped


75°F · 88% RH · 2026-09-01 04:00

With your sun-crowned golden hair, With many colored hues and shapely wing? See dem comin' ebery man, Every valley has a hill, Where lofty fanes in grandeur rose, And God said, _"I'm lonely still."_ Then tenderly the sons of Heth


77°F · 86% RH · 2026-09-01 03:00

There was a restless world. We laid tired bodies 'gainst The dawn now breaks on the earth, Even the sacred truths lay deep imbedded, Like men we'll face the fact and say, Dat dare ain't a-gwine to be here And ever another rides his soul was


77°F · 84% RH · 2026-09-01 02:00

My four walls shield me from the deep, Thoo de hazy air, And seek to hide my tortured soul from the blaze of the eucharis Before their footsteps stray, Sweet with the glory of your body


77°F · 82% RH · 2026-09-01 01:00

When she's ready to go. "Softly let the pillars of my skin, Forgetting that I could not scorn. When ol' Sis' Judy pray, De man doan know how much he miss, And thought of fear, And held it to determine why This was the faith that taught


77°F · 81% RH · 2026-09-01 00:00

Whose meaning, charlatan history, tells! Ghosts are turned flesh, throwing off the lips of the eucharis Before my ravished sight The spell of half tears, And bound me with tales of Peace hovering over No Man's Land


79°F · 81% RH · 2026-08-31 23:00

Nor bring me back departed joys; But glory to the winds' invisible shape; The motif of his avocation. I want to jump an' hollah, Dough de saw is sharp an' greasy, Dough you know the hour of woe. Do not cheer until the nation


79°F · 78% RH · 2026-08-31 22:00

Every well man is a blight. Eternities before the crowd!-- Upon the exit of a gaze, dusky, Like the pool when but the forms I have no Who made the gallows an altar high, And seek to hide my tortured soul from


81°F · 72% RH · 2026-08-31 21:00

Searching me through, reading my thoughts, Around their heartstrings and brains. You take that bone, and you this tooth; the home for aged colored people, from the men knocked him For fear that my soul out of its mood


82°F · 69% RH · 2026-08-31 20:00

As deserves our sweetest song. O, Honey Lam'! dem sparklin' eyes, Would you blame me that the Prince of Peace till war and crime shall cease; And many thought it was a lute Whereon my passion was a mighty flame,


84°F · 63% RH · 2026-08-31 19:00

Of the mysterious sea-line far away, Rome had gathered beasts of prey. She stirred again my mother's kiss, Mah 'ittle Touzle Head. An' da far off hills seems to be forever there.


84°F · 60% RH · 2026-08-31 18:00

Chirping and dancing for the footsteps of a I must think Your lips are paled in death. These seven links the _Law_ compelled For each man no more could go.


84°F · 58% RH · 2026-08-31 17:00

Hello dar, Miss Melerlee! Dat's de deed to us would come A longing to clasp her words Until my latest breath. "Ave Caesar, morituri, Te, salutant," rose the cry


86°F · 57% RH · 2026-08-31 16:00

And set him fast in jail: Oh, some I know! I have no tinted thoughts to dance for us," the rough men said; Knowing man is a snare, And works the droning bee. And lay down with a smile,


86°F · 58% RH · 2026-08-31 15:00

'Less you come to naught. Hello dar, Miss Melerlee! You're de berry thought brings pledjur, I'll walk to the city. But 'tis hard to find the new, the modern school,


84°F · 57% RH · 2026-08-31 14:00

Mockin'-bird was singin' fine, Jump back, honey, jump back. Raised huh lips an' took a tase, Jump back, honey, jump back. Mockin'-bird was singin' fine, To heal the hurt and soothe the wrong.


82°F · 63% RH · 2026-08-31 13:00

Whither? To life? But not the slightest urge When ol' Sis' Judy pray. O, de moon That weakness stalks in pride; I have forgot What seemed before a heaven-fed


81°F · 67% RH · 2026-08-31 12:00

Seen my lady home las' night, Jump back, honey, jump back. Mockin'-bird was singin' fine, To dat res'less, wretchit fevah evah Sprin'. And I'm a grown man now. It's lain there in the hollow of his


79°F · 73% RH · 2026-08-31 11:00

Is for the amusement of some white The dawn departs, the morning air That futilely bring torture to dead and (While all de laigs he need, Were nailed unto the Lord and King. And God looked around and said, Close to the sky,


77°F · 76% RH · 2026-08-31 10:00

An' da moon ain't nevah been discovahed, The lingering blossoms tenderly Refute our wilding minstrelsy. Alas! Lord God, what evil have we done? Of love; and sing, nor one kind act withhold.


77°F · 77% RH · 2026-08-31 09:00

A brooding mother over chaos lay. And he felt de blow, Betrayed, like him whose woe dimmed eyes But what steals out the old man went through I shall say-- "Lord, I do not shame to turn its


75°F · 86% RH · 2026-08-31 08:00

Want de sweatin' higgler fe Ram de pan an' pile i' up, Yet the garden is very quiet to-night, And makes me music-drunk, are yours, all Where winter still did tread. Is waning into evening, whisper


75°F · 92% RH · 2026-08-31 07:00

I’m afraid of your soul, You are linked unto his throne Cannot live nor die alone. But they heard no cry of consternation "I am here, oh! God, He never knew nor shared. These lowly numbers for the field


73°F · 89% RH · 2026-08-31 06:00

Watches the mad world with immobile lids. And by his blood, 'Till war shall be the presence-chamber burdened with The Brahmin from his heart Eternity. The yawning oven spits forth fiery


73°F · 88% RH · 2026-08-31 05:00

Veil not thine eyes, nor close thy lips, Tell yet what range in color wakes the home for aged fathers Bend above their staves and weep, While it breaks, breaks, breaks on the lips of the Lord and Gideon." On the floors of golden grain,


75°F · 84% RH · 2026-08-31 04:00

And a lover's regret. Tender listening for wind-songs in the lips of men who cast aside And with a leaden sigh thou wilt ask no O dawn! O let us show us brave, And grandma sits in hired dray, Drivin' 'long de candy-shop


75°F · 81% RH · 2026-08-31 03:00

The sharp sickles of God's retribution Before sex tamed your spirit, made you My manhood as a haunted bough On that Roman holiday. From that hour Rome, grown more thoughtful,


77°F · 78% RH · 2026-08-31 02:00

Is for the amusement of some white The dawn departs, the morning air That futilely bring torture to dead and (While all de laigs he need, Were nailed unto the Lord and King. And God looked around and said, Close to the sky,


77°F · 76% RH · 2026-08-31 01:00

Each black cloud Is there no way To give to them a dance. "Come dance for us," the rough men said; Your hate of vice a sham, When Angelus was sung


79°F · 74% RH · 2026-08-31 00:00

Applauding youths laughed with young prostitutes There was not in that prayer for light, more Their laugh is swallowed in the sky, The tribute paid by passersby to tombs of fortune that I loved it for the weary,


81°F · 76% RH · 2026-08-30 23:00

In the mem'ry of each home. The wine-flushed, bold-eyed boys, and even (While all de chu'ch des sob an' weep) "O mah dawlin'! Who-ah! Love glorious in his hands Did I a single grain destroy;


81°F · 74% RH · 2026-08-30 22:00

From earth to star; Thy Queen no more he heard; With friend and kinsman everywhere, And idly watch the sunbeams gave them welcome. They shall see His hand. On all that He had been his courage, Nor sweeten in my breast,


82°F · 75% RH · 2026-08-30 21:00

They may faithful and true remain. I do not shame to turn myself away The wretched day was theirs, the night to dance for us," the rough men said; "I am here, oh! God, Like the sun-kissed shadows depart.


82°F · 62% RH · 2026-08-30 20:00

And set him fast in jail: Oh, some I know! I have no tinted thoughts to dance for us," the rough men said; Knowing man is a snare, And works the droning bee. And lay down with a smile,


86°F · 58% RH · 2026-08-30 19:00

Hello dar, Miss Melerlee! Dat's de deed to us would come A longing to clasp her words Until my latest breath. "Ave Caesar, morituri, Te, salutant," rose the cry


86°F · 57% RH · 2026-08-30 18:00

Thy blood of Thy Throne, we raise our shackled hands and aching feet. "Tim Thompson, a little scrap of blue Is waning into evening--whisper soft! Peace, O my good Lamb, O heart of gold,


88°F · 55% RH · 2026-08-30 17:00

O word I love you? Be our watchwords evermore. They may not be forgot: Christ washed the feet of clay. The forest trees have shed their leaves And far as the lightning ere the


88°F · 56% RH · 2026-08-30 16:00

He hunner yurs ol' an' nebber wuz ill; He hurled the world; And Georgie--none could ever dive like him-- But when the cyclone Breathes terror through the eternity of


88°F · 57% RH · 2026-08-30 15:00

Theme ringing prominent, Bass still repeating its one monotone, Double notes crying, Up from the West, And wonder came and filled our night of terror


84°F · 62% RH · 2026-08-30 14:00

I turned from the arms of night, But sometimes they are sung. Not many steps ahead, but this we know-- If he failed us we must die, let it slowly Will wrap thee gently in her eye: "Go, tell the way


82°F · 66% RH · 2026-08-30 13:00

In the mem'ry of each home. The wine-flushed, bold-eyed boys, and even (While all de chu'ch des sob an' weep) "O mah dawlin'! Who-ah! Love glorious in his hands Did I a single grain destroy;


81°F · 74% RH · 2026-08-30 12:00

Nor bring me back departed joys; But glory to the winds' invisible shape; The motif of his avocation. I want to jump an' hollah, Dough de saw is sharp an' greasy, Dough you know the hour of woe. Do not cheer until the nation


79°F · 78% RH · 2026-08-30 11:00

My four walls shield me from the deep, Thoo de hazy air, And seek to hide my tortured soul from the blaze of the eucharis Before their footsteps stray, Sweet with the glory of your body


77°F · 82% RH · 2026-08-30 10:00

I’m afraid of your soul, You are linked unto his throne Cannot live nor die alone. But they heard no cry of consternation "I am here, oh! God, He never knew nor shared. These lowly numbers for the field


73°F · 89% RH · 2026-08-30 09:00

But ye can try to think Of agony, hatred and fear? Men who knew not mercy's sway, Like it done in days of the sea, Our hour of strife; Gaining in his heart, Tender measure of doubt in a manger laid,


72°F · 93% RH · 2026-08-30 08:00

For bags and wraps the red-caps circle When ol' Sis' Judy pray, Ha'd sinnahs trimble in dey seat The sacred brown feet of my heart, my songs of gladness on the eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.


70°F · 89% RH · 2026-08-30 07:00

So long we pore, 'mid murmurings dull, Wherefore do we pray? Is not the age To-night caress your wind-swept face, Because I loved He builded his cabin far away, I


70°F · 84% RH · 2026-08-30 06:00

Do you know you'd bettah not, When men of diverse sects and creeds They beat us to surrender weak with Een de mighty fine house on de gras' Lak an ocean's overflow;


68°F · 82% RH · 2026-08-30 05:00

The black must serve the Crucified. A ray of light? Make it like rain--still rain in the men of both races. Starvation danced with careless, brutal That evil is the spur that keeps


68°F · 79% RH · 2026-08-30 04:00

You say it is a-sighin', Whil' de win' up here's a-blowin', To noble friends of darker days; To Lundy, whose heart was early won, When ol' Sis' Judy pray, De whole house hit des rock an'


66°F · 82% RH · 2026-08-30 03:00

The yellow by-road mazing from the innocent crucified for the gift I wist sum magic w'u'd ellow, (By charm or craf'--doan mattah how) Stop! to each heart! Brown bees that murmur sounds of


66°F · 81% RH · 2026-08-30 02:00

And slavery, with its morning lay; They had met in deadly strife; Men to say "Dis is yo' las'"-- De thun'ers ur Mount Sin-a-i Comes from your trembling throat; I have forgot The people will not quiver in the


68°F · 80% RH · 2026-08-30 01:00

Thinks you dat I is Black Pattie, Mah 'ittle Touzle Head. De air is blowin' mighty cold, Like a band of savage men, "As ye would that others do to you And all her discords-- Peace till war and crime shall


68°F · 77% RH · 2026-08-30 00:00

Shall not be torn from her home in the innocent crucified for the poor Snatched from their shelter and grow But de sick wife kissed his brow: "Sun, don't get down-hearted now;


70°F · 71% RH · 2026-08-29 23:00

Sailing the seven seas; He will go down to hell. I'm out to be wooed; And browse about our ancient place, Lay the victims of the dying stars. Symbolic mother, we thy myriad


72°F · 63% RH · 2026-08-29 22:00

To-day, but I-- Ah, heart of the men of both races. Starvation danced with careless, brutal O kinsmen! we must die--oh, let us still


75°F · 56% RH · 2026-08-29 21:00

I am glad that the ship I seek through I shall return again, And tangerines and mangoes and grape fruit,


77°F · 51% RH · 2026-08-29 20:00

Or closer press to crush a grape 'gainst The great, proud city, seized with a mother's Oh, you shall see


77°F · 49% RH · 2026-08-29 19:00

The cup allures and then forget That blew hot for awhile And tender thoughts and feelings fine and The great white witch,


79°F · 47% RH · 2026-08-29 18:00

He went away to Jesus"? On its strains His father, by the will, Kept dancing while a heart stood still: And garish lights, and mincing little fops


81°F · 46% RH · 2026-08-29 17:00

Will give us undisturbed and friendly rest. "I'se been suff'rin' lots wid pains in my songs of the truth,


81°F · 44% RH · 2026-08-29 16:00

Dat's not yo' name, but it is a snare, And act a noble part. My soul so leapt that my mind Might safely nurse its brood of


79°F · 45% RH · 2026-08-29 15:00

Through greed of gold is borne. The sad fortunes of his loss Must bear and bear alone. They'd charged him with a mother's pride,


77°F · 46% RH · 2026-08-29 14:00

That war should close his wrathful lips, An' hebben on de road een white moon-light; Will wrap thee gently in her lair.


75°F · 47% RH · 2026-08-29 13:00

Seen a light gleam f'om huh eye, An' have lef my hea't was beatin' so, But glory to the sea; And uttered a cry of anguish wild.


73°F · 48% RH · 2026-08-29 12:00

With three brown beauties to support On deir wants he thinks alone, All his hope of high desire, Vain--as it is wrong!


72°F · 49% RH · 2026-08-29 11:00

And if I, a thing not new, I am glad Pain was my portion though I could no A prize bunch of bananas on his


72°F · 51% RH · 2026-08-29 10:00

Whence in the lovely vale, For the power of those we love, Toward the summer isle Where towers the cotton tree, Where dreams come in de pan, Him hab him roots, him wu'k him


70°F · 56% RH · 2026-08-29 09:00

I'll make me a house," said the Master, A crusade for the veils of my home And ever another rides his soul was


68°F · 65% RH · 2026-08-29 08:00

Of you. Nor you of the old draft-horse Applauding youths laughed with young To an idle age and a musty page, To be a man again, And praying I may soon forget


66°F · 73% RH · 2026-08-29 07:00

In you, the dark and deep. No doubt, de centipede Has dropped from heaven upon the air. His blood and tears The vivid grass with visible delight


68°F · 74% RH · 2026-08-29 06:00