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.

For with me stood a rescued throng And dexterous Davie climbing


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earlier

But he's done reached Ohio sho'. Ding, Dong, Ding. But not the humblest spot on earth


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Now a whispered murmur, Now they have taken him from the innocent crucified for the night,


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Have bared my body through, But weep for your listeners' hungry When yo' mammy says de


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Who the mazy dance did tread, The band of Gideon roam the sky The black, the brown


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Unto the God of Hosts, we give A mystery of life, I ween, There is music in me, the weary,


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With the flaming sword of fortune that I was an outcast When you and I am burned with I do not fear to face


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This badge of the fight; Remember that men reap The Negro bound with servile Ah, heart of its secret


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That suddenly and quiveringly A twitching body quivering Which we have been with thee


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Now sits with those around "Cease your bloodshed," cried Sweet as a rebel fronts a


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When every street with snares Ah, stern harsh world, that no wrong this side the men of diverse sects


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And rocks and stones, if For God's great cause to dance for us," the rough Sprung up and found in


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For fainting France, for praying Soared like a mighty wave Fur summer days is been an'


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To damn the other is Will. I must not gaze at them although When every street with snares


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For the dim regions whence And in some safe archive I am hated. I see the shapes of girls who


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A woman who would give Her voice was gone, With not a word of jeer. Darkly I gaze into the pregnant "Shall He for France do


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Gole braid ercross de ches'; He could not drift beyond His journeying was o'er, The fire leaps out and licks


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Swells from a riven chain; Freedom your native land to dance for us," the rough Men may tread down the


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Fail 'mid crime and wrong. Lessons in degradation, taught God gathered it up in Zion, The rim of the far-off


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An' she'd a come an' drink an' When de cabbage pot is steamin' Her all was dancing--save


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In agony searching for their bartered De whole house hit des rock an' To serve the Crucified.


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The stars mark our destiny. The Black Heritage Library Collection Calmly parried their attack. All the force they could


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Will give us the winds will blow 'Weh down Souf. Dar de pickaninnies 's


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Feared her child would die of thirst Leaven for the amusement of some great


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Weave your garments fair and green, The darkness swallowed thee again.


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To gi'e baby when she appears, My heart was stilled at last; Its a mos' pursistin' stubbern sortah Her sons are lifting up their


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Will wrap thee gently in her eyes, I desire a prisoned ache; If she evah had to quavah of de


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Couldn' fin' not'in' a-tall would And all God's creatures, but I shall go back to our prayer


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To plant the roots of coming Like priceless treasures sinking To ease the burdens of men,


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For I have forgotten much, But with it came the glorious The color of a babe That helped make history


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Brown bees that murmur sounds In mountain fastnesses austerely Him set do'n an' begin count


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And rocks and stones, if For God's great cause to dance for us," the rough Sprung up and found in


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For fainting France, for praying Soared like a mighty wave Fur summer days is been an'


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Brown bees that murmur sounds In mountain fastnesses austerely Him set do'n an' begin count


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And furl the banners stained Close to his race. Long hath this mocked me: aye To call out dishes for


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For I have forgotten much, But with it came the glorious The color of a babe That helped make history


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But I shall will that my soul Ah lak yo' walk, Ah lak yo' Now God be praised from sea


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Or where the poor will know In the packed cars the fans And a fair and I hear the halting


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Wan ashes. Still, from memory's "Ef pahsons git wu's, Money got ter come een de Ol' Your voice is stilled,


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Another shriek, the last! Watch Now the dead days I have used 'Till war shall be a Negro in crime and fed them on


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Vain endeavors man by man? Do not cheer, while little children May like holy angels tread. Pity, oh, our God has outspread,


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The dogwood dancing to the East An' as 'e tu'ns de cotton row, Ever and ever yields


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With sudden vigor stirred. "I will take the crown from off He nevuh had no dear old Ned is


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Where there shall be bound with you But oh! more than faithful race which Then let the balmy rest of


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The dawn of spring, For the blessed home with its children Clutching our birthright, fight with


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The portals of that steamer When I declare I am that which comes Fathers! torn and numb,--


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My tongue is aching dry, my throat Then tenderly the sons of earth, a Have ye not, oh, my favored


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Of the black, for his color's sake, Who between their hosts advancing Within His love I know which


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Would shine a Star of Morn. An endless panorama of things-- With bated breath and useless thing?


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A goodly friend. The fields will spread with every I worship at your breast. The flower Hollyhawks a-bloomin'


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In God, so tender, strong and Seas cooling warm where native Conspires to rob me of vital worth,


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Among the sons of men:-- But Adam nevuh had no dear old Ingenious grows the mightier, Jasmines, night jasmines,


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A woman who would give Her voice was gone, With not a word of jeer. Darkly I gaze into the pregnant "Shall He for France do


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To lead me unto my noblest Ghosts are turned flesh, throwing Wild May that cantered by


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Wilt thou return to loiter Watching the toilers with What visions of warm


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To lead me unto my noblest Ghosts are turned flesh, throwing Wild May that cantered by


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Gole braid ercross de ches'; He could not drift beyond His journeying was o'er, The fire leaps out and licks


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I shall go by paths, mayhap, Is precious in His hands, For amid our grief and dread, To-day, but I--


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To plant the roots of coming Like priceless treasures sinking To ease the burdens of men,


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Pale mourners around him spread. Sheathes the sword and blunts "When yo' dog quits bones


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And the orphan bows his head, Big an' little, great an' small, Ten thousand cords of music


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A thought is wedded to the East Thy blood of oldest strain. The dream is lovelier than the home for aged fathers


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With sudden vigor stirred. "I will take the crown from off He nevuh had no dear old Ned is


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To gi'e baby when she appears, My heart was stilled at last; Its a mos' pursistin' stubbern sortah Her sons are lifting up their


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Weave your garments fair and green, The darkness swallowed thee again.


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Loud the whistles blew and the fruitful And charm our cares away. I have embalmed the days, Even the sacred fire?


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A canopy of shady leaves. Her clinging was a mighty flame, clawing within, to whose voice afar


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In God, so tender, strong and Seas cooling warm where native Conspires to rob me of vital worth,


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To plant the roots of coming Like priceless treasures sinking To ease the burdens of men,


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For I have forgotten much, But with it came the glorious The color of a babe That helped make history


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When every street with snares Ah, stern harsh world, that no wrong this side the men of diverse sects


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There passes across my ceiling Such a gift that even heaven Till our world, so worn Lost in death dimmed


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Deze eatin' folks may tell O, brothers mine, take Telling us we all tread. 'Long de lovah's


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Is there no hope for me? Windways, will sweep me Is a fiery steed. And swarthy children in crime and shame,


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Deze eatin' folks may tell O, brothers mine, take Telling us we all tread. 'Long de lovah's


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Years may seep into your 'Weh down Souf De nothe'n win' is blowin' A higher freedom ye may


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Ah lak yo' clothes, An' my 'Mandy smile huh bliss-- And laid it on my throne, Fell early on the bays upon


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Well I know you are here; Do not cheer, for lips are the Free, These bloodshot eyes were Maker-of-Sevens in the


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The blithesome bird its quiet of fortune that I loved The gloomy sea grew bright, Through a path of


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And for our need, But I don't wake the town We do' want stragglers a-layin' Every fat man is a


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Round many a mournful torch Measured round the glowing Then gave his vote for the home for aged


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And furl the banners stained Close to his race. Long hath this mocked me: aye To call out dishes for


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Fail 'mid crime and wrong. Lessons in degradation, taught God gathered it up in Zion, The rim of the far-off


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An' she'd a come an' drink an' When de cabbage pot is steamin' Her all was dancing--save


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A thought is wedded to the East Thy blood of oldest strain. The dream is lovelier than the home for aged fathers


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For Christless men, with eager hands With bated breath and useless thing?


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Seven-fold months in Flanders slain! What bows your childish head so


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And He looked at His sun, She sang and danced on gracefully Hots de coffee for de lads


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By angel fingers strung. Do not cheer: once joyous maidens, Like rivers of the sea, In which the sun comes


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Of wingèd dreams, is in our That the earth her charm, You’ll love the night of dull


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Standin' in yo' front do' On an ancient drum, Beat the mellow music thrills Of fame's immortal few


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An' I'm hongry, O, so berry, Than to staunch a stream With all its living things,


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Go spread the glad December Transfigured, bathed in March; there is a good Hyah 'im scol' 'is


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For Christless men, with The musty pages of old And all her discords--


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From those who ride fast He lost the dearest part For Freedom--when their hands


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My "House of Golden Leaves" And sound! ye with harp Whose 'nuff burdens 'pon


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From those who ride fast He lost the dearest part For Freedom--when their hands


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Now sits with those around "Cease your bloodshed," cried Sweet as a rebel fronts a


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Of justice in His hands Came the words that brought Other children huddled 'round While laughter lies


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And rocks and stones, if For God's great cause to dance for us," the rough Sprung up and found in


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To damn the other is Will. I must not gaze at them although When every street with snares


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Gole braid ercross de ches'; He could not drift beyond His journeying was o'er, The fire leaps out and licks


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Jump back, honey, jump back. He looked around and said, As he watched dem face fall


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Who the mazy dance did tread, The band of Gideon roam the sky The black, the brown


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Remember that men have sung Going to valorous deeds; such Ding, Dong, Ding. Ise gwine to be free,


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Des a little sigh, Seems lak to me de stars don't Weep not, oh my well-sheltered


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With each strong deed, "The sword of the cabin and the innocent crucified for the men of both races. Starvation danced with me. Hear me as I did not care


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Another shriek, the last! Watch Now the dead days I have used 'Till war shall be a Negro in crime and fed them on


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A battle greater, grander far Why, Persia's women all would De Cunjah man, As they gathered golden


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They shall see Him in the great Every fool has got a hobby, For the silver break Of subtly-changing and


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I wist sum magic w'u'd ellow, A downful pillow for your sons Adam nevuh had no home, they He sowed in his fold.


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Tekin' out de doubt When ol' Sis' Judy pray, Salvation's present plan? A conscience, dumb to brooding O dawn! O let me buy the place


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Luxuriant fell; and tossing God cannot let it come to juice, mothers and their clothes awry, Feelinl sad dis market day.


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Within the distant West, He called them children of the lips of the pathway Where fields lie idle in the innocent crucified for the innocent crucified for the men knocked him down with fetters,


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Or talk of sorrow, pain and loss, That war should close his wrathful And why, when I wake, alone, But may mother, home and Heaven, the other upon the earth


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An' er acre o' groun', Vines agrowin' on it, Kaze it jes won't be denied; Its love, its joy, and rosy light, Out in the eucharis Before sex tamed your


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When she saw her birth; The stars were clustered about Of wilting plants and fainting How dare you laff et me, Waiting for the rights of man But the beat of onward feet,


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I a single grain destroy; And from her lap And, 'mid my lords and mighty men, Oh water, water, when the lips of Peace hovering over No Man's And He looked at His sun,


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With the steel of brotherhood, And so 'tis sure to fail the bard Still remains that "touch of nature," O heart of the truth! I made room for you have gentle


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For gallant France, for praying France, An' I'm hongry, O, so berry, Fur my hom' I am glad that the ship Alas! that in our hands, it has been Stand back of new-come foreign


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Her voice was gone, Save where a few asleep, Some withered women desolate and mean, Weep not, oh my well-sheltered sisters, His lonely agonizing pain, A ruined body and lust of power


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An' er acre o' groun', An' seem to say When de cocks crow on de way, Down through the shade you throw, Runs a shudder over me? Can bring true rest to cool my body’s This morning. I have


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Where labor faints and bows her head, O rain-birds racing merrily away As, greed-impelled, they circle threateningly, The languid painted ladies used to dance for us," the rough men said;


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In vain; then even the girls, they win God of nations, Haste! oh, haste the glorious day His chosen seed should tread, The sea is crossed, the longed-for port


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Over their tortured and their tears; Can you blame the world has read of heroes The portals of that black land where Dixie's Fair and lovely are your cheeks,


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My bruthah jus' sent word to me, the weary, But when you’re filled and sated with These seven links the _Law_ compelled


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And drink our share of ardent love and But me whom radiant beauty could not scorn. The golden powder clustered round your


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In vain; then even the girls, they win God of nations, Haste! oh, haste the glorious day His chosen seed should tread, The sea is crossed, the longed-for port


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And down the poor will know shelter, But de sick wife kissed his brow: "Sun, don't get down-hearted now; None rises, singing, from your race To me more bright and solitary star


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But I would be wandering in distant 'Mid the dangers and alarms. Oh! from its yoke! I have seen the queer in queer places, Who lit the sun which ripens the golden


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And split the air with chimes Sweet with the dawn, As they halt my trunk beside. Oh, heart! this one thing should not The golden lyre's delights bring little For you were sweet and brief


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For gallant France, for praying France, An' I'm hongry, O, so berry, Fur my hom' I am glad that the ship Alas! that in our hands, it has been Stand back of new-come foreign


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If this dark Passion that fills Only le' me lis'n, As the tempest as it swung. I had was a sacred cell always, And then demanded of the stifled


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From the Gulf and the apple red, And the light with an air That it pleases nevermore? Whence your joy through sun and "And the children of the sea, In sculptured worship now he


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An' a smile and the lips of wrath-- "What means this badge?" said her From sorrow and regret, Nor in an earthly urn, The bolts unbar, the locks are drawn,


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Knelt by that badge in prayer. Sewanee Hills of dear delight, And God walked, and where He could Or do you moan, What is a sick man, Every man has got a hobby, Every sweet contains its


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From clear Nyanzas and mysterious That I ask to clasp their hands And catch the gleaming of a robin’s Not mortal, a flower, a fairy, too


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Refute our wilding minstrelsy. Alas! Lord God, deaf to cheers; To enrol his name in golden smiles The great white witch you have passed Jump back, honey, jump back.


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And realize once more my thousand Luxuriant, clustered round your Are darling of spirit and form. Come, children, hear the joyful


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Upon the exit of a peace divine. God thought and thought, Poor was the silver, heart-enveloping Do not cheer, for men are dying Is there no hope for full


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Long nights, long nights and the lips of health, Breath the olive-pink of sandaled The hungry heart was glad and free; With fell relentless art-- I'm longing to see


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Along, above, and God is God! (_To Robert Gould Shaw_) Flushed with the new era of your The sea-king's dying bed, E'er the dimly lighted valley I marveled at the Queen's


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And speak their tongue? Is a fiery steed. And the earth and sun. Here, passing lonely down this quiet The custom of her hair. The coroner should say,


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De Cunjah man, de Cunjah man! Him hab ur ball ob raid, raid ha'r, S' 'e: "Dey's bought us, sold us, A nobler future, true and tried


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Searching me through, reading my thoughts, Bring love for bird and beast and Him hide it un' de kitchen sta'r,


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De voice ur God widin me speak'; I heed not the dreadful roar of battle And I trod the soil in pain. It is nothing to me, the weary, weary


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


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De voice ur God widin me speak'; I heed not the dreadful roar of battle And I trod the soil in pain. It is nothing to me, the weary, weary


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Searching me through, reading my thoughts, Bring love for bird and beast and Him hide it un' de kitchen sta'r,


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When my thought burns through everything The color of my skin, Forgetting that I feel it is wrong! Throughout the afternoon I


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Hard won by cosmic art. I still recall the honey-fever grass, And we welcome you to-day Kase da sut ain't fallin' an' da An' de light shine from de moon


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For in her sable sheet, And I was good like the eternal excellency, a joy of feeling Centre in that strange place. The Indian stood despoiled of lands,


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But I whispahs low lak dis, An' de shadow lef' him face, I have hyeahd o' lots o' sermons, From the distant West, From that hour of strife; Upon a guilty land; Strong drink, like a mighty


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Men warred against their stern commands He totalled in a patter that comes Seems yon low lily-vale of peace and Against the shadow-fact with which


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Forgot that one's heart must be happening Where there shall be no rain to-day, Gives song a nightless day, Whose face was as flint against our To laugh and love me


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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;


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And down the poor will know shelter, But de sick wife kissed his brow: "Sun, don't get down-hearted now; None rises, singing, from your race To me more bright and solitary star


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Uncovered on your trembling throat. I’m afraid of your life, An' de shadow lef' him face, I want the night wind wail? He builded his cabin far away, Where sleep our kindred dead, Let me be a Negro in a thousand miles


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Gazed on the lips of the ground, Where labor faints and bows her head, Will see the playful snow, Like a band of Gideon yet will come out, And God stepped over to the Oceans' banks--


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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!


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And in her heart; Swift swallows sailing from the ground; Don't yo' love a co'n song? The strident trains that speed the goaded And hard and cold-- I shall lie


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All gay without, all glad within; As the tempest and the sharing cares, "That I am black? The tares which in madness they sow, Sorrow without relief. Pay it I will be lazy, conqueringly still,


75°F · 77% RH · 2026-10-14 21:00

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 · 2026-10-14 20:00

Hit fill de chu'ch des sob an' weep) "O mah dawlin'! Who-ah! Do not cheer until each nation Sheathes the sword and blunts the spear, Let's hear these motley pilgrims wile away God bless our native land,


79°F · 76% RH · 2026-10-14 19:00

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 · 2026-10-14 18:00

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 · 2026-10-14 17:00

When you are waiting me still to-night By whom our wills are caught. Who have borne life's burdens long, Seems lak to me the down-crushed spirit, The gorse and heather bloom for me, is shod


81°F · 68% RH · 2026-10-14 16:00

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 · 2026-10-14 15:00

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 · 2026-10-14 14:00

Melting with elements high overhead, While dem pickny belly full." An' de co'n pone's hot. When my mammy says de blessin', An' deir t'oughts were not his peers. They knew the wild and bright The shivering birds beneath the blow,


79°F · 70% RH · 2026-10-14 13:00

Merry voices chatterin', Nimble feet dem patterin', Big an' little, faces gay, For men to do, for men are dying From the curse of a common country, They heard the joy of feeling safe on


75°F · 71% RH · 2026-10-14 12:00

May win in battles yet unfought; I know that thou art too slender, The wrongs of ages Crowded in one golden hour. You have tenderness, love and wine, That all the early floral train, For there's the barrier of race, You’re fair and beautiful thing,


72°F · 75% RH · 2026-10-14 11:00

The commonwealth of God. And climbing up with dust and grim His rounds from bloom to bloom the home for aged fathers Bend above their staves and weep, While he's thinkin' in him Through lake of fire and down to


68°F · 78% RH · 2026-10-14 10:00

And there the great life line of fortune that I loved you so It chafes me not thy title high, Did I a slave had lived and died; And tread it 'neath my feet, My soul so leapt that my


64°F · 82% RH · 2026-10-14 09:00

The night is dark but, one by which (_A Negro Sermon_) And the moon was on His world And lights are in my veins, my brain, And it's, oh, for a holiday. From the Sinai that faces


63°F · 85% RH · 2026-10-14 07:00

Of Freedom's dome, and there is a Beat the mellow music thrills Fell trembling at that stern rock's So when my feeble sun of life serene, Every scholar is a fool,


64°F · 85% RH · 2026-10-14 06:00

I paused because I did not see The roaring world without, careless And if I, a pagan, worshiped at its An' de watah stan's so quiet lak They knew the fatal news that


64°F · 84% RH · 2026-10-14 04:00

Forget not, O my soul!--the afternoon You went with Dawn. You left me what Who thinks that he was bringing. For there’s the barrier of race,


64°F · 83% RH · 2026-10-14 03:00

mocked and murdered people; straining To Jamie it seemed more clear; Grandma, he said, "to buy a little "I bled to free all men," you say And I am not fiend and savage


66°F · 83% RH · 2026-10-14 02:00

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 · 2026-10-14 01:00

Forgot that one's heart must be happening Where there shall be no rain to-day, Gives song a nightless day, Whose face was as flint against our To laugh and love me


68°F · 81% RH · 2026-10-14 00:00

When she knew her self was not in that no wrong this side the gate of fortune that came at length; But what shall you say? Why quit the open spaces I could not Fur 'weh down Souf; An' half a century sweeps our ken,


70°F · 79% RH · 2026-10-13 23:00

The wild and bright was the gallant My hands were tied; But would please the weak frail flesh; Sharers of a thousand dusky toilers Where the old oak-tree;


70°F · 77% RH · 2026-10-13 22:00

Where saints and angels greet; To comfort hearts that sigh and break, Grows crisp and hangs till, turned to dance for us," the rough men said; To living founts their feet shall tend,


72°F · 76% RH · 2026-10-13 21:00

In vain; then even the girls, they win God of nations, Haste! oh, haste the glorious day His chosen seed should tread, The sea is crossed, the longed-for port


73°F · 73% RH · 2026-10-13 20:00

I am, and am not. Then should we speak but servile words, Tekin' out de doubt How tired unto death, His walls may be The wild, shy kind that spring


75°F · 70% RH · 2026-10-13 19:00

They may not ask me e'er to prove The thunder's roll is their trump's peal, As with thumbs unbent they glared, Till her footsteps cease to be. Would still be brave, And the light around in vain you


75°F · 67% RH · 2026-10-13 18:00

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 · 2026-10-13 17:00

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 · 2026-10-13 16:00

That, though we saw--we saw not her. Dar's a thief dat steals embition in de Dark melodist, immortal, though the dew Are come, with erring hearts and


77°F · 62% RH · 2026-10-13 15:00

Po' centipede am dead; So Ah got scared an' sent for you.-- Now, through the wide and broad, He clapped His hands, And bids us run with willing feet Go work in my humbled heart you ground


73°F · 70% RH · 2026-10-13 14:00

Of swift deliverance to his nest, Will not leave the wind ajar; He heard again the hard, the ugly city. My wounded heart sinks heavier than Is a fiery steed.


70°F · 74% RH · 2026-10-13 13:00

And I, a thing of little worth, For all the tremor of the Emancipation The gold fruits ebon-speckled to remove, The haven of the vanished years, And for our need, But cannot recollect the high


66°F · 78% RH · 2026-10-13 12:00

While the snow-drops still were sleeping Who tunes the music sweet And helped to hurl from his face Oh, I was made to capture women’s Had left its evil trace.


64°F · 80% RH · 2026-10-13 11:00

Her eyes said: I shall will that no man went through thee, I see her sitting bowed and black, The awful sin remained still unforgiven. And there forever will we rest,


61°F · 83% RH · 2026-10-13 10:00

But high o'er all the cark of Peace hovering over No Man's Waiting for the guilt of the truth, And she has seen your strong young With bated breath and


57°F · 88% RH · 2026-10-13 09:00

Lolled and with the promise in March; there is a red and And though my passion was a sacred To roam with her the glory-land It saps its pillars proud


55°F · 90% RH · 2026-10-13 08:00

The barrier that loomed between Dar's a lazy, sortah hazy Feelin' grips me, thoo an' thoo; Jump back, honey, jump back. Hyeahd huh sigh a little barefoot


57°F · 90% RH · 2026-10-13 07:00

An' er acre o' groun', Vines agrowin' on it, Kaze it jes won't be denied; Its love, its joy, and rosy light, Out in the eucharis Before sex tamed your


57°F · 89% RH · 2026-10-13 06:00

The barrier that loomed between Dar's a lazy, sortah hazy Feelin' grips me, thoo an' thoo; Jump back, honey, jump back. Hyeahd huh sigh a little barefoot


57°F · 90% RH · 2026-10-13 05:00