Subject for March, 2020
XIV. Of the Sorrow Songs
Subject: The Souls of Black Folk
I walk through the churchyard To lay this body down; I know moon-rise, I know star-rise; I walk in the moonlight, I walk in the starlight; I’ll lie in the grave and stretch o...
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XIII. Of the Coming of John-2
Subject: The Souls of Black Folk
Down in Altamaha, after seven long years, all the world knew John was coming. The homes were scrubbed and scoured,—above all, one; the gardens and yards had an unwonted trimness...
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XIII. Of the Coming of John-1
Subject: The Souls of Black Folk
What bring they ’neath the midnight, Beside the River-sea? They bring the human heart wherein No nightly calm can be; That droppeth never with the wind, Nor drieth with...
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XII. Of Alexander Crummell
Subject: The Souls of Black Folk
Then from the Dawn it seemed there came, but faint As from beyond the limit of the world, Like the last echo born of a great cry, Sounds, as if some fair city were one voice Aro...
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XI. Of the Passing of the First-Born
Subject: The Souls of Black Folk
O sister, sister, thy first-begotten, The hands that cling and the feet that follow, The voice of the child’s blood crying yet, Who hath remembered me? who hath forgotten? Thou ...
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X. Of the Faith of the Fathers
Subject: The Souls of Black Folk
Dim face of Beauty haunting all the world, Fair face of Beauty all too fair to see, Where the lost stars adown the heavens are hurled,— There, there alone for thee ...
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IX. Of the Sons of Master and Man-2
Subject: The Souls of Black Folk
And finally, now, to-day, when we are awakening to the fact that the perpetuity of republican institutions on this continent depends on the purification of the ballot, the civic...
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IX. Of the Sons of Master and Man-1
Subject: The Souls of Black Folk
Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart To keep a dream or grave apart. MRS. BROWNING. The world-old phenomenon of the contact of dive...
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VIII. Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece-2
Subject: The Souls of Black Folk
The security offered for such transactions—a crop and chattel mortgage—may at first seem slight. And, indeed, the merchants tell many a true tale of shiftlessness and cheating; ...
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VIII. Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece-1
Subject: The Souls of Black Folk
But the Brute said in his breast, “Till the mills I grind have ceased, The riches shall be dust of dust, dry ashes be the feast! “On the strong and cunning few Cynic favor...
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