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Poetry

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Poetryabout 4 h 30 min of listening

A collection of poems by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

Contents

  1. Imprint
  2. Eliza Harris
  3. The Soul
  4. The Syrophenician Woman
  5. The Slave Mother
  6. Bible Defence of Slavery
  7. Ethiopia
  8. The Drunkard’s Child
  9. The Slave Auction
  10. The Revel
  11. That Blessed Hope
  12. The Dying Christian
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  1. Report
  2. Advice to the Girls
  3. Saved by Faith
  4. Died of Starvation
  5. A Mother’s Heroism
  6. The Fugitive’s Wife
  7. The Contrast
  8. The Prodigal’s Return
  9. Eva’s Farewell
  10. Be Active
  11. Lessons of the Street
  12. “Gone to God”
  13. To the Union Savers of Cleveland
  14. Bury Me in a Free Land
  15. Moses
  16. I: The Parting
  17. II
  18. III: Flight Into Midian
  19. IV
  20. V
  21. VI
  22. VII
  23. VIII
  24. IX: The Death of Moses
  25. Lines to Hon. Thaddeus Stevens
  26. An Appeal to the American People
  27. Truth
  28. Death of the Old Sea King
  29. “Let the Light Enter!”
  30. Youth in Heaven
  31. Death of Zombi
  32. Lines to Charles Sumner
  33. “Sir, We Would See Jesus”
  34. The Bride of Death
  35. Thank God for Little Children
  36. The Dying Fugitive
  37. The Freedom Bell
  38. Mary at the Feet of Christ
  39. The Mother’s Blessing
  40. Vashti
  41. The Change
  42. The Dying Mother
  43. Words for the Hour
  44. President Lincoln’s Proclamation of Freedom
  45. To a Babe Smiling in Her Sleep
  46. The Artist
  47. Jesus
  48. Fifteenth Amendment
  49. Retribution
  50. The Sin of Achan
  51. Lines to Miles O’Reiley
  52. The Little Builders
  53. The Dying Child to Her Blind Father
  54. Light in Darkness
  55. Our English Friends
  56. Aunt Chloe
  57. The Deliverance
  58. Aunt Chloe’s Politics
  59. Learning to Read
  60. Church Building
  61. The Reunion
  62. “I Thirst”
  63. The Dying Queen
  64. The Tennessee Hero
  65. Free Labor
  66. Lines
  67. The Dismissal of Tyng
  68. The Slave Mother
  69. Rizpah, the Daughter of Ai
  70. Ruth and Naomi
  71. The Jewish Grandfather’s Story
  72. Out in the Cold
  73. Save the Boys
  74. Nothing and Something
  75. Wanderer’s Return
  76. “Fishers of Men”
  77. Signing the Pledge
  78. 25th Anniversary of the “Old Folks’ Home”
  79. A Fairer Hope, a Brighter Morn
  80. The Martyr of Alabama
  81. The Night of Death
  82. Mother’s Treasures
  83. The Refiner’s Gold
  84. A Story of the Rebellion
  85. Burial of Sarah
  86. Going East
  87. The Hermit’s Sacrifice
  88. Songs for the People
  89. An Appeal to My Countrywomen
  90. Then and Now
  91. Maceo
  92. My Mother’s Kiss
  93. A Grain of Sand
  94. The Crocuses
  95. The Present Age
  96. Dedication Poem
  97. A Double Standard
  98. Our Hero
  99. The Dying Bondman
  100. “A Little Child Shall Lead Them”
  101. The Sparrow’s Fall
  102. God Bless Our Native Land
  103. Dandelions
  104. The Building
  105. Home, Sweet Home
  106. The Pure in Heart Shall See God
  107. He “Had Not Where to Lay His Head”
  108. Go Work in My Vineyard
  109. Renewal of Strength
  110. Jamie’s Puzzle
  111. The Lost Bells
  112. “Do Not Cheer, Men Are Dying,” Said Capt. Phillips, in the Spanish-American War
  113. The Burdens of All
  114. Behold the Lilies!
  115. The Ragged Stocking
  116. The Fatal Pledge
  117. Christ’s Entry Into Jerusalem
  118. The Resurrection of Jesus
  119. Simon’s Countrymen
  120. Deliverance
  121. Simon’s Feast
  122. Endnotes
  123. Colophon
  124. Uncopyright

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