An Introduction to Black Literature in America: From 1746 to the PresentLindsay Patterson Publishers Agency, 1976 - 302 pages |
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Page 95
... smile , And mouth with myriad subtleties . Why should the world be overwise In counting all our tears and sighs ? Nay , let them only see us while We wear the mask . We smile , but , O great Christ , our cries To Thee from tortured ...
... smile , And mouth with myriad subtleties . Why should the world be overwise In counting all our tears and sighs ? Nay , let them only see us while We wear the mask . We smile , but , O great Christ , our cries To Thee from tortured ...
Page 104
... smile . Then he whispered something into the judge's ear that made the old man wrinkle from his neck up with appreciative smiles . " Asbury , " he said , " you are - you are — well , you ought to be white , that's all . When we find a ...
... smile . Then he whispered something into the judge's ear that made the old man wrinkle from his neck up with appreciative smiles . " Asbury , " he said , " you are - you are — well , you ought to be white , that's all . When we find a ...
Page 274
... smile the rent money in one pocket and my heart in another ... ? and such ... but don't get my anchovies ... they cost too much ! ( me get the anchovies indeed ! what she think , she got― a bird to feed ? ) there's plenty in there to ...
... smile the rent money in one pocket and my heart in another ... ? and such ... but don't get my anchovies ... they cost too much ! ( me get the anchovies indeed ! what she think , she got― a bird to feed ? ) there's plenty in there to ...
Contents
Introduction Lindsay Patterson | 5 |
A Plan of Peace Office for the United States Benjamin Banneker | 17 |
Poetry | 27 |
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