#Blacks #Jamaicans
If we must die, let it not be like… Hunted and penned in an inglorious… While round us bark the mad and hu… Making their mock at our accursèd… If we must die, O let us nobly di…
No more for you the city’s thorny… The ugly corners of the Negro bel… The miseries and pains of these ha… By you will never, never again be… No more, if still you wander, will…
O lonely heart so timid of approac… Like the shy tropic flower that sh… To the faint touch of tender finge… What is your word? What question… Your lustrous-warm eyes are too sa…
When I have passed away and am fo… And no one living can recall my fa… When under alien sod my bones lie… With not a tree or stone to mark t… Perchance a pensive youth, with pa…
It was the silver, heart-envelopin… Of the mysterious sea-line far awa… Seen only on a gleaming gold-white… That made it dear and beautiful to… And Laura loved it for the little…
Oh when I think of my long-suffer… For weary centuries despised, oppr… Enslaved and lynched, denied a hum… In the great life line of the Chr… And in the Black Land disinherite…
Swift swallows sailing from the S… O rain-birds racing merrily away From hill-tops parched with heat a… Of wilting plants and fainting flo… When at the noon-hour from the cha…
UPON thy purple mat thy body bar… Is fine and limber like a tender t… The motion of thy supple form is r… Like a lithe panther lolling langu… Toying and turning slowly in her l…
O sweet are tropic lands for wakin… There time and life move lazily al… There by the banks of blue-and-sil… Grass-sheltered crickets chirp inc… Gay-colored lizards loll all throu…
Oh something just now must be happ… That suddenly and quiveringly here… Amid the city’s noises, I must th… Of mangoes leaning o’er the river’… And dexterous Davie climbing high…
Applauding youths laughed with you… And watched her perfect, half-clot… Her voice was like the sound of bl… Blown by black players upon a picn… She sang and danced on gracefully…
The sun sought thy dim bed and bro… The sciences were sucklings at thy… When all the world was young in pr… Thy slaves toiled at thy monumenta… Thou ancient treasure-land, thou m…
When June comes dancing o’er the… With scarlet roses tinting her gre… And mating thrushes ushering in he… And Earth on tiptoe for her golde… I always see the evening when we m…
Your door is shut against my tight… And I am sharp as steel with disc… But I possess the courage and the… To bear my anger proudly and unben… The pavement slabs burn loose bene…
Merry voices chatterin’, Nimble feet dem patterin’, Big an’ little, faces gay, Happy day dis market day. Sateday, de marnin’ break,