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Complete Poems of Frances E. W. Harper :

Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins (1825-1911)

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THE SYROPHENICIAN WOMAN

THE SLAVE MOTHER

BIBLE DEFENCE OF SLAVERY

THE DRUNKARD'S CHILD

THE SLAVE AUCTION

THAT BLESSED HOPE

THE DYING CHRISTIAN

ADVICE TO THE GIRLS

DIED OF STARVATION

A MOTHER'S HEROISM

THE FUGITIVE'S WIFE

THE PRODIGAL'S RETURN

THE TENNESSEE HERO

THE DISMISSAL OF TYNG

THE SLAVE MOTHER,

RIZPAH, THE DAUGHTER OF AI

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MOSES A STORY OF THE NILE

I.

THE PARTING Chapter I

II.

III.

FLIGHT INTO MIDIAN Chapter III

IV.

V.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

IX.

THE DEATH OF MOSES Chapter IX

THE RAGGED STOCKING

THE FATAL PLEDGE

CHRIST'S ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM

THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS

SIMON'S COUNTRYMEN

LINES TO HON. THADDEUS STEVENS

AN APPEAL TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

DEATH OF THE OLD SEA KING

LET THE LIGHT ENTER!

YOUTH IN HEAVEN

LINES TO CHARLES SUMNER

“SIR, WE WOULD SEE JESUS”

THE BRIDE OF DEATH

THANK GOD FOR LITTLE CHILDREN

THE DYING FUGITIVE

BURY ME IN A FREE LAND

THE FREEDOM BELL

MARY AT THE FEET OF CHRIST

THE MOTHER'S BLESSING

THE DYING MOTHER

WORDS FOR THE HOUR

PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S PROCLAMATION OF FREEDOM

TO A BABE SMILING IN HER SLEEP

FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT

THE SIN OF ACHAN

LINES TO MILES O'REILEY

THE LITTLE BUILDERS

THE DYING CHILD TO HER BLIND FATHER

LIGHT IN DARKNESS

OUR ENGLISH FRIENDS

[I remember, well remember]

THE DYING QUEEN

THE JEWISH GRANDFATHER'S STORY

OUT IN THE COLD

NOTHING AND SOMETHING

WANDERER'S RETURN

SIGNING THE PLEDGE

THE MARTYR OF ALABAMA

THE NIGHT OF DEATH

MOTHER'S TREASURES

THE REFINER'S GOLD

A STORY OF THE REBELLION

BURIAL OF SARAH

THE HERMIT'S SACRIFICE

SONGS FOR THE PEOPLE

MY MOTHER'S KISS

A GRAIN OF SAND

THE PRESENT AGE

DEDICATION POEM

A DOUBLE STANDARD

THE DYING BONDMAN

A LITTLE CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM

THE SPARROW'S FALL

GOD BLESS OUR NATIVE LAND

HOME, SWEET HOME

THE PURE IN HEART SHALL SEE GOD

HE HAD NOT WHERE TO LAY HIS HEAD

GO WORK IN MY VINEYARD

RENEWAL OF STRENGTH

AN APPEAL TO MY COUNTRY WOMEN

“DO NOT CHEER, MEN ARE DYING,” SAID CAPT. PHILLIPS, IN THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR

THE BURDENS OF ALL

A FAIRER HOPE, A BRIGHTER MORN

“BEHOLD THE LILIES!”

TO BISHOP PAYNE

“GONE TO GOD”

IN COMMEMORATION OF THE CENTENNIAL OF THE A. M. E. CHURCH

LESSONS OF THE STREET

A POEM Composed for the reception tendered the Reverend Henry L. Phillips and wife in celebration of their return from West Indies in 1902 and of his twenty-five years of service as rector of the Church of the Crucifixion, Philadelphia.

TO THE UNION SAVERS OF CLEVELAND

THE VISION OF THE CZAR OF RUSSIA

FOR THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE HOME FOR AGED AND INFIRM COLORED PERSONS

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Complete Poems of Frances E. W. Harper :

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

1825-1911

Oxford University Press

New York, Oxford

1988