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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
  
ELIZA HARRIS
  
ETHIOPIA
  
THE DRUNKARD'S CHILD
  
THE SLAVE AUCTION
  
THE REVEL
  
THAT BLESSED HOPE
  
THE DYING CHRISTIAN
  
REPORT
  
ADVICE TO THE GIRLS
  
SAVED BY FAITH
  
DIED OF STARVATION
  
A MOTHER'S HEROISM
  
THE FUGITIVE'S WIFE
  
THE CONTRAST
  
THE PRODIGAL'S RETURN
  
EVA'S FAREWELL
  
THE TENNESSEE HERO
  
FREE LABOR
  
LINES
  
THE DISMISSAL OF TYNG
  
THE SLAVE MOTHER,
  
RIZPAH, THE DAUGHTER OF AI
  
RUTH AND NAOMI
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MOSES A STORY OF THE NILE
 I. 
Chapter I THE PARTING
 II. 
Chapter II
 III. 
Chapter III FLIGHT INTO MIDIAN
 IV. 
Chapter IV
 V. 
Chapter V
 VI. 
Chapter VI
 VII. 
Chapter VII
 VIII. 
Chapter VIII
 IX. 
Chapter IX THE DEATH OF MOSES
  
THE RAGGED STOCKING
  
THE FATAL PLEDGE
  
CHRIST'S ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM
  
THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS
  
SIMON'S COUNTRYMEN
  
DELIVERANCE
  
SIMON'S FEAST
  
LINES TO HON. THADDEUS STEVENS
  
AN APPEAL TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
  
TRUTH
  
DEATH OF THE OLD SEA KING
  
LET THE LIGHT ENTER!
  
YOUTH IN HEAVEN
  
DEATH OF ZOMBI
  
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
  
VASHTI
  
THE CHANGE
  
THE DYING MOTHER
  
WORDS FOR THE HOUR
  
PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S PROCLAMATION OF FREEDOM
  
TO A BABE SMILING IN HER SLEEP
  
THE ARTIST
  
JESUS
  
FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT
  
RETRIBUTION
  
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]
  
I THIRST
  
THE DYING QUEEN
  
THE JEWISH GRANDFATHER'S STORY
  
OUT IN THE COLD
  
SAVE THE BOYS
  
NOTHING AND SOMETHING
  
WANDERER'S RETURN
  
FISHERS OF MEN
  
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
  
GOING EAST
  
THE HERMIT'S SACRIFICE
  
SONGS FOR THE PEOPLE
  
THEN AND NOW
  
MACEO
  
ONLY A WORD
  
MY MOTHER'S KISS
  
A GRAIN OF SAND
  
THE CROCUSES
  
THE PRESENT AGE
  
DEDICATION POEM
  
A DOUBLE STANDARD
  
OUR HERO
  
THE DYING BONDMAN
  
A LITTLE CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM
  
THE SPARROW'S FALL
  
GOD BLESS OUR NATIVE LAND
  
DANDELIONS
  
HOME, SWEET HOME
  
THE BUILDING
  
THE PURE IN HEART SHALL SEE GOD
  
HE HAD NOT WHERE TO LAY HIS HEAD
  
GO WORK IN MY VINEYARD
  
RENEWAL OF STRENGTH
  
JAMIE'S PUZZLE
  
AN APPEAL TO MY COUNTRY WOMEN
  
THE LOST BELLS
  
“DO NOT CHEER, MEN ARE DYING,” SAID CAPT. PHILLIPS, IN THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
  
THE BURDENS OF ALL
  
A FAIRER HOPE, A BRIGHTER MORN
  
BE ACTIVE
  
“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.
  
THE SOUL
  
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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ONLY A WORD

Only a word, a friendly word,
Tender and kind and true;
A fainting heart drank in the word,
As flowers absorb the dew.
Only a word, a faithful word,
Feet that had gone astray
Were pointed from the trend of death
Unto the narrow way.
A tender, loving, earnest word,
Sown mid prayers and tears
May bloom in time and fruitage
Throughout eternal years.
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