This 1895 collection brings together short lyrics by the abolitionist lecturer and novelist best remembered for Iola Leroy. Memories of a mother’s kiss, crocuses pushing through spring soil, a grain of sand and a hymn of thanks for little children sit beside poems on the present age, moral courage and a woman who would bend to grief but not bow to shame.
Plain-spoken, devout and quietly forceful verse from one of the best-known African American poets of the nineteenth century. Download the free EPUB.