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Historical Sketches of Andover: Chapter V
There is a tradition in regard to the bravery of a negro servant….
Sarah Loring Bailey
To Dews. A Song.
I burn, I burn; and beg of you…
Robert Herrick
The Things We Dare Not Tell
The fields are fair in autumn yet, and the sun’s still shining there…
Henry Lawson
In Our Neighborhood
The Harts were going to give a party.
Alice Ruth Moore
A Story of Vengeance
Yes, Eleanor, I have grown grayer.
Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
If
If you can keep your head when all about you…
Rudyard Kipling
The Years
To-night I close my eyes and see…
Sara Teasdale
The Fire in the Flint:
Chapter II
Situated in the heart of the farming section of the State…
Walter F. White
Of Work and Wealth
For fifteen years I was a teacher of youth.
W.E.B. DuBois
The Call
Is the wind that stirs the trees…
John Frederick Freeman
I Shall Return
I shall return again; I shall return…
Claude McKay
War and Peace:
Chapter XXIV
There was now no one in the reception room except Prince Vasíli and the eldest princess…
Leo Tolstoy
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, The African
I believe it is difficult for those who publish their own memoirs to escape the imputation of vanity…
Olaudah Equiano
Words! Words!
How did it happen that we quarreled?
Jesse Fauset
Potrait
Her eyes? Dark pools of deepest shade…
George Leonard Allen
A Daughter of the Samurai:
Chapter 4 – The Old and the New
I was about eight years old when I had my first taste of meat.
Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
A Warrior’s Daughter
In the afternoon shadow of a large tepee, with red-painted smoke lapels, sat a warrior father with crossed shins.
Zitkala-Sa
The Haunted Oak
Pray why are you so bare
Paul Laurence Dunbar
A Song of Thanks
For the sun that shone at the dawn of spring
Edward Smyth Jones
