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My brightest hopes are mix'd with tears, Like hues of light and gloom; As when mid sun-shine rain appears, Love rises with a thousand fears,…
George Moses Horton was an African-American poet. Biography He was born into slavery on William Horton's plantation in Northampton County, North Carolina. As a very young child, he and several family members were moved to a tobacco farm in rural Chatham County, when his owner relocated. Horton composed poems in his mind through his teen years. He was allowed by his master to visit the nearby University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he recited poems to students who eagerly wrote them down and paid him for his compositions. His fame spread, and a collection of poems was published under the title The Hope of Liberty (1829). Horton was the first black southern author and the first African American poet to produce a volume in more than half a century. Two more collections of Horton's poetry include Poetical Works (1845) and Naked Genius (1865). Horton began calling himself "the Colored Bard of North Carolina." Many of his works were vivid and powerful attacks on slavery. After the American Civil War, Horton moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he lived until his death. Once in the north, he never published another verse. During the summer of 2006, UNC Chapel Hill renamed a newly built dorm, previously known as Hinton James North, to George Moses Horton dormitory.)
- Naked Genius (William B. Smith, 1865)
- Poetical Works (D. Heartt, 1845)
- The Hope of Liberty (J. Gales & Sons, 1829)
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'Tis the hope of the noble defeated; The aim of the marksman is vain; The wish of destruction completed, The soldier eternally slain.…
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O death, thy power I own, Whose mission was to rush, And snatch the rose, so quickly blown, Down from its native bush;…
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I was a harness horse, Constrained to travel weak or strong, With orders from oppressing force, Push along, push along.…
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Hark! from the mighty Hero's tomb, I hear a voice proclaim! A sound which fills the world with gloom, But magnifies his name.…
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When auburn Autumn mounts the stage, And Summer fails her charms to yield, Bleak nature turns another page, To light the glories of the field.…
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It well bespeaks a man beheaded, quite Divested of the laurel robe of life, When every member struggles for its base, The head; the power of order now recedes,…
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I lov'd thee from the earliest dawn, When first I saw thy beauty's ray, And will, until life's eve comes on, And beauty's blossom fades away;…
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I loved thee from the earliest dawn, When first I saw thy beauty's ray; And will until life's eve comes on, And beauty's blossom fades away;…
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If thou art fair, deal, lady, fair, And let the scales be even; Forbid the poising beam to rear, And pull thee down from heaven.…
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Farewell! if ne'er I see thee more, Though distant calls my flight impel, I shall not less thy grace adore, So friend, forever fare thee well.…
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Brave Grant, thou hero of the war, Thou art the emblem of the morning star, Transpiring from the East to banish fear, Revolving o'er a servile Hemisphere,…
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I feel myself in need Of the inspiring strains of ancient lore, My heart to lift, my empty mind to feed, And all the world explore.…
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Eternal spring of boundless grace, It lifts the soul above, Where God the Son unveils his face, And shows that Heaven is love.…
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Let me die and not tremble at death, But smile at the close of my day, And then, at the flight of my breath, Like a bird of the morning in May,…
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