 | Robert Thomas Kerlin - 1920 - 214 pagine
...us, though dead ! Oh, kinsman! We must meet the common foe; Though far outnumbered, let us still be brave, And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow...pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but — fighting back! — Claude McKay. The Octaroon One drop of midnight in the dawn of life's pulsating stream Marks... | |
 | Benjamin Brawley - 1921 - 474 pagine
...us, though dead! Oh, kinsman! We must meet the common foe; Though far outnumbered, let us still be brave, And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow!...murderous, cowardly pack Pressed to the wall, dying, but—fighting back! 5. The Widening Problem In view of the world war and the important part taken... | |
 | Frederick German Detweiler - 1922 - 296 pagine
...honor us, though dead! Oh, kinsmen! We must meet the common foe; Though far outnumbered let us still be brave, And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow!...pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but — fighting back! The Messenger attacks all Negroes who are less radical than itself, including Kelly Miller, Emmett... | |
 | James Weldon Johnson - 1922 - 274 pagine
...us -though dead ! Oh, Kinsmen! We must meet the common foe; Though far outnumbered, let us still be brave, And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow!...pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but — fighting back! TO THE WHITE FIENDS Think you I am not fiend and savage too? Think you I could not arm me with... | |
 | Chicago Commission on Race Relations - 1922 - 866 pagine
...us, though dead! Oh, kinsmen! We must meet the common foe; Though far outnumbered, let us still be brave, And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow!...pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but — fighting back ! — CLAUDE McKAY Defensive measures justified. — The general belief among Negroes is that... | |
 | 1969 - 648 pagine
...him the necessity of defiance and struggle if he is to escape exploitation. Л defiant poet has said: Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but — fighting back! VERA FULTON. Slave Songs of the United States. Edited by William Francis Allen, Charles Packard... | |
 | Willis Duke Weatherford - 1924 - 498 pagine
...will come out, back to your world of tears, A stronger soul within a finer frame. IF WE MUST DIE • If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and...cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back! Estimate of McKay. These poems show something of the passion of McKay's soul. He loves his own... | |
 | 1924 - 702 pagine
...poet, who writes: Oh, kinsmen! We must meet the common foe; Though far outnumbered, let us still be brave, And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow!...pack. Pressed to the wall, dying, but — fighting back! It is true that an especially aggressive Negro, WE Burghardt DuBois, edits the Crisis, and that... | |
 | Newman Ivey White, Walter Clinton Jackson - 1924 - 276 pagine
...utterly, is his mood in Enslaved, when he thinks of racial wrongs, to which he adds, in // We Must Die, Like Men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back! There are some poems of purely introspective feeling, such as 7 Know My Soul, Baptism, and Absence,... | |
 | Louis Untermeyer - 1925 - 666 pagine
...us though dead ! Oh, Kinsmen! We must meet the common foe; Though far outnumbered, let us still be brave, And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow!...pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but — fighting back! Christopher Morley (1922) sink too often in their own sentiments; their swc^....._ frequently... | |
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If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die... 
