| Description |
xxxvi, 449 pages ; 18 cm. |
| Series |
The Schomburg library of nineteenth-century Black women writers |
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Schomburg library of nineteenth-century Black women writers.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-446). |
| Contents |
Poetry. The garden seat -- When the green lies over the earth -- Where Phillis sleeps -- In memoriam : to keep the memory of Charlotte Forten Grimké (1) -- To keep the memory of Charlotte Forten Grimké (2) -- Nevermore -- One little year -- Vigil -- Epitaph on a living woman -- An epitaph -- To Clarissa Scott Delaney -- Despair -- Grass fingers. |
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Poetry. To Dr. George F. Grant : hushed by the hands of sleep -- Death (1) -- Life or sleep? : death (2) -- At the end -- Two sonnets to Mrs. Hemenway : on seeing her picture -- For the candle-light -- The captive -- Life (1) -- Life (2) -- Little wanderer -- My shrine -- Thou art so far, so far -- A thrice-told tale -- The visitor -- Ask of life nothing, nothing -- Your hands -- Surrender (1) -- Surrender (2) -- Give me your eyes (1) -- Give me your eyes (2) -- Give me your eyes (3) -- As we have sowed -- Rosabel. |
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Poetry. To my father upon his fifty-fifth birthday -- The black child -- At April -- Evanescence -- Keep this lily -- To the roses over him -- Sweet, you are late -- A Mona Lisa -- The eyes of my regret -- Regret (1) -- Regret (2) -- In sunset land -- Two figures of grief and despair -- Brown girl -- Dusked lilies -- My star -- Dusk -- Dawn (1) -- Dawn (2) -- At the spring dawn -- At morn -- a Trilogy -- A winter twilight -- The want of you -- El beso -- Entreaty -- Another heart is broken -- Little grey dreams -- I weep -- Butterflies. |
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Poetry. At autumn -- Autumn -- At the autumn dusk -- Paradox -- Naughty Nan -- Caprichosa -- The puppet-player -- A triolet -- Lullaby (1) -- Lullaby (2) -- You -- Your eyes -- May -- Greenness -- Longing -- Blue cycle -- Fides -- The ways o' men -- The black finger -- Two pilgrims hand in hand : sonnet to Mr. and Mrs. John J. Smith upon their fifty-fifth wedding anniversary -- When you walk -- To the Dunbar High School -- Written for the fiftieth anniversary celebration at Dunbar High School -- But yesterday -- Why?. |
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Poetry. Futility (1) -- Futility (2) -- Futility (3) -- Oh, my heart, for the spring! -- Trees -- Far away -- A mood -- To Joseph Lee -- Tenebris -- Under the days -- Beware when he awakes (1) -- Beware when he awakes (2) -- Beware lest he awakes (Beware when he awakes (3)). |
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Drama. Rachel : a play in three acts. |
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Fiction. Black is, as black does -- Blackness -- The closing door -- Goldie -- The drudge -- Jettisoned -- The laughing hand. |
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Nonfiction. Diary 1903 : excerpts -- Diary 1909 : excerpt -- Diary 1912 (1911) : excerpt -- Scrapbook : excerpt -- "Rachel" the play of the month : the reason and synopsis by the author -- Letter to the Atlantic Monthly : reference to the Plot of "Blackness" and "Goldie" -- Gertrude of Denmark by Tillie Buffum Chace Wyman / reviewed by Angelina Weld Grimké -- Remarks on literature. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Literary collections.
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| Indexed Term |
English literature |
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United States |
| Added Author |
Herron, Carolivia.
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| Added Title |
Works. Selections. 1991
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| ISBN |
0195061993 (acid-free paper) |
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9780195061994 (acid-free paper) |
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