Full text: Two villains of the highest rank Set out one night to rob a bank. They found the building, looked it o’er, Each window noted, tried each door, Scanned carefully the lidded hole For minstrels to cascade the coal— In short, examined five-and-twenty Good paths from poverty to plenty. But all were sealed, they …
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah EQUIANO (1745 – 1797) The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, written in 1789, is the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano. It discusses his time spent in slavery, serving primarily on galleys, documents his attempts at becoming an independent man through his study …
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897) Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself Harriet Jacobs’ autobiography, written under the pseudonym Linda Brent, details her experiences as a slave in North Carolina, her escape to freedom in the north, and her ensuing struggles …
Summary: This classic poem was written by Whitman following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. It appears in Leaves of Grass, Whitman’s masterpiece of a poetry collection and is considered by many to be one of his greatest poems. Full text: O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done; The ship has weather’d every rack, …
Summary from Wikipedia: “She Walks in Beauty” is a poem written in 1814 by Lord Byron. One of Lord Byron’s most famous, it is a lyric poem that describes a woman of much beauty and elegance. The poem appears to be told from the view point of third person omniscient. There are no hints as …
“We offer these poems… in the hope that you will become a friend, or a greater friend… of the thoughts of poets… lost in the prisms of words” – Charles Lampkin
Summary: This popular piece was voted Britain’s favourite poem in a BBC opinion poll in 1995. Full text: If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you …
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The Souls of Black Folk audiobook by W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) The Souls of Black Folk audiobook The Souls of Black Folk is a well-known work of African-American literature by activist W.E.B. Du Bois. The book, published in 1903, contains several essays on race, some of which had been previously published in Atlantic Monthly magazine. …
Mother to Son By Langston Hughes Well, son, I’ll tell you: Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair. It’s had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor— Bare. But all the time I’se been a-climbin’ on, And reachin’ landin’s, And turnin’ corners, And sometimes …
TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE by Solomon Northup – FULL Audio Book | Greatest Audio Books – Twelve Years a Slave (1853; sub-title: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana), by Solomon Northup as told …
