 O black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire? How, in your darkness, did you come to know The power and beauty of the minstrel's lyre? Who first from midst his bonds lifted his eyes? Who first from out the still watch,...  An Anthology of Verse by American Negroes - Strana 176upravili: - 1924 - 250 str.Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | Booker T. Washington - 1909 - 454 str.
...sacred fire ? How, in your darkness, did you come to know The power and beauty of the minstrel's lyre ? Who first from midst his bonds lifted his eyes ? Who...prophets rise Within his dark-kept soul, burst into song ? There is a wide, wide wonder in it all, That from degraded rest and servile toil, The fiery spirit... | |
 | Benjamin Brawley - 1918 - 222 str.
...sacred fire? How, in your darkness, did you come to know The power and beauty of the minstrel's lyre? Who first from 'midst his bonds lifted his eyes? Who...prophets rise Within his dark-kept soul, burst into song? There is a wide, wide wonder in it all, That from degraded rest and servile toil, The fiery spirit... | |
 | 1913 - 790 str.
...How, in your darkness, did you come to know The power and beauty of the minstrel's lyre? Who first 'midst his bonds lifted his eyes? Who first from out the still watch, lone and long, FteUng the ancient faith of prophets rise Vcivcv <cv taxW« «s>A, burst into song? NOTES FROM THE... | |
 | Robert Thomas Kerlin - 1921 - 28 str.
...sacred fire? How, in your darkness, did you come to know The power and beauty of the minstrel's lyre? Who first from midst his bonds lifted his eyes? Who...prophets rise Within his dark-kept soul, burst into song? So begins this noble tribute to the nameless natural poets from whose hearts, touched as a harp by... | |
 | Frederick German Detweiler - 1922 - 292 str.
...sacred fire ? How in your darkness did you come to know The power and beauty of the minstrel 's lyre ? Who first from midst his bonds lifted his eyes ? Who...prophets rise Within his dark-kept soul burst into song ? There is a wide, wide wonder in it all, That from degraded rest and servile toil The fiery spirit... | |
 | 1930 - 584 str.
...sacred fire? How, in your darkness, did you come to know The power and beauty of the minstrel's lyre? Who first from midst his bonds lifted his eyes? Who...prophets rise Within his dark-kept soul, burst into song? There is a wide, wide wonder in it all, That from degraded rest and service toil The fiery spirit of... | |
 | Benjamin Brawley - 1966 - 420 str.
...sacred fire? How, in your darkness, did you come to know The power and beauty of the minstrel's lyre? Who first from 'midst his bonds lifted his eyes? Who...Feeling the ancient faith of prophets rise Within his dark -kept soul, burst into song? There is a wide, wide wonder in it all, That from degraded rest and... | |
 | Houston A. Baker (Jr.), Patricia Redmond - 1989 - 268 str.
...sacred fire? How, in your darkness, did you come to know The power and beauty of the minstrel's lyre? Who first from out the still watch, lone and long,...prophets rise Within his dark-kept soul, burst into song? We will say nothing about what these lines indicate about James Weldon Johnson's cultural orientation... | |
 | Richard A. Long, Eugenia W. Collier - 2010 - 781 str.
...did you come to know The power and the heauty of the minstrel's lyre? Who first from midst his honds lifted his eyes? Who first from out the still watch,...prophets rise Within his dark-kept soul, burst into song? How misdirected was the American imagination, how blinded by the dust of controversy and the pall of... | |
 | Angelyn Mitchell - 1994 - 548 str.
...sacred fire? How, in your darkness, did you come to know The power and beauty of the minstrel's lyre? Who first from midst his bonds lifted his eyes? Who...prophets rise Within his dark-kept soul, burst into song? There is a wide, wide wonder in it all, That from degraded rest and servile toil The fiery spirit of... | |
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