 When it is finally ours, this freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth; when it belongs at last to all, when it is truly instinct, brain matter, diastole, systole, reflex action; when it is finally...  Frederick Douglass, the Clarion Voicede John W. Blassingame - 1976 - 72 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | James A. Emanuel, Theodore L. Gross - 1968 - 632 pages
...Respirator's brittle belling? Swam from the ship somehow; somehow began the measured rise. Frederick Douglass When it is finally ours, this freedom, this liberty,...and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth; when it belongs at last to our children, when it is truly instinct, brain matter, diastole,... | |
 | Robert Hayden - 1984 - 217 pages
...to a poem which has a more conventional form, the sonnet "Frederick Douglass. " Frederick Douglass When it is finally ours, this freedom, this liberty,...and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth; when it belongs at last to all, when it is truly instinct, brain matter, diastole, systole,... | |
 | Robert Hayden - 1984 - 217 pages
...man as air, usable as earth; when it belongs at last to all, when it is truly instinct, brain matter, diastole, systole, reflex action; when it is finally won; when it is more than the gaudy mumbo jumbo of politicians: this man, this Douglass, this former slave, this Negro beaten to his knees,... | |
 | Henry Louis Gates Jr. Chairman of the Department of Afro-American Studies and W.E.B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities Harvard University - 1987 - 350 pages
...his path; 'Twas for his race, not for himself he spoke. Paul Laurence Dunbar, "Frederick Douglass" When it is finally ours, this freedom, this liberty...and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth; when it belongs at last to all, when it is truly instinct, brain matter, diastole, systole,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...remembrance, a gift, a souvenir for you. (1. 43-44) AmNP; BPo; IDB; PoBA; PoNe Frederick Douglass 5 ow, And joy was never sure; To-day will die to-morrow; Time stoops to no man's lure; (1. 73—7 earth; (1. 1—3) 6 this man, this Douglass, this former slave, this Negro beaten to his knees, exiled,... | |
 | Richard Marius - 1994 - 592 pages
...camp by nine," 43 When Dey 'Listed Colored Soldiers, 211 "When I was young and full of faith," 433 "When it is finally ours, this freedom, this liberty, this beautiful / And terrible thing," 3 1 6 When Johnny Comes Marching Home, 414 When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Btoom'd, 335 "When the... | |
 | Fredric Lown, Judith W. Steinbergh - 1996 - 194 pages
...evening pond, with me, walking behind him, looking for Indians. — Cheryl Savageau 7. Frederick Douglass When it is finally ours, this freedom, this liberty,...and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth; when it belongs at last to all, when it is truly instinct, brain matter, diastole, systole,... | |
 | Nikki Giovanni - 1996 - 216 pages
...lies, 27 What happens to a dream deferred?, 46 What is Africa to me, 64 When I gaze at the sun, 101 When it is finally ours, this freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, 82 When the master lived a king and I a starving hutted slave beneath the lash, 124 You are disdainful... | |
 | Arnold Adoff - 1997 - 214 pages
...your fears that I will be undone, for I shall not be moved. SHALL BE REMEMBERED DOUGLASS ROBERT HAYDEN When it is finally ours, this freedom, this liberty,...it is finally won; when it is more than the gaudy mumbo jumbo of politicians: this man, this Douglass, this former slave, this Negro beaten to his knees,... | |
 | Michael Fitzgerald - 2000 - 142 pages
...had limited its upper reaches of respect and acceptance: When it is finally ours, this freedom, . . . this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth; when it belongs at last to all, when it is truly instinct, brain matter, diastole, systole,... | |
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