Olivia Ward Bush Banks, "Original Poems" (Full Text) (1899)
By
Mrs. Olivia Bush
Providence, RI: Press of Louis A. Basinet, 1899.
This Little Booklet
IS DEDICATED WITH
PROFOUND REVERENCE AND RESPECT
TO THE PEOPLE OF MY RACE,
The Afro-Americans,
"Judge us not, O favored races,
From the heights we have attained;
Rather measure our progression
By the depths from whence we came."
Contents
Morning on Shinnecock
Treasured Moments
At Harvest Time
A Hero of San Juan [Hill]
Crispus Attucks
Honour's Appeal to Justice
The Walk to Emmaus
My Dream of the New Year
Drifting
Voices