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Frances Ellen Watkins

(1825 - 1911 / United States)

45 poems of Frances Ellen Watkins
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1	A Double Standard
2	A Grain Of Sand
3	A Little Child Shall Lead Them
4	A Story of the Rebellion
5	A Story Of The Rebellion
6	An Appeal to My Countywomen
7	Aunt Chloe
8	Aunt Chloe's Politics
9	Burial of Sarah
10	Bury Me in a Free Land
11	Church Building
12	Come To Me When I'm Dying
13	Dandelions
14	Dark-Browed Martha
15	Death of the Old Sea King
16	Dedication Poem
17	Do Not Cheer, Men Are Dying, Said Capt. Phillips
18	Ellen
19	Ethiopia
20	Fishers of Men

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Bury Me in a Free Land

Make me a grave where'er you will,
In a lowly plain, or a lofty hill;
Make it among earth's humblest graves,
But not in a land where men are slaves.

I could not rest if around my grave
I heard the steps of a trembling slave;
His shadow above my silent tomb
Would make it a place of fearful gloom.

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