 If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die...  The Voice of the Negro 1919 - Page 186by Robert Thomas Kerlin - 1920 - 188 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Weldon Johnson - African Americans - 1922 - 274 pages
...blue; And little lads, lynchers that were to be, Danced round the dreadful thing in fiendish glee. IF WE MUST DIE If we must die — let it not be like...Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we. must die — oh, let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters... | |
 | Frederick German Detweiler - Literary Criticism - 1922 - 296 pages
...strongly expressed. It is the Messenger that publishes Claude McKay's "If We Must Die" (September, 1919): If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and...Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die, oh, let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters we... | |
 | Chicago Commission on Race Relations - History - 1922 - 866 pages
...the Crusader and republished in the Messenger and several other periodicals, carries this same idea: IF WE MUST DIE If we must die, let it not be like...hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While around us bark the mad and hungry dogs Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die — oh,... | |
 | Louis Untermeyer - Literary Criticism - 1923 - 462 pages
...impulsive "To the White Fiends," and this significant outcry, written during an epidemic of race riots : IF WE MUST DIE If we must die — let it not be like...Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die — oh, let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters... | |
 | Willis Duke Weatherford - African Americans - 1924 - 498 pages
...shape of flame. I will come out, back to your world of tears, A stronger soul within a finer frame. IF WE MUST DIE • If we must die, let it not be like...Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die, O let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters we defy... | |
 | Louis Untermeyer - American poetry - 1925 - 666 pages
...race. His melodies are instinctive, the naked force of his invectives is as deep as it is certain. IF WE MUST DIE If we must die — let it not be like...Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die — oh, let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters... | |
 | Louis Untermeyer - American poetry - 1925 - 664 pages
...race. His melodies are instinctive, the naked force of his invectives is as deep as it is certain. IF WE MUST DIE If we must die — let it not be like...Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die — oh, let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters... | |
 | Jerome Dowd - African Americans - 1926 - 642 pages
...finer frame." The reaction of McKay to the race riot in Washington in 1919 was the following poem: IF WE MUST DIE If we must die, let it not be like...Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die, O let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters we defy... | |
 | Vivian Trow Thayer - American literature - 1923 - 808 pages
...is distinctly of this world. It is characteristically the poetry of rebellion and self-assertion. IK WE MUST DIE. If we must die, let it not be like hogs...hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot. I f we must die, oh, let us nobly die So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain: then even... | |
 | James A. Emanuel, Theodore L. Gross - History - 1968 - 632 pages
...shape of flame. I will come out, back to your world of tears, A stronger soul within a finer frame. If We Must Die If we must die, let it not be like...Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die, O let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters we defy... | |
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