Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 253 views

    The Negro Mother Poem Y5

    Uploaded by

    api-276279829
    The poem is told from the perspective of the Negro Mother reflecting on her experience as a slave and her hopes for future generations. Over three centuries of slavery, she endured forced labor, family separation, and abuse but maintained her spirit through prayer and faith. She hopes that her struggles and sacrifices will inspire her children and their descendants to continue fighting for freedom and equality, breaking down barriers and lifting her banner of hope. The Negro Mother's dreams are for her children to stand united and remember the struggles of the past as they work to create a brighter future.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    The Negro Mother Poem Y5

    Uploaded by

    api-276279829
    253 views2 pages
    The poem is told from the perspective of the Negro Mother reflecting on her experience as a slave and her hopes for future generations. Over three centuries of slavery, she endured forced labor, family separation, and abuse but maintained her spirit through prayer and faith. She hopes that her struggles and sacrifices will inspire her children and their descendants to continue fighting for freedom and equality, breaking down barriers and lifting her banner of hope. The Negro Mother's dreams are for her children to stand united and remember the struggles of the past as they work to create a brighter future.

    Original Title

    the negro mother poem y5

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    The poem is told from the perspective of the Negro Mother reflecting on her experience as a slave and her hopes for future generations. Over three centuries of slavery, she endured forced labor, family separation, and abuse but maintained her spirit through prayer and faith. She hopes that her struggles and sacrifices will inspire her children and their descendants to continue fighting for freedom and equality, breaking down barriers and lifting her banner of hope. The Negro Mother's dreams are for her children to stand united and remember the struggles of the past as they work to create a brighter future.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    253 views2 pages

    The Negro Mother Poem Y5

    Uploaded by

    api-276279829
    The poem is told from the perspective of the Negro Mother reflecting on her experience as a slave and her hopes for future generations. Over three centuries of slavery, she endured forced labor, family separation, and abuse but maintained her spirit through prayer and faith. She hopes that her struggles and sacrifices will inspire her children and their descendants to continue fighting for freedom and equality, breaking down barriers and lifting her banner of hope. The Negro Mother's dreams are for her children to stand united and remember the struggles of the past as they work to create a brighter future.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    You are on page 1of 2

    The Negro Mother

    Children, I come back today


    To tell you a story of the long dark way
    That I had to climb, that I had to know
    In order that the race might live and grow.
    Look at my face - dark as the night Yet shining like the sun with love's true light.
    I am the dark girl who crossed the red sea
    Carrying in my body the seed of the free.
    I am the woman who worked in the field
    Bringing the cotton and the corn to yield.
    I am the one who labored as a slave,
    Beaten and mistreated for the work that I
    gave Children sold away from me, I'm husband
    sold, too.
    No safety, no love, no respect was I due.

    Three hundred years in the deepest South:


    But God put a song and a prayer in my mouth.
    God put a dream like steel in my soul.
    Now, through my children, I'm reaching the goal.
    Now, through my children, young and free,
    I realized the blessing deed to me.
    I couldn't read then. I couldn't write.
    I had nothing, back there in the night.
    Sometimes, the valley was filled with tears,
    But I kept trudging on through the lonely years.
    Sometimes, the road was hot with the sun,
    But I had to keep on till my work was done:
    I had to keep on! No stopping for me I was the seed of the coming Free.
    I nourished the dream that nothing could smother
    Deep in my breast - the Negro mother.
    I had only hope then, but now through you,
    Dark ones of today, my dreams must come true:
    All you dark children in the world out there,
    Remember my sweat, my pain, my despair.
    Remember my years, heavy with sorrow And make of those years a torch for tomorrow.

    Make of my pass a road to the light


    Out of the darkness, the ignorance, the night.
    Lift high my banner out of the dust.
    Stand like free men supporting my trust.
    Believe in the right, let none push you back.
    Remember the whip and the slaver's track.
    Remember how the strong in struggle and strife
    Still bar you the way, and deny you life But march ever forward, breaking down bars.
    Look ever upward at the sun and the stars.
    Oh, my dark children, may my dreams and my
    prayers
    Impel you forever up the great stairs For I will be with you till no white brother
    Dares keep down the children of the Negro Mother.
    Langston Hughes

    You might also like

    pFad - Phonifier reborn

    Pfad - The Proxy pFad of © 2024 Garber Painting. All rights reserved.

    Note: This service is not intended for secure transactions such as banking, social media, email, or purchasing. Use at your own risk. We assume no liability whatsoever for broken pages.


    Alternative Proxies:

    Alternative Proxy

    pFad Proxy

    pFad v3 Proxy

    pFad v4 Proxy