By investigating these details of structure your students will come to appreciate good poems as carefully crafted pieces of literary labor. What about the second and third stanzas? Exactly the same - that’s a very precise accomplishment.
What about the rhyme scheme? Look at how detailed, complex, and regular it is: I’d mark up the first stanza as AA BCCB DD EE. “Lift Every Voice” has three stanzas of ten lines each - that already looks quite carefully structured. When you introduce your students to a new poem, especially one in a traditional form, take your time, and be sure to show them the craftsmanship in the work. True to our God, true to our native land. Shadowed beneath Thy hand, may we forever stand, Lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee, Thou who hast brought us thus far on the way Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast. Out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, We have come over a way that with tears has been watered,
#LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING WORDS FULL#
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us.įacing the rising sun of our new day begun,įelt in the days when hope unborn had died Ĭome to the place for which our fathers sighed? Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, “Lift Every Voice” became so popular that within a few years it came to be known as “the Negro National Hymn” - and now today, as a great patriotic song for all Americans: Johnson’s brother, the composer John Rosamond Johnson (1873–1954), set the words to music. “Lift Every Voice” was written for a Lincoln’s Birthday celebration in the year 1900 at the then-segregated Stanton School in Jacksonville, Florida, where James Weldon Johnson was a teacher.
(The Martin Luther King federal holiday this year will be observed on Monday the 16th, the third Monday in January.) was born on this day in 1929, and in his honor our homeschool poem-of-the-week for the third week of January is “Lift Every Voice and Sing” by James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938). The American minister and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
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