George Moses Horton (1798-1884)
African-American poet

Poems by George Moses Horton

• A Billet Doux
• Clay’s Defeat
• Death of a Favorite Chamber Maid
• Death of an Old Carriage Horse
• Departing Summer
• Early Affection
• False Weight
• Farewell to Frances
• General Grant - the Hero of the War
• George Moses Horton, Myself
• Imploring to Be Resigned at Death
• Like Brothers We Meet
• Lincoln Is Dead
• Love
• Meditation on a Cold, Dark, and Rainy Night
• Memory
• On an Old Deluded Suitor
• On Death
• On Hearing of the Intention of a Gentleman to Purchase the Poet's Freedom
• On Liberty and Slavery
• On Summer
• On the Conversion of a Sister
• On the Death of an Infant
• On the Evening and Morning
• On the Silence of a Young Lady
• Pride in Heaven
• Recent Appearance of a Lady
• Regret for the Departure of Friends
• The Creditor to His Proud Debtor
• The Eye of Love
• The Fate of an Innocent Dog
• The Fearful Traveller in the Haunted Castle
• The Happy Bird’s Nest
• The Musical Chamber
• The Powers of Love
• The Slave's Complaint
• The Southern Refugee
• The Swan - Vain Pleasures
• The Traveller
• To a Departing Favorite
• To Catharine
• Weep

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