Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) American author
Representative American Negroes, an essay from The Negro Problem, a collection of essays written in 1903 by leading African Americans.
"Black Flag" in Collected Poems (1983)
Context: For out of black
soul's night have stirred
dawn's cold gleam,
morning's singing bird. Let black day die,
let black flag fall,
let raven call,
let new day dawn
of black reborn.
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) American author
Representative American Negroes, an essay from The Negro Problem, a collection of essays written in 1903 by leading African Americans.
Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600–1681) Spanish dramatist
Éstas que fueron pompa y alegría<br>despertando al albor de la mañana,<br>a la tarde serán lástima vana<br>durmiendo en brazos de la noche fría. <br class="br"> A las flores ("Éstas, que fueron pompa y alegría") http://es.wikisource.org/wiki/A_las_flores_%28Calder%C3%B3n_de_la_Barca%29.
James Thomson (B.V.) (1834–1882) Scottish writer (1834-1882)
Part I
The City of Dreadful Night (1870–74)
“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath
Terry Tempest Williams (1955) American writer
Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice