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| 4261. | A Poem For Myself by Etheridge Knight | | (or Blues for a Mississippi Black Boy)
I was born in Mississippi;
I walked barefooted thru the mud.
Born black in Mississippi,
Walked barefooted... |
| 4263. | Dark Prophecy: I Sing Of Shine by Etheridge Knight | | And, yeah brothers
while white America sings about the unsinkable molly brown
(who was hustling the titanic
when it went down)
I sing to thee of S... |
| 4265. | Came the Great Popinjay by Dame Edith Sitwell | | CAME the great Popinjay
Smelling his nosegay:
In cages like grots
The birds sang gavottes.
'Herodiade's flea
Was named sweet Amanda,
She d... |
| 4266. | Riprap by Gary Snyder | | Lay down these words
Before your mind like rocks.
placed solid, by hands
In coice of place, set
Before the body of the mind
i... |
| 4267. | Love and Friendship by Emily Bronte | | Love is like the wild rose-briar,
Friendship like the holly-tree --
The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms
But which will bloom most contantl... |
| 4268. | Oh, For The Time When I Shall Sleep by Emily Bronte | | Oh, for the time when I shall sleep
Without identity,
And never care how rain may steep,
Or snow may cover me!
No promised heaven these wild desir... |
| 4269. | Hope by Emily Bronte | | Hope was but a timid friend;
She sat without the grated den,
Watching how my fate would tend,
Even as selfish-hearted men.
She was cruel in her... |
| 4270. | Sympathy by Emily Bronte | | There should be no despair for you
While nightly stars are burning,
While evening pours its silent dew
And sunshine gilds the morning.
There shoul... |
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