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Born in 1903 / Died in 1946 / United States / English

Poems by Countee Cullen

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Thoughts In A Zoo

... Some, like the snake, with changeless slothful eye, ...

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Lines To My Father

... From One Who holds His servants worth their hire ...

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Uncle Jim

... His heart walled up with bitterness, ...

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Harlem Wine

... That hurtle flesh and bone past fear ...

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To the Swimmer

... and soul that will not be appeased until, like you, I breast yon deep and boundless expanse of blue ...

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Saturday’s Child

... ” Death cut the strings that gave me life, ...

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Karenge ya Marenge

... What  Invests one speech with haloed eminence,  ...

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To John Keats, Poet, At Spring Time

... Spring beats her tocsin call to those who love her, ...

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Youth Sings A Song Of Rosebuds

... For a mouth is the best of sweets to suck ...

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Song In Spite Of Myself

... Give but a grain of the heart's rich seed, ...

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She Of The Dancing Feet Sings

... And how would I thrive in a perfect place ...

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To A Brown Girl

... Youth is the time for careless weather ...

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To A Brown Boy

... And when your body's death gives birth ...

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In Memory Of Col. Charles Young

... From your rich dust and slaughtered will ...

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Tableau

... From lowered blinds the dark folk stare ...