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Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks

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The Blackstone Rangers

... s child from the rooming-flat, pants carefully, peers at  ...

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Of Robert Frost

... His brows ride neither too far up nor down ...

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Gay Chaps at the Bar

... This poem originally appeared in the November 1944 issue of Poetry ...

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of De Witt Williams on his way to Lincoln Cemetery

... Don’t forget the Dance Halls&mdash ...

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a song in the front yard

... And wear the brave stockings of night-black lace  ...

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when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story

... That is to say, went across the front room floor to the ink-spotted table in the southwest corner ...

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Jessie Mitchell’s Mother

...   “My mother is jelly-hearted and she has a brain of jelly:  ...

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A Penitent Considers Another Coming of Mary

... She would not shake her head and leave  ...

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kitchenette building

... an elaborate song for one voice with orchestral accompaniment, appearing most often in opera (&ldquo ...

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Young Afrikans

... knowing where deaths are, where the kind kills are ...

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The Children of the Poor

... 3 And shall I prime my children, pray, to pray ...

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The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith

... He would Not understand your counsels on control, nor  ...

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the vacant lot

... With his great white strong cold squares of teeth  ...