The Life Of Lincoln West (Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks Poems)
Ugliest little boythat everyone ever saw.That is what everyone said.Even to his mother it was apparent-when the blue-aproned nurse came ...
Ugliest little boythat everyone ever saw.That is what everyone said.Even to his mother it was apparent-when the blue-aproned nurse came ...
What will we dowhen there is nobody leftto kill? *40,000 gallons of oil gushing intothe oceanBut Isit on top this mountainside ...
Helen, in her silent room,Weaves upon the upright loom;Weaves a mantle rich and dark,Purpled over, deep. But markHow she scatters ...
Have you ever heard of lynching in the great United States?'Tis an awful, awful story that the Negro man relates,How ...
Man, take your gun: and put to shameearthquake and plague, the acts of God.You maim the crazy and the lame.Terror ...
No one attacks it with a long lance,No one plies a strong cross-bow.Suckling its grandsons, rearing its cubs,It trains them ...
I watched the boys of England where they wentThrough mud and water to do appointed things.See one a stake, and ...
They set the slave free, striking off his chains…Then he was as much of a slave as ever.He was still ...
Pellam the King, who held and lost with LotIn that first war, and had his realm restoredBut rendered tributary, failed ...
When window-lamps had dwindled, then I roseand left the town behind me; and on my waypassing a certain door I ...
Madge Linsey at the well raised the deep waters, Brimmed her brass bucket full, went from her place. Loose hung ...
In Syria walked a man one day And led a camel on the way. A sudden wildness seized the beast, ...
I cry to you as I pass your windows in the dusk; Ye have built you unmysterious homes and ways ...
DEGRADE yourself to this with feverish drink,Sustained by baudy tales of urban wit;This gay environment is surely fit.Invidious females, decked ...
A monster like a mountain, leathern limbed,With eyes of sluggish ore and claws of stone, He heaved his thunder-throated body, ...
Warm perfumes like a breath from vine and tree Drift down the darkness. Plangent, hidden from eyes Somewhere an `eukaleli' ...
I The girl in the room beneath Before going to bed Strums on a mandolin The three simple tunes she ...
Pellam the King, who held and lost with Lot In that first war, and had his realm restored But rendered ...
A blue jay poses on a stake meant to support an apple tree newly planted. A strong wind on this ...
I. THEIR BASIC SAVAGERY Fat black bucks in a wine-barrel room, Barrel-house kings, with feet unstable, Sagged and reeled and ...
Chapter I. Once on a time, a Dawn, all red and bright Leapt on the conquered ramparts of the Night, ...
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