Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO A DARK GIRL, by GWENDOLYN B. BENNETT



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First Line: I love you for your brownness
Last Line: And let your full lips laugh at fate!
Subject(s): African Americans - Women


I love you for your brownness
And the rounded darkness of your breast.
I love you for the breaking sadness in your voice
And shadows where your wayward eye-lids rest.

Something of old forgotten queens
Lurks in the lithe abandon of your walk,
And something of the shackled slave
Sobs in the rhythm of your talk.

Oh, little brown girl, born for sorrow's mate,
Keep all you have of queenliness,
Forgetting that you once were slave,
And let your full lips laugh at Fate!




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