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A MONA LISA by ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE

Poet Analysis

First Line: I SHOULD LIKE TO CREEP
Last Line: IN THEIR DEPTHS?
Subject(s): AFRICAN AMERICANS - WOMEN;

1.

I should like to creep
Through the long brown grasses
That are your lashes;
I should like to poise
On the very brink
Of the leaf-brown pools
That are your shadowed eyes;
I should like to cleave
Without sound,
Their glimmering waters,
Their unrippled waters,
I should like to sink down
And down
And down ....
And deeply drown.

2.

Would I be more than a bubble-breaking?
Or an ever-widening circle
Ceasing at the marge?
Would my white bones
Be the only white bones
Wavering back and forth, back and forth
In their depths?



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