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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: dunbar-nelson, alice Matches Found: 7 Dunbar-nelson, Alice Ruth Moore Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Nelson, Alice Dunbar (moore) 7 poems available by this author APRIL IS ON THE WAY I SIT AND SEW Poem Text First Line: I sit and sew - a useless task it seems Last Line: It stifles me -- god, must I sit and sew? Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Americans; Sewing; United States; War; America MUSIC First Line: Music! Lilting, soft and languorous Last Line: Music! With you, soul on your parted lips! %music - is you! Subject(s): African Americans - Women PROLETARIAT SPEAKS First Line: I love beautiful things Last Line: And hurrying out, dab my unrefreshed face %with bits of toiletry from the ten cent store Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women SNOW IN OCTOBER First Line: Today I saw a thing of arresting poignant beauty Last Line: As prematuure grief grays the strong head %of a virile, red-haired man Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women SONNET Poem Text First Line: I had no thought of violets of late Last Line: Of violets, and my soul's forgotten gleam. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Flowers; Violets TO MADAME CURIE First Line: Oft have I thrilled at deeds of high emprise Last Line: At pain, diseases, waging a humane war; %greather than this achievement, none, I ween |
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