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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: fauset, jessie Matches Found: 14 Fauset, Jessie Redmond Poet's Biography 14 poems available by this author CHRISTMAS EVE IN FRANCE Poem Text First Line: Oh little christ, why do you sigh Last Line: "shall live for evermore." Subject(s): Christmas; France; Nativity, The COURAGE!' HE SAID First Line: Ulysses, debarking in the lotos land Last Line: Like beauty, is its own excuse for being Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968) DEAD FIRES Poem Text First Line: If this is peace, this dead and leaden thing Last Line: Than passion's death! ENIGMA Poem Text First Line: There is no peace with you Last Line: Nor ever any rest! FRAGMENT First Line: The breath of life imbued those few dim days Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women LA VIE C'EST LA VIE Poem Text First Line: On summer afternoons I sit Last Line: I wish that I were dead. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited NOBLESSE OBLIGE First Line: Lolotte, who attires my hair ORIFLAMME Poem Text First Line: I think I see her sitting bowed and black Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Mothers ORIFLAMME First Line: I think I see her sitting bowed and black Last Line: Clutching our birthright, fight with faces set %still visioning the stars! Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Mothers RENCONTRE First Line: My heart that was so passionless RETURN First Line: I that had found the way so smooth STARS IN ALABAMA First Line: In alabama %stars hand down so low Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women TOUCHE First Line: Dear, when we sit in that high, placid room Last Line: I knew a lad in my own girlhood's past - %blue eyes he had and such waving gold hair! Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women WORDS! WORDS! First Line: How did it happen that we quarreled? Subject(s): Quarrels |
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