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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: grimke, angelina Matches Found: 34 Grimke, Angelina Weld Poet's Biography 34 poems available by this author A MONA LISA Poem Text First Line: I should like to creep Last Line: In their depths? Subject(s): African Americans - Women A WINTER TWILIGHT Poem Text First Line: A silence slipping around like death Last Line: One star that I loved ere the fields went brown. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Evening; Sunset; Twilight AT APRIL Poem Text First Line: Toss your gay heads Last Line: At our hearts? Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men AT THE SPRING DAWN First Line: I watched the dawn come Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women CAPRICHOSA First Line: Little lady coyly shy Last Line: Darting at me mocking glances, %cruel, dainty, little lady DAWN First Line: Grey trees, grey skies, and not a star Last Line: A hermit-thrush Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women DUSK Poem Text First Line: Twin stars through my purpling pane Last Line: And the dusk. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Dusk EL BESO First Line: Twilight - and you Last Line: And again, quiet -- the stars, %twilight -- and you Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women EPITAPH ON A LIVING WOMAN First Line: There were tiny flames in her eyes Last Line: Now she is ashes FOR THE CANDLE LIGHT Poem Text First Line: The sky was blue, so blue that day Subject(s): African Americans - Women FOR THE CANDLE LIGHT First Line: The sky was blue, so blue that day Last Line: I have in a book for the candle light %a daisy dead and dry Subject(s): African Americans - Women FRAGMENT Poem Text First Line: I am the woman with the black black skin Last Line: I am the laughing woman who's afraid to sleep. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Fear GARDEN SEAT First Line: I stood again within the garden old Last Line: I see with streaming tears that vainly fall, %the plain, white, stone that marks the spot she sleeps GRASS FINGERS Poem Text First Line: Touch me, touch me Last Line: With your tiny, timorous toes. Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Grass; Negroes; American Blacks GREENNESS Poem Text First Line: Tell me is there anything lovelier Last Line: Hushing the heart that beats and beats and beats? Subject(s): Grass; Leaves HUSHED BY THE HANDS OF SLEEP I WEEP Poem Text First Line: I weep / not as the young do noisily Last Line: I wept. Subject(s): Tears I WEEP Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women LITTLE GREY DREAMS Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women PARADOX Poem Text First Line: When face to face we stand Last Line: ....... ROSABEL (OF ROSALIE) Poem Text First Line: Leaves that whisper whisper ever Last Line: And for her, -- for her. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Gays & Lesbians; Women's Rights; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Feminism SURRENDER Poem Text First Line: We ask for peace. We, at the bound Last Line: We ask for peace. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TENEBRIS Poem Text First Line: There is a tree, by day Last Line: Or is it a shadow? Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Shadows THE BLACK FINGER Poem Text First Line: I have just seen a most beautiful thing Last Line: And why are you pointing upwards? Subject(s): African Americans; Fingers; Nature; Negroes; American Blacks THE EYES OF MY REGRET Poem Text First Line: Always at dusk, the same tearless experience Last Line: - the eyes of my regret. THE PUPPET PLAYER Poem Text First Line: Sometimes it seems as though some puppet player Last Line: Twitching the strings with slow sardonic grin. Subject(s): Puppets; Marionettes THE WAYS O' MEN Poem Text First Line: Tis queer, it is, the ways o' men Last Line: Does it matter about the turnin's? TO CLARISSA SCOTT DELANY First Line: She has not found herself a hard pillow Last Line: She is only unseen, unseen? Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women TO KEEP THE MEMORY OF CHARLOTTE FORTEN GRIMKE - 1915 First Line: Still are there wonders of the dark and day Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Women's Rights UNDER THE DAYS First Line: The days fall upon me Last Line: Who will ever find me %under the days? Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Women's Rights WANT OF YOU First Line: A hint of gold where the moon will be Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women WHEN THE GREEN LIES OVER THE EARTH Poem Text First Line: When the green lies over the earth, my dear Last Line: Yours is the face, my dear. WORDSWORTH Poem Text First Line: Poet of the serene and thoughtful lay! Last Line: And grateful hail fair luna's tender light. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) YOUR HANDS Poem Text First Line: I love your hands Last Line: ............. Even if you forgot. Subject(s): Hands |
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