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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: newsome, effie Matches Found: 41 Newsome, Mary Effie Lee Alternate Author Name(s): Newsome, Effie Lee 41 poems available by this author BACK First Line: When I come back from summer camp Last Line: My tallness when I went away BAKER'S BOY First Line: The baker's boy delivers loaves Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women BEFORE THE WHITE ROUND MOON Last Line: That couldn't quite jump through BIRD IN THE CAGE First Line: I am not better than my brother over the way Subject(s): African Americans - Women BOB WHITE ALL RIGHT First Line: It seems to me the quiet quail BRONZE LEGACY (TO A BROWN BOY) First Line: Tis a noble gift to be brown, all brown Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women CHANGE First Line: There's been the strangest kind of change Last Line: Have turned to bright red riding hoods EXODUS First Line: Rank fennel and broom Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women FIREFLY LIGHTS, SELS First Line: At dull blue dusk Last Line: Bright fireflies flash their silver green FLAKES AND DROPS First Line: The snow comes down in little flakes Last Line: And goes to moisten crops GEESE First Line: I saw some geese go strutting by Last Line: And each had boots of orange on GOLDEN GARDEN SPIDER Last Line: Somehow, sometimes-I wish it would IN ALL OTHER STUDIES THEY'D BALK First Line: Proff' pea-green, the parrot Last Line: In all other studies they'd balk MAGI CALL HIM KING; A CHRISTMAS SONG First Line: O shepherds, while you watch your flocks Last Line: Though he be called 'good shepherd' too, %the magi call him king Subject(s): Christmas MATTINATA First Line: When I think of the hosts little ones Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women MEMORY First Line: I have seen the robins Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women MORNING LIGHT (THE DEW-DRIER) Poem Text First Line: Brother to the firefly Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Negroes; American Blacks MORNING LIGHT (THE DEW-DRIER) First Line: Brother to the firefly Last Line: Shall shape the earth for that fresh dawning %after the dews of blood? Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women OLD COMMODORE QUIVER First Line: Old commodore quiver %went down to the river Last Line: No, he hadn't one notion at all PANSY First Line: Oh, the blue blue bloom Subject(s): Pansies PEPPERMINT CANDY MARCH Last Line: The hungry mice would all come out Subject(s): Christmas PIGEONS First Line: The pigeons find so much to eat Last Line: That they must nibble as they go! PIGEONS AND PEOPLE First Line: The pigeons' feet are grayish red Last Line: The people swing their arms instead QUILT First Line: I have the greatest fun at night Subject(s): Quilts QUOITS First Line: In wintertime I have such fun Last Line: He beats them, easily SASSAFRAS TEA First Line: The sass'fras tea is red and clear Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women SKY PICTURES First Line: Sometimes a right white mountain Subject(s): Sky SNOW First Line: The snow's a courteous visitor Last Line: It never snores or makes a sound SNOW PRINTS First Line: Along the paths my overshoes Last Line: To ever make them really stay STRANGE First Line: It makes no difference when I wake Last Line: Has always been a mystery THROUGH THE HOLLY WREATH First Line: I peeped once through a holly wreath Last Line: His lips were smiling, I could see, %in holly berry reds Subject(s): Christmas TULIP UMBRELLAS First Line: Tulip umbrellas, gold and red Last Line: It's different with a flower TURTLE WITH A TINY HEAD Last Line: And folding legs and hiding head! TWO FIREFLY SONGS, SELS First Line: The firefly %goes flashing by Last Line: A jewel in the dark VIOLETS First Line: The sunflowers wear great gold farm hats Last Line: On highways or in woods WALK First Line: A ladybird went for a walk Last Line: Until her feet were worn WILD ROSES First Line: What! Roses growing in a meadow Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women WINTER MORNING First Line: Who wrapped the moon Last Line: When all the pale south sky looked cold WINTER SHADOWS First Line: Night shadows of the trees streak snow Last Line: The old ones that have cracks WRITING First Line: Bare boughs look like black pencil marks Last Line: And loops and curves and curlicues YOUNG BIRDS' MOUTHS First Line: A nestful of birds' mouths Last Line: And so did my eyes |
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