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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: spencer, anne Matches Found: 23 Spencer, Anne Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bannister, Anne Bethel Scales 23 poems available by this author 1975 First Line: Turn an earth clod Last Line: And the curly worm sentient now %will light the word that tells the poet what a poem is AT THE CARNIVAL Poem Text First Line: Gay little girl-of-the-diving-tank Last Line: I implore neptune to claim his child today! Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Carnivals; Negroes; American Blacks BEFORE THE FEAST OF SHUSHAN First Line: Garden of shushan %after eden, all terrace, pool, and flower recollect thee Last Line: Love is but desire and thy purpose fulfillment %I, thy king,so say Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women CREED First Line: If my garden oak spares one bare ledge Last Line: I may challenge god when we meet that day, %and he dare not be silent or send me away Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women DUNBAR Poem Text Recitation First Line: Ah, how poets sing and die! Last Line: Ah, how poets sing and die! Subject(s): Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906); Poetry & Poets FOR JIM, EASTER EVE Poem Text First Line: If ever a garden was gethsemane Last Line: Last comfort in gethsemane. GRAPES: STILL LIFE First Line: Snugly you rest, sweet globes Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women I HAVE A FRIEND INNOCENCE Poem Text First Line: She tripped and fell against a star Last Line: Twas a star-lance in her side! Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Innocence LADY APRIL Poem Text First Line: Lady april when you're dancing Last Line: To the spot where blue bells grow. Subject(s): April LADY, LADY Poem Text First Line: Lady, lady, I saw your face Last Line: Where the good god sits to spangle through. Subject(s): African Americans - Women LETTER TO MY SISTER Poem Text First Line: It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods Last Line: The gods their god-like fun. Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Negroes; American Blacks LIFE-LONG, POOR BROWNING NEVER KNEW VIRGINIA LINES TO A NASTURTIUM (A LOVER MUSES) Poem Text First Line: Flame-flower, day-torch, mauna loa Last Line: Beating, beating. Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Negroes; American Blacks NEIGHBORS First Line: Ah, you are cruel! Subject(s): Neighbors QUESTING First Line: Let me learn now where beauty is RIME FOR THE CHRISTMAS BABY (AT 48 WEBSTER PLACE, ORANGE) First Line: Dear bess, %he'll have rings and linen things Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women SEVINGES First Line: Down in natchitoches there is a statue in a public square Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women SUBSTITUTION First Line: Is life itself but many ways of thought Last Line: His all-mind bids us to keep this sacred place Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women TERENCE MACSWINEY Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women THE WIFE-WOMAN Poem Text First Line: Maker-of- sevens in the scheme of things Last Line: And you, glory-clad, reach down. TIME'S UNFADING GARDEN First Line: God never planted a garden' Last Line: Nor take the morning air Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Alphabet Verse WHITE THINGS Poem Text First Line: Most things are colorful things - the sky, earth, and sea Last Line: "man-maker, make white!" Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks |
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