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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: NEGRITUDE (LITERARY MOVEMENT) Matches Found: 534 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ... MY ISLAND IS A GHETTO, by EDOUARD J. MAUNICK Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Here I am at the gate %from a past to the present %%head filled with farewells Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) A FREEDOM IN PASSAGE, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The jolly roger flapping in the ever barbary wind Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ABSENT WOMAN (1), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Young girls with your fresh voices, sing no more of your Last Line: Were never worth engraving in stone. %I say only this: I am the troubador Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ABSENT WOMAN (2), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Young girls with your long reedy throats, sing of the absent Last Line: Every beautiful thing in its splendor %my glory is to sing of the absent woman's beauty Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ABSENT WOMAN (3), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was a freezing winter night outside Last Line: But oh! How the absent woman's absence still weighs on %my heart Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ABSENT WOMAN (4), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Young girls with protruding breasts, sing of the sap Last Line: The green-gold colors of the absent woman, the sap %rising to the nape of the neck as it erupts Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ABSENT WOMAN (5), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Her coming was foretold for the time when palavers turned Last Line: Her fine smiling presence wrapped in green and in mist %and wearing a five-pointed star Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ABSENT WOMAN (6), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The smiling woman received greetings and praise from the Last Line: I become the serpent-dove benumbed with the delight of her %bite Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ABSENT WOMAN (7), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let nothing distract the pearly white eyes Last Line: But the poem is heavy with milk, and the poet's heart %burnsa dustless fire Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ABYSS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He pondered the logic of the swamp's teeth Last Line: An isolate of sea slugs coiffed with venom helmets %thus %all nostalgia %rolls %into the abyss Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) AFRICA ARISE!, SELS., by BERNARD DADIE Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) AFRICA, MY AFRICA, FR. POUNDING, by DAVID DIOP Poem Source Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) AFRICAN DANCER, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: Your beauty is deep and comforting Last Line: Like the sand in your quicksand beds Subject(s): Beauty; Love - Nature Of; Negritude (literary Movement) AFRICAN IMAGE IS NOT AN IMAGE BY EQUATION ..., by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Supposes and manifests the hierarchized universe of life-forces Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) AGAOU, by RENE DEPESTRE Poem Source First Line: I am agaou native of guniea Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) AGASSOU, by RENE DEPESTRE Poem Source First Line: I am agassou Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) AGOUE-TAROYO, by RENE DEPESTRE Poem Source First Line: I am agoue-taroyo Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ALGAE, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The resurgence takes place here Last Line: Takes place / laminarium alga Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ALGAE, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The resurgence takes place here Last Line: Even more than through afflux %the resurgence %takes place %laminarian alga Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ALL DAY LONG ..., by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All day long on the long and narrow rails Last Line: Here I am trying to forget europe in the heartland of the %sine Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ALL DAY LONG ALONG THE LONG STRAIGHT RAILS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I come seeking to forget about europe in the pastoral heart of sine Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) AND THE SUN, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And the sun like a ball of the fire slopes to the bright red sea Last Line: In my joy and pain. When I think and do not think, %my dear,I'm always thinking of you! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) AND THE SUN, A BALL OF FIRE, DOWN SLOPING ... DARK RED SEA, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: My dear I think of you Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ANIMALS WITHIN, SELS, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: That horse is inside me, that old Last Line: Away in a rainy outback of soul Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ANNONCIADES, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The good news will have been brought to me through the Last Line: An irreducible memory Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ANNONCIADES, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The good news will have been brought to me through the Last Line: And at the crest of the world %captivates %an irreducible memory Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) AS FAR AS YORUBA LAND, SELS., by EDOUARD J. MAUNICK Poet's Biography Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) AS I WAS WALKING BY, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As I was walking by fontaine street Last Line: And the aroma, richer in promise, %of ripe harvests from the rice fields Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ASSASSINATIONS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There they lie stretched out by the captive roads along the Last Line: O black martyrs, immortal race, let me say the words %that forgive Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) AT THE END OF MY TELESCOPE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At the end of my telescope, fisherrmen and the net Last Line: In the transparent beauty of our musky hearts, %our bodies of amber and bronze Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Telescopes And Binoculars ATTIBON LEGBA, by RENE DEPESTRE Poem Source First Line: I am attibon legba Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) AZAKA-MEDE, by RENE DEPESTRE Poem Source First Line: I am azaka-mede Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BAD BLOOD, by TCHICAYA U TAM'SI Poem Source First Line: Tomorrow we'll be good Last Line: Let us pour our ciboriums %and our one night flower Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BALLAD OF A LITTLE LAMP, by RENE DEPESTRE Poem Source First Line: There is no salvation for mankind Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BANAL, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only the laboror's sledge of torpor or maneuver Last Line: And always this misdeal to negotiate step by step %stuck as I am with inventing each water hole Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BARON SAMEDI, by RENE DEPESTRE Poem Source First Line: I am the great baron samedi Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BARON-LA-CROIX, by RENE DEPESTRE Poem Source First Line: I am baron-la-croix Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BE NOT AMAZED, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Be not amazed beloved, if sometimes my song grows dark Last Line: And you will weep in the twilight for the glowing voice that song %your black beauty Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BEFORE NIGHT COMES, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Before night comes I think of you and for you before I fall Last Line: Goldn skin, melodious bearing, and those huge eyes %like fortresses against death Subject(s): Memory; Negritude (literary Movement) BEHEADED SUN, SELS., by AIME CESAIRE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BEIRUT, LEBANON, by EDOUARD J. MAUNICK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: ... In beirut cracks Last Line: Suddenly is nothing but smoke %%in beirut gaping wide %%the birds are hiding %%the sea is forgotten Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BETRAYAL, by LEON LALEAU Poem Source First Line: This haunted heart that doesn't fit Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BEYOND, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the bottom of the furious piling up of appalling dreams Last Line: The hand of a woman assassinating the day Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BEYOND EROS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I shall recite them, these hands shielding my heart's gaze Last Line: To lay it at your feet, %with the great riches of the spirit and of new lands Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BEYOND EROS (DEPARTURE), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I search the depths of your troubled eyes Last Line: We parted without goodbye, parted one day without color, %without sound Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BEYOND EROS (IT IS TIME FOR ME TO GO), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is time for me to go. Let me sink no further Last Line: And we recaptured the primal rhythm, %then you left. It is time for me to go! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BEYOND EROS (SHADOW SONG), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The white eagle of the seas, the eagle of time Last Line: I sing to you this shadow song in a new voice, %the ancient voice of all the world's youth Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BEYOND EROS (VACATION), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This long absence from my heart Last Line: Athlete %who thinks himself a god Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BEYOND EROS (VISIT), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I dream in the narrow penumbra of afternoon Last Line: Who have scores to settle with the departed. %now my own dead women appear Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BLACK DANCE, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: Black wood and bamboo. %bamboo and black wood Last Line: The she-muckamuck sings: toe-co-toe Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BLACK HOST, SELS., by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poet's Biography Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BLACK ISLAND, by CHARLES PRESSOIR Poem Source First Line: Women of my country, black and barefoot girls Last Line: What is this island but a part %severed from the continentalhomeland? Subject(s): Haiti; Negritude (literary Movement) BLACK MAJESTY, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: Down the dance-hot caribbean street Last Line: Shakes tembandumba of the quimbamba Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BLACK MAN'S SON, by OSWALD DURAND Poem Source First Line: At twenty, I loved lise. She was frail and white Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BLACK MASK, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She sleeps and reclines on the whitest of sand Last Line: To sir my flesh. %o beauty, I adore you with my one-stringedeye Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BLACK ORE, by RENE DEPESTRE Poem Source First Line: When indian sweat was suddenly soaked dry by the sun Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BLACK SMOKE, by EDOUARD GLISSANT Poem Source First Line: Mad, mad are her eyes without bread Last Line: Like an enamel engraved street %in the vertiginous cataract of the totems Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BLACK TOWN, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: Tonight I keep seeing far-off %a vision of a black town Last Line: Whose natural curve secretes %the prolific harmony of sex Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BLACK WOMAN, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Naked woman, black woman Last Line: Before jealous fate reduces you to ashes to nourish the roots %of life Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BLUES, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The spring has swept the ice from all my frozen rivers Last Line: Just play me your 'solitude,' duke, till I cry myself to sleep Subject(s): Ellington, Edward Kennedy ("duke"); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Negritude (literary Movement) BLUES, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am surrounded by fog Last Line: And let yourself descend to the bottom. %yes, drop anchor! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BOMBO, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: The bomba says: 'timbuktu!' Last Line: Bombo of the congo is now pleased Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BOOK OF MEMORIES, SELS., by RENE MARAN Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BRUSH FIRE, by TCHICAYA U TAM'SI Poem Source First Line: The fire the river that is to say Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BRUSH FIRE, by TCHICAYA U TAM'SI Poem Source First Line: The fire the river that's to say Last Line: The taste of bronze drunk hot Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BUCCANEER WINDS, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: Give the buccaneer boucan meat, %his long, black-powder musket Last Line: And his scalding, peppered rum punch Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BUCOLIC, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then very gently the earth grows a mane Last Line: Cities into the sea. Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BUCOLIC, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then very gently the earth grows a mane Last Line: Bamboo pushes a tall herd of shivering temples and cities into the sea Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) CALL, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: They're calling me from out there Last Line: Grant me, your inexorable power, %one hour, one more minute of her! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) CAMEROON! CAMEROON!, SELS., by ELOLONGUE EPANYA YONDO Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) CAMP 1940 (1), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Guelowar! %we have listened to you, we have heard you Last Line: In the equality of fraternal people. %and we answer, 'present, o guelowar!' Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) CAMP 1940 (2), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A sudden evening storm has pillaged the garden of fiances Last Line: The women have left for the breeze-swept islands %and the rivers of the south Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) CANDOMBE, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: Black men dance, dance, dance %round the roaring flames Last Line: Turn-cutum, tum-cutum, %round the roaring flames Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) CANNIBAL, by LEON LALEAU Poem Source First Line: This savage wish on certain days Subject(s): Cannibals; Negritude (literary Movement) CAPTAIN ZOMBI, by RENE DEPESTRE Poem Source First Line: I am captain zombi Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) CAROUSELS OF THE SEA, SELS., by EDOUARD J. MAUNICK Poet's Biography Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) CLAIRE DE LUNE, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: In the moonlight, in this night Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) COMMUNION: 2, by TCHICAYA U TAM'SI Poem Source First Line: When man becomes more faithful to man Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) COMRADE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Right down to your heart, down to your sensitive %entrails Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) CONGO, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oho! Congo oho! To sound your mighty name upon the Last Line: But the pirogue is reborn in the water lilies of spume %the gentle bamboos floating in the world's c Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) CONSPIRACY, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For them the stones were without marrow a snail-prison Last Line: All the solar heaters rolled and weaver birds Subject(s): Conspiracy; Negritude (literary Movement) CONSPIRACY, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For them the stones were without marrow a snail-prison Last Line: It will not be the first time that a jet of living water %topples the head of the beast Subject(s): Conspiracy; Negritude (literary Movement) CONVERSATION WITH MONICA WILSON, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You sayer %what is there to say Last Line: Let the grotesque sylph of this selva %stake out settlements in the upper network of death Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) CORRESPONDENCE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is the hour of a friendly vigil night Last Line: Will I ever again see the bleeding city %where rises the endless lament of minarets? Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) COUNTRY GRAVEYARD, by CHARLES PRESSOIR Poem Source First Line: In the high, high grass of guinea Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) COUSIN ZAKA, by RENE DEPESTRE Poem Source First Line: I am cousin zaka Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) CRACKS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rthe dark spelling establishes his law Last Line: Crevasse I have tried Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) CRADLED ON THE BEACH, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cradled on the beach by sand and the wondrous sea and Last Line: Fur. %like a plainsong, no, like a malinke lullaby Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) CREVASSES, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saturnine spelling establishes its law: uras usury! Bar- Last Line: I who used to dream of writing dazzling with rage! %crevassei will have attempted Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) DAMBALLAH-WEDO, by RENE DEPESTRE Poem Source First Line: Here I am damballah-wedo Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) DANCE TO THE AMULETS, by TCHICAYA U TAM'SI Poem Source First Line: Come over here Last Line: My mother promised me to light Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) DARKNESS AND THE WIND, SELS., by FLAVIEN RANAIVO Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) DAY, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To amuse myself Last Line: That hangs, facetiously, like a flag end, %from that muzzle of an oblivious volcano Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) DEAR HUSBAND, by YAMBA OULOGUEM Poem Source First Line: Once you name was bimbircokak Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) DEATH OF THE PRINCESS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Voice of the tom-tom, gandun tom-tom, gambia tom-tom Last Line: But light slowly extends upon my evening eyes. %rest, belborg, oh rest in your splendid dress Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) DEBRIS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thoughts debris of shelters Last Line: With a little bit of dubious resentment Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Ancestors & Ancestry DEBRIS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thoughts debris of shelters Last Line: Which from time to time breaks the torpor of the compitalia %with a little bit of dubious resentment Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) DEPARTURE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've gone away %by the paths bordered with dew Last Line: With no plans to return. %sell off all my jewelry Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) DESTROYER OF DRUMS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sinister man, %beak of steel Last Line: Destroyer of drums, %killer of life Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Troy DIFFERENT HORIZON, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night forked stigmata Last Line: The purple muscle of the monkshodd of our sun prepares to spring Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) DISCOURSE ON IMPERIALISM, SELS., by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How did you come to develop the concept of negritude? Last Line: But it is not the only thing Subject(s): Imperialism; Negritude (literary Movement) DJERBAN WOMENHOMPSON, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Inspire me, tanit the tender woman, tanit the tunisian Last Line: And the rolling rhythms of their graceful quivering flight. %and hosannas rise into the blue, starry Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) DON'T BE TAKEN IN, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That sap does not stray onto the wrong trails Last Line: Of a man's day Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) DON'T BE TAKEN IN, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That sap does not stray onto the wrong trails Last Line: The strength of my sun worries about the capacity %of a man's day Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) EARTH AND SKY, by JOSEPH MIEZAN BOGNINI Poem Source First Line: Earth and sky are infinites Last Line: But to love you always Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) EARTH, SELS., by EDOUARD GLISSANT Poem Source First Line: The poet's desire is not to abstract himself from his being Last Line: I see only this trace of our feet Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Poetry And Poets EBONY WOOD, SELS., by JACQUES ROUMAIN Poem Source First Line: Negro peddler of revolt Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) EBONY WOOD, SELS., by JACQUES ROUMAIN Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGIES (ELEGY FOR AYNINA FALL 1), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What formidable calm beneath the sky! And not a single Last Line: Peoples. %aynina fall is dead. Aynina fall lives again among us Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGIES (ELEGY FOR AYNINA FALL 2), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nina! Nina! Nina! Wai niina! Last Line: Nina! Nina! Nina! Wai niina! %fall! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGIES (ELEGY OF SAUDADES), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I listen from my heart to the shadowy song of saudades Last Line: I listen from the deepest part of me to the shadowy moan of %saudades Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGIES (ELEGY OF THE CIRCUMCISED), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Childhood night, blue night, gold night, o moon! Last Line: It soars like the phoenix! It sings with wings spread %over the slaughter of words Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGIES (ELEGY OF THE WATERS), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You, summer, and again summer, summer childhood Last Line: On thatch roofs and on wooly heads. %and life is reborn in all its colors Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR GEORGES POMPIDOU (1), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And I said no! I will not celebrate caesar Last Line: Of the tatchai brigade. Then the spring wind blew %terribly and made all the red flags flap and flut Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR GEORGES POMPIDOU (2), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Friend, if I sing of you beyond racial hatret and walls of Last Line: I pretended not to know, and we played our loser-takes-all %friendship Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR GEORGES POMPIDOU (3), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Georges, friend, you whose face already wore the white Last Line: You departed calmly, toward your blue joy, toward the door %of paradise Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR GEORGES POMPIDOU (4), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now that you are gone - you had promised me, we Last Line: Two pure metals melted down and mixed together? %it's been said that they will be forgiven much Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR GEORGES POMPIDOU (5), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Just as those who loved their land, their people and all Last Line: And I offered many times my sadness and my dead %to your rebel people, your painful and generous peo Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR GEORGES POMPIDOU (6), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I chose a weekday, an afternoon when the light Last Line: But it is so sad to die on a spring day when the light %is white-gold and your legs come alive in da Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR GEORGES POMPIDOU (7), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the ramil night, I think of you, my beloved brother Last Line: Listen as the blue-black chant ascends in the dravidian %night Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR JEAN-MARIE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For twelve and one moons we all have cried for him Last Line: Strike this chief who is greying and dry like a stack of hay. %I want your will and that your will b Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR MARTIN LUTHER KING: 1, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who said I was stable in my mastery, black under scarlet Last Line: And you speak of happiness when I am mourning martin %lutherking! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR MARTIN LUTHER KING: 2, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This night, this clear insomnia, I remember yesterday and Last Line: And senegal harder than africa in nineteen hundred and %sixty-eight! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR MARTIN LUTHER KING: 3, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is the third year, the third wound, as it was in our mother Last Line: Lord let the voice of martin luther king %fall on nigeria and on nigritia Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR MARTIN LUTHER KING: 4, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was the fourth of april, nineteen hundred and sixty-eight Last Line: Bones %exult in the resurrection! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR MARTIN LUTHER KING: 5, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As the reverend's heart evaporated like incense and his soul Last Line: In his living hand, I sing of transparent america where light %is a polyphony of colors, I sing of a Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR PHILIPPE-MAGUILEN SENGHOR (1), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The days marched by in gloomy boubous, and night-days Last Line: Singing, steal away to jesus? %when the telephone rings like a gunshot to the heart Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR PHILIPPE-MAGUILEN SENGHOR (2), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was the seventh of june, at pentecost Last Line: Five norman women did everything they could %to make him a happy child Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR PHILIPPE-MAGUILEN SENGHOR (3), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And I said 'no!' to the doctor. My son isn't dead. He Last Line: Our child %rise in the dawning sun, in the transfiguration of his beauty! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR PHILIPPE-MAGUILEN SENGHOR (4), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He was bathed for the celestial wedding, scented with fresh Last Line: Oh prince of kindness, we will always be thirsty for your %smile Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR PHILIPPE-MAGUILEN SENGHOR (5), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You who have loved so much will be forgiven much Last Line: The neck and you will let loose the faint cry of pain and joy, %the same cry of paradise, which is h Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR PHILIPPE-MAGUILEN SENGHOR (6), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O may september return and its tenderness you loved so Last Line: When I hear rising toward heaven: steal away, steal away, %steal away to jesus! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR THE QUEEN OF SHEBA: 1, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, she kissed me, banakh! With a kiss from her mouth Last Line: And in the east, a diamond dawn rises from a new era, %for you are black and you are comely Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR THE QUEEN OF SHEBA: 2, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O memory, memory burning in the dark blue night Last Line: O my sage, o my poet, %making your fingers dance on the strings of your kora Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR THE QUEEN OF SHEBA: 3, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The promised day, the festive dawn exuding the fresh-smelling Last Line: Beating the land in the time when - your lips barely %opened-- %our arms swim in the torrent like vi Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR THE QUEEN OF SHEBA: 4, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The boubou falls. At the dry beat of the music Last Line: In your open angle and melodious thighs the song %of golden pollen in the joy of our death-rebirth Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY FOR THE QUEEN OF SHEBA: 5, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Still we waited nine nights and nine days to enter Last Line: Yes! She has kissed me a kiss from her mouth, %my black and comely one among the daughters of %jerus Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY OF CARTHAGE (1), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is still you, my love, who comes to visit, inhabit, and Last Line: Thunderbolt %in the heart and the twin palms go up in flames Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY OF CARTHAGE (2), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is here in this africa that courage and audacity met long Last Line: Yet this evening, I cry over you. You, dido, my great %desolation Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY OF CARTHAGE (3), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And over you, hannibal, who inherited her resentment and Last Line: In gold letters on marble. I beat the rhythm of your passion%with the eyes of a lynx Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY OF CARTHAGE (4), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Jugurtha, jugurtha, my hero, mine at last, and my numidian Last Line: On one seamless land. And like a satisfied child %you sleep in the arms of death Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY OF CARTHAGE (5), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In your moorish palace in carthage, I invoked you, supreme Last Line: Of your two clasped hands, I greet your greeting of peace, %you, the last fighter Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY OF MIDNIGHT, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poet's Biography First Line: Summer, splendid summer feedng the poet on the milk of your Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Surrealism ELEGY OF MIDNIGHT, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Summer, splendid summer feedng the poet on the milk of your Last Line: My green and gold-eyed doll with a voice so marvellous, %it is the very tongue of poetry Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Surrealism ELEGY OF THE DUKE OF MARMALADE, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: O my fine, my honeycoloured duke of marmalade Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY OF THE TRADE WINDS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This july five years of silence have passed since we heard Last Line: Of the trade winds, my spirit open like a sail %and as mobile as a palm Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ELEGY ON THE DUKE OF MARMALADE, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: Oh my fine, my honey-colored duke of marmalade! Last Line: Oh my fine, my honey-colored duke of marmalade? Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ENLISTED MAN'S DESPAIR, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For two weeks he has been there, turning around Last Line: The brutal fall, sweet dizziness! %o weak, too weak child, such a loyal traitor to your genius! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ENTRANCE TO TIME IN THREE VOICES, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: ...From the background of a dream, the fleeing Last Line: Faithful, fleeting, abolished fili-mele Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) EPACTS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With a limp gesture the hill sprinkled with dust over Last Line: I've always rejected the pact of this lagoonal calendar Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Colonialism EPACTS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With a limp gesture the hill sprinkled with dust over Last Line: Let it be clear to all that calculating the epacts %I've always rejected the pact of this lagoonal c Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) EPITAPH, by TCHICAYA U TAM'SI Poem Source First Line: We are this union Last Line: We have still to ford Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ESANZO: SONGS FOR MY COUNTRY, SELS., by ANTOINE-ROGER BOLAMBA Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ETHIOPIA AT THE CALL OF THE RACE OF SHEBA (1), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bless you, mother! %I hear your voice as I surrender to the Last Line: The wells and mirages on the tann salt flats %and your chin trembled under swollen, twisted lips Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ETHIOPIA AT THE CALL OF THE RACE OF SHEBA (2), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bless you, mother! %I remember the days of my fathers, the Last Line: While from the distance, surging hot and smelly, %comes the classic lowing of a hundred herds Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ETHIOPIA AT THE CALL OF THE RACE OF SHEBA (3), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bless you, mother! %I do not blow upon these pious images Last Line: Salty blood of the fatted bull in the prime of life %may spurt upon me and my carnal lips Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ETHIOPIA AT THE CALL OF THE RACE OF SHEBA (4), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bless you, mother! %haven't these colonial days bled our dawn Last Line: At a young man's funeral, %rises from the mines out there, in the far south Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ETHIOPIA AT THE CALL OF THE RACE OF SHEBA (5), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bless you, mother! %I have seen - in the light sleep of what Last Line: Their pink and white villas far from town, %far from the misery in the native quarters Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ETHIOPIA AT THE CALL OF THE RACE OF SHEBA (6), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bless you, mother! %recognize your son among his friends as Last Line: The jew driven out of germany, and dupont and dupuis %and all the guys from saint-denis Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ETHIOPIA AT THE CALL OF THE RACE OF SHEBA (7), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bless you, mother! %recognize your son from his authentic Last Line: And, in the red evening of your old age, greet %the clear dawn of a new day Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ETHIOPICS, SELS., by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poet's Biography Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) FESTIVE SONG TO BE WEPT, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: Cuba-nanigos and good times Last Line: Puerto rico-a hodgepodge Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) FIDELITY, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No, I did not crack my golden vase Last Line: And in my drunkenness, I offer my sacrifice %after ablutions in the clear fountain Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) FIRST SONG OF DEPARTURE, SELS., by MARTIAL SINDA Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) FISTFUL OF NEWS, by ANTOINE-ROGER BOLAMBA Poem Source First Line: The hills hunch their backs Last Line: Can do anything against it Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) FLINT WARRIOR THROUGH ALL WORDS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Disorder organizes itself into an appraiser of hills Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) FLINT WARRIOR THROUGH ALL WORDS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Disorder organizes itself into an appraiser of hills Last Line: Flint warrior %vomited %through the mangrove swamp serpent's snout Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) FOG, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The fog frightens me! Last Line: While the weak moan of my dying dreams %answers their voices Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) FOR A WOUNDED BLACK FIGHTER, F. F. I., by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So black the f. F. I. In the blue sky! So heavy Last Line: Sleep, for you have given the richness of your heart - %now may peace cradle your sleep! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) FOR HAITI, by RENE DEPESTRE Poem Source First Line: Haiti %for hundreds of years Last Line: On my unending thirst %on my unending pain Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) FORGETFULNESS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've forgotten the routine of schoolwork Last Line: All my pagan desires %far from the rancor of yestrday's books Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) FOUR SONGS FOR SIGNARE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Long, long between your hands you held the warrior's black face Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) FRAGIL, SELS., by TCHICAYA U TAM'SI Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) FRANCIE-THE-POSSESSED, by OSWALD DURAND Poem Source First Line: See her there, francie-the-mad Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) FREEDOM IN PASSAGE, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The jolly roger flapping in the ever barbary wind Last Line: To correct the erinyes' blunders and the stiff wine of moray%eels Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) FRENCH GARDEN, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Calm garden %grave garden Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) FULANI BEAUTY, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, who will give back to me Last Line: Her inviting figure %and the fine opulence of her hips? Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) GAMECOCK, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: A foil-thrust of light, %yellow light, red light Last Line: Plumed rum to quench %the sweltering island defiant! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) GARDEN OF FRANCE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Calm garden, %serious garden Last Line: Throbbing %passionately? Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) GENESIS FOR WIFREDO, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No more alburnam %only a dawn of pure bones Last Line: As for blood there's only a sinuous thread %in the median of a parturient verb Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) GLEAMS AND GLIMMERS, SELS., by BIRAGO DIOP Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) GOLDEN BULLETS, SELS., by GUY TIROLIEN Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) GOLDEN MORNINGS IN POPENGUINE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I will take you back to the tabor islands you know: %I will be the flute of my shepherdess Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) GOVERNOR EBOUE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The white eagle shrieked over the sea and over the islands Last Line: Africa, become white steel, africa, become black host %so the hope of man can live Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) GUEDE-NIBO, by RENE DEPESTRE Poem Source First Line: I am guede-nibo Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) GUINEA, by JACQUES ROUMAIN Poem Source First Line: It's the long road to guinea Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) HANDS, by BERNARD DADIE Poem Source First Line: Free hands %living hands Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) HARLEM RIOT, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And I awakened one morning Last Line: I need shocks and shouts and blood %and deaths! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) HAVE NO MERCY, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Smoke swamp / the rupestral images of the unknown Last Line: Like a viper born from the blond force of respendrnce Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Swamps HAVE NO MERCY, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Smoke swamp %the rupestral images of the unknown Last Line: Like a viper born from the blonde force of resplendence Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) HEADLINE TO SUMMARIZE A PASSION, by TCHICAYA U TAM'SI Poem Source First Line: I lend a deck of cards to someone passing by Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) HEARTH, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Memory honoring the landscape Last Line: In the palms of an autumn Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Memory HEARTH, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Memory honoring the landscape Last Line: A recollection of very soft skin is not out of the question %in the palms of an autumn Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) HORSE; FOR PIERRE LOEB, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My horse falters against skulls Last Line: The chlorophyllous dough of t horses;he vast ravens of the future Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Horses HORSE; FOR PIERRE LOEB, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My horse falters against skulls Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) HURRICANE, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: When the hurricane unfolds Last Line: With the scattered branches, of the palm Subject(s): Hurricanes; Negritude (literary Movement) HURRICANE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The hurricane uproots everything around me Last Line: Blow upon the strings of my kora %so my song can rise as pure as the gold galam Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) I AM ALONE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am alone in the plains Last Line: Along deserted %roads Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Solitude I AM TIRED NOW, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am tired now. From behind goree the steamship's siren Last Line: And I am tired, not weary, alas, just tired of going nowhere%when the urge to leave tears me apart Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) I AWOKE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I awoke this evening beneath the warm rain Last Line: Feretia apodanthera %watered by my tears at night Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) I GUIDED THE LONG TRANSHUMANCE OF THE HERD, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To walk across the slumbers of cyclones that carry Last Line: The flambe belly of receding fair weather Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Walking I GUIDED THE LONG TRANSHUMANCE OF THE HERD, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To walk across the slumbers of cyclones that carry Last Line: The most plutonic part of a nugget that is none other than %the flambe belly of receding fair weathe Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) I KNOW NOT WHEN IT WAS, FR. ETHIOPICS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) I LOOK OVER YOUR LETTER, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I look over your letter under the parasol shading the blue Last Line: The sea is beautiful and the air is mild, %just as it was on the banks of the great lakes Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) I LOVE YOUR LETTER, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I love your letter, your words of blue dream Last Line: I love your blue letter, sweeter than hyssop. %its tenderness tells me you are my love Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) I SHALL COME, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I shall come, my tall lord Last Line: But joined to my self, %and merged from now on with the blood of my veins Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) I THANK YOU, LORD, FR. DANCE OF THE DAYS, by BERNARD DADIE Poem Source Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) I WANT TO SAY YOUR NAME, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I want to say your name, naett! I want to make you an incantation, nzaett! Last Line: Princess of elissa exiled from fouta on a catastrophic day Subject(s): Love; Negritude (literary Movement) I WILL PRONOUNCE YOUR NAME, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I will pronounce your name, naett, I will declaim you, naett! Last Line: Princess of elissa, banished from futa on the fateful day Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) I'M READING MIRRORS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm reading mirrors, a novel, a poem, a play, I don't know Last Line: My heart, %the primordial identity of the same death rebirth Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) I'VE GONE ON RETREAT, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've gone on retreat to popenguine-the-serer Last Line: But already you have met the september tides, %the strong surge of fragrances beside the wild mint Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) IBIS-ANUBIS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A few traces of erosion Last Line: Under the incomprehensible alphabets of ther moment Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Memory IBIS-ANUBIS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A few traces of erosion Last Line: Eagle owl word you will plane this cry from its %anubis snout Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) IMAGININGS, OR DREAMING OF YOUNG GIRL, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I imagine that you are here Last Line: With the sun spotting my naked skin, %with big petals of butterfly wings %and every kind of crawling Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) IMPRESSIONIST SKETCHES, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: Let's climb, modern acrobats, %onto the metaphor trapeze Last Line: And drops into the water, %like an anchor, %its first star Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) IN MEMORIAM, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today is sunday Last Line: And descend to the streets, joining my brothers %who have blue eyes and hard hands Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) IN MEMORIAM, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today is sunday, %I fear the crowd of my fellows with such Last Line: And descend to the streets, joining my brothers %who have blue eyes and hard hands Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) IN MEMORIAM, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is sunday Last Line: With her hands Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) IN MEMORIAN, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sunday, %the crowding stony faces of my fellows make me afraid Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) IN MEMORY OF A BLACK UNION LEADER, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let no tempest subside no rock stagger Last Line: To the eyes of the comrades, varnished light vaguely tinged with blood Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) IN ORDER TO SPEAK, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In order to revitalize the roaring of phosphenes Last Line: To the point of firevomiting / its mouth Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Speech; Anger IN ORDER TO SPEAK, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In order to revitalize the roaring of phosphenes Last Line: To the point of firevomiting %its mouth Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) INCANTATIONS OF THE SEA: MOANDO COAST, by MUKULA KADIMA-NZUJI Poem Source First Line: Shocks of dizziness Last Line: And the rough backwash of my being Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) INCONGRUOUS BUILDERS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too bad if the forests wilts into pereskia stalks Last Line: Around a few ghosts more real than they appear / incongruous builders Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Environmental Abuse; Buildings & Builders INCONGRUOUS BUILDERS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too bad if the forests wilts into pereskia stalks Last Line: Around a few ghosts more real than they appear %inconruous builders Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) INDIES: 49, by EDOUARD GLISSANT Poem Source First Line: They fastened a people to merchant ships Last Line: Supported on the bleeding of the great and mysterious indies Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) INDIES: 50, by EDOUARD GLISSANT Poem Source First Line: One of them, taking advantage of the crew's momentary carelessness Last Line: But surely every sailor knows it since that time Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) INDIES: 51, by EDOUARD GLISSANT Poem Source First Line: The child climbs to the island's highest point Last Line: We are descended from those who survived Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) INDIES: 52, by EDOUARD GLISSANT Poem Source First Line: O sun! O age-old labor mutely mixed with ocean Last Line: May the song of death where darkness reigned be forever ended Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) INITIATIONS, SELS., by PAUL NIGER Poem Source First Line: What? %a rhythm %a wave in the night through the forests Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) INTERIOR, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We bathe in an african presence Last Line: Softens my obsession with this presence so %black, brown, and rd, oh! Red as african soil Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) INTERNUNCIO, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Off and on I lose it for weeks Last Line: And of my own blood a firefly among fireflies Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Language INTERNUNCIO, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Off and on I lose it for weeks Last Line: Spectral and spasmodic %and of my own blood a firefly among fireflies Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) INVENTORY OF REEFS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So comely / so comely / caribbees Last Line: Adieu aviary / cagelings adieu Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Birds INVENTORY OF REEFS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So comely %so comely %caribbees Last Line: Chanson of the cage %adieu aviary %cagelings adieu Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) IT IS THE NECESSARY PASSAGE, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the necessary passage that from here I decline Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) IT RAINED, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It rained all night Last Line: Sparks %of sulphur, like you, no? Like night in the hivernage Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) IT'S FIVE O'CLOCK, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's five o'clock. You'd say teatime. The seventeenth hour Last Line: And there to the north and left is the estrees fort, %colored with the caked blood of anguish Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) JOAL, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Joal! %I remember. %I remember the regal signare women under Last Line: Where sometimes an orphan jazz comes sobbing, sobbing, %sobbing Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) JUST LIKE THE LEGEND, by LEON GONTRAN DAMAS Poem Source First Line: Hair that I gloss down Last Line: Of the monkey-man Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) JUSTICE LISTENS AT THE GATES OF BEAUTY, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A flight / pauses in the tree ferns Last Line: Indeed above everything Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Courts & Courtiers; Disasters; Beauty JUSTICE LISTENS AT THE GATES OF BEAUTY, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A flight %pauses in the tree ferns Last Line: That the feast be restored %that justice beam %indeed above everything Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) KALAHARI, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: Why now the word kalahari? Last Line: Kalahari! Kalahari! Kalahari! %why now the word kalahari? Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) KAYA-MAGAN, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Kaya-magan am I! The first person Last Line: Now sleep, fawns of my womb, sleep under my crescent %moon Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) KILLER PURSUIT (INCONCLUSIVE POEM), by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: I killed you, fili-mele: so buoyant Last Line: For only while you fling my song whirls on! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) KNOWLEDGE OF MORNES, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mornes are not a convulsion of giant birds Last Line: Your ax planted clearly %in the dry heart of slumbers and the poor stupor of sands Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LAGOONAL CALENDAR, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I inhabit a sacred wound Last Line: Even if it changes with beauty my words Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LAGOONAL CALENDAR, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I inhabit a sacred wound Last Line: Even if it makes certain words of mine sumptuous %immeasurably increases my plight Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LAMBA, SELS., by JACQUES RABEMANANJARA Poem Source First Line: In hermetic enclosure %cool clitoris of the corolla Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LAMENT, by JACQUES RABEMANANJARA Poem Source First Line: Blue, so blue that eye of sky Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LAND SURVEY, SELS., by AIME CESAIRE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LAW OF THE CORAL REEFS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We the rag men of hope Last Line: Wandering with great tenacity %toward the barbarous rocks of the future Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LEGACIES, by LEON LALEAU Poem Source First Line: On certain nights I hear within the screeching of the horn Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LEGACY, by TCHICAYA U TAM'SI Poem Source First Line: The singing violin %has not burnt the wind Last Line: I leave you the fire and the song Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LEON G. DAMAS FEU SOMBRE TOUJOURS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Des promesses qui eclatent en petites fusees Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LEON G. DAMAS SOMBER FIRE ALWAYS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Promises that burst into tiny missiles Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Damas, Leon G. (1912-1978) LEON G. DAMAS SOMBER FIRE ALWAYS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Promises that burst into tiny missiles Last Line: On the horizon of my salute %brother %somber fire always Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LET IT SMOKE, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Torus %taurus %of the big game Last Line: Doing shrinks %let the volcano smoke Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LET US OFFER ITS HEART TO THE SUN, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The beast must have surrendered on the path of your last Last Line: To the gourd of seeds %in the dawn of a hand begging for ghosts Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LETTER TO A POET, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To my brother aime, beloved friend, my bluntly amiable greetings! Last Line: And athletes, befitting your arrival, %parade their youthfulness, adorned like the beloved Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LETTER TO A PRISONER, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ngom! Champion of tyane! Last Line: I shall receive it piously like the morning ablution, %like the dew of dawn Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LETTER TO ELLEN CONROY KENNEDY, by EDOUARD J. MAUNICK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is the weight of the word Last Line: A weapon like a tree %it will live it will grow it will last Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Translating And Interpreting LETTERS TO THE PRINCESS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Belborg, belborg! Belborg, belborg! So murmured my Last Line: Remember these words, we will be the heavens and the %earth Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LIBERATION, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The torrents of my blood whistled along the banks of my cell Last Line: Now freed from my prison, I miss already %the whole-grain bread and the weary sleepless nights Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LIMINARY POEM, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You senegalese soldiers, my black brothers with warm Last Line: You, senegalese soldiers, my brothers with warm hands, %lying under ice and death? Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LINK OF THE CHAIN GANG, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With bits of string Last Line: To build thee Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LINK OF THE CHAIN GANG, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With bits of string Last Line: By whirlwinds %and waterspouts %to build thee Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LISTEN, COMRADES OF THE FLAMING CENTURIES, FR. POUNDING, by DAVID DIOP Poem Source Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LOKO, by RENE DEPESTRE Poem Source First Line: I am loko and I come from far away Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LOOK OUT FOR THE SNAKE!, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: The little count of lemonade Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LORD'S PRAYER, by MASSILLON COICOU Poem Source First Line: The mother said: come now, say your prayers Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LOST TRAIN, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A train in distress in the night Last Line: And the sharks of the deep jealously keep watch Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LOVE IN THE PLURAL, by MUKULA KADIMA-NZUJI Poem Source First Line: Neither this sobbing ocean Last Line: The reverse side of mirrors Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LUXEMBOURG 1939, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This morning at the luxembourg, this autumn at the luxembourg Last Line: Europe is burying the yeast of nations and the hope of newer races Subject(s): Luxembourg; Negritude (literary Movement) LUXEMBOURG 1939, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This luxembourg morning, this luxembourg autumn Last Line: Europe is burying the nations' leaven %and the hope of new races Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LVOV, UKRAINE, by EDOUARD J. MAUNICK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: ... In ivan frakno park Last Line: I was reading from memory %%one tree-filled morning in the ukraine %%I lost my solitude Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MACUMBA WORD, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The word is the father of the saints Last Line: Sometimes I even sneak a swim on the back of a dolphin %word Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MAILLON DE LA CADENE, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Avec des bouts de ficelle Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MAN AND BEAST, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I name you evening, o ambiguous evening, you fluttering Last Line: And the lake blooms with water lilies, dawn of divine %laughter Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MANGROVE SWAMP, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not always a good idea to splash about in just any Last Line: \spews dirt and water aplenty %april his breastplate %stempost %stallion Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MANGROVE SWAMP SYNDROME, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Despair has no name Last Line: The look is that of forests. %the lulling %that of the swaying of tides Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MAT TO WEAVE, by TCHICAYA U TAM'SI Poem Source First Line: He had just surrendered the secret of the sun Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MAT TO WEAVE, by TCHICAYA U TAM'SI Poem Source First Line: He came to deliver the secret of the sun Last Line: It is the purest of cups Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MEDITERRANEAN, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And again I say your name: dyallo! Last Line: And again I say your name: dyallo! %and again you say my name: senghor! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MENU, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: My roadside restaurant is open %for you, pasture-seeking pilgrim Last Line: The gods of the grape and our daily bread Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MESSAGE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They sent me a swift courier Last Line: Herald of the good news, such was his ivory message Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MESSAGE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They sent me their swiftest messenger Last Line: I heard the words of the prince, %herald of good news, here is his ivory scepter Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MESSAGES, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He sent me a river horse under the mauve palaver tree Last Line: This is my response and my two-headed scepter: %mouth of thelion, smile of the sage Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MIDNIGHT ELEGY, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Summer, splendid summer, nourishing the poet on the milk of your light Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MILAN IN LOMBARDY, by EDOUARD J. MAUNICK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: ... In milan the lombard Last Line: Delhi%kutub minar %%but as always %death %arrives to thwart heaven Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MIRACULOUS WEAPONS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The great machete blow of red pleasure right in the face there was blood Last Line: A dungeon the frail water without a femur the serous peritoneum of springhead evenings Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MIRACULOUS WEAPONS, SELS., by AIME CESAIRE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MIRRORS STILL, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mirrors still. Then negritude and antiquity. Prodigious Last Line: - but she has chosen to burn. May her ashes %fertilize the fevers of our lives! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MONSTERS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I recognize them %the smell the breath a mere nothing Last Line: It is my heart torn from the hands of the earthquake- %the cipher Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MOONLIGHT, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: In full-moon night, in this night's %brightly polished moon Last Line: On a star's flight among the stars! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MULATTA-ANTILLE, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: In you, mulatta, I now embrace %the lukewarm sea of the antilles Last Line: Liberty in song in my antilles! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MY DAYS OVERGROWN, by JOSEPH MIEZAN BOGNINI Poem Source First Line: My days overgrown with coffee blossoms Last Line: And we spent happy days Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MY GREETING, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My greeting is like a clear wing Last Line: The golden sun on the white dew, my tender lawn. %guess why I don't know why Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NANIGO TO HEAVEN, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NANIGO TO HEAVEN, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: The nanigo climbs to heaven. %heaven is festooned Last Line: A soul has entered heaven, %and that is the soul of the nanigo! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NDESSE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, they write me that you are turning pale as the bush Last Line: Eat. %tell me about my fathers' pride! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NDESSE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, they have written you are turning white, as the bush turns whote Last Line: Tell me the pride of my fathers Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NDESSE OR BLUES, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Spring rained its icy water on all my unleashed desires Last Line: On the monotonous leaves! %just play me 'solitude,' duke, so I can cry myself to sleep Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NEAR DAWN, SELS., by JEAN-JOSEPH RABEARIVELO Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NEW KINDNESS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To deliver the world to assassins of dawn is out of the Last Line: A new kindness is ceaselessly growing on the horizon Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NEW KINDNESS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To deliver the world to assassins of dawn is out of the Last Line: And sweet calabashes in the hollows of offering hands %a new kindness is ceaselessly growing on the Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NEW NEGRO SERMON, by JACQUES ROUMAIN Poem Source First Line: In his face they spit their icy scorn Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NEW SUN GREETS ME, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The new sun greets me on my bed Last Line: Of the gulf, god! May I find again your voice %and your fragrance of vibrating light Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NEW YORK (FOR JAZZ ORCHESTRA: TRUMPET SOLO), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: New york! At first I was confused by your beauty Last Line: And the seventh day he slept the great sleep of the negro Subject(s): Harlem (new York City); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Negritude (literary Movement) NIGHT IN SINE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Woman, place your soothing hands upon my brow Last Line: Before plunging deeper than the diver %into the great depths of sleep Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NIGHT OF SINE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Woman, rest on my brow your balsam hands, your hands gentler than fur Last Line: To live before I sink, deeper than the diver, into the lofty depth of sleep Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NIGHT, SELS., by JEAN-JOSEPH RABEARIVELO Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NIGHTS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The nights over here are not worth writing home about Last Line: That the temeritous day annouces its own birth Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Night NIGHTS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The nights over here are not worth writing home about Last Line: It is not always from the management cell of the catastrophe%that the temeritous day announces its o Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NOCTURNE, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: The view is blurry under aquatic moonlight Last Line: The hour, somewhere distant, falls Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NOSTALGIA, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: White droplets, %slow droplets Last Line: The first lights of my childhood %never found again Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NOT THIS, NOT THAT, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: You are, my green island, %sketched in pirate and black Last Line: Half of you spanish, %the other african Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NOTEBOOK OF A RETURN TO THE NATIVE LAND, SELECTION, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would rediscover the secret of great communications Last Line: Understand me would not understand the roaring of the tiger either Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NOTEBOOK OF A RETURN TO THE NATIVE LAND, SELECTION, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the end of daybreak Subject(s): Family Life; Negritude (literary Movement); Relatives NOTEBOOK OF A RETURN TO THE NATIVE LAND, SELS., by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Islands scar of the water Last Line: Will now fish the malevolent tongue of the night in its motionless veerition! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NOTES ON A RETURN TO THE NATIVE LAND, SELS., by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death traces a shining circle Last Line: Not burst mute earth %with its upright cries? Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918); Negritude (literary Movement) NUMEN, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: African jungle-temandumba Last Line: Haitian thicket-macandal Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NURSE EMMA PAYELLEVILE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Emma payelleville %your very name smashes the dusty statues Last Line: Guarded jealously by the faithful shadows of their black %memory Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) OBLIVION, by MASSILLON COICOU Poem Text First Line: I hope when I am dead that I shall lie Last Line: Oblivion -- the shroud and envelope of happiness. Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ODE TO AFRICA, by BERNARD DADIE Poem Source First Line: I shall tune my lute to sing your litanies as the quiet hours pass Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) OFFERING, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I come to offer you the offering of my Last Line: I come to offer you the offering of my love %on my knees Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) OGOU-BADAGRIS, by RENE DEPESTRE Poem Source First Line: I am ogou-badagris Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) OGOU-FERRAILLE, by RENE DEPESTRE Poem Source First Line: I am ogou-ferraille Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) OLD SONGS OF INERINA LAND, SELS., by JEAN-JOSEPH RABEARIVELO Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ON NOT BEING MILTON, by TONY HARRISON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Read and committed to the flames, I call Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Negritude (literary Movement) ON NOT BEING MILTON, by TONY HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Read and committed to the flames, I call Last Line: Sir, I ham a very bad hand at righting Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Negritude (literary Movement) ON THE ISLANDS OF ALL WINDS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lands which leap very high Last Line: That finally exulting in the wounded kine of the stars Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Islands ON THE ISLANDS OF ALL WINDS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lands which leap very high Last Line: The carnal and kinky black head of the sun Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) OTHER SONGS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond which stormy night have you hiden your face for Last Line: And stitches a wail never heard before. %and this was in the time before the world Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PARIS IN THE SNOW, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, you visited paris on the day of your birth Last Line: Also because of the hands of dew that lie on my burning cheeks at night Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PAROLE 47, by EDOUARD J. MAUNICK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: ... Countless as the hairs on my head Last Line: I say no mor pleas %I say no more thanky massa %I confess an apocalypse %recanting denial: I am Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PASSAGES, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: (the necessity of inspection %acceptable only in that Last Line: The halt of a lively termitarium %is already emerging from the muddle Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PATH, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us take up again Last Line: Depending on the stubbornness to ripen Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Slavery PATH, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us take up again Last Line: To speak is to go with the seed %all the way to the black secret of numbers Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PEARLS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: White pearls, %slow droplets Last Line: The first lights of my childhood %never found again Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PEASANT DECLARES HIS LOVE, by EMILE ROUMER Poem Source First Line: High-yellow of my heart, with breasts like tangerines Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PERDITION, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We will strike the new air with our armor-plated heads Last Line: In the tolling canna of rich twilights Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PIGMENTS, SELS., by LEON GONTRAN DAMAS Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PILLAGE, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One must know how to cross the entire expanse of blood Last Line: A sun thoughtlessly distributed to glowworms %while burning an incredulous expectation in pure blood Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PIRATE, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His share of the sun? Last Line: Pirate ambush of remorse %the sun is not here as an intruder Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) POEM: 1, by JOSEPH MIEZAN BOGNINI Poem Source First Line: Suddenly an old man on the threshold of the age Last Line: Superb hand the leaf of spontaneity Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) POEM: 1, by TCHICAYA U TAM'SI Poem Source First Line: I myself will be the stage for my salvation Last Line: But with tornadoes in my belly Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) POEM: 2, by JOSEPH MIEZAN BOGNINI Poem Source First Line: We are men of the new world a tree prompts us to harmony Last Line: Lands of unutterable representation Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) POEM: 2, by TCHICAYA U TAM'SI Poem Source First Line: What do I want with a thousand stars in broad daylight Last Line: Squatting beside my own conscience? Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) POEM: 3, by TCHICAYA U TAM'SI Poem Source First Line: You must be from my country Last Line: For my beardless conscience %ravage us alone Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) POEM: 4, by TCHICAYA U TAM'SI Poem Source First Line: I was naked for the first kiss of my mother Last Line: The freshness of a patch of violent water Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) POEM: 5, by TCHICAYA U TAM'SI Poem Source First Line: I tear at my belly Last Line: As of the charnel-house Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) POEMS FROM BLACK AFRICA, SELS., by FILY-DABO SISSOKO Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) POETIQUE, by EDOUARD GLISSANT Poem Source First Line: To understand time warmth Last Line: Vowel after vowel %made concrete Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PORTE DOREE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have chosen to live near the rebuilt walls of my memory Last Line: Bush: %'good morning, miss ... How do you do?' Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PORTRAIT, by ANTOINE-ROGER BOLAMBA Poem Source First Line: I have my gri-gri Last Line: My tongue flutter like a banner Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PORTRAIT, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now the european spring approaches me Last Line: And the wild hill of your hair %rustling in the wind! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PORTRAIT, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: See how the european spring Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) POUNDING, SELS., by DAVID DIOP Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PRAYER FOR PEACE (1), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lord jesus, at the end of this book, which I offer you Last Line: And still breathing %let me recite to you, lord, her prayer of peace and pardon Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PRAYER FOR PEACE (2), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lord god, forgive white europe! Last Line: And now the serpent of hatred rears its head in my heart, %the serpent I thought was dead Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PRAYER FOR PEACE (3), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Kill it, lord, for I must continue on my journey Last Line: That has turned my mesopotamia and my congo %into a vast cemetery under the white sun Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PRAYER FOR PEACE (4), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, lord, take from my memory france that is not france Last Line: Weapons of violence and traded in banker's gold %but traitors and fools have always existed Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PRAYER FOR PEACE (5), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O bless this nation, lord, who seeks her own face Last Line: A band of brotherly hands so they can embrace the land %under the rainbow of your peace Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PRAYER OF THE SENEGALESE SOLDIERS (1), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, if I speak to you, you who are the unknown presence Last Line: Who offered their godlike bodies, the glory of stadiums, %fothe universal honor of mankind Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PRAYER OF THE SENEGALESE SOLDIERS (2), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Landed on this european soil, disarmd of weapons Last Line: Oh, you who know if we will ever breathe the harvest, %if we will ever dance again the dance of rebo Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PRAYER OF THE SENEGALESE SOLDIERS (3), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Between the harsh freshness of spring and the promised Last Line: In the harvest for whose just cause we had fought. %if they were only going to use us! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PRAYER OF THE SENEGALESE SOLDIERS (4), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, listen to the offering of our militant faith Last Line: As terrifying to their enemies as the union of lightning and%thunder Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PRAYER OF THE SENEGALESE SOLDIERS (5), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For you are the god of armies, the god of strong men Last Line: Bliss.' %listen to their voices, lord! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PRAYER TO MASKS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Black mask, red mask, you black and white masks Last Line: But we are the men of the dance whose feet only gain power when they beat the hard soil Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PRAYER TO MASKS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Masks! Masks! %black mask red mask, you white-and-black masks Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PRAYER TO THE MASKS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Masks! O masks! %black mask, red mask, you white-and-black Last Line: But we are men of dance, whose feet get stronger %as we pound upon firm ground Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PREBEND GARDENS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Prebend gardens %you touched my shoulder Last Line: To the harsh, forbidding plains, immobile over there, %in senegambia Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PRELUDE IN BORICUA, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: Tomtom of kinky hair and black things Last Line: Scant actually lived, %and much concoction and fable Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PRELUDE IN PUERTO RICAN, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: A knock-knock of knots, nappy hair, %and other sassy drumbeats Last Line: Little that's truly been lived, %and much of pure story and fib Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PROMENADE, by TCHICAYA U TAM'SI Poem Source First Line: Here I am in europe Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PROPHECY, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There where adventure stays clear-sighted Last Line: Where the agile wonder leanes no stone or fire unturned Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PROPHECY, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There where adventure stays clear-sighted Last Line: My revolt my name %prophetically bathe Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) REFERENCES, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He sought no alibi Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) REGENERATION, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Under the summer sky's smooth pagne Last Line: Cradled by the morning flute of tender lawns, %as I await some great bloody rebirth! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) REGRETS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The gazelle's gracefulness %melted away in the twilight Last Line: I would have given you so much, %you, more beautiful than twilight Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON (1), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And my heart once again on the threshold of stone under the Last Line: Of a thousand passions in my head %my heart is still pure as the east wind in march Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON (2), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I challenge my blood in this head empty of ideas, in this Last Line: He needs no paper, only the troubador's musical page %and the red-gold stylus of his tongue Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON (3), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How vast, how void is the courtyard smelling of Last Line: Or is it now a district struck by four-engined eagles %and by lions of bombs with such powerful leap Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON (4), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And my heart once again on the steps of the high house Last Line: Soles on the still mats. %peace, peace, peace, my fathers, on the prodigal son's head Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON (5), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You among them all, elephant of mbissel, shower your Last Line: Ocean plain %and on the waves of dead warriors Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON (6), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Elephant of mbissel, through your ears invisible to our eyes Last Line: And those without work, that I dreamt of a world of sun %in fraternity with my blue-eyed brothers Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON (7), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Elephant of mbissel, I applaud the emptiness of shops Last Line: Bells. %I bring back to life all my earthly virtues! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON (8), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Elephant of mbissel, hear my reverent prayer Last Line: Make me your master linguist; no, no, %appoint me his ambassador Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON (9), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: May you be blessed, my fathers, who bless the prodigal Last Line: Embassy, %already homesick for my black land Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) RETURN TO THE FOLD, SELS., by FLAVIEN RANAIVO Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) RETURNING FROM POPENGUINE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Returning from popenguine in this languorous beauty of Last Line: On the bright red-gold sea where the houses on goree %light up fom the sun like your eyes when we re Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) RIBBON, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come across my skeleton Last Line: Oh to still be available toward a delay of extinguished islands and volcanoes dozing Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) RIVERS ARE NOT IMPASSIVE, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Same brawl / this big scar on my belly Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Blood; Rivers RIVERS ARE NOT IMPASSIVE, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Same brawl %this big scar on my belly Last Line: Sole haggard grippers of %the mangroves' base Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ROME, PIAZZA NAVONA, by EDOUARD J. MAUNICK Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Far from his creole shores %dreams his island closer shores %dreams his island closer Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) RONDO FOR THE POET'S CHILDREN, by JEAN-JOSEPH RABEARIVELO Poem Source First Line: What will our father bring to us Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) S.O.S., by LEON GONTRAN DAMAS Poem Source First Line: Only then and not before Last Line: To make them into candles for their churches Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SACRIFICE, by LEON LALEAU Poem Source First Line: Beneath the sky, the cone-shaped drum is rumbling Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SADNESS IN MAY, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sweet melting of clear evening Last Line: No book to ease the evening's solitude, %not even a book! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SCORNER, by TCHICAYA U TAM'SI Poem Source First Line: I drink to your glory my god Last Line: I will waltz to the tune of your slow sadness Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SCORNER, by TCHICAYA U TAM'SI Poem Source First Line: I drink to your glory, god Last Line: For you have tempted me %by making me so sad Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SEA NOCTURNE, by TCHICAYA U TAM'SI Poem Source First Line: The sea returns as I advance Last Line: Of too lascivious waves %at night in summer Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SEA SONG, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: Give me that sponge and I'll have the sea Last Line: Wrestles to escape its basin, %its outstretched arms pushing shores Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SECOND ADVENTIVITY, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In those days time was the sunshade of a very beautiful Last Line: Time was not a gangly gringo %I mean a second adventivity man %a man came %a man Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SENTENCE, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And why not the hedge of geysers the obelisk of hours Last Line: Appearance salavated from my mug of sphinx muzzle unmuzzled since nothingness Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SENTENCE, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And why not the hedge of geysers the obelisk of hours Last Line: Assassin clad in rich and calm muslins like a chant of hard wine Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SENTIMENTS AND RESENTMENTS OF WORDS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are arcangels of great time Last Line: Sapid and insipid evil %the dreadful resentment of saliva reswallowed by the surf Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SERPENT SUN EYE BEWITCHING MY EYE, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The sugar in the word brazil deep in the marsh Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SEVEN SIDES AND SEVEN SYLLABLES; FOR AIMEE CESAIRE AND PIERRE EMMANUEL, by EDOUARD J. MAUNICK Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happen you come on your own Last Line: With this, my derisive voice. Subject(s): Exiles; Identity; Negritude (literary Movement); Poetry & Poets SHACKLES, SELS., by AIME CESAIRE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SHAKA (SONG 1), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shaka, there you lie like the panther or the foulmouthed Last Line: And white flour had to be ground from tender black hearts. %those who have suffered much will be for Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SHAKA (SONG 2), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Night is coming, my find, beautiful night Last Line: Look there, the sun has risen over all peoples of the earth.%bayete baba! Bayete o bayete! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SHAKE IT PLENA, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: Rumors between wind and water... %on the sea Last Line: Shake it, shake it, %fanning the rage of uncle sam! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SHANGO, by RENE DEPESTRE Poem Source First Line: I am sahango exhaler of lightning Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SLAVE'S LAMENT, by MASSILLON COICOU Poem Source First Line: Why am I a negro? Oh, why am I black? Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SLEEPLESS NIGHT, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Night comes, %shouts and angers Last Line: Beneath the caresses and sea breeze %of morning's serenity Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SLOWNESS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hyperactivating of the lands Last Line: And blows from time to time %through the debris Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SMELL, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But the smell came Last Line: The smell is not hollow. %the smell has no folds Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SNOW IN PARIS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, you have visited paris on this day of your birth Last Line: Because of these hands of dew, in the evening, %upon my burning cheeks Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SNOW UPON PARIS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, you have visited paris on this day of your birth Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SOLVITUR, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Without this anger it is clear Last Line: No. / solvitur Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Anger SOLVITUR, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Without this anger it is clear Last Line: Afterglow of a remanence %igitur %no. %solvitur Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SONG FOR JACKIE THOMPSON, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I chose the stadium, far from the merchants' stalls Last Line: I sing of you, jackie thompson, at the slope of day %and my song turns crimson on the blue atlantic Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SONG OF A COMMON LOVER, by FLAVIEN RANAIVO Poem Source First Line: Don't love me, my dear Last Line: In pieces, bridges for my guitar Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SONG OF A YOUNG GIRL, by FLAVIEN RANAIVO Poem Source First Line: Oaf %the young man who lives down there Last Line: Here are your victuals and three water-lily flowers %for the way is long Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Negritude (literary Movement) SONG OF THE INITIATE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She flees, she flees through flat white lands, as patiently I take my aim Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SONG OF THE INITIATE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pilgrimage along the migratory roads, a voyage to ancestral Last Line: Throat %where a quick blow kills the striped fawn of my dream Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SONG OF THE SEA HORSE, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tiny horse escaped from time Last Line: Unerring in the wind the salt and the wrack Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Sea Horses SONG OF THE SEA HORSE, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tiny horse escaped from time Last Line: And away you'll gallop tiny horse %fearless %unerring in the wind the salt and the wrack Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SONG, SELS., by JACQUES RABEMANANJARA Poem Source First Line: Isle! %island of they syllables of flame! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SONGS FOR SIGNARE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A hand of light caressed my dark eyelids and your smile rose Last Line: Paradise for me will be empty and your absence the lover's damnation Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SONGS OF DARKNESS, SELS., by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poet's Biography Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SPEECH AND IMAGE: AN AFRICAN TRADITION OF THE SURREAL, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Speech seems to use the main instrument of thought Last Line: African surrealist analogy presupposes and manifests the hierarchized universe of life forces Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SPLEEN, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I want to ease your distress, my love Last Line: A slow, lazy %blues Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SPRING, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Clouds stretch out and away Last Line: And my love thrusting forth in the silence %of spring Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SPRING SONG (1), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Birdsongs rise washed in the primitive sky Last Line: Blood! %I hear the april sap singing in your veins Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SPRING SONG (2), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You told me: %my love, listen to the early rumble of the Last Line: Joy %when I must stuff my nose and eyes? Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SPRING SONG (3), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I told you: %listen to the silence under the flaming colors Last Line: Hear the message, my dark love with pink heels. %I hear your amber heart sprout in silence and in sp Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) STATE OF THE UNION, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gentlemen, %the situation is tragic Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) STONE, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall we finally see him endorse his own strength Last Line: The water soaking with green leaves %there rained the approach of an equinox Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) STRENGTH TO FACE TOMORROW, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The kisses of meteorites Last Line: Exhausted by a resurgent doubt %the srength to face tomorrow Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SUDDENLY STARTLED, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly startled at the fresh sound, the stabbing dagger Last Line: Of eternal summer. %and I await you with the expectation of reviving the dead Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SUPREME MASK, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fibers feather smooth wood Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SWARMS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In tight battalions %swarms of winged brown medallions Last Line: Trumpeting to rivers overflowing %from an hivernage intoxicating Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TAGA FOR MBAYE DYOB, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mbaye dyob! I want to say your name and your honor Last Line: To the music of kora strings! To the music of wind and wave %dyob! I say your name and your honor Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TAGA FOR MBAYE DYOH (FOR A TAMA), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mbaye dyob! I will speak your name and your honour Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TEDDUNGAL, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sall! I call you name sall! From futa-damga to cape verde Last Line: Honor to redeemed futa! Honor to the childhood %kingdom! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TEN LINES, by EMILE ROUMER Poem Source First Line: To me you are infinitely distant Last Line: The love of this black prince with her derision Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TEST, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Les chercheurs de silex Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TESTING, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The flint hunters / the obsidian assayers Last Line: And most ignominiously Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Language TESTING, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The flint hunters %the obsidian assayers Last Line: Were given notice ages ago %and most ignominiously Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) THAT, THE HOLLOW, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That is unfurnishable it is hollow Last Line: Birdlime %in most cases that is crawlable Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) THE STRENGTH TO FACE TOMORROW, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The kisses of meteorites Last Line: The strength to face tomorrow Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) THIAROYE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Black prisoners, I should say french prisoners, is it true Last Line: Sleep now, o dead! Let my voice rock you to sleep, %my voice of rage cradling hope Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) THIS APPEAL-PROHIBITED BLOOD, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always, less lively than beautiful, the air , save for this breath Last Line: Earth, self-conscious, clipped, reduced, in breach of fauna Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) THIS APPEAL-PROHIBITED BLOOD, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always, less lively than beautiful, the air , save for this breath Last Line: These unseizable seasons this eyelash-denied sky and this %appeal-prohibited food Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) THIS MORNING, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This morning the sky was washed with rain, the green trees Last Line: As you dream among the indigo channels of southern %rivers Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) THIS STRANGE CALCULATION OF ROOTS, by EDOUARD J. MAUNICK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Just as fear never kills Last Line: I know that someone will turn over the hourglass Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TI-JEAN SANDOR, by RENE DEPESTRE Poem Source First Line: I am ti-jean sandor Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TIME, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is the end of time Last Line: Towards the serene lights in the untouchable sky. %ah! Let us drown in the stagnant pool Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TO A BLACK WOMAN WITH BLOND HAIR, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And then you came at sweet dawn Last Line: Of your shoulder, %my love, my love, o my love! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TO A CARIBBEAN WOMAN, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your princely hands beneath the chains Last Line: Open like a shadowy palace, I saw %rising up the triumphant pride of the old guelwars Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TO A DARK GIRL, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You let the friendship of moonlight Last Line: Of the splendors of mali %buried beneath the sands Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TO BE DEDUCTED, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Apings %those who with their gazestone assassinate Last Line: Its ornament of fire %its dolman of blood %its flag of renewal Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TO DEATH, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You assailed me once again that night Last Line: Either %of us one luminous winter day in ille-de-france Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TO KNOW, HE SAYS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hey connoisseur of knowing Last Line: As do the ardent hooves of the wind-horse %along the trails of night Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TO NEW YORK, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: New york! I had first been confused by Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); New York City TO NEW YORK: 1, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: New york! At first I was bewildered by your beauty Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple TO NEW YORK: 1, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: New york! At first I was bewildered by your beauty Last Line: And murky streams carry away hygenic loving %like rivers overflowing with the corpses of babies Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); New York City TO NEW YORK: 2, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now is the time for signs and reckoning, new york! Now is Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple TO NEW YORK: 2, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now is the time for signs and reckoning, new york! Now is Last Line: Listen to the distant beating of your nocturnal heart, %the tom-tom's rhythm and blood, tom-tom bloo Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); New York City TO NEW YORK: 3, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: New york! I say new york, let black blood flow into your Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple TO NEW YORK: 3, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: New york! I say new york, let black blood flow into your Last Line: Created heaven and earth in six days, %and on the seventh slept a deep negro sleep Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); New York City TO THE AMERICAN NEGRO SOLDIERS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I did not recognize you in your prison of sad-coloured uniforms Last Line: I greet you as the messengers of peace Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TO THE BANQUET OF THE EARTH, FR. FIRST SONG OF DEPARTURE, by MARTIAL SINDA Poem Source Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TO THE BLACK AMERICAN TROOPS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I did not recognize you in your prison of sad-colored uniforms Last Line: Oh, the delight of life after winter. I hail you %as messengers of peace Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Negritude (literary Movement) TO THE MUSIC OF KORAS AND BALAPHON (1), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A river by the bend in the road, blue in the cool september Last Line: Were my sisters tening-ndare and tyagoum-ndyare, %brighter than copper from acrosss the sea Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TO THE MUSIC OF KORAS AND BALAPHON (2), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Later, the springs in the narrow shade of latin muses Last Line: Like our stiff-necked ancestor to the rhythm of our clapping%hands: 'ndyaga-bass! Ndyaga-riti!' Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TO THE MUSIC OF KORAS AND BALAPHON (3), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She called me 'lord!' Last Line: Till the soil. %o to be your trumpet! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TO THE MUSIC OF KORAS AND BALAPHON (4), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My lambs, my delightful ones who will not see me grow old Last Line: And the king's griots sang to me in the kora's high tones %the true legend of my race Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TO THE MUSIC OF KORAS AND BALAPHON (5), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What months? What year was it? Last Line: Shadow of dusk %would sound the khalams in lament Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TO THE MUSIC OF KORAS AND BALAPHON (6), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I myself was the grandfather of my grandfather Last Line: Founder of kingdoms, who will be the salt of the serers, %who wll be the salt of the salt people Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TO THE MUSIC OF KORAS AND BALAPHON (7), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ele-yaye! Once again I sing a noble subject Last Line: Let me hear the vermilion mixed-blood voices! %let me hear the song of future africa! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TO THE MUSIC OF KORAS AND BALAPHON (8), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How uplifted am I by the hope of one day running before Last Line: Force, %to the love that rouses the singing worlds Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TO THE MUSIC OF KORAS AND BALAPHON (9), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the hope of that day - now that the rivers of the somme Last Line: I bring back from europe only this child friend, %the light of her eyes in the breton mists Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TO THE SENEGALESE SOLDIERS WHO DIED FOR FRANCE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here comes the sun Last Line: Senegalese soldiers %who died for the republic! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TONGUE FASHION, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Keystone / hieroglyphs / forget the abolished constellation Last Line: The sacred territory reluctantly conceded by the leaves Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TONGUE FASHION, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Keystone %hieroglyphs %forget the abolished constellation Last Line: Reclaimed from wild beasts %the sacred territory reluctantly conceded by the leaves Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TOPOGRAPHY, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: This is the barren, stepmother land %where cactus blooms Last Line: Puffing among spongy corpses %of useless, stillborn desires Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TORNADO, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That time when %the senator noticed that Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Tornadoes TORPOR OF HISTORY, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between two puffs of familiar birds Last Line: Ah! That road halfway up and its solid surplus %I'm awaiting%awaiting %the wind Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TOTEM, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I must hide in the intimate depths of my veins Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TOTEM, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I must hide him down in my deepest veins Last Line: Protecting my naked pride against myself %and the arrogance of fortunate races ... Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TOURAINE SPRINGTIME, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But I, %I know you, touraine springtime Last Line: Let me sleep. %you'd better not trifle with the black man Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TOWN, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: Pity, lord, pity on my poor town Last Line: Where my poor people will likely die of nothing Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TRANSMISSION, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The surplus %I had shed it into the rutsof the roads Last Line: Meanwhile time was hacking at me harshly %down to my intact root Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TRUMPETS OF THE CROWNED CRANES, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Trumpets of the crowned cranes? Or is it your dreamy face Last Line: Is the metallic vibrating cry of blackbirds %consoling and comforting me Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TYPICAL, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Incidents along the way Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Danger; Insects; Travel TYPICAL, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Incidents along the way Last Line: In any case %it is not recommended to indulge in breaks Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) UNBROKEN NIGGER CREST LINE, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are volcanoes that are dying Last Line: There are volcanoes whose openings are in exact %scale with the ancient rip Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) UNKNOWN SORROW, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: All today I thought of the distant sorrow Last Line: Whose useless voice is lost in the wind Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) VENOM VERSION, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The most varied combinations always bring us back Last Line: And with the impress of ashes %the breakdown of debris takes forever Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) VERTIGO, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The sweet black earth, and the sorrow of your own %absence Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) VIATICUM, by TCHICAYA U TAM'SI Poem Source First Line: You are from my country Last Line: May the lines of my hand %open all the ways to me of this long river Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) VIRTUOUS SIN, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: Slender and fine, a lyric and tenuous Last Line: The chargers of dawn begin to neigh Subject(s): Love Affairs; Negritude (literary Movement) VISIT, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I dream in the intimate semi-darkness of an afternoon Last Line: And suddenly my dead draw near to me Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) VOODOO, by LEON LALEAU Poem Source First Line: Time has wrinkled your face Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) WELL, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: My soul is like a well of dead, deep water Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) WELL, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: My soul is like a well of deaf, deep water Last Line: And it brims with a faint sense of eternity Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) WHAT AND HOW, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What andhow do you live and think, and of whom? Last Line: And at night, the sweet laughter among the palms. %of whom not of what, I think you and live the liv Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) WHAT ARE YOU DOING?, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What are you doing? What are you thinking about? And of Last Line: Rhythmically - %except of you, like the wild black duck with the white belly Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) WHAT DARK TEMPESTUOUS NIGHT, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What dark tempestuous night has been hiding your face? Last Line: Give me propitious words Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) WHEN MIGUEL ANGEL ASTURIAS DISAPPEARED, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Skillful flint striker %grandly flinging golden grain into the thick mane Last Line: And settled, an ever green mountain, %on the horizon of all men Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) WHEN THE TOM-TOM BEATS, by JACQUES ROUMAIN Poem Source First Line: Your heart trembles in the shadows, like a face Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) WHITE MAN'S INTERLUDES: DRUMS, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: Night is a nursery of drums %whose hoarse, hide throats Last Line: Will course your veins forever Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) WHITE MAN'S INTERLUDES: ISLANDS, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: Lands of patois and papiamento Last Line: Drunk after too many islands %under the iron fist of rum Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) WHY, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why fight off the memory Last Line: Calm, %beneath the warm, sisterly affection of the sun Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) WIFREDO LAM, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To report: nothing less than Last Line: And the law of your name Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) WIFREDO LAM, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To report: nothing less than Last Line: The vertigo of your blood %and the law of your name Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) WOMEN OF FRANCE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Women of france, and you, daughters of france Last Line: For them you were mothers, for them you were sisters. %flames of france, flowers of france, bless yo Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) WORLD TO COME, by BERNARD DADIE Poem Source First Line: Stars in profusion %pure Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) WREATH FOR AFRICA, by BERNARD DADIE Poem Source First Line: I shall weave you a wreath Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) WRECKAGE, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone's impotent utterance or else very real horses Last Line: Winging it and %cunning %the silentious open air of the split Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) YOU AGAIN, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I sense a presence in the darkness Last Line: Accompany them with your tamas! %accompany them with your tornado voices! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) YOU ARE BORED, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You are bored with dakar, with its sky and sand and sea Last Line: Beneath the iridescent dew, you will be a filao under icy %snow Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) YOU HELD THE BLACK FACE, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You held the black face of the warrior between your hands Last Line: I shall mourn anew my home, and the rain of your eyes over the %thirsty savannah Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) YOU SPEAK, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You speak about your age and your silky white strands Last Line: What incredible music, dearest, sweet as a %dream! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) YOUR LETTER, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your letter, precious one, flowering with september roses Last Line: Flute? %from the distance a watery flute responds Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) YOUR LETTER ON THE BED, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your letter on the bed and under the fragrant lamp Last Line: Without your letter, life would not be life, %your lips, my salt and sun, my fresh air and my snow Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) YOUR LETTER ON THE SHEET, BENEATH THE SWEET-SMELLING LAMP, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Your lips my salt my sun, my fresh air and my snow Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) YOUR NIGHT, MY NIGHT, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your night, my night at the close of an afternoon. Your tea Last Line: What the signare mistress said to her her departing ensign: bad %match Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) YOUR TREMORING LETTER, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your tremoring letter, and fever Last Line: I would not exist. %no promises: I am your joy as you are my being Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ZAFFER SUN, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the foot of stammering volcanoes Last Line: Parakinesized by lofty bitter kingdoms %I %zaffer sun Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) |
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