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YOU'S SWEET TO YO' MAMMY JES DE SAME by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: SHET YO' EYES, MA LITTLE PICKANINNY, GO TO SLEEP
Last Line: Makes you lubly in yo' mammy's sight
Subject(s): SLEEP;
Full Poem Text Available at
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/amverse/BAD9126.0001.001/1:7.5?rgn=div2;view=fulltext


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