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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
YOUR WORLD, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your world is as big as you make it Last Line: With rapture, with power, with ease! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): African Americans - Women | |||
Your world is as big as you make it I know, for I used to abide In the narrowest nest in a corner My wings pressing close to my side. But I sighted the distant horizon Where the sky-line encircled the sea And I throbbed with a burning desire To travel this immensity. I battered the cordons around me And cradled my wings on the breeze Then soared to the uttermost reaches With rapture, with power, with ease! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BLACK WOMAN by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON FOREDOOM by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON WHO SAID IT WAS SIMPLE by AUDRE LORDE ELIZABETH KECKLEY: 30 YEARS A SLAVE AND 4 YEARS IN THE WHITE HOUSE by E. ETHELBERT MILLER ON DIVERSE DEVIATIONS by MAYA ANGELOU HYMN FOR LANIE POO by AMIRI BARAKA THE DREAM SONGS: 68 by JOHN BERRYMAN OLD BLACK MEN by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON |
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