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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HERITAGE, by GWENDOLYN B. BENNETT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want to see the slim palm-trees Last Line: Hidden by a minstrel-smile. Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Negroes; American Blacks | |||
I want to see the slim palm-trees, Pulling at the clouds With little pointed fingers . . . I want to see lithe Negro girls, Etched dark against the sky While sunset lingers. I want to hear the silent sands, Singing to the moon Before the Sphinx-still face . . . I want to hear the chanting Around a heathen fire Of a strange black race. I want to breathe the Lotus flow'r, Sighing to the stars With tendrils drinking at the Nile . . . I want to feel the surging Of my sad people's soul Hidden by a minstrel-smile. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MY AUNT ELLA MAE by MICHAEL S. HARPER DERRICK POEM (THE LOST WORLD) by TERRANCE HAYES ODE TO BIG TREND by TERRANCE HAYES WOOFER (WHEN I CONSIDER THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN) by TERRANCE HAYES CONDITIONS XXI by ESSEX HEMPHILL HATRED by GWENDOLYN B. BENNETT LINES WRITTEN AT THE GRAVE OF ALEXANDER DUMAS by GWENDOLYN B. BENNETT |
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