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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TENEBRIS, by ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a tree, by day
Last Line: Or is it a shadow?
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Shadows
First Line: There is a tree, by day
Last Line: Or is it a shadow?
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Shadows
There is a tree, by day,
Has a shadow,
A hand huge and black,
With fingers long and black.
All through the dark,
Against the white man's house,
In the little wind,
The black hand plucks and plucks
At the bricks.
The bricks are the color of blood and very small.
Is it a black hand?
Or is it a shadow?
Other Poems of Interest...
SUNDAY A.M. NOT IN MANHATTAN by JOHN HOLLANDER
THE ANIMAL INSIDE THE ANIMAL by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN
DRIVING ALONGSIDE THE HOUSANTONIC RIVER ALONE ON A RAINY APRIL NIGHT by WILLIAM MATTHEWS
NOCTURNE IN A MINOR KEY by CONRAD AIKEN
SONATA IN PATHOS by CONRAD AIKEN
I LOOKED FOR LIFE AND DID A SHADOW SEE by JAMES GALVIN