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Discover our poem explanations - click here!Searching... Author: BONTEMPS, ARNA Matches Found: 29 Bontemps, Arna Poet's Biography 29 poems available by this author A BLACK MAN TALKS OF REAPING Poem Text First Line: I have sown beside all waters in my day Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks A NOTE OF HUMILITY Poem Text First Line: When all our hopes are sown on stony ground Last Line: An hour or two, but it will not be soon Subject(s): African Americans; Liberty; Time; Negroes; American Blacks BLACK MAN TALKS OF REAPING First Line: I have sown beside all waters in my day Last Line: They have not sown, and feed on bitter fruit Subject(s): African Americans BLIGHT Poem Text First Line: I have seen a lovely thing Last Line: But I hear the beating of dead boughs. CLOSE YOUR EYES! First Line: Go through the gates with closed eyes Last Line: And every face you ever loved forget. %close your eyes; walk bravely through DARK GIRL First Line: Easy on your drums, %easy wind and rain Last Line: Easy wind and rain- %your dancing girl is dead DAY-BREAKERS First Line: We are not come to wage a strife Last Line: Yet would we die as some have done: %beating a way for the rising sun Subject(s): African Americans GETHSEMANE Poem Text First Line: All that night I walked alone and wept Last Line: I said your name but silence answered me Subject(s): African Americans; Gethsemane; Negroes; American Blacks GETHSEMANE First Line: All that night I walked alone and wept Last Line: I said your name but silence answered me Subject(s): African Americans; Gethsemane GOD GIVE TO MEN First Line: God give the yellow man GOLGOTHA IS A MOUNTAIN, A PURPLE MOUND First Line: Golgotha is a mountain, a purple mound HOMING Poem Text First Line: Sweet timber land Last Line: And screaming bitterly? IDOLATRY First Line: You have been good to me, I give you this LANCELOT First Line: The fruit of the orchard is over-ripe, elaine Last Line: Least of all in the day of falling fruit Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Arthur, King LANCELOT First Line: The fruit of the orchard is over-ripe, elaine Subject(s): Arthurian Legend LENGTH OF MOON First Line: Then the golden hour MIRACLES First Line: Doubt no longer miracles Last Line: Walking on the sea MY HEART HAS KNOWN ITS WINTER Poem Text First Line: A little while spring will claim its own Last Line: My heart has known its winterand carried gall Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks MY HEART HAS KNOWN ITS WINTER First Line: A little while spring will claim its own Last Line: My heart has known its winter and carried gall Subject(s): African Americans NOCTURNE AT BETHESDA Poem Text First Line: I thought I saw an angel flying low Subject(s): African Americans; Bible; Religion; Negroes; American Blacks; Theology NOCTURNE AT BETHESDA First Line: I thought I saw an angel flying low Last Line: You are sad. It is the same with me Subject(s): African Americans; Bible; Religion NOTE OF HUMILITY First Line: When all our hopes are sown on stony ground Last Line: An hour or two, but it will not be soon Subject(s): African Americans RECONNAISSANCE First Line: After the cloud embankments Last Line: In latitudes where storms are born RETURN First Line: Once more, listening to the wind and rain Last Line: A question shapes your lips, your eyes glisten %retaining tears, but there are no more words SOUTHERN MANSION Poem Text First Line: Poplars are standing there still as death Subject(s): African Americans; Haunted Houses; Southern States; Supernatural; Negroes; American Blacks; South (u.s.) SOUTHERN MANSION First Line: Poplars are standing there still as death Last Line: They have broken roses down %and poplars stand there still as death Subject(s): African Americans; Haunted Houses; Southern States; Supernatural THE DAY-BREAKERS Poem Text First Line: We are not come to wage a strife Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks TO A YOUNG GIRL LEAVING THE HILL COUNTRY First Line: The hills are wroth; the stones have scored you bitterly TREE DESIGN First Line: A tree is more than a shadow |
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