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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: TOOMER, JEAN Matches Found: 46 Toomer, Jean Poet's Biography 46 poems available by this author AT SEA Poem Text First Line: Once I saw large waves Last Line: Felt the pang of transiernce Subject(s): Sea; Ocean AT SEA First Line: Once I saw large waves Last Line: But I, not they, %felt the pang of transience Subject(s): Sea BANKING COAL Poem Text First Line: Whoever it was who brought the first wood and coal Last Line: All money ever saved by banking coal. Subject(s): Coal Mines & Miners BEEHIVE First Line: Within this black hive to-night Last Line: Wish that I might fly out past the moon %and curl forever in some far-off farmyard flower BROWN RIVER, SMILE Poem Text First Line: It is a new america Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks BROWN RIVER, SMILE First Line: It is a new america Last Line: It is a new america, %to be spiritualized by each new american Subject(s): African Americans CALLING JESUS First Line: Her soul is like a little thrust-tailed dog that follows her, whimpering Last Line: Sleeps: cradled in dream-fluted cane CANE: HER LIPS ARE COPPER WIRE Poem Text First Line: Whisper of yellow globes Last Line: Till they are incandescent CANE: NOVEMBER COTTON FLOWER Poem Text First Line: Boll-weevil's coming, and the winter's cold Last Line: Beauty so sudden for that time of year. Variant Title(s): November Cotton Flower Subject(s): Cotton; Drought; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers CONVERSION Poem Text First Line: African guardian of souls Last Line: Amen / shouts hosanna Subject(s): Blacks; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry CONVERSION First Line: African guardian of souls Last Line: Amen %shouts hosanna COTTON SONG Poem Text First Line: Come, brother, come. Lets lift it Last Line: Come, brother, roll, roll Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks COTTON SONG First Line: Come, brother, come. Lets lift it Last Line: Come, brother, roll, roll! Subject(s): African Americans EVENING SONG Poem Text First Line: Full moon rising on the waters of my heart Last Line: Lips pressed against my heart Subject(s): Love EVENING SONG First Line: Full moon rising on the waters of my heart Last Line: Lips pressed against my heart FACE Poem Text First Line: Hair -- / silver-gray Last Line: Nearly ripe for worms Subject(s): Faces FACE First Line: Hair -- %silver-gray Last Line: Purple in the evening sun %nearly ripe for worms Subject(s): Faces FIVE VIGNETTES First Line: The red-tiled ships you see reflected Last Line: In y. Don's laundry %a chinese baby fell %and cried as any other FOR M.W. Poem Text First Line: There is no transcience of twilight in Last Line: Inviolate of ways that would feile Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Beauty GEORGIA DUSK Poem Text First Line: The sky, lazily disdaining to pursue Last Line: Bring dreams of christ to dusky cane-lipped throngs. Subject(s): Georgia (state); Picnics; Barbecues GODS ARE HERE First Line: This is no mountain Last Line: I will arise %and take majesty into the kitchen GUM First Line: On top of two tall buildings Last Line: Jaws jesus %jawing gum HARVEST SONG Poem Text First Line: I am a reaper whose muscles set at sundown. All my oats are cradled Subject(s): African Americans; Harvest; Hunger; Negroes; American Blacks HARVEST SONG First Line: I am a reaper whose muscles set at sundown. All my oats are cradled Last Line: It will not bring me knowledge of my hunger Subject(s): African Americans; Harvest; Hunger HER LIPS ARE COPPER WIRE Poem Text First Line: Whisper of yellow globes Last Line: Till they are incandescent Subject(s): Kisses IMPRINT FOR RIO GRANDE First Line: The indians beat drums, sing and dance to assert Last Line: That comes to earth in new mexico KARINTHA First Line: Men had always wanted her, this karintha, even as a child Last Line: When the sun goes down. %goes down KARINTHA First Line: Her skin is like dusk on the eastern horizon Last Line: ...When the sun goes down %goes down Subject(s): Beauty; Man-woman Relationships; Youth LOST DANCER First Line: Spatial depths of being survive Last Line: Upon his dance, his dance upon %the diamond body of his being NOVEMBER COTTON FLOWER Poem Text Subject(s): Cotton; Autumn; Southern States; Fall; South (u.s.) NULLO First Line: A spray of pine-needles Last Line: Nor did the forest catch aflame PEOPLE Poem Text First Line: To those fixed on white, Last Line: You would see beings Subject(s): Race Awareness PORTRAIT IN GEORGIA Poem Text First Line: Hair--braided chestnut, Last Line: Of black flesh after flame Subject(s): Lynching; Racism; Georgia (state) African Americans - Women; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry PRAYER First Line: My body is opaque to the soul Last Line: O spirits of whom my soul is but a little finger REAPERS Poem Text Recitation First Line: Black reapers with the sound of steel on stones Last Line: Blood-stained, continue cutting weeds and shade Subject(s): Harvest; Mowing & Mowers; Rats; Seasons; Lawn Mowers REAPERS First Line: Black reapers with the sound of steel on stones Last Line: His belly close to ground. I see the blade, %blood-stained, continue cutting weeds and shade Subject(s): Harvest; Mowing And Mowers; Rats; Seasons SEVENTH STREET Poem Text First Line: Money burns the pocket, pocket hurts Last Line: Whizzing, whizzing down the street-car tracks Subject(s): African Americans; City & Town Life; Social Commentaries; United States - Prohibition (1919-1933); Negroes; American Blacks SEVENTH STREET First Line: Money burns the pocket, pocket hurts Last Line: Whizzing, whizzing down the street-car tracks SONG OF THE SON Poem Text First Line: Pour, o pour that parting soul in song Last Line: Caroling softly souls of slavery Subject(s): African Americans; Holidays; New Year; Slavery; Negroes; American Blacks; Serfs SONG OF THE SON First Line: Pour, o pour that parting soul in song Last Line: Caroling softly souls of slavery Subject(s): African Americans; Holidays; New Year; Slavery STORM ENDING Poem Text First Line: Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads Last Line: And the sweet earth flying from the thunder Subject(s): Storms STORM ENDING First Line: Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads Last Line: And the sweet earth flying from the thunder TELL ME Poem Text First Line: Tell me, dear beauty of the dusk, Last Line: Catches the soul of what you send Subject(s): Relationships THE GODS ARE HERE Poem Text First Line: There is no mountain Last Line: And take majesty into the kitchen Subject(s): Home THE LOST DANCER Poem Text First Line: Spatial depths of being survive Last Line: The diamond body of his being Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers UNSUSPECTING Poem Text First Line: There is a natty kind of mind Last Line: And never suspects it is a rind Subject(s): Mind, The |
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