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James Weldon Johnson, ed. (1871–1938).  The Book of American Negro Poetry.  1922.
 
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Anne Spencer
 
 
AH, how poets sing and die!
Make one song and Heaven takes it;
Have one heart and Beauty breaks it;
Chatterton, Shelley, Keats and I—
Ah, how poets sing and die!        5
 

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