James Weldon Johnson, ed. (1871–1938). The Book of American Negro Poetry. 1922.
Dunbar
A
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!
James Weldon Johnson, ed. (1871–1938). The Book of American Negro Poetry. 1922.
A
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!