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Há 6 dias · Poems Books Biography Comments Thoughts In A Zoo They in their cruel traps, and we in ours, Survey each other-s rage, and pass the hours Commiserating each the other-s woe, To mitigate his own pain -s fiery glow.
Há 2 dias · Living in Harlem in the 1920s, Hurston befriended writers including Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen. Her apartment, according to some accounts, was a popular spot for social gatherings. Around this time, Hurston had a few literary successes, placing in short-story and playwriting contests in Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life , published by the National Urban League .
19 de mai. de 2024 · Song In Spite Of Myself. Never love with all your heart, It only ends in aching; And bit by bit to the smallest part. That organ will be breaking. Never love with all your mind, It only ends in fretting; In musing on sweet joys behind, too poignant for forgetting.
8 de mai. de 2024 · Fish of the frantic fin, That bright chimeric beast. Flashing the argent skin ,--. If beasts like these you'd harry, Plumb then the poet's dream; Make it your aviary, Make it your wood and stream. There only shall the swish. Be heard of the regal fish;
3 de mai. de 2024 · Incident. Once riding in old Baltimore, Heart -filled, head -filled with glee, I saw a Baltimorean. Keep looking straight at me. Now I was eight and very small, And he was no whit bigger, And so I smiled, but he poked out. His tongue, and called me, 'Nigger.'.
13 de mai. de 2024 · Saturday's Child. For implements of battle. On a night that was black as tar. And Pain godfathered me. And, "One mouth more to feed ." My folks could beg or borrow. Some are teethed on a silver spoon, With the stars strung for a rattle; I cut my teeth as the black racoon-- For implements of battle. Some are swaddled i.
Há 2 dias · Harlem Wine. This is not water running here, These thick rebellious streams. That hurtle flesh and bone past fear. Down alleyways of dreams. This is a wine that must flow on. Not caring how or where. So it has ways to flow upon. Where song is in the air.
