Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance: Visualizing Magazines, Editors, and Poems

Angelina Grimke, "I Weep" (1924)

— — I weep — —
Not as the young do noisily,
Not as the aged rustily,
But quietly.
Drop by drop the great tears
Splash upon my hands,
And save you saw them shine,
You would not know

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