African American Poetry (1870-1928): A Digital Anthology

Anne Spencer, "Dunbar" (1922)

DUNBAR

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!

Published in The Crisis, November 1920

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