African American Poetry: A Digital Anthology

Charles Bertram Johnson, "True Wealth" (1924)

What though no castles grand
In somber grandeur stand
Entitled with my name;
What though uncrowned by fame
I sing in humble state;
I don't bemoan my fate:
The April-haunted lea
Is wealth enough for me. 


Published in The Crisis, April 1924

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