African American Poetry: A Digital Anthology

For an Unsuccessful Sinner by Countee Cullen

I boasted my sins were sure to sink me
   Out of all sound and sight of glory;
And the most I've won for all my pains
   Is a century of purgatory.

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  1. Countee Cullen, "Color" (full text) (1925) Amardeep Singh