African American Poetry: A Digital Anthology

Countee Cullen, "For Joseph Conrad" (1925)

Not of the dust, but of the wave
His final couch should be;
They lie not easy in a grave
Who once have known the sea.
How shall earth's meagre bed enthrall
The hardiest seaman of them all?

Published in Color, 1925

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