African American Poetry: A Digital Anthology

James R. Tines, "Love's Messages" (1903)

Ah, sweet, when I am far from you
   And I sit, with stars above;
'Cross fallow fields, or rolling blue,
   I bid them take my love.

Sit thou within thy garden bower,
   And dream that I am true;
Each twinkle from the starry shower
   Bears messages to you.

Published in Colored American Magazine, August 1903
 

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