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Jessie Fauset, "Again It is September" (1917)
1media/Jessie-Fauset-Again-It-is-September-Poem-Crisis-A-Record-of-the-Darker-Races-Vol-14-No-5-September-1917_thumb.png2022-06-24T09:46:44-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e12131Poem Published in The Crisis, September 1917plain2022-06-24T09:46:44-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
Again it is September! It seems so strange that I who made no vows Should sit here desolate this golden weather And wistfully remember—
A sigh of deepest yearning, A glowing look and words that knew no bounds, A swift response, an instant glad surrender To kisses wild and burning!
Ay me! Again it is September! It seems so strange that I who kept those vows Should sit here lone, and spent, and mutely praying That I may not remember!
