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Thorns and love in the roses' bed - Alice Dunbar-Nelson "Amid the Roses"

Satan too must linger there - Alice Dunbar-Nelson "Amid the Roses"

'Tis bitter thus to lose thee - Alice Dunbar-Nelson "Farewell"

My head weighed down with dreams - Alice Dunbar-Nelson "I Sit and Sew" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Gazing beyond the ken of lesser souls - Alice Dunbar-Nelson "I Sit and Sew" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Learned to hold their lives as but a breath - Alice Dunbar-Nelson "I Sit and Sew" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Fiercely pouring fire on wasted fields - Alice Dunbar-Nelson "I Sit and Sew" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

In that holocaust of hell, those fiels of woe - Alice Dunbar-Nelson "I Sit and Sew" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Autumn finery of scarlet and burnt umber and flame yellow - Alice Dunbar-Nelson "Snow in October" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Bending beneath a weight of early snow - Alice Dunbar-Nelson "Snow in October" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Claiming the right to live another fortnight - Alice Dunbar-Nelson "Snow in October" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

The brown, streaming hair of fleeing October - Alice Dunbar-Nelson "Snow in October" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

And wander through the fields in raptures sweet - Alice Dunbar-Nelson "Sonnet [I had no thought of violets of late]" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Cabarets and songs, and deadening wine - Alice Dunbar-Nelson "Sonnet [I had no thought of violets of late]" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Wild violets shy and Heaven-mounting dreams - Alice Dunbar-Nelson "Sonnet [I had no thought of violets of late]" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

To crown you glorious - Alice Dunbar-Nelson "To the Negro Farmers of the United States"


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