For Reverend Theodore Richardson

If Mary came would Mary
Forgive, as Mothers may,
And sad and second Saviour
Furnish us today?

She would not shake her head and leave
This military air,
But ratify a modern hay,
And put her Baby there.

Mary would not punish men-
If Mary came again.

(C) Gwendolyn Brooks
03/24/2017


Best Poems of Gwendolyn Brooks

• The Sundays Of Satin-legs Smith
• The Crazy Woman
• Of De Witt Williams On His Way To Lincoln Cemetery
• A Song In The Front Yard
• My Dreams, My Works, Must Wait Till After Hell
• Truth
• Riot
• The Sonnet-ballad
• To Be In Love
• The Ballad Of Rudolph Reed
• The Children Of The Poor
• The Rites For Cousin Vit
• Speech To The Young : Speech To The Progress-toward
• The Sermon On The Warpland
• Jessie Mitchell-s Mother
• To The Diaspora
• Mayor Harold Washington
• One Wants A Teller In A Time Like This
• The Blackstone Rangers
• Primer For Blacks
• When You Have Forgotten Sunday: The Love Story