Jean Toomer Song Poems

  • 1.
    Come, brother, come. Lets lift it;
    come now, hewit! roll away!
    Shackles fall upon the Judgment Day
    But lets not wait for it.
    ...
  • 2.
    There is no transcience of twilight in
    The beauty of your soft dusk-dimpled face,
    No flicker of a slender flame in space,
    In crucibles, fragility crystalline.
    ...
  • 3.
    Full moon rising on the waters of my heart,
    Lakes and moon and fires,
    Cloine tires,
    Holding her lips apart.
    ...
  • 4.
    I am a reaper whose muscles set at sundown. All my oats
    are cradled.
    But I am too chilled, and too fatigued to bind them.
    And I hunger.
    ...
Total 4 Song Poems by Jean Toomer

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