Dunbar by Anne Spencer at Old Poetry

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Ah, how poets sing and die!
Make one song and Heaven takes it;
Have one heart and Beauty breaks it;
Chatterton, Shelley, Keats and I--
Ah, how poets sing and die!

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by Anne Spencer

1882-1978, 0 views

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