The Book of American Negro Poetry/Dunbar

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The Book of American Negro Poetry
edited by James Weldon Johnson
Dunbar by Annie Bethel Scales Spencer
Why Adam Sinned
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3897287The Book of American Negro Poetry — DunbarJames Weldon JohnsonAnnie Bethel Scales Spencer
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DUNBAR

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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