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The Book of American Negro Poetry
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James Weldon Johnson
Dunbar
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Why Adam Sinned
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The Book of American Negro Poetry
— Dunbar
James Weldon Johnson
Annie Bethel Scales Spencer
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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