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BY NAOMI SHIHAB NYE

The river is famous to the fish.

BY CLAUDE MCKAY
 
I hear the halting footsteps of a lass

BY EDGAR ALLAN POE

Gaily bedight,

A gallant knight,

In sunshine and in shadow,

Had journeyed long,

BY MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE

BY JAMES BALDWIN

BY CATE MARVIN

You think I like to stand all day, all night,

all any kind of light, to be subject only

BY GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON
 
The heart of a woman goes forth with the dawn,

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