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Keyword: Maya Angelou Matches Found: 213 A PLAGUED JOURNEY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no warning rattle at the door Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips ACCIDENT, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight %when you spread your pallet Last Line: And the naked %black-white truth AFRICA, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Thus she had lain Last Line: Although she has lain Subject(s): African Americans - History; Black Heritage AFRICA, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus she had lain Last Line: Although she had lain Subject(s): African Americans - History AFTER, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No sound falls Last Line: Of our absent selves AILEY, BALDWIN, FLOYD, KILLENS, AND MAYFIELD, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When great trees fall Last Line: Better. For they existed Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks AILEY, BALDWIN, FLOYD, KILLENS, AND MAYFIELD, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When great trees fall Last Line: We can be. Be and be %better. For they existed Subject(s): African Americans AIN'T THAT BAD, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dancin' the funky chicken Last Line: An' ain't we fine AIN'T THAT BAD?, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dancin' the funky chicken Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks ALONE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lying, thinking Subject(s): Solitude ALONE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lying, thinking %last night Last Line: Can make it out here alone AMERICA, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gold of her promise Last Line: Discover this country AMOEBAEAN FOR DADDY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was a pretty baby Last Line: Just to look at me ARRIVAL, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Angels gather. %the rush of mad air Last Line: You %beyond the door ARTFUL POSE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of falling leaves and melting Last Line: And hateful wrath %quickly AVEC MERCI, MOTHER, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From her perch of beauty Last Line: When he cries AWAKING IN NEW YORK, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Curtains forcing their will Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple AWAKING IN NEW YORK, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Curtains forcing their will Last Line: Unasked and unheeded BLACK ODE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your beauty is a thunder Last Line: Oh, to lick your love like tears BORN THAT WAY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As far as possible, she strove Last Line: In the wallpaper Subject(s): Child Molesting; Child Abuse BORN THAT WAY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As far as possible, she strove Last Line: Fingers counting the roses %in the wallpaper Subject(s): Child Molesting BRAVE AND STARTLING TRUTH, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We, unaccustomed to courage Subject(s): United Nations BRIEF INNOCENCE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn offers %innocence to a half-mad city Last Line: Of childish pranks with %angels BUMP D'BUMP, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Play me a game like blind man's dance Last Line: Bump d'bump bump d'bump CAGED BIRD, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A free bird leaps Last Line: Sings of freedom Subject(s): Birdcages; Freedom; Liberty CAGED BIRD, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A free bird leaps Last Line: For the caged bird %sings of freedom Subject(s): Birdcages; Freedom CALIFORNIA PRODIGAL, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eye follows, the land Subject(s): Nature CALIFORNIA PRODIGAL, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eye follows, the land Last Line: Sunlight casts defiance %at their feet CALL LETTERS: MRS. V.B., by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ships? %sure I'll sail them Last Line: I never learned to spell it. %not failure CALLING OF NAMES, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He went to being called a colored man Last Line: Nigguh, I ain't playin' this time CHANGES, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fickle comfort steals away Last Line: Tomorrow it returns to me CHANGING, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It occurs to me now Last Line: But I never catch %you simply smiling, anymore CHICKEN-LICKEN, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was afraid of men Last Line: Dead of acute peoplelessness CHILD DEAD IN OLD SEAS, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father, %I wait for you in oceans Last Line: The rippled %surface of our %grave COLERIDGE JACKSON, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Coleridge jackson had nothing to fear Last Line: Away, lurking at something else Subject(s): Racism; African Americans; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry COLERIDGE JACKSON, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Coleridge jackson had nothing to fear Last Line: Away, lurking at something else Subject(s): Racism COME, AND BE MY BABY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The highway is full of big cars Last Line: Come. And be my baby COMMUNICATION 1, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She wished of him a lover's kiss and Last Line: He said he loved another COMMUNICATION II, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The student %the dust of ancient pages Last Line: Of all her %dry dreams CONCEIT, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me your hand Last Line: Give me your hand CONTEMPORARY ANNOUNCEMENT, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ring the big bells Last Line: And rent day's here again COUNTRY LOVER, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Funky blues %keen toed shoes Last Line: Red soda water %and anybody's daughter COUPLE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Discard the fear and what Last Line: Exiled from this earth DETACHED, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We die, %welcoming bluebeards to our darkening closets Last Line: Love is eternal ELEGY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lie down in my grave Last Line: And watch my children %grow EQUALITY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You declare you see me dimly Last Line: Equality, and I will be free Subject(s): Racial Equality EQUALITY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You declare you see me dimly Last Line: Equality, and I will be free Subject(s): Racial Equality FACES, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Faces and more remember Last Line: A poet screams christ waits at the subway! %but who sees FAMILY AFFAIRS, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You let down, from arched Last Line: Beach in africa FIGHTIN' WAS NATURAL, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Livin' was hell FOR US, WHO DARE NOT DARE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be me a pharaoh Last Line: Know me %africa FORGIVE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take me, virginia Last Line: As rolled eyes, sad as summer %parasols in a hurricane GAMUT, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soft you day, be velvet soft Last Line: My true love is leaving GEORGIA SONG, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We swallow the odors of southern cities Last Line: Of southern peace GLORY FALLS, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glory falls around us Last Line: We grow GOOD WOMAN FEELING BAD, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blues may be the life you've led Last Line: Some blues I've had GREYDAY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day hangs heavy Last Line: My lonely heart %when we're apart HARLEM HOPSCOTCH, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One foot down, then hop! It's hot Last Line: They think I lost. I think I won HEALTH-FOOD DINER, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No sprouted wheat and soya shoots Last Line: For smoking carnivores HERE'S TO ADHERING, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went to a party Last Line: For %me %once HOW CAN I LIE TO YOU, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now thread my voice Last Line: Of sad and wise %decisions HUMAN FAMILY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I note the obvious differences Last Line: Than we are unalike Subject(s): Brotherhood HUMAN FAMILY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I note the obvious differences Last Line: We are more alike, my friends, %than we are unalike Subject(s): Brotherhood I ALMOST REMEMBER, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I almost remember %smiling some Last Line: I seem to remember %smiling IMPECCABLE CONCEPTION, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I met a lady poet Last Line: And write about romance IN A TIME, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a time of secret wooing Last Line: Then pain stalks in to plunder IN ALL WAYS A WOMAN, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my young years I took pride in the fact that luck was called a lady Subject(s): Women IN MY MISSOURI, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For you man %the man IN RETROSPECT, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last year changed its seasons Last Line: Alone. I remember now INAUGURAL POEM: ON THE PULSE OF MORNING, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A rock, a river, a tree Last Line: "with hope -- Subject(s): Inaugural Poem INAUGURAL POEM: ON THE PULSE OF MORNING, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A rock, a river, a tree Last Line: And say simply %very simply %with hope %good morning Subject(s): Inaugural Poem INSIGNIFICANT, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A series of small, on %their own insignificant Last Line: Small insignificancies INSOMNIAC, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are some nights when Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness INSOMNIAC, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are some nights when Last Line: And much more painful IS LOVE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midwives and winding sheets Last Line: Is it love? JOHN J., by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His soul curdled Last Line: Everybody in the %pool %(she didn't want him) JUNKIE MONKEY REEL, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shoulders sag, %the pull of weighted needling Last Line: How long will %this monkey dance JUST FOR A TIME, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh how you used to walk Last Line: Just for a time JUST LIKE JOB, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My lord, my lord Last Line: I'm stepping out on your word KIN, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): African Americans; Ancestors & Ancestry; Negroes; American Blacks; Heritage; Heredity KIN, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were entwined in red rings Last Line: An arkansas twilight KIND OF LOVE, SOME SAY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it true the ribs can tell Last Line: Unequalled on the rack KNOWN TO EVE AND ME, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His tan and golden self Last Line: The slithering sound of my own skin %moving in the dark LADY LUNCHEON CLUB, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her counsel was accepted: the times are grave Last Line: Speaker must be brief) LAST DECISION, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The print is too small, distressing me Last Line: Today I'll give up living LATE OCTOBER, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Carefully %the leaves of autumn Last Line: In order simply %to begin %again LESSON, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I keep on dying again Last Line: Because I love to live LET'S MAJESTE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sit a throne upon the times Last Line: Only just a prince LETTER TO AN ASPIRING JUNKIE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me hip you to the streets Last Line: That's the streets, man %nothing happening LIE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today, you threaten to leave me Last Line: Do drop a line or telephone LIFE DOESN'T FRIGHTEN ME, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shadows on the wall Subject(s): Life LITTLE GIRL SPEAKINGS, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ain't nobody better'n my daddy Last Line: No lady cookinger than my mommy LONDON, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I remember correctly, %london is a very queer place Last Line: Mighty queer Subject(s): London LORD, IN MY HEART, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Holy haloes %ring me round Last Line: If I'm struck then %I'll strike back LOSS OF LOVE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The loss of love and youth Last Line: The truly young to own %the stage? LOVE LETTER, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Listening winds %overhear my privacies Last Line: Oh, but then I had power. %power MAN BIGOT, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man who is a bigot Last Line: You simply smiling anymore Subject(s): Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry MAN BIGOT, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man who is a bigot Last Line: Who really is ms. Begot Subject(s): Racism MANY AND MORE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are many and more Last Line: And that one is my love MARTIAL CHOREOGRAPH, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hello young sailor Last Line: Like the arms of dancers %and dying swans ME AND MY WORK, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I got a piece of a job on the waterfront Last Line: That's someone else's word for caring MEMORY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cotton rows crisscross the world Last Line: And all my days are dying Subject(s): Farm Life MEN, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young, I used to Last Line: Stand and watch %maybe MILLION MAN MARCH POEM, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night has been long Subject(s): Million Man March (washington, Dc, 1995) MISS SCARLET, MR. RHETT AND OTHER LATTER-DAY SAINTS, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Novitiates sing ave Last Line: Blessed rhett, the martyr MOMMA WELFARE ROLL, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her arms semaphore fat triangles Last Line: They don't give me welfare %I take it MOTHERING BLACKNESS, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She came home running Last Line: She came home blameless MOURNING GRACE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If today, I follow death Last Line: Grace %to mourn for %me MY ARKANSAS, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is deep brooding Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Arkansas MY GUILT, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My guilt is 'slavery's chains,' too long Last Line: My sin lies in not screaming loud MY LIFE HAS TURNED TO BLUE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our summer's gone Last Line: My life has turned to blue NEW HOUSE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What words %have smashed against Last Line: Left of me NO LOSER, NO WEEPER, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hate to lose something' Last Line: And I mean I really hate to lose something' NO NO NO NO, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No %the two legg'd beasts Last Line: And I have no pity NOTHING MUCH, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But of course you were Last Line: My life, so I say %nothing much NOW LONG AGO, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One innocent spring Last Line: And comes to sleep upon your %pillow NOW SHEBA SINGS THE SING, by MAYA ANGELOU Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Alphabet Verse OLD FOLKS LAUGH, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have spent their Last Line: Forgive life for happening / to them Subject(s): Old Age OLD FOLKS LAUGH, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have spent their Last Line: Forgive life for happening %to them Subject(s): Old Age ON A BRIGHT DAY, NEXT WEEK, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Falling from the sky ON AGING, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you see me sitting quietly Subject(s): Aging; Labor & Laborers; Women; Work; Workers ON AGING, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you see me sitting quietly Last Line: A lot less lungs and much less wind. %but ain't I lucky I can still breathe in Subject(s): Aging; Labor And Laborers; Women ON DIVERSE DEVIATIONS, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When love is a shimmering curtain Last Line: And no curtain drapes the door Subject(s): African Americans - Women ON DIVERSE DEVIATIONS, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When love is a shimmering curtain Last Line: Where love is the scream of anquish %and no curtain drapes the door Subject(s): African Americans - Women ON REACHING FORTY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Other acquainted years Last Line: To die at %thirty-nine ON WORKING WHITE LIBERALS, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't ask the foreign legion Last Line: When I see a white man load a black man's gun ONE MORE ROUND, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There ain't no pay beneath the sun Last Line: And let's heave it down OUR GRANDMOTHERS, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She lay, skin down in the moist dirt Subject(s): African Americans; Grandparents; Grandparents; Negroes; American Blacks; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers OUR GRANDMOTHERS, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She lay, skin down on the moist dirt Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers OUR GRANDMOTHERS, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She lay, skin down on the moist dirt Last Line: Lay aside your fears that I will be undone, %for I shall not be moved Subject(s): Grandparents PASSING TIME, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your skin like dawn Last Line: The other, the end of a %sure beginning PHENOMENAL WOMAN, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pretty women wonder where my secret lies Last Line: That's me. Subject(s): Women PICKIN EM UP AND LAYIN EM DOWN, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a long-legged girl Last Line: Gettin to the next town %baby PLAGUED JOURNEY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no warning rattle at the door Last Line: Greedy arms PLEA TO AN INAUGURAL POETESS, by TOM RILEY Poem Source First Line: The world ignores me. What am I to do? Last Line: Fly to my rscue, maya angelou! POOR GIRL, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You've got another love Last Line: Poor girl %just like me PREACHER, DON'T SEND ME, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography PREACHER, DON'T SEND ME, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Promise me that %or nothing at all PRELUDE TO A PARTING, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beside you, prone Last Line: A fleeing love %to stay PRESCIENCE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had I known that the heart Last Line: Wanted more and cared less PRISONER, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even sunlight dares PRISONER, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even sunlight dares Last Line: Then rails to run PUSHER, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He bad %o he bad Last Line: Yet gives no sweet %release RECOVERY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A last love Subject(s): Love RECOVERY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A last love, %proper in conclusion Last Line: And speeding toward the light REFUSAL, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beloved %in what other lives or lands Last Line: I will not deign to die REMEMBERING, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soft grey ghosts crawl up my sleeve Last Line: And they lay my soul in strips Subject(s): Memory; Travel; Journeys; Trips REMEMBERING, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soft grey ghosts crawl up my sleeve Last Line: And they lay my soul in strips Subject(s): Memory; Travel REMEMBRANCE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your hands easy %weight, teasing the bees Last Line: Then, can I greedily consume %your presence REQUEST, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If this country is a bastard Last Line: Time of its life REVERSES, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How often must we Last Line: In our past RIOT: 60'S, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our %your friend charlie pawnshop Last Line: Shoot him while he run SAVIOR, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Petulant priests, greedy Last Line: Although we have lost %your name SENSES OF INSECURITY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I couldn't tell fact from fiction Last Line: And found my senses lost SEPIA FASHION SHOW, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Their hair, pomaded, faces jaded Last Line: You got at miss ann's scrubbing Subject(s): African Americans – Women; Beauty SEPIA FASHION SHOW, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their hair, pomaded, faces jaded Last Line: I'd remind them please, look at those knees %you got a miss ann's scrubbing Subject(s): African Americans - Women SEVEN WOMEN'S BLESSED ASSURANCE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One thing about me Last Line: To rest sometime SHAKER, WHY DON'T YOU SING?, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Evicted from sleep's mute palace Last Line: Shaker, why don't you sing SINGER WILL NOT SING, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A benison given. Unused Last Line: To this place SLAVE COFFLE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just beyond my reaching Last Line: That my life was gone SOME GRASS ALONG A DITCH BANK, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't know what happens to grass Last Line: But then growing still again Subject(s): Farm Life SON TO MOTHER, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I start no Last Line: "before I annihilate Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks SON TO MOTHER, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I start no Last Line: Before I annihilate %their ignorance? Subject(s): African Americans SONG FOR THE OLD ONES, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My fathers sit on benches Last Line: They kept my race alive Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers SONG FOR THE OLD ONES, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My fathers sit on benches Last Line: They kept my race alive Subject(s): Labor And Laborers SOUNDS LIKE PEARLS, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sounds %like pearls Last Line: With blushings %disappear SOUTHEAST ARKANASIA, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After eli whitney's gin brought to generations Last Line: And the absence of despair / over yonder? Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers SOUTHEAST ARKANASIA, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After eli whitney's gin brought to generations Last Line: And the absence of despair %over yonder Subject(s): Labor And Laborers STARVATION, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hurray! Hurry! %come through the keyhole Last Line: And laughs at each eviction notice. %come STILL I RISE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You may write me down in history / with your bitter, twisted lies Last Line: I rise. Subject(s): African Americans - Women TAKE TIME OUT, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you see them Last Line: Take time out TEARS, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tears %the crystal rags Last Line: Blue farewell %of a dying dream TELEPHONE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It comes in black Last Line: Ring. Damn you TELEVISED, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Televised news turns Last Line: And one more morning? Subject(s): Blacks; Children; Hunger; Childhood TELEVISED, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Televised news turns Last Line: Them peas and lamb chops %and one more morning? Subject(s): Blacks; Children; Hunger THANK YOU, LORD, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see you %brown-skinned Last Line: I want to thank you THE BLACK FAMILY PLEDGE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because we have forgotten our ancestors Subject(s): African Americans; Ancestors & Ancestry; Negroes; American Blacks; Heritage; Heredity THE MEMORY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cotton rows crisscross the world Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE MOTHERING BLACKNESS, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She came home running Subject(s): Homecoming THE TRAVELLER, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Byways and bygone Subject(s): Solitude THESE YET TO BE UNITED STATES, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tremors of your network Last Line: Which fill your children's throats Subject(s): United States; America THESE YET TO BE UNITED STATES, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tremors of your network Last Line: And cannot hear the curses %which fill your children's throats Subject(s): United States THEY ASK WHY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A certain person wondered why Last Line: You don't even have to talk THEY WENT HOME, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They went home and told their wives Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Women; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THEY WENT HOME, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They went home and told their wives Last Line: They'd spend one night, or two or three %but Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Women THIRTEENS (BLACK), by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your momma took to shouting Last Line: The thirteens. Right on THIRTEENS (WHITE), by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your momma kissed the chauffeur Last Line: The thirteens. Right on THIS WINTER DAY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The kitchen is its readiness Last Line: My window and the soup THROUGH THE INNER CITY TO THE SUBURBS, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Secured by sooted windows Last Line: And grinning. Still %grinning TIMES-SQUARE-SHOESHINE-COMPOSITION, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm the best that ever done it Last Line: (pow pow) TO A FREEDOM FIGHTER, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You drink a bitter draught Last Line: I hear it in your breath TO A HUSBAND, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your voice at times a fist Last Line: I sit at home and see it all / through you Subject(s): Africa; African Americans; Love - Marital; Negroes; American Blacks; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TO A HUSBAND, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your voice at times a fist Last Line: I sit home and see it all %through you Subject(s): Africa; African Americans; Love - Marital TO A MAN, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My man is %black golden amber Last Line: New. Now new. %still itself. %still TO A SUITOR, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you are black and for me Last Line: A crescent moon, naturally TO BEAT THE CHILD WAS BAD ENOUGH, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A young body, light Last Line: A young body floats %silently TRAVELER, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Byways and bygone Last Line: My long nights, lone UNMEASURED TEMPO, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun rises at midday Last Line: But too late WE SAW BEYOND OUR SEEMING, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Dry tablets without token WEEKEND GLORY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some dichty folks %don't know the facts Last Line: On a saturday night WHEN I THINK ABOUT MYSELF, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: When I think about my folks WHEN YOU COME TO ME, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you come to me, unbidden Last Line: Trunks of secret words %I cry WHERE WE BELONG, A DUET, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In every town and village Last Line: Now I'm where I belong WHY ARE THEY HAPPY PEOPLE?, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Skin back your teeth, damn you Last Line: With your kin Subject(s): African Americans; Happiness; Negroes; American Blacks WHY ARE THEY HAPPY PEOPLE?, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Skin back your teeth, damn you Last Line: With your kin Subject(s): African Americans WILLIE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Willie was a man without fame Last Line: When the chidren sing %I am the rhyme WOMAN ME, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your smile, delicate / rumor of peace Subject(s): African Americans - Women WOMAN ME, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your smile, delicate %rumor of peace Last Line: A stomp of feet, a bevy of swift hands Subject(s): African Americans - Women WOMAN WORK, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've got the children to tend Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Women; Work; Workers WOMAN WORK, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've got the children to tend Last Line: You're all that I can call my own Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women WONDER, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A day %drunk with the nectar of Last Line: Long years hence WORKER'S SONG, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Big ships shudder Last Line: Whoppa %whoppa ZORRO MAN, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here %in the wombed room Last Line: And trembling for me |
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