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June 30, 2022 

Dunbar
Anne Spencer

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! 

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on June 30, 2022 by the Academy of American Poets.

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“Dunbar” originally appeared in The Book of American Negro Poetry (Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922).
Anne Spencer, born on February 6, 1882, on a plantation in Henry County, Virginia, was a poet from the Harlem Renaissance movement. She published more than thirty poems in magazines and anthologies, including Countee Cullen’s Caroling Dusk (Harper & Brothers, 1927) and Alain Locke’s The New Negro (Albert and Charles Boni, 1925). She died on July 27, 1975.


 
The Book of American Negro Poetry
(Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922)
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