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August 8, 2021

Sunset


Effie Lee Newsome

Since Poets have told of sunset, 
What is left for me to tell?
I can only say that I saw the day
Press crimson lips to the horizon gray, 
And kiss the earth farewell.

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on August 8, 2021, by the Academy of American Poets.

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“Sunset” appeared in Negro Poets and Their Poems (Associated Publishers, 1923).

Effie Lee Newsome was born Mary Effie Lee on January 19, 1885, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is the author of Gladiola Garden: Poems of Outdoors and Indoors for Second Grade Readers (The Associated Publishers, 1940), and published numerous poems in The Crisis, Opportunity, and other leading journals of the Harlem Renaissance. She died in 1979.
 
Negro Poets and Their Poems
(Associated Publishers, 1923)

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