In one poem by this author, the speaker wonders why his mind should "stray the Grecian urn" as he lays face-in-the grass, while another work advises "let no man be so proud and confident to think he is allowed a little tent pitched in a meadow of sun
In one poem by this author, the speaker wonders why his mind should "stray the Grecian urn" as he lays face-in-the grass, while another work advises "let no man be so proud and confident to think he is allowed a little tent pitched in a meadow of sun and shadow all his little own." He describes two people who "see no wonder that lightning brilliant as a sword should blaze the path of thunder" in his poem "Tableau." In addition to other poems like "Scottsboro, Too, Is Worth Its Song" and "Any Human to Another" - he wrote that "we should not always plant while others reap" in "From the Dark Tower," which also titles his column in Opportunity magazine. This author of the novel One Way to Heaven is better known for a piece which says it's a curious thing to "make a poet black, and bid him sing." FTP, name this man who wrote the collection Copper Sun, which contains "Threnody for a Brown Girl," and wrote the poem "Yet Do I Marvel."
In one poem by this author, the speaker wonders why his mind should "stray the Grecian urn" as he lays face-in-the grass, while another work advises "let no man be so proud and confident to think he is allowed a little tent pitched in a meadow of sun and shadow all his little own."
Countee {Cullen}