Jean Toomer Never Poems

  • 1.
    Whoever it was who brought the first wood and coal
    To start the Fire, did his part well;
    Not all wood takes to fire from a match,
    Nor coal from wood before itâ??s burned to charcoal.
    ...
  • 2.
    Boll-weevil's coming, and the winter's cold,
    Made cotton-stalks look rusty, seasons old,
    And cotton, scarce as any southern snow,
    Was vanishing; the branch, so pinched and slow,
    ...
  • 3.
    There is a natty kind of mind
    That slicks its thoughts,
    Culls its oughts,
    Trims its views,
    ...
  • 4.
    To those fixed on white,
    White is white,
    To those fixed on black,
    It is the same,
    ...
Total 4 Never Poems by Jean Toomer

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