Jean Toomer Soul Poems

  • 1.
    Come, brother, come. Lets lift it;
    come now, hewit! roll away!
    Shackles fall upon the Judgment Day
    But lets not wait for it.
    ...
  • 2.
    There is no transcience of twilight in
    The beauty of your soft dusk-dimpled face,
    No flicker of a slender flame in space,
    In crucibles, fragility crystalline.
    ...
  • 3.
    The sky, lazily disdaining to pursue
    The setting sun, too indolent to hold
    A lengthened tournament for flashing gold,
    Passively darkens for night's barbeque,
    ...
  • 4.
    Tell me, dear beauty of the dusk,
    When purple ribbons bind the hill,
    Do dreams your secret wish fulfill,
    Do prayers, like kernels from the husk
    ...
Total 4 Soul Poems by Jean Toomer

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