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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GIRL OF FIFTEEN, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And take those forty winters out of my heart. | |||
Girl of fifteen, I see you each morning from my window As you pass on your way to school. I do more than see, I watch you. I furtively draw the curtain aside. And my heart leaps through my eyes And follows you down the street; Leaving me behind, half-hid And wholly ashamed. What holds me back, Half-hid behind the curtains and wholly ashamed, But my forty years beyond your fifteen? Girl of fifteen, as you pass There passes, too, a lightning flash of time In which you lift those forty summers off my head, And take those forty winters out of my heart. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FATHER, FATHER ABRAHAM by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON I HEAR THE STARS STILL SINGING by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON IF HOMELY VIRTUES DRAW FROM ME A TUNE by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON POSSUM SONG (A WARNING) by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON A BANJO SONG by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON A MID-DAY DREAMER by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON A PLANTATION BACCHANAL by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON AN EXPLANATION by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON AND THE GREATEST OF THESE IS WAR by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON ANSWER TO PRAYER by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON |
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