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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ANCESTRY, by JULIA CRISWELL First Line: She delves among old books. Old photographs Last Line: About ancestral kin she never knew. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity | |||
She delves among old books. Old photographs Of by-gone kindred she has never known She holds up to the light. At some she laughs, They look so quaint. Her mother was not grown When these had taken their last leave of earth; Yet they had left behind, transferred to her, Each one a part, endowing her at birth With something they had been or that they were. She stands before the mirror now to gaze Upon a face that does not seem her own. Composite of a line from far-off days That stretches farther still to the unknown. Her great grandmother may have wondered, too, About ancestral kin she never knew. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CRESCENT MOON ON A CAT?ÇÖS COLLAR by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA DOCKERY AND SON by PHILIP LARKIN GENEALOGY OF FIRE by KHALED MATTAWA EAST OF CARTHAGE: AN IDYLL by KHALED MATTAWA FOR AL-TAYIB SALIH by KHALED MATTAWA HISTORY OF MY FACE by KHALED MATTAWA BEGINNING WITH 1914 by LISEL MUELLER AN AMERICAN POEM by EILEEN MYLES TO THE DIASPORA: YOU DID NOT KNOW YOU WERE AFRIKA by GWENDOLYN BROOKS |
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