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STREET LAMPS IN EARLY SPRING by GWENDOLYN B. BENNETT

Poet Analysis

First Line: NIGHT WEARS A GARMENT
Last Line: MOVE SLOWLY WITH THEIR GEM-STARRED LIGHT
Subject(s): AFRICAN AMERICANS; AFRICAN AMERICANS - WOMEN;

Poem Sources:

SHADOWED DREAMS; WOMEN'S POETRY OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE.
  HONEY, MAUREEN (ED.)
  (1989)
 
ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN AMERICAN POETRY.
  NELSON, CARY (ED.)
  (2000)
 



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