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Poems, 1938-1940 by Gwendolyn Brooks

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Poems, 1938-1940 by Gwendolyn Brooks
Poems, 1938-1940 by Gwendolyn Brooks, front cover (verso)
My Japanese Friend, by Gwendolyn Brooks
My Japanese Friend, by Gwendolyn Brooks (verso)
Old Apartment House (Chicago), by Gwendolyn Brooks
Old Apartment House, by Gwendolyn Brooks, page 2 (verso)
Ripeness, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Pride, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Last End, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Why Poets Write Poems, by Gwendolyn Brooks
To Herman Lawrence, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Of Lavinia Chapman, by Gwendolyn Brooks
To Bernard Goss, by Gwendolyn Brooks
To Margaret Taylor, by Gwendolyn Brooks
To One She Wishes She Did Not Love, by Gwendolyn Brooks
For Theries C. Lindsey, Flowers In The Road, by Gwendolyn Brooks
The Crazy Woman, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Bones, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Sara-Beth, by Gwendolyn Brooks
You Never Know When Love Is Coming, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Truth, by Gwendolyn Brooks
The Little Clock, by Gwendolyn Brooks
This Time, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Nothing to Say, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Old Laughter, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Bareness, by Gwendolyn Brooks
November, by Gwendolyn Brooks
I Used To Play With Paper Dolls, by Gwendolyn Brooks
I Like A Bit Of Scantiness, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Death and Sun and Air, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Lara Trall, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Lara Trall, by Gwendolyn Brooks, page 2
Tradition, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Gray Old Yesterdays, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Lion. Robin., by Gwendolyn Brooks
Dizziness, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Elementals, by Gwendolyn Brooks
I Weary Of Confusion, by Gwendolyn Brooks
It Is The Very Gold of Joy by Gwendolyn Brooks
She Has Wept For Love, by Gwendolyn Brooks
I Shall Write No Letter, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Life Hits And Runs, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Failure, by Gwendolyn Brooks
One Wonders At The Thoughts That Crawl, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Road, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Thinking, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Some Eyes Do Not Bother, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Since There Is Always Poetry, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Chirp Again, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Who Grants To Love, by Gwendolyn Brooks
I Want You With Me Always, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Time-Waste, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Verjuice, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Sung By A Negro Girl, by Gwendolyn Brooks
He Died Last Evening, Mary, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Autumn, by Gwendolyn Brooks
For Armistice Day, 1938, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Life Asks But Time, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Beth, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Relaxation, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Fairies, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Easter Day, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Poems -- 1938 by Gwendolyn Brooks, section title page (recto)
Poems -- 1938 by Gwendolyn Brooks, section title page (verso)
Here Stands Convention In The Road, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Saint Valentine's Day, by Gwendolyn Brooks
The Partial Physician, by Gwendolyn Brooks
The Dying Flame, by Gwendolyn Brooks
The New-Born Babe, by Gwendolyn Brooks
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Winter Singer, by Gwendolyn Brooks
My Books, by Gwendolyn Brooks
So Still the Winter Night, by Gwendolyn Brooks
As You Are Drawn ---- , by Gwendolyn Brooks
Wish I Knew, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Mr. And Mrs. Bernard Goss, by Gwendolyn Brooks
For Kenyon Reid (by request), by Gwendolyn Brooks
Not Every Sunday Morning, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Snow Storm, by Gwendolyn Brooks
The Winter's Turning Into Spring, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Three Talk About War, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Three Talk About War, by Gwendolyn Brooks, page 2
New, by Gwendolyn Brooks
There Was a Little Negro Girl, by Gwendolyn Brooks
For Robert J. McGee (Faithful Friend), by Gwendolyn Brooks
They Too, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Frightened Young Soldier, Irritated By His Wife's Farewell Tears, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Hale Trees, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Poet, by Gwendolyn Brooks
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Mrs. Corley and the Colored Maid, by Gwendolyn Brooks
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Possession, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Tomorrow I Shall See Him, by Gwendolyn Brooks
High Spirits, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Love, by Gwendolyn Brooks
A Song For Negros, by Gwendolyn Brooks
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Sun-Wrapped Rain, by Gwendolyn Brooks
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Is Love To You What Love's To Me?, by Gwendolyn Brooks
When Love All Broken --, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Because I'm Tired Of Fighting, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Alteration, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Over and Over, by Gwendolyn Brooks
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Night by the Lake, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Appreciation, by Gwendolyn Brooks
What Other Thing Is There To Tell, by Gwendolyn Brooks
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Paradise, by Gwendolyn brooks
I Do Not Like A Palace, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Life Is So Beautiful, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Lord You Have Given So Much Of Beauty, by Gwendolyn Brooks
How Sickness Softens And Soothes A Man, by Gwendolyn Brooks
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The Ghost Girl, by Gwendolyn Brooks
The Ghost Girl, by Gwendolyn Brooks, page 2
It Is A Disappearing Sun, by Gwendolyn Brooks
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Poems -- 1939 by Gwendolyn Brooks, section title page
Poems -- 1939 by Gwendolyn Brooks, section title page (verso)
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Romance Is Not In Old Madrid, by Gwendolyn Brooks
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To A Brown Madwoman, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Dark Girl, by Gwendolyn Brooks
I Want To Get Inside Your Mind, by Gwendolyn Brooks
I Have Not Learned, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Pick Up The Strap Again (Street Car), by Gwendolyn Brooks
Watermelon Man, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Exhaust the Little Moment, by Gwendolyn Brooks
To My Heart, by Gwendolyn Brooks
When He Was Tender-Five, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Booker Taliaferro Washington, by Gwendolyn Brooks
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Poems -- 1940 by Gwendolyn Brooks, section title page
Poems -- 1940 by Gwendolyn Brooks, section title page (verso)
Peon (Oglethorpe County, Georgia), by Gwendolyn Brooks
Perhaps, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Little Brown Boy, by Gwendolyn Brooks
There's Merriment Knocking At My Door, by Gwendolyn Brooks
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Orison, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Old Age Has A Beauty All Its Own, by Gwendolyn Brooks
The Days, by Gwendolyn Brooks
The Days, by Gwendolyn Brooks (verso)
Bookcase and a smoking ashtray, illustration
Bookcase and a smoking ashtray, illustration (verso)
The New-Born Babe, by Gwendolyn Brooks
The New-Born Babe, by Gwendolyn Brooks, page 2
Cradle Ballad, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Cradle Ballad, by Gwendolyn Brooks (verso)
Truth, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Truth, by Gwendolyn Brooks (verso)
Truth, by Gwendolyn Brooks, page 2
Truth, by Gwendolyn Brooks, page 2 (verso)
The Ghost Girl, by Gwendolyn Brooks
The Ghost Girl, by Gwendolyn Brooks (verso)
Poems, 1938-1940 by Gwendolyn Brooks, back cover
Poems, 1938-1940 by Gwendolyn Brooks, back cover (verso)
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