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The Ballad Of The Brown Girl: An Old Tale Retold, Countee Cullen, Charles Cullen

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OH, THIS is the tale the grandams tell

In the land where the grass is blue,

And some there are who say'tis false,

And some that hold it true.

Lord Thomas on a summer's day

Came to his mother's door;

His eyes were ringed for want of sleep;

His heart was troubled sore.

He knelt him at his mother's side;

She stroked his curly head.

"I've come to be advised of you;

Advise me well," he said.

"For there are two who love me well—

I wot it from each mouth—

And one's Fair London, lily maid,

And pride of …

Caroling Dusk: An Anthology Of Verse By Negro Poets, Countee Cullen , Editor

Electronic Texts in American Studies

Poets: Paul Laurence Dunbar • Joseph S. Cotter, Sr • James Weldon Johnson • William Edward Burghardt Du Bois • William Stanley Braithwaite • James Edward Mccall • Angelina Weld Grimke • Anne Spencer • Mary Effie Lee Newsome • John Frederick Matheus • Fenton Johnson • Jessie Fauset • Alice Dunbar Nelson • Georgia Douglas Johnson • Claude McKay • Jean Toomer • Joseph S. Cotter, Jr • Blanche Taylor Dickinson • Frank Horne • Lewis Alexander • Sterling A. Brown • Clarissa Scott Delany • Langston Hughes • Gwendolyn B. Bennett • Anna Bontemps • Albert Rice • …