English Poetry. Countee Cullen. A Brown Girl Dead. Каунти Каллен.

Countee Cullen (Каунти Каллен)

A Brown Girl Dead

With two white roses on her breasts, 
White candles at head and feet, 
Dark Madonna of the grave she rests; 
Lord Death has found her sweet.

Her mother pawned her wedding ring
To lay her out in white; 
She’d be so proud she’d dance and sing
to see herself tonight.

Countee Cullen’s other poems:

1. From the Dark Tower
2. That Bright Chimeric Beast
3. The Wakeupworld
4. The Shroud of Color
5. Karenge Ya Marenge

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