Love
Open Door
From Copper Sun (1927)
Love
Once I held my heart’s door full wide
That love might enter in;
I saw him pass in peacock pride,
Nor cast a glance within.
The door stands wide by night and day,
The lamp burns on though dim,
Lest some lone traveler lose his way.
(Love thinks it burns for him.)
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MLA
Cullen, Countee. “Open Door.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cullen/172/.
Chicago
Cullen, Countee. “Open Door.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cullen/172/.
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