Nature
The Touch
From Copper Sun (1927)
Nature
I am no longer lame since Spring
Stooped to me where I lay,
And charmed with flute and silver lute
My laggard limbs to play.
Her voice is sweet as long-stored wine;
I leap like a hounded fawn;
I rise and follow over hill and hollow
To the flush of the crimson dawn!
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MLA
Cullen, Countee. “The Touch.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cullen/176/.
Chicago
Cullen, Countee. “The Touch.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cullen/176/.
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