Death & Dying
For a Virgin
From Color (1925)
Death & Dying
For forty years I shunned the lust
Inherent in my clay;
Death only was so amorous
I let him have his way.
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MLA
Cullen, Countee. “For a Virgin.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cullen/28/.
Chicago
Cullen, Countee. “For a Virgin.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cullen/28/.
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