Death & Dying
A Brown Girl Dead
From Color (1925)
Death & Dying
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.
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MLA
Cullen, Countee. “A Brown Girl Dead.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cullen/4/.
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Cullen, Countee. “A Brown Girl Dead.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cullen/4/.
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