Love
Advice to Youth
From Color (1925)
Love
Since little time is granted here
For pride in pain or play,
Since blood soon cools before that Fear
That makes our prowess clay,
If lips to kiss are freely met,
Lad, be not proud nor shy;
There are no lips where men forget,
And undesiring lie.
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Codex Note
For Guillaume
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MLA
Cullen, Countee. “Advice to Youth.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cullen/56/.
Chicago
Cullen, Countee. “Advice to Youth.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cullen/56/.
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