Love

Caprice

by Countee Cullen 1903–1946

From Color (1925)

Love

“I’ll tell him, when he comes,” she said,
“Body and baggage, to go,
Though the night be darker than my hair,
And the ground be hard with snow.”

But when he came with his gay black head
Thrown back, and his lips apart,
She flipped a light hair from his coat,
And sobbed against his heart.

MLA

Cullen, Countee. “Caprice.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cullen/57/.

Chicago

Cullen, Countee. “Caprice.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cullen/57/.

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