Those Winter Sundays (lines 1-5), from Collected Poems (1985)
Famous Robert Hayden Quotes
“Standing to America, bringing home
black gold, black ivory, black seed.”
Middle Passage (lines 15-16), from Collected Poems (1985)
Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday (lines 10-13), from Collected Poems (1985)
Frederick Douglass (lines 7-11), from Collected Poems (1985)
“What did I know, what did I know
of love's austere and lonely offices?”
Those Winter Sundays (lines 13-14)