Ah, how poets sing and die! Make one song and Heaven takes it; Have one heart and Beauty breaks it; Chatterton, Shelley, Keats, and I— Ah, how poets sing and die!
Anne Spencer
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Dunbar, The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922); Complete five-line poem read at Academy print view, explicitly public domain, publication credited to1922 anthology. Anne Spencer is the author of this poem titled Dunbar; not attributed as a quotation by Paul Laurence Dunbar. No biographical claim a
- Dunbar, The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922)
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