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A Conceit

Maya Angelou, Maya Angelou poetry, Secular or Eclectic, Secular or Eclectic poetry, poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, poetry by Maya Angelou
(1928 - ) Timeline

Original Language
English
Secular or Eclectic
Contemporary

Give me your hand

Make room for me
to lead and follow
you
beyond this rage of poetry.

Let others have
the privacy of
touching words
and love of loss
of love.

For me
Give me your hand.

 

 

-- from The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou, by Maya Angelou

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Themes

  Lover and Beloved
 
 
 
 


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And Still I Rise, by Maya Angelou
A Brave and Startling Truth, by Maya Angelou
The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou, by Maya Angelou
The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou, by Maya Angelou
Gather Together in My Name, by Maya Angelou

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