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fcw?'>1 KM N^1 ii The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou w FU* vm _r li «* : ]••• If. j„1F , m -M R A N D OM H O U SE raika, N E W Y O RK Copyright © 1994 by Maya Angelou All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. All of the poems in this collection, excluding the titles listed below, are copyright © Maya Angelou and are reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc. Grateful acknowledgment is made to Hirt Music, Inc., c/o Gerard W. Purcell Associates, Ltd., for permission to reprint the following poems: "They Went Home," "The Gamut," "To a Man," "No Loser, No Weeper," "When You Come to Me," "Remembering," "In a Time," "Tears," "The Detached," "To a Husband," "Accident," "Let's Majeste," or "The Ego and I," "On Diverse Deviations," "Mourning Grace," "Sounds Like Pearls," "When I Think About Myself," "Letter to an Aspiring Junkie," "Miss Scarlett, Mr. Rhett and Other Latter-Day Saints," "Faces," "To a Freedom Fighter," "Riot: 60s,""No No No No,""Black Ode,""My Guilt," "The Calling of Names," "On Working White Liberals," "Sepia Fashion Show,""The Thirteens (Black),""The Thirteens (White)," and "Harlem Hopscotch." Copyright © 1969 by Hirt Music, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Hirt Music, Inc., c/o Gerard W Purcell Associates, Ltd., 964 Second Avenue, New York, N.Y 10022 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Angelou, Maya. [Poems] The complete collected poems of Maya Angelou.—1st ed. p. cm. ISBN 0-679-42895-x I. Title. PS3551.N464A17 1994 811'.54—dc20 94-14501 Printed in the United States of America on acid-Jree paper 22 24 26 28 29 27 25 23 21 Book design by Carole Lowenstein This book is dedicated to the great love of my life. Contents Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water fore I Diiie PART ONE: WHERE LOVE IS A SCREAM OF ANGUISH They Went Home 7 The Gamut 8 A Zorro Man 9 To a Man 10 Late October n No Loser, No Weeper 12 When You Come to Me 13 Remembering 14 In a Time 15 Tears 16 The Detached 17 To a Husband 18 Accident 19 Let's Majeste 20 After 21 The Mothering Blackness 22 On Diverse Deviations 2 3 Mourning Grace 24 How I Can Lie to You 25 Sounds Like Pearls 26 PART TWO: JUST BEFORE THE WORLD ENDS When I Think About Myself 29 On a Bright Day, Next Week 30 Letter to an Aspiring Junkie 31 Miss Scarlett, Mr. Rhett and Other Latter-Day Saints 32 Times- Square- Shoeshine- Composition 34 Faces 36 To a Freedom Fighter 37 Riot: 60's 3S We Saw Beyond Our Seeming 40 Black Ode 41 No No No No 42 My Guilt 45 The Calling of Names 46 On Working White Liberals 47 Sepia Fashion Show 48 The Thirteens (Black) 49 The Thirteens (White) 50 Harlem Hopscotch 5i Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well PART ONE Pickin Em Up and Layin Em Down 59 Here's to Adhering 61 On Reaching Forty 63 The Telephone 64 PART TWO Passing Time 67 Now Long Ago 68 Greyday 69 Poor Girl 70 Come. And Be My Baby 72 Senses of Insecurity 73 Alone 74 Communication I 76 Communication II 77 Wonder 78 A Conceit 79 PART THREE Request S3 Africa 84 America 85 X For Us, Who Dare Not Dare 87 Lord, in My Heart 88 Artful Pose go PART FOUR The Couple 93 The Pusher 94 Chicken-Licken 97 PART FIVE I Almost Remember 101 Prisoner 103 Woman Me 105 Johnf. 106 Southeast Arkanasia 107 Song for the Old Ones 108 Child Dead in Old Seas 110 Take Time Out 112 Elegy 115 Reverses 116 Little Girl Speakings 117 This Winter Day 118 And Still I Rise PART ONE: TOUCH ME, LIFE, NOT SOFTLY A Kind of Love, Some Say 125 Country Lover 126 Remembrance 127 Where We Belong, A Duet 128 Phenomenal Woman 130 Men 132 Refusal 134 Just for a Time 135 PART TWO: TRAVELING Junkie Monkey Reel 139 The Lesson 140 California Prodigal 141 My Arkansas 143 Through the Inner City to the Suburbs 144 Lady Luncheon Club 146 Momma Welfare Roll 148 The Singer Will Not Sing H9 Willie 150 To Beat the Child Was Bad Enough 152 Woman Work 153 One More Round 155 The Traveler 157 Kin 158 The Memory 160 PART THREE: AND STILL I RISE Still I Rise 163 Ain't That Bad? 165 Life Doesn't Frighten Me 167 Bump d'Bump i6g On Aging 170 In Retrospect 171 Just Like Job 172 Call Letters: Mrs. V. B. 174 Thank You, Lord 175 Shaker, Why Don't You Sing? Awaking in New York 183 A Good Woman Feeling Bad 184 The Health-Food Diner 185 A Georgia Song 187 Unmeasured Tempo 189 Amoebaean for Daddy igo Recovery 192 Impeccable Conception 193 Caged Bird 194 Avec Merci, Mother 196 Arrival 197 A Plagued Journey 198 Starvation 200 XII Contemporary Announcement 201 Prelude to a Parting 202 Martial Choreograph 203 To a Suitor 204 Insomniac 205 Weekend Glory 206 The Lie 208 Prescience 2og Family Affairs 210 Changes 212 Brief Innocence 213 The Last Decision 214 Slave Coffle 215 Shaker, Why Don't You Sing? 216 My Life Has Turned to Blue 217 I Shall Not Be Moved Worker's Song 223 Human Family 224 Man Bigot 226 Old Folks Laugh 227 Is Love 228 Forgive 22g Insignificant 230 Love Letter 231 Equality 232 Co leridge Jackson 234 Why Are They Happy People? 237 Son to Mother 238 Known to Eve and Me 239 These Yet to Be United States 241 Me and My Work 242 Changing 243 Born That Way 244 Televised 246 Nothing Much 247 XIII Glory Falls 248 London 249 Savior 250 Many amd More 251 The New House 232 Our Grandmothers 253 Preacher, Don't Send Me 257 Fightin'Was Natural 259 Loss of Love 260 Seven Women's Blessed Assurance 261 In My Missouri 263 They Ask Why 265 When Great Trees Fall 266 On the Pulse of Morning 269 XIV
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