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           Countee Cullen (1903-1946)

                          An Epitaph

                      (For Amy Lowell)

First Line:     She leans across a golden table,

This poem was first published in Poetry magazine in 1925. As such it is protected by copyright and cannot be displayed without permission of the copyright holder.

It can be found, for example, in:

  • Cullen, Countee. Copper Sun. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1927.
  • Hine, Daryl, and Joseph Parisi, eds. The Poetry Anthology, 1912-1977. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978.

    Lowell died in 1925 and was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926.