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         Maya Angelou (1928 - )

                  Caged Bird

First Line: A free bird leaps

This poem is protected by copyright and cannot be displayed without permission of the copyright holder. It can be found, for example, in:

  • Angelou, Maya. The Complete Poems of Maya Angelou. New York: Random House, 1994.

    The poem Caged Bird, and the title of her autobiography I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, were inspired by Paul Laurence Dunbar's Sympathy.