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Poem by Countee Cullen


For My Grandmother


This lovely flower fell to seed;
Work gently sun and rain;
She held it as her dying creed
That she would grow again.



Countee Cullen


Countee Cullen's other poems:
  1. In Memory of Col. Charles Young
  2. Under the Mistletoe
  3. Harlem Wine
  4. To a Brown Boy
  5. Uncle Jim


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