Friday Poetry: William Stanley Braithwaite

Happy Friday!

I hope everyone has some fun plans for the weekend. I’m hoping to get some reading in as I’m doing really well with my reading so far this month so I don’t want it to slip.

My chosen poem this week is by the African-American writer, poet, literary critic, anthologist and publisher William Stanley Braithwaite (1878-1962).

Rhapsody

I am glad daylong for the gift of song, 
For time and change and sorrow;
For the sunset wings and the world-end things
Which hang on the edges of to-morrow. 
I am glad for my heart whose gates apart
Are the entrance-place of wonders,
Where dreams come in from the rush and din
Like sheep from the rains and thunders. 

William Stanley Braithwaite

Happy Reading

Etsy

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