February 6, 2010.
Anne Spencer was born in 1882 in Bramwell, West Virginia. She worked at Dunbar High School in Lynchburg before she died in 1975. She never published poetry during her life.
Dunbar
Ah, how poets sing and die!
Make one song and Heaven takes it;
Have one heart and Beauty breaks it;
Chatterton, Shelley, Keats and I--
Ah, how poets sing and die!
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