SUPPLICATION
by: Joseph S. Cotter, Jr.
(1895-1919)
- AM so tired
and weary,
So tired of the endless fight,
So weary of waiting the dawn
And finding endless night.
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- That I ask but rest and quiet --
Rest for days that are gone,
And quiet for the little space
That I must journey on.
"Supplication" is reprinted
from The Book of American Negro Poetry. Ed. James Weldon
Johnson. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922. |
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