Gwendolyn Brooks

Topeka, Kansas

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Topeka, Kansas

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Gwendolyn Brooks Ballad Poems

The Sonnet-Ballad

★ ★

Oh mother, mother, where is happiness?
They took my lover's tallness off to war,
Left me lamenting. Now I cannot guess
What I can use an empty heart-cup for.
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The Ballad Of Rudolph Reed

★ ★

Rudolph Reed was oaken.
His wife was oaken too.
And his two good girls and his good little man
Oakened as they grew.
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