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Untitled — James Baldwin | Poems Rethabile Likes 🎂 Happy Birthday, James Baldwin! Civil Rights Activist • Poet • Playwright • born 2 August 1924 Today marks what would have been James Baldwin’s 102nd birthday. Best known for landmark works such as Go Tell It on the Mountain and The Fire Next Time , Baldwin was also a gifted playwright, poet, and essayist. Below is his poem “Untitled,” which can be read as reflecting his lifelong struggle with faith. Raised by a strict, deeply religious stepfather who was also a preacher, Baldwin often explored the tensions between religion, identity, and freedom in his writing. Maya Angelou once said of him: “James Baldwin was born for truth. It called upon him to tell it on the mountains, to preach it in Harlem, t...

A Virginal by Ezra Pound | Poems Rethabile Likes A Virginal by Ezra Pound No, no! Go from me. I have left her lately. I will not spoil my sheath with lesser brightness, For my surrounding air hath a new lightness; Slight are her arms, yet they have bound me straitly And left me cloaked as with a gauze of aether; As with sweet leaves; as with subtle clearness. Oh, I have picked up magic in her nearness To sheathe me half in half the things that sheathe her. No, no! Go from me. I have still the flavour, Soft as spring wind that's come from birchen bowers. Green come the shoots, aye April in the branches, As winter...