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https://poets.org/poem/i-sit-and-sew

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O white little lights at Carney's Point,
You shine so clear o'er the Delaware;
When the moon rides high in the silver sky,
Then you gleam, white gems on the Delaware.
Diamond circlet on a full white throat,
You laugh your rays on a questioning boat;
Is it peace you dream in your flashing gleam,
O'er the quiet flow of the Delaware?

O red little lights at Carney's Point,
You glower so grim o'er the Delaware;
When the moon hides low sombrous clouds below,
Then you glow like coals o'er the Delaware.
Blood red rubies on a throat of fire,
You flash through the dusk of a funeral pyre;
Are there hearth fires red whom you fear and dread
O'er the turgid flow of the Delaware?

O gold little lights at Carney's Point,
You gleam so proud o'er the Delaware;
When the moon grows wan in the eastering dawn,
Then you sparkle gold points o'er the Delaware.
Aureate filagree on a Croesus' brow,
You hasten the dawn on a gray ship's prow.
Light you streams of gold in the grim ship's hold
O'er the sullen flow of the Delaware?

And the lights went gray in the ash of day,
For a quiet Aurora brought a halcyon balm;
And the sun laughed high in the infinite sky,
And the lights were forgot in the sweet, sane calm.

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O white little lights at Carney's Point, You shine so clear o'er the Delaware;When the moon rides high in the silver sky, Then you gleam, white gems on the Delaware.Diamond circlet on a full white throat, You laugh your rays on a questioning boat;Is it peace you dream in your flashing gleam, O'er the quiet flow of the Delaware?

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Says the author is "Alice Dunbar-Nelson". Don't recognize her name, though I guess it's notable she's a woman?

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"I sit and sew—a useless task it seems,
My hands grown tired, my head weighed down with dreams"
-This very first line makes me think this poem might be about women's rights or like from the women's rights movement like 1920's-ish?
-This is because in the 1920's sewing was like a very common household task for women to complete

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The theme of the poem is that the pain of not following your dreams can be stifling.

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"Of lesser souls, whose eyes have not seen Death"

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https://lightpoetrymagazine.com/poems-of-the-week/wish/

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by Erika Fine
The weeks go by, the fourth, the fifth,
And normalcy's become a myth.
I want to hug, I want to hold,
I want this deadly scourge controlled.
I want to walk amidst a crowd.
I want to lift this morbid shroud.
I sit, sequestered in my home,
And yearn to mingle, travel, roam.
My energy is out of whack-
I want my normal problems back.

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by Erika Fine The weeks go by, the fourth, the fifth, And normalcy's become a myth. I want to hug, I want to hold, I want this deadly scourge controlled. I want to walk amidst a crowd. I want to lift this morbid shroud. I sit, sequestered in my home, And yearn to mingle, travel, roam.

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Don't recognize author's name (though I will say it seems sort of modern with the spelling of "Erika")

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"I want this deadly scourge controlled"
"I sit, sequestered in my home,
And yearn to mingle, travel, roam."
This makes me think the poem is probably about like illness, maybe a plague in history?

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https://allpoetry.com/Million-Man-March-Poem

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Comments & analysis: The night has been long, / The wound has been deep, / The pit has been dark, / And the wal

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Maya Angelou is an author I recognize, she was an American author and poet as well as a civil rights activist. I know her because of her book "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings".

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Because the poem is written by Maya Angelou immediately I assumed the poem was likely about the Civil Rights Movement, which I think is partially true? I say partially true because I think the poem is about a specific event from the movement that I don't know-- like a march or something.

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Sounds like she's possibly addressing a crowd? This correlates too with the title. 

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Sounds like she's possibly addressing a crowd? This correlates too with the title. 

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"This morning I look through your anguish
Right down to your soul.
I know that with each other we can make ourselves whole.
I look through the posture and past your disguise,
And see your love for family in your big brown eyes"

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"I say, the night has been long,
The wound has been deep,
The pit has been dark
And the walls have been steep." X3

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https://libquotes.com/james-baldwin/quote/lbc1d8w

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The darkest hour is just before the dawn, and that, I see, which does not guarantee power to draw the next breath, nor abolish the suspicion that the brightest hour we will ever see occurs just before we cease to be.

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James Baldwin is another author I recognize-- like Maya Angelou he is known for The Civil Rights movement. I know him best for his book The Fire Next Time.

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I feel like the poem is basically about how it's important that we hold out hope until the end of our life because the "darkest hour is just before the dawn"-- things might seem hopeless but then something wonderful will happen and then we will "cease to be".

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https://www.amnesty.org.uk/files/2019-01/First%20They%20Came%20by%20Martin%20Niem%C3%B6ller_0.pdf?l6HOtWW1N8umC_ELxnQI6NpaAYbxRCJj=

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I think that, while I don't recognize the author, the name is of German origin. Maybe the poem is from the World War II era?

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I agree that the author is likely German, or at least their name is of German descent. This would line up with my line of thinking which is that this poem is in response to The Holocaust. This is because the poem specifically says "They came for the Jews".

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"They came for ____"
"And I did not speak out"