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Leopold Sédar Senghor
Detailed Analysis of Black Woman by Leopold Senghor
INTRODUCTION " Black Woman " by Leopold Sedar Senghor is a poignant celebration of the beauty and essence o…
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Senegal poetry
Be Not Amazed by Leopold Sédar Senghor,m
Be not amazed beloved, if sometimes my song grows dark, If I exchange the lyrical reed for the Khalam or the tama And…
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I Will Pronounce Your Name by Leopold Sédar Senghor,
I will pronounce your name, Naëtt, I will declaim you, Naëtt! Naëtt, your name is mild like cinnamon, it is the fragr…
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New York by Leopold Sedar Senghor
New York! At first I was confused by your beauty, by those great golden long-legged girls. So shy at first before you…
Senegal poetry
What Dark Tempestuous Night
What dark tempestuous night has been hiding your face? And what claps of thunder frighten you from the bed When the f…
Senegal poetry
Visit by Leopold Sédar Senghor
dream in the intimate semi-darkness of an afternoon. I am visited by the fatigues of the day, The deceased of the yea…
Senegal poetry
Prayer to Masks by Leopold Sédar Senghor.
Black mask, red mask, you black and white masks, Rectangular masks through whom the spirit breathes, I greet you in s…
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Murders by Leopold Sédar Senghor
They are lying there along the captured roads, along the roads of disaster Slender poplars, statues of the sombre gods…
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Letter to a Poet by Leopold Sédar Senghor
to Aimé Césaire To the Brother I love and the friend, my blunt, fraternal greeting! The black gulls, the far-travellin…
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Noliwe By Léopold Sédar Senghor
The weakness of the heart is holy... Ah! you think that I never loved her My Negress fair with palm oil, slender as …
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Long, long you have held between hands your by Léopold Sédar Senghor
For khalam Long, long you have held between your hands the black face of the warrior Held as if already there fell on …
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Prayer for Peace: II by Léopold Sédar Senghor
For grand organ ii Lord, God, forgive white Europe. It is true Lord, that for four enlightened centuries, She has sca…
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On the Appeal from the Race of Sheba: II By Léopold Sédar Senghor
Bless you, Mother. I remember the days of my fathers, the evenings of Dyilor That deep-blue light of the night sky on…
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Black Woman By Léopold Sédar Senghor
Naked woman, black woman Clothed with your colour which is life, with your for which is beauty! In your shadow I have g…
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The Hurricane By Leopold Sédar Senghor
The Hurricane By Leopold Sédar Senghor Everything round me torn out by the hurricane And out of me torn by the hurrica…