Rhapsody by William Stanley Braithwaite. James Weldon Johnson, ed. 1922. The Book of American Negro Poetry

James Weldon Johnson, ed. (1871–1938). The Book of American Negro Poetry. 1922.

Rhapsody

William Stanley Braithwaite


I AM glad daylong for the gift of song,
For time and change and sorrow;
For the sunset wings and the world-end things
Which hang on the edge of to-morrow.
I am glad for my heart whose gates apart	5
Are the entrance-place of wonders,
Where dreams come in from the rush and din
Like sheep from the rains and thunders.