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"On the Pulse of Morning" is a poem by writer and poet Maya Angelou that she read at the first inauguration of President Bill Clinton on January 20, 1993. With her public recitation, Angelou became the second poet in history to read a poem at a presidential inauguration, and the first African American and woman.
- Maya Angelou
- 1993
On the Pulse of Morning. Maya Angelou. 1928 –. 2014. A Rock, A River, A Tree. Hosts to species long since departed, Marked the mastodon, The dinosaur, who left dried tokens. Of their sojourn here.
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In 1993, Angelou recited her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" (1993) at the first inauguration of Bill Clinton, making her the first poet to make an inaugural recitation since Robert Frost at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy in 1961. With the publication of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Angelou publicly discussed aspects of her personal ...
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- Memoir, poetry
- 1951–2014
- Marguerite Annie Johnson, April 4, 1928, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
But today, the Rock cries out to us, clearly, forcefully, Come, you may stand upon my. Back and face your distant destiny, But seek no haven in my shadow, I will give you no hiding place down here. You, created only a little lower than. The angels, have crouched too long in. The bruising darkness.
The dinosaur, who left dry tokens. Of their sojourn here. On our planet floor, Any broad alarm of their hastening doom. Is lost in the gloom of dust and ages. But today, the Rock cries out to us ...
Angelou recited her most famous poem, "On the Pulse of Morning", at President Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1993. In 1995, she delivered what Richard Long called her "second 'public' poem", entitled "A Brave and Startling Truth", which commemorated the 50th anniversary of the United Nations.
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