The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou

And Still I Rise
Gather Together in My Name
   
The Heart of a Woman
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water fore I Diiie
   
Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well
Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry hike Christmas
             
Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
             
I Shall Not Be Moved
             
On the Pulse of Morning
Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

This book is dedicated
to the great love of my life.

Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water fore I Diiie

PART ONE:
W
HERE
L
OVE
I
S A
S
CREAM OF
A
NGUISH

They Went Home

The Gamut

A Zono Man

To a Man

Late October

No Loser, No Weeper

When You Come to Me

Remembering

In a Time

Tears

The Detached

To a Husband

Accident

Let's Majeste

After

The Mothering Blackness

On Diverse Deviations

Mourning Grace

How I Can Lie to You

Sounds Like Pearls

PART TWO:
J
UST
B
EFORE THE
W
ORLD
E
NDS

When I Think About Myself

On a Bright Day, Next Week

Letter to. an Aspiring Junkie

Miss Scarlett, Mr. Rhett and Other Latter-Day Saints

Times-Square-Shoeshine-Composition

Faces

To a Freedom Fighter

Riot: 60's

We Saw Beyond Our Seeming

Black Ode

No No No No

My Guilt

The Calling of Names

On Working White Liberals

Sepia Fashion Show

The Thirteens (Black)

The Thirteens (White)

Harlem Hopscotch

Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well

PART ONE

Pickin Em Up and Layin Em Down

Here
^y
s to Adhering

On Reaching Forty

The Telephone

PART TWO

Passing Time

Now Long Ago

Greyday

Poor Girl

Come. And Be My Baby

Senses of Insecurity

Alone

Communication I

Communication II

Wonder

A Conceit

PART THREE

Request

Africa

America

For Us, Who Dare Not Dare

Lord, in My Heart

Artful Pose

PART FOUR

The Couple

The Pusher

Chicken-Licken

PART FIVE

I Almost Remember

Prisoner

Woman Me

JohnJ.

Southeast Arkanasia

Song for the Old Ones

Child Dead in Old Seas

Take Time Out

Elegy

Reverses

Little Girl Speakings

This Winter Day

And Still I Rise

PART ONE:
T
OUCH
M
E,
L
IFE,
N
OT
S
OFTLY

A Kind of Love, Some Say

Country Lover

Remembrance

Where We Belong, A Duet

Phenomenal Woman

Men

Refusal

Just for a Time

PART TWO:
T
RAVELING

Junkie Monkey Reel

The Lesson

California Prodigal

My Arkansas

Through the Inner City to the Suburbs

Lady Luncheon Club

Momma Welfare Roll

The Singer Will Not Sing

Willie

To Beat the Child Was Bad Enough

Woman Work

One More Round

The Traveler

Kin

The Memory

PART THREE:
A
ND
S
TILL
I R
ISE

Still I Rise

Ain't That Bad?

Life Doesn't Frighten Me

Bump d'Bump

On Aging

In Retrospect

Just Like Job

Call Letters: Mrs. V. B.

Thank You, Lord

Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?

Awaking in New York

A Good Woman Feeling Bad

The Health-Food Diner

A Georgia Song

Unmeasured Tempo

Amoebaeanfor Daddy

Recovery

Impeccable Conception

Caged Bird

Avec Merciy Mother

Arrival

A Plagued Journey

Starvation

Contemporary Announcement

Prelude to a Parting

Martial Choreograph

To a Suitor

Insomniac

Weekend Glory

The Lie

Prescience

Family Affairs

Changes

Brief Innocence

The Last Decision

Slave Coffle

Shaker; Why Don't You Sing?

My Life Has Turned to Blue

I Shall Not Be Moved

Worker's Song

Human Family

Man Bigot

Old Folks Laugh

Is Love

Forgive

Insignificant

Love Letter

Equality

Coleridge Jackson

Why Are They Happy People?

Son to Mother

Known to Eve and Me

These Yet to Be United States

Me and My Work

Changing

Born That Way

Televised

Nothing Much

Glory Falls

London

Savior

Many ama More

The New House

Our Grandmothers

Preacher, Doni Send Me

Fightin'Was Natural

Loss of Love

Seven Women's Blessed Assurance

In My Missouri

They Ask Why

When Great Trees Fall

On the Pulse of Morning

To AMBER SAM and the ZORROMAN