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DRAMATISTS > poet > George Moses Horton
My genius from...
Vendor: DRAMATISTS
My genius from a boy
Has fluttered like a bird within my heart;
But could not thus confined her power employ,
Impatient to depart.
Source: Myself.
-- George Moses Horton, ( c. 1800-1880), US poet; He sold love poems to students in an effort to buy his freedom, though he gained his liberty only with abolition; wrote Naked Genius, 1865.