Appendix 3 - References
Bowden, Angela. "When Can We Talk About It?" UnSpoken Truth: Unmuted and Unfiltered. East Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia: Pottersfield Press, 2021. Kindle.
Price, Florence B. "Sympathy," Five Art Songs: Medium-High Voice and Piano. Edited by Rae Linda Brown. Fayetteville, AR: Classical Vocal Reprints, 2010.
Sympathy by Florence Price
Text by Paul Laurence Dunbar
I know what the caged bird feels, alas!
When the sun is bright on the upland slopes;
When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass,
And the river flows like a stream of glass;
When the first bird sings and the first bud opes,
And the faint perfume from its chalice steals —
I know what the caged bird feels!
I know why the caged bird beats his wing
Till its blood is red on the cruel bars;
For he must fly back to his perch and cling
When he fain would be on the bough a-swing;
And the pain still throbs in the old, old scars
And they pulse again with a keener sting —
I know why he beats his wing!
I know why the caged bird sings, ah me,
When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,–
When he beats his bars and he would be free;
It is not a carol of joy or glee,
But a prayer that he sends from his heart’s deep core,
But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings —
I know why the caged bird sings!