The Complete Poetry of Maya Angelou Easter New and unread Style:Fairytale New and unread ”—Gabrielle Zevin every poignant verse can be found within the pages of this sure to be treasured volume—from her reflections on African American life and hardship in the compilation Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ’fore I Diiie (“Though there’s one thing that I cry for I believe enough to die for That is every man’s responsibility to man”) to her revolutionary celebrations of womanhood in the poem “Still I Rise”(“Out of the huts of history’s shame I rise Up from a past that’s rooted in pain I rise”) to her “On the Pulse of Morning”tribute at President William Jefferson Clinton’s inauguration (“Lift up your eyes upon The day breaking for you You would leave me eternally