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By

Countee Cullen

Harper & Brothers, Publishers
New York and London
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Copyright, 1925, by Harper & Brothers
Printed in the United States of America


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To my Mother and Father
This First Book

Acknowledgments

FOR permission to reprint certain of these poems thanks is hereby given to the following publications:

Contents

TO YOU WHO READ MY BOOK xiii
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YET DO I MARVEL 3
A SONG OF PRAISE 4
BROWN BOY TO BROWN GIRL 5
A BROWN GIRL DEAD 6
TO A BROWN GIRL 7
TO A BROWN BOY 8
BLACK MAGDALENS 9
ATLANTIC CITY WAITER 10
NEAR WHITE 11
TABLEAU 12
HARLEM WINE 13
SIMON THE CYRENIAN SPEAKS 14
INCIDENT 15
TWO WHO CROSSED A LINE (SHE CROSSES) 16
TWO WHO CROSSED A LINE (HE CROSSES) 17
SATURDAY'S CHILD 18
THE DANCE OF LOVE 19
PAGAN PRAYER 20
WISDOM COMETH WITH THE YEARS 22
TO MY FAIRER BRETHREN 23
FRUIT OF THE FLOWER 24
THE SHROUD OF COLOR 26
HERITAGE 36
EPITAPHS
FOR A POET 45
FOR MY GRANDMOTHER 46
FOR A CYNIC 47
FOR A SINGER 48
FOR A VIRGIN 49
FOR A LADY I KNOW 50
FOR A LOVELY LADY 51
FOR AN ATHEIST 52
FOR AN EVOLUTIONIST AND HIS OPPONENT 53
FOR AN ANARCHIST 54
FOR A MAGICIAN 55
FOR A PESSIMIST 56
FOR A MOUTHY WOMAN 57
FOR A PHILOSOPHER 58
FOR AN UNSUCCESSFUL SINNER 59
FOR A FOOL 60
FOR ONE WHO GAYLY SOWED HIS OATS 61
FOR A SKEPTIC 62
FOR A FATALIST 63
FOR DAUGHTERS OF MAGDALEN 64
FOR A WANTON 65
FOR A PREACHER 66
FOR ONE WHO DIED SINGING OF DEATH 67
FOR JOHN KEATS, APOSTLE OF BEAUTY 68
FOR HAZEL HALL, AMERICAN POET 69
FOR PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR 70
FOR JOSEPH CONRAD 71
FOR MYSELF 72
FOR THE DEAD 73
FOR LOVE'S SAKE
OH, FOR A LITTLE WHILE BE KIND 77
IF YOU SHOULD GO 78
TO ONE WHO SAID ME NAY 79
ADVICE TO YOUTH 80
CAPRICE 81
SACRAMENT 82
BREAD AND WINE 83
SPRING REMINISCENCE 84
VARIA
SUICIDE CHANT 87
SHE OF THE DANCING FEET SINGS 89
JUDAS ISCARIOT 90
THE WISE 95
MARY, MOTHER OF CHRIST 96
DIALOGUE 97
IN MEMORY OF COL. CHARLES YOUNG 99
TO MY FRIENDS 100
GODS 101
TO JOHN KEATS, POET. AT SPRINGTIME 104
ON GOING 105
HARSH WORLD THAT LASHEST ME 106
REQUIESCAM 108

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