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Title Caroling Dusk
Editor Countee Cullen
Year 1927
Publisher Harper & Row, Publishers
Location New York
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CONTENTS

Foreword ix
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes 2
Death Song 4
Life 5
After the Quarrel 5
Ships that Pass in the Night 7
We Wear the Mask 8
Sympathy 8
The Debt 9
Joseph S. Cotter, Sr.
The Tragedy of Pete 11
The Way-side Well 15
James Weldon Johnson
From the German of Uhland 17
The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face 18
The Creation 19
The White Witch 22
My City 25
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
A Litany of Atlanta 26
William Stanley Braithwaite
Scintilla 31
Rye Bread 31
October XXIX, 1795 32
Del Cascar 33
James Edward McCall
The New Negro 34
Angelina Weld Grimké
Hushed by the Hands of Sleep 36
Greenness 36
The Eyes of My Regret 37
Grass Fingers 38
Surrender 38
The Ways o’ Men 39
Tenebris 40
When the Green Lies Over the Earth 41
A Mona Lisa 42
Paradox 43
Your Hands 44
I Weep 45
For the Candle Light 45
Dusk 46
The Puppet Player 46
A Winter Twilight 46
Anne Spencer
Neighbors 47
I Have a Friend 47
Substitution 48
Questing 48
Life-long, Poor Browning 49
Dunbar 50
Innocence 51
Creed 51
Lines to a Nasturtium 52
At the Carnival 53
Mary Effie Lee Newsome
Morning Light 55
Pansy 56
Sassafras Tea 56
Sky Pictures 57
The Quilt 58
The Baker’s Boy 58
Wild Roses 59
Quoits 59
John Frederick Matheus
Requiem 61
Fenton Johnson
When I Die 62
Puck Goes to Court 63
The Marathon Runner 64
Jessie Fauset
Words! Words! 65
Touché 66
Noblesse Oblige 67
La Vie C’est la Vie 69
The Return 70
Rencontre 70
Fragment 70
Alice Dunbar Nelson
Snow in October 71
Sonnet 72
I Sit and Sew 73
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Service 75
Hope 75
The Suppliant 76
Little Son 76
Old Black Men 77
Lethe 77
Proving 77
I Want to Die While You Love Me 78
Recessional 79
My Little Dreams 79
What Need Have I for Memory? 80
When I Am Dead 80
The Dreams of the Dreamer 80
The Heart of a Woman 81
Claude McKay
America 83
Exhortation: Summer, 1919 84
Flame-heart 85
The Wild Goat 87
Russian Cathedral 87
Desolate 88
Absence 91
My House 92
Jean Toomer
Reapers 94
Evening Song 94
Georgia Dusk 95
Song of the Son 96
Cotton Song 97
Face 98
November Cotton Flower 99
Joseph S. Cotter, Jr.
Rain Music 100
Supplication 101
An April Day 102
The Deserter 102
And What Shall You Say? 103
The Band of Gideon 103
Blanche Taylor Dickinson
The Walls of Jericho 106
Poem 107
Revelation 107
That Hill 109
To an Icicle 110
Four Walls 110
Frank Horne
On Seeing Two Brown Boys in a Catholic Church 112
To a Persistent Phantom 113
Letters Found Near a Suicide 114
Nigger 120
Lewis Alexander
Negro Woman 122
Africa 123
Transformation 124
The Dark Brother 124
Tanka I—VIII 125
Japanese Hokku 127
Day and Night 129
Sterling A. Brown
Odyssey of Big Boy 130
Maumee Ruth 133
Long Gone 134
To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden 136
Salutamus 138
Challenge 138
Return 139
Clarissa Scott Delany
Joy 140
Solace 141
Interim 142
The Mask 143
Langston Hughes
I, Too 145
Prayer 146
Song for a Dark Girl 147
Homesick Blues 147
Fantasy in Purple 148
Dream Variation 149
The Negro Speaks of Rivers 149
Poem 150
Suicide’s Note 151
Mother to Son 151
A House in Taos 152
Gwendolyn B. Bennett
Quatrains 155
Secret 155
Advice 156
To a Dark Girl 157
Your Songs 157
Fantasy 158
Lines Written at at the Grave of Alexander Dumas 159
Hatred 160
Sonnet—1 160
Sonnet—2 161
Arna Bontemps
The Return 163
A Black Man Talks of Reaping 165
To a Young Girl Leaving the Hill Country 165
Nocturne at Bethesda 166
Length of Moon 168
Lancelot 169
Gethsemane 169
A Tree Design 170
Blight 170
The Day-breakers 171
Close Your Eyes! 171
God Give to Men 172
Homing 172
Golgotha Is a Mountain 173
Albert Rice
The Black Madonna 177
Countee Cullen
Lines to Our Elders 179
I Have a Rendezvous with Life 180
Protest 181
Yet Do I Marvel 182
To Lovers of Earth: Fair Warning 182
From the Dark Tower 183
To John Keats, Poet, at Springtime 184
Four Epitaphs 186
Incident 187
Donald Jeffrey Hayes
Inscription 188
Auf Wiedersehen 189
Night 189
Confession 190
Nocturne 190
After All 191
Jonathan Henderson Brooks
The Resurrection 193
The Last Quarter Moon of the Dying Year 195
Paean 195
Gladys May Casely Hayford
Nativity 197
Rainy Season Love Song 198
The Serving Girl 200
Baby Cobina 200
Lucy Ariel Williams
Northboun’ 201
George Leonard Allen
To Melody 204
Portrait 204
Richard Bruce
Shadow 206
Cavalier 207
Waring Cuney
The Death Bed 208
A Triviality 209
I Think I See Him There 210
Dust 210
No Images 212
The Radical 212
True Love 213
Edward S. Silvera
South Street 214
Jungle Taste 214
Helene Johnson
What Do I Care for Morning 216
Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem 217
Summer Matures 217
Poem 218
Fulfillment 219
The Road 221
Bottled 221
Magalu 223
Wesley Curtwright
The Close of Day 225
Lula Lowe Weeden
Me Alone 227
Have You Seen It 228
Robin Red Breast 228
The Stream 228
The Little Dandelion 229
Dance 229
Index 231
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