Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets

Authors

• Countee Cullen , editor

Document Type

Archival Material

Date of this Version

1927

Citation

Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, Edited by Countee Cullen Decorations by Aaron Douglas Harper & Brothers Publishers New York and London 1927

Comments

public domain

Abstract

Poets: Paul Laurence Dunbar • Joseph S. Cotter, Sr • James Weldon Johnson • William Edward Burghardt Du Bois • William Stanley Braithwaite • James Edward Mccall • Angelina Weld Grimke • Anne Spencer • Mary Effie Lee Newsome • John Frederick Matheus • Fenton Johnson • Jessie Fauset • Alice Dunbar Nelson • Georgia Douglas Johnson • Claude McKay • Jean Toomer • Joseph S. Cotter, Jr • Blanche Taylor Dickinson • Frank Horne • Lewis Alexander • Sterling A. Brown • Clarissa Scott Delany • Langston Hughes • Gwendolyn B. Bennett • Anna Bontemps • Albert Rice • Countee Cullen • Donald Jeffrey Hayes • Gladys May Casely Hayford • Lucy Ariel Williams • George Leonard Allen • Richard Bruce • Waring Cuney • Edward S. Silvera • Helene Johnson • Wesley Curtwright • Lula Lowe Weeden

CONTENTS:

FOREWORD

PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR • Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes • Death Song • Life • After the Quarrel • Ships that Pass in the Night • We Wear the Mask • Sympathy • The Debt

JOSEPH S. COTTER, SR • The Tragedy of Pete • The Way-side Well

JAMES WELDON JOHNSON • From the German of Uhland • The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face • The Creation • The White Witch • My City

WILLIAM EDWARD BURGHARDT Du BOIS • A Litany of Atlanta

WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE • Scintilla • Rye Bread • October XXIX, 1795 • Del Cascar

JAMES EDWARD MCCALL • The New Negro

ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE • Hushed by the Hands of Sleep • Greenness • • The Eyes of My Regret • Grass Fingers • Surrender • The Ways o' Men • Tenebris • When the Green Lies Over the Earth • A Mona Lisa • Paradox • Your Hands • I Weep • For the Candle Light • Dusk. • The Puppet Player • A Winter Twilight

ANNE SPENCER • Neighbors • I Have a Friend • Substitution • Questing • Life-long, Poor Browning • Dunbar • Innocence • Creed • Lines to a Nasturtium • At the Carnival

MARY EFFIE LEE NEWSOME • Morning Light • Pansy • Sassafras Tea • Sky Pictures • The Quilt • The Baker's Boy • Wild Roses • Quoits

JOHN FREDERICK MATHEUS • Requiem

FENTON JOHNSON • When I Die • Puck Goes to Court • The Marathon Runner •

JESSIE FAUSET • Words! Words! • Touche • Noblesse Oblige • La Vie C'est la Vie • The Return • Rencontre • Fragment

ALICE DUNBAR NELSON • Snow in October • Sonnet • I Sit and Sew

GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON • Service • Hope • The Suppliant • Little Son • Old Black Men • Lethe • Proving • I Want to Die While You Love Me • Recessional • My Little Dreams • What Need Have I for Memory? • When I Am Dead • The Dreams of the Dreamer • The Heart of a Woman

CLAUDE McKAy • America • Exhortation: Summer, 1919 • Flame-heart • The Wild Goat • Russian Cathedral • Desolate • Absence • My House

JEAN TOOMER • Reapers • Evening Song • Georgia Dusk • Song of the Son • Cotton Song • Face • November Cotton Flower

JOSEPH S. COTTER, JR • Rain Music • Supplication • An April Day • The Deserter • And What Shall You Say? • The Band of Gideon

BLANCHE TAYLOR DICKINSON • The Walls of Jericho • Poem • Revelation • That Hill • To an Icicle • Four Walls

FRANK HORNE • On Seeing Two Brown Boys in a Catholic Church • To a Persistent Phantom • Letters Found Near a Suicide • Nigger

LEWIS ALEXANDER • Negro Woman • Africa • Transformation • The Dark Brother • Tanka I-VIII • Japanese Hokku • Day and Night

STERLING A. BROWN • Odyssey of Big Boy • Maumee Ruth • Long Gone • To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden • Salutamus • Challenge • Return

CLARISSA SCOTT DELANY • Joy • Solace • Interim • The Mask

LANGSTON HUGHES • I, Too • Prayer • Song for a Dark Girl • Homesick Blues • Fantasy in Purple • Dream Variation • The Negro Speaks of Rivers • Poem • Suicide's Note • Mother to Son • A House in Taos

GWENDOLYN B. BENNETT • Quatrains • Secret • Advice • To a Dark Girl • Your Songs • Fantasy • Lines Written at the Grave of Alexander Dumas • Hatred • Sonnet—l • Sonnet—2

AnNA BONTEMPS • The Return • A Black Man Talks of Reaping • To a Young Girl Leaving the Hill Country • Nocturne at Bethesda • Length of Moon • Lancelot • Gethsemane • A Tree Design • Blight • The Day-breakers • Close Your Eyes! • God Give to Men • Homing • Golgotha Is a Mountain

ALBERT RICE • The Black Madonna • To a Certain Woman

COUNTEE CULLEN • I Have a Rendezvous with Life • Protest • Yet Do I Marvel • To Lovers of Earth: Fair Warning • From the Dark Tower • To John Keats, Poet, at Springtime • Four Epitaphs • Incident

DONALD JEFFREY HAYES • Inscription • Auf Wiedersehen • Night • Confession • Nocturne • After All • JONATHAN HENDERSON BROOKS • The Resurrection • The Last Quarter Moon of the Dying Year • Paean

GLADYS MAY CASELY HAYFORD • Nativity • Rainy Season Love Song • The Serving Girl • Baby Cobina

LuCY ARIEL WILLIAMS • Northboun'

GEORGE LEONARD ALLEN • To Melody • Portrait

RICHARD BRUCE • Shadow • Cavalier

WARING CUNEY • The Death Bed • A Triviality • I Think I See Him There • Dust • No Images • The Radical • True Love

EDWARD S. SILVERA • South Street • Jungle Taste

HELENE JOHNSON • What Do I Care for Morning • Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem • Summer Matures • Poem • Fulfillment • The Road • Bottled • Magalu

WESLEY CURTWRIGHT • The Close of Day

LULA LOWE WEEDEN • Me Alone • Have You Seen It • Robin Red Breast 228 • The Stream • The Little Dandelion • Dance

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