Part 11
Ah, I know what happiness is, 107
Ah, little road all whirry in the breeze, 221
Ah, you are cruel, 47
ALEXANDER, LEWIS, 122
ALLEN, GEORGE LEONARD, 203
All that night I walked alone and wept, 169
All the time they were praying, 208
Although she feeds me bread of bitterness, 83
Always at dusk, the same tearless experience, 37
_America_, 83
And God stepped out on space, 19
_And What Shall You Say?_, 103
_April Day, An_, 102
A silence slipping around like death, 46
As I was going to town, 227
A tree is more than a shadow, 170
_At the Carnival_, 53
_Auf Wiedersehen_, 189
_Baby Cobina_, 200
_Baker’s Boy, The_, 58
_Band of Gideon, The_, 103
Beat the drums of tragedy for me, 148
BENNETT, GWENDOLYN B., 153
_Black Madonna, The_, 177
_Black Man Talks of Reaping, A_, 165
Black reapers with the sound of steel on stone, 94
_Blight_, 170
Boll-weevil’s coming, and the winter’s cold, 99
BONTEMPS, ARNA, 162
_Bottled_, 221
Bow down my soul in worship very low, 87
BRAITHWAITE, WILLIAM STANLEY, 31
BROOKS, JONATHAN HENDERSON, 192
Brother, come, 103
Brother to the firefly, 55
BROWN, STERLING A., 129
Brown Baby Cobina, 200
BRUCE, RICHARD, 205
Brushes and paints are all I have, 155
_Cavalier_, 207
Cemeteries are places for departed souls, 159
_Challenge_, 138
Chilled into a serenity, 110
_Close of Day, The_, 225
_Close Your Eyes_, 171
Come, brother, come. Let’s lift it, 97
_Confession_, 190
Consider me a memory, a dream that passed away, 79
COTTER, JOSEPH S., SR., 10
COTTER, JOSEPH S., JR., 99
_Cotton Song_, 97
Could I but retrace, 125
_Creation, The_, 19
_Creed_, 51
CULLEN, COUNTEE, 179
CUNEY, WARING, 207
CURTWRIGHT, WESLEY, 224
_Dance_, 229
_Dark Brother, The_, 124
_Day and Night_, 129
_Day-breakers, The_, 171
Dear, when we sit in that high, placid room, 66
_Death Bed, The_, 208
_Death Song_, 4
_Debt, The_, 9
DELANY, CLARISSA SCOTT, 140
_Del Cascar_, 33
De railroad bridge’s a sad song, 147
_Deserter, The_, 102
_Desolate_, 88
DICKINSON, BLANCHE TAYLOR, 105
Down at the hall at midnight sometimes, 229
_Dream Variation_, 149
_Dreams of the Dreamer, The_, 80
DU BOIS, WILLIAM EDWARD BURGHARDT, 25
DUNBAR, PAUL LAURENCE, 1
_Dunbar_, 50
_Dusk_, 46
_Dust_, 210
Dust, through which proud blood once flowed, 210
_Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes_, 2
_Evening Song_, 94
_Exhortation: Summer, 1919_, 84
_Eyes of My Regret, The_, 37
_Face_, 98
_Fantasy_, 158
_Fantasy in Purple_, 148
Father John’s bread was made of rye, 31
FAUSET, JESSIE, 64
Flame-flower, Day-torch, Mauna Loa, 52
_Flame-Heart_, 85
_For the Candle Light_, 45
For this peculiar tint that paints my house, 92
_Four Epitaphs_, 186
Four great walls have hemmed me in, 110
_Four Walls_, 110
_Fragment_, 70
Frail children of sorrow, dethroned by a hue, 75
_From the Dark Tower_, 183
_From the German of Uhland_, 17
_Fulfillment_, 219
Full moon rising on the waters of my heart, 94
Gay little Girl-of-the-Diving-Tank, 53
_Georgia Dusk_, 95
_Gethsemane_, 169
Give over to high things the fervent thought, 182
_Glory of the Day Was in Her Face, The_, 18
_God Give to Men_, 172
God give the yellow man, 172
_Golgotha Is a Mountain_, 173
Go through the gates with closed eyes, 171
_Grass Fingers_, 38
_Greenness_, 36
GRIMKÉ, ANGELINA WELD, 35
Hair--silver-gray, like streams of stars, 98
_Hatred_, 160
Have you ever seen the moon, 228
_Have You Seen It_, 228
HAYES, DONALD JEFFREY, 188
HAYFORD, GLADYS MAY CASELY, 196
_Heart of a Woman, The_, 81
He came in silvern armour, trimmed with black, 160
Her eyes? Dark pools of deepest shade, 204
Her love is true I know, 213
He scans the world with calm and fearless eyes, 34
He wrote upon his heart, 188
His friends went off and left Him dead, 193
_Homesick Blues_, 147
_Homing_, 172
_Hope_, 75
HORNE, FRANK, 111
_House in Taos, A_, 152
How did it happen that we quarreled? 65
HUGHES, LANGSTON, 144
_Hushed by the Hands of Sleep_, 36
I am so tired and weary, 101
I ask you this, 146
I buried you deeper last night, 113
I cannot hold my peace, John Keats, 184
I do not ask for love, ah! no, 77
I doubt not God is good, 182
I had no thought of violets of late, 72
_I Have a Friend_, 47
_I Have a Rendezvous with Life_, 180
I have gone back in boyish wonderment, 139
I have seen a lovely thing, 170
I have sown beside all waters in my day, 165
I have the greatest fun at night, 58
I kissed a kiss in youth, 31
I know not why or whence he came, 102
I know what the caged bird feels, alas! 8
I laks yo’ kin’ of lovin’, 134
I long not now, 181
I love you for your brownness, 157
I love your hands, 44
I return the bitterness, 124
I said, in drunken pride of youth and you, 138
I sailed in my dreams to the Land of Night, 158
I see in your eyes, 178
I shall come this way again, 189
I shall hate you, 160
I shall make a song like your hair, 155
I should like to creep, 42
_I Sit and Sew_, 73
I that had found the way so smooth, 70
_I Think I See Him There_, 210
I think that man hath, 204
I thought I saw an angel flying low, 166
_I Too_, 145
_I Want to Die While You Love Me_, 78
_I Weep_, 45
I went to court last night, 63
If I have run my course and seek the pearls, 64
If my garden oak spares one bare ledge, 51
I’m folding up my little dreams, 79
_Incident_, 187
_Innocence_, 51
_Inscription_, 188
_Interim_, 142
In wintertime I have such fun, 59
Is Life itself but many ways of thought, 48
It crawled away ’neath my feet, 109
It is fitting that you be here, 112
It was running down to the great Atlantic, 228
I’ve known rivers, 149
_Japanese Hokku_, 127
Jericho is on the inside, 106
JOHNSON, FENTON, 61
JOHNSON, GEORGIA DOUGLAS, 74
JOHNSON, HELENE, 215
JOHNSON, JAMES WELDON, 15
_Joy_, 140
Joy shakes me like the wind that lifts a sail, 140
_Jungle Taste_, 214
Lady, my lady, come from out the garden, 136
_Lancelot_, 169
_Last Quarter Moon of the Dying Year, The_, 195
_La Vie C’est La Vie_, 69
Lay me down beneaf de willers in de grass, 4
Lemme be wid Casey Jones, 130
_Length of Moon_, 168
_Lethe_, 77
Let me learn now where Beauty is, 48
_Letters Found Near a Suicide_, 114
_Life_, 5
_Life-Long, Poor Browning_, 49
_Lines to a Nasturtium_, 52
_Lines Written at the Grave of Alexander Dumas_, 159
_Litany of Atlanta, A_, 26
Little black boy, 120
Little brown boy, 218
_Little Dandelion, The_, 229
Little Robin red breast, 228
_Little Son_, 76
“Lo, I am black but I am comely too,” 124
Lolotte, who attires my hair, 67
_Long Gone_, 134
Long have I beat with timid hands, 76
_Magalu_, 223
_Marathon Runner, The_, 64
_Mask, The_, 143
MATHEUS, JOHN FREDERICK, 60
_Maumee Ruth_, 133
MCCALL, JAMES EDWARD, 33
MCKAY, CLAUDE, 81
_Me Alone_, 227
Men never know, 212
Might as well bury her, 133
_Mona Lisa, A_, 42
_Morning Light_, 55
_Mother to Son_, 151
_My City_, 25
My heart that was so passionless, 70
_My House_, 92
_My Little Dreams_, 79
My little stone, 114
My spirit is a pestilential city, 88
My window opens out into the trees, 141
_Nativity_, 197
_Negro Speaks of Rivers, The_, 149
_Negro Woman_, 122
_Neighbors_, 47
NELSON, ALICE DUNBAR, 71
_New Negro, The_, 34
NEWSOME, MARY EFFIE LEE, 55
_Nigger_, 120
_Night_, 189
Night like purple flakes of snow, 189
_Noblesse Oblige_, 67
_Nocturne_, 190
_Nocturne at Bethesda_, 166
_No Images_, 212
_Northboun’_, 201
Not as the white nations, 177
Not to dance with her, 209
_November Cotton Flower_, 99
O apple blossoms, 127
O brothers mine, take care! Take care!, 22
_October XXIX, 1795_, 32
O’ de wurl’ ain’t flat, 201
_Odyssey of Big Boy_, 130
Oh, the blue, blue bloom, 56
_Old Black Men_, 77
Once more, listening to the wind and rain, 163
Once riding in old Baltimore, 187
_On Seeing Two Brown Boys in a Catholic Church_, 112
On such a day as this I think, 102
On summer afternoons I sit, 69
On the dusty earth-drum, 100
O Silent God, Thou whose voice afar, 26
Out in the sky the great clouds are massing, 7
Out of the tense awed darkness, 198
O you would clothe me in silken frocks, 87
_Paean_, 195
_Pansy_, 56
_Paradox_, 48
_Poem_, 107
_Poem_, 150
_Poem_, 218
_Portrait_, 204
Pour O pour that parting soul in song, 96
_Prayer_, 146
_Protest_, 181
_Proving_, 77
_Puck Goes to Court_, 63
_Puppet Player, The_, 46
_Quatrains_, 155
_Questing_, 48
_Quilt, The_, 58
_Quoits_, 59
_Radical, The_, 212
_Rain Music_, 100
_Rainy Season Love Song_, 198
_Reapers_, 94
_Recessional_, 79
_Rencontre_, 70
_Requiem_, 61
_Resurrection, The_, 193
_Return_, 139
_Return, The_, 70
_Return, The_, 163
_Revelation_, 107
RICE, ALBERT, 176
_Road, The_, 221
_Robin Red Breast_, 228
_Russian Cathedral_, 87
_Rye Bread_, 31
_Salutamus_, 138
_Sassafras Tea_, 56
_Scintilla_, 31
_Secret_, 155
_Service_, 75
_Serving Girl, The_, 200
_Shadow_, 206
She does not know, 212
She kneeled before me begging, 190
She tripped and fell against a star, 51
She walked along the crowded street, 107
She wears, my beloved, a rose upon her head, 61
_Ships That Pass in the Night_, 7
Silhouette on the face of the moon, 206
SILVERA, EDWARD S., 213
_Sky Pictures_, 57
Slay fowl and beast; pluck clean the vine, 207
_Snow in October_, 71
So detached and cool she is, 143
Softly blow lightly, 190
_Solace_, 141
Some things are very dear to me, 161
Sometimes a right white mountain, 57
Sometimes it seems as though some puppet player, 46
So much have I forgotten in ten years, 85
_Song for a Dark Girl_, 147
_Song of the Son_, 96
_Sonnet_, 72
_Sonnet_, 160
_Sonnet_, 161
_Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem_, 217
_South Street_, 214
So we, who’ve supped the self-same cup, 5
SPENCER, ANNE, 47
_Stream, The_, 228
_Substitution_, 48
_Suicide’s Note_, 151
Summer comes, 223
_Summer Matures_, 217
_Suppliant, The_, 76
_Supplication_, 101
_Surrender_, 38
Sweet timber land, 172
_Sympathy_, 8
_Tanka_, 125
Tell me is there anything lovelier, 36
_Tenebris_, 40
_That Hill_, 109
The baker’s boy delivers loaves, 58
The band of Gideon roam the sky, 103
The bitterness of days like these we know, 138
The breath of life imbued those few dim days, 70
The calabash wherein she served my food, 200
The calm, 151
The dandelion stares, 229
The day is a Negro, 129
The fruit of the orchard is over-ripe, Elaine, 169
The heart of a woman goes forth with the dawn, 81
The hills are wroth; the stones have scored, 165
The night is beautiful, 150
The night was made for rest and sleep, 142
Then the golden hour, 168
There is a coarseness, 214
There is a tree, by day, 40
There was a man, 11
The sass’fras tea is red and clear, 56
The sky hangs heavy tonight, 122
The sky, lazily disdaining to pursue, 95
The sky was blue, so blue that day, 45
The very acme of my woe, 76
They have dreamed as young men dream, 77
This is the debt I pay, 9
This lovely flower fell to seed, 186
Thou art not dead, although the spoiler’s hand, 123
Three students once tarried over the Rhine, 17
Through the pregnant universe, 84
Thunder of the Rain God, 152
Time sitting on the throne of Memory, 32
’Tis queer, it is, the ways to men, 39
_To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden_, 136
_To a Certain Woman_, 178
_To a Dark Girl_, 157
_To an Icicle_, 110
_To a Persistent Phantom_, 113
_To a Young Girl Leaving the Hill Country_, 165
To climb a hill that hungers for the sky, 219
Today I saw a thing of arresting poignant beauty, 71
To fling my arms wide, 149
_To John Keats, Poet, at Springtime_, 184
_To Lovers of Earth: Fair Warning_, 182
“To meet and then to part,” 225
_To Melody_, 204
TOOMER, JEAN, 93
_Touché_, 66
Touch me, touch me, 38
_Tragedy of Pete, The_, 11
_Transformation_, 124
_Tree Design, A_, 170
_Triviality, A_, 209
_True Love_, 213
Twin stars through my purpling pane, 46
Upstairs on the third floor, 221
_Walls of Jericho, The_, 106
Way down South in Dixie, 147
_Way-side Well, The_, 15
_Ways o’ Men, The_, 39
We are not come to wage a strife, 171
We ask for peace. We, at the bound, 38
WEEDEN, LULA LOWE, 225
Well, son, I’ll tell you, 151
Were you a leper bathed in wounds, 77
We shall not always plant while others reap, 183
_We Wear the Mask_, 8
_What Do I Care for Morning_, 216
_What Need Have I for Memory?_, 80
What! Roses growing in the meadow, 59
When face to face we stand, 43
When first you sang a song to me, 157
_When I am Dead_, 80
When I come down to sleep death’s endless night, 25
_When I Die_, 62
_When the Green Lies Over the Earth_, 41
When we count out our gold at the end of the day, 75
_White Witch, The_, 22
_Wild Goat, The_, 87
_Wild Roses_, 59
WILLIAMS, LUCY ARIEL, 201
_Winter Twilight, A_, 46
Within a native hut, 197
_Words! Words!_, 65
_Yet Do I Marvel_, 182
You are disdainful and magnificent, 217
_Your Hands_, 44
_Your Songs_, 157
Your words dropped into my heart, 91
You were a sophist, 156
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Transcriber’s note
Minor punctuation errors have been changed without notice.
Page number references in the index are as published in the original publication and have not been checked for accuracy in this eBook.
Spelling was retained as in the original except for the following changes:
Page vi: “_No’thboun’_ by Lucy Ariel” “_Northboun’_ by Lucy Ariel” Page 47: “its so involved and” “it’s so involved and” Page 66: “TOUCHE” “TOUCHÉ” Page 206: “an all-womens’ hotel” “an all-women’s hotel” Page 230: “Ah, little road” “Ah, little road all”