Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets (1927) (Full Text Digital Edition)
Caroling Dusk: an Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets
Edited by Countee Cullen
Harper & Row Publishers, 1927
FOREWORD (Countee Cullen)
Table of Contents
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Biographical note (by Alice Dunbar-Nelson)
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.
Biographical note
The Tragedy of Pete
The Way-side Well
James Weldon Johnson
Biographical Note
From the Germans of Uhland
The Glory of the Day Was in her Face
The Creation
The White Witch
My City
William Edward Burghard Du Bois
Biographical Note
A Litany of Atlanta
William Stanley Braithwaite
Scintilla
Rye Bread
October XXIX 1795
Del Cascar
James Edward McCall
Biographical Note
The New Negro
Angelina Weld Grimké
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
Biographical note
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
Biographical Note
Requiem
Fenton Johnson
Biographical Note
When I Die
Puck Goes to Court
The Marathon Runner
Jessie Fauset
Biographical Note
Words! Words!
Touche
Noblesse Oblige
La Vie C'est la Vie
The Return
Rencontre
Fragment
Alice Dunbar Nelson
Biographical Note
Snow in October
Sonnet
I Sit and Sew
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Biographical Note
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
Biographical Note
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.
Biographical Note
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
Biographical Note
On Seeing Two Brown Boys in a Catholic Church
To a Persistent Phantom
Letters Found Near a Suicide
N*****
Lewis Alexander
Biographical Note
Negro Woman
Africa
Transformation
The Dark Brother
Tanka I-VIII
Japanese Hokku
Day and Night
Sterling A Brown
Biographical Note
Odyssey of Big Boy
Maumee Ruth
Long Gone
To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden
Salutamus
Challenge
Return
Clarissa Scott Delany
Biographical Note
Joy
Solace
Interim
The Mask
Langston Hughes
Biographical Note
I, Too
Prayer
Song for a Dark Girl
Homesick Blues
Fantasy in Purple
Dream Variation
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Poem
Suicide's Note
A Mother to Son
A House in Taos
Gwendolyn B. Bennett
Biographical Note
Quatrain
Secret
Advice
To a Dark Girl
Your Songs
Fantasy
Lines Written at the Grave of Alexander Dumas
Hatred
Sonnet-1
Sonnet-2
Arna Bontemps
Biographical Note
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
Countee Cullen
Lines to Our Elders
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 Wiederschen
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 (Bruce Nugent)
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
Biographical Note
South Street
Jungle Taste
Helene Johnson
Biographical Note
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 Low Weeden
Me Alone
Have You Seen It
Robin Red Breast
The Stream
The Little Dandelion