African American Poetry: A Digital Anthology

Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, Edited by Countee Cullen (Full Text) (1927)



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
Biographical Note
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
Biographical Note
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
Biographical Note
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
Biographical Note
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
Biographical Note
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
Biographical Note
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
Biographical Note
Nativity
Rainy Season Love Song
The Serving Girl
Baby Cobina

Lucy Ariel Williams
Northboun'

George Leonard Allen
Biographical Note
To Melody
Portrait

Richard Bruce (Richard Bruce Nugent)
Biographical Note
Shadow

Cavalier

Waring Cuney 
Biographical Note
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
 

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