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Countee Cullen, "Color" (full text) (1925)

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Countee Cullen


Harper & Brothers, Publishers
New York and London


Copyright, 1925, by Harper & Brothers
Printed in the United States of America

Dedication: 

To my Mother and Father
This First Book


Acknowledgments
For permission to reprint certain of these
poems thanks is hereby given to the following publications:

The American Mercury
The Bookman
The Century
The Crisis 
The Conning Tower: New York World
Folio
Harper's Magazine
Les Continents
The Messenger
The Nation
Opportunity
Palms
Poetry: A Magazine of Verse
The Southwestern Christian Advocate
The Survey Graphic
The World Tomorrow.
Vanity Fair
 

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Contents of this path:

  1. Countee Cullen, "To You Who Read My Book" (1925)
  2. Countee Cullen, "Yet Do I Marvel" (1925)
  3. Countee Cullen, "Brown Boy to Brown Girl (Remembrance on a hill) (For Yolanda)" (1924)
  4. Countee Cullen, "A Brown Girl Dead" (1925)
  5. Countee Cullen, "To a Brown Girl (for Roberta)" (1925)
  6. Countee Cullen, "To a Brown Boy" (1923)
  7. Countee Cullen, "Black Magdalens" (1925)
  8. Countee Cullen, "Atlantic City Waiter" (1925)
  9. Countee Cullen, "Near White" (1925)
  10. Countee Cullen, "Tableau (For Donald Duff)" (1925)
  11. Countee Cullen, "Harlem Wine" (1925)
  12. Countee Cullen, "Simon the Cyrenian Speaks" (1925)
  13. Countee Cullen, "Incident (for Eric Walrond)" (1925)
  14. Countee Cullen, "Two Who Crossed a Line (She Crosses)" (1925)
  15. Countee Cullen, "Two Who Crossed a Line (He Crosses)" (1925)
  16. Countee Cullen's "Saturday's Child" (1925)
  17. Countee Cullen, "The Dance of Love (After reading René Maran's 'Batouala')" (1923)
  18. Countee Cullen, "Pagan Prayer" (1924)
  19. Countee Cullen, "Wisdom Cometh With the Years" (1925)
  20. Countee Cullen, "To My Fairer Brethren" (1925)
  21. Countee Cullen, "Fruit of the Flower" (1925)
  22. Countee Cullen, "The Shroud of Color (For Llewellyn Ransom)" (1925)
  23. Countee Cullen, "Heritage" (1925)
  24. Countee Cullen, "For a Poet (to John Gaston Edgar)" (1925)
  25. Countee Cullen, "For My Grandmother" (1925)
  26. Countee Cullen, "For a Cynic" (1925)
  27. Countee Cullen, "For a Singer" (1925)
  28. Countee Cullen, "For a Virgin" (1925)
  29. Countee Cullen, For a Lady I Know" (1925)
  30. Countee Cullen, "For a Lovely Lady"
  31. Countee Cullen, "For an Atheist" (1925)
  32. Countee Cullen, "For an Anarchist" (1925)
  33. Countee Cullen, "For a Magician" (1925)
  34. Countee Cullen, "For a Pessimist" (1925)
  35. Countee Cullen, "For a Mouthy Woman" (1925)
  36. Countee Cullen, "For a Philosopher" (1925)
  37. Countee Cullen, "For an Evolutionist and his Opponent" (1925)
  38. Countee Cullen, "For an Unsuccessful Sinner" (1925)
  39. Countee Cullen, "For a Fool" (1925)
  40. Countee Cullen, "For One Who Gayly Sowed His Oats" (1925)
  41. Countee Cullen, "For a Skeptic" (1925)
  42. Countee Cullen, "For a Fatalist" (1925)
  43. Countee Cullen, "For Daughters of Magdalen" (1925)
  44. Countee Cullen, "For a Wanton" (1925)
  45. Countee Cullen, "For a Preacher" (1925)
  46. Countee Cullen, "For One Who Died Singing of Death" (1925)
  47. Countee Cullen, "For John Keats, Apostle of Beauty" (1925)
  48. Countee Cullen, "For Hazel Hall, American Poet" (1925)
  49. Countee Cullen, "For Paul Laurence Dunbar" (1925)
  50. Countee Cullen, "For Joseph Conrad" (1925)
  51. Countee Cullen, "For Myself" (1925)
  52. Countee Cullen, "All the Dead" (1925)
  53. Countee Cullen, "Oh, for a Little While Be Kind (For Ruth Marie)" (1925)
  54. Countee Cullen, "If You Should Go" (1925)
  55. Countee Cullen, "To One Who Said Me Nay" (1925)
  56. Countee Cullen, "Advice to Youth (for Guillaume)" (1925)
  57. Countee Cullen, "Caprice" (1925)
  58. Countee Cullen, "Sacrament" (1925)
  59. Countee Cullen, "Bread and Wine" (1923)
  60. Countee Cullen, "Spring Reminiscence" (1925)
  61. Countee Cullen, "Suicide Chant" (1925)
  62. Countee Cullen, "She of the Dancing Feet Sings (To Ottie Graham)" (1925)
  63. Countee Cullen, "Judas Iscariot" (1925)
  64. Countee Cullen, "The Wise (for Alain Locke)" (1925)
  65. Countee Cullen, "Mary, Mother of Christ" (1924)
  66. Countee Cullen, "Dialogue" (1925)
  67. Countee Cullen, "In Memory of Col. Charles Young" (1925)
  68. Countee Cullen, "To My Friends" (1925)
  69. Countee Cullen, "Gods" (1925)
  70. Countee Cullen, "To John Keats, Poet. At Spring Time (For Carl Van Vechten)" (1925)
  71. Countee Cullen, "On Going (For Willard Johnson)" (1925)
  72. Countee Cullen, "Harsh World That Lashest Me (For Walter White)" (1925)
  73. Countee Cullen, "Requiescam" (1925)

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