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