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  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