Caroling Dusk/Index

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Absence, 91
Across the dewy lawn she treads, 195
A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in, 5
Advice, 156
A fancy halts my feet at the way-side well, 15
Africa, 123
After All, 191
After the Quarrel, 5
Ah, how poets sing and die, 50
Ah, I know what happiness is, 107
Ah, little road whirry in the breeze, 221
Ah, you are cruel, 47
Alexander, Lewis, 122
Allen, George Leonard, 203
All that night I walked alone and wept, 169
All the time they were praying, 208
Although she feeds me bread of bitterness, 83
Always at dusk, the same tearless experience, 37
America, 83
And God stepped out on space, 19
And What Shall You Say? 103
April Day, An, 102
A silence slipping around like death, 46
As I was going to town, 227
A tree is more than a shadow, 170
At the Carnival, 53
Auf Wiedersehen, 189

Baby Cobina, 200
Baker’s Boy, The, 58
Band of Gideon, The, 103
Beat the drums of tragedy for me, 148
Bennett, Gwendolyn B., 153
Black Madonna, The, 177
Black Man Talks of Reaping, A, 165
Black reapers with the sound of steel on stone, 94
Blight, 170
Boll-weevil’s coming, and the winter’s cold, 99
Bontemps, Arna, 162
Bottled, 221
Bow down my soul in worship very low, 87
Braithwaite, William Stanley, 31,
Brooks, Jonathan Henderson, 192
Brother, come, 103
Brother to the firefly, 55
Brown, Sterling A., 129
Brown Baby Cobina, 200
Bruce, Richard, 205
Brushes and paints are all I have, 155

Cavalier, 207
Cemeteries are places for departed souls, 159
Challenge, 138
Chilled into a serenity, 110
Close of Day, The, 225
Close Your Eyes, 171
Come, brother, come. Let’s lift it, 97
Confession, 190
Consider me a memory, a dream that passed away, 79
Cotter, Joseph S., Sr., 10
Cotter, Joseph S., Jr., 99
Cotton Song, 97
Could I but retrace, 125
Creation, The, 19
Creed, 51
Cullen. Countee, 179
Cuney, Waring, 207
Curtwright, Wesley, 224

Dance, 229
Dark Brother, The, 124
Day and Night, 129
Day-breakers, The, 171
Dear, when we sit in that high, placid room, 66
Death Bed, The, 208
Death Song, 4
Debt, The, 9
Delany, Clarissa Scott, 140
Del Cascar, 33
De railroad bridge’s a sad song, 147
Deserter, The, 102
Desolate, 88
Dickinson, Blanche Taylor, 105
Down at the hall at midnight sometimes, 229
Dream Variation, 149
Dreams of the Dreamer, The, 80
Du Bois, William Edward Nurghardt, 25
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1
Dunbar, 50
Dusk, 46
Dust, 210
Dust, through which proud blood once flowed, 210

Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes, 2
Evening Song, 94
Exhortation: Summer, 1919, 84
Eyes of My Regret, The, 37

Face, 98
Fantasy, 158
Fantasy in Purple, 148
Father John’s bread was made of rye, 31
Fauset, Jessie, 64
Flame-flower, Day-torch, Mauna Loa, 52
Flame-Heart, 85
For the Candle Light, 45
For this peculiar tint that paints my house, 92
Four Epitaphs, 186
Four great walls have hemmed me in, 110
Four Walls, 110
Fragment, 70
Frail children of sorrow, dethroned by a hue, 75
From the Dark Tower, 183
From the German of Uhland, 17
Fulfillment, 219
Full moon rising on the waters of my heart, 94

Gay little Girl-of-the-Diving-Tank, 53
Georgia Dusk, 95
Gethsemane, 169
Give over to high things the fervent thought, 182
Glory of the Day Was in Her Face,The, 18
God Give to Men, 172
God give the yellow man, 172
Golgotha Is a Mountain, 173
Go through the gates with closed eyes, 171
Grass Fingers, 38
Greenness, 36
Grimké, Angeline Weld, 35

Hair—silver-gray, like streams of stars, 98
Hatred, 160
Have you ever seen the moon, 228
Have You Seen It, 228
Hayes, Donald Jeffrey, 188
Hayford, Gladys May Casely, 196
Heart of a Woman, The, 81
He came in silvern armour, trimmed with black, 160
Her eyes? Dark pools of deepest shade, 204
Her love is true I know, 213
He scans the world with calm and fearless eyes, 34
He wrote upon his heart, 188
His friends went off and left Him dead, 193
Homesick Blues, 147
Homing, 172
Hope, 75
Horne, Frank, 111
House in Taos, A, 152
How did it happen that we quarreled? 65
Hughes, Langston, 144
Hushed by the Hands of Sleep, 46

I am so tired and weary, 101
I ask you this, 146
I buried you deeper last night, 113
I cannot hold my peace, John Keats, 184
I do not ask for love, ah! no, 77
I doubt not God is good, 182
I had no thought of violets of late, 72
I Have a Friend, 47
I Have a Rendezvous with Life 180
I have gone back in boyish wonderment, 139
I have seen a lovely thing, 170
I have sown beside all waters in my day, 165
I have the greatest fun at night, 58
I kissed a kiss in youth, 31
I know not why or whence he came, 102
I know what the caged bird feels, alas! 8
I laks yo’ kin’ of lovin’, 134
I long not now, 181
I love you for your brownness, 157
I love your hands, 44
I return the bitterness, 124
I said, in drunken pride of youth and you, 138
I sailed in my dreams to the Land of Night, 158
I see in your eyes, 178
I shall come this way again, 189
I shall hate you, 160
I shall make a song like your hair, 155
I should like to creep, 42
I Sit and Sew, 73
I that had found the way so smooth, 70
I Think I See Him There, 210
I think that man hath, 204
I thought I saw an angel flying low, 166
I Too, 145
I Want to Die While You Love Me, 78
I Weep, 45
I went to court last night, 63
I have run my course and seek the pearls, 64
If my garden oak spares one bare ledge, 51
I’m folding up my little dreams, 79
Incident, 187
Innocence, 51
Inscription, 188
Interim, 142
In wintertime I have such fun, 59
Is Life itself but many ways of thought, 48
It crawled away ’neath my feet, 109
It is fitting that you be here, 112
It was running down to the great Atlantic, 228
I’ve known rivers, 149

Japanese Hokku, 127
Jericho is on the inside, 106
Johnson, Fenton, 61
Johnson, Georgia Douglas, 74
Johnson, Helene, 215
Johnson, James Weldon, 15
Joy, 140
Joy shakes me like the wind that lifts a sail, 140
Jungle Taste, 214
Lady, my lady, come from out the garden, 136
Lancelot, 169
Last Quarter Moon of the Dying Year, The, 195
La Vie C’est La Vie, 69
Lay me down beneaf de willers in de grass, 4
Lemme be wid Casey Jones, 130
Length of Moon, 168
Lethe, 17
Let me learn now where Beauty is, 48
Letters Found Near a Suicide, 114
Life, 5
Life-Long, Poor Browning, 49
Lines to a Nasturtium, 52
Lines Written at the Grave of Alexander Dumas, 159
Litany of Atlanta, A, 26
Little black boy, 120
Little brown boy, 218
Little Dandelion, The, 229
Little Robin red breast, 228
Little Son, 76
“Lo, I am black but I am comely too,” 124
Lolotte, who attires my hair, 67
Long Gone, 134
Long have I beat with timid hands, 76

Magalu, 223
Marathon Runner, The, 64
Mask, The, 143
Matheus, John Frederick, 60
Maumee Ruth, 133
McCall, James Edward, 33
McKay, Claude, 81
Me Alone, 227
Men never know, 212
Might as well bury her, 133
Mona Lisa, A, 42
Morning Light, 55
Mother to Son, 151
My City, 25
My heart that was so passionless, 70
My House, 92
My Little Dreams, 79
My little stone, 114
My spirit is a pestilential city, 88
My window opens out into the trees, 141

Nativity, 197
Negro ks of Rivers, The, 149
Negro Woman, 122
Neighbors, 47
Nelson, Alice Dunbar, 71
New ?Negro, The, 34
Newsome, Mary Effie Lee, 55
Nigger, 120
Night, 189
Night like purple flakes of snow,189
Noblesse Oblige, 67
Nocturne, 190
Nocturne at Bethesda, 166
No Images, 212
Northboun’, 201
Not as the white nations, 177
Not to dance with her, 209
November Cotton Flower, 99

O apple blossoms, 127
O brothers mine, take care! Take care! 22
October XXIX, 1795, 32
O’ de wurl’ ain’t flat, 201
Odyssey of Big Boy, 130
Oh, the blue, blue bloom, 56
Old Black Men, 77
Once more, listening to the wind and rain, 163
Once riding in old Baltimore, 187
On Seeing Two Brown Boys in a Catholic Church, 112
On such a day as this I think, 102
On summer afternoons I sit, 69
On the dusty earth-drum, 100
O Silent God, Thou whose voice afar, 26
Out in the sky the great clouds are massing, 7
Out of the tense awed darkness, 198
O you would clothe me in silken rocks, 87
Paean, 195
Pansy, 56
Paradox, 43
Poem, 107
Poem, 150
Poem, 218
Portrait, 204
Pour O pour that parting soul in song, 96
Prayer, 146
Protest, 181
Proving, 77
Puck Goes to Court, 63
Puppet Player, The, 46

Quatrains, 155
Questing, 48
Quilt The, 58
Quoits, 59

Radical, The, 212
Rain Music, 100
Rainy Season Love Song, 198
Reapers, 94
Recessional, 79
Rencontre, 70
Requiem, 61
Resurrection, The, 193
Return, 139
Return, The, 70
Return, The, 163
Revelation, 107
Rice, Albert, 176
Road, The, 221
Robin Red Breast, 228
Russian Cathedral, 87
Rye Bread, 31

Salutamus, 138
Sassafras Tea, 56
Scintilla, 31
Secret, 155
Service, 75
Serving Girl, The, 200
Shadow, 206
She does not know, 212
She kneeled hefore me begging, 190
She tripped and fell against a star, 51
She walked along the crowded street, 107
She wears, my beloved, a rose upon her head, 61
Ships That Pass in the Night, 7
Silhouette on the face of the moon, 206
Silvera, Edward S., 213
Sky Pictures, 57
Slay fowl and beast; pluck clean the vine, 207
Snow in October, 71
So detached and cool she is, 143
Softly blow lightly, 190
Solace, 141
Some things are very dear to me, 161
Sometimes a right white mountain, 57
Sometimes it seems as though some puppet player, 46
So much have I forgotten in ten years, 85
Song for a Dark Girl, 147
Song of the Son, 96
Sonnet, 72
Sonnet, 160
Sonnet, 161
Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem, 217
South Street, 214
So we, who’ve supped the self-same cup, 5
Spencer, Anne, 47
Stream, The, 228
Substitution, 48
Suicide’s Note, 151
Summer comes, 223
Summer Matures, 217
Suppliant, The, 76
Supplication, 101
Surrender, 38
Sweet timber land, 172
Sympathy, 8

Tanka, 125
Tell me is there anything lovelier, 36
Tenebris, 40
That Hill, 109
The baker’s boy delivers loaves, 58
The band of Gideon roam the sky, 103
The bitterness of days like these we know, 138
The breath of life imbued those few dim days, 70
The calabash wherein she served my food, 200
The calm, 151
The dandelion stares, 229
The day is a Negro, 129
The fruit of the orchard is over-ripe, Elaine, 169
The heart of a woman goes forth with the dawn, 81
The hills are wroth; the stones have scored, 165
The night is beautiful, 150
The night was made for rest and sleep, 142
Then the golden hour, 168
There is a coarseness, 214
There is a tree, by day, 40
There was a man, 11
The sass’fras tea is red and clear, 56
The sky hangs heavy tonight, 122
The sky, lazily disdaining to pursue, 95
The sky was blue, so blue that day, 45
The very acme of my woe, 76
They have dreamed as young men dream, 77
This is the debt I pay, 9
This lovely flower fell to seed, 186
Thou art not dead, although the spoiler’s hand, 123
Three students once tarried over the Rhine, 17
Through the pregnant universe, 84
Thunder of the Rain God, 152
Time sitting on the throne of Memory, 32
’Tis queer, it is, the ways to men, 39
To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden, 136
To a Certain Woman, 178
To a Dark Girl, 157
To an Icicle, 110
To a Persistent Phantom, 113
To a Young Girl Leaving the Hill Country, 165
To climb a hill that hungers for the sky, 219
Today I saw a thing of arresting poignant beauty, 71
To fling my arms wide, 149
To John Keats, Poet, at Springtime, 184
To Lovers of Earth: Fair Warning, 182
“To meet and then to part,” 225
To Melody, 204
Toomer, Jean, 93
Touché, 66
Touch me, touch me, 38
Tragedy of Pete, The, 11
Transformation, 124
Tree Design, A, 170
Triviality, A, 209
True Love, 213
Twin stars through my purpling pane, 46

Upstairs on the third floor, 221

Walls of Jericho, The, 106
Way down South in Dixie, 147
Way-side Well, The, 15
Ways o’ Men, The, 39
We are not come to wage a strife, 171
We ask for peace. We, at the bound, 38
Weeden, Lula Lowe, 225
Well, son, I’ll tell you, 151
Were you a leper bathed in wounds, 77
We shall not always plant while others reap, 188
We Wear the Mask, 8
What Do I Care for Morning, 218
What Need Have I for Memory? 80
What! Roses growing in the meadow, 59
When face to face we stand, 43
When first you sang a song to me, 157
When I am Dead, 80
When I come down to sleep death’s endless night, 25
When I Die, 62
When the Green Lies Over the Earth, 41
When we count out our gold at the end of the day, 75
White Witch, The, 22
Wild Goat, The, 87
Wild Roses, 59
Williams, Lucy Ariel, 201
Winter Twilight, A, 46
Within a native hut, 197
Words! Words! 65

Yet Do I Marvel, 182
You are disdainful and magnificent, 217
Your Hands, 44
Your Songs, 157
Your words dropped into my heart, 91
You were a sophist, 156