Part 11
_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 Speaks 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 frocks, 87
_Paean_, 195
_Pansy_, 56
_Paradox_, 48
_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 before 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, 183
_We Wear the Mask_, 8
_What Do I Care for Morning_, 216
_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
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Transcriber’s note
Minor punctuation errors have been changed without notice.
Page number references in the index are as published in the original publication and have not been checked for accuracy in this eBook.
Spelling was retained as in the original except for the following changes:
Page vi: “_No’thboun’_ by Lucy Ariel” “_Northboun’_ by Lucy Ariel” Page 47: “its so involved and” “it’s so involved and” Page 66: “TOUCHE” “TOUCHÉ” Page 206: “an all-womens’ hotel” “an all-women’s hotel” Page 230: “Ah, little road” “Ah, little road all”