INDEX

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 all 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 Burghardt, 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, Angelina 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, 36

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

If 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, 77

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 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