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Caroling Dusk

by Countee Cullen

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  1. 1Acknowledgments
  2. 2Foreword
  3. 3Paul Laurence Dunbar
  4. 4Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes⁠
  5. 5Death Song⁠
  6. 6Life⁠
  7. 7After the Quarrel⁠
  8. 8Ships That Pass in the Night⁠
  9. 9We Wear the Mask⁠
  10. 10Sympathy⁠
  11. 11The Debt⁠
  12. 12Joseph S. Cotter, Sr.
  13. 13The Tragedy of Pete
  14. 14The Way-Side Well
  15. 15James Weldon Johnson
  16. 16From the German of Uhland
  17. 17The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face
  18. 18The Creation
  19. 19The White Witch
  20. 20My City
  21. 21William Edward Burghardt du Bois
  22. 22A Litany of Atlanta⁠ — Done at Atlanta, in the Day of Death, 1906
  23. 23William Stanley Braithwaite
  24. 24Scintilla
  25. 25Rye Bread
  26. 26October XXIX, 1795
  27. 27Del Cascar
  28. 28James Edward McCall
  29. 29The New Negro
  30. 30Angelina Weld Grimké
  31. 31Hushed by the Hands of Sleep (to Dr. George F. Grant)
  32. 32II
  33. 33Greenness
  34. 34The Eyes of My Regret
  35. 35Grass Fingers
  36. 36Surrender
  37. 37The Ways o’ Men
  38. 38Tenebris
  39. 39When the Green Lies Over the Earth
  40. 40A Mona Lisa
  41. 412
  42. 42Paradox
  43. 43Your Hands
  44. 44I Weep
  45. 45For the Candle Light
  46. 46Dusk — The Puppet Player
  47. 47A Winter Twilight
  48. 48Anne Spencer
  49. 49Neighbors — I Have a Friend
  50. 50Substitution
  51. 51Questing
  52. 52Life-Long, Poor Browning
  53. 53Dunbar — Innocence
  54. 54Creed
  55. 55Lines to a Nasturtium
  56. 56At the Carnival
  57. 57Mary Effie Lee Newsome
  58. 58Morning Light⁠
  59. 592
  60. 60Pansy
  61. 61Sassafras Tea
  62. 62Sky Pictures
  63. 63The Quilt
  64. 64The Baker’s Boy
  65. 65Wild Roses — Quoits
  66. 66John Frederick Matheus
  67. 67Requiem
  68. 68Fenton Johnson
  69. 69When I Die
  70. 70Puck Goes to Court
  71. 71The Marathon Runner
  72. 72Jessie Fauset
  73. 73Words! Words!
  74. 74Touché
  75. 75Noblesse Oblige
  76. 76La Vie C’est la Vie
  77. 77The Return
  78. 78Rencontre
  79. 79Fragment
  80. 80Alice Dunbar Nelson
  81. 81Snow in October
  82. 82Sonnet
  83. 83I Sit and Sew
  84. 84Georgia Douglas Johnson
  85. 85Service
  86. 86Hope
  87. 87The Suppliant
  88. 88Little Son
  89. 89Old Black Men
  90. 90Lethe
  91. 91Proving
  92. 92I Want to die While You Love Me
  93. 93Recessional
  94. 94My Little Dreams
  95. 95What Need Have I for Memory?
  96. 96When I Am Dead
  97. 97The Dreams of the Dreamer
  98. 98The Heart of a Woman
  99. 99Claude McKay
  100. 100America⁠
  101. 101Exhortation: Summer, 1919⁠
  102. 102Flame-Heart⁠
  103. 103The Wild Goat⁠
  104. 104Russian Cathedral
  105. 105Desolate
  106. 106Absence⁠
  107. 107My House
  108. 108Jean Toomer
  109. 109Reapers
  110. 110Evening Song
  111. 111Georgia Dusk
  112. 112Song of the Son
  113. 113Cotton Song
  114. 114Face
  115. 115November Cotton Flower
  116. 116Joseph S. Cotter, Jr.
  117. 117Rain Music
  118. 118Supplication
  119. 119An April Day
  120. 120The Deserter
  121. 121And What Shall You Say?
  122. 122The Band of Gideon
  123. 123Blanche Taylor Dickinson
  124. 124The Walls of Jericho
  125. 125Poem
  126. 126Revelation
  127. 1272
  128. 128That Hill
  129. 129To an Icicle
  130. 130Four Walls
  131. 131Frank Horne
  132. 132On Seeing Two Brown Boys in a Catholic Church
  133. 133To a Persistent Phantom
  134. 134Letters Found Near a Suicide
  135. 135Nigger
  136. 136Lewis Alexander
  137. 137Negro Woman
  138. 138Africa
  139. 139Transformation
  140. 140The Dark Brother
  141. 141Tanka I-Viii · II · III · IV · V · VI · VII · VIII — Japanese Hokku
  142. 142Day and Night
  143. 143Sterling A. Brown
  144. 144Odyssey of Big Boy
  145. 145Maumee Ruth
  146. 146Long Gone
  147. 147To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden
  148. 148Salutamus
  149. 149Challenge
  150. 150Return
  151. 151Clarissa Scott Delany
  152. 152Joy
  153. 153Solace
  154. 154Interim
  155. 155The Mask
  156. 156Langston Hughes
  157. 157I, Too⁠
  158. 158Prayer⁠ — Song for a Dark Girl⁠
  159. 159Homesick Blues⁠
  160. 160Fantasy in Purple⁠
  161. 161Dream Variation⁠
  162. 162The Negro Speaks of Rivers⁠
  163. 163Poem⁠
  164. 164Suicide’s Note⁠ — Mother to Son⁠
  165. 165A House in Taos
  166. 166Gwendolyn B. Bennett
  167. 167Quatrains · 2 — Secret
  168. 168Advice
  169. 169To a Dark Girl
  170. 170Your Songs
  171. 171Fantasy
  172. 172Lines Written at the Grave of Alexander Dumas
  173. 173Hatred
  174. 174Sonnet
  175. 1752
  176. 176Arna Bontemps
  177. 177The Return
  178. 178II
  179. 179III
  180. 180IV
  181. 181A Black Man Talks of Reaping
  182. 182To a Young Girl Leaving the Hill Country
  183. 183Nocturne at Bethesda
  184. 184Length of Moon
  185. 185Lancelot
  186. 186Gethsemane
  187. 187A Tree Design
  188. 188Blight
  189. 189The Day-Breakers
  190. 190Close Your Eyes!
  191. 191God Give to Men
  192. 192Homing
  193. 193Golgotha Is a Mountain
  194. 194Albert Rice
  195. 195The Black Madonna
  196. 196Countee Cullen
  197. 197Lines to Our Elders
  198. 198I Have a Rendezvous With Life
  199. 199Protest
  200. 200Yet Do I Marvel
  201. 201To Lovers of Earth: Fair Warning
  202. 202From the Dark Tower
  203. 203To John Keats, Poet, at Springtime
  204. 204Four Epitaphs · 2 — For John Keats, Apostle of Beauty · 3 — For Pau…
  205. 205Donald Jeffrey Hayes
  206. 206Inscription
  207. 207Auf Wiedersehen
  208. 208Night
  209. 209Confession
  210. 210Nocturne
  211. 211After All
  212. 212Jonathan Henderson Brooks
  213. 213The Resurrection
  214. 214The Last Quarter Moon of the Dying Year
  215. 215Paean
  216. 216Gladys May Casely Hayford
  217. 217Nativity
  218. 218Rainy Season Love Song
  219. 219The Serving Girl
  220. 220Baby Cobina
  221. 221Lucy Ariel Williams
  222. 222Northboun’
  223. 223George Leonard Allen
  224. 224To Melody
  225. 225Portrait
  226. 226Richard Bruce
  227. 227Shadow
  228. 228Cavalier
  229. 229Waring Cuney
  230. 230The Death Bed
  231. 231A Triviality
  232. 232I Think I See Him There
  233. 233Dust
  234. 234No Images
  235. 235The Radical
  236. 236True Love
  237. 237Edward S. Silvera
  238. 238South Street
  239. 239Jungle Taste
  240. 240Helene Johnson
  241. 241What Do I Care for Morning
  242. 242Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem
  243. 243Summer Matures
  244. 244Poem
  245. 245Fulfillment
  246. 246The Road
  247. 247Bottled
  248. 248Magalu
  249. 249Wesley Curtwright
  250. 250The Close of Day
  251. 251Lula Lowe Weeden
  252. 252Me Alone
  253. 253Have You Seen It
  254. 254Robin Red Breast — The Stream

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