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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. To You Who Read My Book
  3. Color
  4. Yet Do I Marvel
  5. A Song of Praise
  6. Brown Boy to Brown Girl
  7. A Brown Girl Dead
  8. To a Brown Girl
  9. To a Brown Boy
  10. Black Magdalens
  11. Atlantic City Waiter
  12. Near White
  13. Tableau
  14. Harlem Wine
  15. Simon the Cyrenian Speaks
  16. Incident
  17. Two Who Crossed a Line
  18. Two Who Crossed a Line
  19. Saturday’s Child
  20. The Dance of Love
  21. Pagan Prayer
  22. Wisdom Cometh With the Years
  23. To My Fairer Brethren
  24. Fruit of the Flower
  25. The Shroud of Color
  26. Heritage
  27. Epitaphs
  28. For a Poet
  29. For My Grandmother
  30. For a Cynic
  31. For a Singer
  32. For a Virgin
  33. For a Lady I Know
  34. For a Lovely Lady
  35. For an Atheist
  36. For an Evolutionist and His Opponent
  37. For an Anarchist
  38. For a Magician
  39. For a Pessimist
  40. For a Mouthy Woman
  41. For a Philosopher
  42. For an Unsuccessful Sinner
  43. For a Fool
  44. For One Who Gayly Sowed His Oats
  45. For a Skeptic
  46. For a Fatalist
  47. For Daughters of Magdalen
  48. For a Wanton
  49. For a Preacher
  50. For One Who Died Singing of Death
  51. For John Keats, Apostle of Beauty
  52. For Hazel Hall, American Poet
  53. For Paul Laurence Dunbar
  54. For Joseph Conrad
  55. For Myself
  56. All the Dead
  57. For Love’s Sake
  58. Oh, for a Little While Be Kind
  59. If You Should Go
  60. To One Who Said Me Nay
  61. Advice to Youth
  62. Caprice
  63. Sacrament
  64. Bread and Wine
  65. Spring Reminiscence
  66. Varia
  67. Suicide Chant
  68. She of the Dancing Feet Sings
  69. Judas Iscariot
  70. The Wise
  71. Mary, Mother of Christ
  72. Dialogue
  73. In Memory of Col. Charles Young
  74. To My Friends
  75. Gods
  76. To John Keats, Poet. At Spring Time[A]
  77. On Going
  78. Harsh World That Lashest Me
  79. Requiescam
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Color

Countee Cullen

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(von vorn beginnen)

To my Mother and Father
This First Book

Acknowledgments

For permission to reprint certain of these poems thanks is hereby given to the following publications:

The American Mercury
The Bookman
The Century
The Crisis
The Conning Tower: New York World
Folio
Harper’s Magazine
Les Continents
The Messenger
The Nation
Opportunity
Palms
Poetry: A Magazine of Verse
The Southwestern Christian Advocate
The Survey Graphic
The World Tomorrow
Vanity Fair

To You Who Read My Book

SOON every sprinter,

However fleet,

Comes to a winter

Of sure defeat:

Though he may race

Like the hunted doe,

Time has a pace

To lay him low.

Soon we who sing,

However high,

Must face the Thing

We cannot fly.

Yea, though we fling

Our notes to the sun,

Time will outsing

Us every one.

All things must change

As the wind is blown;

Time will estrange

The flesh from the bone.

The dream shall elude

The dreamer’s clasp,

And only its hood

Shall comfort his grasp.

A little while,

Too brief at most,

And even my smile

Will be a ghost.

A little space,

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