The Black Christ, & other poems

Other Books by

COUNTEE CULLEN

COLOR

COPPER SUN

THE BALLAD OF THE BROWN GIRL

CAROLING DUSK

An Anthology of Verse by
Negro Poets

Harper & Brothers
Publishers

THE

BLACK CHRIST

& Other Poems

By

COUNTEE CULLEN

With Decorations by

CHARLES CULLEN

Harper & Brothers Publishers

New York and London

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The
Black Christ
& Other Poems
Copyright
1929, by
Harper & Brothers
Printed in the
U. S. A.
*

FIRST EDITION

A Book
for Three Friends

EDWARD

ROBERTA

HAROLD

¶ Acknowledgment for permission to reprint certain of these poems is made to the following magazines and collections in the pages of which they first appeared:

• The Century
• The New Republic
• Harper’s Magazine
• Opportunity
• The Crisis
• Tambour
• Ebony and Topaz
• The Poetry Folio
• Palms
• The Archive
• Time and Tide
• The London Observer

¶ Grateful appreciation is also conveyed to the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation by the aid of whose grant many of these poems were written.