An Autumn Love Cycle

Privilege to reprint certain of these poems is through the courtesy of the editors of The Crisis, The Liberator, Telling Tales, The Sphinx, Music and Poetry, Messenger, Opportunity and The Minaret.

Acknowledgment is made of the very helpful criticism and suggestions from Alain Locke and Clement Wood in the final preparation of this volume.

Contents

Foreword		xv
The Cycle
I Closed My Shutters Fast Last Night		3
Footsteps		4
Oh Night of Love		5
Autumn		6
Thralldom		7
Separation		8
Love's Miracle		9
Proving		10
Interim		11
Good-Bye		12
A Paradox		13
How My Heart Sinks		14
To Time		15
Welt		16
Review		17
Illusion		18
Parody		19
Delusion		20
Sunset		21
Finis		22
Contemplation
Ivy		25
Joy		26
One Day		27
Attar		28
Youth's Progeny		29
I Wonder		30
Values		31
Armageddon		32
Le Soir		33
Treasure		34
Retrospection		35
Intermezzi
Springtime		39
Destiny		40
Envoys		41
I Want to Die While You Love Me		42
Ecstasy		43
Pledge		44
Your Eyes		45
Amour		46
Finality		47
In Love		48
Fiction		49
Dead Days		50
Penseroso
Break, Break My Heart		53
Little King		54
Romance		55
Falling Gods		56
Armor		57
Divide		58
Return		59
Song of the Sinner		60
Celibacy		61
Cadence
Offering		65
Estrangement		66
Recessional		67
Sepulchre		68
Curtain		69
Afterglow		70

This book was designed by Robert S. Josephy
and printed under his supervision at the
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