Caroling Dusk/Advice

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Caroling Dusk (1927)
edited by Countee Cullen

Advice by Gwendolyn B. Bennett

To a Dark Girl

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Gwendolyn B. Bennett4756132Caroling Dusk — Advice1927Countee Cullen

ADVICE

You were a sophist,Pale and quite remote,As you bade meWrite poems—Brown poemsOf dark wordsAnd prehistoric rhythms . . .Your pallor stifled my poesyBut I remembered a tapestryThat I would some day weaveOf dim purples and fine reds And bluesLike night and death—The keen precision of your wordsWove a silver threadThrough the dusk softnessOf my dream-stuff. . . .