Color (Cullen)

by Countee Cullen

For works with similar titles, see Color.

Color

COLOR

By

Countee Cullen

 

 

Harper & Brothers, Publishers
New York and London
mcmxxv

COLOR

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Copyright, 1925, by Harper & Brothers
Printed in the United States of America

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L-Z

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

Contents

TO YOU WHO READ MY BOOK		xiii
COLOR
YET DO I MARVEL		3
A SONG OF PRAISE		4
BROWN BOY TO BROWN GIRL		5
A BROWN GIRL DEAD		6
TO A BROWN GIRL		7
TO A BROWN BOY		8
BLACK MAGDALENS		9
ATLANTIC CITY WAITER		10
NEAR WHITE		11
TABLEAU		12
HARLEM WINE		13
SIMON THE CYRENIAN SPEAKS		14
INCIDENT		15
TWO WHO CROSSED A LINE (SHE CROSSES)		16
TWO WHO CROSSED A LINE (HE CROSSES)		17
SATURDAY'S CHILD		18
THE DANCE OF LOVE		19
PAGAN PRAYER		20
WISDOM COMETH WITH THE YEARS		22
TO MY FAIRER BRETHREN		23
FRUIT OF THE FLOWER		24
THE SHROUD OF COLOR		26
HERITAGE		36
EPITAPHS
FOR A POET		45
FOR MY GRANDMOTHER		46
FOR A CYNIC		47
FOR A SINGER		48
FOR A VIRGIN		49
FOR A LADY I KNOW		50
FOR A LOVELY LADY		51
FOR AN ATHEIST		52
FOR AN EVOLUTIONIST AND HIS OPPONENT		53
FOR AN ANARCHIST		54
FOR A MAGICIAN		55
FOR A PESSIMIST		56
FOR A MOUTHY WOMAN		57
FOR A PHILOSOPHER		58
FOR AN UNSUCCESSFUL SINNER		59
FOR A FOOL		60
FOR ONE WHO GAYLY SOWED HIS OATS		61
FOR A SKEPTIC		62
FOR A FATALIST		63
FOR DAUGHTERS OF MAGDALEN		64
FOR A WANTON		65
FOR A PREACHER		66
FOR ONE WHO DIED SINGING OF DEATH		67
FOR JOHN KEATS, APOSTLE OF BEAUTY		68
FOR HAZEL HALL, AMERICAN POET		69
FOR PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR		70
FOR JOSEPH CONRAD		71
FOR MYSELF		72
FOR THE DEAD		73
FOR LOVE'S SAKE
OH, FOR A LITTLE WHILE BE KIND		77
IF YOU SHOULD GO		78
TO ONE WHO SAID ME NAY		79
ADVICE TO YOUTH		80
CAPRICE		81
SACRAMENT		82
BREAD AND WINE		83
SPRING REMINISCENCE		84
VARIA
SUICIDE CHANT		87
SHE OF THE DANCING FEET SINGS		89
JUDAS ISCARIOT		90
THE WISE		95
MARY, MOTHER OF CHRIST		96
DIALOGUE		97
IN MEMORY OF COL. CHARLES YOUNG		99
TO MY FRIENDS		100
GODS		101
TO JOHN KEATS, POET. AT SPRINGTIME		104
ON GOING		105
HARSH WORLD THAT LASHEST ME		106
REQUIESCAM		108

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