CAROLING DUSK _Books by Countee Cullen_ Color Copper Sun The Ballad of the Brown Girl The Medea The Lost Zoo My Lives and How I Lost Them On These I Stand One Way to Heaven _Edited by Countee Cullen_ Caroling Dusk CAROLING DUSK _An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets_ Edited by COUNTEE CULLEN HARPER & ROW, PUBLISHERS New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London CAROLING DUSK. Copyright 1927 by Harper & Brothers. Copyright renewed 1955 by Ida M. Cullen. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information address Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 10 East 53rd Street, New York, N. Y. 10022. Published simultaneously in Canada by Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited, Toronto. ISBN: 0-06-010926-2 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NUMBER: 27-23175 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS For permission to use the poems in this anthology, the editor wishes to thank the poets represented, and the following magazines and publishers: Dodd, Mead and Co. for poems from _The Collected Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar_ Boni and Liveright for poems from _Cane_ by Jean Toomer Alfred A. Knopf for poems from _The Weary Blues_ and _Fine Clothes to the Jew_ by Langston Hughes The Viking Press for “The Creation” from _God’s Trombones_ by James Weldon Johnson The Cornhill Publishing Co. for poems from _The Band of Gideon_ by Joseph S. Cotter, and from _Fifty Years and other Poems_ by James Weldon Johnson, and from _The Heart of a Woman_ by Georgia Douglas Johnson Harcourt, Brace & Co. for poems from _Harlem Shadows_ by Claude McKay and for _A Litany of Atlanta_ by W. E. B. DuBois Harper & Brothers for poems from _Color_ and _Copper Sun_ by Countee Cullen B. J. Brimmer Co. for poems from _Bronze_ by Georgia Douglas Johnson Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life for _Desolate_ and _My House_ by Claude McKay; _Old Black Men_ by Georgia Douglas Johnson; _Summer Matures_, _Fulfillment_, _The Road_ by Helene Johnson; _Portrait_ by George Leonard Allen; _For the Candlelight_ by Angelina Weld Grimké; _The Return_, _Golgotha Is a Mountain_, _The Day Breakers_, and _God Give to Men_ by Arna Bontemps; _I Have a Rendezvous With Life_ by Countee Cullen; _Lines Written at the Grave of Alexander Dumas_ and _Hatred_ by Gwendolyn B. Bennett; _Joy_, _Solace_, _Interim_ by Clarissa Scott Delany; _Confession_ by Donald Jeffrey Hayes; _On Seeing Two Brown Boys In a Catholic Church_ and _To a Persistent Phantom_ by Frank Horne; _Poem_ by Blanche Taylor Dickinson; _The New Negro_ by James Edward McCall; _The Tragedy of Pete_ and _The Wayside Well_ by Joseph S. Cotter, Sr.; _No Images_ by Waring Cuney; _Northboun’_ by Lucy Ariel Williams; _Shadow_ by Richard Bruce; _The Resurrection_ by Jonathan H. Brooks; _Africa and Transformation_ by Lewis Alexander