JAMES WELDON JOHNSON From the German of Uhland 17 The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face 18 The Creation 19 The White Witch 22 My City 25 WILLIAM EDWARD BURGHARDT DU BOIS A Litany of Atlanta 26 WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Scintilla 31 Rye Bread 31 October XXIX, 1795 32 Del Cascar 33 JAMES EDWARD MCCALL The New Negro 34 ANGELINA WELD GRIMKÉ Hushed by the Hands of Sleep 36 Greenness 36 The Eyes of My Regret 37 Grass Fingers 38 Surrender 38 The Ways o’ Men 39 Tenebris 40 When the Green Lies Over the Earth 41 A Mona Lisa 42 Paradox 43 Your Hands 44 I Weep 45 For the Candle Light 45 Dusk 46 The Puppet Player 46 A Winter Twilight 46 ANNE SPENCER Neighbors 47 I Have a Friend 47 Substitution 48 Questing 48 Life-long, Poor Browning 49 Dunbar 50 Innocence 51 Creed 51 Lines to a Nasturtium 52 At the Carnival 53