Color / by Countee Cullen.
PS3505.U287 C6 1925 copy 3
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Format:
Author/Creator:
Contributor:
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Genre:
Poetry.
Lask Poetry Collection.
Penn Provenance:
Lask, Thomas (donor) (copy 2)
Hoeber, Ditta Baron (donor)
Baron, Herschel (former owner)
Physical Description:
xvii, 108 pages : portrait ; 20 cm
Edition:
"First edition.".
Place of Publication:
New York ; London : Harper & Brothers, 1925.
Contents:
To you who read my book Color : Yet do I marvel A song of praise Brown boy to brown girl A brown girl dead To a brown girl To a brown boy Black Magdalens Atlantic City waiter Near white Tableau Harlem wine Simon the Cyrenian speaks Incident Two who crossed a line (she crosses) Two who crossed a line (he crosses) Saturday's child The dance of love pagan prayer Wisdom cometh with the years To my fairer brethren Fruit of the flower The shroud of color Heritage Epitaphs. For a poet For my grandmother For a cynic For a singer For a virgin For a lady I know For a lovely lady For an atheist For an evolutionist and his opponent For an anarchist For a magician For a pessimist For a mouthy woman For a philosopher For an unsuccessful sinner For a fool For one who gayly sowed his oats For a skeptic For a fatalist For daughters of Magdalen For a wanton For a preacher For one who died singing of death For John Keats, Apostle of beauty For Hazel Hall, American poet For Paul Lawrence Dunbar For Joesph Conrad For myself All the dead For love's sake. Oh, for a little while be kind If you should go To one who said me nay Advice to youth Caprice Sacrament Bread and wine Spring reminiscence Varia. suicide chant She of the dancing feet sings Judas Iscariot The wise Mary, mother of Christ Dialogue In memory of Col. Charles Young To my friends Gods To John Keats, poet. at springtime On going Harsh world that lashest me Requiescam.
Notes:
Poems. "Copyright, 1925, by Harper & Brothers"--verso of title page.
OCLC:
626219
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