Color / by Countee Cullen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946, author.

Contributor:

Harper & Brothers, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Poetry.

African Americans.

Black race.

Black race--Poetry.

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