Potential Titles: Countee Cullen
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somethingdarkerThey wrap their wounds in pride - Countee Cullen "Black Magdalens"
The enamoured sun pretending that he dies - Countee Cullen "Brown Boy to Brown Girl"
In a land of scarlet suns and brooding winds - Countee Cullen "Brown Boy to Brown Girl"
If for a day joy masters me - Countee Cullen "Confession"
Who tend my roots with rains of gall - Countee Cullen "Confession"
Rains of gall and suns of prejudice - Countee Cullen "Confession"
On crested waves of melodies - Countee Cullen "Dialogue"
Render up in song your tithes - Countee Cullen "Dialogue"
Wore his coffin for a hat - Countee Cullen "Epitaphs: For a Pessimist"
Calamity his cape - Countee Cullen "Epitaphs: For a Pessimist"
The riddle of being and breath - Countee Cullen "Epitaphs: For a Philosopher"
Wrapped my dreams in a silken cloth - Countee Cullen "Epitaphs: For a Poet"
Could break death's adamantine law - Countee Cullen "Epitaphs: For an Anarchist"
Delicate flowers of sin - Countee Cullen "Epitaphs: For Daughters of Magdalen"
Golden bell pealing in the courts of dust - Countee Cullen "Epitaphs: For One Who Died Singing of Death"
Pride kept his twisted lips apart in jest - Countee Cullen "Four Epitaphs: For Paul Laurence Dunbar" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Born of the sorrowful heart - Countee Cullen "Four Epitaphs: For Paul Laurence Dunbar" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Mirth was a crown upon his head - Countee Cullen "Four Epitaphs: For Paul Laurence Dunbar" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Not writ in water nor in mist - Countee Cullen "Four Epitaphs: For John Keats, Apostle of Beauty" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
And tend our agonizing seeds - Countee Cullen "From the Dark Tower"
The golden increment of bursting fruit - Countee Cullen "From the Dark Tower"
Who plants a seed begets a bud - Countee Cullen "Fruit of the Flower"
Extract of that same root - Countee Cullen "Fruit of the Flower"
Down alleyways of dreams - Countee Cullen "Harlem Wine"
The hemlock which you give for wine - Countee Cullen "Harsh World That Lashest Me"
Within myself is lodged the key - Countee Cullen "Harsh World That Lashest Me"
Dreams of light eclipsed in shade - Countee Cullen "Harsh World That Lashest Me"
Yet I would keep this rendezvous - Countee Cullen "I Have a Rendezvous with Life" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Love, leave me like the light - Countee Cullen "If You Should Go"
Have left me but the name - Countee Cullen "If You Should Go"
A gleam across the dreamer's face - Countee Cullen "If You Should Go"
A well drained bitter by the sky - Countee Cullen "In Memory of Col. Charles Young"
How the shadows crawl surely up your crumbling wall - Countee Cullen "Lines to Our Elders" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Whose nimble fingers rifle your heartbeats - Countee Cullen "Lines to Our Elders" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
On your passion's frigid chest - Countee Cullen "Oh, for a Little While Be Kind"
All bitter yesterdays I knew - Countee Cullen "Oh, for a Little While Be Kind"
Half a loaf from sumptuous crumbs - Countee Cullen "Oh, for a Little While Be Kind"
Stretches forth from shadowed places - Countee Cullen "Pagan Prayer"
I pay my debts in kind - Countee Cullen "Pagan Prayer"
Your doors barred from within - Countee Cullen "Pagan Prayer"
With poppy for my everlasting flower - Countee Cullen "Protest" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Without a thought of famine, flood, or fire - Countee Cullen "Protest" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Made complete in sunlight and starshine - Countee Cullen "Sacrament"
Cast bread on stagnant water - Countee Cullen "Sacrament"
With the stars strung for a rattle - Countee Cullen "Saturday's Child"
And handed me to sorrow - Countee Cullen "Saturday's Child"
Burned my hands upon a star - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
Athwart Truth's deep abyss - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
To keep secure my wild chimeras - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
The small hard teeth of worms - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
Less envenomed than the mouth of Truth - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
Into dust and happy nothingness - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
Felt the smallest sandgrain like a knife - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
A wave of thunder shook my wing - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
Privileged beyond degree - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
In the mesh of Lucifer's revolt - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
Tricked a mass of stars into his hair - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
He filled his hands with stars - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
A chord long impotent in me - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
Wrought every nerve to ecstasy - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
All sweet things that flourish - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
The broken breath of liberty enchained - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
To contemplate a changing sky - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
That sailed the doubtful seas - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
Two colts too strong for a tether - Countee Cullen "Spring Reminiscence"
His mouth the lash of whips - Countee Cullen "To a Brown Girl (for Roberta)"
Youth is time for careless weather - Countee Cullen "To a Brown Girl (for Roberta)"
Poor, troubled, lyric ghost - Countee Cullen "To John Keats, Poet. At Spring Time"
Helpless in the toil of Spring - Countee Cullen "To John Keats, Poet. At Spring Time"
A harp that grieves for life - Countee Cullen "To John Keats, Poet. At Spring Time"
The righteous bar against a wayward peace - Countee Cullen "To Lovers of Earth: Fair Warning" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Upon this pale and passion-frozen star - Countee Cullen "To Lovers of Earth: Fair Warning" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
When your last cracked and quivering note is sung - Countee Cullen "To Lovers of Earth: Fair Warning" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
That rare loss that vanishes with your bewildered will - Countee Cullen "To Lovers of Earth: Fair Warning" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
No quick white scar of wrath emboss the sky - Countee Cullen "To Lovers of Earth: Fair Warning" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
No blood drip from a wounded moon - Countee Cullen "To Lovers of Earth: Fair Warning" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
And not a single star chime out of tune - Countee Cullen "To Lovers of Earth: Fair Warning" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Treble circumstance must confirm the verdict - Countee Cullen "To My Fairer Brethren"
Match you every coin you flip - Countee Cullen "To My Fairer Brethren"
Comes to a winter of sure defeat - Countee Cullen "To You Who Read My Book"
Fling our notes to the sun - Countee Cullen "To You Who Read My Book"
Estrange the flesh from the bone - Countee Cullen "To You Who Read My Book"
Even my smile will be a ghost - Countee Cullen "To You Who Read My Book"
Flaunt a red flower in the face of time - Countee Cullen "To You Who Read My Book"
When the sharp wedge cracks my arid heart - Countee Cullen "To You Who Read My Book"
My heart is quick to bleed - Countee Cullen "Wisdom Cometh with the Years"
And dream that false is true - Countee Cullen "Wisdom Cometh with the Years"
Wrapped in their cool immunity - Countee Cullen "The Wise"
The reason tortured Tantalus is baited - Countee Cullen "Yet Do I Marvel"
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The enamoured sun pretending that he dies - Countee Cullen "Brown Boy to Brown Girl"
In a land of scarlet suns and brooding winds - Countee Cullen "Brown Boy to Brown Girl"
If for a day joy masters me - Countee Cullen "Confession"
Who tend my roots with rains of gall - Countee Cullen "Confession"
Rains of gall and suns of prejudice - Countee Cullen "Confession"
On crested waves of melodies - Countee Cullen "Dialogue"
Render up in song your tithes - Countee Cullen "Dialogue"
Wore his coffin for a hat - Countee Cullen "Epitaphs: For a Pessimist"
Calamity his cape - Countee Cullen "Epitaphs: For a Pessimist"
The riddle of being and breath - Countee Cullen "Epitaphs: For a Philosopher"
Wrapped my dreams in a silken cloth - Countee Cullen "Epitaphs: For a Poet"
Could break death's adamantine law - Countee Cullen "Epitaphs: For an Anarchist"
Delicate flowers of sin - Countee Cullen "Epitaphs: For Daughters of Magdalen"
Golden bell pealing in the courts of dust - Countee Cullen "Epitaphs: For One Who Died Singing of Death"
Pride kept his twisted lips apart in jest - Countee Cullen "Four Epitaphs: For Paul Laurence Dunbar" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Born of the sorrowful heart - Countee Cullen "Four Epitaphs: For Paul Laurence Dunbar" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Mirth was a crown upon his head - Countee Cullen "Four Epitaphs: For Paul Laurence Dunbar" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Not writ in water nor in mist - Countee Cullen "Four Epitaphs: For John Keats, Apostle of Beauty" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
And tend our agonizing seeds - Countee Cullen "From the Dark Tower"
The golden increment of bursting fruit - Countee Cullen "From the Dark Tower"
Who plants a seed begets a bud - Countee Cullen "Fruit of the Flower"
Extract of that same root - Countee Cullen "Fruit of the Flower"
Down alleyways of dreams - Countee Cullen "Harlem Wine"
The hemlock which you give for wine - Countee Cullen "Harsh World That Lashest Me"
Within myself is lodged the key - Countee Cullen "Harsh World That Lashest Me"
Dreams of light eclipsed in shade - Countee Cullen "Harsh World That Lashest Me"
Yet I would keep this rendezvous - Countee Cullen "I Have a Rendezvous with Life" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Love, leave me like the light - Countee Cullen "If You Should Go"
Have left me but the name - Countee Cullen "If You Should Go"
A gleam across the dreamer's face - Countee Cullen "If You Should Go"
A well drained bitter by the sky - Countee Cullen "In Memory of Col. Charles Young"
How the shadows crawl surely up your crumbling wall - Countee Cullen "Lines to Our Elders" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Whose nimble fingers rifle your heartbeats - Countee Cullen "Lines to Our Elders" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
On your passion's frigid chest - Countee Cullen "Oh, for a Little While Be Kind"
All bitter yesterdays I knew - Countee Cullen "Oh, for a Little While Be Kind"
Half a loaf from sumptuous crumbs - Countee Cullen "Oh, for a Little While Be Kind"
Stretches forth from shadowed places - Countee Cullen "Pagan Prayer"
I pay my debts in kind - Countee Cullen "Pagan Prayer"
Your doors barred from within - Countee Cullen "Pagan Prayer"
With poppy for my everlasting flower - Countee Cullen "Protest" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Without a thought of famine, flood, or fire - Countee Cullen "Protest" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Made complete in sunlight and starshine - Countee Cullen "Sacrament"
Cast bread on stagnant water - Countee Cullen "Sacrament"
With the stars strung for a rattle - Countee Cullen "Saturday's Child"
And handed me to sorrow - Countee Cullen "Saturday's Child"
Burned my hands upon a star - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
Athwart Truth's deep abyss - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
To keep secure my wild chimeras - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
The small hard teeth of worms - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
Less envenomed than the mouth of Truth - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
Into dust and happy nothingness - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
Felt the smallest sandgrain like a knife - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
A wave of thunder shook my wing - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
Privileged beyond degree - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
In the mesh of Lucifer's revolt - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
Tricked a mass of stars into his hair - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
He filled his hands with stars - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
A chord long impotent in me - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
Wrought every nerve to ecstasy - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
All sweet things that flourish - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
The broken breath of liberty enchained - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
To contemplate a changing sky - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
That sailed the doubtful seas - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
Two colts too strong for a tether - Countee Cullen "Spring Reminiscence"
His mouth the lash of whips - Countee Cullen "To a Brown Girl (for Roberta)"
Youth is time for careless weather - Countee Cullen "To a Brown Girl (for Roberta)"
Poor, troubled, lyric ghost - Countee Cullen "To John Keats, Poet. At Spring Time"
Helpless in the toil of Spring - Countee Cullen "To John Keats, Poet. At Spring Time"
A harp that grieves for life - Countee Cullen "To John Keats, Poet. At Spring Time"
The righteous bar against a wayward peace - Countee Cullen "To Lovers of Earth: Fair Warning" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Upon this pale and passion-frozen star - Countee Cullen "To Lovers of Earth: Fair Warning" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
When your last cracked and quivering note is sung - Countee Cullen "To Lovers of Earth: Fair Warning" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
That rare loss that vanishes with your bewildered will - Countee Cullen "To Lovers of Earth: Fair Warning" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
No quick white scar of wrath emboss the sky - Countee Cullen "To Lovers of Earth: Fair Warning" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
No blood drip from a wounded moon - Countee Cullen "To Lovers of Earth: Fair Warning" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
And not a single star chime out of tune - Countee Cullen "To Lovers of Earth: Fair Warning" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Treble circumstance must confirm the verdict - Countee Cullen "To My Fairer Brethren"
Match you every coin you flip - Countee Cullen "To My Fairer Brethren"
Comes to a winter of sure defeat - Countee Cullen "To You Who Read My Book"
Fling our notes to the sun - Countee Cullen "To You Who Read My Book"
Estrange the flesh from the bone - Countee Cullen "To You Who Read My Book"
Even my smile will be a ghost - Countee Cullen "To You Who Read My Book"
Flaunt a red flower in the face of time - Countee Cullen "To You Who Read My Book"
When the sharp wedge cracks my arid heart - Countee Cullen "To You Who Read My Book"
My heart is quick to bleed - Countee Cullen "Wisdom Cometh with the Years"
And dream that false is true - Countee Cullen "Wisdom Cometh with the Years"
Wrapped in their cool immunity - Countee Cullen "The Wise"
The reason tortured Tantalus is baited - Countee Cullen "Yet Do I Marvel"
Poet's page at poets.org.
Navigation Links:
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Go to author indices.
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