Potential Titles: Anne Spencer

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Darling of spirit and form - Anne Spencer "At the Carnival"

With chances for none - Anne Spencer "At the Carnival"

Brave and water-clean - Anne Spencer "At the Carnival"

Of the usual and the expedient - Anne Spencer "At the Carnival"

If my garden oak spares one bare ledge - Anne Spencer "Creed" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Or hear it repeated from a foe I despise - Anne Spencer "Creed" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Followed an urge and rapped at my door - Anne Spencer "Creed" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

He dare not be silent or send me away - Anne Spencer "Creed" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Make one song and Heaven takes it - Anne Spencer "Dunbar" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Have one heart and Beauty breaks it - Anne Spencer "Dunbar" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

My heart from hence is closed - Anne Spencer "I Have a Friend" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

She tripped and fell against a star - Anne Spencer "Innocence" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Grieved in Florence for April sallies - Anne Spencer "Life-Long, Poor Browning..." [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Back to English gardens after Euclid's linear - Anne Spencer "Life-Long, Poor Browning..." [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Haunting the byways of wine-aired leaven - Anne Spencer "Life-Long, Poor Browning..." [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Beech tree and redbud fine-laced in vines - Anne Spencer "Life-Long, Poor Browning..." [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

As the furies after tore him apart - Anne Spencer "Lines to a Nasturtium (a lover muses)" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Looked into your startled depths and fled - Anne Spencer "Lines to a Nasturtium (a lover muses)" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Set the stricken air waves drumming - Anne Spencer "Lines to a Nasturtium (a lover muses)" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Motions gracious as reeds by Babylon - Anne Spencer "Lines to a Nasturtium (a lover muses)" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Cloth of gold were fair enough to touch her feet - Anne Spencer "Lines to a Nasturtium (a lover muses)" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

You must have a soul to clutch - Anne Spencer "Neighbors" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

My day is spent too far toward night - Anne Spencer "Questing" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

I was born to know her mysteries - Anne Spencer "Questing" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Needing wisdom I must go in vain - Anne Spencer "Questing" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Furl the poets' pleiades - Anne Spencer "Substitution"

Lifted clear of brick and frame - Anne Spencer "Substitution"


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