Potential Titles: Jessie Redmon Fauset

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Words that knew no bounds - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Again it is September"

An instant glad surrender - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Again it is September"

This dead and leaden thing - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Dead Fires"

The wound forever seeking balm - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Dead Fires"

The night's white wake - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Dead Fires"

And think old thoughts - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Douce Souvenance"

Naught have you and I but frozen tears, and stifled words - Jessie Fauset "Fragment" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Stifled words, and once a sharp caught cry - Jessie Fauset "Fragment" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Love's dart lurks in my heart too - Jessie Fauset "Noblesse Oblige" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

I must jest while sorrow's knife stabs in ecstasy - Jessie Fauset "Noblesse Oblige" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Barred from expression of my pain - Jessie Fauset "Noblesse Oblige" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Blessed she who may tell her agony - Jessie Fauset "Noblesse Oblige" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

And my dead heart would bless oblivion - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Oblivion"

The shroud and envelope of happiness - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Oblivion"

Seared with slavery's mortal scars - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Oriflamme"

Pounding our stubborn hearts on freedom's bars - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Oriflamme"

In your furious, tearing wind - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Rain Fugue"

A chant that heals my mind - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Rain Fugue"

Your passion high and proud - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Rain Fugue"

To forget things that are, for things not yet - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Rain Fugue"

Now I woo my dancing fire - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Rain Fugue"

Gentle joys and heart-break rue - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Rain Fugue"

Were oblivion not sadder yet - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Rain Fugue"

Within me surged the grief of years - Jessie Fauset "Rencontre" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

And whelmed with with its endless rue - Jessie Fauset "Rencontre" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Now find that same road wild and steep - Jessie Fauset "The Return" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

With need for compass and for rod - Jessie Fauset "The Return" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Purge the soul with their infinity - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Stars in Alabama"

Beneath their holy glance - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Stars in Alabama"

That glance of mixed wonder and rue - Jessie Fauset "Touche" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Stepping wraith-wise from the depths of the past - Jessie Fauset "Touche" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Quickened and fired by the warmth of our glow - Jessie Fauset "Touche" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

The world is full of jests like these - Jessie Redmon Fauset "La Vie C'est La Vie"

How did it happen that we quarreled? - Jessie Fauset "Words! Words!" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]


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