Potential Titles: Helene Johnson

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To climb a hill that hungers for the sky - Helene Johnson "Fulfillment" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

To dig my hands wrist deep in pregnant earth - Helene Johnson "Fulfillment" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

And splash with a wet giggle in the street - Helene Johnson "Fulfillment" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

To ramble in the twilight after supper - Helene Johnson "Fulfillment" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

To melt the still snow with my seething body - Helene Johnson "Fulfillment" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

To let your stabbing beauty pierce me - Helene Johnson "Fulfillment" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Let me be buried in the rain - Helene Johnson "Invocation"

Chromatic words, seraphic symphonies - Helene Johnson "Magalu"

Fill up your throat with laughter - Helene Johnson "Magalu"

Sell the colors of your sunset - Helene Johnson "Magalu"

The passionate wonder of your forest - Helene Johnson "Magalu"

Crooning love songs to your banjo - Helene Johnson "Poem [Little brown boy]" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

All the happiness and joy and don't care in you - Helene Johnson "Poem [Little brown boy]" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Remember not the promises we made - Helene Johnson "Remember Not"

Old vows are like old flowers - Helene Johnson "Remember Not"

Clutch at pretty yesterdays - Helene Johnson "Remember Not"

The bleeding note of rapture - Helene Johnson "The Road"

A single singing line of dusky song - Helene Johnson "The Road"

Scorn will efface each footprint - Helene Johnson "Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem"

Wring from grasping hands their meed of gold - Helene Johnson "Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem"

A forest pregnant with tears - Helene Johnson "A Southern Road"

In one lonely lingering hour - Helene Johnson "A Southern Road"

Pan dreams of slim stalks clean for piping - Helene Johnson "Summer Matures" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Of a nightingale gone mad with freedom - Helene Johnson "Summer Matures" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Weave a bed of reeds and willow limbs - Helene Johnson "Summer Matures" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

The air is drunk with wild grape and sweet clover - Helene Johnson "Summer Matures" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

A curved white scimitar pierced thru the swooning night - Helene Johnson "Summer Matures" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

With Sappho sleep like the stars at dawn - Helene Johnson "Summer Matures" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Stencilled on the petals of a bluebell - Helene Johnson "Trees at Night"

Fragile pinnacles of fairy castles - Helene Johnson "Trees at Night"

Torn webs of shadows - Helene Johnson "Trees at Night"

Sun flowers and sumac opening greedily - Helene Johnson "What do I care for morning"

A sparrow's noisy prating - Helene Johnson "What do I care for morning"

A strand of the pale moon's hair - Helene Johnson "What do I care for morning"


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