Potential Titles: Donald Jeffrey Hayes

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When the song is sung and swallowed up in silence - Donald Jeffrey Hayes "After All" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Such a little of the thought is transmuted in the world - Donald Jeffrey Hayes "After All" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Suffer not your thoughts with speech - Donald Jeffrey Hayes "After All" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

When the red and golden leaves have fallen on my sorrow - Donald Jeffrey Hayes "Auf Wiedersehen" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

When this day is rotten in the grave of yesterdays - Donald Jeffrey Hayes "Auf Wiedersehen" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

And dry the tear of penance from your eyes - Donald Jeffrey Hayes "Auf Wiedersehen" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

As on the door of some dark ancient house - Donald Jeffrey Hayes "Inscription" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Who sits before a shadowed hearth and warms to a spectral fire - Donald Jeffrey Hayes "Inscription" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Bringing a myriad star-twinkling dream - Donald Jeffrey Hayes "Nocturne" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Night will spill sleep in your day weary eye - Donald Jeffrey Hayes "Nocturne" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]


I didn't find a Wikipedia entry for this poet, but the source book is on Project Gutenberg and has a thumbnail bio for each poet included.


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