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Although the spoiler's hand lies heavy - Lewis Alexander "Africa" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Strong with the memory of their brothers slain - Lewis Alexander "Africa" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

May stand within the world's full view - Lewis Alexander "The Dark Brother" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Braves the opposition of the tried untrue - Lewis Alexander "The Dark Brother" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Fearless and firm as dreadnoughts on rough waves - Lewis Alexander "The Dark Brother" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Seeing a newer light within my eyes - Lewis Alexander "The Dark Brother" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

The sunshine undressed in the street - Lewis Alexander "Day and Night" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Up and down a chain of moods - Lewis Grandison Alexander "Japanese Hokku"

Pity the sky once - Lewis Grandison Alexander "Japanese Hokku"

Life's fountain springing from eternity - Lewis Grandison Alexander "Japanese Hokku"

Wrap the song in the leaves of the lotus - Lewis Grandison Alexander "Japanese Hokku"

An aging hurt gnawing at her heart - Lewis Alexander "Negro Woman" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Retrace the winding stairs fate built me - Lewis Alexander "Tanka I" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Furrowed field grown cement waiting for seed - Lewis Alexander "Tanka II" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Cold against the sky the blue jays cried - Lewis Alexander "Tanka IV" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

From out the dawn the crows broke across the sky - Lewis Alexander "Tanka V" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Moving in my house of Autumn - Lewis Alexander "Tanka VI" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

One leaf alone saves a tree - Lewis Alexander "Tanka VI" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

I return the bitterness which you gave me - Lewis Alexander "Transformation" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

A loveliness garnished through the years - Lewis Alexander "Transformation" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

I wore the bitterness from it long ago - Lewis Alexander "Transformation" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]


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