Potential Titles: Clarissa Scott Delany

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A gracious cloak to hide my soul's defeat - Clarissa Scott Delany "Interim" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

One dark hour of shaken depths, of bitter black despair - Clarissa Scott Delany "Interim" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Another day will find me brave - Clarissa Scott Delany "Interim" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Abandon myself to joy - Clarissa Scott Delaney "Joy"

Until the mask was slipped once more in place - Clarissa Scott Delany "The Mask" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

In that small space of branches and of sky - Clarissa Scott Delany "Solace" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

And filter down to pave a street with gold - Clarissa Scott Delany "Solace" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Weaving a web across the rose and dusk - Clarissa Scott Delany "Solace" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Which comes before the heaviness of night descends - Clarissa Scott Delany "Solace" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Take meaning from all turmoil and leave serenity - Clarissa Scott Delany "Solace" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]


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