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Brown poems of dark words and prehistoric rhythms - Gwendolyn B. Bennett "Advice" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

A tapestry that I would some day weave - Gwendolyn B. Bennett "Advice" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

The keen precision of your words wove a silver thread - Gwendolyn B. Bennett "Advice" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

A dart of singing steel shot through still air - Gwendolyn B Bennett "Hatred" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

A game played with cool hands and slim fingers - Gwendolyn B Bennett "Hatred" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Rekindled fires in my eyes shall wound you - Gwendolyn B Bennett "Hatred" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Memory will lay its hands upon your breast - Gwendolyn B Bennett "Hatred" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Roving spirits too chill for living, moving pulses - Gwendolyn B. Bennett "Lines Written at the Grave of Alexander Dumas" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

A place for shattered loves and broken hearts - Gwendolyn B. Bennett "Lines Written at the Grave of Alexander Dumas" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Has lost itself in Death's transparency - Gwendolyn B. Bennett "Lines Written at the Grave of Alexander Dumas" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

To speak the music in my soul - Gwendolyn B. Bennett "Quatrains 1" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Strange the swift surprise of snow - Gwendolyn B. Bennett "Quatrains 2" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Deep in my heart I shelter a song of you - Gwendolyn B. Bennett "Secret" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

The pushing of our growth - Gwendolyn Bennett "To Usward"

Broke the chains of earth - Gwendolyn Bennett "Wind"

That his step broke calm - Gwendolyn Bennett "Wind"


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