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A nerve of the cosmos - Jean Toomer "As the Eagle Soars"

Trying to quiver into place - Jean Toomer "As the Eagle Soars"

Be an exercise, not an exhibition - Jean Toomer "As the Eagle Soars"

Shackles fall upon the Judgment Day - Jean Toomer "Cotton Song" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Leaving shore to charm the moon - Jean Toomer "Evening Song"

Rising on the waters of my heart - Jean Toomer "Evening Song"

The ripples blown by pain - Jean Toomer "Face"

Cluster grapes of sorrow - Jean Toomer "Face"

Nearly ripe for worms - Jean Toomer "Face"

Lazily disdaining to pursue the setting sun - Jean Toomer "Georgia Dusk" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Hold a lengthened tournament for flashing gold - Jean Toomer "Georgia Dusk" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Passively darkens for a night's barbecue - Jean Toomer "Georgia Dusk" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

A feast of moon and men and barking hounds - Jean Toomer "Georgia Dusk" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Surprised in making folk-songs from soul sounds - Jean Toomer "Georgia Dusk" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Where plowed lands fulfill their early promise - Jean Toomer "Georgia Dusk" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Go singing through the footpaths of the swamp - Jean Toomer "Georgia Dusk" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Boll-weevil's coming, and the winter's cold - Jean Toomer "November Cotton Flower" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

To take all water from the streams- Jean Toomer "November Cotton Flower" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

In wells a hundred feet below the ground- Jean Toomer "November Cotton Flower" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

In the sawdust glow of night - Jean Toomer "Song of the Son"

Before an epoch's sun declines - Jean Toomer "Song of the Son"


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