Color
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About This Book
Color (1925) is a collection of poems by Countee Cullen. Published the same year Cullen entered Harvard to pursue a masters in English, Color was a brilliant debut by a poet who had already gained a reputation as a leading young artist of the Harlem Renaissance. Deeply personal and attuned to poetic tradition, Cullen’s verses capture the spirit of creative inquiry that defined a generation of writers, musicians, painters, and intellectuals while changing the course of American history itself.“Over three centuries removed / From the scenes his fathers loved, / Spicy grove, cinnamon tree, / What...
Chapters (197)
- Color
- Acknowledgments
- To You Who Read My Book
- Color
- Yet Do I Marvel
- A Song of Praise
- Brown Boy to Brown Girl
- A Brown Girl Dead
- To a Brown Girl
- To a Brown Boy
- Black Magdalens
- Atlantic City Waiter
- Near White
- Tableau
- Harlem Wine
- Simon the Cyrenian Speaks
- Incident
- Two Who Crossed a Line
- Two Who Crossed a Line
- Saturday’s Child
- The Dance of Love
- Pagan Prayer
- Wisdom Cometh With the Years
- To My Fairer Brethren
- Fruit of the Flower
- The Shroud of Color
- Heritage
- Epitaphs
- For a Poet
- For My Grandmother
- For a Cynic
- For a Singer
- For a Virgin
- For a Lady I Know
- For a Lovely Lady
- For an Atheist
- For an Evolutionist and His Opponent
- For an Anarchist
- For a Magician
- For a Pessimist
- For a Mouthy Woman
- For a Philosopher
- For an Unsuccessful Sinner
- For a Fool
- For One Who Gayly Sowed His Oats
- For a Skeptic
- For a Fatalist
- For Daughters of Magdalen
- For a Wanton
- For a Preacher
- For One Who Died Singing of Death
- For John Keats, Apostle of Beauty
- For Hazel Hall, American Poet
- For Paul Laurence Dunbar
- For Joseph Conrad
- For Myself
- All the Dead
- For Love’s Sake
- Oh, for a Little While Be Kind
- If You Should Go
- To One Who Said Me Nay
- Advice to Youth
- Caprice
- Sacrament
- Bread and Wine
- Spring Reminiscence
- Varia
- Suicide Chant
- She of the Dancing Feet Sings
- Judas Iscariot
- The Wise
- Mary, Mother of Christ
- Dialogue
- In Memory of Col. Charles Young
- To My Friends
- Gods
- To John Keats, Poet. At Spring Time[A]
- On Going
- Harsh World That Lashest Me
- Requiescam
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