Countee Cullen — English Poetry Library

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Countee Cullen1903–194620th centuryHarlem Renaissance Countee Cullen was an American poet, novelist, children's writer, and playwright, particularly well known during the Harlem Renaissance.

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Countee Cullen was an American poet, novelist, children's writer, and playwright, particularly well known during the Harlem Renaissance.
This library now includes 263 poems by Countee Cullen.
Countee Cullen is commonly associated with Harlem Renaissance.
Countee Cullen lived from 1903 to 1946.

Poems

263 poems

1. Have you ever longed for a place from your14 lines
2 PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR11 lines
3. What do you think is the poem’s main purpose?8 lines
4 BS BS Bd SB BBS BBs Be BBB Ew jE BS BS9 lines
4 P > DN US ae = VA CN6 lines
8 PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR7 lines
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS30 lines
AFTER THE QUARREL?4 lines
Against such foes how shall a tree prevail3 lines
ALBERT RICE22 lines
AN12 lines
And bitter tongues have worn their tips6 lines
And her he loved he brought and19 lines
And my Ford is junk.’7 lines
And never a laugh but the moans come double:3 lines
And now he’s dust and with dust lying3 lines
And now with alms for what she was4 lines
And pangs of vague inexplicable pain11 lines
And Pete replied `‘4 lines
And pride of all the south.40 lines
And roast me there.”5 lines
And sang it to the dead.5 lines
And shoulders his own coffin up a steep4 lines
And so my tongue is tied; and so you smile4 lines
And tempered well and fine.3 lines
And the faint perfume from its chalice steals—19 lines
And the froth upon his beer.6 lines
And there are buds that cannot bloom at all3 lines
And thinking only of his tuneless face5 lines
And when we meet3 lines
And yield her strength enough to smother5 lines
AS5 lines
Asked and Answered16 lines
At sight of gulls departing from his skies.4 lines
At the Etotle5 lines
AT THE WAILING WALL IN JERUSALEM6 lines
Attce DunsBar NELSON3 lines
Be5 lines
Beauty back to us?6 lines
Before your pleasure made me wise4 lines
Blight . . f7 lines
BMB5 lines
But Christian tongues are trained to babble5 lines
But suddenly the furious feast7 lines
Bx7 lines
By Vheir Fruits6 lines
CA3 lines
Cc pe19 lines
CHARLES CULLEN14 lines
Ciuaupe McKay3 lines
Claude McKay12 lines
Claude McKay (1890-1948)15 lines
Cold supple coils among the branches slip.6 lines
Colored Blues Singer8 lines
Confession8 lines
Countee Cullen (1903-1946)19 lines
CounTEE CULLEN.32 lines
Counter Mood11 lines
DATE DUE3 lines
DEATH SONG!11 lines
Decorations by7 lines
Destroys both mouth and gourd.6 lines
Digitized by the Internet Archive3 lines
DO5 lines
Dust under tons11 lines
Each bit of moving dust in France may strike3 lines
EDWARD S. SILVERA9 lines
En Passant8 lines
Epwarp S. SILVERA11 lines
ERE SLEEP COMES DOWN TO14 lines
Ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes.9 lines
ES WW!9 lines
Ex Ex20 lines
Examines with the same unyielding rod3 lines
Fair London by his side.41 lines
Fair London’s blood has joined the wine7 lines
FENTON JOHNSON91 lines
For happenings that undeceive.10 lines
For Helen Keller8 lines
For the loop in my legs3 lines
For winds to pierce and storms to flood.4 lines
FOREWORD25 lines
From his head to his feet.7 lines
From the Dark Tower12 lines
Game23 lines
Gays May Casey Hayrorp5 lines
Gives me a true release—47 lines
Gives me the clasp of peace.47 lines
Grief and sorrow have no weight7 lines
Guapys May Casrety Hayrorp33 lines
HAROLD28 lines
Harper & Brothers Publishers10 lines
He has taken her by her slim white hand17 lines
He made a hairy noose.3 lines
Her finer alchemy converts4 lines
Her Sunday gown.7 lines
Her thin pink lips were twin rosebuds8 lines
Him die; a suppliant on gory knees3 lines
His mother’s slender fingers ploughed4 lines
HOPE7 lines
If Love Be Staunch17 lines
II4 lines
In counting all our tears and sighs?8 lines
In Memoriam4 lines
In the Midst of Life9 lines
In what sea depths shall all the seeds3 lines
INDEX .7 lines
INTERLUDE45 lines
INTERPRETING 4H41 lines
Is4 lines
ix152 lines
James Epwarp McCaLL5 lines
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON10 lines
Karta39 lines
Lament4 lines
Lewis ALEXANDER44 lines
Lhe Simple Truth23 lines
Life who was not loth to trade her10 lines
LIFE?3 lines
Light Lady8 lines
Like a blade6 lines
Lines to a NA A9 lines
Little Sonnet to Little15 lines
Longue-tied9 lines
Lord Thomas on a summet’s day8 lines
Luta LowrE WEEDEN13 lines
Make it your wood and stream.5 lines
Mary Errm Les Newsome4 lines
Mood13 lines
Mother to Son .15 lines
Mouth and a cloven tongue.12 lines
Mpvroneettoae?10 lines
My life’s timepiece wound to alarm some day6 lines
My Little Dreams . .4 lines
NALS4 lines
Never the Final Stone16 lines
New York and Evanston13 lines
No sign or scar.5 lines
No smallest bit.11 lines
Nocturne16 lines
Not Sacco and Vanzettt4 lines
NZ11 lines
Of a beast abhorred.11 lines
Of larders bowed with venison7 lines
Of Mammon’s hair.13 lines
Of these strong boards that hold my body3 lines
Only were our faith as much3 lines
Ono rz6 lines
Oo cob3 lines
Ox RV ES Nae IAS ¿CAD y | WE VEN LIZA SW S8 lines
PAE3 lines
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR31 lines
Pe3 lines
Ped bed Bde mah Bd Bt bs BB BB BB BB10 lines
Peixt<13 lines
Pinned my head to the ground.13 lines
Pity the Deep in Love8 lines
Po. Lol ane19 lines
Pwr et Eater Vw3 lines
Requiem .37 lines
Ricwarp Bruce8 lines
RYA BY B29 lines
Salutamus Meusw as :6 lines
Sees7 lines
Self Criticism4 lines
Set no poet carving3 lines
Shall I never feel and meet the urge5 lines
Shall swerve our footsteps from the wake7 lines
She3 lines
Since he and death somewhere matched glove6 lines
Sk Malaielag aes @22 lines
Song of the Rejected Lover3 lines
Sonnet to a Scorn ful Lady3 lines
Splintered as many ways as veins in a leaf5 lines
SSS VE11 lines
Stanza. Wh29 lines
Staving death off for a season14 lines
Stertine A. Brown30 lines
Such songs the mellow-bosomed maids4 lines
Supplication eit in oe ee5 lines
SYMPATHY?5 lines
SZ4 lines
That Bright Chimeric Beast13 lines
That cannot stand so slight a test.5 lines
That I may sight and check that speeding bark3 lines
ThatHill 2 55) ceo ae et eg teen a ae3 lines
The balm I kept to cool my grief in (leaves3 lines
THE BROWN GIRL13 lines
The Brown Girl came to him as might4 lines
The candles and the lamps I light7 lines
The Carolina Magazine4 lines
THE DEBT!4 lines
The Eyes of My EZ A IL E4 lines
The Foolish Heart17 lines
The heavy cows go laboring20 lines
The ills I sorrow at3 lines
THE LITANY OF THE DARK PEOPLE16 lines
The Love Tree20 lines
The lyre and the flute.”4 lines
The other the Lord.3 lines
The pillow favored with her tears4 lines
The Poet6 lines
The Proud Heart5 lines
The Puppet Piya” E ar.7 lines
The second wife whose dark tears fail5 lines
The Survey for Russian Cathedral by Claude McKay4 lines
THE TRAGEDY OF PETE3 lines
THE WAY-SIDE WELL16 lines
The Wind and the Weather10 lines
The Wind Bloweth Where17 lines
The young pigs squealed with sudden fright14 lines
Their day and minute set to die.13 lines
Then looked the Judge3 lines
These are the men I should not care to be.10 lines
This toll we pay20 lines
Thoughts in a Zoo47 lines
Till it dipped and swerved3 lines
Time and Tide7 lines
Timid Lover5 lines
Tis well it died in harmless youth.3 lines
To an Unknown Poet13 lines
To be reckoned with ;—22 lines
To bid her enter in.7 lines
To One Who Was Cruel4 lines
To WittER BYNNER5 lines
Took to your face (as other ecstasies)10 lines
Tribute4 lines
Two Epitaphs11 lines
Two Poets13 lines
Ultima Verba8 lines
Uncle Wee3 lines
Understanding the Harlem Renaissance4 lines
Vanity Fair for Bottled by Helene Johnson10 lines
VARIA21 lines
Variations on a Theme20 lines
Vili ACKNOWLEDGMENTS17 lines
Vill ACKNOWLEDGMENTS17 lines
VY15 lines
Was tipping the gutter.4 lines
WE WEAR THE MASK!6 lines
When the ae a Ones ite Earth a5 lines
When the Green: Lies One the Earth5 lines
When the huntsmen blow to him.3 lines
When Time advances5 lines
Where her sharp white teeth assailed.91 lines
Where I can hear a solemn booming gun10 lines
While for the warm delight of my embrace5 lines
Who looks in vain for mercy into eyes7 lines
Who only want the living truth.5 lines
Whom yesterday love rhymed his sun15 lines
WinLram STANLEY BRAITHWAITE4 lines
With whirlpool rapture strained you to my3 lines
Words to My Love16 lines
Words! Words!’ sso. 540.5 lines
Would shape a sound6 lines
Writing a Poem About a Special pia a8 lines
Ww8 lines
xix33 lines
XX CONTENTS11 lines
You swear no other lips but mine11 lines
You were the way my curious hands4 lines
Your grief and mine4 lines
ZSPN8 lines