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Author: hughes, langston Matches Found: 1022 Hughes, James Langston Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston 1022 poems available by this author 125TH STREET Poem Text First Line: Face like a chocolate bar Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks 125TH STREET First Line: Face like a chocolate bar Last Line: Face like a melon, %grin that wide Subject(s): African Americans 403 BLUES First Line: You lucky to be a spider Last Line: Must not of cared for me Subject(s): African Americans 50-50 Poem Text First Line: I'm all alone in this world, she said Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks 50-50 First Line: I'm all alone in this world, she said Last Line: He said, share your bed %and your money, too Subject(s): African Americans A First Line: There was an ape Last Line: Stuck-up clown A HOUSE IN TAOS First Line: Rain / thunder of the rain god Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks ABE LINCOLN First Line: Well, I know %you had a hard time in your life Last Line: Ain't just white %or black Subject(s): African Americans ACCEPTANCE First Line: God, in his infinite wisdom Last Line: They hardly take god by surprise Subject(s): African Americans ADDITION (1) First Line: 7 x 7 + love = Last Line: 7 x 7 - love Subject(s): African Americans ADDITION (2) First Line: Put 5 and 5 together Last Line: Come between -- %or men Subject(s): African Americans ADVERTISEMENT FOR THE WALDORF-ASTORIA First Line: Fine living...A la carte?? Last Line: Reservations: telephone el. 5-3000 Variant Title(s): Come To The Waldorf-astori Subject(s): African Americans; Waldorf-astoria Hotel, New York City ADVICE Poem Text First Line: Folks, I'm telling you Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks ADVICE First Line: Folks, I'm telling you Last Line: So get yourself a little loving %in between Subject(s): African Americans AESTHETE IN HARLEM First Line: Strange, %that in this nigger place Last Line: And found life - stepping on my feet! Subject(s): African Americans AFRAID First Line: We cry among the skyscrapers Last Line: It is night, %and we are afraid Subject(s): African Americans AFRICA First Line: Sleepy giant, %you've been resting awhile Last Line: The new stride %in your thighs Subject(s): African Americans AFRO-AMERICAN FRAGMENT Poem Text First Line: So long, / so far away Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks AFRO-AMERICAN FRAGMENT First Line: So long, %so far away Last Line: So far away %is africa's %dark face Subject(s): African Americans AFTER MANY SPRINGS First Line: Now, %in june Last Line: I cannot find them any more Subject(s): African Americans AFTER WAR First Line: The walls that kept apart Last Line: So the world's workers can see AIR RAID OVER HARLEM First Line: Who you gonna put in it? Last Line: Look at me! %I'm harlem! Subject(s): African Americans AIR RAID: BARCELONA First Line: Black smoke of sound Last Line: Men uncover bodies %from ruins of stone Subject(s): African Americans; Air Warfare; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) ALABAMA EARTH (AT BOOKER WASHINGTON'S GRAVE) First Line: Deep in alabama earth Last Line: Love -- and chains are broken Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - History; Alabama; Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915) ALWAYS THE SAME First Line: It is the same everywhere for me Last Line: Never will come down! Subject(s): African Americans AMERICA First Line: Little dark baby, %little jew baby Last Line: I am my one sole self, %america seeking the stars Subject(s): African Americans AMERICA'S YOUNG BLACK JOE First Line: One tenth of the population Last Line: I'm america's young black joe Subject(s): African Americans AMERICAN HEARTBREAK Poem Text First Line: I am the american heartbreak Subject(s): African Americans; Hypocrisy; Negroes; American Blacks AMERICAN HEARTBREAK First Line: I am the american heartbreak Last Line: The great mistake %that jamestown %made long ago Subject(s): African Americans; Hypocrisy ANGELS WINGS First Line: The angels wings is white as snow Last Line: But the angels wings is white as snow, %white %as %snow Subject(s): African Americans ANGOLA QUESTION MARK First Line: Don't know why I Last Line: For you and me %there's %woe Subject(s): African Americans ANNE SPENCER'S TABLE First Line: On anne spencer's table Last Line: Many things she knows to write Subject(s): African Americans ANNOUNCEMENT First Line: I had a gal %she was driving alone Last Line: That gal don't drive my car no more Subject(s): African Americans APRIL RAIN SONG Poem Text First Line: Let the rain kiss you Subject(s): African Americans; April; Spring; Negroes; American Blacks APRIL RAIN SONG First Line: Let the rain kiss you Last Line: And I love the rain Subject(s): African Americans; April; Spring ARDELLA First Line: I would liken you Last Line: To a sleep without dreams %were it not for your songs Subject(s): African Americans ARGUMENT First Line: White is right, %yellow is mellow, %black get back Last Line: Black is fine! %and, god knows, %it's mine! Subject(s): African Americans ARGUMENT (1) First Line: Now lookahere, gal Last Line: You bettah keep yo' freight train %off ma line Subject(s): African Americans AS BEFITS A MAN First Line: I don't mind dying Last Line: Please don't take him away! %ow-ooo-oo-o! %don't take daddy away! Subject(s): African Americans AS I GREW OLDER Poem Text First Line: It was a long time ago Subject(s): African Americans; Aging; Negroes; American Blacks AS I GREW OLDER First Line: It was a long time ago Last Line: Into a thousand whirling dreams %of sun! Subject(s): African Americans; Aging ASK YOUR MAMA First Line: From the shadows of the quarter %shouts are whispers carrying Last Line: Their grass with unicorns Subject(s): African Americans ASPIRATION First Line: I wonder how it feels Last Line: In this world %before I go Subject(s): African Americans AUGUST 19TH...A POEM FOR CLARENCE NORRIS First Line: What flag will fly for me Last Line: August 19th Subject(s): African Americans AUNT SUE'S STORIES Poem Text First Line: Aunt sue has a head full of stories Subject(s): African Americans; Family Life; Negroes; American Blacks; Relatives AUNT SUE'S STORIES First Line: Aunt sue has a head full of stories Last Line: Of a summer night %listening to aunt sue's stories Subject(s): African Americans; Family Life AUTUMN NOTE First Line: The little flowers of yesterday Last Line: The cold of winter comes apace %and you have gone away Subject(s): African Americans AUTUMN THOUGHT First Line: Flowers are happy in summer Last Line: Like little brown butterflies Subject(s): African Americans AZIKIWE IN JAIL First Line: The british said to azikiwe Last Line: If you cook me! Subject(s): African Americans B First Line: A bumble bee flew Last Line: So that bee looked for honey %for hours BABY First Line: Albert! %hey, albert! Last Line: Albert, don't you play in dat road BACKLASH BLUES First Line: Mister backlash, mister backlash Last Line: Yes, you're the one %will have the blues Subject(s): African Americans BAD LUCK CARD Poem Text First Line: Cause you don't love me Subject(s): African Americans; Luck; Negroes; American Blacks BAD LUCK CARD First Line: Cause you don't love me Last Line: Gypsy says I'd kill my self %if I was you Subject(s): African Americans; Luck BAD MAN First Line: I'm a bad, bad man Last Line: I wouldn't go to heaben if I could Subject(s): African Americans BAD MORNING Poem Text First Line: Here I sit / with my shoes mismated Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks BAD MORNING First Line: Here I sit %with my shoes mismated Last Line: Lawdy-mercy! %I's frustrated! Subject(s): African Americans BALLAD OF A MAN WHO'S GONE First Line: No money to bury him Last Line: A poor man ain't got %no business to die Subject(s): African Americans BALLAD OF BOOKER T. First Line: Booker t. %was a practical man Last Line: Let down your bucket %where you are Subject(s): African Americans BALLAD OF GIN MARY First Line: Carried me to de court Last Line: Till licker'll let you be Subject(s): African Americans BALLAD OF HARRY MOORE First Line: Florida means land of flowers Last Line: Freedom never dies Subject(s): African Americans BALLAD OF LENIN First Line: Comrade lenin of russia Last Line: The world is our room Subject(s): African Americans; Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich (1870-1924); Russia BALLAD OF LITTLE SALLIE First Line: Little sallie, little sallie Last Line: That's what we'll do Subject(s): African Americans BALLAD OF MARGIE POLITE First Line: If margie polite Last Line: It were %margie's day Subject(s): African Americans BALLAD OF MARY'S SON First Line: It was in the spring Last Line: His body and his blood %redeem mine Subject(s): African Americans BALLAD OF NEGRO HISTORY First Line: There is so much to write about Last Line: My race! My race! Subject(s): African Americans BALLAD OF OZIE POWELL First Line: Red is the alabama road Last Line: But redder now where your life's blood flowed, %ozie! Ozie powell! Subject(s): African Americans BALLAD OF ROOSEVELT First Line: The pot was empty Last Line: What's the matter here? Subject(s): African Americans; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945) BALLAD OF SAM SOLOMON First Line: Sam solomon said Last Line: A negro is a man Subject(s): African Americans BALLAD OF THE BLACK SHEEP First Line: My brother, %he never left the old fireside Last Line: Help me, jesus Subject(s): African Americans BALLAD OF THE BOOTBLACK First Line: While passing through alabam Last Line: Down here, he said BALLAD OF THE FOOL First Line: Poor, poor fool! %no sense at all Last Line: Was a fool that way Subject(s): African Americans BALLAD OF THE FORTUNE TELLER First Line: Madam could look in your hand Last Line: What your future meant, %couldn't tell, to save her, %where dave went Subject(s): African Americans BALLAD OF THE GIRL WHOSE NAME IS MUD First Line: A girl with all that raising Last Line: That if she had a chance %she'd do it again! Subject(s): African Americans; Pride BALLAD OF THE GYPSY First Line: I went to the gypsy's Last Line: But if I was a gypsy %I would take your money, too Subject(s): African Americans BALLAD OF THE KILLER BOY First Line: Bernice said she wanted Last Line: Ask that woman -- %she knows why Subject(s): African Americans BALLAD OF THE LANDLORD Poem Text First Line: Landlord, landlord. / my roof has sprung a leak Subject(s): African Americans; Landlords & Tenants; Negroes; American Blacks BALLAD OF THE LANDLORD First Line: Landlord, landlord. %my roof has sprung a leak Last Line: Judge gives negro 90 days in county jail Subject(s): African Americans; Landlords And Tenants BALLAD OF THE MISER First Line: He took all his money Last Line: To a miser saving money's %too much fun Subject(s): African Americans BALLAD OF THE PAWNBROKER First Line: This gold watch and chain Last Line: Life! %what'll you lend Subject(s): African Americans BALLAD OF THE SEVEN SONGS First Line: Seven letters, %seven songs Last Line: And go home to my lord %and be free Subject(s): African Americans BALLAD OF THE SINNER First Line: I went down the road Last Line: Pray for me, mama Subject(s): African Americans BALLAD OF WALTER WHITE First Line: Now walter white Last Line: That can pass for white Subject(s): African Americans BAR First Line: That whiskey will cook the egg %say not so Last Line: Maybe the egg %will cook the whiskey. %you ought to know! Subject(s): African Americans BAREFOOT BLUES First Line: Papa, don't you see my shoes? Last Line: Papa, is your money gone? Subject(s): African Americans BARREL HOUSE: INDUSTRIAL CITY First Line: There is a barrel house on the avenue BATTLE GROUND First Line: The soldier said to the general Last Line: Cause I'm the general! See? Subject(s): African Americans BE-BOP BOYS Poem Text First Line: Imploring mecca Last Line: With decca. Subject(s): African Americans; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Negroes; American Blacks BEALE STREET First Line: The dream is vague Last Line: The loss %of the dream %leaves nothing %the same Subject(s): African Americans BEALE STREET LOVE First Line: Love %is a brown man's fist Last Line: Hit me again, %says corinda Subject(s): African Americans BEAUMONT TO DETROIT: 1943 First Line: Looky here, america Last Line: Both hitler -- and jim crow Subject(s): African Americans BEAUTY First Line: They give to beauty here -- Last Line: Adulation, but no care Subject(s): African Americans BEGGAR BOY First Line: What is there within this beggar lad Last Line: As if fate had not bled him with her knife Subject(s): African Americans BEING OLD First Line: It's because you are so young Last Line: You do not understand Subject(s): African Americans BEING WALKERS WITH THE DAWN Last Line: Being walkers with the sun and morning Variant Title(s): Walkers With The Daw Subject(s): Justice BELLS TOLL KINDLY First Line: Many clocks in many towers Last Line: The final hour drawing near Subject(s): African Americans BETTER First Line: Better in the quiet night Last Line: To listen to no song at all %than hear another voice Subject(s): African Americans BIBLE BELT First Line: It would be too bad if jesus Last Line: You may be %crucified Subject(s): African Americans BIG BUDDY First Line: Big buddy, big buddy Last Line: Don't you hear this hammer ring? Subject(s): African Americans BIG SUR First Line: Great lonely hills Last Line: Mighty touchstones of song Subject(s): African Americans BIG-TIMER First Line: Who am I? It ain't so deep: Last Line: That's...All...I...Am Subject(s): African Americans BIRD IN ORBIT First Line: De -- %delight -- %delighted! Introduce me to eartha Last Line: Soaking up the music %music Subject(s): African Americans BIRMINGHAM SUNDAY First Line: Four little girls %who went to sunday school that day Last Line: As yet unfelt among magnolia trees Subject(s): African Americans BIRTH First Line: Oh, fields of wonder Last Line: To make %some word %to tell Subject(s): African Americans; Life Change Events BITTER RIVER First Line: There is a bitter river Last Line: I'm tired of the bitter river! %tired of the bars! Subject(s): African Americans; Lynching BLACK CLOWN First Line: You laugh %because I'm poor and black and funny -- Last Line: But now -- %I'm a man Subject(s): African Americans BLACK DANCERS First Line: We %who have nothing to lose Last Line: Lest our laughter %goes from %us Subject(s): African Americans BLACK GAL First Line: I's always been a workin' girl Last Line: Oh, god, I wants him back Subject(s): African Americans BLACK MAN SPEAKS First Line: I swear to the lord Last Line: Old jim crow's sorrow? Subject(s): African Americans BLACK MARIA First Line: Must be the black maria Last Line: And a new day, %yes a new day's %done begun! Subject(s): African Americans BLACK PANTHER First Line: Pushed into the corner Last Line: Of the oldest %lies Subject(s): African Americans BLACK PIERROT First Line: I am a black pierrot Last Line: I went forth in the morning %to seek a new brown love BLACK SEED First Line: World-wide dusk Last Line: Tell them to leave you alone! Subject(s): African Americans BLACK WORKERS First Line: The bees work Last Line: But it won't last %forever Subject(s): African Americans BLIND First Line: I am blind. %I cannot see Last Line: Of one like me Subject(s): African Americans BLUE BAYOU First Line: I went walkin' Last Line: Down, %down, %lawd, I saw the sun go down! Subject(s): African Americans BLUE MONDAY First Line: No use in my going Last Line: That old blue monday %will surely get you down Subject(s): African Americans BLUES First Line: When the shoe strings break Last Line: That's the blues, too, and bad! Subject(s): African Americans BLUES AT DAWN First Line: I don't dare start thinking in the morning Last Line: If I recall the day before, %I wouldn't get up no more %so I don't dare start remembering in the mor Subject(s): African Americans BLUES FANTASY First Line: Hey! Hey! %that's what the %blues singers say Last Line: Hey! ... Hey! %laugh a loud, %hey! Hey! Subject(s): African Americans BLUES IN STEREO First Line: Your number's coming out! Last Line: My tv keeps on snowing Subject(s): African Americans BLUES ON A BOX First Line: Play your guitar, boy Last Line: Ain't no more! Subject(s): African Americans BOARDING HOUSE First Line: The graveyard is the Last Line: Let the graveyard be the %cheapest boarding house Subject(s): African Americans BOMBINGS IN DIXIE First Line: It's not enough to mourn Last Line: That men be burned to death - %and bless the fire Subject(s): African Americans BONDS FOR ALL First Line: Buy a bond for grandma -- Last Line: With war bonds for all Subject(s): African Americans; War Bonds BONDS: IN MEMORIAM First Line: Eddie and charlie and jack and ted Last Line: Keep looking that way Subject(s): African Americans BOOGIE: 1 A.M. First Line: Good evening, daddy! / I know you've heard Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks BOOGIE: 1 A.M. First Line: Good evening, daddy! %I know you've heard Last Line: And twining the bass %into midnight ruffles %of cat-gut lace Subject(s): African Americans BORDER LINE Poem Text First Line: I used to wonder / about living and dying Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks BORDER LINE First Line: I used to wonder %about living and dying Last Line: I think the distance %is nowhere Subject(s): African Americans BOUND NO'TH BLUES Poem Text First Line: Goin' down the road, lawd Last Line: Fit fer a hoppin' toad. Subject(s): African Americans; Blues (mood); Music & Musicians; Negroes; American Blacks BOUQUET First Line: Gather quickly Last Line: Before they melt %like snow Subject(s): African Americans BRAND NEW CLOTHES First Line: My mama told me Last Line: With my brand new %clothes on Subject(s): African Americans BRASS SPITTOONS Poem Text First Line: Clean the spittoons, boy Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks BRASS SPITTOONS First Line: Clean the spittoons, boy Subject(s): African Americans BREATH OF A ROSE First Line: Love is like dew Last Line: Than the breath of a rose Subject(s): African Americans BRIEF ENCOUNTER First Line: I was lookin' for a sandwich, judge Last Line: She was de wrongest thing, judge, %that I ever had Subject(s): African Americans BROADCAST ON ETHIOPIA First Line: The little fox is still Last Line: In headlines all year long %ethiopia -- tragi-song Subject(s): African Americans BROADCAST TO THE WEST INDIES First Line: Hello, jamaica! %hello, haiti! Last Line: Hello,! Hello! %hello, west indies Subject(s): African Americans BROKE First Line: Uh! I sho am tired Last Line: Yes, um-hum! You sho is sweet! Can you pay fo de license, dear? %'cause I'm broke Subject(s): African Americans BROTHERLY LOVE First Line: In line of what my folks say in montgomery Last Line: I'm gonna love you -- yes, I will! Or bust! Subject(s): African Americans BROTHERS First Line: We're related you and I Last Line: You from africa, %I from the u.S.A. %brothers you and I Subject(s): African Americans BUDDY First Line: That kid's my buddy Last Line: Anything he wants out of it Subject(s): African Americans BURDEN First Line: It is not weariness Last Line: To song without sound Subject(s): African Americans C First Line: There was a camel Last Line: Been in the dumps CABARET First Line: Does a jazz-band ever sob Last Line: When the little dawn was grey Subject(s): African Americans CAFE: 3 A.M. Poem Text First Line: Detectives from the vice squad Subject(s): African Americans; Gays & Lesbians; Negroes; American Blacks; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men CAFE: 3 A.M. First Line: Detectives from the vice squad Last Line: Police lady or lesbian %over there? %where? Subject(s): African Americans; Homosexuality CALL OF ETHIOPIA First Line: Ethiopia %lift your night-dark face Last Line: All you black peoples, %be free! Be free! Subject(s): African Americans CALL TO CREATION First Line: Listen! %all you beauty-makers Last Line: Let beauty be Subject(s): African Americans CARIBBEAN SUNSET First Line: God having a hemorrhage Last Line: That is sunset in the caribbean Subject(s): African Americans CAROL OF THE BROWN KING Poem Text First Line: Of the three wise men Subject(s): African Americans; Christmas; Negroes; American Blacks; Nativity, The CAROL OF THE BROWN KING First Line: Of the three wise men Last Line: Part of his %nativity Subject(s): African Americans; Christmas CAROLINA CABIN First Line: There's hanging moss %and holly Last Line: Where two people %make a home Subject(s): African Americans CASUAL First Line: Death don't ring no doorbells Last Line: And don't ring no bell Subject(s): African Americans CAT AND THE SAXOPHONE (2 A.M.) First Line: Everybody %half-pint, -- gin Last Line: Sweet me. %charleston, %mamma Subject(s): African Americans CATCH First Line: Big boy came Last Line: To carry - %half fish, %half girl %to marry Subject(s): African Americans CHANT FOR MAY DAY First Line: The first of may: Last Line: Till the forces of the earth are yours %from this hour Subject(s): African Americans CHANT FOR TOM MOONEY First Line: Tom mooney! %tom mooney! Last Line: Will be the name %tom mooney Subject(s): African Americans CHICAGO BLUES First Line: Chicago is a town Last Line: How good the ground feels Subject(s): African Americans CHILDREN'S RHYMES (1) Poem Text First Line: When I was a chile we used to play Variant Title(s): Children's Hymns Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks CHILDREN'S RHYMES (1) First Line: When I was a chile we used to play Last Line: Oop-pop-a-da! %be-bop! %salt'peanuts! %de-bop! Variant Title(s): Children's Hymn Subject(s): African Americans CHILDREN'S RHYMES (2) First Line: By what sends %the white kids Last Line: Liberty and justice - %huh! For all CHIPPY First Line: Rose of neon darkness Last Line: Facing a two-bit %december Subject(s): African Americans CHORD First Line: Shadow faces %in the shadow night Last Line: Before the early dawn, bops bright Subject(s): African Americans CHRIST IN ALABAMA (GRAPHIC INTERPRETATION) First Line: Christ is a nigger Last Line: On the cross of the south Variant Title(s): Christ In Alabam Subject(s): African Americans CHRISTIAN COUNTRY First Line: God slumbers in a back alley Last Line: Come on, god, get up and fight %like a man Subject(s): African Americans CHRISTMAS EVE: NEARING MIDNIGHT IN NEW YORK First Line: The christmas trees are almost all sold Last Line: Awaits the morning of the child Subject(s): African Americans CHRISTMAS STORY First Line: Tell again the christmas story Last Line: Mary's son in straw and glory: %wonder of the christmas story! Subject(s): African Americans; Christmas CIRCLES First Line: The circles spin round Last Line: Ourselves upside down Subject(s): African Americans CITY First Line: In the morning the city Last Line: About its head Subject(s): Cities CLOSING TIME First Line: Starter! %her face is pale Last Line: To a little drowned girl Subject(s): African Americans COLLEGE FORMAL: RENAISSANCE CASINO Poem Text First Line: Golden girl / in a golden gown Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks COLLEGE FORMAL: RENAISSANCE CASINO First Line: Golden girl %in a golden gown Last Line: Till they're the heart of the whole big town %gold and brown Subject(s): African Americans COLOR First Line: Wear it %like a banner Last Line: Soaring high -- not moan or cry Subject(s): African Americans COLORED SOLDIER First Line: My brother died in france -- but I came back Last Line: Can't see! And don't know! And won't ever care! Subject(s): African Americans COLUMBIA First Line: Columbia, %my dear girl Last Line: Don't shoot! I'll kiss you Subject(s): African Americans COMMENT First Line: Spiral death %the snake must be Last Line: For strife, for sport, %or just a stew Subject(s): African Americans COMMENT ON CURB First Line: You talk like %they don't kick %dreams around %downtown Last Line: I expect they do %but I'm talking about %harlem to you! Subject(s): African Americans COMMENT ON WAR First Line: Let us kill off youth Last Line: For the sake of %truth Subject(s): African Americans COMMUNION First Line: I was trying to figure out Last Line: It felt good to shout Subject(s): African Americans COMMUNIQUE First Line: I'm sorry for you Last Line: You're still %not so hot Subject(s): African Americans CONSERVATORY STUDENT STRUGGLES WITH HIGHER INSTRUMENTATION First Line: The saxophone %has a vulgar tone Last Line: I'd never been %sent Subject(s): African Americans CONSIDER ME First Line: Consider me, %a colored boy Last Line: Consider me, %descended also %from the mystery Subject(s): African Americans CONSUMPTIVE First Line: All day in the sun %that he loved so Last Line: And burning the dark Subject(s): African Americans CONVENT First Line: Tell me, %is there peace Last Line: With a challenge %that appalls? Subject(s): African Americans CORA First Line: I broke my heart this mornin' Last Line: The ones I love %they always treat me mean Subject(s): African Americans CORNER MEETING First Line: Ladder, flag, and amplifier Last Line: His words, %jump down to stand %in listeners' places Subject(s): African Americans COULD BE First Line: Could be hastings street Last Line: Any place is dreary %without my watch and you Subject(s): African Americans COUNTRY First Line: My mother said Last Line: I love to coast %I love to climb Subject(s): African Americans CRAP GAME First Line: Lemme roll 'em, boy Last Line: Hit 'em, bones Subject(s): African Americans CROON First Line: I don't give a damn Subject(s): African Americans; Alabama; Negroes; American Blacks CROON First Line: I don't give a damn Last Line: For alabam' %even if it is my home Subject(s): African Americans; Alabama CROSS Poem Text First Line: My old man's a white old man Subject(s): African Americans; Intermarriage; Negroes; American Blacks CROSS First Line: My old man's a white old man Last Line: I wonder where I'm gonna die, %being neither white nor black? Subject(s): African Americans; Intermarriage CROSSING First Line: It was that lonely day, folks Last Line: My friends was right there with me %but was just as if they'd left Subject(s): African Americans CROW GOES, TOO First Line: Uncle sam -- %and old jim crow Last Line: That's the way %to win Subject(s): African Americans CROWING HEN BLUES First Line: I was setting on the hen-house steps Last Line: Till they burn the licker store Subject(s): African Americans CROWNS AND GARLANDS First Line: Make a garland of leontynes and lenas Last Line: But I can't eat him for lunch Subject(s): African Americans CUBES First Line: In the days of the broken cubes of picasso Last Line: From the city of the broken cubes of picasso CUBES First Line: In the days of the broken cubes of picasso Last Line: From the city of the broken cubes of picasso %disease Subject(s): African Americans; Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) CULTURAL EXCHANGE First Line: In the quarter of the negroes Last Line: Hand me my mint julep, mammy. %hurry up! %make haste! Subject(s): African Americans; Mint Juleps; Southern States CURIOUS First Line: I can see your house, babe Last Line: Tell me, what do you do Subject(s): African Americans D First Line: Rover dog %is quite brave when Last Line: River dog turns tail %and goes DANCER First Line: Two or three things in the past Last Line: Even a great dancer %can't c.P.T. A show Subject(s): African Americans; Dancing And Dancers DANCERS First Line: Stealing from the night Last Line: Desperate days %of life Subject(s): African Americans DANSE AFRICAINE Poem Text First Line: The low beating of the tom-toms Variant Title(s): African Dance Subject(s): African Americans; Dancing & Dancers; Negroes; American Blacks DANSE AFRICAINE First Line: The low beating of the tom-toms Last Line: And the low beating of the tom-toms %stirs in your blood Variant Title(s): African Danc Subject(s): African Americans; Dancing And Dancers DARE First Line: Let darkness %gather up its roses Last Line: Dares the dark %to stand Subject(s): African Americans DARK YOUTH OF THE U.S.A. First Line: Sturdy I stand, books in my hand -- Last Line: The american youth of today Subject(s): African Americans DAY First Line: Where most surely comes a day Last Line: Only your single selves together %facing a single doom Subject(s): African Americans DAYBREAK IN ALABAMA Poem Text First Line: When I get to be a composer Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks DAYBREAK IN ALABAMA First Line: When I get to be a composer Last Line: And write about daybreak %in alabama Subject(s): African Americans DEAD IN THERE First Line: Sometimes %a night funeral Last Line: Plant him now %out were it makes %no diff' no how Subject(s): African Americans DEAR LOVELY DEATH Last Line: Dear lovely death, %change is thy other name Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events DEAR MR. PRESIDENT First Line: President roosevelt, you Last Line: I await your reply Subject(s): African Americans; Democracy DEATH IN AFRICA First Line: To die %and never know what killed you Last Line: Dambella, %helpless, too Subject(s): African Americans DEATH IN HARLEM First Line: Arabella johnson and the texas kid Last Line: Picked up another woman and %went to bed Subject(s): African Americans DEATH IN YORKVILLE First Line: How many bullets does it take Last Line: When the long hot summers come %death ain't %no jive Subject(s): African Americans DEATH OF A DO DIRTY: A ROUNDER'S SONG First Line: O, you can't find a buddy Last Line: Ma friend o' mine Subject(s): African Americans DEATH OF AN OLD SEAMAN First Line: We buried him on a windy hill Last Line: Do not, do not weep for me, %for I am happy with my sea Subject(s): African Americans DECEASED First Line: Harlem %sent him home Last Line: The licker %was lye Subject(s): African Americans DECLARATION First Line: If I was a sea-lion Last Line: Yes, way %away %from %you Subject(s): African Americans DEFERRED First Line: This year, maybe, do you think I can graduate? Last Line: I'd like to take up bach. %montage %of a dream %deferred %buddy, have you heard? Subject(s): African Americans DELINQUENT First Line: Little julie %has grown quite tall Last Line: What she means is %nobody cares %anywhere Subject(s): African Americans DEMAND First Line: Listen! %dear dream of utter aliveness Last Line: Your eyes see forever? %and what is this wind %you touch when you run? Subject(s): African Americans DEMOCRACY First Line: Democracy will not come Last Line: I live here, too %I want freedom %just as you DEMONSTRATION First Line: Did you ever walk into a firehose Last Line: Will you ever forget your dawn? Subject(s): African Americans DEPARTURE First Line: She lived out a decent span of years Last Line: In her heart %to sleep Subject(s): African Americans DESERT First Line: Anybody %better than %nobody Last Line: Better than nobody %in this lonely %land Subject(s): African Americans DESIRE First Line: Desire to us %was like a double death Last Line: Between us quickly %in a naked %room Subject(s): African Americans DIME First Line: Chile, these steps is hard to climb Last Line: Chile, granny ain't got no dime %I might've known %it all the time Subject(s): African Americans DIMOUT IN HARLEM First Line: Down the street young harlem Last Line: Down the street young harlem %in the dark Subject(s): African Americans; Harlem (new York City) DINNER GUEST: ME First Line: I know I am %the negro problem Last Line: Solutions to the problem, %of course, wait Subject(s): African Americans DISILLUSION First Line: I would be simple again Last Line: I will not come %to you again Subject(s): African Americans DIVE Poem Text First Line: Lenox avenue / by daylight Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks DIVE First Line: Lenox avenue %by daylight Last Line: Runs to dive in the park %but faster %faster %after dark Subject(s): African Americans DIXIE MAN TO UNCLE SAM First Line: How can you Last Line: Too hitler-like %for you -- %or me Subject(s): African Americans DIXIE SOUTH AFRICA First Line: All the creziness Last Line: In the dew %of day Subject(s): African Americans DO YOU RECKON First Line: Mr. White man, white man Last Line: I would act the same way, too Subject(s): African Americans DOORKNOBS First Line: The simple silly terror Last Line: Not of our own doing Subject(s): African Americans DOVE First Line: ...And here is %old picasso and the dove Last Line: From our old %battle ground... Subject(s): African Americans DOWN AND OUT First Line: Baby, if you love me Last Line: An' I need a dime fo' a beer %I need a dime fo' beer Subject(s): African Americans DOWN WHERE I AM First Line: Too many years Last Line: If you want to see me %come down Subject(s): African Americans DRAFTEES First Line: Leave your coras Last Line: Is basic %in these Subject(s): African Americans DRAMA FOR A WINTER NIGHT (FIFTH AVENUE) First Line: You can't sleep here, %my good man Last Line: He can't die on this corner. %no, no, not here Subject(s): African Americans DREAM First Line: Last night I dreamt Last Line: But you were not there at all Subject(s): African Americans DREAM BOOGIE Poem Text First Line: Good morning, daddy! Subject(s): African Americans; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Negroes; American Blacks DREAM BOOGIE First Line: Good morning, daddy! Last Line: I'm happy! %take it away! %hey,pop %re-bop! %mop! %y-e-a-h! Subject(s): African Americans; Jazz; Music And Musicians DREAM BOOGIE: VARIATION First Line: Tinkling treble, %rolling bass Last Line: A few minutes late %for the freedom train Subject(s): African Americans DREAM DUST First Line: Gather out of star-dust Last Line: One handful of dream dust %not for sale Subject(s): African Americans DREAM KEEPER First Line: Bring me all of your dreams Last Line: Away from the too-rough fingers %of the world Subject(s): African Americans DREAM OF FREEDOM First Line: There is a dream in the land Last Line: Our dream of freedom Subject(s): African Americans DREAM VARIATIONS [OR, VARIATION] Poem Text First Line: To fling my arms wide Variant Title(s): Dream Variations Subject(s): African Americans; Imagination; Nature; Negroes; American Blacks; Fancy DREAM VARIATIONS [OR, VARIATION] First Line: To fling my arms wide Last Line: Night coming tenderly %black like me Variant Title(s): Dream Variation Subject(s): African Americans; Imagination; Nature DREAMER First Line: I take my dreams Last Line: I continue to dream Subject(s): African Americans DREAMS First Line: Hold fast to dreams Last Line: Life is a barren field %frozen with snow Subject(s): African Americans DRESSED UP First Line: I had ma clothes cleaned Last Line: But I ain't got nobody %for to call me sweet Subject(s): African Americans DRUM Poem Text First Line: Bear in mind / that death is a drum Subject(s): African Americans; Death; Negroes; American Blacks; Dead, The DRUM First Line: Bear in mind %that death is a drum Last Line: Calling life %to come! %come! %come! Subject(s): African Americans; Death DRUMS First Line: I dream of the drums Last Line: Remember! %I remember! %remember Subject(s): African Americans DRUNKARD First Line: Voice grows thicker %as song grows stronger Last Line: Trying to forget to remember %the taste of the day Subject(s): African Americans DUSK First Line: Wandering in the dusk Last Line: And chains be gone Subject(s): African Americans DUSTBOWL First Line: The land %wants me to come back Last Line: Wants me %to come back Subject(s): African Americans DYING BEAST First Line: Sensing death, %the buzzards gather Last Line: When life -- %is dead Subject(s): African Americans E First Line: Elephant, %elephant %big as a %house Last Line: Are afraid of a %mouse EARLY EVENING QUARREL First Line: Where is that sugar, hammond Subject(s): African Americans; Quarrels; Negroes; American Blacks; Arguments; Disagreements EARLY EVENING QUARREL First Line: Where is that sugar, hammond Last Line: I wonder is there nowhere a %do-right man? Subject(s): African Americans; Quarrels EARTH SONG First Line: It's an earth song Last Line: And I've been waiting long %for an earth song Subject(s): African Americans EASY BOOGIE First Line: Down in the bass Last Line: Do you hear what I said? %easy like I rock it %in my bed! Subject(s): African Americans ELDERLY LEADERS First Line: The old, the cautious, the over-wise Last Line: Their master's %goose laid: %$$$$$ Subject(s): African Americans ELEVATOR BOY Poem Text First Line: I got a job now Subject(s): African Americans; Elevators; Negroes; American Blacks ELEVATOR BOY First Line: I got a job now Last Line: I been runnin' this %elevator too long. %guess I'll quit now Subject(s): African Americans; Elevators EMPEROR HAILE SELASSIE First Line: That he is human...And living... Last Line: Our symbol of a dream %that will not die Subject(s): African Americans EMPTY HOUSE First Line: It was in the empty house Last Line: More pain than a cutting knife Subject(s): African Americans ENCOUNTER First Line: I met you on your way to death Last Line: My own misery Subject(s): African Americans END First Line: There are %no clocks on the wall Last Line: Outside the door. There is no door! Subject(s): African Americans ENEMY First Line: It would be nice Last Line: As I come up %feeling swell Subject(s): African Americans ENGLISH First Line: In ships all over the world Last Line: Comb their hair for dinner Subject(s): African Americans ENNUI Poem Text First Line: It's such a / bore Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks ENNUI First Line: It's such a %bore Last Line: Being always %poor Subject(s): African Americans ENVOY TO AFRICA First Line: My name is lord piggly-wiggly wogglesfoot brown Last Line: If you'll just stay in your place Subject(s): African Americans EPITAPH (2) First Line: Uncle tom, %when he was alive Last Line: Uncle tom %is dead Subject(s): African Americans EPITAPH [1] First Line: Within this grave lie Last Line: Lies nothing more %than I Subject(s): African Americans EVENIN' AIR BLUES First Line: Folks, I come up north Last Line: Just look at me and see! Subject(s): African Americans EVENING SONG First Line: A woman standing in the doorway Last Line: Well, I hope that lamb of mary's %don't turn out like I am Subject(s): African Americans EVIL First Line: Looks like what drives me crazy Last Line: But I'm gonna keep on at it %till it drives you crazy, too EVIL MORNING First Line: It must have been yesterday Last Line: Fore it is too late Subject(s): African Americans EVIL WOMAN First Line: I ain't gonna mistreat ma Last Line: Else I'll use her head %for a carpet tack Subject(s): African Americans EXITS First Line: The sea is deep %a knife is sharp Last Line: From where %no soul returns Subject(s): African Americans EXPENDABLE First Line: We will take you and kill you Last Line: If your head %can be found Subject(s): African Americans EXPLAIN IT, PLEASE First Line: I see by the papers %what seems mighty funny to me Last Line: And a handful of dung for me Subject(s): African Americans F First Line: There was a fish Last Line: The fish home to cook FACT First Line: There's been an eagle on a nickel Subject(s): African Americans; Money; Negroes; American Blacks FACT First Line: There's been an eagle on a nickel Last Line: An eagle on a quarter, too. %but there ain't no eagle %on a dime Subject(s): African Americans; Money FAIRIES First Line: Out of the dust of dreams Last Line: No wonder we find them such marvellous things Subject(s): African Americans FAITHFUL ONE First Line: Though I go drunken Last Line: At end of day Subject(s): African Americans FANTASY IN PURPLE Poem Text First Line: Beat the drums of tragedy for me Subject(s): African Americans; Death; Negroes; American Blacks; Dead, The FANTASY IN PURPLE First Line: Beat the drums of tragedy for me Last Line: To go with me %to the darkness %were I go Subject(s): African Americans; Death FAREWELL First Line: With gypsies and sailors Last Line: And have never seen the seas Subject(s): African Americans FASCINATION First Line: Her teeth are as white as the meat of an apple Last Line: And because her skin is the brown of an oak leaf in autumn, but a softer color, %I want to kiss her Subject(s): African Americans FEET O' JESUS Poem Text First Line: At the feet o' jesus Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks FEET O' JESUS First Line: At the feet o' jesus Last Line: O, ma little jesus, %please reach out yo' hand Subject(s): African Americans FINAL CALL First Line: Send for the pied piper and let him pipe the rats away Last Line: (and if nobody comes, send for me) Subject(s): African Americans FINAL CURVE Poem Text First Line: When you turn the corner Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks FINAL CURVE First Line: When you turn the corner Last Line: Then you know that you have turned %all the corners that are left Subject(s): African Americans FIRE Last Line: Fire gonna burn ma soul! Variant Title(s): Fir Subject(s): African Americans; Fire FIRE-CAUGHT First Line: The gold moth did not love him Last Line: She fell, fire-caught, into the flame Subject(s): African Americans FIRED First Line: Awake all night with loving Last Line: With caledonia's arm %beneath my head Subject(s): African Americans FIRST OF MAY First Line: I believe it to be true Last Line: I await %my first of may Subject(s): African Americans FLATTED FIFTHS Poem Text First Line: Little cullud boys with beards Last Line: And dig all plays. Subject(s): African Americans; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Negroes; American Blacks FLORIDA ROAD WORKERS First Line: Hey, buddy! %look at me! Last Line: I'm makin' a road! Subject(s): African Americans; Florida; Labor And Laborers FLOTSAM First Line: On the shoals of nowhere Last Line: And blown along Subject(s): African Americans FOG First Line: Singing black boatmen Last Line: We strange so-civilized ones %sail in always Subject(s): African Americans FOR AN INDIAN SCREEN First Line: Clutching at trees and clawing rocks Last Line: In a far-off land like a fairy scene Subject(s): African Americans FOR DEAD MIMES First Line: O white-faced mimes Last Line: Rest forever %with pierrot Subject(s): African Americans FOR RUSSELL AND ROWENA JELLIFFE First Line: And so the seed Last Line: (from poems you made) %for you Subject(s): African Americans FOR SALOME First Line: There %is no sweetness Last Line: What would you with death's head Subject(s): African Americans FORMULA First Line: Poetry should treat %of lofty things Last Line: Soaring thoughts %and birds with wings Subject(s): African Americans; Poetry And Poets FOURTH OF JULY THOUGHT First Line: Remember on our far-flung fronts Last Line: The home front is you Subject(s): African Americans FRAGMENTS First Line: Whispers %of springtime Last Line: With too many %tunes Subject(s): African Americans FREDERICK DOUGLASS: 1817-1895 First Line: Douglass was someone who Last Line: He died in 1895. %he is not dead Subject(s): African Americans; Douglass, Frederick (1817-1895); United States FREE MAN First Line: You can catch the wind Last Line: Keep me caged up here Subject(s): African Americans FREEDOM First Line: Freedom will not come Last Line: I live here, too. %I want freedom %just as you Subject(s): African Americans FREEDOM (2) First Line: Some folks think %by burning books Last Line: You'll never kill me Subject(s): African Americans FREEDOM (3) First Line: Some folks think %by burning churches Last Line: And says, %no -- %not so! %no! Subject(s): African Americans FREEDOM SEEKER First Line: I see a woman with wings Last Line: She is caught and held by her wings Subject(s): African Americans FREEDOM TRAIN Poem Text First Line: I read in the papers about the / freedom train Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Railroads; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Railways; Trains FREEDOM TRAIN First Line: I read in the papers about the %freedom train Last Line: Thank god-a-mighty! Here's the %freedom train! %get on board our freedom train! Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Railroads FREEDOM'S PLOW First Line: When a man starts out with nothing Last Line: Untill all races and all people know its shade %keep your hand on the plow! %hold on ! Subject(s): African Americans FRIENDLY IN A FRIENDLY WAY First Line: I nodded at the sun Last Line: In a friendly way Subject(s): African Americans FROM MONTAGE OF A DREAM DEFERRED: CASUALTY First Line: He was a soldier in the army Last Line: Days are done. %son!. . .Son! Variant Title(s): Casualt Subject(s): African Americans; Soldiers FROM MONTAGE OF A DREAM DEFERRED: COMMENT ON CURB First Line: You talk like %they don't kick Last Line: But I'm talking about %harlem to you! FROM MONTAGE OF A DREAM DEFERRED: DEFERRED First Line: Maybe now I can have that white enamel stove Last Line: Buddy, have you heard? FROM MONTAGE OF A DREAM DEFERRED: ISLAND (2) First Line: Between two rivers, %north of the park Last Line: Ain't you heard? FROM MONTAGE OF A DREAM DEFERRED: LETTER First Line: Dear mama, %time I pay rent and get my food Last Line: Respectably as ever, %joe FROM MONTAGE OF A DREAM DEFERRED: MYSTERY First Line: When a chile gets to be thirteen Last Line: And the song %and me FROM MONTAGE OF A DREAM DEFERRED: NIGHT FUNERAL IN HARLEM First Line: Night funeral %in harlem Last Line: Night funeral %in harlem FROM MONTAGE OF A DREAM DEFERRED: NIGHTMARE BOOGIE First Line: I had a dream %and I could see Last Line: Whirling treble %of cat-gut lace FROM MONTAGE OF A DREAM DEFERRED: PASSING First Line: On sunny summer sunday afternoons in harlem Last Line: Since their dream has %come true FROM MONTAGE OF A DREAM DEFERRED: REQUEST First Line: Gimme $25.00 %and the change Last Line: And the evening %won't bother me FROM MONTAGE OF A DREAM DEFERRED: SHAME ON YOU First Line: If you're great enough Last Line: If you're not alive and kicking, %shame on you! FROM MONTAGE OF A DREAM DEFERRED: SLIVER OF SERMON First Line: When pimps out of loneliness cry Last Line: Great %god! FROM MONTAGE OF A DREAM DEFERRED: SUNDAY BY THE COMBINATION First Line: I feel like dancin', baby Last Line: Baby, dance with me! FROM MONTAGE OF A DREAM DEFERRED: TESTIMONIAL First Line: If I just had a piano Last Line: For to praise my lord! FROM MONTAGE OF A DREAM DEFERRED: THEME FOR ENGLISH B First Line: I wonder if it's that simple? Last Line: This is my page for english b FROM MONTAGE OF A DREAM DEFERRED: WORLD WAR II First Line: What a grand time was the war! Last Line: Somebody %die? FROM SELMA First Line: In places like Last Line: Chicago and new york Subject(s): African Americans FROM SPAIN TO ALABAMA First Line: Where have the people gone Last Line: They still sing %their blues Subject(s): African Americans FROSTING First Line: Freedom %is just frosting Last Line: Learn how to %bake Subject(s): African Americans FULFILMENT First Line: The earth-meaning Last Line: And sleep %took us both in %laughing Subject(s): African Americans FUNERAL First Line: Carried lonely up the aisle Last Line: But I would give a damn Subject(s): African Americans G First Line: What use %is a goose Last Line: She's out of whackle GAL'S CRY FOR A DYING LOVER First Line: Heard de owl a hootin' Last Line: Please don't take this man o' mine Subject(s): African Americans GANGSTERS First Line: The gangsters of the world Last Line: But not small fry Subject(s): African Americans GARDEN First Line: Strange %distorted blades of grass Last Line: Distorted tulips %on their knees Subject(s): African Americans GARMENT First Line: The clouds weave a shawl Last Line: When the weather's bad Subject(s): African Americans GAUGE First Line: Hemp... %a stick Last Line: A roach... %straw Subject(s): African Americans GENIUS CHILD Poem Text First Line: This is a song for the genius child Subject(s): Genius GENIUS CHILD First Line: This is a song for the genius child Last Line: Kill him - and let his soul run wild! Subject(s): Genius GEORGIA DUSK First Line: Sometimes there's a wind in the georgia dusk Last Line: To sprout its bitter barriers %where the sunsets bleed Subject(s): African Americans; Georgia (state) GET UP OFF THAT OLD JIVE First Line: White folks %you better get some new jive Last Line: A man can fight %better that way Subject(s): African Americans GHANDHI IS FASTING First Line: Mighty britain, tremble Last Line: As he fasts today Subject(s): African Americans GHOSTS OF 1619 First Line: Ghosts of all too solid flesh Last Line: Being ghosts %of then Subject(s): African Americans GIRL First Line: She lived in sinful happiness Last Line: To laugh in sunshine %and dance in rain Subject(s): African Americans - Women GIVE US OUR PEACE First Line: Give us a peace equal to the war Last Line: And bring about a world of brotherhood Subject(s): African Americans GO SLOW First Line: Go slow, they say Last Line: Go slow? Subject(s): African Americans GOD TO HUNGRY CHILD First Line: Hungry child, %I didn't make this world for you Last Line: Not for you, %hungry child Subject(s): African Americans; Poverty; Social Protest GONE BOY First Line: Playboy of the dawn Last Line: Dog-gone! %he ain't gone Subject(s): African Americans GONE BOY First Line: Play boy of the dawn, solid gone! Last Line: To work %do-gone! %he ain't gone GOOD BLUFFERS First Line: Pity all the frightened ones Last Line: The ones who make the grade Subject(s): African Americans GOOD MORNING Poem Text First Line: Good morning, daddy! / I was born here, he said Variant Title(s): From Montage Of A Dream Deferred: Good Morning Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks GOOD MORNING First Line: Good morning, daddy! %I was born here, he said Last Line: What happens %to a dream deferred? %daddy, ain't you heard? Variant Title(s): From Montage Of A Dream Deferred: Good Mornin Subject(s): African Americans GOOD MORNING REVOLUTION First Line: Good-morning, revolution: %you're the very best friend Last Line: Let's go, revolution Subject(s): African Americans GOOD MORNING, STALINGRAD First Line: Goodmorning, stalingrad! %logs of folks who don't like you Last Line: You ain't dead! %goodmorning, stalingrad Subject(s): African Americans GOOD MORNING, STALINGRAD GOODBYE CHRIST First Line: Listen, christ %you did alright in your day, I reckon -- Last Line: To a king, or a general, %or a millionaire Subject(s): African Americans; Communism; Racism; Religion GOSPEL CHA-CHA First Line: In the quarter of the negroes %where the palms and coconuts Last Line: Cha-cha...Cha-cha %cha... Subject(s): African Americans GOVERNOR FIRES DEAN First Line: I see by the papers %where governor talmadge get real mad Last Line: Of acting just like hitler %in the u.S.A Subject(s): African Americans GRADUATION Poem Text First Line: Cinnamon and rayon / jet and coconut eyes Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks GRADUATION First Line: Cinnamon and rayon %jet and coconut eyes Last Line: Then because she's tired, %she sighs Subject(s): African Americans GRANDPA'S STORIES First Line: The pictures on the television Last Line: And a penny for a pickle Subject(s): African Americans GRANT PARK First Line: The haunting face of poverty Last Line: Sleepers on iron benches %behind the library in grant park Subject(s): African Americans GRAVE YARD First Line: Here is that sleeping place Last Line: That never-get-up-no-more %place %is here Subject(s): African Americans GREEN MEMORY First Line: A wonderful time - the war Last Line: But blood %was far away %from here -- %money was near Subject(s): African Americans; War - Home Front GRIEF First Line: Eyes %that are frozen Last Line: No way of dying Subject(s): African Americans GROCERY STORE First Line: Jimmy, go Last Line: Stay an hour Subject(s): African Americans GYPSIES First Line: Gypsies are picture-book people Last Line: They've had suns about their heads Subject(s): African Americans GYPSY First Line: I went to de gypsy's Last Line: If my man leaves me %I won't live no mo' Subject(s): African Americans GYPSY MAN Poem Text First Line: Ma man's a gypsy / cause he never does come home Last Line: Sho can't find no ease. Subject(s): African Americans; Love - Nature Of; Negroes; American Blacks GYPSY MELODIES First Line: Songs that break Last Line: Rockets of joy %dimmed too soon Subject(s): African Americans H First Line: Dobbin used to be Last Line: Old dobbin's %cast aside HARD DADDY Poem Text First Line: I went to ma daddy Subject(s): African Americans; Fathers & Daughters; Negroes; American Blacks HARD DADDY First Line: I went to ma daddy Last Line: Fly like the eagle flies %I'd fly on ma man an' %I'd scratch out both his eyes Subject(s): African Americans; Fathers And Daughters HARD LUCK First Line: When hard luck overtakes you Last Line: I'm so low-down I %ain't even got a stall Subject(s): African Americans HARLEM Poem Text First Line: What happens to a dream deferred Variant Title(s): Dream Deferred;lenox Avenue Mural;harlem: 2;from Montage Of A Dream Deferred: Harlem (2) Subject(s): African Americans; Dreams; Gays & Lesbians; Men; Racism; Negroes; American Blacks; Nightmares; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry HARLEM First Line: What happens to a dream deferred Last Line: Or does it explode? Variant Title(s): Dream Deferred; Lenox Avenue Mural; Harlem: 2; From Montage Of A Dream Deferred: Harlem (2 Subject(s): African Americans; Dreams; Homosexuality; Men; Racism HARLEM DANCE HALL First Line: It had no dignity before Last Line: That had no dignity before Subject(s): African Americans HARLEM NIGHT First Line: Harlem %knows a song Last Line: The stars %are where? Subject(s): African Americans; Night Clubs HARLEM NIGHT CLUB First Line: Sleek black boys in a cabaret Last Line: Tomorrow ... Is darkness. %joy today Subject(s): African Americans; Night Clubs; Singing And Singers HARLEM NIGHT SONG First Line: Come, %let us roam the night together Last Line: Let us roam the night together %singing Subject(s): African Americans; Night; Singing And Singers HARLEM SWEETIES First Line: Have yhou dug the spill Last Line: Delicious, fine sugar hill Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Harlem (new York City) HAVANA DREAMS First Line: The dream is a cocktail at sloppy joe's Last Line: (quien sabe? Who really knows?) Subject(s): African Americans; Havana, Cuba HEART First Line: Pierrot %took his heart Last Line: Where his heart is %today Subject(s): African Americans HEART OF HARLEM First Line: The buildings in harlem are brick and stone Last Line: Folks, that's the heart of harlem Subject(s): African Americans HEAVEN First Line: Heaven is %the place where Last Line: Stone answers back, %'well! And you?' Subject(s): African Americans HELEN KELLER Poem Text First Line: She, / in the dark Last Line: Of inner power. Subject(s): African Americans; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Negroes; American Blacks HERO -- INTERNATIONAL BRIGADE First Line: Bood, %or a flag, %or a flame Last Line: They're all the same Subject(s): African Americans; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) HEY! First Line: Sun's a settin' Last Line: Wonder what de blues'll bring Subject(s): African Americans HEY! HEY! First Line: Sun's a risin' Last Line: I been blue all night long Subject(s): African Americans HEY-HEY BLUES First Line: I can hey on water Last Line: And I'll hey hey hey -- and cheer! %yee-ee-e-who-000-00 Subject(s): African Americans HIGH TO LOW First Line: God knows / we have our troubles, too Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks HIGH TO LOW First Line: God knows %we have our troubles, too Last Line: And you %well, you can see, %we have our problems, %too, with you Subject(s): African Americans HISTORY First Line: The past has been a mint Last Line: True of tomorrow Subject(s): African Americans HOMECOMING First Line: I went back in the alley Last Line: A whole lot of room %was the only thing I had Subject(s): African Americans HOMESICK BLUES Poem Text First Line: De railroad bridge's / a sad song in de air Subject(s): African Americans; Blues (music); Homesickness; Railroads; Negroes; American Blacks; Railways; Trains HOMESICK BLUES First Line: De railroad bridge's %a sad song in de air Last Line: To keep from cryin' %I opens ma mouth an' laughs Subject(s): African Americans; Blues (music); Homesickness; Railroads HONEY BABE First Line: Honey babe, %you braid your hair too tight Last Line: Like my little girl Subject(s): African Americans HOPE Poem Text First Line: Sometimes when I'm lonely Subject(s): African Americans; Friendship; Negroes; American Blacks HOPE Poem Text First Line: He rose up on his dying bed / and asked for fish Subject(s): African Americans; Friendship; Negroes; American Blacks HOPE First Line: Sometimes when I'm lonely Last Line: Keep thinkin' I won't be lonely %by and by Subject(s): African Americans; Friendship HOPE First Line: He rose up on his dying bed %and asked for fish Last Line: His wife looked it up in her dream book %and played it Subject(s): African Americans HOPE FOR HARLEM First Line: There's a new skyline in harlem Last Line: The answer to a prayer Subject(s): African Americans HORN OF PLENTY First Line: Singers %singers like o- Last Line: I said, yes, your mama Subject(s): African Americans HOUSE IN TAOS First Line: Rain %thunder of the rain god Last Line: Into the wilderness %of our house in taos Subject(s): African Americans HOW ABOUT IT, DIXIE First Line: The president's four freedoms Last Line: Now -- right here! Subject(s): African Americans HOW THIN A BLANKET First Line: There is so much misery in the world Last Line: For the withered body %of despair Subject(s): African Americans HURT First Line: Who cares %about the hurt in your heart Last Line: From your lips. %nobody cares Subject(s): African Americans I First Line: Ibis, %in case you have not heard Last Line: He hates to set foot %on dry ground I DREAM A WORLD WHERE MAN Last Line: Of such I dream, my world Subject(s): African Americans I THOUGHT IT WAS TANGIERS I WANTED First Line: I know now %that notre dame is in paris Last Line: But I thought it was tangiers I wanted Subject(s): African Americans; Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris; Tangier, Morocco I, TOO Poem Text First Line: I, too, sing america. / I am the darker brother Last Line: I, too, am america. Variant Title(s): Epilogue;i, Too, Sing America Subject(s): African Americans; United States; Negroes; American Blacks; America IF YOU WOULD First Line: You could stop the factory whistles blowing Last Line: You could %if you %would Subject(s): African Americans IF-ING First Line: If I had some small change Last Line: Till it drives you crazy, too Subject(s): African Americans IMAGINE First Line: Imagine! %they are afraid of you Last Line: They are afraid %of you! Subject(s): African Americans IMPASSE First Line: I could tell you Last Line: And you don't %give a damn Subject(s): African Americans IN A TROUBLED KEY First Line: Do not sell me out, baby Last Line: Instead of to a song Subject(s): African Americans IN EXPLANATION OF OUR TIMES First Line: The folks with no titles in front of their names Last Line: So naturally, there's trouble %in these our times %because of people with no titles %in front of the Subject(s): African Americans IN THE MIST OF THE MOON First Line: In the mist of the moon I saw you Last Line: In the mist of the moon I saw you, dark nanette Subject(s): African Americans IN TIME OF SILVER RAIN Last Line: When spring %and life %are new Subject(s): African Americans; Rain INTERNE AT PROVIDENT First Line: White coats, %white aprons Last Line: Follows the young doctor, %cellophanes his long stride, %cellophanes his future Subject(s): African Americans IRISH WAKE First Line: In the dark they fell a-crying Last Line: Happy they were here Subject(s): African Americans IS IT TRUE First Line: From the shadows of the quarter Last Line: Is it true that negroes -- %I said, ask your mama Subject(s): African Americans ISLAND (1) First Line: Between two rivers, %north of the park Last Line: Dream within a dream, %our dream is deferred. %good morning,daddy! %ain't you heard ? Subject(s): African Americans ISLAND (2) First Line: Wave of sorrow Last Line: Wave of sorrow, %take me there Subject(s): African Americans IT GIVES ME PAUSE First Line: I would like to be a sinner Last Line: When I get my sinning done Subject(s): African Americans J First Line: Jaybird, %jaybird, %did you know Last Line: If I were you! %'caw!' JAIME First Line: He sits on a hill Last Line: That will never be Subject(s): African Americans JAM SESSION Poem Text First Line: Letting midnight / out on bail Last Line: Pop-a-da Subject(s): African Americans; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Negroes; American Blacks JAZZ BAND IN A PARISIAN CABARET First Line: Play that thing Subject(s): African Americans JAZZ GIRL First Line: Jazz? %remember that song Last Line: Buy a drink for me Subject(s): African Americans JAZZONIA Poem Text First Line: Oh, silver tree! Last Line: Six long-headed jazzers play. Subject(s): African Americans; Blues (music); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Negroes; American Blacks JAZZTET MUTED First Line: In the negroes of the quarter Last Line: Help me, yardbird! %help me! Subject(s): African Americans JESTER First Line: In one hand %I hold tragedy Last Line: Once I was wise. %shall I be wise again Subject(s): African Americans JESUS First Line: Until the crumpts and the christians Last Line: Toward the mines of sugar cane Subject(s): African Americans JIM CROW'S LAST STAND First Line: There was an old crow by the name of jim Last Line: We gonna bury that son-of-a-gun Subject(s): African Americans JITNEY First Line: Corners %of south parkway Last Line: 31st %hey! %cab! Subject(s): African Americans JOE LOUIS First Line: They worshipped joe Last Line: But the gossips had no %'the say' %to latch onto %for joe Subject(s): African Americans; Boxing And Boxers; Louis, Joe (1914-1981); Sports JOE LOUIS (2) First Line: Joe louis is a man Last Line: Too little' or 'too late.' Subject(s): African Americans JOHANNESBURG MINES First Line: In the johannesburg mines Last Line: Working in the %johannesburg mines Subject(s): African Americans JOY First Line: I went to look for joy Last Line: Such company, such company, %as keeps this young nymph, joy! Subject(s): African Americans JUDGE WILLIAM HASTIE First Line: Now you take %this bill hastie guy Last Line: And neither do I Subject(s): African Americans JUDGMENT DAY First Line: They put ma body in the ground Last Line: In the sweet o' ma lord's sight - clean an' bright, %clean an' bright Subject(s): African Americans JUICE JOINT: NORTHERN CITY First Line: There is a gin mill on the avenue Last Line: Dance in this juice joint %on the city street Subject(s): African Americans JUKE BOX LOVE SONG Poem Text First Line: I could take the harlem night Subject(s): African Americans; Harlem (new York City); Love; Singing & Singers; Negroes; American Blacks; Songs JUKE BOX LOVE SONG First Line: I could take the harlem night Last Line: Dance with you, my sweet brown harlem girl Subject(s): African Americans; Harlem (new York City); Love; Singing And Singers JULIET First Line: Wonder %and pain %and terror Last Line: To montova %is dusty %with the drought Subject(s): African Americans JUNIOR ADDICT First Line: The little boy %who sticks a needle in his arm Last Line: Sunrise, please come! %come! Come! Subject(s): African Americans JUST AN ORDINARY GUY First Line: He's just an ordinary guy Last Line: But you'll never beat us, hitler -- %not us ordinary guys Subject(s): African Americans JUSTICE First Line: That justice is a blind goddess Last Line: That once perhaps were eyes Subject(s): African Americans K First Line: A little white kitten Last Line: How happy am I!' KID IN THE PARK First Line: Lonely little question mark Last Line: There %but not really anywere Subject(s): African Americans KID SLEEPY First Line: Listen, kid sleepy, %don't you want to run around Last Line: Kid sleepy, just %stay here? %rather just %stay here Subject(s): African Americans KIDS IN SCHOOL WITH ME First Line: When I studied my a-b-c's Last Line: The kids in school with me Subject(s): African Americans KIDS WHO DIE First Line: This is for the kids who die Last Line: Through the kids who die Subject(s): African Americans KU KLUX Poem Text First Line: They took me out Subject(s): African Americans; Ku Klux Klan; Negroes; American Blacks KU KLUX First Line: They took me out Last Line: Look me in face %and tell me you believe in %the great white race Subject(s): African Americans; Ku Klux Klan L First Line: A lion in a zoo Last Line: Is happy as ever %a lion can be LABOR STORM First Line: Now it is time %for the strike-breakers to come out Last Line: Workers beware! %it's almost %here Subject(s): African Americans LADY IN CABARET First Line: She knows %the end of the evening will come Last Line: Just that much more %a bore Subject(s): African Americans LADY'S BOOGIE Poem Text First Line: See that lady / dressed so fine? Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks LADY'S BOOGIE First Line: See that lady %dressed so fine? Last Line: Way up in the treble %the tingle of a tear. %be-bach! Subject(s): African Americans LAMENT FOR DARK PEOPLES First Line: I was a red man one time Last Line: Now I herd with the many -- %caged in the circus of civilization Subject(s): African Americans LAMENT OF A VANQUISHED BEAU First Line: Willy is a silly boy Last Line: That I 'most ever had Subject(s): African Americans LAMENT OVER LOVE First Line: I hope my child'll %never love a man Last Line: Gonna think about my man -- %and let my fool-self fall Subject(s): African Americans LAST CALL First Line: I look out into the yonder Last Line: Still I call you now. %I'm game Subject(s): African Americans LAST MAN LIVING First Line: When the last man living Last Line: Cause I don't want no jive Subject(s): African Americans LAST PRICE OF THE EAST First Line: Futile of me to offer you my hand Last Line: Before you are king %he'll come to town Subject(s): African Americans LATE CORNER First Line: The street light %on its lonely arm Last Line: Oh, lonely light! %oh, lonely cross! Subject(s): African Americans LATE LAST NIGHT Last Line: So I was cryin' %on account of %you! Subject(s): African Americans LAUGHERS First Line: Dream-singers, %story-tellers Last Line: Loud-mouthed laughers in hands of fate Subject(s): African Americans LENIN First Line: Lenin walks around the world Last Line: There rises a red star Subject(s): African Americans LENOX AVENUE BAR First Line: Weaving %between assorted terrors Last Line: In this neon place Subject(s): African Americans LENOX AVENUE: MIDNIGHT First Line: The rhythm of life %is a jazz rhythm Last Line: Midnight, %and the gods are laughing at us Subject(s): African Americans LET AMERICA BE AMERICA AGAIN Poem Text LET AMERICA BE AMERICA AGAIN Last Line: All, all the stretch of these great green states - %and make america again! Subject(s): African Americans; Civil Rights Movement; Freedom LETTER First Line: Dear mama, %time I pay rent and get my food Last Line: Your son baby %respectably as ever, %joe Subject(s): African Americans LETTER FROM SPAIN First Line: Dear brother at home: %we captured a wounded moor today Last Line: And he didn't understand. %salud, %johnny Subject(s): African Americans; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) LETTER TO ANNE First Line: Since I left you, anne Last Line: Have I seen anything else but you, %anne Subject(s): African Americans LETTER TO THE ACADEMY First Line: The gentlemen who have got to be classics and are now old Last Line: We want to know what in the hell you'd say? Subject(s): African Americans; Revolutions LIARS First Line: It is we who are liars Last Line: It is we with the civilized souls who are liars Subject(s): African Americans LIFE IS FINE Poem Text First Line: I went down to the river Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks LIFE IS FINE First Line: I went down to the river Last Line: I'll be dogged, sweet baby, %if you gonna see me die %life is fine! %fine as wine! %life is fine! Subject(s): African Americans LIKEWISE First Line: The jews: %groceries %suits %fruits %watches Last Line: Sometimes I think %jews must have heard %the music of a %dream deferred Subject(s): African Americans; Jews LINCOLN MONUMENT: WASHINGTON First Line: Let's go see old abe Last Line: Of time -- %old abe Subject(s): African Americans; Holidays; Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.c. LINCOLN THEATRE First Line: The head of lincoln looks down from the wall Last Line: Press hands together, laughing at her song Subject(s): African Americans LINCOLN UNIVERSITY: 1954 First Line: This is the dream grown young Last Line: Brightly burning Subject(s): African Americans LISTEN First Line: Listen, %you hungry, unemployed Last Line: You sew, %steel you pour LISTEN HERE BLUES First Line: Sweet girls, sweet girls Last Line: Don't you fool wid no men cause %they'll bring you misery Subject(s): African Americans LITANY First Line: Gather upo Last Line: Those who expect %no love from above LITTLE CATS First Line: What happens to little cats Last Line: As mean as they are strong Subject(s): African Americans LITTLE GREEN TREE First Line: It looks like to me Last Line: Them cool green leaves %is waitin' to shelter me %o, little tree! Subject(s): African Americans LITTLE LYRIC (OF GREAT IMPORTANCE) Poem Text First Line: I wish the rent Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks LITTLE LYRIC (OF GREAT IMPORTANCE) First Line: I wish the rent Last Line: Was heaven sent Subject(s): African Americans LITTLE OLD LETTER First Line: It was yesterday morning Last Line: Can take a person's life Subject(s): African Americans LITTLE SONG First Line: Carmencita loves patrick Last Line: Weaving our bright ribbons %into a rainbow Subject(s): African Americans LITTLE SONG First Line: Lonely people %in the lonely night Last Line: Work to salt %their dream away Subject(s): African Americans LITTLE SONG ON HOUSING First Line: Here I come! Last Line: White folks, fly! %here am I! Subject(s): African Americans LIVE AND LET LIVE First Line: Maybe it ain't right %but the people of the night Last Line: Will give even %a snake %a break Subject(s): African Americans LONELY NOCTURNE First Line: When dawn lights the sky Last Line: But me -- %when dawn lights the sky Subject(s): African Americans LONESOME CORNER First Line: I went down to the corner Last Line: Is who I want to see Subject(s): African Americans LONESOME PLACE First Line: I got to leave this town Last Line: This life's so weary, %'s 'bout to overcome me Subject(s): African Americans LONG TRIP Poem Text First Line: The sea is a wilderness of waves Subject(s): African Americans; Sea; Negroes; American Blacks; Ocean LONG TRIP First Line: The sea is a wilderness of waves Last Line: The sea is a desert of waves, %a wilderness of water Subject(s): African Americans; Sea LONG VIEW: NEGRO First Line: Emancipation: 1865 Last Line: Becomes so small %again Subject(s): African Americans LOVE First Line: Love is a wild wonder Last Line: That little spark is love %dying in the dark Subject(s): African Americans LOVE AGAIN BLUES First Line: My life ain't nothin' Last Line: But you got to love again Subject(s): African Americans LOVE SONG FOR ANTONIA First Line: If I should sing %all of my songs for you Last Line: I would still give you my love %though you never looked at me Subject(s): African Americans LOVE SONG FOR LUCINDA First Line: Love, %is a ripe plum Last Line: Would never lose your breath. %do not climb too high Subject(s): African Americans LOVER'S RETURN First Line: My old time daddy Last Line: But the devil told me: %damn a lover %come home to die! Subject(s): African Americans LOW TO HIGH Poem Text First Line: How can you forget me? Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks LOW TO HIGH First Line: How can you forget me? Last Line: Ignore me though I pay your fees. %how can you forget me? %but you do Subject(s): African Americans LUCK Poem Text First Line: Sometimes a crumb falls Subject(s): African Americans; Luck; Negroes; American Blacks LUCK First Line: Sometimes a crumb falls Last Line: Love is given, %to others %only in heaven Subject(s): African Americans; Luck LULLABY: FOR A BLACK MOTHER First Line: My little dark baby Last Line: For your sleep-song lullaby Variant Title(s): Lullaby (for A Black Mother Subject(s): African Americans; Family Life LUMUMBA'S GRAVE First Line: Lumumba was black Last Line: Tomorrow will mark %it everywhere Subject(s): African Americans; Lumumba, Patrice (1925-1961) LUNCH IN A JIM CROW CAR First Line: Get out the lunch-box of your dreams Last Line: And, like an atom bomb, bursts apart Variant Title(s): Jim Crow Ca Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Railroads M First Line: Jocko is %a peanut fiend Last Line: Like a son-of-a-gun MA LORD First Line: Ma lord ain't no stuck-up man Last Line: An' be ma friend through eternity.' Subject(s): African Americans MA MAN Poem Text First Line: When my man looks at me Last Line: Eagle-rockish as I kin be! Variant Title(s): My Man MADAM AND HER MADAM First Line: I worked for a woman Last Line: I said, madam, %that may be true %but I'll be dogged %if I love you! Subject(s): African Americans MADAM AND HER MIGHT-HAVE-BEEN First Line: I had two husbands Last Line: He said, in me %you've got no trust %I said, I don't want %my heart to bust Subject(s): African Americans MADAM AND THE ARMY First Line: They put my boy-friend Last Line: A powerful man! Subject(s): African Americans MADAM AND THE CENSUS MAN First Line: The census man Last Line: Furthermore, rub out %that mrs., too %I'll have you know %I'm a madam to you! Subject(s): African Americans MADAM AND THE CHARITY CHILD First Line: Once I adopted %a little girl child Last Line: Last time I told her, %report, my eye! %things is bad %you figure out why! Subject(s): African Americans MADAM AND THE CRIME WAVE First Line: I said, I believe %this world's gone made Last Line: (course you always got %that other thing) Subject(s): African Americans MADAM AND THE FORTUNE TELLER First Line: Fortune teller looked in my hand Last Line: For one more doller and a half, %I'll read your other palm Subject(s): African Americans MADAM AND THE INSURANCE MAN First Line: Insurance man %I heard his knock Last Line: Who would bury you %I said why? Subject(s): African Americans MADAM AND THE MINISTER First Line: Reverend butler came by Last Line: After rev. Butler %went away %so I ain't in no mood %for sin today Subject(s): African Americans MADAM AND THE MOVIEW First Line: I go to the moview Last Line: And there ain't no %romance any more Subject(s): African Americans MADAM AND THE NEWSBOY First Line: Newsboy knocks %I buy the defender Last Line: In the papers, too %wouldn't you? Subject(s): African Americans MADAM AND THE NUMBER WRITER First Line: Number runner %come to my door Last Line: The runner said, madam, %that's all very well %but suppose %you go to hell? Subject(s): African Americans MADAM AND THE PHONE BILL Poem Text First Line: You say I o.K.Ed / long distance? Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks MADAM AND THE PHONE BILL First Line: You say I o.K.Ed %long distance? Last Line: You say I gave my o.K. %well, that o.K. You may keep %but I sure ain't gonna pay! Subject(s): African Americans MADAM AND THE RENT MAN First Line: The rent man knocked Last Line: I ain't pleased! %I said, neither am I %so we agrees! Subject(s): African Americans; Landlords And Tenants MADAM AND THE WRONG VISITOR First Line: A man knocked three times Last Line: And buy her some chicken %I said better buy two %cause I'm still kickin'! Subject(s): African Americans MADAM'S CALLING CARDS Poem Text First Line: I had some cards printed Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks MADAM'S CALLING CARDS First Line: I had some cards printed Last Line: To my pedigree %alberta k. Johnson %american that's me Subject(s): African Americans MADAM'S CHRISTMAS (OR MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY) First Line: I forgot %to send a card to jennie Last Line: Cards or no cards %here's howdy Subject(s): African Americans MADAM'S PAST HISTORY Poem Text First Line: My name is johnson Subject(s): African Americans; United States; Negroes; American Blacks; America MADAM'S PAST HISTORY First Line: My name is johnson Last Line: I do cooking, %day's work, too ! %alberta k. Johnson %madam to you Subject(s): African Americans; United States MADRID - 1937 First Line: Put out the lights and stop the clocks Last Line: To break that no apart %will be to break the human heart Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) MAGNOLIA FLOWERS First Line: The quiet fading out of life Last Line: I didn't mean to stump ma toe on you Subject(s): African Americans MAMA AND DAUGHTER First Line: Mama, please brush off my coat Last Line: So I can brush your back, I say Subject(s): African Americans; Daughters MAMMY First Line: I'm waiting for ma mammy, -- %she is death Last Line: I'm waiting for ma mammy, -- %death Subject(s): African Americans MAN First Line: I was a boy then. Last Line: When he's %a man Subject(s): African Americans MAN INTO MEN First Line: A nigger comes home from work Last Line: To the man %who becomes %men Subject(s): African Americans MARCH MOON First Line: The moon is naked Last Line: Don't you know %it isn't nice to be naked? Subject(s): African Americans MASON-DIXON LINE First Line: Over there stands sir, %owner Last Line: Hands dirtied, %empty MAYBE First Line: I asked you, baby Last Line: You told me that you didn't, %but you thought you would Subject(s): African Americans MAZIE DIES ALONE IN THE CITY HOSPITAL First Line: I hate to die this way with the quiet Last Line: God! Why did you ever curse me %makin' me die this way Variant Title(s): Cabaret Girl Dies On Welfare Islan Subject(s): African Americans; Death ME AND MY SONG First Line: Black %as the gentle night Last Line: Me and my %song Subject(s): African Americans ME AND THE MULE Poem Text First Line: My old mule / he's got a grin on his face Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks ME AND THE MULE First Line: My old mule %he's got a grin on his face Last Line: You got to take me %like I am Subject(s): African Americans MELLOW First Line: Into the laps %of black celebrities Last Line: Wired for killing %which makes it %more thrilling Subject(s): African Americans MEMO TO NON-WHITE PEOPLES First Line: They will let you have dope Last Line: Exactly the same Subject(s): African Americans MERRY CHRISTMAS First Line: Merry christmas, china Last Line: Let merry christmas gas the air Subject(s): African Americans MERRY-GO-ROUND Poem Text First Line: Where is the jim crow section Subject(s): African Americans; Social Protest; Negroes; American Blacks MERRY-GO-ROUND First Line: Where is the jim crow section Last Line: Where's the horse %for a kid that's black? Subject(s): African Americans; Social Protest MESSAGE TO THE PRESIDENT First Line: Mr. President, kindly please Last Line: Segregation in the u.S.A Subject(s): African Americans METROPOLITAN MUSEUM First Line: I came in from the roar Last Line: Of an asphodel Subject(s): African Americans MEXICAN MARKET WOMAN First Line: This ancient hag Last Line: And the sun has made %her skin so brown Subject(s): African Americans; Labor And Laborers MIDNIGHT CHIPPIE'S LAMENT First Line: I looked down 31st street Last Line: So nobody can't low-rate you Subject(s): African Americans MIDNIGHT DANCER: TO A BALCK DANCER IN THE LITTLE SAVOY First Line: Wine-maiden %of the jazz-tuned night Last Line: The grapes of joy %and dripped their juice %on you? Subject(s): African Americans MIDNIGHT RAFFLE First Line: I put my nickel Last Line: My bread wasn't buttered %on neither side Subject(s): African Americans MIDWINTER BLUES Poem Text First Line: In the middle of the winter Last Line: Won't need no flowers from the store. Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks MIGRANT First Line: (chicago) %daddy-o %buddy-o %works at the foundry Last Line: But if he wasn't in a hurry %he wouldn't write so %bad that way, %daddy-o Subject(s): African Americans MIGRATION First Line: A little southern colored child Last Line: One might make a story %charting tomorrow Subject(s): African Americans MILITANT First Line: Let all who will Last Line: To strike your face Subject(s): African Americans MINNIE SINGS HER BLUES First Line: Cabaret, cabaret Last Line: Blue, blue, blues! %I'd sho have them blues Subject(s): African Americans MINSTREL MAN First Line: Because my mouth Last Line: You do not know %I die Subject(s): African Americans MISERY First Line: Play the blues for me Last Line: S got to hear a blues %for her misery Subject(s): African Americans MISERY IS WHEN YOUR Subject(s): Friendship MISS BLUES'ES CHILD Poem Text First Line: If the blues would let me Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Children; Negroes; American Blacks MISS BLUES'ES CHILD First Line: If the blues would let me Last Line: In my heart I'm crying, %I'm just miss blues'es child! Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Children MISSISSIPPI LEVEE First Line: Been workin' on de levee Last Line: From washin' over me? Subject(s): African Americans MISTER SANDMAN First Line: The sandman walks abroad tonight Last Line: Has a dream in his sack to fit each child just right Subject(s): African Americans MITCHELL CASE First Line: I see by the papers Last Line: Let alone having to take that dollar %to go and sue Subject(s): African Americans MOAN First Line: I'm deep in trouble Last Line: Somewhere in yo' sky. %yes, lord! Subject(s): African Americans MONOTONY First Line: Today like yesterday Last Line: Tomorrow like today Subject(s): African Americans MONROE'S BLUES First Line: Monroe's fell on evil days Last Line: Monroe sings a little blues %my woman and my friend is dead Subject(s): African Americans MONTAGE OF A DREAM DEFERRED (ENTIRE POEM SEQUENCE) First Line: Good morning, daddy! %ain't you heard Last Line: I expect they do -- %but I'm talking about %harlem to you! MONTMARTRE First Line: Pigalle: %a neon rose Last Line: The petals %fall Subject(s): African Americans MOONLIGHT IN VALENCIA: CIVIL WAR First Line: Moonlight in valencia Subject(s): African Americans; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Negroes; American Blacks MOONLIGHT IN VALENCIA: CIVIL WAR First Line: Moonlight in valencia Last Line: Bombers over %valencia Subject(s): African Americans; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) MOONLIGHT NIGHT: CARMEL First Line: Tonight the waves march Last Line: And beating the land's %edge into a swoon Subject(s): African Americans; Sea; Seashore MORNING AFTER Poem Text First Line: I was so sick last night I Subject(s): African Americans; Blues (music); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Negroes; American Blacks MORNING AFTER First Line: I was so sick last night I Last Line: You jesta little bit o' woman but you %sound like a great big crowd Subject(s): African Americans; Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians MOTHER IN WARTIME First Line: As if it were some noble thing Last Line: Not that both %might lose Subject(s): African Americans MOTHER TO SON Poem Text First Line: Well, son, I'll tell you Last Line: And life for me ain't been no crystal stair. Subject(s): African Americans; Mothers; Negroes; American Blacks MOTHERLAND First Line: Dream of yesterday Last Line: In her bitter sorrow Subject(s): African Americans MOTTO Poem Text First Line: I play it cool Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks MOTTO First Line: I play it cool Last Line: My motto, %as I live and learn %is %dig and be dug %in return Subject(s): African Americans MOVIES Poem Text First Line: The roosevelt, renaissance, gem, alhambra Subject(s): African Americans; Motion Pictures; Negroes; American Blacks; Movies; Cinema MOVIES First Line: The roosevelt, renaissance, gem, alhambra Last Line: (hoolywood %laughs at me, %black %so I laugh back) Subject(s): African Americans; Motion Pictures MULATTO Poem Text First Line: I am your son, white man! Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks MULATTO First Line: I am your son, white man! Last Line: I am your son, white man %a little yellow %bastard boy Subject(s): African Americans MY BELOVED First Line: Shall I make a record of your beauty Last Line: Years and paint you in the poem Subject(s): African Americans MY LOVES First Line: I love to see the big white moon Last Line: But better than all these things I think, %I love my lady love Subject(s): African Americans MY PEOPLE Poem Text First Line: The night is beautiful Variant Title(s): Poem Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks MY PEOPLE First Line: The night is beautiful Last Line: Beautiful, also, is the sun. %beautiful, also, are the souls of my people Variant Title(s): Poe Subject(s): African Americans MYSTERY First Line: When a chile gets to be thirteen Last Line: A jack-leg preacher, a ph.D. %the mytery %and the darkness %and the song %and me Subject(s): African Americans N First Line: Newt, %newt, newt Last Line: A salamander, child, %that's me NAACP First Line: I see by the papers Last Line: To break old jim crow's course Subject(s): African Americans; Civil Rights Movement NATCHA First Line: Natcha, offering love Last Line: Come drink, kisses. %a long, dream night with me Subject(s): African Americans NAUGHTY CHILD First Line: The naughty child Last Line: In a very nice town Subject(s): African Americans NECESSITY Poem Text First Line: Work? / I don't have to work Subject(s): African Americans; Men; Negroes; American Blacks NECESSITY First Line: Work? %I don't have to work Last Line: Which is why I reckon I does %have to work after all Subject(s): African Americans; Men NEGRO Poem Text First Line: I am a negro Last Line: Black like the depths of my africa. Subject(s): African Americans; Blacks - History; Negroes; American Blacks NEGRO DANCERS First Line: Me an' ma baby's Last Line: Two mo' ways to do de charleston!' Subject(s): African Americans; Dancing And Dancers NEGRO GHETTO First Line: I looked at their black faces Last Line: Their far-too-humble feet Subject(s): African Americans NEGRO MOTHER First Line: Children, I come back today Last Line: For I will be with you till no white brother %dares to keep down the children of the negro mother Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Mothers NEGRO SERVANT First Line: All day subdued, polite Last Line: O, sweet reief from faces that are white Subject(s): African Americans NEGRO SPEAKS OF WAR First Line: Now, I'm fed up %with all your wars Last Line: It'll only be for freedom %for the negro NEIGHBOR Poem Text First Line: Down home / he sets on a stoop Subject(s): African Americans; Harlem (new York City); Negroes; American Blacks NEIGHBOR First Line: Down home %he sets on a stoop Last Line: Sometimes %he don't drink %true, %he just %lets his glass %set there Subject(s): African Americans; Harlem (new York City) NEON SIGNS Poem Text First Line: Wonder bar / wishing well / monterey Subject(s): African Americans; Harlem (new York City); Negroes; American Blacks NEON SIGNS First Line: Wonder bar %wishing well %monterey Last Line: Mirror-go-round %where broken glass %in the early bright smears re-bop %sound Subject(s): African Americans; Harlem (new York City) NEW CABARET GIRL First Line: That little yaller girl Last Line: Babe you can't %live that way Subject(s): African Americans NEW FLOWERS First Line: So many little flowers Last Line: But the newly budding blossoms %are equally gay Variant Title(s): Cycl Subject(s): African Americans NEW MOON First Line: There's a new young moon Last Line: Veiling her face like a virgin %waiting for a lover Subject(s): African Americans NEW SONG First Line: I speak in the name of the black millions Last Line: A new dream flames %against the %sun Subject(s): African Americans NEW YEAR First Line: The years %fall like dry leaves Last Line: That another leaf has fallen Subject(s): African Americans NEW YORKERS First Line: I was born here Last Line: She lifted her lips %in the dark: the same old spark! Subject(s): African Americans; New York City NIGHT First Line: That is my dream! Last Line: Night coming tenderly %black like me Subject(s): Language NIGHT FUNERAL IN HARLEM Poem Text First Line: Night funeral Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks NIGHT FUNERAL IN HARLEM First Line: Night funeral Last Line: That poor boy's %funeral grand. %night funeral %in harlem Subject(s): African Americans NIGHT SONG First Line: In the dark %before the tall Last Line: Fainted away %in the %dark Subject(s): African Americans NIGHT: FOUR SONGS First Line: Night of the two moons Last Line: Night of the four songs unsung %sorrow! Sorrow! %sorrow!Sorrow! Subject(s): African Americans NIGHTMARE BOOGIE First Line: I had a dream %and I could see Last Line: Rolling bass, %whirling treble %of cat-gut lace Subject(s): African Americans NO MORE First Line: So with a riddle Last Line: We come to the end NO REGRETS First Line: Out of love Last Line: Though the return %be never Subject(s): African Americans NOCTURNE FOR THE DRUMS First Line: Gay little devils %that hide in gin Last Line: The quick red hour %before the day Subject(s): African Americans NONETTE First Line: You wound my soul with a thousand spears Last Line: But your poor heart breaks, too, and you, too, die Subject(s): African Americans NORTHERN LIBERAL First Line: And so %we lick our chops at birmingham Last Line: Where you, %not I %am Subject(s): African Americans NOT A MOVIE First Line: Well the rocked him with road-apples Last Line: But, thank god , he wasn't dead! %and there ain't no ku klux on a 133rd Subject(s): African Americans; Elections; Harlem (new York City); Racism; Southern States NOT ELSE -- BUT First Line: Hip boots %deep in the blues Last Line: Do, jesus! %lord %amen Subject(s): African Americans NOT OFTEN First Line: I seldom see %a kangaroo Last Line: But there's no %picture Subject(s): African Americans NOT WHAT WAS First Line: By then the poetry is written Last Line: Before the rose had gone Subject(s): African Americans NOTE IN MUSIC First Line: Life is for the living Last Line: And death a note unsaid Subject(s): African Americans NOTE ON COMMERCIAL THEATRE First Line: You've taken my blues and gone Last Line: I reckon it'll be %me myself! %yes it'll be me Subject(s): African Americans NOTE TO ALL NAZIS FASCISTS AND KLANSMEN First Line: You delight, %so it would seem Last Line: Out of you Subject(s): African Americans NUDE YOUNG DANCER First Line: What jungle tree have you slept under Last Line: To what clean boy have you offered your lips Subject(s): African Americans NUMBER First Line: When faith in black candles Last Line: That hasn't yet %been won? %??? Subject(s): African Americans NUMBERED First Line: I think my days are numbered Last Line: I spend my nights with you Subject(s): African Americans NUMBERS First Line: If I ever hit for a dollar Last Line: Combinate a little %with my rent Subject(s): African Americans O First Line: At night the owl Last Line: Is blind as a bat OCTOBER First Line: Centuries went and came Last Line: Stops the world's turning OCTOBER 16: THE RAID Poem Text First Line: Perhaps / you will remember Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks OCTOBER 16: THE RAID First Line: Perhaps %you will remember Last Line: You will recall %john brown Subject(s): African Americans ODE TO DINAH First Line: In the quarter of the negroes %where to snow now acclimated Last Line: And by mistake shot out the light Subject(s): African Americans OFFICE BUILDING: EVENING First Line: When the white folks get through Last Line: But just wait, chile... Subject(s): African Americans OFFICIAL NOTICE First Line: Dear death: %I got your message Last Line: With his blood %is sealed Subject(s): African Americans OLD AGE First Line: Having known robins on the window sill Last Line: How do you feel' Subject(s): African Americans OLD DOG QUEENIE Last Line: Barking at the scenery Subject(s): African Americans OLD SAILOR First Line: He has been %many places Last Line: Lament him %everywhere Subject(s): African Americans OLD WALT Poem Text First Line: Old walt whitman / went finding and seeking Subject(s): African Americans; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Negroes; American Blacks OLD WALT First Line: Old walt whitman %went finding and seeking Last Line: Old walt whitman went seeking %and finding Subject(s): African Americans; Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) ON A CHRISTMAS NIGHT First Line: In bethlehem on a christmas night Last Line: Be happy, happy, everyone %on a christmas night! Subject(s): African Americans; Christmas ON A PALLET OF STRAW First Line: They did not travel in an airplane Last Line: They found the lord of all! Subject(s): African Americans; Christmas ONE First Line: Lonely %as the wind Last Line: Lonely %as a bottle of licker %on a table %by itself Subject(s): African Americans ONE MORE S IN THE U.S.A. First Line: Put one more s in the u.S.A. Last Line: Will be the u.S.S.A. Then Subject(s): African Americans ONE-WAY TICKET First Line: I pick up my life Last Line: Gone out west, %gone! Subject(s): African Americans ONLY DUMB GUYS FIGHT First Line: Only dumb guys fight Last Line: Only dumb guys fight Subject(s): African Americans ONLY WOMAN BLUES First Line: I want to tell you 'bout that woman Last Line: Woman's gonna mistreat me Subject(s): African Americans OPEN LETTER TO THE SOUTH First Line: White workers of the south Last Line: Today, %we're man to man Subject(s): African Americans OPPRESSION First Line: Now dreams %are not available Last Line: And the song %break %its jail Subject(s): African Americans OUR LAND First Line: We should have a land of sun Last Line: Oh, sweet away! %ah, my beloved one, away Subject(s): African Americans OUT OF WORK First Line: I walked de streets till Last Line: And see what it would do to you Subject(s): African Americans P First Line: There was a pigeon Last Line: And that was the end of %pigeon mcguire PAIR IN ONE First Line: The strangeness Last Line: Both at once %are sounded Subject(s): African Americans PALE LADY First Line: Pale, delightful lady Last Line: Oh, pale, delightful lady, %how I love you Subject(s): African Americans PARADE First Line: Seven ladies / and seventeen gentlemen Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks PARADE First Line: Seven ladies %and seventeen gentlemen Last Line: A chance to let %parade! %the whole world see %parade %old black me! Subject(s): African Americans PARISIAN BEGGAR WOMAN First Line: Once you were young Last Line: Will kiss you again Subject(s): African Americans PARK BENCH First Line: I live on a park bench Last Line: Move on over %to park avenue? Subject(s): African Americans; Homeless; Social Protest PARK BENCHING First Line: I've sat on the park benches in paris Last Line: Hungry days, %no jobs, %no work Subject(s): African Americans PASSING First Line: On sunny summer sunday afternoons in harlem Last Line: Harlem of the bitter dream, %since their dream has %come true Subject(s): African Americans PASSING LOVE First Line: Because you are to me a song Last Line: You will not stay when summer goes Subject(s): African Americans PASTORAL First Line: Between the little clouds of heaven Last Line: The child, come back again Subject(s): African Americans PATHOLOGICAL PUZZLE First Line: There are so many diseases Last Line: How any man %remains intact Subject(s): African Americans PEACE First Line: We passed their graves Last Line: Who had gained %the victory Subject(s): African Americans PEACE CONFERENCE IN AN AMERICAN TOWN First Line: At the back fence calling Last Line: At the back fence calling %you Subject(s): African Americans PENNSYLVANIA STATION First Line: The pennsylvania station in new york Last Line: To glorify the earth - and you - and me Subject(s): African Americans; Pennsylvania Station, New York City; Railroads PERSONAL Poem Text First Line: In an envelope marked: personal Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks PERSONAL First Line: In an envelope marked: personal Last Line: I have given my answer Subject(s): African Americans PH.D. First Line: He never was a silly little boy Last Line: And quite beyond his ph.D.'s small range Subject(s): African Americans PICTURES TO THE WALL First Line: Shall I tell you of my old, old dreams Last Line: Or shall I keep quiet and let turn %my ugly pictures to the wall Subject(s): African Americans PIERROT First Line: I work all day, %said simple john Last Line: With the burgher's wife one june Subject(s): African Americans PIGGY-BACK First Line: My daddy rides me piggy-back Last Line: Has had enough to do Subject(s): African Americans PLAINT First Line: Money and art Last Line: Are far apart Subject(s): African Americans PO' BOY BLUES First Line: When I was home de %sunshine seemed like gold Last Line: I's so weary %I wish I'd never been born Subject(s): African Americans POEM Poem Text First Line: I loved my friend / he went away from me Variant Title(s): Poem [2] Subject(s): Friendship POEM First Line: I loved my friend %he went away from me Last Line: I loved my friend Variant Title(s): Poem [2 Subject(s): Friendship POEM - TO THE BLACK BELOVED First Line: Ah, my black one Last Line: Pale in the light %of thy nightness Subject(s): African Americans POEM FOR AN INTELLECTUAL ON THE WAY UP TO SUBMIT TO HIS LADY First Line: Do not call me dr. Last Line: Just call me turtle dove Subject(s): African Americans POEM FOR YOUTH First Line: Raindrops %on the crumbling walls Last Line: About sun-filled rain %drowning yesterday Subject(s): African Americans POEM TO A DEAD SOLDIER First Line: Ice-cold passion %and bitter breath Last Line: Have lost your youth now %with the vilest of whores Subject(s): African Americans; Death POEM TO UNCLE SAM First Line: Uncle sam %with old jim crow Last Line: Tackle hitler -- %shoot jim down Subject(s): African Americans POEM [1] First Line: All the tom-toms of the jungles beat in my blood Last Line: So strong, %so cold Subject(s): African Americans POEM [3] First Line: When young spring comes Last Line: The old, old god of love %to please Subject(s): African Americans POEME D'AUTOMNE First Line: The autumn leaves %are too heavy with color Last Line: Will be their only %love Subject(s): African Americans POET TO BIGOT First Line: I have done so little Last Line: My moment is %a flower Subject(s): African Americans POET TO PATRON First Line: What right has anyone to say Last Line: What poems today? Subject(s): African Americans POOR GIRL'S RUINATION First Line: I went to chicago Last Line: Take what is in %consideration Subject(s): African Americans POOR ROVER First Line: Rover was in clover Last Line: Was gone. %poor rover! Subject(s): African Americans POPPY FLOWER First Line: A wild poppy-flower Last Line: Withered and died Subject(s): African Americans PORT TOWN First Line: Hello, sailor boy Last Line: Let's go sweetie! %come with me Subject(s): African Americans PORTER First Line: I must say %yes, sir Last Line: Gimme yo' shoes %to shine. %yes, sir! Subject(s): African Americans; Railroads POSTCARD FROM SPAIN First Line: Dear folks at home: %I went out this mornin' Last Line: Like I'm fightin' now for spain. %salud, %johnny Subject(s): African Americans POSTCARD FROM SPAIN First Line: Dear folks at home Last Line: With a challenge %that appalls/ Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) PRAYER First Line: I ask you this Last Line: Lord god, %I do not know Variant Title(s): Prayer [1 PRAYER (2) First Line: Gather up %in the arms of your pity Last Line: No love from above Subject(s): African Americans PRAYER FOR A WINTER NIGHT First Line: O, great god of cold and winter Last Line: Where nothingness is everything and %everything is nothingness Subject(s): African Americans PRAYER MEETING First Line: Glory! Hallelujah! Last Line: A black old woman croons - %the dawn's a-comin'! Subject(s): African Americans PREFERENCE First Line: I likes a woman six or eight and ten years older'n myself Subject(s): African Americans; Love - Age Differences; Negroes; American Blacks PREFERENCE First Line: I likes a woman six or eight and ten years older'n myself Last Line: When she conversations with you %it ain't forever, gimme! Subject(s): African Americans; Love - Age Differences PRELUDE TO OUR AGE First Line: History's long page Last Line: Tomorrow %is another %page Subject(s): African Americans PRESENT First Line: De lady I work for Last Line: Yes, %he did Subject(s): African Americans PRIME First Line: Uptown on lenox avenue Last Line: In the section of the niggers %where a nickel costs a dime Subject(s): African Americans PROBLEMS First Line: 2 and 2 are 4 Last Line: Divided by 2? Subject(s): African Americans PROJECTION Poem Text First Line: On the day when the savoy Last Line: Wonderful! Subject(s): African Americans; Divine, Father (george Baker, 1877-1965); Harlem (new York City); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Negroes; American Blacks PROMISED LAND First Line: The promised land Last Line: To a spot from which the land -- %still lies ahead Subject(s): African Americans PUZZLED First Line: Here on the edge of hell Last Line: What we're gonna do %in the face of %what we remember Variant Title(s): Harlem (1); Harlem: PUZZLEMENT First Line: I don't know why Last Line: Can't afford that much Subject(s): African Americans Q First Line: Quail %are happy Last Line: For something to eat! %b-o-o-m QUESTION (1) First Line: When the old junk man, death Last Line: Than the black torso of %a negro cotton-picker Subject(s): African Americans QUESTION (2) First Line: Said the lady, can you do Last Line: And feed me too? %figurine %de-dop! Subject(s): African Americans QUESTION AND ANSWER First Line: Durban, birmingham Last Line: Why take it? %to remake it Subject(s): African Americans R First Line: Peter rabbit %had a habit Last Line: And warmed his little pants RAID First Line: Late at night Last Line: Where? %the man is there Subject(s): African Americans RAILROAD AVENUE Poem Text First Line: Dusk dark / on railroad avenue Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks RAILROAD AVENUE First Line: Dusk dark %on railroad avenue Last Line: And leaving the untouched the box-car %some train has forgotten Subject(s): African Americans REASONS WHY First Line: Just because I loves you -- Last Line: When you pass by Subject(s): African Americans RED CLAY BLUES (BY HUGHES AND RICHARD WRIGHT) First Line: I miss that red clay, lawd, I Last Line: I got them red clay blues Subject(s): African Americans RED CROSS First Line: The angel of mercy's Last Line: And all because of negro blood Subject(s): African Americans RED SILK STOCKINGS First Line: Put on yo' red silk stockings Last Line: Go out an' let de white boys %look at yo' legs Subject(s): African Americans REFUGEE First Line: Loneliness terrific beats on my heart Last Line: Where are you? Oh, where are you? %once so dear Subject(s): African Americans REFUGEE IN AMERICA First Line: There are words like freedom Last Line: That almost make me cry. %if you had known what I knew %you would know why Variant Title(s): Words Like Freedo Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Brotherhood; Freedom RELIEF First Line: My heart is aching Last Line: And fight another war, %or even two, %the one to stop 'em won't be me. %would you? Subject(s): African Americans REMEMBRANCE First Line: To wander through this living world Last Line: The flower no scent encloses Subject(s): African Americans RENT-PARTY SHOUT: FOR A LADY DANCER First Line: Whip it to a jelly! Last Line: I'm gonna kill that %man o' mine Subject(s): African Americans REQUEST Poem Text First Line: Gimme $25.00 / and the change Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks REQUEST First Line: Gimme $25.00 %and the change Last Line: And the evening %won't bother me Subject(s): African Americans REQUEST FOR REQUIEMS First Line: Play the st. Louis blues Last Line: Like me left around Subject(s): African Americans RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS First Line: When I move %into a neighborhood Last Line: I reckon the wind %must care Subject(s): African Americans RETURN TO SEA First Line: Today I go back to the sea Last Line: The broken edge of a dream Subject(s): African Americans REVERIE ON THE HARLEM RIVER Poem Text First Line: Did you ever go down to the river Subject(s): African Americans; Harlem River, New York; Negroes; American Blacks REVERIE ON THE HARLEM RIVER First Line: Did you ever go down to the river Last Line: But who would miss me if I left? Subject(s): African Americans; Harlem River, New York REVOLUTION First Line: Great mob that knows no fear -- Last Line: Great mob that knows no fear Subject(s): African Americans RIDE, RED, RIDE First Line: I want to see my mother mother Last Line: And your hair was blowing back %in the wind Subject(s): African Americans RISING WATERS First Line: To you %who are the %foam on the sea Last Line: You rich ones -- %not the sea Subject(s): African Americans ROAR CHINA! First Line: Roar, china! %roar, old lion of the east! Last Line: To take it! %roar, china! Subject(s): African Americans ROLAND HAYES BEATEN First Line: Negroes, %sweet and docile Last Line: Beware the hour %it uproots trees! Variant Title(s): Warning; Roland Hayes Beaten (georgia: 1942 ROOM First Line: Each little room Last Line: When only one %is there Subject(s): African Americans RUBY BROWN First Line: She was young and beautiful Last Line: Pay more money to her now %than they ever did before, %when she worked in their kitchens Subject(s): African Americans; Prostitution RUINED GAL First Line: Standin' by de lonesome riverside Last Line: For ever havin' a daughter Subject(s): African Americans S First Line: Mrs. Squirrel %can look so sweet Last Line: Mrs. Squirrel %indeed looks sour S-SSS-SS-SH First Line: Her great adventure ended Last Line: But mother and child %thoughtt it fun Subject(s): African Americans SAILING DATE First Line: Twisted and strange Last Line: It's sailing date. %their captain's %there Subject(s): African Americans SAILOR First Line: He sat upon the rolling deck Last Line: Than god -- and lonely Subject(s): African Americans SALUTE TO SOVIET ARMIES First Line: Mighty soviet armies marching on the west Last Line: Salute to the soviet armies -- from our land Subject(s): African Americans SAME IN BLUES Poem Text First Line: I said to my baby, / baby, take it slow Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks SAME IN BLUES First Line: I said to my baby, %baby, take it slow Last Line: When a dream gets kicked around Subject(s): African Americans SATURDAY NIGHT First Line: Play it once Last Line: Do it mr. Charlie, till de red dawn come Subject(s): African Americans SCOTTSBORO First Line: 8 black boys in a southern jail Last Line: World, turn pale Subject(s): African Americans SEA CALM First Line: How still Last Line: For water %to be so still that way Subject(s): African Americans SEA CHARM First Line: Sea charm %the sea's own children Last Line: And that the sea holds %a wide, deep death Subject(s): African Americans SEARCH First Line: All life is but the climbing of a hill Last Line: And back in space to where time was begun Subject(s): African Americans SEASCAPE First Line: Off the coast of ireland Last Line: We saw an indian merchantman %coming home Subject(s): African Americans; Ships And Shipping SEASHORE THROUGH DARK GLASSES (ATLANTIC CITY) First Line: Beige sailors with large noses Last Line: Scent salty-colored %compass points Subject(s): African Americans SECOND GENERATION: NEW YORK First Line: Mama %remembers the four-leaf clover Last Line: This city -- and they're dear Subject(s): African Americans SEVEN MOMENTS OF LOVE: 1. TWILIGHT REVERIE First Line: Here I set with a bitter old thought Last Line: It's dark on this stoop, lawd! The sun's gone down! Subject(s): African Americans SEVEN MOMENTS OF LOVE: 2. SUPPER TIME First Line: I look in the kettle, the kettle is dry Last Line: Cause if I don't they'll cut down my pay SEVEN MOMENTS OF LOVE: 3. BED TIME First Line: If this radio was good I'd get kdq Last Line: A human gets lonesome if there ain't two SEVEN MOMENTS OF LOVE: 4. DAYBREAK First Line: Big ben, I'm gonna bust you bang up side the wall! Last Line: Getting up in the morning lonesome and sad? SEVEN MOMENTS OF LOVE: 5. SUNDAY First Line: All day sunday didn't even dress up Last Line: They outght to be like me setting here - feeling glad! SEVEN MOMENTS OF LOVE: 6. PAY DAY First Line: This whole pay check's just for me Last Line: You was the best - but you the worst SEVEN MOMENTS OF LOVE: 7. LETTER First Line: Dear cassie: yes, I got your letter Last Line: I'll meet you at the bus station. %your baby, %jack SHADES OF PIGMEAT First Line: In the quarter of the negroes Last Line: (and ain't never had a black house) %do, jesus! %lord! %amen Subject(s): African Americans SHADOWS First Line: We run, %we run Last Line: We must break through these shadows, %we must find the sun Subject(s): African Americans; Shadows SHAKESPEARE IN HARLEM First Line: Hey ninny neigh! Last Line: Went home to her ma Subject(s): African Americans SHALL THE GOOD GO DOWN First Line: All over the world Last Line: Where is their %town? Subject(s): African Americans SHAME ON YOU First Line: If you're great enough %and clever enough Last Line: Black people don't remember %ant more than white. %if you're not alive and kicking, %shame on you Subject(s): African Americans SHARE-CROPPERS First Line: Just a herd of negroes Last Line: Plowing life away %to make the cotton yeild Subject(s): African Americans; Labor And Laborers SHEARING TIME First Line: It must be nice to be a sheep Last Line: That poor old sheep bleats, 'oh, dear!' Subject(s): African Americans SHEPHERD'S SONG AT CHRISTMAS Poem Text First Line: Look there at the star! Subject(s): African Americans; Christmas; Negroes; American Blacks; Nativity, The SHEPHERD'S SONG AT CHRISTMAS First Line: Look there at the star! Last Line: I will bring my heart %to the manger Subject(s): African Americans; Christmas SHOUT First Line: Listen to yo' prophets Subject(s): African Americans SHOW FARE, PLEASE First Line: Tell me, mama, can I get my show Last Line: Show fare, mama.... %show fare! Subject(s): African Americans SICK ROOM First Line: How quiet %it is in this sick room Last Line: And all three covered with a sheet of pain Subject(s): African Americans SIGNS OF SPRING First Line: Bright, jolly sunshine and clear blue skies Last Line: Are the things which tell us that spring is here Subject(s): African Americans SILENCE First Line: I catch the pattern Last Line: Every tone I seek %is heard Subject(s): African Americans SILENT ONE First Line: This little silent one -- Last Line: This little %silent %one Subject(s): African Americans SILHOUETTE First Line: Southern gentle lady Last Line: Be good! %be good! Variant Title(s): Three Songs About Lynching: Silhouett Subject(s): African Americans SILLY ANIMALS First Line: The dog ran down the street Last Line: There they go again Subject(s): African Americans SINNER First Line: Have mercy, lord! Last Line: An' a sinner in yo'sight %have mercy, lord! Subject(s): African Americans SISTER First Line: That little negro's married and got a kid Last Line: Did it ever occur to you, boy, %that a woman does the best she can? %comment on stoop %so does a man Subject(s): African Americans SISTER JOHNSON MARCHES First Line: Here am I with my head held high Last Line: It's de first of may! Subject(s): African Americans SITUATION Poem Text First Line: When I rolled three 7's Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks SITUATION First Line: When I rolled three 7's Last Line: I was scared to walk out %with the dough Subject(s): African Americans SIX-BITS BLUES First Line: Gimme six-bits' worth o' ticket Last Line: I got to roll along Subject(s): African Americans SLAVE First Line: To ride piggy-back Last Line: I ride protected Subject(s): African Americans SLAVE SONG First Line: I can see down there Last Line: Wishing star %north star %how far Subject(s): African Americans SLEEP First Line: When the lips %and the body Last Line: And the body %are done Subject(s): African Americans SLIVER First Line: Cheap little rhymes %cheap little tune Last Line: To cheap little rhymes %can cut a man's %throat sometimes Subject(s): African Americans SLIVER OF SERMON First Line: When pimps out of loneliness cry: %great god! Last Line: Whores in final weariness say: %great god! %oh god! %my god! %great %god SLUM DREAMS First Line: Little dreams %of springtime Last Line: On air alone %they're hung Subject(s): African Americans SMALL MEMORY First Line: I have this %strange small memory Last Line: The search %that is %not mine Subject(s): African Americans SNAIL First Line: Little snail Last Line: Drinking %the dewdrop's %mystery Subject(s): African Americans; Snails SNAKE First Line: He glides so swiftly Last Line: To seek a stone %to kill him Subject(s): African Americans SNOB First Line: If your reputation Last Line: Too far to one side Subject(s): African Americans SO LONG First Line: So long / is in the song Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks SO LONG First Line: So long %is in the song Last Line: You're gone so long %so long Subject(s): African Americans SO TIRED BLUES First Line: I'm gonna wake up some mornin' Last Line: Tired as I can be Subject(s): African Americans SOLEDAD: A CUBAN PORTRAIT First Line: The shadows %of too many nights of love Last Line: So deeply scarred, %so still with silent cries Subject(s): African Americans SOME DAY First Line: Once more %the guns roar Last Line: Shared by everyone Subject(s): African Americans SONG First Line: Lovely, dark, and lonely one Last Line: Beat with bare, brown fists -- %and wait Subject(s): African Americans SONG AFTER LYNCHING First Line: I guess democracy's meant to be Last Line: With a lynching tree Subject(s): African Americans SONG FOR A BANJO DANCE First Line: Shake your brown feet, honey Last Line: The sun's going down this very night -- %might never rise no mo' Subject(s): African Americans SONG FOR A DARK GIRL Poem Text First Line: Way down south in dixie Subject(s): African Americans; Love; Lynching; Southern States; Negroes; American Blacks; South (u.s.) SONG FOR A DARK GIRL First Line: Way down south in dixie Last Line: Love is a naked shadow %on a gnarled and naked tree Subject(s): African Americans; Love; Lynching; Southern States SONG FOR BILLIE HOLIDAY Poem Text First Line: What can purge my heart Last Line: Where? Subject(s): African Americans; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Negroes; American Blacks SONG FOR OURSELVES First Line: Czechoslovakia lynched on a swastika cross Last Line: Will it be here, brother Subject(s): African Americans SONG OF ADORATION First Line: I would like to be a white man, wouldn't you? Last Line: Halleloo!... O halleloo ... %hallelloo-o-o Subject(s): African Americans SONG OF SPAIN First Line: Come now, all you who are singers Last Line: A workers' world %is the song of spain Subject(s): African Americans; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) SONG OF THE REFUGEE ROAD First Line: Refugee road, refugee road Last Line: Walking down the refugee road Subject(s): African Americans SONG OF THE REVOLUTION First Line: Sing me a song of the revolution Last Line: Waken, at last, to the joy of life Subject(s): African Americans SONG TO A NEGRO WASH-WOMAN First Line: Oh, wash-woman, %arms elbow-deep in white suds Last Line: For you I have many songs to make %could I but find the words Subject(s): African Americans SONGS First Line: I sat there singing her Last Line: I said, %there are %no words Subject(s): African Americans SONGS TO THE DARK VIRGIN First Line: Would %that I were a jewel Last Line: To annihilate thy body, %thou dark one Subject(s): African Americans SOUTH First Line: The lazy, laughing south Last Line: And in her house my children %may escape the spell of the south Subject(s): African Americans SOUTHERN MAMMY SINGS First Line: Miss gardner's in her garden Last Line: Just ain't got no heart %no, m'am! %just ain't got no heart Subject(s): African Americans SOUTHERN NEGRO SPEAKS First Line: I reckon they must have Last Line: When folks talk about freedom -- %and jim crow me? Subject(s): African Americans SPEAKING OF FOOD First Line: I hear folks talking Last Line: That's what we ought to say Subject(s): African Americans SPECIAL BULLETIN First Line: Lower the flags Last Line: Peel off the skin, %peel peel %peel off %the skin Subject(s): African Americans SPIRITUALS First Line: Rocks and the firm roots of trees Last Line: Sing, o black mother! %song is a strong thing Subject(s): African Americans SPORT First Line: Life %for him Last Line: Drunk long %ago Subject(s): African Americans SPRING FOR LOVERS First Line: Desire weaves its fantasy of dreams Last Line: Forgetting -- flowers wither in an hour Subject(s): African Americans STALINGRAD: 1942 First Line: There are the inactive ones who Last Line: Victory -- your glory! Subject(s): African Americans STAR SEEKER First Line: I have been a seeker Last Line: Wild beauty. %now behold my scars Subject(s): African Americans STARS First Line: O, sweep of stars over harlem streets Last Line: Out of the little breath of oblivion %that is night %take just %one star Subject(s): African Americans; Homosexuality STATEMENT First Line: Down on '33rd street Last Line: Every way they is Subject(s): African Americans STEEL MILLS First Line: The mills %that grind and grind Last Line: Grinding out new steel, %old men Subject(s): African Americans STILL HERE Poem Text First Line: I've been scarred and battered Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks STILL HERE First Line: I've been scarred and battered Last Line: I'm still here! Subject(s): African Americans STOKELY MALCOLM ME First Line: I have been seeking Last Line: Did I ever live %up your %way? Subject(s): African Americans; Carmichael, Stokely; Malcolm X (malcolm Little) (1925-1965) STONY LONESOME First Line: They done took cordelia Last Line: Cordelia's %in stony %lonesome %ground! Subject(s): African Americans STRANGE HURT [SHE KNOWS] Poem Text First Line: In times of stormy weather Last Line: Naked through the cold. Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks STRANGER IN TOWN First Line: I walked all over the zoo and the park Last Line: Yes, I'll know %my way around Subject(s): African Americans STREET SONG Poem Text First Line: Jack, if you got to be a rounder Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks STREET SONG First Line: Jack, if you got to be a rounder Last Line: Just don't let mama catch you %makin' rounds at night Subject(s): African Americans SUBURBAN EVENING First Line: A dog howled %weird became the night Last Line: Unreasonable %ghosts Subject(s): African Americans SUBWAY FACE First Line: That I have been looking Last Line: I take a local down Subject(s): African Americans SUBWAY RUSH HOUR First Line: Mingled %breath and smell %so close Last Line: So near %no room for fear Subject(s): African Americans; Subways SUCCESS First Line: Here I sit with my belly full Last Line: With onions on it, %and I eat Subject(s): African Americans SUICIDE First Line: Ma sweet good man has Last Line: Cause de river's quiet %an' a po' gal can sleep Subject(s): African Americans SUICIDE'S NOTE Poem Text First Line: The calm / cool face of the river Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks SUICIDE'S NOTE First Line: The calm %cool face of the river Last Line: Asked me for a kiss Subject(s): African Americans SUMMER EVENING First Line: Mothers pass, %sweet watermelon in a baby carriage Last Line: And in another week %it will again %be sunday Subject(s): African Americans SUMMER NIGHT First Line: The sounds %of the harlem night Last Line: Into the court-yard Subject(s): African Americans SUN SONG First Line: Sun and softness Last Line: I bring you my songs %to sing on the georgia roads Subject(s): African Americans SUNDAY BY THE COMBINATION First Line: I feel like dancin', baby Last Line: I feel like dancin'! %baby, dance with me! Subject(s): African Americans SUNDAY MORNING PROPHECY First Line: And now %when the rumble of death Last Line: That I who am thy shepherd %might live %amen! Subject(s): African Americans SUNSET -- CONEY ISLAND First Line: The sun, %like the red yolk of a rotten egg Last Line: Is like a sick tomato %in a garbage can Subject(s): African Americans SUNSET IN DIXIE First Line: The sun is gonna go down Last Line: Goes down in dixie Subject(s): African Americans SWEET WORDS ON RACE First Line: Sweet words that take Last Line: Not hear them %anymore Subject(s): African Americans SYLVESTER'S DYING BED Poem Text First Line: I woke up this mornin' Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks SYLVESTER'S DYING BED First Line: I woke up this mornin' Last Line: Then everything was darkness %in a great big night Subject(s): African Americans T First Line: Turtle, turtle, %I wonder why Last Line: Where I want to go TAG Poem Text First Line: Little cullud boys / with fears Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks TAG First Line: Little cullud boys %with fears Last Line: Frantic, %nudge their draftee years. %pop-a-da! Subject(s): African Americans TAMBOURINES Last Line: Tambourines %to glory Subject(s): African Americans TAMOURINES TAPESTRY First Line: Men who ride strange wild horses Last Line: Are dreaming of old amours Subject(s): African Americans TEACHER First Line: Ideals are like the stars Last Line: And I tremble lest the darkness teach %me that nothing matters Subject(s): African Americans TELL ME First Line: Why should it be my loneliness Last Line: Why should it be my song, %why should it be my dream %deferred %overlong? Subject(s): African Americans TESTAMENT First Line: What shall I leave my son Last Line: Than she's got breath Subject(s): African Americans TESTIMONIAL First Line: If I just had a piano Last Line: But I don't need no piano %neither organ %nor drum %for to praise my lord! Subject(s): African Americans THANKSGIVING TIME First Line: When the night winds whistle through the trees and blow the crisp brown leaves Last Line: It's thanksgiving time Subject(s): African Americans THAT MEAN OLD YESTERDAY First Line: That mean old yesterday Last Line: Gimme back my diamond ring Subject(s): African Americans THE NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS Poem Text First Line: I've known rivers Last Line: My soul has grown deep like the rivers. Subject(s): African Americans - History; Holidays; New Year; Racism; Rivers; Time; Black Heritage; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry THE WEARY BLUES Poem Text First Line: Droning a drowsy syncopated tune Last Line: He slept like a rock or a man that's dead. Subject(s): African Americans; Blues (music); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Negroes; American Blacks THEME FOR ENGLISH B Poem Text First Line: The instructor said / go home and write Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Children; Schools; Negroes; American Blacks; Students THEME FOR ENGLISH B First Line: The instructor said %go home and write Last Line: Although you're older and white %and somewhat more free %this is my page for english b Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Children; Schools THERE First Line: Where death %stretches its wide horizons Last Line: Even perhaps %divinity Subject(s): African Americans THERE'S ALWAYS WEATHER, WEATHER Last Line: Weather is so much fun! Subject(s): African Americans THIRD DEGREE First Line: Hit me! Jab me! %make me say I did it Last Line: When you trow %cold water on me, %I'll sign the %paper Subject(s): African Americans THIS LITTLE HOUSE IS SUGAR Last Line: And from its tiny window %peeps a maple-sugar child Variant Title(s): Winter Sweetnes THIS PUZZLES ME First Line: They think we're simple children Last Line: When you see the world today Subject(s): African Americans THORN First Line: Now there will be nobody, you say Last Line: To start the turning Subject(s): African Americans THREE SONGS ABOUT LYNCHING: FLIGHT First Line: Plant your toes in the cool swamp mud Last Line: Or they'll swing you to a tree Subject(s): African Americans THREE SONGS ABOUT LYNCHING: LYNCHING SONG First Line: Pull at the rope! O! Last Line: The nigger's %still body %says %not I Subject(s): African Americans TIRED First Line: I am so tired of waiting Last Line: And see what worms are eating %at the rind Subject(s): African Americans TO A DEAD FRIEND First Line: The moon still sends its mellow light Last Line: Happiness comes no more to me, %for you are dead Subject(s): African Americans TO A LITTLE LOVER-LASS, DEAD First Line: She %who searched for lovers Last Line: And gives her kiss to nothingness. %would god his lips were sweet Subject(s): African Americans TO ARTINA First Line: I will take your heart Last Line: I will take your soul %I will be god when it comes to you Subject(s): African Americans TO BE SOMEBODY First Line: Little girl %dreaming of a baby grand piano Last Line: There's always room %they say, %at the top Subject(s): African Americans TO BEAUTY First Line: To worship %at the altar of beauty Last Line: Plucked from another's %vine Subject(s): African Americans TO CAPTAIN MULZAC First Line: Dangerous %are the western waters now Last Line: Freedom, %brotherhood %democracy Subject(s): African Americans TO CERTAIN BROTHERS First Line: You sicken me with lies Last Line: And wild hyenas howling %in your soul's waste lands Subject(s): African Americans TO CERTAIN INTELLECTUALS First Line: You are no friend of mine Last Line: Have told me so, -- %no friend of mine Subject(s): African Americans TO CERTAIN NEGRO LEADERS First Line: Voices crying in the wilderness Last Line: And do not cry %too loud Subject(s): African Americans TO DOROTHY MAYNOR First Line: As though her lips Last Line: Is blessed %with peace Subject(s): African Americans TO MAKE WORDS SING Last Line: Words last so long Subject(s): African Americans TO MIDNIGHT NAN AT LEROY'S First Line: Strut and wiggle Last Line: Wouldn't no good fellow %be your man t Subject(s): African Americans TO THE DARK MERCEDES OF 'EL PALACIO DE AMOUR' First Line: Mercedes is a jungle-lily in a death house Last Line: Go where they will pay you well %for your loveliness Subject(s): African Americans TO THE LITTLE FORT OF SAN LAZARO ON THE OCEAN FRONT, HAVANA First Line: Watch tower once for pirates Last Line: Stone by helpless stone Subject(s): African Americans TO THE UNBELIEVERS First Line: You don't have to believe me Last Line: Past and future watching our dust TO YOU First Line: To sit and ream, to sit and read Last Line: I reach out my hands to you Subject(s): African Americans TODAY First Line: This is earthquake Last Line: Walk lean %together Subject(s): African Americans; Homosexuality TOMORROW First Line: Tomorrow may be %a thousand years off Last Line: Others take a quarter straight. %some dawns %wait Subject(s): African Americans TOMORROW First Line: We have tomorrow %bright before us Last Line: Broad arch above the road we came. %we march! Variant Title(s): Yout Subject(s): African Americans; Justice TOMORROW'S SEED First Line: Proud banner of death Last Line: For freedom's birth Subject(s): African Americans; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) TOO BLUE First Line: I got those sad old weary blues Last Line: And I'm too blue %to look for one Subject(s): African Americans TOTAL WAR First Line: The reason dixie %is so mean today Last Line: To be another pain Subject(s): African Americans TOWER First Line: Death is a tower Last Line: That never ends Subject(s): African Americans TOWN OF SCOTTSBORO First Line: Scottsboro's just a little place Last Line: Its people's heart, too small to hold a sob Subject(s): African Americans TRIP: SAN FRANCISCO First Line: I went to san francisco Last Line: Like cobwebs in the sky Subject(s): African Americans TROUBLED WATER First Line: Between us, always, loved one Last Line: This sea of troubled water Subject(s): African Americans TROUBLED WOMAN First Line: She stands %in the quiet darkness Last Line: That never lifts its head %again Subject(s): African Americans TRUMPET PLAYER Poem Text First Line: The negro / with the trumpet at his lips Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Song & Music; Music & Musicians; Negroes; American Blacks TRUMPET PLAYER First Line: The negro %with the trumpet at his lips Last Line: As the tune comes from his trhoat %trouble %mellows to a golden note Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Song And Music; Music And Musicians TWO SOMEWHAT DIFFERENT EPIGRAMS First Line: Oh, god of dust and raibows, help us see Last Line: And god, who sometimes spits right in its face Subject(s): African Americans TWO THINGS First Line: Two things possess the power Last Line: In no single mouth the same Subject(s): African Americans TWO THINGS Subject(s): Death U First Line: The unicorn %has a single horn Last Line: Happy unreal %unicorn ULTIMATUM First Line: Baby, how come you can't see me Last Line: Without your rent %I mean %without a cent Subject(s): African Americans ULTIMATUM: KID TO KID First Line: Go home, stupid Last Line: Stupid, go home - %before I cry Subject(s): African Americans UN-AMERICAN INVESTIGATORS First Line: The committee's fat Last Line: With delight in %its manure Subject(s): African Americans; United States UNCLE TOM First Line: Within the beaten pride Last Line: Taught well %to know his place Subject(s): African Americans UNCLE TOM (1) First Line: Uncle tom is a legend and a dream Last Line: Uncle tom's children wholly free Subject(s): African Americans UNDERGROUND (TO ANTI-FASCISTS OF THE OCCUPIED COUNTRIES) First Line: Still you bring us with our hands bound Last Line: For time will give us %out spring %at last Subject(s): African Americans UNDERTOW First Line: The solid citizens Last Line: Westchester %and me Subject(s): African Americans UNION First Line: Not me alone -- %I know now __ Last Line: That must be ended Subject(s): African Americans UP-BEAT First Line: In the gutter / boys who try Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks UP-BEAT First Line: In the gutter %boys who try Last Line: While from the gutter %both can rise: %but it requires %plenty of eyes Subject(s): African Americans US: COLORED First Line: So strange, %we are completely out of range Last Line: So strange Subject(s): African Americans V First Line: The vixen is %a female fox Last Line: She never feels %at home VAGABONDS Poem Text First Line: We are the desperate Subject(s): African Americans; Labor & Laborers; Negroes; American Blacks; Work; Workers VAGABONDS First Line: We are the desperate Last Line: The tearless %who cannot %weep Subject(s): African Americans; Labor And Laborers VARI-COLORED SONG First Line: If I had a heart of gold Last Line: And never up instead Subject(s): African Americans VISITORS TO THE BLACK BELT First Line: You can talk about %across the railroad tracks Last Line: Who're you, outsider? %ask me who am I Subject(s): African Americans W First Line: A pretty white mouse Last Line: Because she fell in WAIT First Line: I am the silent one Last Line: I shall find words to speak %wait! Subject(s): African Americans WAKE Poem Text First Line: Tell all my mourners Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks WAKE First Line: Tell all my mourners Last Line: Cause there ain't no sense %in my bein' dead Subject(s): African Americans WALLS First Line: Four walls can hold Last Line: Garnered from yesterday %and held for tomorrow Subject(s): African Americans WAR First Line: The face of war is my face Last Line: Like your name %is war Subject(s): African Americans WARNING First Line: Daddy, Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks WARNING First Line: Daddy, Last Line: Don't let your dog %curb you! Subject(s): African Americans WARNING: AUGMENTED Poem Text First Line: Don't let your dog curb you! Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks WARNING: AUGMENTED First Line: Don't let your dog curb you! Last Line: Cur dog, fice dog, kerry blue %just don't let your dog curb you! Subject(s): African Americans WATER-FRONT STREETS First Line: The spring is not so beautiful there Last Line: Who carry beauties in their hearts %and dreams, like me Subject(s): African Americans WAYS First Line: A slash of the wrist Last Line: To hold you in her arms Subject(s): African Americans WE'RE ALL IN THE TELEPHONE BOOK Last Line: That's america's telephone book Subject(s): African Americans; Americans; United States WE, TOO First Line: Oh, congo brother Last Line: Congo brother, %rise with you Subject(s): African Americans WEALTH First Line: From christ to ghandi Last Line: The simple dew %of love Subject(s): African Americans WEST TEXAS First Line: Down in west texas where the sun Last Line: Ain't no place %for a colored %man to stay! Subject(s): African Americans; Farm Life WHAT I THINK First Line: The guys who own Last Line: And have liberty -- %that's what I think Subject(s): African Americans WHAT? First Line: Some pimps wear summer hats Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks WHAT? First Line: Some pimps wear summer hats Last Line: Got to neglect something, %so what would you do Subject(s): African Americans WHAT? SO SOON! First Line: I believe my old lady's Last Line: You call it fate? %figurette %de-daddle-dy! %de-dop! Subject(s): African Americans WHATCH OUT, PAPA First Line: When y ou thrill with joy Last Line: All about. %watch out! Subject(s): African Americans WHEN SUE WEARS RED Poem Text First Line: When susanna jones wears red Subject(s): Love WHEN SUE WEARS RED First Line: When susanna jones wears red Last Line: Sweet silver trumpets, jesus! Subject(s): Love WHEN THE ARMIES PASSED First Line: Mama, I found this soldier's cap Last Line: It is a red star, mother Subject(s): African Americans WHERE SERVICE IS NEEDED First Line: For the negro nurse there's been no easy way Last Line: Her skilled hands may serve where service is needed Subject(s): African Americans WHERE? WHEN? WHICH? First Line: When the cold comes Last Line: With old and not too gentle %apartheid Subject(s): African Americans WHITE MAN First Line: Sure I know you! Last Line: Are you always a white man? %huh? Subject(s): African Americans WHITE ONES First Line: I do not hate you Last Line: Why do you torture me Subject(s): African Americans WHITE SHADOWS First Line: I'm looking for a house Last Line: No such house %at all Variant Title(s): House In The Worl Subject(s): African Americans WHO BUT THE LORD? First Line: I looked and I saw Last Line: So who but the lord %can protect me? %we'll see Subject(s): African Americans WIDE RIVER First Line: Ma baby lives across de river Last Line: Cause if I don't see ma baby %I'll lay down an' die right now Subject(s): African Americans WIDOW WOMAN First Line: Oh, that last long ride is a Last Line: And don't nobody else want me %yet you never can tell when a%a woman like me is free Subject(s): African Americans WILL V-DAY BE ME-DAY TOO First Line: Dear fellow americans Last Line: That's what I want to know. %sincerely, %gi joe Subject(s): African Americans WINE-O First Line: Setting in the wine-house Last Line: Soaking up a new souse. %tomorrow %oh, hum Subject(s): African Americans; Alcoholics And Alcoholism WINTER MOON First Line: How thin and sharp is the moon tonight! Last Line: How thin and sharp and ghostly white %is the slim curved crook of the moon tonight! Subject(s): African Americans WISDOM First Line: I stand most humbly Last Line: As the dreamed of skies Subject(s): African Americans WISDOM AND WAR First Line: We do not care Last Line: Better -- %and easier -- %to kill Subject(s): African Americans WISE MEN First Line: Let me become dead eyed Last Line: I'd be the proper person then %to teach a school Subject(s): African Americans WITHOUT BENEFIT OF DECLARATION First Line: Listen here, joe Last Line: A guy %mama, don't cry Subject(s): African Americans WONDER First Line: Early blue evening. %lights ain't come on yet Last Line: Looky yonder! %they come on now Subject(s): African Americans WOOING First Line: I will bring you big things Last Line: Nor the colors of dawn-morning, %nor a flaming love Subject(s): African Americans WORDS LIKE FREEDOM First Line: There are words like freedom Last Line: You would know why WORKIN' MAN First Line: I works all day Last Line: An' gits nothin' but trouble Subject(s): African Americans WORLD WAR II Poem Text First Line: What a grand time was the war! Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks WORLD WAR II First Line: What a grand time was the war! Last Line: Did %somebody %die? Subject(s): African Americans WORRIATION First Line: There's something disturbing Last Line: Keep looking that way? Subject(s): African Americans X First Line: X, %of course Last Line: X. %do you Y First Line: Yaks are shaggy Last Line: Where it's cold YEAR ROUND First Line: Summertime %is warm and bright Last Line: To bloom again Subject(s): African Americans YESTERDAY AND TODAY First Line: O, I wish that yesterday Last Line: But, baby, I feel blue Subject(s): African Americans YOUNG BRIDE First Line: They say she died Last Line: And rest from pain of love %in loveless sleep Subject(s): African Americans YOUNG GAL'S BLUES Poem Text First Line: I'm gonna walk to the graveyard Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks YOUNG GAL'S BLUES First Line: I'm gonna walk to the graveyard Last Line: Keep on lovin' me, daddy, %cause I don't want to be blue Subject(s): African Americans YOUNG NEGRO GIRL First Line: You are like a warm dark dusk Last Line: Burn white with stars Subject(s): African Americans YOUNG PROSTITUTE First Line: Her dark brown face Last Line: Those kind come cheap in harlem %so they say Subject(s): African Americans YOUNG SAILOR First Line: He carries Subject(s): African Americans YOUNG SAILOR First Line: He carries %his own strength Last Line: And the brown land %for lahghter. %and nothing hereafter YOUNG SINGER First Line: One who sings 'chansons vulgaires' Last Line: That she is like a nymph %for some wild faun Subject(s): African Americans Z First Line: Zebra. %zebra Last Line: Or black on white |
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