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Selected poems
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Knopf
Publication Date
1959.
Language
English
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From the Book - [1st ed.]
Afro-American fragment
The negro speaks of rivers
Sun song
Aunt Sue's stories
Danse Africaine
Negro
American heartbreak
October 16
As I grew older
My people
Dream variations
Feet o' Jesus
Prayer
Shout
Fire
Sunday morning prophecy
Sinner
Litany
Angels wings
Judgment day
Prayer meeting
Spirituals
Tambourines
The weary blues
Hope
Late last night
Bad morning
Sylvester's dying bed
Wake
Could be
Bad luck card
Reverie on the Harlem River
Morning after
Early evening quarrel
Evil
As befits a man
Havana dreams
Catch
Water-front streets
Long trip
Seascape
Moonlight night: Carmel
Heaven
In time of silver rain
Joy
Winter moon
Snail
March moon
Harlem night song
To Artina
Fulfilment
Gypsy melodies
Mexican market woman
A black Pierrot
Ardella
When Sue wears red
Love
Beale Street
Port town
Natcha
Young sailor
Sea calm
Dream dust
No regrets
Troubled woman
Island
Border line
Garden
Genius child
Strange hurt
Suicide's note
End
Drum
Personal
Juliet
Desire
Vagabonds
One
Desert
A house in Taos
Demand
Dream
Night: four songs
Luck
Old Walt
Kid in the park
Song for Billie Holiday
Fantasy in purple
Midnight raffle
What?
Gone boy
50-50
Maybe
Lover's return
Miss Blues'es child
Trumpet player
Monroe's blues
Stony lonesome
Black Maria
Life is fine
Still here
Ballad of the gypsy
Me and the mule
Kid sleepy
Little lyric
Fired
Midnight dancer
Blue Monday
Ennui
Mama and daughter
Delinquent
S-sss-ss-sh!
Homecoming
Final curve
Little green tree
- Crossing
Widow woman
Misery
Ballad of the fortune teller
Cora
Down and out
Young gal's blues
Ballad of the girl whose name is mud
Hard Daddy
Midwinter blues
Little old letter
Lament over love
Daybreak in Alabama
Cross
Magnolia flowers
Mulatto
Southern mammy sings
Ku Klux
West Texas
Share-croppers
Ruby Brown
Roland Hayes Beaten
Uncle Tom
Porter
Blue bayou
Silhouette
Song for a dark girl
The South
Bound no'th blues
One-way ticket
Migrant
Summer evening
Graduation
Interne at Provident
Railroad avenue
Mother to son
Stars
To be somebody
Note on commercial theatre
Puzzled
Seashore through dark glasses
Baby
Merry-go-round
Elevator boy
Who but the Lord?
Third degree
Ballad of the man who's gone
Madam's past history
Madam and her madam
Madam's calling cards
Madam and the rent man
Madam and the number writer
Madam and the phone bill
Madam and the charity child
Madam and the fortune teller
Madam and the wrong visitor
Madam and the minister
Madam and her might-have-been
Madam and the census man
Montage of a dream deferred
I, too
Freedom train
Georgia dusk
Lunch in a Jim Crow car
In explanation of our times
Africa
Democracy
Consider me
The Negro mother
Refugee in America
Freedom's plow.
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