To

G. N. F.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

For permission to reprint certain poems in this book thanks are due to the editors and proprietors of the Century Magazine, the Independent, The Crisis, The New York Times, and the following copyright holders, G. Ricordi and Company, G. Schirmer and Company, and Joseph W. Stern and Company.

CONTENTS

Page
[Fifty Years][1]
[To America][5]
[O Black and Unknown Bards][6]
[O Southland][8]
[To Horace Bumstead][10]
[The Color Sergeant][11]
[The Black Mammy][12]
[Father, Father Abraham][13]
[Brothers][14]
[Fragment][17]
[The White Witch][19]
[Mother Night][22]
[The Young Warrior][23]
[The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face][24]
[From the Spanish of Plácido][25]
[From the Spanish][25]
[From the German of Uhland][26]
[Before a Painting][27]
[I Hear the Stars Still Singing][27]
[Girl of Fifteen][28]
[The Suicide][29]
[Down by the Carib Sea][30]
[I. Sunrise in the Tropics][30]
[II. Los Cigarillos][31]
[III. Teestay][32]
[IV. The Lottery Girl][33]
[V. The Dancing Girl][34]
[VI. Sunset in the Tropics][36]
[The Greatest of These Is War][37]
[A Mid-Day Dreamer][40]
[The Temptress][41]
[Ghosts of the Old Year][42]
[The Ghost of Deacon Brown][43]
[Lazy][45]
[Omar][46]
[Deep in the Quiet Wood][47]
[Voluptas][47]
[The Word of an Engineer][48]
[Life][49]
[Sleep][50]
[Prayer at Sunrise][51]
[The Gift to Sing][52]
[Morning, Noon and Night][52]
[Her Eyes Twin Pools][53]
[The Awakening][54]
[Beauty That Is Never Old][55]
[Venus in a Garden][56]
[Vashti][57]
[The Reward][60]
[JINGLES & CROONS]
[Sence You Went Away][63]
[Ma Lady's Lips Am Like de Honey][64]
[Tunk][66]
[Nobody's Lookin' but de Owl an' de Moon][69]
[You's Sweet to Yo' Mammy Jes de Same][70]
[A Plantation Bacchanal][71]
[July in Georgy][73]
[A Banjo Song][74]
[Answer to Prayer][75]
[Dat Gal o' Mine][77]
[The Seasons][78]
['Possum Song][79]
[Brer Rabbit, You'se de Cutes' of 'Em All][81]
[An Explanation][82]
[De Little Pickaninny's Gone to Sleep][83]
[The Rivals][84]