Complete Poems Book

	Introduction
	Suggestions for Further Reading
	Chronology
	Preface to God's Trombones	5
	Listen, Lord - A Prayer	13
	The Creation	15
	The Prodigal Son	18
	Go Down Death - A Funeral Sermon	22
	Noah Built the Ark	25
	The Crucifixion	31
	Let My People Go	35
	The Judgment Day	42
	Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day	49
	O Black and Unknown Bards	55
	Brothers - American Drama	57
	O Southland!	60
	We to America	61
	Mother Night	62
	The Young Warrior	63
	The White Witch	64
	My City	66
	The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face	67
	Life	68
	The Black Mammy	69
	Fragment	70
	Mother, Farewell! (from the Spanish of Placido)	72
	Girl of Fifteen	73
	The Suicide	74
	Down by the Carib Sea	75
	Deep in the Quiet Wood	80
	Prayer at Sunrise	81
	Her Eyes Twin Pools	82
	Vashti	83
	If I Were Paris	86
	Ghosts of the Old Year	87
	Beauty Never Old	88
	Blessed Sleep	89
	The Greatest of These Is War	90
	A Poet to His Baby Son	92
	Ma Lady's Lips Am Like de Honey	94
	A Plantation Bacchanal	96
	Tunk	97
	Brer Rabbit, You's de Cutes' of 'Em All	99
	Answer to Prayer	100
	A Banjo Song	101
	The Rivals	102
	Sence You Went Away	108
	Lift Every Voice and Sing	109
	Envoy	111
	Introduction to Fifty Years and Other Poems by Brander Matthews	115
	Fifty Years	117
	To Horace Bumstead	122
	The Color Sergeant	123
	From the German of Uhland	124
	Before a Painting	125
	I Hear the Stars Still Singing	126
	A Mid-Day Dreamer	127
	The Temptress	128
	The Ghost of Deacon Brown	129
	"Lazy"	131
	Omar	132
	Voluptas (I)	133
	The Word of an Engineer	134
	The Gift to Sing	136
	Morning, Noon and Night	137
	The Awakening	138
	Venus in a Garden	139
	Nobody's Lookin' But de Owl and de Moon	140
	You's Sweet to Yo' Mammy Jes de Same	141
	July in Georgy	142
	Dat Gal o' Mine	143
	The Seasons	144
	'Possum Song	145
	An Explanation	147
	De Little Pickaninny's Gone to Sleep	148
	Moods	153
	A Passing Melody	154
	The River	155
	Helene	156
	The Class of '94	157
	Grandmother's Bible	162
	A Dream	163
	Sonnet	164
	Sonnet - The Secret	165
	Class Poem	166
	Voluptas (II)	171
	Optimistic Sam	172
	Mobile Mardi Gras	173
	After My First Week Teaching in the Country	174
	To a Brook Near My School House	176
	A Recollection	177
	The Last Waltz	178
	To a Friend	179
	Only Trust Me	180
	A Brand	181
	Christmas Carol	182
	Miserable	183
	To H.B.	184
	To a Friend, with a Rose	185
	A Heathen	186
	To My Valentine	187
	Ode to Florida	188
	Acknowledgment	190
	The Passionate Lover	192
	Art vs. Trade	195
	The Poet's Harp	196
	I Love Thee Still	198
	To Louie (I)	199
	A Fragment (I)	200
	Untitled Poem ("Was what you thought love, but passing")	201
	Untitled Poem ("Come with me my love and wander")	202