Complete Poems

Table Of Contents

Complete PoemsIntroduction
Suggestions for Further Reading
Chronology
Part I. God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse
Preface to God’s Trombones
Listen, Lord – A Prayer
The Creation
The Prodigal Son
Go Down Death – A Funeral Sermon
Noah Built the Ark
The Crucifixion
Let My People Go
The Judgment Day

Part II. Saint Peter Relates an Incident and Fifty Years and Other Poems
Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day
O Black and Unknown Bards
Brothers – American Drama
O Southland!
We to America
Mother Night
The Young Warrior
The White Witch
My City
The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face
Life
The Black Mammy
Fragment
Mother, Farewell! (from the Spanish of Placido)
Girl of Fifteen
The Suicide

Down by the Carib Sea
I. Sunrise in the Tropics
II. Los Cigarrillos
III. Teestay
IV. The Lottery Girl
V. The Dancing Girl
VI. Sunset in the Tropics

Deep in the Quiet Wood
Prayer at Sunrise
Her Eyes Twin Pools
Vashti
If I Were Paris
Ghosts of the Old Year
Beauty Never Old
Blessed Sleep
The Greatest of These Is War
A Poet to His Baby Son
Ma Lady’s Lips Am Like de Honey
A Plantation Bacchanal
Tunk
Brer Rabbit, You’s de Cutes’ of ‘Em All
Answer to Prayer
A Banjo Song
The Rivals
Sence You Went Away
Lift Every Voice and Sing
Envoy

Introduction to Fifty Years and Other Poems by Brander Matthews
Fifty Years
To Horace Bumstead
The Color Sergeant
From the German of Uhland
Before a Painting
I Hear the Stars Still Singing
A Mid-Day Dreamer
The Temptress
The Ghost of Deacon Brown
“Lazy”
Omar
Voluptas (I)
The Word of an Engineer
The Gift to Sing
Morning, Noon and Night
The Awakening
Venus in a Garden
Nobody’s Lookin’ But de Owl and de Moon
You’s Sweet to Yo’ Mammy Jes de Same
July in Georgy
Dat Gal o’ Mine
The Seasons
‘Possum Song
An Explanation
De Little Pickaninny’s Gone to Sleep

Part III. The College Years and Other Poems
Moods
A Passing Melody
The River
Helene
The Class of ’94
Grandmother’s Bible
A Dream
Sonnet
Sonnet – The Secret
Class Poem
Voluptas (II)
Optimistic Sam
Mobile Mardi Gras
After My First Week Teaching in the Country
To a Brook Near My School House
A Recollection
The Last Waltz
To a Friend
Only Trust Me
A Brand
Christmas Carol
Miserable
To H.B.
To a Friend, with a Rose
A Heathen
To My Valentine
Ode to Florida
Acknowledgment
The Passionate Lover
Art vs. Trade
The Poet’s Harp
I Love Thee Still
To Louie (I)
A Fragment (I)
Untitled Poem (“Was what you thought love, but passing”)
Untitled Poem (“Come with me my love and wander”)