- A little hour of sunshine, Souvenir
- A pioneer, she blazed a trail of light To Mary Church Turrell—Lecturer
- A whisper at twilight, a sigh through the night, Deluge
- A woman with a burning flame Smothered Fires
- A wordless kiss, a stifled sigh, Emblems
- Aflounder the uncompassed darkness of doubt Eclipse
- After all— Retrospection
- Again it is the vibrant May, Springtime
- Again we meet—a flashing glance, The Return
- Ah! love! Fiction
- All day the world’s mad mocking strife, The Cross
- All deep there stirs the throb of Spring, Springtide
- All hail! fair vistas break upon the view, To Ridgely Torrence—Playwright
- All the pretty baubles spread Values
- Alone! yes, evermore alone—isolate each his way, Isolation
- America, here is your son, born of your iron heel, The True American
- And now— Sunset
- And they shall rise and cast their mantles by, Sonnet to the Mantled
- Athwart the sky the great sun sails, Impelled
- Behold! the living thrilling lines Poetry
- Believe me–when I say Autumn
- Break, break my heart Break, Break My Heart
- Come, brothers all! Brotherhood
- Confusion, desuetude and gloom, Falling Gods
- Consider me a memory—a dream Recessional
- Day by day the threads of white To Time
- Dead days of rapture and despair Dead Days
- Don’t knock at my door, little child, Black Woman
- Far from the seried ranks you sway, To Emilie Bigelow Hapgood—Philanthropist
- Fierce is the conflict—the battle of eyes, The Measure
- Fire—tears— Attar
- Folded in silent veils of sleep, To the Memory of Inez Milholland
- Forever and forevermore, Husks
- Fragile, tiny, just a sprite, Thrall
- Frail children of sorrow, dethroned by a hue, Hope
- From worshipping I now arise Little King
- Go forth, my son, Benediction
- God grant you wider vision, clearer skies, my son, Utopia
- Good-bye dear day of sunshine, rain One Day
- Grandly isolate as the god of day— To W. E. B. DuBois—Scholar
- Happy youth in joyous laughter, Heritage
- Hear their viol-voices ringing Sorrow Singers
- Her life was dwarfed, and wed to blight, Foredoom
- Ho: my brother, The Ordeal
- How deftly does the gardener blend Fusion
- How my heart sinks when I behold the sad reflection of my face, How My Heart Sinks
- I am a woman Ivy
- I believe in the ultimate justice of Fate; Credo
- I breathe the lyric of my love A Fantasy
- I called you through the silent night Where?
- I climbed the craggy hill of fame, The Final Strain
- I closed my shutters fast last night, I Closed My Shutters Fast Last Night
- I do not ask for love—ah! no, Lethe
- I fear my power impotent Review
- I have mounded the corpse of my sorrow Sepulchre
- I have swung to the uttermost reaches of pain, Pendulum
- I hear you singing happily, My Boy
- I know my love is seeing me Destiny
- I know you love me better cold A Paradox
- I lived in Hell the other day In Love
- I looked death calmly in the face Finis
- I rest me deep within the wood, Peace
- I seek no tokens of you dear Offering
- I want to die while you love me, I Want to Die While You Love Me
- I wonder— I Wonder
- I’m folding up my little dreams My Little Dreams
- I’m tired of pacing the petty round of the ring of the thing I know— Wishes
- I’m tired, days and nights to me Tired
- I’ve learned of life this bitter truth: Lesson
- If you can laugh along the road, Promise
- In the silence and the dark Armageddon
- In your deep autumnal eyes To Your Eyes
- Into the garden of sorrow, Gethsemane
- Is she the sage who will not sip Query
- Just a bit of ashes Song of the Sinner
- Kiss me! Amour
- Last night you lost the rarest thing Friendship
- Let me not hate, although the bruising world decries my peace, Let Me Not Hate
- Let me not lose my dream, e’en though I scan the veil with eyes unseeing through their glaze of tears, Let Me Not Lose My Dream
- Let’s say “Good-bye” Good-Bye
- Life’s little hour is fleet, so fleet To Love
- Long have I beat with timid hands upon life’s leaden door, The Suppliant
- Love calls me tonight Envoys
- Love’s kisses spurned so long ago, Retrospect
- Love’s roses I gathered, all dewy, in May, Memory
- Many cages round me, Bondage
- Minutes swiftly throb and pass, Whither?
- Mute-lipped— Le Soir
- My heart is pregnant with a great despair Moods
- My joy leaps with your ecstasy, Sympathy
- No, never quite alone am I. Companion
- Nobody cares when I am glad, Repulse
- Nor shall I in sorrow repine, Concord
- Not for your tender eyes that shine, Pages from Life
- Not less than this, beloved, Ecstasy
- Not wholly this or that, Cosmopolite
- Now, Return
- O come while youth’s bright rosy veil Glamour
- O love, you have shorn me, and rifled my heart, Devastation
- O sacrificial throng whose lives To the Martyred
- Of what avail the tardy showers, Posthumous
- Oh night of love, your rapt ecstatic hours Oh Night of Love
- Oh the sad little dreams of the dim yesteryear Youth’s Progeny
- Oh, black man, why do you northward roam, and leave all the farm lands bare? Hegira
- Oh, my fancy teems with a world of dreams— Rhythm
- Oh! for the veils of my far-away youth, Illusion
- One drop of midnight in the dawn of life’s pulsating stream The Octoroon
- Ope! ye everlasting doors, unto my soul’s demand, Desire
- Our separate winding ways we trod, Mate
- Pass down the aisle of buried years to-night, To Atlanta University—Its Founders and Teachers
- Passing ever, early, late, Footsteps
- Peace on a thousand hills and dales, Peace
- Proud? Maternity
- Quite firmly did you stand, and unafraid To Henry Lincoln Johnson—Lawyer
- Roses after rain, Recompense
- Shadows, shadows, Escape
- Shall I say, “My son, you’re branded in this country’s pageantry, Shall I Say, “My Son, You’re Branded?”
- Smiles do not always echo cheer, Transpositions
- So like a boundless, soundless sea Love’s Miracle
- Some day Perspective
- Some day I shall be dead, and pride Estrangement
- Something has died when the lily lifts Soul’s Easter
- Son of a race, whose dusky visage shows To Richard R. Wright—Instructor
- Strange to a sensing motherhood, To Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Upon Hearing His
- Stronger than man-made bars, the chain, My Son
- Sweeter far than lyric rune Love’s Tendril
- Swift melting into yesterday, The Passing of the Ex-Slave
- Swift-footed Time, how eagerly you go Decay
- That dusky child upon your knee Guardianship
- The breaking dead leaves ’neath my feet Dead Leaves
- The curtains of twilight are drawn in the west Despair
- The days lie dark between our jeweled meetings Interim
- The dew is on the grasses, dear, Youth
- The dreams of the dreamer The Dreams of the Dreamer
- The faint lose faith Faith
- The fairest lips are those we kiss, Supreme
- The fragile fabric of our dream Omega
- The heart of a woman goes forth with the dawn, The Heart of a Woman
- The hour is big with sooth and sign, with errant men at war, We Face the Future
- The infant eyes look out amazed upon the frowning earth, “One of the Least of These, My Little One”
- The long, grim years with iron tread The Watcher
- The mother soothes her mantled child The Mother
- The peerless boon of innocence, Gossamer
- The petals of the faded rose Modulations
- The phantom happiness I sought Quest
- The rain is falling steadily Pent
- The right to make my dreams come true Calling Dreams
- The shades of the gloaming around me are stealing, Gloamtide
- The silence of the brooding night, Eventide
- The verdure sleeps in winter, Why
- The very acme of my woe, Little Son
- The woes of flesh are naught The Initiate
- The world is dark, Prejudice
- Their gaze uplifting from shoals of despair Sonnet to Those Who See but Darkly
- There are highways in the soul, Elevation
- There are tears sweet, refreshing like dewdrops that rise, Tears and Kisses
- There’s a soft rosy glow o’er the whole world to-day, Joy
- There’s music in the measured tread Homing Braves
- There’s nothing certain, nothing sure Joy
- There’s nothing in the world that clings Inevitably
- These fell miasmic rings of mist, with ghoulish menace bound, Prejudice
- They are embosomed in the sod, Taps
- They seem to smile as others smile, the masquerader’s art Aliens
- This spirit-choking atmosphere Laocoön
- Though I should weep until the judgment, Soldier
- Through the land of tribulation, Fame
- Through the moil and the gloom they have issued Promise
- Through you I entered heaven and hell, Afterglow
- Too late to roll the tangled skein The Snarl
- Trailing night’s sand-sifted stars, Dawn
- Walk within thy own heart’s temple, child, and rest, Gilead
- We lift a song to you across the day To John Brown
- We stand mute! Contemplation
- We’re wending the trail of the vanishing road, The Vanished Road
- Were you a leper bathed in wounds Proving
- What matters though love’s dream shall pass, Treasure
- What need have I for memory, What Need Have I for Memory?
- When I am dead, withhold, I pray, your blooming legacy; When I Am Dead
- When I rise above the earth, When I Rise Up
- When I was young Romance
- When life is young, without a care, The Willow
- When lone and solitaire within your chamber, Mirrored
- When love’s triumphant day is done, Finality
- When one has lived Curtain
- When time has rocked the present age to sleep, To William Stanley Braithwaite
- When we count out our gold at the end of the day, Service
- Whene’er I lift my eyes to bliss, Whene’er I Lift My Eyes to Bliss
- Where are the brave men, where are the strong men? Question
- Where is the love that might have been Celibacy
- White men’s children spread over the earth— The Riddle
- Who hath not built his castles in the free and open air? Illusions
- Winter—aback sweeps the inward eye, Recall
- With but one life full certified, Resolution
- With kisses I’ll awake you love Pledge
- With the first blush of morning, my soul is awing, In Quest
- Within the temple of our heart To Abraham Lincoln
- Within your pulsing day Separation
- Would I might mend the fabric of my youth Welt
- You came, Parody
- You cannot hurt me any more Armor
- You deck my doby lavishly, Toy
- You gave me your hand, Delusion
- You saw the vision in the face of clay, To May Howard Jackson—Sculptor
- Your eyes— Your Eyes
- Your lightest breath may fan my cheek Divide
- Your voice keeps ringing down the day Thralldom
All poets.