Sweet Solitude NEW AND SELECTED POEMS -- Sweet Solitude NEW AND SELECTED POEMS -- CONTENTS -- From Another Black Voice: A Different Drummer (1988) -- The Black Man Speaks of Rivers, Part 2: A Tribute to Langston Hughes -- Acquaintances -- The Black Madonna (for Elizabeth Langford Slade) -- The Anniversary -- The Country Preacher's Folk Prayer -- God's Gender -- The Mansion -- By the Side of the Road -- Race -- Elegy for Therman B. O'Daniel -- From The Beauty of Blackness (1989) -- The Beauty of Blackness -- Transition -- Sleepless Now -- Cat -- When I Heard from the Tax Man -- A Child's Play -- A Black Man's Song -- Spring -- To an Apostle of Peace -- From I Fly Like a Bird (1992) -- Birds -- Black Woman -- His Professor -- Overcharged -- Drinking -- And Want No More -- Garden Party -- What Are You, Life? -- Grief -- We Mourn a Sweet Soul -- From The Whipping Song (1993) -- The Whipping Song -- Peace Will Come -- For My Forefathers -- The Street Man -- Love Should Grow, Not Wither -- Rain -- A Plea for Peace -- Before the Death of Dad -- Winds of Change -- From For the Love of Freedom (2000) -- For the Love of Freedom -- The Black Hair -- Why Are You Laughing? -- The Saint -- A Song for the Black Woman -- From Vintage (1995) -- There Will Be Blacks in Heaven -- Strangers -- From Pure Light (1996) -- Pure Light -- Calling All Black Men -- Words -- Your Life Is Over for You If -- Sunrise -- In Praise of Shoeshines -- So Happy -- Innocence in Black and White -- Budget Cuts -- I Fly Away -- How Great You Are -- From Neglecting the Flowers (1997) -- Black and Beautiful -- Rapping My Way Home from an English Conference at Hunter College on March 22, 1997 -- Reverend Hotair -- Neglecting the Flowers -- Like Douglass -- Bury Yourself Now -- On the Death of Mothers -- Tongue -- Burp -- To Mephistopheles -- Come, Prince of Peace -- Good Manners -- Love.

From Lilacs in Spring (1998) -- I Came, I Saw, I Dreamed (for Abraham Lincoln) -- The Country Club in the Academy -- Lilacs in Spring -- Song for a Beautiful Lady (for my wife) -- Boss Hogg -- Thank You, Abe! -- From Elisabeth and Other Poems (1999) -- The Good Queen Bess (for Queen Elizabeth I of England) -- Mother Africa -- Working on the Farm in 1947 -- Marry This Poem -- Departure -- Embden Pond -- Robert Lewis (Our Samoyed) -- From Jazz After Dinner (2007) -- Jazz After Dinner -- And When I Die -- I Am a Black Man -- Black Philosophy -- Morning After Morning -- Forgiveness -- New Poems (2008) -- Heifer -- Picnic -- What I Need Is -- I Want to Live While You Love Me -- Highway to Love -- I Do Love You -- Brothers -- Characteristics -- Claudia, Back Home -- Elegy for Emmanuel -- Grapes -- Today -- Deacon -- The Vision of America -- The Geese -- God's Glory -- The Thought -- I Shall Pray -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR.