"Between the sterner flights of logic, I have sought to set some little alightings of what may be poetry. They are tributes to Beauty, unworthy to stand alone; yet perversely, in my mind, now at the end, I know not whether I mean the Thought for the Fancy—or the Fancy for the Thought, or why the book trails off to playing, rather than standing strong on unanswering fact. But this is alway—is it not?—the Riddle of Life."
Contents:
Credo
The Shadow of Year
A Litany at Atlanta
The Souls of White Folk
The Riddle of the Sphinx
The Hands of Ethiopia
The Princess of the Hither Isles
Of Work and Wealth
The Second Coming
"The Servant in the House"
Jesus Christ in Texas
Of the Ruling of Men
The Call
The Damnation of Women
Children of the Moon
The Immortal Child
Almighty Death
Of Beauty and Death
The Prayers of God
The Comet
A Hymn to the Peoples