C. T. Suddeth

Countee Cullen born Countee LeRoy Porter (1903-1946) was likely born in Louisville, Kentucky but lived in NYC and was a poet of the Harlem Renaissance. He was also a novelist, children’s writer, playwright interested in African subjects as well as Classical Romantic themes.

THE LOSS OF LOVE

All through an empty place I go,
And find her not in any room;
The candles and the lamps I light
Go down before a wind of gloom….