This man wrote about Mildred Osborne's love for the title cowboy in his novel The Love of Landry, and described the title entities as, "The fame that for a moment gleams,/Then flies forever," in his poem "Dreams". Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings takes its title from his poem "Sympathy", and another work by this poet is narrated by an entity haunted by the "curse of a guiltless man" who was lynched on its branches. This author of "The Haunted Oak" wrote, "We sing, but oh the clay is vile/Beneath our feet" 
This man wrote about Mildred Osborne's love for the title cowboy in his novel The Love of Landry, and described the title entities as, "The fame that for a moment gleams,/Then flies forever," in his poem "Dreams". Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings takes its title from his poem "Sympathy", and another work by this poet is narrated by an entity haunted by the "curse of a guiltless man" who was lynched on its branches. This author of "The Haunted Oak" wrote, "We sing, but oh the clay is vile/Beneath our feet" in a work which asks, "Why should the world be overwise,/In counting all our tears and sighs?" The title object of that poem "grins and lies" and "hides our cheeks and shades our eyes". For 10 points, name this American poet who wrote "We Wear the Mask".
This man wrote about Mildred Osborne's love for the title cowboy in his novel The Love of Landry, and described the title entities as, "The fame that for a moment gleams,/Then flies forever," in his poem "Dreams".
Paul Laurence {Dunbar}