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The book of American negro poetry,
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CONTENTS
Preface
The Book of American Negro Poetry
Paul Laurence Dunbar
A NEGRO LOVE SONG
LITTLE BROWN BABY
SHIPS THAT PASS IN THE NIGHT
LOVER'S LANE
THE DEBT
THE HAUNTED OAK
WHEN DE CO'N PONE'S HOT
A DEATH SONG
James Edwin Campbell
NEGRO SERENADE
DE CUNJAH MAN
UNCLE EPH'S BANJO SONG
OL' DOC' HYAR
WHEN OL' SIS' JUDY PRAY
COMPENSATION
James D. Corrothers
AT THE CLOSED GATE OF JUSTICE
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR
THE NEGRO SINGER
THE ROAD TO THE BOW
IN THE MATTER OF TWO MEN
AN INDIGNATION DINNER
DREAM AND THE SONG
Daniel Webster Davis
'WEH DOWN SOUF
HOG MEAT
William H. A. Moore
DUSK SONG
IT WAS NOT FATE
W. E. Burghardt Du Bois
A LITANY OF ATLANTA
George Marion McClellan
DOGWOOD BLOSSOMS
A BUTTERFLY IN CHURCH
THE HILLS OF SEWANEE
THE FEET OF JUDAS
William Stanley Braithwaite
SANDY STAR AND WILLIE GEE
SANDY STAR
I.
I
II.
II
III.
III
IV.
IV
V.
V
DEL CASCAR
TURN ME TO MY YELLOW LEAVES
IRONIC: LL.D.
SCINTILLA
SIC VITA
RHAPSODY
George Reginald Margetson
STANZAS FROM THE FLEDGLING BARD AND THE POETRY SOCIETY
I.
Part I
II.
Part II
James Weldon Johnson
O BLACK AND UNKNOWN BARDS
SENCE YOU WENT AWAY
THE CREATION
THE WHITE WITCH
MOTHER NIGHT
O SOUTHLAND!
BROTHERS
FIFTY YEARS
John Wesley Holloway
MISS MELERLEE
CALLING THE DOCTOR
THE CORN SONG
BLACK MAMMIES
Leslie Pinckney Hill
TUSKEGEE
CHRISTMAS AT MELROSE
SUMMER MAGIC
THE TEACHER
Edward Smyth Jones
A SONG OF THANKS
Ray G. Dandridge
TIME TO DIE
'ITTLE TOUZLE HEAD
ZALKA PEETRUZA
SPRIN' FEVAH
DE DRUM MAJAH
Fenton Johnson
CHILDREN OF THE SUN
THE NEW DAY
TIRED
THE BANJO PLAYER
THE SCARLET WOMAN
R. Nathaniel Dett
THE RUBINSTEIN STACCATO ETUDE
Georgia Douglas Johnson
THE HEART OF A WOMAN
YOUTH
LOST ILLUSIONS
I WANT TO DIE WHILE YOU LOVE ME
WELT
MY LITTLE DREAMS
Claude McKay
THE LYNCHING
IF WE MUST DIE
TO THE WHITE FIENDS
THE HARLEM DANCER
HARLEM SHADOWS
AFTER THE WINTER
SPRING IN NEW HAMPSHIRE
THE TIRED WORKER
THE BARRIER
TO O. E. A.
FLAME-HEART
TWO-AN'-SIX
Joseph S. Cotter, Jr.
A PRAYER
AND WHAT SHALL YOU SAY?
IS IT BECAUSE I AM BLACK?
THE BAND OF GIDEON
RAIN MUSIC
SUPPLICATION
Roscoe C. Jamison
THE NEGRO SOLDIERS
Jessie Fauset
LA VIE C'EST LA VIE
CHRISTMAS EVE IN FRANCE
DEAD FIRES
ORIFLAMME
OBLIVION
Anne Spencer
BEFORE THE FEAST OF SHUSHAN
AT THE CARNIVAL
THE WIFE-WOMAN
TRANSLATION
DUNBAR
Alex Rogers
WHY ADAM SINNED
THE RAIN SONG
Waverley Turner Carmichael
KEEP ME, JESUS, KEEP ME
WINTER IS COMING
Alice Dunbar-Nelson
SONNET
Charles Bertram Johnson
A LITTLE CABIN
NEGRO POETS
Otto Leland Bohanan
THE DAWN'S AWAKE!
THE WASHER-WOMAN
Theodore Henry Shackelford
THE BIG BELL IN ZION
Lucian B. Watkins
STAR OF ETHIOPIA
TWO POINTS OF VIEW
TO OUR FRIENDS
Benjamin Brawley
MY HERO
CHAUCER
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.
TO A SKULL
Appendix
DESPIDA A MI MADRE
FAREWELL TO MY MOTHER
PLÁCIDO'S FAREWELL TO HIS MOTHER
Biographical Index of Authors
INDEX OF TITLES
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The book of American negro poetry,
The Book of
American Negro Poetry
CHOSEN AND EDITED
WITH AN ESSAY ON THE
NEGRO'S CREATIVE GENIUS
BY
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON
Author of "Fifty Years and Other Poems"
NEW YORK
HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY
The book of American negro poetry,
