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page |
| Preface |
vii |
| Paul Laurence Dunbar |
|
| A Negro Love Song |
3 |
| Little Brown Baby |
5 |
| Ships That Pass in the Night |
7 |
| Lover's Lane |
8 |
| The Debt |
10 |
| The Haunted Oak |
11 |
| When de Co'n Pone's Hot |
14 |
| A Death Song |
16 |
| James Edwin Campbell |
|
| Negro Serenade |
17 |
| De Cunjah Man |
18 |
| Uncle Eph's Banjo Song |
20 |
| Ol' Doc' Hyar |
21 |
| When Ol' Sis' Judy Pray |
23 |
| Compensation |
25 |
| James D. Corrothers |
|
| At the Closed Gate of Justice |
27 |
| Paul Laurence Dunbar |
28 |
| The Negro Singer |
29 |
| The Road to the Bow |
30 |
| In the Matter of Two Men |
32 |
| An Indignation Dinner |
34 |
| Dream and the Song |
36 |
| Daniel Webster Davis |
|
| 'Weh Down Souf |
39 |
| Hog Meat |
41 |
| William H. A. Moore |
|
| Dusk Song |
43 |
| It Was Not Fate |
46 |
| W. E. Burghardt Du Bois |
|
| A Litany of Atlanta |
49 |
| George Marion McClellan |
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| Dogwood Blossoms |
55 |
| A Butterfly in Church |
56 |
| The Hills of Sewanee |
57 |
| The Feet of Judas |
58 |
| William Stanley Braithwaite |
|
| Sandy Star and Willie Gee |
59 |
| I. Sculptured Worship |
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| II. Laughing It Out |
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| III. The Exit |
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| IV. The Way |
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| V. Onus Probandi |
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| Del Cascar |
63 |
| Turn Me to My Yellow Leaves |
64 |
| Ironic: LL.D. |
65 |
| Scintilla |
66 |
| Sic Vita |
67 |
| Rhapsody |
68 |
| George Reginald Margetson |
|
| Stanzas from The Fledgling Bard and the Poetry Society |
69 |
| James Weldon Johnson |
|
| O Black and Unknown Bards |
73 |
| Sence You Went Away |
75 |
| The Creation |
76 |
| The White Witch |
80 |
| Mother Night |
83 |
| O Southland |
84 |
| Brothers |
85 |
| Fifty Years |
89 |
| John Wesley Holloway |
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| Miss Melerlee |
93 |
| Calling the Doctor |
94 |
| The Corn Song |
96 |
| Black Mammies |
98 |
| Leslie Pinckney Hill |
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| Tuskegee |
101 |
| Christmas at Melrose |
102 |
| Summer Magic |
104 |
| The Teacher |
105 |
| Edward Smyth Jones |
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| A Song of Thanks |
107 |
| Ray G. Dandridge |
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| Time to Die |
109 |
| 'Ittle Touzle Head |
110 |
| Zalka Peetruza |
112 |
| Sprin' Fevah |
113 |
| De Drum Majah |
114 |
| Fenton Johnson |
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| Children of the Sun |
117 |
| The New Day |
119 |
| Tired |
121 |
| The Banjo Player |
122 |
| The Scarlet Woman |
123 |
| R. Nathaniel Dett |
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| The Rubinstein Staccato Etude |
125 |
| Georgia Douglas Johnson |
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| The Heart of a Woman |
127 |
| Youth |
128 |
| Lost Illusions |
129 |
| I Want to Die While You Love Me |
130 |
| Welt |
131 |
| My Little Dreams |
132 |
| Claude McKay |
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| The Lynching |
133 |
| If We Must Die |
134 |
| To the White Fiends |
135 |
| The Harlem Dancer |
136 |
| Harlem Shadows |
137 |
| After the Winter |
138 |
| Spring in New Hampshire |
139 |
| The Tired Worker |
140 |
| The Barrier |
141 |
| To O. E. A. |
142 |
| Flame-Heart |
143 |
| Two-an'-Six |
145 |
| Joseph S. Cotter, Jr. |
|
| A Prayer |
151 |
| And What Shall You Say? |
152 |
| Is It Because I Am Black? |
153 |
| The Band of Gideon |
154 |
| Rain Music |
156 |
| Supplication |
157 |
| Roscoe C. Jamison |
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| The Negro Soldiers |
159 |
| Jessie Fauset |
|
| La Vie C'est la Vie |
161 |
| Christmas Eve in France |
162 |
| Dead Fires |
164 |
| Oriflamme |
165 |
| Oblivion |
166 |
| Anne Spencer |
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| Before the Feast of Shushan |
167 |
| At the Carnival |
169 |
| The Wife-Woman |
171 |
| Translation |
173 |
| Dunbar |
174 |
| Alex Rogers |
|
| Why Adam Sinned |
175 |
| The Rain Song |
177 |
| Waverley Turner Carmichael |
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| Keep Me, Jesus, Keep Me |
181 |
| Winter Is Coming |
182 |
| Alice Dunbar-Nelson |
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| Sonnet |
183 |
| Charles Bertram Johnson |
|
| A Little Cabin |
185 |
| Negro Poets |
187 |
| Otto Leland Bohanan |
|
| The Dawn's Awake! |
189 |
| The Washer-Woman |
190 |
| Theodore Henry Shackelford |
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| The Big Bell in Zion |
191 |
| Lucian B. Watkins |
|
| Star of Ethiopia |
193 |
| Two Points of View |
194 |
| To Our Friends |
195 |
| Benjamin Brawley |
|
| My Hero |
197 |
| Chaucer |
199 |
| Joshua Henry Jones, Jr. |
|
| To a Skull |
201 |
