Negro Poets and Their Poems

NEGRO POETS AND THEIR POEMS



EMANCIPATION By Meta Warrick Fuller

BY ROBERT T. KERLIN AUTHOR OF “THE VOICE OF THE NEGRO”
Still comes the Perfect Thing to man As came the olden gods, in dreams. J. Mord Allen.
ILLUSTRATED ASSOCIATED PUBLISHERS, Inc., WASHINGTON, D. C. Copyright, 1923, By THE ASSOCIATED PUBLISHERS, Inc.
To the Black and Unknown Bards who gave to the world the priceless treasure of those “canticles of love and woe,” the camp-meeting Spirituals; more particularly, to those untaught singers of the old plantations of the South, whose melodious lullabies to the babes of both races entered with genius-quickening power into the souls of Poe and Lanier, Dunbar and Cotter: to them, for whom any monument in stone or bronze were but mockery, I dedicate this monument of verse, budded by the children of their vision.