The Book of American Negro Poetry
Produced by Suzanne Shell, Charles M. Bidwell and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team.
Chosen and Edited With An Essay On The Negro's Creative Genius
by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON
Author of Fifty Years and Other Poems
1922 Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc., New York
Printed in the U.S.A. by the Quinn & Boden Company, Rahway, N.J.
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
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THE BOOK OF AMERICAN NEGRO POETRY
CONTENTS
PREFACE
PREFACE
THE BOOK OF AMERICAN NEGRO POETRY
A NEGRO LOVE SONG[1]
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
NEGRO SERENADE
DE CUNJAH MAN
UNCLE EPH'S BANJO SONG
OL' DOC' HYAR
WHEN OL' SIS' JUDY PRAY
COMPENSATION
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
'WEH DOWN SOUF
HOG MEAT
DUSK SONG
IT WAS NOT FATE
A LITANY OF ATLANTA
DOGWOOD BLOSSOMS
A BUTTERFLY IN CHURCH
THE HILLS OF SEWANEE
THE FEET OF JUDAS
SANDY STAR AND WILLIE GEE
SANDY STAR
DEL CASCAR
TURN ME TO MY YELLOW LEAVES
IRONIC: LL.D.
SCINTILLA
SIC VITA
RHAPSODY
STANZAS FROM THE FLEDGLING BARD AND THE POETRY SOCIETY
O BLACK AND UNKNOWN BARDS
SENCE YOU WENT AWAY
THE CREATION
THE WHITE WITCH
MOTHER NIGHT
O SOUTHLAND!
BROTHERS
MISS MELERLEE
CALLING THE DOCTOR
THE CORN SONG
BLACK MAMMIES
TUSKEGEE
CHRISTMAS AT MELROSE
SUMMER MAGIC
THE TEACHER
A SONG OF THANKS
TIME TO DIE
'ITTLE TOUZLE HEAD
ZALKA PEETRUZA
SPRIN' FEVAH
DE DRUM MAJAH
CHILDREN OF THE SUN
THE NEW DAY
TIRED
THE BANJO PLAYER
THE SCARLET WOMAN
THE RUBINSTEIN STACCATO ETUDE
THE HEART OF A WOMAN
YOUTH
LOST ILLUSIONS
I WANT TO DIE WHILE YOU LOVE ME
WELT
MY LITTLE DREAMS
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
A PRAYER
AND WHAT SHALL YOU SAY?
IS IT BECAUSE I AM BLACK?
THE BAND OF GIDEON
RAIN MUSIC
SUPPLICATION
LA VIE C'EST LA VIE
CHRISTMAS EVE IN FRANCE
DEAD FIRES
ORIFLAMME
OBLIVION
BEFORE THE FEAST OF SHUSHAN
AT THE CARNIVAL
THE WIFE-WOMAN
TRANSLATION
DUNBAR
WHY ADAM SINNED
THE RAIN SONG
KEEP ME, JESUS, KEEP ME
WINTER IS COMING
SONNET
A LITTLE CABIN
NEGRO POETS
THE DAWN'S AWAKE!
THE WASHER-WOMAN
THE BIG BELL IN ZION
STAR OF ETHIOPIA
TWO POINTS OF VIEW
TO OUR FRIENDS
MY HERO
CHAUCER
TO A SKULL
APPENDIX
FAREWELL TO MY MOTHER
PLÁCIDO'S FAREWELL TO HIS MOTHER
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF AUTHORS
INDEX OF TITLES