PREFACE

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
I. Sculptured Worship
II. Laughing It Out
III. The Exit
IV. The Way
V. Onus Probandi
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

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 LEYLAND BOHANAN
The Dawn's Awake!
The Washer-Woman

THEODORE HENRY SHACKLEFORD
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