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The Book of American Negro Poetry

by James Weldon Johnson

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Paul Laurence Dunbar
  3. 3Little Brown Baby
  4. 4Ships That Pass in the Night
  5. 5Lover’s Lane
  6. 6The Debt
  7. 7The Haunted Oak
  8. 8When de Co’n Pone’s Hot
  9. 9A Death Song
  10. 10James Edwin Campbell
  11. 11De Cunjah Man
  12. 12Uncle Eph’s Banjo Song
  13. 13Ol’ Doc’ Hyar
  14. 14When Ol’ Sis’ Judy Pray
  15. 15Compensation
  16. 16James D. Corrothers
  17. 17Paul Laurence Dunbar
  18. 18The Negro Singer
  19. 19The Road to the Bow
  20. 20In the Matter of Two Men
  21. 21An Indignation Dinner
  22. 22Dream and the Song
  23. 23Daniel Webster Davis
  24. 24Hog Meat
  25. 25William H.A. Moore
  26. 26It Was Not Fate
  27. 27W.E. Burghardt du Bois — A Litany of Atlanta
  28. 28George Marion McClellan
  29. 29A Butterfly in Church
  30. 30The Hills of Sewanee
  31. 31The Feet of Judas
  32. 32William Stanley Braithwaite — Sandy Star
  33. 33Del Cascar
  34. 34Turn Me to My Yellow Leaves
  35. 35Ironic: LL.D.
  36. 36Scintilla
  37. 37Sic Vita
  38. 38Rhapsody
  39. 39George Reginald Margetson
  40. 40O Black and Unknown Bards
  41. 41Sence You Went Away
  42. 42The Creation
  43. 43The White Witch
  44. 44Mother Night
  45. 45O Southland!
  46. 46Brothers
  47. 47John Wesley Holloway
  48. 48Calling the Doctor
  49. 49The Corn Song
  50. 50Black Mammies
  51. 51Leslie Pinckney Hill
  52. 52Christmas at Melrose
  53. 53Summer Magic
  54. 54The Teacher
  55. 55Edward Smyth Jones — A Song of Thanks
  56. 56Ray G. Dandridge
  57. 57‘Ittle Touzle Head
  58. 58Zalka Peetruza
  59. 59Sprin’ Fevah
  60. 60De Drum Majah
  61. 61Fenton Johnson
  62. 62The New Day
  63. 63Tired
  64. 64The Banjo Player
  65. 65The Scarlet Woman
  66. 66R. Nathaniel Dett — The Rubinstein Staccato Etude
  67. 67Georgia Douglas Johnson
  68. 68Youth
  69. 69Lost Illusions
  70. 70I Want to die While You Love Me
  71. 71Welt
  72. 72My Little Dreams
  73. 73Claude McKay
  74. 74If We Must Die
  75. 75To the White Fiends
  76. 76The Harlem Dancer
  77. 77Harlem Shadows
  78. 78After the Winter
  79. 79Spring in New Hampshire
  80. 80The Tired Worker
  81. 81The Barrier
  82. 82To O. E. A.
  83. 83Flame-Heart
  84. 84Two-an’-Six
  85. 85Joseph S. Cotter, Jr.
  86. 86And What Shall You Say?
  87. 87Is It Because I Am Black?
  88. 88The Band of Gideon
  89. 89Rain Music
  90. 90Supplication
  91. 91Roscoe C. Jamison
  92. 92Jessie Fauset
  93. 93Christmas Eve in France
  94. 94Dead Fires
  95. 95Oriflamme
  96. 96Oblivion
  97. 97Anne Spencer
  98. 98At the Carnival
  99. 99The Wife-Woman
  100. 100Translation
  101. 101Dunbar — Alex Rogers
  102. 102The Rain Song
  103. 103Waverley Turner Carmichael
  104. 104Winter Is Coming
  105. 105Alice Dunbar-Nelson — Sonnet
  106. 106Charles Bertram Johnson
  107. 107Negro Poets
  108. 108Otto Leland Bohanan
  109. 109The Washer-Woman
  110. 110Theodore Henry Shackelford — The Big Bell in Zion
  111. 111Lucian B. Watkins
  112. 112Two Points of View
  113. 113To Our Friends
  114. 114Benjamin Brawley
  115. 115Chaucer
  116. 116Joshua Henry Jones, Jr. to a Skull
  117. 117Appendix — Plácido’s Sonnet to His Mother
  118. 118Farewell to My Mother
  119. 119Plácido’s Farewell to His Mother
  120. 120Biographical Index of Authors

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