The Book of American Negro Poetry

About this eBook

Editor

Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938

Credits

Produced by Suzanne Shell, Charles M. Bidwell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

African Americans -- Poetry

Category

Text

eBook-No.

11986

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11986

Release Date

April 1, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.CONTENTS — PREFACE
3. 3.PREFACE
4. 4.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
5. 5.APPENDIX — PLÁCIDO'S SONNET TO HIS MOTHER — DESPIDA A MI MADRE — FAREWELL TO MY MOTHER — PLÁCIDO'S FAREWELL TO HIS MOTHER
6. 6.BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF AUTHORS
7. 7.INDEX OF TITLES

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