The Book of American Negro Poetry
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Chapters (126)
- 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
- PLÁCIDO'S SONNET TO HIS MOTHER DESPIDA A MI MADRE
- FAREWELL TO MY MOTHER
- PLÁCIDO'S FAREWELL TO HIS MOTHER
- BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF AUTHORS
- INDEX OF TITLES
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