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James Weldon Johnson, ed. (1871–1938). The Book of American Negro Poetry. 1922.

Contents

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