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African American Poetry: A Digital Anthology

"An Anthology of Verse By American Negroes" (Edited by N.I. White) (1924)

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content	sioc:content	TRINITY COLLEGE PUBLICATIONS AN ANTHOLOGY OF VERSE BY AMERICAN NEGROES EDITORIAL NOTE This book is published because it represents meritorious work in the study of a field of American literature hitherto somewhat neglected and for the purpose of providing for both white people and Negroes material in convenient form for the study of a body of poetic work in which both races are naturally interested. White students are interested because the authors of these poems have achieved their capacity for this form of expression along side of and in close association with their own people. Negroes are interested because these selected poems are evidence of the actual accomplishment of the members of their race. Trinity College is glad to lend this encouragement to the study of achievements in which both races in America have just reasons to feel pride. An Anthology of Verse By American Negroes Edited with a Critical Introduction, Biographical Sketches of the Authors, and Biblio graphical Notes by Newman Ivey White, Ph.D. Professor of English in Trinity College and Walter Clinton Jackson Vice-President and Professor of History in the North Carolina College for Women With an Introduction by James Hardy Dillard, Ph.D., LL.D. President of the Jeanes Foundation and the John F. Slater Fund TRINITY COLLEGE PRESS DURHAM , N. C. 1924 COPYRIGHT, 1924 BY TRINITY COLLEGE DURHAM, N. C. PRESSES OF THE SEEMAN PRINTERY INCORPORATED Durham , N. C. PREFACE This volume, except for some later additions, was ready for the press in 1921 , when it would have been a pioneer in the field. Though it has lost this primacy through the recent appearance of two other volumes, we feel that there is still a place for it in that it gives fuller representation to the older poets and includes some contemporary poets omitted by the later books. Our own sins of omission in this latter field — and there are so many Negroes writing respectable verse today that doubtless we have overlooked many desirable poems — must be left to the charity of the reader and to the chance of a second edition in which, proverbially, all things are to be made perfect. As Southern white men who desire the most cordial relations between the races we hope that this volume will help its white readers more clearly to understand the Negro's feelings on certain questions that must be settled by the coöperation of the two races. From the same point of view we hope that Negro readers, too accustomed, perhaps, to a debilitating literary patronage , will not misinterpret as unfriendly a critical attitude in which we have tried to supplant patronage with honest, unbiased appraisal. In the content of this volume Professor White is responsible for the Introduction and for the Bibliographical and Critical Notes ; Professor Jackson is responsible for the biographical sketches ; the choice of selections is a matter of joint responsibility . It is a pleasure to acknowledge our indebtedness to Dr. J. H. Dillard , of the Jeanes Foundation , who has shown a friendly interest in the work and has helped with several valuable suggestions; to Dr. W. T. Laprade, of Trinity College, who supervised its publica tion for the Trinity College Press ; to all of the surviving poets represented in this book, most of whom have coöperated cordially in furnishing biographical data and in giving permission to quote their verse ; to The Century Magazine for the poems of J. D. Corrothers; The Crisis for poems by Countee P. Cullen and Jessie R. Fauset ; The Southern Warkman for the poem of Sarah C. Fernandez ; the Cornhill Co. for poems by Joseph Seaman Cotter, Jr., Charles Bertram Johnson and Georgia Douglas Johnson ; the R. G. Badger Co. for poems by Walter Everette Hawkins ; The Stratford Co. for poems by Leslie Pinckney Hill ; Neale and Co. for poems by John Wesley Holloway ; the Brimmer Co. for poems by Georgia Douglas Johnson ; The Grafton Press for poems by H. Cordelia Ray ; Sherman , French and Co. for poems by George Reginald Margetson ; Harcourt, Brace and Co. for poems by Claude McKay ; and to Dodd, Mead and Co. for poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar . NEWMAN I. WHITE W. C. JACKSON March, 1924 . CONTENTS* INTRODUCTORY NOTE INTRODUCTION PHILLIS WHEATLEY On Imagination To a Gentleman and Lady on the Death of the Lady's Brother, etc. Liberty and Peace GEORGE Moses HORTON Meditations on a Cold, Dark and Rainy Night Praise of Creation James Madison BELL Song for the First of August FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER (1825-1911) The Slave Mother Bury Me in a Free Land CHARLES L. REASON Freedom ALBERRY A. WHITMAN To the Student Ye Bards of England PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Dreams ( 1 ) Dreams ( 2) The End of the Chapter Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes A Hymn Love Despoiled Love's Phases The Warrior's Prayer Night Ode to Ethiopia Slow Through the Dark By Rugged Ways Drizzle A Banjo Song The Deserted Plantation Angelina Expectation A Frolic How Lucy Backslid Possum Temptation When Malindy Sings A Choice Mortality The Sum Life Life's Tragedy The Poet and the Baby Compensation A Death Song GEORGE MARION MCCLELLAN The Path of Dreams To Hollyhocks The Feet of Judas A Belated Oriole DANIEL WEBSTER Davis Night on the Ol’ Plantashun Hog Meat Stickin ' to de Hoe Pomp's Case Argued Crispus Attucks CHARLES R. DINKINS Invocation GEORGE HANNIBAL TEMPLE We Are Black, but We Are Men “ Thy Works Shall Praise Thee" TIMOTHY THOMAS FORTUNE We Know No More Lincoln J. MORD ALLEN The Psalm of the Uplift The Devil an' Sis' Viney When the Fish Begin to Bite Shine on, Mr. Sun Counting Out CLARA ANN THOMPSON His Answer Mrs. Johnson Objects WILLIAM STANLEY BEAUMONT BRAITHWAITE A Little Song By An Inland Lake In a Grave-Yard Song : To- Day and To-Morrow This Is My Life Sandy Star The Mystery To the Sea From the Crowd Song of a Syrian Lace Seller A Song of Living The Eternal elf Golden Moonrise Sic Vita JOSEPH SEAMAN COTTER The Negro's Educational Creed On a Proud Man Destiny WALTER EVERETTE HAWKINS Wrong's Reward A Spade Is Just a Spade The Death of Justice H. CORDELIA Ray Dawn's Carol Our Task The Triple Benison EDWARD SMYTHE JONES A Song of Thanks BENJAMIN GRIFFITH BRAWLEY The Plan Chaucer The Bells of Notre Dame Ballade of One that Died before his Time FENTON JOHNSON In the Evening When I Die Love's Good -Night.. Death of Love JAMES DAVID CORROTHERS An Indignation Dinner The Negro Singer Paul Laurence Dunbar The Dream and the Song GEORGE REGINALD MARGETSON A Prayer Time Resurrection JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Fifty Years O Black and Unknown Bards "Lazy” Answer to Prayer Mother Night JOSEPH S. COTTER, JR. The Goal Rain Music Sonnet to Negro Soldiers And What Shall You Say ? JOHN WESLEY HOLLOWAY Discouraged Plowin' Cane Calling the Doctor The Corn Song CHARLES BERTRAM JOHNSON A Rain Song Old Things Ray E. DANDRIDGE Days Tracin' Tales Zalka Peetruza Jessie REDMOND FAUSET Oriflamme LESLIE PINCKNEY HILL The Wings of Oppression Tuskegee Freedom "So Quietly" Self -Determination To the Smartweed Christmas at Melrose The Symphony Spring CLAUDE McKay The Easter Flower The Tropics in New York Harlem Shadows In Bondage The Lynching Baptism Absence GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Isolation The Octoroon Little Son COUNTEE P. CULLEN The Touch SARAH COLLINS FERNANDIS A Vision BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL NOTES INDEX OF AUTHORS INDEX OF TITLES
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