African American Poetry: A Digital Anthology

Black Beauty

Poems by African American writers celebrating Blackness, specifically in connection with aesthetics and desire.

Contents of this tag:

  1. Angelina Weld Grimke, "The Black Finger" (1923)
  2. B. Harrison Peyton, "Lo, the Dusk-Born Daughter!" (1916)
  3. Countee Cullen, "To a Brown Boy" (1923)
  4. Gwendolyn B. Bennett, "To a Dark Girl" (1927)
  5. Chapter 4a: Reinventing Blackness in the Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1928
  6. Waring Cuney, "No Images" (1927)
  7. Edward S. Silvera , "Song to a Dark Girl" (1927)
  8. Gladys May Casely-Hayford, Biographical Note in "Caroling Dusk" (1927)
  9. Omah Neal, "The Colored Girl" (1908)
  10. Langston Hughes, "Song (Lovely, Dark, and Lonely One...)" (1925)
  11. Aaron Belford Thompson, "Our Girls" (1899)
  12. Aaron Belford Thompson, "The Song Bird" (1899)
  13. Aaron Belford Thompson, "The Lock of Hair" (1899)
  14. Blanche Taylor Dickinson, "Revelation" (1927)
  15. William Stanley Braithwaite, "In My Lady's Praise" (1903)