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  1. Langston Hughes, "The Weary Blues" (1925)
  2. Langston Hughes, "Fine Clothes to the Jew" (1927) (Full Text)
  3. Langston Hughes, "To Midnight Nan at Leroy's" (1926)
  4. Langston Hughes, "Harlem Night Club" (1926)
  5. Langston Hughes, "Jazzonia" (1923)
  6. Langston Hughes, "Negro Dancers" (1925)
  7. Langston Hughes, "Blues Fantasy" (1926)
  8. Langston Hughes, "Danse Africaine" (1926)
  9. Langston Hughes, "Song for a Banjo Dance" (1922)
  10. Langston Hughes, "Lenox Avenue: Midnight" (1926)
  11. Langston Hughes, "Summer Night" (1925)
  12. Langston Hughes, "The Cat and the Saxophone" (1925)
  13. Langston Hughes, "Young Singer" (1923)
  14. Langston Hughes, "Cabaret" (1923)
  15. Langston Hughes, "To a Black Dancer in 'The Little Savoy'" (1926)
  16. Langston Hughes, "Fantasy in Purple" (1926)
  17. George Franklin Proctor, "A Poster" (1925)
  18. Paul Laurence Dunbar, "Majors and Minors" (Full Text) (1895)
  19. Langston Hughes, "Harlem Night Song" (1926)
  20. James D. Corrothers, "The Negro Singer" (1913)
  21. Zora Neale Hurston, "Color Struck" (Full text of one-act play) (1926)
  22. Langston Hughes, "Aunt Sue's Stories" (1921)
  23. James D. Corrothers, "The Black Man's Soul" (1915)
  24. Claude McKay, "Negro Dancers" (1922)
  25. Mae V. Cowdery (Mae Cowdery), "Longings" (1927)
  26. Fenton Johnson, "Visions of the Dusk" (Full text) (1915)
  27. James D. Corrothers, "Up! Sing the Song" (1913)
  28. Countee Cullen, "Colored Blues Singer" (1927)
  29. James D. Corrothers, "Listen, O Isles!" (1914)
  30. Langston Hughes, "Homesick Blues" (1927)
  31. Otto Bohanan, "God Gave Us Song" (1918)
  32. Langston Hughes, "To a Negro Jazz Band in a Parisian Cabaret" (1925)
  33. Esther Popel, "Credo" (1925)
  34. Roscoe Wright, "Jazz Musician" (1930)
  35. Poems by James Weldon Johnson in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  36. Mary Washington, "Jubilee Singers" (1928)
  37. Langston Hughes, "A Song to a Negro Wash-woman" (1925)
  38. Lewis Alexander, "Day and Night" (1927)
  39. Poems by Ray G. Dandridge in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  40. Frances E.W. Harper, "Songs For The People" (1895)
  41. Eva A. Jessye, "The Singer" (1923)
  42. Poems by Fenton Johnson in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  43. Otto Bohanan, "Paean" (1915)
  44. Gwendolyn B. Bennett, "Song" (1925)
  45. George Leonard Allen, "To a Negro Musician" (1927)
  46. Helene Johnson, "Poem" (1927)
  47. Poem by R. Nathaniel Dett in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  48. Langston Hughes, "Nocturne for the Drums" (1927)
  49. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Essence" (1916)
  50. George Leonard Allen, "To Melody" (1927)
  51. M.V. Cuthbert (Marion Cuthbert, Marion Vera Cuthbert), "Black Flute" (1928)
  52. Poems by Claude McKay in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  53. Roscoe Wright, "When a Jazz Band Plays" (1928)
  54. Aaron Belford Thompson, "The Song Bird" (1899)
  55. James Weldon Johnson, "O Black and Unknown Bards" (1917)
  56. Langston Hughes, "Jazz Girl" (1927)
  57. Lucian Watkins, "Samuel Coleridge Taylor--Musician" (1917)
  58. Waring Cuney, "Railway Club" (1929)
  59. Lewis Alexander, "South Street" (1927)
  60. Waring Cuney, "On With the Dirge" (1929)
  61. Effie Lee Newsome, "Negro Street Serenade (In the South)" (1926)
  62. Langston Hughes, "Minstrel Man" (1925)
  63. Poems in Jean Toomer's "Cane" (1923)
  64. Fenton Johnson, "Slave Death Song" (1915)
  65. Waring Cuney, "Jazz Band" (1929)
  66. Fenton Johnson, "S. Coleridge Taylor" (1915)
  67. Roscoe Wright, "When a Jazz Band Plays" (1928)
  68. Arna Bontemps, "Jazz" (1928)
  69. Olivia Ward Bush Banks, "Treasured Moments" (1899)
  70. Roscoe Wright, "Dark Communicant" (1930)
  71. James D. Corrothers, Poems included in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  72. J.E. McCall, "When Sampson Sings" (1928)