African American Poetry: A Digital Anthology

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Contents of this tag:

  1. Leslie Pinckney Hill, "Wings of Oppression" (Full Text) (1921)
  2. William Stanley Braithwaite, "The Negro in American Literature" (1925)
  3. James D. Corrothers, "The Road to the Bow" (1913)
  4. Langston Hughes, "To the Black Beloved" (1925)
  5. Josephine Heard, "Morning Glories" (Full Text) (1890)
  6. Countee Cullen, "Harsh World That Lashest Me (For Walter White)" (1925)
  7. W.E.B. Du Bois, "The Burden of Black Women"/"Children of the Sphinx" (1914)
  8. James D. Corrothers, "The Negro Singer" (1913)
  9. Edward S. Silvera, "Jungle Taste" (1926)
  10. James Weldon Johnson, "Brothers" (1916)
  11. James Weldon Johnson, "To America" (1917)
  12. W.E.B. Du Bois, "The Christmas Prayers of God"/"The Prayers of God" (1914)
  13. Claude McKay, "In Bondage" (1921)
  14. Claude McKay, "Africa" (1921)
  15. Langston Hughes, "Aunt Sue's Stories" (1921)
  16. Angelina Weld Grimke, "The Black Finger" (1923)
  17. Countee Cullen, "To a Brown Boy" (1923)
  18. Langston Hughes, "As I Grew Older" (1926)
  19. Langston Hughes, "Lament for Dark Peoples" (1924)
  20. Olivia Ward Bush-Banks, "Honor's Appeal to Justice" (1899)
  21. Langston Hughes, "Poem" ("The Night is Beautiful...") (1923)
  22. Claude McKay, "Wild May" (1922)
  23. Maggie Pogue Johnson, "The Negro Has a Chance" (1910)
  24. Claude McKay, "Harlem Shadows (poem)" (1922)
  25. James D. Corrothers, "Up! Sing the Song" (1913)
  26. Claude McKay, "Heritage" (1922)
  27. James D. Corrothers, "In the Matter of Two Men" (1915)
  28. Claude McKay, "Outcast" (1922)
  29. James D. Corrothers, "Listen, O Isles!" (1914)
  30. Countee Cullen, "Near White" (1925)
  31. Countee Cullen, "Incident (for Eric Walrond)" (1925)
  32. W.E.B. Du Bois, "Song of the Smoke" (1907)
  33. James D. Corrothers, "The Black Man's Soul" (1915)
  34. Countee Cullen, "Simon the Cyrenian Speaks" (1925)
  35. J.W. Work, "It's Great to Be a Problem" (1920)
  36. Countee Cullen, "The Shroud of Color (For Llewellyn Ransom)" (1925)
  37. Claude McKay, "Harlem Dancer" (1917)
  38. Edward S. Silvera, "Color" (1927)
  39. Countee Cullen, "Pagan Prayer" (1924)
  40. L. Mattes, "To the Negro" (1925)
  41. Andrea Razafkeriefo, "In Flanders Fields..." (1920)
  42. Countee Cullen, For a Lady I Know" (1925)
  43. Clara Ann Thompson, "Songs from the Wayside" (Full Text) (1908)
  44. Claude McKay, "The White City" (1921)
  45. Annette Brown, "The Wishing Game" (1920)
  46. Countee Cullen, "A Song of Praise (For one who praised his lady's being fair)" (1924)
  47. James A. Atkins, "The First Wireless Message" (1925)
  48. Arna Bontemps, "Dirge" (1926)
  49. O.M. Skinner, "Lord, Lift Our Race" (1921)
  50. Clara Burrill Bruce, "We Who Are Dark" (1918)
  51. Fenton Johnson, "S. Coleridge Taylor" (1915)
  52. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Heritage" (1917)
  53. Langston Hughes, "Fascination" (1924)
  54. William H.A. Moore, "Sonnet" (1925)
  55. Fenton Johnson, "Children of the Sun" (1913)
  56. Langston Hughes, "Shadows" (1923)
  57. Arna Bontemps, "Holiday" (1926)
  58. Ethel Trew Dunlap, "Four Million Strong" (1921)
  59. Clara G. Stillman, "Dark Dream" (1923)
  60. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Crucifixion" (1925)
  61. Langston Hughes, "Liars" (1925)
  62. Langston Hughes, "Poem" (1927)
  63. James Weldon Johnson, "The White Witch" (1915)
  64. Effie Lee Newsome, "Negro Street Serenade (In the South)" (1926)
  65. James Weldon Johnson, "O Southland!" (1917)
  66. Edward S. Silvera, "White Vanity" (1926)
  67. Carrie Williams Clifford, "Frederick Douglass" (1917)
  68. Yetta Kay Stoddard, "E Pluribus Unum" (1920)
  69. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "My Son" (1924)
  70. The City's Love by Claude McKay
  71. Paul Laurence Dunbar, "We Wear the Mask" (1895)
  72. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Old Black Men" (1927)
  73. Langston Hughes, "Ruby Brown" (1926)
  74. O.M. Skinner, "Give Me the Rainbow" (1921)
  75. Charles Frederick White, "To Chicago" (1907)
  76. Carrie Williams Clifford, "A Kindergarten Song" (1920)
  77. J. Harvey L. Baxter, "Paint Me A God" (1927)
  78. Anita Scott Coleman, "The Colorist" (1925)
  79. Langston Hughes, "A Song to a Negro Wash-woman" (1925)
  80. P.M. Claudius de Suze, "Marcus Garvey" (1921)
  81. Eloise A. Bibb, "In Memoriam Frederick Douglass" (1895)
  82. Wendell Phillips Gladden, Jr. "May-Queen" (1920)
  83. George Reginald Margetson, "The Surge of Life" (1925)
  84. Countee Cullen, "Uncle Jim" (1927)
  85. James Weldon Johnson, "O Black and Unknown Bards" (1917)
  86. James D. Corrothers, Poems included in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  87. W.E.B. Du Bois, "Children of the Moon" (1920)
  88. Aurelia S. Caine, "The Colored Child's Lamentations" (1921)
  89. Roasalie M. Jonas, "Crowded Out" (1924)
  90. Fenton Johnson, "Douglass" (1915)
  91. Madeline G. Allison, "Children of the Sun" (1920)
  92. Carrie Williams Clifford, "Our Women of the Canteen" (1922)
  93. Countee Cullen, "The Litany of the Dark People" (1927)
  94. Paul Laurence Dunbar, "The Unsung Heroes" (1903)
  95. Poems by James Weldon Johnson in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  96. Thomas H. Brooks, "The U.N.I.A." (1921)
  97. Wallace Thurman, "The Last Citadel" (1926)
  98. Daniel Webster Davis, "The Voice of the Negro" (1904)
  99. H. Cordelia Ray, "In Memoriam (Frederick Douglass)" (1910)
  100. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Potency" (1919)
  101. Thomas R. Reid, Jr., "White 'Civilization'" (1925)
  102. Orlando C.W. Taylor, "In Flanders Fields--An Echo" (1920)
  103. Claude McKay, "Invocation" (1917)
  104. Poems by Ray G. Dandridge in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  105. Ethel Trew Dunlap, "In Respect to Marcus Garvey" (1921)
  106. Josephine Heard "Welcome to Hon. Frederick Douglass" (1888)
  107. Langston Hughes, "Winter Sweetness" (1921)
  108. Helene Johnson, "Ah My Race" (1925)
  109. Angelina Weld Grimke, "Tenebris" (1927)
  110. T. Thomas Fortune, "Nat Turner" (1884)
  111. Langston Hughes, "America" (1925)
  112. Poems by Charles Bertram Johnson in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  113. Walter Everett Hawkins, "Child of the Night" (1924)
  114. Claude McKay, "I Know My Soul" (1922)
  115. Lucian B. Watkins, "Little Black Boy" (1921)
  116. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "My Little One" (1916)
  117. E. Lucien Waithe, "To a Brown Child" (1925)
  118. Poems by Claude McKay in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  119. Arna Bontemps, "God Give to Men" (1925)
  120. Poems by Lucian B. Watkins in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  121. Edwin J. Morgan, "Rhapsody" (1917)
  122. Claude McKay, "Exhortation: Summer 1919" (1920)
  123. James Weldon Johnson, "The Black Mammy" (1915)
  124. Carrie Williams Clifford, "Poems" (1921)
  125. Langston Hughes, "Lullaby" (1926)
  126. Effie Lee Newsome (Mary Effie Lee), "Morning Light" (1918)
  127. Effie Lee Newsome, "The Bronze Legacy (To a Brown Boy)" (1922)
  128. Poems by Joseph S. Cotter, Jr. in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  129. Arna Bontemps, "Homing" (1926)
  130. Gwendolyn B. Bennett, "Song" (1925)
  131. James Edward McCall, "The New Negro" (1927)