African American Poetry: A Digital Anthology

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Contents of this tag:

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