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. Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (1921)
  3. Langston Hughes, "Proem" ["The Negro"] (1922)
  4. "The New Negro" (Essay by Alain Locke) (1925)
  5. Langston Hughes, "Dream Variation" (1924)
  6. William Stanley Braithwaite, "The Negro in American Literature" (1925)
  7. Countee Cullen, "Harsh World That Lashest Me (For Walter White)" (1925)
  8. Joseph S. Cotter, Jr., "A Sonnet to the Negro Soldiers" (1918)
  9. Countee Cullen, "Heritage" (1925)
  10. James D. Corrothers, "The Road to the Bow" (1913)
  11. Langston Hughes, "To the Black Beloved" (1925)
  12. Josephine Heard, "Morning Glories" (Full Text) (1890)
  13. Langston Hughes, "The Weary Blues" (1925)
  14. W.E.B. Du Bois, "The Christmas Prayers of God"/"The Prayers of God" (1914)
  15. Claude McKay, "In Bondage" (1921)
  16. Langston Hughes, "Aunt Sue's Stories" (1921)
  17. Claude McKay, "Africa" (1921)
  18. Angelina Weld Grimke, "The Black Finger" (1923)
  19. Countee Cullen, "To a Brown Boy" (1923)
  20. Langston Hughes, "As I Grew Older" (1926)
  21. Langston Hughes, "Lament for Dark Peoples" (1924)
  22. Claude McKay, "The Barrier" (1922)
  23. Langston Hughes, "Cross" (1925)
  24. Alain Locke, "The New Negro: Introduction" (1925)
  25. W.E.B. Du Bois, "The Burden of Black Women"/"Children of the Sphinx" (1914)
  26. James D. Corrothers, "The Negro Singer" (1913)
  27. Edward S. Silvera, "Jungle Taste" (1926)
  28. James Weldon Johnson, "Brothers" (1916)
  29. James Weldon Johnson, "To America" (1917)
  30. W.E.B. Du Bois, "Easter-Emancipation 1863-1913"/ "Children of the Moon" (1913)
  31. Andrea Razafkeriefo, "In Flanders Fields..." (1920)
  32. L. Mattes, "To the Negro" (1925)
  33. Countee Cullen, For a Lady I Know" (1925)
  34. Clara Ann Thompson, "Songs from the Wayside" (Full Text) (1908)
  35. Gwendolyn B. Bennett, "Heritage" (1923)
  36. Claude McKay, "If We Must Die" (1919)
  37. Gwendolyn B. Bennett, "To Usward" (1924)
  38. Countee Cullen, "Brown Boy to Brown Girl (Remembrance on a hill) (For Yolanda)" (1924)
  39. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Black Woman" (1922)
  40. Claude McKay, "The White City" (1921)
  41. Leslie Pinckney Hill, "Armageddon" (1915)
  42. Annette Brown, "The Wishing Game" (1920)
  43. Countee Cullen, "A Song of Praise (For one who praised his lady's being fair)" (1924)
  44. James A. Atkins, "The First Wireless Message" (1925)
  45. Langston Hughes, "Poem" ("The Night is Beautiful...") (1923)
  46. Olivia Ward Bush-Banks, "Honor's Appeal to Justice" (1899)
  47. Claude McKay, "Wild May" (1922)
  48. Charles Bertram Johnson, "Race Dreams" (1920)
  49. Ode to Ethiopia by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1895)
  50. Maggie Pogue Johnson, "The Negro Has a Chance" (1910)
  51. Claude McKay, "Harlem Shadows (poem)" (1922)
  52. B. Harrison Peyton, "Lo, the Dusk-Born Daughter!" (1916)
  53. William Pickens, "'The Crisis'" (1914)
  54. James D. Corrothers, "Up! Sing the Song" (1913)
  55. Richard Bruce (Bruce Nugent), "Shadow" (1925)
  56. Claude McKay, "Alfonso, Dressing to Wait at Table" (1922)
  57. The South by Langston Hughes
  58. Epilogue ("I , Too, Sing America...") by Langston Hughes
  59. Claude McKay, "Heritage" (1922)
  60. Countee Cullen, "Yet Do I Marvel" (1925)
  61. James D. Corrothers, "In the Matter of Two Men" (1915)
  62. Claude McKay, "Outcast" (1922)
  63. Jessie Fauset, "Oriflamme" (1920)
  64. James D. Corrothers, "Listen, O Isles!" (1914)
  65. Countee Cullen, "Near White" (1925)
  66. Countee Cullen, "Incident (for Eric Walrond)" (1925)
  67. Gwendolyn B. Bennett, "To a Dark Girl" (1927)
  68. W.E.B. Du Bois, "Song of the Smoke" (1907)
  69. James D. Corrothers, "The Black Man's Soul" (1915)
  70. Countee Cullen, "Simon the Cyrenian Speaks" (1925)
  71. James Weldon Johnson, "Fifty Years" (1913)
  72. J.W. Work, "It's Great to Be a Problem" (1920)
  73. Sarah Lee Brown Fleming, "Clouds and Sunshine" (Full Text) (1920)
  74. Benjamin Griffith Brawley, "The Problem And Other Poems" (1905) (full text)
  75. In Memory of Col. Charles Young by Countee Cullen
  76. Countee Cullen, "The Shroud of Color (For Llewellyn Ransom)" (1925)
  77. Claude McKay, "America" (1922)
  78. Claude McKay, "Harlem Dancer" (1917)
  79. Edward S. Silvera, "Color" (1927)
  80. Countee Cullen, "Pagan Prayer" (1924)
  81. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Potency" (1919)
  82. Thomas R. Reid, Jr., "White 'Civilization'" (1925)
  83. Countee Cullen, "The Ballad of a Brown Girl" (1927)
  84. Orlando C.W. Taylor, "In Flanders Fields--An Echo" (1920)
  85. Ethel Trew Dunlap, "In Respect to Marcus Garvey" (1921)
  86. Claude McKay, "Invocation" (1917)
  87. Poems by Ray G. Dandridge in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  88. Langston Hughes, "Brothers" (1924)
  89. Helene Johnson, "Fulfillment" (1926)
  90. Josephine Heard "Welcome to Hon. Frederick Douglass" (1888)
  91. Langston Hughes, "Winter Sweetness" (1921)
  92. Ethel Caution Davis, "A Man" (1916)
  93. Helene Johnson, "Ah My Race" (1925)
  94. Angelina Weld Grimke, "Tenebris" (1927)
  95. Arthur Tunnell, "On Segregation" (1914)
  96. T. Thomas Fortune, "Nat Turner" (1884)
  97. Langston Hughes, "America" (1925)
  98. Poems by Charles Bertram Johnson in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  99. Poems by Fenton Johnson in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  100. Walter Everett Hawkins, "Child of the Night" (1924)
  101. Claude McKay, "I Know My Soul" (1922)
  102. Lucian B. Watkins, "Little Black Boy" (1921)
  103. Two Who Crossed a Line (She Crosses) by Countee Cullen
  104. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "My Little One" (1916)
  105. E. Lucien Waithe, "To a Brown Child" (1925)
  106. Enslaved by Claude McKay
  107. Helene Johnson, "The Road" (1926)
  108. Poems by Claude McKay in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  109. Arna Bontemps, "God Give to Men" (1925)
  110. Poems by Lucian B. Watkins in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  111. To One Coming North by Claude McKay
  112. Claude McKay, "Exhortation: Summer 1919" (1920)
  113. James Weldon Johnson, "The Black Mammy" (1915)
  114. Carrie Williams Clifford, "Poems" (1921)
  115. Two Who Crossed a Line (He Crosses) by Countee Cullen
  116. Edwin J. Morgan, "Rhapsody" (1917)
  117. Langston Hughes, "Lullaby" (1926)
  118. Helene Johnson, "Magalu" (1926)
  119. Effie Lee Newsome (Mary Effie Lee), "Morning Light" (1918)
  120. Poems by Joseph S. Cotter, Jr. in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  121. Arna Bontemps, "Homing" (1926)
  122. Gwendolyn B. Bennett, "Song" (1925)
  123. Effie Lee Newsome, "The Bronze Legacy (To a Brown Boy)" (1922)
  124. James Edward McCall, "The New Negro" (1927)
  125. Paul Laurence Dunbar, "Frederick Douglass" (1895)
  126. Roscoe C. Jamison, "Negro Soldiers" (1917
  127. Arna Bontemps, "Dirge" (1926)
  128. O.M. Skinner, "Lord, Lift Our Race" (1921)
  129. Clara Burrill Bruce, "We Who Are Dark" (1918)
  130. Fenton Johnson, "S. Coleridge Taylor" (1915)
  131. Langston Hughes, "Fascination" (1924)
  132. William H.A. Moore, "Sonnet" (1925)
  133. Fenton Johnson, "Children of the Sun" (1913)
  134. To My Fairer Brethren by Countee Cullen
  135. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Heritage" (1917)
  136. Langston Hughes, "Shadows" (1923)
  137. Arna Bontemps, "Holiday" (1926)
  138. Ethel Trew Dunlap, "Four Million Strong" (1921)
  139. John Wesley Work (J.W. Work), "It's Great To Be A Problem" (1920)
  140. Fenton Johnson, "Ethiopia" (1915
  141. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Crucifixion" (1925)
  142. Annie Virginia Culbertson, "The Origin of White Folks" (1920)
  143. Clara G. Stillman, "Dark Dream" (1923)
  144. Langston Hughes, "Liars" (1925)
  145. Langston Hughes, "Poem" (1927)
  146. James Weldon Johnson, "The White Witch" (1915)
  147. Paul Laurence Dunbar, "The Colored Soldiers" (1895)
  148. Effie Lee Newsome, "Negro Street Serenade (In the South)" (1926)
  149. Tercentenary of the Landing of Slaves at Jamestown 1619-1919 by Carrie Williams Clifford (1922)
  150. H. Percival Welseh, "A Call to Race Manhood" (1921)
  151. James Weldon Johnson, "O Southland!" (1917)
  152. Edward S. Silvera, "White Vanity" (1926)
  153. Carrie Williams Clifford, "Frederick Douglass" (1917)
  154. Yetta Kay Stoddard, "E Pluribus Unum" (1920)
  155. Esther A. Yates “Fettered Liberty” (1915)
  156. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "My Son" (1924)
  157. The City's Love by Claude McKay
  158. Paul Laurence Dunbar, "We Wear the Mask" (1895)
  159. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Old Black Men" (1927)
  160. Langston Hughes, "Ruby Brown" (1926)
  161. O.M. Skinner, "Give Me the Rainbow" (1921)
  162. Charles Frederick White, "To Chicago" (1907)
  163. Carrie Williams Clifford, "A Kindergarten Song" (1920)
  164. J. Harvey L. Baxter, "Paint Me A God" (1927)
  165. Anita Scott Coleman, "The Colorist" (1925)
  166. Joseph S. Cotter, Jr. "Band of Gideon: and Other Poems" (Full text) (1918)
  167. Langston Hughes, "A Song to a Negro Wash-woman" (1925)
  168. P.M. Claudius de Suze, "Marcus Garvey" (1921)
  169. Eloise A. Bibb, "In Memoriam Frederick Douglass" (1895)
  170. Wendell Phillips Gladden, Jr. "May-Queen" (1920)
  171. George Reginald Margetson, "The Surge of Life" (1925)
  172. Countee Cullen, "Uncle Jim" (1927)
  173. James Weldon Johnson, "O Black and Unknown Bards" (1917)
  174. Lucian B. Watkins, "The Black Madonna And Her Babe" (1918)
  175. W.E.B. Du Bois, "Children of the Moon" (1920)
  176. Aurelia S. Caine, "The Colored Child's Lamentations" (1921)
  177. James D. Corrothers, Poems included in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  178. Roasalie M. Jonas, "Crowded Out" (1924)
  179. Fenton Johnson, "Douglass" (1915)
  180. Madeline G. Allison, "Children of the Sun" (1920)
  181. Tableau (For Donald Duff) by Countee Cullen
  182. Countee Cullen, "The Litany of the Dark People" (1927)
  183. Paul Laurence Dunbar, "The Unsung Heroes" (1903)
  184. Carrie Williams Clifford, "Our Women of the Canteen" (1922)
  185. Thomas H. Brooks, "The U.N.I.A." (1921)
  186. Poems by James Weldon Johnson in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  187. Wallace Thurman, "The Last Citadel" (1926)
  188. Daniel Webster Davis, "The Voice of the Negro" (1904)
  189. H. Cordelia Ray, "In Memoriam (Frederick Douglass)" (1910)
  190. Annette Browne, "Little Brown Boy" (1921)
  191. Anne Spencer, "White Things" (1923)