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