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