African American Poetry: A Digital Anthology

Religion

Contents of this tag:

  1. Frances E.W. Harper, "Idylls of the Bible" (1901)
  2. Countee Cullen, "Black Magdalens" (1925)
  3. Countee Cullen, "Judas Iscariot" (1925)
  4. Helene Johnson, "Fiat Lux" (1926)
  5. W.E.B. Du Bois, "A Litany of Atlanta" (1906)
  6. Josephine Heard, "Morning Glories" (Full Text) (1890)
  7. Countee Cullen, "Mary, Mother of Christ" (1924)
  8. James Weldon Johnson, "The Creation" (1920)
  9. Countee Cullen, "Dialogue" (1925)
  10. George Marion McClellan, "Poems" (1895)
  11. Countee Cullen, "Harsh World That Lashest Me (For Walter White)" (1925)
  12. Countee Cullen, "For Daughters of Magdalen" (1925)
  13. Frances E.W. Harper, "Poems" (Full Text) (1896)
  14. Langston Hughes, "The Childhood of Jimmy: Six Pictures in the Head of a Negro Boy" (1927)
  15. Countee Cullen, "For an Unsuccessful Sinner" (1925)
  16. Countee Cullen, "Bread and Wine" (1923)
  17. W.E.B. Du Bois, "The Burden of Black Women"/"Children of the Sphinx" (1914)
  18. Helene Johnson, "Magalu" (1926)
  19. Mary Weston Fordham, "Magnolia Leaves," (Full Text) (1897) (Preface by Booker T. Washington)
  20. W.E.B. Du Bois, "The Christmas Prayers of God"/"The Prayers of God" (1914)
  21. W.E.B. Du Bois, "A Hymn to the Peoples" (1911)
  22. A.D. Delaney, "Schakhe's Immortal Leap" (1907)
  23. Leslie Pinckney Hill, "Armageddon" (1915)
  24. O.M. Skinner, "From Afric's Sunny Shore" (1921)
  25. Mrs. J.M. Powell, "Praise the Living" (1908)
  26. Otto Bohanan, "God Gave Us Song" (1918)
  27. Frances E.W. Harper, "Moses: A Story of the Nile" (1870)
  28. Countee Cullen, "She of the Dancing Feet Sings (To Ottie Graham)" (1925)
  29. Countee Cullen, "For a Preacher" (1925)
  30. Countee Cullen, "Pagan Prayer" (1924)
  31. Langston Hughes, "Ma Lord" (1927)
  32. Countee Cullen, "Sacrament" (1925)
  33. Carrie Williams Clifford, "The Jim Crow Car" (1911)
  34. Esther A. Yates “Fettered Liberty” (1915)
  35. Esther Popel, "Kinship" (1925)
  36. Leslie Pinckney Hill, "The Teacher" (1911)
  37. Rev. Walter H. Brooks, "The 'Jim Crow' Car" (1900)
  38. Langston Hughes, "The Last Feast of Belshazzar" (1923)
  39. Leslie Pinckney Hill, "Certainty" (1914)
  40. E.L. Blackshear, "Africa--A Medley" (1904)
  41. John Wesley Work (J.W. Work), "It's Great To Be A Problem" (1920)
  42. Silas X. Floyd, "Beyond the Hill" (1907)
  43. Joseph S. Cotter, "To Bishop Hood" (1919)
  44. Poems by Leslie Pinckney Hill in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  45. Countee Cullen, "Simon the Cyrenian Speaks" (1925)
  46. Joseph S. Cotter, Jr., "O Little David, Play on Your Harp" (1918)
  47. Ethel Caution-Davis (Ethel M. Caution), "A Man" (1916)
  48. Countee Cullen, "Gods" (1925)
  49. Carrie Williams Clifford, "America" (1911)
  50. Countee Cullen, "To a Brown Girl (for Roberta)" (1925)
  51. Joseph S. Cotter, "The Prophet" (1920)
  52. Countee Cullen, "The Shroud of Color (For Llewellyn Ransom)" (1925)
  53. Clara Ann Thompson, "The Skeptic. Written on an Incident, Read in a Periodical" (1908)
  54. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "One of the Least of These, My Little One" (1922)
  55. Countee Cullen, For a Lady I Know" (1925)
  56. Joseph S. Cotter, Jr. "Band of Gideon: and Other Poems" (Full text) (1918)
  57. Lucian B. Watkins, "The Black Madonna And Her Babe" (1918)
  58. Benjamin Griffith Brawley, "The Freedom of the Free" (1913)
  59. Clara Ann Thompson, "Songs from the Wayside" (Full Text) (1908)
  60. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Crucifixion" (1925)
  61. Ida B. Luckie, "Retribution" (1916)
  62. Daniel Webster Davis, "I Can Trust" (1903)
  63. Fenton Johnson, "The Creed of the Slave" (1915
  64. Joseph S. Cotter, Jr., "And What Shall You Say?" (1927)
  65. Alice Dunbar-Nelson, "To the Negro Farmers of the United States" (1920)
  66. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Soul's Easter" (1925)
  67. Lucian B. Watkins, "To Our Friends" (1916)
  68. Peter E. Browne, "Content With My Own Calling" (1909)
  69. O.M. Skinner, "Lord, Lift Our Race" (1921)
  70. William Stanley Braithwaite, "Easter Day" (1901)
  71. W.E.B. Du Bois, "Unrest" (1920)
  72. Claude McKay, "Russian Cathedral" (1925)
  73. Fenton Johnson, "The Soul of Boston" (1915)
  74. Poems by George Marion McLellan included in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  75. Effie Lee Newsome, "Cantabile" (1925)
  76. Carrie Williams Clifford, "An Easter Message" (1920)
  77. James Weldon Johnson, "Noah Built the Ark" (1927)
  78. Poems in Jean Toomer's "Cane" (1923)
  79. Frances E.W. Harper, "The Present Age" (1896)
  80. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "My Little One" (1916)
  81. T. Thomas Fortune, "The Tree of Tears" (1909)
  82. Daniel Webster Davis, "A Rose" (1895)
  83. Fenton Johnson, "Slave Death Song" (1915)
  84. Frank B. Coffin, "Harriet Beecher Stowe's Works (Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1897)
  85. Poems by James Weldon Johnson in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  86. Mary J. Washington, "Peace on Earth" (1919)
  87. Robert J. Laurence, "The Christmas Sermon" (1912)
  88. Olivia Ward Bush Banks, "Treasured Moments" (1899)
  89. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Mate" (1916)
  90. Carrie Williams Clifford, "All Hail! Ye Colored Graduates" (1911)
  91. Ethel Trew Dunlap, "In Respect to Marcus Garvey" (1921)
  92. Benjamin Griffith Brawley, "Prayer-Bells" (1901)
  93. Carrie Williams Clifford, "An Easter Message" (1920)
  94. James Weldon Johnson, "Listen Lord: A Prayer" (1927)
  95. Fenton Johnson, "S. Coleridge Taylor" (1915)
  96. Raymond Garfield Dandridge, "Supplication" (1920)
  97. Poem by Edward Smyth Jones in "The book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  98. James Weldon Johnson, "Father, Father Abraham" (1913)
  99. Olivia Ward Bush Banks, "The Walk to Emmaus" (1899)
  100. L.A.J. Moorer, "Refining Fire" (1904)
  101. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "The Final Strain" (1917)
  102. Carrie Williams Clifford, "Marching to Conquest" (1911)
  103. Daniel Webster Davis, "Light in Darkness" (1895)
  104. Countee Cullen, "Colors" (1927) (individual poem)
  105. Race-Hate by Carrie Williams Clifford
  106. Leslie Pinckney Hill, "In the Still Night" (1917)
  107. Carrie Williams Clifford, "We'll Die For Liberty" (1911)
  108. Egbert Martin (Leo), "The Negro Village" (1883)
  109. Frances E.W. Harper, "The Syrophenecian Woman" (1854)
  110. James Weldon Johnson, "Prodigal Son" (1927)
  111. Jessie Fauset, "The Return" (1919)
  112. Robert E. Ford, "Brown Chapel, A Story in Verse" (full text) (1905)
  113. Poems by Joseph S. Cotter, Jr. in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  114. Robert J. Laurence, "The Christmas Sermon" (1912)
  115. Countee Cullen, "The Litany of the Dark People" (1927)
  116. Jonathan H. Brooks, "A Student I Know" (1927)
  117. Benjamin Griffith Brawley, "The Dawn" (1904)
  118. Frank Horne, "On Seeing Two Brown Boys in a Catholic Church" (1927)
  119. Carrie Williams Clifford, "Poems" (1921)
  120. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Guardianship" (1917)
  121. James Weldon Johnson, "Go Down Death: A Funeral Sermon" (1927)
  122. Helene Johnson, "Night" (1926)
  123. Poems by Anne Spencer in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  124. Effie Lee Newsome, "Magnificat" (1922)
  125. Countee Cullen, "Lines Written in Jerusalem" (1927)
  126. James D. Corrothers, "The Peace of God" (1904)
  127. Langston Hughes, "Prayer Meeting" (1923)
  128. Fenton Johnson, "Children of the Sun" (1913)
  129. James Weldon Johnson, "Let My People Go" (1927)
  130. Charles Bertram Johnson, "Easter" (1923)
  131. Countee Cullen, "At the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem" (1927)
  132. Edward Smyth Jones, "A Song of Thanks" (1920)
  133. Maggie Pogue Johnson, "Dedicated to W.H. Sheppard" (1910)
  134. Paul Laurence Dunbar, "Religion" (1896)
  135. B.B. Church, "In This Hour" (1919)
  136. James Weldon Johnson, "The Judgment Day" (1927)
  137. Esther Popel, "Credo" (1925)
  138. Poems by Waverly Turner Carmichael in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  139. Katherine Gillard, "Just a Little Tired" (1916)
  140. T. Bolden Steward, "The Nativity" (1902)
  141. Alvira Hazzard, "The Penitent" (1928)
  142. Langston Hughes, "A Song to a Negro Wash-woman" (1925)
  143. Ralph W. Tyler, "A Prayer" (1907)
  144. Langston Hughes, "Prayer" (1927)
  145. William H.A. Moore, "Sonnet" (1925)
  146. Daniel Webster Davis, "I Can Trust" (1903)
  147. Waring Cuney, "Hammer Song" (1928)
  148. Clara Ann Thompson, "The Skeptic. Written on an Incident, Read in a Periodical" (1908)
  149. James Weldon Johnson, "O Black and Unknown Bards" (1917)
  150. Frances E.W. Harper, "Ethiopia" (1849/1854)