African American Poetry: A Digital Anthology

Religion

Contents of this tag:

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