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