"The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922) Ed. James W. Johnson
THE BOOK OF AMERICAN NEGRO POETRY
Chosen and Edited
With An Essay On The Negro's Creative Genius
by
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON
Author of "Fifty Years and Other Poems"
1922
Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc., New York
Printed in the U.S.A. by the Quinn & Boden Company, Rahway, N.J.
CONTENTS
PREFACE
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR
- A Negro Love Song
- Little Brown Baby
- Ships That Pass in the Night
- Lover's Lane
- The Debt
- The Haunted Oak
- When de Co'n Pone's Hot
- A Death Song
JAMES EDWIN CAMPBELL
- Negro Serenade
- De Cunjah Man
- Uncle Eph's Banjo Song
- Ol' Doc' Hyar
- When Ol' Sis' Judy Pray
- Compensation
JAMES D. CORROTHERS
- At the Closed Gate of Justice
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- The Negro Singer
- The Road to the Bow
- In the Matter of Two Men
- An Indignation Dinner
- Dream and the Song
DANIEL WEBSTER DAVIS
WILLIAM H. A. MOORE
W. E. BURGHARDT DU BOIS
GEORGE MARION McCLELLAN
WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE
- Sandy Star and Willie Gee
- I. Sculptured Worship
- II. Laughing It Out
- III. The Exit
- IV. The Way
- V. Onus Probandi
- Del Cascar
- Turn Me to My Yellow Leaves
- Ironic:LL.D
- Scintilla
- Sic Vita
- Rhapsody
GEORGE REGINALD MARGETSON
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON
- O Black and Unknown Bards
- Sence You Went Away
- The Creation
- The White Witch
- Mother Night
- O Southland
- Brothers
- Fifty Years
JOHN WESLEY HOLLOWAY
Miss Melerlee
Calling the Doctor
The Corn Song
Black Mammies
LESLIE PINCKNEY HILL
EDWARD SMYTH JONES
RAY G. DANDRIDGE
FENTON JOHNSON
R. NATHANIEL DETT
GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON
CLAUDE McKAY
- The Lynching
- If We Must Die
- To the White Fiends
- The Harlem Dancer
- Harlem Shadows
- After the Winter
- Spring in New Hampshire
- The Tired Worker
- The Barrier
- To O. E. A
- Flame-Heart
- Two-an'-Six
JOSEPH S. COTTER, JR.
- A Prayer
- And What Shall You Say
- Is It Because I Am Black?
- The Band of Gideon
- Rain Music
- Supplication
ROSCOE C. JAMISON
The Negro Soldiers
JESSIE FAUSET
ANNE SPENCER
ALEX ROGERS
WAVERLEY TURNER CARMICHAEL
ALICE DUNBAR-NELSON
CHARLES BERTRAM JOHNSON
OTTO LEYLAND BOHANAN
THEODORE HENRY SHACKLEFORD
LUCIAN B. WATKINS
BENJAMIN BRAWLEY
JOSHUA HENRY JONES, JR.