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Title: The Book of American Negro Poetry

Author: Edited by James Weldon Johnson

Release Date: April 10, 2004 [EBook #11986]

Language: English

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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
'Weh Down Souf
Hog Meat

WILLIAM H. A. MOORE
Dusk Song
It Was Not Fate

W. E. BURGHARDT DU BOIS
A Litany of Atlanta

GEORGE MARION McCLELLAN
Dogwood Blossoms
A Butterfly in Church
The Hills of Sewanee
The Feet of Judas

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
Stanzas from The Fledgling Bard and the Poetry Society

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