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James Weldon Johnson, ed. (1871–1938). The Book of American Negro Poetry. 1922.

Index to Authors

Otto Leland Bohanan.  The Dawn’s Awake!
 The Washer-Woman
William Stanley Braithwaite.  Del Cascar
 Ironic: LL.D.
 Rhapsody
 Sandy Star and Willie Gee
 Scintilla
 Sic Vita
 Turn Me to My Yellow Leaves
Benjamin Brawley.  Chaucer
 My Hero
James Edwin Campbell.  Compensation
 De Cunjah Man
 Negro Serenade
 Ol’ Doc’ Hyar
 Uncle Eph’s Banjo Song
 When Ol’ Sis’ Judy Pray
Waverley Turner Carmichael.  Keep Me, Jesus, Keep Me
 Winter Is Coming
James D. Corrothers.  An Indignation Dinner
 At the Closed Gate of Justice
 Dream and the Song
 In the Matter of Two Men
 Paul Laurence Dunbar
 The Negro Singer
 The Road to the Bow
Joseph S. Cotter, Jr.  And What Shall You Say?
 A Prayer
 Is It Because I Am Black?
 Rain Music
 Supplication
 The Band of Gideon
Ray G. Dandridge.  De Drum Majah
 ’Ittle Touzle Head
 Sprin’ Fevah
 Time to Die
 Zalka Peetruza
Daniel Webster Davis.  Hog Meat
 ’Weh Down Souf
R. Nathaniel Dett.  The Rubinstein Staccato Etude
W. E. Burghardt Du Bois.  A Litany of Atlanta
Alice Dunbar-Nelson.  Sonnet
Paul Laurence Dunbar.  A Death Song
 A Negro Love Song
 Little Brown Baby
 Lover’s Lane
 Ships That Pass in the Night
 The Debt
 The Haunted Oak
 When de Co’n Pone’s Hot
Jessie Fauset.  Christmas Eve in France
 Dead Fires
 La Vie C’est la Vie
 Oblivion
 Oriflamme
Leslie Pinckney Hill.  Christmas at Melrose
 Summer Magic
 The Teacher
 Tuskegee
John Wesley Holloway.  Black Mammies
 Calling the Doctor
 Miss Melerlee
 The Corn Song
Roscoe C. Jamison.  The Negro Soldiers
Charles Bertram Johnson.  A Little Cabin
 Negro Poets
Fenton Johnson.  Children of the Sun
 The Banjo Player
 The New Day
 The Scarlet Woman
 Tired
Georgia Douglas Johnson.  I Want to Die While You Love Me
 Lost Illusions
 My Little Dreams
 The Heart of a Woman
 Welt
 Youth
James Weldon Johnson.  Brothers
 Fifty Years
 Mother Night
 O Black and Unknown Bards
 O Southland!
 Sence You Went Away
 The Creation
 The White Witch
Edward Smyth Jones.  A Song of Thanks
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.  To a Skull
George Reginald Margetson.  Stanzas from The Fledgling Bard and the Poetry Society
George Marion McClellan.  A Butterfly in Church
 Dogwood Blossoms
 The Feet of Judas
 The Hills of Sewanee
Claude McKay.  After the Winter
 Flame-Heart
 Harlem Shadows
 If We Must Die
 Spring in New Hampshire
 The Barrier
 The Harlem Dancer
 The Lynching
 The Tired Worker
 To O. E. A.
 To the White Fiends
 Two-an’-Six
William H. A. Moore.  Dusk Song
 It Was Not Fate
Alex Rogers.  The Rain Song
 Why Adam Sinned
Theodore Henry Shackelford.  The Big Bell in Zion
Anne Spencer.  At the Carnival
 Before the Feast of Shushan
 Dunbar
 The Wife-Woman
 Translation
Lucian B. Watkins.  Star of Ethiopia
 To Our Friends
 Two Points of View