TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnson,James Weldon
TI  - The book of American Negro poetry,
AV  - PS591.N4 J6 1931
U1  - 811.08 
PY  - 1931///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Harcourt, Brace and company
KW  - American poetry
KW  - Afro-American authors
KW  - Afro-Americans
KW  - Poetry
N1  - Includes indexes; "Revised edition."; "Books suggested for collateral reading": p. 295-296; A Negro love song ; Little brown baby ; Ere sleep comes down ; Ships that pass in the night ; Lover's lane ; The debt ; The haunted oak ; When de co'n pone's hot ; A death song /Paul Laurence Dunbar --  Negro serenade ; De cunjah man ; Uncle Eph's banjo song ; Ol' Doc' Hyar ; When ol' Sis' Judy pray ; Compensation / James Edwin Campbell --  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 / James David Corrothers --  'Weh down souf' ; Hog meat / Daniel Webster Davis --  Dusk song ; It was not fate / William H.A. Moore --  A litany of Atlanta / W.E. Burghardt Du Bois --; The hills of Sewanee ; Dogwood blossoms ; A butterfly in church ; The feet of Judas / George Marion McClellan --  Sandy Star and Willie Gee: Sculptured worship, Laughing out loud, Exit, The way, Onus Probandi ; Del Cascar ; Turn me to my yellow leaves ; Ironic: LL.D. ; Scintilla ; Sic vita ; Rhapsody / William Stanley Braithwaite --  Stanzas from: The Fledgling Bard and the Poetry Society / George Reginald Margetson --  The creation ; The white witch ; Sence you went away ; O Black and unknown bards ; My city ; Listen, Lord ; The glory of the day was in her face ; Brothers ; Stanzas from: Fifty years / James Weldon Johnson --  Miss Melerlee ; Calling the doctor ; The corn song ; Black mammies / John Wesley Holloway --; Children of the sun ; The new day ; Tired ; The banjo player ; The scarlet woman ; Lines from: The Vision of Lazarus / Fenton Johnson --  A song of thanks / Edward Smyth Jones --  My hero ; Chaucer / Benjamin Brawley --  Tuskegee ; Christmas at Melrose ; Summer magic ; The teacher ; "So quietly" / Leslie Pinckney Hill --  Why Adam sinned ; The rain song / Alex Rogers --  Keep me, Jesus, keep me ; Winter be coming / Waverly Turner Carmichael --  Sonnet / Alice Dunbar Nelson --  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 ; Commemoration ; Two-an'-six / Claude McKay --; The heart of a woman ; Youth ; Lost illusions ; I want to die while you love me ; Welt ; My little dreams / Georgia Douglas Johnson --  A prayer ; And what shall you say? ; Is it because I am Black? ; The band of Gideon ; Rain music ; Supplication / Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr. --  Time to die ; 'ittle touzle head ; Zalka Peetruza ; Sprin' fevah ; De drum majah / Ray Garfield Dandridge --  The Negro soldiers / Roscoe Conkling Jamison --  The Rubenstein staccato etude / R. Nathaniel Dett --  A little cabin ; Negro poets / Chates Bertram Johnson --  To a skull / Joshua Henry Jones, Jr. --  The dawn's awake! ; The washer-woman / Otto Leland Bohanan --  La vie c'est la vie ; Christmas eve in France ; Dead fires ; Oriflamme ; Oblivion / Jessie Redmond Fauset --  The big bell in Zion / Theodore Henry Shackelford --; Star of Ethiopia ; Two points of view ; To our friends / Lucian B. Watkins --  Before the feast of Shushan ; At the carnival ; The wife-woman ; Translation ; Dunbar / Anne Spenser --  Heritage ; Youth sings a song of rosebuds ; To John Keats, poet, at springtime ; From the dark tower ; Timid lover; Uncle Jim ; Black Magdalens ; Tableau ; Yet do I marvel / Countee Cullen --  Brass spitoons ; Jazzonia ; Cross ; Po' boy blues ; Hard Daddy ; Esthete in Harlem ; Jazz band in a Parisian cabaret ; As I grew older ; The Negro speaks of rivers ; Fantasy in purple / Langston Hughes --  To a dark girl ; Nocturne ; Sonnet-2 ; heritage ; Hatred / Gwendolyn Bennett --  Odyssey of Big Boy ; Southern road ; Memphis blues ; Long gone ; Slim Greer ; Strong men ; Effie / Sterling A. Brown --; A Black man talks of reaping ; Southern mansion ; Nocturne of the wharves ; Blight ; Nocturne at Bethesda ; God give to men / Arna Bontemps --  Nigger-a chant for children ; More letters found near a suicide ; On seeing two brown boys in a Catholic church ; Toast ; To a persistent Phantom ; Immortality / Frank Horne --  Poem ; The road ; Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem ; Remember not ; Invocation / Helene Johnson --  No images ; Threnody ; Conception ; Troubled Jesus ; Crucifixion ; Wake cry ; Burial of the young love ; Finis / Waring Cuney --  Northboun' / Lucy Ariel Williams --; Appendix: Placido's Sonnet to his mother: Despida a mi madre (En la capilla) ; Farewell to my mother (In the chapel), translated by William Cullen Bryant ; Placido's farewell to his mother (Written in the chapel of the Hospital de Santa Cristina on the night before his execution), translated by James Weldon Johnson
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