Negro Poets and Their Poems :: INDEX OF TITLES

INDEX OF TITLES

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, V, W, Y.

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Apology for Wayward Jim.—James C. Hughes,	188
Ask Me Why I Love You.—W. E. Hawkins,	125
A Song.—Roscoe C. Jamison,	193
As the Old Year Passed.—William Moore,	112
At the Closed Gate of Justice.—J. D. Corrothers,	88
At the Carnival.—Mrs. Anne Spencer,	158
At Niagara.—R. Nathaniel Dett,	216
At the Spring Dawn.—Miss Angelina W. GrimkÉ,	154
Autumn Sadness.—W. S. Braithwaite,	108
Band of Gideon, The.—Joseph S. Cotter, Jr.,	83
Black Mammy, The.—J. W. Johnson,	236
Black Violinist, The.—Winston Allen,	230
Bomb Thrower, The.—Will Sexton,	197
Boy and the Ideal, The.—Joseph S. Cotter, Sr.,	74
Brothers.—J. H. Jones, Jr.,	118
Castles in the Air.—Roscoe C. Jamison,	193
Christmas Cheer.—Miss Corinne E. Lewis,	255
Chicken in the Bread Tray.—Folk Song,	15
Compensation.—Joseph S. Cotter, Jr.,	82
Counting Out.—J. Mord Allen,	48
Credo.—W. E. Hawkins,	119
Dawn.—Miss Angelina W. GrimkÉ,	153
Daybreak.—G. M. McClellan,	246
Death of Justice, The.—W. E. Hawkins,	123
De Innah Part.—R. G. Dandridge,	221
Don’t-Care Negro, The.—Joseph S. Cotter, Sr.,	220
Dream and the Song, The.—J. D. Corrothers,	85
Dreams of the Dreamer, The.—Mrs. Georgia Douglas Johnson,	148
Dunbar.—J. D. Corrothers,	37
Dunbar and Cotter.—J. E. French,	253
Easter Message, An.—Mrs. Carrie W. Clifford,	240
Ebon Maid.—L. B. Watkins,	252
Edict, The.—Roscoe C. Jamison,	194
El Beso.—Miss Angelina W. GrimkÉ,	154
Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes.—Paul Laurence Dunbar,	41
Eternity.—R. G. Dandridge,	172
Expectancy.—William Moore,	112
Facts.—R. G. Dandridge,	172
Fattening Frogs for Snakes.—Folk Song,	117
Feet of Judas, The.—G. M. McClellan,	177
Flag of the Free.—E. W. Jones,	167
For You Sweetheart.—L. M. Fisher,	189
Foscati.—W. S. Braithwaite,	108
Goodbye, Old Year.—J. H. Jones, Jr.,	256
Harlem Dancer, The.—Claude McKay,	128
Heart of the World, The.—J. H. Jones, Jr.,	117
Hero of the Road.—W. E. Hawkins,	122
Hills of Sewanee, The.—G. M. McClellan,	176
Hopelessness.—Roscoe C. Jamison,	195
If We Must Die.—Claude McKay,	241
In Bondage.—Claude McKay,	129
In Memory of Katie Reynolds.—G. M. McClellan,	178
In Spite of Death.—W. E. Hawkins,	62
In the Heart of a Rose.—G. M. McClellan,	54
I Played on David’s Harp.—Fenton Johnson,	65
I See and Am Satisfied.—Kelly Miller,	207
I Sit and Sew.—Mrs. Alice Dunbar-Nelson,	145
It’s All Through Life.—W. T. Carmichael,	53
It’s a Long Way.—W. S. Braithwaite,	106
I’ve Loved and Lost.—L. B. Watkins,	237
Juba.—Folk Song,	16
Life.—Paul Laurence Dunbar,	43
Life of the Spirit, The.—Charles H. Conner,	210
Light of Victory.—George Reginald Margetson,	110
Lights at Carney’s Point, The.—Mrs. Alice Dunbar-Nelson,	146
Litany of Atlanta, A.—W. E. B. DuBois,	202
Loneliness.—Miss Winifred Virginia Jordan,	56
Lynching, The.—Claude McKay,	128
Mammy’s Baby Scared.—W. T. Carmichael,	219
Mater Dolorosa.—L. P. Hill,	134
Message to the Modern Pharaohs.—L. B. Watkins,	239
Months, The.—Miss H. Cordelia Ray,	257
Mother, The.—Mrs. Georgia Douglas Johnson,	249
My Lady’s Lips.—J. W. Johnson,	226
My People.—C. B. Johnson,	95
Mulatto’s Song, The.—Fenton Johnson,	101
Mulatto to His Critics, The.—Joseph S. Cotter, Jr.,	67
Nation’s Greatness, A.—Edwin G. Riley,	262
Negro, The.—Langston Hughes,	200
Negro, The.—Claude McKay,	244
Negro Child, The.—Joseph S. Cotter, Sr.,	248
Negro Church, The.—Andrea Razafkeriefo,	198
Negro Woman, The.—Andrea Razafkeriefo,	247
Negro Singer, The.—J. D. Corrothers,	89
New Day, The.—Fenton Johnson,	102
New Negro, The.—Will Sexton,	197
New Negro, The.—L. B. Watkins,	236
Octoroon, The.—Mrs. Georgia Douglas Johnson,	151
Ode to Ethiopia.—Paul Laurence Dunbar,	44
Oh, My Way and Thy Way.—Joseph S. Cotter, Sr.,	81
Old Plantation Grave, The.—S. M. Means,	222
Ole Deserted Cabin, De.—S. M. Means,	223
Old Friends.—C. B. Johnson,	97
Old Jim Crow.—Anonymous,	231
Optimist, The.—Mrs. J. W. Hammond,	143
Oriflamme.—Miss Jessie Fauset,	162
O Southland.—J. W. Johnson,	92
Peace.—Mrs. Georgia Douglas Johnson,	61
Plaint of the Factory Child, The.—Fenton Johnson,	101
Poet, The.—R. G. Dandridge,	170
Prayer of the Race That God Made Black, A.—L. B. Watkins,	59
Psalm of the Uplift, The.—J. Mord Allen,	50
Puppet-Player, The.—Miss Angelina W. GrimkÉ,	153
Rain Song, A.—C. B. Johnson,	99
Rainy Days.—Andrea Razafkeriefo,	263
Rain Music.—Joseph S. Cotter, Jr.,	81
Rise! Young Negro—Rise!—John J. Fenner, Jr.,	245
Sandy Star.—W. S. Braithwaite,	106
Self-Determination.—L. P. Hill,	137
She Hugged Me.—Folk Song,	17
Singer, The.—Miss Eva A. Jessye,	69
Slump, The.—W. E. Bailey,	65
Smothered Fires.—Mrs. Georgia Douglas Johnson,	150
Somebody’s Child.—Charles P. Wilson,	179
So Much.—C. B. Johnson,	98
Soul and Star.—C. B. Johnson,	96
Southern Love Song, A.—J. H. Jones, Jr.,	115
Spring in New Hampshire.—Claude McKay,	127
Spring with the Teacher.—Miss Eva A. Jessye,	139
Steel Makers, The.—Leon R. Harris,	182
Sunset.—Miss Mary Effie Lee,	56
Thanking God.—W. S. Braithwaite,	109
Thanksgiving.—W. S. Braithwaite,	262
The Flowers Take the Tears.—Joseph S. Cotter, Sr.,	76
The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face.—J. W. Johnson,	226
These Are My People.—Fenton Johnson,	100
Threshing Floor, The.—Joseph S. Cotter, Sr.,	75
Time to Die.—R. G. Dandridge,	171
To——.—R. G. Dandridge,	171
To a Negro Mother.—Ben E. Burrell,	249
To America.—J. W. Joh nson,	53
To a Caged Canary....—L. P. Hill,	136
To a Nobly-Gifted Singer.—L. P. Hill,	137
To a Rosebud.—Miss Eva A. Jessye,	141
To a Wild Rose.—W. E. Bailey,	213
To Hollyhocks.—G. M. McClellan,	176
To My Grandmother.—Mrs. Mae Smith Johnson,	251
To My Lost Child.—Will Sexton,	233
To My Neighbor Boy.—Mrs. J. W. Hammond,	143
To My Son.—Mrs. Georgia Douglas Johnson,	232
To Keep the Memory of Charlotte Forten GrimkÉ.—Miss Angelina W. GrimkÉ,	155
To Our Boys.—Irvin W. Underhill,	185
Truth.—Mrs. Frances E. W. Harper,	28
Turn Out the Light.—J. H. Jones, Jr.,	114
Vashti.—Mrs. Frances E. W. Harper,	30
Victim of Microbes, A.—J. Mord Allen,	224
Violets.—Mrs. Alice Dunbar-Nelson,	55
Want of You, The.—Miss Angelina W. GrimkÉ,	154
We Wear the Mask.—Paul Laurence Dunbar,	47
What Is the Negro Doing?—W. Clarence Jordan,	190
What Need Have I for Memory?—Mrs. Georgia Douglas Johnson,	149
While April Breezes Blow.—D. T. Williamson,	260
Winter Twilight, A.—Miss Angelina W. GrimkÉ,	153
With the Lark.—Paul Laurence Dunbar,	46
Young Warrior, The.—J. W. Johnson,	94
Zalka Peetruza.—R. G. Dandridge,	180

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Happily a great number of these, about three hundred and fifty, accompanied by an essay setting forth their nature, origin, and elements, are now made accessible in Negro Folk Rhymes, by Thomas W. Talley, of Fisk University; the Macmillan Company, publishers, 1922.

[2] We are enabled to give the following poems by the kind permission of Dodd, Mead and Company, the publishers of Dunbar’s works.

[3] The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer, containing the best prose and poetic selections by and about the Negro Race, with programs arranged for special entertainments. Edited by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson. J. L. Nichols & Co., Naperville, Ill.

[4] Bronze has now been published. See Index of Authors.

[5] A Short History of the American Negro. By Benjamin Brawley. The Macmillan Company.

[6] Published by Harcourt, Brace & Company, by whose kind permission I use this selection.

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