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(excluding poems which are only partially quoted)

See also Negro Poets and Their Poems/Index of Titles

Chapter 1: The Negro's Heritage of Song

 * Chicken in the Bread Tray
 * Juba
 * Fattening Frogs for Snakes
 * She Hugged Me and Kissed Me
 * She Hugged Me and Kissed Me


 * Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
 * Truth (disambig)
 * Vashti


 * Paul Laurence Dunbar
 * Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes
 * Life (disambig)
 * Ode to Ethiopia
 * With the Lark
 * We Wear the Mask


 * J. Mord Allen
 * Counting Out
 * The Psalm of the Uplift

Chapter 2: The Present Renaissance of the Negro

 * Waverley Turner Carmichael
 * It's All Through Life


 * James Weldon Johnson
 * To America (disambig)


 * Alice Dunbar-Nelson
 * Violets


 * Mary Effie Lee
 * Sunset (disambig)


 * Winifred Virginia Jordan
 * Loneliness


 * Lucian B. Watkins
 * A Prayer of the Race That God Made Black


 * Georgia Douglas Johnson
 * Peace (disambig)


 * Walter Everette Hawkins
 * In Spite of Death


 * Fenton Johnson
 * I Played On David's Harp


 * William Edgar Bailey
 * The Slump


 * Eva A. Jessye
 * The Singer (disambig)


 * Joseph S. Cotter, Sr.
 * The Boy and His Ideal
 * The Threshing Floor


 * Joseph S. Cotter, Jr.
 * The Mulatto to His Critics
 * Rain Music
 * Compensation (disambig)
 * The Band of Gideon


 * James David Corrothers
 * The Dream and the Song
 * At the Closed Gate of Justice
 * The Negro Singer


 * James Weldon Johnson (again)
 * O Southland!
 * The Young Warrior


 * Charles Bertram Johnson (again)
 * Soul and Star
 * Old Friends
 * So Much
 * A Rain Song


 * Fenton Johnson (again)
 * These Are My People
 * The Plaint of the Factory Child
 * The Mulatto's Song
 * The New Day


 * William Stanley Braithwaite
 * Sandy Star
 * It's a Long Way
 * Foscati
 * Autumn Sadness
 * Thanking God


 * George Reginald Margetson
 * The Light of Victory


 * William Moore
 * Expectancy
 * As the Old Year Passed


 * Joshua Henry Jones
 * Turn Out the Light
 * A Southern Love Song
 * The Heart of the World
 * Brothers (disambig)


 * Walter Everette Hawkins
 * Credo (disambig)
 * Hero of the Road
 * The Death of Justice
 * Ask Me Why I Love You


 * Claude McKay
 * Spring in New Hampshire
 * The Lynching
 * The Harlem Dancer
 * In Bondage


 * Raymond Garfield Dandridge
 * Zalka Peetruza


 * Leslie Pinckney Hill
 * Mater Dolorosa (disambig)
 * To a Nobly-Gifted Singer
 * Self-Determination

Chapter 3: The Heart of a Negro Womanhood

 * Eva A. Jessye
 * Spring With the Teacher
 * To a Rosebud


 * Mrs. J. W. Hammond
 * The Optimist
 * To My Neighbour Boy


 * Alice Dunbar-Nelson
 * I Sit and Stew
 * The Lights at Carney's Point


 * Georgia Douglas Johnson
 * Smothered Fires
 * The Octoroon


 * Angelina W. Grimké
 * Dawn (disambig)
 * A Winter Twilight
 * The Puppet-Player
 * The Want of You
 * El Beso
 * At the Spring Dawn
 * To Keep the Memory of Charlotte Forten Grimké


 * Anne Spencer
 * At the Carnival


 * Jessie Fauset
 * Oriflamme

Chapter 4: Ad Astra Per Aspera

 * Edward Smythe Jones
 * Flag of the Free


 * Raymond Garfield Dandridge
 * The Poet (disambig)
 * To— (disambig)
 * Time to Die
 * Eternity (disambig)
 * Facts


 * George Marion McClellan
 * To Hollyhocks
 * The Hills of Sewanee
 * The Feet of Judas
 * In Memory of Katie Reynolds, Dying


 * Charles P. Wilson
 * Somebody's Child


 * Leon R. Harris
 * The Steel Makers


 * Irvin W. Underhill
 * To Our Boys


 * James C. Hughes
 * Aspiration (prose)


 * Leland Milton Fisher
 * For You, Sweetheart


 * W. Clarence Jordan
 * What Is the Negro Doing?


 * Roscoe C. Jamison
 * Castles in the Air
 * A Song (disambig)
 * The Edict
 * Hopelessness

Chapter 5: The New Forms of Poetry

 * Will Sexton
 * The Bomb Thrower
 * The New Negro


 * Andrea Razafkeriefo
 * The Negro Church


 * Langston Hughes
 * The Negro


 * W. E. Burghardt DuBois
 * A Litany at Atlanta


 * Kelly Miller
 * I See and Am Satisfied


 * Charles H. Conner
 * The Life of the Spirit in the Natural World


 * William Edgar Bailey
 * To a Wild Rose


 * R. Nathaniel Dett
 * At Niagara (disambig)

Chapter 6: Dialect Verse

 * Waverley Turner Carmichael
 * Mammy's Baby Scared


 * Cotter, Sr.
 * The Don't-Care Negro


 * Raymond Garfield Dandridge
 * De Innah Part


 * Sterling M. Means
 * The Old Plantation Grave
 * The Old Deserted Cabin


 * J. Mord Allen
 * A Victim of Microbes


 * James Weldon Johnson
 * My Lady's Lips Am Like de Honey

Chapter 7: Poetry of Protest

 * Winston Allen
 * The Black Violinist


 * (from The Nashville Eye)
 * Old Jim Crow


 * Georgia Douglas Johnson
 * To My Son (disambig)


 * Will Sexton
 * To My Lost Child


 * James Weldon Johnson
 * The Black Mammy


 * Lucian B. Watkins
 * The New Negro
 * A Message to the Modern Pharaohs


 * Carrie W. Clifford
 * An Easter Message


 * Claude McKay
 * If We Must Die

Chapter 8: Miscellaneous Poems

 * Claude McKay
 * The Negro


 * John J. Fenner
 * Rise! Young Negro—Rise!


 * George Marion McClellan
 * Daybreak (McClellan) (disambig)


 * Andrea Razafkeriefo
 * The Negro Woman


 * Joseph S. Cotter
 * The Negro Child


 * Georgia Douglas Johnson
 * The Mother (disambig)


 * Ben E. Burrell
 * To a Negro Mother


 * Mae Smith Johnson
 * To My Grandmother


 * Lucian B. Watkins
 * Ebon Maid and Girl of Mine


 * James Edgar French
 * Dunbar and Cotter


 * Corinne E. Lewis
 * Christmas Cheer


 * Joshua Henry Jones
 * Goodbye Old Year


 * H. Cordelia Ray
 * The Months


 * D. T. Williamson
 * While April Breezes Blow


 * Edwin Garnett Riley
 * A Nation's Greatness


 * William Stanley Braithwaite
 * Thanksgiving (disambig)


 * Andrea Razafkeriefo
 * Rainy Days