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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.

By: Publication details: New York, Harcourt, Brace and company [c1931]Description: vii, 300 p. illus. (music) 20 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 811.08
LOC classification:
  • PS591.N4 J6 1931
Contents:
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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Book Book NMC Library Stacks PS591 .N4 J6 1931 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039000128594

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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