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Start of eBook	1
PREFACE	1
PREFACE	2
THE BOOK OF AMERICAN NEGRO POETRY	24
LITTLE BROWN BABY	24
SHIPS THAT PASS IN THE NIGHT	25
LOVER’S LANE	25
THE DEBT	25
THE HAUNTED OAK	26
WHEN DE CO’N PONE’S HOT	26
A DEATH SONG	27
NEGRO SERENADE	27
DE CUNJAH MAN	28
UNCLE EPH’S BANJO SONG	28
OL’ DOC’ HYAR	28
WHEN OL’ SIS’ JUDY PRAY	29
COMPENSATION	29
AT THE CLOSED GATE OF JUSTICE	30
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR	30
THE NEGRO SINGER	31
THE ROAD TO THE BOW	31
IN THE MATTER OF TWO MEN	31
AN INDIGNATION DINNER	32
DREAM AND THE SONG	33
’WEH DOWN SOUF	33
HOG MEAT	33
DUSK SONG	34
IT WAS NOT FATE	35
A LITANY OF ATLANTA	35
DOGWOOD BLOSSOMS	37
A BUTTERFLY IN CHURCH	37
THE HILLS OF SEWANEE	38
THE FEET OF JUDAS	38
SANDY STAR AND WILLIE GEE	38
SANDY STAR	38
I	38
II	39
III	39
IV	39
V	39
DEL CASCAR	39
TURN ME TO MY YELLOW LEAVES	40
IRONIC: LL.D.	40
SCINTILLA	40
SIC VITA	40
RHAPSODY	40
STANZAS FROM THE FLEDGLING BARD AND THE POETRY SOCIETY	40
O BLACK AND UNKNOWN BARDS	42
SENCE YOU WENT AWAY	42
THE CREATION	43
THE WHITE WITCH	44
MOTHER NIGHT	45
O SOUTHLAND!	45
BROTHERS	45
	46
MISS MELERLEE	48
THE CORN SONG	48
BLACK MAMMIES	49
TUSKEGEE	49
CHRISTMAS AT MELROSE	50
SUMMER MAGIC	50
THE TEACHER	51
A SONG OF THANKS	51
TIME TO DIE	52
’ITTLE TOUZLE HEAD	52
ZALKA PEETRUZA	52
SPRIN’ FEVAH	53
DE DRUM MAJAH	53
CHILDREN OF THE SUN	53
THE NEW DAY	53
TIRED	54
THE BANJO PLAYER	55
THE SCARLET WOMAN	55
THE RUBINSTEIN STACCATO ETUDE	55
THE HEART OF A WOMAN	55
YOUTH	56
LOST ILLUSIONS	56
I WANT TO DIE WHILE YOU LOVE ME	56
WELT	56
MY LITTLE DREAMS	56
THE LYNCHING	56
IF WE MUST DIE	57
TO THE WHITE FIENDS	57
THE HARLEM DANCER	57
HARLEM SHADOWS	57
AFTER THE WINTER	58
SPRING IN NEW HAMPSHIRE	58
THE TIRED WORKER	58
THE BARRIER	58
TO O. E. A.	58
FLAME-HEART	59
TWO-AN’-SIX	59
A PRAYER	61
AND WHAT SHALL YOU SAY?	61
IS IT BECAUSE I AM BLACK?	61
THE BAND OF GIDEON	61
RAIN MUSIC	62
SUPPLICATION	62
THE NEGRO SOLDIERS	62
LA VIE C’EST LA VIE	62
CHRISTMAS EVE IN FRANCE	63
DEAD FIRES	63
ORIFLAMME	63
OBLIVION	63
BEFORE THE FEAST OF SHUSHAN	64
AT THE CARNIVAL	64
THE WIFE-WOMAN	65
TRANSLATION	65
DUNBAR	66
WHY ADAM SINNED	66
THE RAIN SONG	66
KEEP ME, JESUS, KEEP ME	67
WINTER IS COMING	67
SONNET	67
A LITTLE CABIN	68
NEGRO POETS	68
THE DAWN’S AWAKE!	69
THE WASHER-WOMAN	69
THE BIG BELL IN ZION	69
STAR OF ETHIOPIA	69
TWO POINTS OF VIEW	70
TO OUR FRIENDS	70
MY HERO	70
CHAUCER	70
TO A SKULL	70
APPENDIX	71
DESPIDA A MI MADRE	71
FAREWELL TO MY MOTHER	71
PLACIDO’S FAREWELL TO HIS MOTHER	71
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF AUTHORS	72
INDEX OF TITLES	76

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