The Poetry of the Negro, 1746-1970: An Anthology

For Other Editions, See Author Catalog. Contents :i Negro Poets Of The U.s.a. Bars Fight / Lucy Terry -- An Evening Thought / Jupiter Hammon -- His Excellency General Washington ; On Imagination / Phillis Wheatley -- On Liberty And Slavery / George Moses Horton -- Epigram / Armand Lanusse -- The Slave Auction ; Let The Light Enter / Frances E.w. Harper -- Verse Written In The Album Of Mademoiselle / Pierre Dalcour -- The Feet Of Judas / George Marion Mcclellan -- The Way-side Well / Joseph S. Cotter, Sr. -- Miss Melerlee / John Wesley Holloway -- A Litany At Atlanta / W.e.b. Du Bois -- Paul Laurence Dunbar ; An Indignation Dinner / James David Corrothers -- O Black And Unknown Bards ; My City ; Lift Every Voice And Sing / James Weldon Johnson -- Sympathy ; Dawn ; A Negro Love Song ; When Malindy Sings ; Little Brown Baby ; A Death Song ; Ere Sleep Comes Down To Soothe The Weary Eyes ; Compensation / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Sonnet / Alice Dunbar Nelson -- The House Of Falling Leaves ; The Watchers ; White Magic: An Ode / William Stanley Braithwaite -- The Teacher ; Tuskegee / Leslie Pinckney Hill -- A Winter Twilight ; For The Candle Light ; When The Green Lies Over The Earth ; Tenebris / Angelina Weld Grimké -- My Hero / Benjamin Brawley -- Life Long, Poor Browning ... ; Letter To My Sister ; At The Carnival ; Lines To A Nasturtium ; For Jim, Easter Eve / Anne Spencer -- Enigma ; La Vie C'est La Vie ; Dead Fires ; Oblivion / Jessie Redmond Fauset -- Morning Light ; Arctic Tern In A Museum ; Little Birches / Effie Lee Newsome -- The Heart Of A Woman ; Youth ; Remember ; The Suppliant ; Old Black Men ; Interracial ; I Closed My Shutters Fast Last Night ; Recessional ; My Little Dreams / Georgia Douglas Johnson -- San Francisco ; Villanelle Of Washington Square ; View Carré / Walter Adolphe Roberts -- Rulers : The Banjo Player ; The Scarlet Woman ; Tired ; Aunt Jane Allen ; When I Die ; The Lonley Mother ; Who Is That A-walking In The Corn? / Fenton Johnson -- Status Quo ; At Early Morn / Binga Dismond -- The Tropics In New York ; After The Winter ; Spring In New Hampshire ; A Song Of The Moon ; Harlem Shadows ; America ; White Houses ; If We Must Die ; Baptism ; Flame-heart / Claude Mckay -- Banking Coal ; The Blue Meridian / Jean Toomer -- Supplication ; And What Shall You Say? / Joseph S. Cotter, Jr. -- Dark Symphony ; Lamda ; Do / Melvin B. Tolson -- On Seeing Two Brown Boys In A Catholic Church ; Kid Stuff ; Toast ; Letters Found Near A Suicide / Frank Horne -- The Craftsman ; Mcdonogh Day In New Orleans / Marcus B. Christian -- Nocturne Varial ; Dream Song ; Tranformation / Lewis Alexander -- The Elevator Man Adheres To Form ; Best Loved Of Africa ; Dance Of The Abakweta / Margaret Danner -- After Winter ; Old Lem ; Foreclosure ; Remembering Nat Turner ; Sister Lou / Sterling A. Brown -- The Mask ; Solace ; Joy ; Interim / Clarissa Scott Delany -- I, Too, Sing America ; Dream Variation ; The Weary Blues ; Mother To Son ; The Negro Speaks Of Rivers ; Personal ; Havana Deams ; Harlem Sweeties ; Merry-go-round ; Let America Be America Again ; I Thought It Was Tangiers I Wanted ; Song For A Suicide ; Harlem ; Birmingham Sunday ; Motto ; Cultural Exchange / Langston Hughes -- Sonnets ; Lines Written At The Grave Of Aleandre Dumas / Gwendolyn B. Bennett -- A Black Man Talks Of Reaping ; Miracles ; Nocturne At Bethesda ; Southern Mansion ; Length Of Moon ; The Return ; Idolatry ; Close Your Eyes! ; Golgotha Is A Mountain ; A Note Of Humility ; The Daybreakers ; Nocturne Of The Wharves ; God Give To Men / Arna Bontemps -- Epitaph For A Bigot ; Green Valley / Dorothy Vena Johnson -- For A Poet ; The Wise ; For A Lady I Know ; Incident ; Yet Do I Marvel ; Youth Sings A Song Of Rosebuds ; From The Dark Tower / Countee Cullen -- The Resurrection ; My Angel ; And One Shall Live In Two ; Muse In Late November ; She Said ... / Jonathan Henderson Brooks -- Poet ; Prescience ; Haven ; Appoggiatura ; Benedicion / Donald Jeffery Hayes -- Four Glimpses Of Night ; I Sing No New Songs ; Robert Whitmore ; Flowers Of Darkness / Frank Marshall Davis -- Northboun̕ / Lucy Ariel Williams Holloway -- Forgotten Dreams ; On The Death Of A Child / Edward Silvera -- Summer Matures ; Fulfillment ; Magalu ; Remember Not ; Invocation ; The Road / Helene Johnson -- Face Of Poverty / Lucy Smith -- Urgency / Sarah E. Wright -- Adjuration ; Tumult / Charles Enoch Wheeler -- Plans ; A Young David; Birmingham ; Words / Helen Morgan Brooks -- Without Name / Pauli Murray -- Heart Of The Woods / Wesley Curtright -- Freedom In Mah Soul ; Western Town / David Wadsworth Cannon, Jr. -- A Boy's Need ; Crossing A Creek ; Willow Bend And Weep ; On Calvary's Lonely Hill / Herbert Clark Johnson -- The Letter / Beatrice M. Murphy -- O Daedalus, Fly Away Home ; Homage To The Empress Of The Blues ; A Ballad Of Remembrance ; Runagate Runagate ; Frederick Douglass / Robert E. Hayden -- Creole Girl / Leslie Morgan Collins -- Six O'clock ; Rag Doll And Summer Birds ; Counterpoint ; Epitaph For A Negro Woman ; The Decision ; Poem For My Brother Kenneth / Owen Dodson -- Memorial Wreath ; Legacy: My South / Dudley Randall -- Where Have You Gone? ... ; If There Be Sorrow / Mari Evans -- Molly Means ; We Have Been Believers ; For My People ; October Journey ; Harriet Tubman ; For Mary Mcleod Bethune / Margaret Walker -- This Hour / Oliver Lagrone -- Be Daedalus / Nanina Alba -- Ultimate Equality ; Basic / Ray Durem -- The Fishes And The Poet's Hands / Frank Yerby -- Kitchenette Building ; The Birth In A Narrow Room ; Pygmies Are Pygmies Still, Though Percht On Alps ; First Fight. Then Fiddle ; The Wall / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Here And Now / Catharine Cater -- Prayer ; Another Day / Isabella Maria Brown -- To Satch ; What Bright Pushbutton? / Samuel Allen -- To An Avenue Sport / Helen Johnson Collins -- Blues For Bessie ; Two Leaqn Cats ... ; Young Poet ; Sunset Horn / Myron O'higgins -- Journey To A Parallel ; The African Affair / Bruce Mcm. Wright -- Portrait Phillippines ; Sonnet / Alfred A. Duckett -- Time And Tide / Hazel Washington Lamarre -- Song ; Notes For A Movie Script ; Letter Across Doubt And Distance ; And On This Shore -- Picnic: The Liberated / M. Carl Holman -- Paternal ; Mae's Rent Party / Ernest J. Wilson, Jr. -- A Folding And Unfolding / Welton Smith -- Church Burning: Mississippi ; Black Muslim Boy In A Hospital ; Son James A. Emanuel -- To A Brown Girl / Ossie Davis -- Refugee ; Midway ; Mortality / Naomi Long Madgett -- A Private Letter To Brazil ; The Map / G.c. Oden -- Clubwoman ; Jungle / Mary Carter Smith -- In Spite Of All This Much Needed Thunder / Zack Gilbert -- Christophe / Russell Atkins -- For William Edward Burghardt Dubois On His Eightieth Birthday / Bette Darcie Latimer -- Black Man's Feast / Sarah Webster Fabio -- Jazz / Frank London Brown -- Miles' Delight / Ted Joans -- I've Got A Home In That Rock / Raymond Patterson -- Three Kings / James P. Vaughn -- To Vanity / Darwin T. Turner -- Dream / Solomon Edwards -- Madhouse / Calvin C. Hernton -- Four Sheets To The Wind And A One-way Ticket To France / Conrad Kent Rivers -- Preface To A Twenty Volume Suicide Note ; Epistrophe / Leroi Jones -- Suburbia / Maurice Martinez -- Afterwards, They Shall Dance ; Cincophrenicpoet ; Benediction / Bob Kaufman -- Letter From A Wife / S. Carolyn Reese -- A Juju Of My Own / Lebert Bethune -- The Feral Pioneers-for Dancer / Ishmael Reed -- Poems; Birmingham 1962-1964 ; Moths ; Birmingham ; Alabama / Julia Fields -- Cities And Seas ; Ending / Norman Jordan -- Floodtide ; Askia Muhammad Touré -- Othello Jones Dresses For Dinner ; 18,000 Feet ; Eclipse / Ed Roberson -- Just Making It (blood For Sale) ; The Worker / Richard Thomas -- Look At That Gal / Julian Bond -- Gift / Carol Freeman -- Brainwashing Dramatized / Don Johnson -- Sketches Of Harlem ; Downtown-boy Uptown / David Henderson -- Memorandum / Rudy Bee Graham -- Ii. Tributary Poems By Non-negroes -- The Little Black Boy / William Blake -- To Toussaint L'ouverture / William Wordsworth -- The Runaway Slave At Pilgrim's Point / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- The Slave's Dream / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The Farewell / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Stanzas On Freedom / James Russell Lowell -- Formerly A Slave / Herman Melville -- The Runaway Slave ; The Wounded Person ; The Drayman ; Ethiopia Saluting The Colors / Walt Whitman -- Toussaint L'ouverture / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- The Bird And The Tree / Ridgely Torrence -- Mammy Hums ; Jazz Fantasia / Carl Sandburg -- The Congo / Vachel Lindsay -- Defeat / Witter Bynner -- Echoes Of Childhood ; Uncle Jim ; Delphy / Alice Corbin -- How Old Brown Took Harpers Ferry / Edmund Clarence Stedman -- Porgy, Maria, And Bess / Dubose Heyward -- The Stong Swimmer / William Rose Benét -- Elegy On A Nordic White Protestant / John Gould Fletcher -- Arthur Mitchell / Marianne Moore -- Upstairs Downstairs / Hervey Allen -- Negroes ; Lynched Negro ; Poem To Negro And Whites / Maxwell Bodenheim -- Small Colored Boy In The Subway / Babette Deutsch -- Little White Schoolhouse Blues / Florence Becker Lennon -- The World Looks On / Louis Newman -- Creed / Walter Lowenfels -- John Brown's Prayer / Stephen Vincent Benét -- Sonnets At Christmas (ii) / Allen Tate -- Last Impression Of New York ; In War ; Big Man ; Pico Della Mirandola ; Things Of The Spirit ; Pen Hy Cane / Mason Jordon Mason -- A Communication To Nancy Cunard / Kay Boyle -- They Are Ours / A.b. Magil -- Boogie-woogie Ballads / St. Clair Mckelway -- Street Scene -- 1946 / Kenneth Porter -- Slave Story / Hodding Carter -- Norris Dam ; Daphne ; On A Picture By Pippin, Called The Den ; Harpers Ferry / Selden Rodman -- Singing In The Dark / Irma Wassall -- My South / Don West -- Negro Spiritual / Perient Trott -- Songs For A Colored Singer / Elizabeth Bishop -- Government Injunction / Josephine Miles -- Nice Day For A Lynching / Kenneth Patchen -- Lenox Avenue ; The Castle / Sidney Alexander -- The Trial / Muriel Rukeyser -- Recapitulations Xi ; The Southerner / Karl Shapiro -- Say Good-bye To Big Daddy / Randall Jarrell -- To A Negro Boy Graduating ; Countee Cullen / Eugene T. Maleska -- Bim Bam / Dorothy Rosenberg -- Juncture / Rea Lubar Duncan -- Recessional For The Class Of 1959 Of A School For Delinquent Negro Girls / Joseph R. Cowen -- Buckdancer's Choice / James Dickey -- Ode: Salute To The French Negro Poets / Frank O'hara -- Requiem For Bird Parker / Gregory Corso -- The Memory Of Boxer Benny (kid) Paret / Frank Lima Biographical Notes Author Biographies Author Index First Line Index. An Anthology Edited By Langston Hughes And Arna Bontemps.