The Book of American Negro Poetry by Edited by James Weldon Johnson
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Title: The Book of American Negro Poetry
Author: Edited by James Weldon Johnson
Release Date: April 10, 2004 [EBook #11986]
Language: English
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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
Author of "Fifty Years and Other Poems"
1922
Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc., New York
Printed in the U.S.A. by the Quinn & Boden Company, Rahway, N.J.
CONTENTS
PREFACE
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR
A Negro Love Song
Little Brown Baby
Ships That Pass in the Night
Lover's Lane
The Debt
The Haunted Oak
When de Co'n Pone's Hot
A Death Song
JAMES EDWIN CAMPBELL
Negro Serenade
De Cunjah Man
Uncle Eph's Banjo Song
Ol' Doc' Hyar
When Ol' Sis' Judy Pray
Compensation
JAMES D. CORROTHERS
At the Closed Gate of Justice
Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Negro Singer
The Road to the Bow<