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Book SynopsisFeatures poems by Gwendolyn Bennett, Anita Scott Coleman, Mae Cowdery, Blanche Taylor Dickinson, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Jessie Fauset, Angelina Weld Grimke, Gladys Casely Hayford and others. This work covers the years 1918 through 1939 and ranging across the period's major and minor journals, as well as its anthologies and collections.
Table of ContentsList of poems, alphabetical by author:
Fantasy
by Gwendolyn B. Bennett Hatred
by Gwendolyn B. Bennett Heritage
by Gwendolyn B. Bennett Nocturne
by Gwendolyn B. Bennett Quatrain: 2
by Gwendolyn B. Bennett Secret
by Gwendolyn B. Bennett Song
by Gwendolyn B. Bennett Street Lamps In Early Spring
by Gwendolyn B. Bennett To A Dark Girl
by Gwendolyn B. Bennett To Usward
by Gwendolyn B. Bennett Chalk-dust
by Lillian Byrnes Nordic
by Lillian Byrnes An Old Slave Woman
by Joyce Sims Carrington Last Night
by Ethel M. Caution The River
by Ethel M. Caution To E.j.j.
by Ethel M. Caution Black Baby
by Anita Scott Coleman Black Faces
by Anita Scott Coleman Negro Laughter
by Anita Scott Coleman Portraiture
by Anita Scott Coleman The Shining Parlor
by Anita Scott Coleman After The Japanese
by Mae V. Cowdery A Brown Aesthete Speaks
by Mae V. Cowdery Dusk
by Mae V. Cowdery Exultation
by Mae V. Cowdery Farewell
by Mae V. Cowdery God Is Kind
by Mae V. Cowdery Having Had You
by Mae V. Cowdery Heritage
by Mae V. Cowdery If I Must Know
by Mae V. Cowdery Insatiate
by Mae V. Cowdery Interlude
by Mae V. Cowdery Lines To A Sophisticate
by Mae V. Cowdery Longings
by Mae V. Cowdery Of Earth
by Mae V. Cowdery Poem ... For A Lover
by Mae V. Cowdery Poplar Tree
by Mae V. Cowdery A Prayer
by Mae V. Cowdery Some Hands Are Lovlier
by Mae V. Cowdery Want
by Mae V. Cowdery The Wind Blows
by Mae V. Cowdery Interim
by Clarissa Scott Delany Joy
by Clarissa Scott Delany The Mask
by Clarissa Scott Delany Solace
by Clarissa Scott Delany A Dark Actress - Somewhere
by Blanche Taylor Dickinson Four Walls
by Blanche Taylor Dickinson To An Icicle
by Blanche Taylor Dickinson Epitome
by Ruth G. Dixon I Sit And Sew
by Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-nelson The Proletariat Speaks
by Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-nelson Snow In October
by Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-nelson Fragment
by Jessie Redmond Fauset Oriflamme
by Jessie Redmond Fauset Stars In Alabama
by Jessie Redmond Fauset Touche
by Jessie Redmond Fauset At The Spring Dawn
by Angelina Weld Grimke The Black Finger
by Angelina Weld Grimke Dawn
by Angelina Weld Grimke Dusk
by Angelina Weld Grimke El Beso
by Angelina Weld Grimke Grass Fingers
by Angelina Weld Grimke I Weep
by Angelina Weld Grimke Little Grey Dreams
by Angelina Weld Grimke A Mona Lisa
by Angelina Weld Grimke Tenebris
by Angelina Weld Grimke To Clarissa Scott Delany
by Angelina Weld Grimke To Keep The Memory Of Charlotte Forten Grimke - 1915
by Angelina Weld Grimke The Want Of You
by Angelina Weld Grimke A Winter Twilight
by Angelina Weld Grimke Baby Cobina
by Gladys May Casely Hayford Lullaby
by Gladys May Casely Hayford The Palm Wine Seller
by Gladys May Casely Hayford Rainy Season Love Song
by Gladys May Casely Hayford The Serving Girl
by Gladys May Casely Hayford Class Room
by Virginia A. Houston Ecstasy
by Virginia A. Houston The Negro Laughs Back
by Mary Jenness Secret
by Mary Jenness Afterglow
by Georgia Douglas Johnson Armageddon
by Georgia Douglas Johnson Calling Dreams
by Georgia Douglas Johnson Common Dust
by Georgia Douglas Johnson Escape
by Georgia Douglas Johnson The Heart Of A Woman
by Georgia Douglas Johnson I Want To Die While You Love Me
by Georgia Douglas Johnson Motherhood
by Georgia Douglas Johnson Prejudice
by Georgia Douglas Johnson Smothered Fires
by Georgia Douglas Johnson The Suppliant
by Georgia Douglas Johnson To A Young Wife
by Georgia Douglas Johnson The True American
by Georgia Douglas Johnson Wishes
by Georgia Douglas Johnson Your World
by Georgia Douglas Johnson Bottled
by Helene Johnson Fulfillment
by Helene Johnson Invocation
by Helene Johnson Magalu
by Helene Johnson My Race
by Helene Johnson Poem
by Helene Johnson The Road
by Helene Johnson Sonnet To A Negro In Harlem
by Helene Johnson Summer Matures
by Helene Johnson Trees At Night
by Helene Johnson What Do I Care For Morning
by Helene Johnson Crowded Out
by Rosalie M. Jonas Dark Dreaming
by Dorothy Kruger 'carry Me Back To Old Virginny'
by Elma Ehrlich Levinger Autumn
by Marjorie Marshall Desire
by Marjorie Marshall Night's Protege
by Marjorie Marshall Nostalgia
by Marjorie Marshall To A Dark Dancer
by Marjorie Marshall The Lynching
by Dorothea Mathews Night Is Like An Avalanche
by Bessie Mayle Skylines
by Bessie Mayle October
by Isabel Neill The Baker's Boy
by Mary Effie Lee Newsome The Bird In The Cage
by Mary Effie Lee Newsome The Bronze Legacy (to A Brown Boy)
by Mary Effie Lee Newsome Exodus
by Mary Effie Lee Newsome Mattinata
by Mary Effie Lee Newsome Memory
by Mary Effie Lee Newsome Morning Light (the Dew-drier)
by Mary Effie Lee Newsome Sassafras Tea
by Mary Effie Lee Newsome Wild Roses
by Mary Effie Lee Newsome Night Comes Walking
by Esther Popel Theft
by Esther Popel At The Carnival
by Anne Spencer Before The Feast Of Shushan
by Anne Spencer Creed
by Anne Spencer God Never Planted A Garden
by Anne Spencer Grapes: Still Life
by Anne Spencer Innocence
by Anne Spencer Lady, Lady
by Anne Spencer Letter To My Sister
by Anne Spencer Lines To A Nasturtium (a Lover Muses)
by Anne Spencer Rime For The Christmas Baby (at 48 Webster Place, Orange)
by Anne Spencer The Sevinges
by Anne Spencer Substitution
by Anne Spencer Terence Macswiney
by Anne Spencer Time's Unfading Garden
by Anne Spencer White Things
by Anne Spencer Locust Trees
by Margaret L. Thomas After Reading Bryant's Line To A Waterfowl
by Eloise Bibb Thompson A Kiss Requested
by Eda Lou Walton Northboun'
by Lucy Ariel Williams Beauty
by Octavia Beatrice Wynbush All Things Insensible
by Kathleen Tankersley Young December Portrait
by Kathleen Tankersley Young Hunger
by Kathleen Tankersley Young
