The Book of American Negro Poetry

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Book of American Negro Poetry by Edited by James Weldon JohnsonThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: The Book of American Negro PoetryAuthor: Edited by James Weldon JohnsonRelease Date: April 10, 2004 [EBook #11986]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BOOK OF AMERICAN NEGRO POETRY ***Produced by Suzanne Shell, Charles M. Bidwell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.THE BOOK OF AMERICAN NEGRO POETRYChosen and EditedWith An Essay On The Negro's Creative Geniusby JAMES WELDON JOHNSONAuthor of "Fifty Years and Other Poems"1922 Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc., New YorkPrinted in the U.S.A. by the Quinn & Boden Company, Rahway, N.J.CONTENTSPREFACEPAUL 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 SongJAMES EDWIN CAMPBELL Negro Serenade De Cunjah Man Uncle Eph's Banjo Song Ol' Doc' Hyar When Ol' Sis' Judy Pray CompensationJAMES D. CORROTHERS 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 SongDANIEL WEBSTER DAVIS 'Weh Down Souf ...