Lift every voice and sing : selected poems

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Stone Center Library

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PS3519.O2625 A6 2000
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Summary

This selection of more than forty poems from a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance includes both uncompromising indictments of racial injustice and celebrations of the triumphs of African-Americans.

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Contents

  • Preface p. vii Sondra Kathryn Wilson
  • Foreword p. xiii
  • Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day p. 13
  • O Black and Unknown Bards p. 25
  • Brothers--American Drama p. 27
  • O Southland! p. 30
  • We to America p. 31
  • Mother Night p. 32
  • The Young Warrior p. 33
  • The White Witch p. 34
  • My City p. 37
  • The Glory of the Day was in Her Face p. 38
  • Life p. 39
  • The Black Mammy p. 40
  • Fragment p. 41
  • Mother, Farewell! (from the Spanish of Placido) p. 43
  • Girl of Fifteen p. 44
  • The Suicide p. 45
  • Down by the Carib Sea-- p. 46
  • Sunrise in the Tropics p. 46
  • Los Cigarrillos p. 46
  • Teestay p. 47
  • The Lottery Girl p. 48
  • The Dancing Girl p. 50
  • Sunset in the Tropics p. 51
  • Deep in the Quiet Wood p. 52
  • Prayer at Sunrise p. 53
  • Her Eyes Twin Pools p. 54
  • Vashit p. 55
  • If I Were Paris p. 59
  • Ghosts of the Old Year p. 60
  • Beauty Never Old p. 62
  • Blessed Sleep p. 63
  • The Greatest of These is War p. 64
  • A Poet to His Baby Son p. 67
  • Ma Lady's Lips Am Like De Honey p. 71
  • A Plantation Bacchanal p. 73
  • Tunk p. 75
  • Brer Rabbit, You's De Cutes' of 'Em All p. 77
  • Answer to Prayer p. 79
  • A Banjo Song p. 81
  • The Rivals p. 82
  • Sence You Went Away p. 90
  • Fifty Years p. 93
  • Lift Every Voice and Sing p. 101
  • Envoy p. 103
  • A Note on Placido's "Mother, Farewell!" p. 105

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