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You will find poems written through history that focus on the black experience.
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
Negro Serenade
De Cunjah Man
Uncle Eph's Banjo Song
Ol' Doc' Hyar
When Ol' Sis' Judy Pray
Compensation
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 Song
'weh Down Souf
Hog Meat
Dusk Song
It Was Not Fate
A Litany Of Atlanta
Dogwood Blossoms
A Butterfly In Church
The Hills Of Sewanee
The Feet Of Judas
Sandy Star And Willie Gee
Sandy Star I
Sandy Star Ii
Sandy Star Iii
Sandy Star Iv
Sandy Star V
Del Cascar
Turn Me To My Yellow Leaves
Ironic: Lld
Scintilla
Sic Vita
Rhapsody
O Black And Unknown Bards
Sence You Went Away
The Creation
The White Witch
Mother Night
O Southland!
Brothers
Fifty Years (1863-1913)
Miss Melerlee
Calling The Doctor
The Corn Song
Black Mammies
Tuskegee
Christmas At Melrose
Summer Magic
The Teacher
A Song Of Thanks
Time To Die
'ittle Touzle Head
Zalka Peetruza
Sprin' Fevah
De Drum Majah
Children Of The Sun
The New Day
The Banjo Player
The Scarlet Woman
The Rubinstein Staccato Etude
The Heart Of A Woman
Lost Illusions
I Want To Die While You Love Me
My Little Dreams
The Lynching
If We Must Die
To The White Fiends
The Harlem Dancer
Harlem Shadows
After The Winter
Spring In New Hampshire
The Tired Worker
The Barrier
To O E A
Flame-heart
Two-an'-six
A Prayer
And What Shall You Say?
Is It Because I Am Black?
The Band Of Gideon
Rain Music
Supplication
The Negro Soldiers
La Vie C'est La Vie
Christmas Eve In France
Dead Fires
Oriflamme
Oblivion
Before The Feast Of Shushan
At The Carnival
The Wife-woman
Translation
Dunbar
Why Adam Sinned
The Rain Song
Keep Me, Jesus, Keep Me
Winter Is Coming
Sonnet
A Little Cabin
Negro Poets
The Dawn's Awake!
The Washer-woman
The Big Bell In Zion
Star Of Ethiopia
Two Points Of View
To Our Friends
My Hero
Chaucer
To A Skull
Placido's Sonnet To His Mother
Farewell To My Mother
To William Lloyd Garrison
Toussaint L'ouverture
The Slave-ships
Expostulation
The Yankee Girl
The Hunters Of Men
Stanzas For The Times
Clerical Oppressors
A Summons
To The Memory Of Thomas Shipley
The Moral Warfare
Ritner
The Pastoral Letter
The Farewell Of A Virginia Slave Mother To
Her Daughters Sold Into Southern Bondage
Pennsylvania Hall
The New Year
The Relic
The World's Convention
Massachusetts To Virginia
The Christian Slave
The Sentence Of John L Brown
The Sentence Of John L Brown
Texas Voice Of New England
To Faneuil Hall
To Massachusetts
New Hampshire
The Pine-tree
To A Southern Statesman
At Washington
The Branded Hand
The Freed Islands
A Letter
Lines From A Letter To A Young Clerical Friend
Daniel Neall
Song Of Slaves In The Desert
To Delaware
Yorktown
Randolph Of Roanoke
The Lost Statesman
The Slaves Of Martinique
The Curse Of The Charter-breakers
Paean
The Crisis
Lines On The Portrait Of A Celebrated Publisher
Derne
A Sabbath Scene
In The Evil Days
Moloch In State Street
Official Piety
The Rendition
Arisen At Last
The Haschish
For Righteousness' Sake
The Kansas Emigrants
Letter From A Missionary Of The Methodist Episcopal Church South, In Kansas, To A Distinguished Politician
Burial Of Barber
To Pennsylvania
Le Marais Du Cygne
The Pass Of The Sierra
A Song For The Time
What Of The Day?
A Song, Inscribed To The Fremont Clubs
The Panorama
Archdeacon Barbour
With Its Frontispiece, Ary Scheffer's "christus Consolator Americanized By The Omission Of The Black Man
The Summons
To William H Seward
Thy Will Be Done
A Word For The Hour
Luther's Hymn
To John C Fremont
The Watchers
To Englishmen
Mithridates At Chios
At Port Royal
Song Of The Negro Boatmen
Abolition Of Slavery In The District Of Columbia, 1862
The Battle Autumn Of 1862
Hymn Sung At Christmas By The Scholars Of St Helena's Island, S C
The Proclamation
Anniversary Poem
Barbara Frietchie
What The Birds Said
The Mantle Of St John De Matha A Legend Of "the Red, White, And Blue," A D 1154-1864
Laus Deo!
Hymn For The Celebration Of Emancipation At Newburyport
After The War The Peace Autumn
To The Thirty-ninth Congress
The Hive At Gettysburg
Howard At Atlanta
The Emancipation Group
The Jubilee Singers
Garrison
The Quaker Of The Olden Time
Democracy
The Gallows
Seed-time And Harvest
To The Reformers Of England
The Human Sacrifice
Dedication
The Shoemakers
The Fishermen
The Lumbermen
The Ship-builders
The Drovers
The Huskers
The Corn-song
The Reformer
The Peace Convention At Brussels
The Prisoner For Debt
The Christian Tourists
The Men Of Old
To Pius Ix
Calef In Boston
Our State
The Prisoners Of Naples
The Peace Of Europe
Astraea
Ben Jonson, 1615
The Disenthralled
The Poor Voter On Election Day
The Dream Of Pio Nono
The Voices
The New Exodus
The Conquest Of Finland
The Eve Of Election
From Perugia
Italy
Freedom In Brazil
After Election
Disarmament
The Problem
Our Country
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