O MOTHER EARTH! upon thy lap Thy weary ones receiving, And o'er them, silent as a dream, Thy grassy mantle weaving, Fold softly in thy long embrace That heart so worn and broken, And cool its pulse of fire beneath Thy shadows old and oaken.... Read more of Randolph Of Roanoke at Martin Luther King.caInformational Site Network Informational
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Alex Rogers
Poems:
- Dunbar
- Why Adam Sinned


Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Poems:
- Winter Is Coming


Anne Spencer
Poems:
- Oblivion
- Before The Feast Of Shushan
- At The Carnival
- The Wife-woman
- Translation


Benjamin Brawley
Poems:
- To Our Friends
- My Hero


Charles Bertram Johnson
Poems:
- Sonnet
- A Little Cabin


Claude McKay
Poems:
- 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


Daniel Webster Davis
Poems:
- Dream And The Song
- 'weh Down Souf


Edward Smyth Jones
Poems:
- The Teacher


Fenton Johnson
Poems:
- De Drum Majah
- Children Of The Sun
- The New Day
- The Banjo Player


George Marion McClellan
Poems:
- A Litany Of Atlanta
- Dogwood Blossoms
- A Butterfly In Church
- The Hills Of Sewanee


George Reginald Margetson
Poems:
- Rhapsody


Georgia Douglas Johnson
Poems:
- The Rubinstein Staccato Etude
- The Heart Of A Woman
- Lost Illusions
- I Want To Die While You Love Me


James D. Corrothers
Poems:
- 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


James Edwin Campbell
Poems:
- A Death Song
- Negro Serenade
- De Cunjah Man
- Uncle Eph's Banjo Song
- Ol' Doc' Hyar
- When Ol' Sis' Judy Pray


James Weldon Johnson
Poems:
- O Black And Unknown Bards
- Sence You Went Away
- The Creation
- The White Witch
- Mother Night
- O Southland!
- Brothers


Jessie Fauset
Poems:
- The Negro Soldiers
- La Vie C'est La Vie
- Christmas Eve In France
- Dead Fires
- Oriflamme


John Greenleaf Whittier
Poems:
- 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


John Wesley Holloway
Poems:
- Fifty Years (1863-1913)
- Miss Melerlee
- Calling The Doctor
- The Corn Song


Joseph S. Cotter, Jr.
Poems:
- Two-an'-six
- A Prayer
- And What Shall You Say?
- Is It Because I Am Black?
- The Band Of Gideon
- Rain Music


Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.
Poems:
- Chaucer
- To A Skull
- Placido's Sonnet To His Mother
- Farewell To My Mother


Leslie Pinckney Hill
Poems:
- Black Mammies
- Tuskegee
- Christmas At Melrose
- Summer Magic


Lucian B. Watkins
Poems:
- The Big Bell In Zion
- Star Of Ethiopia
- Two Points Of View


Otto Leland Bohanan
Poems:
- Negro Poets
- The Dawn's Awake!


Paul Laurence Dunbar
Poems:
- 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


R. Nathaniel Dett
Poems:
- The Scarlet Woman


Ray G. Dandridge
Poems:
- A Song Of Thanks
- Time To Die
- 'ittle Touzle Head
- Zalka Peetruza
- Sprin' Fevah


Roscoe C. Jamison
Poems:
- Supplication


Theodore Henry Shackelford
Poems:
- The Washer-woman


W.E. Burghardt Du Bois
Poems:
- It Was Not Fate


Waverley Turner Carmichael
Poems:
- The Rain Song
- Keep Me, Jesus, Keep Me


William H.A. Moore
Poems:
- Hog Meat
- Dusk Song


William Stanley Braithwaite
Poems:
- 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