African-American Poems

• A Black Man Talks of Reaping by Arna Bontemps

• A Choice by Paul Laurence Dunbar

• A Conceit by Maya Angelou

• A dull sound, varying now and again by Forrest Hamer

• A Funeral Poem on the Death of C.E. by Phillis Wheatley

• A Golden Day by Paul Laurence Dunbar

• A Memory of June by Claude McKay

• A Negro Love Song by Paul Laurence Dunbar

• A Prayer by Claude McKay

• A Red Flower by Claude McKay

• A Sunset of the City by Gwendolyn Brooks

• Absence by Claude McKay

• Accountability by Paul Laurence Dunbar

• Adolescence by Claude McKay

• Adolescence II by Rita Dove

• Advertisement For The Waldorf-Astoria by Langston Hughes

• Africa by Claude McKay

• After the Winter by Claude McKay

• Alfonso, Dressing to Wait at Table by Claude McKay

• Alone by Maya Angelou

• America by Claude McKay

• An Evening by Gwendolyn Brooks

• An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penetential Cries by Jupiter Hammon

• An Hymn To Humanity (To S.P.G. Esp) by Phillis Wheatley

• An Hymn To The Evening by Phillis Wheatley

• Ardella by Langston Hughes

• At the Tavern by Paul Laurence Dunbar

• Baptism by Claude McKay

• Before you knew you owned it by Alice Walker

• Birds of Prey by Claude McKay

• Charlene-n-Booker 4ever by Forrest Hamer

• Coal by Audre Lorde

• Commemoration by Claude McKay

• Common Things by Paul Laurence Dunbar

• Confirmation by Paul Laurence Dunbar

• Conversation by Ai

• Courage by Claude McKay

• Dawn in New York by Claude McKay

• Daybreak In Alabama by Langston Hughes

• December, 1919 by Claude McKay

• Democracy by Langston Hughes

• Distinction by Paul Laurence Dunbar

• Douglass by Paul Laurence Dunbar

• Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes

• Dream Variations by Langston Hughes

• Encouraged by Paul Laurence Dunbar

• Encouragement by Paul Laurence Dunbar

• Enslaved by Claude McKay

• Exhortation: Summer 1919 by Claude McKay

• Fire-Caught by Langston Hughes

• Flame-Heart by Claude McKay

• Flirtation by Claude McKay

• Flower of Love by Claude McKay

• Frederick Douglass by Paul Laurence Dunbar

• Freedoms Plow by Langston Hughes

• French Leave by Claude McKay

• Futility by Claude McKay

• Go Down, Death by James Weldon Johnson

• God Give to Men by Arna Bontemps

• Goliath Of Gath by Phillis Wheatley

• Grace by Forrest Hamer

• Hanging Fire by Audre Lorde

• Harlem Shadows by Claude McKay

• Heritage by Claude McKay

• Home Thoughts by Claude McKay

• Homing Swallows by Claude McKay

• Howdy, Honey, Howdy by Paul Laurence Dunbar

• I Know My Soul by Claude McKay

• I know why the caged bird sings by Maya Angelou

• I Shall Return by Claude McKay

• I'm A Fool To Love You by Cornelius Eady

• I, Too, Sing America by Langston Hughes

• If I Could But Forget by Paul Laurence Dunbar

• If I must Die LKet It Not Be Loniness That Kills Me by Reginald T. Jackson

• If We Must Die by Claude McKay

• In Bondage by Claude McKay

• Inheritance—His by Audre Lorde

• Insomniac by Maya Angelou

• Jasmines by Claude McKay

• Justice by Langston Hughes