- And God called Moses from the burning bush, Let My People Go
- And God stepped out on space, The Creation
- Are you bowed down in heart? Deep in the Quiet Wood
- Around the council-board of Hell, with Satan at their head, And the Greatest of These Is War
- Cuddle down, ma honey, in yo’ bed, De Little Pickaninny’s Gone to Sleep
- Der ain’t no use in sayin’ de Lawd won’t answer prah; Answer to Prayer
- Eternities before the first-born day, Mother Night
- Father, Father Abraham, Father, Father Abraham
- For fifty years, The Suicide
- Girl of fifteen, Girl of Fifteen
- Have you been sore discouraged in the fight, To Horace Bumstead
- Her eyes, twin pools of mystic light, Her Eyes Twin Pools
- How would you have us, as we are? To America
- I dreamed that I was a rose The Awakening
- I hear the stars still singing I Hear the Stars Still Singing
- I knew not who had wrought with skill so fine Before a Painting
- I love to sit alone, and dream, A Mid-Day Dreamer
- I sometimes take you in my dreams to a far-off land I used to know, Vashti
- I’m back down in ole Georgy w’ere de sun is shinin’ hot, July in Georgy
- In a backwoods town The Ghost of Deacon Brown
- In the cool of the day— Noah Built the Ark
- Jesus, my gentle Jesus, The Crucifixion
- Look heah, Tunk!—Now, ain’t dis awful! T’ought I sont you off to school. Tunk
- Look heah! ’Splain to me de reason An Explanation
- Look heah! Is I evah tole you ’bout de curious way I won The Rivals
- Mother, shed no mournful tears, The Young Warrior
- No greater earthly boon than this I crave, The Reward
- O black and unknown bards of long ago, O Black and Unknown Bards
- O brothers mine, take care! Take care! The White Witch
- O brothers mine, today we stand Fifty Years
- O Lord, we come this morning Listen Lord
- O mighty, powerful, dark-dispelling sun, Prayer at Sunrise
- O Sleep, thou kindest minister to man, Sleep
- O Southland! O Southland! O Southland!
- O whitened head entwined in turban gay, The Black Mammy
- Old Devil, when you come with horns and tail, The Temptress
- Old Omar, jolly sceptic, it may be Omar
- Once der was a meetin’ in de wilderness, Brer Rabbit, You’s de Cutes’ of ’Em All
- Out of the infinite sea of eternity Life
- See! There he stands; not brave, but with an air Brothers
- Seems lak to me de stars don’t shine so bright, Sence You Went Away
- “She’s built of steel The Word of an Engineer
- Skin as black an’ jes as sof’ as a velvet dress, Dat Gal o’ Mine
- Sol, Sol, mighty lord of the tropic zone, Down by the Carib Sea
- Some men enjoy the constant strife “Lazy”
- Sometimes the mist overhangs my path, The Gift to Sing
- The glory of the day was in her face, The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face
- The hand of Fate cannot be stayed, Fragment
- The snow has ceased its fluttering flight, Ghosts of the Old Year
- To chase a never-reached mirage Voluptas
- ’Twas at early morning, Venus in a Garden
- Twenty years go by on noiseless feet, From the Spanish
- Under a burning tropic sun, The Color Sergeant
- W’en de leaves begin to fall, The Seasons
- W’en ole Mister Sun gits tiah’d a-hangin’ A Plantation Bacchanal
- Weep not, weep not, Go Down Death
- When buffeted and beaten by life’s storms, Beauty That Is Never Old
- When morning shows her first faint flush, Morning, Noon and Night
- Young man— The Prodigal Son
All poets.