Anthologies of African American Writing

Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance (2nd ed.)

"Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance." Ed. Maureen Honey. 2nd ed. rev. and expanded. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2006. lxxi+297 pp.

(Orig. ed. 1989.)

List of Illustrations
● Maureen Honey / Preface to the Second Edition
Poems New to the Revised Edition
● Nellie Y. McKay / Foreword to the 1989 Edition
Acknowledgements
● Maureen Honey / Introduction
A Note on the Revised Text

● Gwendolyn B. Bennett / To a Dark Girl
● Gwendolyn B. Bennett / Heritage
● Gwendolyn B. Bennett / Song
● Gwendolyn B. Bennett / Hatred
● Gwendolyn B. Bennett / Advice
● Gwendolyn B. Bennett / To Usward
● Gwendolyn B. Bennett / Secret
● Gwendolyn B. Bennett / Quatrains
● Gwendolyn B. Bennett / Street Lamps in Early Spring
● Gwendolyn B. Bennett / Nocturne
● Gwendolyn B. Bennett / Moon Tonight
● Gwendolyn B. Bennett / Fantasy
● Gwendolyn B. Bennett / Wind
● Gwendolyn B. Bennett / Lines Written at the Grace of Alexander Dumas
● Gwendolyn B. Bennett / Purgation
● Gwendolyn B. Bennett / Epitaph
● Ethel M. Caution / Last Night
● Ethel M. Caution / To . . .
● Ethel M. Caution / To E.J.J.
● Ethel M. Caution / The River
● Ethel M. Caution / Long Remembering
● Carrie Williams Clifford / To Phyllis Wheatley (First African Poetess)
● Carrie Williams Clifford / A Toast to Africa
● Carrie Williams Clifford / The Widening Light
● Carrie Williams Clifford / For the New Year
● Carrie Williams Clifford / An Easter Message
● Carrie Williams Clifford / The Flight
● Carrie Williams Clifford / Little Mother
● Carrie Williams Clifford / Sorrow Songs
● Carrie Williams Clifford / Silent Protest Parade
● Carrie Williams Clifford / Phantom (The Lure of Nature)
● Anita Scott Coleman / Black Faces
● Anita Scott Coleman / Negro Laughter
● Anita Scott Coleman / Black Baby
● Anita Scott Coleman / The Shining Parlor
● Anita Scott Coleman / Portraiture
● Anita Scott Coleman / Idle Wonder
● Anita Scott Coleman / Impressions from a Family Album
● Anita Scott Coleman / Wash Day
● Anita Scott Coleman / Definition
● Anita Scott Coleman / Deepening Night
● Anita Scott Coleman / The Colorist
● Anita Scott Coleman / Antidote
● Anita Scott Coleman / Public Notice
● Anita Scott Coleman / Fragment
● Anita Scott Coleman / Wisdom
● Anita Scott Coleman / On Being Taken for Granted
● Anita Scott Coleman / And So You Want a Poem--
● Anita Scott Coleman / Denial
● Anita Scott Coleman / Of Growing Older
● Anita Scott Coleman / The Dust of the Streets
● Anita Scott Coleman / Plea for Immortality
● Anita Scott Coleman / Coveted Epitaph
● Marion Grace Conover / Voices
● Marion Grace Conover / Fancy
● Marion Grace Conover / Comment
● Marion Grace Conover / You
● Mae V. Cowdery / Goal
● Mae V. Cowdery / The Young Voices Cry
● Mae V. Cowdery / Lamps
● Mae V. Cowdery / Heritage
● Mae V. Cowdery / If I Must Know
● Mae V. Cowdery / Insatiate
● Mae V. Cowdery / Lines to a Sophisticate
● Mae V. Cowdery / Some Hands Are Lovelier
● Mae V. Cowdery / Denial
● Mae V. Cowdery / Farewell
● Mae V. Cowdery / Having Had You
● Mae V. Cowdery / Poem . . . for a Lover
● Mae V. Cowdery / Dusk
● Mae V. Cowdery / Longings
● Mae V. Cowdery / Want
● Mae V. Cowdery / Exultation
● Mae V. Cowdery / Four Poems
● Mae V. Cowdery / Interlude
● Mae V. Cowdery / A Prayer
● Mae V. Cowdery / I Sit and Wait for Beauty
● Mae V. Cowdery / The Wind Blows
● Mae V. Cowdery / I Look at Death
● Clarissa Scott Delany / The Mask
● Clarissa Scott Delany / Interim
● Clarissa Scott Delany / Joy
● Clarissa Scott Delany / Solace
● Blanche Taylor Dickinson / Four Walls
● Blanche Taylor Dickinson / The Walls of Jericho
● Blanche Taylor Dickinson / A Dark Actress—Somewhere
● Blanche Taylor Dickinson / Fortitude
● Blanche Taylor Dickinson / Revelation
● Blanche Taylor Dickinson / A Sonnet and a Rondeau (Poem)
● Blanche Taylor Dickinson / Things Said When He Was Gone
● Blanche Taylor Dickinson / To an Icicle
● Blanche Taylor Dickinson / Fires
● Blanche Taylor Dickinson / That Hill
● Blanche Taylor Dickinson / To One Who Thinks of Suicide
● Alice Dunbar-Nelson / I Sit and Sew
● Alice Dunbar-Nelson / The Lights at Carney’s Point
● Alice Dunbar-Nelson / April Is on the Way
● Alice Dunbar-Nelson / The Proletariat Speaks
● Alice Dunbar-Nelson / Of Old St. Augustine
● Alice Dunbar-Nelson / Violets (Sonnet)
● Alice Dunbar-Nelson / Music
● Alice Dunbar-Nelson / You! Inez!
● Alice Dunbar-Nelson / Snow in October
● Jessie Fauset / Oriflamme
● Jessie Fauset / Here’s April!
● Jessie Fauset / Stars in Alabama
● Jessie Fauset / Dilworth Road Revisited
● Jessie Fauset / Touché
● Jessie Fauset / Words! Words!
● Jessie Fauset / La Vie C’est la Vie
● Jessie Fauset / Dead Fires
● Jessie Fauset / Rencontre
● Jessie Fauset / The Return
● Jessie Fauset / Fragment
● Jessie Fauset / Douce Souvenance
● Jessie Fauset / Oblivion
● Sarah Collins Fernandis / In Protest
● Sarah Collins Fernandis / Her Voice
● Sarah Collins Fernandis / Little Ideals
● Sarah Collins Fernandis / The Meeting
● Sarah Lee Brown Fleming / Put Away That Ukelele and Bring Out the Old Banjo
● Sarah Lee Brown Fleming / Night Song (Negro Lullaby)
● Alice E. Furlong / The Sea’s Warning
● Alice E. Furlong / Destruction
● Alice E. Furlong / Possession
● Alice E. Furlong / Suicide
● Alice E. Furlong / Unfulfillment
● Alice E. Furlong / When Love Is Laid Away
● Alice E. Furlong / Laurel Leaves
● Alice E. Furlong / Riches and Poverty
● Alice E. Furlong / Awaiting
● Edythe Mae Gordon / April Night
● Edythe Mae Gordon / Let Your Rays
● Edythe Mae Gordon / Worship
● Edythe Mae Gordon / Young Love
● Edythe Mae Gordon / Tribute
● Edythe Mae Gordon / Elysium
● Edythe Mae Gordon / I Understand
● Edythe Mae Gordon / Buried Deep
● Angelina Weld Grimké / At April
● Angelina Weld Grimké / The Black Finger
● Angelina Weld Grimké / A Winter Twilight
● Angelina Weld Grimké / Tenebris
● Angelina Weld Grimké / At the Spring Dawn
● Angelina Weld Grimké / Little Grey Dreams
● Angelina Weld Grimké / Dawn
● Angelina Weld Grimké / Dusk
● Angelina Weld Grimké / For the Candle Light
● Angelina Weld Grimké / A Mona Lisa
● Angelina Weld Grimké / El Beso
● Angelina Weld Grimké / I Weep
● Angelina Weld Grimké / The Want of You
● Angelina Weld Grimké / The Eyes of My Regret
● Angelina Weld Grimké / To Keep the Memory of Charlotte Forten Grimké
● Angelina Weld Grimké / When the Green Lies over the Earth
● Angelina Weld Grimké / Greenness
● Angelina Weld Grimké / Grass Fingers
● Angelina Weld Grimké / Death
● Angelina Weld Grimké / Under the Days
● Gladys May Casely Hayford (A K A Aquah Laluah) / A Poem
● Gladys May Casely Hayford (A K A Aquah Laluah) / Poem
● Gladys May Casely Hayford (A K A Aquah Laluah) / Creation
● Gladys May Casely Hayford (A K A Aquah Laluah) / Baby Cobina
● Gladys May Casely Hayford (A K A Aquah Laluah) / Lullaby
● Gladys May Casely Hayford (A K A Aquah Laluah) / Nativity
● Gladys May Casely Hayford (A K A Aquah Laluah) / Mammy
● Gladys May Casely Hayford (A K A Aquah Laluah) / The Palm Wine Seller
● Gladys May Casely Hayford (A K A Aquah Laluah) / Rainy Season Love Song
● Gladys May Casely Hayford (A K A Aquah Laluah) / The Serving Girl
● Alvira Hazzard / Predestination
● Alvira Hazzard / To My Grandmother
● Alvira Hazzard / Beyond
● Alvira Hazzard / The Penitent
● Virginia Houston / Query
● Virginia Houston / Troubadour
● Virginia Houston / Dark Cleveland
● Virginia Houston / Class Room
● Virginia Houston / Ecstasy
● Virginia Houston / Fugit Amor
● Virginia Houston / Interim
● Virginia Houston / Recapitulation
● Dorothy Vena Johnson / Crystal Shreds
● Dorothy Vena Johnson / Jerked to God
● Dorothy Vena Johnson / Ode to Justive
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / Calling Dreams
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / The Ordeal
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / Wishes
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / Armageddon
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / The Suppliant
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / Your World
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / The Heart of a Woman
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / Prejudice
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / The Octoroon
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / Your Voice Keeps Ringing Down the Day
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / Motherhood
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / Smothered Fires
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / Old Black Men
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / The Hegira
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / The True American
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / Common Dust
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / The Riddle
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / A Sonnet in Memory of John Brown
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / To a Young Wife
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / Requiem
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / Escape
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / Lethe
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / Song of the Sinner
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / Afterglow
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / My Little Dreams
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / I Want to Die While You Love Me
● Helen Aurelia Johnson / Roaring Third
● Helene Johnson / Bottled
● Helene Johnson / Poem
● Helene Johnson / Regalia
● Helene Johnson / Plea of a Plebeian
● Helene Johnson / I Am Not Proud
● Helene Johnson / My Race
● Helene Johnson / The Road
● Helene Johnson / Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem
● Helene Johnson / Magalu (Magula)
● Helene Johnson / A Southern Road
● Helene Johnson / Fiat Lux
● Helene Johnson / What Do I Care for Morning
● Helene Johnson / Night
● Helene Johnson / Trees at Night
● Helene Johnson / Metamorphism
● Helene Johnson / Fulfillment
● Helene Johnson / Sonnet [1]
● Helene Johnson / Love in Midsummer
● Helene Johnson / Futility
● Helene Johnson / Sonnet [2]
● Helene Johnson / Summer Matures
● Helene Johnson / Vers de Société
● Helene Johnson / [Why do they prate of youth so much?]
● Helene Johnson / Monotone
● Helene Johnson / Invocation
● Gertrude Parthenia McBrown / Lost
● Gertrude Parthenia McBrown / Fire-Flies
● Gertrude Parthenia McBrown / Purple Dawn
● Gertrude Parthenia McBrown / Full Moon
● Gertrude Parthenia McBrown / Flights
● Gertrude Parthenia McBrown / Unseen
● Gertrude Parthenia McBrown / Jehovah’s Gesture
● Gertrude Parthenia McBrown / Two Worshipers
● Gertrude Parthenia McBrown / Love Not Fame
● Gertrude Parthenia McBrown / Sunset Calm
● Myra Estelle Morris / Man and Maid
● Myra Estelle Morris / Women in Politics
● Beatrice M. Murphy (A K A Beatrice Campbell Murphy) / The Parting
● Beatrice M. Murphy (A K A Beatrice Campbell Murphy) / Waste
● Beatrice M. Murphy (A K A Beatrice Campbell Murphy) / Hatred
● Beatrice M. Murphy (A K A Beatrice Campbell Murphy) / Release
● Pauli Murray / Mulatto’s Dilemma
● Pauli Murray / The Newer Cry
● Pauli Murray / Youth
● Effie Lee Newsome (A K A Mary Effie Lee) / The Bronze Legacy (To a Brown Boy)
● Effie Lee Newsome (A K A Mary Effie Lee) / Morning Light (The Dew-Drier)
● Effie Lee Newsome (A K A Mary Effie Lee) / The Baker’s Boy
● Effie Lee Newsome (A K A Mary Effie Lee) / The Bird in the Cage
● Effie Lee Newsome (A K A Mary Effie Lee) / Wild Roses
● Effie Lee Newsome (A K A Mary Effie Lee) / Exodus
● Effie Lee Newsome (A K A Mary Effie Lee) / Negro Street Serenade
● Effie Lee Newsome (A K A Mary Effie Lee) / Sun Disk
● Effie Lee Newsome (A K A Mary Effie Lee) / Memory
● Effie Lee Newsome (A K A Mary Effie Lee) / My Roads
● Effie Lee Newsome (A K A Mary Effie Lee) / Spring Rains
● Effie Lee Newsome (A K A Mary Effie Lee) / Red Indians of Dawn
● Effie Lee Newsome (A K A Mary Effie Lee) / Passage
● Effie Lee Newsome (A K A Mary Effie Lee) / Sassafras Tea
● Effie Lee Newsome (A K A Mary Effie Lee) / The Rich Beggar
● Lucia Mae Pitts / Challenge
● Lucia Mae Pitts / Requiem
● Lucia Mae Pitts / This Is My Vow
● Esther Popel / Ditch-Digger
● Esther Popel / Flag Salute
● Esther Popel / Blasphemy--American Style
● Esther Popel / Credo
● Esther Popel / Bagatelle
● Esther Popel / Theft
● Esther Popel / Night Comes Walking
● Esther Popel / Reach Down, Sweet Grass
● Esther Popel / Little Grey Leaves
● Esther Popel / October Prayer
● Grace Vera Postles / The Prisoner
● Grace Vera Postles / In Winter
● Grace Vera Postles / The Blue Ridge Mts.
● Grace Vera Postles / Moonlight
● Grace Vera Postles / Sans Words
● Grace Vera Postles / The Scar
● Grace Vera Postles / A Lighted Candle
● Grace Vera Postles / Golden Sorrow
● Ida Rowland / Our Heritage
● Ida Rowland / Lines to a Friend
● Ida Rowland / Autumn Evening
● Ida Rowland / Wind among Leaves
● Ida Rowland / Autumn
● Anne Spencer / White Things
● Anne Spencer / Letter to My Sister (Sybil Warns Her Sister)
● Anne Spencer / Lady, Lady
● Anne Spencer / Innocence
● Anne Spencer / The Sévignés
● Anne Spencer / Rime for the Christmas Baby
● Anne Spencer / Black Man O’ Mine
● Anne Spencer / At the Carnival
● Anne Spencer / Lines to a Nasturtium (A Lover Muses)
● Anne Spencer / Grapes: Still-Life
● Anne Spencer / Creed
● Anne Spencer / [God never planted a garden]
● Anne Spencer / Substitution
● Anne Spencer / Dunbar
● Clara Ann Thompson / The Flirt
● Clara Ann Thompson / Aunt Mandy’s Grandchildren
● Clara Ann Thompson / Our Heroes
● Lucy Mae Turner / Nat Turner, an Epitaph
● Lucy Mae Turner / A Bird Is Singing
● Lucy Mae Turner / Pay Day
● Lucy Mae Turner / Ebony
● Lucy Mae Turner / Matilda at the Tubs
● Lucy Mae Turner / Evahbody’s Got Trubbles
● Lucy Ariel Williams (A K A Ariel Williams Holloway) / Prelude
● Lucy Ariel Williams (A K A Ariel Williams Holloway) / Northboun
● Lucy Ariel Williams (A K A Ariel Williams Holloway) / The Black Magician
● Lucy Ariel Williams (A K A Ariel Williams Holloway) / Glory
● Lucy Ariel Williams (A K A Ariel Williams Holloway) / J’ai Peur
● Octavia B. Wynbush / Beauty
● Octavia B. Wynbush / The Song of the Cotton

● Appendix: Anthologies with Women’s Poetry and Collections of Poetry by Woman of the Harlem Renaissance

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