Anthologies of African American Writing

Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance

"Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance." Ed. Maureen Honey. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1989. xx+238 pp.

2nd ed. rev. and expanded. 2006. lxxi+297 pp.

● Nellie Y. McKay / Foreword
● Acknowledgements
● Maureen Honey / Introduction
● A Note on the Text

Part I: PROTEST
● Anne Spencer / White Things
● Anne Spencer / The Sévignés
● Anne Spencer / Letter to My Sister
● Anne Spencer / Innocence
● Anne Spencer / Before the Feast at Shushan
● Anne Spencer / [Terence MacSwiney]
● Anne Spencer / Lady, Lady
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / Prejudice
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / Common Dust
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / Calling Dreams
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / Wishes
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / The Suppliant
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / Armageddon
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / Your World
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / Motherhood
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / Smothered Fires
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / The Heart of a Woman
● Effie Lee Newsome / The Bird in the Cage
● Effie Lee Newsome / The Baker's Boy
● Effie Lee Newsome / Exodus
● Lucy Ariel Williams / Northboun’
● Elma Ehrlich Levinger / "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny"
● Rosalie M. Jones / Crowded Out
● Angelina Weld Grimké / Little Grey Dreams
● Alice Dunbar-Nelson / I Sit and Sew
● Alice Dunbar-Nelson / The Proletariat Speaks
● Blanche Taylor Dickinson / Four Walls
● Blanche Taylor Dickinson / A Dark Actress—Somewhere
● Gladys May Casely Hayford / The Palm Wine Seller
● Mary Jenness / The Negro Laughs Back
● Mary Jenness / Secret
● Ruth G. Dixon / Epitome
● Lillian Byrnes / Nordic
● Lillian Byrnes / Chalk-Dust
● Virginia A. Houston / Class Room
● Mae V. Cowdery / A Brown Aesthetic Speaks
● Mae V. Cowdery / A Prayer
● Dorothea Mathews / The Lynching
● Helene Johnson / The Road

Part II: HERITAGE
● Helene Johnson / Bottled
● Helene Johnson / Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem
● Helene Johnson / Poem
● Helene Johnson / Magalu
● Helene Johnson / My Race
● Gwendolyn B. Bennett / Heritage
● Gwendolyn B. Bennett / To Usward
● Gwendolyn B. Bennett / Song
● Gwendolyn B. Bennett / To a Dark Girl
● Anita Scott Coleman / The Shining Parlor
● Anita Scott Coleman / Black Faces
● Anita Scott Coleman / Negro Laughter
● Anita Scott Coleman / Black Baby
● Gladys May Casely Hayford / Baby Cobina
● Aqua Laluah / Lullaby
● Anne Spencer / Rime for the Christmas Baby (At 48 Webster Place, Orange)
● Anne Spencer / Grapes: Still-Life
● Effie Lee Newsome / The Bronze Legacy (To a Brown Boy)
● Effie Lee Newsome / Morning Light (The Dew-Drier)
● Mae V. Cowdery / Heritage
● Octavia Beatrice Wynbush / Beauty
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / The True American
● Jessie Fauset / Oriflamme
● Angelina Weld Grimké / To Keep the Memory of Charlotte Forten Grimké--1915
● Joyce Sims Carrington / An Old Slave Woman

Part III: LOVE AND PASSION
● Mae V. Cowdery / Longings
● Mae V. Cowdery / Exultation
● Mae V. Cowdery / Insatiate
● Mae V. Cowdery / Farewell
● Mae V. Cowdery / Having Had You
● Mae V. Cowdery / Some Hands Are Lovelier
● Mae V. Cowdery / Poem . . . for a Lover
● Mae V. Cowdery / If I Must Know
● Mae V. Cowdery / Lines to a Sophisticate
● Mae V. Cowdery / Dusk
● Marjorie Marshall / To a Dark Dancer
● Marjorie Marshall / Night’s Protégé
● Clarissa Scott Delany / Joy
● Clarissa Scott Delany / Interim
● Clarissa Scott Delany / The Mask
● Angelina Weld Grimké / To Clarissa Scott Delany
● Angelina Weld Grimké / A Mona Lisa
● Angelina Weld Grimké / I Weep
● Angelina Weld Grimké / El Beso
● Angelina Weld Grimké / The Want of You
● Gladys May Casely Hayford / Rainy Season Love Song
● Gladys May Casely Hayford / The Serving Girl
● Ethel M. Caution / To E.J.J.
● Ethel M. Caution / Last Night
● Jessie Fauset / Stars in Alabama
● Jessie Fauset / Fragment
● Jessie Fauset / Touché
● Gwendolyn B. Bennett / Fantasy
● Gwendolyn B. Bennett / Secret
● Gwendolyn B. Bennett / Hatred
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / Afterglow
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / To a Young Wife
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / I Want to Die While You Love Me
● Eda Lou Walton / A Kiss Requested
● Kathleen Tankersley Young / All Things Insensible
● Kathleen Tankersley Young / Hunger
● Virginia A. Houston / Ecstasy
● Dorothy Kruger / Dark Dreaming
● Anne Spencer / Lines to a Nasturtium (A Lover Muses)
● Anne Spencer / At the Carnival
● Helene Johnson / Summer Matures
● Helene Johnson / Fulfillment

Part IV: NATURE
● Angelina Weld Grimké / At the Spring Dawn
● Angelina Weld Grimké / Dawn
● Angelina Weld Grimké / A Winter Twilight
● Angelina Weld Grimké / Dusk
● Angelina Weld Grimké / Grass Fingers
● Angelina Weld Grimké / The Black Finger
● Angelina Weld Grimké / Tenebris
● Alice Dunbar-Nelson / Snow in October
● Isabel Neill / October
● Marjorie Marshall / Autumn
● Marjorie Marshall / Desire
● Marjorie Marshall / Nostalgia
● Kathleen Tankersley Young / December Portrait
● Mae V. Cowdery / Want
● Mae V. Cowdery / Interlude
● Mae V. Cowdery / The Wind Blows
● Mae V. Cowdery / Four Poems
● Anita Scott Coleman / Portraiture
● Margaret L. Thomas / Locust Trees
● Clarissa Scott Delany / Solace
● Anne Spencer / Substitution
● Anne Spencer / [God never planted a garden]
● Anne Spencer / Creed
● Bessie Mayle / [Night is like an avalanche]
● Bessie Mayle / [Skylines]
● Effie Lee Newsome / Mattinata
● Effie Lee Newsome / Memory
● Effie Lee Newsome / Wild Roses
● Effie Lee Newsome / Sassafras Tea
● Eloise Bibb Thompson / After Reading Bryant’s Lines to a Waterfowl
● Ethel M. Caution / The River
● Esther Popel / Theft
● Esther Popel / Night Comes Walking
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / Escape
● Helene Johnson / What Do I Care for Morning
● Helene Johnson / Invocation
● Helene Johnson / Trees at Night
● Blanche Taylor Dickinson / To an Icicle
● Gwendolyn B. Bennett / Nocturne
● Gwendolyn B. Bennett / Quatrain 2
● Gwendolyn B. Bennett / Street Lamps in Early Spring

● Brief Biographies
● Bibliography

• "The years between the end of the First World War and the Great Depression were the Harlem Renaissance years, although often only men have been identified as the artistic figures of that movement. This anthology uncovers dozens of mostly middle-class, educated black // women who wrote about the ordinary and extraordinary moments in their lives. The poets are largely obscure, and their level of ability varies greatly. Their verse is a composite of extremes—frank and intricate, sometimes beautiful, and deceptively simple. All, however, are worth reading, if only for the historical perspectives of a class of women often left behind in history books. The verse is arranged in four parts by theme—'Protest,' 'Heritage,' 'Love and Passion,' and 'Nature.' A long introduction provides historical and biographical information about the poets and the era in which they wrote. This is highly recommended for all readers" ("The Columbia Granger's Guide to Poetry Anthologies". Ed. William Katz, Linda Sternberg Katz, and Esther Crain. 2nd enlarged ed. New York: Columbia UP, 1994. 12-13).

not in Kinnamon 1997
• Indexed in "The Columbia Granger's Index to African-American Poetry" (1999)

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