Shadowed Dreams
Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance
Foreword by Nellie McKay; Edited by Maureen Honey
Rutgers University Press
The first edition of Shadowed Dreams was a groundbreaking anthology that brought to light the contributions of women poets to the Harlem Renaissance. This revised and expanded version contains twice the number of poems found in the original, many of them never before reprinted, and adds eighteen new voices to the collection to once again strike new ground in African American literary history. Also new to this edition are nine period illustrations and updated biographical introductions for each poet.
Shadowed Dreams features new poems by Gwendolyn Bennett, Anita Scott Coleman, Mae Cowdery, Blanche Taylor Dickinson, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Jessie Fauset, Angelina Weld Grimké, Gladys Casely Hayford (a k a Aquah Laluah), Virginia Houston, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Helene Johnson, Effie Lee Newsome, Esther Popel, and Anne Spencer, as well as writings from newly discovered poets Carrie Williams Clifford, Edythe Mae Gordon, Alvira Hazzard, Gertrude Parthenia McBrown, Beatrice Murphy, Lucia Mae Pitts, Grace Vera Postles, Ida Rowland, and Lucy Mae Turner, among others.
Covering the years 1918 through 1939 and ranging across the period’s major and minor journals, as well as its anthologies and collections, Shadowed Dreams provides a treasure trove of poetry from which to mine deeply buried jewels of black female visions in the early twentieth century.
Maureen Honey is a professor of English and women's studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is co-editor with Venetria K. Patton of Double-Take: A Revisionist Harlem Renaissance Anthology, editor of Bitter Fruit: African American Women in World War II, and author of Creating Rosie the Riveter: Class, Gender, and Propaganda during World War II.
List of poems, alphabetical by author:
Fantasy by Gwendolyn B. Bennett
Hatred by Gwendolyn B. Bennett
Heritage by Gwendolyn B. Bennett
Nocturne by Gwendolyn B. Bennett
Quatrain: 2 by Gwendolyn B. Bennett
Secret by Gwendolyn B. Bennett
Song by Gwendolyn B. Bennett
Street Lamps In Early Spring by Gwendolyn B. Bennett
To A Dark Girl by Gwendolyn B. Bennett
To Usward by Gwendolyn B. Bennett
Chalk-dust by Lillian Byrnes
Nordic by Lillian Byrnes
An Old Slave Woman by Joyce Sims Carrington
Last Night by Ethel M. Caution
The River by Ethel M. Caution
To E.j.j. by Ethel M. Caution
Black Baby by Anita Scott Coleman
Black Faces by Anita Scott Coleman
Negro Laughter by Anita Scott Coleman
Portraiture by Anita Scott Coleman
The Shining Parlor by Anita Scott Coleman
After The Japanese by Mae V. Cowdery
A Brown Aesthete Speaks by Mae V. Cowdery
Dusk by Mae V. Cowdery
Exultation by Mae V. Cowdery
Farewell by Mae V. Cowdery
God Is Kind by Mae V. Cowdery
Having Had You by Mae V. Cowdery
Heritage by Mae V. Cowdery
If I Must Know by Mae V. Cowdery
Insatiate by Mae V. Cowdery
Interlude by Mae V. Cowdery
Lines To A Sophisticate by Mae V. Cowdery
Longings by Mae V. Cowdery
Of Earth by Mae V. Cowdery
Poem ... For A Lover by Mae V. Cowdery
Poplar Tree by Mae V. Cowdery
A Prayer by Mae V. Cowdery
Some Hands Are Lovlier by Mae V. Cowdery
Want by Mae V. Cowdery
The Wind Blows by Mae V. Cowdery
Interim by Clarissa Scott Delany
Joy by Clarissa Scott Delany
The Mask by Clarissa Scott Delany
Solace by Clarissa Scott Delany
A Dark Actress - Somewhere by Blanche Taylor Dickinson
Four Walls by Blanche Taylor Dickinson
To An Icicle by Blanche Taylor Dickinson
Epitome by Ruth G. Dixon
I Sit And Sew by Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-nelson
The Proletariat Speaks by Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-nelson
Snow In October by Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-nelson
Fragment by Jessie Redmond Fauset
Oriflamme by Jessie Redmond Fauset
Stars In Alabama by Jessie Redmond Fauset
Touche by Jessie Redmond Fauset
At The Spring Dawn by Angelina Weld Grimke
The Black Finger by Angelina Weld Grimke
Dawn by Angelina Weld Grimke
Dusk by Angelina Weld Grimke
El Beso by Angelina Weld Grimke
Grass Fingers by Angelina Weld Grimke
I Weep by Angelina Weld Grimke
Little Grey Dreams by Angelina Weld Grimke
A Mona Lisa by Angelina Weld Grimke
Tenebris by Angelina Weld Grimke
To Clarissa Scott Delany by Angelina Weld Grimke
To Keep The Memory Of Charlotte Forten Grimke - 1915 by Angelina Weld Grimke
The Want Of You by Angelina Weld Grimke
A Winter Twilight by Angelina Weld Grimke
Baby Cobina by Gladys May Casely Hayford
Lullaby by Gladys May Casely Hayford
The Palm Wine Seller by Gladys May Casely Hayford
Rainy Season Love Song by Gladys May Casely Hayford
The Serving Girl by Gladys May Casely Hayford
Class Room by Virginia A. Houston
Ecstasy by Virginia A. Houston
The Negro Laughs Back by Mary Jenness
Secret by Mary Jenness
Afterglow by Georgia Douglas Johnson
Armageddon by Georgia Douglas Johnson
Calling Dreams by Georgia Douglas Johnson
Common Dust by Georgia Douglas Johnson
Escape by Georgia Douglas Johnson
The Heart Of A Woman by Georgia Douglas Johnson
I Want To Die While You Love Me by Georgia Douglas Johnson
Motherhood by Georgia Douglas Johnson
Prejudice by Georgia Douglas Johnson
Smothered Fires by Georgia Douglas Johnson
The Suppliant by Georgia Douglas Johnson
To A Young Wife by Georgia Douglas Johnson
The True American by Georgia Douglas Johnson
Wishes by Georgia Douglas Johnson
Your World by Georgia Douglas Johnson
Bottled by Helene Johnson
Fulfillment by Helene Johnson
Invocation by Helene Johnson
Magalu by Helene Johnson
My Race by Helene Johnson
Poem by Helene Johnson
The Road by Helene Johnson
Sonnet To A Negro In Harlem by Helene Johnson
Summer Matures by Helene Johnson
Trees At Night by Helene Johnson
What Do I Care For Morning by Helene Johnson
Crowded Out by Rosalie M. Jonas
Dark Dreaming by Dorothy Kruger
'carry Me Back To Old Virginny' by Elma Ehrlich Levinger
Autumn by Marjorie Marshall
Desire by Marjorie Marshall
Night's Protege by Marjorie Marshall
Nostalgia by Marjorie Marshall
To A Dark Dancer by Marjorie Marshall
The Lynching by Dorothea Mathews
Night Is Like An Avalanche by Bessie Mayle
Skylines by Bessie Mayle
October by Isabel Neill
The Baker's Boy by Mary Effie Lee Newsome
The Bird In The Cage by Mary Effie Lee Newsome
The Bronze Legacy (to A Brown Boy) by Mary Effie Lee Newsome
Exodus by Mary Effie Lee Newsome
Mattinata by Mary Effie Lee Newsome
Memory by Mary Effie Lee Newsome
Morning Light (the Dew-drier) by Mary Effie Lee Newsome
Sassafras Tea by Mary Effie Lee Newsome
Wild Roses by Mary Effie Lee Newsome
Night Comes Walking by Esther Popel
Theft by Esther Popel
At The Carnival by Anne Spencer
Before The Feast Of Shushan by Anne Spencer
Creed by Anne Spencer
God Never Planted A Garden by Anne Spencer
Grapes: Still Life by Anne Spencer
Innocence by Anne Spencer
Lady, Lady by Anne Spencer
Letter To My Sister by Anne Spencer
Lines To A Nasturtium (a Lover Muses) by Anne Spencer
Rime For The Christmas Baby (at 48 Webster Place, Orange) by Anne Spencer
The Sevinges by Anne Spencer
Substitution by Anne Spencer
Terence Macswiney by Anne Spencer
Time's Unfading Garden by Anne Spencer
White Things by Anne Spencer
Locust Trees by Margaret L. Thomas
After Reading Bryant's Line To A Waterfowl by Eloise Bibb Thompson
A Kiss Requested by Eda Lou Walton
Northboun' by Lucy Ariel Williams
Beauty by Octavia Beatrice Wynbush
All Things Insensible by Kathleen Tankersley Young
December Portrait by Kathleen Tankersley Young
Hunger by Kathleen Tankersley Young
Fantasy by Gwendolyn B. Bennett
Hatred by Gwendolyn B. Bennett
Heritage by Gwendolyn B. Bennett
Nocturne by Gwendolyn B. Bennett
Quatrain: 2 by Gwendolyn B. Bennett
Secret by Gwendolyn B. Bennett
Song by Gwendolyn B. Bennett
Street Lamps In Early Spring by Gwendolyn B. Bennett
To A Dark Girl by Gwendolyn B. Bennett
To Usward by Gwendolyn B. Bennett
Chalk-dust by Lillian Byrnes
Nordic by Lillian Byrnes
An Old Slave Woman by Joyce Sims Carrington
Last Night by Ethel M. Caution
The River by Ethel M. Caution
To E.j.j. by Ethel M. Caution
Black Baby by Anita Scott Coleman
Black Faces by Anita Scott Coleman
Negro Laughter by Anita Scott Coleman
Portraiture by Anita Scott Coleman
The Shining Parlor by Anita Scott Coleman
After The Japanese by Mae V. Cowdery
A Brown Aesthete Speaks by Mae V. Cowdery
Dusk by Mae V. Cowdery
Exultation by Mae V. Cowdery
Farewell by Mae V. Cowdery
God Is Kind by Mae V. Cowdery
Having Had You by Mae V. Cowdery
Heritage by Mae V. Cowdery
If I Must Know by Mae V. Cowdery
Insatiate by Mae V. Cowdery
Interlude by Mae V. Cowdery
Lines To A Sophisticate by Mae V. Cowdery
Longings by Mae V. Cowdery
Of Earth by Mae V. Cowdery
Poem ... For A Lover by Mae V. Cowdery
Poplar Tree by Mae V. Cowdery
A Prayer by Mae V. Cowdery
Some Hands Are Lovlier by Mae V. Cowdery
Want by Mae V. Cowdery
The Wind Blows by Mae V. Cowdery
Interim by Clarissa Scott Delany
Joy by Clarissa Scott Delany
The Mask by Clarissa Scott Delany
Solace by Clarissa Scott Delany
A Dark Actress - Somewhere by Blanche Taylor Dickinson
Four Walls by Blanche Taylor Dickinson
To An Icicle by Blanche Taylor Dickinson
Epitome by Ruth G. Dixon
I Sit And Sew by Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-nelson
The Proletariat Speaks by Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-nelson
Snow In October by Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-nelson
Fragment by Jessie Redmond Fauset
Oriflamme by Jessie Redmond Fauset
Stars In Alabama by Jessie Redmond Fauset
Touche by Jessie Redmond Fauset
At The Spring Dawn by Angelina Weld Grimke
The Black Finger by Angelina Weld Grimke
Dawn by Angelina Weld Grimke
Dusk by Angelina Weld Grimke
El Beso by Angelina Weld Grimke
Grass Fingers by Angelina Weld Grimke
I Weep by Angelina Weld Grimke
Little Grey Dreams by Angelina Weld Grimke
A Mona Lisa by Angelina Weld Grimke
Tenebris by Angelina Weld Grimke
To Clarissa Scott Delany by Angelina Weld Grimke
To Keep The Memory Of Charlotte Forten Grimke - 1915 by Angelina Weld Grimke
The Want Of You by Angelina Weld Grimke
A Winter Twilight by Angelina Weld Grimke
Baby Cobina by Gladys May Casely Hayford
Lullaby by Gladys May Casely Hayford
The Palm Wine Seller by Gladys May Casely Hayford
Rainy Season Love Song by Gladys May Casely Hayford
The Serving Girl by Gladys May Casely Hayford
Class Room by Virginia A. Houston
Ecstasy by Virginia A. Houston
The Negro Laughs Back by Mary Jenness
Secret by Mary Jenness
Afterglow by Georgia Douglas Johnson
Armageddon by Georgia Douglas Johnson
Calling Dreams by Georgia Douglas Johnson
Common Dust by Georgia Douglas Johnson
Escape by Georgia Douglas Johnson
The Heart Of A Woman by Georgia Douglas Johnson
I Want To Die While You Love Me by Georgia Douglas Johnson
Motherhood by Georgia Douglas Johnson
Prejudice by Georgia Douglas Johnson
Smothered Fires by Georgia Douglas Johnson
The Suppliant by Georgia Douglas Johnson
To A Young Wife by Georgia Douglas Johnson
The True American by Georgia Douglas Johnson
Wishes by Georgia Douglas Johnson
Your World by Georgia Douglas Johnson
Bottled by Helene Johnson
Fulfillment by Helene Johnson
Invocation by Helene Johnson
Magalu by Helene Johnson
My Race by Helene Johnson
Poem by Helene Johnson
The Road by Helene Johnson
Sonnet To A Negro In Harlem by Helene Johnson
Summer Matures by Helene Johnson
Trees At Night by Helene Johnson
What Do I Care For Morning by Helene Johnson
Crowded Out by Rosalie M. Jonas
Dark Dreaming by Dorothy Kruger
'carry Me Back To Old Virginny' by Elma Ehrlich Levinger
Autumn by Marjorie Marshall
Desire by Marjorie Marshall
Night's Protege by Marjorie Marshall
Nostalgia by Marjorie Marshall
To A Dark Dancer by Marjorie Marshall
The Lynching by Dorothea Mathews
Night Is Like An Avalanche by Bessie Mayle
Skylines by Bessie Mayle
October by Isabel Neill
The Baker's Boy by Mary Effie Lee Newsome
The Bird In The Cage by Mary Effie Lee Newsome
The Bronze Legacy (to A Brown Boy) by Mary Effie Lee Newsome
Exodus by Mary Effie Lee Newsome
Mattinata by Mary Effie Lee Newsome
Memory by Mary Effie Lee Newsome
Morning Light (the Dew-drier) by Mary Effie Lee Newsome
Sassafras Tea by Mary Effie Lee Newsome
Wild Roses by Mary Effie Lee Newsome
Night Comes Walking by Esther Popel
Theft by Esther Popel
At The Carnival by Anne Spencer
Before The Feast Of Shushan by Anne Spencer
Creed by Anne Spencer
God Never Planted A Garden by Anne Spencer
Grapes: Still Life by Anne Spencer
Innocence by Anne Spencer
Lady, Lady by Anne Spencer
Letter To My Sister by Anne Spencer
Lines To A Nasturtium (a Lover Muses) by Anne Spencer
Rime For The Christmas Baby (at 48 Webster Place, Orange) by Anne Spencer
The Sevinges by Anne Spencer
Substitution by Anne Spencer
Terence Macswiney by Anne Spencer
Time's Unfading Garden by Anne Spencer
White Things by Anne Spencer
Locust Trees by Margaret L. Thomas
After Reading Bryant's Line To A Waterfowl by Eloise Bibb Thompson
A Kiss Requested by Eda Lou Walton
Northboun' by Lucy Ariel Williams
Beauty by Octavia Beatrice Wynbush
All Things Insensible by Kathleen Tankersley Young
December Portrait by Kathleen Tankersley Young
Hunger by Kathleen Tankersley Young
