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American

George Marion McClellan

1860–1934

George Marion McClellan (1860–1934) was a Black poet, minister and teacher from Tennessee, a graduate of Fisk University. His verse sets the landscapes of the South beside religious feeling and, at moments, the claims of his race.

He published Poems (1895) and The Path of Dreams (1916); both books were drawn on for James Weldon Johnson's anthology The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922). The Path of Dreams, printed in Louisville, gathers his nature lyrics, devotional pieces and a long narrative poem on the legend of Tannhauser.

Poems (43)

  1. The Path of Dreams
  2. Daybreak
  3. To Hollyhocks
  4. Spring Dawn
  5. The Ephemera
  6. The Hills of Sewanee
  7. Hydromel and Rue
  8. Dogwood Blossoms
  9. The April of Alabama
  10. The Bride of Nitta Yuma
  11. A September Night
  12. The Harvest Moon
  13. The Sun Went Down in Beauty
  14. Love is a Flame
  15. The Feet of Judas
  16. To Lochiel
  17. To Theodore
  18. In the Heart of a Rose
  19. A January Dandelion
  20. A Belated Oriole
  21. Eternity
  22. A Psyche of Spring
  23. May Along the Cumberland
  24. The Secret
  25. A Serenade
  26. A Butterfly in Church
  27. As Sifted Wheat
  28. A New Year's Greeting to a College Senior
  29. Estranged
  30. A Decoration Day
  31. June
  32. Heart Yearnings
  33. A Faithless Love
  34. The Bridal Wreath's Lament
  35. Sustaining Hope
  36. The Woods of October
  37. Youthful Delusions
  38. The March's Promise
  39. A Meadow-Land
  40. In Summer
  41. In Memory of Katie Reynolds, Dying
  42. Lines to Mount Glen
  43. The Legend of Tannhauser and Elizabeth

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