The Sport of the Gods: And Other Essential Writings Book

	General introduction
	The sport of the gods and other essential writings
Pt. 1	Poetry
	Lager beer	23
	Welcome address : to the Western Association of Writers	25
	Columbian ode	26
	Justice	28
	Ode to Ethiopia	29
	The ol' tunes	31
	An ante-bellum sermon	33
	Ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes	36
	The poet and his song	38
	When Malindy sings	39
	If I could but forget	42
	Not they who soar	43
	The colored soldiers	44
	Ships that pass in the night	47
	We wear the mask	48
	Why fades a dream?	49
	Accountability	50
	The dilettante : a modern type	51
	A Negro love song	52
	The party	53
	The spellin'-bee	56
	Discovered	59
	The deserted plantation	60
	Hymn	62
	A death song	63
	The poet and the baby	64
	Sonnet : on an old book with uncut leaves	65
	For the man who fails	66
	The garret	67
	Little brown baby	68
	Sympathy	69
	At candle-lightin' time	70
	When dey 'listed colored soldiers	71
	A plea	73
	Soliloquy of a turkey	74
	To a captious critic	75
	In the morning	76
	The poet	78
	The fisher child's lullaby	79
	The plantation child's lullaby	80
	The farm child's lullaby	82
	The haunted oak	83
	To the south : on its new slavery	86
Pt. 2	Short fiction
	The ingrate	107
	Mr. Cornelius Johnson, office-seeker	115
	Nelse Hatton's vengeance	125
	The ordeal at Mt. Hope	134
	At Shaft 11	152
	On man's fortunes	165
	The emancipation of Evalina Jones	181
	The tragedy at Three Forks	188
	The lion tamer	196
	A blessed deceit	202
	The mission of Mr. Scatters	209
	The lynching of Jube Benson	222
Pt. 3	Nonfiction
	Salutatory	245
	Of Negro journals	247
	England as seen by a black man	252
	Our new madness	257
	The race question discussed	260
	The Negroes of the tenderloin	264
	The hapless southern Negro	268
	Negro music	271
	Negro life in Washington	274
	Is higher education for the Negro hopeless?	279
	Negro society in Washington	282
	The Negro as an individual	290
	The Fourth of July and race outrages	293
Pt. 4	Novel : The sport of the gods
	The sport of the gods	319