Fifty Years, & Other Poems
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Chapters (137)
- FIFTY YEARS & OTHER POEMS
- JAMES WELDON JOHNSON
- AUTHOR OF "THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN EX-COLORED MAN," ETC.
- With an Introduction by
- BRANDER MATTHEWS
- THE CORNHILL COMPANY BOSTON 1917
- To
- G. N. F.
- ACKNOWLEDGMENT
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- FIFTY YEARS & OTHER POEMS
- FIFTY YEARS 1863-1913
- TO AMERICA
- O BLACK AND UNKNOWN BARDS
- O SOUTHLAND!
- To HORACE BUMSTEAD
- THE COLOR SERGEANT
- (On an Incident at the Battle of San Juan Hill)
- THE BLACK MAMMY
- FATHER, FATHER ABRAHAM
- (On the Anniversary of Lincoln's Birth)
- BROTHERS
- FRAGMENT
- THE WHITE WITCH
- MOTHER NIGHT
- THE YOUNG WARRIOR
- THE GLORY OF THE DAY WAS IN HER FACE
- SONNET
- (From the Spanish of Plácido)
- FROM THE SPANISH
- FROM THE GERMAN OF UHLAND
- BEFORE A PAINTING
- I HEAR THE STARS STILL SINGING
- GIRL OF FIFTEEN
- THE SUICIDE
- DOWN BY THE CARIB SEA
- I Sunrise in the Tropics
- II Los Cigarillos
- III Teestay
- IV The Lottery Girl
- V The Dancing Girl
- VI Sunset in the Tropics
- AND THE GREATEST OF THESE IS WAR
- A MID-DAY DREAMER
- THE TEMPTRESS
- GHOSTS OF THE OLD YEAR
- THE GHOST OF DEACON BROWN
- "LAZY"
- OMAR
- DEEP IN THE QUIET WOOD
- VOLUPTAS
- THE WORD OF AN ENGINEER
- LIFE
- SLEEP
- PRAYER AT SUNRISE
- THE GIFT TO SING
- MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT
- HER EYES TWIN POOLS
- THE AWAKENING
- BEAUTY THAT IS NEVER OLD
- VENUS IN A GARDEN
- VASHTI
- THE REWARD
- JINGLES & CROONS
- SENCE YOU WENT AWAY
- MA LADY'S LIPS AM LIKE DE HONEY
- (Negro Love Song)
- TUNK
- (A Lecture on Modern Education)
- NOBODY'S LOOKIN' BUT DE OWL AND DE MOON
- (A Negro Serenade)
- YOU'S SWEET TO YO' MAMMY JES DE SAME
- (Lullaby)
- A PLANTATION BACCHANAL
- JULY IN GEORGY
- A BANJO SONG
- ANSWER TO PRAYER
- DAT GAL O' MINE
- THE SEASONS
- 'POSSUM SONG
- (A Warning)
- BRER RABBIT, YOU'S DE CUTES' OF 'EM ALL
- AN EXPLANATION
- DE LITTLE PICKANINNY'S GONE TO SLEEP
- THE RIVALS
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