Fifty years & other poems / James Weldon Johnson ; with an introduction by Brander Matthews [electronic text]
- Title
- Fifty years & other poems / James Weldon Johnson ; with an introduction by Brander Matthews [electronic text]
- Author
- Johnson, James Weldon 1871-1938
- Publication
- Boston, Mass.: Cornhill Company
- 1917
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"Fifty years & other poems / James Weldon Johnson ; with an introduction by Brander Matthews [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAD9126.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 24, 2024.
Contents
- TITLE PAGE
- dedication
- ACKNOWLEDGMENT
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
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FIFTY YEARS & OTHER POEMS
- FIFTY YEARS
- TO AMERICA
- O BLACK AND UNKNOWN BARDS
- O SOUTHLAND!
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To HORACE BUMSTEAD - THE COLOR SERGEANT
- THE BLACK MAMMY
- FATHER, FATHER ABRAHAM
- BROTHERS
- FRAGMENT
- THE WHITE WITCH
- MOTHER NIGHT
- THE YOUNG WARRIOR
- THE GLORY OF THE DAY WAS IN HER FACE
- SONNET
- 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
- 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
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JINGLES & CROONS
- SENCE YOU WENT AWAY
- MA LADY'S LIPS AM LIKE DE HONEY
- TUNK
- NOBODY'S LOOKIN' BUT DE OWL AND DE MOON
- YOU'S SWEET TO YO' MAMMY JES DE SAME
- A PLANTATION BACCHANAL
- JULY IN GEORGY
- A BANJO SONG
- ANSWER TO PRAYER
- DAT GAL O' MINE
- THE SEASONS
- 'POSSUM SONG
- BRER RABBIT YOU'S DE CUTES' OF 'EM ALL
- AN EXPLANATION
- DE LITTLE PICKANINNY'S GONE TO SLEEP
- THE RIVALS
- postscript