Fifty Years & Other Poems

About this eBook

Author

Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938

Title

Fifty Years, & Other Poems

Credits

Produced by Suzanne Shell, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

African Americans -- Poetry

Category

Text

eBook-No.

17884

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17884

Release Date

March 1, 2006

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.FIFTY YEARS & OTHER POEMS — BY
2. 2.JAMES WELDON JOHNSON — AUTHOR OF — "THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN EX-COLORED MAN," ETC. — With an Introduction by
3. 3.BRANDER MATTHEWS — THE CORNHILL COMPANY BOSTON 1917 — To
4. 4.G. N. F.
5. 5.ACKNOWLEDGMENT
6. 6.CONTENTS
7. 7.INTRODUCTION
8. 8.FIFTY YEARS & OTHER POEMS — FIFTY YEARS — 1863-1913
9. 9.TO AMERICA
10. 10.O BLACK AND UNKNOWN BARDS
11. 11.O SOUTHLAND!
12. 12.To HORACE BUMSTEAD
13. 13.THE COLOR SERGEANT — ( On an Incident at the Battle of San Juan Hill )
14. 14.THE BLACK MAMMY
15. 15.FATHER, FATHER ABRAHAM — ( On the Anniversary of Lincoln's Birth )
16. 16.BROTHERS
17. 17.FRAGMENT
18. 18.THE WHITE WITCH
19. 19.MOTHER NIGHT
20. 20.THE YOUNG WARRIOR
21. 21.THE GLORY OF THE DAY WAS IN HER FACE
22. 22.SONNET — ( From the Spanish of Plácido )
23. 23.FROM THE SPANISH
24. 24.FROM THE GERMAN OF UHLAND
25. 25.BEFORE A PAINTING
26. 26.I HEAR THE STARS STILL SINGING
27. 27.GIRL OF FIFTEEN
28. 28.THE SUICIDE
29. 29.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
30. 30.AND THE GREATEST OF THESE IS WAR
31. 31.A MID-DAY DREAMER
32. 32.THE TEMPTRESS
33. 33.GHOSTS OF THE OLD YEAR
34. 34.THE GHOST OF DEACON BROWN
35. 35."LAZY"
36. 36.OMAR
37. 37.DEEP IN THE QUIET WOOD
38. 38.VOLUPTAS
39. 39.THE WORD OF AN ENGINEER
40. 40.LIFE
41. 41.SLEEP
42. 42.PRAYER AT SUNRISE
43. 43.THE GIFT TO SING
44. 44.MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT
45. 45.HER EYES TWIN POOLS
46. 46.THE AWAKENING
47. 47.BEAUTY THAT IS NEVER OLD
48. 48.VENUS IN A GARDEN
49. 49.VASHTI
50. 50.THE REWARD
51. 51.JINGLES & CROONS
52. 52.SENCE YOU WENT AWAY
53. 53.MA LADY'S LIPS AM LIKE DE HONEY — ( Negro Love Song )
54. 54.TUNK — ( A Lecture on Modern Education )
55. 55.NOBODY'S LOOKIN' BUT DE OWL AND DE MOON — ( A Negro Serenade )
56. 56.YOU'S SWEET TO YO' MAMMY JES DE SAME — ( Lullaby )
57. 57.A PLANTATION BACCHANAL
58. 58.JULY IN GEORGY
59. 59.A BANJO SONG
60. 60.ANSWER TO PRAYER
61. 61.DAT GAL O' MINE
62. 62.THE SEASONS
63. 63.'POSSUM SONG — ( A Warning )
64. 64.BRER RABBIT, YOU'S DE CUTES' OF 'EM ALL
65. 65.AN EXPLANATION
66. 66.DE LITTLE PICKANINNY'S GONE TO SLEEP
67. 67.THE RIVALS

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