Fifty Years & Other Poems

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Poetry

Authors: James Weldon Johnson In Year : 1917

Book Language: English

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Introduction by Brander Matthews
Fifty Years
To America
O Black and Unknown Bards
O Southland
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
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
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
Sence You Went Away
Ma Lady's Lips Am Like de Honey
Tunk
Nobody's Lookin' but de Owl an' 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'se de Cutes' of 'Em All
An Explanation
De Little Pickaninny's Gone to Sleep
The Rivals

This is a collection of poems by James Weldon Johnson. Johnson was an early civil rights activist, and this theme is the basis for many of the poems in this collection as well. This volume also contains an introduction by Brander Matthews.The first half of this volume contains poems in classical style and form, the second half of this collection is a set of "Jingles & Croons". - Summary by Carolin