Fifty years and Other Poems

Fifty years and Other Poems

James Weldon Johnson, american author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and civil rights activist (1871-1938)


This ebook presents «Fifty years and Other Poems», from James Weldon Johnson. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected.


Table of Contents

- About This Book

- Dedication

- Introduction

- 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

- 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

- Jingles And Croons