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Fifty years & Other Poems

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FIFTY YEARS & OTHER POEMS
BY
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON
- AUTHOR OF
  - "THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN EX-COLORED MAN," ETC.
- "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