Fifty years & Other Poems. James Weldon Johnson

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      Table of 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