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Fifty Years and Other Poems

by James Weldon Johnson

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  1. 1Dedication — Introduction
  2. 21863-1913
  3. 3To America
  4. 4O Black and Unknown Bards
  5. 5O Southland!
  6. 6To Horace Bumstead
  7. 7The Color Sergeant
  8. 8The Black Mammy
  9. 9Father, Father Abraham
  10. 10Brothers
  11. 11Fragment
  12. 12The White Witch
  13. 13Mother Night
  14. 14The Young Warrior
  15. 15The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face
  16. 16Sonnet
  17. 17From the Spanish
  18. 18From the German of Uhland
  19. 19Before a Painting
  20. 20I Hear the Stars Still Singing
  21. 21Girl of Fifteen
  22. 22The Suicide
  23. 23Down by the Carib Sea
  24. 24And the Greatest of These Is War
  25. 25A Mid-Day Dreamer
  26. 26The Temptress
  27. 27Ghosts of the Old Year
  28. 28The Ghost of Deacon Brown
  29. 29“Lazy”
  30. 30Omar — Deep in the Quiet Wood
  31. 31Voluptas — The Word of an Engineer
  32. 32Life
  33. 33Sleep
  34. 34Prayer at Sunrise
  35. 35The Gift to Sing
  36. 36Morning, Noon and Night
  37. 37Her Eyes Twin Pools
  38. 38The Awakening
  39. 39Beauty That Is Never Old
  40. 40Venus in a Garden
  41. 41Vashti
  42. 42The Reward
  43. 43Jingles & Croons
  44. 44Ma Lady’s Lips Am Like de Honey
  45. 45Tunk
  46. 46Nobody’s Lookin’ but de Owl and de Moon
  47. 47You’s Sweet to Yo’ Mammy Jes de Same
  48. 48A Plantation Bacchanal
  49. 49July in Georgy
  50. 50A Banjo Song
  51. 51Answer to Prayer
  52. 52Dat Gal o’ Mine
  53. 53The Seasons
  54. 54‘Possum Song
  55. 55Brer Rabbit, You’s de Cutes’ of ’Em All
  56. 56An Explanation
  57. 57De Little Pickaninny’s Gone to Sleep
  58. 58The Rivals

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