- Fifty Years & Other Poems
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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".
- Chapters
- 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