Fifty Years & Other Poems

von James Weldon Johnson

60 Kapitel2h 11mEnglish1917

Über dieses Buch

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". - Summary by Carolin

Kapitel (60)

1Introduction by Brander Matthews

331

2Fifty Years

404

3To America

4O Black and Unknown Bards

239

5O Southland

121

6To Horace Bumstead

7The Color Sergeant

8The Black Mammy

9Father, Father Abraham

10Brothers

298

11Fragment

137

12The White Witch

203

13Mother Night

14The Young Warrior

15The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face

16From the Spanish of Plácido

17From the Spanish

18From the German of Uhland

100

19Before a Painting

20I Hear the Stars Still Singing

21Girl of Fifteen

22The Suicide

23Down by the Carib Sea

460

24The Greatest of These Is War

257

25A Mid-Day Dreamer

26The Temptress

27Ghosts of the Old Year

124

28The Ghost of Deacon Brown

29Lazy

119

30Omar

31Deep in the Quiet Wood

32Voluptas

33The Word of an Engineer

101

34Life

35Sleep

36Prayer at Sunrise

37The Gift to Sing

38Morning, Noon and Night

39Her Eyes Twin Pools

40The Awakening

41Beauty That Is Never Old

42Venus in a Garden

43Vashti

308

44The Reward

45Sence You Went Away

46Ma Lady's Lips Am Like de Honey

168

47Tunk

227

48Nobody's Lookin' but de Owl an' de Moon

120

49You's Sweet to Yo' Mammy Jes de Same

127

50A Plantation Bacchanal

140

51July in Georgy

102

52A Banjo Song

53Answer to Prayer

143

54Dat Gal o' Mine

55The Seasons

56'Possum Song

164

57Brer Rabbit, You'se de Cutes' of 'Em All

128

58An Explanation

59De Little Pickaninny's Gone to Sleep

127

60The Rivals

762

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