Complete poems / James Weldon Johnson ; edited with an introduction by Sondra Kathryn Wilson.

Author
Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938 [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Penguin Books, 2000.
Description
xxxiii, 202 pages ; 20 cm.

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    Penguin twentieth-century classics [More in this series]
    Summary note
    Presents the complete poems of twentieth-century African-American author James Weldon Johnson, including all the poems from his three published works, as well as a number of previously unpublished poems.
    Bibliographic references
    • Includes bibliographical references (p. xxiii-xxvii).
    • "Works by James Weldon Johnson": p. xxiii.
    Contents
    • Preface to God's Trombones
    • Listen, Lord
    • A Prayer
    • The Creation
    • The Prodigal Son
    • Go Down Death
    • A Funeral Sermon
    • Noah Built the Ark
    • The Crucifixion
    • Let My People Go
    • The Judgment Day
    • Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day
    • O Black and Unknown Bards
    • Brothers
    • American Drama
    • O Southland!
    • We to America
    • Mother Night
    • The Young Warrior
    • The White Witch
    • My City
    • The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face
    • Life
    • The Black Mammy
    • Fragment
    • Mother, Farewell! (from the Spanish of Placido)
    • Girl of Fifteen
    • The Suicide
    • Down by the Carib Sea
    • Deep in the Quiet Wood
    • Prayer at Sunrise
    • Her Eyes Twin Pools
    • Vashti
    • If I Were Paris
    • Ghosts of the Old Year
    • Beauty Never Old
    • Blessed Sleep
    • The Greatest of These Is War
    • A Poet to His Baby Son
    • Ma Lady's Lips Am Like de Honey
    • A Plantation Bacchanal
    • Tunk
    • Brer Rabbit, You's de Cutes' of 'Em All
    • Answer to Prayer
    • A Banjo Song
    • The Rivals
    • Sence You Went Away
    • Lift Every Voice and Sing
    • Envoy
    • Introduction to Fifty Years and Other Poems by Brander Matthews
    • Fifty Years
    • To Horace Bumstead
    • The Color Sergeant
    • From the German of Uhland
    • Before a Painting
    • I Hear the Stars Still Singing
    • A Mid-Day Dreamer
    • The Temptress
    • The Ghost of Deacon Brown
    • "Lazy"
    • Omar
    • Voluptas (I)
    • The Word of an Engineer
    • The Gift to Sing
    • Morning, Noon and Night
    • The Awakening
    • Venus in a Garden
    • Nobody's Lookin' But de Owl and de Moon
    • You's Sweet to Yo' Mammy Jes de Same
    • July in Georgy
    • Dat Gal o' Mine
    • The Seasons
    • 'Possum Song
    • An Explanation
    • De Little Pickaninny's Gone to Sleep
    • Moods
    • A Passing Melody
    • The River
    • Helene
    • The Class of '94
    • Grandmother's Bible
    • A Dream
    • Sonnet
    • The Secret
    • Class Poem
    • Voluptas (II)
    • Optimistic Sam
    • Mobile Mardi Gras
    • After My First Week Teaching in the Country
    • To a Brook Near My School House
    • A Recollection
    • The Last Waltz
    • To a Friend
    • Only Trust Me
    • A Brand
    • Christmas Carol
    • Miserable
    • To H.B.
    • To a Friend, with a Rose
    • A Heathen
    • To My Valentine
    • Ode to Florida
    • Acknowledgment
    • The Passionate Lover
    • Art vs. Trade
    • The Poet's Harp
    • I Love Thee Still
    • To Louie (I)
    • A Fragment (I)
    • Untitled Poem ("Was what you thought love, but passing")
    • Untitled Poem ("Come with me my love and wander").
    ISBN
    • 0141185457
    • 9780141185453
    LCCN
    00039969
    OCLC
    43864475
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