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Complete poems / James Weldon Johnson ; edited with an introduction by Sondra Kathryn Wilson.
Author
Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938
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Poems
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New York : Penguin Books, 2000.
Description
xxxiii, 202 pages ; 20 cm.
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Twentieth Century American Poetry, Second Edition
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Firestone Library - Stacks
PS3519.O2625 A17 2000
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Subject(s)
African Americans
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Poetry
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Related name
Wilson, Sondra K.
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Poetry
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poetry
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Series
Penguin twentieth-century classics
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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author James Weldon Johnson, including all the poems from his three published works, as well as a number of previously unpublished poems.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").
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ISBN
0141185457
9780141185453
LCCN
00039969
OCLC
43864475
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