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Fifty Years, & Other Poems

James Weldon Johnson

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1. Front matter 2. JAMES WELDON JOHNSON 3. BRANDER MATTHEWS 4. ACKNOWLEDGMENT 5. INTRODUCTION 6. TO AMERICA 7. O BLACK AND UNKNOWN BARDS 8. O SOUTHLAND!9. To HORACE BUMSTEAD 10. THE COLOR SERGEANT 11. THE BLACK MAMMY 12. FATHER, FATHER ABRAHAM 13. BROTHERS 14. FRAGMENT 15. THE WHITE WITCH 16. MOTHER NIGHT 17. THE YOUNG WARRIOR 18. THE GLORY OF THE DAY WAS IN HER FACE 19. SONNET 20. FROM THE SPANISH 21. FROM THE GERMAN OF UHLAND 22. BEFORE A PAINTING 23. I HEAR THE STARS STILL SINGING 24. GIRL OF FIFTEEN 25. THE SUICIDE 26. DOWN BY THE CARIB SEA 27. AND THE GREATEST OF THESE IS WAR 28. A MID-DAY DREAMER 29. THE TEMPTRESS 30. GHOSTS OF THE OLD YEAR 31. THE GHOST OF DEACON BROWN 32. "LAZY"33. OMAR 34. DEEP IN THE QUIET WOOD 35. VOLUPTAS 36. THE WORD OF AN ENGINEER 37. LIFE 38. SLEEP 39. PRAYER AT SUNRISE 40. THE GIFT TO SING 41. MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT 42. HER EYES TWIN POOLS 43. THE AWAKENING 44. BEAUTY THAT IS NEVER OLD 45. VENUS IN A GARDEN 46. VASHTI 47. THE REWARD 48. SENCE YOU WENT AWAY 49. MA LADY'S LIPS AM LIKE DE HONEY 50. TUNK 51. NOBODY'S LOOKIN' BUT DE OWL AND DE MOON 52. YOU'S SWEET TO YO' MAMMY JES DE SAME 53. A PLANTATION BACCHANAL 54. JULY IN GEORGY 55. A BANJO SONG 56. ANSWER TO PRAYER 57. DAT GAL O' MINE 58. THE SEASONS 59. 'POSSUM SONG 60. BRER RABBIT, YOU'S DE CUTES' OF 'EM ALL 61. AN EXPLANATION 62. DE LITTLE PICKANINNY'S GONE TO SLEEP 63. THE RIVALS

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