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Title: Fifty years & Other Poems

Author: James Weldon Johnson

Commentator: Brander Matthews

Release Date: March 1, 2006 [EBook #17884]

Language: English

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FIFTY YEARS & OTHER POEMS

BY

JAMES WELDON JOHNSON

AUTHOR OF

"THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN EX-COLORED MAN," ETC.

_With an Introduction by_

BRANDER MATTHEWS

THE CORNHILL COMPANY
BOSTON
1917

To

G. N. F.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

For permission to reprint certain poems in this book thanks are due to
the editors and proprietors of the _Century Magazine_, the
_Independent_, _The Crisis_, _The New York Times_, and the following
copyright holders, G. Ricordi and Company, G. Schirmer and Company,
and Joseph W. Stern and Company.

CONTENTS

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 Placido

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
I. Sunrise in the Tropics
II. Los Cigarillos
III. Teestay
IV. The Lottery Girl
V. The Dancing Girl
VI. Sunset in the Tropics

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,