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table of contents
  1. Titlepage
  2. Imprint
  3. Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing
  4. Fifty Years
  5. To America
  6. O Black and Unknown Bards
  7. O Southland!
  8. To Horace Bumstead
  9. The Color Sergeant
  10. The Black Mammy
  11. Father, Father Abraham
  12. Brothers
  13. Fragment
  14. The White Witch
  15. Mother Night
  16. The Young Warrior
  17. The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face
  18. Sonnet
  19. Plácido’s Farewell to His Mother
  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
    1. I: Sunrise in the Tropics
    2. II: Los Cigarillos
    3. III: Teestay
    4. IV: The Lottery Girl
    5. V: The Dancing Girl
    6. VI: Sunset in the Tropics
  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
  64. The Creation
  65. Afterword
  66. Colophon
  67. Uncopyright

Colophon

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Poetry
was compiled from poems published between 1899 and 1922 by
James Weldon Johnson.

This ebook was produced for
Standard Ebooks
by
Weijia Cheng,
and is based on transcriptions produced between 2004 and 2006 by
Suzanne Shell, Sankar Viswanathan, Charles M. Bidwell and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team
for
Project Gutenberg (Fifty Years & Other Poems and The Book of American Negro Poetry)
and on digital scans available at the
Internet Archive (Fifty Years & Other Poems and The Book of American Negro Poetry)
and
Google Books.

The cover page is adapted from
The Lord Is My Shepherd,
a painting completed in 1863 by
Eastman Johnson.
The cover and title pages feature the
League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy
typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by
The League of Moveable Type.

This edition was released on
June 15, 2021, 10:48 p.m.
and is based on
revision 4806c51.
The first edition of this ebook was released on
February 7, 2021, 10:17 p.m.
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