POEMS BY JAMES WELDON JOHNSON

1. Possum Song

2. Nobody's Lookin' But De Owl An' De Moon

3. Ma Lady's Lips Am Like De Honey

4. O Southland!

5. The Temptress

6. Omar

7. The Rivals

8. Sleep

9. The Ghost Of Deacon Brown

10. Sonnet

11. Life

12. The Seasons

13. The Gift To Sing

14. Voluptas

15. The Glory Of The Day Was In Her Face

16. Venus In The Garden

17. The Suicide

18. To Horace Bumstead

19. The Color Sergeant

20. The White Witch

21. Vashti

22. The Young Warrior

23. Sence You Went Away

24. You's Sweet To Yo' Mammy De Same

25. O Black And Unknown Bards

26. Morning, Noon And Night

27. Mother Night

28. Prayer At Sunrise

29. The Reward

30. The Black Mammy

31. The Word Of An Engineer

33. To America

34. The Awakening

35. Ghosts Of The Old Year

36. Her Eyes Twin Pools

37. The Prodigal Son

38. July In Georgy

39. De Little Pickaninny's Gone To Sleep

40. Down By The Carib Sea

Weldon Johnson (June 17, 1871 – June 26, 1938) was an American author, politician, diplomat, critic, journalist, poet, anthologist, educator, lawyer, songwriter, and early civil rights activist. Johnson is remembered best for his leadership within the NAACP, as well as for his writing, which includes novels, poems, and collections of folklore. He was also one of the first African-American professors at New York University. Later in life he was a professor of creative literature and writing at Fisk University. Johnson was born in Jacksonville, Florida, the son of Helen Louise Dillet and James Johnson. His brother was the composer John Rosamond Johnson. Johnson was first ... more » Click here to add this poet to your My Favorite Poets. Quotationsmore quotations » ''It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.'' James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938), U.S. author, poet. Black Manhattan, ch. 11 (1930). 103 person liked. 41 person did not like. ''O black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?'' James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938), U.S. author, poet. "O Black and Unknown Bards," st. 1 (written c. 1907), publ. In Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917)...