Tuesday 18 December 2018

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)...

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