James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)
American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter and civil rights activist

Poems by James Weldon Johnson

• 'Possum Song
• A Banjo Song
• A Mid-Day Dreamer
• A Plantation Bacchanal
• An Explanation
• And the Greatest of These Is War
• Answer to Prayer
• Beauty That Is Never Old
• Before a Painting
• Brer Rabbit, You's de Cutes' of 'Em All
• Brothers
• Dat Gal o' Mine
• De Little Pickaninny's Gone to Sleep
• Deep in the Quiet Wood
• Down by the Carib Sea. 1. Sunrise in the Tropics
• Down by the Carib Sea. 2. Los Cigarillos
• Down by the Carib Sea. 3. Teestay
• Down by the Carib Sea. 4. The Lottery Girl
• Down by the Carib Sea. 5. The Dancing Girl
• Down by the Carib Sea. 6. Sunset in the Tropics
• “Father, Father Abraham”
• Fifty Years
• Fragment
• Ghosts of the Old Year
• Girl of Fifteen
• Her Eyes Twin Pools
• “I Hear the Stars still Singing”
• July in Georgy
• Life
• Ma Lady's Lips Am Like de Honey
• Morning, Noon and Night
• Mother Night
• Nobody's Lookin' But de Owl and de Moon
• O Black and Unknown Bards
• O Southland!
• Omar
• Prayer at Sunrise
• Sence You Went Away
• Sleep
• The Awakening
• The Black Mammy
• The Color Sergeant
• The Ghost of Deacon Brown
• The Gift to Sing
• “The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face”
• The Reward
• The Seasons
• The Suicide
• The Temptress
• The White Witch
• The Word of an Engineer
• The Young Warrior
• To America
• To Horace Bumstead
• Tunk
• Vashti
• Venus in a Garden
• Voluptas
• You's Sweet to Yo' Mammy Jes de Same
• “Lazy”

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