Complete Poems

By: James Weldon Johnson

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Paperback | 1 October 2000 | Edition Number 1

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2000 marks the centenary of "Lift Every Voice and Sing," James Weldon Johnson's most famous lyric, which is now embraced as the Negro National Anthem. In celebration, this Penguin original collects all the poems from Johnson's published works-Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917), God's Trombones (1927), and Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day (1935)-along with a number of previously unpublished poems.

Sondra Kathryn Wilson, the foremost authority on Johnson and his work, provides an introduction that sheds light on Johnson's many achievements and his pioneering contributions to recording and celebrating the African American experience.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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Introduction
Suggestions for Further Reading
Chronology
Preface to God's Trombones	p. 5
Listen, Lord - A Prayer	p. 13
The Creation	p. 15
The Prodigal Son	p. 18
Go Down Death - A Funeral Sermon	p. 22
Noah Built the Ark	p. 25
The Crucifixion	p. 31
Let My People Go	p. 35
The Judgment Day	p. 42
Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day	p. 49
O Black and Unknown Bards	p. 55
Brothers - American Drama	p. 57
O Southland!	p. 60
We to America	p. 61
Mother Night	p. 62
The Young Warrior	p. 63
The White Witch	p. 64
My City	p. 66
The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face	p. 67
Life	p. 68
The Black Mammy	p. 69
Fragment	p. 70
Mother, Farewell! (from the Spanish of Placido)	p. 72
Girl of Fifteen	p. 73
The Suicide	p. 74
Down by the Carib Sea	p. 75
Deep in the Quiet Wood	p. 80
Prayer at Sunrise	p. 81
Her Eyes Twin Pools	p. 82
Vashti	p. 83
If I Were Paris	p. 86
Ghosts of the Old Year	p. 87
Beauty Never Old	p. 88
Blessed Sleep	p. 89
The Greatest of These Is War	p. 90
A Poet to His Baby Son	p. 92
Ma Lady's Lips Am Like de Honey	p. 94
A Plantation Bacchanal	p. 96
Tunk	p. 97
Brer Rabbit, You's de Cutes' of 'Em All	p. 99
Answer to Prayer	p. 100
A Banjo Song	p. 101
The Rivals	p. 102
Sence You Went Away	p. 108
Lift Every Voice and Sing	p. 109
Envoy	p. 111
Introduction to Fifty Years and Other Poems by Brander Matthews	p. 115
Fifty Years	p. 117
To Horace Bumstead	p. 122
The Color Sergeant	p. 123
From the German of Uhland	p. 124
Before a Painting	p. 125
I Hear the Stars Still Singing	p. 126
A Mid-Day Dreamer	p. 127
The Temptress	p. 128
The Ghost of Deacon Brown	p. 129
"Lazy"	p. 131
Omar	p. 132
Voluptas (I)	p. 133
The Word of an Engineer	p. 134
The Gift to Sing	p. 136
Morning, Noon and Night	p. 137
The Awakening	p. 138
Venus in a Garden	p. 139
Nobody's Lookin' But de Owl and de Moon	p. 140
You's Sweet to Yo' Mammy Jes de Same	p. 141
July in Georgy	p. 142
Dat Gal o' Mine	p. 143
The Seasons	p. 144
'Possum Song	p. 145
An Explanation	p. 147
De Little Pickaninny's Gone to Sleep	p. 148
Moods	p. 153
A Passing Melody	p. 154
The River	p. 155
Helene	p. 156
The Class of '94	p. 157
Grandmother's Bible	p. 162
A Dream	p. 163
Sonnet	p. 164
Sonnet - The Secret	p. 165
Class Poem	p. 166
Voluptas (II)	p. 171
Optimistic Sam	p. 172
Mobile Mardi Gras	p. 173
After My First Week Teaching in the Country	p. 174
To a Brook Near My School House	p. 176
A Recollection	p. 177
The Last Waltz	p. 178
To a Friend	p. 179
Only Trust Me	p. 180
A Brand	p. 181
Christmas Carol	p. 182
Miserable	p. 183
To H.B.	p. 184
To a Friend, with a Rose	p. 185
A Heathen	p. 186
To My Valentine	p. 187
Ode to Florida	p. 188
Acknowledgment	p. 190
The Passionate Lover	p. 192
Art vs. Trade	p. 195
The Poet's Harp	p. 196
I Love Thee Still	p. 198
To Louie (I)	p. 199
A Fragment (I)	p. 200
Untitled Poem ("Was what you thought love, but passing")	p. 201
Untitled Poem ("Come with me my love and wander")	p. 202
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