Fifty Years & Other Poems

James Weldon Johnson · 1917

Numbers rank the poems whose position in the book is known; they are not page numbers.

  1. 1Fifty Years 1917
  2. 2To America 1917
  3. 3O Black and Unknown Bards 1917
  4. 4O Southland! 1917
  5. 5To Horace Bumstead 1917
  6. 6The Color Sergeant 1917
  7. 7The Black Mammy 1917
  8. 8Father, Father Abraham 1917
  9. 9Brothers 1917
  10. 10Fragment 1917
  11. 11The White Witch 1917
  12. 12Mother Night 1917
  13. 13The Young Warrior 1917
  14. 14The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face 1917
  15. 15From the Spanish 1917
  16. 16Before a Painting 1917
  17. 17I Hear the Stars Still Singing 1917
  18. 18Girl of Fifteen 1917
  19. 19The Suicide 1917
  20. 20Down by the Carib Sea 1917
  21. 21A Mid-Day Dreamer 1917
  22. 22The Temptress 1917
  23. 23Ghosts of the Old Year 1917
  24. 24The Ghost of Deacon Brown 1917
  25. 25“Lazy” 1917
  26. 26Omar 1917
  27. 27Deep in the Quiet Wood 1917
  28. 28Voluptas 1917
  29. 29The Word of an Engineer 1917
  30. 30Life 1917
  31. 31Sleep 1917
  32. 32Prayer at Sunrise 1917
  33. 33The Gift to Sing 1917
  34. 34Morning, Noon and Night 1917
  35. 35Her Eyes Twin Pools 1917
  36. 36The Awakening 1917
  37. 37Beauty That Is Never Old 1917
  38. 38Venus in a Garden 1917
  39. 39Vashti 1917
  40. 40The Reward 1917
  41. 41Sence You Went Away 1917
  42. 42Tunk 1917
  43. 43A Plantation Bacchanal 1917
  44. 44July in Georgy 1917
  45. 45Answer to Prayer 1917
  46. 46Dat Gal o’ Mine 1917
  47. 47The Seasons 1917
  48. 48An Explanation 1917
  49. 49De Little Pickaninny’s Gone to Sleep 1917
  50. 50The Rivals 1917
  51. ·And the Greatest of These Is War 1917
  52. ·Brer Rabbit, You’s de Cutes’ of ’Em All 1917