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God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse

James Weldon Johnson · 1927

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

1The Creation 1927
2The Prodigal Son 1927
3The Crucifixion 1927
4Let My People Go 1927
·Go Down Death 1927
·Listen Lord 1927
·Noah Built the Ark 1927

How this order was established

Taken from the order the titles appear in a full-text copy of the same book. Copy used: J. W. Johnson, God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (New York: Viking Press, 1927), Archive of Contemporary Music copy. Established 2026-08-12.

4 of the 7 poems in this book have a known position. 7 are published here. Those whose position is unknown come last, without a number.

Not placed: Partial: 3 titles not located. Those poems keep sequence null and are listed after the ordered ones. Sequence numbers are dense ranks over the placed poems, not printed page order.