First linesJames Weldon Johnson

  1. And God called Moses from the burning bush, Let My People Go
  2. And God stepped out on space, The Creation
  3. Are you bowed down in heart? Deep in the Quiet Wood
  4. Around the council-board of Hell, with Satan at their head, And the Greatest of These Is War
  5. Breeze a-sighin’ and a-blowin’, Ma Lady’s Lips Am Like de Honey
  6. Cuddle down, ma honey, in yo’ bed, De Little Pickaninny’s Gone to Sleep
  7. De river is a-glistenin’ in de moonlight, Nobody’s Lookin’ but de Owl and de Moon
  8. Der ain’t no use in sayin’ de Lawd won’t answer prah; Answer to Prayer
  9. Eternities before the first-born day, Mother Night
  10. Father, Father Abraham, Father, Father Abraham
  11. For fifty years, The Suicide
  12. Girl of fifteen, Girl of Fifteen
  13. Have you been sore discouraged in the fight, To Horace Bumstead
  14. Her eyes, twin pools of mystic light, Her Eyes Twin Pools
  15. How would you have us, as we are? To America
  16. I dreamed that I was a rose The Awakening
  17. I hear the stars still singing I Hear the Stars Still Singing
  18. I knew not who had wrought with skill so fine Before a Painting
  19. I love to sit alone, and dream, A Mid-Day Dreamer
  20. I sometimes take you in my dreams to a far-off land I used to know, Vashti
  21. I’m back down in ole Georgy w’ere de sun is shinin’ hot, July in Georgy
  22. In a backwoods town The Ghost of Deacon Brown
  23. In that great day, The Judgment Day
  24. In the cool of the day⁠— Noah Built the Ark
  25. Jesus, my gentle Jesus, The Crucifixion
  26. Lift ev’ry voice and sing Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing
  27. Look heah, Tunk!⁠—Now, ain’t dis awful! T’ought I sont you off to school. Tunk
  28. Look heah! ’Splain to me de reason An Explanation
  29. Look heah! Is I evah tole you ’bout de curious way I won The Rivals
  30. Mother, shed no mournful tears, The Young Warrior
  31. No greater earthly boon than this I crave, The Reward
  32. O black and unknown bards of long ago, O Black and Unknown Bards
  33. O brothers mine, take care! Take care! The White Witch
  34. O brothers mine, today we stand Fifty Years
  35. O Lord, we come this morning Listen Lord
  36. O mighty, powerful, dark-dispelling sun, Prayer at Sunrise
  37. O Sleep, thou kindest minister to man, Sleep
  38. O Southland! O Southland! O Southland!
  39. O whitened head entwined in turban gay, The Black Mammy
  40. Old Devil, when you come with horns and tail, The Temptress
  41. Old Omar, jolly sceptic, it may be Omar
  42. Once der was a meetin’ in de wilderness, Brer Rabbit, You’s de Cutes’ of ’Em All
  43. Out of the infinite sea of eternity Life
  44. See! There he stands; not brave, but with an air Brothers
  45. Seems lak to me de stars don’t shine so bright, Sence You Went Away
  46. “She’s built of steel The Word of an Engineer
  47. Shet yo’ eyes, ma little pickaninny, go to sleep You’s Sweet to Yo’ Mammy Jes de Same
  48. ’Simmons ripenin’ in de fall, ’Possum Song
  49. Skin as black an’ jes as sof’ as a velvet dress, Dat Gal o’ Mine
  50. Sol, Sol, mighty lord of the tropic zone, Down by the Carib Sea
  51. Some men enjoy the constant strife “Lazy”
  52. Sometimes the mist overhangs my path, The Gift to Sing
  53. The glory of the day was in her face, The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face
  54. The hand of Fate cannot be stayed, Fragment
  55. The snow has ceased its fluttering flight, Ghosts of the Old Year
  56. To chase a never-reached mirage Voluptas
  57. ’Twas at early morning, Venus in a Garden
  58. Twenty years go by on noiseless feet, From the Spanish
  59. Under a burning tropic sun, The Color Sergeant
  60. W’en de banjos wuz a-ringin’, A Banjo Song
  61. W’en de leaves begin to fall, The Seasons
  62. W’en ole Mister Sun gits tiah’d a-hangin’ A Plantation Bacchanal
  63. Weep not, weep not, Go Down Death
  64. When buffeted and beaten by life’s storms, Beauty That Is Never Old
  65. When morning shows her first faint flush, Morning, Noon and Night
  66. Young man⁠— The Prodigal Son

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