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. Cuddle down, ma honey, in yo’ bed, De Little Pickaninny’s Gone to Sleep
  6. Der ain’t no use in sayin’ de Lawd won’t answer prah; Answer to Prayer
  7. Eternities before the first-born day, Mother Night
  8. Father, Father Abraham, Father, Father Abraham
  9. For fifty years, The Suicide
  10. Girl of fifteen, Girl of Fifteen
  11. Have you been sore discouraged in the fight, To Horace Bumstead
  12. Her eyes, twin pools of mystic light, Her Eyes Twin Pools
  13. How would you have us, as we are? To America
  14. I dreamed that I was a rose The Awakening
  15. I hear the stars still singing I Hear the Stars Still Singing
  16. I knew not who had wrought with skill so fine Before a Painting
  17. I love to sit alone, and dream, A Mid-Day Dreamer
  18. I sometimes take you in my dreams to a far-off land I used to know, Vashti
  19. I’m back down in ole Georgy w’ere de sun is shinin’ hot, July in Georgy
  20. In a backwoods town The Ghost of Deacon Brown
  21. In the cool of the day⁠— Noah Built the Ark
  22. Jesus, my gentle Jesus, The Crucifixion
  23. Look heah, Tunk!⁠—Now, ain’t dis awful! T’ought I sont you off to school. Tunk
  24. Look heah! ’Splain to me de reason An Explanation
  25. Look heah! Is I evah tole you ’bout de curious way I won The Rivals
  26. Mother, shed no mournful tears, The Young Warrior
  27. No greater earthly boon than this I crave, The Reward
  28. O black and unknown bards of long ago, O Black and Unknown Bards
  29. O brothers mine, take care! Take care! The White Witch
  30. O brothers mine, today we stand Fifty Years
  31. O Lord, we come this morning Listen Lord
  32. O mighty, powerful, dark-dispelling sun, Prayer at Sunrise
  33. O Sleep, thou kindest minister to man, Sleep
  34. O Southland! O Southland! O Southland!
  35. O whitened head entwined in turban gay, The Black Mammy
  36. Old Devil, when you come with horns and tail, The Temptress
  37. Old Omar, jolly sceptic, it may be Omar
  38. Once der was a meetin’ in de wilderness, Brer Rabbit, You’s de Cutes’ of ’Em All
  39. Out of the infinite sea of eternity Life
  40. See! There he stands; not brave, but with an air Brothers
  41. Seems lak to me de stars don’t shine so bright, Sence You Went Away
  42. “She’s built of steel The Word of an Engineer
  43. Skin as black an’ jes as sof’ as a velvet dress, Dat Gal o’ Mine
  44. Sol, Sol, mighty lord of the tropic zone, Down by the Carib Sea
  45. Some men enjoy the constant strife “Lazy”
  46. Sometimes the mist overhangs my path, The Gift to Sing
  47. The glory of the day was in her face, The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face
  48. The hand of Fate cannot be stayed, Fragment
  49. The snow has ceased its fluttering flight, Ghosts of the Old Year
  50. To chase a never-reached mirage Voluptas
  51. ’Twas at early morning, Venus in a Garden
  52. Twenty years go by on noiseless feet, From the Spanish
  53. Under a burning tropic sun, The Color Sergeant
  54. W’en de leaves begin to fall, The Seasons
  55. W’en ole Mister Sun gits tiah’d a-hangin’ A Plantation Bacchanal
  56. Weep not, weep not, Go Down Death
  57. When buffeted and beaten by life’s storms, Beauty That Is Never Old
  58. When morning shows her first faint flush, Morning, Noon and Night
  59. Young man⁠— The Prodigal Son

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