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TitleDateTypeLinks
A Banjo Song (W’en de banjos wuz a-ringin’)1917Poemhttp://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15614/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-banjo-song/
A Brand1893Poem
A Mid-Day Dreamer (I love to sit alone, and dream)1917Poemhttp://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15615/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-mid-day-dreamer/
A Plantation Bacchanal (W’en ole Mister Sun gits tiah’d a-hangin’)1917Poemhttp://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15616/
A Poet to His Baby Son (Tiny bit of humanity)Poemhttp://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=179019

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-poet-to-his-baby-son/
Along This Way: The Autobiography of James Weldon Johnson1933Book
An Explanation (Look heah! ’Splain to me de reason)1917Poemhttp://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=179022

http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15617/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/an-explanation-2/
And the Greatest of These Is War (Around the council-board of Hell)1917Poemhttp://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15618/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/and-the-greatest-of-these-is-war/

http://www.goodmorals.org/poetry/JohnsonJ-Acclamation.htm
Answer to Prayer (Der ain’t no use in sayin’ de Lawd won’t answer)1917Poemhttp://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15619/
Art vs. Trade (Trade, Trade versus Art)Poemhttp://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=179021
Beauty That Is Never Old (When buffeted and beaten by life’s storms)1917Poemhttp://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15620/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/beauty-that-is-never-old/
Before a Painting (I knew not who had wrought with skill so fine)1917Poemhttp://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15621/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/before-a-painting/

http://theotherpages.org/poems/part2/johnson10.html#painting
Black Manhattan1930Book
Brer Rabbit You’s de Cutes’ of ’Em All (Once der was a meetin’ in de)1917Poemhttp://www.poemhunter.com/poem/brer-rabbit-you-s-de-cutes-of-em-all/

http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15622/
Brothers (See! There he stands; not brave, but with an air)1916Poemhttp://www.poetry-archive.com/j/brothers.html

http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15623/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/brothers-25/

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=179018
Dat Gal o’ Mine (Skin as black an’ jes as sof’ as a velvet dress)1917Poemhttp://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15624/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/dat-gal-o-mine/
De Little Pickaninny’s Gone to Sleep (Cuddle down, ma honey, in yo’)1917Poemhttp://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15625/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/de-little-pickaninny-s-gone-to-sleep/
Deep in the Quiet Wood (Are you bowed down in heart?)1917Poemhttp://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15626/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/deep-in-the-quiet-wood/

http://www.goodmorals.org/poetry/JohnsonJ-Deep.htm
Down by the Carib Sea (Sol, Sol, mighty lord of the tropic zone)1917Poemhttp://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15627/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/down-by-the-carib-sea/
Father, Father Abraham1917Poemhttp://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15628/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/father-father-abraham/

http://theotherpages.org/poems/part2/johnson10.html#father
Fifty Years (O brothers mine, to-day we stand)1917Poemhttp://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15629/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/fifty-years-1863-1913/

http://theotherpages.org/poems/part2/johnson10.html#fifty
Fifty Years and Other Poems1917Collectionhttp://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=amverse;idno=BAD9126.0001.001

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/amverse/BAD9126.0001.001?view=toc

http://www.knowledgerush.com/gutenberg/1/7/8/8/17884/17884.txt

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17884


PDF
http://www.ebooktakeaway.com/fifty_years_other_poems_james_weldon_johnson

http://www.manybooks.net/titles/johnsonjw1788417884-8.html
Fragment (The hand of Fate cannot be stayed)1917Poemhttp://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15630/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/fragment-23/
From the German of Uhland (Three students once tarried over the)1917Poemhttp://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15631/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/from-the-german-of-uhland/
From the Spanish (Twenty years go by on noiseless feet)1917Poemhttp://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15632/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/from-the-spanish/
From the Spanish of Placido (Enough of love! Let break its every hold!)Poemhttp://www.poemhunter.com/poem/from-the-spanish-of-placido/
Ghosts of the Old Year (The snow has ceased its fluttering flight)1917Poemhttp://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15633/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ghosts-of-the-old-year/

http://theotherpages.org/poems/part2/johnson10.html#ghosts
Girl of Fifteen1917Poemhttp://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15634/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/girl-of-fifteen/
Go Down Death: A Funeral Sermon (Weep not, weep not)1926Poemhttp://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/james_weldon_johnson/poems/2695

http://www.afropoets.net/jamesjohnson6.html

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15586

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/go-down-death/

http://www.ctadams.com/jamesjohnson6.html

http://www.goodmorals.org/poetry/JohnsonJ-GoDownDeath.htm
God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (poems)1927Collectionhttp://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/johnson/johnson.html

http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/johnson/menu.html
Her Eyes Twin Pools (Her eyes, twin pools of mystic light)1917Poemhttp://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15635/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/her-eyes-twin-pools/
I Hear the Stars Still Singing1917Poemhttp://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15636/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-hear-the-stars-still-singing/

http://theotherpages.org/poems/part2/johnson10.html#stars
If Homely Virtues Draw from Me a Tune1917Poemhttp://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15637/
July in Georgy (I’m back down in ole Georgy w’ere de sun is shinin’)1917Poemhttp://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15638/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/july-in-georgy/
Lazy (Some men enjoy the constant strife)1917Poemhttp://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15639/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lazy-7/
Let My People Go1927Poem
Life (Out of the infinite sea of eternity)1917Poemhttp://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15640/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/life-1151/
Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing1899Poemhttp://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=177653

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=175885

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/james_weldon_johnson/poems/2696

http://www.afropoets.net/jamesjohnson1.html

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15588

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lift-every-voice-and-sing/

http://theotherpages.org/poems/part2/johnson10.html#lift

http://www.ctadams.com/jamesjohnson1.html

http://www.goodmorals.org/poetry/JohnsonJ-LiftEveryVoice.htm
Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing (songs)1995Collection
Listen, Lord: A Prayer (O Lord, we come this morning)1927Poemhttp://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/james_weldon_johnson/poems/2697

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15587

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/listen-lord-a-prayer/

http://www.goodmorals.org/poetry/JohnsonJ-Listen.htm
Ma Lady’s Lips am like de Honey (Breeze a-sighin’ and a-blowin’)Poemhttp://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15641/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ma-lady-s-lips-am-like-de-honey/
ManPoemhttp://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/amlit/johnson/poem3.jpg
MoodsPoemhttp://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/amlit/johnson/poem1.jpg
Morning, Noon and Night (When morning shows her first faint flush)1917Poemhttp://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15642/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/morning-noon-and-night/

http://theotherpages.org/poems/part2/johnson10.html#morning
Mother Night (Eternities before the first-born day)1917Poemhttp://www.afropoets.net/jamesjohnson8.html

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20148

http://www.poetry-archive.com/j/mother_night.html

http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15643/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/mother-night/

http://theotherpages.org/poems/part2/johnson10.html#mother

http://www.ctadams.com/jamesjohnson8.html
My City (poems)1923Collection
Native African Races and Culture1927Bookhttp://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006040527
Negro Americans, What Now?1934Book
Noah Built the Ark1927Poem
Nobody’s Lookin’ but de Owl an’ de Moon (De river is a-glistenin’ in)Poemhttp://www.poemhunter.com/poem/nobody-s-lookin-but-de-owl-an-de-moon/

http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15644/
O Black and Unknown Bards1908Poemhttp://www.afropoets.net/jamesjohnson4.html

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20149

http://www.poetry-archive.com/j/o_black_a_unknown_bards.html

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/o-black-and-unknown-bards/

http://theotherpages.org/poems/part2/johnson10.html#bards

http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15645/

http://www.ctadams.com/jamesjohnson4.html

http://www.goodmorals.org/poetry/JohnsonJ-Bards.htm
O Southland! (O Southland! O Southland!)1917Poemhttp://www.poemhunter.com/poem/o-southland/

http://theotherpages.org/poems/part2/johnson10.html#southland

http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15646/
Omar (Old Omar, jolly sceptic, it may be)1917Poemhttp://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15647/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/omar-3/
Possum Song (Simmons ripenin’ in de fall)1917Poemhttp://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15648/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/possum-song/
Prayer at Sunrise (O mighty, powerful, dark-dispelling sun)1917Poemhttp://www.afropoets.net/jamesjohnson2.html

http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15649/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/prayer-at-sunrise/

http://www.ctadams.com/jamesjohnson2.html

http://www.goodmorals.org/poetry/JohnsonJ-PrayerAtSunrise.htm
Race Prejudice and the Negro Artist1928Essay
Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day1917Poem
Saint Peter Relates an Incident: Selected Poems1935Collection
Selected Poems1936Collection
Self-Determining Haiti (essays)1920Collectionhttp://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924052955337#page/n5/mode/2up

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35025


PDF
http://ia600404.us.archive.org/19/items/cu31924052955337/cu31924052955337.pdf
Sence You Went Away (Seems lak to me de stars don’t shine so bright)1900Poemhttp://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=175745

http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15650/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sence-you-went-away/
Sleep (O Sleep, tHocakindest minister to man)1917Poemhttp://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15651/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sleep-149/
Sonnet (My heart be brave, and do not falter so)1917Poemhttp://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=179020

http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15652/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sonnet-59/

http://theotherpages.org/poems/part2/johnson10.html#sonnet
Sunset in the Tropics (A silver flash from the sinking sun)1917Poemhttp://theotherpages.org/poems/part2/johnson10.html#sunset
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (novel)1912Bookhttp://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/jwj/auto.htm

http://www.eldritchpress.org/jwj/auto.htm

http://classic-web.archive.org/web/20050206085658/www.eldritchpress.org/jwj/auto.htm

http://www.knowledgerush.com/gutenberg/1/1/0/1/11012/11012.txt

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11012


PDF
http://www.manybooks.net/titles/johnsonjw11011101211012-8.html
The Awakening (I dreamed that I was a rose)1917Poemhttp://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15653/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-awakening-35/
The Black Mammy (O whitened head entwined in turban gay)1900Poemhttp://www.afropoets.net/jamesjohnson10.html

http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15654/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-black-mammy/

http://www.ctadams.com/jamesjohnson10.html
The Book of American Negro Poetry (ed.)1922Collectionhttp://www.knowledgerush.com/gutenberg/1/1/9/8/11986/11986.txt

http://www.bartleby.com/269/

http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/uva-lib:2662

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=11986

http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001372014

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11986


PDF
http://www.manybooks.net/titles/johnsonjw11981198611986-8.html
The Book of American Negro Spirituals (ed.)1925Collection
The Color Sergeant (Under a burning tropic sun)1898Poemhttp://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15655/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-color-sergeant/
The Creation (And God stepped out on space)1922Poemhttp://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/james_weldon_johnson/poems/2698

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15589

http://www.poetry-archive.com/j/the_creation.html

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-creation/

http://www.goodmorals.org/poetry/JohnsonJ-Creation.htm
The Crucifixion1927Poem
The Dancing Girl (Do you know what it is to dance?)1917Poemhttp://theotherpages.org/poems/part2/johnson10.html#dancing
The Ghost of Deacon Brown (In a backwoods town)1917Poemhttp://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15656/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-ghost-of-deacon-brown/
The Gift to Sing (Sometimes the mist overhangs my path)1917Poemhttp://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15657/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-gift-to-sing/

http://theotherpages.org/poems/part2/johnson10.html#gift
The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face1917Poemhttp://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15658/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-glory-of-the-day-was-in-her-face/
The Great Awakening1938
The Judgment Day1927Poem
The Larger Success1923Oration
The MiserPoemhttp://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/amlit/johnson/poem4.jpg
The Prodigal Son (Young man)1927Poemhttp://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-prodigal-son-6/

http://www.goodmorals.org/poetry/JohnsonJ-Prodigal.htm
The Reward (No greater earthly boon than this I crave)1917Poemhttp://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15659/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-reward-2/
The Rival Lovers (opera libretto, translation)1915Play
The Rivals (Look heah! Is I evah tole you ’bout de curious way I won)1917Poemhttp://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15660/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-rivals/
The RiverPoemhttp://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/amlit/johnson/poem2.jpg
The Seasons (W’en de leaves begin to fall)1917Poemhttp://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15661/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-seasons-14/
The Second Book of Negro Spirituals (ed.)1926Collection
The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson1995Collection
The Suicide (For fifty years)1917Poemhttp://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15662/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-suicide-8/
The Temptress (Old Devil, when you come with horns and tail)1917Poemhttp://www.afropoets.net/jamesjohnson3.html

http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15663/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-temptress-3/

http://www.ctadams.com/jamesjohnson3.html

http://www.goodmorals.org/poetry/JohnsonJ-Temptress.htm
The White Witch (O brothers mine, take care! Take care!)1917Poemhttp://www.afropoets.net/jamesjohnson7.html

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20150

http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15664/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-white-witch/

http://www.poetry-archive.com/j/the_white_witch.html

http://theotherpages.org/poems/part2/johnson10.html#witch

http://www.ctadams.com/jamesjohnson7.html
The Word of an Engineer (She’s built of steel)1917Poemhttp://www.afropoets.net/jamesjohnson5.html

http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15665/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-word-of-an-engineer/

http://theotherpages.org/poems/part2/johnson10.html#engineer

http://www.ctadams.com/jamesjohnson5.html

http://www.goodmorals.org/poetry/JohnsonJ-Engineer.htm
The Young Warrior (Mother, shed no mournful tears)1917Poemhttp://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15666/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-young-warrior-2/

http://theotherpages.org/poems/part2/johnson10.html#young
To a Friend (poems)1892Collection
To America (How would you have us, as we are?)1917Poemhttp://www.afropoets.net/jamesjohnson9.html

http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15667/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-america-3/

http://theotherpages.org/poems/part2/johnson10.html#america

http://www.ctadams.com/jamesjohnson9.html
To Horace Bumstead (Have you been sore discouraged in the fight)1917Poemhttp://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15668/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-horace-bumstead/
Tunk (Look heah, Tunk! - Now, ain’t dis awful! T’ought I sont you)1917Poemhttp://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15669/
Vashti (I sometimes take you in my dreams to a far-off land I used to)1917Poemhttp://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15670/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/vashti-2/
Venus in the Garden (’Twas at early morning)1917Poemhttp://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15671/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/venus-in-the-garden/
Voluptas (To chase a never-reached mirage)1917Poemhttp://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15672/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/voluptas/
You’s Sweet to Yo’ Mammy jes de Same (Shet yo’ eyes, ma little)1917Poemhttp://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/15673/

 

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