Title: Fifty years & other poems,
Authors: Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938; Matthews, Brander, 1852-1929; Cornhill Press
Publisher: The Cornhill Company
Year: 1917
Subjects: Johnson, James Weldon,; Johnson, James Weldon,; African Americans Poetry
Contents: Fifty years -- To America -- O Black and unknown bards -- O Southland -- To Horace Bumstead -- The color sergeant -- The Black mammy -- Father, Father Abraham -- Brothers -- Fragment -- The White witch -- Mother Night -- The young warrior -- The glory of the day was in her face -- From the Spanish of Plácido -- From the Spanish -- From the German of Uhland -- Before a painting -- I hear the stars still singing -- Girl of fifteen -- The suicide -- Down by the Carib Sea -- The greatest of these is war -- A mid-day dreamer -- The temptress -- Ghosts of the old year -- The ghost of Deacon Brown -- Lady -- Omar -- Deep in the quiet wood -- Voluptas -- The word of an engineer -- Life -- Sleep -- Prayer at sunrise -- The gift to sing -- Morning, noon and night -- her eyes twin pools -- The awakening -- Beauty that is never old -- Venus in a garden -- Vashti -- The reward -- Jingles & croons. Sence you went away -- Ma lady's lips am like de honey -- Tunk -- Nobody's lookin' but de owl an' de Moon -- You's sweet to yo' mammy jes de same -- A plantation bacchanal -- July in Georgy -- A banjo song -- Answer to prayer -- Dat gal o' mine -- The seasons -- 'Possum song -- Brer Rabbit, you'se de cutes' of 'em all -- An explanation -- De little pickaninny's gone to sleep -- The rivals.