Songs of my people
By: Charles Bertram Johnson
Publisher: Ayer Co.
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Salem, NH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 55
ISBN-13: 9780881431490
Subjects: African Americans; Poetry
Notes: Reprint. Originally published: Boston, Mass. : Cornhill Co., 1918.

"Charles Bertram Johnson was born in Callao, Missouri, in 1880. He is the author of the poetry collection Songs of My People (The Cornhill Company, 1918) and the pamphlets Wind Whisperings (1900) and The Mantle of Dunbar (1918). Johnson worked as a teacher and later became part of the ministry"--Poets.org, viewed December 1, 2021.
Table of contents: title: Lacrimae Aethiopiae --; title: The Dreamer --; title: Memory --; title: Serenity --; title: "The Negro Girl" --; title: Negro Poets --; title: Song --; title: A Rain Song --; title: The Found Star --; title: Now and Then --; title: The Mantle of Dunbar --; title: Ode to Booker Washington --; title: A Larger Life --; title: To an Oak --; title: Serenade : a Response --; title: The Cup of Knowledge --; title: A Little Cabin --; title: Making Friends with Baby --; title: The Answer --; title: So Much --; title: Humor --; title: Spring 1917 --; title: On Hearing a Robin at Dawn --; title: Spring --; title: My People --; title: In March --; title: September --; title: Breakfast Time --; title: Arbor Singing --; title: Singing at Amen Church --; title: Spring in Callao --; title: Br'er Rabbit's Christmas Trick --; title: Called to Preach --; title: Her Christmas Gift --; title: Dreamin'.