FIFTY YEARS & OTHER POEMS
BY
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON
AUTHOR OF
"THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN EX-COLORED MAN," ETC.
With an Introduction by
BRANDER MATTHEWS
THE CORNHILL COMPANY
BOSTON
1917
To
G. N. F.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
For permission to reprint certain poems in this book thanks are due tothe editors and proprietors of the Century Magazine, theIndependent, The Crisis, The New York Times, and the followingcopyright holders, G. Ricordi and Company, G. Schirmer and Company,and Joseph W. Stern and Company.