FIFTY YEARS & OTHER POEMS

 

 

BY

JAMES WELDON JOHNSON

AUTHOR OF

"THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN EX-COLORED MAN," ETC.

 

 

With an Introduction by

BRANDER MATTHEWS

 

Seal

 

 

 

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.


CONTENTS

Page
Fifty Years1
To America5
O Black and Unknown Bards6
O Southland8
To Horace Bumstead10
The Color Sergeant11
The Black Mammy12
Father, Father Abraham13
Brothers14
Fragment17
The White Witch19
Mother Night22
The Young Warrior23
The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face24
From the Spanish of Plácido25
From the Spanish25
From the German of Uhland26
Before a Painting...

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