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James Weldon Johnson was an American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and early civil rights activist. Johnson is best remembered for his leadership within the NAACP as well as for his writing, which includes novels, poems, and anthologies. He was also the first African-American professor at New York University. Later in life he was a professor of creative literature and writing at Fisk University.

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List of poems by James Weldon Johnson 63 total

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The Creation
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The Prodigal Son
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Sonnet
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Go Down, Death
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O Black And Unknown Bards
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Ma Lady's Lips Am Like De Honey
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The Gift to Sing
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A Mid-Day Dreamer
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The Glory of the Day Was In Her Face
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Listen, Lord: A Prayer
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An Explanation 182 Views
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Brothers
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The Color Sergeant
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Prayer At Sunrise
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The White Witch
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The Young Warrior
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Ghosts Of The Old Year
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Morning, Noon and Night
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I Hear The Stars Still Singing 138 Views
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Lazy
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You's Sweet to Yo' Mammy de Same
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Lift Every Voice and Sing
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Mother Night
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Beauty that Is Never Old
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Vashti
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Down By the Carib Sea
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The Reward 120 Views
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Life
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Nobody's Lookin' But De Owl An' De Moon
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Fragment
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From The Spanish 117 Views
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Possum Song
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To America 114 Views
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Sence You Went Away
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The Awakening
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Deep In the Quiet Wood
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A Poet To His Baby Son
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And the Greatest of These Is War
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Her Eyes Twin Pools
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Father, Father Abraham
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Dat Gal o' Mine 98 Views
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Sleep
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Before a Painting
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A Banjo Song 95 Views
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The Black Mammy
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Fifty Years (1863-1913)
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Voluptas 89 Views
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Brer Rabbit You's de Cutes' of 'Em All
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To Horace Bumstead
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O Southland!
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The Rivals
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The Word Of An Engineer
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Venus in the Garden
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The Temptress
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From The Spanish Of Placido
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The Seasons
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The Suicide
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From The German Of Uhland
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July In Georgy
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The Ghost of Deacon Brown
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De Little Pickaninny's Gone to Sleep 45 Views
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Omar 40 Views
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Girl of Fifteen
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