Brothers (James Weldon Johnson Poems)
See! There he stands; not brave, but with an airOf sullen stupor. Mark him well! Is heNot more like brute ...
See! There he stands; not brave, but with an airOf sullen stupor. Mark him well! Is heNot more like brute ...
(A Funeral Sermon)Weep not, weep not,She is not dead;She's resting in the bosom of Jesus.Heart-broken husband--weep no more;Grief-stricken son--weep no ...
Tiny bit of humanity,Blessed with your mother's face,And cursed with your father's mind.I say cursed with your father's mind,Because you ...
Old Devil, when you come with horns and tail,With diabolic grin and crafty leer;I say, such bogey-man devices wholly failTo ...
(Lullaby)Shet yo' eyes, ma little pickaninny, go to sleepMammy's watchin' by you all de w'ile;Daddy is a-wukin' down in de ...
O mighty, powerful, dark-dispelling sun,Now thou art risen, and thy day begun.How shrink the shrouding mists before thy face,As up ...
For fifty years,Cruel, insatiable Old World.You have punched me over the heartTill you made me cough blood.The few paltry things ...
O whitened head entwined in turban gay,O kind black face, O crude, but tender hand,O foster-mother in whose arms there ...
The glory of the day was in her face,The beauty of the night was in her eyes.And over all her ...
Weep not, weep not, She is not dead; She's resting in the bosom of Jesus. Heart-broken husband--weep no more; Grief-stricken ...
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