The Prodigal Son (James Weldon Johnson Poems)
Young man-Young man-Your arm's too short to box with God.But Jesus spake in a parable, and he said:A certain man ...
Young man-Young man-Your arm's too short to box with God.But Jesus spake in a parable, and he said:A certain man ...
See! There he stands; not brave, but with an airOf sullen stupor. Mark him well! Is heNot more like brute ...
O brothers mine, to-day we standWhere half a century sweeps our ken,Since God, through Lincoln's ready hand,Struck off our bonds ...
Around the council-board of Hell, with Satan at their head,The Three Great Scourges of humanity sat.Gaunt Famine, with hollow cheek ...
O, brothers mine, take care! Take care!The great white witch rides out to-night,Trust not your prowess nor your strength;Your only ...
Once der was a meetin' in de wilderness,All de critters of creation dey was dar;Brer Rabbit, Brer 'Possum, Brer Wolf, ...
Some men enjoy the constant strifeOf days with work and worry rife,But that is not my dream of life:I think ...
O Southland! O Southland!Have you not heard the call,The trumpet blown, the word made knownTo the nations, one and all?The ...
"She's built of steelFrom deck to keel,And bolted strong and tight;In scorn she'll sailThe fiercest gale,And pierce the darkest night."The ...
Have you been sore discouraged in the fight, And even sometimes weighted by the thought That those with whom and those for ...
(On an Incident at the Battle of San Juan Hill)Under a burning tropic sun,With comrades around him lying,A trooper of ...
O Sleep, thou kindest minister to man,Silent distiller of the balm of rest,How wonderful thy power, when naught else can,To ...
Her eyes, twin pools of mystic light,The blend of star-sheen and black night;O'er which, to sound their glamouring haze,A man ...
How would you have us, as we are?Or sinking 'neath the load we bear?Our eyes fixed forward on a star?Or ...
No greater earthly boon than this I crave,That those who some day gather 'round my grave,In place of tears, may ...
And God stepped out on space, And he looked around and said: I'm lonely-- I'll make me a world. And ...
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