Fifty Years (1863-1913) (James Weldon Johnson Poems)
O brothers mine, to-day we standWhere half a century sweeps our ken,Since God, through Lincoln's ready hand,Struck off our bonds ...
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 ...
Der ain't no use in sayin' de Lawd won't answer prah;If you knows how to ax Him, I knows He's ...
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 ...
Skin as black an' jes as sof' as a velvet dress,Teeth as white as ivory -well dey is I guess.Eyes ...
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