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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

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