{"product_id":"complete-poems-isbn-9780141185453","title":"Complete Poems","description":"2000 marks the centenary of \"Lift Every Voice and Sing,\" James Weldon Johnson's most famous lyric, which is now embraced as the Negro National Anthem. In celebration, this Penguin original collects all the poems from Johnson's published works—\u003cb\u003eFifty Years and Other Poems\u003c\/b\u003e (1917), \u003cb\u003eGod's Trombones\u003c\/b\u003e (1927), and \u003cb\u003eSaint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day\u003c\/b\u003e (1935)—along with a number of previously unpublished poems.\u003cp\u003eSondra Kathryn Wilson, the foremost authority on Johnson and his work, provides an introduction that sheds light on Johnson's many achievements and his pioneering contributions to recording and celebrating the African American experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. \u003c\/p\u003eComplete PoemsIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eSuggestions for Further Reading\u003cbr\u003eChronology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreface to\u003c\/i\u003e God's Trombones\u003cbr\u003eListen, Lord - A Prayer\u003cbr\u003eThe Creation\u003cbr\u003eThe Prodigal Son\u003cbr\u003eGo Down Death - A Funeral Sermon\u003cbr\u003eNoah Built the Ark\u003cbr\u003eThe Crucifixion\u003cbr\u003eLet My People Go\u003cbr\u003eThe Judgment Day\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. Saint Peter Relates an Incident and Fifty Years and Other Poems\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSaint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day\u003cbr\u003eO Black and Unknown Bards\u003cbr\u003eBrothers - American Drama\u003cbr\u003eO Southland!\u003cbr\u003eWe to America\u003cbr\u003eMother Night\u003cbr\u003eThe Young Warrior\u003cbr\u003eThe White Witch\u003cbr\u003eMy City\u003cbr\u003eThe Glory of the Day Was in Her Face\u003cbr\u003eLife\u003cbr\u003eThe Black Mammy\u003cbr\u003eFragment\u003cbr\u003eMother, Farewell! (from the Spanish of Placido)\u003cbr\u003eGirl of Fifteen\u003cbr\u003eThe Suicide\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDown by the Carib Sea\u003cbr\u003eI. Sunrise in the Tropics\u003cbr\u003eII. Los Cigarrillos\u003cbr\u003eIII. Teestay\u003cbr\u003eIV. The Lottery Girl\u003cbr\u003eV. The Dancing Girl\u003cbr\u003eVI. Sunset in the Tropics\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeep in the Quiet Wood\u003cbr\u003ePrayer at Sunrise\u003cbr\u003eHer Eyes Twin Pools\u003cbr\u003eVashti\u003cbr\u003eIf I Were Paris\u003cbr\u003eGhosts of the Old Year\u003cbr\u003eBeauty Never Old\u003cbr\u003eBlessed Sleep\u003cbr\u003eThe Greatest of These Is War\u003cbr\u003eA Poet to His Baby Son\u003cbr\u003eMa Lady's Lips Am Like de Honey\u003cbr\u003eA Plantation Bacchanal\u003cbr\u003eTunk\u003cbr\u003eBrer Rabbit, You's de Cutes' of 'Em All\u003cbr\u003eAnswer to Prayer\u003cbr\u003eA Banjo Song\u003cbr\u003eThe Rivals\u003cbr\u003eSence You Went Away\u003cbr\u003eLift Every Voice and Sing\u003cbr\u003eEnvoy\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIntroduction to\u003c\/i\u003e Fifty Years and Other Poems \u003ci\u003eby Brander Matthews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFifty Years\u003cbr\u003eTo Horace Bumstead\u003cbr\u003eThe Color Sergeant\u003cbr\u003eFrom the German of Uhland\u003cbr\u003eBefore a Painting\u003cbr\u003eI Hear the Stars Still Singing\u003cbr\u003eA Mid-Day Dreamer\u003cbr\u003eThe Temptress\u003cbr\u003eThe Ghost of Deacon Brown\u003cbr\u003e\"Lazy\"\u003cbr\u003eOmar\u003cbr\u003eVoluptas (I)\u003cbr\u003eThe Word of an Engineer\u003cbr\u003eThe Gift to Sing\u003cbr\u003eMorning, Noon and Night\u003cbr\u003eThe Awakening\u003cbr\u003eVenus in a Garden\u003cbr\u003eNobody's Lookin' But de Owl and de Moon\u003cbr\u003eYou's Sweet to Yo' Mammy Jes de Same\u003cbr\u003eJuly in Georgy\u003cbr\u003eDat Gal o' Mine\u003cbr\u003eThe Seasons\u003cbr\u003e'Possum Song\u003cbr\u003eAn Explanation\u003cbr\u003eDe Little Pickaninny's Gone to Sleep\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III. The College Years and Other Poems\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMoods\u003cbr\u003eA Passing Melody\u003cbr\u003eThe River\u003cbr\u003eHelene\u003cbr\u003eThe Class of '94\u003cbr\u003eGrandmother's Bible\u003cbr\u003eA Dream\u003cbr\u003eSonnet\u003cbr\u003eSonnet - The Secret\u003cbr\u003eClass Poem\u003cbr\u003eVoluptas (II)\u003cbr\u003eOptimistic Sam\u003cbr\u003eMobile Mardi Gras\u003cbr\u003eAfter My First Week Teaching in the Country\u003cbr\u003eTo a Brook Near My School House\u003cbr\u003eA Recollection\u003cbr\u003eThe Last Waltz\u003cbr\u003eTo a Friend\u003cbr\u003eOnly Trust Me\u003cbr\u003eA Brand\u003cbr\u003eChristmas Carol\u003cbr\u003eMiserable\u003cbr\u003eTo H.B.\u003cbr\u003eTo a Friend, with a Rose\u003cbr\u003eA Heathen\u003cbr\u003eTo My Valentine\u003cbr\u003eOde to Florida\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgment\u003cbr\u003eThe Passionate Lover\u003cbr\u003eArt vs. Trade\u003cbr\u003eThe Poet's Harp\u003cbr\u003eI Love Thee Still\u003cbr\u003eTo Louie (I)\u003cbr\u003eA Fragment (I)\u003cbr\u003eUntitled Poem (\"Was what you thought love, but passing\")\u003cbr\u003eUntitled Poem (\"Come with me my love and wander\")\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Weldon Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1871.  Among the first to break through the barriers segregating his race, he was educated at Atlanta University and at Columbia and was the first black admitted to the Florida bar.  He was also, for a time, a songwriter in New York, American consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua, executive secretary of the NAACP, and professor of creative literature at Fisk University—experiences recorded in his autobiography, \u003cb\u003eAlong This Way\u003c\/b\u003e.  Other books by him include \u003cb\u003eSaint Peter Relates an Incident\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eBlack Manhattan\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eGod's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse.\u003c\/b\u003e  In addition to his own writing, Johnson was the editor of pioneering anthologies of black American poetry and spirituals.  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