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Poetry
章节(66)
- Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing 0:00
- Fifty Years 2:02
- To America 6:02
- O Black and Unknown Bards 6:26
- O Southland! 9:53
- To Horace Bumstead 11:24
- The Color Sergeant 12:17
- The Black Mammy 13:23
- Father, Father Abraham 14:38
- Brothers 15:30
- Fragment 19:54
- The White Witch 21:46
- Mother Night 24:54
- The Young Warrior 25:54
- The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face 26:51
- From the Spanish 27:41
- Before a Painting 28:01
- I Hear the Stars Still Singing 28:53
- Girl of Fifteen 29:19
- The Suicide 30:17
- Down by the Carib Sea 31:20
- And the Greatest of These Is War 37:51
- A Mid-Day Dreamer 41:19
- The Temptress 42:32
- Ghosts of the Old Year 44:09
- The Ghost of Deacon Brown 45:47
- “Lazy” 47:23
- Omar 49:04
- Deep in the Quiet Wood 49:22
- Voluptas 50:28
- The Word of an Engineer 50:42
- Life 51:52
- Sleep 52:15
- Prayer at Sunrise 53:05
- The Gift to Sing 54:23
- Morning, Noon and Night 55:11
- Her Eyes Twin Pools 56:09
- The Awakening 56:41
- Beauty That Is Never Old 57:58
- Venus in a Garden 58:46
- Vashti 59:44
- The Reward 1:03:34
- Sence You Went Away 1:03:56
- Ma Lady’s Lips Am Like de Honey 1:04:49
- Tunk 1:07:23
- Nobody’s Lookin’ but de Owl and de Moon 1:09:29
- You’s Sweet to Yo’ Mammy Jes de Same 1:10:53
- A Plantation Bacchanal 1:12:07
- July in Georgy 1:13:24
- A Banjo Song 1:14:16
- Answer to Prayer 1:15:10
- Dat Gal o’ Mine 1:16:49
- The Seasons 1:17:39
- ’Possum Song 1:18:29
- Brer Rabbit, You’s de Cutes’ of ’Em All 1:20:11
- An Explanation 1:21:47
- De Little Pickaninny’s Gone to Sleep 1:22:13
- The Rivals 1:23:37
- Listen Lord 1:31:47
- The Creation 1:34:21
- The Prodigal Son 1:38:35
- Go Down Death 1:44:38
- Noah Built the Ark 1:48:47
- The Crucifixion 1:57:11
- Let My People Go 2:01:57
- The Judgment Day 2:11:06
This collection contains the poems written by James Weldon Johnson between 1899 and 1927. During this period of Johnson’s life, he worked as a Broadway songwriter with his brother John Rosamund in the early 1900s, served as a United States Consul in Venezuela from 1906 to 1908 and in Nicaragua from 1909 to 1913, and was appointed as the first executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1920. Johnson’s work arose in the milieu of the 1920s “Harlem Renaissance,” a term which Johnson personally refused to use, favoring “the flowering of Negro literature” instead.
Perhaps among the most notable works anthologized in this collection are the lyrics of “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing,” a hymn originally written as a poem by Johnson in 1899. Having been dubbed “The Black National Anthem,” the hymn has taken on the significance of a rallying cry for black Americans and is a frequent inclusion in Christian hymnals.