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    Lift Every Voice and Sing

    Selected Poems

    Part of Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin

    Author James Weldon Johnson
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    Penguin Adult HC/TR | Penguin Classics
    On sale Feb 01, 2000 | 112 Pages | 9780141183879
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    This selection of more than forty poems from a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance includes both uncompromising indictments of racial injustice and celebrations of the triumphs of African-Americans.

    For 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.
    Lift Every Voice and SingPreface by Sondra Kathryn Wilson
    Foreword

    Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day
    O Black and Unknown Bards
    Brothers - American Drama
    O Southland!
    We to America
    Mother Night
    The Young Warrior
    The White Witch
    My City
    The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face
    Life
    The Black Mammy
    Fragment
    Mother, Farewell! (from the Spanish of Placido)
    Girl of Fifteen
    The Suicide

    Down by the Carib Sea -
    Sunrise in the Tropics
    Los Cigarrillos
    Teestay
    The Lottery Girl
    The Dancing Girl
    Sunset in the Tropics

    Deep in the Quiet Wood
    Prayer at Sunrise
    Her Eyes Twin Pools
    Vashti
    If I Were Paris
    Ghosts of the Old Year
    Beauty Never Old
    Blessed Sleep
    The Greatest of These Is War
    A Poet to His Baby Son
    Ma Lady's Lips Am Like de Honey
    A Plantation Bacchanal
    Tunk
    Brer Rabbit, You's de Cutes' of 'Em All
    Answer to Prayer
    A Banjo Song
    The Rivals
    Sence You Went Away
    Lift Every Voice and Sing
    Envoy
    A Note on Placido's "Mother, Farewell!"

    JAMES WELDON JOHNSON (1871–1938) was a novelist, poet, lawyer, editor,  ethnomusicologist, and coauthor of the hymn “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” which is informally known as the Black national anthem. Born in Jacksonville, Florida, he was educated at Atlanta University and at Columbia University and was the first Black lawyer 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. His other books include an autobiography, Along This Way and God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse. View titles by James Weldon Johnson

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    This selection of more than forty poems from a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance includes both uncompromising indictments of racial injustice and celebrations of the triumphs of African-Americans.

    For 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.

    Table of Contents

    Lift Every Voice and SingPreface by Sondra Kathryn Wilson
    Foreword

    Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day
    O Black and Unknown Bards
    Brothers - American Drama
    O Southland!
    We to America
    Mother Night
    The Young Warrior
    The White Witch
    My City
    The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face
    Life
    The Black Mammy
    Fragment
    Mother, Farewell! (from the Spanish of Placido)
    Girl of Fifteen
    The Suicide

    Down by the Carib Sea -
    Sunrise in the Tropics
    Los Cigarrillos
    Teestay
    The Lottery Girl
    The Dancing Girl
    Sunset in the Tropics

    Deep in the Quiet Wood
    Prayer at Sunrise
    Her Eyes Twin Pools
    Vashti
    If I Were Paris
    Ghosts of the Old Year
    Beauty Never Old
    Blessed Sleep
    The Greatest of These Is War
    A Poet to His Baby Son
    Ma Lady's Lips Am Like de Honey
    A Plantation Bacchanal
    Tunk
    Brer Rabbit, You's de Cutes' of 'Em All
    Answer to Prayer
    A Banjo Song
    The Rivals
    Sence You Went Away
    Lift Every Voice and Sing
    Envoy
    A Note on Placido's "Mother, Farewell!"

    Author

    JAMES WELDON JOHNSON (1871–1938) was a novelist, poet, lawyer, editor,  ethnomusicologist, and coauthor of the hymn “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” which is informally known as the Black national anthem. Born in Jacksonville, Florida, he was educated at Atlanta University and at Columbia University and was the first Black lawyer 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. His other books include an autobiography, Along This Way and God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse. View titles by James Weldon Johnson

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