Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing

by Johnson, James Weldon

• ISBN13: 9780439351065
• ISBN10: 0439351065
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-02-01
• Publisher: Scholastic

Summary

Black-and-white photographs accompany this version of the song that has come to be considered the African American national anthem.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Foreword	p. xiii
Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day	p. 13
O Black and Unknown Bards	p. 25
Brothers--American Drama	p. 27
O Southland!	p. 30
We to America	p. 31
Mother Night	p. 32
The Young Warrior	p. 33
The White Witch	p. 34
My City	p. 37
The Glory of the Day was in Her Face	p. 38
Life	p. 39
The Black Mammy	p. 40
Fragment	p. 41
Mother, Farewell! (from the Spanish of Placido)	p. 43
Girl of Fifteen	p. 44
The Suicide	p. 45
Down by the Carib Sea--	p. 46
Sunrise in the Tropics	p. 46
Los Cigarrillos	p. 46
Teestay	p. 47
The Lottery Girl	p. 48
The Dancing Girl	p. 50
Sunset in the Tropics	p. 51
Deep in the Quiet Wood	p. 52
Prayer at Sunrise	p. 53
Her Eyes Twin Pools	p. 54
Vashit	p. 55
If I Were Paris	p. 59
Ghosts of the Old Year	p. 60
Beauty Never Old	p. 62
Blessed Sleep	p. 63
The Greatest of These is War	p. 64
A Poet to His Baby Son	p. 67
Ma Lady's Lips Am Like De Honey	p. 71
A Plantation Bacchanal	p. 73
Tunk	p. 75
Brer Rabbit, You's De Cutes' of 'Em All	p. 77
Answer to Prayer	p. 79
A Banjo Song	p. 81
The Rivals	p. 82
Sence You Went Away	p. 90
Fifty Years	p. 93
Lift Every Voice and Sing	p. 101
Envoy	p. 103
A Note on Placido's "Mother, Farewell!"	p. 105
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