(1871-1938 / Florida/United States)

poet James Weldon Johnson
#142 on top 500 poets

Poems of James Weldon Johnson

1. A Banjo Song 4/2/2010
2. A Mid-Day Dreamer 4/2/2010
3. A Poet To His Baby Son 4/2/2010
4. An Explanation 4/2/2010
5. And the Greatest of These Is War 4/2/2010
6. Beauty that Is Never Old 4/2/2010
7. Before a Painting 4/2/2010
8. Brer Rabbit You's de Cutes' of 'Em All 4/2/2010
9. Brothers 4/2/2010
10. Dat Gal o' Mine 4/2/2010
11. De Little Pickaninny's Gone to Sleep 4/2/2010
12. Deep In the Quiet Wood 4/2/2010
13. Down By the Carib Sea 4/2/2010
14. Father, Father Abraham 4/2/2010
15. Fifty Years (1863-1913) 4/2/2010
16. Fragment 4/2/2010
17. From The German Of Uhland 4/2/2010
18. From The Spanish 4/2/2010
19. From The Spanish Of Placido 4/2/2010
20. Ghosts Of The Old Year 4/2/2010

Listen, Lord: A Prayer

O Lord, we come this morning
Knee-bowed and body-bent
Before Thy throne of grace.
O Lord--this morning--
Bow our hearts beneath our knees,
And our knees in some lonesome valley.
We come this morning--
Like empty pitchers to a full fountain,
With no merits of our own.

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