Potential Titles: Fenton Johnson

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Has driven her chariot to Heaven - Fenton Johnson "Aunt Jane Allen"

The music of a peasant people - Fenton Johnson "The Banjo Player"

As welcome as the violets in March - Fenton Johnson "The Banjo Player"

With the steel of brotherhood - Fenton Johnson "Children of the Sun"

We are the star-dust folk - Fenton Johnson "Children of the Sun"

Reared for us a mystic throne - Fenton Johnson "Children of the Sun"

Merely chaff from life's storehouse - Fenton Johnson "Harlem: The Black City"

For devil's grain we barter souls - Fenton Johnson "Harlem: The Black City"

Give not to them the lotus leaf - Fenton Johnson "Harlem: The Black City"

And rest content in wine and nectar - Fenton Johnson "The Marathon Runner"

The tendon bands that hold my soul - Fenton Johnson "The Marathon Runner"

Hear the maddening cheers of men - Fenton Johnson "The Marathon Runner"

Wandering by the carefree stream - Fenton Johnson "The Miracle"

From a vision red with war - Fenton Johnson "The New Day"

With the crying blood of millions - Fenton Johnson "The New Day"

Golden grain will greet the morning - Fenton Johnson "The New Day"

The fight of others in the trenches of Mars - Fenton Johnson "The New Day"

Weighed us down as Samson in the temple - Fenton Johnson "The New Day"

A cunning dab of rouge the sun sent down - Fenton Johnson "Puck Goes to Court" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

The plodding mind worn down by life's thick grind - Fenton Johnson "Puck Goes to Court" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Forever winding to purple dreaming - Fenton Johnson "Revery"

Woven from the cloth of Tyre - Fenton Johnson "The Vision of Lazarus"

Washed of every crimson stain - Fenton Johnson "The Vision of Lazarus"

My shroud shall be leaves plucked from the maple trees - Fenton Johnson "When I Die" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

My star shall drop singing like a nightingale - Fenton Johnson "When I Die" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

A rose crowned song - Fenton Johnson "Your Soul and Mine"


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