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Poor Art with struggling gasp - James Weldon Johnson "Art vs. Trade"

The blight of sunless days - James Weldon Johnson "Beauty That is Never Old"

Nights of starless skies - James Weldon Johnson "Beauty That is Never Old"

The power my rooted limbs to start - James Weldon Johnson "Before a Painting"

Distiller of the balm of rest - James Weldon Johnson "Blessed Sleep"

On sleep's faint-beating wings - James Weldon Johnson "Blessed Sleep"

Filtered through fifteen generations - James Weldon Johnson "Brothers--American Drama"

The muttered curse of dying men - James Weldon Johnson "Brothers--American Drama"

The echo of the stifled cry - James Weldon Johnson "Brothers--American Drama"

While archangels strike the lyre - James Weldon Johnson "Christmas Carol"

The lightning wrote an unknown language - James Weldon Johnson "The Crucifixion"

Wait with the trembling stars - James Weldon Johnson "Down by the Carib Sea"

The patient palm tree watching - James Weldon Johnson "Down by the Carib Sea"

Like a rose of the south - James Weldon Johnson "Down by the Carib Sea"

That, bursting, lets a thousand colors fly - James Weldon Johnson "Down by the Carib Sea"

And riot among the clouds - James Weldon Johnson "Down By the Carib Sea"

Deepening in purple, flaming in gold - James Weldon Johnson "Down by the Carib Sea"

Fading through all of the tints of the rose - James Weldon Johnson "Down by the Carib Sea"

These transient joys of earth - James Weldon Johnson "A Dream"

If the smouldering future should inspire - James Weldon Johnson "Envoy"

To try the seer's prophetic lyre - James Weldon Johnson "Envoy"

To make a weapon of my song - James Weldon Johnson "Envoy"

Lived within a mighty age - James Weldon Johnson "Fifty Years"

Bent bare beneath a ruthless sun - James Weldon Johnson "Fifty Years"

Of victory on field and flood - James Weldon Johnson "Fifty Years"

The far horizon's beckoning span - James Weldon Johnson "Fifty Years"

Quenched the fires lit by their breath - James Weldon Johnson "Fifty Years"

That for which millions prayed - James Weldon Johnson "Fifty Years"

Of slighted gems and treasured clay - James Weldon Johnson "Ghosts of the Old Year"

Shadowed by Sorrow's somber wing - James Weldon Johnson "The Gift to Sing"

With glad defiance in my throat - James Weldon Johnson "The Gift to Sing"

Brood not over the broken past - James Weldon Johnson "The Gift to Sing"

The hoofs of his horse struck fire - James Weldon Johnson "Go Down Death--A Funeral Sermon"

Leaving the lightning's flash behind - James Weldon Johnson "Go Down Death--A Funeral Sermon"

Go up to a tearless sky - James Weldon Johnson "The Greatest of These Is War"

Fall back upon an earth of ashes - James Weldon Johnson "The Greatest of These Is War"

Through the murky vaults of hell - James Weldon Johnson "The Greatest of These Is War"

From the summit of fifty thousand years - James Weldon Johnson "The Greatest of These Is War"

A spectre men call Duty - James Weldon Johnson "Helene"

Fight the battle in my heart - James Weldon Johnson "Helene"

Twin pools of mystic light - James Weldon Johnson "Her Eyes Twin Pools"

To sound their glamouring haze - James Weldon Johnson "Her Eyes Twin Pools"

Careless of the distant doom - James Weldon Johnson "If I Were Paris"

Laughing in the face of years - James Weldon Johnson "If I Were Paris"

Under the autumn of her skies - James Weldon Johnson "If I Were Paris"

Like seven peals of thunder - James Weldon Johnson "The Judgment Day"

One foot on the battlements - James Weldon Johnson "The Judgment Day"

And start the wheel of eternity - James Weldon Johnson "The Judgment Day"

That last, sweet waltz with you - James Weldon Johnson "The Last Waltz"

Music of no earthly theme - James Weldon Johnson "The Last Waltz"

My heart yielded in capture - James Weldon Johnson "The Last Waltz"

Through one short space of fretfulness - James Weldon Johnson "Life"

Upon an island speck of time - James Weldon Johnson "Life"

Ring with the harmonies of Liberty - James Weldon Johnson "Lift Every Voice and Sing"

The white gleam of our bright star - James Weldon Johnson "Lift Every Voice and Sing"

Drunk with the wine of the world - James Weldon Johnson "Lift Every Voice and Sing"

Like empty pitchers to a full fountain - James Weldon Johnson "Listen, Lord--A Prayer"

Open up a window of heaven - James Weldon Johnson "Listen, Lord--A Prayer"

Over the battlements of glory - James Weldon Johnson "Listen, Lord--A Prayer"

Who breaks the bread of life - James Weldon Johnson "Listen, Lord--A Prayer"

Out of the gunshot of the devil - James Weldon Johnson "Listen, Lord--A Prayer"

Beating on the iron heart of sin - James Weldon Johnson "Listen, Lord--A Prayer"

His eye to the telescope of eternity - James Weldon Johnson "Listen, Lord--A Prayer"

The paper walls of time - James Weldon Johnson "Listen, Lord--A Prayer"

Drink from the thrice bitter bowl - James Weldon Johnson "Miserable"

In the ardent breath of noon - James Weldon Johnson "Morning, Noon and Night"

Memory's bitter blight - James Weldon Johnson "Morning, Noon and Night"

The threshold of the unknown dark - James Weldon Johnson "My City"

The ancient faith of prophets - James Weldon Johnson "O Black and Unknown Bards"

The fiery spirit of the seer - James Weldon Johnson "O Black and Unknown Bards"

Forgetting all past sorrow - James Weldon Johnson "Only Trust Me"

On the harp of my heart - James Weldon Johnson "A Passing Melody"

Imparting joy, suggesting grief - James Weldon Johnson "A Passing Melody"

These cold winds circling - James Weldon Johnson "The Passionate Lover"

From thy lips the honeyed wine - James Weldon Johnson "The Passionate Lover"

Dread not the tempest bold - James Weldon Johnson "The Passionate Lover"

That burns on cupid's sacred shrine - James Weldon Johnson "The Passionate Lover"

Cursed with your father's mind - James Weldon Johnson "A Poet to His Baby Son"

Chanters of the gold and purple harvest - James Weldon Johnson "A Poet to His Baby Son"

New things in an old language - James Weldon Johnson "A Poet to His Baby Son"

As a self-imagined Atlas - James Weldon Johnson "A Poet to His Baby Son"

Go dancing through my veins - James Weldon Johnson "The Poet's Heart"

Chases darkness to the west - James Weldon Johnson "Prayer at Sunrise"

With joy to rob the day - James Weldon Johnson "Prayer at Sunrise"

Against hell's iron gate - James Weldon Johnson "The Prodigal Son"

Never lonesome in Babylon - James Weldon Johnson "The Prodigal Son"

Swallowing the fires of hell - James Weldon Johnson "The Prodigal Son"

A mystery under the moon - James Weldon Johnson "The River"

A woeful want of pristine fire - James Weldon Johnson "Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day"

The prisoners of old ocean - James Weldon Johnson "Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day"

The days dreamed in their flight - James Weldon Johnson "Vashti"

The muted music of the night - James Weldon Johnson "Vashti"

A robe of curious silk - James Weldon Johnson "Vashti"

That mystic bleeding stone - James Weldon Johnson "Vashti"

Twin sister to the greedy earth - James Weldon Johnson "The White Witch"

The shadow of the panther lies - James Weldon Johnson "The White Witch"

The spirit of the vampire lurks - James Weldon Johnson "The White Witch"

The last besieged retreat of love - James Weldon Johnson "The White Witch"

Ten thousand Titans' strength - James Weldon Johnson "The Word of an Engineer"


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