Potential Titles: James Weldon Johnson
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somethingdarkerPoor 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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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"
Poet's Wikipedia page.
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