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Title: Fifty years & Other Poems
Author: James Weldon Johnson
Commentator: Brander Matthews
Release Date: March 1, 2006 [EBook #17884]
Language: English
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FIFTY YEARS & OTHER POEMS
BY
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON
AUTHOR OF
"THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN EX-COLORED MAN," ETC.
With an Introduction by
BRANDER MATTHEWS
THE CORNHILL COMPANY BOSTON 1917
To
G. N. F.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
For permission to reprint certain poems in this book thanks are due to the editors and proprietors of the Century Magazine, the
Independent_, _The Crisis_, _The New York Times, and the following copyright holders, G. Ricordi and Company, G. Schirmer and Company, and Joseph W. Stern and Company.
CONTENTS
Fifty Years