Research Catalog

Title

Visions of the dusk / by Fenton Johnson, author of "A little dreaming."

Author

Johnson, Fenton, 1888-1958.

Publication

New York : F.J. 130 West 134th Street, [1915]

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Details

Additional Authors

Trachtenberg Co., printer.

Description

[9], 71 p., [1] leaf of plates : port.; 17 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subject

• Johnson, Fenton, 1888-1958 > Portraits
• African Americans > Poetry

Genre/Form

Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)

Note

• With a half-title.
• "Copyright, 1915 by Fenton Johnson."--verso of title page.
• "Press of Trachtenberg Co., New York City."--printer statement, verso of title page.
• Poems.

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
• inscribed: in ink on verso of first free endleaf "To Minnie Brown. Fenton Johnson, April 29, 1915." ; This copy was part of the Minnie Brown Collection of the Lincoln School for Nurses Alumnae Library.

Contents

1. Prelude -- 2. A Georgia lullaby -- 3. De cabin -- 4. The lonely piper -- 5. Two songs -- 6. Revery -- 7. De ol' home -- 8. The creed of the slave -- 9. Kin you tell me -- 10. The lost summer -- 11. Hymn -- 12. The soul of Boston -- 13. Singing Hallelujia -- 14. The magic master -- 15. To my father -- 16. Howdy do -- 17. Lullaby -- 18. The soldiers at dusk -- 19. Long de cool o' night -- 20. The dying rose -- 21. A fragment -- 22. De Aprul song -- 23. Slave death song -- 24. De call -- 25. The passing Indian -- 26. Fiddlah Ike -- 27. At the grave of Mandy -- 28. Jubal's free -- 29. Song of the whirlwind -- 30. My God in Heaven said to me -- 31. The hypocrite devil -- 32. Love me -- 33. The prodigal song -- 34. The song of Beulahland -- 35. De ban' -- 36. Plantation sermon -- 37. The phantom rabbit -- 38. To Jeanne Robert Foster -- 39. S. Coleridge Taylor -- 40. Ethiopia -- 41. De chu'ch -- 42. De mule -- 43. Questions -- 44. Lyrics of love -- 45. When April comes -- 46. The clinging kiss -- 47. Eulogy of the fairies -- 48. Memories -- 49. When my Bonnie dances -- 50. Mary on August the first -- 51. Douglas -- 52. Ol' age -- 53. The wraithies' message -- 54. Washin' day -- 55. At the shrine of Mary -- 56. A pilgrim of the dusk -- 57. Death -- 58. Warning -- 59. Declaration -- 60. Turn down the lamp -- 61. Comin' home -- 62. L'envoi.

Call Number

NBI (Johnson, Fenton. Visions of the dusk)

LCCN

15011885

OCLC

• 17468095
• NYPG87-B99887
• NYPG95-B4613

Author

Johnson, Fenton, 1888-1958.

Title

Visions of the dusk / by Fenton Johnson, author of "A little dreaming."

Imprint

New York : F.J. 130 West 134th Street, [1915]

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 811-J (copy 1) (accession no. B527169) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Copy in Sc Rare 811-J (copy 2) inscribed: in ink on verso of first free endleaf "To Minnie Brown. Fenton Johnson, April 29, 1915." ; This copy was part of the Minnie Brown Collection of the Lincoln School for Nurses Alumnae Library. NN

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Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Trachtenberg Co., printer.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Johnson, Fenton, 1888-1958, inscriber.

Brown, Minnie, former owner.

Lincoln School for Nurses. Alumnae Library, former owner.

Research Call Number

NBI (Johnson, Fenton. Visions of the dusk)

Sc Rare 811-J (Johnson, F. Visions of the dusk)