April Is National Poetry Month!
TO AMERICA
Published in "THE CRISIS Magazine," NOVEMBER
1917.
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON
RENOWNED HARLEM RENAISSANCEX POET X WRITER X
NOVELIST X ESSAYIST X EDUCATOR X CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST
X DIPLOMAT X LAWYER X LYRICIST X PLAYWRIGHT
How would you have us, as we are?
Or sinking 'neath the load we bear?
Our eyes fixed forward on a star?
Or gazing empty at despair?
Rising or falling? Men or things?
With dragging pace or footsteps fleet?
Strong, willing sinews in your wings?
Or tightening chains about your feet?
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