This author of Along This Way and Fifty Years and Other Poems is better known for a novel about a character who takes a job at a cigar factory in Jacksonville as a "reader" before moving to New York to play ragtime and bearing witness to a lynching.
National Security Volunteers before mentioned)  One poem by this author ends by declaring "Large resolutions, little deeds / Thus, filled with aims unreached, life speeds until the blotted record reads, ‘Failure!' at last." That poem is "Ghosts of the Old Year" which follows a piece entitled "If I Were Paris." Another poem by this author directs "let us here erect a stone, to mark the place, to mark the time," adding "let that stone an altar be, whereon thanksgivings we may lay." In "Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day," he satirically presents a gathering at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. This author of Along This Way and Fifty Years and Other Poems is better known for a novel about a character who takes a job at a cigar factory in Jacksonville as a "reader" before moving to New York to play ragtime and bearing witness to a lynching. FTP, name this author of God's Trombones and Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man.
National Security Volunteers before mentioned)  One poem by this author ends by declaring "Large resolutions, little deeds /
James Weldon {Johnson}