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Fifty Years & Other Poems

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This is a collection of poems by James Weldon Johnson. Johnson was an early civil rights activist, and this theme is the basis for many of the poems in this collection as well. This volume also contains an introduction by Brander Matthews.The first half of this volume contains poems in classical style and form, the second half of this collection is a set of "Jingles & Croons". - Summary by Carolin (2 hr 11 min)

Chapters

Introduction by Brander Matthews

5:31

Read by Larry Wilson

Fifty Years

6:44

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

To America

0:53

Read by Nemo

O Black and Unknown Bards

3:59

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

O Southland

2:01

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

To Horace Bumstead

1:07

Read by Phil Schempf

The Color Sergeant

1:31

Read by Nemo

The Black Mammy

1:32

Read by Nemo

Father, Father Abraham

1:03

Read by Phil Schempf

Brothers

4:58

Read by Nemo

Fragment

2:17

Read by Nemo

The White Witch

3:23

Read by Nemo

Mother Night

1:14

Read by Nemo

The Young Warrior

1:08

Read by Phil Schempf

The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face

1:14

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

From the Spanish of Plácido

1:27

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

From the Spanish

0:41

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

From the German of Uhland

1:40

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

Before a Painting

1:16

Read by Nemo

I Hear the Stars Still Singing

0:37

Read by Larry Wilson

Girl of Fifteen

1:15

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

The Suicide

1:30

Read by Nemo

Down by the Carib Sea

7:40

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

The Greatest of These Is War

4:17

Read by Nemo

A Mid-Day Dreamer

1:12

Read by Larry Wilson

The Temptress

1:35

Read by Corey Matlak

Ghosts of the Old Year

2:04

Read by Nemo

The Ghost of Deacon Brown

1:33

Read by Corey Matlak

Lazy

1:59

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

Omar

0:39

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

Deep in the Quiet Wood

1:15

Read by Larry Wilson

Voluptas

0:34

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

The Word of an Engineer

1:41

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

Life

0:45

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

Sleep

1:21

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

Prayer at Sunrise

1:23

Read by Larry Wilson

The Gift to Sing

1:04

Read by McKinnie Lee Sizemore

Morning, Noon and Night

1:22

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

Her Eyes Twin Pools

0:47

Read by McKinnie Lee Sizemore

The Awakening

1:16

Read by Nemo

Beauty That Is Never Old

1:14

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

Venus in a Garden

1:23

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

Vashti

5:08

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

The Reward

0:40

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

Sence You Went Away

1:32

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

Ma Lady's Lips Am Like de Honey

2:48

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

Tunk

3:47

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

Nobody's Lookin' but de Owl an' de Moon

2:00

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

You's Sweet to Yo' Mammy Jes de Same

2:07

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

A Plantation Bacchanal

2:20

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

July in Georgy

1:42

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

A Banjo Song

1:35

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

Answer to Prayer

2:23

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

Dat Gal o' Mine

1:34

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

The Seasons

1:34

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

'Possum Song

2:44

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

Brer Rabbit, You'se de Cutes' of 'Em All

2:08

Read by Larry Wilson

An Explanation

0:56

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

De Little Pickaninny's Gone to Sleep

2:07

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

The Rivals

12:42

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson