Fifty years & Other Poems
James Weldon Johnson
60 chapters · 2 h 12 min · English
Read by Larry Wilson, Lynda Marie Neilson, Nemo, Phil Schempf, Corey Matlak, McKinnie Lee Sizemore
Poetry
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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
Chapters
1 Introduction by Brander Matthews 6 min 2 Fifty Years 7 min 3 To America 1 min 4 O Black and Unknown Bards 4 min 5 O Southland 2 min 6 To Horace Bumstead 1 min 7 The Color Sergeant 2 min 8 The Black Mammy 2 min 9 Father, Father Abraham 1 min 10 Brothers 5 min 11 Fragment 2 min 12 The White Witch 3 min 13 Mother Night 1 min 14 The Young Warrior 1 min 15 The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face 1 min 16 From the Spanish of Plácido 1 min 17 From the Spanish 1 min 18 From the German of Uhland 2 min 19 Before a Painting 1 min 20 I Hear the Stars Still Singing 1 min 21 Girl of Fifteen 1 min 22 The Suicide 2 min 23 Down by the Carib Sea 8 min 24 The Greatest of These Is War 4 min 25 A Mid-Day Dreamer 1 min 26 The Temptress 2 min 27 Ghosts of the Old Year 2 min 28 The Ghost of Deacon Brown 2 min 29 Lazy 2 min 30 Omar 1 min 31 Deep in the Quiet Wood 1 min 32 Voluptas 1 min 33 The Word of an Engineer 2 min 34 Life 1 min 35 Sleep 1 min 36 Prayer at Sunrise 1 min 37 The Gift to Sing 1 min 38 Morning, Noon and Night 1 min 39 Her Eyes Twin Pools 1 min 40 The Awakening 1 min 41 Beauty That Is Never Old 1 min 42 Venus in a Garden 1 min 43 Vashti 5 min 44 The Reward 1 min 45 Sence You Went Away 2 min 46 Ma Lady's Lips Am Like de Honey 3 min 47 Tunk 4 min 48 Nobody's Lookin' but de Owl an' de Moon 2 min 49 You's Sweet to Yo' Mammy Jes de Same 2 min 50 A Plantation Bacchanal 2 min 51 July in Georgy 2 min 52 A Banjo Song 2 min 53 Answer to Prayer 2 min 54 Dat Gal o' Mine 2 min 55 The Seasons 2 min 56 'Possum Song 3 min 57 Brer Rabbit, You'se de Cutes' of 'Em All 2 min 58 An Explanation 1 min 59 De Little Pickaninny's Gone to Sleep 2 min 60 The Rivals 13 min
