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Fifty Years & Other Poems

James Weldon Johnson (1871 - 1938)

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

Genre(s): Poetry

Language: English

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 01	Introduction by Brander Matthews	Larry Wilson	00:05:31
Play 02	Fifty Years	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:06:44
Play 03	To America	Nemo	00:00:53
Play 04	O Black and Unknown Bards	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:03:59
Play 05	O Southland	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:02:01
Play 06	To Horace Bumstead	Phil Schempf	00:01:07
Play 07	The Color Sergeant	Nemo	00:01:31
Play 08	The Black Mammy	Nemo	00:01:32
Play 09	Father, Father Abraham	Phil Schempf	00:01:03
Play 10	Brothers	Nemo	00:04:58
Play 11	Fragment	Nemo	00:02:17
Play 12	The White Witch	Nemo	00:03:23
Play 13	Mother Night	Nemo	00:01:14
Play 14	The Young Warrior	Phil Schempf	00:01:08
Play 15	The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:01:14
Play 16	From the Spanish of Plácido	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:01:27
Play 17	From the Spanish	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:00:41
Play 18	From the German of Uhland	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:01:40
Play 19	Before a Painting	Nemo	00:01:16
Play 20	I Hear the Stars Still Singing	Larry Wilson	00:00:37
Play 21	Girl of Fifteen	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:01:15
Play 22	The Suicide	Nemo	00:01:30
Play 23	Down by the Carib Sea	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:07:40
Play 24	The Greatest of These Is War	Nemo	00:04:17
Play 25	A Mid-Day Dreamer	Larry Wilson	00:01:12
Play 26	The Temptress	Corey Matlak	00:01:35
Play 27	Ghosts of the Old Year	Nemo	00:02:04
Play 28	The Ghost of Deacon Brown	Corey Matlak	00:01:33
Play 29	Lazy	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:01:59
Play 30	Omar	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:00:39
Play 31	Deep in the Quiet Wood	Larry Wilson	00:01:15
Play 32	Voluptas	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:00:34
Play 33	The Word of an Engineer	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:01:41
Play 34	Life	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:00:45
Play 35	Sleep	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:01:21
Play 36	Prayer at Sunrise	Larry Wilson	00:01:23
Play 37	The Gift to Sing	McKinnie Lee Sizemore	00:01:04
Play 38	Morning, Noon and Night	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:01:22
Play 39	Her Eyes Twin Pools	McKinnie Lee Sizemore	00:00:47
Play 40	The Awakening	Nemo	00:01:16
Play 41	Beauty That Is Never Old	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:01:14
Play 42	Venus in a Garden	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:01:23
Play 43	Vashti	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:05:08
Play 44	The Reward	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:00:40
Play 45	Sence You Went Away	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:01:32
Play 46	Ma Lady's Lips Am Like de Honey	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:02:48
Play 47	Tunk	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:03:47
Play 48	Nobody's Lookin' but de Owl an' de Moon	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:02:00
Play 49	You's Sweet to Yo' Mammy Jes de Same	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:02:07
Play 50	A Plantation Bacchanal	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:02:20
Play 51	July in Georgy	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:01:42
Play 52	A Banjo Song	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:01:35
Play 53	Answer to Prayer	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:02:23
Play 54	Dat Gal o' Mine	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:01:34
Play 55	The Seasons	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:01:34
Play 56	'Possum Song	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:02:44
Play 57	Brer Rabbit, You'se de Cutes' of 'Em All	Larry Wilson	00:02:08
Play 58	An Explanation	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:00:56
Play 59	De Little Pickaninny's Gone to Sleep	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:02:07
Play 60	The Rivals	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:12:42

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