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Fifty Years & Other Poems

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Fifty Years & Other Poems

by James Weldon Johnson

English· 02:11:52· 60 chapters
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
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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    Introduction by Brander Matthews

    05:31
  2. Chapter 2

    Fifty Years

    06:44
  3. Chapter 3

    To America

    00:53
  4. Chapter 4

    O Black and Unknown Bards

    03:59
  5. Chapter 5

    O Southland

    02:01
  6. Chapter 6

    To Horace Bumstead

    01:07
  7. Chapter 7

    The Color Sergeant

    01:31
  8. Chapter 8

    The Black Mammy

    01:32
  9. Chapter 9

    Father, Father Abraham

    01:03
  10. Chapter 10

    Brothers

    04:58
  11. Chapter 11

    Fragment

    02:17
  12. Chapter 12

    The White Witch

    03:23
  13. Chapter 13

    Mother Night

    01:14
  14. Chapter 14

    The Young Warrior

    01:08
  15. Chapter 15

    The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face

    01:14
  16. Chapter 16

    From the Spanish of Plácido

    01:27
  17. Chapter 17

    From the Spanish

    00:41
  18. Chapter 18

    From the German of Uhland

    01:40
  19. Chapter 19

    Before a Painting

    01:16
  20. Chapter 20

    I Hear the Stars Still Singing

    00:37
  21. Chapter 21

    Girl of Fifteen

    01:15
  22. Chapter 22

    The Suicide

    01:30
  23. Chapter 23

    Down by the Carib Sea

    07:40
  24. Chapter 24

    The Greatest of These Is War

    04:17
  25. Chapter 25

    A Mid-Day Dreamer

    01:12
  26. Chapter 26

    The Temptress

    01:35
  27. Chapter 27

    Ghosts of the Old Year

    02:04
  28. Chapter 28

    The Ghost of Deacon Brown

    01:33
  29. Chapter 29

    Lazy

    01:59
  30. Chapter 30

    Omar

    00:39
  31. Chapter 31

    Deep in the Quiet Wood

    01:15
  32. Chapter 32

    Voluptas

    00:34
  33. Chapter 33

    The Word of an Engineer

    01:41
  34. Chapter 34

    Life

    00:45
  35. Chapter 35

    Sleep

    01:21
  36. Chapter 36

    Prayer at Sunrise

    01:23
  37. Chapter 37

    The Gift to Sing

    01:04
  38. Chapter 38

    Morning, Noon and Night

    01:22
  39. Chapter 39

    Her Eyes Twin Pools

    00:47
  40. Chapter 40

    The Awakening

    01:16
  41. Chapter 41

    Beauty That Is Never Old

    01:14
  42. Chapter 42

    Venus in a Garden

    01:23
  43. Chapter 43

    Vashti

    05:08
  44. Chapter 44

    The Reward

    00:40
  45. Chapter 45

    Sence You Went Away

    01:32
  46. Chapter 46

    Ma Lady's Lips Am Like de Honey

    02:48
  47. Chapter 47

    Tunk

    03:47
  48. Chapter 48

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

    02:00
  49. Chapter 49

    You's Sweet to Yo' Mammy Jes de Same

    02:07
  50. Chapter 50

    A Plantation Bacchanal

    02:20
  51. Chapter 51

    July in Georgy

    01:42
  52. Chapter 52

    A Banjo Song

    01:35
  53. Chapter 53

    Answer to Prayer

    02:23
  54. Chapter 54

    Dat Gal o' Mine

    01:34
  55. Chapter 55

    The Seasons

    01:34
  56. Chapter 56

    'Possum Song

    02:44
  57. Chapter 57

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

    02:08
  58. Chapter 58

    An Explanation

    00:56
  59. Chapter 59

    De Little Pickaninny's Gone to Sleep

    02:07
  60. Chapter 60

    The Rivals

    12:42