Fifty Years & Other Poems


Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers

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)

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Introduction by Brander Matthews 5:31 Gelesen von Larry Wilson
Fifty Years 6:44 Gelesen von Lynda Marie Neilson
To America 0:53 Gelesen von Nemo
O Black and Unknown Bards 3:59 Gelesen von Lynda Marie Neilson
O Southland 2:01 Gelesen von Lynda Marie Neilson
To Horace Bumstead 1:07 Gelesen von Phil Schempf
The Color Sergeant 1:31 Gelesen von Nemo
The Black Mammy 1:32 Gelesen von Nemo
Father, Father Abraham 1:03 Gelesen von Phil Schempf
Brothers 4:58 Gelesen von Nemo
Fragment 2:17 Gelesen von Nemo
The White Witch 3:23 Gelesen von Nemo
Mother Night 1:14 Gelesen von Nemo
The Young Warrior 1:08 Gelesen von Phil Schempf
The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face 1:14 Gelesen von Lynda Marie Neilson
From the Spanish of Plácido 1:27 Gelesen von Lynda Marie Neilson
From the Spanish 0:41 Gelesen von Lynda Marie Neilson
From the German of Uhland 1:40 Gelesen von Lynda Marie Neilson
Before a Painting 1:16 Gelesen von Nemo
I Hear the Stars Still Singing 0:37 Gelesen von Larry Wilson
Girl of Fifteen 1:15 Gelesen von Lynda Marie Neilson
The Suicide 1:30 Gelesen von Nemo
Down by the Carib Sea 7:40 Gelesen von Lynda Marie Neilson
The Greatest of These Is War 4:17 Gelesen von Nemo
A Mid-Day Dreamer 1:12 Gelesen von Larry Wilson
The Temptress 1:35 Gelesen von Corey Matlak
Ghosts of the Old Year 2:04 Gelesen von Nemo
The Ghost of Deacon Brown 1:33 Gelesen von Corey Matlak
Lazy 1:59 Gelesen von Lynda Marie Neilson
Omar 0:39 Gelesen von Lynda Marie Neilson
Deep in the Quiet Wood 1:15 Gelesen von Larry Wilson
Voluptas 0:34 Gelesen von Lynda Marie Neilson
The Word of an Engineer 1:41 Gelesen von Lynda Marie Neilson
Life 0:45 Gelesen von Lynda Marie Neilson
Sleep 1:21 Gelesen von Lynda Marie Neilson
Prayer at Sunrise 1:23 Gelesen von Larry Wilson
The Gift to Sing 1:04 Gelesen von McKinnie Lee Sizemore
Morning, Noon and Night 1:22 Gelesen von Lynda Marie Neilson
Her Eyes Twin Pools 0:47 Gelesen von McKinnie Lee Sizemore
The Awakening 1:16 Gelesen von Nemo
Beauty That Is Never Old 1:14 Gelesen von Lynda Marie Neilson
Venus in a Garden 1:23 Gelesen von Lynda Marie Neilson
Vashti 5:08 Gelesen von Lynda Marie Neilson
The Reward 0:40 Gelesen von Lynda Marie Neilson
Sence You Went Away 1:32 Gelesen von Lynda Marie Neilson
Ma Lady's Lips Am Like de Honey 2:48 Gelesen von Lynda Marie Neilson
Tunk 3:47 Gelesen von Lynda Marie Neilson
Nobody's Lookin' but de Owl an' de Moon 2:00 Gelesen von Lynda Marie Neilson
You's Sweet to Yo' Mammy Jes de Same 2:07 Gelesen von Lynda Marie Neilson
A Plantation Bacchanal 2:20 Gelesen von Lynda Marie Neilson
July in Georgy 1:42 Gelesen von Lynda Marie Neilson
A Banjo Song 1:35 Gelesen von Lynda Marie Neilson
Answer to Prayer 2:23 Gelesen von Lynda Marie Neilson
Dat Gal o' Mine 1:34 Gelesen von Lynda Marie Neilson
The Seasons 1:34 Gelesen von Lynda Marie Neilson
'Possum Song 2:44 Gelesen von Lynda Marie Neilson
Brer Rabbit, You'se de Cutes' of 'Em All 2:08 Gelesen von Larry Wilson
An Explanation 0:56 Gelesen von Lynda Marie Neilson
De Little Pickaninny's Gone to Sleep 2:07 Gelesen von Lynda Marie Neilson
The Rivals 12:42 Gelesen von Lynda Marie Neilson