Fifty Years & Other Poems
James Weldon Johnson
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 |