Fifty Years & Other Poems

Genre(s): Poetry

Narrators: Larry Wilson, Lynda Marie Neilson, Nemo, Phil Schempf, Corey Matlak, McKinnie Lee Sizemore

Number of Chapters: 60

Length: 02 hours and 11 minutes

Language: English

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

Introduction by Brander Matthews (Larry Wilson)

Fifty Years (Lynda Marie Neilson)

To America (Nemo)

O Black and Unknown Bards (Lynda Marie Neilson)

O Southland (Lynda Marie Neilson)

To Horace Bumstead (Phil Schempf)

The Color Sergeant (Nemo)

The Black Mammy (Nemo)

Father, Father Abraham (Phil Schempf)

Brothers (Nemo)

Fragment (Nemo)

The White Witch (Nemo)

Mother Night (Nemo)

The Young Warrior (Phil Schempf)

The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face (Lynda Marie Neilson)

From the Spanish of Plácido (Lynda Marie Neilson)

From the Spanish (Lynda Marie Neilson)

From the German of Uhland (Lynda Marie Neilson)

Before a Painting (Nemo)

I Hear the Stars Still Singing (Larry Wilson)

Girl of Fifteen (Lynda Marie Neilson)

The Suicide (Nemo)

Down by the Carib Sea (Lynda Marie Neilson)

The Greatest of These Is War (Nemo)

A Mid-Day Dreamer (Larry Wilson)

The Temptress (Corey Matlak)

Ghosts of the Old Year (Nemo)

The Ghost of Deacon Brown (Corey Matlak)

Lazy (Lynda Marie Neilson)

Omar (Lynda Marie Neilson)

Deep in the Quiet Wood (Larry Wilson)

Voluptas (Lynda Marie Neilson)

The Word of an Engineer (Lynda Marie Neilson)

Life (Lynda Marie Neilson)

Sleep (Lynda Marie Neilson)

Prayer at Sunrise (Larry Wilson)

The Gift to Sing (McKinnie Lee Sizemore)

Morning, Noon and Night (Lynda Marie Neilson)

Her Eyes Twin Pools (McKinnie Lee Sizemore)

The Awakening (Nemo)

Beauty That Is Never Old (Lynda Marie Neilson)

Venus in a Garden (Lynda Marie Neilson)

Vashti (Lynda Marie Neilson)

The Reward (Lynda Marie Neilson)

Sence You Went Away (Lynda Marie Neilson)

Ma Lady's Lips Am Like de Honey (Lynda Marie Neilson)

Tunk (Lynda Marie Neilson)

Nobody's Lookin' but de Owl an' de Moon (Lynda Marie Neilson)

You's Sweet to Yo' Mammy Jes de Same (Lynda Marie Neilson)

A Plantation Bacchanal (Lynda Marie Neilson)

July in Georgy (Lynda Marie Neilson)

A Banjo Song (Lynda Marie Neilson)

Answer to Prayer (Lynda Marie Neilson)

Dat Gal o' Mine (Lynda Marie Neilson)

The Seasons (Lynda Marie Neilson)

'Possum Song (Lynda Marie Neilson)

Brer Rabbit, You'se de Cutes' of 'Em All (Larry Wilson)

An Explanation (Lynda Marie Neilson)

De Little Pickaninny's Gone to Sleep (Lynda Marie Neilson)

The Rivals (Lynda Marie Neilson)

The audiobook Fifty Years & Other Poems falls under the genres of Poetry. It is written by James Weldon Johnson.

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