Fifty years & Other Poems - Free Audiobook

Author(s): James Weldon Johnson,

Language: English

Genre(s): Poetry

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60 Chapter(s)

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

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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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