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Fifty Years & Other Poems

Name: Fifty Years & Other Poems
Author: James Weldon Johnson

James Weldon Johnson

Read by Larry Wilson, Lynda Marie Neilson, Nemo, Phil Schempf, Corey Matlak and McKinnie Lee Sizemore · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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