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Fifty years & Other Poems

by James Weldon JOHNSON (1871 - 1938)

Fifty Years

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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Listen next episodes of Fifty years & Other Poems:
A Banjo Song , A Mid-Day Dreamer , A Plantation Bacchanal , An Explanation , Answer to Prayer , Beauty That Is Never Old , Before a Painting , Brer Rabbit, You'se de Cutes' of 'Em All , Brothers , Dat Gal o' Mine , De Little Pickaninny's Gone to Sleep , Deep in the Quiet Wood , Down by the Carib Sea , Father, Father Abraham , Fragment , From the German of Uhland , From the Spanish , From the Spanish of Plácido , Ghosts of the Old Year , Girl of Fifteen , Her Eyes Twin Pools , I Hear the Stars Still Singing , July in Georgy , Lazy , Life , Ma Lady's Lips Am Like de Honey , Morning, Noon and Night , Mother Night , Nobody's Lookin' but de Owl an' de Moon , O Black and Unknown Bards , O Southland , Omar , 'Possum Song , Prayer at Sunrise , Sence You Went Away , Sleep , The Awakening , The Black Mammy , The Color Sergeant , The Ghost of Deacon Brown , The Gift to Sing , The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face , The Greatest of These Is War , The Reward , The Rivals , The Seasons , The Suicide , The Temptress , The White Witch , The Word of an Engineer , The Young Warrior , To America , To Horace Bumstead , Tunk , Vashti , Venus in a Garden , Voluptas , You's Sweet to Yo' Mammy Jes de Same