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Fifty years & Other Poems

by James Weldon JOHNSON (1871 - 1938)

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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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Listen next episodes of Fifty years & Other Poems:
A Banjo Song , A Plantation Bacchanal , An Explanation , Answer to Prayer , Beauty That Is Never Old , Brer Rabbit, You'se de Cutes' of 'Em All , Dat Gal o' Mine , De Little Pickaninny's Gone to Sleep , Her Eyes Twin Pools , July in Georgy , Ma Lady's Lips Am Like de Honey , Morning, Noon and Night , Nobody's Lookin' but de Owl an' de Moon , 'Possum Song , Prayer at Sunrise , Sence You Went Away , The Awakening , The Gift to Sing , The Reward , The Rivals , The Seasons , Tunk , Vashti , Venus in a Garden , You's Sweet to Yo' Mammy Jes de Same