Fifty years & Other Poems: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Fifty years & Other Poems, credited to James Weldon Johnson, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Fifty years & Other Poems by James Weldon Johnson. Read in English by Larry Wilson; Lynda Marie Neilson; Nemo; Phil Schempf; Corey Matlak; McKinnie Lee Sizemore 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

Recording facts

• Recording title: Fifty years & Other Poems
• Author credits: James Weldon Johnson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 60
• Listed recording duration: 2:11:52

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• America
• slavery
• poem
• USA
• civil rights
• 1917
• 2017

Opening tracks: first 24 of 60

1. 01 - Introduction by Brander Matthews — 5:31
2. 02 - Fifty Years — 6:44
3. 03 - To America — 0:53
4. 04 - O Black and Unknown Bards — 3:59
5. 05 - O Southland — 2:01
6. 06 - To Horace Bumstead — 1:07
7. 07 - The Color Sergeant — 1:31
8. 08 - The Black Mammy — 1:32
9. 09 - Father, Father Abraham — 1:02
10. 10 - Brothers — 4:58
11. 11 - Fragment — 2:17
12. 12 - The White Witch — 3:23
13. 13 - Mother Night — 1:14
14. 14 - The Young Warrior — 1:08
15. 15 - The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face — 1:14
16. 16 - From the Spanish of Plácido — 1:27
17. 17 - From the Spanish — 0:41
18. 18 - From the German of Uhland — 1:40
19. 19 - Before a Painting — 1:16
20. 20 - I Hear the Stars Still Singing — 0:37
21. 21 - Girl of Fifteen — 1:15
22. 22 - The Suicide — 1:30
23. 23 - Down by the Carib Sea — 7:40
24. 24 - The Greatest of These Is War — 4:17

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