The Spellin’-Bee (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
I NEVER shall furgit that night when father hitched up Dobbin,An' all us youngsters clambered in an' down the road ...
I NEVER shall furgit that night when father hitched up Dobbin,An' all us youngsters clambered in an' down the road ...
The rabbit's ears are flattened and he's squattin' scared and still,Ag'inst the dripping cedar; and the quail below the hillAre ...
It was Chrismus Eve, I mind hit fu' a mighty gloomy day-- Bofe de weathah an' de people--not a one of ...
Oh, the cool September mornin's! now they're with us once agin,With the grasses wet and shinin', and the air so ...
De axes has been ringin' in de woods de blessid day, An' de chips has been a-fallin' fa' an' thick; Dey has ...
Oh! they've swept the parlor carpet, and they've dusted every chair,And they've got the tidies hangin' jest exactly on the ...
I've crossed the bar at last, mates, My longest voyage is done;And I can sit here, peaceful, And watch th' setting sunA-smilin' ...
I been t'inkin' 'bout de preachah; whut he said de othah night, 'Bout hit bein' people's dooty, fu' to keep dey ...
See dis pictyah in my han'? Dat's my gal; Ain't she purty? goodness lan'! Huh name Sal. Dat's de very way she be-- Kin' o' ...
The Blue Horizon wuz a mine us fellers all thought well uv,And there befell the episode I now perpose to ...
Pretty good world if you take it all round— Pretty good world, good people! Better be on than under ...
The Blue Horizon wuz a mine us fellers all thought well uv, And there befell the episode I now perpose ...
Little cullud Rastus come a-skippin' down de street, A-smilin' and a-grinnin' at every one he meet; My, oh! He was ...
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