Foolin’ Wid De Seasons (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
Seems lak folks is mighty curus In de way dey t'inks an' ac's. Dey jes' spen's dey days a-mixin' Up de t'ings in ...
Seems lak folks is mighty curus In de way dey t'inks an' ac's. Dey jes' spen's dey days a-mixin' Up de t'ings in ...
The roses mourn for her who sleeps Within the tomb; For her each lily-flower weeps Dew and perfume. In each neglected flower-bed Each blossom droops ...
TELL me, ye Zephyrs! that unfold,While fluttering o'er this gay Recess,Pinions that fanned the teeming mouldOf Eden's blissful wilderness,Did only ...
" YOU have been kind to me, I give you allI have, my gratitude, and now I goWith this my ...
Would you seeThe dark form of the sunThe contours of lifeOr be truly dazzledBy the fire that fuses allThe flame ...
Come on walkin' wid me, Lucy; 't ain't no time to mope erroun' Wen de sunshine 's shoutin' glory in de ...
On Calder's green banks I stroll sadly and lonely, The flowers are blooming, the birds singing sweet,The river's low murmur seems ...
Cradled in ice, and swathed in snows, And shining like a Christmas rose,Wreathed round with white chrysanthemums; Heaven in his innocent, brave ...
Far down the lane A window pane Gleams 'mid the trees through night and rain. The weeds are dense Through which a fence Of pickets ...
Airy budding ash-tree,You have made a throne,And the sweetest thrush in all the worldIs sitting there alone;Drawn in tints of ...
MANY a guest I'd see to-day,Met to taste my dishes!Food in plenty is prepar'd,Birds, and game, and fishes.Invitations all have ...
Galloping out on a drizzly day To see the foxhounds meetAnd huntsmen take their reckless way Over the newsown wheat,I came to ...
LIFE in its many shapes was there,The busy and the gay;Faces that seemed too young and fairTo ever know decay.Wealth, ...
Where I can see him all day long And hear his wild, spontaneous song, Before my window in his cage, A blithe canary ...
Going to Mass by the will of God, the day came wet and the wind rose;I met Mary Hynes at ...
Quivering fears, Heart-tearing cares,Anxious sighs, Untimely tears,Fly, fly to Courts,Fly to fond worldling's sports,Where strained Sardonic smiles are glossing still,And ...
SICK of the crowd, the toil, the strife,Sweet Nature, how I turn to thee,Seeking for renovated life,By brawling brook and ...
The smile of God was in the air;Enwreathed in veils of silvery hue,The valley lay, divinely fair,Beneath a cloudless vault ...
IThey bid me strike the lyreso long now mute and broken,but not a note can I wakennor will my muse ...
On the cross-beam under the old south bellthe nest of a pigeon is builded well.In summer and winter that bird ...
One dark, dark night--it was long ago,The air was heavy and still and warm -It fell to me and a ...
Fair summer is here, glad summer is here!O hark! 'tis to you I am singing:The sun is all gold in ...
Oh! if, as Arabs fancy, the traces on thy browWere symbols of thy future fate, and I could read them ...
IROSY plum-tree, think of meWhen Spring comes down the world!IIThere's dozens full of dandelionsDown in the field:Little gold plates,Little gold ...
Yesterday, watching the swallows' flightThat bring the spring and the season fair,A moment I thought of the beauty brightWho loved ...
On my school notebooksOn my desk and on the treesOn the sands of snowI write your nameOn the pages I ...
Quivering fears, heart-tearing cares,Anxious sighs, untimely tears,Fly, fly to courts,Fly to fond worldling's sports,Where strained sardonic smiles are glossing still,And ...
I slept in an old homestead by the sea:And in their chimney nest,At night the swallows told home-lore to me,As ...
To him whose soul is locked and bolted fast, By lust and guilt against the entrance there,Of heavenly light; whose soul ...
The gulf of seven and fifty yearsWe stretch our welcoming hands across;The distance but a pebble's tossBetween us and our ...
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