The Rivals (James Weldon Johnson Poems)
Look heah! Is I evah tole you 'bout de curious way I wonAnna Liza? Say, I nevah? Well heah's how ...
Look heah! Is I evah tole you 'bout de curious way I wonAnna Liza? Say, I nevah? Well heah's how ...
Wen I git up in de mo'nin' an' de clouds is big an' black, Dey's a kin' o' wa'nin' shivah goes ...
Me and Billy's in the woodshed; Ma said, "Run outdoors and play;Be good boys and don't be both'rin', till the ...
Come on walkin' wid me, Lucy; 't ain't no time to mope erroun' Wen de sunshine 's shoutin' glory in de ...
If Ah evah git to glory, an' Ah hope to mek it thoo,Ah expec' to hyah a story, an' Ah ...
De da'kest hour, dey allus say, Is des' befo' de dawn, But it's moughty ha'd a-waitin' W'ere de night goes frownin' on; An' it's ...
Win' a-blowin' gentle so de san' lay low, San' a little heavy f'om de rain, All de pa'ms a-wavin' an' a-weavin' slow, Sighin' ...
OUT in de night a sad bird moans,An', oh, but hit's moughty lonely;Times I kin sing, but mos' I groans,Fu' ...
W'EN de clouds is hangin' heavy in de sky,An' de win's 's a-taihin' moughty vig'rous by,I don' go a-sighin' all ...
Owned a pair o' skates onc't.--Traded Fer 'em,--stropped 'em on and waded Up and down the crick, a-waitin' Tel she'd freeze up fit ...
When I leave this Western ocean, to the South'ard I will steerIn a tall Colonial clipper, far an' far enough ...
Bill's home ag'in from Europe, where he featured with a show,But he don't talk none about it - his words ...
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