Philosophy (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
I been t'inkin' 'bout de preachah; whut he said de othah night, 'Bout hit bein' people's dooty, fu' to keep dey ...
I been t'inkin' 'bout de preachah; whut he said de othah night, 'Bout hit bein' people's dooty, fu' to keep dey ...
Young friend! . . . I tries to duck, but miss the bus. 'E sees me first, an' 'as ...
There's a breeze about the mountains, it is singin' in the treesA song to mock the little men who chose ...
So they won't ship me over today, eh?Too old, did you say, an' too lame?It's a hard knock, Cap'n, t' ...
In Salthouse Dock as I did pass one day not long ago,I chanced to meet a sailorman that once I ...
'Twas a winter night at the Diamond Bar,The wind was blowin' cold.The Dipper swung 'round the dim North StarAnd the ...
I walked out with an alderman, all on a bright spring day.He was an august alderman, and much had he ...
Some likes pictures o' women, said Bill, "an' some like 'orses best,"As he fitted a pair of fancy shackles on ...
Johnnie Parrot, Johnnie Parrot, I'll not hear againThat old voice of yours a-ringin' down the windy rain,When the ocean morning's ...
I'm jest a old hard and fast "Rimmy"That's allus worked one certain way.I was talkin' to Eddie and Jimmie,And it's ...
First I knowed Casey him an' me was young,An' many a yard we h'isted, an' many a stave we sungIn ...
When the cranky German waggon, With its ten or fifteen bag on Comes a-jerkin' and a-joltin' down the dusty, limestone ...
The regimental jackdaw 'as a bright an' beady eye;'E sits upon the tent-pole an' 'e winks both bold an' sly:'E ...
No matter wheer thoo wander,Be't North, South, East or West,In hot lands or in cool lands,Thi heart will find no ...
T' WIND is in a cold airt,Hearken to its wail,Breakin' mony a heavy boughOf sycamores, doon-dale.T' wind is in a ...
Now up and down the siding brown The great black crows are flyin', And down below the spur, I know, ...
'TWAS 1 in that place o' Scotland's isle, That bears the name o' auld King Coil, Upon a bonie day ...
Missis Moriarty called last week, and says she to me, says she: "Sure the heart of me's broken entirely now ...
Sky's a-waxin' grey, Got to be a-goin'; Gittin' on my way, Where? I ain't a-knowin'. Fellers, no more jokes, Fun ...
Nurse, won't you let him in? He's barkin' an' scratchen' the door, Makin' so dreffel a din I jest can't ...
or, The First Steamboat up the Alabama. You, Dinah! Come and set me whar de ribber-roads does meet. De Lord, ...
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