The Made to Order Smile (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poem)
When a woman looks up at you with a twist about her eyes, And her brows are half uplifted in ...
When a woman looks up at you with a twist about her eyes, And her brows are half uplifted in ...
When I hoped I feared -- Since I hoped I dared Everywhere alone As a Church remain -- Spectre cannot ...
These are the Nights that Beetles love -- From Eminence remote Drives ponderous perpendicular His figure intimate The terror of ...
Kill your Balm -- and its Odors bless you -- Bare your Jessamine -- to the storm -- And she ...
A Charm invests a face Imperfectly beheld -- The Lady date not lift her Veil For fear it be dispelled ...
Put up my lute! What of -- my Music! Since the sole ear I cared to charm -- Passive -- ...
The man whose term we would remember as our longest, constant serving Head of State, besides the late Sir Robert ...
There's an infinity of wisdom in your smile that would deny the winsome wit that lies at back of it; ...
Would but indulgent Fortune send To me a kind, and faithful Friend, One who to Virtue's Laws is true, And ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
Thus heav'nward all things tend. For all were once Perfect, and all must be at length restor'd. So God has ...
Uncharmable charmer Of Bacchus and Mars In the sounding rebounding Abyss of the stars! O virgin in armour, Thine arrows ...
Uncharmable charmer Of Bacchus and Mars In the sounding rebounding Abyss of the stars! O virgin in armour, Thine arrows ...
Of late, in one of those most weary hours, When life seems emptied of all genial powers, A dready ...
A green and silent spot, amid the hills, A small and silent dell ! O'er stiller place No singing sky-lark ...
The Hunting The Bellman looked uffish, and wrinkled his brow. "If only you'd spoken before! It's excessively awkward to mention ...
The Baker's Tale They roused him with muffins--they roused him with ice-- They roused him with mustard and cress-- They ...
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
Christmass is come and every hearth Makes room to give him welcome now Een want will dry its tears in ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
O TWEED! a stranger, that with wand'ring feet O'er hill and dale has journey'd many a mile, (If so his ...
O POVERTY! though from thy haggard eye, Thy cheerless mein, of every charm bereft, Thy brow, that hope's last traces ...
O, Poverty! though from thy haggard eye, Thy cheerless mien, of every charm bereft, Thy brow that Hope's last traces ...
The restaurants on hot spring evenings Lie under a dense and savage air. Foul drafts and hoots from dunken revelers ...
The blue bell is the sweetest flower That waves in summer air; Its blossoms have the mightiest power To soothe ...
Who was frightened by a Passing Motor, and was brought to Reason "Oh murder! What was that, Papa!" "My child, ...
And wilt thou weep when I am low? Sweet lady! speak those words again: Yet if they grieve thee, say ...
My soul is dark - Oh! quickly string The harp I yet can brook to hear; And let thy gentle ...
And thou art dead, as young and fair As aught of mortal birth; And form so soft and charm so ...
O muse of my heart, lover of palaces, Will you bring, when January lets loose its sleet And its black ...
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