Merry Autumn (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poem)
It's all a farce,-these tales they tell About the breezes sighing, And moans astir o'er field and dell, Because the ...
It's all a farce,-these tales they tell About the breezes sighing, And moans astir o'er field and dell, Because the ...
WHO dat knockin' at de do'? Why, Ike Johnson, -- yes, fu' sho! Come in, Ike. I's mighty glad You ...
Wait till the Majesty of Death Invests so mean a brow! Almost a powdered Footman Might dare to touch it ...
Take your Heaven further on -- This -- to Heaven divine Has gone -- Had You earlier blundered in Possibly, ...
I cannot see my soul but know 'tis there Nor ever saw his house nor furniture, Who has invited me ...
Where I have lost, I softer tread -- I sow sweet flower from garden bed -- I pause above that ...
The only Ghost I ever saw Was dressed in Mechlin -- so -- He wore no sandal on his foot ...
We, the living, buried deep in selfish grief strive to comprehend the passing of your hour, minds are numbed, aghast ...
How do you win a football game? Not by skill alone or clever plays, in modern days the game has ...
I thought my father was far too fat - eagerly I told him so, if he was offended it didn't ...
I hadn't had the 'flu in ages, avoided all those awful places fraught of gritty eyes and splitting heads, patrons ...
It seldom snowed they said, perhaps they're right although seldom was never in that endless summer which tightened a fiery ...
It was the days of the slow roll, times when we dextrously dressed our hand-rolled cigarettes with a dearth of ...
The Alexandrians were gathered to see Cleopatra's children, Caesarion, and his little brothers, Alexander and Ptolemy, whom for the first ...
One dreary September day Emperor Manuel Komninos felt his death was near. The court astrologers -bribed, of course- went on ...
A friend sends her perfumed carriage And high-bred horses to fetch me. I decline the invitation of My old poetry ...
This morning was something. A little snow lay on the ground. The sun floated in a clear blue sky. The ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
My wife and I lived all alone, contention was our only bone. I fought with her, she fought with me, ...
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
The Hunting The Bellman looked uffish, and wrinkled his brow. "If only you'd spoken before! It's excessively awkward to mention ...
The Barrister's Dream They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; ...
First the Governor, the Father: He suggested velvet curtains looped about a massy pillar; And the corner of a table, ...
"AND did you really walk," said I, "On such a wretched night? I always fancied Ghosts could fly - If ...
"OH, when I was a little Ghost, A merry time had we! Each seated on his favourite post, We chumped ...
From his shoulder Hiawatha Took the camera of rosewood, Made of sliding, folding rosewood; Neatly put it all together. In ...
From his shoulder Hiawatha Took the camera of rosewood, Made of sliding, folding rosewood; Neatly put it all together. In ...
Man Naturally loves delay, And to procrastinate; Business put off from day to day Is always done to late. Let ...
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
Behind, perhaps, let the sea blow. Let some word blow outside every destination of slime, rust. Perhaps ointments from Avicenna, ...
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