The Party (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
DEY had a gread big pahty down to Tom's de othah night;Was I dah? You bet! I neveh in my ...
DEY had a gread big pahty down to Tom's de othah night;Was I dah? You bet! I neveh in my ...
"Best time to kill a hog's when he's fat." --Old Saw.Mostly folks is law-abidin'Down on Wriggle Crick--,Seein' they's no Squire ...
When de fiddle gits to singin' out a ol' Vahginny reel, An' you 'mence to feel a ticklin' in yo' toe ...
Jap Miller down at Martinsville's the blamedest feller yit! When _he_ starts in a-talkin' other folks is apt to quit!-- 'Pears like ...
W'EN de colo'ed ban' comes ma'chin' down de street,Don't you people stan' daih starin'; lif' yo' feet!Ain't dey playin'? Hip, ...
When the hot summer daylight is dyin', And the mist through the valley has rolled,And the soft velvet clouds ter the ...
Achievin' sech distinction with his moddel tabble doteEz to make his Red Hoss Mountain restauraw a place uv note,Our old ...
Oh, them days on Red Hoss Mountain, when the skies wuz fair 'nd blue,When the money flowed like likker, 'nd ...
What are these women up to? They've gone and strung Drapes over the windows, cutting out light And the slightest ...
That's his saddle on the tie-beam, And them's his spurs up thereOn the wall-plate over yonder — ...
I've tried the high-toned specialists, who doctor folks to-day;I've heard the throat man whisper low "Come on now let us ...
When the young folks gather 'round in the good old-fashioned way,Singin' all the latest songs gathered from the newest play,Or ...
What conversazzhyonies wuz I really did not know, For that, you must remember, wuz a powerful spell ago; The camp ...
Achievin' sech distinction with his moddel tabble dote Ez to make his Red Hoss Mountain restauraw a place uv note, ...
In Mike Maloney's Nugget bar the hooch was flowin' free, An' One-eyed Mike was shakin' dice wi' Montreal Maree, An ...
It's fine to have a blow-out in a fancy restaurant, With terrapin and canvas-back and all the wine you want; ...
1. Sex, as they harshly call it, I fell into this morning at ten o'clock, a drizzling hour of traffic ...
This was the way of it, don't you know -- Ryan was "wanted" for stealing sheep, And never a trooper, ...
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