Time To Tinker ‘Roun’! (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
Summah 's nice, wif sun a-shinin', Spring is good wif greens and grass, An' dey 's some t'ings nice 'bout wintah, Dough hit ...
Summah 's nice, wif sun a-shinin', Spring is good wif greens and grass, An' dey 's some t'ings nice 'bout wintah, Dough hit ...
De way t'ings come, hit seems to me, Is des' one monst'ous mystery; De way hit seem to strike a man, Dey ain't ...
THE school children do not want to play withme; the teacher pierces me with his look;there is no heart with ...
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 ...
Ah'm sick, doctor-man, Ah'm sick!Gi' me some'n' to he'p me quick, Don't,--Ah'll die!Tried mighty hard fo' to cure mahse'f;Tried all dem ...
GRANNY'S gone a-visitin',Seen huh git huh shawlW'en I was a-hidin' downHime de gyahden wall.Seen huh put her bonnet on,Seen huh ...
OH, I des received a letter f'om de sweetest little gal;Oh, my; oh, my.She's my lovely little sweetheart an' her ...
Wondah whut on earf tiz ails me,Seems I see mo' outlan'ish t'ings,Sech ez wagons pullin' hosses,An' red mens, wid horns ...
Lay me down beneaf de willers in de grass,Whah de branch 'll go a-singin' as it pass. An' w'en I's a-layin' ...
De hardes' ob hard rows we hoesFo' little pay, de goo' Lawd knows.Yet we hab kep' de heart to singEnspite ...
I live on Canada en Bas — De fines' lan' you see — ...
ME thus often the evil monstersthronging threatened. With thrust of my sword,the darling, I dealt them due return!Nowise had they ...
Say, Bo, this little Yewropean warIt grieves our gloryus nation to the core - The vurry core of its great, ...
STONE-BRIGHT the street: it showed the wayto the crowd of clansmen. Corselets glistenedhand-forged, hard; on their harness brightthe steel ring ...
By gar! I tell-a you, t'ings don't stop Since da war he come wit' a rush,When Nicko, da boss at ...
Da ruction happen by Nicko's place Las' week, in da deada da night.Da copper he very near cop da case ...
IT isn't fair to take my becks,My lile hidden tarn,My mossy springs, my waterfall,An' make all on 'em larnThi songs. ...
For Carl Solomon I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves ...
Wintah, summah, snow er shine, Hit's all de same to me, Ef only I kin call you mine, An' keep ...
for Brenda Williams The dawn cracked with ice, with fire grumbling in the grate, With ire in the homes we ...
When Nellie, my old pussy cat, was still in her prime, she would sit behind me as I wrote, and ...
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