The Spellin’-Bee (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
I NEVER shall furgit that night when father hitched up Dobbin,An' all us youngsters clambered in an' down the road ...
I NEVER shall furgit that night when father hitched up Dobbin,An' all us youngsters clambered in an' down the road ...
It sorter skeer'd the neighbours round, For of all the 'tarnal set thet clutchesTheir dollars firm, he wus the boss; An' yet ...
In a wild moraine of forgotten books, On the glacier of years gone by, As I plied my rake for order's sake, There ...
Tell a simple little story of a settler in the West,Where the soldier birds and farmers, and selectors never restWhile ...
They're buildin' the gallows outside my cell.I got 25 minutes to go.And in 25 minutes I'll be in Hell.I got ...
Since, Sir, on the Alphabet, lately 'tis grownThe Fashion to spread our Wit about Town,My Horn--book once more I shall ...
Thou art aged; but recount,Since thy early life began,What may be the just amountThou shouldst number of thy span:How much ...
{TO THE Generous SUBSCRIBERS, &c}. The Author finding all Attempts prove vain,Those glittering Smiles from Fortune to obtain:That purblind Goddess ...
Long, Dodington, in debt, I long have sought To ease the burden of my graceful thought: And now a ...
Part FirstYou'll recall, if you're strong on historical stuff, The name of that highly deluded old fluff Who chartered a ...
In Magna Obijt Britania Undecimo die Octobris: Awake, my Soul, from abject Thoughts retire,Invoke the sacred Nine to tune thy ...
O gracious jar,--my friend, my twin, Born at the time when I was born,--Whether tomfoolery you inspireOr animate with love's ...
Behold, once more, facetious BenSteps from his paste to take the pen;And as the trumpets, shrill and loud,Precede the sheriff's ...
I Frindsbury, Kent, 1786 Bang! Bang! Tap! Tap-a-tap! Rap! All through the lead and silver Winter days, All through the ...
Under silver wing San Francisco's towers sprouting thru thin gas clouds, Tamalpais black-breasted above Pacific azure Berkeley hills pine-covered below-- ...
For the future for after taking shape buzz in the halls - Do you know what you're doing? Do you ...
I've been list'nin' to them lawyers In the court house up the street, An' I've come to the conclusion That ...
(To Ellen Terry) I marvel not Bassanio was so bold To peril all he had upon the lead, Or that ...
If thou didst feed on western plains of yore Or waddle wide with flat and flabby feet Over some Cambrian ...
Let us be honest; the lady was not a harlot until she married a corporation lawyer who picked her from ...
It was only a little house of two rooms -- Almost like a child's play-house -- With scarce five acres ...
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