Dat Ol’ Mare O’ Mine (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
Want to trade me, do you, mistah? Oh, well, now, I reckon not, W'y you could n't buy my Sukey fu' ...
Want to trade me, do you, mistah? Oh, well, now, I reckon not, W'y you could n't buy my Sukey fu' ...
It was Chrismus Eve, I mind hit fu' a mighty gloomy day-- Bofe de weathah an' de people--not a one of ...
Tek a cool night, good an' cleah, Skiff o' snow upon de groun'; Jes' 'bout fall-time o' de yeah W'en de leaves is ...
Des come urlong, my honey chile an' sot down on my knee,An' Unker Eph 'll tell you ob de Baid-Bug ...
You kin talk erbout yo' 'lasses an' yo' steamin' buckwheat cakes,'Bout yo' eisters fried in crackers, an' yo' juicy hot ...
Dey 's a so't o' threatenin' feelin' in de blowin' of de breeze, An' I 's feelin' kin' o' squeamish in ...
Seems lak folks is mighty curus In de way dey t'inks an' ac's. Dey jes' spen's dey days a-mixin' Up de t'ings in ...
Ur ol' Hyar lib in ur house on de hill,He hunner yurs ol' an' nebber wuz ill;He yurs dee so ...
You 'll be wonderin' whut 's de reason I 's a grinnin' all de time, An' I guess you t'ink my sperits Mus' ...
When I come in f'om de co'n-fiel' aftah wo'kin' ha'd all day, It 's amazin' nice to fin' my suppah all ...
I done got 'uligion, honey, an' I 's happy ez a king; Evahthing I see erbout me 's jes' lak sunshine ...
Summah night an' sighin' breeze, 'Long de lovah's lane; Frien'ly, shadder-mekin' trees, 'Long de lovah's lane. White folks' wo'k all done up gran'-- Me an' ...
DEY was oncet a awful quoil 'twixt de skillet an' de pot;De pot was des a-bilin' an' de skillet sho' ...
STEP wid de banjo an' glide wid de fiddle,Dis ain' no time fu' to pottah an' piddle;Fu' Christmas is comin', ...
UNCLE JIMOld Uncle Jim was as blind as a mole, But he could fiddle Virginia Reels, Till you felt the ...
The Honourable TORYPHAT addressed the meeting: 'Hem!(Prolonged applause.) Ah - Mistah Chairman, gentlemen. To stemThe tide of Socialism - rabid ...
TO DANIEL J. RYAN AND C. H. CARPENTER, Columbus, Ohio. Lookin' nice to-night, Miss Liza, Yo's out dressed 'em all ...
IIn de shady wood de weathah's cool,Down beside ole Massa Ketchum's pool;Dah Ah sits me 'pon de mossy logs,Talkin' wid ...
Sir Edward Burne-JonesWas usually Mistah BonesAnd imitated a German taking soupIn the Pre-Raphaelite Minstrel Troupe.(Edmund Clerihew Bentley)
Mistah Kurtz -- he dead. A penny for the Old Guy I We are the hollow men We are the ...
Air a-gittin' cool an' coolah, Frost a-comin' in de night, Hicka' nuts an' wa'nuts fallin', Possum keepin' out o' sight. ...
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