Ione (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
I.AH, yes, 't is sweet still to remember,Though 't were less painful to forget;For while my heart glows like an ...
I.AH, yes, 't is sweet still to remember,Though 't were less painful to forget;For while my heart glows like an ...
On the Spirit-Island sitting under midnight's misty moon,Lo I see the spirits flitting o'er the waters one by one!Slumber wraps the ...
A STRONG and mighty Angel,Calm, terrible, and bright,The cross in blended red and blueUpon his mantle white!Two captives by him ...
A rose hedged with a briar.Drummond.Alas! what else is love but sorrow.Byron.THERE is softness in the dew;And in starlight trembling ...
Yes! yes! I dare say it is so,And you should be pitied, but how could I know,Watching alone by the ...
Lapping thy grey wingUpon the purple evening sky,Oh Philomel, oh Philomel!Winding thy song on a shuttle of woodbine,Oh Philomel, oh ...
THE noon was as a crystal bowl The red wine mantled through;Around it like a Viking's beard The red-gold hazes blew,As tho' ...
DEAR Anna, hast ne'er heard it toldHow florists have the curious powerTo graft on some rude garden-plantA tender and exquisite ...
Dey think I is "set" an' "fo'gee,"An' dey lub to sneer an' laff,Gaze I duzen fancy black catsCrossin' cross mah ...
Thy memory, green Erin, haunteth me Since first I stood upon Killarney's shore, Or saw from Limerick's spires the Shannon pourIts turbid ...
On Tampa's hights gray rose the battlements:A summer's day had gone out in the west;The conflagration in the elementsWas ended, ...
The silken sail, which caught the summer breeze,Drove the light vessel through the azure seas;Upon the lofty deck, Dame Sigrid ...
Cambodunum, Cambodunum, how I love the sound o' t' name! Roman sowdiers belt a fort here, ...
I.HERE, where the rain-drops may not fall, the sunshine doth not play, Where the unfelt and distant breeze in whispers ...
She leaned o'er her latticed casement, The Flower of Wensleydale; 'Twas St Agnes Eve at midnight, Through the mist the ...
When Evening bids the Sun to rest retire,Unwearied Ether sets her lamps on fire;Lit by one torch, each is supplied ...
Last night a hand pushed on the door And tirled at the pin. I turned my face unto the wall, ...
Into the moon-lit nightgo, oh funeral bier,telling the sorrowful knell.In the hooded sedanwith no mourners after,bearing my grieving heart.This night ...
O MAGNET-SOUTH! O glistening, perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse, and love! Good and evil! O ...
WHEN the breeze of a joyful dawn blew free In the silken sail of infancy, The tide of time flow'd ...
PART I O! nothing earthly save the ray (Thrown back from flowers) of Beauty's eye, As in those gardens where ...
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