Spring Song (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
A BLUE-BELL springs upon the ledge,A lark sits singing in the hedge;Sweet perfumes scent the balmy air,And life is brimming ...
A BLUE-BELL springs upon the ledge,A lark sits singing in the hedge;Sweet perfumes scent the balmy air,And life is brimming ...
Condemn'd by Fate to way-ward Curse, Of Friends unkind, and empty Purse: Plagues worse than fill'd ...
C'?tait quand le printemps a reverdi les pr?s. La fille de Lycus, vierge aux cheveux dor?s, Sous les monts Ach?ens, ...
BRISTOL, thine heart hath throbb'd to glory.-Slaves,E'en Christian slaves, have shook their chains, and gaz'dWith wonder and amazement on thee. ...
{TO THE Generous SUBSCRIBERS, &c}. The Author finding all Attempts prove vain,Those glittering Smiles from Fortune to obtain:That purblind Goddess ...
I.She stood at Greenwich, motionless amid The ever-shifting crowd of passengers.I marked a big tear quivering on the lid Of ...
POWER o' ploughs and clothes-pegs in her, pork and beans for ev'ry sinner, Pork and beans for captain's dinner --Pass ...
All alone in the field Stands John S. Crow; And a curious sight is he, With his ...
As the cocoanut-palm That pines, my love, Away from the sound Of the planter's voice, Am I, for ...
There is peace in the swamp where the Copperhead sleeps,Where the waters are stagnant, the white vapor creeps,Where the musk ...
The Slaver in the broad lagoon Lay moored with idle sail; He waited for the rising moon, And for the ...
When night stirred at sea, An the fire brought a crowd in They say that her beauty Was music in ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
AMERICA always! Always our own feuillage! Always Florida's green peninsula! Always the priceless delta of Louisiana! Always the cotton-fields of ...
1 AS I sat alone, by blue Ontario's shore, As I mused of these mighty days, and of peace return'd, ...
Let Elizur rejoice with the Partridge, who is a prisoner of state and is proud of his keepers. Let Shedeur ...
Corinna, Pride of Drury-Lane, For whom no Shepherd sighs in vain; Never did Covent Garden boast So bright a batter'd, ...
The back, the yoke, the yardage. Lapped seams, The nearly invisible stitches along the collar Turned in a sweatshop by ...
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
That air same Jones, which lived in Jones, He had this pint about him: He'd swear with a hundred sighs ...
Shake out my pockets! Harken to the call Of that calm voice that makes no sound at all! Take of ...
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