Growin’ Gray (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
HELLO, ole man, you're a-gittin' gray,An' it beats ole Ned to see the way'At the crow's feet's a-getherin' aroun' yore ...
HELLO, ole man, you're a-gittin' gray,An' it beats ole Ned to see the way'At the crow's feet's a-getherin' aroun' yore ...
We who praise poets with our labouring penAnd justify ourselves with laud of menHave not the right to call our ...
A! Fredome is a noble thing!Fredome mayse man to haif liking;He livis at ese that frely livis!A noble hart may ...
Not onely thy affection did I prise Showne to our Militarie exercise, When here I wrote thy name (deserving Hassit) No, no: thy ...
Now I was gwine ter make er speech;I see yer al begin to frown;Dat what I say erbout yer darkies,Yer ...
On a sudden,the sight.Your look of lightstills all,stillsall, The curd-potfalls to the ground.Parents andbrothersall call a halt.Prise out, they say,this ...
On a sudden,the sight,Your look of light,stills all,The curd-potfalls to the ground.Parents andbrothersall call a halt.Prise out, they say,this thing ...
May: AEgloga Quinta. Palinode & Piers. Palinode.IS not thilke the mery moneth of May, When loue lads masken in fresh ...
Farewell (sweet Cooke-ham) where I first obtain'dGrace from that Grace where perfit Grace remain'd;And where the Muses gaue their full ...
'Tis growne almost a danger to speake true Of any good minde, now: There are so few.The bad, by number, ...
I know I'm dull. I know I got a brain That's only fit fer fertilizin' 'air.I don't arst for bokays: ...
Women is strange. You take my tip; I'm wise. I know enough to know I'll never knowThe 'uman female ...
YOU ruffled black blossom,You glossy dark wind.Your sort of gorgeousness,Dark and lustrousAnd skinny repulsiveAnd poppy-glossy,Is the gorgeousness that evokes my ...
I wash me 'ands uv 'im, I tells 'em straight. "You women can do wot yeh dash well like.I leave ...
Why stone the crows! 'e sez. "I like 'er style, But alwiz, some'ow, women 'ave appearedSet fer to 'old me ...
WITNESS FOR TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA PEACE In San Francisco around Easter time last year, they had a trout fishing ...
OCTOBER: Ægloga DecimaPIERCE & CUDDIE Cuddie, for shame hold up thy heavye head, And let us cast with what delight ...
THe famous warriors of the anticke world, Vsed Trophees to erect in stately wize: in which they would the records ...
1 You, once a belle in Shreveport, with henna-colored hair, skin like a peachbud, still have your dresses copied from ...
Take the name of the swain, a forlorn witless elf Who was chang'd to a flow'r for admiring himself. A ...
A vine from noblest lineage sprung And with the choicest clusters hung, In purple rob'd, reclining lay, And catch'd the ...
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