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 ...
THE YOUNG MASTER ASKS FOR A STORY Whut you say, dah? huh, uh! chile, You 's enough to dribe me wile. Want a ...
A Boston man an ulster had, An ulster with a cape that fluttered: It smacked his face, and made him mad, And polyglot ...
For the Reunion of the Bates Family at Quincy, August 3, 1916FAR away on the sunny levelsWhere Kent lies drowsing ...
The whelp that nipped its mother's dug in turning from her breast,And smacked its lusty lips and built its own ...
Big John HenryThis here's a tale of a sho-nuff manWhut lived one time in the delta lan'His hand was big ...
For starters, stompThe window both hands.Stop whirling, world. LaughAnd listen. Hear the glass? Clang!Five flights up is no high flying.Where ...
TO MY READERS,-MY Life has been a wild, strange life,Now lulled in love-now wrapt in strife;I've had my dreams as ...
IDemeter devastated our good land,In blackness for her daughter snatched below.Smoke-pillar or loose hillock was the sand,Where soil had been ...
I was picking raspberries, my head was in the canes,And he came behind and kissed me, and I smacked him ...
The wind is blowin' cold down the mountain tips of snowAnd 'cross the ranges layin' brown and dead;It's cryin' through ...
RecitativeLet clownish Cymon, in fond rustic strains,To lovely Iphigene declare his pains;Let tink'ring Tom for dustcart Sylvia pine,I sing St. ...
John Company's ships, they sailed the seas —The Merchant's Hope and the Trade's Increase ,Globe and Dragon and Hector too,Thames ...
Hard Rock/ was/ "known not to take no shit From nobody," and he had the scars to prove it: Split ...
Would you hear a Wild tale of adventure Of a hero who tackled the sea, A super-man swimming the ocean, ...
is what we called her. The story was that her father had thrown Drano at her which was probably true, ...
Jean, death comes close to us all, flapping its awful wings at us and the gluey wings crawl up our ...
To Dawson Town came Percy Brown from London on the Thames. A pane of glass was in his eye, and ...
Time that is moved by little fidget wheels Is not my time, the flood that does not flow. Between the ...
Nobody knows what I feel about Freddy I cannot make anyone understand I love him sub specie aet ernitaties I ...
(To Mrs. Henry Richards) Isaac and Archibald were two old men. I knew them, and I may have laughed at ...
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