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 ...
HE'S acruisin' in a pearler with a dirty nigger crew,Abuyin' pearls and copra for a stingy Spanish Jew,And his face ...
Dey was hard times jes fo' Christmas round our neighborhood one year;So we held a secret meetin', whah de white ...
Animals don't sleep. In the dark after nightfallThey stand over the world like a stone wall.The cow's sloping headRustles its ...
Tell me not, in doctored numbers,Life is but a name for work!For the labour that encumbersMe I wish that I ...
Grip the tray of each dayWith both handsAnd join the line passingBefore this counter.There's plenty of sunFor everybody,Plenty sky,Plenty moon.From ...
The poet hath a realm within, and throne,And in his own soul singeth his lament.A comer often in the world ...
The news came down on the Castlereagh, and went to the world at large,That twenty thousand travelling sheep, with Saltbush ...
I am a decay'd macaroni, My lodging's up three pair of stairs; My cheeks are grown wondrously bony, And grey, ...
MISTRESS TOWLThere was an Old Woman named TowlWho went out to Sea with her Owl, But the Owl was Sea-sick ...
OH, we all was tired o' waiting in the spring of eighty-three, When The Duke came up the 'arbour an' ...
Aha! a traitor in the camp, A rebel strangely bold,—A lisping, laughing, toddling scamp, Not more than four years old!To ...
This is the phrase they love to say:"Just like a man!"You can hear it wherever you chance to stray:"Just like ...
Of course RanjitsinhjiWas quite right not to be stingy,But I never could quite see the relevanceOf his keeping nine thousand ...
wandering around milan my father i know that (bred in the bone) i'm you i walk and think - my ...
Aha! a traitor in the camp, A rebel strangely bold,-- A lisping, laughing, toddling scamp, Not more than four years ...
SOME wit, handsome form and gen'rous mind; A triple engine prove in love we find; By these the strongest fortresses ...
In Saginaw, in Saginaw, The wind blows up your feet, When the ladies' guild puts on a feed, There's beans ...
'Twas Saltbush Bill, with his travelling sheep, was making his way to town; He crossed them over the Hard Times ...
The news came down on the Castlereagh, and went to the world at large, That twenty thousand travelling sheep, with ...
I had written him a letter which I had, for want of better Knowledge, sent to where I met him ...
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