A Plantation Portrait (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
HAIN'T you see my Mandy Lou,Is it true?Whaih you been f'om day to day,Whaih, I say?Dat you say you nevah ...
HAIN'T you see my Mandy Lou,Is it true?Whaih you been f'om day to day,Whaih, I say?Dat you say you nevah ...
IBeautiful and radiant, just like then, is the spring,Cold of morning, but as the days open upFurther, the eternal light ...
Their heads together fused, professors scold at me:He's capable - in certain things - but not too serious.But I - ...
When the spring sun was cast into chainsAnd grim bars cut across the heavenly blue,I was ordered to drink the ...
I love thee--oh! I love thee, With fervor, deep and wild,Thy beauty's charm most strangely, My spirit hath beguiled.I love thee--oh! I ...
IUnder rocks whereon the roseLike a streak of morning glows;Where the azure-throated newtDrowses on the twisted root;And the brown bees, ...
INTO all lives some rain must fall,Into all eyes some tear-drops start,Whether they fall as gentle shower,Or fall like fire ...
When from the sod the flow'rets spring,And smile to meet the sun's bright ray,When birds their sweetest carols singIn all ...
To Thee, O God, the Shepherd KingsTheir earliest homage paidAnd wafted upon angel wingsTheir worship was conveyed.And they who "watched ...
Sing to the Lord of harvest,Sing songs of love and praise;With joyful hearts and voicesYour alleluias raise.By Him the rolling ...
Again the minstrel's rebeck toucheth the heart profoundly;For it discovereth new and fresh strains of melodious harmony.Leave the monk in ...
"SAD one, must you weep alway? Youth's ill wedded with despair;Ringless hand and robe of grey Mock the charms which they declare."Sad ...
Sweet, modest, pensive, tender flower,Though snow-drifts rise and storm-clouds lowerAbove thy gentle drooping head,And chill thee on thy frozen bed—Though ...
My ev'ry thought and wish was thine; Alas! thou know'st too well-The ties that bind thy soul and mine, How lasting need ...
Easter was the old NorthGoddess of the dawn.She rises daily in the EastAnd yearly in spring for the greatPaschal candle ...
YOU meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyesMore by your number than your light, You common people of the ...
Son of God! thy people's shield!Must we still thine absence mourn?Let thy promise be fulfilled,Thou hast said, I will return!Gracious ...
The day, I recall, was a Spring one,Not hot and oppressive, though warm,The sort of a day apt to bring ...
He thrust his joy against the weight of the sea;climbed through, slid under those long banks offoam—-(hawthorn hedges in spring, ...
Out there beside the garden wallI glimpse belated asters blowing;Yet I don't mourn the summer's goingOr weep the ruin of ...
Light, like a closing flower, covers to earth her herds, Out of the world we only watch for the rise of ...
I do not wish thee worldly wealth—For it may flee away;I do not wish thee beauty's charms—For they will soon ...
ALL singers have shadows That follow like fears, But I know a singer Who never saw tears; A gay love-a ...
THROUGH field and wood to stray,And pipe my tuneful lay,—'Tis thus my days are pass'd;And all keep tune with me,And ...
When pride and envy, and the scornOf wealth my heart with gall imbued,I thought how pleasant were the mornOf silence, ...
The rain and the wind and the murkReign over cold desert of fall,Here, life's interrupted till spring;Till the spring, gardens ...
I do not know the ocean's song,Or what the brooklets say;At eve I sit and listen long,I cannot learn their ...
A serviceable thingIs fennel, mint, or balm,Kept in the thrifty calmOf hollows, in the spring;Or by old houses pent.Dear is ...
1.I know now why the world was sad,With so much good to make it glad;Why all things loveliest and bestHave ...
Lightly the breath of the spring wind blows,Though laden with faint perfume,'Tis the fragrance rare that the bushman knows,The scent ...
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