A Summer Pastoral (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
It's hot to-day. The bees is buzzin' Kinder don't-keer-like aroun' An' fur off the warm air dances O'er the parchin' roofs in town. In ...
It's hot to-day. The bees is buzzin' Kinder don't-keer-like aroun' An' fur off the warm air dances O'er the parchin' roofs in town. In ...
In the tents of Akbar Are dole and grief to-day, For the flower of all the Indies Has gone the silent way. In the ...
O Mother Race! to thee I bringThis pledge of faith unwavering, This tribute to thy glory.I know the pangs which thou ...
In the east the morning comes, Hear the rollin' of the drums On the hill. But the heart that beat as they beat In ...
In this sombre garden close What has come and passed, who knows? What red passion, what white pain Haunted this dim walk in ...
I sit upon the old sea wall, And watch the shimmering sea, Where soft and white the moonbeams fall, Till, in a fantasy, Some ...
The sun hath shed its kindly light, Our harvesting is gladly o'er Our fields have felt no killing blight, Our bins are filled ...
Ah me, it is cold and chill And the fire sobs low in the grate, While the wind rides by on the ...
Prometheus stole from Heaven the sacred fire And swept to earth with it o'er land and sea. He lit the vestal flames ...
Hurt was the nation with a mighty wound, And all her ways were filled with clam'rous sound. Wailed loud the South with ...
If Death should claim me for her own to-day, And softly I should falter from your side, Oh, tell me, loved one, ...
Emblem of blasted hope and lost desire, No finger ever traced thy yellow page Save Time's. Thou hast not wrought to noble ...
LOVE used to carry a bow, you know,But now he carries a taper;It is either a length of wax aglow,Or ...
THE draft of love was cool and sweetYou gave me in the cup,But, ah, love's fire is keen and fleet,And ...
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