Dat Ol’ Mare O’ Mine (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
Want to trade me, do you, mistah? Oh, well, now, I reckon not, W'y you could n't buy my Sukey fu' ...
Want to trade me, do you, mistah? Oh, well, now, I reckon not, W'y you could n't buy my Sukey fu' ...
Say a mass for my soul's repose, my brother, Say a mass for my soul's repose, I need it, Lovingly lived we, ...
Ring out, ye bells! All Nature swellsWith gladness at the wondrous story, — The world was at lorn, But Christ is bornTo change ...
The sun hath shed its kindly light, Our harvesting is gladly o'er Our fields have felt no killing blight, Our bins are filled ...
GOD has his plans, and what if weWith our sight be too blind to seeTheir full fruition; cannot he,Who made ...
THE BLACK TROOPS IN CUBA Round the wide earth, from the red field your valour has won, Blown with the breath of ...
I'VE a humble little mottoThat is homely, though it's true, -Keep a-pluggin' away.It's a thing when I've an objectThat I ...
PLACE this bunch of mignonetteIn her cold, dead hand;When the golden sun is set,Where the poplars stand,Bury her from sun ...
Night is for sorrow and dawn is for joy, Chasing the troubles that fret and annoy; Darkness for sighing and daylight for ...
Back to the breast of thy mother, Child of the earth! E'en her caress can not smother What thou hast done. Follow the trail ...
Heart of my heart, the day is chill, The mist hangs low o'er the wooded hill, The soft white mist and the ...
Search thou my heart; If there be guile, It shall depart Before thy smile. Search thou my soul; Be there deceit, 'T will vanish whole Before thee, ...
I AM no priest of crooks nor creeds,For human wants and human needsAre more to me than prophets' deeds;And human ...
THE river sleeps beneath the sky,And clasps the shadows to its breast;The crescent moon shines dim on high;And in the ...
There is a heaven, for ever, day by day, The upward longing of my soul doth tell me so. There ...
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