Ione (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
I.AH, yes, 't is sweet still to remember,Though 't were less painful to forget;For while my heart glows like an ...
I.AH, yes, 't is sweet still to remember,Though 't were less painful to forget;For while my heart glows like an ...
ON ITS NEW SLAVERY Heart of the Southland, heed me pleading now, Who bearest, unashamed, upon my brow The long kiss of the ...
I know a little country place Where still my heart doth linger, And o'er its fields is every grace Lined out by memory's ...
I 've journeyed 'roun' consid'able, a-seein' men an' things, An' I 've learned a little of the sense that meetin' people ...
THERE's a memory keeps a-runnin'Through my weary head to-night,An' I see a picture dancin'In the fire-flames' ruddy-light;'Tis the picture of ...
DONE are the toils and the wearisome marches, Done is the summons of bugle and drum.Softly and sweetly the sky overarches, Shelt'ring ...
I know a little country place Where still my heart doth linger,And o'er its fields is every grace Lined out by memory's ...
WHEN you and I were young, the daysWere filled with scent of pink and rose,And full of joy from dawn ...
When summer time has come, and all The world is in the magic thrall Of perfumed airs that lull each sense To fits ...
'Tis an old deserted homestead On the outskirts of the town, Where the roof is all moss-covered, And the walls are tumbling down; But ...
AH, I have changed, I do not knowWhy lonely hours affect me so.In days of yore, this were not wont,No ...
In a small and lonely cabin out of noisy traffic's way, Sat an old man, bent and feeble, dusk of face, ...
'LIAS! 'Lias! Bless de Lawd!Don' you know de day's erbroad?Ef you don' git up, you scamp,Dey'll be trouble in dis ...
IN de dead of night I sometimes,Git to t'inkin' of de pas'An' de days w'en slavery helt meIn my mis'ry ...
OH, the poets may sing of their Lady Irenes,And may rave in their rhymes about wonderful queens;But I throw my ...
Oh, summer has clothed the earth In a cloak from the loom of the sun! And a mantle, too, of the skies' ...
A BEE that was searching for sweets one dayThrough the gate of a rose garden happened to stray.In the heart ...
Wen de snow 's a-fallin' An' de win' is col'. Mammy 'mence a-callin', Den she 'mence to scol', "Lucius Lishy Brackett, Don't you go out ...
The snow lies deep upon the ground, And winter's brightness all around Decks bravely out the forest sere, With jewels of the brave ...
WHEN labor is light and the morning is fair,I find it a pleasure beyond all compareTo hitch up my nag ...
TUSKEGEE, ALA., APRIL 22, 1901. Not to the midnight of the gloomy past, Do we revert to-day; we look upon The golden present ...
I.THE young queen Nature, ever sweet and fair,Once on a time fell upon evil days.From hearing oft herself discussed with ...
"Break me my bounds, and let me fly To regions vast of boundless sky; Nor I, like piteous Daphne, be Root-bound. Ah, no! ...
Oh for the breath of the briny deep, And the tug of the bellying sail, With the sea-gull's cry across the sky And ...
She sang, and I listened the whole song thro'. (It was sweet, so sweet, the singing.) The stars were out and the ...
Night is for sorrow and dawn is for joy, Chasing the troubles that fret and annoy; Darkness for sighing and daylight for ...
Oh, wind of the spring-time, oh, free wind of May, When blossoms and bird-song are rife; Oh, joy for the season, and ...
The smell of the sea in my nostrils, The sound of the sea in mine ears; The touch of the spray on ...
Temples he built and palaces of air, And, with the artist's parent-pride aglow, His fancy saw his vague ideals grow Into creations marvellously ...
Thou art my lute, by thee I sing,-- My being is attuned to thee. Thou settest all my words a-wing, And meltest me ...
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