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 ...
I don't believe in 'ristercrats An' never did, you see; The plain ol' homelike sorter folks Is good enough fur me. O' course, I ...
Ain't nobody nevah tol' you not a wo'd a-tall, 'Bout de time dat all de critters gin dey fancy ball? Some folks ...
IF the muse were mine to tempt itAnd my feeble voice were strong,If my tongue were trained to measures,I would ...
Dey was talkin' in de cabin, dey was talkin' in de hall;But I listened kin' o' keerless, not a-t'inkin' 'bout ...
In the forenoon's restful quiet, When the boys are off at school, When the window lights are shaded And the chimney-corner cool, Then the ...
A song for the unsung heroes who rose in the country's need, When the life of the land was threatened by ...
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 ...
In the silence of my heart, I will spend an hour with thee, When my love shall rend apart All the veil of ...
OH, dere's lots o' keer an' troubleIn dis world to swaller down;An' ol' Sorrer's purty livelyIn her way o' gittin' ...
Hyeah dat singin' in de medders Whaih de folks is mekin' hay? Wo'k is pretty middlin' heavy Fu' a man to be so ...
Kiss me, Miami, thou most constant one! I love thee more for that thou changest not. When Winter comes with frigid blast, Or ...
WHO dat knockin' at de do'?Why, Ike Johnson, — yes, fu' sho!Come in, Ike. I's mighty gladYou come down. I ...
Say a mass for my soul's repose, my brother, Say a mass for my soul's repose, I need it, Lovingly lived we, ...
In this sombre garden close What has come and passed, who knows? What red passion, what white pain Haunted this dim walk in ...
YOU kin talk about yer anthemsAn' yer arias an' sich,An' yer modern choir-singin'That you think so awful rich;But you orter ...
Whose little lady is you, chile, Whose little gal is you? What's de use o' kiver'n up yo' face? Chile, dat ain't de ...
SILENTLY without my window,Tapping gently at the pane,Falls the rain.Through the trees sighs the breezeLike a soul in pain.Here alone ...
AS a quiet little seedling Lay within its darksome bed,To itself it fell a-talking, And this is what it said:"I am not ...
The world is a snob, and the man who wins Is the chap for its money's worth: And the lust for success ...
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 SONG is but a little thing,And yet what joy it is to sing!In hours of toil it gives me ...
When to sweet music my lady is dancing My heart to mild frenzy her beauty inspires. Into my face are her brown ...
UNDERNEATH the autumn sky,Haltingly, the lines go by.Ah, would steps were blithe and gay,As when first they marched away,Smile on ...
Cool is the wind, for the summer is waning, Who 's for the road? Sun-flecked and soft, where the dead leaves are ...
OH, I am hurt to death, my Love;The shafts of Fate have pierced my striving heart,And I am sick and ...
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 ...
OUT in de night a sad bird moans,An', oh, but hit's moughty lonely;Times I kin sing, but mos' I groans,Fu' ...
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