The King Is Dead (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
Aye, lay him in his grave, the old dead year! His life is lived--fulfilled his destiny. Have you for him no sad, ...
Aye, lay him in his grave, the old dead year! His life is lived--fulfilled his destiny. Have you for him no sad, ...
Darling, my darling, my heart is on the wing, It flies to thee this morning like a bird, Like happy birds in ...
Hurt was the nation with a mighty wound, And all her ways were filled with clam'rous sound. Wailed loud the South with ...
You bid me hold my peace And dry my fruitless tears, Forgetting that I bear A pain beyond my years. You say that I ...
Lucy done gone back on me, Dat's de way wif life. Evaht'ing was movin' free, T'ought I had my wife. Den some dahky comes ...
If Death should claim me for her own to-day, And softly I should falter from your side, Oh, tell me, loved one, ...
I have no fancy for that ancient cantThat makes us masters of our destinies,And not our lives, to hold or ...
Belated wanderer of the ways of spring, Lost in the chill of grim November rain, Would I could read the message that ...
He had his dream, and all through life,Worked up to it through toil and strife.Afloat fore'er before his eyes,It colored ...
Oh, wind of the spring-time, oh, free wind of May, When blossoms and bird-song are rife; Oh, joy for the season, and ...
A DOWN the west a golden glowSinks burning in the sea,And all the dreams of long agoCome flooding back to ...
The smell of the sea in my nostrils, The sound of the sea in mine ears; The touch of the spray on ...
A life was mine full of the close concern Of many-voiced affairs. The world sped fast; Behind me, ever rolled a pregnant ...
Thou art my lute, by thee I sing,-- My being is attuned to thee. Thou settest all my words a-wing, And meltest me ...
Ther' ain't no use in all this strife,An' hurryin', pell-mell, right thro' life.I don't believe in goin' too fastTo see ...
She gave a rose, And I kissed it and pressed it. I love her, she knows, And my action confessed it. She gave me ...
PHYLLIS, ah, Phyllis, my life is a gray day,Few are my years, but my griefs are not few,Ever to youth ...
A little dreaming by the way, A little toiling day by day; A little pain, a little strife, A little joy,--and that is ...
A BLUE-BELL springs upon the ledge,A lark sits singing in the hedge;Sweet perfumes scent the balmy air,And life is brimming ...
I'VE always been a faithful manAn' tried to live for duty,But the stringent mode of lifeHas somewhat lost its beauty.The ...
THERE are no beaten paths to Glory's height,There are no rules to compass greatness known;Each for himself must cleave a ...
As in some dim baronial hall restrained, A prisoner sits, engirt by secret doors And waving tapestries that argue forth Strange passages into ...
A LITTLE bird, with plumage brown,Beside my window flutters down,A moment chirps its little strain,Then taps upon my window-pane,And chirps ...
OH, who is the Lord of the land of life,When hotly goes the fray?When, fierce we smile in the midst ...
IF life were but a dream, my Love,And death the waking time;If day had not a beam, my Love,And night ...
BY the stream I dream in calm delight, and watch as in a glass,How the clouds like crowds of snowy-hued ...
THE change has come, and Helen sleeps-Not sleeps; but wakes to greater deepsOf wisdom, glory, truth, and light,Than ever blessed ...
WHAT'S the use o' folks a-frownin'When the way's a little rough?Frowns lay out the road fur smilin'You'll be wrinkled soon ...
He sang of life, serenely sweet, With, now and then, a deeper note. From some high peak, nigh yet remote,He voiced the ...
Acrust of bread and a corner to sleep in,A minute to smile and an hour to weep in,A pint of ...
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