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 ...
DEY had a gread big pahty down to Tom's de othah night;Was I dah? You bet! I neveh in my ...
I NEVER shall furgit that night when father hitched up Dobbin,An' all us youngsters clambered in an' down the road ...
I 've journeyed 'roun' consid'able, a-seein' men an' things, An' I 've learned a little of the sense that meetin' people ...
Caught Susanner whistlin'; well, It's most nigh too good to tell. 'Twould 'a' b'en too good to see Ef it had n't b'en ...
ERE sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes,Which all the day with ceaseless care have soughtThe magic gold which ...
I'VE been watchin' of 'em parson,An' I'm sorry fur to say'At my mind is not contentedWith the loose an' keerless ...
O Mother Race! to thee I bringThis pledge of faith unwavering, This tribute to thy glory.I know the pangs which thou ...
In the silence of my heart, I will spend an hour with thee, When my love shall rend apart All the veil of ...
In a small and lonely cabin out of noisy traffic's way, Sat an old man, bent and feeble, dusk of face, ...
Just whistle a bit, if the day be dark, And the sky be overcast: If mute be the voice of the piping ...
SILENTLY without my window,Tapping gently at the pane,Falls the rain.Through the trees sighs the breezeLike a soul in pain.Here alone ...
The sun hath shed its kindly light, Our harvesting is gladly o'er Our fields have felt no killing blight, Our bins are filled ...
A BEE that was searching for sweets one dayThrough the gate of a rose garden happened to stray.In the heart ...
Ef dey 's anyt'ing dat riles me An' jes' gits me out o' hitch, Twell I want to tek my coat off, So ...
When to sweet music my lady is dancing My heart to mild frenzy her beauty inspires. Into my face are her brown ...
I.THE young queen Nature, ever sweet and fair,Once on a time fell upon evil days.From hearing oft herself discussed with ...
ON the wide veranda white,In the purple failing light,Sits the master while the sun is lowly burning;And his dreamy thoughts ...
Ah, yes, the chapter ends to-day; We even lay the book away; But oh, how sweet the moments sped Before the final page ...
"Break me my bounds, and let me fly To regions vast of boundless sky; Nor I, like piteous Daphne, be Root-bound. Ah, no! ...
HELLO, ole man, you're a-gittin' gray,An' it beats ole Ned to see the way'At the crow's feet's a-getherin' aroun' yore ...
MY cot was down by a cypress grove,And I sat by my window the whole night long,And heard well up ...
AH, Nora, my Nora, the light fades away,While Night like a spirit steals up o'er the hills;The thrash from his ...
Treat me nice, Miss Mandy Jane, Treat me nice. Dough my love has tu'ned my brain, Treat me nice. I ain't done a t'ing ...
Thou arrant robber, Death! Couldst thou not find Some lesser one than he To rob of breath,-- Some poorer mind Thy prey to be? His mind ...
When first of wise old Johnson taught, My youthful mind its homage brought, And made the pond'rous crusty sage The object of a ...
ALONG by the river of ruinThey dally - the thoughtless ones,They dance and they dreamBy the side of the stream,As ...
With what thou gavest me, O Master, I have wrought. Such chances, such abilities, To see the end was not for my poor ...
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 ...
Emblem of blasted hope and lost desire, No finger ever traced thy yellow page Save Time's. Thou hast not wrought to noble ...
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