To The South (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
ON ITS NEW SLAVERY Heart of the Southland, heed me pleading now, Who bearest, unashamed, upon my brow The long kiss of the ...
ON ITS NEW SLAVERY Heart of the Southland, heed me pleading now, Who bearest, unashamed, upon my brow The long kiss of the ...
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 ...
Say a mass for my soul's repose, my brother, Say a mass for my soul's repose, I need it, Lovingly lived we, ...
MOTHER's gone a-visitin' to spend a month er two,An', oh, the house is lonesome ez a nest whose birds has ...
You ask why I am sad to-day, I have no cares, no griefs, you say? Ah, yes, 't is true, I have ...
I.FOUR hundred years ago a tangled wasteLay sleeping on the west Atlantic's side;Their devious ways the Old World's millions tracedContent, ...
LITTLE brown face full of smiles,And a baby's guileless wiles,Liza May, Liza May.Eyes a-peeping thro' the fenceWith an interest intense,Liza ...
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 ...
Ashes to ashes, dust unto dust, What of his loving, what of his lust? What of his passion, what of his pain? What ...
DOLLY sits a-quilting by her mother, stitch by stich,Gracious, how my pulses throb, how my fingers itch,While I note her ...
THE wind told the little leaves to hurry,And chased them down the way,While the mother tree laughed loud in glee,For ...
I am the mother of sorrows, I am the ender of grief; I am the bud and the blossom, I ...
A hush is over all the teeming lists, And there is pause, a breath-space in the strife; A spirit brave ...
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