The Delinquent (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
GOO'-BY, Jinks, I got to hump,Got to mek dis pony jump;See dat sun a-goin' down'N' me a-foolin' hyeah in town!Git ...
GOO'-BY, Jinks, I got to hump,Got to mek dis pony jump;See dat sun a-goin' down'N' me a-foolin' hyeah in town!Git ...
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 ...
THE moon has left the sky, love,The stars are hiding now,And frowning on the world, love,Night bares her sable brow.The ...
DE dog go howlin' 'long de road,De night come shiverin' down;My back is tiahed of its load,I cain't be fu' ...
SWING yo' lady roun' an' roun', Do de bes' you know;Mek yo' bow an' p'omenade Up an' down de flo';Mek dat banjo ...
Oh, wind of the spring-time, oh, free wind of May, When blossoms and bird-song are rife; Oh, joy for the season, and ...
OH the breeze is blowin' balmyAnd the sun is in a haze;There's a cloud jest givin' coolness,To the laziest of ...
Ah, love, my love is like a cry in the night, A long, loud cry to the empty sky, The cry of ...
It is as if a silver chord Were suddenly grown mute, And life's song with its rhythm warred Against a silver lute. It is ...
The moon begins her stately ride Across the summer sky; The happy wavelets lash the shore,-- The tide is rising high. Beneath some friendly ...
THE river sleeps beneath the sky,And clasps the shadows to its breast;The crescent moon shines dim on high;And in the ...
Night, dim night, and it rains, my love, it rains, (Art thou dreaming of me, I wonder) The trees are sad, and ...
THE lark is silent in his nest,The breeze is sighing in its flight,Sleep, Love, and peaceful be thy rest.Good-night, my ...
THE change has come, and Helen sleeps-Not sleeps; but wakes to greater deepsOf wisdom, glory, truth, and light,Than ever blessed ...
I HAD not known beforeForever was so long a word.The slow stroke of the clock of timeI had not heard.'Tis ...
WHY fades a dream?An iridescent rayFlecked in between the trystOf night and day.Why fades a dream? -Of consciousness the shadeWrought ...
Storm and strife and stress, Lost in a wilderness, Groping to find a way, Forth to the haunts of day Sudden a vista peeps, Out ...
If thro' the sea of nightwhich here summons me,I could swim out beyondthe farthest star,Break every barrier of circumstancethat bounds ...
AnchoredIF thro' the sea of night which here surrounds me,I could swim out beyond the farthest star,Break every barrier of ...
Over the hills and the valleys of dreaming Slowly I take my way. Life is the night with its dream-visions teeming, Death is ...
THE night is dewy as a maiden's mouth,The skies are bright as are a maiden's eyes,Soft as a maiden's breath ...
WHAT are the things that make life bright?A star gleam in the night.What hearts us for the coming fray?The dawn ...
'Twixt a smile and a tear,'Twixt a song and a sigh,'Twixt the day and the dark,When the night draweth nigh.Ah, ...
AN angel, robed in spotless white,Bent down and kissed the sleeping Night.Night woke to blush; the sprite was gone.Men saw ...
A lilt and a swing, And a ditty to sing, Or ever the night grow old; The wine is within, ...
Air a-gittin' cool an' coolah, Frost a-comin' in de night, Hicka' nuts an' wa'nuts fallin', Possum keepin' out o' sight. ...
Pray why are you so bare, so bare, Oh, bough of the old oak-tree; And why, when I go through ...
The Oriole sings in the greening grove As if he were half-way waiting, The rosebuds peep from their hoods of ...
Out in the sky the great dark clouds are massing; I look far out into the pregnant night, Where I ...
I am the mother of sorrows, I am the ender of grief; I am the bud and the blossom, I ...
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