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 ...
ON ITS NEW SLAVERY Heart of the Southland, heed me pleading now, Who bearest, unashamed, upon my brow The long kiss of the ...
ERE sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes,Which all the day with ceaseless care have soughtThe magic gold which ...
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 heavy earth the miner Toiled and laboured day by day, Wrenching from the miser mountain Brilliant treasure where it lay. And the ...
How sweet the music sounded That summer long ago, When you were by my side, love, To list its gentle flow. I saw your ...
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 ...
I sit upon the old sea wall, And watch the shimmering sea, Where soft and white the moonbeams fall, Till, in a fantasy, Some ...
WHEN labor is light and the morning is fair,I find it a pleasure beyond all compareTo hitch up my nag ...
I'VE a humble little mottoThat is homely, though it's true, -Keep a-pluggin' away.It's a thing when I've an objectThat I ...
Win' a-blowin' gentle so de san' lay low, San' a little heavy f'om de rain, All de pa'ms a-wavin' an' a-weavin' slow, Sighin' ...
Night is for sorrow and dawn is for joy, Chasing the troubles that fret and annoy; Darkness for sighing and daylight for ...
Aye, lay him in his grave, the old dead year! His life is lived--fulfilled his destiny. Have you for him no sad, ...
You bid me hold my peace And dry my fruitless tears, Forgetting that I bear A pain beyond my years. You say that I ...
AH, Nora, my Nora, the light fades away,While Night like a spirit steals up o'er the hills;The thrash from his ...
What dreams we have and how they flyLike rosy clouds across the sky; Of wealth, of fame, of sure success, Of love ...
COVER him over with daisies white,And eke with the poppies red,Sit with me here by his couch to-night,For the First-Born, ...
If Death should claim me for her own to-day, And softly I should falter from your side, Oh, tell me, loved one, ...
When all is done, and my last word is said, And ye who loved me murmur, "He is dead," Let no one ...
Belated wanderer of the ways of spring, Lost in the chill of grim November rain, Would I could read the message that ...
A DOWN the west a golden glowSinks burning in the sea,And all the dreams of long agoCome flooding back to ...
A little dreaming by the way, A little toiling day by day; A little pain, a little strife, A little joy,--and that is ...
Ashes to ashes, dust unto dust, What of his loving, what of his lust? What of his passion, what of his pain? What ...
DEEP in my heart that aches with the repression,And strives with plenitude of bitter pain,There lives a thought that clamors ...
YOUR presence like a benison to meWakes my sick soul to dreamful ecstasy,I fancy that some old Arabian nightSaw you ...
IF life were but a dream, my Love,And death the waking time;If day had not a beam, my Love,And night ...
Night, dim night, and it rains, my love, it rains, (Art thou dreaming of me, I wonder) The trees are sad, and ...
At the golden gate of song Stood I, knocking all day long, But the Angel, calm and cold, Still refused and bade me, ...
I DID not know that life could be so sweet,I did not know the hours could speed so fleet,Till I ...
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