The Spellin’-Bee (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
I NEVER shall furgit that night when father hitched up Dobbin,An' all us youngsters clambered in an' down the road ...
I NEVER shall furgit that night when father hitched up Dobbin,An' all us youngsters clambered in an' down the road ...
Dey is snow upon de meddahs, dey is snow upon de hill, An' de little branch's watahs is all glistenin' an' ...
BREEZES blowin' middlin' brisk,Snow-flakes thro' the air a-whisk,Fallin' kind o' soft an' light,Not enough to make things white,But jest sorter ...
Dey 's a so't o' threatenin' feelin' in de blowin' of de breeze, An' I 's feelin' kin' o' squeamish in ...
Seems lak folks is mighty curus In de way dey t'inks an' ac's. Dey jes' spen's dey days a-mixin' Up de t'ings in ...
Wen de snow 's a-fallin' An' de win' is col'. Mammy 'mence a-callin', Den she 'mence to scol', "Lucius Lishy Brackett, Don't you go out ...
SINCE I left the city's heatFor this sylvan, cool retreat,High upon the hill-side hereWhere the air is clean and clear,I ...
Love me. I care not what the circling years To me may do. If, but in spite of time and tears, You prove ...
OH, the little bird is rocking in the cradle of the wind,And it's bye, my little wee one, bye;The harvest ...
HAIN'T you see my Mandy Lou,Is it true?Whaih you been f'om day to day,Whaih, I say?Dat you say you nevah ...
THE moon has left the sky, love,The stars are hiding now,And frowning on the world, love,Night bares her sable brow.The ...
Across the hills and down the narrow ways, And up the valley where the free winds sweep, The earth is folded in ...
OH, who would be sad tho' the sky be a-graying,And meadow and woodlands are empty and bare;For softly and merrily ...
Wintah, summah, snow er shine, Hit's all de same to me, Ef only I kin call you mine, An' keep ...
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