Keep A-Pluggin’ Away (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
Love me. I care not what the circling years To me may do. If, but in spite of time and tears, You prove ...
Ah, yes, the chapter ends to-day; We even lay the book away; But oh, how sweet the moments sped Before the final page ...
OH, I am hurt to death, my Love;The shafts of Fate have pierced my striving heart,And I am sick and ...
My lady love lives far away, And oh my heart is sad by day, And ah my tears fall fast by night, What ...
SOME folks t'inks hit's right an' p'opah,Soon ez bedtime come erroun',Fu' to scramble to de kiver,Lak dey'd hyeahed de trumpet ...
Heel and toe, heel and toe, That is the song we sing; Turn to your partner and curtsey low, Balance and forward and ...
When August days are hot an' dry, When burning copper is the sky, I 'd rather fish than feast or fly In airy ...
DE night creep down erlong de lan',De shadders rise an' shake,De frog is sta'tin' up his ban',De cricket is awake;My ...
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 ...
With sombre mien, the Evening gray Comes nagging at the heels of Day, And driven faster and still faster Before the dusky-mantled Master, The ...
WHAT if the wind do howl without,And turn the creaking weather-vane;What if the arrows of the rainDo beat against the ...
ON THE RECEIPT OF A FAMILIAR POEM To me, like hauntings of a vagrant breath From some far forest which I once ...
The smell of the sea in my nostrils, The sound of the sea in mine ears; The touch of the spray on ...
As lone I sat one summer's day, With mien dejected, Love came by; His face distraught, his locks astray, So slow his gait, ...
NOT o'er thy dust let there be spentThe gush of maudlin sentiment;Such drift as that is not for thee,Whose life ...
(Lines on reading "Driftwood.") Driftwood gathered here and there Along the beach of time; Now and then a chip of truth 'Mid boards and ...
IF life were but a dream, my Love,And death the waking time;If day had not a beam, my Love,And night ...
I HAD not known beforeForever was so long a word.The slow stroke of the clock of timeI had not heard.'Tis ...
W'en daih's chillun in de house, Dey keep on a-gittin' tall; But de folks don' seem to see Dat dey's ...
Dey is times in life when Nature Seems to slip a cog an' go, Jes' a-rattlin' down creation, Lak an ...
Pray why are you so bare, so bare, Oh, bough of the old oak-tree; And why, when I go through ...
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