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 ...
I don't believe in 'ristercrats An' never did, you see; The plain ol' homelike sorter folks Is good enough fur me. O' course, I ...
I Love is the light of the world, my dear, Heigho, but the world is gloomy; The light has failed and the lamp ...
ERE sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes,Which all the day with ceaseless care have soughtThe magic gold which ...
A song for the unsung heroes who rose in the country's need, When the life of the land was threatened by ...
"In the fight at Brandywine, Black Samson, a giant negro armed with a scythe, sweeps his way through the red ranks...." ...
DONE are the toils and the wearisome marches, Done is the summons of bugle and drum.Softly and sweetly the sky overarches, Shelt'ring ...
When summer time has come, and all The world is in the magic thrall Of perfumed airs that lull each sense To fits ...
In this sombre garden close What has come and passed, who knows? What red passion, what white pain Haunted this dim walk in ...
Ring out, ye bells! All Nature swellsWith gladness at the wondrous story, — The world was at lorn, But Christ is bornTo change ...
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, ...
W'EN us fellers stomp around, makin' lots o' noise,Gramma says, "There's certain times comes to little boysW'en they need a ...
The world is a snob, and the man who wins Is the chap for its money's worth: And the lust for success ...
OH, the poets may sing of their Lady Irenes,And may rave in their rhymes about wonderful queens;But I throw my ...
Oh, summer has clothed the earth In a cloak from the loom of the sun! And a mantle, too, of the skies' ...
THE BLACK TROOPS IN CUBA Round the wide earth, from the red field your valour has won, Blown with the breath of ...
The snow lies deep upon the ground, And winter's brightness all around Decks bravely out the forest sere, With jewels of the brave ...
Come, essay a sprightly measure, Tuned to some light song of pleasure. Maidens, let your brows be crowned As we foot this merry ...
Ah, yes, the chapter ends to-day; We even lay the book away; But oh, how sweet the moments sped Before the final page ...
"Break me my bounds, and let me fly To regions vast of boundless sky; Nor I, like piteous Daphne, be Root-bound. Ah, no! ...
Dream days of fond delight and hours As rosy-hued as dawn, are mine. Love's drowsy wine, Brewed from the heart of Passion flowers, Flows ...
OH, I am hurt to death, my Love;The shafts of Fate have pierced my striving heart,And I am sick and ...
Love hath the wings of the butterfly, Oh, clasp him but gently, Pausing and dipping and fluttering by Inconsequently. Stir not his poise with ...
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 ...
I stand above the city's rush and din, And gaze far down with calm and undimmed eyes, To where the misty smoke ...
DEAR heart, good-night!Nay, list awhile that sweet voice singingWhen the world is all so bright,And the sound of song sets ...
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 ...
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