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 ...
DEY had a gread big pahty down to Tom's de othah night;Was I dah? You bet! I neveh in my ...
'TWAS three an' thirty year ago,I When I was ruther young, you know,I had my last an' only fightAbout a ...
Dey was talkin' in de cabin, dey was talkin' in de hall;But I listened kin' o' keerless, not a-t'inkin' 'bout ...
A LOVER whom duty called over the wave,With himself communed: "Will my love be trueIf left to herself? Had I ...
In the tents of Akbar Are dole and grief to-day, For the flower of all the Indies Has gone the silent way. In the ...
I'VE been watchin' of 'em parson,An' I'm sorry fur to say'At my mind is not contentedWith the loose an' keerless ...
WHEN you and I were young, the daysWere filled with scent of pink and rose,And full of joy from dawn ...
In this sombre garden close What has come and passed, who knows? What red passion, what white pain Haunted this dim walk in ...
I sit upon the old sea wall, And watch the shimmering sea, Where soft and white the moonbeams fall, Till, in a fantasy, Some ...
Oh, summer has clothed the earth In a cloak from the loom of the sun! And a mantle, too, of the skies' ...
A BEE that was searching for sweets one dayThrough the gate of a rose garden happened to stray.In the heart ...
A YOUTH went faring up and down,Alack and well-a-day.He fared him to the market town,Alack and well-a-day.And there he met ...
I.THE young queen Nature, ever sweet and fair,Once on a time fell upon evil days.From hearing oft herself discussed with ...
THE air is dark, the sky is gray,The misty shadows come and go,And here within my dusky roomEach chair looks ...
_A Song_ Poor withered rose, she gave it me, Half in revenge and half in glee; Its petals not so pink by half As ...
Lucy done gone back on me, Dat's de way wif life. Evaht'ing was movin' free, T'ought I had my wife. Den some dahky comes ...
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, ...
A DOWN the west a golden glowSinks burning in the sea,And all the dreams of long agoCome flooding back to ...
PHYLLIS, ah, Phyllis, my life is a gray day,Few are my years, but my griefs are not few,Ever to youth ...
LOVE used to carry a bow, you know,But now he carries a taper;It is either a length of wax aglow,Or ...
He sang of life, serenely sweet, With, now and then, a deeper note. From some high peak, nigh yet remote,He voiced the ...
Once Love grew bold and arrogant of air, Proud of the youth that made him fresh and fair; So unto Grief he ...
When a woman looks up at you with a twist about her eyes, And her brows are half uplifted in ...
It may be misery not to sing at all, And to go silent through the brimming day; It may be ...
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