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The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar :

Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906)

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LYRICS OF LOWLY LIFE
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LYRICS OF THE HEARTHSIDE
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HUMOUR AND DIALECT
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LYRICS OF LOVE AND LAUGHTER
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LYRICS OF LOVE AND SORROW
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LYRICS OF SUNSHINE AND SHADOW
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MISCELLANEOUS
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Added Poems
  
Jack Frost at Bedtime
  
Our Martyred Soldiers
  
Emancipation
  
Lager Beer
  
My Best Girl
  
A Chappie
  
A Crumb, a Crumb, and a Little Seed
  
The Passage
  
Farewell Song
  
The Old High School and the New
  
The Concert
  
Come and Kiss Me Sweet and Twenty
  
An Easter Ode
  
To Dr. James Newton Matthews, Mason, Ill.
  
Welcome Address To the Western Association of Writers
  
To Miss Mary Britton
  
The “Chronic Kicker”
  
Songs
  
Memorial Day
  
A Question
  
The Light
  
John Boyle O'Reilly
  
Confirmation
  
Sympathy
  
My Love Irene
  
Common Things
  
Goin' Back
  
Justice
  
The Land o' Used to Be
  
Old
  
If I Could But Forget
  
The Made to Order Smile
  
Parted
  
Oh little fledgling out of the nest
  
To Booker T. Washington
  
The Old Story
  
Goin' Home
  
The Suitor
  
A Virginia Reel
  
Lullaby
  
A Companion's Progress
  
God Reigns
  
To Alice Dunbar
  
Summer in the South
  
Charity
  
Tuskegee Song
  
For Theodore Roosevelt
  
Sling Along
  
To Mary Church Terrell
  
To a Poet and a Lady
  
To Kelly Miller, Jr.
  
Song
  
Comrade
  
Love Is a Star
  
Night on the Chesapeake
  
A Matter of Locality
  
Home Longings
  
Content
  
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THEOLOGY

There is a heaven, for ever, day by day,
The upward longing of my soul doth tell me so.
There is a hell, I 'm quite as sure; for pray,
If there were not, where would my neighbours go?
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