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The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar :
Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906)
LYRICS OF LOWLY LIFE
ERE SLEEP COMES DOWN TO SOOTHE THE WEARY EYES
THE POET AND HIS SONG
RETORT
ACCOUNTABILITY
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
LIFE
THE LESSON
THE RISING OF THE STORM
SUNSET
THE OLD APPLE-TREE
A PRAYER
PASSION AND LOVE
THE SEEDLING
PROMISE
Fulfilment.
SONG
AN ANTE-BELLUM SERMON
ODE TO ETHIOPIA
THE CORN-STALK FIDDLE
THE MASTER-PLAYER
THE MYSTERY
NOT THEY WHO SOAR
WHITTIER
[subsection]
TWO SONGS
[Bird of my lady's bower]
A BANJO SONG
LONGING
THE PATH
THE LAWYERS' WAYS
ODE FOR MEMORIAL DAY
PREMONITION
RETROSPECTION
UNEXPRESSED
SONG OF SUMMER
SPRING SONG
TO LOUISE
THE RIVALS
THE LOVER AND THE MOON
CONSCIENCE AND REMORSE
IONE
RELIGION
DEACON JONES' GRIEVANCE
ALICE
AFTER THE QUARREL
BEYOND THE YEARS
AFTER A VISIT
CURTAIN
THE SPELLIN'-BEE
KEEP A-PLUGGIN' AWAY
NIGHT OF LOVE
COLUMBIAN ODE
A BORDER BALLAD
AN EASY-GOIN' FELLER
A NEGRO LOVE SONG
THE DILETTANTE: A MODERN TYPE
BY THE STREAM
THE COLORED SOLDIERS
NATURE AND ART
AFTER WHILE
THE OL' TUNES
MELANCHOLIA
THE WOOING
MERRY AUTUMN
WHEN DE CO'N PONE'S HOT
BALLAD
THE CHANGE HAS COME
COMPARISON
A CORN-SONG
DISCOVERED
DISAPPOINTED
INVITATION TO LOVE
HE HAD HIS DREAM
GOOD-NIGHT
A COQUETTE CONQUERED
NORA: A SERENADE
OCTOBER.
A SUMMER'S NIGHT
SHIPS THAT PASS IN THE NIGHT
THE DELINQUENT
DAWN
A DROWSY DAY
DIRGE
HYMN
PREPARATION
THE DESERTED PLANTATION
THE SECRET
THE WIND AND THE SEA
RIDING TO TOWN
WE WEAR THE MASK
THE MEADOW LARK
ONE LIFE
CHANGING TIME
DEAD
A CONFIDENCE
PHYLLIS
RIGHT'S SECURITY
IF
THE SONG
SIGNS OF THE TIMES
WHY FADES A DREAM?
THE SPARROW
SPEAKIN' O' CHRISTMAS
LONESOME
GROWIN' GRAY
TO THE MEMORY OF MARY YOUNG
WHEN MALINDY SINGS
THE PARTY
LYRICS OF THE HEARTHSIDE
LOVE'S APOTHEOSIS
THE PARADOX
OVER THE HILLS
WITH THE LARK
IN SUMMER
THE MYSTIC SEA
A SAILOR'S SONG
THE BOHEMIAN
ABSENCE
HER THOUGHT AND HIS
THE RIGHT TO DIE
BEHIND THE ARRAS
WHEN THE OLD MAN SMOKES
THE GARRET
TO E. H. K.
A BRIDAL MEASURE
VENGEANCE IS SWEET
A HYMN AFTER READING “LEAD, KINDLY LIGHT.”
JUST WHISTLE A BIT
THE BARRIER
DREAMS
THE DREAMER
WAITING
THE END OF THE CHAPTER
SYMPATHY
LOVE AND GRIEF
MORTALITY
LOVE
SHE GAVE ME A ROSE
I.
DREAM SONG I
II.
DREAM SONG II
CHRISTMAS IN THE HEART
THE KING IS DEAD
THEOLOGY
RESIGNATION
LOVE'S HUMILITY
PRECEDENT
SHE TOLD HER BEADS
LITTLE LUCY LANDMAN
THE GOURD
THE KNIGHT
THOU ART MY LUTE
THE PHANTOM KISS
COMMUNION
MARE RUBRUM
IN AN ENGLISH GARDEN
THE CRISIS
THE CONQUERORS
ALEXANDER CRUMMELL—DEAD
WHEN ALL IS DONE
THE POET AND THE BABY
DISTINCTION
THE SUM
SONNET ON AN OLD BOOK WITH UNCUT LEAVES
ON THE SEA WALL
TO A LADY PLAYING THE HARP
CONFESSIONAL
MISAPPREHENSION
PROMETHEUS
LOVE'S PHASES
FOR THE MAN WHO FAILS
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
VAGRANTS
A WINTER'S DAY
MY LITTLE MARCH GIRL
REMEMBERED
LOVE DESPOILED
THE LAPSE
THE WARRIOR'S PRAYER
FAREWELL TO ARCADY
THE VOICE OF THE BANJO
THE STIRRUP CUP
A CHOICE
HUMOUR AND DIALECT
THEN AND NOW
AT CHESHIRE CHEESE
MY CORN-COB PIPE
IN AUGUST
THE DISTURBER
EXPECTATION
LOVER'S LANE
PROTEST
HYMN
LITTLE BROWN BABY
TIME TO TINKER 'ROUN'!
THE REAL QUESTION
JILTED
THE NEWS
CHRISMUS ON THE PLANTATION
ANGELINA
FOOLIN' WID DE SEASONS
MY SORT O' MAN
POSSUM
ON THE ROAD
A DEATH SONG
A BACK-LOG SONG
LULLABY
THE PHOTOGRAPH
JEALOUS
PARTED
TEMPTATION
POSSUM TROT
DELY
BREAKING THE CHARM
HUNTING SONG
A LETTER
CHRISMUS IS A-COMIN'
A CABIN TALE
AT CANDLE-LIGHTIN' TIME
WHISTLING SAM
HOW LUCY BACKSLID
LYRICS OF LOVE AND LAUGHTER
TWO LITTLE BOOTS
TO THE ROAD
A SPRING WOOING
JOGGIN' ERLONG
IN MAY
DREAMS
THE TRYST
A PLEA
THE DOVE
A WARM DAY IN WINTER
SNOWIN'
KEEP A SONG UP ON DE WAY
THE TURNING OF THE BABIES IN THE BED
THE DANCE
SOLILOQUY OF A TURKEY
FISHING
A PLANTATION PORTRAIT
A LITTLE CHRISTMAS BASKET
THE VALSE
REPONSE
MY SWEET BROWN GAL
SPRING FEVER
THE VISITOR
SONG
THE COLORED BAND
TO A VIOLET FOUND ON ALL SAINTS' DAY
INSPIRATION
MY LADY OF CASTLE GRAND
DRIZZLE
DE CRITTERS' DANCE
WHEN DEY 'LISTED COLORED SOLDIERS
LINCOLN
ENCOURAGEMENT
THE BOOGAH MAN
THE WRAITH
SILENCE
WHIP-POOR-WILL AND KATY-DID
'LONG TO'DS NIGHT
A GRIEVANCE
DINAH KNEADING DOUGH
TO A CAPTIOUS CRITIC
DAT OL' MARE O' MINE
IN THE MORNING
THE POET
A FLORIDA NIGHT
DIFFERENCES
LONG AGO
A PLANTATION MELODY
A SPIRITUAL
THE MEMORY OF MARTHA
W'EN I GITS HOME
“HOWDY, HONEY, HOWDY!”
THE UNSUNG HEROES
THE POOL
POSSESSION
THE OLD FRONT GATE
DIRGE FOR A SOLDIER
A FROLIC
NODDIN' BY DE FIRE
LOVE'S CASTLE
MORNING SONG OF LOVE
ON A CLEAN BOOK
TO THE EASTERN SHORE
RELUCTANCE
BALLADE
SPEAKIN' AT DE COU'THOUSE
BLACK SAMSON OF BRANDYWINE
THE LOOKING-GLASS
A MISTY DAY
LI'L' GAL
DOUGLASS
WHEN SAM'L SINGS
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
THE MONK'S WALK
LOVE-SONG
SLOW THROUGH THE DARK
THE MURDERED LOVER
PHILOSOPHY
A PREFERENCE
THE DEBT
ON THE DEDICATION OF DOROTHY HALL
A ROADWAY
BY RUGGED WAYS
LOVE'S SEASONS
TO A DEAD FRIEND
TO THE SOUTH
THE HAUNTED OAK
WELTSCHMERTZ
ROBERT GOULD SHAW
ROSES
A LOVE SONG
ITCHING HEELS
TO AN INGRATE
IN THE TENTS OF AKBAR
THE FOUNT OF TEARS
LIFE'S TRAGEDY
DE WAY T'INGS COME
NOON
AT THE TAVERN
DEATH
NIGHT, DIM NIGHT
LYRICS OF LOVE AND SORROW
I.
I
II.
II
III.
III
IV.
IV
V.
V
LYRICS OF SUNSHINE AND SHADOW
A BOY'S SUMMER SONG
THE SAND-MAN
JOHNNY SPEAKS
WINTER-SONG
A CHRISTMAS FOLKSONG
THE FOREST GREETING
THE LILY OF THE VALLEY
ENCOURAGED
TO J. Q.
DIPLOMACY
SCAMP
WADIN' IN DE CRICK
THE QUILTING
PARTED
FOREVER
THE PLANTATION CHILD'S LULLABY
TWILIGHT
CURIOSITY
OPPORTUNITY
PUTTIN' THE BABY AWAY
THE FISHER CHILD'S LULLABY
FAITH
THE FARM CHILD'S LULLABY
THE PLACE WHERE THE RAINBOW ENDS
HOPE
APPRECIATION
A SONG
DAY
TO DAN
WHAT'S THE USE
A LAZY DAY
ADVICE
LIMITATIONS
A GOLDEN DAY
THE UNLUCKY APPLE
THE DISCOVERY
MORNING
THE AWAKENING
LOVE'S DRAFT
A MUSICAL
TWELL DE NIGHT IS PAS'
BLUE
DREAMIN' TOWN
AT NIGHT
KIDNAPED
COMPENSATION
WINTER'S APPROACH
ANCHORED
THE VETERAN
YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW
THE CHANGE
THE CHASE
SUPPOSE
THE DEATH OF THE FIRST BORN
BEIN' BACK HOME
THE OLD CABIN
DESPAIR
CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER CASES
TILL THE WIND GETS RIGHT
A SUMMER NIGHT
AT SUNSET TIME
NIGHT
AT LOAFING-HOLT
WHEN A FELLER'S ITCHIN' TO BE SPANKED
THE RIVER OF RUIN
TO HER
A LOVE LETTER
AFTER MANY DAYS
LIZA MAY
THE MASTERS
TROUBLE IN DE KITCHEN
CHRISTMAS
ROSES AND PEARLS
RAIN-SONGS
A LOST DREAM
A SONG
MISCELLANEOUS
THE CAPTURE
WHEN WINTER DARKENING ALL AROUND
FROM THE PORCH AT RUNNYMEDE
EQUIPMENT
EVENING
TO PFRIMMER
TO THE MIAMI
CHRISTMAS CAROL
A SUMMER PASTORAL
IN SUMMER TIME
A THANKSGIVING POEM
NUTTING SONG
LOVE'S PICTURES
THE OLD HOMESTEAD
ON THE DEATH OF W. C.
AN OLD MEMORY
A CAREER
ON THE RIVER
POOR WITHERED ROSE
WORN OUT
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY
A MADRIGAL
A STARRY NIGHT
A LYRIC
HOW SHALL I WOO THEE
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
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The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar :
DISTINCTION
“
I am
but clay,” the sinner plead,
Who fed each vain desire.
“Not only clay,” another said,
“But worse, for thou art mire.”
The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar :
