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The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar :

Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906)

LYRICS OF LOWLY LIFE

LYRICS OF THE HEARTHSIDE

HUMOUR AND DIALECT

LYRICS OF LOVE AND LAUGHTER

LYRICS OF LOVE AND SORROW

LYRICS OF SUNSHINE AND SHADOW

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Jack Frost at Bedtime

Our Martyred Soldiers

A Crumb, a Crumb, and a Little Seed

The Old High School and the New

Come and Kiss Me Sweet and Twenty

To Dr. James Newton Matthews, Mason, Ill.

Welcome Address To the Western Association of Writers

To Miss Mary Britton

The “Chronic Kicker”

John Boyle O'Reilly

The Land o' Used to Be

If I Could But Forget

The Made to Order Smile

Oh little fledgling out of the nest

To Booker T. Washington

A Virginia Reel

A Companion's Progress

To Alice Dunbar

Summer in the South

For Theodore Roosevelt

To Mary Church Terrell

To a Poet and a Lady

To Kelly Miller, Jr.

Night on the Chesapeake

A Matter of Locality

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Jack Frost at Bedtime

Angels is a-mindin' you, my baby,
Keep'n off de Bad Man in de night.
Whut de use o' bein' skeered o' nuffin'?
You don't fink de da'kness gwine to bite?
Whut de crackin' sound you hyeah erroun' you?
Lawsy, chile, you tickles me to def—
Dat's de man what brings de frost', a-paintin'
Picturs on de winder wid his bref.

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Unidentified newspaper clipping, Henry Romeike clipping service, New York City, 1884. Copy courtesy of Paul Laurence Dunbar Collection, MSS 659, series 1, box 1, OHS.