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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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To Kelly Miller, Jr.

Dear Kelly, when I was a kid
I wrote this book: that's what I did.
When you grow up—I may be dead—
You allus think o' what I said,
Dat you gon' mek yo' ma'k fu' true,
Cos, Kelly M---, I bets on you.

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Quoted by Benjamin Brawley in Paul Laurence Dunbar: Poet of His People, p. 62. Brawley indicates that the original autograph, dated January 1, 1898, was written on the flyleaf of a copy of Oak and Ivy presented to the young son of Professor Kelly Miller.