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The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar :

Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906)

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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LYRICS OF LOVE AND SORROW
 I. 
I
 II. 
II
 III. 
III
 IV. 
IV
 V. 
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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
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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
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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
  
Too Busy

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ENCOURAGED

Because you love me I have much achieved,
Had you despised me then I must have failed,
But since I knew you trusted and believed,
I could not disappoint you and so prevailed.
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