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The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar :

Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906)
1 occurrence of invitation to love
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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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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
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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
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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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CURTAIN

Villain shows his indiscretion,
Villain's partner makes confession.
Juvenile, with golden tresses,
Finds her pa and dons long dresses.
Scapegrace comes home money-laden,
Hero comforts tearful maiden,
Soubrette marries loyal chappie,
Villain skips, and all are happy.
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