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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

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

THE RISING OF THE STORM

THE OLD APPLE-TREE

PASSION AND LOVE

AN ANTE-BELLUM SERMON

ODE TO ETHIOPIA

THE CORN-STALK FIDDLE

THE MASTER-PLAYER

NOT THEY WHO SOAR

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[Bird of my lady's bower]

THE LAWYERS' WAYS

ODE FOR MEMORIAL DAY

THE LOVER AND THE MOON

CONSCIENCE AND REMORSE

DEACON JONES' GRIEVANCE

AFTER THE QUARREL

BEYOND THE YEARS

THE SPELLIN'-BEE

KEEP A-PLUGGIN' AWAY

A BORDER BALLAD

AN EASY-GOIN' FELLER

A NEGRO LOVE SONG

THE DILETTANTE: A MODERN TYPE

THE COLORED SOLDIERS

WHEN DE CO'N PONE'S HOT

THE CHANGE HAS COME

INVITATION TO LOVE

HE HAD HIS DREAM

A COQUETTE CONQUERED

NORA: A SERENADE

A SUMMER'S NIGHT

SHIPS THAT PASS IN THE NIGHT

THE DESERTED PLANTATION

THE WIND AND THE SEA

WE WEAR THE MASK

THE MEADOW LARK

RIGHT'S SECURITY

SIGNS OF THE TIMES

WHY FADES A DREAM?

SPEAKIN' O' CHRISTMAS

TO THE MEMORY OF MARY YOUNG

WHEN MALINDY SINGS

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LYRICS OF THE HEARTHSIDE

LOVE'S APOTHEOSIS

A SAILOR'S SONG

HER THOUGHT AND HIS

THE RIGHT TO DIE

BEHIND THE ARRAS

WHEN THE OLD MAN SMOKES

A BRIDAL MEASURE

VENGEANCE IS SWEET

A HYMN AFTER READING “LEAD, KINDLY LIGHT.”

JUST WHISTLE A BIT

THE END OF THE CHAPTER

SHE GAVE ME A ROSE

I.

II.

CHRISTMAS IN THE HEART

THE KING IS DEAD

LOVE'S HUMILITY

SHE TOLD HER BEADS

LITTLE LUCY LANDMAN

THOU ART MY LUTE

THE PHANTOM KISS

IN AN ENGLISH GARDEN

ALEXANDER CRUMMELL—DEAD

WHEN ALL IS DONE

THE POET AND THE BABY

SONNET ON AN OLD BOOK WITH UNCUT LEAVES

ON THE SEA WALL

TO A LADY PLAYING THE HARP

MISAPPREHENSION

FOR THE MAN WHO FAILS

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

MY LITTLE MARCH GIRL

THE WARRIOR'S PRAYER

FAREWELL TO ARCADY

THE VOICE OF THE BANJO

THE STIRRUP CUP

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HUMOUR AND DIALECT

AT CHESHIRE CHEESE

MY CORN-COB PIPE

LITTLE BROWN BABY

TIME TO TINKER 'ROUN'!

THE REAL QUESTION

CHRISMUS ON THE PLANTATION

FOOLIN' WID DE SEASONS

A BACK-LOG SONG

BREAKING THE CHARM

CHRISMUS IS A-COMIN'

AT CANDLE-LIGHTIN' TIME

HOW LUCY BACKSLID

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LYRICS OF LOVE AND LAUGHTER

TWO LITTLE BOOTS

A SPRING WOOING

A WARM DAY IN WINTER

KEEP A SONG UP ON DE WAY

THE TURNING OF THE BABIES IN THE BED

SOLILOQUY OF A TURKEY

A PLANTATION PORTRAIT

A LITTLE CHRISTMAS BASKET

MY SWEET BROWN GAL

THE COLORED BAND

TO A VIOLET FOUND ON ALL SAINTS' DAY

MY LADY OF CASTLE GRAND

DE CRITTERS' DANCE

WHEN DEY 'LISTED COLORED SOLDIERS

WHIP-POOR-WILL AND KATY-DID

'LONG TO'DS NIGHT

DINAH KNEADING DOUGH

TO A CAPTIOUS CRITIC

DAT OL' MARE O' MINE

A FLORIDA NIGHT

A PLANTATION MELODY

THE MEMORY OF MARTHA

W'EN I GITS HOME

“HOWDY, HONEY, HOWDY!”

THE UNSUNG HEROES

THE OLD FRONT GATE

DIRGE FOR A SOLDIER

NODDIN' BY DE FIRE

MORNING SONG OF LOVE

ON A CLEAN BOOK

TO THE EASTERN SHORE

SPEAKIN' AT DE COU'THOUSE

BLACK SAMSON OF BRANDYWINE

THE LOOKING-GLASS

WHEN SAM'L SINGS

BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

THE MONK'S WALK

SLOW THROUGH THE DARK

THE MURDERED LOVER

ON THE DEDICATION OF DOROTHY HALL

TO A DEAD FRIEND

THE HAUNTED OAK

ROBERT GOULD SHAW

IN THE TENTS OF AKBAR

THE FOUNT OF TEARS

DE WAY T'INGS COME

NIGHT, DIM NIGHT

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LYRICS OF LOVE AND SORROW

I.

[I. Love is the light of the world, my dear]

II.

[II. The light was on the golden sands]

III.

[III. The sea speaks to me of you]

IV.

[IV. My dear love died last night]

V.

[V. There are brilliant heights of sorrow]

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LYRICS OF SUNSHINE AND SHADOW

A BOY'S SUMMER SONG

A CHRISTMAS FOLKSONG

THE FOREST GREETING

THE LILY OF THE VALLEY

WADIN' IN DE CRICK

THE PLANTATION CHILD'S LULLABY

PUTTIN' THE BABY AWAY

THE FISHER CHILD'S LULLABY

THE FARM CHILD'S LULLABY

THE PLACE WHERE THE RAINBOW ENDS

THE UNLUCKY APPLE

TWELL DE NIGHT IS PAS'

WINTER'S APPROACH

YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW

THE DEATH OF THE FIRST BORN

BEIN' BACK HOME

CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER CASES

TILL THE WIND GETS RIGHT

AT LOAFING-HOLT

WHEN A FELLER'S ITCHIN' TO BE SPANKED

THE RIVER OF RUIN

AFTER MANY DAYS

TROUBLE IN DE KITCHEN

ROSES AND PEARLS

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WHEN WINTER DARKENING ALL AROUND

FROM THE PORCH AT RUNNYMEDE

CHRISTMAS CAROL

A SUMMER PASTORAL

A THANKSGIVING POEM

LOVE'S PICTURES

THE OLD HOMESTEAD

ON THE DEATH OF W. C.

POOR WITHERED ROSE

JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

HOW SHALL I WOO THEE

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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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[III. The sea speaks to me of you]

The sea speaks to me of you
All the day long;
Still as I sit by its side
You are its song.

The sea sings to me of you
Loud on the reef;
Always it moans as it sings,
Voicing my grief.