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"Lay me down beneaf de willers in de grass,
Whah de branch'll go a-singin' as it pass."
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906), U.S. poet. A Death Song (l. 1-2). . .
Poetry of the Negro, The, 1746-1970. Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps, eds. (Rev. ed., 1970) Doubleday & Company. |
"Fu' I t'ink de las' long res'
Gwine to soothe my sperrit bes'
If I's layin' 'mong de t'ings I's allus knowed."
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906), U.S. poet. A Death Song (l. 13-15). . .
Poetry of the Negro, The, 1746-1970. Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps, eds. (Rev. ed., 1970) Doubleday & Company. |
"An angel, robed in spotless white,
Bent down and kissed the sleeping Night.
Night woke to blush; the sprite was gone.
Men saw the blush and called it Dawn."
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906), U.S. poet. Dawn (l. 1-4). . .
American Negro Poetry. Arna Bontemps, ed. (Rev. ed., 1974) Hill and Wang. |
"And catch the gleaming of a random light,
That tells me that the ship I seek is passing, passing."
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906), U.S. poet. Ships That Pass in the Night (l. 4-5). . .
Anthology of American Poetry. George Gesner, ed. (1983) Avenel Books. |
"Is there no hope for me? Is there no way
That I may sight and check that speeding bark
Which out of sight and sound is passing, passing?"
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906), U.S. poet. Ships That Pass in the Night (l. 13-15). . .
Anthology of American Poetry. George Gesner, ed. (1983) Avenel Books. |
"Out in the sky the great dark clouds are massing;
I look far out into the pregnant night,"
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906), U.S. poet. Ships That Pass in the Night (l. 1-2). . .
Anthology of American Poetry. George Gesner, ed. (1983) Avenel Books. |
"It is not a carol of joy or glee,
But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core,
But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings—
I know why the caged bird sings!"
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906), U.S. poet. Sympathy (l. 18-21). . .
Poetry of the Negro, The, 1746-1970. Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps, eds. (Rev. ed., 1970) Doubleday & Company. |
"I know what the caged bird feels, alas!"
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906), U.S. poet. Sympathy (l. l). . .
Poetry of the Negro, The, 1746-1970. Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps, eds. (Rev. ed., 1970) Doubleday & Company. |
"This is the debt I pay
Just for one riotous day,"
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906), U.S. poet. The Debt (l. 1-2). . .
American Negro Poetry. Arna Bontemps, ed. (Rev. ed., 1974) Hill and Wang. |
"Slight was the thing I bought,
Small was the debt I thought,
Poor was the loan at best—
God! but the interest!"
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906), U.S. poet. The Debt (l. 9-12). . .
American Negro Poetry. Arna Bontemps, ed. (Rev. ed., 1974) Hill and Wang. |
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