The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar - Paul Laurence Dunbar

Back to the breast of thy mother [113]
Because I had loved so deeply [256]
Because you love me I have much achieved [238]
Bedtime's come fu' little boys [144]
Belated wanderer of the ways of spring [179]
Beyond the years the answer lies [41]
Bird of my lady's bower [19]
Bones a-gittin' achy [153]
Break me my bounds, and let me fly [285]
Breezes blowin' middlin' brisk [78]
Bring me the livery of no other man [92]
By Mystic's banks I held my dream [204]
By rugged ways and thro' the night [215]
By the pool that I see in my dreams, dear love [198]
By the stream I dream in calm delight, and watch as in a glass [50]

Caught Susanner whistlin'; well [149]
Come away to dreamin' town [254]
Come, drink a stirrup cup with me [125]
Come, essay a sprightly measure [97]
Come on walkin' wid me, Lucy; 't ain't no time to mope erroun' [164]
Come to the pane, draw the curtain apart [120]
Come when the nights are bright with stars [61]
Cool is the wind, for the summer is waning [163]
Cover him over with daisies white [258]

Daih's a moughty soothin' feelin' [187]
Darling, my darling, my heart is on the wing [202]
Days git wa'm an' wa'mah [239]
De axes has been ringin' in de woods de blessid day [143]
De breeze is blowin' 'cross de bay [145]
De 'cession's stahted on de gospel way [194]
De da'kest hour, dey allus say [165]
De dog go howlin' 'long de road [247]
De night creep down erlong de lan' [166]
De ol' time's gone, de new time's hyeah [192]
De sun hit shine an' de win' hit blow [256]
De times is mighty stirrin' 'mong de people up ouah way [158]
De trees is bendin' in de sto'm [193]
De way t'ings come, hit seems to me [225]
De win' is blowin' wahmah [236]
De win' is hollahin' "Daih you" to de shuttahs an' de fiah [174]
Dear critic, who my lightness so deplores [189]
Dear heart, good-night! [23]
Dear Miss Lucy: I been t'inkin' dat I'd write you long fo' dis [151]
Deep in my heart that aches with the repression [25]
Dey been speakin' at de cou't-house [205]
Dey had a gread big pahty down to Tom's de othah night [83]
Dey is snow upon the meddahs [168]
Dey is times in life when Nature [57]
Dey was oncet a awful quoil 'twixt de skillet an' de pot [268]
Dey was talkin' in de cabin, dey was talkin' in de hall [182]
Dey's a so't o' threatenin' feelin' in de blowin' of de breeze [171]
Dinah stan' befo' de glass [206]
Dis is gospel weathah sho'— [26]
Do' a-stan'in' on a jar, fiah a-shinin' thoo [196]
Dolly sits a-quilting by her mother, stitch by stitch [240]
Done are the toils and the wearisome marches [22]
Dream days of fond delight and hours [287]
Dream on, for dreams are sweet [100]
Driftwood gathered here and there [277]
Duck come switchin' 'cross de lot [275]

Ef dey's anyt'ing dat riles me [141]
Ef you's only got de powah fe' to blow a little whistle [250]
Eight of 'em hyeah all tol' an' yet [243]
Emblem of blasted hope and lost desire [115]
Ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes [3]

Folks ain't got no right to censuah othah folks about dey habits [5]
Folks is talkin' 'bout de money, 'bout de silvah an' de gold [135]
Four hundred years ago a tangled waste [47]
Fu' de peace o' my eachin' heels, set down [222]

God has his plans, and what if we [81]
"Good-bye," I said to my conscience [31]
Goo'-by, Jinks, I got to hump [64]
Good hunting!—aye, good hunting [237]
Good-night, my love, for I have dreamed of thee [93]
Granny's gone a-visitin' [242]
Grass commence a-comin' [176]
Gray are the pages of record [205]
Gray is the palace where she dwells [180]
G'way an' quit dat noise, Miss Lucy [82]

Hain't you see my Mandy Lou [173]
He had his dream, and all through life [61]
He loved her, and through many years [129]
He sang of life serenely sweet [191]
He scribbles some in prose and verse [49]
Heart of my heart, the day is chill [207]
Heart of the Southland, heed me pleading now [216]
Heel and toe, heel and toe [170]
Hello, ole man, you're a-gittin' gray [80]
Hit's been drizzlin' an' been sprinklin' [180]
Home agin, an' home to stay [259]
How shall I woo thee to win thee, mine own? [289]
How sweet the music sounded [284]
How's a man to write a sonnet, can you tell [114]
Hurt was the nation with a mighty wound [184]
Hyeah come Cæsar Higgins [145]
Hyeah dat singin' in de medders [208]

"I am but clay," the sinner plead [114]
I am no priest of crooks nor creeds [38]
I am the mother of sorrows [89]
I be'n down in ole Kentucky [42]
I been t'inkin' 'bout de preachah; whut he said de othah night [212]
I did not know that life could be so sweet [252]
I done got 'uligion, honey, an' I's happy ez a king [146]
I don't believe in 'ristercrats [140]
I grew a rose once more to please mine eyes [13]
I grew a rose within a garden fair [12]
I had not known before [240]
I has hyeahd o' people dancin' an' I's hyeahd o' people singin' [156]
I have no fancy for that ancient cant [94]
I have seen full many a sight [188]
I held my heart so far from harm [255]
I found you and I lost you [251]
I know a man [235]
I know my love is true [58]
I know what the caged bird feels, alas! [102]
I never shall furgit that night when father hitched up Dobbin [42]
I sit upon the old sea wall [115]
I stand above the city's rush and din [275]
I stood by the shore at the death of day [69]
I think that though the clouds be dark [53]
I was not; now I am—a few days hence [17]
If Death should claim me for her own to-day [210]
If life were but a dream, my Love [75]
If the muse were mine to tempt it [50]
If thro' the sea of night which here surrounds me [256]
If 'twere fair to suppose [258]
If you could sit with me beside the sea to-day [21]
In a small and lonely cabin out of noisy traffic's way [124]
In de dead of night I sometimes [260]
In Life's Red Sea with faith I plant my feet [110]
In the east the morning comes [199]
In the heavy earth the miner [107]
In the forenoon's restful quiet [95]
In the silence of my heart [110]
In this sombre garden close [209]
In the tents of Akbar [223]
In this old garden, fair, I walk to-day [111]
I's a-gittin' weary of de way dat people do [244]
I's boun' to see my gal to-night [142]
I's feelin' kin' o' lonesome in my little room to-night [202]
It is as if a silver chord [216]
It may be misery not to sing at all [225]
It was Chrismus Eve, I mind hit fu' a mighty gloomy day [137]
It's all a farce,—these tales they tell [56]
It's hot to-day. The bees is buzzin' [279]
It's moughty tiahsome layin' 'roun' [195]
I've a humble little motto [46]
I've always been a faithful man [267]
I've been list'nin' to them lawyers [22]
I've been watchin' of 'em, parson [39]
I've journeyed 'roun' consid'able, a-seein' men an' things [147]

Jes' lak toddy wahms you thoo' [148]
Just whistle a bit, if the day be dark [98]

Key and bar, key and bar [201]
Kiss me, Miami, thou most constant one! [277]
Know you, winds that blow your course [40]