The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar - Paul Laurence Dunbar

Lay me down beneaf de willers in de grass [142]
Lead gently, Lord, and slow [98]
Let me close the eyes of my soul [261]
Let those who will stride on their barren roads [214]
'Lias! 'Lias! Bless de Lawd! [190]
Like sea-washed sand upon the shore [202]
Like the blush upon the rose [282]
Little brown baby wif spa'klin' eyes [134]
Little brown face full of smiles [267]
Little lady at de do' [177]
Long had I grieved at what I deemed abuse [106]
Long since, in sore distress, I heard one pray [123]
Long time ago, we too set out [119]
Long years ago, within a distant clime [104]
Love hath the wings of the butterfly [117]
Love is the light of the world, my dear [231]
Love me. I care not what the circling years [89]
Love used to carry a bow, you know [258]
Lucy done gone back on me [136]

Mammy's in de kitchen, an' de do' is shet [241]
Mastah drink his ol' Made'a [213]
Men may sing of their Havanas, elevating to the stars [129]
Mother's gone a-visitin' to spend a month er two [79]
My cot was down by a cypress grove [8]
My heart to thy heart [13]
My lady love lives far away [288]
My muvver's ist the nicest one [247]
My neighbor lives on the hill [192]
My soul, lost in the music's mist [76]

Night, dim night, and it rains, my love, it rains [227]
Night is for sorrow and dawn is for joy [90]
Not o'er thy dust let there be spent [18]
No matter what you call it [287]
Not they who soar, but they who plod [18]
Not to the midnight of the gloomy past [214]

O li'l' lamb out in de col' [133]
O Lord, the hard-won miles [11]
O Mother Race! to thee I bring [15]
October is the treasurer of the year [63]
Oh, de clouds is mighty heavy [169]
Oh, de grubbin'-hoe's a-rustin' in de co'nah [67]
Oh, de weathah it is balmy an' de breeze is sighin' low [207]
Oh, dere's lots o' keer an' trouble [20]
Oh for the breath of the briny deep [92]
Oh, I am hurt to death, my Love [72]
Oh, I des received a letter f'om de sweetest little gal [266]
Oh, I haven't got long to live, for we all [48]
Oh, summer has clothed the earth [91]
Oh the breeze is blowin' balmy [262]
Oh, the day has set me dreaming [107]
Oh, the little bird is rocking in the cradle of the wind [245]
Oh, the poets may sing of their Lady Irenes [26]
Oh to have you in May [166]
Oh, what shall I do? I am wholly upset [131]
Oh, who is the Lord of the land of life [268]
Oh, who would be sad tho' the sky be a-graying [236]
Oh, wind of the spring-time, oh, free wind of May [221]
On a summer's day as I sat by a stream [248]
On the wide veranda white [59]
Once Love grew bold and arrogant of air [102]
One night in my room, still and beamless [109]
Our good knight, Ted, girds his broadsword on [108]
Out in de night a sad bird moans [194]
Out in the sky the great dark clouds are massing [64]
Out of my heart, one day, I wrote a song [117]
Out of my heart, one treach'rous winter's day [102]
Out of the sunshine and out of the heat [167]
Outside the rain upon the street [253]
Over the hills and the valleys of dreaming [90]

Phyllis, ah, Phyllis, my life is a gray day [74]
Place this bunch of mignonette [66]
Poor withered rose, she gave it me [286]
Pray, what can dreams avail [104]
Pray why are you so bare, so bare [219]
Prometheus stole from Heaven the sacred fire [117]

Ring out, ye bells! [278]
Round the wide earth, from the red field your valour has won [112]

Say a mass for my soul's repose, my brother [211]
Search thou my heart [116]
See dis pictyah in my han' [144]
Seems lak folks is mighty curus [139]
Seen my lady home las' night [49]
Seen you down at chu'ch las' night [60]
Shadder in de valley [226]
She gave a rose [103]
She sang, and I listened the whole song thro' [121]
She told the story, and the whole world wept [119]
She told her beads with downcast eyes [106]
She wrapped her soul in a lace of lies [240]
Silence, and whirling worlds afar [263]
Silently without my window [54]
Since I left the city's heat [263]
Slow de night's a-fallin' [186]
Slow moves the pageant of a climbing race [211]
So we, who 'we supped the selfsame cup [40]
Some folks t'inks hit's right an' p'opah [201]
Standin' at de winder [253]
Step me now a bridal measure [248]
Step wid de banjo an' glide wid de fiddle [269]
Storm and strife and stress [227]
Summah night an' sighin' breeze [132]
Summah's nice, wif sun a-shinin' [132]
Summer is de lovin' time [262]
Sunshine on de medders [168]
Sweetest of the flowers a-blooming [237]
Swing yo' lady roun' an' roun' [200]

Tek a cool night, good an' cleah [150]
Tell your love where the roses blow [238]
Temples he built, and palaces of air [100]
The air is dark, the sky is gray [65]
The change has come, and Helen sleeps [58]
The cloud looked in at the window [72]
The draft of love was cool and sweet [252]
The gray dawn on the mountain top [248]
The gray of the sea, and the gray of the sky [93]
The lake's dark breast [8]
The lark is silent in his nest [61]
The little bird sits in the nest and sings [67]
The Midnight wooed the Morning-Star [99]
The mist has left the greening plain [252]
The moon begins her stately ride [276]
The moon has left the sky, love [46]
The night is dewy as a maiden's mouth [64]
The November sun invites me [282]
The poor man went to the rich man's doors [106]
The rain streams down like harpstrings from the sky [270]
The river sleeps beneath the sky [9]
The sand-man he's a jolly old fellow [235]
The sky of brightest gray seems dark [59]
The smell of the sea in my nostrils [91]
The snow lies deep upon the ground [105]
The sun has slipped his tether [100]
The sun hath shed its kindly light [281]
The sun is low [285]
The trees bend down along the stream [249]
The wind is out in its rage to-night [244]
The wind told the little leaves to hurry [258]
The word is writ that he who runs may read [209]
The world is a snob, and the man who wins [118]
The young queen Nature, ever sweet and fair [52]
Ther' ain't no use in all this strife [49]
There are no beaten paths to Glory's height [21]
There is a heaven, for ever, day by day [106]
There's a fabulous story [246]
There's a memory keeps a-runnin' [10]
These are the days of elfs and fays [251]
They please me not—these solemn songs [125]
This is the debt I pay [213]
This is to-day, a golden summer's day [223]
This poem must be done to-day [122]
Thou arrant robber, Death! [284]
"Thou art a fool," said my head to my heart [5]
Thou art my lute, by thee I sing [109]
Thou art the soul of a summer's day [271]
Though the winds be dank [71]
Thy tones are silver melted into sound [116]
Tim Murphy's gon' walkin' wid Maggie O'Neill [261]
'Tis an old deserted homestead [283]
'Tis better to set here beside the sea [186]
'Tis fine to play [235]
To me, like hauntings of a vagrant breath [97]
Treat me nice, Miss Mandy Jane [167]
'Twas the apple that in Eden [251]
'Twas three an' thirty year ago [27]
'Twixt a smile and a tear [241]
Two little boots all rough an' wo' [163]

Uncle John, he makes me tired [73]
Underneath the autumn sky [256]

Villain shows his indiscretion [42]