Selected Poems (Penguin Classics) by Dunbar, Paul Laurence -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Title Page Copyright Page Introduction FROM OAK AND IVY 1893

A Banjo Song A Career Columbian Ode Life Lullaby Melancholia My Sort o’ Man Ode to Ethiopia Sympathy The Ol’ Tunes The Seedling

FROM MAJORS AND MINORS 1895

After the Quarrel Alice Ballad By the Stream The Change Has Come Changing Time The Colored Soldiers A Corn-Song Dawn Dirge Disappointed Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes Frederick Douglass A Frolic He Had His Dream Hymn Invitation to Love Ione The Master-Player Ode for Memorial Day One Life The Poet and His Song A Prayer Retort Ships That Pass in the Night A Summer’s Night We Wear the Mask To Pfrimmer

FROM LYRICS OF LOWLY LIFE 1896

Accountability An Ante-Bellum Sermon The Corn-Stalk Fiddle The Lawyers’ Ways Religion After a Visit The Spellin’-Bee Keep A-Pluggin’ Away An Easy-Goin’ Feller The Wooing When de Co’n Pone’s Hot Discovered The Delinquent A Confidence The Party

FROM POEMS OF CABIN AND FIELD 1899

The Deserted Plantation Little Brown Baby Chrismus Is A-Comin’

FROM LYRICS OF THE HEARTHSIDE 1899

Love’s Apotheosis The Paradox The Right to Die Behind the Arras A Hymn - After Reading Lead, Kindly Light. Dream Song I Dream Song II The King Is Dead Theology Resignation Thou Art My Lute The Phantom Kiss The Crisis Alexander Crummell Dead Sonnet On an Old Book with Uncut Leaves Misapprehension For the Man Who Fails Harriet Beecher Stowe The Warrior’s Prayer The Voice of the Banjo A Choice The Real Question Jilted Chrismus on the Plantation Foolin’ wid de Seasons A Death Song Jealous Parted A Letter At Candle-Lightin’ Time How Lucy Backslid Protest

FROM WHEN MALINDY SINGS 1903

When Malindy Sings The Colored Band The Memory of Martha The Tryst The Boogah Man Noddin’ by de Fire My Sweet Brown Gal In the Morning The Plantation Child’s Lullaby Curiosity Opportunity Puttin’ the Baby Away Faith The Fisher Child’s Lullaby

FROM LYRICS OF LOVE AND LAUGHTER 1903

Joggin’ Erlong In May Dreams The Dove The Valse Song Inspiration When Dey ‘Listed Colored Soldiers Lincoln To a Captious Critic The Poet A Spiritual W’en I Gits Home The Unsung Heroes The Pool Speakin’ at de Cou’t House Black Samson of Brandywine Douglass Booker T. Washington Philosophy The Debt By Rugged Ways To the South On Its New Slavery The Haunted Oak Weltschmertz Robert Gould Shaw A Love Song A Negro Love Song The Fount of Tears At the Tavern

FROM LI’L’ GAL 1904

Li’l’ Gal A Plea Soliloquy of a Turkey When Sam’l Sings

FROM LYRICS OF SUNSHINE AND SHADOW 1905

A Boy’s Summer Song The Sand-Man Johnny Speaks Scamp A Christmas Folksong The Farm Child’s Lullaby Hope The Awakening A Musical Twell de Night Is Pas’ Compensation Anchored Yesterday and To-morrow At Sunset Time At Loafing-Holt When a Feller’s Itchin’ to Be Spanked A Love Letter Trouble in de Kitchen The Quilting Forever Parted Christmas

FROM HOWDY, HONEY, HOWDY 1905

“Howdy, Honey, Howdy!” Encouragement Twilight

FROM JOGGIN’ ERLONG 1906

The Capture

UNCOLLECTED POEMS

Emancipation (1890) Welcome Address To the Western Association of Writers Comrade Love Is a Star The Making Up A Toast to Dayton (1917) Sold A C.H.S. Episode (1890) After the Struggle (1900) The Builder (1905) To John H. Patterson, Esq. Lullaby (II)

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