The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar — John Shaqi
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence DunbarDunbar, Paul Laurence
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The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar
Dunbar, Paul Laurence
African Americans -- Poetry
"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
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