Poetry
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Whispers of Immortality by T.S. Eliot
Webster was much possessed by deathAnd saw the skull beneath the skin;And breastless creatures under groundLeaned backward with a lipless…
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A Warm Day in Winter by Paul Laurence Dunbar
A Warm Day in Winter is a formative example of Dunbar’s dialect verses.“Sunshine on de medders,Greenness on de way;Dat ‘s…
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Dream Song I by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Long years ago, within a distant clime,Ere Love had touched me with his wand sublime,I dreamed of one to make…
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Dream Song II by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Pray, what can dreams availTo make love or to mar?The child within the cradle railLies dreaming of the star.But is…
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Encouragement by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Dunbar was particularly recognized for his dialect poems.Who dat knockin’ at de do’?Why, Ike Johnson,—yes, fu’ sho!Come in, Ike. I…
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Mortality by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Ashes to ashes, dust unto dust,What of his loving, what of his lust?What of his passion, what of his pain?What…
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The Poet and the Baby by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Yevgraf Sorokin, Spanish Romani family, 1892How’s a man to write a sonnet, can you tell,—How’s he going to weave the…
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Treat Me Nice by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Treat me nice, Miss Mandy Jane,Treat me nice.Dough my love has tu’ned my brain,Treat me nice.I ain’t done a t’ing…
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The Guards Came Through by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Guards Came Through was published in the anthology, A Treasury of War Poems (1914-1919).EN of the Twenty-firstUp by the…
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Ah, Dans Ces Mornes Séjours Les Jamais Sont Les Toujours by Ernest Dowson
Ah, Dans Ces Mornes Séjours Les Jamais Sont Les Toujours (translation: In these gloomy sojourns, nevers are evermore) was published…
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