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Paul Laurence Dunbar's Poetry, by first line

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  • Howdy, Honey, Howdy
    DO' a-stan'in' on a jar, fiah a-shinin'
    thoo,
    8 lines
  • Encouragement
    WHO dat knockin' at de do'?
    Why, Ike Johnson, -- yes, fu' sho!
    56 lines
  • The Old Front Gate
    W'en daih's chillun in de house,
    Dey keep on a-gittin' tall;
    40 lines
  • Song
    Wintah, summah, snow er shine,
    Hit's all de same to me,
    16 lines
  • Little Brown Baby
    Little brown baby wif spa'klin' eyes,
    Come to yo' pappy an
    32 lines, 1 comment
  • Signs of the Times
    Air a-gittin' cool an' coolah,
    Frost a-comin' in de night,
    40 lines, 1 comment
  • Ships that Pass in the Night
    Out in the sky the great dark clouds are massing;
    I look far out into the pregnant night,
    16 lines
  • When de Co'n Pone's Hot
    Dey is times in life when Nature
    Seems to slip a cog&
    48 lines
  • At the Tavern
    A lilt and a swing,
    And a ditty to sing,
    15 lines
  • A Negro Love Song
    Seen my lady home las' night,
    Jump back, honey, jump back.
    24 lines
  • The Lawyers' Ways
    I've been list'nin' to them lawyers
    In the court house up the street,
    32 lines
  • The Debt
    This is the debt I pay
    Just for one riotous day,
    12 lines
  • The Haunted Oak
    Pray why are you so bare, so bare,
    Oh, bough of the&n
    60 lines, 2 comments
  • Accountability
    But we all fits into places dat no othah ones could fill,
    An' we does the things we has to, big er little, good er ill.
    16 lines, 3 comments
  • A Choice
    They please me not-- these solemn songs
    That hint of sermons covered up.
    8 lines, 2 comments
  • Common Things
    I like to hear of wealth and gold,
    And El Doradoes in their glory;
    20 lines, 3 comments
  • Confirmation
    He was a poet who wrote clever verses,
    And folks said he had a fine poetical taste;
    9 lines, 2 comments
  • Distinction
    "I am but clay," the sinner plead,
    Who fed each vain desire.
    4 lines
  • Douglass
    Ah, Douglass, we have fall'n on evil days,
    Such days as thou, not even thou didst know,
    14 lines, 1 comment
  • Frederick Douglass
    A hush is over all the teeming lists,
    And there is pause, a breath-space in the strife;
    62 lines
  • If I Could But Forget
    If I could but forget
    The fullness of those first sweet days,
    27 lines
  • Life's Tragedy
    It may be misery not to sing at all,
    And to go silent through the brimming day;
    16 lines, 1 comment
  • Old
    I have seen peoples come and go
    Alike the Ocean'd ebb and flow;
    8 lines, 1 comment
  • Summer in the South
    The Oriole sings in the greening grove
    As if he were half-way waiting,
    12 lines
  • The Made to Order Smile
    When a woman looks up at you with a twist about her eyes,
    And her brows are half uplifted in a nicely feigned surprise
    16 lines, 6 comments
  • The Paradox
    I am the mother of sorrows,
    I am the ender of grief;
    32 lines
  • A Coquette Conquered
    Yes, my ha't's ez ha'd ez stone—
    Go 'way, Sam, an' lemme 'lone.
    29 lines
  • After a Visit
    I BE'N down in ole Kentucky
    Fur a week er two, an' say,
    32 lines
  • An Ante-Bellum Sermon
    We is gathahed hyeah, my brothahs,
    In dis howlin' wildaness,
    88 lines
  • Christmas Carol
    Ring out, ye bells!
    All Nature swells
    36 lines
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