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Selected Poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar
This comprehensive collection features the finest works of one of the most-admired and widely-read African-American poets. Both dialect and standard-English poems appear here, including "Ode to Ethiopia," "Worn Out," "Not They Who Soar," "When Malindy Sings," "We Wear the Mask, "Dinah Kneading Dough," "The Haunted Oak," "Black Samson of Brandywine," and many more.
Table of Contents for Selected Poems
| Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes | | Accountability | | Life | | An Ante-Bellum Sermon | | Ode to Ethiopia | | The Mystery | | Not They Who Soar | | A Banjo Song | | Unexpressed | | Song of Summer | | Religion | | The Colored Soldiers | | When De Co'n Pone's Hot | | Discovered | | A Summer's Night | | Ships That Pass in the Night | | We Wear the Mask | | A Negro Love Song | | If | | Signs of the Times | | Why Fades a Dream? | | When Malindy Sings | | The Party | | Her Thought and His | | The Right to Die | | Behind the Arras | | A Hymn | | Sympathy | | Little Brown Baby | | Lover's Lane | | My Sort O'Man | | A Death Song | | Dely | | A Letter | | A Cabin Tale | | How Lucy Backslid | | Dinah Kneading Dough | | The Poet | | Black Samson of Brandywine | | Douglass | | Slow Through the Dark | | Philosophy | | On the Dedication of Dorothy Hall | | To the South | | The Haunted Oak | | The Unsung Heroes | | Resignation | | Robert Gould Shaw | | Life's Tragedy | | Compensation | | When Dey 'Listed Colored Soldiers | | De Way T'ings Come | | Temptation | | A Plea | | Chrismus on the Plantation | | Theology | | Li'l' Gal | | The Old Cabin | | Angelina | | Weltschmerz | | Misapprehension | | A Plantation Melody | | Possum | | Parted | | Right's Security | | Worn Out | | Silence | | A Song |
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