Lyrics of Lowly Life
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
"A Summer's Night"
Additional Information
- Flesch–Kincaid Level 6.5
- Word Count: 72
- Year Published: 1913
- Country of Origin: United States of America
- Language: English
- Genre: Poetry
- Source: Dunbar, P.L. (1913). The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar. New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company.
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The night is dewy as a maiden’s mouth,
The skies are bright as are a maiden’s eyes,
Soft as a maiden’s breath the wind that flies
Up from the perfumed bosom of the South.
Like sentinels, the pines stand in the park;
And hither hastening, like rakes that roam,
With lamps to light their wayward footsteps home,
The fireflies come stagg’ring down the dark.