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Lyrics of the Hearthside

by Paul Laurence Dunbar

A Choice

Additional Information
  • Year Published: 1913
  • Language: English
  • Country of Origin: United States of America
  • Source: Dunbar, P.L. (1913). The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar. New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company.
  • Readability:
    • Flesch–Kincaid Level: 6.5
  • Word Count: 60
  • Genre: Poetry
  • Keywords: song, sweet
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They please me not—these solemn songs
That hint of sermons covered up.
‘Tis true the world should heed its wrongs,
But in a poem let me sup,
Not simples brewed to cure or ease
Humanity’s confessed disease,
But the spirit–wine of a singing line,
Or a dew–drop in a honey cup!