Lyrics of Love and Laughter
Love-Song
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
"If Death should claim me for her own to–day,"
"If Death should claim me for her own to–day,"
"Though the winds be dank,"
"De da’kest hour, dey allus say,"
The author is witness to a mockingbird's supper.
The blackbirds that were supposed to be baked in a pie for the king began to sing when the pie was opened. They then flew down to snap off the maid’s nose.
"On the wide veranda white,"
"De ol’ time’s gone, de new time’s hyeah"
"Ah, love, my love is like a cry in the night,"
The author admires the ocean from Florida's Coast.
"A bee that was searching for sweets one day"
"Darling, my darling, my heart is on the wing,"
"A song for the unsung heroes who rose in the country’s need,"
The little Love-god lying once asleep
Oh for the breath of the briny deep,
Lamentation for the loss of a loved one.
"De dog go howlin’ ‘long de road,"
"Oh, I have n’t got long to live, for we all"
Come, essay a sprightly measure,
ATTEND my lays, ye ever honour'd nine,
A poem about the speaker as a piper who writes his songs down so that every child may enjoy them.
"My cot was down by a cypress grove,"
"Hurt was the nation with a mighty wound,"
Catherine receives a letter from Isabella who asks for her help.
"When summer time has come, and all"
"The line-storm clouds fly tattered and swift,"