Lyrics of the Hearthside
A Choice
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
They please me not—these solemn songs
They please me not—these solemn songs
O'ERWHELMING sorrow now demands my song:
A nursery rhyme in the from of a gesture and/or action song.
Longfellow uses the river as a metaphor for life and friendship.
"Out of the sunshine and out of the heat,"
"The cloud looked in at the window,"
A children’s counting poem about elephants.
"Let those who will stride on their barren roads"
"My heart to thy heart,"
"The rain streams down like harp–strings from the sky;"
A limerick about a hobby horse.
"It is as if a silver chord"
Before you thought of spring
"Ah broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever!"
Pray, what can dreams avail
The author describes a sunset on the coast.
The poet muses on fires.
Some keep the Sabbath going to church;
A nursery rhyme that acts a a gesture and/or action song relating the sounds to the actions of trotting to and from a market.
"He scribbles some in prose and verse,"
"When Phyllis sighs and from her eyes"
"‘Twixt a smile and a tear,"
MAECENAS, you, beneath the myrtle shade,
"It may be misery not to sing at all"
"I saw thee on thy bridal day–"