Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow
Twilight
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
"‘Twixt a smile and a tear,"
"‘Twixt a smile and a tear,"
Mr. Peck passes away.
MAECENAS, you, beneath the myrtle shade,
"It may be misery not to sing at all"
"I saw thee on thy bridal day–"
"Thou art the soul of a summer’s day,"
A cheerful poem about springtime.
A story about a blue jay named Jakie. This chapter focuses on the relationship between Jakie and the speaker.
"A little bird, with plumage brown,"
"When the corn ’s all cut and the bright stalks shine"
A poem about the orange tree.
Who will believe my verse in time to come
"Lucy done gone back on me,"
"Yesterday I held your hand,"
"Oh, dere ’s lots o’ keer an’ trouble"
A gulf storm evokes memories of childhood.
"Gaily bedight,"
"On a summer’s day as I sat by a stream,"
Long years ago, within a distant clime,
"Oh, who would be sad tho’ the sky be a–graying,"
My love is strengthened though more weak in seeming
A poem describing “The Fall of the Year” or Autumn.
"The mist has left the greening plain,"
A guitar brings back old memories.
"Lay me down beneaf de willers in de grass,"