Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow
A Song
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
"Thou art the soul of a summer’s 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,"
This poem relays the feelings of what might have been and mistakes made in the past (in rhyme scheme).
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,"
"Lay me down beneaf de willers in de grass,"
"Oh, wind of the spring–time, oh, free wind of May,"
Longfellow’s poem describing someone troubled confessing to a clergyman
On Mrs. W–––––'s Voyage to England.
"I stand above the city’s rush and din,"
"Good hunting!—aye, good hunting,"