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Paul Laurence Dunbar

Works

Non-fiction

• Representative American Negroes, an essay from The Negro Problem, by Booker T. Washington, et al. (1903)

Fiction

• The Sport of the Gods, a novel. (1902)

Short stories

• The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories (1900)
• The Heart Of Happy Hollow: A Collection Of Stories (1904)
  • The Scapegoat
  • One Christmas At Shiloh
  • The Mission Of Mr. Scatters
  • A Matter Of Doctrine‎
  • Old Abe's Conversion
  • The Race Question
  • A Defender Of The Faith
  • Cahoots
  • The Promoter
  • The Wisdom Of Silence
  • The Triumph of Ol' Mis' Pease
  • The Lynching Of Jube Benson
  • Schwalliger's Philantropy
  • The Interference Of Patsy Ann
  • The Home-Coming Of 'Rastus Smith
  • The Boy and The Bayonet

Poems

Contents: Top - A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

• Absence
• Accountability
• Advice
• After a Visit
• After Many Days
• After The Quarrel
• After While
• Alexander Crummell-Dead
• Alice
• Anchored
• Angelina
• An Ante-Bellum Sermon
• Appreciation
• At Candle-Lightin' Time
• At Cheshire Cheese
• At Loafing-Holt
• At Night
• At Sunset Time
• At The Tavern
• The Awakening

B

• A Back-Log Song
• Ballad
• Ballade
• A Banjo Song
• The Barrier
• Behind The Arras
• Bein' Back Home
• Beyond The Years
• Black Samson Of Bradywine
• Blue
• The Bohemian
• The Boogah Man
• Booker T. Washington
• A Border Ballad
• A Boy's Summer Song
• Breaking The Charm
• A Bridal Measure
• By Rugged Ways
• By The Stream

C

• A Cabin Tale
• The Capture
• A Career
• The Change Has Come
• The Change
• Changing Time
• The Chase
• A Choice
• Chrismus Is A-Comin'
• Chrismus On The Plantation
• Christmas
• Christmas Carol
• A Christmas Folk Song
• Christmas In The Heart
• Circumstances Alter Cases
• The Colored Band
• The Colored Soldiers
• Columbian Ode
• Communion
• Comparison
• Compensation
• Confessional
• A Confidence
• The Conquerors
• Conscience and Remorse
• A Coquette Conquered
• A Corn-song
• The Corn-Stalk Fiddle
• The Crisis
• Curiosity
• Curtain

D

• The Dance
• Dat Ol' Mare O' Mine
• Dawn
• Day
• Deacon Jones' Grievance
• Dead
• Death
• The Death of the First Born
• A Death Song
• The Debt
• De Critters' Dance
• The Delinquent
• Dely
• The Deserted Plantation
• Despair
• De Way T'ings Come
• Differences
• The Dilettante: A Modern Type
• Dinah Kneading Dough
• Diplomacy
• Dirge
• Dirge For A Soldier
• Disappointed
• Discovered
• The Discovery
• Distinction
• The Disturber
• Douglass
• The Dove
• Dream Song I
• Dream Song II
• The Dreamer
• Dreamin' Town
• Dreams
• Dreams
• Drizzle
• A Drowsy Day

E

• An Easy Goin' Feller
• Emancipation
• Encouraged
• Encouragement
• The End Of The Chapter
• Equipment
• Ere Sleep Comes Down To Soothe The Weary Eyes
• Evening
• Expectation

F

• Faith
• Farewell To Arcady
• The Farm Child's Lullaby
• The Farm House by the River
• The Fisher Child's Lullaby
• Fishing
• A Florida Night
• Foolin' Wid De Seasons
• For The Man Who Fails
• The Forest Greeting
• Forever
• The Fount Of Tears
• Frederick Douglass
• A Frolic
• From The Porch At Runnymede
• Fulfillment

G

• The Garret
• A Golden Day
• Good-Night
• The Gourd
• A Grievance
• Growin' Gray
• Grown Up

H

• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• The Haunted Oak
• He Had His Dream
• Her Thought And His
• Hope
• How Lucy Backslid
• How Shall I Woo Thee
• "Howdy, Honey, Howdy!"
• Hunting Song
• Hymn
• Hymn
• A Hymn

I

• If
• Ione
• In An English Garden
• In August
• In May
• In Summer
• In Summer Time
• In the Morning
• In The Tents Of Akbar
• Inspiration
• Invitation to Love
• Itching Heels

J

• James Whitcomb Riley
• Jealous
• Jilted
• Joggin' Erlong
• Johnny Speaks
• Just Whistle A Bit

K

• Keep A-Pluggin' Away
• Keep A Song Up On De Way
• Kidnaped
• Kindness
• The King Is Dead
• The Knight

L

• The Lapse
• The Lawyers' Ways
• A Lazy Day
• The Lesson
• A Letter
• Life
• Life's Tragedy
• Li'l' Gal
• The Lily Of The Valley
• Limitations
• Lincoln
• Little Brown Baby
• A Little Christmas Basket
• Little Lucy Landman
• Liza May
• Lonesome
• Long Ago
• 'Long To'ds Night
• Longing
• The Looking-Glass
• A Lost Dream
• Love
• Love and Grief
• Love Despoiled
• A Love Letter
• Love-Song
• A Love Song
• The Lover And The Moon
• Lover's Lane
• Love's Apotheosis
• Love's Castle
• Love's Draft
• Love's Humility
• Love's Phases
• Love's Pictures
• Love's Seasons
• Lullby
• A Lyric

M

• A Madrigal
• The Making Up
• Mare Rubrum
• The Master-Player
• The Masters
• The Meadow Lark
• Melancholia
• The Memory Of Martha
• Merry Autumn
• A Misty Day
• Misapprehension
• The Monk's Walk
• Morning
• Morning Song of Love
• Mortality
• The Murdered Lover
• A Musical
• My Corn-Cob Pipe
• My Lady Of Castle Grand
• My Little March Girl
• My Sort O' Man
• My Sweet Brown Gal
• The Mystery
• The Mystic Sea

N

• Nature and Art
• A Negro Love Song
• The News
• Night
• Night, Dim Night
• Night of Love
• Noddin' by de Fire
• Noon
• Nora: a Serenade
• Not They Who Soar
• Nutting Song

O

• October
• The Old Apple-tree
• The Old Cabin
• The Old Front Gate
• The Old Homestead
• An Old Memory
• The Ol' Tunes
• On A Clean Book
• On The Death of W. C.
• On The Dedication Of Dorothy Hall
• On The River
• On The Road
• On The Sea Wall
• One Life
• Ode for Memorial Day
• Ode to Ethiopia
• Opportunity
• Over The Hills

P

• The Paradox
• Parted
• Parted
• The Party
• Passion And Love
• The Path
• The Phantom Kiss
• Philosophy
• The Photograph
• Phyllis
• The Place Where The Rainbow Ends
• The Plantation Child's Lullaby
• A Plantation Portrait
• A Plantation Melody
• A Plea
• A Poem of Faith
• The Poet
• The Poet and His Song
• The Poet And The Baby
• The Pool
• Poor Withered Rose
• Possession
• Possum
• Possum Trot
• A Prayer
• Precedent
• A Preference
• Premonition
• Preparation
• Prometheus
• Promise
• Protest
• Puttin' The Baby Away

Q

• The Quilting

R

• Rain-Songs
• The Real Question
• Religion
• Reluctance
• Remembered
• Resignation
• Response
• Retort
• Retrospection
• Riding To Town
• The Right to Die
• Right's Security
• The Rising Of The Storm
• The Rivals
• The River Of Ruin
• A Roadway
• Robert Gould Shaw
• Roses
• Roses and Pearls

S

• A Sailor's Song
• The Sand-Man
• Scamp
• The Secret
• The Seedling
• She Gave Me a Rose
• She Told Her Beads
• Ships That Pass In The Night
• Signs Of The Times
• Silence
• Slow Through The Dark
• Snowin'
• Soliloquy Of A Turkey
• Song
• Song
• A Song
• A Song
• Song Of Summer
• The Song
• Sonnet
• The Sparrow
• Speakin' At De' Cou'tHouse
• Speakin' O' Christmas
• The Spellin'-Bee
• A Spiritual
• Spring Fever
• Spring Song
• A Spring Wooing
• A Starry Night
• A Summer Night
• The Stirrup Cup
• A Summer Pastoral
• A Summer's Night
• The Sum
• Sunset
• Suppose
• Sympathy

T

• Temptation
• A Thanksgiving Poem
• Then And Now
• Theology
• Thou Art My Lute
• Till The Wind Gets Right
• Time To Tinker 'Roun'!
• To A Captious Critic
• To A Lady Playing The Harp
• To A Dead Friend
• To A Violet Found On All Saints' Day
• To An Ingrate
• Toast to Dayton
• To Dan
• To E. H. K.
• To Her
• To J. Q.
• To Louise
• To Pfrimmer
• To The Eastern Shore
• To The Memory Of Mary Young
• To The Miami
• To The Road
• To The South
• Trouble In De Kitchen
• The Tryst
• The Turning Of The Babies In The Bed
• 'Twell de Night Is Pas'
• Twilight
• Two Little Boots
• Two Songs

U

• Unexpressed
• The Unlucky Apple
• The Unsung Heroes

V

• Vagrants
• The Valse
• Vengeance Is Sweet
• The Veteran
• The Voice Of The Banjo
• The Visitor

W

• Wading' In De Creek
• Waiting
• A Warm Day In Winter
• We Wear The Mask
• The Warrior's Prayer
• Weltschmertz
• W'en I Gits Home
• What's The Use
• When A Feller's Itchin' To Be Spanked
• When All Is Done
• When de Co'n Pone's Hot
• When Dey 'Listed Colored Soldiers
• When Malindy Sings
• When Sam'l Sings
• When the Old Man Smokes
• When Winter Darkening All Around
• Whip-Poor-Will and Katy-Did
• Whistling Sam
• Whittier
• Why Fades a Dream?
• The Wind And The Sea
• Winter-Song
• Winter's Approach
• A Winter's Day
• With The Lark
• The Wooing
• Worn Out
• The Wraith

Y

• Yesterday And To-Morrow

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.