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Subject: DUNBAR, PAUL LAURENCE (1872-1906)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ANSWER TO DUNBAR'S 'AFTER A VISIT', by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER SR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: So, you be'n to ole kentucky
Last Line: Of her hospitality.
Subject(s): Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906); Kentucky


DUNBAR, by ANNE SPENCER    Poem Text                 Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, how poets sing and die!
Last Line: Ah, how poets sing and die!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bannister, Anne Bethel Scales
Subject(s): Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906); Poetry & Poets


EPITAPH: FOR PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR, by COUNTEE CULLEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Born of the sorrowful of heart
Subject(s): African Americans; Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906); Negroes; American Blacks


EPITAPH: FOR PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR, by COUNTEE CULLEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Born of the sorrowful of heart
Last Line: In jest, to hide a heart that bled
Subject(s): African Americans; Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906)


FOR PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR, by LINDA CARTER BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Some of us still wear the mask
Last Line: Only while we wear the mask
Subject(s): Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights


FOR PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A man whose life was like a candle's flame
Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1)
Subject(s): African Americans; Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906)


HISTORIC EPISODES, by PETER WELLINGTON CLARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Toussaint %sticking out his tongue
Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906); Jesus Christ; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Slavery; Toussaint L'ouverture (1743-1803)


IN MEMORIAM: PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR, by HENRIETTA CORDELIA RAY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The muse of poetry came down one day
Last Line: That fame's immortal wreath has crowned his brow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ray, Cordelia
Subject(s): Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906)


ME 'N' DUNBAR, by JAMES DAVID CORROTHERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One day when me 'n' dunbar wuz a-hoeing in de co'n
Last Line: "swz he: ""dat's right; hey ain't no use to wo'k ouhse'fs to deff."
Subject(s): Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906)


PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR, by JAMES DAVID CORROTHERS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: He came, a youth, singing in the dawn
Last Line: And o'er your happy songs in plaudits rang.
Subject(s): Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906)


PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We lay red roses on his grave
Subject(s): Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906)


PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We lay red roses on his grave
Last Line: With stones, then drive away
Subject(s): Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906)


PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR: 1872-1906, by MICHAEL S. HARPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One hundred years of headrags, bandages
Subject(s): Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906)


PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR: 1872-1906, by MICHAEL S. HARPER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One hundred years of headrags, bandages
Last Line: Double-conscious brother in the veil
Subject(s): Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906)