Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A CHOICE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR


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First Line: They please me not - these solemn songs
Last Line: Or a dew-drop in a honey cup!


THEY please me not -- these solemn songs
That hint of sermons covered up.
'T is true the world should heed its wrongs,
But in a poem let me sup,
Not simples brewed to cure or ease
Humanity's confessed disease,
But the spirit-wine of a singing line,
Or a dew-drop in a honey cup!





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