Paul Laurence Dunbar
429 songs with lyrics
Popular songs
- 1Ere Sleep Comes Down To Soothe The Weary Eyes
- 2The Poet and His Song
- 3We Wear The Mask
- 4Retort
- 5Accountability
- 6Frederick Douglass
- 7Life
- 8The Lesson
- 9The Rising of the Storm
- 10Sunset
- 11The Old Apple-Tree
- 12A Prayer
- 13Passion and Love
- 14The Seedling
- 15Promise
- 16Fulfilment
- 17An Ante-Bellum Sermon
- 18Ode To Ethiopia
- 19The Corn-Stalk Fiddle
- 20The Master-Player
- 21The Mystery
- 22Not They Who Soar
- 23Whittier
- 24Two Songs
All songs 429
- A Back-Log Song
- A Banjo Song
- A Border Ballad
- A Boy’s Summer Song
- A Bridal Measure
- A Cabin Tale
- A Career
- A Christmas Folksong
- A Confidence
- A Coquette Conquered
- A Corn-Song
- A Death Song
- A Death Song
- A Drowsy Day
- A Farm House by the River
- A Florida Night
- A Frolic
- A Golden Day
- A Grievance
- A Hymn
- A Lazy Day
- A Letter
- A Little Christmas Basket
- A Lost Dream
- A Love Letter
- A Love Song
- A Love Song
- A Lyric
- A Madrigal
- A Misty Day
- A Negro Love Song
- A Plantation Melody
- A Plantation Portrait
- A Plea
- A Poem of Faith
- A Prayer
- A Prayer
- A Preference
- A Roadway
- A Sailor’s Song
- A Song (#1)
- A Song (#2)
- A Spiritual
- A Spring Wooing
- A Summer Night
- A Summer Pastoral
- A Summer’s Night
- A Thanksgiving Poem
- A Warm Day In Winter
- A Winter’s Day
- Absence
- Accountability
- Advice
- After A Visit
- After Many Days
- After The Quarrel
- After While, A Poem of Faith
- Alexander Crummell - Dead
- Alice
- American Literature Digital Anthology (Beginnings through 1914)
- An Ante-Bellum Sermon
- An Easy Goin’ Feller
- An Old Memory
- Anchored
- Angelina
- Ante Bellum Sermon - Part I
- Ante Bellum Sermon - Part II
- Appreciation
- At Candle-Lightin’ Time
- At Cheshire Cheese
- At Lofting-Holt
- At Night
- At Sunset Time
- At the Tavern
- Ballad
- Ballade
- Behind The Arras
- Bein’ Back Home
- Beyond The Years
- Black Samson of Brandywine
- Blue
- Booker T. Washington
- Breaking The Charm
- By Rugged Ways
- By The Stream
- Chrismus Is A-Comin
- Chrismus On The Plantation
- Christmas
- Christmas Carol
- Christmas In The Heart
- Circumstances Alter Cases
- Columbian Ode
- Common Things
- Communion
- Comparison
- Compensation
- Confessional
- Confirmation
- Conscience and Remorse
- Curiosity
- Dat Ol’ Mare O’ Mine
- De Critters’ Dance
- De Way T’ings Come
- Deacon Jones’ Grievance
- Dead
- Dely
- Differences
- Dinah Kneading Dough
- Diplomacy
- Dirge
- Dirge For A Soldier
- Disappointed
- Discovered
- Douglass
- Down de Lover’s Lane
- Dream Song I
- Dream Song II
- Dreamin’ Town
- Dreams
- Dreams (#1)
- Drizzle
- Emancipation
- Encouragement
- Equipment
- Ere Sleep Comes Down To Soothe The Weary Eyes
- Evening
- Expectation
- Faith
- Farewell To Arcady
- Fishing
- Foolin’ Wid De Seasons
- For The Man Who Fails
- Forever
- Frederick Douglass
- From The Porch At Runnymede
- Fulfilment
- Gettin’ Up
- Good-Night
- Good-Night
- Growin’ Gray
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- He Had His Dream
- Her Thoughts And His
- Hope
- How Lucy Backslid
- How Shall I Woo Thee
- Hunting Song
- Hymn (#1)
- Hymn (#2)
- If
- If I Could But Forget
- 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
- Ione
- Itching Heels
- James Whitcomb Riley
- Jealous
- Jilted
- Joggin’ Erlong
- Johnny Speaks
- Just Whistle A Bit
- Keep A Song Up On De Way
- Keep-A-Pluggin’ Away
- Kidnaped
- Life
- Life’s Tragedy
- Limitations
- Lincoln
- Little Brown Baby
- Little Lucy Landman
- Liza May
- Li’l’ Gal
- Lonesome
- Long Ago
- Long To’ds Night
- Longing
- Longing
- Love
- Love Despoiled
- Love Memory
- Love-Songs
- Lover’s Lane
- Love’s Apotheosis
- Love’s Castle
- Love’s Phases
- Love’s Seasons
- Lullaby
- Lyrics of Love And Sorrow I
- Lyrics of Love and Sorrow V
- Mare Rubrum
- Melancholia
- Merry Autumn
- Morning
- Morning Song Of Love
- Mortality
- My Corn-Cob Pipe
- My Lady
- My Lady of Castle Grand
- My Little March Girl
- My Sort O’ Man
- My Sweet Brown Gal
- Nature and Art, To My Friend Charles Booth Nettleton I
- Nature and Art, To My Friend Charles Booth Nettleton II
- Night of Love
- Night, Dim Night
- Noddin’ By De Fire
- Noon
- Nora: A Serenade
- Not They Who Soar
- Nutting Song
- October
- Ode for Memorial Day
- Ode To Ethiopia
- On A Sea Wall
- On Emancipation Day
- On The Death Of W.C.
- On The Dedication of Dorothy Hall
- On The River
- On The Road
- One Life
- Opportunity
- Parted (#1)
- Passion and Love
- Philosophy
- Phyllis
- Poor Withered Rose
- Possession
- Possum
- Possum Trot
- Premonition
- Preparation
- Prometheus
- Promise
- Protest
- Puttin’ The Baby Away
- Religion
- Reluctance
- Remembered
- Response
- Response
- Retort
- Retrospection
- Riding To Town
- Right’s Security
- Robert Gould Shaw
- Roses
- Roses and Pearls
- Scamp
- She Gave Me A Rose
- She Told Her Beads
- Ships That Pass In The Night
- Signs of the Times
- Slow Through The Dark
- Snowin’
- Soliloquy of a Turkey
- Song
- Song Of Summer
- Sonnet On An Old Book With Uncut Leaves
- Speakin’ At De Cou’t-House
- Speakin’ O’ Christmas
- Spring Fever
- Spring Song
- Spring Song
- Summer In The South
- Sunset
- Sunset
- Suppose
- Sympathy
- Sympathy
- Sympathy (published in 1893)
- Temptation
- The Awakening
- The Barrier
- The Boogah Man
- The Capture
- The Change
- The Change Has Come
- The Colored Band
- The Colored Soldiers
- The Conquerors
- The Corn-Stalk Fiddle
- The Crisis
- The Dance
- The Death Of The First Born
- The Debt
- The Delinquent
- The Deserted Plantation
- The Dilettante: A Modern Type
- The Discovery
- The Disturber
- The Dove
- The Dreamer
- The End Of The Chapter
- The Farm Child’s Lullaby
- The Fisher Child’s Lullaby
- The Forest Greeting
- The Fount Of Tears
- The Garret
- The Gourd
- The Haunted Oak
- The King Is Dead
- The Knight
- The Lapse
- The Lawyers’ Ways
- The Lesson
- The Lily Of The Valley
- The Looking-Glass
- The Lover And The Moon
- The Made to Order Smile
- The Making Up
- The Mask we wear
- The Master-Player
- The Masters
- The Meadow Lark
- The Memory of Martha
- The Monk’s Walk
- The Murdered Lover
- The Mystery
- The Mystic Sea
- The News
- The Old Apple-Tree
- The Old Cabin
- The Old Front Gate
- The Old Homestead
- The Ol’ Tunes
- The Paradox
- The Party
- The Path
- The Phantom Kiss
- The Photograph
- The Place Where The Rainbow Ends
- The Plantation Child’s Lullaby
- The Poet and His Song
- The Poet and His Song
- The Poet and The Baby
- The Pool
- The Real Question
- The Right To Die
- The Rising of the Storm
- The Rivals
- The River of Ruin
- The Sand-Man
- The Secret
- The Seedling
- The Sparrow
- The Spellin’ Bee
- The Stirrup Cup
- The Sum
- The Tryst
- The Turning Of The Babies In The Bed
- The Tuskegee Song
- The Unsung Heroes
- The Valse
- The Veteran
- The Visitor
- The Voice of the Banjo
- The Warrior’s Prayer
- The Wind And The Sea
- The Wooing
- The Wraith
- The-Song
- Then And Now
- Thou Art My Lute
- Till The Wind Gets Right
- Time To Tinker ’Roun’!
- To A Dead Friend
- To A Lady Playing The Harp
- To A Violet Found On All Saint’s Day
- To An Ingrate
- To Dan
- To E. H. K.
- To Her
- To Louise
- To Pfrimmer
- To The Eastern Shore
- To The Memory of Mary Young
- To The Miami
- To The Road
- To The South
- Toast to Dayton
- Trouble In De Kitchen
- Twell De Night Is Pas’
- Two Little Boots
- Two Songs
- Unexpressed
- Vagrants
- Vengeance Is Sweet
- Wadin’ In De Crick
- Waiting
- We wear a mask(1896)
- We Wear the Mask
- We Wear The Mask
- We Wear the Mask
- We Wear the Mask (2020)
- We Wear the Mask (published 1896)
- We Wear the Mask (Written 1896)
- We Wear The Mask(1896)
- We_Wear_The_Mask PLD
- Weltschmertz
- What’s The Use
- When A Feller’s Itching To Be Spanked
- When All Is Done
- When de Co’n Pone’s Hot
- When Dey ’Listed Colored Soldiers
- When Malindy Sings
- 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
- Who Knows
- Why Fades A Dream
- Why the caged bird sings
- Winter Song
- Winter’s Approach
- With The Lark
- Worn Out
- W’en I Gits Home
- Yesterday and To-Morrow
- “Bird of my lady’s bower”