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POEMS

Also see http://www.plethoreum.org/dunbar/ where the poems are read by Professor Hebert Martin

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  THE POET AND HIS SONG

THE POET

ERE SLEEP COMES DOWN

LITTLE BROWN BABY

 UNEXPRESSED

IONE

 

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TO LOUISE

 A NEGRO LOVE SONG

 AFTER THE QUARREL

 SONG

 PASSION AND LOVE

 LONGING

 RETORT

 TWO SONGS

 THE LOVER AND THE MOON

 THE RIVALS

ALICE

NIGHT OF LOVE

 

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 THE SPELLIN'-BEE

 A BANJO SONG

 KEEP A-PLUGGIN' AWAY

 THE WOOING

 AN EASY-GOIN' FELLER

 THE DELINQUENT

 RIDING TO TOWN

 THE PARTY

 

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WHY FADES A DREAM?

IF

WHEN MALINDY SINGS

THE SECRET

LONESOME

 CHANGING TIME

THE SPARROW

A CONFIDENCE

WE WEAR THE MASK

DEAD

ONE LIFE

THE WIND AND THE SEA

 

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THE COLORED SOLDIERS

THE DEBT

THE OLD APPLE-TREE

SYMPATHY

NOT THEY WHO SOAR

SUNSET

COMPENSATION

THE LESSON

THE RISING OF THE STORM

SHIPS THAT PASS IN THE NIGHT

A PRAYER

NORA: A SERENADE

PHYLLIS

THE DILETTANTE: A MODERN TYPE

 

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When DEY 'LISTED COLORED SOLDIERS

ODE TO ETHIOPIA

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