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Title

Lyrics of lowly life / by Paul Laurence Dunbar ; with an introduction by W.D. Howells.

Author

Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906.

Publication

New York : Dodd, Mead and Company, 1897.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920.
• Dodd, Mead & Company, publisher.
• University Press (Cambridge, Mass.), printer.
• John Wilson and Son, printer.

Description

xx, 208 p., [1] leaf of plates : port.; 17 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subjects

• Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906 > Portraits
• African Americans > Poetry
• American poetry > African American authors

Note

• With a half-title.
• "Copyright, 1895, 1896, by the Century Company. Copyright, 1896, by Dodd, Mead and Company. All rights reserved."--verso of title page.
• "University Press. John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A."--printer statement, verso of title page.

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

Introduction -- Ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes -- The poet and his song -- Retort -- Accountability -- Frederick Douglass -- Life -- The lesson -- The rising of the storm -- Sunset -- The old apple-tree -- A prayer -- Passion and love -- The seedling -- Promise and fulfilment -- Song -- An ante-bellum sermon -- Ode to Ethiopia -- The corn-stalk fiddle -- The master-player -- The mystery -- Not they who soar -- Whittier -- Two songs -- A banjo song -- Longing -- The path -- The lawyers' ways -- Ode for Memorial Day -- Premonition -- Retrospection -- Unexpressed -- Song of summer -- Spring song -- To Louise -- The rivals -- The lover and the moon -- Conscience and remorse -- Ione -- Religion -- Deacon Jones' grievance -- Alice -- After the quarrel -- Beyond the years -- After a visit -- Curtain -- The spellin'-bee -- Keep a-pluggin' away -- Night of love -- Columbian ode -- A border ballad -- An easy-goin' feller -- A Negro love song -- The dilettante: a modern type -- By the stream -- The colored soldiers -- Nature and art -- After while -- The ol' tunes -- Melancholia -- The wooing -- Merry autumn -- When de co'n pone's hot -- Ballad -- The change has come -- Comparison -- A corn-song -- Discovered -- Disappointed -- Invitation to love -- He had his dream -- Good-night -- A coquette conquered -- Nora: a serenade -- October -- A summer's night -- Ships that pass in the night -- The delinquent -- Dawn -- A drowsy day -- Dirge -- Hymn -- Preparation -- The deserted plantation -- The secret -- The wind and the sea -- Riding to town -- We wear the mask -- The meadow lark -- One life -- Changing time -- Dead -- A confidence -- Phyllis -- Right's security -- If -- The song -- Signs of the times -- Why fades a dream? -- The sparrow -- Speakin' o' Christmas -- Lonesome -- Growin' gray -- To the memory of Mary Young -- When Malindy sings -- The party.

Call Number

Sc Rare C 89-51

OCLC

• 726790
• NYPG89-B25229

Author

Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906.

Title

Lyrics of lowly life / by Paul Laurence Dunbar ; with an introduction by W.D. Howells.

Imprint

New York : Dodd, Mead and Company, 1897.

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 811-D (accession no. B541605) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Added Author

Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920.

Dodd, Mead & Company, publisher.

University Press (Cambridge, Mass.), printer.

John Wilson and Son, printer.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare C 89-51

Sc Rare 811-D (Dunbar, P. Lyrics of lowly life. 1897)

NBI (Dunbar, P. L. Lyrics of lowly life. 1897)