Author:Paul Laurence Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar
(1872–1906)

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Works

Non-fiction

• "Representative American Negroes", an essay from The Negro Problem, by Booker T. Washington, et al. (1903)

Fiction

• The Uncalled (1898)
• The Fanatics (1902)
• The Sport of the Gods, a novel (1902)

Short stories and collections

• Folks from Dixie (1898)
• The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories (1900) (transcription project)
• The Love of Landry (1900)
• The Heart of Happy Hollow: A Collection Of Stories (1904) (transcription project)
  • "The Scapegoat"
  • "One Christmas At Shiloh"
  • "The Mission Of Mr. Scatters"
  • "A Matter Of Doctrine"
  • "Old Abe's Conversion"
  • "The Race Question"
  • "A Defender Of The Faith"
  • "Cahoots"
  • "The Promoter"
  • "The Wisdom Of Silence"
  • "The Triumph of Ol' Mis' Pease"
  • "The Lynching Of Jube Benson"
  • "Schwalliger's Philantropy"
  • "The Interference Of Patsy Ann "
  • "The Home-Coming Of 'Rastus Smith"
  • "The Boy and The Bayonet"

Poetry

• Oak and Ivy (1892)
• Majors and Minors (1895) IA
• Lyrics of Lowly Life (1896) (transcription project)
• Li'l' Gal (1896)
• Poems of Cabin and Field (1899)
• Candle-Lightin' Time (1901) (start transcription)
• Lyrics of the Hearthside published (1902), copyright date of 1899
• The Haunted Oak (1900)
• In Old Plantation Days (1903)
• Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow (1905)
• Joggin' Erlong (1906)
• The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar (1913) (transcription project)

Poems

• In The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922), edited by James Weldon Johnson
  • "A Death Song"
  • "The Debt"
  • "The Haunted Oak"
  • "Little Brown Baby"
  • "Lover's Lane"
  • "A Negro Love Song"
  • "Ships That Pass in the Night"
  • "When de Co'n Pone's Hot"

 

• In The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar

Contents:

• Top
• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• T
• U
• V
• W
• X
• Y
• Z

A

• Absence
• Accountability
• Advice
• After a Visit
• After Many Days
• After The Quarrel
• After While
• Alexander Crummell-Dead
• Alice
• Anchored
• Angelina
• An Ante-Bellum Sermon
• Appreciation
• At Candle-Lightin' Time
• At Cheshire Cheese
• At Loafing-Holt
• At Night
• At Sunset Time
• At The Tavern
• The Awakening

B

• A Back-Log Song
• Ballad
• Ballade
• A Banjo Song
• The Barrier
• Behind The Arras
• Bein' Back Home
• Beyond The Years
• Black Samson Of Brandywine
• Blue
• The Bohemian
• The Boogah Man
• Booker T. Washington
• A Border Ballad
• A Boy's Summer Song
• Breaking The Charm
• A Bridal Measure
• By Rugged Ways
• By The Stream

C

• A Cabin Tale
• The Capture
• A Career
• The Change
• The Change Has Come
• Changing Time
• The Chase
• A Choice
• Chrismus Is A-Comin'
• Chrismus On The Plantation
• Christmas
• Christmas Carol
• A Christmas Folk Song
• Christmas In The Heart
• Circumstances Alter Cases
• The Colored Band
• The Colored Soldiers
• Columbian Ode
• Communion
• Comparison
• Compensation
• Confessional
• A Confidence
• The Conquerors
• Conscience and Remorse
• A Coquette Conquered
• A Corn-song
• The Corn-Stalk Fiddle
• The Crisis
• Curiosity
• Curtain

D

• The Dance
• Dat Ol' Mare O' Mine
• Dawn
• Day
• Deacon Jones' Grievance
• Dead
• Death
• The Death of the First Born
• A Death Song
• The Debt
• De Critters' Dance
• The Delinquent
• Dely
• The Deserted Plantation
• Despair
• De Way T'ings Come
• Differences
• The Dilettante: A Modern Type
• Dinah Kneading Dough
• Diplomacy
• Dirge
• Dirge For A Soldier
• Disappointed
• Discovered
• The Discovery
• Distinction
• The Disturber
• Douglass
• The Dove
• Dream Song I
• Dream Song II
• The Dreamer
• Dreamin' Town
• Dreams
• Dreams
• Drizzle
• A Drowsy Day

E

• An Easy Goin' Feller
• Emancipation
• Encouraged
• Encouragement
• The End Of The Chapter
• Equipment
• Ere Sleep Comes Down To Soothe The Weary Eyes
• Evening
• Expectation

F

• Faith
• Farewell To Arcady
• The Farm Child's Lullaby
• The Farm House by the River
• The Fisher Child's Lullaby
• Fishing
• A Florida Night
• Foolin' Wid De Seasons
• For The Man Who Fails
• The Forest Greeting
• Forever
• The Fount Of Tears
• Frederick Douglass
• A Frolic
• From The Porch At Runnymede
• Fulfillment

G

• The Garret
• A Golden Day
• Good-Night
• The Gourd
• A Grievance
• Growin' Gray
• Grown Up

H

• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• The Haunted Oak
• He Had His Dream
• Her Thought And His
• Hope
• How Lucy Backslid
• How Shall I Woo Thee
• "Howdy, Honey, Howdy!"
• Hunting Song
• Hymn
• Hymn
• A Hymn

I

• If
• Ione
• 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
• Itching Heels

J

• James Whitcomb Riley
• Jealous
• Jilted
• Joggin' Erlong
• Johnny Speaks
• Just Whistle A Bit

K

• Keep A-Pluggin' Away
• Keep A Song Up On De Way
• Kidnaped
• Kindness
• The King Is Dead
• The Knight

L

• The Lapse
• The Lawyers' Ways
• A Lazy Day
• The Lesson
• A Letter
• Life
• Life's Tragedy
• Li'l' Gal
• The Lily of the Valley
• Limitations
• Lincoln
• Little Brown Baby
• A Little Christmas Basket
• Little Lucy Landman
• Liza May
• Lonesome
• Long Ago
• 'Long To'ds Night
• Longing
• The Looking-Glass
• A Lost Dream
• Love
• Love and Grief
• Love Despoiled
• A Love Letter
• Love-Song
• A Love Song
• The Lover And The Moon
• Lover's Lane
• Love's Apotheosis
• Love's Castle
• Love's Draft
• Love's Humility
• Love's Phases
• Love's Pictures
• Love's Seasons
• Lullby
• A Lyric

M

• A Madrigal
• The Making Up
• Mare Rubrum
• The Master-Player
• The Masters
• The Meadow Lark
• Melancholia
• The Memory Of Martha
• Merry Autumn
• A Misty Day
• Misapprehension
• The Monk's Walk
• Morning
• Morning Song of Love
• Mortality
• The Murdered Lover
• A Musical
• My Corn-Cob Pipe
• My Lady Of Castle Grand
• My Little March Girl
• My Sort O' Man
• My Sweet Brown Gal
• The Mystery
• The Mystic Sea

N

• Nature and Art
• A Negro Love Song
• The News
• Night
• Night, Dim Night
• Night of Love
• Noddin' by de Fire
• Noon
• Nora: a Serenade
• Not They Who Soar
• Nutting Song

O

• October
• The Old Apple-Tree
• The Old Cabin
• The Old Front Gate
• The Old Homestead
• An Old Memory
• The Ol' Tunes
• On A Clean Book
• On The Death of W. C.
• On The Dedication Of Dorothy Hall
• On The River
• On the Road
• On The Sea Wall
• One Life
• Ode for Memorial Day
• Ode to Ethiopia
• Opportunity
• Over The Hills

P

• The Paradox
• Parted
• Parted
• The Party
• Passion and Love
• The Path
• The Phantom Kiss
• Philosophy
• The Photograph
• Phyllis
• The Place Where The Rainbow Ends
• The Plantation Child's Lullaby
• A Plantation Portrait
• A Plantation Melody
• A Plea
• A Poem of Faith
• The Poet
• The Poet and His Song
• The Poet And The Baby
• The Pool
• Poor Withered Rose
• Possession
• Possum
• Possum Trot
• A Prayer
• Precedent
• A Preference
• Premonition
• Preparation
• Prometheus
• Promise
• Protest
• Puttin' The Baby Away

Q

• The Quilting

R

• Rain-Songs
• The Real Question
• Religion
• Reluctance
• Remembered
• Resignation
• Response
• Retort
• Retrospection
• Riding To Town
• The Right to Die
• Right's Security
• The Rising of the Storm
• The Rivals
• The River Of Ruin
• A Roadway
• Robert Gould Shaw
• Roses
• Roses and Pearls

S

• A Sailor's Song
• The Sand-Man
• Scamp
• The Secret
• The Seedling
• She Gave Me a Rose
• She Told Her Beads
• Ships That Pass In The Night
• Signs Of The Times
• Silence
• Slow Through The Dark
• Snowin'
• Soliloquy Of A Turkey
• Song (My heart to thy heart)
• Song (Wintah, summah, snow er shine)
• A Song
• A Song
• Song Of Summer
• The Song
• Sonnet
• The Sparrow
• Speakin' at de Cou'thouse
• Speakin' O' Christmas
• The Spellin'-Bee
• A Spiritual
• Spring Fever
• Spring Song
• A Spring Wooing
• A Starry Night
• A Summer Night
• The Stirrup Cup
• A Summer Pastoral
• A Summer's Night
• The Sum
• Sunset
• Suppose
• Sympathy

T

• Temptation
• A Thanksgiving Poem
• Then and Now
• Theology
• Thou Art My Lute
• Till The Wind Gets Right
• Time To Tinker 'Roun'!
• To A Captious Critic
• To A Lady Playing The Harp
• To A Dead Friend
• To A Violet Found On All Saints' Day
• To An Ingrate
• Toast to Dayton
• To Dan
• To E. H. K.
• To Her
• To J. Q.
• To Louise
• To Pfrimmer
• To The Eastern Shore
• To the Memory of Mary Young
• To The Miami
• To The Road
• To The South
• Trouble In De Kitchen
• The Tryst
• The Turning Of The Babies In The Bed
• 'Twell de Night Is Pas'
• Twilight
• Two Little Boots
• Two Songs

U

• Unexpressed
• The Unlucky Apple
• The Unsung Heroes

V

• Vagrants
• The Valse
• Vengeance Is Sweet
• The Veteran
• The Voice Of The Banjo
• The Visitor

W

• Wading' In De Creek
• Waiting
• A Warm Day In Winter
• We Wear the Mask
• The Warrior's Prayer
• Weltschmertz
• W'en I Gits Home
• What's The Use
• When A Feller's Itchin' To Be Spanked
• When All Is Done
• When de Co'n Pone's Hot
• When Dey 'Listed Colored Soldiers
• 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
• Why Fades a Dream?
• The Wind And The Sea
• Winter-Song
• Winter's Approach
• A Winter's Day
• With The Lark
• The Wooing
• Worn Out
• The Wraith

Y

• Yesterday And To-Morrow

Works about Dunbar

• "Dunbar, Paul Laurence" in The Biographical Dictionary of America Vol. 3 (1906)
• "Dunbar, Paul Laurence," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Paul Laurence Dunbar" in Negro Poets and Their Poems (1923)