Research Catalog

Title

Lyrics of the hearthside / by Paul Laurence Dunbar.

Author

Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906.

Publication

New York : Dodd, Mead and Company, 1899.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Dodd, Mead & Company, publisher.
• University Press (Cambridge, Mass.), printer.
• John Wilson and Son, printer.

Description

x, 227, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : port.; 17 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subject

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

Note

• With a half-title page.
• "Books by Mr. Dunbar ... "--verso of half-title page.
• "Copyright 1899 by Dodd, Mead & Company. Copyright also in the Ladies' Home Journal, 1897, 1898, by Curtis Publishing Co.; in The Outlook, 1898, by the Outlook Co.; in Century Magazine, 1896, 1897, 1898, by the Century Co.; in the Cosmopolitan Magazine, 1898, by J.B. Walker."--verso of title page.
• "University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A."--printer statement, verso of title page.

Indexed In (note)

• Blanck, J. Bibliography of American literature
• Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)

Provenance (note)

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

Contents

Love's apotheosis -- The paradox -- Over the hills -- With the lark -- In summer -- The mystic sea -- A sailor's song -- The Bohemian -- Absence -- Her thought and his -- The right to die -- Behind the Arras -- When the old man smokes -- The garret -- To E.H.K. -- A bridal measure -- Vengeance is sweet -- A hymn -- Just whistle a bit -- The barrier -- Dreams -- The dreamer -- Waiting -- The end of the chapter -- Sympathy -- Love and grief -- Mortality -- Love -- She gave me a rose -- Dream song. I. -- Dream song. II. -- Christmas in the heart -- The king is dead -- Theology -- Resignation -- Love's humility -- Precedent -- She told her beads -- Little Lucy Landman -- The gourd -- The knight -- Thou art my lute -- The phantom kiss -- Communion -- Mare Rubrum -- In an English garden -- The crisis -- The conquerors -- Alexander Crummell, dead -- When all is done -- The poet and the baby -- Distinction -- The sum -- Sonnet -- On the sea wall -- To a lady playing the harp -- Confessional -- Misapprehension -- Prometheus -- Love's phases -- For the man who fails -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Vagrants -- A winter's day -- My little March girl -- Remembered -- Love despoiled -- The lapse -- The warrior's prayer -- Farewell to Arcady -- The voice of the banjo -- The stirrup cup -- A choice -- Then and now -- At Cheshire cheese -- My corn-cob pipe -- In August -- The disturber -- Expectation -- Lover's lane -- Protest -- Hymn -- Little brown baby -- Time to tinker 'roun'! -- The real question -- Jilted -- The news -- Chrismus on the plantation -- Angelina -- Foolin' wid de seasons -- My sort o' man -- Possum -- On the road -- A death song -- A back-log song -- Lullaby -- The photograph -- Jealous -- Parted -- Temptation -- Possum trot -- Dely -- Breaking the charm -- Hunting song -- A letter -- Chrismus is a-comin' -- A cabin tale -- At candle-lightin' time -- Whistling Sam -- How Lucy backslid.

Call Number

Sc Rare C 89-50

LCCN

99001025

OCLC

• 764434
• NYPG89-B25230

Author

Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906.

Title

Lyrics of the hearthside / by Paul Laurence Dunbar.

Imprint

New York : Dodd, Mead and Company, 1899.

Indexed In:

Blanck, J. Bibliography of American literature, 4925

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 3332

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 811-D (accession no. B541595) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Added Author

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 89-50

Sc Rare 811-D (Dunbar, P. L. Lyrics of the hearthside)