Research Catalog

Title

Lyrics of sunshine and shadow / by Paul Laurence Dunbar.

Author

Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906.

Publication

New York : Dodd, Mead & Company, 1905.

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Details

Additional Authors

Dodd, Mead & Company, publisher.

Description

x, [2], 109, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill.; 17 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subject

• African Americans > Poetry
• American poetry > African American authors

Note

• With a half-title.
• "Copyright, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, by the Century Co. Copyright, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, by the Curtis Publishing Company. Copyright, 1903, by W.H. Gannett. Copyright, 1905, by Dodd, Mead and Company."--verso of title page.
• Last page blank.

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

A boy's sumer song -- The sand-man -- Johnny speaks -- Winter song -- A Christmas folksong -- The forest greeting -- The lily of the valley -- Encouraged -- To J.Q. -- Diplomacy -- Scamp --Wadin' in de creek -- A corn song -- The plantation child's lullaby -- Twilight -- Curiousity -- Opportunity -- Puttin' the baby away -- The fisher child's lullaby -- Faith -- The farm child's lullaby -- The place where the rainbow ends -- Hope -- Appreciation -- The barrier -- Day -- To Dan -- What's the use -- A lazy day -- Advice -- Limitations -- A golden day -- The unlucky apple -- The discovery -- Morning -- The awakening -- Love's draft -- A musical -- Twell de night is pas' -- Blue -- Dreamin' town -- At night -- Kidnaped -- Compensation -- Winter's approach -- Anchored -- The veteran -- Yesterday and to-morrow -- The change -- The chase -- Suppose -- The death of the first born -- Bein' back home -- The old cabin -- Despair -- Circumstances alter cases -- Till the wind gets right -- A summer night -- At sunset time -- Night -- At Loafing-Holt -- When a feller's itching to be spanked -- The river of ruin -- To her -- A love letter -- After many days -- Liza May -- The masters -- Trouble in de kitchen -- The quilting -- Parted -- Forever -- Christmas -- Roses and pearls -- Rain-songs -- A lost dream -- A song -- A song.

Call Number

Sc Rare 811-D (Dunbar, P.L. Lyrics of sunshine and shadow. 1901-1905)

OCLC

27402006

Author

Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906.

Title

Lyrics of sunshine and shadow / by Paul Laurence Dunbar.

Imprint

New York : Dodd, Mead & Company, 1905.

Indexed In:

Blanck, J. Bibliography of American literature, 4954

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 3331

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 811-D (accession no. B541557) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Dodd, Mead & Company, publisher.

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

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 811-D (Dunbar, P.L. Lyrics of sunshine and shadow. 1901-1905)