Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906.

Publication

London : Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1897.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920.
• Chapman and Hall, publisher.
• Richard Clay and Sons, printer.

Description

xx, 208 p., [1] leaf of plates : port.; 19 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subjects

• African Americans > Poetry
• Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)
• Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906 > Portraits
• American poetry > African American authors
• Black author

Genre/Form

Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)

Note

• With a half-title.
• "Richard Clay and Sons, Limited, London and Bungay."--printer statement, verso of title page.

Indexed In (note)

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

Provenance (note)

• inscribed: in ink on printed slip affixed to frontispiece portrait "Paul Laurence Dunbar.", this inscription is preceded by a typewritten "Respectfully yours" ; This copy 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 811-D (Dunbar, P. Lyrics of lowly life. London: 1897)

OCLC

• 726783
• NYPGR726783-B

Author

Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906.

Title

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

Imprint

London : Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1897.

Indexed In:

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), Suppl. 654

Provenance

Copy in Rare Sc 811-D (accession no. B541602) inscribed: in ink on printed slip affixed to frontispiece portrait "Paul Laurence Dunbar.", this inscription is preceded by a typewritten "Respectfully yours" ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920.

Chapman and Hall, publisher.

Richard Clay and Sons, printer.

Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906, inscriber.

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

Research Call Number

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