Poems in Lyrics of Lowly Life, 1896 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 Passon and Love The Seedling Promise and Fulfilment Song 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 Soldier 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 Time Why Fades a Dream? The Sparrow Speakin' O' Christmas Lonesome Growing' Gray To the Memory of Mary Young When Malindy Sings The Party
AN angel, robed in spotless white, Bent down and kissed the sleeping Night. Night woke to blush; the sprite was gone. Men saw the blush and called it Dawn.
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