User:FloNight/Paul Laurence Dunbar/Love poems



LOVE'S PICTURES

Like the blush upon the rose When the wooing south wind speaks, Kissing soft its petals, Are thy cheeks.

Tender, soft, beseeching, true, Like the stars that deck the skies Through the ether sparkling, Are thine eyes.

Like the song of happy birds, When the woods with spring rejoice, In their blithe awak'ning, Is thy voice.

Like soft threads of clustered silk O'er thy face so pure and fair, Sweet in its profusion, Is thy hair.

Like a fair but fragile vase, Triumph of the carver's art, Graceful formed and slender,-- Thus thou art.

Ah, thy cheek, thine eyes, thy voice, And thy hair's delightful wave Make me, I'll confess it, Thy poor slave!



[[Image:Sky Dusk.jpg|center|400px|thumb|    TWILIGHT 'Twixt a smile and a tear,  'Twixt a song and a sigh, 'Twixt the day and the dark,  When the night draweth nigh.

Ah, sunshine may fade From the heavens above, No twilight have we To the day of our love. From "The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar]]



[[Image:Roses - Vincent van Gogh.JPG|center|360px|thumb| Your spoken words are roses fine and sweet, The songs you sing are perfect pearls of sound. How lavish nature is about your feet, To scatter flowers and jewels both around.

Blushing the stream of petal beauty flows, Softly the white strings trickle down and shine. Oh! speak to me, my love, I crave a rose. Sing me a song, for I would pearls were mine. Roses and Pearls by Paul Laurence Dunbar, From "The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar]]

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Out of the sunshine and out of the heat, Out of the dust of the grimy street, A song fluttered down in the form of a dove, And it bore me a message, the one word—Love!

Ah, I was toiling, and oh, I was sad: I had forgotten the way to be glad. Now, smiles for my sadness and for my toil, rest Since the dove fluttered down to its home in my breast! The Dove, by Paul Laurence Dunbar, From "The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar]]

[[Image:WaitingForYouPostcard1909.JPG|thumb|center|700px|               LONGING If you could sit with me beside the sea to-day, And whisper with me sweetest dreamings o'er and o'er; I think I should not find the clouds so dim and gray, And not so loud the waves complaining at the shore.

If you could sit with me upon the shore to-day, And hold my hand in yours as in the days of old, I think I should not mind the chill baptismal spray, Nor find my hand and heart and all the world so cold.

If you could walk with me upon the strand to-day, And tell me that my longing love had won your own, I think all my sad thoughts would then be put away, And I could give back laughter for the Ocean's moan! From "The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar"]]

[[Image:Picture couple pregnant woman.jpg|center|thumb|300px|         THOU ART MY LUTE Thou art my lute, by thee I sing,— My being is attuned to thee. Thou settest all my words a-wing, And meltest me to melody.

Thou art my life, by thee I live, From thee proceed the joys I know; Sweetheart, thy hand has power to give The meed of love—the cup of woe.

Thou art my love, by thee I lead My soul the paths of light along, From vale to vale, from mead to mead, And home it in the hills of song.

My song, my soul, my life, my all, Why need I pray or make my plea, Since my petition cannot fall; For I 'm already one with thee! From "The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar"]]]]