Dunbar's Poetry
William Dunbar's poetry contained a wide variety of subjects, moods and metres. He wrote many devout religious works and noble courtly pieces but he also produced comic pieces which often made use of scurrilous elements and uninhibited language.
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“Fu’ I t’ink de las’ long res’
Gwine to soothe my sperrit bes’
If I’s layin’ ‘mong de t’ings I’s allus knowed.”
—Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)
“Love’s the only thing I’ve thought of or read about since I was knee-high. That’s what I always dreamed of, of meeting somebody and falling in love. And when that remarkable thing happened, I was going to recite poetry to her for hours about how her heart’s an angel’s wing and her hair the strings of a heavenly harp. Instead I got drunk and hollered at her and called her a harpy.”
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