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    Christmas Poems Anthology
    Christmas Poems Anthology
    Christmas Poems Anthology
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    Christmas Poems Anthology

    By Paul Laurence Dunbar and Golden Deer Classics

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    CONTENTS:

    A Christmas Folk Song
    A Little Christmas Basket
    Chrismus Is A-Comin'
    Chrismus On The Plantation
    Christmas Carol
    Christmas in the Heart
    Christmas
    One Christmas At Shiloh
    Speakin' O' Christmas
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOregan Publishing
    Release dateDec 10, 2018
    ISBN9782291045625
    Christmas Poems Anthology
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    Paul Laurence Dunbar

    Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) was an African American poet, novelist, and playwright. Born in Dayton, Ohio, Dunbar was the son of parents who were emancipated from slavery in Kentucky during the American Civil War. He began writing stories and poems as a young boy, eventually publishing some in a local newspaper at the age of sixteen. In 1890, Dunbar worked as a writer and editor for The Tattler, Dayton’s first weekly newspaper for African Americans, which was a joint project undertaken with the help of Dunbar’s friends Wilbur and Orville Wright. The following year, after completing school, he struggled to make ends meet with a job as an elevator operator and envisioned for himself a career as a professional writer. In 1893, he published Oak and Ivy, a debut collection of poetry blending traditional verse and poems written in dialect. In 1896, a positive review of his collection Majors and Minors from noted critic William Dean Howells established Dunbar’s reputation as a rising star in American literature. Over the next decade, Dunbar wrote ten more books of poetry, four collections of short stories, four novels, a musical, and a play. In his brief career, Dunbar became a respected advocate for civil rights, participating in meetings and helping to found the American Negro Academy. His lyrics for In Dahomey (1903) formed the centerpiece to the first musical written and performed by African Americans on Broadway, and many of his essays and poems appeared in the nation’s leading publications, including Harper’s Weekly and the Saturday Evening Post. Diagnosed with tuberculosis in 1900, however, Dunbar’s health steadily declined in his final years, leading to his death at the age of thirty-three while at the height of his career.

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      Christmas Poems Anthology - Paul Laurence Dunbar

      Christmas Poems Anthology

      Paul Laurence Dunbar

      Copyright © 2018 by Oregan Publishing

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

      Contents

      A Christmas Folk Song

      A Little Christmas Basket

      Chrismus Is A-Comin'

      Chrismus On The Plantation

      Christmas Carol

      Christmas in the Heart

      Christmas

      One Christmas At Shiloh

      Speakin' O' Christmas

      A Christmas Folk Song

      De win' is blowin' wahmah,

      An hit's blowin' f'om de bay;

      Dey's a so't o' mist a-risin'

      All erlong de meddah way;

      Dey ain't a hint o' frostin'

      On de groun' ner in de sky,

      An' dey ain't no use in hopin'

      Dat de snow'll 'mence to fly.

      It's goin' to be a green Christmas,

      An' sad de day fu' me.

      I wish dis was de las' one

      Dat evah I should see.

      Dey's dancin' in de cabin,

      Dey's spahkin' by de tree;

      But dancin' times an' spahkin'

      Are all done pas' fur me.

      Dey's feastin' in de big house,

      Wid all de windahs wide--

      Is dat de way fu' people

      To meet de Christmas-tide?

      It's goin' to be

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