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Paul Laurence Dunbar

Public-domain classic

American poet (1872–1906). His verse is in the public domain — presented here as a classic.

Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar

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Sympathy

I know what the caged bird feels, alas! When the sun is bright on the upland slopes; When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass, And the river flows like a stream of glass; When the first bird sings and the first bud opes, And the faint perfume from its chalice steals –
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