Overview
āBreezes blowinā middlinā brisk, / Snowflakes throā the air a-whisk, / Fallinā kind oā soft anā light, /Not enough to make things white, / But jest sorter siftinā down / So ās to cover up the brown /Of the dark worldās rugged ways / āNā make things look like holidays. /Not smoothed over, but jest specked, / Sorter straininā fur effect, / Anā not quite a-gittinā through / What it started in to do. / Mercy sakes! It does seem queer / Christmas day is āmost nigh here. / Somehow it donāt seem to me /Christmas like it used to be,ā / Christmas with its ice anā snow, / Christmas of the long ago.ā
Once praised by Frederick Douglass as āthe most promising young colored man in America,ā Paul Laurence Dunbar was an exceptionally gifted poet who helped lay the foundation of African American literature and was the first African American poet to achieve major success across the color line. Published posthumously nearly ten years after his untimely death, Speakinā Oā Christmas and Other Christmas Poems, collects over a dozen of his most festive, holiday-themed verses into a single volume, including, āChrismus is A-Cominā,ā āSoliloquy of a Turkey,ā āChristmas in the Heart,ā and the titular, āSpeakinā Oā Christmas.ā
Celebrating both the spirit of the holiday season and the talent of the āNegro dialectā poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Speakinā Oā Christmas and Other Poems is a delightful collection of poetry for readers of all ages.
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