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Paul Laurence Dunbar

"I am but clay," the sinner plead,
Who fed each vain desire.
"Not only clay," another said,
"But worse, for thou art mire."




Quotes of the Day

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.
• Morris Cohen


Poems of the Day
  • Dorothy Parker
    The Trusting Heart
    by Dorothy Parker
    Oh, I'd been better dying, Oh, I was slow and sad; A fool I was, a-crying About a cruel lad! But there was one that found me, That wept to see me weep, And had his arm around me,