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African American Poetry provides us an insight into the lives and feelings of early African American people. And African American Love Poem gives us a loving glimpse into their love life and their beloved. During the tensed period of slavery and Civil War, African American Love Poem serves as an escape to the world of perpetual love and sublimity. These African American Love Poems help them to draw the picture of their beloved and praise them, as these African American Love Poems were rich in images and feelings of the lovers. In fact, the poems of Dunbar, Hughes, and Hurston have borrowed mostly the folk materials in their poems.
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Here is an African American Love Poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar for you to read and take pleasure. Paul Laurence Dunbar, born in 1872 in Dayton, Ohio was the first African-American to gain national eminence as a poet.
Invitation To Love
By Dunbar
COME when the nights are bright with stars
Or when the moon is mellow;
Come when the sun his golden bars
Drops on the hay-field yellow.
Come in the twilight soft and gray,
Come in the night or come in the day,
Come, O love, whene'er you may,
And you are welcome, welcome.
You are sweet, O Love, dear Love,
You are soft as the nesting dove.
Come to my heart and bring it rest
As the bird flies home to its welcome nest.
Come when my heart is full of grief
Or when my heart is merry;
Come with the falling of the leaf
Or with the redd'ning cherry.
Come when the year's first blossom blows,
Come when the summer gleams and glows,
Come with the winter's drifting snows,
And you are welcome, welcome.
A Negro Love Song
By Dunbar
SEEN my lady home las' night,
Jump back, honey, jump back.
Hel' huh han' an' sque'z it tight,
Jump back, honey, jump back.
Hyeahd huh sigh a little sigh,
Seen a light gleam f'om huh eye,
An' a smile go flittin' by --
Jump back, honey, jump back.
Hyeahd de win' blow thoo de pine,
Jump back, honey, jump back.
Mockin'-bird was singin' fine,
Jump back, honey, jump back.
An' my hea't was beatin' so,
When I reached my lady's do',
Dat I could n't ba' to go --
Jump back, honey, jump back.
Put my ahm aroun' huh wais',
Jump back, honey, jump back.
Raised huh lips an' took a tase,
Jump back, honey, jump back.
Love me, honey, love me true?
Love me well ez I love you?
An' she answe'd, " 'Cose I do" --
Jump back, honey, jump back
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