Response
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Publication Information
Published in Lyrics of Love and Laughter (1903)
Performed by Herbert Woodward Martin
Musical Settings
George Theophilus Walker, Response (voice and piano) (January 1971)
Leslie Adams, Love Response (June 2014)
Recommended Citation
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, "Response" (1903). Dunbar Music Archive. 154.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/dunbar/154
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Text
When Phyllis sighs and from her eyes
The light dies out; my soul replies
With misery of deep drawn breath,
E'en as it were at war with death.
When Phyllis smiles, her glance beguiles
My heart through lovelit woodland aisles,
And through the silence high and clear,
A wooing warbler's song I hear.
But if she frown, despair comes down,
I put me on my sackcloth gown;
So frown not, Phyllis, lest I die,
But look on me with smile or sigh.