The Dunbar Music Archive was established by Dr. Minnita Daniel-Cox in 2014. This resource is meant to increase awareness and consumption of musical settings of texts by Paul Laurence Dunbar. Dunbar the poet, author, librettist, activist, and essayist was a seminal figure in establishing a poetic voice that would influence African-American poets for generations, including those responsible for the blossoming of the Harlem Renaissance.

This collection was produced by University of Dayton's Department of Music

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Selected Poems

Spring Fever, Paul Laurence Dunbar

Spring Song, Paul Laurence Dunbar

Sunset, Paul Laurence Dunbar

Sympathy, Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Awakening, Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Boogah Man, Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Colored Band, Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Dance, Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Deserted Plantation, Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Lawyers' Ways, Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Master-Player, Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Meadow Lark, Paul Laurence Dunbar

The News, Paul Laurence Dunbar

Theology, Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Place Where the Rainbow Ends, Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Plantation Child's Lullaby, Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Poet and His Song, Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Real Question, Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Real Question (Video), Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Rising of the Storm, Paul Laurence Dunbar

The River of Ruin, Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Sand-Man, Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Secret, Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Sparrow, Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Sum, Paul Laurence Dunbar