Title

Song

Performer

Herbert Woodward Martin, University of Dayton

Document Type

Multimedia

Description

Herb Martin reading the poem The Song by Paul Laurence Dunbar

Text

My heart to thy heart,
My hand to thine;
My lips to thy lips,
Kisses are wine
Brewed for the lover in sunshine and shade,
Let me drink deep then, my African maid.

Lily to lily,
Rose unto rose;
My love to thy love
Tenderly grows.
Rend not the oak and the ivy in twain,
Nor the swart maid from her swarthier swain.

eCommons Citation

Martin, Herbert Woodward, "Song" (2014). English Faculty Performances. 29.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/eng_fac_perform/29