A Roadway
From Off the Road Database
| Author | Dunbar, P. L. |
|---|---|
| Genre | Poetry |
| Journal or Book | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar |
| Publisher | Dodd, Mead, and Company |
| Year of Publication | 1913 |
| Pages | 214-215 |
| Additional information | - |
Let those who will stride on their barren roads
And prick themselves to haste with self-made goads,
Unheeding, as they struggle day by day,
If flowers be sweet or skies be blue or gray:
For me, the lone, cool way by purling brooks,
The solemn quiet of the woodland nooks,
A song-bird somewhere trilling sadly gay,
A pause to pick a flower beside the way.
