Stephen Foster: Day

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“Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay,
Gone are my friends from the cotton fields away,
Gone from the earth to a better land I know,
I hear their gentle voices calling "Old Black Joe."”

Stephen Foster

Old Black Joe, Firth, Pond & Co. (1860).

Heart

“The head must bow, and the back will have to bend,
Wherever the darkey may go;
A few more days, and the trouble all will end,
In the field where the sugar-canes grow.
A few more days for to tote the weary load,—
No matter, 't will never be light;
A few more days till we totter on the road:—
Then my old Kentucky home, good-night!”

Stephen Foster

My Old Kentucky Home. As quoted at Anthology of American Poetry, by George Gesner, (1983).

Home , Light , Night

“The day goes by like a shadow o’er the heart,
With sorrow where all was delight;
The time has come when the darkies have to part:
Then my old Kentucky home, good night!”

Stephen Foster

My Old Kentucky Home. Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Home , Time , Heart , Parting

“Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me,
Starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee;
Sounds of the rude world heard in the day,
Lull'd by the moonlight have all pass'd away.”

Stephen Foster

Beautiful Dreamer, Firth, Pond & Co. (1862).

World , Beauty , Waiting