Stephen Foster: Day

Stephen Foster was American songwriter. Explore interesting quotes on 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."”

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

“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!”

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

“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!”

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

“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.”

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