{"id":558,"date":"2019-02-19T20:55:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T20:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/?p=558"},"modified":"2019-02-19T20:55:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T20:55:04","slug":"poem-of-the-month-invitation-to-love-by-paul-laurence-dunbar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/?p=558","title":{"rendered":"Poem of the Month: Invitation to Love by Paul Laurence Dunbar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Come when the nights are bright with stars
\n<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 Or come when the moon is mellow;
\n<\/span>Come when the sun his golden bars
\n<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 Drops on the hay-field yellow
\n<\/span>Come in the twilight soft and gray,
\n<\/span>Come in the night or come in the day,
\n<\/span>Come, O love, whene\u2019er you may,
\n<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 And you are welcome, welcome.<\/span><\/p>\n

You are sweet, O Love, dear Love,
\n<\/span>You are soft as the nesting dove.
\n<\/span>Come to my heart and bring it to rest
\n<\/span>As the bird flies home to its welcome nest.<\/span><\/p>\n

Come when my heart is full of grief
\n<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 Or when my heart is merry;
\n<\/span>Come with the falling of the leaf
\n<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 Or with the redd\u2019ning cherry.
\n<\/span>Come when the year\u2019s first blossom blows,
\n<\/span>Come when the summer gleams and glows,
\n<\/span>Come with the winter\u2019s drifting snows,
\n<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 And you are welcome, welcome.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

“Invitation to Love” appears in\u00a0The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar<\/em>, published in 1935.<\/p>\n

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