His poem Christmas Carol begins with "Ring out, Ye bells! All Nature swells".
His poem Christmas Carol begins with "Ring out, Ye bells! All Nature swells". After the lines "No low fever is mine", one poem of his ends with the twice-repeated phrase "For a drink is more kind than a priest". Another's speaker says "come to yo' pappy an' set on his knee" to the titular person. Along with Little Brown Baby, he also notes that an object "hides our cheeks and shades our eyes" in We Wear the Mask. Hattie Sterling is murdered in his novel about Berry Hamilton being falsely imprisoned for theft. William Dean Howells wrote an introduction for the 1896 combination of two of his previous books, the poetry collections Majors and Minors and Oak and Ivy, which were collected as Lyrics of Lowly Life. For 10 points, name this African-American author of Sport of the Gods.
His poem Christmas Carol begins with "Ring out, Ye bells! All Nature swells".
Paul Laurence Dunbar