DuBose Heyward

North Carolina · connected South Carolina · born or raised1885–1940

American novelist, playwright, poet (1885-1940)

Died in Tryon
Born in Charleston source

novelist, screenwriter, poet, writer, librettist

Quotations with a citation

You could not give me toys in those bleak days; So when my playmates proudly boasted theirs, You caught me to the shelter of your arms, And taught me how to laugh away my tears.

It is cruel for a woman with her man gone, An' the younguns allus hungry, an' winter comin' on.

Compassionate the mountains rise Dim with the wistful dimness of old eyes That, having looked on life time out of mind, Know that the simple gift of being kind Is greater than all the wisdom of the wise.

Here lies a spendthrift who believed That only those who spend may keep; Who scattered seeds, yet never grieved Because a stranger came to reap.

Porgy lived in the Golden Age. Not the Golden Age of a remote and legendary past; nor yet the chimerical era treasured by every man past middle life, that never existed except in the heart of youth; but an age when men, not yet old, were boys in an ancient, beautiful city that time had forgotten before it destroyed.

In the libraries

Open Library Carolina chansons · 1922 View library record ↗ Open Library Mamba's Daughters · 1929 View library record ↗ Open Library Peter Ashley · 1932 View library record ↗ Open Library Porgy · 1925 View library record ↗ Open Library The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes · 1939 View library record ↗ Open Library The poetry of the Negro, 1746-1970 · 1949 View library record ↗

Read DuBose Heyward

Porgy 1925 Find a copy Carolina chansons 1922 Find a copy Mamba's Daughters 1929 Find a copy The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes 1939 Find a copy The poetry of the Negro, 1746-1970 1949 Find a copy Peter Ashley 1932 Find a copy