Paul Laurence Dunbar Home Poems Poets Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,— The Sparrow by Paul Laurence Dunbar A little bird, with plumage brown, Beside my window flutters down, The Lesson by Paul Laurence Dunbar My cot was down by a cypress grove, And I sat by my window the whole night long, The Rising of the Storm by Paul Laurence Dunbar The lake's dark breast Is all unrest,