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Stephen Foster
8 quotes
“Oh I come from Alabama with a banjo on my knee, I'm going to Louisiana, my true love for to see It rained all night the day I left, the weather it was dry The sun so hot I froze to death; Susanna, don't you cry. Oh, Susanna, don't you cry for me For I come from Alabama, With my banjo on my knee.”
Stephen Foster (1826–1864) first seen 1848 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Oh! Susanna, W.C. Peters & Co. (1848).
“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.”
Stephen Foster (1826–1864) first seen 1860 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Old Black Joe, Firth, Pond & Co. (1860).
“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.”
Stephen Foster (1826–1864) first seen 1862 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Beautiful Dreamer, Firth, Pond & Co. (1862).
“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!”
Stephen Foster (1826–1864) said by 1864 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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!”
Stephen Foster (1826–1864) said by 1864 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: My Old Kentucky Home. Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Sadly I roam, Still longing for de old plantation, And for de old folks at home.”
Stephen Foster (1826–1864) said by 1864 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All up and down the whole creation, Sadly I roam, Still longing for the old plantation, And for the old folks at home.”
Stephen Foster (1826–1864) said by 1864 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All the world is sad and dreary, Everywhere I roam.”
Stephen Foster (1826–1864) said by 1864 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted at Family Book of Best Loved Poems, by David L. George, (1952)