Paul Laurence Dunbar - Misapprehension lyrics

Out of my heart, one day, I wrote a song, With my heart's blood imbued, Instinct with pa**ion, tremulously strong, With grief subdued; Breathing a fortitude Pain-bought. And one who claimed much love for what I wrought, Read and considered it, And spoke: 'Ay, brother,--'t is well writ, But where's the joke?'