| |
"I was so sick last night I
Didn't hardly know my mind.
So sick last night I
Didn't know my mind.
I drunk some bad licker that
Almost made me blind."
Langston Hughes (1902-1967), U.S. poet. Morning After (l. 1-6). . .
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes. (1959) Vintage Books. |
"Way Down South in Dixie
(Break the heart of me)
They hung my black young lover
To a cross roads tree."
Langston Hughes (1902-1967), U.S. poet. Song for a Dark Girl (l. 1-4). . .
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes. (1959) Vintage Books. |
"Love is a naked shadow
On a gnarled and naked tree."
Langston Hughes (1902-1967), U.S. poet. Song for a Dark Girl (l. 11-12). . .
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes. (1959) Vintage Books. |
"I swear to the Lord
I still can't see
Why Democracy means
Everybody but me."
Langston Hughes (1902-1967), U.S. poet, author. The Black Man Speaks, Jim Crow's Last Stand (1943). |
"here
to this college on the hill above Harlem
I am the only colored student in my class."
Langston Hughes (1902-1967), U.S. poet. Theme for English B (l. 8-10). . .
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes. (1959) Vintage Books. |
"So will my page be colored that I write?
Being me, it will not be white.
But it will be
a part of you, instructor.
You are white—
yet a part of me, as I am a part of you."
Langston Hughes (1902-1967), U.S. poet. Theme for English B (l. 27-32). . .
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes. (1959) Vintage Books. |
"As I learn from you,
I guess you learn from me—
although you're older—and white—
and somewhat more free.
This is my page for English B."
Langston Hughes (1902-1967), U.S. poet. Theme for English B (l. 37-41). . .
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes. (1959) Vintage Books. |
"I've known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers."
Langston Hughes (1902-1967), U.S. poet. The Negro Speaks of Rivers (l. 11-13). . .
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes. (1959) Vintage Books. |
"The singer stopped playing and went to bed
While the Weary Blues echoed through his head.
He slept like a rock or a man that's dead."
Langston Hughes (1902-1967), U.S. poet. The Weary Blues (l. 1-5). . .
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes. (1959) Vintage Books. |
"Droning a drowsy syncopated tune,
Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon,
I heard a Negro play.
Down on Lenox Avenue the other night
By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light"
Langston Hughes (1902-1967), U.S. poet. The Weary Blues (l. 1-5). . .
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes. (1959) Vintage Books. |
| |
Langston Hughes
Free
Poetry E-Book: