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Langston Hughes
(1902 - 1967 / Joplin / Missouri)
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49 poems of Langston Hughes
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''While over Alabama earth
These words are gently spoken:
Serve—and hate will die unborn.
Love—and chains are broken.''
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Langston Hughes (20th century), U.S. poet and author. Edited by Arna Bontemps. "Alabama Earth (at Booker Washington's grave)," Golden Slippers (1941)....
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''The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk.
The rain makes running pools in the gutter.
The rain plays a little sleep-song on our roof at night—''
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Langston Hughes (1902-1967), U.S. poet. April Rain Song (l. 4-6). . .
Oxford Book of Children's Verse in America, The. Donald Hall, ed. (1985) Oxf...
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''Babies and gin and church
And women and Sunday
All mixed with dimes and
Dollars and clean spittoons
And house rent to pay.''
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Langston Hughes (1902-1967), U.S. poet. Brass Spittoons (l. 26-30). . .
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair...
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''Clean the spittoons.
The steam in hotel kitchens,
And the smoke in hotel lobbies,
And the slime in hotel spittoons:
Part of my life.''
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Langston Hughes (1902-1967), U.S. poet. Brass Spittoons (l. 6-10). . .
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair,...
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''Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.''
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Langston Hughes (1902-1967), U.S. poet and author. "Dreams," Golden Slippers, ed. Arna Bontemps (1941).
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''Night coming tenderly
Black like me.''
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Langston Hughes (1902-1967), U.S. poet. Dream Variation (l. 16-17). . .
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes. (1959) Vintage Books.
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''Brown sugar lassie,
Caramel treat,
Honey-gold baby
Sweet enough to eat.
Peach-skinned girlie,''
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Langston Hughes (1902-1967), U.S. poet. Harlem Sweeties (l. 5-9). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d e...
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''They'll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed—
I, too, am America.''
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Langston Hughes (1902-1967), U.S. poet. I, Too (l. 16-18). . .
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes. (1959) Vintage Books.
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''I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,''
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Langston Hughes (1902-1967), U.S. poet. I, Too (l. 1-4). . .
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes. (1959) Vintage Books.
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''I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes.
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.''
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Langston Hughes (1902-1967), U.S. poet, author. Survey Graphic (March 1925). I, Too, Selected Poems (1954).
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