The Negro Speaks Of Rivers (Langston Hughes Poem)
I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human ...
I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human ...
I. "Incense is hut a tribute for the gods,-- To mortals 'tis but poison." THE smoke that from thine altar ...
Every morning the sad girl brings her three sheep and two lambs laggardly to the top of the valley, past ...
The dark wings of night enfolded the city upon which Nature had spread a pure white garment of snow; and ...
HE surely must be wrong who loving fears; And does not flee when beauty first appears. Ye FAIR, with charms ...
IF once in love, you'll soon invention find And not to cunning tricks and freaks be blind; The youngest 'prentice, ...
Sea waves are green and wet, But up from where they die, Rise others vaster yet, And those are brown ...
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
On the sea-shore, smell of iodine, and square as in Sicily, and dancing. An intellectual that came from the common ...
The birches stand in their beggar's row: Each poor tree Has had its wrists nearly Torn from the clear sleeves ...
The Mushroom is the Elf of Plants -- At Evening, it is not -- At Morning, in a Truffled Hut ...
The Malay -- took the Pearl -- Not -- I -- the Earl -- I -- feared the Sea -- ...
Just over the horizon a great machine of death is roaring and rearing. One can hear it always. Earthquake, starvation, ...
Across the sea, along the shore, In numbers more and ever more, From lonely hut and busy town, The valley ...
Thou know'st my praise of nature most sincere, And that my raptures are not conjur'd up To serve occasions of ...
As one who strives a hill to climb, Who never climbed before: Who finds it, in a little time, Grow ...
The landscape sleeps in mist from morn till noon; And, if the sun looks through, 'tis with a face Beamless ...
The way the dog trots out the front door every morning without a hat or an umbrella, without any money ...
ARRANGING long-locked drawers and shelves Of cabinets, shut up for years, What a strange task we've set ourselves ! How ...
SEA, SEA RIDER The man who owned the bookstore was not magic. He was not a three-legged crow on the ...
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
DEAR SMITH, the slee'st, pawkie thief, That e'er attempted stealth or rief! Ye surely hae some warlock-brief Owre human hearts; ...
Fanfare of northwest wind, a bluejay wind announces autumn, and the equinox rolls back blue bays to a far afternoon. ...
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...
1 Ever musing I delight to tread The Paths of honour and the Myrtle Grove Whilst the pale Moon her ...
1 Faster, faster, 2 O Circe, Goddess, 3 Let the wild, thronging train 4 The bright procession 5 Of eddying ...
Glion?--Ah, twenty years, it cuts All meaning from a name! White houses prank where once were huts. Glion, but not ...
The Youth Faster, faster, O Circe, Goddess, Let the wild, thronging train The bright procession Of eddying forms, Sweep through ...
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
I've got the children to tend The clothes to mend The floor to mop The food to shop Then the ...
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