Wake (Langston Hughes Poems)
Tell all my mournersTo mourn in red —Cause there ain't no senseIn my bein' dead. (Langston Hughes)
Tell all my mournersTo mourn in red —Cause there ain't no senseIn my bein' dead. (Langston Hughes)
Here I sitWith my shoes mismated.Lawdy-mercy!I's frustrated! (Langston Hughes)
It's such aBoreBeing alwaysPoor. (Langston Hughes)
Because my mouth Is wide with laughter And my throat Is deep with song, You do not think I suffer ...
Fine living . . . a la carte? Come to the Waldorf-Astoria! LISTEN HUNGRY ONES! Look! See what Vanity Fair ...
I worked for a woman, She wasn't mean-- But she had a twelve-room House to clean. Had to get breakfast, ...
You say I O.K.ed LONG DISTANCE? O.K.ed it when? My goodness, Central That was then! I'm mad and disgusted With ...
When I was home de Sunshine seemed like gold. When I was home de Sunshine seemed like gold. Since I ...
The gold moth did not love him So, gorgeous, she flew away. But the gray moth circled the flame Until ...
When the shoe strings break On both your shoes And you're in a hurry- That's the blues. When you go ...
Being walkers with the dawn and morning, Walkers with the sun and morning, We are not afraid of night, Nor ...
I would liken you To a night without stars Were it not for your eyes. I would liken you To ...
Night funeral In Harlem: Where did they get Them two fine cars? Insurance man, he did not pay-- His insurance ...
When a man starts out with nothing, When a man starts out with his hands Empty, but clean, When a ...
When I get to be a composer I'm gonna write me some music about Daybreak in Alabama And I'm gonna ...
COLORED CHILD AT CARNIVAL Where is the Jim Crow section On this merry-go-round, Mister, cause I want to ride? Down ...
I could take the Harlem night and wrap around you, Take the neon lights and make a crown, Take the ...
The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you-- Then, it ...
That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering ...
2 and 2 are 4. 4 and 4 are 8. But what would happen If the last 4 was late? ...
Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear. I have as much right As the ...
Droning a drowsy syncopated tune, Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon, I heard a Negro play. Down on ...
I would liken you To a night without stars Were it not for your eyes. I would liken you To ...
I been scared and battered. My hopes the wind done scattered. Snow has friz me, Sun has baked me, Looks ...
Children, I come back today To tell you a story of the long dark way That I had to climb, ...
To fling my arms wide In some place of the sun, To whirl and to dance Till the white day ...
I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human ...
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a ...
Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, ...
Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on ...
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