I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the
flow of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln
went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy
bosom turn all golden in the sunset.
I've known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
Tags: langston-hughes
An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose
Langston HughesAmerica is a dream.
The poet says it was promises.
The people say it is promises—that will come true.
The people do not always say things out loud,
Nor write them down on paper.
The people often hold
Great thoughts in their deepest hearts
And sometimes only blunderingly express them,
Haltingly and stumbling say them,
And faultily put them into practice.
The people do not always understand each other.
But there is, somewhere there,
Always the trying to understand,
And the trying to say,
"You are a man. Together we are building our land.
Rest at pale evening...
A tall slim tree...
Night coming tenderly
Black like me
The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss
Langston HughesThere is no color line in death.
Langston HughesI like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
Langston HughesTags: life-and-living
I swear to the Lord,I still can't see,Why Democracy means,Everybody but me.
Langston HughesLife dosent frighten me at all.
Langston HughesCheap little rhymes
A cheap little tune
Are sometimes as dangerous
As a sliver of the moon.
Tags: poetry moon poem danger rhymes tunes
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