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Langston Hughes's Poetry, by first line

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  • The Dream Keeper
    Bring me all of your dreams,
    You dreamer,
    8 lines, 8 comments
  • Bad Morning
    Here I sit
    With my shoes mismated.
    4 lines, 2 comments
  • Wake
    Tell all my mourners
    To mourn in red --
    4 lines
  • Ennui
    It's such a
    Bore
    4 lines, 5 comments
  • Love Song for Lucinda
    Love
    Is a ripe plum
    18 lines
  • Children's Rhymes
    By what sends
    The white kids
    16 lines, 16 comments
  • Cultural Exchange
    In the Quarter of the Negroes
    Where the doors are doors of paper
    61 lines, 2 comments
  • Dinner Guest: Me
    I know I am
    The Negro Problem
    23 lines
  • Dream Deferred
    What happens to a dream deferred?
    Does it dry up
    11 lines, 10 comments
  • The Weary Blues
    Droning a drowsy syncopated tune,
    Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon,
    35 lines, 2 comments
  • Merry-Go-Round
    Where is the Jim Crow section
    On this merry-go-round,
    13 lines
  • Minstrel Man
    Because my mouth
    Is wide with laughter
    16 lines, 2 comments
  • As I Grew Older
    It was a long time ago.
    I have almost forgotten my dream.
    29 lines, 31 comments
  • Dreams
    Hold fast to dreams
    For if dreams die
    8 lines, 5 comments
  • My People
    The night is beautiful,
    So the faces of my people.
    6 lines
  • Jazzonia
    Oh, silver tree!
    Oh, shining rivers of the soul!
    17 lines, 2 comments
  • Sea Calm
    How still,
    How strangely still
    6 lines, 4 comments
  • Still Here
    been scared and battered.
    My hopes the wind done scattered.
    9 lines, 1 comment
  • Quiet Girl
    I would liken you
    To a night without stars
    6 lines, 2 comments
  • Problems
    2 and 2 are 4.
    4 and 4 are 8.
    8 lines, 1 comment
  • Justice
    That Justice is a blind goddess
    Is a thing to which we black are wise:
    4 lines, 1 comment
  • Juke Box Love Song
    I could take the Harlem night
    and wrap around you,
    12 lines, 3 comments
  • Freedom's Plow
    When a man starts out with nothing,
    When a man starts out with his hands
    200 lines, 3 comments
  • Dream Variations
    To fling my arms wide
    In some place of the sun,
    17 lines, 5 comments
  • Democracy
    Democracy will not come
    Today, this year
    21 lines, 1 comment
  • Oppression
    Now dreams
    Are not available
    14 lines, 1 comment
  • The Blues
    When the shoe strings break
    On both your shoes
    8 lines, 5 comments
  • Lincoln Monument: Washington
    Let's go see Old Abe
    Sitting in the marble and the moonlight,
    11 lines, 1 comment
  • Trumpet Player
    The Negro
    With the trumpet at his lips
    44 lines, 5 comments
  • Negro Dancers
    "Me an' ma baby's
    Got two mo' ways,
    16 lines
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