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Langston Hughes's Poetry, by popularity

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  • Fire-Caught
    The gold moth did not love him
    So, gorgeous, she flew away.
    5 lines
  • Ardella
    I would liken you
    To a night without stars
    5 lines
  • Sylvester’s Dying Bed
    I woke up this mornin’
    ’Bout half-past three.
    39 lines
  • Morning After
    I was so sick last night I
    Didn’t hardly know my mind.
    21 lines
  • Brass Spittoons
    Clean the spittoons, boy.
          Detroit,
    39 lines
  • When Sue Wears Red
    When Susanna Jones wears red
    her face is like an ancient cameo
    12 lines
  • Catch
    Big Boy came
    Carrying a mermaid
    14 lines
  • 50-50
    I’m all alone in this world, she said,
    Ain’t got nobody to share my bed,
    19 lines
  • To Certain "Brothers"
    You sicken me with lies,
    With truthful lies.
    21 lines
  • For Selma
    In places like
    Selma, Alabama,
    20 lines
  • Songs
    I sat there singing her
    Songs in the dark.
    9 lines
  • Easy Boogie
    Down in the bass
    That steady beat
    15 lines
  • Deceased
    Harlem
    Sent him home
    12 lines
  • Bouquet
    Gather quickly
    Out of darkness
    13 lines
  • Demand
    Listen!
    Dear dream of utter aliveness-
    14 lines
  • Snake
    He glides so swiftly
    Back into the grass-
    12 lines
  • Prize Fighter
    Only dumb guys fight.
    If I wasn't dumb
    11 lines
  • Wealth
    From Christ to Ghandi
    Appears this truth-
    19 lines
  • Personal
    In an envelope marked:
    PERSONAL
    5 lines
  • Pierrot
    I work all day,
    Said Simple John,
    31 lines
  • Silence
    I catch the pattern
    Of your silence
    14 lines
  • Sick Room
    How quiet
    It is in this sick room
    11 lines
  • Wisdom and War
    We do not care-
    That much is clear.
    19 lines
  • Wake
    Tell all my mourners
    To mourn in red --
    4 lines
  • Final Curve
    When you turn the corner
    And you run into yourself
    12 lines
  • Question [1]
    When the old junk man Death
    Comes to gather up our bodies
    7 lines
  • Gods
    The ivory gods,
    And the ebony gods,
    11 lines, 1 comment
  • Ennui
    It's such a
    Bore
    4 lines, 5 comments
  • Oppression
    Now dreams
    Are not available
    14 lines, 1 comment
  • Walkers With The Dawn
    Being walkers with the dawn and morning,
    Walkers with the sun and morning,
    6 lines
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