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Langston Hughes's Poetry, by title

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  • 50-50
    I’m all alone in this world, she said,
    Ain’t got nobody to share my bed,
    19 lines
  • Acceptance
    God in His infinite wisdom
    Did not make me very wise-
    9 lines
  • Advertisement For The Waldorf-Astoria
    Fine living . . . a la carte?
        Come to the Waldorf-Astoria!
    45 lines, 4 comments
  • April Rain Song
    Let the rain kiss you
    Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops
    6 lines, 32 comments
  • Ardella
    I would liken you
    To a night without stars
    5 lines
  • As I Grew Older
    It was a long time ago.
    I have almost forgotten my dream.
    29 lines, 31 comments
  • Bad Morning
    Here I sit
    With my shoes mismated.
    4 lines, 2 comments
  • Bound No’th Blues
    Goin’ down the road, Lawd,
    Goin’ down the road.
    26 lines, 1 comment
  • Bouquet
    Gather quickly
    Out of darkness
    13 lines
  • Brass Spittoons
    Clean the spittoons, boy.
          Detroit,
    39 lines
  • Catch
    Big Boy came
    Carrying a mermaid
    14 lines
  • Children's Rhymes
    By what sends
    The white kids
    16 lines, 16 comments
  • Cross
    My old man's a white old man
    And my old mother's black.
    11 lines, 40 comments
  • Cultural Exchange
    In the Quarter of the Negroes
    Where the doors are doors of paper
    61 lines, 2 comments
  • Daybreak In Alabama
    When I get to be a composer
    I'm gonna write me some music about
    23 lines, 3 comments
  • Deceased
    Harlem
    Sent him home
    12 lines
  • Demand
    Listen!
    Dear dream of utter aliveness-
    14 lines
  • Democracy
    Democracy will not come
    Today, this year
    21 lines, 1 comment
  • Dinner Guest: Me
    I know I am
    The Negro Problem
    23 lines
  • Dream Boogie
    Good morning, daddy!
    Ain't you heard
    27 lines, 3 comments
  • Dream Deferred
    What happens to a dream deferred?
    Does it dry up
    11 lines, 10 comments
  • Dream Variations
    To fling my arms wide
    In some place of the sun,
    17 lines, 5 comments
  • Dreams
    Hold fast to dreams
    For if dreams die
    8 lines, 5 comments
  • Easy Boogie
    Down in the bass
    That steady beat
    15 lines
  • Enemy
    It would be nice
    In any case,
    14 lines
  • Ennui
    It's such a
    Bore
    4 lines, 5 comments
  • Final Curve
    When you turn the corner
    And you run into yourself
    12 lines
  • Fire-Caught
    The gold moth did not love him
    So, gorgeous, she flew away.
    5 lines
  • For Selma
    In places like
    Selma, Alabama,
    20 lines
  • Freedom's Plow
    When a man starts out with nothing,
    When a man starts out with his hands
    200 lines, 3 comments
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