11
Feb
Poetry of the 1920s: Langston Hughes
Posted February 11, 2008 by scoop2go in African Americans, Chapter 31. 3 Comments
THE NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS
By Langston Hughes
- 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.
-
- –1922
-
- (You can go to this link and hear Langston Hughes read his poem himself!)
Posted by aDRIANNA on February 17, 2011 at 9:19 am
I LVE IT!!!!!!!
Posted by deidre on February 17, 2011 at 9:21 am
ME’s LOVE IT SO MUCH 🙂
Posted by audrey on April 5, 2011 at 5:30 pm
need thia poem for school project