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The Negro Speaks of Rivers


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.
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Hughes, Langston.

Comments

[ex-macsuibhn666.livejournal.com]

I've always loved this poem. Thank you for posting it.

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[silverflurry.livejournal.com]

you're welcome!