April Rain Song
Let the rain kiss you / Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops
Langston Hughes
28 poems
As I Grew Older
It was a long time ago. / I have almost forgotten my dream.
Children's Rhymes
By what sends / the white kids
Cross
My old man's a white old man / And my old mother's black.
Daybreak In Alabama
When I get to be a composer / I'm gonna write me some music about
Democracy
Democracy will not come / Today, this year
Dinner Guest: Me
I know I am / The Negro Problem
Dream Deferred
What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up
Dream Variations
To fling my arms wide / In some place of the sun,
Dreams
Hold fast to dreams / For if dreams die
Ennui
It's such a / Bore
I, Too, Sing America
I, too, sing America. / I am the darker brother.
Juke Box Love Song
I could take the Harlem night / and wrap around you,
Life Is Fine
I went down to the river, / I set down on the bank.
Love Song for Lucinda
Love / Is a ripe plum
Madam And Her Madam
I worked for a woman, / She wasn't mean--
Madam And The Phone Bill
You say I O.K.ed / LONG DISTANCE?
Merry-Go-Round
COLORED CHILD AT CARNIVAL / Where is the Jim Crow section
Minstrel Man
Because my mouth / Is wide with laughter
Mother to Son
Well, son, I'll tell you: / Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.