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.
2 comments:
Loved every line in there. A good post!!!
Langston Hughes is one of my all-time favorite poets. His lines are so full, so whole, so universal, so embraceable. They speak to the human condition, expressing reality, giving hope and creating wonder.
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