Difference between revisions of "Langston Hughes, The Negro Speaks of Rivers (1921)"
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+ | I've known rivers: | ||
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+ | I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of | ||
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+ | : human blood in human veins. | ||
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+ | My soul has grown deep like the rivers. | ||
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+ | I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. | ||
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+ | I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. | ||
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+ | I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it. | ||
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+ | I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln | ||
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+ | went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy | ||
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+ | bosom turn all golden in the sunset. | ||
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+ | I've known rivers: | ||
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+ | Ancient, dusky rivers. | ||
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+ | My soul has grown deep like the rivers. | ||
==Critical Edition== | ==Critical Edition== | ||
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+ | Langston Hughes. "The Negro Speaks of Rivers [1921]." ''The Heath Anthology of American Literature''. Vol. D. Fifth Edition. Ed. Paul Lauter. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006. 1521. | ||
==Further Reading== | ==Further Reading== |
Revision as of 20:55, 12 April 2007
Text
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.
Critical Edition
Langston Hughes. "The Negro Speaks of Rivers [1921]." The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Vol. D. Fifth Edition. Ed. Paul Lauter. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006. 1521.