The Negro Speaks Of Rivers - A poem by Langston Hughes


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Langston Hughes - 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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Poet: Langston Hughes Poem: The Negro Speaks Of Rivers Poem of the Day: Oct 19 2005 Comment 27 of 27, added on April 22nd, 2007 at 5:10 PM. hey. i have a school report to write and i just wanted to know the connection between "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes and "Much Madness Is Divinest Sense" by Emily Dickinson. Melanie from United States Comment 26 of 27, added on March 28th, 2007 at 10:27 AM. wow! what a beautiful poem...just wants to make me smile!! it also touches the heart Haylee from United States Comment 25 of 27, added on February 27th, 2007 at 5:19 AM. The poem holds a lot in its simplified lines which is perhaps open only for rumination and not layman interpretation. Ankit Tejpal from India More Comments >> Are you looking for more information on this poem? Perhaps you are trying to analyze it? The poem, The Negro Speaks Of Rivers, has received 27 comments. Click here to read them, and perhaps post a comment of your own. Of course you can also always discuss poems by Langston Hughes with others on the American Poems poetry forum!

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Poet: Langston Hughes Poem: The Negro Speaks Of Rivers Last read: May 13 2008, 9:26PM Poem of the Day: Oct 19 2005 Viewed 49395 times. Added on February 27th, 2007 at 5:19 AM.

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