The Negro Speaks of Rivers

By Hughes, Langston

Book Id: WPLBN0000707213
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 130,262 KB.
Reproduction Date: 2007

Title:	The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Author:	Hughes, Langston
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Poetry, Verse drama
Collections:	Poetry Collection
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Publisher:	World Public Library Association


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Description
Poetry

Excerpt
Excerpt: 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.