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Langston Hughes
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good articlestatus.
"What happens to a dream deferred?
- Does it dry up
- like a raisin in the sun?"
"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."
"Droning a drowsy syncopated tune,
Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon,
- I heard a Negro play.
Down on Lenox Avenue the other night
By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light
- He did a lazy sway..."
"Landlord, landlord,
These steps is broken down.
When you come up yourself
It's a wonder you don't fall down."
"
Ulug Beg; golden name to the Venetian merchants in those Middle Ages of silks from Cathayand spices from Samarkand; lovely song-city of the Oriental poets; city of the turquoise domes - Samarkand! Green-curled Samarkand."
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