First linesLangston Hughes

  1. A little southern colored child comes to a northern school and is afraid to play with the white children. The Little Frightened Child
  2. Ah, Poem
  3. All day subdued, polite Negro Servant
  4. All the tom-toms of the jungles beat in my blood, Poem
  5. Aunt Sue has a head full of stories. Aunt Sue’s Stories
  6. Beat the drums of tragedy for me. Fantasy in Purple
  7. Because my mouth Minstrel Man
  8. Because you are to me a song Passing Love
  9. Being walkers with the dawn and morning Poem
  10. Bright, jolly sunshine and clear blue skies, Signs of Spring
  11. Bring me all of your dreams, The Dream Keeper
  12. Cause you don’t love me Bad Luck Card
  13. Clean the spitoons, boy. Brass Spitoons
  14. Clutching at trees and clawing rocks For an Indian Screen
  15. Come, Harlem Night Song
  16. Dear lovely Death Dear Lovely Death
  17. Death is a tower Tower
  18. Desire weaves its fantasy of dreams, Spring for Lovers
  19. Does a jazz-band ever sob? Cabaret
  20. Dream singers, Laughers
  21. Droning a drowsy syncopated tune, The Weary Blues
  22. Everybody The Cat and the Saxophone
  23. Flowers are happy in summer; Autumn Thought
  24. Four walls can hold Walls
  25. Glory! Halleluiah! Prayer Meeting
  26. God having a hemorrhage, Caribbean Sunset
  27. Goin’ down de road, Lawd, Bound No’th Blues
  28. He carries Young Sailor
  29. Hello, sailor boy, Port Town
  30. Her dark brown face Young Prostitute
  31. Hey! Hey! Blues Fantasy
  32. How quiet Sick Room
  33. How still, Sea Calm
  34. How thin and sharp is the moon tonight! Winter Moon
  35. Hungry child, God to Hungry Child
  36. I am a black Pierrot: A Black Pierrot
  37. I am a Negro: The Negro
  38. I ask you this: Prayer
  39. I do not hate you, The White Ones
  40. I got to leave this town. Lonesome Place
  41. I had ma clothes cleaned Dressed Up
  42. I hate to die this way with the quiet Mazie Dies Alone in the City Hospital
  43. I have been a seeker Star Seeker
  44. I know now I Thought It Was Tangiers I Wanted
  45. I love to see the big white moon, My Loves
  46. I loved my friend. Poem
  47. I take my dreams Dreamer
  48. I was a red man one time, Lament for Dark Peoples
  49. I went to de gypsy, Fortune Teller Blues
  50. I went to look for Joy, Joy
  51. I work all day, Pierrot
  52. I would be simple again, Disillusion
  53. I would liken you Ardella
  54. I, too, sing America. I Too
  55. I’m waitin’ for de springtime Red Roses
  56. I’ve known rivers: The Negro Speaks of Rivers
  57. I’ve sat on the park benches in Paris Park Benching
  58. Ice-cold passion Poem to a Dead Soldier
  59. Ideals are like the stars, Teacher
  60. If you loves me Down an’ Out
  61. In one hand The Jester
  62. In ships all over the world The English
  63. In the mist of the moon I saw you, In the Mist of the Moon
  64. In times of stormy weather Strange Hurt She Knew
  65. It is we who are liars: Liars
  66. It was a long time ago. As I Grew Older
  67. It’s an earth song⁠— An Earth Song
  68. It’s because you are so young⁠— Being Old
  69. Let all who will Pride
  70. Let the rain kiss you. An April Rain Song
  71. Let’s go see old Abe Lincoln Monument
  72. Little dark baby, America
  73. Love Beale Street Love
  74. Love Love Song for Lucinda
  75. Lovely, dark, and lonely one, Song
  76. Ma Lord ain’t no stuck up man. Ma Lord
  77. Ma old time daddy Lover’s Return
  78. Ma sweet good man has Suicide
  79. “Me an’ ma baby’s Negro Dancer
  80. Men who ride strange wild horses Tapestry
  81. Mercedes is a jungle-lily in a death house. To the Dark Mercedes of “El Palacio de Amor”
  82. Merry Christmas, China, Merry Christmas
  83. My old man’s a white old man Cross
  84. Natcha, offering love. Natcha
  85. Now lookahere, gal, Argument
  86. Now, After Many Springs
  87. O, sweep of stars over Harlem streets, Stars
  88. Oh, silver tree! Jazzonia
  89. On Anne Spencer’s table Anne Spencer’s Table
  90. Once you were beautiful⁠— Montmartre Beggar Woman
  91. One who sings “chansons vulgaires” Young Singer
  92. Out of the dust of dreams, Fairies
  93. Plant your toes in the cool swamp mud; Flight
  94. Play de blues for me. Misery
  95. Play it once. Saturday Night
  96. Sea charm Sea Charm
  97. Shake your brown feet, honey, Song for a Banjo Dance
  98. Shall I tell you of my old, old dreams Pictures to the Wall
  99. She To a Little Lover-Lass, Dead
  100. She knows Lady in Cabaret
  101. She lived in sinful happiness Mona
  102. She stands Troubled Woman
  103. Since I left you, Anne, A Letter to Anne
  104. Singing black boatmen Fog
  105. Sleek black boys in a cabaret. Harlem Night Club
  106. So long, Afro-American Fragment
  107. Strange, Aesthete in Harlem
  108. Strut and wiggle, To Midnight Nan at Leroy’s
  109. That Justice is a blind goddess Justice
  110. That little yaller gal The New Cabaret Girl
  111. The autumn leaves Poème d’Automne
  112. The calm, Suicide’s Note
  113. The jeweled entrails of pomegranates bled on the marble floor. The Last Feast of Belshazzar
  114. The lazy, laughing South The South
  115. The little house is sugar, Winter Sweetness
  116. The low beating of the tom-toms, Danse Africaine
  117. The moon is naked. March Moon
  118. The moon still sends its mellow light To a Dead Friend
  119. The night is beautiful, Poem
  120. The rhythm of life Lenox Avenue: Midnight
  121. The Sandman walks abroad tonight, Mister Sandman
  122. The sea is a wilderness of waves, Long Trip
  123. The shadows Soledad
  124. The sounds Summer Night
  125. The spring is not so beautiful there⁠— Water-Front Streets
  126. The sun, Sunset⁠—Coney Island
  127. There Salome
  128. There’s a new, young moon riding the hills tonight; The New Moon
  129. They say she died⁠— Young Bridge
  130. This ancient hag Mexican Market Woman
  131. Thunder of the Rain God: A House in Taos
  132. To fling my arms wide Dream Variation
  133. To worship To Beauty
  134. To you Rising Waters
  135. Today like yesterday Monotony
  136. We buried him high on a windy hill, Death of an Old Seaman
  137. We cry among the skyscrapers Afraid
  138. We have tomorrow Poem
  139. We run, Shadows
  140. We should have a land of sun, Our Land
  141. Well, son, I’ll tell you: Mother to Son
  142. What is there within this beggar lad Beggar Boy
  143. What jungle tree have you slept under, Nude Young Dancer
  144. When hard luck overtakes you Hard Luck
  145. When I was home de Po’ Boy Blues
  146. When Susanna Jones wears red When Sue Wears Red
  147. When the night winds whistle through the trees and blow the crisp brown leaves a-crackling down, Thanksgiving Time
  148. When the old junk man Death Question
  149. Where most surely comes a day Day
  150. Who cares Hurt
  151. Willy is a silly boy, The Lament of a Vanquished Beau
  152. Wine-maiden To a Black Dancer in “The Little Savoy”
  153. With gypsies and sailors, A Farewell
  154. World-wide dusk Black Seed
  155. Would Songs to the Dark Virgin
  156. You can’t sleep here, Drama for Winter Night
  157. You sicken me with lies, To Certain “Brothers”
  158. You were the last bulwark of my dreams, Bulwark
  159. You wound my soul with a thousand spears, Nonette

All poets.