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Subject: HUGHES, LANGSTON (1902-1967)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BIG SEA, by JAMES BLAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: When your dream ship set out for sea
Last Line: Were you a minion of the lunatic moon? %or langston, sing me a melancholic tune
Subject(s): Hughes, Langston (1902-1967); Sea


BLACK POET, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How we are nourished by
Last Line: From thorn trees %that were supposed to die
Subject(s): African Americans; Hughes, Langston (1902-1967)


LANGSTON, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dark night / the lights of new york
Subject(s): Hughes, Langston (1902-1967)


LANGSTON BLUES, by DUDLEY RANDALL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Your lips were so laughing
Last Line: Long gone sour %for langston hughes
Subject(s): Blues (music); Hughes, Langston (1902-1967)


LANGSTON HUGHES, by LEW BLOCKCOLSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: His poems, yellow, torn and fading
Last Line: I taped the book back together %for my sleeping children
Subject(s): Hughes, Langston (1902-1967)


LANGSTON HUGHES, by KEVIN YOUNG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Won't you sned %all heaven's news
Subject(s): Hughes, Langston (1902-1967); Memory


NORTH CAROLINA, by XAVIER VILLAURRUTIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: En north carolina
Last Line: Esta boca es
Subject(s): Carolina Del Norte; Hughes, Langston (1902-1967); Muerte; Negros


READING WALT WHITMAN, by CALVIN FORBES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I found his wool face, I went away
Last Line: Good langston stood too long to lift me
Subject(s): Hughes, Langston (1902-1967); Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891)


READING WALT WHITMAN, by CALVIN FORBES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I found his wool face, I went away
Last Line: On top, and soft underneath the bark. %good langston sat too long to lift me
Subject(s): Hughes, Langston (1902-1967); Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891)


RHETORIC OF LANGSTON HUGHES, by MARGARET DANNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: While some 'rap' over this turmoil
Last Line: And dedicated ourselves %to be unraveling
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Hughes, Langston (1902-1967)


TO LANGSTON, by REGINA B. JENNINGS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I plunged into the rivers of your mind
Last Line: And lulled me until I swayed to sleep
Subject(s): African Americans; Hughes, Langston (1902-1967)


WHAT HAPPENS TO A DREAM DEFERRED?, by ROY A. SHELDON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Does it still blaze
Subject(s): Hughes, Langston (1902-1967)