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The Negro Speaks of Rivers

Langston Hughes

Form
Form Poem
Year
Year 1921
Pages
Pages 1

A poet speaks in the voice of a whole people, tracing their soul through the great rivers they have known, from the Euphrates and the Nile to the Mississippi.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
The Negro Speaks of Rivers, Langston Hughes

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