In this work, the narrator describes objects that are ancient and dusky, claiming that he has seen a
In this work, the narrator describes objects that are ancient and dusky, claiming that he has seen a "muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset." This poem was published when its writer was in his teens and was supposedly written in a few minutes as he passed from Illinois to his home state of Missouri. It mentions Abe Lincoln going to New Orleans and states, "My soul has grown deep." The narrator also claims to have built a hut and "raised the pyramids," and he knows about objects "older than the flow of human blood in human veins." Identify this Langston Hughes poem about the Euphrates, Nile, Congo, and Mississippi.
In this work, the narrator describes objects that are ancient and dusky, claiming that he has seen a "muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset.
“The {Negro Speaks of Rivers}”