Langston Hughes - The Voice of Langston Hughes

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the
Flow of human blood
My soul has grown deep like the rivers
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
Ancient, dusky rivers
My soul has grown deep like the rivers



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Writer(s): Langston Hughes, Howard Swanson
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