Song for a Dark Girl
Langston Hughes * Track #88 On Emily Dickinson
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The Author to her BookAnne Bradstreet &
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Edward Taylor
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Phillis Wheatley
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Phillis Wheatley
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Young Goodman BrownNathaniel Hawthorne
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Twice Told Tales (The Minister’s Black Veil)Nathaniel Hawthorne
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NatureRalph Waldo Emerson
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EconomyHenry David Thoreau
- #25Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
Henry David Thoreau
- #26Conclusion
Henry David Thoreau
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A Psalm of LifeHenry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Song of MyselfWalt Whitman
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I taste a liquor never brewedEmily Dickinson
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Wild Nights – Wild Nights! (249)Emily Dickinson
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I felt a Funeral, in my Brain (280)Emily Dickinson
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This World is not ConclusionEmily Dickinson
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- #39Mine—by the Right of the White Election! (528)
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Because I Could Not Stop for DeathEmily Dickinson
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Emily Dickinson
- #44I heard a Fly buzz (465)
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- #45The Brain – is wider than the Sky –
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- #46Much Madness is divinest Sense
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- #47I Started Early - Took my Dog
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- #48I cannot live with You (640)
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- #49Pain has an element of Blank (650)
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- #50My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun
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- #51Publication—is the Auction
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- #52A Narrow Fellow in the Grass
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- #53Bustle in a house
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- #54Apparently with no Surprise
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The PastureRobert Frost
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MowingRobert Frost
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Robert Frost
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Nothing Gold Can StayRobert Frost
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DesignRobert Frost
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William Carlos Williams
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William Carlos Williams
- #62The Red Wheelbarrow
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- #63This Is Just To Say
William Carlos Williams
- #64A Sort of A Song
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- #66Danse Russe
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a BlackbirdWallace Stevens
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Claude McKay
- #76Harlem Shadows
Claude McKay
- #77The Lynching
Claude McKay
- #78If We Must Die
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- #79Africa
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- #81The White City
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- #82How It Feels to Be Colored Me
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The Negro Speaks of RiversLangston Hughes
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Mother to SonLangston Hughes
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Langston Hughes
- #86The Weary Blues
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- #87Mulatto
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- #88Song for a Dark Girl
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- #89Visitors to the Black Belt
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- #91Theme for English B
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Yet Do I MarvelCountee Cullen
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Woman Warrior (No Name Woman)Maxine Hong Kingston
- #95Everyday Use
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HowlAllen Ginsberg
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Song for a Dark Girl by Langston Hughes
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Langston HughesAbout
Langston Hughes (1902-1967) was the leading poet of the literary, artistic, and cultural movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. “Song for a Dark Girl,” an elegy about the lynching of a young black woman, was first published in 1927 at the height of the movement.
Song for a Dark Girl Annotated
Way Down South in Dixie
(Break the heart of me)
They hung my black young lover
To a cross roads tree.
Way Down South in Dixie
(Bruised body high in air)
I asked the white Lord Jesus
What was the use of prayer.
Way Down South in Dixie
(Break the heart of me)
Love is a naked shadow
On a gnarled and naked tree.