Poetry and Prose of Foreign Poets

& lt Black people talk about rivers >

I know this river.

I know those rivers as old as heaven and earth, which are older than the blood flowing in human veins.

My soul has become as deep as a river.

At dawn, I bathed in the Euphrates River.

I built my cabin on the Congo River and put me to sleep.

I stared at the Nile and built a pyramid on it.

I heard. Abel? When Lincoln went south to New Orleans, the Mississippi River sang,

I saw its muddy chest melt into a golden glory in the sunset.

I know this river:

An ancient and dark river.

My soul has become as deep as a river.

Author: Langston? Hughes (1902-1967) is a famous black poet, novelist, playwright and political commentator. He was an outstanding representative of harlem renaissance in the 1920s, and was known as "Black Poet Laureate".