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Langston Hughes

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Quotes of the Day

It is a great thing to know our vices.
• Marcus Tullius Cicero


Poems of the Day
  • James Whitcomb Riley
    When Mother Combed My Hair
    by James Whitcomb Riley
    When Memory, with gentle hand, Has led me to that foreign land Of childhood days, I long to be Again the boy on bended knee, With head a-bow, and drowsy smile Hid in a mother's lap the while,