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My People

Langston Hughes

The night is beautiful,
So the faces of my people.
The stars are beautiful,
So the eyes of my people.
Beautiful, also, is the sun.
Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people.




Quotes of the Day

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
• Robert Browning


Poems of the Day
  • Walt Whitman
    1861.
    by Walt Whitman
    AARM’D year! year of the struggle! No dainty rhymes or sentimental love verses for you, terrible year! Not you as some pale poetling, seated at a desk, lisping cadenzas piano;