African American Poetry: A Digital Anthology

Langston Hughes, "Dream Variation" (1924)

To fling my arms wide
In some place of the sun,
To whirl and to dance
Till the white day is done.
Then rest at cool evening
Beneath a tall tree
While night comes on gently,
Dark like me,--
   That is my dream!

To fling my arms wide
In the face of the sun,
Dance! whirl! whirl!
Till the quick day is done.
Rest at pale evening.
A tall, slim tree. ...
Night coming tenderly
   Black like me.


Published in The Crisis, July 1924
Also published in The Weary Blues, 1926

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