African American Poetry: A Digital Anthology

Langston Hughes, "Fantasy in Purple" (1926)

Beat the drums of tragedy for me.
Beat the drums of tragedy and death.
And let the choir sing a stormy song
To drown the rattle of my dying breath.

Beat the drums of tragedy for me,
And let the white violins whir thin and slow,
But blow one blaring trumpet note of sun
To go with me
             to the darkness
                            where I go.


Published in The Weary Blues, 1926

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