African American Poetry: A Digital Anthology

Langston Hughes, "Return to Sea" (1927)

RETURN TO SEA
Langston Hughes

Today I go back to the sea
And the wind-beaten rise of the foam.
Today I go back to the sea—
And it’s just as though I were home.
It’s just as though I were home again
On this ship of iron and steam,
And it’s just as though I have found again
The broken edge of a dream. 


Published in Black Opals, Spring 1927

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