Langston Hughes, "The Last Feast of Belshazzar" (1923)
The jewel-heart of a virgin broke at the golden door.
The laughter of a drunken lord hid the sob of a silken whore.
Mene,
Wrote a strange hand,
Mene Tekel Upharsin,—
And Death stood at the door.
Published in The Crisis, August 1923