African American Poetry (1870-1928): A Digital Anthology

Langston Hughes, "Nude Young Dancer" (1926)

What jungle tree have you slept under,
Midnight dancer of the jazzy hour?
What great forest has hung its perfume
Like a sweet veil about your bower?

What jungle tree have you slept under,
Night-dark girl of the swaying hips?
What star-white moon has been your mother?
To what clean boy have you offered your lips?

Published in The Weary Blues, 1926

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