Langston Hughes, "Young Singer" (1923)
In a Harlem cellar
Where the jazz-band plays
From dark to dawn
Would not understand
Should you tell her
That she is like a nymph
For some wild faun.
Published in The Crisis, August 1923
Also published in The Weary Blues, 1926
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- Langston Hughes, "The Weary Blues" (full text) (1926) Amardeep Singh
- Langston Hughes, Poems Published in "The Crisis" 1921-1926 Amardeep Singh