To a Dead Friend (by Langston Hughes)


Langston Hughes in 1925

To a Dead Friend
by Langston Hughes
[first published in the May 1922 issue of Crisis]

The moon still sends its mellow light
        Through the purple blackness of the night;
The morning star is palely bright 
                Before the dawn.

The sun still shines just as before;
The rose still grows beside my door,
                But you have gone.

The sky is blue and the robin sings;
The butterflies dance on rainbow wings
                Though I am sad.

In all the earth no joy can be;
Happiness comes no more to me,
                For you are dead.

 

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To find more by Langston Hughes in the Crisis Chronicles Online Library, click here.

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Posted by Jesus Crisis at 9/20/2009 9:23 AM
Categories: Cleveland, Hughes (Langston), 1900s, Writing, African American, American
Tags: Crisis Magazine Langston Hughes Death Cleveland Poetry African American American Literature
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