The Weary Blues
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Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes (1902-67) was born in Joplin, Missouri, was educated at Lincoln University, and lived for most of his life in New York City. He is best known as a poet, but he also wrote novels, biography, history, plays, and children's books. Among his works are two volumes of memoirs, The Big Sea and I Wonder as I Wander, and two collections of Simple stories, The Best of Simple and The Return of Simple.
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The Weary Blues - Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
The Weary Blues
Sharp Ink Publishing
2023
Contact: info@sharpinkbooks.com
ISBN 978-80-283-1811-6
Table of Contents
Introducing Langston Hughes to the Reader
Proem
The Weary Blues
The Weary Blues
Jazzonia
Negro Dancers
The Cat and the Saxophone (2 A. M.)
Young Singer
Cabaret
To Midnight Nan at Leroy’s
To a Little Lover-lass, Dead
Harlem Night Club
Nude Young Dancer
Young Prostitute
To a Black Dancer in The Little Savoy
Song for a Banjo Dance
Blues Fantasy
Lenox Avenue: Midnight
Dream Variations
Dream Variation
Winter Moon
Poème D’Automne
Fantasy in Purple
March Moon
Joy
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Cross
The Jester
The South
As I Grew Older
Aunt Sue’s Stories
Poem
Black Pierrot
A Black Pierrot
Harlem Night Song
Songs to the Dark Virgin
Ardella
Poem
When Sue Wears Red
Pierrot
Water-front Streets
Water-front Streets
A Farewell
Long Trip
Port Town
Sea Calm
Caribbean Sunset
Young Sailor
Seascape
Natcha
Sea Charm
Death of an Old Seaman
Shadows in the Sun
Beggar Boy
Troubled Woman
Suicide’s Note
Sick Room
Soledad
To the Dark Mercedes of El Palacio de Amor
Mexican Market Woman
After Many Springs
Young Bride
The Dream Keeper
Poem
Our Land
Our Land
Lament for Dark Peoples
Afraid
Poem
Summer Night
Disillusion
Danse Africaine
The White Ones
Mother to Son
Poem
Epilogue
INTRODUCING LANGSTON HUGHES TO THE READER
Table of Contents
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At the moment I cannot recall the name of any other person whatever who, at the age of twenty-three, has enjoyed so picturesque and rambling an existence as Langston Hughes. Indeed, a complete account of his disorderly and delightfully fantastic career would make a fascinating picaresque romance which I hope this young Negro will write before so much more befalls him that he