Potential Titles: Langston Hughes

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The storm clouds in your waking eyes - Langston Hughes "Africa"

Have almost forgotten my dream - Langston Hughes "As I Grew Older"

Lie down in the shadow - Langston Hughes "As I Grew Older"

Help me to shatter this darkness - Langston Hughes "As I Grew Older"

Into a thousand lights of sun - Langston Hughes "As I Grew Older"

Into a thousand whirling dreams - Langston Hughes "As I Grew Older"

On Friday the eagle flies - Langston Hughes "Consider Me"

Cannot live on tomorrow's bread - Langston Hughes "Democracy"

The snake that spirals terror - Langston Hughes "Desert"

Rumble of a dream deferred - Langston Hughes "Dream Boogie"

One handful of dream-dust - Langston Hughes "Dream Dust"

Death is a drum beating forever - Langston Hughes "Drum"

Beat the drums of tragedy - Langston Hughes "Fantasy in Purple"

One blaring trumpet note of sun - Langston Hughes "Fantasy in Purple"

Have turned all the corners - Langston Hughes "Final Curve"

In silver thread and diamond notes - Langston Hughes "Flatted Fifths"

Sing it softly, for the song is wild - Langston Hughes "Genius Child"

To scatter star-dust in their eyes - Langston Hughes "Graduation"

The beaten brass of the moon - Langston Hughes "A House in Taos"

In time of silver rain - Langston Hughes "In Time of Silver Rain"

To catch a rainbow cry - Langston Hughes "In Time of Silver Rain"

Letting midnight out on bail - Langston Hughes "Jam Session"

Sprinkling salt on a dreamer's tail - Langston Hughes "Jam Session"

Take the neon lights and make a crown - Langston Hughes "Juke Box Love Song"

In the arms of your pity - Langston Hughes "Litany"

Rocks that burst asunder - Langston Hughes "Love"

The wind has undressed the moon - Langston Hughes "March Moon"

Sweet as purple dew - Langston Hughes "Midnight Dancer"

In the raffle of the night - Langston Hughes "Midnight Raffle"

Grabs a load of sunrise - Langston Hughes "Migrant"

Makes hammer beat of drum beat - Langston Hughes "Migrant"

Frightened a thousand miles away - Langston Hughes "Migrant"

Cutting the darkness and kissing the moon - Langston Hughes "Moonlight Night: Carmel"

No crystal stair - Langston Hughes "Mother to Son"

Crocodile tears of crocodile art - Langston Hughes "Movies"

Laughing in all the wrong places - Langston Hughes "Movies"

Loud laughers in the hands of Fate - Langston Hughes "My People"

The child they stole from the sand - Langston Hughes "The Negro Mother"

A dream like steel in my soul - Langston Hughes "The Negro Mother"

Those years a torch for tomorrow - Langston Hughes "The Negro Mother"

When dawns were young - Langston Hughes "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

Older than the flow of human blood - Langston Hughes "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

The two moons and the seventeen stars - Langston Hughes "Night: Four Songs"

The four songs unsung - Langston Hughes "Night: Four Songs"

Taken my blues and gone - Langston Hughes "Note on Commercial Theatre"

A land of fragrant water - Langston Hughes "Our Land"

This land where joy is wrong - Langston Hughes "Our Land"

In the face of what we remember - Langston Hughes "Puzzled"

A box car some train has forgotten - Langston Hughes "Railroad Avenue"

Laughter hardening the dusk - Langston Hughes "Railroad Avenue"

Nor fuel for the clean flame of joy - Langston Hughes "Ruby Brown"

A certain amount of nothing - Langston Hughes "Same in Blues"

Ships etched against the sky - Langston Hughes "Seascape"

Dangerous as a sliver of the moon - Langston Hughes "Sliver"

Drinking the dewdrop's mystery - Langston Hughes "Snail"

A naked shadow on a gnarled and naked tree - Langston Hughes "Song for a Dark Girl"

Sorrow with dust in her hair - Langston Hughes "Song for Billie Holiday"

Scratching in the dead fire's ashes - Langston Hughes "The South"

May escape the spell of the South - Langston Hughes "The South"

A great drum beaten with swift sticks - Langston Hughes "Sport"

Eternity an unblown saxophone - Langston Hughes "Sport"

Death becomes an empty cabaret - Langston Hughes "Sport"

And yesterday a glass of gin - Langston Hughes "Sport"

The four bells she's awaiting - Langston Hughes "Summer Evening"

To forget that tomorrow is Monday - Langston Hughes "Summer Evening"

Devour the corrupt bones of this world - Langston Hughes "Sunday Morning Prophecy"

And somewhat more free - Langston Hughes "Theme for English B"

Through dreams made whole - Langston Hughes "To You"

The vast horizons of the soul - Langston Hughes "To You"

Autumn flower in the frozen rain - Langston Hughes "Troubled Woman"

Honey mixed with liquid fire - Langston Hughes "Trumpet Player"

Ecstasy distilled from old desire - Langston Hughes "Trumpet Player"

But dream ships sail away - Langston Hughes "Water-Front Streets"

Who carry beauties in their hearts - Langston Hughes "Water-Front Streets"

Come with a blast of trumpets - Langston Hughes "When Sue Wears Red"

A love-fire sharp like pain - Langston Hughes "When Sue Wears Red"


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