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  Poetry

  Langston Hughes

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  A bruised twilight clings to the shadowed corners of Harlem, where whispers of forgotten gods mingle with the jazzman’s mournful cry. This i...

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  Poetry

  James Weldon Johnson

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  A suffocating humidity clings to the wrought-iron balconies and shadowed streets of Charleston, even as the narrative exhales a languid, dec...

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