The Negro Speaks of Rivers
A speaker who is not one man says he has known rivers older than the flow of human blood in human veins: bathing in the Euphrates at dawn, building a hut by the Congo, raising the pyramids above the Nile, hearing the Mississippi sing when Lincoln went down to New Orleans. Written at seventeen on a train crossing the Mississippi and printed by Du Bois in The Crisis, the poem that opened the Harlem Renaissance.
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- influenced by ↑ Song of Myself
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