The weary blues

by Langston Hughes

CONTENTS

Introducing Langston Hughes to the reader by Carl Van Vechten		[9]
Proem		[19]
[THE WEARY BLUES]
	The Weary Blues	[23]
	Jazzonia	[25]
	Negro Dancers	[26]
	The Cat and the Saxophone	[27]
	Young Singer	[28]
	Cabaret	[29]
	To Midnight Nan at Leroy’s	[30]
	To a Little Lover-Lass, Dead	[31]
	Harlem Night Club	[32]
	Nude Young Dancer	[33]
	Young Prostitute	[34]
	To a Black Dancer	[35]
	Song for a Banjo Dance	[36]
	Blues Fantasy	[37]
	Lenox Avenue: Midnight	[39]
[DREAM VARIATIONS]
	Dream Variations	[43]
	Winter Moon	[44]
	Poème d’Automne	[45]
	Fantasy in Purple	[46]
	March Moon	[47]
	Joy	[48]
[THE NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS]
	The Negro Speaks of Rivers	[51]
	Cross	[52]
	The Jester	[53]
	The South	[54]
	As I Grew Older	[55]
	Aunt Sue’s Stories	[57]
	Poem	[58]
[A BLACK PIERROT]
	A Black Pierrot	[61]
	Harlem Night Song	[62]
	Songs to the Dark Virgin	[63]
	Ardella	[64]
	Poem—To the Black Beloved	[65]
	When Sue Wears Red	[66]
	Pierrot	[67]
[WATER FRONT STREETS]
	Water Front Streets	[71]
	A Farewell	[72]
	Long Trip	[73]
	Port Town	[74]
	Sea Calm	[75]
	Caribbean Sunset	[76]
	Young Sailor	[77]
	Seascape	[78]
	Natcha	[79]
	Sea Charm	[80]
	Death of an Old Seaman	[81]
[SHADOWS IN THE SUN]
	Beggar Boy	[85]
	Troubled Woman	[86]
	Suicide’s Note	[87]
	Sick Room	[88]
	Soledad	[89]
	To the Dark Mercedes	[90]
	Mexican Market Woman	[91]
	After Many Springs	[92]
	Young Bride	[93]
	The Dream Keeper	[94]
	Poem (To F. S.)	[95]
[OUR LAND]
	Our Land	[99]
	Lament for Dark Peoples	[100]
	Afraid	[101]
	Poem—For the Portrait of an African Boy	[102]
	Summer Night	[103]
	Disillusion	[104]
	Danse Africaine	[105]
	The White Ones	[106]
	Mother to Son	[107]
	Poem	[108]
	Epilogue	[109]