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Poem by Langston Hughes


Warning


Negroes,
Sweet and docile,
Meek, humble and kind:
Beware the day
They change their mind!
Wind
In the cotton fields,
Gentle Breeze:
Beware the hour
It uproots trees!



Langston Hughes


Langston Hughes's other poems:
  1. Sea Calm
  2. My People
  3. Children's Rhymes
  4. Song for a Dark Girl
  5. Personal


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Sydney Dobell Warning ("Virtue is Virtue, writ in ink or blood")
  • Ella Wilcox Warning ("High in the heavens I saw the moon this morning")
  • Letitia Landon Warning ("Pray thee, maiden, hear him not!")

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