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  Langston Hughes (1902-1967)

                    Harlem

First Line: What happens to a dream deferred?

This poem is protected by copyright. It cannot be displayed without permission of the copyright holder. It can be found in:

  • Hughes, Langston. Selected Poems of Langston Hughes. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959.
  • Ferguson, Margaret, Mary Jo Salter, and Jon Stallworthy, eds. The Norton Anthology of Poetry (Fourth Edition). New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1996.