In winter with warm tears I’ll melt the snow
Shakespeare
And keep eternal spring-time on thy face.
Étiquette : love
Love was much too much for me to wear, Countee Cullen
All night we danced upon our windy hill,
Your dress a cloud of tangled midnight hair,
And love was much too much for me to wear.
Countee Cullen, excerpt from The Dance of Love in Color (1925)
I will take your soul, Langston Hughes
I will not be satisfied
With the little words you say to me.
I will not be satisfied
With the touch of your hand
Nor the sweet of your lips alone.
I will take your heart for mine.
I will take your soul.
Langston Hughes (1902 – 1967), excerpt from To Artina in Selected Poems
Let us roam the night together, Langston Hughes
I love you.
Come,
Let us roam the night together
Singing.
Langston Hughes (1902 – 1967), excerpt from Harlem Night Song in Selected Poems
Could Be, Langston Hughes
Could be you love me,
Could be that you don’t.
Might be that you’ll come back,
Like as not you won’t.
Langston Hughes (1902 – 1967), excerpt from Could Be in Selected Poems
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