Poems by C. B. Langston

I saw them fall, the bright, bright tears!
Like raindrops from scarce clouded skies,
When mo...

Let me tell ye your fortune, dear lady, today,
And I'll tell ye a fortune ye wouldn't gainsay...

Whene'er my spirit would upward rise,
Its mortal nature declines it;
Down on the earth like a...

Wherever I wander, wherever I roam,
The home of my youth oft recurs to my mind;
And with it ...

Oh, to behold my native land once more!
To clasp my loved ones in a fond embrace!
To hear thei...

From whence the rapture which I feel
Through all my nature rushing?
The heart's quick beat? The...

Oh love's sweet enchantment is common,
It rules the world everywhere;
'Tis the rose in the bo...

When man pre-eminent for wealth of mind,
And godlike qualities, was proclaimed good!--
Lord o...

My boyish days are long past now,
Time's silent chisel prints my brow
With lines of care, and...

Hail thou unfledged! Thou nestling of an hour!
Hail to thy puny, unclothed nakedness!
Hail! Da...

Beautiful night! Sombre mother of Day!
Scarcely less resplendent and delightful,
And even more...