Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.

Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words like Liberty That almost make me cry. If you had known what I know You would know why.

Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.

The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.

Lawrence has a wonderful hill in it, with a university on top and the first time I ran away from home, I ran up the hill and looked across the world: Kansas wheat fields and the Kaw River, and I wanted to go some place, too. I got a whipping for it.

I loved my friend He went away from me There's nothing more to say The poem ends, Soft as it began- I loved my friend.