Hughes—Stars

Source
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, p. 85.

O, sweep of stars over Harlem streets,O, little breath of oblivion that is night.A city buildingTo a mother’s song.A city dreamingTo a lullaby.Reach up your hand, dark boy, and take a star.Out of the little breath of oblivionThat is night,Take justOne star.