by Langston Hughes (1902 - 1967)
My little dark baby
Language: English
My little dark baby, My little earth-thing, My little love-one, What shall I sing For your lullaby? Stars, Stars, A necklace of stars Winding the night. My little black baby, My dark body's baby, What shall I sing For your lullaby? Moon, Moon, Great diamond moon, Kissing the night. Oh, little dark baby, Night black baby, Stars, stars, Moon, Night stars, Moon, For your sleep-song lullaby!
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Confirmed with The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, Volume 893, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1995, p.64
Text Authorship:
- by Langston Hughes (1902 - 1967), "Lullaby", copyright status unknown [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Florence Beatrice Price (1887 - 1953), "Lullaby (For a Black Mother)" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2025-10-03
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