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— Stephen Crane

I looked here;

I looked there;

Nowhere could I see my love.

And--this time--

…

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SOLEDAD

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Langston Hughes·1901–1967·Harlem Renaissance
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Cuban Portrait The shadowsOf too many nights of loveHave fallen beneath your eyes.Your eyes,So full of pain and passion,So full of lies.So full of pain and passion,Soledad,So deeply scarred,So still with silent cries. TO THE DARK MERCEDES OF “EL PALACIO DE AMOR” Mercedes is a jungle-lily in a death house.Mercedes is a doomed star.Mercedes is a charnel rose.Go where goldWill fall at the feet of your beauty,Mercedes.Go where they will pay you wellFor your loveliness.
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