Juke Box Love Song in  General   

I could take the Harlem night
and wrap around you,
Take the neon lights and make a crown,
Take the Lenox Avenue busses,
Taxis, subways,
And for your love song tone their rumble down.
Take Harlem's heartbeat,
Make a drumbeat,
Put it on a record, let it whirl,
And while we listen to it play,
Dance with you till day--
Dance with you, my sweet brown Harlem girl.

By Langston Hughes

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Other poems by Langston Hughes:

• Ardella
• Daybreak In Alabama
• Dream Deferred
• Dream Variations
• Fire-Caught
• Freedoms Plow
• I, Too, Sing America
• Juke Box Love Song
• Justice
• Madam And Her Madam
• Merry-Go-Round
• Minstrel Man
• Mother to Son
• Night Funeral In Harlem
• Problems
• Quiet Girl
• Still Here
• The Blues
• The Negro Mother
• The Negro Speaks Of Rivers
• The Weary Blues
• Walkers With The Dawn