will bring you big things
the colors of dawn-morning
beauty of rose leaves
A Wooing
I will bring you big things:
Colors of dawn-morning,
Beauty of rose leaves,
And a flaming love.
But you say
Those are not big things,
That only money counts.
Well,
Then I will bring you money.
But do not ask me
For the beauty of rose leaves,
Nor the colors of dawn-morning,
Nor a flaming love.
The collected poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes, , 1902-1967 (New York : Knopf, 1994)
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