The Negro Speaks of Rivers

by Langston Hughes

Versions of Fantasy in Purple include:

• "The Negro Speaks of Rivers", published in The Crisis: A Record of The Darker Races, p. 17. (June 1921)
• "The Negro Speaks of Rivers", published in The Weary Blues (1926)
• "The Negro Speaks of Rivers", published in Caroling Dusk (1927)