Author:James Mercer Langston Hughes

Individual poems

 * "Elevator Boy" (1926)
 * "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (1921)
 * "Railroad Avenue" (1926)
 * "God to Hungry Child" in Poems for Workers: An Anthology (1928)

Poetry

 * The Weary Blues (1926)
 * Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927)
 * Dear Lovely Death (1931)
 * The Dream Keeper and Other Poems (1932)
 * Scottsboro Limited (1932)
 * Shakespeare in Harlem (1942)
 * Freedom's Plow (1943)
 * Fields of Wonder (1947)
 * One-Way Ticket (1949)
 * Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
 * Selected Poems (1959)
 * Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz (1961)
 * The Panther and the Lash: Poems of Our Times (1967)
 * Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (1994), edited by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel

Prose

 * Not Without Laughter (1930)
 * The Ways of White Folks (1934)
 * The Big Sea (1940)
 * Simple Speaks His Mind (1950)
 * Laughing to Keep From Crying (1952)
 * Simple Takes a Wife (1953)
 * I Wonder as I Wander (1956)
 * Simple Stakes a Claim (1957)
 * The Langston Hughes Reader (1958)
 * Tambourines to Glory (1958)
 * Something in Common and Other Stories (1963)
 * Simple's Uncle Sam (1965)
 * Good Morning Revolution: Uncollected Social Protest Writings by Langston Hughes (1973), edited by Faith Berry
 * The Arna Bontemps-Langston Hughes Letters (1980), edited by Charles Nichols
 * Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964 (2001), edited by Emily Bernard

Drama

 * Mule Bone (1930)
 * Little Ham (1935)
 * Mulatto (1935)
 * Soul Gone Home (1937)
 * Don't You Want to Be Free? (1938)
 * Street Scene, lyrics (1946), opera with music by Kurt Weill and libretto by Elmer Rice
 * Simply Heavenly (1957)
 * Black Nativity (1961)
 * Five Plays by Langston Hughes (1963), edited by Webster Smalley
 * The Political Plays of Langston Hughes (2000), with an Introduction by Susan Duffy
 * Collected Works of Langston Hughes vol. 5: The Plays to 1942: Mulatto to The Sun Do Move (2000), edited by Leslie Catherine Sanders

Copyright

 * The Estate of Langston Hughes are active protectors of the intellectual property of his works. They have been gracious enough to allow a few sites to release a few poems by Langston Hughes.  These sites are listed below.