Lincoln Monument: Washington Poem by Langston Hughes

Lincoln Monument: Washington

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Let's go see Old Abe
Sitting in the marble and the moonlight,
Sitting lonely in the marble and the moonlight,
Quiet for ten thousand centuries, old Abe.
Quiet for a million, million years.

Quiet-

And yet a voice forever
Against the
Timeless walls
Of time-
Old Abe.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Ahmed Gumaa Siddiek 27 February 2016

And yet a voice forever Against the Timeless walls Of time- Old Abe. Yes Abraham Lincoln will remain the voice forever against all injustice. A man who said his word and left but it is still there.

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Rajnish Manga 07 May 2016

Lincoln may have been carved in the marble but the great values he upheld and ideals he fought for will live for ever and cannot be petrified. So, the poem gives reason for Lincoln Museum to be there in Washington.

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Bernard F. Asuncion 01 November 2018

Such a great poem by Langston Hughes................

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Mahtab Bangalee 01 November 2018

Yes- the monument of Abraham Lincoln is Timeless walls of time ///

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Kumarmani Mahakul 01 November 2018

A great write on Lincoln. It is right that it has been selected as the poem of the day.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 03 October 2024

FIRST ONE: Short but a very powerful poem, an honest tribute to Abraham Lincoln, the USA president who forbade forever slavery in the USA. Fascinating poem as only Langston could create. Amazingly captured

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Sylvia Frances Chan 03 October 2024

my FINAL COMMENT; This poem, published in 1926, pays tribute to Lincoln at a time when Washington, DC was still a segregated city. TOP Marks

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Sylvia Frances Chan 03 October 2024

CONTINUED: Langston Hughes (1902-67) , widely known as a leader of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance, brought the African American struggle for civil rights into the public sphere with his novels, plays, and poems..

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Edward Kofi Louis 01 November 2018

To see old Abe! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

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Ratnakar Mandlik 01 November 2018

A voice for Against the timeless walls of time Old Abe An awesome conceptualization.

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