OK, all you English professors and poetry fans, I’m looking for a source for the following poem by Langston Hughes — when and where was it first published?
And the ebony gods,
And the gods of diamond and jade,
Sit silently on their temple shelves
While the people
Are afraid.
Yet the ivory gods,
And the ebony gods,
And the gods of diamond-jade,
Are only silly puppet gods
That the people themselves
Have made.
I found the poem here, but they provide no bibliographic information. It’s not in my copy of . Any ideas where it came from?