What is an example of Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance?

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Karen Hill

From The Weary Blues, by Langston Hughes:

We cry among the skyscrapers
As our ancestors
Cried among the palms in Africa
Because we are alone,
It is night,
And we’re afraid.

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