"HARLEM SWEETIES BY LANGSTON HUGHES Have you dug the spill Of Sugar Hill? Cast your gims On this sepia thrill: Brown sugar lassie, Caramel treat, Honey-gold baby Sweet enough to eat. Peach-skinned girlie, Coffee and cream, Chocolate darling Out of a dream. Walnut tinted Or cocoa brown, Pomegranate-lipped Pride of the town. Rich cream-colored To plum-tinted black, Feminine sweetness In Harlem no lack. Glow of the quince To blush of the rose. Persimmon bronze To cinnamon toes. Blackberry cordial, Virginia Dare wine All those sweet colors Flavor Harlem of mine! Walnut or cocoa, Let me repeat: Caramel, brown sugar, A chocolate treat. Molasses taffy, Coffee and cream, Licorice, clove, cinnamon To a honey-brown dream. Ginger, wine-gold, Persimmon, blackberry, All through the spectrum Harlem girls vary So if you want to know beauty Rainbow-sweet thrill, Stroll down luscious, Delicious, fine Sugar Hill. Harlem Sweeties from Collected Poems. Copyright, © 1994 by The Estate of Langston Hughes. "

- Harlem Sweeties from Collected Poems. Copyright, © 1994 by The Estate of Langston Hughes.