Winter Sweetness [1]
By Langston Hughes
Annotations by Kristina bowers
The little house is sugar, Its roof with snow is piled, And from its tiny window, Peeps a maple-sugar child. [2]
hughes, langston. “Winter Sweetness.” The Brownies’ book 2, no. 1 (january 1921): 27. https://www.loc.gov/item/22001351/
[1] “Winter Sweetness” was the first poem Langston Hughes published at 19.
[2] For more information see: Story Time: Essays on Children’s Literature from the Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collection.