The+Negro+speaks+of+rivers

The Negro speaks of rivers I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it. I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset.

I've known rivers: Ancient, dusky rivers.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers

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This poem has 2 similies and they are: 1."I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins." -The author is comparing the rivers to the ancient world andthe flow of human blood.