Lonely People
(1951 )- Music by Jean Berger
- Text by Langston Hughes
“Lonely People” is the final work in a collection of Four Songs, which sets poems by Langston Hughes.
Little Song
by Langston Hughes
Lonely people
In the lonely night
Grab a lonely dream
And hold it tight.
Lonely people
In the lonely day
Work to salt
Their dream away.
--The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, p. 336
