English Poetry. James Weldon Johnson. Voluptas. Джеймс Уэлдон Джонсон.

James Weldon Johnson (Джеймс Уэлдон Джонсон)

Voluptas

    To chase a never-reached mirage
    Across the hot, white sand,
    And choke and die, while gazing on
    Its green and watered strand.

James Weldon Johnson’s other poems:

1. Down by the Carib Sea. 4. The Lottery Girl
2. The Color Sergeant
3. Mother Night
4. Down by the Carib Sea. 6. Sunset in the Tropics
5. And the Greatest of These Is War

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