Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MY BOY, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON



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First Line: I hear you singing happily
Last Line: Before it melts in tears!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): African Americans - Children


I hear you singing happily,
My boy of tarnished mien,
Lifting your limpid, trustful gaze
In innocence serene.

A thousand javelins of pain
Assault my heaving breast
When I behold the storm of years
That beat without your nest.

O sing, my lark, your matin song
Of joyous rhapsody,
Distil the sweetness of the hours
In gladsome ecstasy.

For time awaits your buoyant flight
Across the bar of years,
Sing, sing your song, my bonny lark,
Before it melts in tears!





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