Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MOODS, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is pregnant with a great despair Last Line: In frowning fortune smiling destiny! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John | ||||||||
My heart is pregnant with a great despair With much beholding of my people's care, 'Mid blinded prejudice and nurtured wrong, Exhaling wantonly the days along: I mark Faith's fragile craft of cheering light Tossing imperiled on the sea of night, And then, enanguished, comes my heart's low cry, "God, God! I crave to learn the reason why!" Again, in spirit loftily I soar With wingèd vision through earth's outer door, In such an hour, it is mine to see, In frowning fortune smiling destiny! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONG OF THE SINNER by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE MEASURE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE RETURN (1) by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON WELT by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON ONE OF THE LEAST OF THESE, MY LITTLE ONE' by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON A BIT OF SKY by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON A DIM DOORWAY by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON A PARADOX by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON A SONG OF COURAGE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON AFTERGLOW by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON ALIENS (TO YOU - EVERYWHERE! DEDICATED) by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON |
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