Classic and Contemporary Poetry
VALUES, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the pretty baubles spread Last Line: And sears the nights that sum my life. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John | ||||||||
All the pretty baubles spread Are not the answer to my need, These tinseled trappings but beguile This journeying, while deep within A want unspeakable resides, That throbs and throbs unceasingly, So hungering,no banquet spread Can tempt it, and no golden wine Make it forget: I balance it The world flies upward in the scale! Always, unsoothed, unquieted, It aches and aches across the days And sears the nights that sum my life. | 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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