Love
Voluptas
From Fifty Years & Other Poems (1917)
Love
To chase a never-reached mirage
Across the hot, white sand,
And choke and die, while gazing on
Its green and watered strand.
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MLA
Johnson, James Weldon. “Voluptas.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/johnson_jw/32/.
Chicago
Johnson, James Weldon. “Voluptas.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/johnson_jw/32/.
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