Love
Her Eyes Twin Pools
From Fifty Years & Other Poems (1917)
Love
Her eyes, twin pools of mystic light,
The blend of star-sheen and black night;
O'er which, to sound their glamouring haze,
A man might bend, and vainly gaze.
Her eyes, twin pools so dark and deep,
In which life's ancient mysteries sleep;
Wherein, to seek the quested goal,
A man might plunge, and lose his soul.
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MLA
Johnson, James Weldon. “Her Eyes Twin Pools.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/johnson_jw/39/.
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Johnson, James Weldon. “Her Eyes Twin Pools.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/johnson_jw/39/.
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