by Georgia Douglas Johnson
Is she the sage who will not sip
The cup love presses to her lip?
Or she who drinks the mad cup dry,
And turns with smiling face–to die?
From The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems (1918), by Georgia Douglas Johnson.
A journal seeking light and beauty in people, places, arts, and culture
by Georgia Douglas Johnson
Is she the sage who will not sip
The cup love presses to her lip?
Or she who drinks the mad cup dry,
And turns with smiling face–to die?
From The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems (1918), by Georgia Douglas Johnson.