To chase a never-reached mirage
Across the hot, white sand,
And choke and die, while gazing on
Its green and watered strand.

(C) James Weldon Johnson
01/01/2000


Best Poems of James Weldon Johnson

• Brothers
• O Black And Unknown Bards
• A Banjo Song
• Father, Father Abraham
• Possum Song
• Sleep
• To America
• The Awakening
• Nobodys Lookin But De Owl And De Moon
• Before A Painting
• Beauty That Is Never Old
• To Horace Bumstead
• Life
• An Explanation
• If Homely Virtues Draw From Me A Tune
• A Mid-day Dreamer
• O Southland!
• Down By The Carib Sea
• Deep In The Quiet Wood
• De Little Pickaninnys Gone To Sleep
• Answer To Prayer